Penguin book of the undead

Penguin Book of the Undead

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History of the Undead

A cultural exploration of the myth of the mummy, vampire and zombie. This is the first book to explore the history of all three examples of the undead

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The Book of Sand - Theo Clare

<p>SAND.A hostile world of burning sun.Outlines of several once-busy cities shimmer on the horizon, and in the distance a group of people - a family - walk towards us.Ahead lies shelter which they know they must reach before the light fails - as to be out after dark is to invite danger and almost certain death.To survive in this alien world of shifting sand, they mu...

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The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2) Penguin

originální anglická četba - sci-fi příběh, ve kterém jsou Carter a Sadie KANE, potomci magického domu života, ve velkém problému. Hrozný nepřítel Apophis, obří had chaosu, roste. Pokud ho Carter a Sadie nezničí, bude za pět dní konec světa...

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The Penguin Book of Dragons - Bruce Scott G.

Anotace: The definitive global anthology of writings about dragons, from Ancient Egypt to the modern daySince the earliest moments of human history, dragons have occupied a place in our imaginations. Bringer of night in Ancient Egypt; mortal enemy of the elephant in South Asia; slain by a god in Sanskrit hymn. In the Book of Revelation, there is the Leviathan; in Loch Ne...

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The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories - Fulton Bruce

Anotace: This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea`s dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between North and South and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of later decades, The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories captu...

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Penguin Book of Puzzles

A collection of challenges from throughout history, featuring some of the greatest ever puzzle masters.A Sumerian Riddle (circa 18th Century)There is

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Penguin Book of Witches

From a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials of 1692, to newspaper coverage o

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Raymie Nightingale The Book Service Ltd (Penguin)

New York Times bestselling author Kate DiCamillo returns to her roots with a moving yet witty story of an unforgettable summer friendship. For fans of Jacqueline Wilson, David Almond and Katherine Rundell. In her seventh novel, international bestselling author and twice winner of the prestigious Newbery Medal Kate DiCamillo tells a masterful story that blends pathos and h...

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Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth (Book 4) Penguin

Originální anglická četba...

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Penguin Readers Level 1: Taylor Swift - neuveden

Anotace: Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introduci...

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The Book of Tea - Okakura Kakuzó

Anotace: `Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle.`In this charming book from 1906, Okakura explores Zen, Taoism, Tea Masters and the significance of the Japanese tea ceremony.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics se...

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Child of Fortune - Tsushima Yuko

Anotace: Koko won`t do what is expected of her. Defying her family`s wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her already troubled relationship with her daughter? As she faces the future, memories of her own childhood loss flood into her cons...

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The Imitation of the Rose - Lispector Clarice

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

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The Gift of the Magi - Henry O.

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

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The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Tolstoy Leo

Anotace: `It is only a bruise`A carefree Russian official has what seems to be a trivial accident...One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics` huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables...

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Bronteová Anne

Anotace: One of the BBC`s `100 Novels That Shaped Our World`The Penguin English Library Edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte`She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it`In this sensational, hard-hitting and passionate tale of marital cruelty, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall sees a mysterious tenant, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a `wicked woman...

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The Queen Of Spades - Puškin Alexandr Sergejevič

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 Art of War - Tzu Sun

Anotace: For more than 2,000 years, Sun Tzu`s The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success, whether in battle, in business or in relationships. Now, i...

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The Colossus of Maroussi - Miller Henry

Anotace: `Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading light`Enraptured by a young woman`s account of the landscapes of Greece, Henry Miller set off to explore the Grecian countryside with his friend Lawrence Durrell in 1939. In The Colossus of Maroussi he describes drinking from sacred spri...

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Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle - Macintyre Ben

Anotace: The Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller on the incredible true story of WW2`s most infamous Nazi prison, and the colourful characters behind its wallsIn a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz has...

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Soul of the Deep - Bowen Natasha

Anotace: For fans of The Gilded Ones, Children of Blood and Bone, and Circe, this is the breathtaking follow-up to SKIN OF THE SEA - an epic love story infused with West African mythology and a powerful new imagining of a devastating time in history, told through the eyes of a bold and unforgettable heroine.One life. One choice. One sacrifice.To save those closest to her...

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The Island of Missing Trees - Shafak Elif

Anotace: It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, chilli peppers and wild ...

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The Rise And Fall of Athens - Plutarch

Anotace: Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal workWhat makes a leader? For Plutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine biographies, taken from his Parallel Lives, Plutarch illustrates the rise and fall of Athens through nine liv...

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The Curse of Saints - Dramis Kate

Anotace: Debut novelist Kate Dramis brings you the viral, enemies to lovers, TikTok fantasy phenomenon that has left followers begging for more Has she been sent to save the realm or destroy it? As Spymaster to the Queen, Aya's blood oath ensures she protects those she fights alongside - including Will, the Queen's Enforcer and Aya's bitter rival. When ...

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The League of Gentlewomen Witches - Holton India

Anotace: Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret society skilled in witchcraft. When rumours of the Amulet of Black Beryl start to circulate, Charlotte is determined to find the jewel before it falls into the wrong hands. Which is what happens when the evil Lady Armitage reaches it first. Demanding the help of rakish pirate, Alex O'Riley, Charlotte sets off to fin...

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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe - Ferguson Niall

Anotace: Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why?While populist rulers certain...

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The Age of Innocence - Whartonová Edith

Anotace: A moving portrayal of the struggle between desire and duty in nineteenth-century New York high societyNewland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingenue, when May`s cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication...

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The Lily of Ludgate Hill - Matthews Mimi

Anotace: A sizzling historical romance perfect for all fans of Bridgerton and Jilly CooperFortune favours the bold. But is Lady Anne daring enough to accept a favour from a wicked gentleman? Lady Anne Deveril has voluntarily renounced any fanciful notions of love and marriage. And yet, fate now puts Anne back into the entirely too enticing path of Mr. Felix Hartford. Th...

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The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse - Childers Christopher

Anotace: Newly translated according to a scheme of staggering ambition, an anthology unlike any now availableComposed between the early-agricultural `song culture` of 800 BCE, when praise poems and dirges mingled in a world peopled with gods and monsters, and the time of Imperial Rome, the corpus of Greek and Latin lyric poetry is as densely rich in formal interrelation ...

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The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life - Bartlett Steven

Anotace: The new book by STEVEN BARTLETT: entrepreneur, podcaster and Dragon`s Den starThis is not a book about business strategy. Strategy changes like the seasons. This is a book about something much more permanent. At the very heart of all the success and failure I`ve been exposed to - both my own entrepreneurial journey and through the thousands of interviews I`ve co...

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The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II - Alexievich Svetlana

Anotace: A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia-from the winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post o The Guardian o NPR o The Economist o Milwaukee Journal Sentinel o Kirkus ReviewsFor more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has...

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The Dawn of Everything : A New History of Humanity - Graeber David

Anotace: For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century ...

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Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck John

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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A Short History of Russia - Galeotti Mark

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

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Beasts of Ruin - Gray Ayana, Gray Ayana

Anotace: The powerful and magical sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller BEASTS OF PREY, perfect for fans of AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, SHADOW AND BONE and THE GILDED ONES.`A fast-paced, rip-roaring ride that grabs you by the throat and never lets you go. A masterpiece of magic` - Namina Forna, New York Times bestselling author of The Gilded Ones on Beasts of PreyKo...

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Confessions of a Mask - Mishima Yukio

Anotace: `There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain`A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. He imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in the painting that obsesses him. Over and over again, each night in his private fantasies, the objects of his lust are tortured, killed and maimed. But, i...

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King of Dead Things - Holness Nevin

Anotace: Magical contemporary London. Two lives are about to collide. A journey of self-discovery.For fans of dark fantasy like Cemetery Boys, Noughts and Crosses and Threads that Bind from major new YA talent Jamaican British author Nevin HolnessThe first time Eli had tried taking magic that wasn`t his, it had wrapped around his palms like razor wire, tight enough that ...

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More Die of Heartbreak - Bellow Saul

Anotace: Kenneth Trachtenberg has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described `plant visionary.` While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings after his first marriage and lives from affair to affair and from `blis...

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A Question of Guilt - Horst Jorn Lier

Anotace: Wisting is back with his most gripping case yet.In 1999, seventeen-year-old Tone Vaterland was killed on her way home from work. Desperate for a conviction the police deemed the investigation an open-and-shut case and sent her spurned boyfriend, Danny Momrak, down for murder.But twenty years later Detective William Wisting receives a puzzling letter. It suggests...

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Penguin Readers Level 3: The Extraordinary Life of Michelle Obama (ELT Graded Reader) - neuveden

Anotace: Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introduci...

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Penguin Readers Level 5: The One Memory of Flora Banks (ELT Graded Reader) - Barrová Emily

Anotace: Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introduci...

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The Masque of the Red Death - Poe Edgar Allan

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 Ballad of the Sad Cafe - McCullers Carson

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 Last Days of the Ottoman Empire - Gingeras Ryan

Anotace: `A tour de force of accessible scholarship` The Guardian`Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority` New StatesmanThe Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political...

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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - Doyle Arthur Conan

Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Emerging from their smoke-filled rooms at 21B Baker Street, Holmes and Watson grapple with the forces of crime that stalk the streets of London. From the first story, 'A ...

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The Secret History of the Mongols - Atwood Christopher P.

Anotace: A new translation of a great historical epic, recounting the turbulent life and times of Chinggis Khan`Bear the sword andHew asunder high and haughty necksSlash apart all strong and self-willed shoulders`Born poor into a world of dangers and hardships, Chinggis (or Genghis) Khan would grow up to unify Mongolia and conquer a vast empire stretching from modern-day...

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The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found - Lees Jordan

Anotace: The spell-binding world-building of Philip Pullman with the page-turning kid appeal of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief. Discover a world of magic and secrets, friendship and unimaginable quests in this spectacular new fantasy series from the most exciting new voice in children`s books.A boy who doesn`t believe in magic. An impossible world that will change his min...

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The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found - Lees Jordan

Anotace: The spell-binding world-building of Philip Pullman with the page-turning kid appeal of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief. Discover a world of magic and secrets, friendship and unimaginable quests in this spectacular new fantasy series from the most exciting new voice in children`s books.A boy who doesn`t believe in magic. An impossible world that will change his min...

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Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control - Russell Stuart

Anotace: FROM THE BBC REITH LECTURER 2021`The most important book I have read in quite some time` Daniel Kahneman; `A must-read` Max Tegmark; `The book we`ve all been waiting for` Sam HarrisHumans dream of super-intelligent machines. But what happens if we actually succeed?Creating superior intelligence would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, accordin...

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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things - Adam Grant

Anotace: #1 New York Times bestseller "This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would`ve helped me find a more joyful path to progress."-Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis championThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again il...

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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - Nestor James

Anotace: THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERAS HEARD ON STEVEN BARTLETT`S `DIARY OF A CEO``Who would have thought something as simple as changing the way we breathe could be so revolutionary for our health, from snoring to allergies to immunity? A fascinating book, full of dazzling revelations` Dr Rangan ChatterjeeThere is nothing more essential to our health and wel...

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Bournville: From the bestselling author of Middle England - Coe Jonathan

Anotace: `A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become` RACHEL JOYCEIn Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it`s the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of t...

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Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity - Attia Peter

Anotace: - THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -This is the ultimate manual for living better and longer.For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of ageing that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer`s disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late, pro...

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The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels - Holton India

Anotace: Cecilia Bassingwaite belongs to The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels.Yet this is no ordinary Victorian lady`s society . . .Full of pirates, thieves and ne`er-do-wells, these women spend their days pickpocketing and blackmailing their way around the country all before their afternoon tea.But when Cecilia meets Ned Lightbourne her world is set to change forever...

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The Hundred Loves of Juliet: A Novel - Skye Evelyn

Anotace: I may go by Sebastien now, but my name was originally Romeo. And hers was Juliet.It`s a frosty fairytale of an evening in small-town Alaska when Helene and Sebastien meet for the first time. Except it isn`t the first time. You already know that story, though it didn`t happen quite as Shakespeare told it.To Helene, Sebastien is the flesh-and-blood hero of the lov...

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The Love of My Afterlife

‘This book has it all. Humor, heart, and a heroine I was desperately rooting for. Kirsty Greenwood has a new fan!’ Colleen Hoover_______________ If she wasn’t dead already, Delphie would be dying of embarrassment. She’s entered the afterlife wearing the sort of pyjamas you don’t want anyone to see and finds herself face-to-face with the most handsome man she’s ever encoun...

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Guardian of the Realm - Thomas Kyle, Thomas Kyle

Anotace: Kyle Thomas and his beloved meerkat Mylo have always been inseparable. But now they`re about to be worlds away from life as they know it . . .Stumbling upon an extraordinary and magical alternate world, they enter a land filled with strange and wonderful wild creatures.Everything seems perfect here, but danger is lurking.A dark creature has found its way through...

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Ladybird Book of the Sickie

From THE PHENOMENON OF 2015 comes a new nugget of wisdom in the record breaking Ladybirds for Grown Ups series

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

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

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