Winner of the Children''s Book Prize Winner of the Costa Children''s Book Award Winner of the London Book Fair Children''s Travel Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award, Children''s category Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal ''I loved The Explorer'' Jacqueline ...
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed responds to the heartbreak of the current refugee crisis with this deeply moving, beautifully illustrated short work of fiction for people of all ages, all over the world. A short, powerful, ...
High class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13 year old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. ...
Born in 1951 in an affluent Tokyo suburb, Hajime -- beginning in Japanese -- has arrived at middle age wanting for almost nothing. The postwar years have brought him a fine marriage, two daughters, and an enviable career as the proprietor of two jazz clubs. Yet a nagging sense of inauthenticity about ...
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects ...
From the author of The Architect''s Apprentice and Honour, The Forty Rules of Love is Elif Shafak''s compelling and profound novel following Ella Rubinstein on a journey of self-discovery, examining life and love through Sufi mysticism. Discover the forty rules of love.Ella Rubinstein has a husband, ...
AutorH.P. Lovecraft VydavateľstvoGollanczVäzba BrožISBN 978-0575081574Strán896Rozmery 152 x 241 mm WIKIPEDIA says: ''''H.P. Lovecraft''''s reputation has grown tremendously over the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th century, exerting an influence ...
From #1 New York Times bestseller Cassandra Clare and award-winner Wesley Chu comes the first book in a new series that follows High Warlock Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood as they tour the world after the Mortal War. The Red Scrolls of Magic is a Shadowhunters novel. All Magnus Bane wanted was a vacation-a ...
Fall in love, break the curse. Break the curse, save the kingdom. Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall, is cursed. Forced to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year over and over, he can only be freed by love. But at the end of each autumn he is transformed into a beast hell-bent on destruction, and after ...
Pracovní sešit slouží k procvičování anglických slovíček formou oblíbených doplňovaček a dokreslovaček. Děti se na úvodní stránce ke každému tématu naučí nebo si zopakují skupinu slovíček (barvy, číselná řada 1–10, škola, lidé, oblečení, dny v týdnu, lidské tělo, jídlo apod.). Na následujících stránkách ...
"Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief" is the first bestselling book in Rick Riordan''s phenomenally successful Percy Jackson series - now with a new cover look. Half boy. Half God. ALL Hero. Look, I didn''t want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. I was just a normal kid, ...
Enter the Grishaverse with book one of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by number one New York Times-bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo. Perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J. Maas. Now with a stunning new cover and exclusive bonus material: A lost letter from Mal, The Tailor (a Genya story) and a Q&A ...
First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams.Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil.His time is a t hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse ...
Zvestovateľ patrí k ranej tvorbe libanonského spisovateľa Chalíla Džibrána (1883-1931), ktorého preslávili diela Prorok a Ježiš Syn človeka. V dvadsiatich piatich nadčasových aforizmoch a pôvabných podobenstvách ponúka hlboký duchovný pohľad na ľudský život. Zvestovateľ je považovaný za predchodcu Poroka. ...
Before he was Ciri''s guardian, Geralt of Rivia was a legendary swordsman. Season of Storms is an adventure set in the world of the Witcher, the book series that inspired the hit Netflix show and bestselling video games. Geralt. The witcher whose mission is to protect ordinary people from the monsters ...
This book answers the most obvious, the most important, yet the most difficult question about human history: why history unfolded so differently on different continents. Geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and ...
No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses", which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic ...
Enter the Grishaverse with book three of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by number one New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo. Perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J. Maas. Now with a stunning new cover and exclusive bonus material: The Demon in the Wood (a Darkling prequel story) and a Q&A ...