Gail Carriger (16 kníh)
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Gail Carriger Blameless ENQuitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London's vampires are…
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Gail Carriger Blameless ENQuitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all the London vampires are now…
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Gail Carriger Changeless ENAlexia Tarabotti, now Lady Maccon, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears - leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria. But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest…
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Gail Carriger Changeless ENAlexia Tarabotti, now Lady Maccon, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears - leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria. But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest…
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Gail Carriger Curtsies and Conspiracies ENDoes one need four fully-grown foxgloves for decorating a dinner table for six guests? Or is it six foxgloves to kill four fully-grown guests? Sophronia's first year at school has certainly been rousing. First, her finishing school is training her to be a spy (Won't Mumsy be surprised!). Secondly, she gets mixed up in an intrigue over a stolen device and has a cheese pie thrown at her. Now, as Sophronia sneaks…
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Gail Carriger Etiketa & špionដtrnásťročnú Sophroniu zapíše jej mama do akadémie pre mladé dámy, aby sa naučila náležite sa správať v spoločnosti. Sophronia však čoskoro príde na to, že Prípravná akadémia mademoiselle Geraldine pre mladé dámy uhladených mravov je výnimočná: dievčatá sa učia tancovať, správne sa obliekať, dokonale ovládať etiketu a popritom si osvojujú aj základy špionáže! Sophroniu a jej kamarátov čaká strhujúci prvý rok na…
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Gail Carriger Etiketa & špionáž (české vydání) CZČtrnáctiletá Sofronie dává svojí mamince pořádně zabrat. Proto Sofronii zapíše do Penzionátu mademoiselle Geraldiny pro kvalitní přípravu mladých dívek. Tenhle penzionát je… tak trochu jiný. Dívky se tu sice učí tanci, jak se správně šatit a etiketě povšechně, ale také opravdové špionáži – samozřejmě při zachování nejvybranějších mravů. Sofronie a její přítelkyně čeká vskutku strhující první rok!
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Gail Carriger Etiquette and Espionage ENIt's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to finishing school. Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners-and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a…
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Gail Carriger Heartless ENLady Alexia Maccon, soulless, is at it again, only this time the trouble in the air is not her fault. When a mad ghost threatens the queen, Alexia is on the case, following a trail that leads her deep into her husband's past. Top that off with a sister who has joined the suffragette movement (shocking!), Madame Lefoux's latest mechanical invention, and a plague of zombie porcupines - and Alexia barely has time to…
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Gail Carriger Manners and Mutiny ENThe fourth and final book in a steampunk YA adventure series, from Orbit's New York Times bestselling author of the Parasol Protectorate series. When a dastardly Pickleman plot comes to fruition, only Sophronia can save her friends, her school, and all of London... but at what cost? Our proper young heroine puts her training and skills to the test in this highly anticipated conclusion of the rousing, intriguing, and…
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Gail Carriger Poklony & sprisahaniaSophronia sa tajne pripravuje v Akadémii pre mladé dámy uhladených mravov na povolanie špiónky. Na tajných nočných výletoch po vzducholodi zistí, že sa chystá akési sprisahanie s hrôzostrašnými následkami pre nadprirodzené bytosti i ľudí. Pokúša sa odhaliť, kto za ním stojí, a ochrániť svojich priateľov. Nebezpečný experiment s preletom vzducholode éterosférou je v plnom prúde takisto ako aj plesová sezóna v Londýne…
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Gail Carriger Prudence ENWhen Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldama (Rue to her friends) is given an unexpected dirigible, she does what any sensible female would under similar circumstances - names it the Spotted Crumpet and floats to India in pursuit of the perfect cup of tea. But India has more than just tea on offer. Rue stumbles upon a plot involving local dissidents, a kidnapped brigadier's wife and some awfully familiar Scottish…
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Gail Carriger Soulless ENAlexia Tarabotti is labouring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire - and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf)…
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Gail Carriger Timeless ENAlexia Tarabotti, Lady Maccon, has settled into domestic bliss. Of course, being Alexia, such bliss involves integrating werewolves into London High society, living in a vampire’s second best closet, and coping with a precocious toddler who is prone to turning supernatural willy-nilly. Even Ivy Tunstell’s acting troupe’s latest play, disastrous to say the least, cannot put a dampener on Alexia’s enjoyment of her new…
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Gail Carriger Trochu jiný penzionát: Úklony & úklady CZSofronie nastupuje do druhého ročníku Penzionátu mademoiselle Geraldiny a hned musí pomoct své kamarádce Dimity zbavit se únosců a Vieve dostat se do Bunsonovy chlapecké školy. A záhada s prototypem pokračuje – tentokrát by někdo zabíjel za jeden droboučký ventil z divnostroje. Má totiž kontrolovat étherické proudy tak, jak se ještě zatím nikomu nepovedlo! A to by znamenalo převrat v dopravě! Vedle všech těchhle…
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Gail Carriger Waistcoats and Weaponry ENIt's one thing to waltz properly. It's quite another to waltz properly with a bladed fan stitched into one's corset. Sophronia continues finishing school in style - with a range of deadly defences secreted in the folds of her ball gown, of course. Her fashionable choice of weapons comes in handy when Sophronia, her best friend Dimity, sweet sootie Soap and the charming Lord Felix Mersey hijack a suspiciously empty…
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