A modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. Don't miss the eagerly anticipated prequel, Family of Liars. A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends-the Liars-whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. Read it. And if anyone asks you how it ends, just lie."Thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart, We Were Liars is utterly unforgettable." John Green First book in the We Were ... |
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Бестселър на "New York Times". Книга, която си заслужава да прочетете. И ако някой Ви попита как свършва - излъжете. ... Прекрасно, известно семейство. Частен остров. Интелигентно, наранено момиче; страстно момче със собствено мнение. Група от четирима приятели - "Лъжците", чието приятелство предизвиква разрушения. Революция. Инцидент. Тайна. Лъжи след лъжи. Истинска любов. Истина. Емили Локхарт е доктор по английска литература на "Колумбийския университет", преподава творческо писане в университета "Hamline". Тя е автор на романите "We were liars", "Fly on the wall& ... |
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A masterful suspense novel from the author of the unforgettable bestseller "We were liars". ... The story of a young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life. But how many times can someone reinvent themselves? You be the judge. Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat. Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete. An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two. A bad romance, or maybe three. Blunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. The American dream, superheroes, spies, and villains. A girl who refuses to give people what they want ... |
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Умален модел на ветроходен кораб - Испански галеон. Галеоните били основните плавателни съдове на Испанската Армада. Те започнали да навлизат в употреба през XIV в., малко след големите караки, от които били доста по-малки и маневрени. Галеоните били многопалубни платноходи, със силно артилерийско въоръжение. Използвали се както за военни, така и за търговски цели. За първи път името „галеон“ се среща в документ от второто десетилетие на XVI в., където се споменава, че се използват срещу варварските северноафрикански държави. В зората на създаването си галеоните комбинирали платната с гребла. Пример за такива галеони ... |
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A former FBI hostage negotiator's fiel-tested tools for talking anyone into (or out of) just about anything. A former FBI hostage negotiator offers a new, field-tested approach to negotiating - effective in any situation. After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders and terrorists. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiations, revealing the nine key principles that helped Voss and his colleagues succeed when it mattered the most - ... |
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The book behind the second season of "Game of Thrones", an original series now on HBO. No. 1 "New York Times" bestselling author. ... In this eagerly awaited sequel to "A Game of Thrones", George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. "A Clash of Kings" transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any you have ever experienced. A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for ... |
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Every day, Glennon Doyle spirals around the same questions: Why am I like this? How do I figure out what I want? How do I know what to do? Why can't I be happy? Am I doing this right? Each morning, she's somehow forgotten all the answers. She wonders: I'm almost fifty years old. I've learned a whole lot. Why do I wake up every day having forgotten everything I know? Her sister, Amanda, and her wife, Abby, are the people Glennon calls first when she's drowning, because they are her life preservers. Recently, in the span of a single year, Glennon was diagnosed with anorexia, Amanda was diagnosed with ... |
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Умален модел на военен самолет - Lancaster B.III "Dambusters" - тежък бомбардировач, използван от Великобритания по време на Втората световна война. Повече от 7300 от тези машини са били построени за Кралските военновъздушни сили на Великобритания. За да може да сглобите и залепите този макет, ви е необходимо лепило. Елементите на модела са направени от едноцветна пластмаса. Моделът може да се оцвети с боички. Оригинално описание: The Avro Lancaster was the most famous RAF heavy bomber of the 2nd World War andwent into service in 1942. More than 7,300 of these machines were built for RAF Bomber Command. ... |
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It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow-and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling-and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry was known as the carefree one, the happy-go-lucky Spare to the more serious Heir. Grief changed everything. He struggled at school, struggled with anger, with loneliness-and, ... |
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A magisterial cultural history of the Atlantic Ocean before Columbus, ranging from the early shaping of the continents and the emergence of homo sapiens to the story of shipbuilding, navigation, maritime exploration, slavery, and nascent European imperialism. A dazzling and ambitious history of the pre-Columbian Atlantic seas, Ocean is a story that begins with the formation of the mid-Atlantic ridge some 200 million years ago and ends with the Castilian conquest of the Canary Islands in the fifteenth century, providing a template for the methods used by the Spanish in their colonization of the New World. John Haywood ... |
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Прекрасно подаръчно издание, изработено изключително луксозно. Книгата съдържа в себе си вечните Шекспирови сонети както в оригинал на английски език, така и в най-добрия български превод - този на Валери Петров. Книга за ценители!"Красавецо, младежкия си чар прахосваш ти за собствена изгода, но този чар го дава не във дар, а само в заем щедрата Природа. А щом е тъй, скъпернико красив, защо ѝ харчиш влога без остатък - нали затуй, чаровнико, си жив, живот и чар да предадеш нататък? Ти алчен си за себе си, но знай, човек така сам себе си предава, и щом Природата ти каже: "Край!", каква ще ти е ... |
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From the beginning of human history, individuals across cultures and belief systems have looked to the sky for meaning. The movement of celestial bodies and their relation to our human lives has been the central tenant of astrology for thousands of years. The practice has both inspired reverence and worship, and deepened our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. While modern-day horoscopes may be the most familiar form of astrological knowledge, their lineage reaches back to ancient Mesopotamia. As author Andrea Richards recounts in Astrology, the second volume in Taschen's Library of Esoterica ... |
