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Bournville: From the bestselling author of Middle England - Coe Jonathan

Anotace: `A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become` RACHEL JOYCEIn Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it`s the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of t...

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More Die of Heartbreak - Bellow Saul

Anotace: Kenneth Trachtenberg has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described `plant visionary.` While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings after his first marriage and lives from affair to affair and from `blis...

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Being Human

The fruit of many years teaching Philosophical Anthropology, conducting Phenomenological Workshops, and reading classic texts in the light of a reflec

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Red Coats and Wild Birds

During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. During their tours abroad, many British

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Red Coats and Wild Birds

During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. During their tours abroad, many British

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The Cast Of 'We Will Rock You' – We Will Rock You: Cast Album MP3

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The Cast Of 'We Will Rock You' – We Will Rock You: Cast Album FLAC

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The Cast Of 'We Will Rock You' – We Will Rock You: Cast Album CD

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Beasts of Ruin - Gray Ayana, Gray Ayana

Anotace: The powerful and magical sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller BEASTS OF PREY, perfect for fans of AN EMBER IN THE ASHES, SHADOW AND BONE and THE GILDED ONES.`A fast-paced, rip-roaring ride that grabs you by the throat and never lets you go. A masterpiece of magic` - Namina Forna, New York Times bestselling author of The Gilded Ones on Beasts of PreyKo...

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Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck John

Anotace: Introducing 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. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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The Rest of the Robots - Asimov Isaac

Anotace: Isaac Asimov`s ROBOT series - from the iconic collection I, ROBOT to four classic novels - contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS, they continue to shape the understanding and design of artificial intelligence to this day.How could robots be used in a time of war? Could a...

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White Philanthropy

Since its publication in 1944, many Americans have described Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma as a defining text on US race relations. Here, Maribe

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Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity - Attia Peter

Anotace: - THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -This is the ultimate manual for living better and longer.For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of ageing that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer`s disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late, pro...

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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art - Nestor James

Anotace: THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERAS HEARD ON STEVEN BARTLETT`S `DIARY OF A CEO``Who would have thought something as simple as changing the way we breathe could be so revolutionary for our health, from snoring to allergies to immunity? A fascinating book, full of dazzling revelations` Dr Rangan ChatterjeeThere is nothing more essential to our health and wel...

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The Hundred Loves of Juliet: A Novel - Skye Evelyn

Anotace: I may go by Sebastien now, but my name was originally Romeo. And hers was Juliet.It`s a frosty fairytale of an evening in small-town Alaska when Helene and Sebastien meet for the first time. Except it isn`t the first time. You already know that story, though it didn`t happen quite as Shakespeare told it.To Helene, Sebastien is the flesh-and-blood hero of the lov...

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The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux

<p>Strange things are going on at the Paris Opera House; a mysterious phantom - a skeleton in dinner dress - is wreaking havoc amongst the singers and backstage staff. But when new managers take over and dismiss the rumours of the Opera Ghost, the terror really begins. Who is the curious figure stalking the stage at night? How can he be in so many places at once, en...

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Peter and the Wolf: Wolves Come in Many Disguises - Friday Gavin

Anotace: Relive the magic of Peter and the Wolf through this extraordinary modern retelling by award-winning musicians Gavin Friday and Bono. When a wolf is found roaming the woods, Peter`s grandfather warns him to stay at home. But Peter, who is mourning the loss of a parent, decides to venture into the deep, dark woods in search of this creature... This incredible rete...

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Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things - Adam Grant

Anotace: #1 New York Times bestseller "This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would`ve helped me find a more joyful path to progress."-Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis championThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again il...

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The Singularity is Nearer

'Ray Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence' BILL GATESBy the end of this decade, AI will exceed human levels of intelligence. During the 2030s, it will become 'superintelligent', vastly outstripping our capabilities by almost every measure and enabling dramatic new interventions in our bodies. By 2045, we will be able to co...

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The I of the Dragon (PC) DIGITAL

THE DRAGON'S LEGACY The world of Nimoa is as beautiful as the morning dew, but only at first glance. Under the surface of hills and fertile valleys lurks an old and eternal evil. Living as a mould, stretching threads through an infected area like deadly toadstools. The center of this "being?" deep in the under world is the giant daemon, Skarborr. GAMEPLAY You, the player,...

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Darling: A razor-sharp, gloriously funny retelling of Nancy Mitford´s The Pursuit of Love - Knightová India

Anotace: `A savagely funny, bracingly sad, dazzlingly clever reimagining of The Pursuit of Love. I loved it. Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss `A triumph! Brilliantly done, faithful but imaginative, tremendously romantic and very funny.` Nina Stibbe, author of Reasons to be CheerfulMarooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself dest...

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Discovering North Carolina's Mountains-to-Sea Trail

Jerry Barker has long championed North CarolinaÂ’s Mountains-to-Sea Trail (MST), and led its development for many years. In this book, he draws on tha

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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum (PC)

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum&trade; is an official adaptation based on the literary works of J.R.R. Tolkien.He's got nothing more to lose&hellip; How far will he go to retrieve his Precious?Taking place in parallel to the events described in The Fellowship of the Ring &trade;, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is an action-adventure game and an epic interact...

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The Lord of the Rings: Gollum

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum™ is an official adaptation based on the literary works of J.R.R. Tolkien. He's got nothing more to lose… How far will he go to retrieve his Precious? Taking place in parallel to the events described in The Fellowship of the Ring ™, The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is an action-adventure game and an epic interactive experience....

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Dams Raid Through the Lens

The story of the attack on the Mohne and Eder dams in the Ruhr has been recounted many times before but not from the German side. The author has spent

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Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About

How does a computer scientist understand infinity? What can probability theory teach us about free will? This book contains six informal lectures by c

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CHATTO – The Timeline of The Lifetime MP3

Our hero is experiencing a story many people have experienced before him. He is born needy, lacks a father who is not even known by his mother, which he hates, justly or unjustly. Just like her he tends to drugs, and his few friends leave him, whether by will or not. At the end, the brutal weight of his life reveals a terrible truth - doubts whether he just dreamed it out...

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CHATTO – The Timeline of The Lifetime FLAC

Our hero is experiencing a story many people have experienced before him. He is born needy, lacks a father who is not even known by his mother, which he hates, justly or unjustly. Just like her he tends to drugs, and his few friends leave him, whether by will or not. At the end, the brutal weight of his life reveals a terrible truth - doubts whether he just dreamed it out...

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The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

Anotace: After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?' In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past... A contemporary classic, The Remains of the D...

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Voices from the Carpathia: Rescuing RMS Titanic

The authorÂ’s collection of these rare written accounts and interviews sheds new light on the tragic way the lives of so many were impacted by the los

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THE CALL OF THE WILD - Jack London

Anotace: About the series: The series Tenn ELI Readers is divided into 3 levels according to the language level of the readers. It`s in line with the indications of the Common European Framework of Reference for Language and comprise useful language certification exercises. This ensure s that learners will meet language and structures they have already studied or which a...

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Power of the Center

Using many examples, this title considers the factors that determine the overall organization of visual form in works of painting, sculpture, and arch

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Performer's Guide to Music of the Romantic Period

This stimulating guide will help students and their teachers to achieve stylish performances of music of the Romantic period. Individual chapters from

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Performer's Guide to Music of the Classical Period

This stimulating guide will help students and their teachers to achieve stylish performances of music of the Baroque period. Individual chapters from

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Performer's Guide to Music of the Baroque Period

This stimulating guide will help students and their teachers to achieve stylish performances of music of the Baroque period. Individual chapters from

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The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

<p>After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?'</p><p>In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past...</p><p>A contempor...

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How Did Our Garden Grow?

An insider's record of the complete history of Hatton Garden, including the social history of many of its characters

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Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier - Winfrey Oprah

Anotace: In Build the Life You Want, Arthur C. Brooks and Oprah Winfrey invite you to begin a journey toward greater happiness, no matter how challenging your circumstances. Combining their decades of experience studying happiness from every angle, they show you how to improve your life right now - instead of waiting for the outside world to change.You will learn how to:...

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Thaumiel; The Dark Divided Ones

""These fallen angels, these 'Divided Ones' will gladly work with the black magician to help pull them away from the Godhead and the singularity of true death that is to be experienced by accepting the self-annihilating path of cosmic unity and absorption.

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Property Development

Property Development explains all the issues arising from property development work and will guide lawyers, developers and landowners through the many

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Form of Music

A concise guide to musical structures of the tonal era. The text is illustrated with many music examples providing an ideal introduction for music stu

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Illustrated Mauretania (1907)

Illustrated history reveals the many experiences of Mauretania (1907) across an illustrious career

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Contemplating Comedy

A non-fiction book about the nature of comedy, featuring hilarious cartoons and many jokes.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid 14 : Wrecking Ball - Kinney Jeff

Anotace: THE ONE WITH THE HOME IMPROVEMENTSThe fourteenth laugh-out-loud, fully-illustrated Diary of a Wimpy Kid book from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney! A global phenomenon with 250 million copies of the series sold worldwide!Big changes are in store for Greg Heffley and his family. They are making home improvements!But with unwelcome critters, toxic m...

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Birdsong in a Time of Silence - Lovatt Steven

Anotace: A lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature.`At this time of year, blackbirds never simply fly: instead, like reluctantly retired officers, they`re always "on manoeuvres", and it`s easy to see from their constant agitation that for them every flower bed is a bunker, every shed a redoubt and every hedge-bottom a potential pl...

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Complete Car Modeller

In this title "Master Craftsman" Gerald Wingrove discusses many of the techniques and potential pitfalls of the advancing modeller's skill.

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Aviation Landmarks - Norfolk and Suffolk

A detailed overview of the many aviation-related landmarks across the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk

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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World - Gaskill Malcolm

Anotace: *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR*`A bona fide historical classic` Sunday Times`Simply one of the best history books I have ever read` BBC HistoryIn the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails and property vanishes. People suffer f...

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'Intimately Associated for Many Years'

The Anglican Bishop George Bell (of Chichester) and the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, Willem A. Visser't Hooft (of Geneva) excha

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A Cruel Twist of Fate - Askwith H. F.

Anotace: And Then There Were None meets The Inheritance Games, with a heavy dash of The Woman in Black, in this gloriously gothic YA mystery-thriller.When eighteen-year-old Helena is sent to be a governess at Archfall Manor - a beautiful but crumbling manor house, perched at the edge of a causeway in the North Sea - she feels confident she will know how to deal with the ...

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Telling Aircraft Tails

The stories of 40 important aircraft reveal the many changes across the post-war British aviation industry

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This Dark Heart

The last years of King Herod the Great's reign are turbulent, the public splendour of his many architectural projects belying the rotten core of his p

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Roman Medicine

Audrey Cruse looks at the many different aspects of medicine and health in the Roman Empire, particularly Roman Britain.

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Growing Up in Wartime Somerset

From the outbreak of war to the drama of D-Day, Syd - whose watercolour paintings, many of which illustrate this collection, aim to show the reality o

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Tales from Great Passenger Ships

A collection of stories from many of the best-known passenger ships and liners, that vividly showcase the romance and tragedy of life at sea

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Penguin Readers Level 3: The Extraordinary Life of Michelle Obama (ELT Graded Reader) - neuveden

Anotace: Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introduci...

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A Head Full of Music: The soundtrack to my life - Richard Cliff

Anotace: Foreword by Bob StanleyOn a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Webb, was mooching down Waltham Cross High Street. He heard some music blaring out of a parked car. It stopped him in his tracks.The song was `Heartbreak Hotel` by Elvis Presley. It sounded like nothing he had ever heard before. In that instant, the schoolboy wh...

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Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Kimmerer Robin Wall

Anotace: As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two ways of knowledge together.Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and ...

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Botanical Illustrator's Handbook

Takes a look at how to accurately portray the riches of the botanical world. This book tackles and explains many of the difficulties that artists enco

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Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection - Duhigg Charles

Anotace: Who and what are supercommunicators? They`re the people who can steer a conversation to a successful conclusion. They are able to talk about difficult topics without giving offence. They know how to make others feel at ease and share what they think. They`re brilliant faciliators and decision-guiders. How do they do it?In this groundbreaking new book, Charles Du...

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