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Vtipný, no zároveň dojímavý a fasinujúci príbeh pätnásťročného chlapca s Aspergerovým syndrómom, ktorý jedného dňa nájde na dvore zavraždeného susedkinho psa a rozhodne sa vraha vypátrať na vlastnú päsť… Táto kniha je detektívka. No nie je to celkom obyčajná detektívka. Vyšetrovateľom a zároveň rozprávačom príbehu je Christopher Boone, pätnásťročný chlapec s Aspergerovým syndrómom. Je výborný v matematike, pozná všetky krajiny sveta a ich hlavné mestá, dokáže vymenovať prvočísla až do 7 507 – ale ľudské emócie celkom nechápe. Rád si robí zoznamy, zbožňuje vzory a pravdu. Neznáša žltú a hnedú farbu a to, keď sa ho niekto dotýka. Sám sa nikdy nevybral ďalej ako na koniec ulice – ale keď jedného dňa nájde na dvore zavraždeného susedkinho psa, okamžite sa rozhodne, že musí zistiť, čo sa stalo. Vydáva sa na hrôzostrašnú cestu, ktorá mu prevráti život naruby.

Mstitel - Frederick Forsyth / Flirtování s Petem - Barbara Delinsky / Výročí - Amy Gutman / Podivný případ se psem - Mark Haddon

Co byste dělali, kdybyste zjistili, že se vaše na první pohled nudná a nenápadná dějepisářka v soukromí chová... přinejmenším divně? Džimbo je obyčejný školák, který má už tak svých starostí dost: jeho táta nemá práci a k tomu příšerně vaří, maminka má naopak práce až moc a starší sestra je naprosto nemožná. Když ale spolu se svým všetečným kamarádem Charliem začne zkoumat, co mají záhadné školní události znamenat, jdou všechny všední problémy stranou. Události ovšem naberou nečekaný směr a klučičí pátrání se brzy zvrhne v praštěné dobrodružství vpravdě celoplanetárního významu...

From the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'Superbly gripping' Sunday Times'Terrifically compelling' Guardian'A brilliant collection' Daily MailAn expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. Another woman is saved from drowning. Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox. A group of explorers find a cave of unimaginable size deep in the Amazon jungle. A man shoots a stranger in the chest on Christmas Eve.'The real redemption in these superbly gripping stories comes from their canny human detail, and the vivid, unsettling clarity they bring to our lives.? Sunday Times

At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her family is not pleased - as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has 'strangler's hands'. Katie can't decide if she loves Ray, or loves the way he cares for her son Jacob, and her mother Jean is a bit put out by the way the wedding planning gets in the way of her affair with one of her husband's former colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover, Tony, to the dreaded nuptials. Unnoticed in the uproar, George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip, and quietly begins to lose his mind.

An explosive, highly-charged and hilarious adventure from Mark Haddon, acclaimed author of THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME.

Her favourite tales are those that conjure ancient worlds - of angry gods and heroic mortals, one of whom will some day come to her rescue.Soon, she will forget where the page ends and her mind begins. 'A full-throttle blast of storytelling mastery' Max Porter

A tale told from rotating viewpoints traces seven days of bitterly comic family dynamics and confrontation when a wealthy doctor invites his estranged sister's family to join his newly blended one at a vacation home in the English countryside

Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, each title in the 'Sparknotes' series contains complete plot summary and analysis, key facts about the work, an analysis of the major characters, suggested essay topics, themes, motifs, and symbols, and an explanation of important quotations.

The Sidebottoms, the nightmare neighbours of all time, have moved! Moved in next door to Ben's family... For the gang, Ben, Barney and Jenks, this is a state of emergency and calls for the one and only mighty Agent Z and a penguin...!