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Love Affair with Peonies, A

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Love Affair with Peonies Calendar 2024, A

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For the Love of Sauntress: A Forty-Year Affair

Martin O'Scannall's engaging account of his forty-year affair with a modest but beautiful Edwardian gaffer, from her acquisition, through her restorat

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Affair of the Heart, An

Dilys Powell s love affair with Greece and the Greeks began on a sun?baked archaeological dig in 1931. Joining her husband, the archaeologist Humfry P

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The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair - Dicker Joël

Anotace: August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence.That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard, along with a manuscript copy of the novel that made him a household name. Quebert is the only suspect.Marcus ...

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The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, 1. vydání - Joel Dicker

<p>August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard, along with a manuscript copy of the novel that made him a household name. Quebert is the only suspect. Marc...

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Essays In Love

Essays in Love will appeal to anyone who has ever been in a relationship or confused about love. The book charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak. The work's genius lies in the way it minutely analyses emotions we've all felt before but have perhaps never u...

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Love is Blind

Love is Blind is William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel -- set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life.When Brodie is offered a job in Paris, he seizes the chance to flee Edinburgh and his tyrannical clergyman father, and begin a wildly different new chapter in...

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Love Is Blind - neuveden

Anotace: `Boyd on form is the ultimate in immersive fiction, and Love is Blind is Boyd at the top of his game . . . magnificent` Sunday Times This is William Boyd`s sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th century, it follows the fortunes of Brodie Moncur, a young Scottish musician, about to embark on the story of his life. When Brodie is offered a...

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Love in the Western World

In this classic work, often described as "The History of the Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Love Affair," Denis de Rougemont explores the psychology of love from the legend of Tristan and Isolde to Hollywood. At the heart of his ever-relevant inquiry is the inescapable conflict in the West between marriage and passion - the first associated with social and religious respo...

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Anniversary - kolekce 10 CD - Presley Elvis

Anotace: Sběratelská kolekce na 10 CD. CD1: Elvis Presley (1956) + Elvis (1956)Blue Suede Shoes - I`m Counting On You - I Got A Woman - One-Sided Love Affair - I Love You Because - Just Because - Tutti Frutti - Trying To Get To You - I`m Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry - I`ll Never Let You Go - Blue Moon - Money Honey - Rip It Up - Love Me - When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold ...

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Love is an Illusion! 5 - Fargo

<p>Love is in the air for Hye-sung's friend, Kyungsoo! After meeting a beautiful and feisty omega at the bar he works at, even-keeled beta Kyungsoo quickly falls head over heels for the man, and the two engage in a steamy affair. But Kyungsoo has no idea that the man he's seeing is Dojin's older brother's abusive ex-partner, Chowon! Is it possible that Chowon has ch...

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Lie With Me: ´Stunning and heart-gripping´ Andre Aciman - Philippe Besson

<p>NOW A MAJOR FILMTHE NO.1 FRENCH BESTSELLER 'Stunning and heart-gripping' Andre Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name 'A beautiful, shattering novel about desire and shame, about passionate youth and the regrets of age' Olivia Laing, bestselling author of Crudo Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a stri...

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The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard: a captivating story of love, betrayal and passion from the author of The Paris Secret - Lesterová Natasha

Anotace: `Vogue meets Daisy Jones & The Six . . . Natasha Lester`s most compelling novel yet!` - Kate Quinn, author of, The Rose Code`Brave, bold, and beautiful . . . I couldn`t stop reading` - Kerri Maher, author of, The Paris Bookseller`Natasha Lester at her best!` - Chanel Cleeton, author of, Next Year in HavanaIn November 1973, a legend vanished, leaving behind only...

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Homage to Bangladesh

This book charts Grey’s love affair with Bangladesh.

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Leading Men

A dazzling and devastating reimagining of Tennessee Williams's love affair with his longtime companion Frank Merlo.

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Milestones Of A Legend

Sběratelská kolekce na 10 CD. CD1: Elvis Presley (1956) + Elvis (1956) Blue Suede Shoes - I'm Counting On You - I Got A Woman - One-Sided Love Affair - I Love You Because - Just Because - Tutti Frutti - Trying To Get To You - I`m Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry - I'll Never Let You Go - Blue Moon - Money Honey - Rip It Up - Love Me - When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again - L...

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A Short History of Drunkenness (0241359244)

Kniha - autor Mark Forsyth, 256 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A comic history of humankind's love affair with booze, from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author of The Etymologicon 'Haha! . . . Highly suitable for Xmas!' - Margaret Atwood Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every...

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Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls

A moving memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to grapple with addiction, codependency and ou

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History of British Baking

The first of it's kind, this is a complete history of Britain's love affair with baking. Tells the story of how our relationship with this much-loved

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Under a Pole Star - Stef Penney

Anotace: RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB 2017 - 'ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS I HAVE READ FOR A VERY LONG TIME' RICHARD MADELY 'A dazzling tale of romance and survival' (Guardian) Follow the path to the freezing north. Follow your ambition. Follow your heart Flora Mackie was twelve when she first crossed the Arctic Circle on her father's whaling ship. Now she is returning to the fro...

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Commonwealth of Cricket

From one of India’s finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket.

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Sink House

Sequestered on a street in a dry Calgary suburb, our heroine, the House, finds herself embroiled in a stalled love affair with an elusive and alluring

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Magic Lantern

When a film is not a document, it is a dream. This visual autobiography traces the author's lifelong love affair with film. It looks at his life from

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Ladies of Lyndon

Agatha is aware of an intensity, a powerful storm of emotion briefly awakened by a shortlived love affair with her cousin Gerald, that is entirely lac

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All the Violet Tiaras

For a period in time that gave us Sappho, and the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus, the Ancient Greek relationship with queer folk is a lot more

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Steep Approach To Garbadale

Dark family secrets and a passionate love affair, full of his trademark warmth, humanity and ingenuity, Iain Banks's classic novel is reissued with a

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Radio Broadcasting

A complete history of this country's love affair with the radio. Traces radio's development from first use to pioneering broadcasts of the BBC, it's r

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Exotic

A fascinating survey of the enduring human love affair with the exotic and the strange, and its impact on Western culture

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Moment

For she is the woman with whom Thomas had an intense love affair twenty-five years before in a divided Berlin, where people lived fearfully under the

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Aeneid

Tells the story of an epic voyage in which Aeneas crosses stormy seas, becomes entangled in a tragic love affair with Dido of Cathage, descends to the

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Narrow Road to the Deep North

In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two

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Jude the Obscure

Jude Fawley's ambitions to go to university are thwarted by class prejudice and his entrapment in a loveless marriage. His doomed love affair with his

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Kings County Distillery Guide to Urban Moonshining

A spirited, richly illustrated look into America's age-old love affair with whiskey, the book is an introduction to how whiskey is manufactured and pr

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Scottish Cup, the

This is the story of Celtic's love affair with the Scottish Cup, a trophy that has formed part of the club's identity since 1889. Romance, drama and p

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Vincent's Gardens

Presents Van Goghs lifelong love affair with the garden. This title illustrates a range of works, from iconic oils such as Irises to exquisite etching

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Gabriel's Rapture

Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate but clandestine love affair with his former student, Julia Mitchell and is teaching her the sen

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Salukis in My Life

A fascinating memoir by ex-diplomat Sir Terence Clark about his life in the Middle East and his never-ending love affair with Salukis.

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Diary of a Murderer: And Other Stories (1838950044)

Kniha - autor Young-Ha Kim, 248 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná “Filled with the kind of sublime, galvanizing stories that strike like a lightning bolt, searing your nerves . . . It’s easy enough to see why Kim . . . is acclaimed as the best writer of his generation; pick up this book and find out for yourself.” — Nylon It’s been twenty-five years since I...

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The Mountain Between Us: A Novel (Audiobook) - Charles Martin

<p>*CD: 9 hours and 58 minutes</p> <p></p> <p>On a stormy winter night, two strangers wait for a flight at the Salt Lake City airport. Ashley Knox is an attractive, successful writer, who is flying East for her much anticipated wedding. Dr. Ben Payne has just wrapped up a medical conference and is also eager to get back East for a slate of su...

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Moonraker: A James Bond Novel - Fleming Ian

Anotace: Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst, and, briefly, the universit...

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Moonraker: A James Bond Novel - Ian Fleming

<p>Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels. Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming &amp; Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst, and, briefly, the un...

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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

Elizabeth Smart’s passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as â€Like Mad

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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

Elizabeth Smart’s passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as â€Like MAD

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Getting Lost – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a haunting record

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Steep Approach to Garbadale - Banks Iain

Anotace: Dark family secrets and a passionate love affair, full of his trademark warmth, humanity and ingenuity, Iain Banks`s classic novel is reissued with a striking new cover

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Japan's Best Friend

This quirky, nose-to-tail survey of Japan’s love affair with dogs explores why they have played such an important role in the country since ancie

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Find Me - André Aciman

Elio believes he has left behind his first love - but as an affair with an older man intensifies, his thoughts turn to the past and to Oliver. Oliver, a college professor, husband and father, is preparing to leave New York.

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Milestones of a Legend - kolekce 10 CD - Elvis Presley

<p>Sběratelská kolekce na 10 CD. CD1: Elvis Presley (1956) + Elvis (1956) Blue Suede Shoes - I'm Counting On You - I Got A Woman - One-Sided Love Affair - I Love You Because - Just Because - Tutti Frutti - Trying To Get To You - I`m Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry - I'll Never Let You Go - Blue Moon - Money Honey - Rip It Up - Love Me - When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold ...

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Anna Karenina, 1. vydání - Leo Tolstoy

<p>Anna Karenina is the story of a woman who ab andons her empty existence as a society wife and embarks on a doomed love affair with the passionate but emotionally ban krupt Vronsky. It is widely acknowledged as the greatest nov el in any language '</p>

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Anna Karenina - Tolstoy Leo

Anotace: Anna Karenina is the story of a woman who ab andons her empty existence as a society wife and embarks on a doomed love affair with the passionate but emotionally ban krupt Vronsky. It is widely acknowledged as the greatest nov el in any language `

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Frolic of the Beasts

The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong, from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century writersKoji, a young student, has fallen hopelessly in love with the beautiful, enigmatic Yuko. But she is married to the literary critic and serial

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Find Me - neuveden

Elio believes he has left behind his first love - but as an affair with an older man intensifies, his thoughts turn to the past and to Oliver. Oliver, a college professor, husband and father, is preparing to leave New York. The imminent trip stirs up longing and regret, awakening an old desire and propelling him towards a decision that could change everything. In Call M...

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Find Me - neuveden

Anotace: Elio believes he has left behind his first love - but as an affair with an older man intensifies, his thoughts turn to the past and to Oliver. Oliver, a college professor, husband and father, is preparing to leave New York. The imminent trip stirs up longing and regret, awakening an old desire and propelling him towards a decision that could change everything. ...

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Yakuza Lover 4 - Mino Nozomi

Anotace: When a feisty college girl falls for a yakuza boss, she gets swept into a steamy and dangerous love affair.When feisty college student Yuri is attacked at a party, she`s saved by Toshiomi Oya, the underboss of a yakuza syndicate. Despite her obvious attraction to him, she convinces herself that she`s not in the market for a bad boy type. But when they meet again...

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Yakuza Lover 4 - Nozomi Mino

<p>When a feisty college girl falls for a yakuza boss, she gets swept into a steamy and dangerous love affair. When feisty college student Yuri is attacked at a party, she's saved by Toshiomi Oya, the underboss of a yakuza syndicate. Despite her obvious attraction to him, she convinces herself that she's not in the market for a bad boy type. But when they meet agai...

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Jane Eyre (1847493734)

Kniha - autor Charlotte Brontëová, 492 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Charlotte Brontëová, 492 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A novel of high romance and great intensity, Jane Eyre has enjoyed popular success and critical acclaim ever since its first publication in 1847. Jane's journey from a troubled childhood to independence - and h...

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Don Juan

Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he becomes a favourite of the Empress Catherine who sends him on to England....

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Acts of Desperation (1529113016)

Kniha - autor Megan Nolan, 288 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná She's twenty-three and in love with love. He's older, and the most beautiful man she's ever seen. The affair is quickly consuming. But this relationship is unpredictable, and behind his perfect looks is a mean streak. She's intent on winning him over, but neither is living up to the other's id...

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Fiesta - Hemingway Ernest

Anotace: `This is a hell of dull talk...How about some of that champagne?`Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta ...

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