Though the heavens fall

Though The Heavens Fall

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Though the Bodies Fall

From an exciting new voice in Irish fiction, a powerful novel set on an Irish clifftop - a story about duty, despair and the chance encounters upon wh

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The Fall - Simon Mawer

Anotace: An irresistible narrative of courage and endeavour. A story that captures nature at its most beautiful and most brutal and which unlocks the intricacies at the heart of human relationships. Rob and Jamie are great friends from childhood. They have grown up together and become top climbers, but have since become estranged. Rob is nevertheless amazed and grief-st...

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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon - Lewis Michael

Anotace: From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century`s most spectacular financial collapses `I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the question over. "One hundred and fifty billion dollars," he f...

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Revolution 1989 : The Fall of the Soviet Empire - Sebestyen Victor

Anotace: For more than 40 years after the Second World War the Iron Curtain divided Europe physically, with 300 km of walls and barbed wire fences; ideologically, between communism and capitalism; psychologically, between people imprisoned under totalitarian dictatorships and their neighbours enjoying democratic freedoms; and militarily, by two mighty, distrustful power ...

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Revolution 1989 : The Fall of the Soviet Empire - Victor Sebestyen

<p>For more than 40 years after the Second World War the Iron Curtain divided Europe physically, with 300 km of walls and barbed wire fences; ideologically, between communism and capitalism; psychologically, between people imprisoned under totalitarian dictatorships and their neighbours enjoying democratic freedoms; and militarily, by two mighty, distrustful power b...

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Against the Fall of Night - Clarke Arthur C.

Anotace: In the year ten billion A.D., Diaspar is the last city on Earth. Agelss and unchanging, the inhabitants see no reason to be curious about the outside world. But one child, Alvin - only seventeen and the last person to be born in Diaspar - finds that he is increasingly drawn to what lies outside the city walls. Even though he knows the Invaders, who devastated th...

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Against the Fall of Night - Arthur Charles Clarke

<p>In the year ten billion A.D., Diaspar is the last city on Earth. Agelss and unchanging, the inhabitants see no reason to be curious about the outside world. But one child, Alvin - only seventeen and the last person to be born in Diaspar - finds that he is increasingly drawn to what lies outside the city walls. Even though he knows the Invaders, who devastated the...

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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon - Michael Lewis

<p>From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular financial collapses 'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the question over. "One hundred and fifty billion dollars,&q...

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The Fall of Arthur (Deluxe Slipcase Edition) - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

<p>Deluxe collector's edition featuring the first edition text and containing a facsimile page of Tolkien's original manuscript. The book is quarterbound with a gold motif stamped on the front board and is presented in a matching slipcase. The Fall of Arthur, the only venture by J.R.R. Tolkien into the legends of Arthur King of Britain, may well be regarde...

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The Red and the Black - Stendhal

Anotace: Charting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal`s The Red and the Black is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in Penguin Classics.Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that success can only be achieved by adopting th...

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The Red and the Black - Stendhal

<p>Charting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal's The Red and the Black is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in Penguin Classics. Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that success can only be achieved by adopting t...

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The Sweetest Oblivion

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 impression...

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The First Wall - Gav Thorpe

<p>Book 3 in the Global best selling Horus Heresy Siege of Terra series The war for the fate of mankind blazes on. Though the outer defences have fallen, the walls of the Palace itself remain inviolate as Rogal Dorn, the Praetorian of Terra himself, uses every known stratagem and ploy to keep Horus's vast armies at bay. In Perturabo, the Traitor siegebreaker, Dorn ...

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The First Wall - Thorpe Gav

Anotace: Book 3 in the Global best selling Horus Heresy Siege of Terra seriesThe war for the fate of mankind blazes on. Though the outer defences have fallen, the walls of the Palace itself remain inviolate as Rogal Dorn, the Praetorian of Terra himself, uses every known stratagem and ploy to keep Horus`s vast armies at bay. In Perturabo, the Traitor siegebreaker, Dorn f...

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The Phoenix King - Verma Aparna

Anotace: In a kingdom where flames hold magic and the desert hides secrets, an ancient prophecy comes for an assassin, a princess, and a king. But none are ready to face destiny-and the choices they make could burn the world."If we carry the burdens of our fathers, we`ll never know what it means to be free."For Elena Aadya Ravence, fire is yearning. She longs to feel wor...

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The Phoenix King - Aparna Verma

<p>In a kingdom where flames hold magic and the desert hides secrets, an ancient prophecy comes for an assassin, a princess, and a king. But none are ready to face destiny-and the choices they make could burn the world."If we carry the burdens of our fathers, we'll never know what it means to be free."For Elena Aadya Ravence, fire is yearning. She longs to...

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The God and the Gumiho: a intoxicating and dazzling contemporary Korean romantic fantasy - Kim Sophie

Anotace: They`ll do anything to outsmart each other. Anything, except fall in love.Kim Hani - the once-terrible gumiho known as the Scarlet Fox - spends her days working at a cafe and trying not to let a certain customer irk her. Seokga - a trickster god thrown from the heavens for his attempt at a coup - spends his days hunting demons and irking a particular gumiho. ...

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The Northern Lights Lodge - Julie Caplin

Anotace: Escape to the cosiest little lodge in Iceland for love, log fires and the Northern Lights...With a shattered heart and her career completely in tatters, Lucy needs to get away from her life in the UK. But, when she takes a job as hotel manager of the Northern Lights Lodge, she doesn`t quite expect to find herself in a land of bubbling hot springs and snowflake-d...

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The Northern Lights Lodge - Julie Caplinová

<p>Escape to the cosiest little lodge in Iceland for love, log fires and the Northern Lights…</p> <p>With a shattered heart and her career completely in tatters, Lucy needs to get away from her life in the UK. But, when she takes a job as hotel manager of the Northern Lights Lodge, she doesn’t quite expect to find herself in a land of bubbling hot spring...

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The God and the Gumiho: a intoxicating and dazzling contemporary Korean romantic fantasy - Sophie Kim

They'll do anything to outsmart each other. Anything, except fall in love. In this delightful Korean contemporary fantasy, a fallen trickster god must pair up with a coffee-slinging, shapeshifting fox to track down a demon of darkness before it devours the mortal world.Kim Hani - the once-terrible gumiho known as the Scarlet Fox - spends her days working at a cafe and try...

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The Tyrant´s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo 4), 1. vydání - Rick Riordan

<p>You will get to the Tiber alive. You will start to Jive. I am Apollo I will remember The former God Apollo, cast out by his father, Zeus, is having a pretty rough time of it. Well, for one thing, he's called Lester. But being an awkward mortal teenager is the least of his worries. Though he and his friends (some of them) have emerged from the Burning Maz...

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Defiant: The Fourth Skyward Novel - Sanderson Brandon

Anotace: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes the final book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction. Spensa made it out of the Nowhere, but what she saw in the space between the stars has changed her forever. She came face to face with the Delvers, and finally got answ...

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Defiant: The Fourth Skyward Novel - Brandon Sanderson

<p>From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes the final book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction.Spensa made it out of the Nowhere, but what she saw in the space between the stars has changed her forever. She came face to face with the Delvers, and finally got answers...

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She Gets the Girl - Lippincottová Rachael

Anotace: Alex Blackwood is a little bit headstrong, with a dash of chaos and a whole lot of flirt. She knows how to get the girl. Keeping her on the other hand . . . not so much.Molly Parker has everything in her life totally in control, except for her complete awkwardness with just about anyone besides her mum. She knows she`s in love with the impossibly cool Cora Myers...

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She Gets the Girl - Rachael Lippincottová

<p>Alex Blackwood is a little bit headstrong, with a dash of chaos and a whole lot of flirt. She knows how to get the girl. Keeping her on the other hand . . . not so much. Molly Parker has everything in her life totally in control, except for her complete awkwardness with just about anyone besides her mum. She knows she's in love with the impossibly cool Cora Myer...

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The Supernova Era, 1. vydání - Liou Cch´-Sin

<p>'Like Ursula K. Le Guin rewriting The Lord of the Flies for the quantum age' NPR 'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIRED Eight years ago and eight light years away, a supermassive star died. Tonight, a supernova tsunami of high energy will finally reach Earth. Dark skies will shine bright as a new star blooms in the heavens and with...

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Tyrant's Tomb (The Trials of Apollo Book 4)

You will get to the Tiber alive. You will start to Jive. I am Apollo I will remember The former God Apollo, cast out by his father, Zeus, is having a pretty rough time of it. Well, for one thing, he's called Lester. But being an awkward mortal teenager is the least of his worries. Though he and his friends (some of them) have emerged from the Burning Maze, rescue...

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The Summer Skies: Escape to the Scottish Isles with the brand-new novel by the Sunday Times bestselling author - Colganová Jenny

Anotace: The brand-new escapist summer novel from Sunday Times bestseller Jenny Colgan. Fall in love with a new cast of characters and get swept away in a breath-taking romance you`ll want to read again and again . . .`A glorious, breathtaking, tender romance. I loved every moment of the ride` SOPHIE KINSELLA`[A] blast of feelgood fiction [...] it makes me want to head ...

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The End Crowns All - Bea Fitzgerald

<p>The second fierce, fresh and gloriously romantic YA Greek myth re-imagining, from Bea Fitzgerald, growing TikTok superstar and Sunday Times bestselling author of GIRL, GODDESS, QUEEN.Love caused this war. At least, that's what the stories will say. When Cassandra's patron god, Apollo, offers her the gift of prophecy - and all the power that comes with it - she se...

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The End Crowns All - Bea Fitzgerald

<p>The second fierce, fresh and gloriously romantic YA Greek myth re-imagining, from Bea Fitzgerald, growing TikTok superstar and Sunday Times bestselling author of GIRL, GODDESS, QUEEN.Love caused this war. At least, that's what the stories will say. When Cassandra's patron god, Apollo, offers her the gift of prophecy - and all the power that comes with it - she se...

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The Summer Skies: Escape to the Scottish Isles with the brand-new novel by the Sunday Times bestselling author - Jenny Colgan

<p>The brand-new escapist summer novel from Sunday Times bestseller Jenny Colgan. Fall in love with a new cast of characters and get swept away in a breath-taking romance you'll want to read again and again . . .'A glorious, breathtaking, tender romance. I loved every moment of the ride' SOPHIE KINSELLA'[A] blast of feelgood fiction [...] it makes me want to head f...

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The Book That Wouldn´t Burn (The Library 1) - Lawrence Mark

Anotace: All books, no matter their binding, will fall to dust. The stories they carry may last longer. They might outlive the paper, the library, even the language in which they were first written. The greatest story can reach the stars . . . This is the start of an incredible new journey from the internationally bestselling author of Prince of Thorns, in which, thoug...

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The Book That Wouldn´t Burn (The Library 1) - Mark Lawrence

<p>All books, no matter their binding, will fall to dust. The stories they carry may last longer. They might outlive the paper, the library, even the language in which they were first written. The greatest story can reach the stars . . . This is the start of an incredible new journey from the intern...

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Study for Obedience: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 - Sarah Bernstein

<p>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023 A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and Claire-Louise Bennett A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many sib...

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The Talented Mr Varg : A Detective Varg novel - McCall Smith Alexander

Anotace: Spring is coming slowly to Sweden - though not quite as slowly as Detective Ulf Varg`s promised promotion at the Department of Sensitive Crimes. For Varg, referred by his psychoanalyst to group therapy at Malmoe`s Wholeness Centre, life now seems mostly a circle of self-examination, something which may or may not be useful when it comes to the nature of his prof...

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The Talented Mr Varg : A Detective Varg novel - Smith Alexander McCall

<p>Spring is coming slowly to Sweden - though not quite as slowly as Detective Ulf Varg's promised promotion at the Department of Sensitive Crimes. For Varg, referred by his psychoanalyst to group therapy at Malmoe's Wholeness Centre, life now seems mostly a circle of self-examination, something which may or may not be useful when it comes to the nature of his profe...

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Move Like Water: A Story of the Sea and Its Creatures - Hannah Stowe

<p>The seas cover over two thirds of our planet and yet most of us live our lives on land, creatures of a different element, at once fascinated and terrified by the beauty and power of these great bodies of water. There are some, though, who go to sea, who get to know its many moods -- the tranquil and mirror-like, the raging and ripple-swept -- and who bring back...

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The Malevolent Seven: "Terry Pratchett meets Deadpool" in this darkly funny fantasy - de Castell Sebastien

Anotace: From the bestselling author of THE GREATCOATS: seven war mages with dark pasts and special powers must come together to fight an unknown enemy - but the stakes are higher than anyone can imagine . . . and someone's setting the seven up for a fall. Picture a wizard. Go ahead, close your eyes. There he is, see? Skinny old guy with a long straggly beard. No d...

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The Malevolent Seven: &quot;Terry Pratchett meets Deadpool&quot; in this darkly funny fantasy - Castell Sebastien de

<p>From the bestselling author of THE GREATCOATS: seven war mages with dark pasts and special powers must come together to fight an unknown enemy - but the stakes are higher than anyone can imagine . . . and someone's setting the seven up for a fall. Picture a wizard. Go ahead, close your eyes. There he is, see? Skinny old guy with a long straggly beard. No doubt he...

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Cloudland

Albert is lucky though - the Cloud Children see his fall and speak the magic words ("They either said, Fumble gralley goggle ho hee", or "Teetum waggl

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Heaven Official´s Blessing 6: Tian Guan Ci Fu - Xiu Mo Xiang Tong

<p>The blockbuster danmei/Boys' Love novels from China that inspired the animated series! This epic historical fantasy about a prince and the mysterious man by his side is now officially in English, for the very first time! Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedication and noble de...

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Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 5

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER! The blockbuster danmei/Boys’ Love novels from China that inspired the animated series! This epic historical fantasy about a prince and the mysterious man by his side is now officially in English, for the very first time!Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedica...

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Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan CI Fu (Novel) Vol. 7

The blockbuster danmei/Boys’ Love novels from China that inspired the animated series! This epic historical fantasy about a prince and the mysterious man by his side is now officially in English, for the very first time!Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedication and noble deeds allowed...

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Heaven Official´s Blessing 5: Tian Guan Ci Fu - Xiu Mo Xiang Tong

<p>Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedication and noble deeds allowed him to ascend to godhood. But those who rise, can also fall...and fall he does, cast from the Heavens again and again and banished to the mortal realm. Eight hundred years after his mortal life, Xie Lian has a...

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Heaven Official´s Blessing 3: Tian Guan Ci Fu - Xiu Mo Xiang Tong

Anotace: The blockbuster danmei/Boys` Love novels from China that inspired the animated series!This epic historical fantasy about a prince and the mysterious man by his side is now in English, for the very first time.Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedication and noble deeds allowed h...

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Heaven Official´s Blessing 2: Tian Guan Ci Fu - Xiu Mo Xiang Tong

Anotace: The blockbuster danmei/Boys` Love novels from China that inspired the animated series!This epic historical fantasy about a prince and the mysterious man by his side is now in English, for the very first time.Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedication and noble deeds allowed h...

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Heaven Official´s Blessing 3: Tian Guan Ci Fu - Xiu Mo Xiang Tong

<p>The blockbuster danmei/Boys' Love novels from China that inspired the animated series! This epic historical fantasy about a prince and the mysterious man by his side is now in English, for the very first time. Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedication and noble deeds allowe...

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Heaven Official´s Blessing 2: Tian Guan Ci Fu - Xiu Mo Xiang Tong

<p>The blockbuster danmei/Boys' Love novels from China that inspired the animated series! This epic historical fantasy about a prince and the mysterious man by his side is now in English, for the very first time. Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedication and noble deeds allowe...

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Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu Vol. 4

The blockbuster danmei/Boys' Love novels from China that inspired the animated series! This epic historical fantasy about a prince and the mysterious man by his side is now in English, for the very first time.Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedication and noble deeds allowed him to asc...

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Heaven Official´s Blessing 1: Tian Guan Ci Fu - Xiu Mo Xiang Tong

Anotace: The blockbuster danmei/Boys` Love novels from China that inspired the animated series! This epic historical fantasy about a prince and the mysterious man by his side is now in English, for the very first time.Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedicated study and noble deeds all...

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Puzzle MAXI - Kolik je hodin/42 dílků - Larsen

<p>Learn the clock with this colorful puzzle. The pieces are square with curved edges, which makes them different from each other even though they look the same. We call such pieces quiz pieces, each piece only fits in the right place. On each piece there is a clock, and the clocks show different times. On the frame under the piece, a time is indicated with both num...

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Tyrant´s Tomb - neuveden

Anotace: You will get to the Tiber alive. You will start to Jive. I am Apollo I will remember The former God Apollo, cast out by his father, Zeus, is having a pretty rough time of it. Well, for one thing, he`s called Lester. But being an awkward mortal teenager is the least of his worries. Though he and his friends (some of them) have emerged from the Burning Maze, rescu...

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Heaven Official´s Blessing 1: Tian Guan Ci Fu - Xiu Mo Xiang Tong

<p>The blockbuster danmei/Boys' Love novels from China that inspired the animated series! This epic historical fantasy about a prince and the mysterious man by his side is now in English, for the very first time. Born the crown prince of a prosperous kingdom, Xie Lian was renowned for his beauty, strength, and purity. His years of dedicated study and noble deeds ...

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Northern Lights Lodge

Escape to the cosiest little lodge in Iceland for love, log fires and the Northern Lights... With a shattered heart and her career completely in tatters, Lucy needs to get away from her life in the UK. But, when she takes a job as hotel manager of the Northern Lights Lodge, she doesn't quite expect to find herself in a land of bubbling hot springs and snowflake-dusted gla...

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Heartstopper Volume One (1444951386)

Kniha - autor Alice Oseman, 288 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. An LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between - for fans of The Art of Being Normal, Holly Bourne and Love, Simon. Charlie and Nick are at the same school, but they've never met ... until one day when they...

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Heartstopper Volume One TV Tie-In (9781444968927)

Kniha - autor Alice Oseman, 304 stran, anglicky *Now a live-action Netflix series!* Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. Heartstopper is the bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel: this new edition - with a cover including Alice Oseman's artwork and photographs showing characters from the Netflix show - also contains exclusive pages from Alice's original T...

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Salt Kiss - Sierra Simone

<p>From TikTok sensation Sierra Simone comes the first in the Lyonesse series, a spin-off of her bestselling New Camelot books.Tristan Thomas is lost. After leaving the army, the young former soldier is in limbo. Until, that is, he's hired by Mark Trevena, the owner of Lyonesse-DC's ultra-secret club-to be Mark's new bodyguard. He's drawn into Mark's dark, seductive...

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Through My Window

It used to be that I obsessed over Ares Hidalgo from afar.But that was before he climbedThrough My WindowRaquel Álvarez is hardworking and serious about her future. She’s only got one goal―to become a psychologist. Well, that and to get Ares Hildago to notice her.For as long as Raquel can remember, she has been obsessed with Ares. Even though he lives next door, Raquel ha...

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Daughters of Sparta - Claire Heywood

<p>For millennia, two women have been blamed for the fall of a mighty civilisation - but now it's time to hear their side of the story . . . As princesses of Sparta, Helen and Klytemnestra have known nothing but luxury and plenty. With their high birth and unrivalled beauty, they are the envy of all of Greece. Such privilege comes at a high price, though, and thei...

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