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Nani Tama looked at each of us - Dad, Auntie Hiraina, my cousin Timi, and myself. His eyes were angry. You fullas want me to die here in this room? Looking at these four walls? When the whakapapa is not yet finished? But Nani Tama gets his own way, and…

Concluding the story of The Hobbit, this is the final part of Tolkiens epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkiens own design, the definitive text, and a detailed map of Middle-earth. The armies of the…

The Fellowship of the Ring is the first part of JRR Tolkiens epic masterpiece The Lord of the Rings. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power – the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for…

Building on the story begun in The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring this is the second part of Tolkiens epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkiens own design, the definitive text, and a detailed map…

Everybody wants to win the lottery. A million pounds, perhaps five million, even ten million. How wonderful! Emma Carter buys a ticket for the lottery every week, and puts the ticket carefully in her bag. She is seventy-three years old and does not have…

All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said No! He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. And he loved the wrong woman. She was beautiful and she…

More than 6 million readers around the world have improved their lives by reading The Magic of Thinking Big. First published in 1959, David J Schwartz's classic teachings are as powerful today as they were then. Practical, empowering and hugely…

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students reading confidence. Introductions…

The life-changing reader-favourite, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time, Reasons to Stay Alive and The Comfort Book

With an Introduction by James Tiptree, Jr. More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people`s minds. --Wall Street Journal Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick to have been the greatest science fiction writer on…

LGBTQ cinema is out in force at Sundance Film Festival, proclaimed USA Today. The acerbic coming-of-age movie is adapted from Emily M. Danforth`s novel, and stars Chloë Grace Moretz as a lesbian teen who is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after…

A fable that reveals the wisdom to create a life of passion, purpose, and peace.

Outside, the night is cold and wet. Inside, the White family sits and waits. Where is their visitor? There is a knock at the door. A man is standing outside in the dark. Their visitor has arrived. The visitor waits. He has been in India for many years.…

The new Hercule Poirot novel – another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his ‘little grey cells’. Since the publication of her first book in 1920, Agatha Christie wrote 33 novels, two plays and more…

All six books in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series, now available in a collectible paperback boxed set. Enter the secret world of the Shadowhunters with this handsomely packaged boxed set that includes City of Bones, City of…

Sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is an ordinary teenager, who likes hanging out in Brooklyn with her friends. But everything changes the night she witnesses a murder, committed by a group of teens armed with medieval weaponry. The murderous group are Shadowhunters,…

This is the second book in the bestselling urban fantasy trilogy, The Mortal Instruments.With her mother in a coma and her father hell-bent on destroying the world, Clary is dragged deeper into New Yorks terrifying underworld of werewolves, demons and…

This title is the third and final instalment in the bestselling urban gothic fantasy sequence, The Mortal Instruments. With two of the Mortal Instruments now in Valentines hands, the world of the Shadowhunters teeters on the brink of civil war. Jace…

A murder takes place at the vicarage in the small village of St. Mary Mead, its victim is the least favorite of the local population. Therefore, there are numerous people suspicious. Miss Marple, who appears in this story by Agatha Christie for the first…

Beware! Peril to the detective who says: It is so small it does not matter Everything matters.’ After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, and the horror of violent death banished into memory. Captain Arthur Hastings…

Charles Bravo died from the poison antimony. He took three days to die, and the doctors could do nothing to help him. There were three people who had reasons for wanting Charles Bravo dead - Florence Bravo herself, Charles Bravo s new young wife; Dr…

Allegra is an unusual name. It means happy in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to die soon. How does she know? And who is the other Allegra?…

Manor Hall is an old dark house with a mystery. Nobody can go into the music room. But one night Tom and Milly hear something. The noise is coming from the music room. Tom and Milly open the door. Someone in the music room is singing. Tom and Milly are…

Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway`s magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision…

Following two Top Ten bestsellers in comes the beautiful, poignant and utterly compelling new novel from Jojo Moyes. Suppose your life sucks, Your husband has done a vanishing act, your stepson is being bullied and your daughter has a once in a lifetime…

Three years after entering the pop music scene, Lady Gaga became the most well-known pop star in the world. These thirteen critical essays explore Lady Gagas body of work through the interdisciplinary filter of performance identity and cover topics such…

The Picture of Dorian Gray

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it was only the other way! Wildes first and only published novel…

Jazyková úroveň B1 - B2. Podle příběhu Oscara Wilda.

Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every…