If you think you've got it tough, meet Christopher Snow, the hero of Dean Koontz's novel Fear Nothing. Not only did his parents die under mysterious circumstances, but he's also being stalked by shadowy characters who want Snow to stop trying to find out how they died--or else they'll bump off his remaining loved ones (his supersmart, beer-lapping dog Orson; his best surfing buddy Bobby; and his late-night deejay girlfriend Sasha). And as if being on the lam in his own hometown, Moonlight Bay, California, isn't bad enough, Snow has to outrun his pursuers without leaving town. He has...

Dylan O'Conner is launched onto a nightmarish odyssey when he is seemingly randomly attacked and injected with a mysterious substance. What follows, as he and his autistic brother try and figure out what has happened, will take them into the path of another victim of the doctor who injected Dylan, and together they find themselves on the run, with only 24 hours to escape from the fleet of black, unmarked vehicles that is pursuing them.

Ben Chase is a war hero with bitter memories. Vietnam left him with a hard drinking habit, a mental breakdown -- and massive guilt. So who will believe him when he swears a psychopath is out to get him? When society is sick, the mad are sane -- and persecution is a killer's game! Publishers Weekly A winner...the reader gets to enjoy a bestselling author experimenting with different styles and voices...Well-crafted and imaginative. People Gripping. Koontz's prose is clear and clean...fast-paced and satisfying. Los Angeles Times First rate, scary and stylish.

Odd, a charismatic young man with a sense for the otherworldly and the downright strange, is in self-imposed exile. Tragic events have led him from his sun-bleached desert home of Pico Mundo to a monastery in the High Sierra, searching for peace. It's December and the remote abbey is besieged by icy winds and snow. But even in the silence of the mountains, danger and desperation haunt him still...As ever, where Odd Thomas goes, strangeness goes too. A white dog named Boo befriends him - as does the ghost of Elvis. And a world-famous physicist is conducting experiments in the catacombs of the...

Nové vydání monumentálního díla, které vyšlo poprvé v roce 1939 a jehož autorem je legendární šéfkuchař Grandhotelu Steiner. Kniha knih českých kuchařů, aristokratů a snobů - více než 5000 receptů aristokracie, bohatých měšťanů, slavných šéfkuchařů velkých hotelů a proslulých restaurací, úspěšných umělců a v neposlední řadě i snobů a zbohatlíků.
Výběr pokrmů, od předkrmů a polévek až k moučníkům, se zaměřuje na francouzskou hauté cuisine, jak se ustálila před Velkou válkou, mj a jak se tříbila a doplňovala ve dvacátých...

Ohniskem groteskní hry je spor o les. Zatímco pro bohatou majitelku panství Raisu Gurmyžskou představuje les šanci jak rozmnožit majetek a získat mladého milence, pro bezskrupulózního obchodníka Vosmibratova je les byznys. Druhou, neméně významnou linii hry tvoří postavy dvou potulných herců Nešťastlivce a Šťastlivce. Jejich život je naplněn ideály, které mohou v době, které vládne technokratický přístup k životu a hodnotám, jen stěží uspět.
Program vychází při příležitosti inscenace Lesa ve Stavovském divadle (rež. Michal Dočekal), v níž...