In 523 BC, the Persian emperor Cambyses dispatched an army across Egypt's western desert to destroy the oracle of Amun at Siwa. Legend has it that somewhere in the middle of the Great Sand Sea his army was overwhelmed by a sandstorm and destroyed... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Classics: The Elephant (1957) is Slawomir Mrozek's award-winning collection of hilarious and unnerving short... Zobraziť viac
In this science fiction novel, readers meet the "Alien Legion" - refuge of every creeping, slithering scumbag the Universe every saw fit to dump in a uniform. Force Nomad - a group of hard-bitten warriors loyal only to one another... Zobraziť viac
Canongate Books Ltd: Review: 'A masterpiece... A brilliant and engaging story that makes you rethink the nature of existence... Zobraziť viac
Čitateľom rozsiahlej po nemecky hovoriacej oblasti ponúka Divadelný ústav možnosť spoznať diela autorov, ktoré sa radia... Zobraziť viac
Firstly, it should be noted that The Lost Symbol has incorporated all the elements that so transfixed readers in The Da Vinci Code: a complex, mystifying plot (with the reader set quite as many challenges as the protagonist);... Zobraziť viac
"The days I had previously filled with the duties of chief cook and bottle-washer now lay strangely empty and stretched out before me like a blank canvas. I kept looking at it, but couldn`t think of anything to paint . . . " Zobraziť viac
Gerade hat sich Vollblut-New-Yorkerin Mia damit abgefunden, Prinzessin von Genovia zu sein, als das Schicksal wieder zuschlägt: Seit kurzem hat sie einen Freund... Zobraziť viac
Sam Capra is living the life of his dreams. A young American in London, he has a perfect flat, a perfect job with the CIA... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd - Since her divorce a year ago, Kit Hargrove feels she has finally got her life back on track. Gone is the lon Zobraziť viac
Piatkus: He must be wealthy, well-born and want her more than he wants any other woman. Those are the conditions that must... Zobraziť viac
CCV - `A quirky delight.'<BR> --Woman & Home<br /><br />`A ghost story which is as much about the living as it is the dead' --Ex Zobraziť viac
When Nick is 13, he loses his parents in a car-crash. His sister, seven years his elder, is left to look after him. As he... Zobraziť viac
Winner of the 1997 National Book Award A "New York Times" and "Globe and Mail "Notable Book of the Year Charles Frazier has created a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation... Zobraziť viac
Liam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have... Zobraziť viac
Somerset, 1836, and baby Hope is cast out from a world of privilege as living proof of her mother's adultery ... Smuggled away from the Harveys and Briargate House to a nearby village, Hope grows up in the arms of the warm and loving Renton family,... Zobraziť viac
Bonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is a sadly dilapidated home to ten wildly different... Zobraziť viac
John Updike was a master storyteller, and this collection, from his final years, reveals that up to the end he remained the finest short-story writer of his generation... Zobraziť viac
