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PEN International: An Illustrated History - Carles Torner
‘I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory.’ Harold Pinter, English PEN President and Literature Nobel 2005 PEN – ‘Poets, Essayists, Novelists’ – was found...
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A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps - Elledge Jonn
Anotace: People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By telling the stories of these borders, we can learn a lot ab...
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Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo´s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 - Payne Chris
Anotace: An explosive oral history of emo`s takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuringMY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, FALL OUT BOY, PARAMORE, PANIC! AT THE DISCO, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, JIMMY EAT WORLD, DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, AND MANY MOREIf Meet Me in the Bathroom traced New York City`s early 2000`s rock scene, Where Are Your Boys Tonight? gives the inside story of the turn-of-the-millen...
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Making History: The First World War
Covering one of the most catastrophic events in human history, Making History: The First World War offers a strategic level experience in a turn-based global game of conflict. It’s a war between the Great Powers of the age, each straddling to one degree or another, the old world and the new. This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully reali...
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Making History: The First World War (PC)
Covering one of the most catastrophic events in human history, Making History: The First World War offers a strategic level experience in a turn-based global game of conflict. It’s a war between the Great Powers of the age, each straddling to one degree or another, the old world and the new.This is the moment when the industrialization of warfare became fully re...
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Architecture Lover s Guide to London
Looks at the history of architecture in London in key periods such as Roman times, Norman, Stuart, Victorian and Georgian periods to Art Deco, Postmod
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Cruickshank’s London: A Portrait of a City in 13 Walks
'The perfect guide to the hidden history of London's streets.' BBC History MagazineIn Cruickshank's London, Britain's favourite architectural historia
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Prague in the Heart - 189 Stories from the City and its People - Renáta Fučíková
Anotace: Prague in the Heart is a collection of one hundred and eighty-nine true stories of events that have taken place in Prague over the past two hundred years. They show that the recent past has been no less dramatic and convoluted than in medieval times. Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Seifert, Bohumil Hrabal, Jaroslav Hašek, Jan Patočka, Jiří Dienstbier and ...
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London Seance Society - Sarah Penner
<p>THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Most Anticipated book by Good Housekeeping, Washington Post, Bookpage, CrimeReads, Readers Digest, Popsugar, LitHub, E! News, Goodreads, and more "Penner brings history to vivid life in this atmospheric and evocative whodunnit." --Nita Prose, author of The Maid From the author of the sensational bestselle...
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Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love - Qureshi Huma, Qureshi Huma
Anotace: A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships, and the secrets, misunderstandings and silences that haunt them.A daughter asks her mother to shut up, only to shut her up for good; an exhausted wife walks away from the husband who doesn`t understand her; on holiday, lovers no longer make sense to each other away from home.Set across t...
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Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations - Vijay Prashad
<p>Essays on acts of US imperialism, from the 1953 Iran coup to the 2019 ouster of Evo Morales Washington Bullets is written in the best traditions of Marxist journalism and history-writing. It is a book of fluent and readable stories, full of detail about US imperialism, but never letting the minutiae obscure the larger political point. It is a book that could eas...
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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century - DeLong J. Bradford
Anotace: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR AND THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom one of the world`s leading economists, a sweeping new history of the twentieth century - a century that left us vastly richer, yet still profoundly dissati...
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The World of Ice & Fire - The Untold History - George Raymond Richard Martin
<p>NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN HISTORY OF WESTEROS AND THE LANDS BEYOND WITH HUNDREDS OF PAGES OF ALL-NEW MATERIAL FROM GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If the past is prologue, then George R. R. Martin s masterwork the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with The World of...
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Dawnlands: the number one bestselling author of vivid stories crafted by history - Gregory Philippa
Anotace: The new historical novel from Philippa Gregory, the Number One bestselling author of Tidelands and Dark Tides. In a divided country, power and loyalty conquer all . . . Ned Ferryman, inspired by news of a rebellion against the Stuart kings, returns from America with his Pokanoket servant to join the uprising against roman catholic, King James. As Ned swears loy...
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Native American Loanwords in Contemporary American English : History and Development - Reese Katharina
Anotace: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject American Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, Free University of Berlin (John-F. Kennedy-Institut fur Nordamerikastudien), course: Language Change II: Language Contact Phenomena and Change in English, language: English, abstract: The number of indigenous people that inhabited the American continent before the Europea...
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Making Gay History : The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights - Marcus Eric
Anotace: From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage. Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition of Making History, originally published in 1992. Using the heartfelt stories of more than sixty people, he c...
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Wealth of Nations - Smith Adam
Anotace: Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book. First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith`s contemporaries and became an immediate bestseller. That edition sold out quickly and...
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Armenian Genocide: History, lessons, consequences (978-80-971764-5-7)
Kniha - autor Igor Bondarenko; John Akopov, 232 stran, anglicky, pevná s přebalem lesklá Armenian Genocide: History, Lessons, Consequences, is based upon archival documents and numerous academic publications. The book examines the background and causes of the mass exterminations of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. The study analyzes t...
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How to Argue With a Racist : History, Science, Race and Reality - Rutherford Adam
Anotace: Racist pseudoscience may be on the rise, but science is no ally to racists. Instead science and history can be powerful allies against bigotry, granting us the clearest view of how people actually are, rather than how we judge them to be. HOW TO ARGUE WITH A RACIST dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics can and can`t tell us abo...
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The World: A Family History - W. a CH. Awdry, Montefiore Simon Sebag
Anotace: The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore is a fresh and original history of humanity, unlike any previous world history: it uses family, the one thing all humans have in common, to tell the story. It is genuinely global, spanning all eras and all continents, from the perspective of places as diverse as Haiti, Congo and Cambodia as well as Europe, China and America. S...
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Fashion History from the 18th to the 20th Century
<p>Take an trip through three centuries of trend. In this spectacular collection from the Kyoto Costume Institute, one of the world’s most extensive clothing collections, the smartest minds and sharpest eyes in fashion studies walk us through the outer- and underwear, shoes, and accessories that have defined people around the world.</p> <p>Clothes define...
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The Cold War : A New Oral History - Kendall Bridget
Anotace: The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history. It spanned the globe - from Greece to China, Hungary to Cuba - and lasted for almost half a century. It has shaped political relations to this day, drawing new physical and ideological boundaries between East and West. In this meticulously researched account, Bridget Ke...
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Love; A Curious History - Brooke-Hitching Edward
Anotace: `Edward Brooke-Hitching`s delightful book is a collection of curiosities. From a 19th-century lonely hearts ad to a nuptial blessing of the bride`s buttocks, an entertaining history of love over the millennia that proves when it comes to the heart, little has changed.` Daily Mail - - - - - - From the author of the critically acclaimed The Phantom Atlas and The M...
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Loving London (978-88-536-1742-2)
Kniha - autor Angela Tomkinson, 64 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Who wants to go on a trip to London? You? Then join us on our A-Z journey through this ancient and modern city. London is a city which is full of surprises and there’s always something to see and do in this exciting capital. If you like art or nature, sport or culture, food or museums then ...
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The London Seance Society - Sarah Penner
Anotace: May mercy be upon the man who finds himself the enemy of a vengeful medium... 1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D'Allaire. Known worldwide for her talent in conjuring the spirits of murder victims to ascertain the identities of the people who killed them, s...
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Winter of the World - Ken Follett
Anotace: Five linked families live out their destinies as the world is shaken by tyranny and war in the mid-twentieth century Berlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother’s formidable friend and former British M...
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Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn´t Food ... and Why Can´t We Stop? - van Tulleken Chris
Anotace: Chosen by the SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, FT and DAILY MAIL as one of their BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2023`If you only read one diet or nutrition book in your life, make it this one` Bee Wilson`A devastating, witty and scholarly destruction of the shit food we eat and why` Adam Rutherford---An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production ...
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Line Of Fire - neuveden
Anotace: `Like the best action films in book form` FHM Nick Stone is back in London but if he thought he was home for a break, he`s very, very wrong. Backed into a corner by a man he knows he cannot trust, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone strikes a devil`s bargain. In exchange for his own safety - a life for a life - Stone is charged with locating someone who doesn`t want...
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Putin´s People : How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West - Belton Catherine
Anotace: A chilling and revelatory expose of the KGB`s renaissance, Putin`s rise to power, and how Russian black cash is subverting the world.In Putin`s People, former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized power in Russia and built a new league of oligarchs.Thr...
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Putin´s People : How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West, 1. vydání - Catherine Belton
<p>A chilling and revelatory expose of the KGB’s renaissance, Putin’s rise to power, and how Russian black cash is subverting the world.</p> <p>In Putin’s People, former Moscow correspondent and investigative journalist Catherine Belton reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized power in Russia and built a new leag...
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Winter of the World
Five linked families live out their destinies as the world is shaken by tyranny and war in the mid-twentieth centuryBerlin in 1933 is in upheaval. Eleven-year-old Carla von Ulrich struggles to understand the tensions disrupting her family as Hitler strengthens his grip on Germany. Into this turmoil steps her mother’s formidable friend and former British MP, Ethel Leckwith...
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I Never Knew That About London - Winn Christopher
Anotace: Takes us on a journey around London to discover the tales of the capital`s history. This work aims to unearth the hidden gems of legends, firsts, inventions, adventures and birthplaces that shape the city`s past. It contains stories and snippets providing an insight into what has shaped the capital.
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Making Gay History : The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights - Eric Marcus
<p>From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage. Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition of Making History, originally published in 1992. Using the heartfelt stories of more than sixty people, he ca...
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Fashion. A History from the 18th to the 20th Century - kolektiv (EN)
Clothes define people. A person’s attire, whether it’s a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, personality, even faith. Founded in 1978, the Kyoto Costume Institute recognizes the importance of understanding clothes from sociological, historical, and artistic perspectives.
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The Ultimate Guide to Developing Leaders: Invest in People Like Your Future Depends on It - Maxwell John C.
Anotace: What is the secret sauce for every kind of organization?What is the secret to organizational success? Whether the goal is developing a new product, establishing a new location, launching a new initiative, starting a new team, or improving your existing one, what will determine its success? The leaders! For any team, small business, large corporation, non-profit ...
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A-Z of Ealing
Explore the West London borough of Ealing in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.
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Winnie The Pooh A Day at the Natural History Museum - Riordan Jane
Anotace: Join Winnie-the-Pooh and friends for a visit to the Natural History Museum in this beautiful special edition storybook. `The Dippywhat-cus?` asked Pooh. `Is she the one with the teeth?` When Winnie-the-Pooh has an outing to The Natural History Museum, he comes across some very, very old dinosaurs with rather long...
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Act of Oblivion - Harris Robert
Anotace: From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbinding historical novel that brilliant imagines one of the greatest manhunts in history: the search for two Englishmen involved in the killing of King Charles I and the implacable foe on their trail-an epic journey into the wilds of seventeeth-century New England, a...
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Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka - Mulleyová Clare
Anotace: This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. Agent Zo was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the `Silent Unseen`. She was secr...
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Children of the Whales 21 - Umeda Abi
Anotace: In this postapocalyptic fantasy, a sea of sand swallows everything but the past.In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past.Neither fully human nor fully Nous, the emperor has had centuries to observe people ...
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The Psychopathology of Everyday Life - Freud Sigmund
Anotace: This collection of writings is famous for giving us the phrase `Freudian slip`. It also builds up a strong social history of Vienna and the middle-class social milieu of Freud and his patients. Through a series of case histories, some no longer than a few lines long, Freud explores how it is that normal people make slips of speech, writing, reading and rememberi...
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The Physics of Sorrow - Gospodinov Georgi
Anotace: From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter, this kaleidoscopic 'novel of beginnings' offers a portrait of a man who can wander uninvited into other people's memories. In the small and the insignificant - that's where life hides, that's where it builds its nest. Our unnamed narrator is not well. He suffers from ...
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Prague Cuisine - A Selection of Culinary Experiences in the City of Spires - Dominic James
Anotace: Prague Cuisine is a culinary journey of discovery. From urban chic to fine dining, Dominic James shares his culinary experiences and discoveries, revealing a diverse selection of restaurants, cafés, bistros and confectioners in and around a city rich in history and tradition. With its beautiful collection of photographs and descriptive legends, this treas...
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The Future of Geography - Marshall Tim
Anotace: Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries` GDP. People on Mars within the next ten years.This isn`t science fiction. It`s astropolitics.Humans are heading up and out, and we`re taking our power struggles with us. Soon, what happens in space will shape human history as much the mountains, rivers and seas have on Earth. It`s no ...
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A Catalogue of Catastrophe - Taylor Jodi
Anotace: `Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time. Her books are a swashbuckling joyride through History` C. K. MCDONNELL BOOK 13 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY`S SERIESFor fans of Richard Osman`s Thursday Murder Club series, Jasper Fforde and Doctor Who.---Finally - finally! - Max has that nice office job she`s always wanted. The one with...
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Journeys to the Other Side of the World : further adventures of a young naturalist - Attenborough David
Anotace: `Abundantly good` TLS `With charm, erudition, humour and passion, the world`s favourite natural history broadcaster documents some of his expeditions from the late 1950s onwards` Sunday Express `A wondrous reminder of Attenborough`s pioneering role . . . full of delightful tales` Daily Express `An adventure that sparked a lifetime`s commitment to the planet` The...
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Death Census of Black ’47: Eyewitness Accounts of Ireland’s Great Famine
The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of
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Beast of Buckingham Palace
Destined to be the most wanted book this Christmas, Walliams weaves a richly imaginative fantasy adventure that is vividly brought to life with Tony Ross’s stunning illustrations. The year is 2120. London is in ruins, the people are hungry and darkness has fallen across the world. Prince Alfred, a sickly boy of twelve, has never known life outside Buckingham Palace. But e...
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Children of the Whales, Vol. 8 - Umeda Abi
Anotace: In this postapocalyptic fantasy, a sea of sand swallows everything but the past. In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past. The promised haven of Amonlogia is closer than ever, but the dark history of the M...
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Chronicles of St Mary´s (5) - neuveden
Anotace: The fifth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary`s series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won`t be able to resist Jodi Taylor. A Fete Worse Than Death... The St Mary`s Institute of Historical Research has finally recovered from its wounds and it...
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Chronicles of St Mary´s (7) - neuveden
Anotace: The seventh book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary`s series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won`t be able to resist Jodi Taylor. Rules are meant to be broken, aren`t they? `I`ve done some stupid things in my time. I`ve been reckless. I`ve broken...
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Frostpunk Game of the Year Edition
Frostpunk: Game of the Year Edition consists of: Frostpunk – the full version of the highly acclaimed society survival game, which sold over 3 000 000 copies worldwide and won a number of critics awards. Frostpunk Season Pass - a set of three expansions of the Frostpunk universe: The Last Autumn is a turning point in the Frostpunk universe. Revealing the restless ev...
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Children of the Whales, Vol. 17 - Umeda Abi
Anotace: In this postapocalyptic fantasy, a sea of sand swallows everything but the past.In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past.The blight of the tarichos is infecting the people of the Mud Whale with horrifying ...
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Children of the Whales, Vol. 22 - Umeda Abi
Anotace: In this postapocalyptic fantasy, a sea of sand swallows everything but the past.In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past.The people of the Mud Whale and Kivotos are all that stand between the world and cer...
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Frostpunk Game of the Year Edition (PC)
Frostpunk: Game of the Year Edition consists of:Frostpunk – the full version of the highly acclaimed society survival game, which sold over 3 000 000 copies worldwide and won a number of critics awards.Frostpunk Season Pass - a set of three expansions of the Frostpunk universe:The Last Autumn is a turning point in the Frostpunk universe. Revealing the restless e...
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Children of the Whales, Vol. 6 - Umeda Abi
Anotace: In this postapocalyptic fantasy, a sea of sand swallows everything but the past. In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past. The people of the Mud Whale have been trapped on the floating island since their a...
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Children of the Whales, Vol. 19 - Umeda Abi
Anotace: In this postapocalyptic fantasy, a sea of sand swallows everything but the past.In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past.Chakuro and the people of the Mud Whale believe they have found a new home, safe fro...
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Children of the Whales, Vol. 10 - Umeda Abi
Anotace: In this postapocalyptic fantasy, a sea of sand swallows everything but the past. In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past. The promised land of Amonlogia has turned out to be a nightmare for the people of ...
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Children of the Whales, Vol. 9 - Umeda Abi
Anotace: In this postapocalyptic fantasy, a sea of sand swallows everything but the past. In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past. The Mud Whale has finally reached the shores of Amonlogia, but it quickly becomes ...
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Children of the Whales, Vol. 12 - Umeda Abi
Anotace: In this postapocalyptic fantasy, a sea of sand swallows everything but the past. In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past. Chakuro and the other Marked children have freed the Unmarked from the Amonlogian ...
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