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, ...
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 ...
The final volume sees gunslinger Roland on a roller-coaster mix of exhilarating triumph and aching loss in his unrelenting quest to reach the dark tower. Roland''''s band of pilgrims remains united, though scattered. Susannah-Mia has been carried off to New York to give birth, Terrified of what may happen, ...
What if you had always dreamed of something more.? Nell McNamara has a happy life: her boyfriend Olly adores her, their four-year-old daughter Petal is the centre of their world and Nell has a steady job in the local chip shop. When the chippy needs a makeover, Nell jumps at the chance to unleash the ...
Limitovaná edícia s ukážkou z pripravovaného titulu Inferno. When the National Security Agency''s invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant, beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock ...
Lara has always had an overactive imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just don´t get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara´s great aunt Sadie - in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl - has appeared to make one last ...
Inspired by DH Lawrence, Chekhov and Hemingway, Bukowski's writing is passionate, extreme and has attracted a cult following, while his life was as weird and wild as the tales he wrote. This collection of short stories gives an insight into the dark, dangerous lowlife of Los Angeles that Bukowski ...
The book that shone new light on our times: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009, The Glass Room is being reissued with a new cover alongside other classic titles from the Abacus list in our 40th Anniversary year. Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the ...
