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42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams - Adams Douglas
Anotace: `Douglas`s slanted way of looking at reality makes the fuzzy sharp and the improbable probable. In a cock-eyed universe the level gaze is not much use` STEPHEN FRY`Douglas was something that we don`t have a word for yet - a futurologist or an explainer` NEIL GAIMAN"In lieu of a conventional autobiography, this collection of letters, jottings and ephemera - inter...
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42: The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams - Douglas Adams
<p>'Douglas's slanted way of looking at reality makes the fuzzy sharp and the improbable probable. In a cock-eyed universe the level gaze is not much use' STEPHEN FRY'Douglas was something that we don't have a word for yet - a futurologist or an explainer' NEIL GAIMAN"In lieu of a conventional autobiography, this collection of letters, jottings and ephemera - i...
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Do Design: Why Beauty is Key to Everything (1907974288)
Kniha - autor Alan Moore, 128 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná So much passes us by, unnoticed. We multi-task, switch between screens, work faster. When was the last time you paused to consider a beautifully made object or stunning natural landscape? Yet this is when our spirits lift, our soul is restored. Designer Alan Moore invites us to rethink not only w...
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Created for eternity - Miroslav Bárta,Ladislav Bareš,Jaromír Krejčí,Mohamed Megahed,Lenka Varadzínová
Anotace: The one hundred and forty objects in this book represent the same number of extraordinary moments of resurrection of unique artifacts of the ancient civilizations in the Nile Valley and adjacent areas. Every one of them is a symbol of the time when it was made, and affords us a glimpse into the world of which it was a part. You are holding in your hands the best...
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Created for Eternity
The one hundred and forty objects in this book represent the same number of extraordinary moments of resurrection of unique artifacts of the ancient civilizations in the Nile Valley and adjacent areas. Every one of them is a symbol of the time when it was made, and affords us a glimpse into the world of which it was a part. You are holding in your hands the best of what t...
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Her Greatest Adventure - Cowan Hannah
Anotace: AdalynI`ve been planning my trip across the world for years. So, imagine my surprise and utter disappointment when unforeseen circumstances leave me with no travel companion and a wallet too empty to reschedule. Far too stubborn to cancel, and left with little options, I turn to the only person who just so happens to have the entire summer free.Cooper White is m...
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HAPPY TOBY-Toby Has a Party
HAPPY TOBY children's picture book series about a happy childhood is a remarkably illustrated piece of art in form of a cute created landscape formatted book for each story. HAPPY TOBY - Toby Has a Party is the second book from the series and it's about the importance of the good - neighborhood relations. Toby and his neighborhood friend Marty decided to surprise their pa...
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Created for eternity - The greatest discoveries of Czech Egyptology - Miroslav Bárta
<p>The one hundred and forty objects in this book represent the same number of extraordinary moments of resurrection of unique artifacts of the ancient civilizations in the Nile Valley and adjacent areas. Every one of them is a symbol of the time when it was made, and affords us a glimpse into the world of which it was a part. You are holding in your hands the best ...
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Her Greatest Adventure - Hannah Cowan
<p>AdalynI've been planning my trip across the world for years. So, imagine my surprise and utter disappointment when unforeseen circumstances leave me with no travel companion and a wallet too empty to reschedule. Far too stubborn to cancel, and left with little options, I turn to the only person who just so happens to have the entire summer free.Cooper White is my...
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Calypso - David Sedaris
Anotace: 'Entrancing . . . This book allows us to observed not just the nimble-mouthed elf of his previous work, but a man in his seventh decade expunging his darker secrets and contemplating mortality . . . The brilliance of David Sedaris's writing is that his very essence, his aura, seeps through the pages of his books like an intoxicating cloud, mesmerising ...
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Freezing Order - Browder Bill
Anotace: Following his explosive international bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin`s number one enemy by exposing Putin`s campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill anyone who stands in his way.When Bill Browder`s young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten ...
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Freezing Order - A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin`s Wrath - Browder Bill
Anotace: Following his explosive international bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin`s number one enemy by exposing Putin`s campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill anyone who stands in his way.When Bill Browder`s young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten ...
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Freezing Order - A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath, 1. vydání - Bill Browder
<p>Following his explosive international bestseller Red Notice, Bill Browder returns with another gripping thriller chronicling how he became Vladimir Putin's number one enemy by exposing Putin's campaign to steal and launder hundreds of billions of dollars and kill anyone who stands in his way. When Bill Browder's young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten...
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Time Machine illustrated
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells is a science fiction classic, which lends itself well to visualization. This version, illustrated by Yoann Laurent-Rouault, an illustrator master who graduated from the Beaux-Arts, and published in the international literary collection Memoria Books, is a reference on the time travel theme.Wells transports us in the year 802 701, in a socie...
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Rangikura - Tayi Tibble
<p>Maori mythology and endless summers: the sparkling second collection from a daring new poetic voiceI am made in the image of my mother ...I am made in the image of / my mountain / my river / my whenuaIn Rangikura, plastic tiaras melt into boiling rivers, and family memories blur with ancestral mythologies. Satanic stepbrothers play jenga while the deity Mahuika b...
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Moonshot : Inside Pfizer´s Nine-Month Race to Make the Impossible Possible - Albert Bourla
<p>The exclusive, first-hand, behind-the-scenes story of how Pfizer raced to create the first Covid-19 vaccine, told by Pfizer’s CEO Dr. Albert Bourla</p> <p>A riveting, fast-paced, inside look at one of the most incredible private sector achievements in history, Moonshot recounts the intensive nine months in 2020 when the scientists at Pfizer, under the...
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Tales of Old Prague Houses (978-80-7428-302-4)
Kniha - autor Magdalena Wagnerová, 180 stran, anglicky, pevná s přebalem lesklá The air of times long past; the strong walls from bygone centuries; narrow portals; a host of house signs and a wealth of architectural styles: these are the houses of old Prague. Small palaces are full of great secrets, the stories hidden inside their walls having long helped shape the cit...
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The Hades Factor - Robert Ludlum
Anotace: A homeless man in Boston, an Army Major in California, and a teenage girl in Atlanta all die suddenly and painfully - each a victim of an unknown doomsday virus. For three days, a team of scientists in a US government laboratory has been frantically trying to unlock the virus's secrets. Lt. Col. Jonathan 'Jon' Smith, a leading researcher from the ...
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Heartstopper Volume One - Alice Oseman
Anotace: *Soon to be a live-action Netflix series!* Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. An LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between - for fans of The Art of Being Normal, Holly Bourne and Love, Simon. 'Absolutely delightful. Sweet, romantic, kind. Beautifully paced. I loved this book.' RAINBOW ROWELL, author of Carr...
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Tales of Old Prague Houses - Magdalena Wagnerová
Anotace: The air of times long past; the strong walls from bygone centuries; narrow portals; a host of house signs and a wealth of architectural styles: these are the houses of old Prague. Small palaces are full of great secrets, the stories hidden inside their walls having long helped shape the city´s haracter and made it ever more popular. The magic of the Faust House;...
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Babylon Revisited - Fitzgerald Francis Scott
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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The Hades Factor
A homeless man in Boston, an Army Major in California, and a teenage girl in Atlanta all die suddenly and painfully - each a victim of an unknown doomsday virus. For three days, a team of scientists in a US government laboratory has been frantically trying to unlock the virus's secrets. Lt. Col. Jonathan 'Jon' Smith, a leading researcher from the lab, barely survives a se...
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Tales of Old Prague Houses
The air of times long past; the strong walls from bygone centuries; narrow portals; a host of house signs and a wealth of architectural styles: these are the houses of old Prague. Small palaces are full of great secrets, the stories hidden inside their walls having long helped shape the city’s haracter and made it ever more popular. The magic of the Faust House; the Cubis...
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Travels with Charley - neuveden
Anotace: A witty, incisive classic of road-trip literature, from one of the great champions and critics of the American identity 'Delightful. This is a book to be read slowly for its savor.' The Atlantic In 1960, John Steinbeck set out in his pick-up truck with his dog Charley to rediscover and chronicle his native USA, from Maine to California. He felt that ...
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The Hades Factor - Robert Ludlum
<p>A homeless man in Boston, an Army Major in California, and a teenage girl in Atlanta all die suddenly and painfully - each a victim of an unknown doomsday virus. For three days, a team of scientists in a US government laboratory has been frantically trying to unlock the virus's secrets. Lt. Col. Jonathan 'Jon' Smith, a leading researcher from the lab, barely surv...
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A Shout in the Ruins - Kevin Powers
<p>A stunning novel about violence, power and love by Kevin Powers, the acclaimed author of The Yellow Birds and winner of both the 2012 Guardian First Book Award and the Hemingway/PEN Award. A nighttime whipping in a lamplit barn. A ruined leg tossed onto a pile of discarded limbs. A hand snuffing out a desperate cry behind a bedroom's locked door. In A Shout in th...
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Babylon Revisited - Francis Scott Fitzgerald
<p>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 Mediterranean islan...
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Tales of Old Prague Houses - Magdalena Wagnerová
<p></p><p> The air of times long past; the strong walls from bygone centuries; narrow portals; a host of house signs and a wealth of architectural styles: these are the houses of old Prague. Small palaces are full of great secrets, the stories hidden inside their walls having long helped shape the city’s haracter and made it ever more popular. The magic...
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Heartstopper Volume One, 1. vydání - Alice Oseman
<p>*Soon to be a live-action Netflix series!* Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. An LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between - for fans of The Art of Being Normal, Holly Bourne and Love, Simon.'Absolutely delightful. Sweet, romantic, kind. Beautifully paced. I loved this book.' RAINBOW ROWELL, author of Carry ...
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Film: A Very Short Introduction
Film is considered by some to be the most dominant art form of the twentieth century. It is many things, but it has become above all a means of telling stories through images and sounds. The stories are often offered to us as quite false, frankly and beautifully fantastic, and they are sometimes insistently said to be true. But they are stories in both cases, and there ar...
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The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner - Herszenhorn David
Anotace: THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin`s most formidable rival-so despised that the Russian leader makes a point of never uttering Navalny`s name.There`s an old saying that Russia without corruption...
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The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner - David M. Herszenhorn
<p>THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin's most formidable rival-so despised that the Russian leader makes a point of never uttering Navalny's name.There's an old saying that Russia without corruption ...
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What You Are Looking for is in the Library: The uplifting Japanese fiction bestseller, 1. vydání - Michiko Aoyama
<p>THE BESTSELLING JAPANESE NOVELFor fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this soul-stirring Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation can help us fulfil our dreams.'I definitely want to visit this library. I feel kinder after this book' 5***** Reader review'I ADORED this uplifting, hopeful novel ... A joy from start to finish...
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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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War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance - Zygar Mikhail
Anotace: `History is made up of myths,` writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. `Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It is time to expose them.` Drawing from his perilous career investigating the frontiers of the Russian empire, Zygar reveals how 350 years of propaganda, bad historical scholarship, folk tales and fantasy spurred his nat...
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Ancient Worlds: Travel Back in Time and Discover the First Great Civilizations - Dorling Kindersley
Anotace: Step back in time and witness how the greatest ancient cultures lived and thrived in this tour through history`s civilisations.Ancient Worlds is a tour through history`s most influential civilisations between 3000 BCE and 750 CE, capturing moments that reveal the culture and technology that made them great.Children aged 7-11 will discover how deep knowledge of t...
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looK INside - Chapter 1
Manon finds a book in her parents' attic and finds herself immersed in the past of those close to her to realize that she did not know much about them! On each page, browse the memories of a new member of Manon's family, to get a glimpse of who this person was at different times of her life. Put names on the faces and build family ties by cross-checking their memories to ...
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looK INside - Chapter 1 (PC)
Manon finds a book in her parents' atticand finds herself immersed in the past of those close to her to realize that she did not know much about them!On each page, browse the memories of a new member of Manon's family, to get a glimpse of who this person was at different times of her life.Put names on the faces and build family tiesby cross-checking their memori...
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The Oak Tree - Donaldsonová Julia
Anotace: Watch a thousand years unfold in the life of one magnificent tree! A thousand years ago, a tiny acorn fell to the ground. As the years pass, it grows . . . and GROWS into an enormous oak tree! As the centuries sweep by, children play games around the tree. Families dance about it. A fleeing king even hides inside its hollow tru...
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Ancient Worlds: Travel Back in Time and Discover the First Great Civilizations - Dorling Kindersley
<p>Step back in time and witness how the greatest ancient cultures lived and thrived in this tour through history's civilisations.Ancient Worlds is a tour through history's most influential civilisations between 3000 BCE and 750 CE, capturing moments that reveal the culture and technology that made them great.Children aged 7-11 will discover how deep knowledge of th...
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War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance - Mikhail Zygar
<p>'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022. It is time to expose them.' Drawing from his perilous career investigating the frontiers of the Russian empire, Zygar reveals how 350 years of propaganda, bad historical scholarship, folk tales and fantasy spurred his nati...
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How the World Really Works : A Scientist´s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future - Vaclav Smil
<p>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 o...
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Giving - neuveden
Anotace: Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. "Giving" is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations - and by individuals - to solve problems and save lives both "down the street and around the world." Then it urges us to seek out what each of ...
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Bill Clinton - Giving
Here, from Bill Clinton, is a call to action. "Giving" is an inspiring look at how each of us can change the world. First, it reveals the extraordinary and innovative efforts now being made by companies and organizations - and by individuals - to solve problems and save lives both "down the street and around the world." Then it urges us to seek out what each of us, "regar...
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World Atlas of Wine, 7th Edition
"Immense and beautiful - almost drinkable" -- Midweek, BBC Radio 4 "Simply superb work...buy it if you like wine at all." -- Victoria Moore, The Telegraph "If I owned only one wine book, it would be this one. And this edition, please." -- Andrew Jefford, Decanter Few wine books can be called classic but the first edition of The World Atlas of Wine made publishing history...
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The Alienist (Film Tie In) - Carr Caleb
Anotace: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - SOON TO BE A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES "A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages."--Entertainment Weekly "Caleb Carr`s rich period thriller takes us back to the moment in history when the modern idea of the serial killer became available to us."--The Detroit News When The Alienist was f...
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The Death of Vivek Oji - Emezi Akwaeke
Anotace: SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 'Astonishing.' Stylist 'Electrifying.' O: The Oprah Magazine 'Brilliant and heartbreaking.' Marie Claire 'Propulsive and resonant.' Esquire They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died. One afternoon, a mother opens her front door to find the length of her son's body s...
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Soul at Stake
Early Access Game Note: This Early Access game is not complete and may or may not change further. Soul at Stake is an oriental-themed 1v4 surviving horror game. There once was a luring urban myth saying that if one can win the game would gain countless money as prize, and his/her destiny would instantly change to become the mightiest overnight. All the participants need o...
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Soul at Stake (PC)
Early Access GameNote: This Early Access game is not complete and may or may not change further.Soul at Stake is an oriental-themed 1v4 surviving horror game. There once was a luring urban myth saying that if one can win the game would gain countless money as prize, and his/her destiny would instantly change to become the mightiest overnight. All the participants need onl...
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The Devil Never Sleeps : Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters - Kayyem Juliette
Anotace: The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more often go wrong than they go right. So why do we still fumble when disaster hits? Why are we always one step behind?In The Devil Never Sleeps, Juliette Kayyem lays the groundwork for a new approach to dealing with disast...
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Carrie Soto Is Back - Jenkins Reidová Taylor
Anotace: Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular.By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as he...
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Stories of Little Tibet - Luboš Pavel; Aneta Pavel
Anotace: Little Tibet is a name given to Ladakh, a beautiful region in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir bordering Tibet to the east and bearing its influence. In the shadow of Great Himalaya, Indus Valley is inhabited by people of Tibetan descent. The book is telling us their stories - narrating about the history of Ladakh, about present-day people, and, finally exp...
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Stories of Little Tibet - Aneta Pavel; Luboš Pavel
Anotace: Little Tibet is a name given to Ladakh, a beautiful region in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir bordering Tibet to the east and bearing its influence. In the shadow of Great Himalaya, Indus Valley is inhabited by people of Tibetan descent. The book is telling us their stories - narrating about the history of Ladakh, about present-day people, and, finally exp...
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As Far as You´ll Take Me - Stamper Phil
Anotace: From the break-out author of The Gravity of Us comes a heartfelt coming-of-age story about finding your chosen people. Perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli Marty arrives in London with nothing but his oboe and some savings from his summer job, but he's excited to start his new life--where he's no longer the closeted, shy kid who slips under the radar a...
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We Spread - Reid Iain, Reid Iain
Anotace: Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the mundane rituals of old age, until things start to slip. Before her longtime partner passed away years earlier, provisions were made, unbeknownst to her, for a room in a unique long-term care residence, where Penny find...
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Papyrus - Vallejo Irene
Anotace: Best Books of 2022 Financial Times`A literary phenomenon.` - Times Literary Supplement`Imaginative, lively and contemporary...masterly.` - Economist `Vallejo enlivens history with imagination and personal anecdote` - Observer`A mindboggling history of the earliest books... the story she tells is impressively rip-roaring` - Daily Telegraph`Packed with fascinating...
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Stories of Little Tibet
Little Tibet is a name given to Ladakh, a beautiful region in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir bordering Tibet to the east and bearing its influence. In the shadow of Great Himalaya, Indus Valley is inhabited by people of Tibetan descent. The book is telling us their stories – narrating about the history of Ladakh, about present-day people, and, finally expressing wi...
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Stories of Little Tibet
Little Tibet is a name given to Ladakh, a beautiful region in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir bordering Tibet to the east and bearing its influence. In the shadow of Great Himalaya, Indus Valley is inhabited by people of Tibetan descent. The book is telling us their stories – narrating about the history of Ladakh, about present-day people, and, finally expressing wi...
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We Have No Idea : A Guide to the Unknown Universe - Cham Jorge, Whiteson Daniel
Anotace: In our small corner of the universe, we know how some matter behaves most of the time and what even less of it looks like, and we have some good guesses about where it all came from. But we really have no clue what`s going on. In fact, we don`t know what about 95% of the universe is made of. So what happens when a cartoonist and a physicist walk into this strang...
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As Far as You'll Take Me
From the break-out author of The Gravity of Us comes a heartfelt coming-of-age story about finding your chosen people. Perfect for fans of Becky AlbertalliMarty arrives in London with nothing but his oboe and some savings from his summer job, but he's excited to start his new life--where he's no longer the closeted, shy kid who slips under the radar and is free to explore...
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