From the legendary Terry Pratchett, the author of Discworld, the third instalment in the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy THIS TIME... IT''S WAR. Johnny Maxwell is just an ordinary boy, walking through an ordinary alley... until he stumbles across a shopping trolley that can travel back in time. A trip on this ...
Luke is a comic-mad eleven-year old who shares a treehouse with his geeky older brother, Zack. Luke'' s only mistake is to go for a wee right at the wrong time. While he'' s gone, an alien gives his undeserving, never-read-a-comic-in-his-life brother superpowers and then tells him to save the universe. ...
Jane Eyre was an immediate bestseller, and most critics liked it. One reviewer wrote: ‘It is one of the most powerful domestic romances which have been published for many years.’ Jane Eyre is an orphan, and all alone in the world. But she is no ordinary young woman; despite her lonely and unhappy childhood, ...
Julie Jenson is a single thirty-seven-year-old book publicist in New York. When her friend Georgia''s husband leaves her for a samba teacher, she forces Julie to organize a single girls'' night out to remind her why it''s so much fun not to be tied down. But the night ends up having the opposite effect ...
In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of new, more open conventions in fiction. Suicide as a murder weapon ...
The Communist regime destroyed Jana Matinova´s husband, their love for one another and her daughter´s respect for her. But she has never stopped being a seeker of justice. Now, she has risen to the rank of commander in the Slovak police force. This investigation takes her from Kiev in Ukraine to Strasbourg; ...
This pack contains 12 cool vampire stickers from three cutting-edge artists: Nebojsa Matkovic is a freelance graphic designer from Novi Sad, Serbia; Citizen Panic is a skateboarding-inspired illustrator from Belgium; Iain Burke loves classic horror and is based in Brooklyn, New York City. These extra-large ...
For gauche young apprentice Miloš Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex preoccupations. There is the exacting business of dispatching German troop trains to and from the toppling Eastern front; the problem of ridding himself of his burdensome innocence; ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
