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Tales of the Jazz Age - Francis Scott Fitzgerald
<p>Tales of the Jazz Age features eleven of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-loved short stories and 'novelettes' including 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and 'The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'. Set in the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's own term for the Roaring Twenties of newly confident, post-war America, this collection shows a comic genius at work, fashioning every genre...
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The Map of Salt and Stars - Zein Joukhadar
<p>This powerful and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart-a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and an adventurous mapmaker's apprentice. <br /> This "beguiling” (Seattle Times) and stunning novel begins in the summer of 2011. Nour has just lost her father to...
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In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe : Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914 - Leslie S. Klinger
<p>A masterful collection of horror fiction by widely acclaimed authors whose contributions to the genre have been lost in the shadow of Poe, by one of America's foremost anthologists.<br /><br /> Edgar Allan Poe did not invent the tale of terror. There were American, English, and Continental writers who preceded Poe and influenced his work. Similarly, t...
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The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley - Hannah Tinti
Anotace: A coming-of-age novel and a literary thrill ride about the price we pay to protect the people we love most.<br><br> "A father-daughter road trip you won't soon forget."-Richard Russo<br><br> Samuel Hawley isn't like the other fathers in Olympus, Massachusetts. A loner who spent years living on the run, he raised his belov...
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The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley - Hannah Tinti
<p>A coming-of-age novel and a literary thrill ride about the price we pay to protect the people we love most.<br /><br /> "A father-daughter road trip you won't soon forget.”-Richard Russo<br /><br /> Samuel Hawley isn't like the other fathers in Olympus, Massachusetts. A loner who spent years living on the run, he raised his beloved ...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1. vydání - Oscar Wilde
<p>Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait rather than on Dorian’s own face. The stage is now...
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry: The film tie-in edition to the major motion picture - Joyceová Rachel
Anotace: *Companion edition to the major film written by Rachel Joyce, award-winning author of the internationally bestselling book, directed by Hettie Macdonald (Normal People) and starring Oscar-winner Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton*Contains exclusive new behind-the-scenes insights and colour photographsHarold is an ordinary man who has passed through life, living ...
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Tom Lake: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Dutch House - Ann Patchett
<p>THIS SUMMER, DIVE INTO TOM LAKE - THE BREATH-TAKING NEW NOVEL FROM ANN PATCHETT 'One of our greatest living chroniclers of love and marriage ... Expect wonder; Patchett always delivers' ELLE This is a story about Peter Duke who went on to be a famous actor. This is a story about falling in love with Peter Duke who wasn't famous at all. It's about falling so wil...
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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
'Action-packed SF adventure that zings along at hyperluminal speed' - Peter F. HamiltonGoodreads Choice Award for Best Science Fiction NovelTo Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a masterful epic science fiction novel from the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of the Inheritance Cycle, Christopher Paolini.Kira Navarez dreamed of life on new worldsNow she's awakene...
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The Catcher in the Rye (9780241950425)
Kniha - anglicky "The Catcher in Rye" is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the we...
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The Toymakers (1785036351)
Kniha - autor Robert Dinsdale, 320 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Do you remember when you believed in magic? An enchanting, magical novel set in a mysterious toyshop - perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus and Stephanie Garber's Caraval by way of Jessie Burton's The Miniaturist It is 1917, and while war wages across Europe, in the hear...
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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (1529046521)
Kniha - 496 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Goodreads Choice Award for Best Science Fiction Novel To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a masterful epic science fiction novel from the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of the Inheritance Cycle, Christopher Paolini. Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worlds Now she's awakened a nightmare During a...
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The Melody - Crace Jim
Anotace: Alfred Busi, famed and beloved in his town for his music and songs, is now in his sixties, mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days alone in the large villa he has always called home. The night before he is due to attend a ceremony at the town`s avenue of fame, Busi is attacked by a creature he disturbs as it raids the contents of hi...
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The Melody - Jim Crace
<p>Alfred Busi, famed and beloved in his town for his music and songs, is now in his sixties, mourning the recent death of his wife and quietly living out his days alone in the large villa he has always called home. The night before he is due to attend a ceremony at the town's avenue of fame, Busi is attacked by a creature he disturbs as it raids the contents of his...
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Catcher in the Rye
"The Catcher in Rye" is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages.The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents,...
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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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Dawnlands: the number one bestselling author of vivid stories crafted by history - Philippa Gregory
<p>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 loya...
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The Boy on the Bridge - M.R. Carey
Anotace: From the author of USA Today bestseller The Girl With All the Gifts, a terrifying new novel set in the same post-apocalyptic world. Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world. To where the monsters lived.
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Assistant to the Villain
Once Upon a Time meets The Office in Hannah Maehrer's laugh-out-loud viral TikTok series turned novel, about the sunshine assistant to an Evil Villain...and their unexpected romance. ASSISTANT WANTED: Notorious, high-ranking villain seeks loyal, levelheaded assistant for unspecified office duties, supporting staff for random mayhem, terror, and other Dark Things In Genera...
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The Singularities - John Banville
<p>From the Booker Prize-winning John Banville comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory. A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car also borrowed onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty old house: the Godleys, descendants of the late, world-fam...
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The Singularities - Banville John
Anotace: From the Booker Prize-winning John Banville comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory.A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sports car also borrowed onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty old house: the Godleys, descendants of the late, world-fam...
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Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYA ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, Oscar's sweet but disastrously o
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The Premonition - Banana Jošimoto
<p>'Yoshimoto's novels are like jewel boxes.' Vanity FairThe new novel from the bestselling author of the beloved classic, Kitchen.I had a premonition of setting out on a journey and getting lost inside a distant tide ... It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen years old.Yayoi lives with her perfect, loving family - something 'like you'd see in a Spielber...
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Women on the Margins
As she did with Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. As women living in the 17th century, Glikl bas Judah Leib, Marie de l'Incarnation, and Maria Sibylla Merian, equally remarkable though very different, were not queens or noblewomen, their every move publicly noted. R...
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The Last Word: an utterly addictive and spine-chilling suspense thriller from the TikTok bestseller for 2023 - Taylor Adams
<p>After posting a negative book review, a woman living in a remote location begins to wonder if the author is a little touchy - or very, very dangerous - in this pulse-pounding novel of psychological suspense and terror from the critically acclaimed author of TikTok sensation No Exit.</p> <p> </p> <p>Emma is house-sitting on the rainy Washin...
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The Morningside - Obreht Tea
Anotace: There`s the world you can see. And then there`s the one you can`t. Welcome to The Morningside.When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia`s aunt, Ena, serves as the superin...
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The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Anotace: HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bom...
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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - Paolini Christopher
Anotace: Action-packed SF adventure that zings along at hyperluminal speed` - Peter F. HamiltonGoodreads Choice Award for Best Science Fiction NovelTo Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a masterful epic science fiction novel from the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of the Inheritance Cycle, Christopher Paolini.Kira Navárez dreamed of life on new worldsNow she´...
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Bridge of Clay - Markus Zusak
Anotace: THE EPIC NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK THIEF 'If The Book Thief was a novel that allowed Death to steal the show... [its] brilliantly illuminated follow-up is affirmatively full of life.' Guardian 'This is a tale of love, art and redemption; rowdy and joyous.' Times 'Bridge of Clay is one of those monumental books that can draw you across spa...
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The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
<p>The original paperback edition of a perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal. Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place--he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and othe...
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Map of Salt and Stars
This powerful and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and an adventurous mapmaker’s apprentice. This “beguiling” (Seattle Times) and stunning novel begins in the summer of 2011. Nour has just lost her father to cancer, and her mother mo...
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Bridge of Clay - Markus Zusak
<p>THE EPIC NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK THIEF 'If The Book Thief was a novel that allowed Death to steal the show... [its] brilliantly illuminated follow-up is affirmatively full of life.' Guardian 'This is a tale of love, art and redemption; rowdy and joyous.' Times 'Bridge of Clay is one of those monumental books that can draw you across spa...
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The Catcher in the Rye - Jerome David Salinger
<p>"The Catcher in Rye" is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the we...
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The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Anotace: I was supposed to be having the time of my life . . .Working as an intern for a New York fashion magazine in the summer of 1953, Esther Greenwood is on the brink of her future. Yet she is also on the edge of a darkness that makes her world increasingly unreal. Esther`s vision of the world shimmers and shifts: day-to-day living in the sultry city, her crazed men-...
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Record of a Spaceborn Few: Wayfarers 3 - Becky Chambersová
<p>'The best speculative fiction currently being written' John Connolly. </p> <p> From the ground, we stand. From our ship, we live. By the stars, we hope.The incredible new novel by Becky Chambers, author of the beloved The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.#SpacebornFewCenturies after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a pl...
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The Invisible Hour - Alice Hoffmanová
<p>From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of the Practical Magic series comes an enchanting novel about love, heartbreak, self-discovery and the enduring magic of books. Sixteen-year-old Ivy is pregnant and alone. Cast out by her family, she runs away and finds safety in the arms of Joel Davis. He offers a simpler life than the one she had in Boston, a q...
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1847498639)
Kniha - autor George Orwell, 288 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Despite hailing from a comfortable family background, budding poet Gordon Comstock decides to declare war on money and all the middle-class trappings that wealth can buy. Working in a small bookshop and living in a bedsit in London, he dreams of completing an ambitious poem in rhyme ro...
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The Long Drop - Denise Mina
<p>A masterpiece by the woman who may be Britain's finest living crime novelist. (Daily Telegraph). "Relentlessly tense and exciting". (Sunday Mirror). William Watt wants answers about his family's murder. Peter Manuel has them. But Peter Manuel is a liar. William Watt is an ordinary businessman, a fool, a social climber. Peter Manuel is a famous liar, a r...
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The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Anotace: The internationally bestselling story of a young girl in Nazi Germany who steals books, now a major motion picture starring Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson. Here is a small fact - You are going to die 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. H...
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The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
<p>Sylvia Plath is a major cultural icon who continues to inspire new generations of female readers. The Bell Jar is one of the defining novels of the 20th century.I was supposed to be having the time of my life . . . Working as an intern for a New York fashion magazine in the summer of 1953, Esther Greenwood is on the brink of her future. Yet she is also on the edg...
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All The Lovers In The Night - Kawakami Mieko
Anotace: Bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami invites readers back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet again why she is one of today's most uncategorizable, insightful, and talented novelists. Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone i...
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All The Lovers In The Night - Mieko Kawakami
<p>Bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs Mieko Kawakami invites readers back into her immediately recognizable fictional world with this new, extraordinary novel and demonstrates yet again why she is one of today's most uncategorizable, insightful, and talented novelists. Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a ci...
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A Visit From the Goon Squad - Eganová Jennifer
Anotace: Jennifer Egan`s spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other`s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect wit...
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A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
<p>Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with...
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The Seventh Cross - Anna Seghersová
<p>'It was [Seghers] who taught my generation and anyone who had an ear to listen after that not-to-be-forgotten war to distinguish right from wrong. The Seventh Cross shaped me; it sharpened my vision' GUNTER GRASS</p> <p>'A masterpiece. Written in the midst of terror, but with such clarity, such acuity; Seghers is a writer of rare insight' RACHEL SEIFF...
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The Fox Wife - Choo Yangsze
Anotace: An enchanting and unforgettable historical mystery from the acclaimed author of The Night Tiger. Some people think foxes go around collecting qi, or life force, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . . Manchuria, 1908: A young woman is found frozen in the snow. Her death is clouded ...
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The Good Servant - Britton Fern
Anotace: From the no.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Fern Britton comes a powerful novel about an ordinary woman living in an extraordinary time, and her small but vital place in history. Good daughter. Good woman. Good servant. She tried to be them all... 1932...
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The Good Servant - Fern Britton
<p>From the no.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Fern Britton comes a powerful novel about an ordinary woman living in an extraordinary time, and her small but vital place in history. Good daughter. Good woman. Good servant. She tried to be them all... ...
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The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
<p>'Life affirming, triumphant and tragic . . . masterfully told. . . but also a wonderful page-turner' Guardian'Brilliant and hugely ambitious' New York Times'Extraordinary' Telegraph___HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster ...
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The Bottle Factory Outing - Bainbridgeová Beryl
Anotace: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and named `one of the greatest novels of all time` by the Observer, this riveting novel shows Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic bestFreda and Brenda are friends spending their days in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory in North London. When a works outing materialises it offers promise for Freda, but terror for Brenda. Unexp...
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All the Bright Places (9780141357034)
Kniha - anglicky Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death. When Finch and Violet mee...
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The Fire Witness - Lars Kepler
<p>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, b...
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The Invisible Man - Wells Herbert George
Anotace: H.G. Wells` great novel of the dangers of science describes a man cast out from society by his own terrifying discovery.THE INVISIBLE MAN tells the story of Griffin, a brilliant and obsessed scientist dedicated to achieving invisibility. Taking whatever action is necessary to keep his incredible discovery safe, he terrorises the local village where he has sought...
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Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs, o...
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The Foxglove King - Whitten Hannah
Anotace: `Hannah Whitten is my new favourite obsession` Jodi Picoult, New York Times-bestselling author`Sinister, deadly and so seductive you won`t be able to tear yourself away from this dark gem of a book` Stephanie Garber, New York Times-bestselling authorIn this gilded, gothic, and romantic new epic fantasy series from New York Times-bestselling author Hannah Whitten...
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The Foxglove King - Hannah Whitten
<p>'Hannah Whitten is my new favourite obsession' Jodi Picoult, New York Times-bestselling author'Sinister, deadly and so seductive you won't be able to tear yourself away from this dark gem of a book' Stephanie Garber, New York Times-bestselling authorIn this gilded, gothic, and romantic new epic fantasy series from New York Times-bestselling author Hannah Whitten,...
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The Fox Wife - Yangsze Choo
<p>'Vivid, enigmatic, enchanting' M. L. Rio, author of If We Were Villains'Filled with wonder, mystery and folklore' Sue Lynn Tan, author of Daughter of the Moon GoddessSome people think foxes go around collecting qi, or life force, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . .Manchuria, 1908: ...
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They Both Die at the End (1471166201)
Kniha - 384 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná "A new, heartbreaking novel from the author of ""More Happy Than Not"" and ""History Is All You Left Me"". Two very different boys receive the dreaded call from Death-Cast, informing them that they will die by the end of the day. They spend the day living life to the full, but neither expected to fall in love... A...
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Invention of Wings - Kidd Sue Monk
<p>The No. 1 New York Times bestseller. THE INVENTION OF WINGS by Sue Monk Kidd was selected as an Oprah Book Club 2.0 pick on December 10, 2013. From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women. Sarah Grimke is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her f...
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The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith
The Cuckoo's Calling is a 2013 crime fiction novel by J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and cred...
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