Catching up with the past

Catching up with the Past

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Catching the Sun

Just how badly do you want to find paradise? When Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, this taxi driver takes his young family to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand. Phuket is all the Finn family dreamed of - a tropical paradise where the children swim with elephants, the gibbons sing love songs in the jungle, the Andaman Se...

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Human Past

Here is a new, fourth edition of this authoritative introductory survey of world prehistory, spanning the past 3,000,000 years and written by a team of twenty-four expert authors. This edition has been radically updated to be more thematic and accessible: chapters are connected by new key themes boxes (climate change, domestication, migration, social inequality and urbani...

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Ghosts from Our Past

Offers information such as: the frightening childhood experiences that inspired the authors' lifelong passion for the paranormal; the history and science behind ghosts and other supernatural entities, with an illustrated guide to each class of spook; and, helpful sidebars like Is It a Ghost? A Handy Quiz, Ectoplasm Clean-up Tips, and more.

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SpellForce 2 - Demons of the Past

Demons of the Past is the epic new chapter of SpellForce, the unique blend of RPG and RTS. Experience this worthy conclusion of all previous games in the SpellForce-series. Check out the new single player campaign with 25+ hours of gameplay, in which nearly all races are playable – Pact, Clan, Shaikan… The Story Zazhut is free, and his wrath now descends upon...

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SpellForce 2 - Demons of the Past (PC)

Demons of the Past is the epic new chapter of SpellForce, the unique blend of RPG and RTS. Experience this worthy conclusion of all previous games in the SpellForce-series. Check out the new single player campaign with 25+ hours of gameplay, in which nearly all races are playable – Pact, Clan, Shaikan…The StoryZazhut is free, and his wrath now descend...

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It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future - Saul Bellow

<p>'Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we have' The New York Times Book ReviewIn It All Adds Up, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow takes readers on a brilliantly insightful journey through literary America over a forty-year period. In sentence after sentence, page after page, readers are offered brilliant perceptio...

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Ghosts from Our Past - Erin Gilbert

<p>Offers information such as: the frightening childhood experiences that inspired the authors' lifelong passion for the paranormal; the history and science behind ghosts and other supernatural entities, with an illustrated guide to each class of spook; and, helpful sidebars like Is It a Ghost? A Handy Quiz, Ectoplasm Clean-up Tips, and more.</p>

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Ghosts from Our Past - Gilbert Erin

Anotace: Offers information such as: the frightening childhood experiences that inspired the authors` lifelong passion for the paranormal; the history and science behind ghosts and other supernatural entities, with an illustrated guide to each class of spook; and, helpful sidebars like Is It a Ghost? A Handy Quiz, Ectoplasm Clean-up Tips, and more.

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TIME MACHINE Travel between Present Perfect and Past Simple - neuveden

Anotace: English tenses will transport you to the mysterious Middle Ages! Visit castles and mysterious places! Beware! Deep pits and falling fires may hinder your journey into the past. Don´t waste valuable time! Use the keywords which open up the door to fluent English. Time is in your hands! The player decides whether to use the Present Perfect or Past Simple tense. Ke...

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TIME MACHINE Travel between Present Perfect and Past Simple

<p>English tenses will transport you to the mysterious Middle Ages! Visit castles and mysterious places! Beware! Deep pits and falling fires may hinder your journey into the past. Don’t waste valuable time! Use the keywords which open up the door to fluent English. Time is in your hands! The player decides whether to use the Present Perfect or Past Simple tense. Key...

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Quiz &amp; Act Present Perfect and Past Simple

<p>Face up to the challenge! Act out the sounds and gestures of animals, sing some funny songs and answer questions from a culture quiz. Learn more about English-speaking countries and have fun regardless of your age. Number of players: 2-8 The aim of this game is to achieve the highest number of points. At the beginning of the gameplay put the cards in the middl...

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Quiz & Act Present Perfect and Past Simple - neuveden

Anotace: Face up to the challenge! Act out the sounds and gestures of animals, sing some funny songs and answer questions from a culture quiz. Learn more about English-speaking countries and have fun regardless of your age.Number of players: 2-8The aim of this game is to achieve the highest number of points.At the beginning of the gameplay put the cards in the middle of ...

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Swallowing the Sun

The stunning new look for David Park Heartbreaking story of tragedy and of the past catching up with a father in modern-day Northern Ireland

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Holding Up the Universe - Jennifer Niven

<p>From the author of the New York Times bestseller All the Bright Places comes a heart-wrenching story about what it means to see someone - and love someone - for who they truly are. Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed 'America's Fattest Teen'. But no one's taken the time to look past her weight to get to see who she really is. Since her mu...

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Holding Up the Universe - Nivenová Jennifer

Anotace: From the author of the New York Times bestseller All the Bright Places comes a heart-wrenching story about what it means to see someone - and love someone - for who they truly are.<br> Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed 'America's Fattest Teen'. But no one's taken the time to look past her weight to get to see ...

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It ends with us

SOMETIMES THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU IS THE ONE WHO HURTS YOU THE MOST. Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up - she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon nam...

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Lucy by the Sea: From the Booker-shortlisted author of Oh William! - Stroutová Elizabeth

Anotace: `A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own` Hilary Mantel FROM THE BOOKER-SHORTLISTED, PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR `It is a gift in this life that we do not know what awaits us`In March 2020 Lucy Barton`s ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agre...

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It Starts with Us: the highly anticipated sequel to IT ENDS WITH US - Colleen Hoover

Anotace: Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil co-parenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they a...

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Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future - Ed Conway

A bold new story of human progress, told through six materials that built our world and will transform our future. For fans of Tim Marshall, Lewis Dartnell, Jared Diamond and Yuval Harari. THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR**Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award**Picked as a Book of the Year by FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST and NEW STATESMANA BB...

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Mixed-Up Chameleon

Except for catching flies and changing colors occasionally, this chameleon doesn't find life very exciting. When a surprise visit to the zoo makes this wistful lizard realize it can change its shape and size as easily as its color, it ends up wanting to be like all the animals in the zoo at once--with hilarious results. Full-color illustrations.

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The Swimmers - Otsuka Julie

Anotace: Up above there are wildfires, smog alerts, epic droughts, paper jams, teachers` strikes, insurrections, revolutions, record-breaking summers of unendurable heat, but down below, at the pool, it is always a comfortable eighty-one degrees ...Alice is one of a group of obsessed recreational swimmers for whom their local swimming pool has become the centre of their ...

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Break Up with What Broke You – How God Redeems and Rewrites Your Story

If you're stuck in the lie that your past mistakes have limited your future, discover how to break free from shame and let God redeem, repurpose, and

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American Royals 2 : Majesty - McGeeová Katharine

Anotace: Beatrice Washington now rules America as its first ever queen, but her family are more concerned about rushing through her arranged marriage to a man she barely knows. No one can know that her heart really belongs to her bodyguard - but even their love is under threat.Meanwhile, Princess Samantha is under more scrutiny than ever before - and she still longs to b...

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Happy Place - Henryová Emily, Henryová Emily

Anotace: Two exes. One pact. Could this holiday change everything? Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Except, now they don't. They broke up six months ago. And they still haven't told anyone. Which is how they end up sharing a bedroom at the cottage that has been the...

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Happy Place: A shimmering new novel from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry - Henryová Emily

Anotace: Two exes. One pact. Could this holiday change everything? Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Except, now they don't. They broke up six months ago. And they still haven't told anyone. Which is how they end up sharing a bedroom at the cottage that has been the...

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Penguin Readers Level 3: Sherlock Holmes Short Stories (ELT Graded Reader) - Doyle Arthur Conan

Anotace: Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introduci...

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Europe : A History - Duroselle Jean Baptiste

Anotace: The first one-volume, complete history of Europe, as told by Europeans themselves, from Homo Erectus to the Celts, to Greek wisdom and Roman grandeur, all of the way to the European phenomenon - the Industrial Revolution.This is the definitive way to discover the real, modern Europe progressively unfolding, because looking back to the past reveals more about our...

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King of Dead Things - Holness Nevin

Anotace: Magical contemporary London. Two lives are about to collide. A journey of self-discovery.For fans of dark fantasy like Cemetery Boys, Noughts and Crosses and Threads that Bind from major new YA talent Jamaican British author Nevin HolnessThe first time Eli had tried taking magic that wasn`t his, it had wrapped around his palms like razor wire, tight enough that ...

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The Heart Principle - Hoangová Helen

Anotace: To most, Quan is a surly, underachieving playboy. Anna dislikes him, or so she tells herself. She will never admit that she harbours a secret crush on Quan, especially because he only has eyes for her charismatic younger sister Camilla. Now, with her sister's engagement on the line, Anna must bury her anxieties and overcome her OCD to try and seduce Quan an...

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Once More With Feeling: the perfect second chance celebrity romance - Sussman Elissa

Anotace: `A pitch-perfect second chance romance with off-the-charts tension and chemistry` Carley Fortune, New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer AfterA former pop star finds herself back in the spotlight - along with an old flame from her past - in this `friends to lovers` meets `enemies to lovers` romance from the bestselling author of Funny You Should Ask, ...

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It Ends With Us: The emotional #1 Sunday Times bestseller - Colleen Hoover

<p>THE RUNAWAY GLOBAL BESTSELLING NOVEL BY COLLEEN HOOVER - SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING BLAKE LIVELY. Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town where she grew up-she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she...

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Brooklyn Crime Novel - Lethem Jonathan

Anotace: 1978 and two14-year-old white boys are creating dubious art by using a hacksaw to cut multiple quarters into pieces. A child who`s just bought ice cream from a Mr. Softee truck witnesses a daylight sidewalk shooting in 1979. At another time, a couple of blocks over, a kid gets caught trying to shoplift an adult magazine from a Puerto Rican hole-in-the-wa...

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Teen Eli Readers 2/A2: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer with Audio CD - Mark Twain

<p>About the series: The series Tenn ELI Readers is divided into 3 levels according to the language level of the readers. It's in line with the indications of the Common European Framework of Reference for Language and comprise useful language certification exercises. This ensures that learners will meet language and structures they have already studied or which are...

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To Disguise the Truth

When Arthur Livingston seeks out the agency to find a missing heiress, Eunice Holbrooke realizes her past has finally caught up with her. In order to

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It Starts with Us - Colleen Hoover

Anotace: Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favourite Atlas's side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the #1 Sunday Times bestseller It Ends with Us Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil co-parenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After ...

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It Starts with Us - Colleen Hoover

Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favourite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the #1 Sunday Times bestseller It Ends with Us Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil co-parenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two...

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It Starts With Us - Colleen Hoover

Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favourite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the #1 Sunday Times bestseller It Ends with Us Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil co-parenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two...

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It Ends With Us - Colleen Hoover

Anotace: SOMETIMES THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU IS THE ONE WHO HURTS YOU THE MOST. Lily hasn`t always had it easy, but that`s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She`s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up - she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neuros...

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It Ends With Us - Colleen Hoover

Anotace: Lily hasn`t always had it easy, but that`s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She`s come a long way from the small town where she grew up-she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. And when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily`s life seems too good to be tru...

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The First Binding - R. R. Virdi

Anotace: Introducing the Tales of Tremaine, starting with the breath-taking The First Binding. Epic in scope, filled with magic, legends and lies, this is a fantasy filled with the mythos of South Asia, which readers of The Name of the Wind will love. All legends are born of truths. And just as much lies. These are mine. Judge me for what you will. But you will hear my...

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The Burning Girls - Tudor C. J.

Anotace: The darkly compelling new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalk Man, The Taking of Annie Thorne and The Other People, soon to be a major TV series`Hypnotic and horrifying . . . Without doubt her best yet, The Burning Girls left me sleeping with the lights on` CHRIS WHITAKER, bestselling author of Waterstones Thriller of the Month We Begin a...

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The Burning Girls - C. J. Tudor

<p>The darkly compelling new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Chalk Man, The Taking of Annie Thorne and The Other People, soon to be a major TV series 'Hypnotic and horrifying . . . Without doubt her best yet, The Burning Girls left me sleeping with the lights on' CHRIS WHITAKER, bestselling author of Waterstones Thriller of the Month We Begin ...

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The Mirror and the Light - Hilary Mantel

<p>England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to sho...

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1000 Pin-Up Girls - Peter Driben

<p></p> <p>“Girls, Gags &amp; Giggles,” ran publisher Robert Harrison’s recipe for dishing up Pin-up to the American male. Men loved his tasty dishes, a mixture of strippers and starlets dressed in outfits so fetishistic no one noticed they were never nude. While other magazines delivered the girl next door, Harrison’s publications banked on bad girl...

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The Hotel on the Riviera - Kirkwood Carol

Anotace: From Sunday Times bestselling author and the nation`s best loved TV presenter Carol Kirkwood comes a glittering escape to the French Riviera. `Deliciously escapist` Cathy Kelly `A stunning holiday read with passion and heart, perfect...!` Anton Du Beke -------- ...

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The Hotel on the Riviera - Carol Kirkwood

<p>From Sunday Times bestselling author and the nation's best loved TV presenter Carol Kirkwood comes a glittering escape to the French Riviera. 'Deliciously escapist' Cathy Kelly 'A stunning holiday read with passion and heart, perfect...!' Anton Du Beke -------- ...

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The Summer Party: An absolutely glamorous and unputdownable psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist! - Heath Rebecca

Anotace: `SIGN ME UP PLEASE!!! Boy, talk about a book that keeps you on the edge of your seat... 5 "this book was soo dang good" Stars!!! @triciabartley86, ***** Perfect families are only as perfect as their best kept secrets.Summer, 2000The Whitlam siblings have it all and sixteen-year-old Lucy only wants one thing - to be close to them. Soon she`s lazing around their i...

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Crack-Up Capitalism - Quinn Slobodian

<p>Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. From the 1990s onwards, globalization has shattered the map, leading to an explosion of new legal entities: tax havens, free ports, city-states, gated enclaves and special economic zones. These new spaces are freed from ordinary forms of regu...

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Silver in the Wood

Winner of the 2020 World Fantasy Award!From Astounding Award winner and Crawford Award finalist Emily TeshAn ALA RUSA Reading List Selection"A true story of the woods, of the fae, and of the heart. Deep and green and wonderful.”―New York Times bestselling author Naomi NovikThere is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, ...

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Blake a Mortimer 10 - The Sarcophagi of the Sixth Continent Pt 2

Professor Mortimer's past in India is about to catch up with him - in Antarctica!

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The Christmas Love Letters

Anotace: `The Queen of Christmas feelgood novels` The Independent Pre-order The Christmas Love Letters now! The gorgeous new Christmas novel from Sunday Times bestseller Sue Moorcroft. * * * A secret romance was just the start of the story... Tucked i...

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The Morningside - Obreht Tea

Anotace: There`s the world you can see. And then there`s the one you can`t. Welcome to The Morningside.When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia`s aunt, Ena, serves as the superin...

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Perfect Suicide, The

'I loved him, missed him and hated him. Every day. Although it did me no good...' Following a family tragedy, Emma escapes to university in search of a new life. Still raw and vulnerable, she struggles to fit in with her fun-loving housemates and feels excluded. Only charismatic, caring Pete takes her under his wing and shows her true friendship. Pete introduces Emma to h...

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The Monarchs - Danielle Paige

<p>In this thrilling conclusion to New York Times bestselling authors Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige's The Ravens duology, loyalty, love, and friendships are tested as sorority sisters Scarlett and Vivi must face the forces of hell itself when a rival sorority threatens to wreak havoc on campus. The ultra-exclusive Kappa Rho Nu - the Ravens - are determined to rest...

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Deliver Us The Moon

Deliver Us The Moon is a Sci-Fi thriller set in an apocalyptic near future where Earth's natural resources are depleted. In an effort to solve the energy crisis, global powers created the World Space Agency and secured a promising new source of energy on the moon. The World Space Agency colonized and operated from the moon until one fateful night all communications with E...

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The Leaning Church

The subtitle of the book is a succinct summary of the fate of this former pastoral village that became a boomtown thanks to coal mining, only to be wiped off the map a century later, also in the interests of coal mining.Today, nothing remains of the striking buildings and the soaring cathedral. Only the leaning church remains, jutting up from the barren landscape like a w...

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Orten Was The Case

Get ready to step into the (non-existent) shoes of Ziggy - an unexpected hero from a fictional Swedish neighborhood. Together, you'll take on the daunting task of foiling a sinister scheme that could potentially devastate the entire world. Ziggy wakes up one day with a strange mark on his hand, clueless about what happened the night before. After a couple of minutes lost ...

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It Ends With Us, 1. vydání - Colleen Hoover

THE TIKTOK SENSATION 'A brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn't let go, long after you've finished it' Anna Todd, author of the After series'A glorious and touching read, a forever keeper' USA Today'Will break your heart while filling you with hope' Sarah Pekkanen, Perfect NeighborsSOMETIMES THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU IS THE ONE WHO HURTS YOU THE...

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The Goal - Kennedy Elle

Anotace: Discover another binge-worthy romance from New York Times and international bestselling author Elle Kennedy!She`s good at achieving her goals . . . College senior Sabrina James has her whole future planned out: graduate from college, kick butt in law school, and land a high-paying job at a cut-throat firm. Her path to escaping her shameful past certainly doesn`t...

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