Family life in the time of covid

Family Life in the Time of Covid

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COVID Chronicles

A collection of short comics about the COVID-19 pandemic. Diverse artists address disruptions in work, school, and family life as well as failures in

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COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Life

This book explores the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic is poised to be a permanent temporality in the modern world in which contemporary time wi

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Just Born in Time

This book is a delightful distraction from the unwelcome intrusions of COVID-19 and a reminder of what makes rural life in Shropshire so special.

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Surrounded by Vampires: Or, How to Slay the Time, Energy and Soul Suckers in Your Life - Erikson Thomas

Anotace: From the Sunday Times and international bestselling author of Surrounded by IdiotsDo you often feel exhausted by conversations?Are there people in your life with belittle you through words or actions?Or, do you have colleagues who take up your time and don`t actually do much?You could be surrounded by vampires! International bestselling author and behavioural ex...

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Surrounded by Vampires: Or, How to Slay the Time, Energy and Soul Suckers in Your Life - Thomas Erikson

<p>From the Sunday Times and international bestselling author of Surrounded by IdiotsDo you often feel exhausted by conversations?Are there people in your life with belittle you through words or actions?Or, do you have colleagues who take up your time and don't actually do much?You could be surrounded by vampires! International bestselling author and behavioural exp...

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Nadiya's Family Favourites

A brand new TV tie-in cookbook to accompany Nadiya's next BBC cookery series. Staying closer to home this time, she will explore how food fits, enriches, and defines our lives, offering fast, easy and delicious new ideas for whatever each day brings. Nadiya will meet and take inspiration from home cooks around the UK, discovering their family food stories and all-tim...

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Fight Night: ´A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering´ Observer - Toewsová Miriam

Anotace: FROM THE WRITER OF THE OSCAR-WININNG WOMEN TALKINGINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHORLONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD`Go Grandma Elvira!` Margaret Atwood`Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.` The New Yorker`Glorious.` Sarah Moss____________You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight.Swiv has taken this advice too literally. Now she`s suspended from ...

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Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics - Stielper Mark

Anotace: This book marks the first time Johnny Cash`s 60 years of songwriting have been collected anywhere. Cash is one of the most beloved and influential country-music stars of all time, having composed more than 600 songs and perhaps best known for blending country, rock, blues, and gospel in his music, ushering in the countrypolitan and Outlaw country movements. An ...

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A Million Kisses In Your Lifetime - Murphy Monica

Anotace: Could they - should they - become the school's most unlikely couple? Wren Beaumont is a model student. Kind, clever and beautiful, she is loved by everyone at Lancaster Prep. Everyone but brooding campus bad boy Crew Lancaster. Son of the family who own the school, Crew's life seems easy - but with an overbearing father and high expectations, it&apos...

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Bournville: From the bestselling author of Middle England - Coe Jonathan

Anotace: `A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become` RACHEL JOYCEIn Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it`s the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of t...

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Orange is the New Black: 'My Time in a Women''s Prison' (0349139865)

Kniha - autor Piper Kerman, 342 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A new original series from Netflix'Not just a tale of prisons, drugs, crime, or justice; it is, simply put, a beautifully told story about how incredible women can be' Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, LoveWith her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman bare...

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Funny Story: A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry - Henryová Emily

Anotace: A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry-----Daphne always loved the way her fiance Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together...

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

Suddenly, in the darkness, there was a terrible, low howl and it came from the moor. ‘The hound!’ cried Holmes.’ Tag Mystery In this Reader you will find: - information about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s life - a section focusing on background and context - a glossary of difficult words - comprehension activities - an exit test An old family document says that everyone who l ...

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The Cut Out Girl : A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018 - Es Bart Van

<p>The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland during World War II, who hides from the Nazis in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author's grandparents Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: a young Jewish girl nam...

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The Little Town Where Time Stood Still - Bohumil Hrabal

<p>'Folks, life is beautiful! Bring on the drinks, I'm sticking around till I'm ninety! Do you hear?'A young boy grows up in a sleepy Czech community where little changes. His raucous, mischievous Uncle Pepin came to stay with the family years ago, and never left. But the outside world is encroaching on their close-knit town - first in the shape of German occupiers,...

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The Summer Switch-Off: The hilarious summer must-read from the author of The Kissing Booth - Reeklesová Beth

Anotace: Luna, Rory and Jodie are supposed to be having the time of their lives. Instead they're all completely bloody miserable. Luna thought her first year at uni was perfect - until her relationship broke up, and she realised she's her old school friends might be ghosting her. She's never felt so lonely. Rory's passion is art (and promoting it on...

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Time Is a Mother (0593300238)

Kniha - autor Ocean Vuong, 128 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá An instant New York Times bestseller! The highly anticipated collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among ...

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Old Babes in the Wood

A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life togetherMargaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonic...

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Finding Freedom : Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family - Scobie Omid, Durand Carolyn

Anotace: When news of the budding romance between a beloved English prince and an American actress broke, it captured the world´s attention and sparked an international media frenzy.But while the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have continued to make headlines - from their engagement, wedding, and birth of their son Archie to their unprecedented decision to step back from the...

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A Time for Mercy - John Grisham

Anotace: Jake Brigance, the protagonist of John Grisham's classic legal thriller, A Time to Kill, is back. This time he's at the epicenter of a sensational murder trial that bitterly divides the citizens of Clanton, Mississippi. John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. It established Jake as a classic American hero-a lawyer who sough...

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Time is a Mother - Ocean Vuong

<p>How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good partIn this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his n...

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Time is a Mother - Ocean Vuong

<p>How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his...

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Time is a Mother - Vuong Ocean

Anotace: How else do we return to ourselves but to foldThe page so it points to the good partIn this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother`s death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Shifting through memory, and in concert with the themes of his n...

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Just Haven´t Met You Yet: The new feel-good love story from the author of THIS TIME NEXT YEAR - Cousens Sophie

Anotace: The stunning new love story from the bestselling author of This Time Next Year`Impossible to put down` CATHY BRAMLEY`A sure-fire hit!` LAURA JANE WILLIAMS`Packed full of holiday sparkle` JOSIE SILVER____________________________Tell me the story of how you two met. . .Laura has built a career out of interviewing people about their epic real life love stories.When...

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In the Upper Country - Kai Thomas

Anotace: The fates of two unforgettable women - one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life's last vital act - intertwine in this ambitious and inventive debut set at the terminus of the Underground Railroad. Freedom, you can't get and bury, and keep it and keep it so it won't ever go away. No, child. Yo...

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When Time Stopped : A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains - Ariana Neumann

<p>'It's not always a grim story. Alongside anger and despair there is love and hope. But the message is stark. This is the way bullies work. When Time Stopped is more than just history. It's a warning.' Michael Palin In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the...

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The Woman Who Stole My Life - Marian Keyesová

Anotace: International bestselling author Marian Keyes is bringing you another masterfully told story full of wit and charm.`Name: Stella Sweeney.Height: average.Recent life events: dramatic.`One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life.For she meets a man who wants her telephone number (for...

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The Bee Sting: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 - Murray Paul

Anotace: WINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS` PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER`S BEST BOOKS OF 2023Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Observer, Guardian, Washington Post, Lit Hub, TIME mag...

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The Bee Sting: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 - Murray Paul

Anotace: 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 sur...

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Yona of the Dawn, Vol. 20

A red-haired princess loses her family and her kingdom… Now she must rise and fight for her throne!Princess Yona lives an ideal life as the only princess of her kingdom. Doted on by her father, the king, and protected by her faithful guard Hak, she cherishes the time spent with the man she loves, Su-won. But everything changes on her 16th birthday when tragedy strikes her...

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The Death of Jesus - John Maxwell Coetzee

<p>The luminous new novel from 'one of the best writers of our time', twice winner of the Booker Prize 'The Death of Jesus is full of truth' -- David Sexton, Book of the Week, Evening Standard In The Childhood of Jesus, Simon found a boy, David, and they began life in a new land, together with a woman named Ines. In The Schooldays of Jesus, the small family searche...

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The Physics of Sorrow - Gospodinov Georgi

Anotace: From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter, this kaleidoscopic 'novel of beginnings' offers a portrait of a man who can wander uninvited into other people's memories. In the small and the insignificant - that's where life hides, that's where it builds its nest. Our unnamed narrator is not well. He suffers from ...

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The Physics of Sorrow - Georgi Gospodinov

<p>From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter, this kaleidoscopic 'novel of beginnings' offers a portrait of a man who can wander uninvited into other people's memories</p> <p>In the small and the insignificant - that's where life hides, that's where it builds its nest.Our unnamed narrator is not well. He suffers from attacks of '...

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Roald Dahl Collection (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox) - Dahl Roald, Dahl Roald

Anotace: 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. And...

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (9781847394071)

Kniha - autor Stephen Chbosky, 300 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. Charlie is attempting to navigate...

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The Story Of Lost Child - Elena Ferrante

<p>Soon to be an HBO series, book four in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our time." (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times) Here is the dazzling saga of two w...

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The Daughter of Auschwitz - Tova Friedman

<p>The harrowing, moving and poignant account of one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz: a girl who was only five years old when she was sent to an extermination camp, and was one of the few people who entered a gas chamber and lived to tell her story.'I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murd...

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My Effin´ Life - Lee Geddy

Anotace: The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Rush bassist, and bestselling author of Geddy Lee`s Big Beautiful Book of Bass.Geddy Lee is one of rock and roll`s most respected bassists. For nearly five decades, his playing and work as co-writer, vocalist and keyboardist has been an ess...

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The Principle of Moments: The biggest SF fantasy debut of 2024 and the first ever winner of the Future Worlds Prize - Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson

<p>'My favourite kind of grand space opera'BEN AARONOVITCH, Sunday Times-bestselling author of the Rivers of London series6066: In Emperor Thracin's brave new galaxy, humans are not citizens but indentured labourers, working to repay the debt they unwittingly incurred when they settled on Gahraan - a desert planet already owned by the emperor himself. Asha Akindele ...

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The One-in-a-Million Boy - Monica Wood

<p>From WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT to ELIZABETH IS MISSING, from THE SNOW CHILD to THE SHOCK OF THE FALL - a handful of exceptional novels touch almost every reader's heart. This is one of those books. A one-in-a-million story for anyone who loves to laugh, cry, and think about how extraordinary ordinary life can be. Not to be missed by readers who loved THE UNLIKELY PIL...

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.' Autobiographical in tone, Joyce's tale of Stephen Dedalus' journey into adulthood explores the intellectual and moral development ...

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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 Summer Switch-Off: The hilarious summer must-read from the author of The Kissing Booth - Beth Reeklesová

<p>Luna, Rory and Jodie are supposed to be having the time of their lives. Instead they're all completely bloody miserable.Luna thought her first year at uni was perfect - until her relationship broke up, and she realised she's her old school friends might be ghosting her. She's never felt so lonely.Rory's passion is art (and promoting it on her social media), but s...

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The Summer Switch-Off: The hilarious summer must-read from the author of The Kissing Booth - Beth Reeklesová

<p>Luna, Rory and Jodie are supposed to be having the time of their lives. Instead they're all completely bloody miserable.Luna thought her first year at uni was perfect - until her relationship broke up, and she realised she's her old school friends might be ghosting her. She's never felt so lonely.Rory's passion is art (and promoting it on her social media), but s...

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The Summer Switch-Off: The hilarious summer must-read from the author of The Kissing Booth - Beth Reeklesová

<p>Luna, Rory and Jodie are supposed to be having the time of their lives. Instead they're all completely bloody miserable.Luna thought her first year at uni was perfect - until her relationship broke up, and she realised she's her old school friends might be ghosting her. She's never felt so lonely.Rory's passion is art (and promoting it on her social media), but s...

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Throne of the Fallen: From the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of Kingdom of the Wicked - Maniscalco Kerri

Anotace: A wicked prince. A fallen painter. Let the games begin . . . The Prince of Envy has never claimed to be a saint. But when a cryptic note arrives at his demon court, signalling the beginning of a deadly game, he knows it will take more than a hint of sin to win. Riddles, hexed objects, anonymous players, nothing will stand in his way. Camilla is an artist with ...

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Bournville: From the bestselling author of Middle England - Jonathan Coe

<p>'A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become' RACHEL JOYCEIn Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it's the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of th...

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Kingdom of the Feared: The Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling steamy finale to the Kingdom of the Wicked series - Maniscalco Kerri

Anotace: TWO CURSES. ONE PROPHECY. ALL HAIL THE KING AND QUEEN OF HELL. THE UNFORGETTABLE CONCLUSION TO THE KINGDOM OF WICKED SERIES. Emilia yearns to claim her king, the seductive Prince of Wrath, in the flesh. She wants him, heart and soul - but that's something the enigmatic demon can't promise her. When a high-ranking member of House Greed is assassinate...

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Kingdom of the Feared: The Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling steamy finale to the Kingdom of the Wicked series - Kerri Maniscalco

<p>TWO CURSES. ONE PROPHECY. ALL HAIL THE KING AND QUEEN OF HELL. THE UNFORGETTABLE CONCLUSION TO THE KINGDOM OF WICKED SERIES. Emilia yearns to claim her king, the seductive Prince of Wrath, in the flesh. She wants him, heart and soul - but that's something the enigmatic demon can't promise her. When a high-ranking member of House Greed is assassinated, evidence...

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Chbosky Stephen

Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his year yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. Charlie is attempting to navigate his way through uncharted territory: the world of first dates and mix tapes, family...

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Bratislava City Guide

Anotace: Lost in Bratislava? Impossible with this City Guide! It´s clear to anyone who has spent time in Bratislava that the ancient city straddling the Danube possess many charms. The Slovak capital was once the coronation capital under the prosperous Habsburg Monarchy, a significant part of the city´s history celebrated every year during its popular Coronation Days. ...

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Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes

At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on his finest story yet - his own. The creator of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, Terry Pratchett was known and loved around the world for his hugely popular books, his smart satirical humour and the humanity of his campaign work. But that's only part of t...

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A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom - John Boyne

<p>The story of all of us, stretching across two millennia. Imaginative, unique, heart-breaking, this is John Boyne at his most creative and compelling. Some stories are universal. They play out across human history. And time is the river which will flow through them. It starts with a family, a family which will mutate. For now, it is a father, mother and two sons...

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Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt - Riley Lucinda

Anotace: Spanning a lifetime of love and loss, crossing borders and oceans, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, co-authored by her son Harry Whittaker, draws Lucinda Riley's saga to its stunning, unforgettable conclusion. 1928, Paris. A boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. Gentle, precocious, talented, he flourishes in his new home, and the f...

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Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt - Lucinda Riley

<p>Spanning a lifetime of love and loss, crossing borders and oceans, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt, co-authored by her son Harry Whittaker, draws Lucinda Riley's saga to its stunning, unforgettable conclusion. 1928, Paris. A boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. Gentle, precocious, talented, he flourishes in his new home, and the family ...

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Nightmare in Yemen

The author is donating his royalties from this book to the Sheba Organisation. NIGHTMARE IN THE YEMEN, written in conjunction with Neil M. C. Sinclair, a well-known local historian and the author, is the true story of what happened to an otherwise well-meaning father of five children who had the misfortune to discover his private life written bold a...

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The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

<p>Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances that has enthralled readers for generations. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler, translated by Susan Massotty, and includes an introduction by Elie Wiesel, author of Night.</p> <p>...

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The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

<p>Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances that has enthralled readers for generations. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler, translated by Susan Massotty, and includes an introduction by Elie Wiesel, author of Night.</p> <p>...

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky

A modern cult classic, a major motion picture and a timeless bestseller, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a deeply affecting coming-of-age story. Charlie is not the biggest geek in high school, but he's by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie is attempting to navigat...

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