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.
One evening in 1951, an itinerant storyteller arrives unannounced and mysterious at a house in the Irish countryside. By the November fireside he begins to tell the story of this extraordinary land. One of his listeners, a nine-year-old boy, grows so entranced by the storytelling that, when the old man ...
Amores Perros is a bold, ambitious and intensely emotional story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. Guillermo Arriaga''s screenplay is as inventively structured as a Paul Auster lovel: a triptych of overlapping and intersecting narrativ es, exploring the lives of disparate characters who ...
Obadiah Demurral is a sorcerer who is seeking to control the highest power in the universe. He will stop at nothing. The only people in his way are Raphael, Kate, Thomas - and the mysterious Jacob Crane. Their tortured struggles lead them to a dramat ic climax in the gothic church of St Mary''s.Upozornenie: ...
Birds Without Wings tells of the inhabitants of a small coastal town in South West Anatolia in the dying days of the Ottoman empire: Iskander the Potter and fount of proverbial wisdom; Philothei, a Christian girl of legendary beauty who is courted al most from infancy by Ibrahim the Goatherd, their great ...
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 ...
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 warm and enchanting new novel from the bestselling author of ''''Going Home''''. Laura Foster is a hopeless romantic. It is her most endearing characteristic, yet consistently leads her into trouble. Friends and family look on with amused tolerance u ntil Laura''''s inability to tell reality from ...
In the grand tradition of the parody bestseller Bored of the Rings, this uproarious literary spoof follows the Tolkienesque adventures of Bingo "Sac" Grabbings, a rather unremarkable Soddit of Upper Middle Earth. He ventures forth (despite very sore and swollen feet indeed!) alongside Gandef the Coughing ...
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. ...
Meet Fletcher Moon. Half-pint schoolboy and fully qualified private investigator. Since graduating online, he has solved all sorts of minor mysteries at school and at home. It was only a matter of time before things got serious. When Fletcher starts asking questions about a spate of odd crimes in the ...
They were friends who shared everything - until tragedy singled one out. At the birth of their daughters best friends Rachel, Mariel and Jenny make a promise: to love and care for each other''s girls exactly as they would their own. Six years later an d a tragedy has torn them apart. Within weeks, Rachel ...
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 ...
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 ...
Bergdorf Blondes are a thing, you know, a New York craze. Absolutely everyone wants to be one, but its trés difficult. You wouldnt believe the dedication it takes to be a gorgeous, flaxen-haired, dermatologically perfect New York girl with a life t hats fabulous beyond belief.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na ...
Sexy and sultry Asha Rani is the unrivalled star of Bombay´s Bollywood film industry. But when she falls in love with Akshay Arora - the reigning celluloid leading man - passion threatens to ruin her career.
July 1209: in Carcassonne a young girl is given a mysterious book by her father which he claims contains the secret of the true Grail. Although Ala&239&894s cannot understand the strange words and symbols hidden within, she knows that her destiny lies in protecting it. It will take great sacrifice and ...
Cena:10.39€ | Autor:Baldacci, David | Rok vydania:2007 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780330444088 | Vydavateľ:Macmillan
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 ...
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 ...
This is the third book in the highly successful illustrated series by Madonna.
