Presidents of american fiction
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The Scarlet Letter: a Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne
<p>This is a dramatic, moving depiction of social defiance and social deference, of passion and human frailty. Set in the harsh Puritan community of seventeenth-century Boston, this tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth reveals Nathaniel Hawthorne's concerns with the tension between the public and the private selves. Publicly disgr...
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The Cop and the Anthem and Other Stories - Olivier Henry
<p>O. Henry was a master of the short story and one of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century. This selection of tales from across his writing career ranges from New York apartments to the cattle-lands of Texas, taking in con men, clerks, hustlers, shop assistants, tramps and tricksters. They all highlight his ironic, comic eye, his gift for evok...
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Bayou Folk & a Night in Acadie
In the decade prior to the publication of her landmark novel, The Awakening (1899), Kate Chopin wrote about ninety short stories. She gathered twenty-three of them in a collection entitled Bayou Folk in 1894, and followed that three years later with a collection of twenty-one more in A Night in Acadie. Together, these nuanced portraits of nineteenth-century inhabitants of...
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Warhol After Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art World - Richard Dorment
<p>Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world, and its mystifying authentication processLate one afternoon in the winter of 2003 art critic Richard Dorment answered a telephone call from a stranger. The caller was Joe Simon, an American film producer and art collector. He was ringing at the suggestion of David Hockney, his ...
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Firekeeper's Daughter (1786079062)
Kniha - autor Angeline Boulley, 496 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná For fans of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange comes a ground-breaking YA thriller about a Native American teen who must root out the corruption in her community Eighteen-year-old Daunis has always felt like an outsider with her mixed heritage, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe rese...
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Oxford Read and Discover Camouflage Activity Book - H. Geatches
Anotace: Non-fiction graded reader series with cross-curricular content for primary - supports CLIL Series Editor: Hazel Geatches CLIL Adviser: John Clegg New non-fiction graded readers for primary - 8-year-olds and up. Cross-curricular topics and colour photos make learning English through other subjects exciting. Two new levels for younger or lower-level student...
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BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYS - Capote
Anotace: Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn`s sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, `Breakfast at Tiffany`s` is Truman Capote`s timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly, published in `Penguin Modern Classics`. It`s New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany`s. And nice girls don`t, excep...
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For the First Time, Again - Neuvel Sylvain
Anotace: Against the backdrop of authentic historical events, Sylvain Neuvel concludes his acclaimed Take Them to the Stars series with a biting satire on the role of authority in all its guises, bringing us a truly breathtaking science fiction trilogy that spans the ages.When you don´t know The Rules it´s hard to stay safe.After a traumatic incident, Aster finds that he...
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Oxford Read and Discover Camouflage - H. Geatches
Anotace: Non-fiction graded reader series with cross-curricular content for primary - supports CLIL Series Editor: Hazel Geatches CLIL Adviser: John Clegg New non-fiction graded readers for primary - 8-year-olds and up. Cross-curricular topics and colour photos make learning English through other subjects exciting. Two new levels for younger or lower-level student...
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Oxford Read and Discover 1: Cities - Northcott Richard
Anotace: Non-fiction graded reader series with cross-curricular content for primary - supports CLIL Series Editor: Hazel Geatches CLIL Adviser: John Clegg New non-fiction graded readers for primary - 8-year-olds and up. Cross-curricular topics and colour photos make learning English through other subjects exciting. Two new levels for younger or lower-level students for...
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Aztec Myths & Tales: Epic Tales - Aveni Anthony
Anotace: This fascinating collection explores the history, culture, gods, calendar, myths and tales of the Aztec people, the Incas, the Mayans and other Mesoamerican and Central American peoples, from migration legends to the origin myth of the Five Suns. Though the Olmecs (1250-200 BCE) were the first civilization in Mexico, the Aztecs (1325-1521) were Mesoamerica`s las...
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The Long War (The Long Earh 2) - Stephen Baxter
<p>From the combined talents of the UK's bestselling novelist and a giant of British science fiction comes the sequel to the phenomenal No.1 bestseller The Long Earth... A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise A...
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Frankenstein
Nominated as one of America s best-loved novels by PBS s The Great American ReadA stunning new clothbound edition of Mary Shelley's infamous work of horror fiction, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible Penguin editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design Obsessed by creating...
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Time for Peace
The Vietnam War left wounds that have taken three decades to heal--indeed some scars remain even today. In A Time for Peace, prominent American historian Robert D. Schulzinger sheds light on how deeply etched memories of this devastating conflict have altered America's political, social, and cultural landscape. Schulzinger examines the impact of the war from many angles. ...
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Prague Stories - Bassett Richard
Anotace: A gorgeously jacketed hardcover anthology of stories set in Prague, by an international array of brilliant writers. The Golden City of Prague has long been an intellectual center of the western world. The writers collected here range from the early nineteenth century to the present and include both Prague natives and visitors from elsewhere. Here are stories, le...
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The Long War - Long Earth 2 (anglicky) - Terry Pratchett; Stephen Baxter
Anotace: From the combined talents of the UK's bestselling novelist and a giant of British science fiction comes the sequel to the phenomenal No.1 bestseller The Long Earth... A generation after the events of The Long Earth, mankind has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping. Where Joshua and Lobsang once pioneered, now fleets of airships link the stepwise Am...
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Butcher - Oatesová Joyce Carol
Anotace: From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women`s asylum in the nineteenth century, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world. In this harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr. Silas Weir, "Father of Gyno-Psychiatry," as he ascends from pr...
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The Raven and Other Poems - Poe Edgar Allan, Poe Edgar Allan
Anotace: Fully annotated edition with over 400 notes. It contains Poe's complete poems and three essays on poetry. The undisputed pioneer of the horror, detective and science-fiction genres, Edgar Allan Poe was an accomplished poet as well as a celebrated writer of short stories. The present edition contains all of his works in verse, from the major poems of his ma...
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The Spy's Daughter - Adam Brookes
Anotace: Authentic, taut and compelling. Brookes is the real deal'Charles CummingThe stunning third novel from multi-award-nominated author Adam Brookes is paranoid, tense and spy fiction at its very finest.Meet Pearl Tao: an American girl with a lethal secret.Pearl longed for the life of a normal American teenager: summers at the pool, friends, backyard barbecues in the...
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The Spy's Daughter
Authentic, taut and compelling. Brookes is the real deal'Charles CummingThe stunning third novel from multi-award-nominated author Adam Brookes is paranoid, tense and spy fiction at its very finest.Meet Pearl Tao: an American girl with a lethal secret.Pearl longed for the life of a normal American teenager: summers at the pool, friends, backyard barbecues in the Washingto...
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Arctic Monkeys: Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino - CD (0887828033928)
Hudební CD - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino je šesté studiové album anglické rockové kapely Arctic Monkeys vydané 11. května 2018. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino je šesté studiové album anglické rockové kapely Arctic Monkeys vydané 11. května 2018. Arctic Monkeys jsou anglická rocková kapela založená v Sheffieldu v roce 2002. Skupinu tvoří Alex Turner (zpěv, kyta...
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Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances (147223488X)
Kniha - autor Neil Gaiman, 352 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Global phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things, which includes a never-before published American Gods story, BLACK DOG.'We are all wear...
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Oxford Read and Imagine Level 2: Clunk´s New Job with MP3 Pack - kolektiv autorů
Anotace: Oxford Read and Imagine graded readers are at eight levels (Starter, Beginner, and Levels 1 to 6) for students from age 4 and older. They offer great stories to read and enjoy. Activities provide Cambridge Young Learner Exams preparation. At Levels 1 to 6, every storybook reader links to an Oxford Read and Discover non-fiction reader. The first six Oxford Read a...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'One thing is certain, - that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner or later.' Viewed by many as fuelling the abolitionist movement of the 1850s and laying the groundwork for the Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe's sentimental and moral ...
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The Great Gatsby (Pretty Books - Painted Editions) - Fitzgerald Francis Scott
Anotace: One of literature`s most decadent stories is now available in an exclusive collector`s edition, featuring beautiful cover art from artist Laci Fowler and decorative interior pages, making it ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike.Beloved by fans across the globe, Fitzgerald`s third novel?The Great Gatsby?exposes the dark side of the American Dream. T...
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Bohemian Gospel
Set against the historical reign of the Golden and Iron King, Bohemian Gospel is the remarkable tale of a bold and unusual girl on a quest to uncover her past and define her destiny. Thirteenth-century Bohemia is a dangerous place for a girl, especially one as odd as Mouse, born with unnatural senses and an uncanny intellect. Some call her a witch. Others call her an ang...
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Little Fires Everywhere - Ng Celeste
Anotace: AMAZON.COM`S #1 BEST FICTION PICK 2017WINNER OF THE GOODREADS READERS CHOICE AWARD FOR FICTION 2017`To say I love this book is an understatement...It moved me to tears` Reese Witherspoon`Just read it...Outstanding` Matt Haig Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the...
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Macmillan Readers Washington Square Beginner
This classic novel, originally published as a serial in "Cornhill Magaine" and "Harper's New Monthly Magaine," tells the story of the struggles between a daughter and her intelligent, controlling father from the viewpoint of an unnamed narrator. This book is often compared to Jane Austen's works for the clearness of its prose and its extreme concentration on human trouble...
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The Seventh Son: From the Between the Covers TV Book Club - Sebastian Faulks
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A genuinely thought-provoking piece of fiction' THE TIMES'Extraordinary' WILLIAM BOYD'Profoundly moving . . . a wonderful and life-affirming love story' JAMES HOLLAND'His greatest novel yet' ANTONY BEEVOR'Original and enthralling' PETER JAMES‘A beautifully written novel. On the one hand you have love, kindness, responsibility; on the ot...
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It's Only Cigars
It's Only Cigars is an all-American story about truth, justice, and. every American's right to smoke a Cuban. Cigar, that is. not kill one. It's Only Cigars is a political satire that evokes the right to have the right to have a hundred Cubans. And to puff them too! It's a narrative non-fiction saga about a trek through America's legal jurisprudence system that leads the ...
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Stella Maris - McCarthy Cormac
Anotace: One of the best social observers in American fiction. --John Freeman, Literary Hub "Mr. Carroll`s world is a little vicious, slippery in its sexuality . . . strangely reminiscent of the hootier, hard-candy end of the Tennessee Williams spectrum. It is flat-out odd, fun, and seeming true." --Padgett Powell When Cuban fishermen first spotted the Key West lighthous...
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Stella Maris (anglicky), 1. vydání - Cormac McCarthy
<p>One of the best social observers in American fiction. --John Freeman, Literary Hub "Mr. Carroll's world is a little vicious, slippery in its sexuality . . . strangely reminiscent of the hootier, hard-candy end of the Tennessee Williams spectrum. It is flat-out odd, fun, and seeming true." --Padgett Powell When Cuban fishermen first spotted the Key West ...
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The Overstory : Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 - Powers Richard
Anotace: The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond: An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same d...
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By Its Cover (Brunetti 23) - Donna Leon
Anotace: By Its Cover is the much anticipated twenty-third instalment in Donna Leon's bestselling crime series, where Commissario Brunetti is better than ever as he addresses questions of worth and value alongside his ever-faithful team of Ispettore Vianello and Signorina Elettra. When several valuable antiquarian books go missing from a prestigious library in the heart ...
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The Raven and Other Poems, 1. vydání - Edgar Allan Poe
<p>Fully annotated edition with over 400 notes. It contains Poe’s complete poems and three essays on poetry.The undisputed pioneer of the horror, detective and science-fiction genres, Edgar Allan Poe was an accomplished poet as well as a celebrated writer of short stories. The present edition contains all of his works in verse, from the major poems of his maturity –...
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Prophet: ´Fabulous...a page-turner´ Neil Gaiman - Helen Macdonald
YOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR DEADLIEST WEAPON‘Fabulous… Present-day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel’ NEIL GAIMAN***A mysterious eventAn all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. More and more objects materialise: toys, fairground rides, pets and other treasured mementos of the past. A weapon like no otherThe deaths quickly...
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Oxford Read and Discover Level 2 Camouflage Activity Book - Kamini Khanduri
<p></p><p> Non-fiction graded reader series with cross-curricular content for primary – supports CLIL<br /> <br /> Series Editor: Hazel Geatches<br /> CLIL Adviser: John Clegg<br /> <br /> New non-fiction graded readers for primary – 8-year-olds and up. Cross-curricular topics and colour photos make learning English th...
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Přepadení
Jaroslav (Jarda) Červenka pochází z rodu Červenků, kteří sídlili v Podbabě od 15. století. Odešel s rodinou do Ameriky, kde působil na University of Minnesota od roku 1965 jako profesor lékařské genetiky. Kromě vědy se věnoval a věnuje literatuře: publikoval tři sbírky povídek: „Mal d’Afrique“, „Revenge ofUnderwater Man“ a „Fausto’s Afternoon.“Pro mládež napsal a vydal dv...
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How to Kill Men and Get Away With It - Brent Katy
Anotace: `A MUST-READ for fans of dark fiction!` Readers First `There`s a new serial killer in town` Readers First Meet Kitty Collins. FRIEND. LOVER. KILLER. He was following me. That guy from the nightclub who wouldn`t leave me alone. I hadn`t int...
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Prophet: ´Fabulous...a page-turner´ NEIL GAIMAN - Macdonald Helen
Anotace: YOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR DEADLIEST WEAPON.This is Prophet. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your fondest memories and uses them to destroy you. But who has created it? And what do they want?`Present day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel` NEIL GAIMANAn all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. I...
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Bestiary - K-Ming Chang
<p>'This is a powerful novel that will sit inside you for days after reading.' Sunday Times Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family's queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets.One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a ...
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Bitch: What does it mean to be female? - Cooke Lucy
Anotace: `A dazzling, funny and elegantly angry demolition of our preconceptions about female behaviour and sex in the animal kingdom ... Bitch is a blast. I read it, my jaw sagging in astonishment, jotting down favourite parts to send to friends and reading out snippets gleefully...` Observer`A book that is tearing down the stereotypes and the biases. Absolutely fascina...
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Bitch: What does it mean to be female? - Lucy Cooke
<p>'A dazzling, funny and elegantly angry demolition of our preconceptions about female behaviour and sex in the animal kingdom ... Bitch is a blast. I read it, my jaw sagging in astonishment, jotting down favourite parts to send to friends and reading out snippets gleefully...' Observer'A book that is tearing down the stereotypes and the biases. Absolutely fascinat...
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Ako očariť džentlmena
,,Hunterovej sa podarilo napísať skvostný príbeh o peripetiách hľadania si životného partnera uprostred intríg spoločenskej smotánky v regentskom Anglicku, o zápasení s pochybnostami vo vieru v Boha okorenený romancou, čo vzplanie vďaka spoločnej vášni a láske ku koňom.,, Publishers WeeklyAaron Withworth nikdy nemal svoj život úplne pod kontrolou. Vždy však mohol byť hrdý...
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The Overstory : Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 - Richard Powers
<p>The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond:An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doome...
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Šľachtická rošáda
Lady Miranda Hawthorne je lady, ako sa patrí, hoci v kútiku duše by veľmi chcela byť odvážna a bezstarostná. Vo svojich dvadsiatich rokoch je v očiach spoločnosti už beznádejnou starou dievkou. Svoje najvnútornejšie pocity nevylieva do denníka, ale píše listy starému priateľovi svojho brata – vojvodovi, ktorého nikdy nestretla, len o ňom počula, a nemá v úmysle mu ich nik...
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