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First Words

, Pozrite si abecedu od A do Z v knihe ABC Prvé slová. Písmenká ožijú, keď otvoríte okienka na niektorých stranách. Za nimi sa skrývajú nové slová, ktoré pomôžu rozvinúť predstavivosť vašich detí a vzbudia ich záujem o anglický jazyk. Na každej strane sú slová spolu s milými farebnými obrázkami, ktoré uľahčia vašim deťom naučiť sa prvé anglické slová a vytvoriť si užitočnú slovnú zásobu.Druh sortimentu : Kniha, ABC First words Prvé slová, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : 10...

Bukowski Charles Odbarvená píča/A white pussy

Tři povídky – „Blonďatá píča“, „Bílý plnovous“ a „Vražda Ramóna Vásqueze“ – od kultovního amerického autora, bohéma profesí a především krále nezávislé tvorby.

Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments: City of Lost Souls

Clary and the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world after a betrayal by one of their own leaves them reeling.

N or M? Christie Agatha

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2). Each reader includes: • A CD with a reading of the adapted story • Helpful notes on characters • Cultural and historical notes rel...

Ender's Game

Autor : Orson Scott Card, Andrew Ender Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games, he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast. But Ender is n...

Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

"The troubled life of Adrian Mole continues in this sequel to ""The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4"". Adrian continues to struffle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life. "

Gullivers Travels - Jonathan Swift et al.

With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal). As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands and societies, whose names have entered the English language: notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, and the Yahoos in Houyhnhnmland...

Hašek Jaroslav Good Soldier Švejk

Features adventures of an ordinary soldier, who is either genuinely a total idiot or a genius pretending to be one - perhaps the greatest book to come out of the First World War, as Svejk tries with endless ingenuity to avoid getting to the trenches.

Revolution 1989 (Fall Of the Soviet Empire)

For more than 40 years after the Second World War the Iron Curtain divided Europe physically, with 300 km of walls and barbed wire fences; ideologically, between communism and capitalism; psychologically, between people imprisoned under totalitarian dictatorships and their neighbours enjoying democratic freedoms; and militarily, by two mighty, distrustful power blocs, still fighting the cold war. At the start of 1989, ten European nations were still Soviet vassal states. By the end of the year,...

The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas, David Coward

The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a power struggle that may undermine the young Louis XIV and change the face of the French monarchy. In the fast-paced narrative style that was his trademark, Dumas pitches us straight into the action. ...

Treasure Island/Ostrov pokladů

Zrcadlový text vám přináší příběh jak v českém tak anglickém jazyce – na levé straně knihy je původní text, na pravé jeho překlad do češtiny. Ideální čtení nejen na dovolenou, u kterého se pobavíte, ale navíc se procvičíte v angličtině! Klasický příběh je převyprávěn pro dnešní čtenáře, s využitím běžné angličtiny. Text je navíc doplněn užitečnými poznámkami pod čarou, které čtenáře upozorní na důležitá anglická slovní spojení. Doporučujeme všem mírně pokročilým k procvičení pochopení anglickéh...

Breakfast at Tiffany`s (Penguin)

Catching Fire

Získáte podporu lidu Panem a využijete své inspirace ke svržení Kapitolu? V karetní hře Catching Fire: Shuffling the Deck se hráči tajně pokoušejí převzít kontrolu nad jednou z hlavních postav knihy Catching Fire (pokračování The Hunger Games) a snaží se skrze ni získat podporu lidu Panem. Navzdory řadě problémů budete sloužit jako zdroj naděje a inspirace pro obyvatele Čtvrtí a stanete se symbolem nezávislosti. Ale buďte opatrní, oči Kapitolu - a prezident Snow - se stále dívají! Hra je v angl...

E.L. James: Fifty Shades Darker

E L James revisits the world of Fifty Shades with a deeper and darker take on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the globe. Their scorching, sensual affair ended in heartbreak and recrimination, but Christian Grey cannot get Anastasia Steele out of his mind, or his blood. Determined to win her back, he tries to suppress his darkest desires and his need for complete control, and to love Ana on her own terms. But the horrors of his childhood still haunt him, and Ana's s...

Favole ceche

Nejkrásnější české pohádky pro italsky mluvící děti.

Gaiman Neil Coraline

Just as the mice did not get Coraline's name wrong their warning message was also not wrong. She finds a secret corridor behind a locked door, a corridor that takes her into a house very similar to her own, but with counterfeit parents and a terrible quest on which her survival, and more, depends.

Gettysburg

Ultimate General: Gettysburg Vysoko hodnocená bitevní strategie zasazená do konfliktu Americké občanské války, která vám...

Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell, Pat Conroy

Classic / British EnglishGone with the Wind is a great romantic story of love and war and one of the best-selling books of all time. In Part 2, the American Civil War has destroyed Scarlett OHaras comfortable world. Will she lose her home too? Or can she save it and rebuild her life?

Hansel and Grethel/Jeníček a Mařenka a/č

Ti, kteří už trochu anglicky umějí, si jistě rádi přečtou známé pohádky v angličtině. Publikace jich obsahuje šest v anglicko-české podobě. Dětem můžete pohádky pouštět z CD namluveném anglickým rodil

Hold Tight

Podložky pro napínací šrouby - s pryžovou vložkou, 20 kusů

Jack London: The Call of the Wild

'Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and . . . he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire, and to plunge into the forest.' Half St. Bernard, half sheepdog, Buck is stolen away from his comfortable life as a pet in California and sold to dog traders. He soon finds himself aboard a ship, on its way to Northern Canada. Surrounded by cruelty, Buck's natural instincts and behaviour begin to emerge as he works as a mail carrying sled dog, scavenging for food, protecting himself against othe...

Metamorphosis & Other Stories

This new translation includes Kafka's most famous story, The Metamorphosis, together with two other stories, The Judgement and In the Penal Colony, and Meditation and the autobiographical Letter to his Father.

Mockingjay

Stylový plakát Hunger Games: Síla vzdoru 1. část - Reprodrozd (Mockingjay) o rozměru 61x91,5 cm. Plakát je tištěn kvalitním ofsetovým tiskem na papír s vysokou gramáží. Plakát je opatřen ochrannou vrstvou proti degradaci barev. Více informací najdete na Posters.cz

Mountain Wild

Kompletní krmivo Sierra Mountain Canine Formula je určeno pro všechny psy ve všech životních fázích - z pečeného jehněčího. Kombinace jehněčího masa a batát je vhodná pro alergické psy.

One Direction: One Direction: Where We are

Calling all One Direction fans! This is the only official book from 1D, charting their journey over the last year and a half – from the places they’ve visited and fans they’ve met, to their thoughts and feelings, hopes and dreams, highs and lows. It has been a phenomenal year – and this is a phenomenal story. This Christmas, there will be no other book that true One Direction fans will want! They’ve won dozens of awards. They’ve had a bigger US debut than the Beatles. They’ve played Madison Squ...

Perfect Match

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Procházky pana Pipa / Mr. Pip’s Trips - Holý Stanislav

Obrázková knížka vynikajícího autora kresleného humoru Stanislava Holého, plná hravosti, obrazotvornosti a fantazie. Kniha obdržela Čestné uznání Ministerstva kultury za nejkrásnější knihu roku.

Queen and I

Vyzkoušej trojitou 3D tvářenku s vášnivě perleťovými odstíny. Odstíny záludné fialové, nevinně tělové a vášnivě hnědavé. Trojitá kombinace, která o tobě řekne maximum.

Rising Storm

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Shadow of the Wind

The international bestseller and modern classic - over 20 million copies sold worldwide'Shadow is the real deal, a novel full of cheesy splendour and creaking trapdoors, a novel where even the subplots have subplots. One gorgeous read' STEPHEN KING'An instant classic' DAILY TELEGRAPHThe Shadow of the Wind is a stunning literary thriller in which the discovery of a forgotten book leads to a hunt for an elusive author who may or may not still be alive...Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barc...

Star Wars Art

This unique Star Wars colouring adventure will take you away from your daily stresses and transport you to a galaxy far, far away. Discover more than 100 beautiful and intricate illustrations and mandalas born from the meeting of the Star Wars universe and the Art Noveau style. Colour in Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Yoda, and all your favourite characters and bring favourite scenes to life. Creativity has no age limit. Like the greatest Jedi masters, explore detachment by creativity, so that ...

Tahereh Mafi: Shatter Me

X-Men meets The Handmaid's Tale in this first instalment in an epic and romantic YA fantasy trilogy perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Victoria Aveyard's The Red Queen, Netflix's Stranger Things and Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows.A fragile young teenage girl is held captive. Locked in a cell by The Reestablishment - a harsh dictatorship in charge of a crumbling world. This is no ordinary teenager. Juliette is a threat to The Reestablishment's power. A touch from her can kill - one touch is all it...

The Art of the Last of Us

Stylový plakát The Last of Us - Key Art o rozměru 61x91,5 cm. Plakát je tištěn kvalitním ofsetovým tiskem na papír s vysokou gramáží. Plakát je opatřen ochrannou vrstvou proti degradaci barev. Více informací najdete na Posters.cz

Top 10 Rome

Your Guide to the 10 Best of Everything in Rome Discover the best of everything the city has to offer with this essential, pocket-sized DK Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide: Rome 2017 with pull-out map. Top 10 lists showcase the best places to visit in Rome, from detailed information on the Pantheon and Colloseum to what to do in Rome with kids. Eleven easy-to-follow itineraries explore the city's most interesting areas - from the boutiques of the Tridente to the artistic highlights of Vatican Cit...

Walt Disneys Peter Pan

Dětské nástěnné hodiny Walt Disney Peter Pan H521018 152965<br /><br />Popis zboží:<br/><br/>Hmotnost: 0,402 kg<br/>Materiál Plast <br/>Barva: červená<br/>Rozměry [VxŠxH] 250x250x37 mm <br/>Napájení 1xAA (tužková) <br/>Sklíčko: skleněné<br /><br />PRIMA hodiny do každé správné rodiny!

Wild Card

Columbia Parky Wild Card Jacket Modrá K dispozici v pánské velikosti. EU XXL,EU M,EU L. Pánské > Oblečení > Parky Columbia

1000 novořeckých slovíček

Praktická knížka se stane dobrým pomocníkem při učení a procvičování novořeckých slovíček. Na veselých obrázcích, jež znázorňují běžné životní situace, najdete názvy věcí, se kterými se denně setkávát

1000 polských slovíček

Učte se důležitá slovíčka pomocí veselých obrázků! Zapamatujete si je rychleji a vštípí se vám i mnohem hlouběji do paměti! Ilustrace znázorňují běžné životní situace, které denně prožíváme, obsahují

1000 portugalských slovíček

Učte se důležitá slovíčka pomocí veselých obrázků! Zapamatujete si je rychleji a vštípí se vám i mnohem hlouběji do paměti! Ilustrace znázorňují běžné životní situace, které denně prožíváme, obsahu

11/22/63: A Novel - Stephen King (UK)

A riveting, high-stakes political story like UNDER THE DOME, a love story like BAG OF BONES, a 1950s community like IT, Stephen King's incredibly ambitious, heartstoppingly dramatic time travel novel, 11.22.63 is a WHAT IF? novel like no one's ever read before - a one thousand page tour de force. Now a major TV series from JJ Abrams and Stephen King, starring James Franco (Hulu US, Fox UK and Europe, Stan Australia, SKY New Zealand). WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of hi...

111 Useful English Phrasal Verbs

Užitočná príručka poskytuje prehľad 111 najpoužívanejších a najpotrebnejších frázových slovies, ktorých porozumenie a správne používanie je nevyhnutné pre každého, kto sa chce pohybovať v anglicky hovoriacom prostredí. Väčšina z uvedených zvratov má viac ako jeden význam, pričom sme sa snažili vybrať tie najužitočnejšie. Knižka je spracovaná prehľadnou formou s dôrazom na rýchle vyhľadávanie. Frázové slovesá - teda ustálené slovné spojenia slovesa a predložky (prípadne príslovky), ktorá pôvodné...

20-th century Stories

Anotace: Macmillan Literature Collections jsou knihy v angličtině pro pokročilé studenty angličtiny. Jedná se o soubor povídek v původní neupravené podobě. Do výběru byli zařazeni autoři, kteří píší jazykem, jemuž může pokročilý student angličtny bez obtíží porozumět. Popis: Neupravená kniha v angličtině v originále. Macmillan Literature Collections jsou knihy v angličtině pro pokročilé studenty angličtiny. Jedná se o soubor povídek v původní neupravené podobě. Do výběru byli zařazeni autoři, k...

300 - Frank Miller, Lynn Varley

33 Strategies of War

Autor : Robert Greene, Druh sortimentu : Kniha, The 33 Strategies of War, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : neuvedeno

4 Hour Work Week

Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred-life plan - there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times. Whether your dream is escaping the rat race, experiencing high-end world travel, earning a monthly five-figure income with zero management, or just living more and working less, this book is the blueprint. This step-by step guide to luxury lifestyle design teaches: how Tim went from $40,000 dollars per year and 80 hours per w...

4.50 From Paddington

Agatha Christie's audacious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman's throat. The body crumpled. Then the other train drew away.But who, apart from Miss Marple, would take her story seri...

7 habits of highly effective people

A Breath of Snow and Ashes - Diana Gabaldon

It’s 1772, the Royal Colony of North Carolina, and the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and preserve the colony for King and Crown. One minor problem: Jamie Fraser’s wife, Claire, is a time-traveller, as are his daughter and son-in-law. And Jamie knows that three years hence, the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the end of it all will be independence - with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. Beyond present danger, though, looms the threat of a...

A brief history of the Czech..

Velmi populární, stručné a přehledné historické minimum českých dějin.

A clockwork orange

Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles and reviews Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis 'It is a horrorshow story ...' Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But wh...

A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin

The fifth volume in the greatest epic work of the modern age. The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance. In the east, Daenerys, last scion of House Targaryen, her dragons grown to terrifying maturity, rules as queen of a city built on dust and death, beset by enemies. Now that her whereabouts are known many are seeking Daenerys and her dragons. Among them the dwarf, Tyrion Lannister, who has escaped King’s Landing with a price on his head, wrongfully condemned to death for the murde...

A Murder is Announced Christie Agatha

Agatha Christie's most ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: `A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.' A childish practical joke? Or a hoax intended to scare poor Letitia Blacklock? Unable to re...

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens' greatest historical novel, traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyle's great work - The French Revolution. 'The best story I have written' was Dickens' own verdict on A Tale of Two Cities, and the reader is unlikely to disagree with this judgement of a story which combines historical fact with the author's unsurpassed genius for poignant ta...

A Town Like Alice

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.A heart-rending story of strength in adversity, A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute is a celebration of the overwhelming power of love. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by bestselling novelist, Jenny Colgan.Jean Paget, a young English woman, is captured by the Japanese...

A.D. Miller: Snowdrops

"A.D. Miller’s Snowdrops is a riveting psychological drama that unfolds over the course of one Moscow winter, as a young Englishman’s moral compass is spun by the seductive opportunities revealed to him by a new Russia: a land of hedonism and desperation, corruption and kindness, magical dachas and debauched nightclubs; a place where secrets – and corpses – come to light only when the deep snows start to thaw… Snowdrops is a chilling story of love and moral freefall: of the corruption, by a cor...

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Grahame-Smith's revision of a Jane Austen classic blew readers' minds and became an instant national bestseller. Now, the author of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" tackles one of America's greatest presidents.

Abraham Verghese: Cutting for Stone

My brother, Shiva, and I came into the world in the late afternoon of the twentieth of September in the year of grace 1954. We took our first breaths in the thick air of Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia. Bound by birth, we were driven apart by bitter betrayal. No surgeon can heal the would that divides two brothers. Where silk and steel fail, story must succeed. To begin at the beginning...

Absolute Power

Absolute Power obsahuje kombinaci základních vitamínů a minerálů vhodných pro posílení fyzické a psychické kondice.

Adventure Stories

Anotace: Macmillan Literature Collections jsou knihy v angličtině pro pokročilé studenty angličtiny. Jedná se o soubor povídek v původní neupravené podobě. Do výběru byli zařazeni autoři, kteří píší jazykem, jemuž může pokročilý student angličtny bez obtíží porozumět. Popis: Neupravená kniha v angličtině v originále.Macmillan Literature Collections jsou knihy v angličtině pro pokročilé studenty angličtiny. Jedná se o soubor povídek v původní neupravené podobě. Do výběru byli zařazeni autoři, kt...

Adventures of Pinocchio

The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century. From the moment Joseph the carpenter carves a puppet that can walk and talk, this wildly inventive fantasy takes Pinocchio through countless adventures, in the course of which his nose grows whenever he tells a lie, he is turned into a donkey, and is swallowed by a dogfish, before he gains real happiness. This new translation does full justice ...

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective to the readers of The Strand Magazine, followed by a second set of stories, The Memoirs.

After the funeral

There are certain things that are best left unsaid. Though tragedy had touched the life of the wealthy Richard Abernethie, his sudden death seemed pretty unremarkable for a man of his age. So why would his sister wait until his funeral to say he had been murdered? When she is savagely killed with a hatchet the next day, her extraordinary remark suddenly takes on a chilling significance. In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery...

Agatha Christie: Death in the Clouds

Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile

Agatha Christie's most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against he...

Agatha Christie: Evil under the Sun (HarperCollins)

Agatha Christie's exotic seaside mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun...she had been strangled. Ever since Arlena's arrival at the resort, Hercule Poirot had detected sexual tension in the seaside air. But could this apparent 'crime o...

Agatha Christie: Hickory Dickory Dock

There's more than petty theft going on in a London youth hostel...An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot's interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items - including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack and a diamond ring found in a bowl of soup - he congratulated the warden, Mrs Hubbard, on a `unique and beautiful problem'.The list made absolutely no sense at a...

Agatha Christie: Miss Marple and Mystery

A brand new omnibus of 55 short stories, presented for the first time in chronological order. Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as ' the typical old maid of fiction', Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St Mary Mead. Yet, by observing village life she has gained an unparalleled insight into human nature - and used it to devasting effect. As her friend Sir Henry Clithering, the ex-Commissioner of Scotland Yard has been heard to say: 'She's just the finest dete...

Agatha Christie: Murder Is Easy

Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Luke Fitzwilliam could not believe Miss Pinkerton's wild allegation that a multiple murderer was at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood - or her speculation that the local doctor was next in line. But within hours, Miss Pinkerton had been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke was inclined to ...

Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a new cover to tie in with the hugely anticipated 2017 film adaptation. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must ide...

Agatha Christie: Sparkling Cyanide

A new 'signature edition' of Agatha Christie's thriller, featuring the recurring character of Colonel Race from Death on the Nile, Cards on the Table and The Man in the Brown Suit Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary -- in solemn memory of Rosemary Barton who died at the same table exactly one year previously. No one present on that fateful night would ever forget the woman's face, contorted beyond recognition -- or what the...

Agatha Christie: The Big Four

A ruthless international cartel seeks world domination...

Agatha Christie: The Labours of Hercules

Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires - to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek namesake... In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet - reasoned the detective - like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed `Labours'. Each would go down in the a...

Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie's most daring crime mystery - an early and particularly brilliant outing of Hercule Poirot, `The Murder of Roger Ackroyd', with its legendary twist, changed the detective fiction genre for ever. Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Now, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with a drug overdose. But the evening post brought Roger one last f...

Agatha Christie: They Came to Baghdad

A new 'Signature Edition' of the Agatha Christie thriller, rejacketed in the stylish new series livery. Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret summit of superpowers, concerned but not convinced, about the development of an, as yet, unidentified and undescribed secret weapon. Only one man has the proof that can confirm the nature of this fantastic secret weapon - a British agent named Carmichael. Unfortunately the criminal organisation responsible for the weapon's development will stop at n...

Agatha Christie: They Do it with Mirrors

Anotace: Originální anglická četba od známé spisovatelky detektivních příběhů Agathy Christie Popis: A man is shot at in a juvenile reform home -- but someone else dies! Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitiation centre for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when a youth fires a revolver at the administrator, Lewis Serrocold. Neither is injured. But a mysterious visitor, Mr Gilbrandsen, is less fortunate -- shot dead sim...

Alain de Botton: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Autor : Alain de Botton, We spend most of our waking lives at work - in occupations often chosen by our unthinking sixteen-year-old selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what it might mean for us. Equally intrigued by work's pleasures and its pains, Alain de Botton here heads out into the under-charted worlds of the office, the factory, the fishing fleet and the logistics centre, ears and eyes open to the beauty, interest and sheer strangeness of the modern workplace.Druh ...

Alex Gray: The Swedish Girl

When Kirsty Wilson lands a room in a luxury Glasgow flat owned by Swedish fellow student Eva Magnusson she can't believe her luck. But Kirsty's delight turns to terror when she finds the beautiful Swedish girl lying dead in their home and their male flatm

Alexandra Potter: Going La La

What do you when your boyfriend tells you he wants space? You give him six thousand miles of it... Frankie's life is falling apart. In less than a week she's gone from having everything - a great job, lovely flat and gorgeous Hugh - to having nothing at all. Devastated, dumped and on the dole, she packs her bags and flies to Los Angeles to stay with an old friend. Her goal? To sort out her life and get over Hugh. She does not, repeat not, go to LA to fall head over heels for an American photogr...

Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers

With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren. University of Kent at Canterbury. One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de Treville, the four defend the honour of the regiment against the guards of Cardinal Richelieu, and the h...