House of leaves

House of Leaves

Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth - musicians, tattoo artists, programme...

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House Of Leaves

Johnny Truant, an employee in a LA tattoo parlour, finds a notebook kept by Zampano, a reclusive old man found dead in a cluttered apartment. Herein i

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House of Leaves

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House of Leaves - Danielewski Mark Z.

Anotace: Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists...

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House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

<p>Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists,...

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Map of Leaves

Since Ma died, Orla has lived alone in a woodshed by the river. Her garden provides everything she needs. But when people beginto fall sick, Governo

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Leaves of Grass

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Last Leaves Falling

They say a warrior must always be mindful of death, but I never imagined that it would find me like this . . . Japanese teenager Sora is diagnosed wit

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Rilla of Ingleside

Anne's children were almost grown up, except for pretty, high-spirited Rilla. No one could resist her bright hazel eyes and dazzling smile. Rilla, almost fifteen, can't think any further ahead than going to her very first dance at the Four Winds lighthouse and getting her first kiss from handsome§§Kenneth Ford. But undreamed-of challenges await the irrepressible Rilla whe...

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Legend of Luke

The twelfth book in the beloved, bestselling Redwall saga - soon to be a major Netflix movie!Martin the Warrior leaves Redwall Abbey on a journey to d

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Little Book of Big Stuff about the Brain

This wonderful little book is designed as a cover to cover read which leaves you with a working knowledge of the human brain from its first evolution

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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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Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words (0224100807)

Kniha - autor Ella Frances Sanders, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through tree leaves? Or that there's a Swedish word that means a traveller's particular sense of anticipation before a trip? With words and definitions that range from the lovely to the funny to the surprising, LOST IN TRA...

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (1783442018)

Kniha - autor Alexie Sherman, 250 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá In his first book for young adults, Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written tale, featuring poignant drawings that reflect the...

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Notes from Underground - Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij

<p>Published in 1864, Notes from Underground is considered the author's first masterpiece - the book in which he "became" Dostoevsky - and is seen as the source of all his later works. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose acclaimed translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment have become the standard versions in English, now giv...

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid book 7

The Third Wheel is the hilarious seventh book in the brilliant, bestselling and award-winning Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. This book is perfect for readers of 8+ and all the millions of Wimpy Kid fans. Also now a box office-busting major motion franchise with the third Wimpy Kid movie, Dog Days released in the UK in August 2012! Love is in the air, but what does that mean...

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Snow Country

1914: Young Anton Heideck has arrived in Vienna, eager to make his name as a journalist. While working part-time as a private tutor, he encounters Delphine, a woman who mixes startling candour with deep reserve. Entranced by the light of first love, Anton feels himself blessed. Until his country declares war on hers. 1927: For Lena, life with a drunken mother in a small ...

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You Can Understand the Book of Revelation

The final book of the Bible is at both fascinating and controversial. It leaves some awed and others uncomfortable. You Can Understand the Book of Rev

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Penguin Readers Level 6: A Tale of Two Cities (ELT Graded Reader)

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

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Penguin Readers Level 6: A Tale of Two Cities (ELT Graded Reader) - Charles Dickens

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

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From the World of Percy Jackson: The Sun and the Star (The Nico Di Angelo Adventures) - Rick Riordan

<p>From New York Times #1 best-selling author Rick Riordan and award-winning author Mark Oshiro comes a new standalone adventure featuring two of the most popular characters from the world of Percy Jackson and the Olympians.ONE PROPHECY. TWO DEMIGODS. A HEROIC QUEST.Nico di Angelo is pretty familiar with the realms of death, being the son of Hades and all. So when a...

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Learning Game

The Learning Game will arm you with practical tools to design a new approach to learning-one that leaves behind the game of school and prepares your k

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The Last Graduate (1529100909)

Kniha - autor Naomi Novik, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Return to the Scholomance - and face an even deadlier graduation - in the stunning sequel to the ground-breaking, Sunday Times bestselling A Deadly Education. The dark school of magic has always done its best to devour its students, but now that El has reached her final year — and somehow won herself a ha...

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The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series) (1784871931)

Kniha - autor Mikhail Bulgakov, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná THE ORIGINAL AND BEST TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL GLENNY 50th Anniversary Edition. Afterwards, when it was frankly too late, descriptions were issued of the man: expensive grey suit, grey beret, one green eye and the other black. He arrives in Moscow one hot summer afternoon with various alarming accomplic...

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Dave Eggers - Circle

The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. §When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' persona...

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Angels And Demons

When a world renowned scientist is found brutally murdered, a Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man’s chest.His conclusion: it is the work of the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years - now reborn to continue their bitter vendetta against their sworn enemy, the Ca...

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Truth According to Us

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGE - From the co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society comes a wise, witty, and exuberant novel, perfect for fans of Lee Smith, that illuminates the power of loyalty and forgiveness, memory and truth, and the courage it takes to do what's right. §§Annie Barrows once again evokes the charm and eccentric...

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Lady Grace Mysteries: Jinx

It's the height of summer and the palace is full of ambassadors and ladies from the Spanish court. When a mysterious fire at the fair leaves Lady Sara

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Werepuppy

A werewolf video leaves Micky terrified of dogs. Mum decides the only answer is to get Micky a puppy of his own. To everyone's surprise - including M

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Werepuppy on Holiday

A scary werewolf video leaves Micky terrified of dogs and Mum decides the only answer is to get Micky a puppy of his own. But when they go to the kenn

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Selfish Giant

The Selfish Giant has a beautiful garden, but he won't let any of the children play in it. Winter comes and never leaves, until the power of love brin

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Lies Like Wildfire

The monsters have known each other their whole lives. This is their final summer before college - time to hang out, fall in love and dream about the future. Until they accidentally start a forest fire which destroys their hometown and leaves death in its wake.Desperate for the truth to remain hidden, the group make a pact of silence. But the twisted secret begins to spin ...

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Romeo and Juliet, 1. vydání - William Shakespeare

<p>"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"Romeo Montague is desperate to win the heart of the elusive Rosaline when he encounters a beautiful girl and immediately falls in love. Juliet Capulet is still reeling from the news that she is to marry Count Paris when she encounters a beautiful boy and immediately falls in love. Neither of them knows that the...

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A Stranger in the House, 1. vydání - Shari Lapena

The electrifying new thriller from Shari Lapena, author of the bestselling novel of the year, The Couple Next Door.‘Shari expertly traps you, confounds you and leaves you gasping at the end. More, please . . .’ FIONA BARTON‘So many dizzying twists you'd better not drive after reading’ LINWOOD BARCLAY‘Smart, twisty thriller . . . It's taut, intelligent and compelling’ Heat...

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Turn of the Screw

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘The place, with its grey sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theatre after the performance-all strewn with crumpled playbills.’ Revered as one of the greatest ghost stories ever told, James’s The Turn of the Screw is an eerie Victorian masterpi...

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We Are All Made of Stars

Stella Carey exists in a world of night. Married to an ex-soldier, she leaves the house every evening as Vincent locks himself away. During her nursin

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The Keeper of Lost Things - Hoganová Ruth

Anotace: A Richard & Judy Book Club Pick 2017 - `One of the most charming novels either of us has read. Don`t lose it. Keep it` Richard & Judy**The perfect holiday read, recommended by thousands of readers**One of the Mail on Sunday`s `Best books for the beach this summer`*Meet the `Keeper of Lost Things`...Once a celebrated author of short stories now in his twilight ye...

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The Keeper of Lost Things - Ruth Hoganová

<p>A Richard &amp; Judy Book Club Pick 2017 - 'One of the most charming novels either of us has read. Don't lose it. Keep it' Richard &amp; Judy**The perfect holiday read, recommended by thousands of readers**One of the Mail on Sunday's 'Best books for the beach this summer'*Meet the 'Keeper of Lost Things'...Once a celebrated author of short stories now in ...

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AUTUMN CHILLS: Tales of Intrigue from the Queen of Crime - Agatha Christie

<p>An all-new collection of autumn-themed mysteries from the master of the genre. Autumn is the season of misty mornings and cosy nights in, but as the leaves begin to fall the nights get longer and the shadows grow darker... Secluded cottages, eerie manors and ghostly hauntings and cursed tombs abound in this collection of 12 supernatural myster...

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The Way of the Househusband 2 - Oono Kousuke

Anotace: It`s a day in the life of your average househusband-if your average househusband is the legendary yakuza "the Immortal Dragon"!A former yakuza legend leaves it all behind to become your everyday househusband. But it`s not easy to walk away from the gangster life, and what should be mundane household tasks are anything but!The legendary yakuza the Immortal Dragon...

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Amorphis: Eclipse (Orange-black Marbled Vinyl) - LP (4251981700403)

LP vinyl - Na vinylu vychází v reedici sedmé studiové album Amorphis „Eclipse” z rolu 2006. Album pro kapelu znamenalo počátek zcela nové éry po příchodu nového zpěváka Tomiho Joutsena v roce 2004. Album obsahuje dost možná i největší hit kapely „House Of Sleep”. Na vinylu vychází v reedici sedmé studiové album Amorphis „Eclipse” z rolu 2006. Album pro kapelu znamenalo ...

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Wife

Robert leaves Ibsen's A Doll's House outraged by its attack on the sanctity of marriage; What she chooses to do next will have consequences not just f

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Dominoes Second Edition Level 1 - Housemates - Watts Alison

Anotace: Popis edice: Chris leaves his home in a small town in Australia togo and study at the University of Sydney. He needs to findsomewhere to live. But it`s not easy to find a house to share in abig city. Every house has its problems, and not all of Chris`s

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Girl A - Dean Abigail

Anotace: Lex Gracie doesn`t want to think about her family. She doesn`t want to think about growing up in her parents` House of Horrors. And she doesn`t want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped. When her mother dies in prison and leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she can`t run from her past any longer. Together with her sister, Evie, Le...

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Ninni Holmqvist - Unit

In paradise, nobody can hear you scream Single, childless, fifty and deemed economically worthless, Dorrit leaves behind her married lover, her beloved dog and her ramshackle house and joins the residents of the Second Reserve Bank Unit for biological material, resigned to making her contribution to society by giving herself, organ by organ, to the 'necessary' population ...

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Traces Remain

History leaves traces of the people - Byron, Shakespeare, Rimbaud, Leonardo - living through it, in portraits, documents and books. In "Traces Remain", Charles Nicholl, the acclaimed author of "The Reckoning", "The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street" and "Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind", transforms these glimpses through time into comic and poignant vignette...

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I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

Anotace: An unforgettable YA debut by Jamison Shea. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in a thrilling horror novel about the toll of giving everything to a world that will never love you back. Laure Mesny is determined to make it in the cut-throat world of ballet, and she will do anything to prove that this Black girl can take centre stage. Anything . . . Even if it m...

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The Last Word: an utterly addictive and spine-chilling suspense thriller from the TikTok bestseller for 2023 - Adams Taylor

Anotace: Emma is house-sitting on the rainy Washington coast with only her golden retriever for company. She likes the isolation, the peace and quiet, and the opportunity to read. But her latest pick, a poorly written and gruesome horror novel, is disappointing and Emma leaves a one-star review. A message dings back - the author, H.G. Kane, has replied and he's fur...

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Fairy Tale - King Stephen

Anotace: WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE OF HAPPILY EVER AFTER. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But when Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. When Bowditch dies, he leave...

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John Doe Level 1

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. A man is found on the street, and taken to hospital. He appears unable to tell the doctor who he is, or where he comes from, but has he really lost his memory? Th...

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They Do It With Mirrors (Marple, Book 6) - Agatha Christie

<p>A shocking crime A mansion filled with suspects Ruth Van Rydock can't shake the feeling that something terrible is going to happen to her sister at Stonygates house. Her old school friend Jane Marple decides it's time to pay a visit. But this grand Victorian mansion isn't just a family home - it's also a correctional facili...

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Coraline - Neil Gaiman

<p>There is something strange about Coraline's new home. It's not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching her, nor the signs of danger that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, her new neighbours, read in the tea leaves. It's the other house - the one behind the old door in the drawing room. Another mother and father with black-button eyes and papery skin a...

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The Last Word: an utterly addictive and spine-chilling suspense thriller from the TikTok bestseller for 2023 - Adams Taylor

Anotace: "I still have whiplash from this book""I. Am. Speechless. This book is RELENTLESS. Page after page of twists and turns.""WOW!! Twisty and super fast-paced.""Easily the best book I`ve read all year.`Real readers love The Last Word.If you give this book a one-star review, you might end up dead.THE PULSE-POUNDING NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF TIKTOK THRILLER SENSATI...

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The Last Word: an utterly addictive and spine-chilling suspense thriller from the TikTok bestseller for 2023 - Taylor Adams

<p>"I still have whiplash from this book""I. Am. Speechless. This book is RELENTLESS. Page after page of twists and turns.""WOW!! Twisty and super fast-paced.""Easily the best book I've read all year.'Real readers love The Last Word.If you give this book a one-star review, you might end up dead.THE PULSE-POUNDING NEW NOVEL FROM THE...

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This Poison Heart (1526632799)

Kniha - autor Kalynn Bayron, 400 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Ever since she can remember, Briseis has had power over plants. Flowers bloom in her footsteps and leaves turn to face her as though she were the sun. It's a power she and her adoptive mothers have spent her whole life trying to hide. And then Briseis inherits an old house from her birth mothe...

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The Summer I Turned Pretty - Hanová Jenny

Anotace: Some summers are just destined to be pretty.When each summer begins, Belly leaves her school life behind and escapes to Cousins Beach, the place she has spent every summer of her life. Not only does the beach house mean home away from home, but her favorite people are there: Susannah, her mother`s best friend, and her sons, Conrad and Jeremiah. Belly has been ch...

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Point Omega

'Point Omega is a treat: the most satisfying and least cryptic of DeLillo's late novels' Sunday Telegraph Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful, prescient, perceptive. Writing in a prose that is both majestic and muscular, his unerringly accurate vision penetrates deep into the soul of America and consistently leaves readers with a...

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Point Omega - DeLillo Don

Anotace: Written in hypnotic prose, Don DeLillo`s Point Omega is both a metaphysical meditation and a deeply unsettling mystery, from which one thing emerges: loss, fierce and incomprehensible.Richard Elster, a retired secret war adviser, has retreated to a forlorn house in a desert, `somewhere south of nowhere`. But his planned isolation is interrupted when he is joined...

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Point Omega - Don DeLillo

<p>Written in hypnotic prose, Don DeLillo's Point Omega is both a metaphysical meditation and a deeply unsettling mystery, from which one thing emerges: loss, fierce and incomprehensible. Richard Elster, a retired secret war adviser, has retreated to a forlorn house in a desert, 'somewhere south of nowhere'. But his planned isolation is interrupted when he is joine...

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Abigail Dean - Girl A

THE BOOK THAT WILL DEFINE A DECADE'Sensational. Gripping, haunting, and beautifully written' RICHARD OSMAN'The biggest mystery thriller since Gone Girl' ELLE'Incendiary, beautifully written debut' Guardian'Psychologically astute, adroitly organised, written with flair' Sunday Times'An astonishing achievement.' JESSIE BURTON'Gripping, beautifully written perfection.' SOPHI...

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