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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings - Plathová Sylvia

Anotace: Every day from nine to five I sit at my desk facing the door of the office and type up other people`s dreams.An office assistant in a hospital pursues a secret vocation. A girl endures a series of initiation ceremonies to join her high school sorority. A married woman seeks relief from the dull realities of daily life. From her mid-teens Sylvia Plath wrote stori...

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15 Minutes To Fit : The Simple, 30-Day Guide to Total Fitness, 15 Minutes at a Time - Light Zuzka, O´Connell Jeff

Anotace: YouTube workout video star Zuzka Light presents her long-awaited debut fitness book, with a 30-day fitness regime of powerful, effective 15-minute workouts. Filming first from a tiny basement in Prague, and eventually settling in Los Angeles, Zuzka Light has single-handedly ushered in the YouTube fitness revolution. Viewers love Light for her short, ferociously ...

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The Mosquito - Winegardner Mark

Anotace: A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity`s fate. Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice for British colonists in India and Africa? What does Starbucks have to tha...

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Klara and the Sun - Ishiguro Kazuo

Anotace: NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick - ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S SUMMER 2021 READING LIST - A Best Book of the Year by Harper's Bazaar, Vulture, and more A magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro-author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day-"a masterpiece that will mak...

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The Curator - King Owen

Anotace: Half fairy tale and half historical account of a revolution that never was, Owen King`s The Curator is full of sly humor, sensuality, and strangeness - Holly BlackFrom Sunday Times bestselling author Owen King comes a Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjure...

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The Curator - King Owen

Anotace: Half fairy tale and half historical account of a revolution that never was, Owen King`s The Curator is full of sly humor, sensuality, and strangeness - Holly BlackFrom Sunday Times bestselling author Owen King comes a Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjure...

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Penance: From the author of Boy Parts - Clark Eliza

Anotace: A GRANTA BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023`An unmissable banger.` ALICE SLATER`A meta-meditation on the mysteries, malice, and minutiae of adolescence.` TOM BENN`You`ve never read anything like this.` JULIA ARMFIELDDo you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you listen to a podcast? Did the hosts make jokes?Did you ...

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Breakfast at Tiffany´s, 1. vydání - Truman Capote

<p>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.Holly Golightly is a glittering socialite mover and shaker: generally upwards, sometimes sideways and, every now and then, down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hea...

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The Only Story - neuveden

Anotace: One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, nineteen-year-old Paul comes home from university and is urged by his mother to join the tennis club. There he's partnered with Susan Macleod, a fine player who's forty-eight, confident, witty, and married, with two nearly adult daughters. She is a warm companion, her bond with Paul immediat...

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Penance: From the author of Boy Parts - Clark Eliza

Anotace: `An unmissable banger that you need to preorder immediately.` ALICE SLATER`You`ve never read anything like this.` JULIA ARMFIELD`A meta-meditation on the mysteries, malice, and minutiae of adolescence.` TOM BENN`One of the summer`s most talked-about books.` SUNDAY TIMESDo you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you l...

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The Final Word - Marklund Liza

Anotace: Annika Bengtzon has spent her career telling stories that need to be heard. As a journalist, she`s always been at the front line of criminal reporting, alongside the investigating officers. And now a court case that she`s been reporting on - the savage murder of a homeless man - has begun to attract a lot of attention.

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The Fountainhead - Randová Ayn

Anotace: Her first major literary success, Ayn Rand`s The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist philosophy, portraying a visionary artist struggling against the dull, conformist dogma of his peers; a book of ambition, power, gold and love, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Architect Howard Roark is as unyielding as the granite he blasts to build with. Def...

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The Guest: ´The tension never wavers´ (GUARDIAN) - Cline Emma

Anotace: `Sultry and engrossing... Take it to the beach and savour every page` ObserverSummer`s almost over and Alex is no longer welcome...Alex is a young woman teetering on the edge. Behind on her rent and with nothing to keep her in New York she agrees to spend August by the beach, in the lavish house of the older man she`s been seeing.After one misstep at a dinner pa...

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Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North - Joyceová Rachel

Anotace: The final novel in the Harold Fry trilogy, this is a heart-stopping story told from the view point of his wife Maureen as she takes her own journey and discovers how to reconnect with the world.Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on his epic journey on foot to save a friend. But the story doesn`t end there.Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make.Maur...

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The Puppet Carver (Five Nights at Freddy´s: Fazbea r Frights no. 9) - Scott Cawthorn; Andrea Waggener

Anotace: Five Nights at Freddy`s fans won`t want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the bravest FNAF player up at night...Consumed by failure... Desperate to keep his kiddie pizzeria from bankruptcy, Jack lets his animatronics tech pitch him a new invention that might just give him some perspective. Frustrated by an u...

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My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 / 1 - Mashiro

Anotace: Girl meets boy the old-fashioned way - in an online game. The first volume of the popular manga that inspired the anime series!College student Akane has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Heartbroken, she decides to quit the online RPG they used to play together, but instead of deleting her account, she logs in and battles low-level enemies to relieve her stress...

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The Teacher: From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author of The Housemaid - McFadden Freida

Anotace: A mind-bending, psychological thriller from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Housemaid!Lesson #1: trust no oneEve has a good life. She gets up each day, gets a kiss from her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except...Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal, with one stude...

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The Disappearing Act - Steadmanová Catherine

Anotace: A woman has gone missingBut did she ever really exist?Mia Eliot has travelled from London to LA for pilot season. This is her big chance to make it as an actor in Hollywood, and she is ready to do whatever it takes. At an audition she meets Emily, and what starts as a simple favour takes a dark turn when Emily goes missing and Mia is the last person to see her.T...

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The Lemonade Crime - Davies Jacqueline

Anotace: Following the laws of our legal system, Evan and Jessie`s fourth grade class concocts a courtroom on the playground, putting Scott Spencer, alleged thief, on trial. They create a legitimate courtroom--with a judge, witnesses, a jury of their peers--and surprising consequences. As she explores the difficulties of fairness, Jacqueline Davies once again reveals how...

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Breakfast at Tiffany´s, 1. vydání - Truman Capote

<p>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, except...

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The Henna Wars - Jaigirdar Adiba

Anotace: Nishat and Flavia are rivals at school, but Nishat can`t help the secret crush burning in her heart - even though her parents disapprove of the fact she likes girls. Can she possibly find her happy ever after? A gorgeous, heart-warming, queer YA love story for fans of Becky Albertalli.When Nishat comes out to her parents, they say she can be anyone she wants - a...

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The Sweetest Oblivion - Lori Danielle

Anotace: She´s a romantic at heart, living in the most unromantic of worlds . . .Nicknamed Sweet Abelli for her docile nature, Elena smiles on cue and has a charming response for everything. She´s the favored daughter, the perfect mafia principessa . . . or was.Now, all she can see in the mirror´s reflection is blood staining her hands like crimson paint.They say first i...

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The Girl in the Spider´s Web - David Lagercrantz

Anotace: The girl w ith the dragon tattoo is back: Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return in a continuation of Stieg Larsson's Millennium series. She is the girl w ith the dragon tattoo. Lisbeth Salander. An uncompromising misfit w hose burning sense of injustice and talent for investigation w ill never respect boundaries of state or status. He is a campaigning j...

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The Midnight Library - Haig Matt

Anotace: THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON READERS' MOST LOVED BOOK OF 2021 WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR FICTION 'BEAUTIFUL' Jodi Picoult, 'UPLIFTING' i, 'BRILLIANT' Daily Mail, 'AMAZING' Joanna Cannon, 'ABSORBING' New York Times, 'THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Independent Nora...

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A Woman of Pleasure - Murata Kiyoko

Anotace: `Only Kiyoko Murata can convey this world` YOKO OGAWA, author of The Memory Police, Yomiuri ShibunThe year is 1903, and tenacious and spirited Aoi Ichi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan, becoming the protegee of Shinonome, the oiran, or the highest-ranking courtesan.Through Shinonome`s teachings, fifteen-year-old Ichi begins to understand ...

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The Devil Wears Prada : Loved the Movie? Read the Book! - Weisbergerová Lauren

Anotace: "A delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible boss in the history of impossible bosses. Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job ""a million girls would die for."" Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds herself in an office that shout...

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M is for Mummy - Cox Katy

Anotace: Heart-warming and hysterical, a musician Mum juggles the demands of family life, showbiz and autism. Perfect for fans of Why Mummy Drinks and The Unmumsy Mum, and TV shows such as The A Word and Atypical. Your family doesn't fit the mould. So what? Lucy had it all: an exciting career, a rock-star husband, and pelvic floor muscles that could crack a walnut....

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The Tenth Muse - Chung Catherine

Anotace: The first thing I remember being said of me with any consistency was that I was intelligent - and I recognized even then that it was a comment leveled at me with as much disapproval as admiration. Still, I never tried to hide or suppress my mind as some girls do, and thank god, because that would have been the beginning of the end. From childhood, Katherine know...

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The Priory of the Orange Tree - Shannon Samantha

Anotace: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens.'Epic' Guardian'Majestic' Daily Mail'Escapism at its finest - Shannon, we salute you' StylistAn enthralling, epic fantasy about a world on the brink of war with dragons - and the women who must lead the fight to save it.The House of Ber...

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What Shall We Name the Baby?

Ella's going to be a big sister and she's not at all sure it's a good idea.

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The Good Part: the feel-good romantic comedy of the year! - Cousens Sophie

Anotace: From the New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven`t Met You Yet, This Time Next Year, and Before I Do `Sophie`s books are always filled with warmth, but she`s outdone herself here. It`s the definition of a feel-good read! Funny, poignant, and heartfelt, I fell head-over-heels for this one` LAURA JANE WILLIAMSLucy Young is only twenty-six, but she`s exhaus...

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The Golden Enclaves - Noviková Naomi

Anotace: Saving the world is a test no school of magic can prepare you for in the triumphant conclusion to the Sunday Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.The one thing you never talk about while you`re in the Scholomance is what you`ll do when you get out - not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way.But that imp...

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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 Glorious Heresies - Lisa McInerney

Anotace: 'He was definitely dead, whoever he was. He wore a once-black jumper and a pair of shiny tracksuit bottoms. The back of his head was cracked and his hair matted, but it had been foxy before that. A tall man, a skinny rake, another string of piss, now departed. She hadn't gotten a look at his face before she flaked him with the Holy Stone and she couldn't bring h...

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The Mars Room - Rachel Kushner

Anotace: Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed- the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. The Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living. And her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now...

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The Andalucian Friend - The First Book in the Brinkmann Trilogy - Söderberg Alexander

Anotace: Living a quiet life in the suburbs, Sophie Brinkmann is captivated by the handsome and sophisticated Hector Guzman. She has no idea that beneath Hector´s charm lies something far more dangerous. Hector is the head of an international crime syndicate. He is used to getting what he wants, and what he wants now is the total annihilation of his rivals. Before she ca...

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The Return of Agnes of Bohemia

The Return of Agnes Przemyslide was written by Josef Tomáš between 1996 and 1999, in Melbourne, Australia, under the influence of one of his visits to Prague, where—as he himself has implied—the sight of the city evoked in him its still-living historical continuity with all the horrors and beauties of its past. The canonization of Agnes Przemyslide, also called Agnes of B...

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Before the Rains - Jefferies Dinah

Anotace: A romantic, heart-wrenching tale of love against the odds from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author 1930, Rajputana, India. Since her husband`s death, 28-year-old photojournalist Eliza`s only companion has been her camera. When the British Government send her to an Indian princely state to photograph the royal family, she`s determined to make a name fo...

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The turn of the Screw

Audiokniha MP3 Henry James, čte Rodilý mluvčí Obtížnost poslechu odpovídá jazykové úrovni B2 podle Společného evropského referenčního rámce, tj. pro studenty angličtiny na úrovni pokročilých. Duchařský příběh, jehož autorem je Henry James, namluvený v angličtině rodilým mluvčím. A young woman starts her first job as a governess in charge of two young orphans, Miles and F...

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The Light in Everything: from the winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal 2022 - Balen Katya

Anotace: _______________`Original, compulsive, uplifting: this is another triumph for Balen` - Alex O`Connell, The Times Children`s Book of the Week`Balen`s best book yet: ambitious, funny, spirited, moving, heartfelt and bold all at once. She`s a force to be reckoned with` - Ross Montgomery_______________From the author of October, October, winner of the Yoto Carnegie ...

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The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air #3) - Black Holly

Anotace: GOODREADS BEST FANTASY YA 2020. The intoxicating and bloodthirsty finale to the New York Times bestselling The Cruel Prince, nominated for the CARNEGIE MEDAL, and New York Times bestseller The Wicked King, Best YA Fantasy in the Goodreads Choice Awards 2019. After being pronounced Queen of Faerie and then abruptly exiled by the Wicked King Cardan, Jude finds he...

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The Secret History - Tartt Donna

Anotace: FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCH Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. ______________________________________ 'What we did was terrible, but still I don't think any of us were bad, exactly;...

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The Happy Couple - Dolan Naoise

Anotace: Meet the wedding party: THE BRIDE AND GROOM Celine and Luke are meant to get married and live happily ever after. But Celine's more interested in playing the piano, and Luke's a serial cheater. THE BRIDESMAID Phoebe, Celine's sister, is meant to finish college and get a real job. Instead she pulls pints, lives with six flatmates, and has no long-...

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The Faithful and the Reasonable

This book follows the successful titles “The Colourful and the Green: Chapters on Voluntary Simplicity” and “The Half-Hearted and the Hesitant: Chapters on Ecological Luxury.” The author poses the question of why, at a time of continuing devastation of nature, people’s interest in nature conservation has been decreasing. Are the media to blame or is our numbness toward ec...

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The Silent Companions - Purcell Laura

Anotace: Some doors are locked for a reason...Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband`s crumbling country estate, The Bridge.With her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie only has her husband`s awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. For inside her new home lies a locked room, and bey...

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The Detective Dog - Donaldson Julia

Anotace: When a crime needs solving, there`s only one dog for the job! Join Nell the Detective and help solve the mystery of the missing books.There once was a dog with a keen sense of smell.She was known far and wide as Detective Dog Nell.Peter`s dog Nell has an amazing sense of smell. Her ever-sniffing nose is always hard at work solving mysteries and finding all Peter...

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The Lying Game - Ruth Wareová

Anotace: Four friends. One promise. But someone isn't telling the truth. The twisting new mystery from bestselling phenomenon Ruth Ware. The text message arrives in the small hours of the night. It's just three words: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding schoo...

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Clairmont: The sensuous hidden story of the greatest muse of the Romantic period - McDowell Lesley

Anotace: **The spellbinding, bold new retelling of the story of Lord Byron and the Shelleys, from the perspective of Claire Clairmont, the incredible woman that history tried to forget.**`Beautifully written, Clairmont tells the sensuous hidden story of an influential historic woman.` Sara Sheridan, author of The Fair Botanists Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year`An ab...

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The Locked Door: From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author of The Housemaid - McFadden Freida

Anotace: A twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Housemaid and The Coworker!Some doors are locked for a reason...While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement.Until the day the police arrived at their front door.Decades later, Nora...

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The Rook - Daniel O´Malley

Anotace: 'The body you are wearing used to be mine.' So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. With no recollection of who she is, Myfanwy must follow the instructions her former self left behind to discover her identity and track down the agents who want to destroy her. She soon learn...

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The Crow Folk - Stay Mark

Anotace: `Swept me straight back to days of losing myself in Diana Wynne Jones novels, and getting lost in truly absorbing, sometimes scary, sometimes emotive adventure with its roots in folklore and history. A story that is full of magic and delight that will thrill readers of any age`-Rowan Coleman, author of The Girl at the WindowAs Spitfires roar overhead and a dark ...

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The Vanishing Point - McDermidová Val

Anotace: It`s every parent`s worst nightmare...tephanie Harker is travelling through the security gates at O`Hare airport, on her way to an idyllic holiday. Five-year-old Jimmy goes through the metal detector ahead of her. But then, in panic and disbelief, Stephanie watches as a uniformed agent leads her boy away - and she`s stuck the other side of Security, hysterical w...

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The Dinner Party - Ferris Joshua

Anotace: `He reflected in future retrospect on the evening and foretold every gesture, every word. "I can`t do it," he said. "I can predict everything that will happen from the moment they arrive to the little kiss on the cheek goodbye and I just can`t goddamn do it."` The Dinner Party immerses us in the comic and strange realities of modern life, as we journey through t...

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The Ice Monster - Walliams David

Anotace: From No. 1 bestselling children`s author, David Walliams comes his biggest and most epic adventure yet! Illustrated by the artistic genius Tony Ross.This is the story of a ten-year-old orphan and a 10,000-year-old mammoth...Read all about it! Read all about it!ICE MONSTER FOUND IN ARCTIC!When Elsie, an orphan on the streets of Victorian London, hears about the m...

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The Underground Railroad - Whitehead Colson

Anotace: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and a NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR FICTION 2016 `Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime` Guardian `Luminous, furious, wildly inventive` Observer `Hands down one of the best, if not the best, book I`ve read this year` Stylist `Dazzling` New York Review of Books Cora is a slave on a cott...

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Race to the Sun - neuveden

Anotace: Lately, seventh grader Nizhoni Begay has been able to detect monsters, like that man in the fancy suit who was in the bleachers at her basketball game. Turns out he`s Mr. Charles, her dad`s new boss at the oil and gas company, and he`s alarmingly interested in Nizhoni and her brother, Mac, their Navajo heritage, and the legend of the Hero Twins. Nizhoni knows he...

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The Fire Witness - Kepler Lars

Anotace: The authors of The Hypnotist and The Nightmare deliver their most thrilling novel yet<br> Flora Hansen calls herself a medium and makes a living by pretending to commune with the dead. But after a gruesome murder at a rural home for wayward girls, Hansen begins to suffer visions that are all too real. She calls the police, claiming to have seen a ghost, bu...

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The Turn of the Screw

After I had accepted the position and agreed to his condition, I had two or three very bad days. I was full of doubts, sure I had made a terrible mistake. I was in this state of mind as I sat in the uncomfortable coach which was taking me to my new home.’ Tag Ghost story In this Reader you will find: - Information about Henry James’s life - Sections focusing on background...

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Circe: The No. 1 Bestseller from the author of The Song of Achilles - Millerová Madeline

Anotace: A FIFTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHORWoman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange child - not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. Scorned and r...

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The Wren, The Wren: From the Booker Prize-winning author - Enrightová Anne

Anotace: Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother`s loneliness had been.A contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood, from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author`A magnificent novel`SALLY ROONEY, author of NORMAL PEOPLE`Might just be her best yet`LOUISE KENNEDY, a...

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