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Přehlídka - Jeffery Deaver
O knize Přehlídka O životech hlavních hrdinů detektivek Jak vznikli někteří z nejpopulárnějších literárních detektivů současnosti? Které místo nebo okamžik v životě inspirovaly dvojici Prestona & Childa ke stvoření tajemného agenta Pendegrasta? Proč je Jack Reacher takový chlapák a proč z něj Lee Child udělal ztroskotance? Jeffery Deaver představí geniálního ochrnutého detektiva Lincolna Rhymea.
Kingdom Keepers: Inheritance The Shimmer (Paperback)
Kingdom Keepers: Inheritance The Shimmer (Paperback) Select... Amazon Barnes & Noble Books-a-Million Bookshop Indigo Buy Now Print The first book in an all new KINGDOM KEEPERS INHERITANCE trilogy. The Kingdom Keepers are all grown up—and their kids are unwittingly following in their footsteps. In the near future, in the Epcot of Walt Disney’s imagination, sixty thousand people live in a CommuniTree surrounding the forward-looking Walt Disney World theme park.
Kingdom Keepers: Inheritance: Villains’ Realm (Paperback)
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Kingdom Keepers: Inheritance: The Final Draw (Paperback)
Kingdom Keepers: Inheritance: The Final Draw (Paperback) Select... Amazon Barnes & Noble Books-a-Million Bookshop Indigo Buy Now Print This epic conclusion to the KINGDOM KEEPERS INHERITANCE trilogy will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page! In this final installment in the series that has sold over a million copies worldwide, Ridley Pearson concludes the Kingdom Keepers saga with spectacular magical flair.
Peter and the Starcatchers, Book 1 Book Review
age 10+ A swashbuckling high-seas adventure. Parents need to know that Peter and thre Starcatchers, by Dave Barry and Ridley Peason, is the first of a four-book series that imagines Peter's adventures before the action chronicled in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan. Here an orphan boy named Peter and his friend Molly overcome bands of pirates and thieves and travel to an island on a ship named Never Land. There's plenty of peril and fighting, and adult sailors and pirates get drunk on rum and grog.
The Initiation: Lock and Key, Book 1 Book Review
age 9+ Suspenseful intro to a modern-day young Sherlock Holmes. Parents need to know that The Initiation is the first book in the Lock and Key series by Ridley Pearson, author of Peter and the Starcatchers and The Kingdom Keepers series. Lock and Key features a modern-day high school-age Sherlock Holmes and his eventual enemy, James Moriarty (according to the original series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).
The Downward Spiral: Lock and Key, Book 2 Book Review
age 9+ Moodier young Sherlock sequel is chock-full of secrets. Parents need to know that The Downward Spiral is the second book in the Lock and Key series by Ridley Pearson, author of Peter and the Starcatchers and The Kingdom Keepers series. Lock and Key features a modern-day high school-age Sherlock Holmes and his eventual enemy, James Moriarty (according to the original series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle).
Dex Dingo: World's Best Greatest Ever Inventor by Greg Foley
After a school assignment challenges Dex to be whatever he wants, Dex decides he wants to be the WORLD’S BEST GREATEST EVER…at something. Filled with clever humor and touching insight, this chapter book graphic novel series follows Dex’s misadventures as his attempts at the “coolest jobs” go awry. Dex Dingo isn’t the BEST at anything. He’s not the SMARTEST, the FUNNIEST, the STRONGEST, or the NICEST. But he wants to be the WORLD’S BEST GREATEST EVER…at something.
Rick Riordan Presents: Pahua and the Dragon's Secret A Pahua Moua Novel, Book 2 by Lori M. Lee
Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents Lori M. Lee’s second Southeast Asian fantasy adventure about a girl who is the reincarnation of the greatest warrior of all time. A snarky cat spirit, a rivalry between two shamans-in-training, a dangerous dragon encounter, and a stand-off with a thunder god are just a few of the delights and thrills in this sequel to Pahua and the Soul Stealer, winner of the 2022 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children’s Literature.
Kingdom Keepers VII: The Insider
The final title in the original KINGDOM KEEPERS series is back with an all new look and new content! The Kingdom Keepers’ senior year in high school is almost over. For more than three years, things have been quiet. Their battles are long behind them, they agree, the threat to the Disney realm silenced–albeit at great cost. But inside the catacombs of the Aztec temple where Finn Whitman faced down his nemesis, the monstrous Chernabog, a new threat brews.
Kingdom Keepers Inheritance: Villains' Realm Book 2 by Ridley Pearson - Kingdom Keepers - Books
The second book in this all new KINGDOM KEEPERS INHERITANCE trilogy follows our young heroes to parks around the world as they work to stop the most villainous villain of all—Ursula—from taking over for good! In this latest book in the series that has sold over a million copies worldwide, Ridley Pearson expands the Kingdom Keepers world in ways no reader—or Disney Parks fan—could have imagined.
Star Wars The High Republic Character Encyclopedia
Want to dive into The High Republic era of the Star Wars galaxy, but don’t know where to start? Look no further! Centuries before the fall of Anakin Skywalker and rise of the Galactic Empire, the noble and wise Jedi Knights must face frightening new threats to themselves, the galaxy, and the Force itself! Meet the brave Jedi, ruthless Nihil marauders, cutthroat mercenaries, and evil monsters who call this era of the galaxy home.
Disney Wish: A Recipe for Adventure
Anything is possible in the Kingdom of Wishes! Based on Disney’s Wish, this charming middle grade novel retells and expands on the story of the film. As castle baker, Dahlia knows the perfect recipe for every occasion, and she prepares in advance for whatever she might need or encounter. Dahlia believes that in the royal kitchens–as in life–there is a place for everything and everything should be in its place.
Fairest of All
Pre-Order Available Formats Print & E-Book Disney’s New York Times best-selling Villains series comes to life in this graphic novel adaptation of the book that started it all in this tragic tale of love and loss, the untold story of Snow White’s Wicked Queen. The tale of the young princess, Snow White, and her evil stepmother, the Wicked Queen, is widely known—the Queen was jealous of the girl’s beauty, and this jealousy culminated in the Queen’s attempt on the sweet, naive girl’s life.
Kingdom Keepers: Inheritance
Buy Now Available Formats Print, E-Book & Audio In the near future, in the Epcot of Walt Disney’s imagination, sixty thousand people live in a CommuniTree surrounding the forward-looking Walt Disney World theme park. Five unique families are among the residents—and some of the parents were once known as the Kingdom Keepers.
Get In the Halloween Spirit With These Spooky Disney Books!
Spooky season is upon us, and Disney Books wants to put some witchy titles on your ghostly radar that could help get the whole family in the Halloween spirit. Yes, it’s that time of year when the kids are back in school and the ghost, ghouls, and goblins take their place on the streets of America.
Disney Cautionary Tales
Buy Now Available Formats Print, E-Book & Audio What you are holding is no ordinary book. This book contains scary stories. Thrilling and chilling tales that feature the worst Disney villains. They twist and turn through unfortunate circumstances. Maybe you’ve heard of a cave full of wonders where no one escapes alive? Or a huntsman carrying a a princess’s heart back to an evil queen? Don’t forget the horseman who lost his head. Literally. Something strange happens once you start reading.
Disney Villains: How the Villains Ruined Christmas
Buy Now Available Formats Print From Serena Valentino, author of the New York Times best-selling Disney Villains series, comes a new holiday picture book perfect for young Disney fans. No one is more of a bah humbug than a Disney Villain.
How to Speak Animal
Buy Now Available Formats Print Learn about the secret language of wild animals in this exciting and informative guide from the experts who brought you How to Speak Cat and How to Speak Dog. We know animals can’t speak and express themselves in the same way as humans … but even the smallest and quietest animals have incredible ways of communicating with each other.
The Wicked Ones
Pre-Order Available Formats Print, E-Book & Audio “Blood is blood…and one way or another, we all bleed.” Drizella and Anastasia only know one thing for certain: they will never end up like their mother, Lady Tremaine. When their father left them as young girls, he took what was left of their family’s fortune and their mother’s dignity with him. A few years and one deceased stepfather later, the only version of Lady Tremaine that Drizella and Anastasia know is a bitter and cruel head of house.
Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting by Roseanne A. Brown
Pre-Order Available Formats Print, E-Book & Audio Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents best-selling YA author Roseanne A. Brown’s middle grade debut about a pre-teen vampire slayer with a strong helping of Ghanaian folklore. For most kids, catching fireflies is a fun summer activity. For twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng, it’s a matter of life and death. That’s because Serwa knows that some fireflies are really adze, shapeshifting vampires from the forests of Southeastern Ghana.
Once Upon a Scream
Buy Now Available Formats Print, E-Book & Audio “I know you, that gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam…” Dawn misses the big city. Torn away from her favorite place in the world and shipped off to live with her two cooky aunts in the countryside, Dawn is miserable in her new life. While her parents see this as a chance for her to be away from the bad influences that kept getting her into trouble, Dawn sees her new dumpy town of Moorsland as a sticky and smelly prison with way too many bugs.
Ultimate Food Atlas
Buy Now Available Formats Print Exploring the world has never been more yummy and fun! Discover how unique foods are grown, eaten, and celebrated by people all over the planet, get recipes for delicious dishes, and so much more! Pull up a chair and dig into this bold and vibrant world atlas full of fun food facts, fascinating information about crops and farming, easy-to-read maps, recipes, and games from around the world.
Ultimate Book of the Future
Buy Now Available Formats Print Robot dogs! Jet packs! Cyborgs! Super-sleek space suits! It’s not science fiction, it’s science reality. And soon, it may be part of everyday life. This book is a jam-packed collection of the coolest tech and wildest ideas that are shaping the world of tomorrow.
Brain Games: Experiments
Buy Now Available Formats Print Trick your senses and test your noodling skills with mind-blowing experiments in this fascinating, kid-friendly book based on the hit National Geographic TV show Brain Games! Can you outsmart your brilliant brain? You may be surprised by what it can-and can’t-do. In this awesome interactive book you’ll discover what makes your mind tick. Explore the secrets behind smell, taste, touch, and vision.
Critter Chat
Buy Now Available Formats Print & E-Book If animals could speak (and text and post selfies, and review items on Amazon), what would they say? Find out in this hilarious collection of imagined digital encounters, based on real animal intel and facts. Get in on the conversation! In Critter Chat, every habitat has a group chat. In the African savanna, a lion (screenname: Just_Lion_Around) declares his territory with a text-based ROAR! Meanwhile, zebra and cheetah send eyeroll emojis.
National Geographic Kids Almanac 2023 (US edition)
Buy Now The 2023 National Geographic Kids Almanac is the biggest edition yet! Get ready for 2023 with all the latest and greatest information on animals, science, nature, technology, conservation, and more in this worldwide best-selling almanac.
Lightyear Middle Grade Novel
Select... Amazon Barnes & Noble Books-a-Million Bookshop Indigo Pre-Order Print & E-Book Based on Disney and Pixar’s film Lightyear! This middle grade novel is a sci-fi, space adventure following the events of the film from the unique perspective of one of Buzz’s new friends. With an exclusive first-person narrative and other original content, readers will be thrilled by this heroic adventure, to infinity and beyond!
Zeus the Mighty: The Epic Escape from the Underworld
A dark land filled with shadows and strange noises. A multiheaded beast standing guard. A new, sly ruler with a few tricks in store. A lack of Mutt Nuggets to fill Ares the pug’s belly … The Olympians of Mount Olympus Pet Center have never faced a challenge quite like this. With Zeus the Mighty trapped in his palace by an all-seeing guard dog named Cerberus, it’s up to his gaggle of gods and goddesses to figure out how to rescue him.
Delphine and the Dark Thread
This sequel to Delphine and the Silver Needle delivers action, adventure, and magic in the most unexpected places. Fresh off the heels of King Midnight’s rat-army invasion at the Winterberry Ball, Delphine, Alexander, and Cornichonne are on the run, making their way through the far reaches of Peltinore. Unlikely allies pop up at every turn, but so do new enemies.
Kingdom Keepers V
As the Disney Fantasy joins the cruise fleet, a special treat is in store for guests aboard its inaugural sail from Cape Canaveral to Los Angeles: the Disney Host Interactive teenage guides will be part of the Fantasy crew. Finn, Maybeck, Charlene, Willa, and Philby are to attend the cruise as celebrity guests, and to perform a ribbon cutting for the DHI server to go live. The Fantasy is now the most advanced cruise ship in the world. But all is not right belowdecks. Strange things are happening.
Kingdom Keepers IV
For the five teens who modeled as Disney Hologram Imaging hosts, life is beginning to settle down when an intriguing video arrives to Philby’s computer at school. It’s a call for action: the Overtakers, a group of Disney villains, seem to be plotting to attempt a rescue of two of their leaders, both of whom the Disney Imagineers have hidden away somewhere following a violent encounter in Epcot. A staged attack by new Overtakers at Downtown Disney, startles the group.
Solimar
Middle-grade fans of Pam Muñoz Ryan’s Esperanza Rising will find a new Mexican heroine to love in Solimar and a fresh, magical story! On the brink of her Quinceañera and her official coronation, Solimar visits the oyamel forest to sit among the monarch butterflies. There, the sun pierces through a sword-shaped crevice in a boulder, which shines on her and sends the butterflies humming and swirling around her.
Sneakerella: Novelization
Buy Now Available Formats Print & E-Book An exciting retelling of the Disney Original Movie Sneakerella with an 8-page full-color photo insert. In this modern reimagination of the Cinderella fairy tale, El is an aspiring sneaker designer from Queens who works in the shoe store that once belonged to his late mother. El hides his artistic talent from his stressed-out stepfather and two mean-spirited stepbrothers.
No Boundaries
Meet 25 female explorers and scientists in these inspirational and poignant stories of exploration, courage, and girl power. Along the way, they share lessons learned and words of wisdom sure to inspire the next generation of scientists, adventurers, and world-changers. Track a volcanologist as she braves the elements atop an active volcano. Travel alongside a mountaineer as she battles stereotypes-and frostbite-to conquer the famed Seven Summits.
Dc Kids - os Superfilhos Volume 1. O Projeto do Escudo Polar
Jon Kent e Ian Wayne são opostos em tudo, menos em uma coisa â são os filhos dos Maiores Heróis do Mundo, Superman e Batman. Para desvendar uma conspiração global, a dupla improvável precisa aprender a confiar um no outro e trabalhar em conjunto para salvar a Terra. Mas quem é a misteriosa Candace, e quais valiosos segredos ela esconde?
The Mouse Watch in Space
Buy Now Available Formats Print & E-Book You’ve heard of the Rescue Rangers. Now meet the Mouse Watch! Hot off their successful mission in THE MOUSE WATCH UNDERWATER, Bernie and Jarvis are tapped to join the most important mission yet: one that will take them into outer space! The task? To take the Milk Saucer energy source they recovered from Cat-Lantis and connect it to a satellite that’s currently circling the earth in order to halt the effects of global warming, and basically save the world.
Black Panther: Spellbound
Buy Now Available Formats Print, E-Book & Audio I’m T’Challa. The Prince of Wakanda. Son of T’Chaka. And one day, I will wear the mantle. Thirteen-year-old T’Challa can’t wait to go back to America to visit his friends Sheila and Zeke, who are staying with Sheila’s grandmother in Beaumont, a small Alabama town, over their summer break.
‘Super Sons Book Three: Escape To Landis’ (review)
Written by Ridley Pearson Art by Ile Gonzalez Published by DC Comics The previous two Super Sons were pretty enjoyable. They have been pretty accessible if you start from the beginning. It is definitely a trilogy though, and this is the third part. This is a satisfying conclusion to a decent young adult series. Anyone of any age can enjoy this. This book starts off with the team learning that the villains called the Four Fingers have made their way to the land of Landis.
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Kingdom Keepers III
With the adventures set forth in the first books now behind them, Kingdom Keepers 3: Disney In Shadow follows the five teens, Finn, Philby, Willa, Charlene, and Maybeck as they search to find Wayne, their mentor and head Imagineer who has mysteriously gone missing.
Kingdom Keepers
Buy Now Available Formats Print & eBook Five young teens tapped as models for theme park “guides” (using a new hologram technology developed by the Disney Imagineers) find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches that threaten both the future of Walt Disney World and the stability of the world outside its walls.
Kingdom Keepers
Five young teens tapped as models for theme park “guides” (using a new hologram technology developed by the Disney Imagineers) find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches that threaten both the future of Walt Disney World and the stability of the world outside its walls.
Kingdom Keepers eBook
Buy Now Available Formats Print & eBook In this fantastical thriller, five young teens tapped as models for theme park “guides” find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches that threaten both the future of Walt Disney World and the stability of the world outside its walls.
Kingdom Keepers II
It’s supposed to be a happy day at the Magic Kingdom—the return of the teenaged holographic hosts. But things go very wrong when a sudden lightning storm disrupts the celebration, and Amanda’s mysterious sister, Jez, disappears. The only clue is the sighting of a wild monkey in the Magic Kingdom during the storm. The mystery deepens as Finn is contacted by Wayne, an old man he hasn’t heard from in months.
Super Sons: The Foxglove Mission Is More Comfortable With Its Characters
Story by Ridley Pearson Art by Ile Gonzalez Colors by Ile Gonzalez Letters by Saida Temofonte Cover by Publisher DC Comics Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez's reimagining of DC Comics' Super Sons for middle grade audiences continues with Super Sons: The Foxglove Mission.
Spotlight: Ridley Pearson Dishes About His Disney-Inspired Adventure Books On PBS Show “Kid Stew”
Spotlight: Ridley Pearson Dishes About His Disney-Inspired Adventure Books On PBS Show “Kid Stew” 1 min ago by Matthew Peddie (WMFE) Author Ridley Pearson during his interview on PBS's "Kid Stew." Photo courtesy of "Kid Stew" For fifteen years, author Ridley Pearson has been going behind the scenes at Disney World, doing research for his series of adventure novels for young readers called The Kingdom Keepers.
*News Flash* DC Comics February 2019 Solicitations
DC has revealed their solicitations for February of 2019! With some amazing highlights like the upcoming Female Furies title, as well as the continuation as the Tom King event Heroes in Crisis, plus an all-new hero rising in the pages of Batgirl and the return of Jonathan Kent. Check out that and more bellow.
*News Flash* DC Comics February 2019 Solicitations
DC has revealed their solicitations for February of 2019! With some amazing highlights like the upcoming Female Furies title, as well as the continuation as the Tom King event Heroes in Crisis, plus an all-new hero rising in the pages of Batgirl and the return of Jonathan Kent. Check out that and more below.
DC Comics' Solicitations for February 2019
DC Comics has released solicitation information and images for new comics and products shipping in February 2019. When you're through checking out these solicitations for new releases, be sure to visit CBR's DC Comics forum, Batman forum, Superman forum or Wonder Woman forum to discuss these titles and products with fellow readers and fans. DC Comics Solicitations - Last Five Months DC Comics has released solicitation information and images for new comics and products shipping in February 2019.
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