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A Clockwork Orange : Restored Edition - Anthony Burgess
<p>'It is a horrorshow story ...' Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a nightmarish future, until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses. But what will his re-education mean? A dystopian horror, a black comedy, an exploration of choice, A Clockwork Orange is also a work of ex...
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The Fury - Alex Michaelides
<p>Totally original and utterly compelling, with a voice all of its own, this is the outstanding new thriller from the no.1 internationally bestselling author of The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides.*****This is a tale of murder.Or maybe that's not quite true. At its heart, it's a love story, isn't it?One spring morning, reclusive ex-movie star Lana Farrar invites a...
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A Tiny Bit Marvellous - Dawn French
<p>The hilarious no. 1 bestseller by comedian and author of According to Yes and Oh Dear Sylvia Everyone hates the perfect family. So you'll love the Battles. Meet Mo Battle, about to turn 50 and mum to two helpless, hormonal teenagers. There's 17-year-old daughter Dora who blames Mo for, like, EVERYTHING and Peter who believes he's quite simply as darling and ma...
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Submarine - Joe Dunthorne
<p>'Are we making a bomb?' 'This is a trust exercise, like in drama,' she says. 'Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?' Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate is terrified that his family is falling apart. He fears for his depressed father and is convinced that his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher. Deciding that it is down to him alone to save his par...
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The Catcher in the Rye (9780241950425)
Kniha - anglicky "The Catcher in Rye" is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the we...
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Greek Lessons - Han Kang
<p>Book of the Year 2023 according to New Yorker, TIME magazine, Kirkus A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian.'Breathtaking . . . She is simply my favourite living writer to read, and think with, and see the world with' Max PorterIn a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek lan...
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The Messenger - Daniel Silva
<p>Gabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, is about to face the greatest challenge of his life. An al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, and photographs are found on his computer - photographs that lead Israeli intelligence to suspect that al-Qaeda is planning one of its most audacious attacks ever, straight at the heart of the Vatican. Allon warns the Pope's private s...
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Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
<p>The acclaimed author of Gods of Jade and Shadow returns with a mesmerising feminist re-imagining of Gothic fantasy, in which a young socialite discovers the haunting secrets of a beautiful old mansion in 1950s Mexico. He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to save me. When glamorous socialite Noemí Taboada receives a frantic letter fro...
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The Bullet That Missed: (The Thursday Murder Club 3), 1. vydání - Richard Osman
<p>THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN----------'Full of Osman's trademark charm, insight and intelligence' Lee Child'Tender, hopeful and funny' Marian Keyes'I adored this thrilling adventure. His best yet!' Claire Douglas'Infectious, charming and full of heart' Gillian McAllisterIt is an ordi...
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The Bee Sting: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 - Paul Murray
<p>LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023From one of our greatest comic novelists and the author of Skippy Dies comes a funny, thought-provoking story of one family desperately clinging on as their world falls apart . . .'A tragicomic triumph. You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year' Guardian'The finest novel that Murray has yet written . . . will sure...
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The Rodchenkov Affair - Grigorij Rodčenkov
<p>***Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 - the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it all*** One of the Financial Times's 'Fifty people who shaped the decade' 'The biggest sports scandal the world has ever seen' In 2015, Russia's Anti-Doping Centre was suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) following reve...
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Nothing But Blackened Teeth - Cassandra Khaw
<p>"Khaw's got a sterling premise, enduring lore, and the fresh talent to voice it." -Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box. A gorgeously creepy classic haunted house story based on Japanese folklore, combining The Haunting of Hill House with The Ring. Cat joins her old friends, who are in search of the perfect wedding venue, to sp...
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When We Were Birds - Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
<p>Mesmerising, mythic and timeless, the most unmissable debut novel of 2022 now out in paperback - for fans of Arundhati Roy, Toni Morrison and Monique RoffeyRecommended Read for 2022 in the Observer, New Statesman, Irish Times, Buzzfeed, Good Housekeeping, The Daily Nerd, Essence and more'BELIEVE THE HYPE' Stella'A searing symphony of magic and loss, love and hope...
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Paper Dragons: The Fight for the Hidden Realm - Siobhan McDermott
<p>A new magical fantasy series inspired by Chinese legend and set to take the world by storm - perfect for 9+ readers of Nevermoor and Dragon Mountain.</p> <p> </p> <p>An extraordinary destiny unfolds . . .</p> <p>Twelve-year-old Zhi Ging has always been an outcast. Until she receives an invitation to Hok Woh, an underwater schoo...
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The Last Devil To Die: The Thursday Murder Club 4, 1. vydání - Richard Osman
<p>THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN----------'The rightful king of crime' i News'Deeply moving... some of his best writing yet' TelegraphShocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club.An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone...
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Reykjavik - Ragnar Jonasson
<p>What happened to Lara?Iceland, 1956. Fourteen-year-old Lara spends the summer on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavik.In early August, the girl disappears without a trace.The mystery becomes Iceland's greatest unsolved case. What happened to the young girl? Is she still alive? Did she leave the island, or did something happen to her there?Th...
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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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Twice Cursed: An Anthology - Neil Gaiman
<p>From the fun of the fair to the depths of hell, experience sixteen more curses in this sequel to the bestselling Cursed: An Anthology. A blend of traditional and reimagined curses from fairy-tales to Snow White, from some of the best names in fantasy. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR Take a trip to a terrifying carnival and uncover the secrets within, solve a myst...
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Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee
<p>From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’ – returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were tran...
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Just Another Missing Person: The gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author - Gillian McAllister
<p>'Starts with an impossible, irresistible premise - a woman who vanishes into thin air - and takes the reader on a thrilling journey of blind alleys and audacious twists. This is McAllister at the height of her powers' Erin KellyPRE-ORDER THE HEART-STOPPING NEW NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOROLIVIA:22 years old.No history of running away.Last seen on CC...
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Gone with the Wind (1847498604)
Kniha - autor Margaret Mitchell, 992 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The pampered daughter of a wealthy Georgian plantation owner of Irish descent, sixteen-year-old Scarlett O'Hara soon realizes that young men can't resist her charms, despite her forthright manners and her refusal to embrace her mother's ladylike ways. Her romantic intrigues lead her to an ...
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Doors: Colony - Markus Heitz
<p>When his beloved only daughter goes missing, millionaire entrepreneur Walter van Dam calls in a team of experts - including free-climbers, a geologist, a parapsychologist, even a medium - to find her . . . for Anna-Lena has disappeared somewhere within a mysterious cave system under the old house the family abandoned years ago. But the rescuers are not the only p...
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White Rabbit, Red Wolf - Tom Pollock
<p>"A gripping and gloriously treacherous thriller without guide ropes or safety nets. Leave all certainties by the door." Frances Hardinge A taut thriller about murder, maths and the mind. Peter Blankman is afraid of everything and must confront unimaginable terror when his mother is attacked.Seventeen-year-old Peter Blankman is a maths prodigy. He also s...
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Homage to Catalonia, 1. vydání - George Orwell
<p>After travelling to Spain at the end of 1936 with the intention of working as a correspondent for a British socialist newspaper, thirty-three-year-old George Orwell decided to join the Republican efforts to overturn Franco’s Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. Having enrolled in the POUM militias, the young writer was soon forced to experience first-hand the h...
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Fair Rosaline: The most captivating, powerful and subversive retelling you´ll read this year - Natasha Solomonsová
<p>One of the most anticipated novels of the year - the captivating and powerful untelling of Romeo & Juliet . . .The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capulet he falls instantly in love. Rosaline, headstrong and independent, is unsure of Romeo's attentions but with her father determined that she join a convent, this handsome and charming strange...
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With the Fire on High - Elizabeth Acevedo
<p>A delicious, evocative story' THE GUARDIAN From the author of THE POET X comes a sumptuous prose novel, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas' On the Come Up, Justin Reynolds' Opposite of Always and Nicola Yoon Ever since she got pregnant, seventeen-year-old Emoni's life has been about making the tough decisions - doing what has to be done for her young daughter and...
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All the Things We Never Said - Yasmin Rahmanová
<p>Runner-up YA in the inaugural Diverse Book Awards 2020. 16-year-old Mehreen Miah's anxiety and depression, or 'Chaos', as she calls it, has taken over her life, to the point where she can't bear it any more. So she joins MementoMori, a website that matches people with partners and allocates them a date and method of death, 'the pact'. Mehreen is paired with Cara...
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The Near Witch - Victoria Schwab
<p>The Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children. If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company. There are no strangers in the town of Near. These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life. But when an actual stranger, a boy who seems to fade like smoke, appears outside her home on the mo...
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The Kiss Thief: The steamy enemies-to-lovers romance and TikTok sensation - L. J. Shen
<p>THE SIZZLING-HOT ENEMIES TO LOVERS ROMANCE AND TIKTOK SENSATION'A stunning, addictive and scorching read! No one does enemies-to-lovers better' 5***** READER REVIEW'Lots of passion, love, betrayal, angst, drama, hurt and jealousy. Everything you want in a good love story' 5***** READER REVIEW___________Francesca Rossi is the beautiful daughter to a powerful Chica...
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Diddly Squat: Til The Cows Come Home, 1. vydání - Jeremy Clarkson
<p>Welcome back to Clarkson's Farm.At the end of Jeremy's first year in the tractor's driving seat, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him with a profit of just GBP144. So, while he's the first to admit that he's still only a 'trainee farmer'*, there is clearly still work to be done.Because while he's mastered the art of moaning about nearly everything, some of the other at...
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Diddly Squat: Til The Cows Come Home, 1. vydání - Jeremy Clarkson
<p>Welcome back to Clarkson's Farm.At the end of Jeremy's first year in the tractor's driving seat, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him with a profit of just GBP144. So, while he's the first to admit that he's still only a 'trainee farmer'*, there is clearly still work to be done.Because while he's mastered the art of moaning about nearly everything, some of the other at...
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The Sky Is Everywhere, 1. vydání - Jandy Nelson
<p>Now a major motion picture from Apple Original Films and A24New York Times bestselling authorLonglisted for the Carnegie Medal"Entirely compelling." The Guardian"Heartwarming." The IndependentFor fans of Jojo Moyes, Adam Silvera and Gayle Forman. Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker spends her time tucked safely and happily in the shadow of her fi...
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Swedish Hockey Drills for Kids
Hockey drills are available in large quantities, but usually for the slightly older hockey players, but how do the younger players get a good start to their hockey careers? In this category, hockey drills for the younger ones or hockey drills for kids or children, there are not as many suggestions for basic, but developing hockey drills.At the same time, it is also often ...
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Fable - Adrienne Youngová
<p>The brand-new thrilling novel from New York Times best-selling author of Sky in the Deep Adrienne Young, the first book in the fantastic Fable duology.</p> <p>Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to profit from it. Where a young girl must find her place and her family while trying to survive in a world built for men.</...
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Saint (The Prequel to the New York Times-bestselling Fable) - Adrienne Youngová
<p>Jump into the world of Fable with this exciting new prequel to the New York Times-bestselling novel by Adrienne Young. Join Saint and Isolde, Fable's star-crossed parents, on this adventure with romance, treasure, and heartbreak.</p> <p>As a boy, Elias learned the hard way what happens when you don’t heed the old tales.</p> <p>Nine years a...
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All Our Hidden Gifts (1406393096)
Kniha - autor Caroline O'Donoghue, 400 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A dark and supernatural contemporary teen debut by multi-talented author and journalist Caroline O'Donoghue. I'll give up the tarot readings. I'll apologize to Lily. But Lily doesn't come to school on Monday. Or Tuesday. It's not until Wednesday that the police show up. Maeve Chambers d...
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Love & Gelato (1406372323)
Kniha - autor Jenna Evans Welchová, 336 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this sweeping New York Times bestseller filled with romance, mystery, and adventure. Now a Netflix movie, starring Susanna Skaggs The dying wish of 16-year-old Lina's mother was for her daughter to live in Tuscany and get to k...
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Love & Gelato - Welchová Jenna Evans
<p>People go to Italy for love & gelato ... but sometimes they discover much more. The dying wish of 16-year-old Lina's mother was for her daughter to live in Tuscany and get to know her father, whom Lina has never met. "Howard is the best man I've ever known," her mother says, "he'll keep you safe." Why did her mother wait so long to te...
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A Thousand Broken Pieces - Tillie Coleová
<p>PRE-ORDER THE HEARTBREAKING SEQUEL TO A THOUSAND BOY KISSES TODAY . . .--CAN TWO BROKEN HEARTS MAKE A WHOLE . . . ? After losing her beloved sister three years ago, Savanna Litchfield has been living half a life. When Savannah's therapist suggests joining a trip around the world for grieving teens she agrees to go clutching tightly to the unread journal her siste...
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Rachel´s Holiday - Marian Keyes
<p>A MUST-READ FOR FANS OLD AND NEW, THIS STUNNING 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION IS THE PERFECT WAY TO REDISCOVER THE 1.5 MILLION COPY, NO. 1 BESTSELLING PHENOMENONFEATURING INTRODUCTIONS FROM LISA TADDEO, DAVID NICHOLLS, NINA STIBBE AND MOREMeet Rachel Walsh.She's been living it up in New York City, spending her nights talking her way into glamorous parties before headi...
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Roald Dahl Collection (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox) - Roald Dahl
<p>Three of Roald Dahl's best-loved bestselling books are together in a single volume, all charmingly illustrated by Quentin Blake. This Roald Dahl collection is the perfect gift for longtime fans and newcomers alike! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky children will be allowed inside. An...
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In Memoriam: THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - Alice Winn
<p>It was only because Gaunt knew he might die, that he could be so reckless as to kiss him.In 1914, war feels far away to Henry Gaunt and Sidney Ellwood. They're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consuming infatuation with the dreamy, poetic Ellwood - not having a clue that his best friend is in love with him, always...
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The Rosie Project (978-1-05-91533-5)
Kniha - autor Graeme Simsion, 352 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a story about love, life and lobster every Tuesday..."Marvellous". (John Boyne). "Original, clever and perfectly written". (Jill Mansell). "Adorable". (Marian Keyes). "An upbeat, quirky, impertinent gem of a read". (Chris Cleave). 'I'm not good at unde...
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More Than This (9781406350487)
Kniha – autor Patrick Ness, 480 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá - anglicky From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes an enthralling and provocative new novel chronicling the life - or perhaps afterlife - of a teen trapped in a crumbling, abandoned world. A boy called Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as th...
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Stepfather Christmas - L. D. Lapinski
<p>From L. D. Lapinski, author of The Strangeworlds Travel Agency, comes a heartwarming and hilarious story about a girl who is convinced her new stepdad is actually Father Christmas. Structured like an advent calendar, this is the perfect story to read one day at a time in the lead up to Christmas (with an extra special chapter for Christmas day!).It's 25 days unti...
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Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
<p>The funny, touching and unpredictable No. 1 New York Times bestseller from the 15 million copy internationally bestselling author of A Man Called Ove_______It's New Year's Eve and House Tricks estate agents are hosting an open viewing in an up-market apartment when an incompetent bank robber rushes in and politely takes everyone hostage.For Anna-Lena and Roger, b...
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Girl Called Eel
Anguille is a 17-year-old girl who leaves her rock on the archipelago of Comoros to lose herself at sea. Confronted with the pressing immediacy of i
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Retro Gaming
Take a trip down memory lane with Retro Gaming, and relive the glory days (and not so glory days) of your old favourites.
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Amazing Facts Every 6 Year Old Needs to Know - Brereton Catherine
Anotace: Bursting with fascinating facts for impressing friends, parents, grandparents and teachers - perfect for curious children everywhere!Wow your friends! Amaze your teachers! Astonish your family!Find over 130 mind-boggling facts and sensational stats in this fun-packed and hilarious book, perfect for 6+ readers.Whether you love animals or adventure, science or spo...
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Librarian of Auschwitz - neuveden
Anotace: For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Choice: this is the story of the smallest library in the world - and the most dangerous. 'It wasn't an extensive library. In fact, it consisted of eight books and some of them were in poor condition. But they were books. In this incredibly dark place, they were a reminder of less sombre times, when wor...
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Treasure of Silver Lake
The Treasure of Silver Lake is one of Karl May's most popular books. The bandits are preparing for a major heist. First they want to steal the wages of the lumberjacks at the Black Bear Creek. Then they want to raid a rich farm in Kansas on their way to robbing a railway station that has money for the construction of the Union Railways. Their final target is the Silver La...
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Beginner's Persian (Iranian Farsi) with Online Audio
Farsi Persian, the official language of Iran, is spoken across the Middle East and Central Asia by a worldwide community of over 60 million people. Farsi's linguistic and literary legacy is over 2,500 years old, and continues to play a central role in Near
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Trees of the World
Why do trees fascinate us so much? Maybe because a tree highlights for us humans the "center" of creation: It is still "nature", and yet already on the way to becoming an individual. You can meet a tree, communicate with it. While at the same time you are grateful that it remains quiet or, more precisely, that it speaks to you through its presence. Whenever you get tired ...
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Amazing Football Facts Every 8 Year Old Needs To Know (Amazing Facts Every Kid Needs to Know) - Gifford Clive
Anotace: Pack your brain with football fun and trivia ahead of the 2023 FIFA Women`s World Cup! Did you know? The longest game of table football lasted more than five days. There is a football World Cup for robots. The world`s most expensive football ticket cost GBP2.2 million. Fans of Argentine footballer Diego Mara...
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Sophie´s choice - William Styron
Anotace: Stingo, an inexperienced 22 year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a boarding house in a leafy Brooklyn suburb. There, he meets Nathan, a fiery Jewish intellectual; and Sophie, a beautiful and fragile Polish Catholic. Ultimately, he arrives at the dark core of Sophie`s past: her memories of pre-war Poland, and her choice.
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Bridge of Clay - Markus Zusak
THE EPIC BESTSELLING NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK THIEF‘If The Book Thief was a novel that allowed Death to steal the show... [its] brilliantly illuminated follow-up is affirmatively full of life’ GuardianA lost typewriter -- A dead dog -- The bones of the snake that killed it Matthew Dunbar, eldest of five brothers, is on a journey to find them all. Only then ca...
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ERAGON - Christopher Paolini
Anotace: One boy ...One dragon ...A world of adventure. When Eragon finds a polished stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. Overnight his simple life ...
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The Mars Room - Rachel Kushner
Anotace: Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed- the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. The Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living. And her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now...
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Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film . . . and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II.Part One of this story takes place in 1...
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The Book of Doors - Brown Gareth
Anotace: `Joyful, exuberant, and crackling with adventure.` STUART TURTON`A clever and beautiful novel about the power of books.` SUNYI DEAN`Full of magic, wonder and heart.` ANITA FRANK`A magical, mesmerising adventure from the very first page.` A. J. WEST ----------------------------------Because some doors should never be opened.New York bookseller Cassie Andrews is n...
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