Книга от вълнуващата поредица "Даровита". ... В Делс са настъпили смутни времена. Младият крал Наш се опитва да стабилизира кралството, докато въстанали лордове събират армиите си, за да го свалят от трона. Из планините и горите се навъртат шпиони, а разбойнически шайки сеят хаос и разруха. Там живее Файър – последният човек-чудовище, с коса като жив огън и влудяващо излъчване. Едновременно обожавана и ненавиждана, тя има способността да контролира съзнанията на хора и животни, но отказва да я използва. Защото човешките тайни са неприкосновени и не са нейно право. Особено когато има толкова много свои. Братът на ... |
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Complete and unabridged. ... As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced. His early work includes the beguiling When You are Old, The Cloths of Heaven and The Lake Isle of Innisfree but, unusually for a poet, Yeats's later works, including Parnell's Funeral, surpass even those of his youth. All are present in this volume, which reproduces the 1933 edition of W. B. Yeats's Collected Poems and also contains an illuminating ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Broadly comedic and brilliantly postmodern in its lampooning of a genre, the Jane Austen classic "Northanger Abbey" tells the story of Catherine Morland, a naive young woman whose perceptions of the world around her are greatly influenced by the romantic gothic novels to which she is addicted. When she moves to Bath she sees mystery and intrigue all around her, not least of all in "Northanger Abbey" itself, the home of General Tilney and his handsome son Henry, where Catherine suspects a sinister crime has occurred. Gorgeously ... |
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Eight years have passed since the young Princess Bitterblue and her country were saved from the vicious King Leck. Now Bitterblue is the queen of Monsea, and her land is at peace. But the influence of her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities, lives on. Her advisers, who have run the country on her behalf since Leck's death, believe in a forward-thinking plan: to pardon all of those who committed terrible acts during Leck's reign and to forget every dark event that ever happened. Monsea's past has become shrouded in mystery, and it's only when Bitterblue begins sneaking out of her ... |
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Последна книга от вълнуващата трилогия "Даровита". ... "Колкото повече виждам и чувам, толкова по-ясно осъзнавам колко не знам. Искам да знам всичко." Из книгата Изминали са осем години, откакто младата принцеса Битърблу и земите на Монсий са избавени от неестествения контрол на крал Лек. Сега Битърблу е кралица на Монсий, където вече цари мир. Но във въздуха все още витае влиянието на баща ѝ, насилник и психопат, умеещ да изменя човешкото съзнание. Съветниците на Битърблу, управлявали вместо нея през тези години, вярват, че единственото решение е да опростят всички извършени престъпления през ... |
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Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with emigre Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's brand new London start up - the Serious Cybernetics Company. Drawn into the orbit of Old Street's famous "silicon roundabout", Peter must learn how to blend in with people who are both civilians and geekier than he is. Compared to his last job, Peter thinks it should be a doddle. But magic is not finished with Mama Grant's favourite son. Because Terrence Skinner has a secret hidden in the bowels of the ... |
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"Skyward is an adventure and a half that you won't want to miss." Tor.com An alien race called the Krell leads onslaught after onslaught from the sky in a never-ending campaign to destroy humankind. Humanity's only defense is to take to their ships and fight the enemy in the skies. Pilots have become the heroes of what's left of the human race and Spensa has always dreamed of being one of them. But the chances of that happening were slim to none... at least until the Krell doubled their attacks. It's possible that humanity's desperation to survive will finally take her skyward... ... |
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The end of love. The beginning of you. ... Reiko loves the endless sky and electric colours of the Californian desert. It is a refuge from an increasingly claustrophobic life of family pressures and her own secrets. Then she meets Seth, a boy who shares a love of the desert and her yearning for a different kind of life. But Reiko and Seth both want something the other can't give them. As summer ends, things begin to fall apart. But sometimes a broken heart is all you need to set you free... ... |
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