Penguin book of the undead

Penguin Book of the Undead

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History of the Undead

A cultural exploration of the myth of the mummy, vampire and zombie. This is the first book to explore the history of all three examples of the undead

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The Book of Sand - Theo Clare

<p>SAND.A hostile world of burning sun.Outlines of several once-busy cities shimmer on the horizon, and in the distance a group of people - a family - walk towards us.Ahead lies shelter which they know they must reach before the light fails - as to be out after dark is to invite danger and almost certain death.To survive in this alien world of shifting sand, they mu...

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The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2) Penguin

originální anglická četba - sci-fi příběh, ve kterém jsou Carter a Sadie KANE, potomci magického domu života, ve velkém problému. Hrozný nepřítel Apophis, obří had chaosu, roste. Pokud ho Carter a Sadie nezničí, bude za pět dní konec světa...

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Youngblood - Laurens Sasha

Anotace: High school sucks. Especially for the undead.When Kat Finn arrives at Harcote, a prestigious vampire-only boarding school, she`s in unchartered territory. After living amongst humans and struggling to make ends meet, she`s suddenly thrust into the alluring world of elite vampires - and her fortune is about to change.Taylor Sanger is tired of the vampire world`s ...

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Penguin Book of Puzzles

A collection of challenges from throughout history, featuring some of the greatest ever puzzle masters.A Sumerian Riddle (circa 18th Century)There is

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Penguin Book of Witches

From a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials of 1692, to newspaper coverage o

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Raymie Nightingale The Book Service Ltd (Penguin)

New York Times bestselling author Kate DiCamillo returns to her roots with a moving yet witty story of an unforgettable summer friendship. For fans of Jacqueline Wilson, David Almond and Katherine Rundell. In her seventh novel, international bestselling author and twice winner of the prestigious Newbery Medal Kate DiCamillo tells a masterful story that blends pathos and h...

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Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth (Book 4) Penguin

Originální anglická četba...

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Territory of Light - Tsushima Yuko

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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Child of Fortune - Tsushima Yuko

Anotace: Koko won`t do what is expected of her. Defying her family`s wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her already troubled relationship with her daughter? As she faces the future, memories of her own childhood loss flood into her cons...

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The Imitation of the Rose - Lispector Clarice

Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Thirteen short tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the twentieth century. The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the lum...

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The Gift of the Magi - Henry O.

Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. O. Henry is one of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century and a true master of the short story. This selection of tales ranges from Christmas in New York t...

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The Son of Neptune: The Graphic Novel (Heroes of Olympus Book 2) - Riordan Rick

Anotace: The bestselling Heroes of Olympus title by Percy Jackson creator, Rick Riordan - now in stunning graphic novel form!Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, has come face to face with two snake-haired ladies who refuse to die.But they`re the least of his problems. Because Percy finds himself at a camp for half-bloods, which doesn`t ring any bells for him. There`s just on...

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Bushido: The Soul of Japan - Nitobé Inazo

Anotace: `What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.`Inazo Nitobe`s book, the most influential ever written on Bushido, or the samurai Way of the Warrior, argues that the philosophy of Bushido is the true key to understanding `the soul of Japan`.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas ...

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The Queen Of Spades - Puškin Alexandr Sergejevič

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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Soul of the Deep - Bowen Natasha

Anotace: For fans of The Gilded Ones, Children of Blood and Bone, and Circe, this is the breathtaking follow-up to SKIN OF THE SEA - an epic love story infused with West African mythology and a powerful new imagining of a devastating time in history, told through the eyes of a bold and unforgettable heroine.One life. One choice. One sacrifice.To save those closest to her...

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The Island of Missing Trees - Shafak Elif

Anotace: It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, chilli peppers and wild ...

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The Women of Troy - Barkerová Pat

Anotace: Following her bestselling, critically acclaimed The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker continues her extraordinary retelling of one of our greatest myths. 'Myth for a MeToo age. Pat Barker returns to Homer in this gory but unexpectedly uplifting novel' Sunday Times Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors -...

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The Curse of Saints - Dramis Kate

Anotace: Debut novelist Kate Dramis brings you the viral, enemies to lovers, TikTok fantasy phenomenon that has left followers begging for more Has she been sent to save the realm or destroy it? As Spymaster to the Queen, Aya's blood oath ensures she protects those she fights alongside - including Will, the Queen's Enforcer and Aya's bitter rival. When ...

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The League of Gentlewomen Witches - Holton India

Anotace: Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret society skilled in witchcraft. When rumours of the Amulet of Black Beryl start to circulate, Charlotte is determined to find the jewel before it falls into the wrong hands. Which is what happens when the evil Lady Armitage reaches it first. Demanding the help of rakish pirate, Alex O'Riley, Charlotte sets off to fin...

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Wings : The Third Book of the Nomes - Pratchett Terry

Anotace: When you`re four inches high in a world full of giant people, things never go very well for long.After running into trouble at the quarry, the nomes want to go home. The problem is, `home` is somewhere up in the stars, in some sort of Ship.Masklin must find a way to get to the `launch` of a `communications satellite` (whatever that is).And so begins an incredibl...

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The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse - Childers Christopher

Anotace: Newly translated according to a scheme of staggering ambition, an anthology unlike any now availableComposed between the early-agricultural `song culture` of 800 BCE, when praise poems and dirges mingled in a world peopled with gods and monsters, and the time of Imperial Rome, the corpus of Greek and Latin lyric poetry is as densely rich in formal interrelation ...

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Empire: Book 2 of The Golden Age - Iggulden Conn

Anotace: IN CONN IGGULDEN`S LATEST GOLDEN AGE EPIC, JOIN PERICLES, THE LION OF ATHENS, ON A JOURNEY TO SECURE THE FATE OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE----Pericles returns home more than a hero: he`s the leader of Athens, the empire`s beacon of light in the dark.But even during times of peace, the threat of Sparta - Athens`s legendary rival - looms large on the horizon. When a sud...

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The Tale of Benjamin Bunny Picture Book - Potterová Beatrix

Anotace: Discover Peter Rabbit`s next adventure with his brave cousin, Benjamin Bunny, with a picture book edition of this classic tale. This new large format is perfect to for families to share and read all about Peter Rabbit`s very first adventure!Peter Rabbit has been an icon of children`s literature, starring in everything from books to toys to films! This next tale ...

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The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life - Bartlett Steven

Anotace: The new book by STEVEN BARTLETT: entrepreneur, podcaster and Dragon`s Den starThis is not a book about business strategy. Strategy changes like the seasons. This is a book about something much more permanent. At the very heart of all the success and failure I`ve been exposed to - both my own entrepreneurial journey and through the thousands of interviews I`ve co...

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Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck John

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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A Short History of Russia - Galeotti Mark

Anotace: Can anyone truly understand Russia?Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethos, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it is everyone`s `other`. And yet it is one of the most powerful nations on earth, a master game-player on the global stage with a rich history of war and peace, poets and revolutionaries.In this essenti...

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Beasts of Ruin - Gray Ayana, Gray Ayana

Anotace: The powerful and magical sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller BEASTS OF PREY, perfect for fans of AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, SHADOW AND BONE and THE GILDED ONES.`A fast-paced, rip-roaring ride that grabs you by the throat and never lets you go. A masterpiece of magic` - Namina Forna, New York Times bestselling author of The Gilded Ones on Beasts of PreyKo...

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Confessions of a Mask - Mishima Yukio

Anotace: `There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain`A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again, each night in his private fantasies, the objects of his lust are tortured, killed and maimed. But, i...

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King of Dead Things - Holness Nevin

Anotace: Magical contemporary London. Two lives are about to collide. A journey of self-discovery.For fans of dark fantasy like Cemetery Boys, Noughts and Crosses and Threads that Bind from major new YA talent Jamaican British author Nevin HolnessThe first time Eli had tried taking magic that wasn`t his, it had wrapped around his palms like razor wire, tight enough that ...

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More Die of Heartbreak - Bellow Saul

Anotace: Kenneth Trachtenberg has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described `plant visionary.` While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings after his first marriage and lives from affair to affair and from `blis...

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A Question of Guilt - Horst Jorn Lier

Anotace: Wisting is back with his most gripping case yet.In 1999, seventeen-year-old Tone Vaterland was killed on her way home from work. Desperate for a conviction the police deemed the investigation an open-and-shut case and sent her spurned boyfriend, Danny Momrak, down for murder.But twenty years later Detective William Wisting receives a puzzling letter. It suggests...

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Penguin Readers Level 3: The Extraordinary Life of Michelle Obama (ELT Graded Reader) - neuveden

Anotace: Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introduci...

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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - McCullers Carson

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - Doyle Arthur Conan

Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Emerging from their smoke-filled rooms at 21B Baker Street, Holmes and Watson grapple with the forces of crime that stalk the streets of London. From the first story, 'A ...

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The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found - Lees Jordan

Anotace: The spell-binding world-building of Philip Pullman with the page-turning kid appeal of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief. Discover a world of magic and secrets, friendship and unimaginable quests in this spectacular new fantasy series from the most exciting new voice in children`s books.A boy who doesn`t believe in magic. An impossible world that will change his min...

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The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found - Lees Jordan

Anotace: The spell-binding world-building of Philip Pullman with the page-turning kid appeal of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief. Discover a world of magic and secrets, friendship and unimaginable quests in this spectacular new fantasy series from the most exciting new voice in children`s books.A boy who doesn`t believe in magic. An impossible world that will change his min...

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Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control - Russell Stuart

Anotace: FROM THE BBC REITH LECTURER 2021`The most important book I have read in quite some time` Daniel Kahneman; `A must-read` Max Tegmark; `The book we`ve all been waiting for` Sam HarrisHumans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed?Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, accordin...

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A Spy In The House Of Love - Nin Anais

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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The Tale Of Peter Rabbit : Birthday Edition - Potterová Beatrix

Anotace: Celebrate our beloved furry friend, Peter Rabbit, with this beautiful birthday edition of the classic tale.This birthday edition has been re-originated to match Beatrix Potter`s first published work with a celebratory new cover.A must have first book for every little reader.Peter Rabbit loves the yummy vegetables he finds in Mr McGregor`s garden, the only proble...

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The Secret Service of Tea and Treason - Holton India

Anotace: A party of swashbuckingly evil pirates. Two rival spies. One fake marriage. What could possibly go wrong . . . Find out in the riotously funny and joyfully romantic third book in The Dangerous Damsels collectionWhen rumours circulate that a group of dastardly pirates plan to assassinate the Queen, Alice is immediately assigned to the case.However she won`t be wo...

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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things - Adam Grant

Anotace: #1 New York Times bestseller "This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would`ve helped me find a more joyful path to progress."-Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis championThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again il...

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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - Nestor James

Anotace: THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERAS HEARD ON STEVEN BARTLETT`S `DIARY OF A CEO``Who would have thought something as simple as changing the way we breathe could be so revolutionary for our health, from snoring to allergies to immunity? A fascinating book, full of dazzling revelations` Dr Rangan ChatterjeeThere is nothing more essential to our health and wel...

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Lou Reed: The King of New York - Hermes Will

Anotace: `A monumental work filled with first-person accounts of the master`s life and a dizzying array of never-before heard details` Michael Imperioli, author of The Perfume Burned His Eyes The most complete and penetrating biography of the rock master, whose stature grows every year.Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed`s living presence has only grown. The great ro...

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Bournville: From the bestselling author of Middle England - Coe Jonathan

Anotace: `A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become` RACHEL JOYCEIn Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it`s the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of t...

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The Love of My Afterlife

‘This book has it all. Humor, heart, and a heroine I was desperately rooting for. Kirsty Greenwood has a new fan!’ Colleen Hoover_______________ If she wasn’t dead already, Delphie would be dying of embarrassment. She’s entered the afterlife wearing the sort of pyjamas you don’t want anyone to see and finds herself face-to-face with the most handsome man she’s ever encoun...

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The Hundred Loves of Juliet: A Novel - Skye Evelyn

Anotace: I may go by Sebastien now, but my name was originally Romeo. And hers was Juliet.It`s a frosty fairytale of an evening in small-town Alaska when Helene and Sebastien meet for the first time. Except it isn`t the first time. You already know that story, though it didn`t happen quite as Shakespeare told it.To Helene, Sebastien is the flesh-and-blood hero of the lov...

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Guardian of the Realm - Thomas Kyle, Thomas Kyle

Anotace: Kyle Thomas and his beloved meerkat Mylo have always been inseparable. But now they`re about to be worlds away from life as they know it . . .Stumbling upon an extraordinary and magical alternate world, they enter a land filled with strange and wonderful wild creatures.Everything seems perfect here, but danger is lurking.A dark creature has found its way through...

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Penguin Readers Level 6: A Tale of Two Cities (ELT Graded Reader) - Dickens Charles

Anotace: Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introduci...

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Ladybird Book of the Sickie

From THE PHENOMENON OF 2015 comes a new nugget of wisdom in the record breaking Ladybirds for Grown Ups series

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Book of the Courtier

Defines the essential virtues for those at Court. This title includes a series of imaginary conversations between the real-life courtiers to the Duke

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Penguin Readers Level 1: The Canterville Ghost - Wilde Oscar

Anotace: Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introduci...

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Darling: A razor-sharp, gloriously funny retelling of Nancy Mitford´s The Pursuit of Love - Knightová India

Anotace: `A savagely funny, bracingly sad, dazzlingly clever reimagining of The Pursuit of Love. I loved it. Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss `A triumph! Brilliantly done, faithful but imaginative, tremendously romantic and very funny.` Nina Stibbe, author of Reasons to be CheerfulMarooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself dest...

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Book of the Hopi

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A Hat Full of Sky: Discworld Hardback Library - Pratchett Terry

Anotace: *The second book in the incredible Tiffany Aching series. Now in a brand-new gift edition, part of the Discworld Hardback Library.*`Fantastically inventive and humorous` The Sunday TimesSomething is coming after Tiffany. . .Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic, but life isn`t exactly what she thought it would be. She expects spells and ma...

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid 18: No Brainer - Kinney Jeff

Anotace: In No Brainer, book 18 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, it's up to Greg to save his school before it's shuttered for good. Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he's not too broken up about...

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A Cruel Twist of Fate - Askwith H. F.

Anotace: And Then There Were None meets The Inheritance Games, with a heavy dash of The Woman in Black, in this gloriously gothic YA mystery-thriller.When eighteen-year-old Helena is sent to be a governess at Archfall Manor - a beautiful but crumbling manor house, perched at the edge of a causeway in the North Sea - she feels confident she will know how to deal with the ...

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A Sliver of Darkness - Tudor C. J., Tudor C. J.

Anotace: A creak of the floorboard, a shiver down your spine, the feeling that you`re not alone...Join a group of survivors who wash up on a deserted island only to make a horrifying discovery. Meet a cold-hearted killer who befriends a strange young girl at a motorway service station. Travel along eerie country lanes in a world gone dark, enter a block of flats with the...

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One Of Us Is Lying - Karen M. McManus

Anotace: Five students go to detention. Only four leave alive.Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule.Sports star Cooper only knows what he`s doing in the baseball diamond.Bad boy Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime.Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life.And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview...

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