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.
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.
A much loved classic of fantasy literature written by a grumpy, pipe smoking don in a smelly tweedy jacket being turned into a massive worldwide cinema hit. Where have we seen that before? Lord of the Rings was, of course, immense when it got the Hol lywood treatment. Narnia will match it. We sold more ...
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 ...
Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his \''damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother\'' Hugh, "Theft: A Love Story" once again displays Peter Carey\''s extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it is a brilliant and ...
It is the year 2001, and Eugene Dabbs Hartke, suffering from TB, is recording his disastrous life on scraps of paper while awaiting trial for a crime he hasn't committed. This humorous novel is set in a Japanese-owned America, where everything is run for profit. By the author of Slaughterhouse 5".
Cena:26.39€ | Autor:Bryson, Bill | Rok vydania:2006 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780385608268 | Vydavateľ:Doubleday
Caitlin Flanagan, a hilarious and provocative social critic, compares the rituals and experiences that shaped the fifties housewife with those that have forged the modern woman and arrives at some surprising conclusions. In her signature prose - brightly funny and brutally honest - Flanagan examines ...
Life in general is getting in the way of Pam, Maggie, Ellie and Toni losing weight. And the men aren''''t helping either. There''''s an ex-husband who suddenly wants his children; a rich, powerful playboy who has everything, including a wife at home; a boyfriend who has serious difficulty opening his ...
Vynikajúce čítanie pre všetkých, ktorí obdivujú poetiku a jazyk mága svetovej literatúry. In 1933 a sensationalist Argentinian newspaper employed Jorge Luis Borges to produce high-brow cultural commentary. Alongside the high-toned pieces, he also contributed these quirky blood-and-guts tales of gunslingers, ...
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 ...
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, ...
