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The Labyrinth Makers
A missing plane resurfaces – and so do long-submerged secrets…An RAF Dakota, presumed lost at sea during World War Two, has just been discovered at the bottom of a drained lake over twenty years later – complete with the skeletal remains of the pilot and a strange cargo of rubble. Why are the Soviets so interested in it, even attending the dead man’s funeral? Why has unas...
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The Mayfly - James Hazel
Anotace: A mutilated body discovered in the woods. A murderous plan conceived in the past. A reckoning seventy years in the making . . . When lawyer Charlie Priest is attacked in his own home by a man searching for information he claims Priest has, he is drawn into a web of corruption that has its roots in the last desperate days of World War Two. When his attacker is fo...
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The Premonition - Banana Jošimoto
<p>'Yoshimoto's novels are like jewel boxes.' Vanity FairThe new novel from the bestselling author of the beloved classic, Kitchen.I had a premonition of setting out on a journey and getting lost inside a distant tide ... It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen years old.Yayoi lives with her perfect, loving family - something 'like you'd see in a Spielber...
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Year of the Reaper
The past never forgets . . . 'I love the magic Lucier weaves through this dark yet hopeful tale. I devoured it in one sitting!' Kristin Cashore, author of the New York Times bestselling Graceling Realm books Three years ago, Lord Cassia disappeared in the midst of war, on a mission entrusted to him by the king. Since then, a devastating plague has swept the land, leavin...
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The Sovereign Individual
Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization.Fe...
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The President's Gardens
One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq. "A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting". Hassan Blasim, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Iraqi Christ. On the third day of Ramad...
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Rise of the Dragon
This lavish visual history featuring over 180 all-new illustrations is a stunning introduction to House Targaryen, the iconic family at the heart of HBO s Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon. For hundreds of years, the Targaryens sat the Iron Throne of Westeros while their dragons ruled the skies. The story of the only family of dragonlords to survive Valy...
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The Change - Miller Kirsten
Anotace: The change is coming...Nessa: The SeekerJo: The ProtectorHarriett: The PunisherWith newfound powers the time has come to take matters into their own hands...After Nessa is widowed and her daughters leave for college, she`s left alone in her house near the ocean. In the quiet hours, she hears voices belonging to the dead - who will only speak to her.On the cusp o...
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The Change - Kirsten Miller
<p>The change is coming... Nessa: The Seeker Jo: The Protector Harriett: The Punisher With newfound powers the time has come to take matters into their own hands... After Nessa is widowed and her daughters leave for college, she's left alone in her house near the ocean. In the quiet hours, she hears voices belonging to the dead - who will only speak to her. On th...
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The Travels - Marco Polo
<p>A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east, in a collectible clothbound edition. Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to t...
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Saints Row The Third
Years after taking Stilwater for their own, the Third Street Saints have evolved from street gang to household brand name, with Saints sneakers, Saints energy drinks and Johnny Gat bobble head dolls all available at a store near you. The Saints are kings of Stilwater, but their celebrity status has not gone unnoticed. The Syndicate, a legendary criminal fraternity with pa...
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The Good Soldier Švejk
The Good Soldier ŠvejkJaroslav Hašek’s black satire, the inspiration for such works as Joseph Heller’s Catch-22Good-natured and garrulous, Švejk becomes the Austro-Hungarian army’s most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of the First World War – although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to ...
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Military Vehicles , The World Encyclopedia of
The story of the development and production of the military vehicle, from the first basic trucks, through the advances made in the inter-war years, to
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Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition
In the third volume of his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and t
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The Setting Sun - Dazai Osamu
Anotace: Now in a beautiful gift cloth edition, a masterpiece of post-war Japanese literature This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. The influence of Osamu...
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The Iliad, 1. vydání - Homer
<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.' The epic poem The Iliad begins nine years after the beginning of the Trojan War and describes the great warrior Achilles and the battles and events that take place as he quarrels wit...
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The Railway Man - Eric Lomax
Anotace: Winner of the NCR Book Award A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experie...
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The Railway Men - Eric Lomax
<p>Winner of the NCR Book Award A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio, Lomax was emotionally ruined by his experien...
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Revolution 1989 : The Fall of the Soviet Empire - Sebestyen Victor
Anotace: For more than 40 years after the Second World War the Iron Curtain divided Europe physically, with 300 km of walls and barbed wire fences; ideologically, between communism and capitalism; psychologically, between people imprisoned under totalitarian dictatorships and their neighbours enjoying democratic freedoms; and militarily, by two mighty, distrustful power ...
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The Bomber Mafia - Malcolm Gladwell
<p>In the years before the Second World War, in a sleepy air force base in central Alabama, a small group of renegade pilots put forth a radical idea. What if we made bombing so accurate that wars could be fought entirely from the air? What if we could make the brutal clashes between armies on the ground a thing of the past? This book tells the story of what happen...
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The Bickford Fuse - Andrey Kurkov
<p>Catch-22 meets The Brothers Karamazov in the last great satire of the Soviet EraThe Great Patriotic War is stumbling to a close, but a new darkness has fallen over Soviet Russia. And for a disparate, disconnected clutch of wanderers - many thousands of miles apart but linked by a common goal - four parallel journeys are just beginning.Gorych and his driver, rolli...
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On The Natural History Of Destruction
In the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German towns and cities. This titl
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The Queen's Governess - Tessa Arlen
<p>The revealing story of Queen Elizabeth II's beloved governess, Marion Crawford, who spent sixteen years of her life in loyal service to the royal family and was later shunned by those she has loved and served. Perfect for fans of The Crown and Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner.</p> <p>A crown princess. Her childhood nanny.A shocking betrayal...Marion...
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The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Box Set (0593311647)
Kniha - autor Margaret Atwood, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A box set of Margaret Atwood's bestselling companioned novels, The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments. In The Handmaid's Tale, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War and the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid soci...
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The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
<p>The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain...
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The Rise of the Dragon - Martin George R. R.
Anotace: This lavish visual history-featuring over 150 new, full-colour illustrations-is a stunning introduction to House Targaryen, the iconic family at the heart of HBO`s Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon.For hundreds of years, the Targaryens sat the Iron Throne of Westeros while their dragons ruled the skies. The story of the only family of dragonlor...
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Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy
Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is a strategy game of 3D tactical space battles. Play your part in the Second Contact War in a campaign with a branching story and over 60 missions, or create your own scenarios in skirmish mode battles! The Universe is a Dangerous Place. In the 22nd century, we left a dying earth so that a fortunate few could settle the new home we...
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The Veiled Throne - Liu Ken
Anotace: From the winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, the epic third volume of the Dandelion Dynasties series, named by Time as one of the Greatest Fantasy books of All Time, continues.Princess Thera, once known as Empress UEna of Dara, yielded the throne to her younger brother in order to journey to Ukyu-Gonde to war with the Lyucu, and has crossed the ...
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The Veiled Throne - Ken Liu
<p>From the winner of the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, the epic third volume of the Dandelion Dynasties series, named by Time as one of the Greatest Fantasy books of All Time, continues. Princess Thera, once known as Empress UEna of Dara, yielded the throne to her younger brother in order to journey to Ukyu-Gonde to war with the Lyucu, and has crossed the...
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The Summer Girl - Kennedy Elle
Anotace: Return to Avalon Bay with the third book in New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy`s addictive and romantic seriesCollege student Cassie Soul hasn`t spent an entire summer in Avalon Bay in years, not since her parents divorced and her mother spitefully whisked her away to Boston. Now that her grandmother is selling the boardwalk hotel that`s been in thei...
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The Rise of the Dragon - George Raymond Richard Martin
<p>This lavish visual history&horbar;featuring over 150 new, full-colour illustrations&horbar;is a stunning introduction to House Targaryen, the iconic family at the heart of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon.</p> <p>For hundreds of years, the Targaryens sat the Iron Throne of Westeros while their dragons ruled the...
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Seven Types of People You Find in Bookshops (1788166582)
Kniha - autor Shaun Bythell, 144 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulent and possibly larcenous. In Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops he distils the essence of h...
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The Poison Song (The Winnowing Flame 3) - Jen Williams
<p>From two time British Fantasy Award-winning author, Jen Williams, comes the epic conclusion to the Winnowing Flame trilogy. Exhilarating fantasy for fans of Robin Hobb.'One of the best fantasy novels of the year, if not the decade' James Oswald'A fitting finale, triumphant and bittersweet in all the best ways' SciFiNow All is chaos. All is confusion. The Jure'lia...
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Saints Row The Third (PC)
Years after taking Stilwater for their own, the Third Street Saints have evolved from street gang to household brand name, with Saints sneakers, Saints energy drinks and Johnny Gat bobble head dolls all available at a store near you.The Saints are kings of Stilwater, but their celebrity status has not gone unnoticed. The Syndicate, a legendary criminal fraternity with paw...
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The Gilded Crown - Marianne Gordon
<p>The Witch’s Heart meets The Foxglove King in this debut fantasy about a woman who can bring people back from the dead, and the princess she must protect, no matter the cost</p> <p>The first time Hellevir visited Death, she was ten years old…</p> <p>Since she was a little girl, Hellevir has been able to raise the dead. Every creature can be...
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The Priory of the Orange Tree - Shannon Samantha
Anotace: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.'Epic' Guardian'Majestic' Daily Mail'Escapism at its finest - Shannon, we salute you' StylistAn enthralling, epic fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons - and the women who must lead the fight to save it.The House of Ber...
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The Priory of the Orange Tree, 1. vydání - Shannon Samantha
<p>THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER</p> <p>A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.</p> <p>'Epic' Guardian'Majestic' Daily Mail'Escapism at its finest - Shannon, we salute you' StylistAn enthralling, epic fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons - and the women who must lead the fight to save it.</p&...
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Minorities and Law in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1992 - René Petráš, Jan Kuklík ml. e-kniha
Ethnic minority issues played an important role in the history of Czechoslovakia, from 1918, during World War II and in the years immediately following it.
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The Odyssey, 1. vydání - Homér
<p>Homer's great epic, The Odyssey, is perhaps Western literature's first adventure story, and certainly remains one of its finest. It describes King Odysseus of Ithaca's epic, ten-year quest to return home after the Trojan War. He encounters giants, sorceresses, sea-monsters and sirens, while his wife Penelope is forced to resist the suitors who besiege her on Itha...
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The Whisperling Twins - Hayley Hoskins
<p>From the author of the Branford Boase long-listed debut The Whisperling, comes the next twist in the legacy.Gloucestershire, 1918.We whisperlings are the living voice for the dead. It's always been so. But not everyone likes it...Whisperling twin sisters Violet and Clemency run regular 'Messaging' sessions at their mam's canal-side pub. People come from far and w...
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The Black Angels. The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis - Maria Smilios
<p>New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage.So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest plagues, told alongside the often strange chronicle of the cure's discovery.During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed 1 in 7 people, white nurses at ...
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Return of the Divine Sophia
Called through her dreams by the Priestesses of Isis, Tricia McCannon set out on a spiritual journey into the Mysteries of the Goddess. After a fateful encounter with a high initiate of the ancient Fellowship of Isis, she began researching the history of Judaism and Christianity to find out how and when the Divine Feminine became lost. She discovered a forgotten age when ...
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Goo Goo Dolls: Chaos In Bloom - CD (9362487043)
Hudební CD Nové album americké rockové skupiny. Zatím poslední plnohodnotnou desku Goo Goo Dolls vydali v roce 2019 (o rok později následovala sbírka vánočních písní). Americká rocková skupina z Buffala prodala celosvětově přes 10 milionů desek. Nové album americké rockové skupiny. Zatím poslední plnohodnotnou desku Goo Goo Dolls vydali v roce 2019 (o rok později následo...
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Goo Goo Dolls: Chaos In Bloom - LP (9362487839)
LP vinyl - Nové album americké rockové skupiny. Zatím poslední plnohodnotnou desku Goo Goo Dolls vydali v roce 2019 (o rok později následovala sbírka vánočních písní). Americká rocková skupina z Buffala prodala celosvětově přes 10 milionů desek. Nové album americké rockové skupiny. Zatím poslední plnohodnotnou desku Goo Goo Dolls vydali v roce 2019 (o rok později násled...
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Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother - Anne Sebba
<p>Ethel Rosenberg was a supportive wife, loving mother to two small children and courageous idealist who grew up during the Depression with aspirations to become an opera singer.On 19 June 1953 she became the first woman in the US to be executed for a crime other than murder. She was thirty-seven years old.Ethel's conviction for conspiracy to commit espionage on be...
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (0141187883)
Kniha - autor Ken Kesey, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná In this classic of the 1960s, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched...
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (0451163966)
Kniha - 272 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - 272 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná In this classic novel of the 1960's, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around ...
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The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald Francis Scott
Anotace: `In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars`The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby`s party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he`s a bootlegger. Others swear he was...
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The Setting Sun, 1. vydání - Osamu Dazai
<p>Now in a beautiful gift cloth edition, a masterpiece of post-war Japanese literature This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. The influence of Osamu ...
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The Water Dancer - Coates Ta-Nehisi
Anotace: The unmissable debut novel by the critically acclaimed author of Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power - a richly imagined and compulsively page-turning journey to freedomHiram Walker is a man with a secret, and a war to win. A war for the right to life, to family, to freedom.Born into bondage on a Virginia plantation, he is also born gifted ...
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The Discworld Mapp (Discworld) - Pratchett Terry
Anotace: They said it couldn`t be done. Well, it has been done, proving them wrong once again. After years of research, cunningly contrived in as many minutes, the Discworld has its map. It takes full account of the historic and much documented expeditions of the Discworld`s feted (or at least fated) explorers: General Sir Roderick Purdeigh, Lars Larsnephew, Llamedos Jon...
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The Setting Sun, 1. vydání - Osamu Dazai
<p>Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made people of the setting sun a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, ...
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The Waters of Eternal Youth - Leon Donna
Anotace: In The Waters of Eternal Youth, the twenty-fifth instalment in the bestselling Brunetti series, our Commissario finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a crime at all. Brunetti is investigating a cold case by request of the grand Contessa Lando-Continui, a friend of Brunetti`s mother-in-law. Fifteen years ago the Contessa`s teenage granddaughter, Manuela...
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Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitl - neuveden
Anotace: The gripping story of a team of Nazi hunters at the U.S. Department of Justice as they raced against time to expose members of a brutal SS killing force who disappeared in America after World War Two. In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a Nazi roster from 1945 that no Western investigator had ever ...
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The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters - Buckley Anna
Anotace: BBC Radio 4`s celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world`s most renowned experts in the field of deadly viruses. The interviews make sobering reading, a reminder of all the deadly viruses that have threatened global health, and why for the scientists working on the front line in the war against viruses, the arrival of Covid-19 came as no surpr...
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The Great Gatsby - Francis Scott Fitzgerald
<p>'In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars' The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he wa...
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Lenin on the Train - Catherine Merridaleová
Anotace: `The superb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin`s trans-European rail journey and how it shook the world` Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year`Splendid ... a jewel among histories, taking a single episode from the penultimate year of the Great War, illuminating a continent, a revolution and a series of psychologies in a moment of cataclysm ...
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The Wall of Storms - Liu Ken
Anotace: The second book in The Dandelion Dynasty, the epic fantasy trilogy by Ken Liu. Dara is united under the Emperor Ragin, once known as Kuni Garu, the bandit king. There has been peace for six years, but the Dandelion Throne rests on bloody foundations - Kuni`s betrayal of his friend, Mata Zyndu, the Hegemon. The Hegemon`s rule was brutal and unbending - but he die...
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The Wall of Storms - Ken Liu
<p>The second book in The Dandelion Dynasty, the epic fantasy trilogy by Ken Liu. Dara is united under the Emperor Ragin, once known as Kuni Garu, the bandit king. There has been peace for six years, but the Dandelion Throne rests on bloody foundations - Kuni's betrayal of his friend, Mata Zyndu, the Hegemon. The Hegemon's rule was brutal and unbending - but he di...
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Year of the Reaper - Lucier Makiia
Anotace: The past never forgets . . .`I love the magic Lucier weaves through this dark yet hopeful tale. I devoured it in one sitting!` Kristin Cashore, author of the New York Times bestselling Graceling Realm booksThree years ago, Lord Cassia disappeared in the midst of war, on a mission entrusted to him by the king. Since then, a devastating plague has swept the land, ...
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