Beletria, alebo aj prozaické umelecké dielo, prináša do našich životov nové príbehy, vzrušenie i zážitok, ktorý pre nás napísal autor a pred našimi očami ho nakreslila naša vlastná fantázia. Klasická anglická literatúra prináša nezabudnuteľné príbehy Williama Shakespaera či Jane Austenovej. Knihy po anglicky a príbehy ukryté na ich stránkach nám nielenže rozjasňujú dni a vytŕhajú nás z každodennej nudnej rutiny, ale rovnako nás nútia aktívne premýšľať nad vetnými konštrukciami a pomáhajú nám v zdokonaľovaní sa v cudzom jazyku.
Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union is no more and the democracies of the European Union reach as far ...
This is the first book dedicated to Elgort\''s Jazz portraits and the list of names it includes constitutes a veritable pantheon of jazz greatness. Featured in the book are portraits of Wynton Marsalis, James Carter, Roy Haynes, George Benson, Milt Hinton, Walter Blanding, Michael Bowie, David Sanchez, ...
Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J M Coetzee reimagines Daniel DeFoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe in Foe. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. In an act of breathtaking imagination, J M Coetzee radically reinvents ...
THE STORY CONTINUES in the third volume of Hiccup''s How to Train Your Dragon memoirs.Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn''t always like that. Hiccup''s memoirs look ba ck to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy, and finding ...
Last Sacrifice is the sixth book in the international Number 1 bestselling Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead is now a major motion picture. Higher Learning. Higher Stakes. Murder, love, jealousy. And the ultimate sacrifice. The Queen is dead and the Moroi world will never be the same. Rose Hathaway ...
From the international bestselling author of the Outlander series, the terrific new novel featuring the ever-popular Lord John. 1760. Jamie Fraser is a paroled…
Svet kolotočiarov je pestrý, falošný aj desivo úprimný. Občas sa pri stánkoch nehrá o plyšové medvedíky, ale o život. V strašidelnom zámku strácajú mladé ženy spodnú bielizeň a tečie v ňom ozajstná krv. Na vlastnej koži to zistí vysokoškolák Devin Jones, ktorému život dáva poriadne zabrať. Devinova prvá ...
Thirty years of silly songs, rhymes, lullabies, classics, and just plain favorite music come together on this reissue of the "25th Anniversary Celebration." Chosen from among the hundreds and hundreds of songs that Wee Sing has collected over the last 30 years, this treasury is a fitting tribute to the ...
Rules are different outside the Society. Chasing down an uncertain future, Cassia makes her way to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky - taken by the Society to his certain death - only to find that he has escaped into the majestic, but treacherous, canyons. On this wild frontier are glimmers of a different ...
Retired Army Ranger John Holliday and his friend Eddie travel to Cuba in search of Eddie's mysteriously vanished brother-and find themselves desperately trying to stop a shocking plot of a secret Templar cabal that has been growing for five hundred years.
From shattered dreams to lasting love. Every time Samantha went back to the flat, John''s words rang through her head :''I can''t live with you any more - I''ve got to get out.'' He''s been seeing another woman, and now she was promising him the one thing Sam couldn''t give: a child. The man she had ...
Spanning forty years, two women''s stories of love, loss and betrayal are intertwined in this award-winning novel by Jojo Moyes, internationally bestselling author of Me Before You, After You and the new bestseller Still Me. ''A fabulous, emotional and evocative book - perfect for anyone who loves ...
When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children Myles and Chloe appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Max grew to know them intricately, ...
Includes double page spreads on mountains, deserts, oceans etc. Each page is bursting with flaps to lift and reveal scientific and natural history information. Also features a section on climate change. Ages: 6+.
A father and daughter discover the joys of his crazy hair in this brilliant picture book. Bonnie tries to tame her father''''s hair, but to no avail, as birds and beasts of every type jostle for space amongst the curls and tresses of this hirsute book. A warm and funny conversational text combine beautifully ...
THE TWELVE Death-row prisoners with nightmare pasts and no future. THE TWELVE Until they were selected for a secret experiment. THE TWELVE To create something more than human. THE TWELVE Now they are the future and humanity's worst nightmare has begu n. THE TWELVE The epic sequel to THE PASSAGE.
