How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his Uncle Prosek - the two finest fishermen in the world - he takes a peaceful pleasure from the rivers and ponds of his country.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched.
The unmissable first novel from bestselling and award-winning author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. "If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane." Miles Halter's whole life has been one big non-event, until he meets Alaska Young. Gorgeous, clever and undoubtedly screwed-up, Alaska draws Miles into her reckless world and irrevocably steals his heart.
"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once." Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
Desperately lonely, sixteen-year-old Monica Kammerle has little idea of what she is getting herself into when she begins an affair with her mother's latest partner; the sophisticated Benjamin Kerran ...Months later, when a woman's strangled body is found, the Maardam police must discover who has committed this terrible crime.
ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: DREAMS AND DUST is the FIRST part of the fifth volume in the series. In the aftermath of a colossal battle, new threats are emerging from every direction. Tyrion Lannister, having killed his father, and wrongfully accused of killing his nephew, King Joffrey, has escaped from King's Landing with a price on his head.
She's trained to kill. He's beaten the best. This time all bets are off. Former Secret Service Agents turned private investigators, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, return in their most surprising, personal and dangerous case to date. King and Maxwell encounter teenager Tyler Wingo when he has just received the tragic news that his soldier father has been killed in Afghanistan.
Set in a dark vision of the near future, a reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdee steps forward to take her younger sister's place in the games, she sees it as a death sentence.First in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy.
Winnie Maas died because she changed her mind ...A community is left reeling after a teacher -- Arnold Maager -- is convicted of murdering his female pupil Winnie Maas. It seems the girl had been pregnant with Maager's child. Years later, on her eighteenth birthday, Maager's daughter Mikaela finally learns the terrible truth about her father.
Let It Snow is a collection of three moving holiday romances by John Green, Lauren Myracle and Maureen Johnson. An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos. One brave soul ventures out into the storm from her stranded train and sets off a chain of events that will change quite a few lives.
Nové doplněné vydání kuchařky v němčině obsahuje mnoho receptů na jídla typická pro českou kuchyni, od předkrmů, přes polévky, hlavní jídla, různé speciality až po sladkosti.
A two-year course, starting with listening and speaking and introducing the written word in the second year. Key features: An effective, story-based methodology. Songs, puzzles, colouring and drawing activities to involve students actively in learning. A cross-curricular focus to develop learning skills across the curriculum.
Kniha vám nabízí recepty na tradiční jídla, která neodmyslitelně patří do české kuchyně. Přehledně napsané postupy, velké množství rad a obměn základních receptů, barevné fotografie důležitých fází přípravy i podávání jídel v angličtině.
>Reprezentativní publikace je i katalogem výstavy plakátů Alfonse Muchy z unikátní sbírky Ivana Lendla, která čítá přes 120 plakátů. Kromě plakátů, kalendářů a dekorativních panó je doplněna o 50 reprodukcí přípravných skic k některým významným plakátům a fotografiím.
Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, the Fifty Shades trilogy will obsess you, possess you and stay with you for ever. When Ana Steele first encountered the driven, damaged entrepreneur Christian Grey, it sparked a sensual affair that changed both their lives irrevocably.
Romantic, liberating and totally addictive, `Fifty Shades of Grey` is a novel that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever. When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating.
Román se vyznačuje černou komikou, nutí k přemýšlení a neustále překvapuje. Pagford je zdánlivě idylické anglické městečko s dlážděným náměstím a starobylým opatstvím, ale za hezkou fasádou je město ve válce, naznačuje děj nakladatel. "Bohatí jsou ve válce s chudými, teenageři s rodiči, manželky s manželi, učitelé se žáky.
Obrazová publikace v angličtině o unikátních historických, architektonických i přírodních památkách České republiky. Kniha je plná nádherných fotografií od známého českého fotografa Zdeňka Thomy.
WHAT WAS LOST WILL BE FOUND...Washington DC: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned at the last minute to deliver an evening lecture in the Capitol Building. Within moments of his arrival, however, a disturbing object - gruesomely encoded with five symbols - is discovered at the epicentre of the Rotunda.
Sherlock Holmes The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I Since his first appearance in "Beeton's Christmas Annual" in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.
