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The London Seance Society
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.
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The London Seance Society - Sarah Penner
Anotace: 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, she is highly sought after by widows and investigators alike.Lenna Wickes has come to...
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London Seance Society - Penner Sarah
Anotace: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNamed 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 MaidFrom the author of the sensational bestseller The Lost Apot...
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The Specimen: A Chilling Gothic Historical Thriller Based On the Burke and Hare Murders - Fixsen Jaima
Anotace: "The Specimen is a fantastic read! Tense, gripping and full of fabulous characters ... I devoured it in two sittings." - Gareth Brown, bestselling author of The Book of DoorsLoosely based on Scotland`s infamous Burke and Hare murders, The Specimen is a haunting historical crime thriller perfect for readers of The London Seance Society and A History of Fear.***Wa...
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The Communist Manifesto - Engels Friedrich
Anotace: A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels` The Communist Manifesto is edited with an introduction by Gareth Stedman-Jones in Penguin Classics. Marx and Engels`s revolutionary summons to the working classes, The Communist Manifesto is one of the most important political theories ever formulated. After four years of...
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Down & Out in Paris and London - neuveden
Anotace: Deals with the underworld of society. In this book, the author documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris` vile `Hotel X`, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and more.
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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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Once Upon a Crime - Azzarello Brian, Risso Eduardo
Anotace: A thrilling new short story collection in the number-one bestselling, award-winning Murder Most Unladylike series. Featuring six marvellous mini-mysteries, including four original, brand-new and never-seen-before stories:The Case of the Second Scream: set aboard the ship carrying Daisy and Hazel back from Hong KongThe Case of the Uninvited Guest: Uncle Felix and...
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The Inverts - Crystal David
Anotace: 1921: a boy, a girl, a moonlit midnight kiss.A terrible, repulsive kiss.Bettina and Bart have grown up as best friends, so surely they will end up together? After all, Bettina is young, rich, headstrong.... and gay. Bart is young, rich, charismatic... and also, definitely, gay. Any doubts are dispelled by, in short order: that ghastly kiss; a torrid encounter fo...
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The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, the Real Moriarty - Macintyre Ben
Anotace: The rumbustious true story of the Victorian master thief who was the model for Conan Doyle`s Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes` arch-rival. From the bestselling author of `Operation Mincemeat` and `Agent Zigzag`. Adam Worth was the greatest master criminal of Victorian times. Abjuring violence and setting himself up as a perfectly respectable gentleman, he beca...
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The Gifts: The captivating historical fiction novel - for fans of THE BINDING - Hyderová Liz
Anotace: `Haunting, thrilling, wonderful. I loved it` Stacey Halls, bestselling author of The Familiars`Fierce and touching` Jennifer Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne`Your next obsession. . . Unique and captivating` Cosmopolitan Discover the extraordinary, luminous novel that everyone is talking about, perfect for fans of The Binding, The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock and...
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The Atlas Six - Blake Olivie, Blake Olivie
Anotace: The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake is the runaway TikTok must-read fantasy novel of the year. If you loved Ninth House and A Deadly Education, you`ll love this. The book includes gorgeous new illustrations.Secrets. Betrayal. Seduction.Welcome to the Alexandrian Society.When the world`s best magicians are offered an extraordinary opportunity, saying yes is easy. Each ...
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The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell
Anotace: In January 1936, the thirty-two-year-old George Orwell left his home in London and travelled to the industrial north of England with the intention of experiencing first-hand the conditions in which the working-class poor were compelled to live their lives. During his two-month expedition he visited Manchester, Wigan and Liverpool in the north-west, then Sheffiel...
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The Christie Affair - de Gramont Nina
Anotace: In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days. Only I know the truth of her disappearance.I`m no Hercule Poirot.I`m her husband`s mistress.Agatha Christie`s world is one of glamorous society parties, country house weekends, and growing literary fame.Nan O`Dea`s world is something very different. Her attempts to escape a tough London upbringing during the Grea...
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The Christie Affair - de Gramont Nina
Anotace: Nina de Gramont`s The Christie Affair is a stunning novel which reimagines the unexplained eleven-day disappearance of Agatha Christie that captivated the world.In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days. Only I know the truth of her disappearance.I`m no Hercule Poirot.I`m her husband`s mistress.Agatha Christie`s world is one of glamorous society parties, ...
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The Little Book of Charles Dickens - Orange Hippo!, Orange Hippo!
Anotace: The author of 20 much-loved novels and novellas, Charles Dickens combined humour and pathos to explore Victorian society in all its shades. Widely praised for his rich narratives and larger-than-life characters, he was not only a celebrity author but also an admired social reformer. Moving from the refined drawing rooms of the upper classes to the horrors of the...
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Bridgerton: The Duke and I (Bridgertons Book 1) - Quinnová Julia
Anotace: In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince - while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable . . . but not too amiabl...
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Level 5: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Stevenson Robert Louis
Anotace: Classic / British EnglishDr Jekyll is a London doctor who is liked and respected for his work. Mr Hyde is an evil man, completely unknown in London society. There is a murder and Hyde seems to be responsible. So why does the good doctor give Mr Hyde the key to his house - and decide to leave everything to Mr Hyde in his will?
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The Spirit Bares Its Teeth - White Andrew Joseph
Anotace: Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, he`ll be married by the end of the year....
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The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt: A Novel - Iversen Chelsea
Anotace: True magic is found among the bluebells and bramblesHarriet Hunt is completely alone. Her father disappeared months ago, leaving her to wander the halls of Sunnyside house, dwelling on a past she`d rather keep buried. She doesn`t often venture beyond her front gate, instead relishing the feel of dirt under her fingernails and of soft moss beneath her feet. Conse...
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This is Europe: The Way We Live Now - Judah Ben
Anotace: What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has always called it home, and who has newly arrived from elsewhere? Who are the people who drive our long-distance lorries, steward our criss-crossing planes, lovingly craft our legacy wines, fish our deplete...
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Bridgerton: The Viscount Who Loved Me: Bridgertons Book 2: Anthony's story (9780349432137)
Kniha - autor Julia Quinn, 384 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The second of Julia Quinn's bestselling and beloved Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. This is Anthony Bridgerton's story . . . 1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor,...
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Bridgerton: The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons Book 2) - Quinnová Julia
Anotace: 1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London`s most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And in all truth, why should he? When it comes to playing the consummate rake, nobody does it better... Lady Whistledown`s Society Papers, April 1814Anthony Bridgerton needs a wife...
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Mrs Dalloway
Audiokniha MP3 Virginia Woolfová, čte Rodilý mluvčí Audiokniha Mrs Dalloway namluvená rodilým mluvčím. Jazyková úroveň C1 pro velmi pokročilé posluchače. London 1923. The First World War has been over for five years, but the effects are still being felt all round the metropolis. A ocialite and politician’s wife prepares for one of her famous parties while somewhere el...
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By Gaslight - Steven Price
Anotace: A brilliantly written tale of love, betrayal and murder in Victorian England. LONDON 1885 - A woman's body is discovered on Edgware Road. Ten miles away, her head is pulled from the dark muddy waters of the Thames. For two men, this event will push them to the very brink. DETECTIVE WILLIAM PINKERTON - `Thirty-nine years old, already famous and already lonely...
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Brave New World - Huxley Aldous
Anotace: Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieves peace and stability by dispensing with monogamy, privacy, money, family and history itself. Now everyone belongs. You can be happy too. All you need to do is take your Soma pills.This is the brave new world of Aldous Huxley`s deeply sinister and prophetic novel, a society based on maxim...
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Brave New World: Vintage Quarterbound Classics - Huxley Aldous
Anotace: A beautiful hardback edition of Huxley`s inconic dystopian classic, introduced by Yuval Noah Harari`A masterpiece of speculation... As vibrant, fresh, and somehow shocking as it was when I first read it` Margaret Atwood`If you have time for just one book, this would be my top choice` Yuval Noah HarariWelcome to New London. Everybody is happy here.Our perfect soc...
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My Family and Other Animals (1909621986)
Kniha - 376 stran, anglicky, Pevná bez přebalu lesklá - 376 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's hilarious account of five years in his childhood spent living with his family on the island of Corfu. With snakes, scorpions, toads, owls and geckos competing for space with one bookworm brother and another who's gun-mad, ...
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Longshadow - Atwater Olivia
Anotace: The marriageable young ladies of London are dying mysteriously, and Abigail Wilder intends to discover why. Abigail`s father, the Lord Sorcier of England, believes that a dark lord of faerie is involved - but while Abigail is willing to match her magic against Lord Longshadow, neither her father nor high society believe that she is capable of doing so.Thankfully...
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Kairos - Jones Gwyneth
Anotace: London. Early 21st Century. A Conservative government is in power in the UK, bringing increased wealth disparity, an ever-more militant police state, and rising civil discontent as the wealthy govern for themselves rather than the people.But BREAKTHRU - a pharmaceutical company turned religious cult - have the answer. They call it Kairos.Kairos allows the user t...
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Lady Whistledown Strikes Back - Suzanne Enoch,Karen Hawkins
Anotace: An irresistible treat for Bridgerton fans! Join the Bridgertons, and the rest of the ton, as they pore over (and gossip about) Lady Whistledown`s latest musings. The elusive Regency-era gossip columnist - popularized in No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn`s Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix - reveals society`s mos...
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (9780141036144)
Kniha - autor George Orwell, 336 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic dystopian tale. One of Britain's most popular novels, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in a society terrorised by a totalitarian ideology propagated by The Party. Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth i...
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Mantel Pieces - Mantelová Hilary
Anotace: A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the LightIn 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, `I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than schola...
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Pride and Premeditation - Price Tirzah
Anotace: Perfect for fans of the Lady Janies and Stalking Jack the Ripper, the first book in the Jane Austen Murder Mysteries trilogy is a clever retelling of Pride and Prejudice that reimagines the iconic settings, characters, and romances in a thrilling and high-stakes whodunit.When a scandalous murder shocks London high society, seventeen-year-old aspiring lawyer Lizz...
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Belinda - Edgeworth Maria
Anotace: `It is singular, that my having spent a winter with one of the most dissipated women in England should have sobered my mind so completely.`Maria Edgeworth`s 1801 novel, Belinda, is an absorbing, sometimes provocative, tale of social and domestic life among the English aristocracy and gentry. The heroine of the title, only too conscious of being `advertised` on t...
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Further Observations of Lady Whistledown
Anotace: A dazzling treat for Bridgerton fans! A sparkling anthology starring Lady Whistledown - the elusive Regency-era gossip columnist popularized in No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn`s Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix.Lady Whistledown Tells All!Society is abuzz when the Season`s most promising debutante is jilted by...
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A Botanical Daughter - Medlock Noah
Anotace: Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty horror debut. A captivating tale of two Victorian gentlemen hiding their relationship away in a botanical garden who embark on a Frankenstein-style experiment with unexpected consequences. It is an unusual thing, to live in a botanical garden. But Simon and Gregor...
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Lady"s Guide to Fortune-Hunting - Sophie Irwin
Anotace: Read the most captivating historical debut of the year! `[A] scintillating, swash-buckling debut... terrifically fun` SUNDAY TIMES `Sharp, modern and absolutely delicious` TAYLOR JENKINS REID `Fans of Bridgerton will swoon` NITA PROSE Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Love is not required... ...
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American & British Studies 5 - kol.
Anotace: Our aim is to create a platform for scholarly exchange not only within the Czech Republic but internationally. We seek original articles that explore a wide range of issues concerning American and British literature, visual arts, music and other cultural phenomena as well as cultural history. The editors encourage submissions from scholars working in various dis...
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Důsledky modernity - Anthony Giddens
Anotace: Významný britský sociolog vstoupil v roce 1990 touto knihou výrazně do soudobé diskuse o povaze doby, v níž žijeme. Neklade si akademické otázky o vztahu modernity a postmodernity, ale srozumitelně, současně však na vysoké teoretické úrovni, analyzuje reálné problémy, s nimiž se setkáváme v běžném životě a v politickém a veřejném diskursu: problém jistoty a nebe...
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Various: Cole Porter Songbook (2x CD) - CD (NOT2CD585)
Hudební CD - 30 originálních slavných hitů od Cola Portera na 2CD 30 originálních slavných hitů od Cola Portera na 2CD Rok vydání 2015 Seznam stop CD1 Anything Goes - Ella Fitzgerald / My Heart Belongs To Daddy - Peggy Lee / Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love) - Eydie Gorme / Night And Day - Frank Sinatra / It's De-Lovely - Anita O'Day / Too Darn Hot ...
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American & British Studies 6
Anotace: Our aim is to create a platform for scholarly exchange not only within the Czech Republic but internationally. We seek original articles that explore a wide range of issues concerning American and British literature, visual arts, music and other cultural phenomena as well as cultural history. The editors encourage submissions from scholars working in various dis...
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