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.
Lavish parties. Passionate meetings in the night. Bone-chilling murders. Exams. The day-to-day life of Schuyler Van Alen and her Blue Bloods friends (and enemies) is never boring. But there''''s oh-so-much more to know about the beautiful and powerful Blue Bloods. Below the streets of Manhattan, within ...
''''Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn''''t be given, wouldn''''t be taken, but chose my man and my fate. The man was famous, the fate obscure; not a bad balance.'''' Lavinia is the daughter of the King of Latium, ...
Has Jefferson Winter finally met his match? Six years ago a young married couple were found brutally stabbed to death in their home in Upstate New York. Local police arrested a suspect who later committed suicide. But what if the police got it wrong? Ex-FBI profiler Jefferson Winter is drawn into a deadly ...
Cena:10.99€ | Autor:Auster, Paul | Rok vydania:2006 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:na sklade | ISBN:9780571229086 | Vydavateľ:Faber&Faber
SOUL OF THE FIRE saw the political machinations that have dogged the midlands reach new heights, as the Chimes ran free and threatened magic everywhere. As the novel ended, Kahlan has narrowly avoided death and now she and Richard Rahl, the Seeker, must strive again to save the world from the resurgent ...
''Neighbours.hah. People''d live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their way to work, and then some trivial thing would happen and someone would be having a garden fork removed from their ear.'' And when the neighbours in question are the proud empires of Klatch and Ankh-Morpork, ...
It is a troublesome fact on which even Mma Ramotswe and her assistant Mma Makutsi agree: there are things that men know and ladies do not, and vice versa. It is…
Ellie, Magda and Nadine are back - but they''''re not very happy! Ellie''''s glorious romance with Russell is teetering on the rocks. Magda''''s lost her pet and is desperately upset (though the others didn''''t even know she still had a hamster!). And Nadine is fed up with the other two lecturing her ...
With a new introduction by Colm Toibin. A leak is traced to a small sub-section of SIS, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions. The sort of atmosphere, perhaps, where mistakes could be made? For Maurice Castle, it is the end of the line anyway, and time for him to retire ...
Sylvie and Carl have been friends since they were tiny children. They''ve always played together, eaten with each other''s families, called each other boyfriend and girlfriend and deep down, Sylvie has always believed that they''d end up married to each other. They even have a magical fantasy world that ...
Nina is a thirty-year-old English lecturer in New Delhi, living with her widowed mother and struggling to make ends meet. Ananda has recently emigrated to Halifax, Canada; having spent his twenties painstakingly building his career, he searches for something to complete his new life.
BILLI SANGREAL is a Knight Templar and has thrown herself utterly into their brutal regime, shutting herself off from everyone and everything. But when Billi finds herself at the heart of a savage werewolf attack, she knows their target – a young girl – must be rescued at all costs. For this is no ordinary ...
Cena:10.79€ | Autor:Ahern, Cecelia | Rok vydania:2008 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780007233694 | Vydavateľ:Harper
SOLDIER Many years ago, Cal Dexter was a Vietnam tunnel rat recruited to ferret out the jungle lairs of the enemy. Today, he\''s a small-time attorney in a sleepy New Jersey town. But Dexter\''s life is anything but ordinary. VIGILANTE The beast Dexter\''s been hired to hunt is Zilic, a Serbian warlord ...
It\''s never easy to face the fact that a man you once loved passionately has found the girl of his dreams, as Alice discovers when Joe introduces her to his new girlfriend Ginny. Then Alice finds an old diary hidden away in Ginny\''s room and reads about Daniel Holmes and his friend Robert and the mysterious ...
Two boys, both sons of doctors, are sent to the top of a mountain for "re-education" in Mao's China; an education that involves carting buckets of excrement up and down precipitous paths. They discover instead the discreet charm of bourgeois literature and the local tailor's attractive daughter.
As the clock chimed the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite took her first breath. Born to a cabaret dancer and soon orphaned in a scandalous double murder, Lilly finds refuge at a Catholic orphanage, coming under the wing of the, at times, severe Sister August, the first in a string ...
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