The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive-the iconic epic fantasy masterpiece that has sold more than 10 million copies, from acclaimed bestselling author Brandon Sanderson.Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future of Roshar on the line. The Knights Radiant have only ten days to...

Tajne stowarzyszenie kobiet. Zapomniana historia. Trujący oddech zemsty wciąż unosi się w powietrzu. Niezwykła apteka, ukryta w czeluściach XVIII-wiecznego Londynu, obsługuje niezwykłą klientelę i to w nieklasycznych warunkach: Zasada nr 1: Nigdy nie używaj trucizny, aby skrzywdzić inną kobietę; Zasada nr 2: Nazwiska zabójcy i jej ofiary muszą być...

O brave new world, that has such people in't. Once upon a time not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house. What does it mean? It’s a truism of our time that it’ll be the next generation who’ll sort out our increasingly toxic world. What would that actually be like? In a state turned hostile, a world of insiders and...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?’ When solicitor Jonathan Harker arrives in Transylvania to organise the estate of a mysterious client, his growing uneasiness quickly turns into terror. Count Dracula has something more...

Barcelona, lata pięćdziesiąte ubiegłego stulecia, mroczne dni reżimu generała Franco. Alicja Gris jest piękną, inteligentną i pozbawioną skrupułów agentką. Pewnego dnia otrzymuje zlecenie z najwyższych sfer władzy. Sprawa jest ściśle tajna i dotyczy tajemniczego zniknięcia ministra kultury Mauricia Vallsa. Wydaje się, że może mieć to związek z przeszłością, kiedy Valls był dyrektorem...

A collection of cantos from Paradiso, the most original and experimental part of the Divina Commedia. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables,...

Revered as one of the greatest ghost stories ever told, James?s THE TURN OF THE SCREW is an eerie Victorian masterpiece. When an inexperienced governess goes to work at Bly, a country house in Essex to look after a young boy Miles and his sister Flora, all manner of strange events begin to occur. The governess begins to spot a ghostly man and woman around the grounds and is told by the...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize `Riveting and original ... a work enriched by solid scholarship, vivid personal experience, and acute appreciation of the concerns and aspirations of the contending parties in this deeply unequal conflict ` Noam Chomsky The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of...

This book chronicles the story of the single most daring Special Forces operation since World War Two - Operation Barras; Operation Barras, the rescue mission, was a combined force of 100 Paras, twelve members of the Special Boat Squadron, helicopters from the Navy and RAF and, spearheading the operation, 40-strong D squadron of the SAS.

The outer defences have fallen, and the walls of the Imperial Palace await the Traitors. Perturabo is determined to tear down the mighty edifices his brother and bitter rival Rogal Dorn has built – but first he must take the Lion's Gate Spaceport, so that his heaviest weapons can land… READ IT BECAUSE It's time for Rogal Dorn's defences get their real test –...

Neue Serie von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Susan Mallery Drei Frauen, die nicht unterschiedlicher sein könnten. Aber sie sind die besten Freundinnen. Jede Woche sitzen sie nach der Pilates-Stunde zusammen, stützen und helfen einander: Nicole hat das Gefühl, d ihr Mann sich für alles interessiert, nur nicht mehr für sie und den gemeinsamen kleinen Sohn. Shannon ist beruflich erfolgreich...

One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint. Revolving around four central - and intrinsically flawed - characters, 'Beautiful Losers' is the frank and humorous story of a nameless narrator, his wife Edith, their domineering friend...

THE FIFTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. 1771: the Colony of North Carolina stands in an uneasy balance, with the rich, colonial aristocracy on one side and the struggling pioneers of the backcountry on the other. Between them stands Jamie Fraser, a man of honour, a man of worth. Exiled from his beloved Scotland, he is at last possessed of the land he has...

In the darkest of times, in the midst of it all, a journalist has one single task: to document everything that is happening. It is time to slow down and listen to the voice of a human being. On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. Since that day, prize-winning independent journalist Katerina Gordeeva has travelled to refugee centres across Europe to record the human voice and cost of war....

Collected here in Penguin Classics are two of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's shorter works, Notes from Underground and The Double, translated by Ronald Wilks with an introduction by Robert Louis Jackson. Alienated from society and paralysed by a sense of his own insignificance, the anonymous narrator of Dostoyevsky's groundbreaking Notes from Underground tells the story of his tortured life. With...

From the bestselling author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein The Blue sisters have always been exceptional – and exceptionally different. Avery, a strait-laced lawyer living in London, is the typical eldest daughter, though she’s hiding a secret that could undo her perfect life forever. Bonnie was a boxer but, following a devastating defeat, she's been working as a bouncer in LA, until one...

Adaptacja, przeznaczona dla uczących się języka angielskiego, została przygotowana z myślą o czytelnikach średnio zaawansowanych, jednak dzięki obecności polskiego tłumaczenia z książki korzystać mogą również początkujący.

Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking story of military crusading, Barbary pirates, white slavery and the Ottoman Empire - and the larger picture of the struggle between Islam and Christianity. Coupled with dramatic set piece battles, a wealth of riveting first-hand accounts, epic...

Lubisz czytać dobre powieści a jednocześnie chcesz doskonalić swój angielski? Mamy dla Ciebie idealne połączenie! Klasyka literatury światowej w wersji do nauki języka angielskiego. CZYTAJ - SŁUCHAJ - ĆWICZ POSZERZAJ SŁOWNICTWO - UTRWALAJ - UCZ SIĘ WYMOWY CZYTAJ – dzięki oryginalnemu angielskiemu tekstowi opowiadań przyswajasz nowe...

From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy book aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society. Blythe Roberson’s sharp observational humor is met by her open-hearted willingness to revel in the ugliest warts and shimmering highs of choosing to live our lives amongst other...