Split into two books for the paperback, the third volume in George R.R. Martin''s superb and highly acclaimed epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire continues the richest, most exotic and mesmerising saga since The Lord of the Rings. The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter approaches ...
The achievement of Stephen King is unlike that of any writer. He has taken a genre which was somewhat moribund when he came to it -- the horror novel -- and transformed it into one of the most phenomenally successful areas for quality popular writing -- what''''s more, his unprecedented sales success ...
Around the World in Eighty Days Family and Friends 5 An exceptionally strong skills training programme which covers language skills, phonics, and civic education skills. This six-level course offers a fast-paced syllabus and a wide range of optional resources to support a high number of teaching hours ...
This book is set in Miami, 1981. When Detective Max Mingus and his partner Joe are called to the scene of a death at Miami''s Primate Park, it looks like another routine - if slightly bizarre - investigation. Until two things turn up: the victim''s family, slaughtered; and a partly digested tarot card ...
In America Karl Rossmann is 'packed off to American by his parents' to experience Oedipal and cultural isolation. Here, ordinary immigrants are also strange, and 'America' is never quite as real as it should be. Kafka, a Czech writing in German, never acutally visited America; so, as ...
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Little Friend, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list The sunlit rails gleamed like dark mercury, arteries branching out silver from the switch points; the old telegraph poles were shaggy with kudzu and Virginia creeper and, above them, ...
FROM AWARD-WINNING TRANSLATORS RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY. Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with cruel experience of the new order and the changes it has wrought ...
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Sixteen year old Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her younger sister’s place and must rely upon her sharp instincts ...
he novel that gave birth to the video games ''Metro 2033'' and ''Metro: Last Light'' The breathtaking original story that inspired both the METRO 2033 and METRO: LAST LIGHT video games! An international bestseller, translated into 35 languages. Set in the shattered subway of a post apocalyptic Moscow, ...
An ancient Greek epic which underpins the whole of western literature, Homer''s "The Iliad" is a timeless evocation of the struggle to retain a sense of honour and virtue amidst the horrors of war. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated with an introduction by Martin Hammond. "The Iliad" is the ...
Alexandre Dumas'' epic tale of suffering and revenge inspired by a real-life case of wrongful imprisonment, the "Penguin Classics" edition of "The Count of Monte Cristo" is translated with an introduction by Robin Buss. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed Edmond Dantes spends fourteen bitter ...
Kniha – autor Charles Goodger, 120 stran, česky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Výuka angličtiny prostřednictvím "akčních písniček" rozvíjí znalost jazyka cestou hudby, jednoduchých pohybových cvičení a napodobování. Texty písniček obsahují základní slovní zásobu, melodie jsou svěží, originální a chytlavé. ...
"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, ...
This book showcases the best and most humorous quotes from George R.R. Martin\''s favourite character Tyrion Lannister, the worldly, jaded, funny, highly intelligent, cynical, womanizing star of the books. A perfect stocking-filler for every fan of the books, and of HBO\''s award-winning television series. ...
The Pumpkin Songbook je skvělý úvod do angličtiny pro všechny,.pro které je příkladem Komenského škola hrou. Jednoduché a vtipné anglické písničky se snadno pamatují, dobře se na ně tančí a hlavně pomáhají osvojit si základní gramatické jevy a slovíčka.Knížka je plná zábavných úkolů a her, na kterých ...
Donna Tartt, author of the phenomenal bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend, returns with a breathtaking new novel.Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in ...
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 ...
What if your whole world was a lie? The thrillingly dark conclusion to the No. 1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy, now available in paperback. Divergent - a major motion picture series, Insurgent movie release in 2015! What if a single revelation - like a single choice - changed everything? ...
For Fox, Caleb, Gage and the other residents of Hawkins Hollow, the number seven portends doom—ever since, as boys, they freed a demon trapped for centuries when their blood spilled upon The Pagan Stone. Their innocent bonding ritual led to seven days of madness, every seven years. And now, as the dreaded ...
