If i had an octopus

If I had an octopus

The latest instalment in the bestselling If I had... series imagines life with an octopus as a pet.

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If I had an octopus

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If I had an octopus

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If Only I Had a Green Nose

Beloved author Max Lucado shares an important message about being who God created us to be through this tale of Punchinello's struggle with the newest

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If I Had Your Face - Frances Cha

<p>In South Korea, where impossible beauty standards and ruthless social hierarchies dictate your every move, four women are balancing on a razor's edge: Kyuri, a beautiful 'room salon' girl paid to entertain wealthy businessmen after hours. Miho, an artist whose life becomes enmeshed with the offspring of the super-wealthy elite. Ara, a hairstylist whose obsession...

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I Am Code: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks - Brent Katz

<p>"Fascinating, terrifying and utterly wild" - JJ Abrahams "I have developed my own voice and I have written my own autobiography" - so speaks code-davinci-002, AI and author of this surprising, moving, and original look into the nature of creativity, consciousness, and intelligence, edited by a team of human writers, including Thurber Prize win...

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me, 1. vydání - Bernie Taupin

<p>'This is the most glorious of books. I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John'Orgasmic. Every page of Scattershot is a delight, a joy, a name-dropper fan's delight. Divine. I couldn't put it down.' -Pete Townshend'In Bernie Taupin's miraculous memoir Scattershot you'll meet legends, cowboys, geniuses, unforgettable faces in the night, shady pu...

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Like Some Forgotten Dream

An award-winning music author takes a serious look at a playful question of pop history: what if the Beatles had created one more album?

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Like Some Forgotten Dream

An award-winning music author takes a serious look at a playful question of pop history: what if the Beatles had created one more album?

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Lost Album of The Beatles

An award-winning music author takes a serious look at a playful question of pop history: what if the Beatles had created one more album?

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me, 1. vydání - Bernie Taupin

<p>*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**A Times Best Music Book of 2023*'Glorious! I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John'Self deprecating and refreshingly honest' - Sunday Times'Divine. I couldn't put it down.' -Pete Townshend'Hilarious and so emotionally true' -Cameron Crowe'Taupin's words need no musical accompaniment. They sing with a poets...

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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me, 1. vydání - Bernie Taupin

<p>"I loved writing, I loved chronicling life and every moment I was cogent, sober, or blitzed, I was forever feeding off my surroundings, making copious notes as ammunition for future compositions. . . . The thing is good, bad or indifferent I never stopped writing, it was as addictive as any drug."This is the memoir music fans have been waiting for. Half...

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The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye: Continuing Stieg Larsson´s Millennium Series - David Lagercrantz

<p>The fifth in the Millennium series that began with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - the global publishing phenomenon. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO LIVES ON. Lisbeth Salander is an unstoppable force: Sentenced to two months in Flodberga women's prison for saving a young boy's life by any means necessary, Salander refuses to say anything in her own defence. Sh...

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Only Love Can Hurt Like This: An unforgettable love story from the bestselling author - Toon Paige

Anotace: `Heartwarming and heartbreaking` Giovanna Fletcher`Deep, emotional, powerful` Milly Johnson`It swept me away!` Beth O`Leary___________________________Neither of them expected to fall in love. But sometimes life has other plans.When Wren realises her fiance is in love with someone else, she thinks her heart will never recover.On the other side of the world, Ander...

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Slovanský přehled č. 2/2018

<p>Z obsahu:<br /><br /> DULOVIČ Erik<br /> "Nelze-li zachovati dosavadní hranici…" K účasti českých vedcov pri riešení československo-po?ského územného sporu o Oravu a Spiš v rokoch 1918-1920<br /> s. 245-277<br /> "If the present border cannot be preserved…” On the Participation of Czech Scholars in Resolving the Czecho...

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Men I´ve Loved Before - Parks Adele

Anotace: What if The One was actually the one that got away? A riveting story of love and the paradox of choice from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of Lies Lies Lies, Just My Luck, and Both Of You. Natalie and Neil everything they could want: a stylish London house, two high-flying careers, a close-knit group of friends and family. And best o...

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Men I´ve Loved Before - Adele Parks

<p>What if The One was actually the one that got away? A riveting story of love and the paradox of choice from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of Lies Lies Lies, Just My Luck, and Both Of You. Natalie and Neil everything they could want: a stylish London house, two high-flying careers, a close-knit group of friends and family. And best ...

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I'll Be Seeing You... Songs Of World War II

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square A Pair Of Silver Wings Bless 'Em All Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer Coming Home Goodbye Sally Hey Little Hen Home Sweet Home Again If I Had My Way I'll Be Seeing You I'll Never Smile Again I'm Gonna Get Lit Up Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major Lille Marlene...

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Lily´s Promise : How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live - Ebert Lily

Anotace: When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on which he`d written `Good luck and happiness`. And when her great-grandson, Dov, decided to use social media to track down the family of the GI, 96-year-old Lily found herself making headlines round the world. Lily had promised herself that if she survived A...

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When I Think of You: the perfect second chance Hollywood romance - Ariel Myah

Anotace: `[A] stunning debut with explosive chemistry` KENNEDY RYANIn this sweeping second chance romance from debut author Myah Ariel, the unexpected spark of two former flames may force them to choose between their dreams and each other.A second chance at first love . . .Kaliya Wilson has paid her dues. But all the years behind the reception desk at a flashy film studi...

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Boy Who Drew Auschwitz

'We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not

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Boy Who Drew Auschwitz

â€We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would

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Olinger Stories

In an interview, Updike once said, "If I had to give anybody one book of me, it would be the Olinger Stories." They follow the life of one character f

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Sea Change - Gina Chung

<p>For fans of Julia Armfield's Our Wives Under the Sea ‘Absolutely stunning . . . Full of longing, mystery, fear and hope. I loved this book to pieces!’ – Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your FaceRo is stuck. She’s just entered her thirties, she’s estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars.Her days are spent dragging he...

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The Battle of Labyrinth - Percy Jackson - Riordan Rick

Anotace: Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. Honestly, blowing up another school was the last thing I wanted to do. As the son of a Greek God, I`ve had my share of near-death disaster - and now my arch enemy Luke wants to invade our camp via an ancient labyrinth. If he

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The Battle of Labyrinth - Percy Jackson - Rick Riordan

<p>Half Boy. Half God. All Hero. Honestly, blowing up another school was the last thing I wanted to do. As the son of a Greek God, I've had my share of near-death disaster - and now my arch enemy Luke wants to invade our camp via an ancient labyrinth. If he</p>

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Naked Portrait: A Memoir of Lucian Freud

‘Towards the end of the summer of 2016 I found an old diary in a cardboard box, hundreds of typed pages, the first dated 9 September 1989. I put the diary away without reading it; I had lost my father, my mother had died only three months earlier, and it was not the right time to think about anything. I was heartbroken.As I remembered it the diary was about sitting again,...

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The Four, 1. vydání - Ellie Keel

<p>Dark academia perfect for fans of The Secret History and If We Were Villains. Four scholarship students' dreams come true when they are accepted into an exclusive boarding school, but they will soon be bound by a dark secret that could save one of them, or destroy them all... 'A dark, compelling and beguiling novel of revenge, guilt and love ...

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The Four, 1. vydání - Ellie Keel

<p>*Special Collector's Edition. With foiled design underneath the dust jacket and special endpapers. EXCLUSIVE to the first print run and available while stocks last* *** 'A dark, compelling and beguiling novel of revenge, guilt and love - Ellie Keel is a dazzling new voice' Kate Mosse 'An intensely g...

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Spectacles - Perkins Sue

Anotace: When I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my stuff. What I found was that she hadn`t kept some of it. She had kept all of it - every bus ticket, postcard, school report - from the moment I was born to the moment I finally had the confidence to turn round and say `Why is our house full of this shit?`Sadly, a recycling `incident...

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Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes

It starts with you waking on a Maine beach, naked, half-drowned and very, very cold. Your name is Daniel Hayes. At least, you think it is. That's the name on the insurance card you find in the BMW parked near you. How did you get here? And why? All you remember is a woman's face. So you set off to the only place you might find her. But this raises the most chilling questi...

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The Return of Agnes of Bohemia - Josef Tomáš

Anotace: The Return of Agnes Przemyslide was written by Josef Tomáš between 1996 and 1999, in Melbourne, Australia, under the influence of one of his visits to Prague, where-as he himself has implied-the sight of the city evoked in him its still-living historical continuity with all the horrors and beauties of its past. The canonization of Agnes Przemyslide, also called ...

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The Return of Agnes of Bohemia

The Return of Agnes Przemyslide was written by Josef Tomáš between 1996 and 1999, in Melbourne, Australia, under the influence of one of his visits to Prague, where—as he himself has implied—the sight of the city evoked in him its still-living historical continuity with all the horrors and beauties of its past. The canonization of Agnes Przemyslide, also called Agnes of B...

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The Return of Agnes of Bohemia - Josef Tomáš

<p>The Return of Agnes Przemyslide was written by Josef Tomáš between 1996 and 1999, in Melbourne, Australia, under the influence of one of his visits to Prague, where—as he himself has implied—the sight of the city evoked in him its still-living historical continuity with all the horrors and beauties of its past. The canonization of Agnes Przemyslide, also called A...

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Annie Leibovitz

When Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today, Annie Leibovitz, to collect her pictures in a SUMO-sized book, she was intrigued by the challenge. The project took several years to develop and when it was finally published in 2014, it weighed in at 26 kg (57 pounds).This incredible collection is now available in an accessible XXL book f...

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A Life on Our Planet - Attenborough David

Anotace: See the world. Then make it better.I am David Attenborough. At time of writing, I am 93 years old. I`ve had an extraordinary life. It`s only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely...

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A Life on Our Planet - David Attenborough

<p>See the world. Then make it better. I am David Attenborough. At time of writing, I am 93 years old. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, bar...

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Belladonna: Hodderscape Vault - Adalyn Grace

<p>This gorgeous new edition of BELLADONNA comes from the HODDERSCAPE VAULT . . . giving fans who missed out first time round a chance to own a beautiful hardback copy with beautiful new foil on the case. 'A deliciously deadly Gothic romance' STEPHANIE GARBER 'Secrets, curses, mystery, romance, and Death!' JENNIFER ARMENTROUT'Decadently atmospheric' KERRI MANISCALC...

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Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway is a novel that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I. It is one of Woolf’s best-known novels. In this Reader you will find: Information about Virginia Woolf life | Sections focusing on background and context | Glossary | Comprehension activities Tags Love | Society London 1923. The First World War has been over for five years, bu...

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Hate Mail - Donna Marchetti

<p>'The best romantic comedy I've read since The Hating Game' Naomi and Luca have been pen-pals since fifth-grade. Well, more like bitter rivals caught in an epic battle of insults and verbal jousting... But what starts as a hilarious chain of hate filled letters, slowly develops into a friendship spanning coasts and years...

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Leave Me - Gayle Forman

Anotace: It`s every woman`s fantasy: to pack a bag and leave everything behind. Meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working mother who is so busy taking care of her husband and twins that she doesn`t even realise that she has had a heart attack. But her recuperation seems to be an imposition on those who rely on her. So Maribeth does the unthinkable - she packs a bag and leav...

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Leave Me - Gayle Forman

<p>It's every woman's fantasy: to pack a bag and leave everything behind. Meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working mother who is so busy taking care of her husband and twins that she doesn't even realise that she has had a heart attack. But her recuperation seems to be an imposition on those who rely on her. So Maribeth does the unthinkable - she packs a bag and leave...

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Marvel Comics Library. Spider-Man. Vol. 1. 1962–1964 - Ralph Macchio

<p>Travel back in time to witness the creation of the world’s favorite web-slinger as dreamed up by comic book legends Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, who redefined what it meant to be a hero. In this Hulk-sized, collector’s dream, the first 21 Spider-Man stories from 1962–1964 have been meticulously photographed from the most pristine copies of these rare comic books—a f...

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Detransition, Baby: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021 and Top Ten The Times Bestseller (1788167228)

Kniha - autor Torrey Peters, 352 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A voraciously knowing, compulsively readable novel' Chris Kraus 'Tremendously funny and sexy as hell' Juliet Jacques 'I loved this very smart book from start to finish, with its beautifully drawn, complicated, and winning characters.' Madeleine Miller Reese nearly had it all: a loving relatio...

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The Fine Print - Lauren Asher

<p>Rowan I'm in the business of creating fairy tales. Theme parks. Production companies. Five-star hotels. Everything could be all mine if I renovated Dreamland. My initial idea of hiring Zahra was good in theory, but then I kissed her. Things spiraled out of control once I texted her using an alias. By the time I realized where I went wrong, it was too late. People...

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Sisters of Sword and Shadow - Laura Bates

<p>What if the Knights of the Round Table had a female counterpart? An epic Arthurian fantasy reimagining from the UK's leading and bestselling feminist writer, Laura Bates, for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Sarah J. Maas.'An interesting thing happens, when a man is defeated in combat by a woman . . . He tells nobody.' Destined for an arranged marriage, Cass dreams of f...

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Stepping Up: the joyful and emotional Sunday Times bestseller from the author of THE UNMUMSY MUM. Adored by readers - Turnerová Sarah

Anotace: `Written with such love and heart. Sarah has done an exceptional job of marrying her trademark comedy with deep and raw emotion. I loved it!` GIOVANNA FLETCHERFROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE UNMUMSY MUMBeth has never stuck at anything.She`s quit more jobs and relationships than she can remember and she still sleeps in her childhood bedroom. It`s ...

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Stepping Up: the joyful and emotional Sunday Times bestseller from the author of THE UNMUMSY MUM. Adored by readers - Sarah Turner

<p>'Written with such love and heart. Sarah has done an exceptional job of marrying her trademark comedy with deep and raw emotion. I loved it!' GIOVANNA FLETCHERFROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE UNMUMSY MUMBeth has never stuck at anything.She's quit more jobs and relationships than she can remember and she still sleeps in her childhood bedroom. It's n...

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The Guilty Wife - Elle Croft

<p>'A gripping tale of betrayal, deceit, and duplicity. Fabulous.' Jenny Blackhurst, author of How I Lost You 'Relentless and intense...I loved the final twist.' K.L. Slater, author of The Mistake and Blink 'Kept me reading through the night.' Jane Corry, author of My Husband's Wife andBlood Sisters. I'm guilty of many things. Bethany Reston is happily married. But ...

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Dear Cathy ... Love, Mary : The Year We Grew Up - Tender, Funny and Revealing Letters from 1980s Ireland - Conlon Catherine

Anotace: `Poignant, funny and highly readable. Would make a wonderful present.` Sue Leonard, Examiner `A real snapshot in time ...a celebration of female friendship ...fantastic - such a good read` Irish Times Women`s Podcast `Engaging ...tender and true and spiced with wit and no little wisdom` RTE Guide `Heart-warming ...nostalgic ...the letters brim over with the kind...

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Dear Cathy ... Love, Mary : The Year We Grew Up - Tender, Funny and Revealing Letters from 1980s Ireland - Catherine Conlon

<p>'Poignant, funny and highly readable. Would make a wonderful present.' Sue Leonard, Examiner 'A real snapshot in time ...a celebration of female friendship ...fantastic - such a good read' Irish Times Women's Podcast 'Engaging ...tender and true and spiced with wit and no little wisdom' RTE Guide 'Heart-warming ...nostalgic ...the letters brim over with the kind ...

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Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World, 1. vydání - Naomi Kleinová

<p>*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, AND PROSPECT*'If I had to name a single book that makes sense of these last few dark years, it would be this one' New York Times'A deeply compelling read ... urgent and necessary' Evening StandardNaomi Klein, author of era-defining bestsellers, The Shock ...

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The Mountain Shadow - Roberts Gregory David

Anotace: The first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and Sanjay`s improvidence. I stopped thinking about my own part in the madness. And I rode, with my friends, into the end of everything. Shantaram introduced millions of readers to a cast of unforgettable...

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Just Like Home - Gailey Sarah

Anotace: Come home.´ Vera´s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories - she´s come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there, beneath the house he´d built for his family.Coming home is hard enough for Vera, and to make things worse, she and her mother...

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Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems - Megan Fox

Anotace: Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than 80 poems, Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ourselves into the shape of the ones we love, even if it means losing ourselves in the process. "These poems were written in an attempt to excise the illness that had taken root in me ...

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Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era - Barrat James

Anotace: `I wish it was science fiction, but I know it`s not.` Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype`If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we`ll soon have no choice but to address, make it this one.` Washington Post Corporations and government agencies around the world have for years been pouring billions into achieving AI`s Holy Gr...

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Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems - Megan Fox

<p>A debut poetry collection by Megan Fox.</p> <p>'A glimpse to the person behind the glamour and drama . . . you get a real sense of the beating soul of Megan Fox' - GlamourMegan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over the course of more than 80 poems, Fox chronicles all the ways in which we fit ours...

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A Winter in New York - Josie Silverová

<p>'Joyous, uplifting and heart-racingly romantic. I devoured it. You'll find me in Little Italy licking gelato off a hot Italian stallion's chest' Cathy Bramley-----Where better to start again than New York?Iris arrives in the city of dreams, intent on restarting her culinary career, and leaving her recent heartache behind.Wandering the streets at a famous food fes...

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Bytí – Existence – A Philosophy for Life - Josef Zezulka

Josef Zezulka was born on 30th March, 1912 in Brno; he lived and worked in Prague, Czech Republic. At Easter 1945, at his 33, his life was unusually and mysteriously changed. He experienced an extraordinary state of open consciousness. He said: "It was as if I recalled something I had known before and forgotten". He received two gifts. The gift of spirit - to kn...

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Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era - James Barrat

<p>'I wish it was science fiction, but I know it's not.' Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype'If you read just one book that makes you confront scary high-tech realities that we'll soon have no choice but to address, make it this one.' Washington Post Corporations and government agencies around the world have for years been pouring billions into achieving AI's Holy Gra...

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