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The Fall - Simon Mawer
Anotace: An irresistible narrative of courage and endeavour. A story that captures nature at its most beautiful and most brutal and which unlocks the intricacies at the heart of human relationships. Rob and Jamie are great friends from childhood. They have grown up together and become top climbers, but have since become estranged. Rob is nevertheless amazed and grief-st...
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The Wager - Grann David
Anotace: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA`S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023* `The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I`ve ever read` Guardian `The greatest sea story ever told` Spectator`A cracking yarn... Grann`s taste for...
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The Wager - David Grann
<p>THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* *SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023* 'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I've ever read' Guardian 'The greatest sea story ever told' Spectator'A cracking yarn... Grann's taste for ...
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I Fell in Love with Hope - Lancali
Anotace: Against the unforgiving landscape of a hospital, I fell in love with a mischievous, sun-eyed boy who became my only joy in that desolate place. That's what made it all the more soul-crushing when he committed suicide in front of me. Since then, I've sworn never to love anyone again. With three exceptions: My friends, Sony, Neo, and Coeur, a little gan...
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I Fell in Love with Hope - Lancali
<p>Against the unforgiving landscape of a hospital, I fell in love with a mischievous, sun-eyed boy who became my only joy in that desolate place. That's what made it all the more soul-crushing when he committed suicide in front of me. Since then, I've sworn never to love anyone again. With three exceptions: My friends, Sony, Neo, and Coeur, a little gang of rebelli...
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The Secret History of the Mongols - Christopher P. Atwood
<p>A new translation of a great historical epic, recounting the turbulent life and times of Chinggis Khan'Bear the sword andHew asunder high and haughty necksSlash apart all strong and self-willed shoulders'Born poor into a world of dangers and hardships, Chinggis (or Genghis) Khan would grow up to unify Mongolia and conquer a vast empire stretching from modern-day ...
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Level 5: The Grapes of Wrath
Classic / American English During the Great Depression in the United States, and after the loss of their farm in Oklahoma, the Joad family is faced with a journey of more than one thousand miles to California in search of a better life. Can hope defeat poverty, illness, hunger, and even death as they follow their dream?
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The Iliad, 1. vydání - Homér
<p>A stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer's great epic, in E. V. Rieu's classic translation. The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization - an epic poem without rival in the literature of the world, and the cornerstone of Western culture. The story centres on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which...
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The Light Fantastic: Discworld: The Unseen University Collection - Pratchett Terry
Anotace: The eye-wateringly funny fantasy romp across the Discworld, featuring the most incompetent wizard you`ll ever find . . .`The Discworld novels have always been among the most serious of comedies, the most relevant and real of fantasies` IndependentIt is known as the Discworld. It is a flat planet, supported on the backs of four elephants, who in turn stand on the...
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The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
<p>'Life affirming, triumphant and tragic . . . masterfully told. . . but also a wonderful page-turner' Guardian'Brilliant and hugely ambitious' New York Times'Extraordinary' Telegraph___HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster ...
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The Land Breakers - Ehle John
Anotace: Set deep in the Appalachian wilderness between the years of 1779 and 1784, The Land Breakers is a saga like the Norse sagas or the book of Genesis, a story of first and last things, of the violence of birth and death, of inescapable sacrifice and the faltering emergence of community. Mooney and Imy Wright, twenty-one, former indentured servants, long habituated ...
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War of the Spark: Forsaken (Magic: The Gathering)
Return to the multiverse of Magic: The Gathering as the hunt for Liliana Vess is on in the aftermath of the War of the Spark. The Planeswalkers have defeated Nicol Bolas and saved the Multiverse—though at grave cost. The living have been left to pick up the pieces and mourn the dead. But one loss is almost too great to bear: Gideon Jura, champion of justice and shield o...
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The Last Tycoon - Francis Scott Fitzgerald
<p>Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon is a story of doomed love set against the extravagance of America's booming film industry. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Edmund Wilson.The studio lot looks like 'thirty acres of fairyland' the night that a mysterious woman stands and smiles at Monro...
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The Alchemist of Ars Magna
◆ Story Synopsis Once upon a time, the founder of alchemy led people from a dying world to a new land.In this fertile and harmonious land where man-made "Gods of Creation" act as guardians, humans lead a peaceful existence. However, a long time has since passed, and the "Dust" of death began to engulf Arcaus. Gods gone mad become heinous "Gods of Misfortune" and begin to ...
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The Burrow and Other Stories - Franz Kafka
Anotace: After Franz Kafka's death, in perhaps the most important of all acts of literary disobedience, his executor refused to agree to Kafka's wish that his great mass of unpublished fiction be destroyed. This fiction included not only The Castle and The Trial but also the amazingly varied, chilling and ingenious short works collected in The Burrow and Other ...
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Tender Is the Night - Francis Scott Fitzgerald
<p>F. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel, Tender is the Night is edited by Arnold Goldman with an introduction and notes by Richard Godden in Penguin Modern Classics.Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife N...
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Blue Series The mystery of the three domes + Audio CD Helbling Languages
Architecture student, Sibel Karaman, receives a letter from Great-Uncle Ismail on the day of his death. He leaves her a mystery to solve which takes her and Aunt Sofia on a wonderful adventure to three beautiful cities: London, Venice and Istanbul. Can Sibel solve the mystery of the three domes and find the very special place that Uncle Ismail had in mind for her? Join he...
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Eriksen Tim: Northern Roots Live in Náměšť - CD (MAM451-2)
Hudební CD - Záznam koncertu v rámci festivalu Folkové prázdniny v Náměšti nad Oslavou dne 24. července 2008. Záznam koncertu v rámci festivalu Folkové prázdniny v Náměšti nad Oslavou dne 24. července 2008. Produkce Dušan Svíba, zvuk František Petřík, střih a mastering Bronislav Šmid. Sacred Harp je čtyřhlasý křesťanský chorál. Kdysi nejrozšířenější americká náboženská ...
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Dostoevsky in Love : An Intimate Life - Alex Christofi
<p>'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book' - Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich NietzscheDostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived ...
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The House On Biscayne Bay - Cleetonová Chanel
Anotace: With the Great War finally behind them, many Americans flock to South Florida with their sights set on making a fortune. When wealthy industrialist Robert Barnes and his wife, Anna, build Marbrisa, a glamorous estate on Biscayne Bay, they become the toast of the newly burgeoning society. Anna and Robert appear to have it all, but in a town like Miami, appearance...
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Dostoevsky in Love : An Intimate Life - Christofi Alex
Anotace: Dostoevsky`s life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived mock execution and Siberian exile to live through a time of seismic change in Russia, eventually being accepted into the Tsar`s inner circle. He had three great love affairs, each overshadowed by debilitating epilepsy and addiction to gambling. Some...
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Court of the Dead Legendary Scale Bust Xiall The Resolve of Bone
Sideshow is proud to announce the Xiall: Resolve of Bone Legendary Scale Bust, the newest addition to our original Court of the Dead collection. This bust is the second piece in our legendary scale bust collection. Xiall, the Great Osteomancer and leader of the Faction of Bone, is Death's right hand and the most powerful administrator in the Land of the Dead. This high...
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Reflections on the Guillotine - Albert Camus
<p>'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out'Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' of capital punishment remains one of the most powerful, persu...
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PER | Level 5: The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
<p>Classic / American EnglishDuring the Great Depression in the United States, and after the loss of their farm in Oklahoma, the Joad family is faced with a journey of more than one thousand miles to California in search of a better life. Can hope defeat poverty, illness, hunger, and even death as they follow their dream?</p>
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PER | Level 5: The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
<p>Classic / American EnglishDuring the Great Depression in the United States, and after the loss of their farm in Oklahoma, the Joad family is faced with a journey of more than one thousand miles to California in search of a better life. Can hope defeat poverty, illness, hunger, and even death as they follow their dream?</p>
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Level 5: The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck John
Anotace: Classic / American EnglishDuring the Great Depression in the United States, and after the loss of their farm in Oklahoma, the Joad family is faced with a journey of more than one thousand miles to California in search of a better life. Can hope defeat poverty, illness, hunger, and even death as they follow their dream?
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The Castle, 1. vydání - Franz Kafka
<p>Franz Kafka's final novel tells the haunting tale of a man known only as K. and of his relentless, unavailing struggle with an inscrutable authority in order to gain entrance to the Castle. Although Kafka seemed to consider `The Castle` a failure, critics, in wrestling with its enigmatic meaning, have recognized it as one of the great novels of our century. Unfin...
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Old World - Heroes of the Aegean (PC)
Old World - Heroes of the Aegean gives you control of Ancient Greece's greatest leaders and warriors. Lead Athens to victory in the Battle of Marathon, defend Greece from a Persian invasion as Leonidas and his 300 Spartans, and conquer the Hellenic world as Alexander the Great himself in a series of scenarios spanning over 200 years of classical history. Her...
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Old World - Heroes of the Aegean
Old World - Heroes of the Aegean gives you control of Ancient Greece's greatest leaders and warriors. Lead Athens to victory in the Battle of Marathon, defend Greece from a Persian invasion as Leonidas and his 300 Spartans, and conquer the Hellenic world as Alexander the Great himself in a series of scenarios spanning over 200 years of classical history. Heroes of ...
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The Diary of a Young Girl (9780241952436)
Kniha - anglicky The definitive 70th anniversary edition of "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank and edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler, the world's most famous diary and 'one of the greatest books of the century'. '12th June, 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a ...
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The Colony of Good Hope - Kim Leine
Anotace: In the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, an immensely powerful historical novel about the first encounters between Danish colonists and Greenlanders in the early eighteenth century, of brutal clashes between priests and pagans and the forces that drive each individual towards darkness or light. 1728: The Danish King Fredrik IV sends a governor to Gr...
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The Colony of Good Hope - Kim Leine
<p>'A superb novel . . . A hugely powerful chronicle of lives lived on the edge' - Sunday Times, Books of the YearIn the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, an immensely powerful historical novel about the first encounters between Danish colonists and Greenlanders in the early eighteenth century, of brutal clashes between priests and pagans and the forces that ...
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War of the Spark: Forsaken - Weisman Greg
Anotace: Return to the multiverse of Magic: The Gathering as the hunt for Liliana Vess is on in the aftermath of the War of the Spark. The Planeswalkers have defeated Nicol Bolas and saved the Multiverse-though at grave cost. The living have been left to pick up the pieces and mourn the dead. But one loss is almost too great to bear: Gideon Jura, champion of justice and ...
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War of the Spark: Forsaken - Greg Weisman
<p>Return to the multiverse of Magic: The Gathering as the hunt for Liliana Vess is on in the aftermath of the War of the Spark. The Planeswalkers have defeated Nicol Bolas and saved the Multiverse—though at grave cost. The living have been left to pick up the pieces and mourn the dead. But one loss is almost too great to bear: Gideon Jura, champion of justice and...
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THE JUNGLE BOOK - Joseph Rudyard Kipling
Anotace: `I can call him Mowgli´, she said to her husband. Mowgli is Little Frog in the language of the jungle. Tags Friendship Family Animals In this Reader you will find: - Games and language activities - An audio recording of the story - A picture dictionary This is the real story of the Jungle Book. It is not a funny film for children. People and animals die. And one...
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The Secret: (Jack Reacher 28) - Child Lee
Anotace: The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the No.1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient wakes to find two strangers by his bed.They show him a list of names and ask a simple but impossible question. Minutes later he falls to his death from his twelfth-floor window - a fall which generates some unexpected attention.Th...
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James: The Powerful Reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the Booker Prize-Shortlisted Author of The Trees - Everett Percival
Anotace: Selected as one of the top 12 reads of 2024 by The Times and Sunday Times`Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book` - Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust`Who should read this book? Every single person in the country` - Ann Patchett, bestselling author of Tom LakeAn enthralling and ferociously f...
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Lord of the Rings Pendant and Chain Rohan Wax Seal
Having fallen under the corrupting influence of the Dark Lord Sauron, the Wizard Saruman sends forth a great army of iron-clad Uruk-hai to wipe out the nation of Rohan. King Théoden leads his people to seek shelter within the fortress of Helm's Deep, but he is unprepared for the sheer size of the Saruman's legions.In their darkest hour, Aragorn distinguishes himself as th...
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The Last Sherlock Holmes Story - Dibdin Michael - 129x198 mm, brožovaná
Anglická četba - Oxford Bookworms - pokročilost 3 - 1 000 slov. For fifty years after Dr Watson's death, a packet of papers, written by the doctor himself, lay hidden in a locked box. The papers contained an extraordinary report of the case of Jack the Ripper and the horrible murders in the East End of London in 1888. The detective, of course, was the great Sherlock Holme...
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Foreign Bodies: The Terror of Contagion, the Ingenuity of Science - Schama Simon
Anotace: `This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides` Daily Telegraph `Superb` Observer `Extraordinary... A meticulous retelling of a terrible yet scientifically innovative period... Makes an urgent case for building a better future on our toxic past` Gua...
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Making History: The First World War
Covering one of the most catastrophic events in human history, Making History: The First World War offers a strategic level experience in a turn-based global game of conflict. It’s a war between the Great Powers of the age, each straddling to one degree or another, the old world and the new. This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully reali...
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Making History: The First World War (PC)
Covering one of the most catastrophic events in human history, Making History: The First World War offers a strategic level experience in a turn-based global game of conflict. It’s a war between the Great Powers of the age, each straddling to one degree or another, the old world and the new.This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully re...
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The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel - Weeks Brent
Anotace: The razor-sharp first novel in the New York Times bestselling Night Angel series from master of modern fantasy Brent Weeks - an astonishing and epic tale of magic, violence and revenge.The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets. For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art. And he is the city`s most accomplished artist, his talents required from alleyway to cou...
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The Burrow and Other Stories. Posthumously Published Short Fiction - Franz Kafka
After Franz Kafka's death, in perhaps the most important of all acts of literary disobedience, his executor refused to agree to Kafka's wish that his great mass of unpublished fiction be destroyed.
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The Alchemist of Ars Magna (PC)
◆ Story SynopsisOnce upon a time, the founder of alchemy led people from a dying world to a new land.In this fertile and harmonious land where man-made "Gods of Creation" act as guardians, humans lead a peaceful existence.However, a long time has since passed, and the "Dust" of death began to engulf Arcaus.Gods gone mad become heinous "Gods of Mis...
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The London Seance Society: The New York Times Bestseller - Sarah Penner
<p>May mercy be upon the man who finds himself the enemy of a vengeful medium…</p> <p>1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D’Allaire. Known worldwide for her talent in conjuring the spirits of murder victims to ascertain the identities of the people who kill...
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Tricked: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Four - Hearne Kevin
Anotace: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In the fourth novel of the Iron Druid Chronicles, two-thousand-year-old Druid Atticus O`Sullivan must pay his debts to cunning trickster god Coyote, a task that includes battling undead creatures of the night as well as a relentless hound of Hel and the goddess of death who commands it."[Kevin] Hearne is a terrific storyteller with a ...
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Tricked: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Four - Kevin Hearne
<p>NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - In the fourth novel of the Iron Druid Chronicles, two-thousand-year-old Druid Atticus O'Sullivan must pay his debts to cunning trickster god Coyote, a task that includes battling undead creatures of the night as well as a relentless hound of Hel and the goddess of death who commands it. "[Kevin] Hearne is a terrific storyteller w...
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1. vydání - Arthur Conan Doyle
<p>Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. This collection includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary Sherlo...
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The Secret: Jack Reacher, Book 28 - Child Lee
Anotace: Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient wakes to find two strangers by his bed. They show him a list of names and ask a simple but impossible question. Minutes later he falls to his death from his twelfth-floor window - a fall which generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the Secretary of Defense, who calls for an inter-agency task force to in...
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THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END PA - neuveden
Anotace: From the bestselling author of HISTORY IS ALL YOU LEFT ME comes another unforgettable story of life, loss and making each day count. On September 5th, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: they're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're ...
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The Raven and Other Poems, 1. vydání - Edgar Allan Poe
<p>Fully annotated edition with over 400 notes. It contains Poe’s complete poems and three essays on poetry.The undisputed pioneer of the horror, detective and science-fiction genres, Edgar Allan Poe was an accomplished poet as well as a celebrated writer of short stories. The present edition contains all of his works in verse, from the major poems of his maturity –...
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They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera
Anotace: Adam Silvera reminds us that there`s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day.New York Times bestseller * 4 starred reviews * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors` Choice of 201...
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They Both Die at the End, 1. vydání - Adam Silvera
<p>Adam Silvera reminds us that there's no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. New York Times bestseller * 4 starred reviews * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors' Choice of 20...
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City of Refuge
In his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Marcus Nevius engages the historiographies of slave resistance an
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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories - Smith Ali
Anotace: A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death*Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New European*Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-cent...
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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories - Ali Smith
<p>A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death*Chosen as a 2024 highlight in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mail, New Statesman, Esquire and the New European*Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-centu...
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The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter - The Sunday Times Bestseller - Josef Lewkowicz
<p>**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'A riveting, compelling, mesmerizing journey. Josef Lewkowicz is a hero in every sense of the word. The Survivor both terrifies us and inspires us. It's a must read.'Tova Friedman, author of The Daughter of Auschwitz.One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust, The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakabl...
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The Burrow : Posthumously Published Short Fiction - Franz Kafka
<p>After Franz Kafka's death, in perhaps the most important of all acts of literary disobedience, his executor refused to agree to Kafka's wish that his great mass of unpublished fiction be destroyed. This fiction included not only The Castle and The Trial but also the amazingly varied, chilling and ingenious short works collected in The Burrow and Other Stories. Th...
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They Both Die at the End, 1. vydání - Adam Silvera
A love story with a difference - an unforgettable tale of life, loss and making each day count in the NO. 1 BESTSELLING book of TIKTOK fame by Adam Silvera. On September 5th, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: they’re going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they...
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