A #1 "New York Times" bestseller and one of "Time Magazine's" best novels of all time. Illustrated by Dave Gibbons. ... In an alternate world where the mere presence of American superheroes changed history, the US won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the cold war is in full effect. "Watchmen" begins as a murder-mystery, but soon unfolds into a planet-altering conspiracy. As the resolution comes to a head, the unlikely group of reunited heroes - Rorschach, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias - have to test the limits of their convictions and ask themselves ... |
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This book is an adaptation of Mark Twain's classic tale The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. It has about 1400 headwords and is appropriate for low intermediate to intermediate learners. Tom Sawyer is an iconic figure in American literature, and his adventures have fascinated millions of readers all over the world. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) is one of America's best and most beloved writers, famous for his tales of boyhood like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."There were people who believed that Tom Sawyer might some day become President of the United States, if he ... |
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Editor: Phoebe Gloeckner. Series editor: Bill Kartalopoulos. ... "I love comics. Comics is (Comics are?) a perfect language, robustly evolving and expanding like any other living language," writes Phoebe Gloeckner in her Introduction to "The Best American Comics 2018". This year's collection includes work selected from the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics language today. "The Best American Comics 2018" includes: Gabrielle Bell; Tara Booth; Geof Darrow; Guy Delisle; Emil Ferris; Julia ... |
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She's the inconvenience he never saw coming... and the one he would kill for Damien Black. American royalty. Gorgeous asshole. Shameless rake. Also... my new boss. One night of mistakes and he's running to my rescue like the prince on a white horse. But a liar is no damsel. There's no escaping Rosehill's bad boy when fate keeps pushing you together. But if the souls of the foul are doomed, why does every night feel like heaven? What do you do when a pretty little thing walks through the doors of your exclusive nightclub? You take a front row seat to the show. Ivy Thanos. Brilliant dancer. Dangerous vixen. ... |
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"Poignant and hilarious threaded with compassion and, behind everything, the cataract of a thundering moral statement."The Boston Globe ... "Slaughterhous - Five" is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know. Kurt Vonnegut's black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in "The Sirens of Titan" in 1959 and established him as "a ... |
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This is a book about TRUTH - and all the ingenious ways, throughout history, that we've managed to avoid it. We live in a 'post-truth' age, we're told. The US has a president who openly lies on a daily basis (or who doesn't even know what's true, and doesn't care). The internet has turned our everyday lives into a misinformation battleground. People don't trust experts any more. But was there ever really a golden age of truth-telling? As the editor of the UK's leading independent fact-checker, Tom Phillips deals with complete bollocks every day. Here, he tells the story of how we ... |
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American author Barbara Moore presents the first part of an extraordinary double Tarot deck. Taken together, this work constitutes a complete version of the Book of Shadows: As Above, So Below. Art by Grzegorz Krysinski and Simone Gabrielli. 78 cards with dimensions 6.6 x 12 cm and instruction booklet included. ... |
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American author Barbara Moore presents the second part of an extraordinary double Tarot deck. Taken together, this work constitutes a complete version of the Book of Shadows: As Above, So Below. Art by S. Ariganello and A. Pastorello. 78 cards with dimensions 6.6 x 12 cm and instruction booklet included. ... |
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I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane? Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, and reservations at every new restaurant in town. He is also a psychopath. A man addicted to his superficial, perfect life, he pulls us into a dark underworld where the American Dream becomes a nightmare... Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. A multi-million-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic, it is a violent and outrageous black comedy about the darkest side of human nature. With an introduction by ... |
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"Внимавай! Ако играеш на призрак, ще станеш призрак." Кабала, анонимен автор Макар и още много млада, мексиканската писателка Валерия Луизели вече е привлякла вниманието на читателите и критиката с полъха на креативност и енергия в книгите си. Въпреки младостта си Луизели е живяла в различни страни и е успяла да си изгради многопластова визия за света. Смесването на реалност и фантазия, на различни времеви планове вероятно е наследила от родната си испаноезична литература. В романа ѝ "Безтегловните" се налага деликатен паралелизъм с произведенията на Хуан Рулфо, неин учител в изобразяването на ... |
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Добре дошли в "Къщата на улица Манго"! ... С над 5 милиона продадени екземпляра в цял свят, преводи на повече от 20 езика - бестселърът "Къщата на улица Манго" от американската писателка Сандра Сиснерос пристига в България окичен с куп престижни отличия. Само през последния месец авторката получи две нови награди - Национален медал на САЩ за изкуство за приноса ѝ в американския разказ (връчен ѝ от президента Барак Обама) и приза на американския "ПЕН център" в раздел "Creative Nonfiction Award" за най-новата ѝ книга "A House of My Own". Романът е с ... |
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Ако вашето дете обича да оцветява то книжката от "Galt" е чудесен подарък за него. Тя съдържа 12 картинки, които малчуганът може да прекопира, а след това да оцвети. Преди всяка страница има прозрачна хартия с помощта, на която детето ще може да прекопира картинките. Книжката е формат А4 и е подходяща за деца над 5 годишна възраст. За да оцветите тази книжка препоръчваме да използвате моливи или пастели, за да избегнете цветовете да се отбележат на другата страница. ... |
