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Our Young Man (1408858967)

Kniha - autor Edmund White, 304 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Guy takes on the fashion world in New York and becomes the darling of Fire Island's gay community. Never ageing, at 35 he is still modelling, helplessly enjoying lavish gifts from older men who believe he's far younger. Driven by the memory of his poor childhood, Guy lets them believe - until ...

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Our Young Man

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Our Mutual Friend - Dickens Charles

Anotace: Complete and unabridged.One of BBC`s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Dickens exposes the corrupting power of money in his last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, with its expansive cast of characters and interweaving plots.Part of the Macmillan Collector`s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers...

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A Life on Our Planet - Attenborough David

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

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A Life on Our Planet - David Attenborough

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

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Macmillan Readers Our Mutual Friend Upper Intermediate Reader

John Harmon is a young man estranged from his family, yet on his way from South Africa to London to receive his inheritance. But, according to his father's will, he can only claim it if he marries Bella Wilfer, a beautiful London girl whom he has never met. Before John arrives to claim his birthright, an unknown body is found drowned in the Thames and identified as him. T...

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The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger - Rojas René

Anotace: If the American foreign policy establishment is a grand citadel, Henry Kissinger is the specter haunting its dusty hallways. For half a century, he was an omnipresent figure in war rooms and at press briefings, dutifully shepherding the American empire through successive attempts at expansion. For multiple generations of antiwar activists, Kissinger personified ...

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The Man Who Planted Trees: A novel from the Vintage Earth collection - Giono Jean

Anotace: `And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns`While hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a solitary shepherd called Elzeard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzeard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks through the wilderness.Ten years later, after surviving the First...

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The Man Who Planted Trees: A novel from the Vintage Earth collection - Jean Giono

<p>'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'While hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a solitary shepherd called Elzeard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzeard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks through the wilderness.Ten years later, after surviving the First ...

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The Memory of the Air

A young dead woman in a dream triggers a memory in our unnamed narrator. Through an intimate monologue, we learn of her past fascination for a man inh

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Ancient Tillage

For Andre, a young man growing up on a farm in Brazil, life consists of 'the earth, the wheat, the bread, our table and our family'. He loves the land

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Marvel Comics Animated Series Mini-Socha Venom 11 cm

Sometimes a villain, sometimes an antihero, the alien Symbiote know as Venom strikes fear into the hearts of the Marvel Universe! When he is a villain, the hulking brute that is Venom is one of the deadliest foes of Spider-Man. But, what about his down time? In our latest Marvel Animated Statue, we find the fiendish Venom... out on a stroll enjoying his favorite, friendly...

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Can´t Hurt Me : Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds - Clean Edition - Goggins David

Anotace: For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world`s top endurance athletes. The only man in ...

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Can't Hurt Me

For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare — poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes.The only man in history to ...

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Treacle Walker - Garner Alan

Anotace: An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock squints at the world with his lazy eye. Living alone in an old house, he reads comics, collects birds` eggs and plays with his marbles. When, one day, a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker appears, exchanging an empty jar of a cure-all medicine and a donkey stone for a pair of Joseph`s pyjamas and a lamb`s shoulder b...

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The Favourite Game - Cohen Leonard

Anotace: This warm and lyrical semi-autobiographical first novel by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen charts the coming of age of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of a Jewish Montreal family. `Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the world is made flesh.` Lawrence Breavman seeks two things: love and beauty. Begin...

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All That Is Left Is All That Matters : Stories - Slouka Mark

Anotace: In fifteen beautifully wrought stories-ranging from occupied Czechoslovakia to California`s Central Valley to the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest-Mark Slouka explores moments in life when our back is to the wall. One of the most forceful American writers of his generation, Slouka captures the depth and emotional range of an array of characters-from a young ...

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All That Is Left Is All That Matters : Stories - Mark Slouka

<p>In fifteen beautifully wrought stories-ranging from occupied Czechoslovakia to California's Central Valley to the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest-Mark Slouka explores moments in life when our back is to the wall. One of the most forceful American writers of his generation, Slouka captures the depth and emotional range of an array of characters-from a young b...

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Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Book and Audio CD Pack - Intermediate

Chosen by Anne Michaels as her Orange Inheritance. This Orange Inheritance Edition of Tess of the D'Urbervilles is published in association with the Orange Prize for Fiction. Books shape our lives and transform the way we see ourselves and each other. The best books are timeless and continue to be relevant generation after generation. Vintage Classics asked the winners of...

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

<p>A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover-these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. Kundera's first since "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting." In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuito...

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Can´t Hurt Me : Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds - Clean Edition - David Goggins

<p>For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in h...

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Permanent Record - Edward Snowden

<p>NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the Ame...

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Between Never and Forever - Rose Shain

Anotace: For fans of Sara Cate and Lauren Asher, a forbidden, second chance romance about a young woman who is thrust into the world of a past lover when she takes a gig at his family´s casino to pay off her mother´s medical debts.As my best friend´s brother, Dex Hardy has always been my downfall-older, forbidden, and completely irresistible.Our paths were never supposed...

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To Paradise - Yanagihara Hanya

Anotace: The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of A LITTLE LIFETo Paradise is a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the elusive idea of utopia; driven by Yanagihara`s understanding of our desire to protect those we love - partners, lovers, children, friends, family and even our fellow citizens - and the pain that ensu...

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Between Never and Forever - Shain Rose

<p>For fans of Sara Cate and Lauren Asher, a forbidden, second chance romance about a young woman who is thrust into the world of a past lover when she takes a gig at his family’s casino to pay off her mother’s medical debts. As my best friend’s brother, Dex Hardy has always been my downfall—older, forbidden, and completely irresistible. Our paths were never suppo...

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To Paradise, 1. vydání - Hanya Yanagihara

<p>The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of A LITTLE LIFETo Paradise is a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the elusive idea of utopia; driven by Yanagihara's understanding of our desire to protect those we love - partners, lovers, children, friends, family and even our fellow citizens - and the pain that ensue...

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The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life´s Final Moments - THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Vlahos Hadley

Anotace: *THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* - `Heartfelt ... Gentle, refreshingly forthright` New York TimesHospice nurse and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories, life lessons and wisdom from her patients in this heart-warming memoir about how end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die.`The combined beauty, f...

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The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life´s Final Moments - THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Hadley Vlahos

<p>*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* - 'Heartfelt ... Gentle, refreshingly forthright' New York TimesHospice nurse and TikTok star Hadley Vlahos shares moving stories, life lessons and wisdom from her patients in this heart-warming memoir about how end-of-life care can teach us just as much about how to live as it does about how we die.'The combined beauty, fa...

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Becoming Steve Jobs

No.1 New York Times Bestseller§§There have been many books-on a large and small scale-about Steve Jobs, one of the most famous CEOs in history. But this book is different from all the others.§§Becoming Steve Jobs takes on and breaks down the existing myth and stereotypes about Steve Jobs. The conventional, one-dimensional view of Jobs is that he was half-genius, half-jerk...

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To Paradise - Yanagihara Hanya

Anotace: In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives wit...

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Memories of the Future - Siri Hustvedtová

Anotace: From the internationally bestselling, Man Booker Prize-longlisted Siri Hustvedt comes a provocative, exuberant novel about time, desire, memory and the imagination, which tells the story of a young Midwestern woman's first year in New York in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbour, Lucy Brite. As she listens to Lucy through the thin ...

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Janko Kráľ - I was Not Born for Quiet

Anotace: Thanks to Janko Kráľ, as John Minahane has written, the Váh is Slovakia´s most mystical river. Again and again the poet returns to his community via that flagship poem of Slovak romanticism, The Enchanted Maiden in the Váh and Odd Johnny. Characteristic in Kráľ´s poetry is his focus on the inward side of events and stories, turned inside out, since one has to tu...

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A Time for Mercy - John Grisham

Anotace: Jake Brigance, the protagonist of John Grisham's classic legal thriller, A Time to Kill, is back. This time he's at the epicenter of a sensational murder trial that bitterly divides the citizens of Clanton, Mississippi. John Grisham's A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. It established Jake as a classic American hero-a lawyer who sough...

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The Sellout - Paul Beatty

Anotace: A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father's racially charged psychological studies. He is told tha...

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Lady Pokingham: Or; They All Do It - Locus Elm Press

Anotace: Lady Pokingham recounts the life of Beatrice, a headstrong and inquisitive young woman who delights in nothing more than giving over all her senses in being gamahuched, tribbed, taken, dominated, and chastised by man and woman in like manner.But it is in being married to Lord Crim-Con that she will experience the kind of sexual awakening that her experiences thu...

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Uhtred´s Feast: Inside the world of the Last Kingdom - Cornwell Bernard

Anotace: WELCOME TO UHTRED`S FEAST . . . The Last Kingdom is one of the most successful historical fiction series of our time, telling the epic story of the birth of England, and introducing one of the greatest ever fictional heroes: the iconic Uhtred of Bebbanburg. Saxon-born, Norse-raised, warrior and rebel. The final Last Kingdom book was ...

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Janko Kráľ - I was Not Born for Quiet

Thanks to Janko Kráľ, as John Minahane has written, the Váh is Slovakia’s most mystical river. Again and again the poet returns to his community via that flagship poem of Slovak romanticism, The Enchanted Maiden in the Váh and Odd Johnny. Characteristic in Kráľ’s poetry is his focus on the inward side of events and stories, turned inside out, since one has to turn one’s c...

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The Seventh Son: From the Between the Covers TV Book Club - Faulks Sebastian

Anotace: `Genuinely thought-provoking` THE TIMES`Extraordinary` WILLIAM BOYD `Faulks is an enviably graceful and economical writer` GUARDIANA CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHINGTech billionaire Lukas Parn has an ambitious plan. Behind the doors of the IVF clinic in his London institute, a daring switch is made. Young academic Talissa Adam believes she is simply...

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Memories of the Future - Siri Hustvedtová

<p>From the internationally bestselling, Man Booker Prize-longlisted Siri Hustvedt comes a provocative, exuberant novel about time, desire, memory and the imagination, which tells the story of a young Midwestern woman's first year in New York in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbour, Lucy Brite. As she listens to Lucy through the thin walls ...

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Rupert Brooke of Rugby - Hale Keith

Anotace: When Rupert Brooke died of blood poisoning on his way to fight the Turkish forces at Gallipoli in 1915, his friends in England were quick to turn him into a national hero--a patriotic symbol of the many young men of England going to war. That Brooke had recently published five sonnets glorifying patriotic sacrifice did much to promote his legend. That his friend...

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Early Light - Dazai Osamu, Dazai Osamu

Anotace: Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee with a new baby boy and their little girl to relatives in Kofu, only to be bombed out anew. "Everythi...

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Early Light - Osamu Dazai

<p>Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee with a new baby boy and their little girl to relatives in Kofu, only to be bombed out anew. "Everything's g...

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The Complete Maus - Art Spiegelman

<p>The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman - the Pulitzer prize-winning Holocaust survivor story 'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' Wall Street Journal 'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New Yorker The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his so...

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To Paradise, 1. vydání - Hanya Yanagihara

<p>'After the painfully affecting [A Little Life] To Paradise gives us three stories far apart in space and time but each unique in their power to summon the joy and complexity of love, the pain of loss. I’m not sure I’ve ever missed the world of a book as much as I miss To Paradise now I’ve left it . . . It’s rare that you get the opportunity to review a masterpiec...

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Cut Out Girl - neuveden

Anotace: The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland during World War II, who hides from the Nazis in the homes of an underground network of foster families, one of them the author's grandparents Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: a young Jewish gi...

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Dune and Philosophy - Minds, Monads, and Muad'Dib

Explore the universe of Frank Herbert's Dune in all its philosophical richness"He who controls the spice controls the universe." Frank Herbert's Dune saga is the epic story of Paul, son of Duke Leto Atreides, and heir to the massive fortune promised by the desert planet Arrakis and its vast reservoirs of a drug called "spice." To control the spice, Paul and his mother Jes...

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DmC: Devil May Cry

In this retelling of Dante's origin story which is set against a contemporary backdrop, DmC Devil May Cry™ retains the stylish action, fluid combat and self-assured protagonist that have defined the iconic series but inject a more brutal and visceral edge. The Dante of DmC is a young man who has no respect for authority or indeed society in general. Dante knows tha...

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DmC: Devil May Cry (PC)

In this retelling of Dante's origin story which is set against a contemporary backdrop, DmC Devil May Cry&trade; retains the stylish action, fluid combat and self-assured protagonist that have defined the iconic series but inject a more brutal and visceral edge. The Dante of DmC is a young man who has no respect for authority or indeed society in general. Dante k...

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The Big Book of Flute Songs

Pro sólovou flétnuObsah: 1. Put Your Hand In The Hand2. All My Loving3. All The Small Things4. Alley Cat5. America6. Another One Bites The Dust7. Any Dream Will Do8. Bad Day9. Barely Breathing10. Be True To Your School11. (It'...

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