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In the Nation’s Service

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The Shattered Lands - Nation Brenna

Anotace: 18 years after her disappearance, the princess has returned. But what is left of her kingdom?Sapphire finds herself in Eriobis with a crown, a castle and too many handmaidens to count. And so her life begins as the heir to the throne of a country she doesn`t understand - a country ruled by magic and secrets.That`s before she meets Ashes. A dark witch with the po...

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Tri�ko metal p�nsk� At The Drive-In - Eclipse - LIVE NATION - PE13879TSBP

p�nsk� tri�ko �ern� barvy s p�edn�m potiskem. Slo�en�: 100% bavlna. Zna�ka: LIVE NATION. Orienta�n� rozm�ry v cm (OBVOD je 2x ���ka)

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k�iltovka AC/DC � BLACK IN BLACK - BLACK - LIVE NATION - CB17973SBB

k�iltovka s p�edn� v��ivkou. K�iltovka je v zadn� ��st� vybaven� nastavitelnou p�ezkou - pro univerz�ln� velikost hlavy. Slo�en�: 100% akryl. Barva: �ern�. The Original SNAPBACK - Rovn� k�ilt s mo�nost� lehk�ho zahnut�, vy��� profil t�la....

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A Short History of Russia - Galeotti Mark

Anotace: Can anyone truly understand Russia?Russia is a country with no natural borders, no single ethos, no true central identity. At the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it is everyone`s `other`. And yet it is one of the most powerful nations on earth, a master game-player on the global stage with a rich history of war and peace, poets and revolutionaries.In this essenti...

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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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Diddly Squat: ´Til The Cows Come Home: The No 1 Sunday Times Bestseller 2022 - Clarkson Jeremy

Anotace: Welcome back to Clarkson`s Farm.At the end of Jeremy`s first year in the tractor`s driving seat, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him with a profit of just GBP144. So, while he`s the first to admit that he`s still only a `trainee farmer`*, there is clearly still work to be done.Because while he`s mastered the art of moaning about nearly everything, some of the other a...

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Fascism and Democracy - Orwell George

Anotace: `The feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world ... this prospect frightens me much more than bombs`On the 70th anniversary of George Orwell`s death, a new collection of his brilliant essays written during the Second World WarFascism and Democracy collects five brilliant examples of Orwell`s writing during the darkest days of W...

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Building the Nation

Heather Selma Gregg argues that the U.S.-led efforts to “nation build” in both Iraq and Afghanistan failed to focus on the population and build nati

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Confronting the Nation

Brings together twelve of celebrated historian George L. MosseÂ’s most important essays to explore competing forms of European nationalism in the nine

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Calypso in London - Selvon Sam

Anotace: ntroducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranea...

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Life in the Garden - Lively Penelope

Anotace: Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother`s garden in a sloping Somerset field, then two successive Oxfordshire gardens of her own, and the smaller urban garden in the North London home she lives in today. It is...

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A Winter in New York - Silverová Josie

Anotace: 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 festival, Iris feels like she's living in a movie. Then she stumbles upon a gelateria that looks strangely familiar. Inside, she meets Gio: a perfect leadin...

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Matilda : Film Tie-in - Dahl Roald

Anotace: *Features lyrics from a brand-new song by Tim Minchin - written especially for the new Matilda the Musical film!*Read it before you see the film - hitting cinemas in October, and starring Emma Thompson, Stephen Graham and Lashana Lynch.These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: you are not alone.Matilda is a brilliant child with a magical mind.He...

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A Spy In The House Of Love - Nin Anais

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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With Fire In Their Blood - Delacorte Kat, Delacorte Kat

Anotace: When sixteen-year-old Lilly arrives in Castello, she isn`t impressed.A secluded town in the Italian mountains is not where she saw her last years of high school playing out.Divided for generations by a brutal clan-family war, the two halves of Castello are kept from destroying each other by the mysterious General, a leader determined to maintain order and `purit...

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Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy - Kissinger Henry

Anotace: Kissinger`s six leaders are Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. All of them were formed in a period when established institutions collapsed all over Europe, colonial structures gave way to independent states in Asia and Africa, and a new international order had to be created from the vestiges of th...

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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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Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone: 2022´s most original murder mystery - Stevenson Benjamin

Anotace: EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY IS A KILLER. EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY IS A SUSPECT. BUT WHICH OF THEM IS A MURDERER?`The best thing I`ve read in ages` STUART MACBRIDE `Fun, witty and exciting. This is not one to miss!` 5*****READER REVIEW`A must-read for every fan of

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It´s Not Summer Without You: Book 2 in the Summer I Turned Pretty Series - Hanová Jenny

Anotace: Book 2 in the bestselling The Summer I Turned Pretty series - now a major new TV show on Amazon Prime! From the author of To All The Boys I've Loved Before (now a smash-hit Netflix movie), perfect for fans of The Kissing Booth, Rainbow Rowell and Holly Bourne. When something is perfect, you hope it never ends. Belly's long hot summers at the Fisher ...

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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 - Shafak Elif

Anotace: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 `Expect vibrant, vivid and eye-opening descriptions of Middle Eastern life propelled by a tender storyline, all in Shafak`s haunting, beautiful and considered prose` Vanity Fair`Incredibly sensuous and poetic and evocative` Pandora Sykes`Richly uplifting... truly beautiful writing` Nicola Sturgeon`In the first minute follow...

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The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture - Gabor Maté

Anotace: We tend to believe that normality equals health. Yet what is the norm in the Western world?Mental illness is on an unstoppable rise. Some 45% of Europeans suffer high blood pressure, and nearly 70% of Americans take at least one prescription drug. Illness and trauma are defining how we live.In his new masterpiece, renowned physician, addiction expert and author ...

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The Myth of Normal : Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture - Maté Gabor

Anotace: Western countries invest billions in healthcare, yet mental illness and chronic diseases are on a seemingly unstoppable rise. Nearly 70% of Americans are now on prescription drugs. So what is `normal` when it comes to health?Over four decades of clinical experience, renowned physician and addiction expert Dr Gabor Mate has seen how health systems neglect the rol...

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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - Film Tie-in (Book 1 of Percy Jackson) - Riordan Rick

Anotace: The Lightning Thief: the first book in Rick Riordan`s Percy Jackson series.Look, I didn`t want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek god. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That`s when things started really going wrong. Now I spend my time f...

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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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Caledonian Road: From the award-winning author of Mayflies - O`Hagan Andrew

Anotace: `An utter joy to read.` Monica Ali `A barnstorming novel.` Observer`A masterpiece.` John Lanchester From the author of Mayflies, an irresistible, unputdownable, state-of-the-nation novel - the story of one man`s epic fall from grace.May 2021. London.Campbell Flynn - art historian and celebrity intellectual - is entering the empire of middle age. Fuelled by an ap...

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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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A Terrible Kindness - Browning Wroe Jo

Anotace: Tonight nineteen-year-old William Lavery is dressed for success, his first black-tie do. It`s the Midlands Chapter of the Institute of Embalmers Ladies` Night Dinner Dance, and William is taking Gloria in her sequined evening gown. He can barely believe his luck.But as the guests sip their drinks and smoke their post-dinner cigarettes a telegram delivers news of...

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Ellie Pillai is (Almost) in Love

Anotace: Everyone`s favourite confused heroine Ellie Pillai is back in the perfect summer romance!Note to self: what is falling in love, and am I really sure I want to do it?Ever since Ellie and Ash got together, Ellie Pillai has been discovering kissing and . . . questions . . . so . . . many . . . questions. When Ellie goes to New York, she has to say goodbye to sexy A...

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The Desolations of Devil´s Acre : Miss Peregrine´s Peculiar Children - Riggs Ransom

Anotace: The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face.Suddenly, he and Noor are back in the place where everything began - his grandfather`s house. Jacob doesn`t know how they escaped from V`s loop to find themselves in Florida. But he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned.After a narrow getaway from a blood-thirs...

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The Shepherd´s Crown: Discworld Hardback Library - Pratchett Terry

Anotace: *The fifth and final book in the incredible Tiffany Aching series. Now in a brand-new gift edition, part of the Discworld Hardback Library!*`This isn`t just a great Discworld book, it`s extraordinary . . . A magnificent sign-off.` Daily TelegraphTHE FINAL DISCWORLD NOVELDeep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Ac...

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Mala´s Cat - Kacenbergová Mala

Anotace: Alone in a forest with only a cat for company - this is the deeply moving true story of one little girl`s remarkable survival in the shadow of the HolocaustGrowing up in the Polish village of Tarnogrod, on the fringes of a deep pine forest, Mala had the happiest childhood anyone could hope for.But, when the Nazis invade, her beloved village becomes a ghetto, and...

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Liar´s Beach: The unputdownable thriller of the summer - Cotugno Katie

Anotace: WE WERE LIARS meets GOSSIP GIRL - this YA thriller with a splash of dark academia is full of secrets, lies, privileged teens and beach parties. The perfect summer read.A body in the pool. A friend who might be an enemy. A vacation they`ll never forget . . .Linden has always felt like an outsider and spending the summer at his best friend`s vacation house, surrou...

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Nabokov´s Dozen - Nabokov Vladimir

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranea...

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Billy and the Giant Adventure: The first children´s book from Jamie Oliver - Oliver Jamie

Anotace: One pinch of adventure, a dash of friendship, a sprinkle of mystery and a HUGE spoonful of magic . . . Jamie Oliver, bestselling author and internationally renowned chef, delivers the perfect recipe for a page-turning children`s fiction debut!Billy and his friends know that Waterfall Woods is out of bounds; strange things are rumoured to have happened there and ...

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Exes and O´s - Lea Amy

Anotace: Tara Chen has had her heart broken ten times, by ten different men. Nevertheless, she is still determined to find her perfect match. The only problem? Tara is a romance novel obsessive, and her standards are sky high.Modern dating apps have killed the meet-cute, so Tara decides to revisit her exes - all ten of them - in the hope of finding her very own trope-wor...

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Breakfast at Tiffany´s - Capote Truman

Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Holly Golightly is a glittering socialite mover and shaker: generally upwards, sometimes sideways and, every now and then, down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and...

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The Marriage Question: George Eliot´s Double Life - Carlisle Clare

Anotace: *A Times, Telegraph, TLS and Prospect Book of the Year*`The best book I`ve read on George Eliot` John Carey, Sunday TimesAn exceptional new biography that shows how George Eliot wrestled with the question of marriage, in art and lifeWhen she was in her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot - an author celebrated for her genius as soon ...

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Kay´s Anatomy - Kay Adam

Anotace: Do you ever think about your body and how it all works? Like really properly think about it? The human body is extraordinary and fascinating and, well . . . pretty weird. Yours is weird, mine is weird, your maths teacher`s is even weirder.This book is going to tell you what`s actually going on in there, and answer the really important questions, like:Are bogeys ...

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The Secret Service of Tea and Treason - Holton India

Anotace: A party of swashbuckingly evil pirates. Two rival spies. One fake marriage. What could possibly go wrong . . . Find out in the riotously funny and joyfully romantic third book in The Dangerous Damsels collectionWhen rumours circulate that a group of dastardly pirates plan to assassinate the Queen, Alice is immediately assigned to the case.However she won`t be wo...

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Peppa Pig: Peppa´s Spooky Halloween - neuveden

Anotace: It`s Halloween and Peppa and George are at Grandpa and Granny Pig`s house! Together they try on some spooky costumes, decorate the house in spooky decorations and bake some spooooky treats. Everything`s ready just in time for their Spooky Show!

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The Shepherd´s Crown: A Tiffany Aching Novel - Pratchett Terry

Anotace: Tiffany Aching has finally got her wish.She is a witch (and a respected one, at that). Overworked and underpaid, that`s for certain, but a witch nonetheless. Help is at hand though. In the form of young Geoffrey and his goat. Geoffrey wants to be a witch too, and thinks he can save the world by building sheds. Well, everyone has to start somewhere. But as new fr...

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Peter Rabbit Peter´s First 100 Words - Potterová Beatrix

Anotace: Have fun learning first words with Peter Rabbit in this engaging lift-the-flap book.With a different scene on every page, readers can find hidden words and spot Peter Rabbit along with many more friendly characters.Spark curious minds with this playful introduction to first words!

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Spot´s First 100 Words - Hill Eric

Anotace: Explore with Spot and learn 100 first words along the way in this chunky lift-the-flap board book!Join Spot and his family and friends as they go on adventures to the park, the beach, the playground and more - and discover 100 key first words along the way.Little ones will love exploring the colourful scenes and lifting lots of flaps on every page as they learn ...

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Darling: A razor-sharp, gloriously funny retelling of Nancy Mitford´s The Pursuit of Love - Knightová India

Anotace: `A savagely funny, bracingly sad, dazzlingly clever reimagining of The Pursuit of Love. I loved it. Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss `A triumph! Brilliantly done, faithful but imaginative, tremendously romantic and very funny.` Nina Stibbe, author of Reasons to be CheerfulMarooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself dest...

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Bluey: Where´s Bluey? : A Search-and-Find Book - neuveden, neuveden

Anotace: Have you seen Bluey and Bingo?Join Bluey on the beach, in the backyard and at the park in this jam-packed search-and-find activity book. With over 140 items to spot, this book is perfect for keeping the biggest Bluey fans busy.

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How the World Really Works : A Scientist´s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future - Smil Václav

Anotace: We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don`t know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works ...

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Nation's Favourite Food

In The Nation's Favourite Food Neven Maguire has assembled his top 100 recipes. These are NevenÂ’s all-stars - the foolproof, tried and tested definit

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Where´s Wonka?: A Search-and-Find Book - Dahl Roald

Anotace: Willy Wonka`s Chocolate Factory is opening at last, and only five lucky children will be allowed inside!But now you have the amazing chance to explore the factory in this incredible book, and you`ve been tasked with finding all your favourite characters from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.From the Factory Gate to the Boiled Sweet Room, you`ll be looking for e...

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Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That´s a Good Thing) - Khan Salman

Anotace: Whether we like it or not, the AI revolution is coming to education. In Brave New Words, Salman Khan, the visionary behind Khan Academy, explores how artificial intelligence and GPT technology will transform learning, offering a roadmap for teachers, parents, and students to navigate this exciting (and sometimes intimidating) new world.An insider in the world of...

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Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Kimmerer Robin Wall

Anotace: As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two ways of knowledge together.Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and ...

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Straight Expectations: Discover this summer´s most swoon-worthy queer rom-com - McSwiggan Calum

Anotace: `I want what the straight kids have. Even just for a couple of days . . .`Seventeen-year-old Max might be out and proud but he`s usually too busy checking his nail polish to check his privilege.So when he says he wishes he could have the `easy` life straight kids enjoy, Max gets more than he bargained for. He wakes up to find his wish has come true - not only ha...

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The Awakening - Chopin Kate

Anotace: When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin`s daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the straitened confines of her dome...

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The Catch - Lea Amy

Anotace: `[Amy is] always brilliant` Ali Hazelwood`If The Proposal and While You Were Sleeping had a baby` Sarah Adams`I can`t wait for readers to devour it` B.K. Borison----In a last ditch attempt to rescue her brand from the brink of irrelevance, fashion influencer Melanie Karlsen finds herself in a rural fishing village on the east coast of Canada. The only thing scar...

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The Red and the Black - Stendhal

Anotace: Charting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal`s The Red and the Black is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in Penguin Classics.Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that success can only be achieved by adopting th...

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The Gift of the Magi - Henry O.

Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. O. Henry is one of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century and a true master of the short story. This selection of tales ranges from Christmas in New York t...

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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent - Dench Judi

Anotace: Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig; being painted green and cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside; acting opposite a child with a pumpkin on his head... these are just a few things Dame Judi Dench has done in the name of Shakespeare.In this book, Judi tells us about every Shakespearean role she`s played throughout her career. Writt...

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The BFG - Dahl Roald

Anotace: One dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant! Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant (the BFG), who is no ordinary bone-crunching giant, but instead prefers snozzcumbers and frobscottle to children. But there are other giants in Giant Country. And those giants have a plan to gallop far and wide to find some tasty human beans to eat...

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The Imitation of the Rose - Lispector Clarice

Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Thirteen short tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the twentieth century. The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the lum...

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The Messenger - Silva Daniel

Anotace: Gabriel Allon, art restorer and spy, is about to face the greatest challenge of his life. An al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, and photographs are found on his computer - photographs that lead Israeli intelligence to suspect that al-Qaeda is planning one of its most audacious attacks ever, straight at the heart of the Vatican. Allon warns the Pope`s private ...

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