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Perfume the story of a murderer
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human
Lolita (Penguin Classics)
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?
Vampire Academy 4 Blood Promise
How far will Rose go to keep a promise? The recent Strigoi attack at St. Vladimir's Academy was the deadliest ever in the school's history, claiming the lives of many. Even worse, the Strigoi took some of their victims with them - including Dimitri. He'd rather die than be one of them, and now Rose must abandon her best friend, Lissa - the one she has sworn to protect no matter what - and keep the promise Dimitri begged her to make long ago. But with everything at stake, how can she possibly destroy the person she loves most?
Lacná kniha Test Your Pronunciation +CD (-50%)
60 tests in each book with tips on effective learning and answer keys. Practice key language areas and skills using a variety of test types.
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Jamie Oliver 3 Happy Days with Naked Chef
The No 1 bestsellerThis is probably the most beautiful of my three Naked Chef books. I'd just got married when it came out and it represents a really happy time for me. This was my fastest selling book at the time, showing that my kind of cooking was
fitting in with people's everyday lives. By keeping it simple, people really wanted to give it a go in the kitchen which is exactly what I was hoping to achieve with this book.Inside there are loads of classic, easy recipes like the fluffy pancakes
USA stylie, my old man's superb chicken and the ultra-simple pukka pineapple with bashed-up mint sugar. Genius.Jamie'There is only one Jamie Oliver. Great to watch. Great to cook' Delia Smith'Great, fabulous. Just enjoy yourself, get stuck in, happy
days' Spectator.
Lacná kniha Test Your Vocabulary 2 (-50%)
*60 tests for practising essential vocabulary at pre-intermediate level * Wide variety of tests, including crosswords, cartoons, gap-fills, A-Z wordlist, and full answer key * Tips on learning vocabulary
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The Prophecy
Jonathon Payne and David Jones are back in the fray in the latest page-turner from Chris Kuzneski, international bestselling author of "The Lost Throne", "Sword of God", and "Sign of the Cross". When the prophetic writings of sixteenth-century visionary Nostradamus begin to ring alarmingly true, Payne and Jones find themselves in a life-or-death race across the world to stop those who would use the French seer's predictions for their own dark purposes. With the breathless pace that has found Chris Kuzneski millions of fans around the globe, "The Prophecy" is a must-have adventure thriller.
Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland
Part of "Penguin's" beautiful hardback "Clothbound Classics" series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. 'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Dodgson, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. In the magical world of Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abandoned at a tea-party, and, a chaotic game of chess makes a 7-year-old a Queen.
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Dark goddes
BILLI SANGREAL is a Knight Templar and has thrown herself utterly into their brutal regime, shutting herself off from everyone and everything. But when Billi finds herself at the heart of a savage werewolf attack, she knows their target – a young girl – must be rescued at all costs. For this is no ordinary girl. Vasalisa is an avatar with an uncontrollable force within – and it’s not just the werewolves who want her.The Dark Goddess wants to sacrifice Vasalisa and use her powers to unleash unimaginable catastrophes and devastation. Can Billi protect Vasalisa from the ancient goddess – and at the same time stop her from destroying the world?
First Person and other storie
Distinguished by Smith's trademark ability to unearth flashes of truth and depth in the everyday, The First Person and Other Stories sparkles with warmth and humanity. In one story, a middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her fourteen-year-old self. In another, an innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting, yet beautiful child. And in a third story that challenges the boundaries between fiction and reality, the narrator, 'Ali', drinks tea, phones a friend, and muses on the surprising similarities between a short story and a nymph... Fans of Ali Smith will be delighted, amused and moved by these stories from a writer at the very top of her game.
The Little Prince
In The Little Prince",a small boy leaves the tiny planet on which he lives alone, on a trip to Earth, where he is introduced to the vagaries of adult behaviour. "Letter to a Hostage" is an open letter to a Jewish intellectual in hiding in occupied France."
Thinks
Ralph Messenger is an international academic star in the highly trendy field of language and thought research. Novelist Helen Reed arrives at the university to teach creative writing and to recover from the unexpected death of her husband. Despite huge differences in belief and temperament, they begin a secret affair - with complicated consequences, comic and tragic, for those around them.