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Ice Planet Barbarians - Ruby Dixon
<p>The international publishing phenomenon Ice Planet Barbarians, now in a special print edition!Fall in love with the out-of-this-world romance between Georgie Carruthers, a human woman, and Vektal, an alien from another planet, in this expanded edition with bonus materials and an exclusive epilogue--in print only!</p> <p>You'd think being abducted by ...
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The Book of Longings - Monk Kidd Sue
Anotace: Ana is born in Galilee at a time when women are seen as possessions, only leaving their fathers` homes to marry.Ana longs to control her destiny. Taught to read despite her mother`s misgivings, she wants to be a writer and to find her own voice. A voice that will speak for the silenced women around her.Betrothed to an elderly widower, Ana almost despairs. But an...
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The Book of Longings - Kidd Sue Monk
<p>Ana is born in Galilee at a time when women are seen as possessions, only leaving their fathers' homes to marry. Ana longs to control her destiny. Taught to read despite her mother's misgivings, she wants to be a writer and to find her own voice. A voice that will speak for the silenced women around her. Betrothed to an elderly widower, Ana almost despairs. But ...
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Black Torch 1 - Takaki Tsuyoshi
Anotace: Ninja and animal lover Jiro Azuma`s life changes forever when he finds himself in the middle of a war of ninjas vs. demons.Jiro Azuma is descended from of a long line of ninja, and he also can talk to animals. One day, he rescues a very unique black cat named Rago,who also happens to be a powerful unearthly being, and is dragged into a secret supernatural war.Al...
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Black Torch 1 - Tsuyoshi Takaki
<p>Ninja and animal lover Jiro Azuma's life changes forever when he finds himself in the middle of a war of ninjas vs. demons. Jiro Azuma is descended from of a long line of ninja, and he also can talk to animals. One day, he rescues a very unique black cat named Rago,who also happens to be a powerful unearthly being, and is dragged into a secret supernatural war. ...
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Tomas Nevinson - Javier Marias
<p>BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO GUARDIAN AND THE SPECTATOR The final novel from one of the greatest writers of the past half century'No-one nowadays writes prose like Javier Marias . . . If you're already a fan, you'll know what to expect and rejoice. If you're not, what a treat you have in store' The HeraldTomas Nevinson, a retired MI6 agent, is working for t...
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If I Have To Be Haunted - Miranda Sun
<p>Your first love will always haunt you… The most haunting, heartwarming debut of 2023. Perfect for fans of strong female leads and supernatural stakes in Buffy, with all the sweetness and romance of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.</p> <p>Cara’s just trying to stay on top of all her classes, excel at her extracurriculars, and prepare for college – wh...
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Loving Him without Losing You
Are you a Disappearing Woman? "Beverly Engel has identified a widespread problem and provided women with wise guidelines for bursting through it. She writes with compassion and insight. If you think you are a Disappearing Woman, you will drink in this book as if it were a health-giving elixir. It is!"-Susan Page, author of How One of You Can Bring the Two of You Together...
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Dark Earth - Stott Rebecca
Anotace: `Superb ... radically new and beautiful` Observer `Magical and evocative` Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock `Heartachingly poignant` Lucy Holland, author of Sistersong `An ancient tapestry of legend brilliantly rewoven` Francis Spufford, author of Light Perpetual The new novel from the Cos...
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The Female Man - Russ Joanna, Russ Joanna
Anotace: A landmark book in the fields of science fiction and feminism.Four women living in parallel worlds, each with a different gender landscape. When they begin to travel to each other`s worlds each woman`s preconceptions on gender and what it means to be a woman are challenged.Acclaimed as one of the essential works of science fiction and an influence on William Gib...
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Level 4: Evening Class Book and MP3 Pack - Binchy Maeve
Anotace: It was the quiet ones you had to watch. That`s where the real passion was lurking. They came together at Mountainview College, a down-at-the-heels secondary school on the seamy side of Dublin, to take a course in Italian. It was Latin teacher Aidan Dunne`s last chance to revive a failing marriage and a dead-end career. But Aidan`s dream was headed for disaster u...
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Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3) - Terry Pratchett
<p>'They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.'Everybody knows there's no such thing as a female wizard. So when the wizard Drum Billet accidentally passes on his staff of power to an eighth daughter of an eighth son, a girl called Eskarina (Esk, for short), the misogynistic world of wizardry wants not...
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Ithaca: The exquisite, gripping tale that breathes life into ancient myth - North Claire
Anotace: `Claire North brings a powerful, fresh and unflinching voice to ancient myth - darkly fascinating, raw and breathtaking` Jennifer Saint, author of Sunday Times bestseller Ariadne***A Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of the Year***This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca`s shores, the whi...
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Bestiary
Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family's queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets. One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body. Her name was Hu Gu Po and she paid the price for her body in hunger. It's one of m...
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Anne Frank (Little People, Big Dreams) - María Isabel Sánchez Vegarová
New in the Little People, Big Dreams series, discover the life of Anne Frank, the writer whose diary captured the hearts of the public, in this true story of her life. Little Anne was born in Germany to a liberal Jewish family. But when the Nazis came into power she was forced to go into hiding with her family. With innovative illustrations and extra facts at the back, th...
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If I Have To Be Haunted - Miranda Sun
Anotace: Your first love will always haunt you... The most haunting, heartwarming debut of 2023. Perfect for fans of strong female leads and supernatural stakes in Buffy, with all the sweetness and romance of To All the Boys I've Loved Before. Cara's just trying to stay on top of all her classes, excel at her extracurriculars, and prepare for college - which m...
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The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Box Set (0593311647)
Kniha - autor Margaret Atwood, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A box set of Margaret Atwood's bestselling companioned novels, The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments. In The Handmaid's Tale, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War and the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid soci...
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The Woman on the Bridge - O´Flanaganová Sheila
Anotace: A stunning historical novel from multi-million-copy bestselling author Sheila O`Flanagan`Winnie is a great character . . . she`s always real - she`s always human` Roddy Doyle`A riveting rollercoaster of drama, tragedy, triumph and love` Patricia Scanlan `Unputdownable, full of poignancy, warmth and real and relatable women` Kate ThompsonDublin. The 1920s. As wa...
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The Woman on the Bridge - Sheila O'Flanagan
<p>A stunning historical novel from multi-million-copy bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan'Winnie is a great character . . . she's always real - she's always human' Roddy Doyle'A riveting rollercoaster of drama, tragedy, triumph and love' Patricia Scanlan 'Unputdownable, full of poignancy, warmth and real and relatable women' Kate ThompsonDublin. The 1920s. As war...
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Fall of Ruin and Wrath: An epic spicy romantasy from a mega bestselling author - Jennifer L. Armentrout
<p>From the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of From Blood and Ash, Fall of Ruin and Wrath is a scorching romance with high stakes, breathtaking magic and a searing enemies-to-lovers romance.She lives by her intuition. He feeds on her pleasure . . .Long ago, the world was destroyed by gods. Only nine cities were spared. Separated by vast wilderness teeming wi...
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Black Clover 9 - Tabata Yuki
Anotace: In a world of magic, Asta, a boy with anti-magic powers, will do whatever it takes to become the Wizard King! Asta is a young boy who dreams of becoming the greatest mage in the kingdom. Only one problem-he can`t use any magic! Luckily for Asta, he receives the incredibly rare five-leaf clover grimoire that gives him the power of anti-magic. Can someone who can`...
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The Librarians of Rue de Picardie: From the bestselling author, a powerful, moving wartime page-turner based on real events - Skeslien Charles Janet
Anotace: The New York Times bestselling author of the The Paris Library returns with a powerful, moving new novel based on the extraordinary true story of Jessie Carson, the American librarian determined to bring books to the children of war-torn France.`This is hands down my book of 2024. A rich, glorious life-affirming ode to the power of books and female solidarity. S...
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The Librarians of Rue de Picardie: From the bestselling author, a powerful, moving wartime page-turner based on real events - Charles Janet Skeslien
<p>The New York Times bestselling author of the The Paris Library returns with a powerful, moving new novel based on the extraordinary true story of Jessie Carson, the American librarian determined to bring books to the children of war-torn France.'This is hands down my book of 2024. A rich, glorious life-affirming ode to the power of books and female solidarity. Si...
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What About Men? - Moranová Caitlin
Anotace: `A must-read eye-opener that makes you laugh, cry, get angry and get happy on every page. It`s magnificent` Bob Mortimer`I fall passionately in love with absolutely every single thing Caitlin Moran writes - and I`ve fallen very hard for this book... Eye-opener, page-turner, women-translator, guy-empowerer - put like that, I hope you`ll agree it`s incredibly reas...
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What About Men?, 1. vydání - Caitlin Moran
<p>'A must-read eye-opener that makes you laugh, cry, get angry and get happy on every page. It's magnificent' Bob Mortimer'I fall passionately in love with absolutely every single thing Caitlin Moran writes - and I've fallen very hard for this book... Eye-opener, page-turner, women-translator, guy-empowerer - put like that, I hope you'll agree it's incredibly reaso...
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TSR N-FR DEATH MASKS
Ed Greenwood, who is synonymous with the Forgotten Realms, leads readers through a story that combines the rollicking fantasy adventure for which he is famous with a murder mystery-thriller. THAT'S WHAT, FOUR LORDS DEAD? Revealed in death to have been Masked Lords, three more citizens had been murdered over the preceding day and night: the Sembian wine-seller and collecto...
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Liberation Day - Saunders George
Anotace: The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the BardoMacArthur genius and Booker Prize-winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award fina...
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Liberation Day : Stories - Saunders George, Saunders George
Anotace: The "best short-story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose-wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned-Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collect...
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Liberation Day : Stories - George Saunders
<p>The “best short-story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collecti...
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Bestiary - Ming Chang
Anotace: Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this blazing debut of one family's queer desires, violent impulses and buried secrets. One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body. Her name was Hu Gu Po, and she hungered to eat children, especially their toes. S...
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Where magic Grows - Onjali Q. Raúf
Anotace: From Onjali Q. Raúf, author of The Boy at the Back of the Class, comes a hardback collection of seven unique fables, filled with humour, heart and messages of hope. Beautifully illustrated by Katarzyna Doszla in full colour, with gorgeous details such as a ribbon marker and patterned endpapers, this is a book to be cherished for years to come. Have you heard th...
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LIFEL1K3 (Lifelike) (1524713953)
Kniha - 416 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Jay Kristoff, 416 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Illuminae Files comes the first book in a new series that's part Romeo and Juliet, part Terminator, and all adrenaline. On an island junkyard beneath a sky that glows with radiation, a deadly ...
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator - Maria Ressa
<p>What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the most powerful man in the country: President Duterte. Now, hounded by the state, she has multiple a...
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Bestiary - K-Ming Chang
<p>'This is a powerful novel that will sit inside you for days after reading.' Sunday Times Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family's queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets.One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a ...
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Bringing Down the Duke: swoony, feminist and romantic, perfect for fans of Bridgerton - Evie Dunmore
<p>'I have read the future of historical romance, and it's Evie Dunmore' Eva Leigh, author of Dare to Love a Duke Oxford, 1879. A beautiful bluestocking is about to teach a duke a lesson . . .Brilliant but destitute Annabelle Archer is one of the first female students at Oxford University. In return for her scholarship, she must recruit influential men to champion t...
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Ithaca - North Claire
Anotace: This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca`s shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. But on the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women - and their goddesses - that will change the course of the world.Seventeen years ago, king Odysseus sailed to war with Troy, taking with him...
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Never Go Back - Lee Child
Anotace: 'It's said that a Jack Reacher novel is bought every four seconds somewhere in the world...Lee Child's genius has been to create a tough guy hero that men will envy and women will adore". (Daily Express). After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. His destination: a sturdy stone...
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Weyward, 1. vydání - Emilia Hart
‘She’s going to be a huge writing star’ Sara Cox on BBC2’s Between the Covers ‘From the moment I started reading it there was a sense of spirit, fire, energy and vitality’ Sophie Duker on BBC2’s Between the Covers KATE, 2019Kate flees London – abandoning everything – for Cumbria and Weyward Cottage, inherited from her great-aunt. There, a secret lurks in the bones of the...
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Maskerade: Discworld: The Witches Collection - Pratchett Terry
Anotace: The witches of the Discworld are back! An hysterical exploration of the magical world of the opera, brimming with Sir Terry Pratchett`s stylish wit`Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own` The TimesTHE SHOW MUST GO ON, AS MURDER, MUSIC AND MAYHEM RUN RIOT IN THE NIGHT...The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork... A huge, rambling building, ...
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Girls Just Wanna Have Funds: A Feminist Guide to Investing - Falkenberg Camilla
Anotace: Start your journey to financial success with Female Invest`s guide for safe, smart, and sustainable investing. This is an empowering and uplifting money manifesto, aiming to change the tides of financial power.Are you one of the 68% of women worldwide earning less than a man doing the same job? Then you need to make your money work harder, starting now.In Girls ...
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Girls Just Wanna Have Funds: A Feminist Guide to Investing - Camilla Falkenberg
<p>Start your journey to financial success with Female Invest's guide for safe, smart, and sustainable investing. This is an empowering and uplifting money manifesto, aiming to change the tides of financial power.Are you one of the 68% of women worldwide earning less than a man doing the same job? Then you need to make your money work harder, starting now.In Girls J...
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Cassandra Speaks - Lesser Elizabeth
Anotace: What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers?Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women`s voices had been equally heard and respected throughout history, hu...
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The Stone Sky: The Broken Earth, Book 3 (0356508684)
Kniha - 464 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - 464 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The incredible conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Hugo Award-winning The Fifth Season · Shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, Kitschies, Audie and Locus Awards · A New York Times Notable Book · The inaugural Wired.com book club pick The Moon will soon ...
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How to Fall Out of Love Madly : A Novel - Casale Jana, Casale Jana
Anotace: Three women confront the compromises they´ve made to appease the men they love.Joy and Annie are friends and roommates whose thirty-something lives aren´t exactly what they´d imagined. To make ends meet, they decide to rent their extra bedroom to Theo, who charms Joy with his salt-and-pepper hair and adoration of their one-eyed cat. When Annie goes to live with ...
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The Silence of the Girls (0241983207)
Kniha - autor Pat Barker, 336 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Queen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered homeland and given as a concubine to a foreign warrior. The warrior is Achilles: famed hero, loathed enemy, ruthless butcher, darkly troubled spirit. Briseis's fate is now indivisibly entwined with his. No one knows it yet, but there are just ten ...
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The New Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
Anotace: Walking the streets of our cities are the Others. These men and women have access to the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world of magical power that exists alongside our own. Each has sworn allegiance to one side: the Light, or the Darkness. At Moscow airport, Higher Light Magician Anton Gorodetsky overhears a child screaming about a plane that is about to crash. H...
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New Watch
Walking the streets of our cities are the Others. These men and women have access to the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world of magical power that exists alongside our own. Each has sworn allegiance to one side: the Light, or the Darkness. At Moscow airport, Higher Light Magician Anton Gorodetsky overhears a child screaming about a plane that is about to crash. He discover...
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Into a Dark Realm - Raymond E. Feist
<p>The dread plot to destroy the Empire of Great Kesh has failed. The Conclave of Shadows has ended the murderous Nighthawk brotherhood's horrific reign of terror and death. But the mad sorcerer, Leso Varen, has fled, taking refuge among the most powerful men and women on Kelewan--a world now threatened, along with Midkemia, by hordes of the most vicious warriors in...
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The New Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko
<p>Walking the streets of our cities are the Others. These men and women have access to the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world of magical power that exists alongside our own. Each has sworn allegiance to one side: the Light, or the Darkness. At Moscow airport, Higher Light Magician Anton Gorodetsky overhears a child screaming about a plane that is about to crash. He...
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What About Men? - Moranová Caitlin
Anotace: As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you will ever be asked is `But what about MEN?` After eleven years of writing bestsellers about women and dismissing this question, having been very sure that the concerns of feminism and men are very different things, Caitlin Moran realised that this wasn`t quite right...
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What About Men?, 1. vydání - Caitlin Moran
<p>As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you will ever be asked is 'But what about MEN?' After eleven years of writing bestsellers about women and dismissing this question, having been very sure that the concerns of feminism and men are very different things, Caitlin Moran realised that this wasn't quite right,...
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Liberation Day: From ´the world´s best short story writer´ (The Telegraph) and winner of the Man Booker Prize - Saunders George
Anotace: `One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far` SFX Review `Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best` Anne Enright, Guardian `A triumph of storytelling` i paper`A joy. `Effortlessly stylish, funny and smart` Daily Mail____________The first short story collection ...
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Liberation Day: From ´the world´s best short story writer´ (The Telegraph) and winner of the Man Booker Prize - George Saunders
<p>'One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far' SFX Review 'Saunders is funny and kind as ever, and his narrative virtuosity puts him up there with the best' Anne Enright, Guardian 'A triumph of storytelling' i paper 'A joy. 'Effortlessly stylish, funny and smart' Daily Mail ____________ The first short story collec...
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The Weavers of Alamaxa - Elsbai Hadeer
Anotace: `Hadeer Elsbai has written a powerful story of sisterhood, love, and struggle within a rich, vibrant world with complicated characters that leap from the page to smash the patriarchy!` P. Djeli Clark, author of A Master of Djinn, on The Daughters of IzdiharFollowing up on one of the most exciting fantasy debuts, The Daughters of Izdihar, Hadeer Elsbai concludes ...
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The Cleopatras - Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
<p>'A thrilling biography, filled with the imperial ambitions and merciless intrigues' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORECleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest queen.A woman more myth than history, immortalized in poetry, drama, music, art, and film.She captivated Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, the two greatest Romans of the day, and died in a blaze of glory, with a...
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The Mahjong Huntress
Mary Elisabeth Riley is to be wed to sir Charles Gilbertworth on the eve of her 21st birthday. She is reluctant, as the marriage was arranged and she does not feel it’s the time or the place – or the man for that matter. She, as a growing number of women of her age, wants to make something more out of herself, and becoming a housewife is not exactly what she h...
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The Mahjong Huntress (PC)
Mary Elisabeth Riley is to be wed to sir Charles Gilbertworth on the eve of her 21st birthday. She is reluctant, as the marriage was arranged and she does not feel it’s the time or the place – or the man for that matter. She, as a growing number of women of her age, wants to make something more out of herself, and becoming a housewife is not exactly wh...
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The Secrets We Kept - Lara Prescott
Two female spies. A banned masterpiece. A book that changed history. A BANNED MASTERPIECE 1956. A celebrated Russian author is writing a book, Doctor Zhivago, which could spark dissent in the Soviet Union. The Soviets, afraid of its subversive power, ban it. But in the rest of the world it's fast becoming a sensation. TWO FEMALE SPIES The CIA plans to use the book to ...
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The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye: Continuing Stieg Larsson´s Millennium Series - David Lagercrantz
Anotace: THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO LIVES ON. Lisbeth Salander is an unstoppable force:Sentenced to two months in Flodberga women`s prison for saving a young boy`s life by any means necessary, Salander refuses to say anything in her own defence. She has more important things on her mind.Mikael Blomkvist makes the long trip to visit every week - and receives a lead t...
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Papyrus - Vallejo Irene
Anotace: Best Books of 2022 Financial Times`A literary phenomenon.` - Times Literary Supplement`Imaginative, lively and contemporary...masterly.` - Economist `Vallejo enlivens history with imagination and personal anecdote` - Observer`A mindboggling history of the earliest books... the story she tells is impressively rip-roaring` - Daily Telegraph`Packed with fascinating...
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