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.
''Are we making a bomb?'' ''This is a trust exercise, like in drama,'' she says. ''Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?'' Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate is terrified that his family is falling apart. He fears for his depressed father and is convinced that his mother is having an affair with her capoeira ...
1968. The year Paris takes to the streets. The year Martin Luther King loses his life for a dream. The year Eleanor Maud Portman is born. Young Elly''s world is shaped by those who inhabit it: her loving but maddeningly distractible parents; a best friend who smells of chips and knows exotic words like ...
The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years - except Biff, the Messiah''s best bud, wh o has been resurrected to tell the story in this ...
The final volume in the "Sea of Fertility" series. The dominant themes of the story cycle are brought together as Honda discovers and adopts a 16-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir. Is Toru destined to die young, as did each of the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels?
Contemporary / British English Precious Ramotswe is a kind, warm-hearted and large African lady. She is also the only female private detective in Botswana. Her agency -- the No.1 Ladies'' Detective Agency -- is the best in the country. With help of her secretary, Mma Makutsi, and her best friend, Mr ...
'Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent' reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has been attacked by ostrich rustlers, and is eager ...
Tíz évvel a Trainspotting után Simon "Beteg Srác" Williamsot ismét Edingburgban találjuk, egy hosszú, Londonban töltött időszak után. A csalóként, striciként, férjként, apaként és üzletemberként is megbukott Beteg Srác váratlanul egy olyan lehetőséget kap, amely az utolsó esélyt jelenti számára kikeveredni ...
From #1 New York Times-bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a novel of a woman who needs nothing, a man who sees everything, and the web of deceit, greed, and danger that brings them together and could tear them apart... When professional house-sitter Lila Emerson witnesses a murder/suicide from her ...
THE SIXTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. §§The long fuse of rebellion has already been lit.§§It's 1772, the Royal Colony of North Carolina, and the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and preserve the colony for King and Crown.§§One minor problem: Jamie Fraser's wife, ...
This revised and expanded edition of Tolkien's own Hobbit-inspired poetry includes previously unpublished poems and notes, and is beautifully illustrated by Narnia artist Pauline Baynes.
Cena:9.88€ | Autor:Bond, Michael | Rok vydania:2007 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780007236336 | Vydavateľ:HarperCollins
Richard Brautigan\''s wonderfully zany, hilarious episodic novel set amongst the rural waterways of America. Here\''s a journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco\''s Washington Square, wanders through the wonders of America\''s rural waterways and ends, inevitably, ...
Sie heissen bide Will Grayson, wohnen beide in Chicago, sind beide siebzehn und tragen neben demselben Namen und demselben Alter dasselbe Problem mit sich herum: Aus lauter Anggst, das Ding mit der Liebe zu versemmeln, lassen sie sich auf Romantisches gar nicht erst ein. Der eine Will zögert seit Wochen, ...
The bestselling business book of 2012, now in paperback. When Michael Woodford was made President and CEO of Olympus, he became the first Westerner ever to climb the ranks of one of Japan\''s corporate icons. Then his dream job turned into a nightmare. He learned about a series of bizarre mergers and ...
A man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers. Told with wit, dizzying imagination and dark humour, Booker-prize-winning Margaret Atwoods unpredictable, chilling and hilarious MaddAddam takes us further into a challenging dystopian world and holds ...
