Hľadanie: Webster's Deák Dictionary
zobraziť:
The Swifts
A hilarious new mystery adventure perfect for fans of Robin Stevens and Lemony Snicket.
On the day they are born, each Swift is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. They are given a name and a definition, and it is assumed they will grow up to match. Unfortunately, Shenanigan Swift has other ideas.
So what if her relatives all think she's destined to turn out as a troublemaker, just because of her name? Shenanigan knows she can be whatever she wants - pirate, explorer or even detective.
Which is lucky, really, because when one of the Family tries to murder Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude, someone has to work out whodunit.
With the help of her sisters and cousin, Shenanigan grudgingly takes on the case, but more murders, a hidden treasure and an awful lot of suspects make thing seriously complicated.
Can Shenanigan catch the killer before the whole household is picked off? And in a Family where definitions are so important, can she learn to define herself?
Poslední slovo
Emma Carpenterová se svým zlatým retrívrem hlídá starý dům na pláži. Její jediný kontakt s lidmi je tajemný starý soused Deek a (prostřednictvím SMS) majitelka domu Jules. Když si Emma přečte mizerný, ale děsivý hororový román od jistého H. G. Kanea a napíše mu jednohvězdičkovou recenzi, vtáhne ji to do online sporu se samotným autorem. Brzy poté se v noci začnou dít znepokojující věci. To přece nemůže být náhoda. Že by ji spisovatel pronásledoval? Jak Emma pátrá po Kaneově životě a díle, dozvídá se, že vydal šestnáct dalších knih, a všechny s podobně sadistickými příběhy. Kdo to však je? Jak ji našel? A čeho je schopen?
The Reappearance of Rachel Price
A stunning new YA thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder!
18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness. Rachel is gone, presumed dead.
The case is dragged up from the past when the Price family agree to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. But then Rachel Price reappears, and life will never be normal again . . .
Tajomná dračia škola 2: Drak so striebornými rohmi
Objavte s Henrym a jeho spolužiakmi čaro drakobalu a pomôžte im vypátrať záhadného tvora, ktorého ešte nikdy nevideli
Po tom, čo Henry našiel Fénixa, s ktorým okamžite nadviazal magické puto, sa v škole na ostrove Sedem ohňov konečne cíti ako doma. Hoci vyučovanie v dračej škole nie je prechádzka ružovou záhradou, s Fénixom po boku je pripravený zdolať všetky prekážky. Keď sa navyše dozvie, že aj tu majú obľúbený šport drakobal, pri ktorom môže využiť svoj talent, so spolužiakmi si založia vlastný tím. Ibaže v Henryho snoch sa z ničoho nič začne objavovať neznámy drak, ktorý ho úpenlivo prosí o pomoc. Kto je ten tajomný tvor? Prečo má strieborné rohy? A prečo je spútaný reťazou? Henry sa spolu s kamarátmi vydá hľadať odpovede na tieto otázky. Podarí sa im draka oslobodiť?
Druhý diel úspešnej fantasy série pre deti, ktorej nechýba humor a napätie.
Ilustroval Pascal Nöldner.
Pre čitateľov od 8 rokov
Z nemeckého originálu preložila Denisa Stareková.
Pod dekou
Pod dekou je první objemný komiks v dějinách tohoto žánru, kterému nakladatel věřil natolik, že jej vypustil v knižní podobě rovnou, aniž by jej měl otestovaný v nějakých sešitových či časopiseckých vydáních. Civilně, ale přitom nápaditě a zábavně líčený příběh autorova dětství, mládí a první velké lásky. Zároveň se tu řeší problém lidí, kteří byli vychováni na mírně řečeno nábožensky horlivém (a nemírně řečeno fanatickém) americkém venkově a kteří se pak zpod téhle deky i zpod jiných dek obtížně derou ven. Je to vražedně přímočarý příběh, při kterém si vzpomenete na vlastní věk nevinnosti a lásky tolik, až vás to píchne do srdce jako rampouch z pravé wisconsinské zimy.
Na sklade 2Ks
35,27 €
37,13 €
Lacná kniha The Salt Road (-90%)
From the author of The Tenth Gift comes another story of exotic, foreign lands, entwining storylines spanning generations, and the quests to overcome love lost. ""My dear Isabelle, in the attic you will find a box with your name on it.""Isabelle's estranged archeologist father dies, leaving her a puzzle. In a box she finds some papers and a mysterious African amulet -- but their connection to her remains unclear until she embarks on a trip to Morocco to discover how the amulet came into her father's possession. When the amulet is damaged and Isabelle almost killed in an accident, she fears her curiosity has got the better of her. But Taib, her rescuer, knows the dunes and their peoples, and offers to help uncover the amulet's extraordinary history, involving Tin Hinan -- She of the Tents -- who made a legendary crossing of the desert, and her beautiful descendant Mariata. Across years and over hot, shifting sands, tracking the Salt Road, the stories of Isabelle and Taib, Mariata and her lover, become entangled with that of the lost amulet. It is a tale of souls wounded by history and of love blossoming on barren ground. "From the Hardcover edition."
Na sklade 1Ks
1,04 €
10,40 €
dostupné aj ako:
If I Have To Be Haunted
Your first love will always haunt you…
The most haunting, heartwarming debut of 2023. Perfect for fans of strong female leads and supernatural stakes in Buffy, with all the sweetness and romance of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.
Cara’s just trying to stay on top of all her classes, excel at her extracurriculars, and prepare for college – which means not speaking to the dead, an ability she inherited from her grandmother. Ghosts are trouble, and Cara doesn’t need to add their problems to her own.
But then she stumbles upon the body of Zach – the super popular but very newly dead high school golden boy – in the woods, and guess what? He wants her to resurrect him.
Cue trouble.
The Scarlet Alchemist
You cannot create good without also creating evil.
Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold and gems for the wealthy to eat in order to stay young forever. But for now, she's trapped in her impoverished village in southern China, practicing an illegal form of alchemy to keep food on the table - resurrecting the dead, for a price.
When Zilan finally has the chance to complete her imperial exams, she ventures to the capital to compete against the best alchemists in the country in tasks she'll be lucky to survive, let alone pass. On top of that, her reputation for raising the dead has followed her, and the Crown Prince himself seeks out her help, suspecting a coming assassination attempt.
The more Zilan succeeds in her alchemy, the more she gets caught in the dangerous political games of the royal family. There are monsters lurking within the palace walls, and it's only a matter of time before they - and secrets of Zilan's past - catch up with her.
A dark YA fantasy duology set in an alternate Tang Dynasty China, where alchemy has led to income inequality as the rich eat gold to achieve eternal youth, and a poor biracial girl with the ability to raise the dead gets caught up in the dangerous political games of the royal family.
Night Side of the River
The genre-bending and masterful new collection of ghost stories from Jeanette Winterson
A ghost has no substance, but it has power - and presence - and it can appear in alternative forms. In the metaverse, we are all alternative forms. The Dead will join us.
Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips.
We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs.
We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect.
To live amongst us.
To remind us.
To tempt us.
To take their revenge.
These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be.
Blue Lock 11
With seconds left on the clock, Isagi manages to weave a masterful play—until Rin Itoshi and what seems like a stroke of bad luck deal the definitive blow. But what role does luck really play in a soccer match? Ego is eager to impart his wisdom on the advancing players, with the unknowns of the Third Selection looming just ahead…
The Deadline - Essays
A book to be read and kept for posterity, The Deadline is the art of the essay at its best.
Few, if any, historians have brought such insight, wisdom, and empathy to public discourse as Jill Lepore. Arriving at The New Yorker in 2005, Lepore, with her panoptical range and razor-sharp style, brought a transporting freshness and a literary vivacity to everything from profiles of long-dead writers to urgent constitutional analysis to an unsparing scrutiny of the woeful affairs of the nation itself. The astonishing essays collected in The Deadline offer a prismatic portrait of Americans’ techno-utopianism, frantic fractiousness, and unprecedented?but armed?aimlessness. From lockdowns and race commissions to Bratz dolls and bicycles, to the losses that haunt Lepore’s life, these essays again and again cross what she calls the deadline, the “river of time that divides the quick from the dead.” Echoing Gore Vidal’s United States in its massive intellectual erudition, The Deadline, with its remarkable juxtaposition of the political and the personal, challenges the very nature of the essay?and of history?itself.
12 images
Fugitive Telemetry
Having captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it's "one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I've ever read") Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one of the great SF writers of today.
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.
When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people?who knew?)
Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans!
Again!