A companion to the New York Times bestselling Miss Peregrine''s Home for Peculiar Children, now in a deluxe paperback edition with a never-before-seen story! Before Miss Peregrine gave them a home, the story of peculiars was written in the Tales. Wealthy cannibals who dine on the discarded limbs of peculiars. ...
Galaxy ''Alex'' Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale''s freshman class. A dropout and the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved crime, Alex was hoping for a fresh start. But a free ride to one of the world''s most prestigious universities was bound to come with a catch. Alex has been tasked with ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ''Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire ...
He''s every woman''s fantasy. After a string of nightmare relationships, Emily Albright has decided she''s had it with modern-day men. She''d rather pour herself a glass of wine, curl up with Pride and Prejudice and step into a time where men were dashing, devoted and honourable, strode across fields ...
V revidovaném překladu vychází nejslavnější Welshova kniha. Autorovi se v ní podařilo něco nevídaného: vzít téma zralé pro sociologické studie o deprivované mládeži a napsat zábavný a propracovaný román, s jehož hrdiny musí čtenář sympatizovat, přestože ho jejich jednání často děsí a odpuzuje. Ne nadarmo ...
An utterly addictive and twisty thriller, full of dark family secrets and deadly stakes. Perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying and Knives Out. She came from nothing.Avery has a plan: keep her head down, work hard for a better future. Then an eccentric billionaire dies, leaving her almost his entire ...
This is the perfect book to help explain where babies of all kinds come from, and other first questions. Lift the flaps to see how baby animals and people are born, why babies cry and how they learn to speak. A simple book with charming illustration that children can read with parents or explore alone. ...
Filled with illustrations and an abundance of interesting facts, this is an atlas with a pictorial difference. Children can learn where countries are located, identify what they look like while discovering more about the world they live in. Explore this busy and exciting picture atlas to discover fascinating ...
Kniha – autor Karel Jaromír Erben; Božena Němcová; Josef Lada, 120 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá The most beautiful Czech classic fairy tales, such as "Princess Goldie”, "Cook, Mug, Cook!”, "Mr. Long, Mr. Broad and Mr. Sharpeye”, "The Gingerbread House” or "The Seven Ravens”. Josef Lada (1887 ...
Kids can build their own customizable model with this thrilling hardcover book and 3D wood model set from IncrediBuilds. This "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find The"m themed book and wood model set brings the world of the upcoming film to life. Filled with incredible illustrations and unit photography, ...
Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the ...
Welcome to the Overlook Hotel. You\''ll never want to leave. Danny is only five years old, but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a \''shiner\'', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny\''s visions grow out of control. As winter closes in and blizzards ...
Kniha – autor Chuck Palahniuk, 224 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then ...
"Legend" is the much-anticipated dystopian thriller debut from US author, Marie Lu. The must-read dystopian thriller fiction for all teen fans of "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins and Divergent by Veronica Roth. A brilliant re-imagining of "Les Miserables", the series is set to be a global film sensation ...
Why does the West rule? Eminent Stanford polymath Ian Morris answers this provocative question, drawing uniquely on 15,000 years of history and archaeology, and the methods of social science. In the middle of the eighteenth century, British entrepren eurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and ...
Dionisio Vivo, a young South American lecturer in philosophy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policemen in town, the message is all too clear: Dion isios letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, ...
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ''If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.'' A comedic romance of mistaken identity, Twelfth Night begins with a shipwreck, splitting up Viola ...
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 ...
