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.
14-year-old Mia Thermopolis is still coming to terms with the fact that she's a princess - and heir to the throne of Genovia! But when she announces on national TV that her mum is pregnant by her algebra teacher and plans to marry him, a right-royal fuss results! For now Mia's dreadful old Grandmere ...
For the first time in decades The Eternal City is paralysed by a blizzard. And a gruesome discovery is made in the Pantheon - one of Rome\''s most ancient and revered architectural treasures. Covered by softly falling snow is the body of a young woman - her back horribly mutilated.But before Costa, Peroni ...
An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a des k and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around hi m are one-word, hand-written, labels and on the desk is a series of va guely familiar black-and-white ...
The ''''Namesake'''' is the story of a boy brought up Indian in America, from ''''the kind of writer who makes you want to grab the next person and say ''''Read this!'''' [Amy Tan] ''''When her grandmother learned of Ashima''''s pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family''''s ...
The observatory on the moon has the proof. Life on earth will be incinerated in April 2037 by a massive solar flare. It is building down and it is unstoppable. With only 18 months until doomsday mankind must unite and embark on the most ambitious eng ineering project ever: the construction, at the La ...
In this fascinating, abundant new novel from the incomparable Eco, Yambo, a rare book dealer, has suffered a bizarre form of memory loss. He can remember every book he has ever read but nothing about his own life. Illustrated novel.
Faith Zanetti is addicted to danger. But hooked as she might be on alcohol, cigarettes and living life in the fast lane, she\''s also clever enough to know that at some point something\''s got to give. She\''s the Moscow correspondent of the moment - chosen for the job because, as a teenager, she married ...
The year is 2008. Violent crime has become a global epidemic, nowhere more so than in the United States. Everything from the death penalty to liberal reforms has failed. Nothing has been effectiveuntil now. Project Conscience promises to be the solu tion. It is a bold attempt by a powerful group of scientists, ...
A collection of five very different stories. A miracle in war-torn Siena, a drug smuggling heist on an international flight, a brutal urban murder, an incandescent art scam at a famous London auction house, and the novella "Whispering Wind" set against the aftermath of Custer's Last Stand.
An intelligent, low-key thriller, The Summons continues John Grisham's exploration of the common decencies of a strain of American commercial story-telling in literature and film that we often link to the work of Frank Capra or O Henry. He is not afraid of parable or of setting up situations that ...
When an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, and clashes with a world he can barely understand. The town seems to grow darker each night. Fate comes calling and before the summer is out his quiet ...
THE SELLAMILLION is NOT a parody of Tolkien''s THE SILMARILLION. That would be pointless because although all Tolkien fans have a copy, only three of them have read past page 40. It is, however, a parody of all that Tolkien created as he worked on LOR D OF THE RINGS. The history of the elderly days. ...
This work presents the gripping new psychological thriller featuring Javier Falcon, the tortured detective from "The Silent and the Damned" and "The Blind Man of Seville". As Inspector Jefe Javier Falcon investigates a faceless corpse unearthed on a municipal dump, Seville is rocked by a massive explosion. ...
The new, brilliantly high-concept religious conspiracy-theory thriller from the author of ''''The Righteous Men'''', set against the backdrop of the world''''s bitterest conflict. April 2003: as the Baghdad Museum of Antiquities is looted, a teenage Iraqi boy finds an ancient clay tablet in a long-forgotten ...
Cena:10.39€ | Autor:Baldacci, David | Rok vydania:2007 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780330444088 | Vydavateľ:Macmillan
Kniha - autor Ethan Hawke, 288 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná.This book is about two people, three lives, and one love. Is there anything more terrifying than being in love? Jimmy Heartsock is so afraid of losing his love Christy, he is going AWOL from the army and chasing after her in ...
When Kathy, a young recovering alcoholic recently separated from her husband, fails to a open a series of tax letters that have been sent to her in error, the State of California seizes the house she and her brother have inherited from her father. Th e State sells the house at auction to Behrani, a former ...
The Office of the Public Defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long, and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes ...
Elfrida Phipps loves her new life in the pretty Hampshire village. But an unforeseen tragedy upsets Elfrida's tranquillity: Oscar's wife and daughter are killed in a terrible car crash and he finds himself homeless when his stepchildren claim their d ead mother's inheritance.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na ...
Novelist Sunny Parkinson might write scorching romances, but her own life is decidedly lacking in passion. A knicker-snatcher is at large in her block of flats. Her best friend\''s marriage is crumbling over a luncheon meat scandal. She lives with a spherical couch potato and a workaholic virgin. And ...
