English books

On the Go!

Praktické kleštičky na nehtovou kůžičku se díky svým rozměrům ideálně hodí na cesty.

Mountain Wild

Kompletní krmivo pro psy všech plemen a všeho věku. Perfektně stravitelné proteiny v podobě čistého novozélandského jehněčího, ale také divočiny z amerických horských oblastí.

The Hades Factor

A homeless man in Boston, an Army Major in California, and a teenage girl in Atlanta all die suddenly and painfully - each a victim of an unknown doomsday virus. For three days, a team of scientists i

High Five

Poviná letní výbava každého malého raubíře jsou kraťasy. Tyto jednoduché modré šortky se zajisté zalíbí i vašemu chlapečkovi. Pohodlí zajistí lehký materiál a širší guma v pase se šňůrkou. Materiál: 100% bavlna

Red Dwarf

Red Dwarf vznikl zkřížením samonakvétacího White Dwarf a silného skunku, který byl otcem. Podařilo se tím dosáhnout perfektní samonakvétací samice se silnou vůní a velice silným efektem. Red Dwarf - model z Červeného trpaslíka :) Nízké rozvětvení a kompaktní palice jsou indoor tak outdoor. Výhodou modelu Red Dwarf je, že nezabírá moc prostoru. Nevadí mu ani husté ostázení blízko u sebe, na plísně netrpí.Genetika: White Dwarf x SkunkGenotyp: Ruderalis IndicaOD semene: 9 týdnůVýška max: 0,7m...

Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments: City of Lost Souls

JAMES E.L. Fifty Shades 3 - Freed

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. Ana always knew that loving her Fifty Shades would not be easy, and being together poses challenges neither of them had anticipated. Ana must learn to share Grey's opulent lifestyle without sacrificing her own integrity...

Jeffery Deaver: Xo

Kayleigh Towne is a beautiful and successful singer-songwriter, and Edwin Sharp is her biggest fan. When she replies to one of his fan letters with 'XO', Edwin is convinced she loves him, and that her latest hit song 'Your Shadow' was written for him. Nothing Kayleigh or her lawyers can say persuades him otherwise. Then the singer gets an anonymous phone call; it's the first verse of 'Your Shadow' playing. Soon after, one of the crew is horribly murdered. Kayleigh's friend Kathryn Dance, a spec...

Kinsella Sophie I've got your number

L. Frank Baum: The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz

"He is more powerful than all the rest of us together. He lives in the City of Emeralds" Blown far from her home to the magical Land of Oz, little Dorothy must follow the yellow-brick road to the Emerald City and ask the Great and Terrible Wizard of Oz for help. With the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion by her side, Dorothy must first defeat the Wicked Witch of the West - but will the Wizard's magic be enough to help her get home? Part of the Wizard of Oz Collection - Journey th...

Lauren Kate: Torment

Love never dies . . . It took Lucinda an eternity to find her beloved angel, Daniel. But he waited for her. Now they are forced apart again, to protect Luce from the Outcasts - immortals who want her dead. During their separation, Luce learns about her mysterious past lives. But the more she discovers, the more she suspects Daniel is hiding something. What if Daniel's version of the past isn't true? Is it really their destiny to be together? Or is Luce actually meant to be with someone else?

Lock and Key

Horolezecká karabina MAMMUT Crag Key Lock Bent. Velmi pevná a odolná karabina s prohnutým zámkem od firmy Mammut. Key lock - Jednoduše geniální systém západky, který řeší problémy spojené s tradiční konstrukcí karabin. Lano, smyčka nebo plaketa nýtu se nezachytí o zobáček na nosu karabiny. Nemá ostré hrany, které by mohli poškodit lano nebo smyčku. Samozřejmě usnadňuje uspořádání a používání karabin na vašem úvazku. Nikde se nechytá! Technická data: - hmotnost: 47 g - nosnost podélná: 24 kN ...

Name of the Rose

Autor : Umberto Eco, Who is killing monks in a great medieval abbey famed for its library - and why? Brother William of Baskerville is sent to find out, taking with him the assistant who later tells the tale of his investigations. Eco's celebrated story combines elements of detective fiction, metaphysical thriller, post-modernist puzzle and historical novel in one of the few twentieth-century books which can be described as genuinely unique.The Name of the Rose was made into a film in 1986, sta...

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...

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

The Testament - John Grisham

An eccentric, reclusive billionaire is looking for a way to die. A burnt-out Washington litigator is just out of rehab and trying to hold it together. These two are brought together with a woman who left the modern world to live and work with a primitive tribe of Indians in the Brazilian jungle.

Treasure Island/Ostrov pokladů

Dobrodružné pátrání Jima Hawkinse a jeho přátel po pokladu kapitána Flinta, o který rovněž usiluje banda zlotřilých pirátů, tvoří příběh, který budou děti číst či poslouchat se zatajeným dechem. ...

True Light

Tužka na obočí přesně definuje obočí a pomáhá ho udržet perfektně tvarované a pěstěné.

1000 novořeckých 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 postavy a věci, se kterými se denně setkáváme. Ať jde již o domácnost, město, školu, přírodu, zábavu, cestování, sport ad. Obrázky jsou popsány, za slovíčky následuje výslovnost a český význam. Každý tematický celek je doplněn typickými frázemi. Na konci knihy se nachází souhrnný slovníček. Příručk...

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 hov

20-th century Stories

Introduces your students to American literature through a selection of contemporary authors from the twentieth century.

300 - Frank Miller, Lynn Varley

33 Strategies of War

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

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...

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

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 Clegh

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

The spectre of the French Revolution--the rumbling of the death carts, thethud of the guillotine, the ferocious mobs and the storming of the Bastille--isvividly portrayed in this lavish BBC production, complete with a full cast andstirring music. Dickens' epic tale is a listening experience to betreasured.

A Town Like Alice

Jean Paget is a brave and intelligent English girl who meets again in Alice Springs the Australian soldier with whom she had fallen in love in Malaya during World War II. The novel was first published

A Walk to Remember

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

Biologicky aktivní přípravek obsahuje kombinaci základních vitaminů a minerálů vhodných pro posílení fyzické a psychické kondice.

Adam Johnson: The Orphan Master's Son

"You know you are in the hands of someone who can tell a story ...fantastic". (Zadie Smith). Pak Jun Do knows he is special. He knows he must be the son of the master of the orphanage, not some kid dumped by his parents - it was obvious from the way his father singled him out for beatings. He knows he is special when he is picked as a spy and kidnapper for his country, the glorious Democratic Republic of North Korea. He knows he must find his true love, Sun Moon, the greatest opera star who eve...

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

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of Baker Street would have failed to recognize him. His face flushed and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter.' Set against the foggy, mysterious backdrops of London and the English countryside, these...

After the funeral

When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard's will, Cora was clearly heard to say: 'It's been hushed up very nicely, hasn't itBut he was murdered, wasn't he?' In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the mystery.

Agatha Christie: Death in the Clouds

From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp. What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him, in seat No.2, sat the slumped, lifeless body of a woman.

Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile

The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it seemed

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 th

Agatha Christie: Hickory Dickory Dock

There's more than petty theft going on in a London youth hostel...

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 det...

Agatha Christie: Mrs McGinty's Dead

An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage...

Agatha Christie: Murder Is Easy

"A new 'signature edition' of Agatha Christie's thriller, featuring the return of Superintendent Battle. 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 think so - until he read in ""The Times"" of the unexpected demise o...

Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the year. But by the morning there was one passenger fewer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. With tension mounting, detective Hercule Poirot comes up with not one, but two solutions to the crime.

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

"An uninvited guest, coated in dust, sways and falls in the doorway of Poirot's bedroom. Who is he? What is the significance of the figure 4 scribbled repeatedly on a sheet of paper? Poirot is plunged into a world of international intrigue, risking his life to uncover the truth about ""Number Four"". "

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 Gree

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

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 ...

Aldous Huxley: The Doors of Perception

'The Doors of Perception is a poignant book, partly because it reveals the human frailties and yearnings of a very cerebral writer' Financial Times

Alex Gray: The Swedish Girl

Alexander McCall Smith Kalahari Typing School for Men

'Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent' reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has been attacked by ostrich rustlers, and is eager to reassess his life? Meanwhile, there are difficulties at the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, where one of the apprentices has discovered the Lord, problems at home with the mysterious death of a hoopoe, and ...

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

A historical romance, 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 honour of the queen against the machinations of the Cardinal himself as the power struggles of seventeenth century France are vividl...

Alice Munro: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

In these stories whose lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as her characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isn't. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories haven't been savoured, recalled in the mind and boxed away, it's as if they have never been until a moment when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form suddenly, sometimes pleasurably but more often painfully. Wo...

Allen Ginsberg: Howl and Other Poems

Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse. This new collection brings together the famous poems that made his name as a defining figure of the counterculture. They include the apocalyptic ‘Howl’, which became the subject of an obscenity trial when it was first published in 1956; the moving lament for his dead mother, ‘Kaddish’; the searing indictment of his homeland, ‘America’; and the confessional ‘Mescaline’. Dark, ecstatic and...

Alpha and Omega

; Tracklist:; 01. The Rise (And Fall) Of Kingdoms ; 02. Sacrifice ; 03. Demons From The Past ; 04. Shadows Of Death ; 05. Killer's Redemption ; 06. Sign Of The Cross ; 07. Alpha / Omega ; 08. Witchhammer ; 09.

Amazing Maurice

Maurice, an amazing cat who has survived four years on the toughest streets in the whole of the Discworld, reckons that rats are dumb. Clever, OK, but dumb. Maurice, however, is smart. Smart enough to recognize that there's a new kind of rat around - rats who have been eating wizards' rubbish and can now talk. Smart enough to get a pretty amazing idea when he spots a stupid-looking kid playing the flute...Now Maurice has his very own 'plague of rats' - and his own Pied Piper. And his money-bags...

American & British studies Annual

Our aim is to create a platform for scholarly exchange not only within the Czech Republic but internationally. We seek original articles that explore a wide range of issues concerning American and Bri

American Gods

American Stories (MacMillan)

Amy Chua: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Anansi Boys

Anastasia (The Ringing Cedars, Book 1) - Vladimir Megre et al.

V první knize mladá poustevnice Anastasia odpovídá na řadu otázek týkajících se zdravého způsobu života, šťastného vztahu mezi mužem a ženou, početí a výchovy dětí. Zároveň poskytuje užitečné rady v o

Anděl pitvornosti / The Angel of the Odd

Bilingvní vydání přináší sedm povídek amerického romantického prozaika, básníka, esejisty a novináře Edgara Allana Poea (1809–1849), který je považován za zakladatele moderní detektivní prózy a hororu

Anders Roslund, Börge Hellström: Three Seconds

Piet Hoffmann is the best undercover operative in the Swedish police force, but only one other man is even aware of his existence. After a drug deal he is involved in goes badly wrong, he must face the hardest mission of his life - infiltrating Sweden's most infamous maximum-security prison. Detective Inspector Ewert Grens is charged with investigating the drug-related killing. Unaware of Hoffmann's real identity, he believes himself to be on the trail of a dangerous psychopath. But he cannot e...

Andreas Gursky

Rozsáhlá publikace současné hvězdy německé fotografie s důrazem na umělcova nejnovější díla. New groups of work by Andreas Gursky: an up-to-date view of the magnificent panoramas from the “megastar of the international art scene.” (Die Welt) Andreas Gursky (*1955 in Leipzig) is one of the most important artists in the world to use large-format photographs as a means of expression. The Düsseldorf-based photographer is especially interested in congregations of people and the sites of their gather...

Andrzej Sapkowski: Blood of Elves

Based on the hit video game, this sequel to "The Last Wish" finds the cunning assassin Geralt de Rivia, also known as the witcher, waiting for the birth of a prophesied child as the inhabitants of his world are embroiled in a state of total war.