History of a drowning boy

History of a Drowning Boy

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Boy Soldiers

Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regime

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Memories of a Wartime Childhood in London

The incredible true story of a boy trying to lead a normal life in London amidst the terrors and horrors of the Blitz and V bombs raining down in the

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Drowning Dragon Slips by Burning Plains

Explores the meaning of being a woman in a land robbed of its innocence. Through a collage-like approach of personal history and fables, these poems p

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Nobody Lives Here

The devastating tale of a young Jewish boy, coping alone on the streets of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam

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A History of Loneliness - Boyne John

John Boyne was born in Ireland in 1971. He is the author of nine novels for adults and four for younger readers, including the international bestsellers The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, which has sold

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Boy Without Hope

A BOY WITHOUT HOPE is the heart-breaking story of a boy who didn’t know the meaning of love. A history of abuse and neglect has left Miller desti

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Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity

Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity provides a history of the boy band from The Beatles to One Direction, placing the modern male pop/dan

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History Is All You Left Me - Silvera Adam

Anotace: From the author of the UK NO. 1 BESTSELLER THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END comes an explosive examination of grief, mental illness, and the devastating consequences of refusing to let go of the past.You`re still alive in alternate universes, Theo, but I live in the real world where this morning you`re having an open casket funeral. I know you`re out there, listening. A...

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History Is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera

From the author of the INTERNATIONAL NO. 1 BESTSELLER THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END comes an explosive examination of grief, mental illness, and the devastating consequences of refusing to let go of the past. Please note that covers may vary.You’re still alive in alternate universes, Theo, but I live in the real world where this morning you’re having an open casket funeral. I ...

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Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo´s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 - Payne Chris

Anotace: An explosive oral history of emo`s takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuringMY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, FALL OUT BOY, PARAMORE, PANIC! AT THE DISCO, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, JIMMY EAT WORLD, DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, AND MANY MOREIf Meet Me in the Bathroom traced New York City`s early 2000`s rock scene, Where Are Your Boys Tonight? gives the inside story of the turn-of-the-millen...

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The Boy Who Would Be King - Morpurgo Michael

Anotace: A beautifully illustrated full-colour tribute to King Charles III, published to mark his coronation - from the bestselling creators of There Once Is a Queen. There once was a boy who was going to be king one day . . . From the Nation`s Favourite Storyteller Sir Michael Morpurgo comes a poetic celebration of our new monarch, King Charles III, be...

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Making Gay History : The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights - Marcus Eric

Anotace: From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage. Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition of Making History, originally published in 1992. Using the heartfelt stories of more than sixty people, he c...

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Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights

From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage.Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition of "Making History," originally published in 1992.Using the heart-felt stories of more than 60 people, he carries us th...

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Making Gay History : The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights - Eric Marcus

<p>From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage. Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition of Making History, originally published in 1992. Using the heartfelt stories of more than sixty people, he ca...

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Madonna of Bolton

Published to coincide with Madonna's sixtieth birthday, this is the fastest funding novel in Unbound's history: a young boy growing up gay in Bolton a

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Dogs Who Changed the World: 50 dogs who altered history, inspired literature... or ruined everything - Jones Dan

Anotace: Dogs Who Changed the World is a beautifully illustrated, heart-warming book that celebrates all dogs and proves that every single one of them is absolute magic. Dogs have trotted at our collective side for tens of thousands of years, bound up in the story of humanity. They have inspired great works of art, caught spies, reconnected lost lovers, dragged the drown...

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Winter of the World

Five linked families live out their destinies as the world is shaken by tyranny and war in the mid-twentieth centuryBerlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother’s formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith...

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Theory of a Deadman: Say Nothing - CD (1686173942)

Hudební CD - Say Nothing je sedmé studiové album kanadské rockové skupiny Theory of a Deadman. Mezi tématy písní jsou násilí a rasismus. Say Nothing je sedmé studiové album kanadské rockové skupiny Theory of a Deadman. Mezi tématy písní jsou násilí a rasismus. Kapela, která se zformovala v roce 2001, tvoří hudbu ovlivněnou nejrůznějšími styly. V písních kvarteta lze vy...

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Skin of the Sea (0241413974)

Kniha - autor Natasha Bowen, 256 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná An epic love story infused with West African mythology. For fans of The Gilded Ones, Children of Blood and Bone, and Circe, this book is a powerful new imagining of a devastating time in history, told through the eyes of a bold and unforgettable heroine. This is the story of a great love - a ...

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Soul of the Deep - Bowen Natasha

Anotace: For fans of The Gilded Ones, Children of Blood and Bone, and Circe, this is the breathtaking follow-up to SKIN OF THE SEA - an epic love story infused with West African mythology and a powerful new imagining of a devastating time in history, told through the eyes of a bold and unforgettable heroine.One life. One choice. One sacrifice.To save those closest to her...

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Soul of the Deep - Natasha Bowen

<p>For fans of The Gilded Ones, Children of Blood and Bone, and Circe, this is the breathtaking follow-up to SKIN OF THE SEA - an epic love story infused with West African mythology and a powerful new imagining of a devastating time in history, told through the eyes of a bold and unforgettable heroine. One life. One choice. One sacrifice. To save those closest to ...

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Winter of the World - Ken Follett

Anotace: Five linked families live out their destinies as the world is shaken by tyranny and war in the mid-twentieth century Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother’s formidable friend and former British M...

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The Ministry of Time - Bradley Kaliane

Anotace: `Within the first couple of pages I was gripped . . . Kaliane Bradley is a wonderful writer`KATE MOSSE, AUTHOR OF THE GHOST SHIP`Holy smokes this novel is an absolute cut above! Exciting, surprising, intellectually provocative, weird, radical, tender and moving. I missed it when I was away from it. I will hurry to re-read it. Make room on your bookshelves for a ...

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The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley

<p>'Within the first couple of pages I was gripped . . . Kaliane Bradley is a wonderful writer'KATE MOSSE, AUTHOR OF THE GHOST SHIP'Holy smokes this novel is an absolute cut above! Exciting, surprising, intellectually provocative, weird, radical, tender and moving. I missed it when I was away from it. I will hurry to re-read it. Make room on your bookshelves for a n...

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Boys of Tommen 4: Redeeming 6 - Chloe Walsh

<p>An epic and unforgettable love story continues in Redeeming 6, the fourth book in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh. The power and pain of first love has never been more deeply felt than in Chloe Walsh's extraordinary stories about the irresistible Boys of Tommen, which will give you the ultimate book...

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The Words of Kings and Prophets - Shauna Lawless

<p>AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW - THE PAPERBACK EDITION OF THE WORDS OF KINGS AND PROPHETS! The sequel to the critically acclaimed The Children of Gods and Fighting Men, The Words of Kings and Prophets is a powerful historical fantasy novel by Shauna Lawless, set in war-torn medieval Ireland. Power fades but fire endures... Ireland, 1000 AD. Clouds of war gather for...

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Yorran: Born in the Dust of Path (999-00-020-6438-8)

Elektronická kniha - ze série Yorrân, autor Jan Dobšenský, 317 stran, anglicky EN: He, who never finds the courage to leave the native home, never finds who he truly is. This applied in the past and will apply in the future, and thus it‘s no surprise that it applies to the world created by the author of the Yorran saga, too. Only the obstacles and trials which the hero...

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The Nickel Boys : Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2020 - Colson Whitehead

<p>WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020Winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction 2020Time #1 Novel of the Year 2019________________________________________________________________________Author of The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of Americ...

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Empire: Enter the battlefields of Ancient Greece in the epic new novel from the multi-million copy bestseller - Iggulden Conn

Anotace: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERJOIN PERICLES, THE LION OF ATHENS, ON A JOURNEY TO SECURE THE FATE OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE`The master historical storyteller` DAILY EXPRESS`Iggulden draws the Greek world convincingly and he is strongest writing battle scenes` THE TIMES on the Golden Age series`The sights, sounds and smells of Athens bring history to life with gripping ...

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Empire: Enter the battlefields of Ancient Greece in the epic new novel from the multi-million copy bestseller - Conn Iggulden

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERJOIN PERICLES, THE LION OF ATHENS, ON A JOURNEY TO SECURE THE FATE OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE'The master historical storyteller' DAILY EXPRESS'Iggulden draws the Greek world convincingly and he is strongest writing battle scenes' THE TIMES on the Golden Age series'The sights, sounds and smells of Athens bring history to life with gripping brilliance...

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A Little Bit Country - Kennedy Brian D.

Anotace: Dumplin` meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this heartfelt and funny contemporary romance inspired by Dollywood, about two boys who fall in love against the backdrop of a country music-themed amusement park, from debut author Brian D. Kennedy. Perfect for fans of Erin Hahn, Phil Stamper, and David Levithan.Emmett Maguire wants to be country music`s bigge...

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Phantom : A Harry Hole Thriller, 1. vydání - Jo Nesbo

<p></p><p> The thrilling follow-up to Jo Nesbo's #1 bestseller The Leopard Summer.</p> <p> A boy is lying on the floor of an Oslo apartment. He is bleeding and will soon die. In order to place his life and death in some kind of context he begins to tell his story. Outside, the church bells toll. Autumn. Former police inspector Harry Hole re...

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Shakespeare's Boys

Shakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History offers the first extensive exploration of boy characters in Shakespeare's plays, examining a range of character

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Classic Cars Book

A visual history of the world's most legendary motor cars, from popular classics, to priceless one-offs, and some serious boy-toys. Text in English, G

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Sun Walks Down

An epic tale of unsettlement, history, myth, art and love - and of a small boy lost in the Australian desert. From the prize-winning author of The N

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Mother Island

This is the story of two women, Nula and Maggie, joined by old family history and love for the same little boy. Nula, struggling with her new baby a

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The Siren - Cassová Kiera

Anotace: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Selection series comes this sweeping standalone fantasy romance. A girl with a secret. The boy of her dreams. An ocean between them. Throughout the ages, the Ocean has occasionally rescued young women from drowning. To repay their debt, these young women must serve for 100 years as Sirens, remaining young and bea...

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Caravaggio. The Complete Works. 40th Anniversary Edition - Sebastian Schütze

<p>Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, Caravaggio is now considered one of the greatest influences in all art history. This neat catalogue raisonné reproduces all of Caravaggio’s paintings as well as a number of dramatic details of his boundary-breaking realism. Five accompanying chapters trace Caravaggio’s artistic daring and his equally dramatic life.</p>...

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Unsteady - Corinne Peyton

Anotace: *THE TIKTOK SENSATION* `Unputdownable and unforgettable. Peyton Corinne effortlessly weaves together raw, emotional moments with scenes that feel like a warm embrace through dynamic characters that will leave an indelible imprint long after you turn the final page` Bal Khabra, author of CollideRhys is desperate to feel anything. Sadie wants to stop feeling so mu...

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Unsteady - Peyton Corinne

<p>*THE TIKTOK SENSATION* 'Unputdownable and unforgettable. Peyton Corinne effortlessly weaves together raw, emotional moments with scenes that feel like a warm embrace through dynamic characters that will leave an indelible imprint long after you turn the final page' Bal Khabra, author of CollideRhys is desperate to feel anything. Sadie wants to stop feeling so muc...

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Tyll : Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020 - Kehlmann Daniel

Anotace: Daniel Kehlmann transports the medieval legend of the trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel to the seventeenth century in an enchanting work of magical realism, macabre humor, and rollicking adventure. Tyll is a scrawny boy growing up in a quiet village until his father, a miller with a forbidden interest in alchemy and magic, is found out by the church. After Tyll flees ...

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David and Goliath

Malcolm Gladwell, the Nr.1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative---and dazzling---book yet.§Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine , a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood fo...

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Redeeming 6: Epic, emotional and addictive romance from the TikTok phenomenon - Walsh Chloe

Anotace: An epic and unforgettable love story continues in Redeeming 6, the fourth book in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh. The power and pain of first love has never been more deeply felt than in Chloe Walsh`s extraordinary stories about the irresistible Boys of Tommen, which will give you the ultimate boo...

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Phantom - Jo Nesbo

Anotace: The thrilling follow-up to Jo Nesbo's #1 bestseller The Leopard Summer. A boy is lying on the floor of an Oslo apartment. He is bleeding and will soon die. In order to place his life and death in some kind of context he begins to tell his story. Outside, the church bells toll. Autumn. Former police inspector Harry Hole returns to Oslo after three years abroad....

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The Near Witch - Schwab V. E.

Anotace: 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 moor at...

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All The Light We Cannot See - Doerr Anthony

Anotace: WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II `Open your eyes and see what you can with the...

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All the Light We Cannot See, 1. vydání - Anthony Doerr

<p>WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II 'Open your eyes and see what you can with them...

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Sing, Unburied, Sing - Ward Jesmyn

Anotace: An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle, Sing, Unburied, Sing examines the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power - and limitations - of family bonds. Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. His mother, Leonie, is in constant conflict with herself and those around her. Sh...

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Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Wardová

<p>An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle, Sing, Unburied, Sing examines the ugly truths at the heart of the American story and the power – and limitations – of family bonds. Jojo is thirteen years old and trying to understand what it means to be a man. His mother, Leonie, is in constant conflict with herself and those around her. She...

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DUBLINERS - James Joyce

Anotace: Joyce´s first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time. In this Reader you will find: Information about James Joyce´s life | Sections focusing on background and context | CLIL History | Glossary of difficult words | Comprehension activities | FCE-style activities | Exit Test Tags Irish Literature An ambit...

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Dubliners

Joyce’s first major work, written when he was only twenty-five, brought his city to the world for the first time. In this Reader you will find: Information about James Joyce’s life | Sections focusing on background and context | CLIL History | Glossary of difficult words | Comprehension activities | FCE-style activities | Exit Test Tags Irish Literature An ambitious mothe...

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The Fortunes (0340980257)

Kniha - autor Peter Ho Davies, 288 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Ah Ling: son of a prostitute and a white 'ghost', dispatched from Hong Kong as a boy to make his way alone in 1860s California. Anna Mae Wong: the first Chinese film star in Hollywood, forbidden to kiss a white man on screen. Vincent Chin: killed by a pair of Detroit auto workers in 1982 sim...

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All the Light We Cannot See (9780007548699)

Kniha - anglicky Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of the locks (there are thousands of locks in the museum). When she is six, she goes blind, and her father builds her a model of their neighborhood, every house, every manhole, so she can memorize it with her fingers and navig...

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When You Were Everything

For fans of Nina LaCour's We Are Okay and Adam Silvera's History Is All You Left Me, this heartfelt and ultimately uplifting novel follows one sixteen-year-old girl's friend breakup through two concurrent timelines--ultimately proving that even endings can lead to new beginnings."Stunning." --Nic Stone, bestselling author of Dear Martin and Odd One OutYou can't rewrite th...

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U2: The Complete Songs

11 O'clock -tick-tock '40' 4th Of July A Celebration A Day Without Me A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel A Sort Of Homecoming Acrobat All I Want Is You An Cat Dubh Angel Of Harlem Another Day Another Time, Another Place Babyface Bad

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Little Man, What Now? - Hans Fallada

Anotace: From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s Germany 'Nothing so confronts a woman with the deathly futility of her existence as darning socks' A young couple fall in love, get married and start a family, like countless young couples before them. But Lämmchen and 'Boy' ...

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Little Man, What Now? - Hans Fallada

<p>From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s Germany 'Nothing so confronts a woman with the deathly futility of her existence as darning socks' A young couple fall in love, get married and start a family, like countless young couples before them. But Lammchen and 'Boy' live in Berlin in 19...

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Nineteen Steps - Millie Bobby Brown

Anotace: The debut novel from global star Millie Bobby Brown Love blooms in the darkest days... London, 1942. Despite the raging war, spirited 18-year-old Nellie Morris lives a quiet life in the tight-knit East End community of Bethnal Green. Her family and friends all tease that she will marry air raid warden Billy, the boy next door who´s always been sweet on her. ...

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Nineteen Steps - Millie Bobby Brown

<p>The debut novel from global star Millie Bobby Brown Love blooms in the darkest days... London, 1942. Despite the raging war, spirited 18-year-old Nellie Morris lives a quiet life in the tight-knit East End community of Bethnal Green. Her family and friends all tease that she will marry...

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