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.
Persuasion: Theory and Research, Third Edition is a comprehensive overview of social-scientific theory and research on persuasion. Written in a clear and accessible style that assumes no special technical background in research methods, the Third Edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect developments ...
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a story about love, life and lobster every Tuesday. ''Marvellous'' John Boyne ''Original, clever and perfectly written'' Jill Mansell ''Adorable'' Marian Keyes ''An upbeat, quirky, impertinent gem of a read'' Chris Cleave ''I''m not good at understanding what other ...
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 ...
When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case. Strike is a war veteran - wounded both physically and psychologically ...
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in feeling discontent. Harbouring an unnatural desire for solitude, and a perverse ...
A beautiful gift-edition hardback of the classic Discworld novel, Pyramids. Look after the dead', said the priests, 'and the dead will look after you. Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country whose largesse - and indeed ...
\''Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour - landing at the other end without a single hairpin in one\''s hair! Shot out at the feet of God entirely naked! Yes, that seems to express the rapidity of life, the perpetual waste ...
During his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (born c.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator, overseer of building projects, landowner and knight of the shire. He was servant, retainer, husband, friend and father, but is now mainly known as a poet and ''the father of English literature'', ...
Issy Randall, proud owner of The Cupcake Cafe, is in love and couldn''''t be happier. Her new business is thriving and she is surrounded by close friends, even if her cupcake colleagues Pearl and Carolinedon''''t seem quite as upbeat about the upcoming season of snow and merriment. But when her boyfriend ...
Marjorie Daw is a librarian, and takes her job - and indeed the truth of words - very seriously. She doesn't know it, but her world and ours - Roundworld - is in big trouble. On Discworld, a colossal row is brewing. The Wizards of Unseen University feel responsible for Roundworld (as one would for a ...
My name\''s Cameron Wolfe. I have a little bit of sense. I don\''t have much sense. My older brother Ruben gets me into plenty of trouble. I get Rube into as much trouble as he gets me into. I have a family, yes, that doesn\''t really function without tomato sauce. That\''s me. Cameron and Ruben Wolfe ...
Pride and Pleasure&,nbsp,- the classic erotic romance - by Sylvia Day - author of the sensational international bestselling&,nbsp,Bared to You, first book in the Crossfire series - is a tale of ambition, love and lust.Pursued by fortune hunters, heiress Eliza Martin is the victim of diabolical ...
Marian Keyes, the No. 1 bestselling author of Rachel''''s Holiday, is back with her stunning new novel The Mystery of Mercy Close and the return of the legendary and beloved Walsh sisters. Helen Walsh doesn''''t believe in fear - it''''s just a thing invented by men to get all the money and good jobs ...
AutorDouglas Adams, Gareth Roberts VydavateľstvoBBC Books EAN9781849903288 Väzbabrožovaná Strán416 strán Inside this book is another book – the strangest, most important and most dangerous book in the entire universe. The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey is one of the Artefacts, dating from ...
What happens when the one that got away comes back? Find out in this sparkling debut from Mhairi McFarlane. ''''Think of the great duos of history. We''''re just like them.'''' ''''You mean like Kylie and Jason? Torvill and Dean? Sonny and Cher?'''' ''''I think you''''ve missed the point, Rachel.'''' ...
In your hands is a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. Instead he loses his heart. Step onto the streets of ...
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 ...
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 ...
''''Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it''''. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in "Homage to Catalonia". ...
