Velvet was the night

Velvet was the Night

Chosen by President Obama for his Summer 2022 Reading List: From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a 'delicious, twisted t

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Velvet was the Night

Chosen by President Obama for his Summer 2022 Reading List: From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a 'delicious, twisted t

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Velvet Was the Night

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Velvet Was the Night (1529417988)

Kniha - autor Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 384 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná

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Velvet was the Night - Moreno-Garcia Silvia

Anotace: Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city. When her next-door neighbor, the beautiful art student Leonora, disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman-and journey...

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Velvet was the Night - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

<p>Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city. When her next-door neighbor, the beautiful art student Leonora, disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman-and journeyi...

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Daughter of Doctor Moreau

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set ag

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Untamed Shore

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet was the Night comes Untamed Shore, a dark cocktail mixing a nuanced coming-of-

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Night

Elie Wiesel was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. After the war, Wiesel studied in Paris and later bec

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Night

Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This title present

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Orten Was The Case

Get ready to step into the (non-existent) shoes of Ziggy - an unexpected hero from a fictional Swedish neighborhood. Together, you'll take on the daunting task of foiling a sinister scheme that could potentially devastate the entire world. Ziggy wakes up one day with a strange mark on his hand, clueless about what happened the night before. After a couple of minutes lost ...

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It was Christmas Eve Night (a parody)

Having my copy of 'The night before Christmas' ready for its annual outing, I realised that the story I was about to read bore little relevance to to

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It Was a Cold Dark Night

Ned the hedgehog is looking for a home in the cold, dark forest. He needs somewhere warm and cosy to sleep, but all he keeps finding are other creatur

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Orten Was The Case (PC)

Get ready to step into the (non-existent) shoes of Ziggy - an unexpected hero from a fictional Swedish neighborhood. Together, you'll take on the daunting task of foiling a sinister scheme that could potentially devastate the entire world.Ziggy wakes up one day with a strange mark on his hand, clueless about what happened the night before. After a couple of minutes l...

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There Was Still Love

The profoundly moving new novel from the Miles Franklin-shortlisted author of Past the Shallows and When the Night Comes.

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Boy That Never Was

Three-year-old Dillon vanished in the middle of the night. His father Harry can't forgive himself for not protecting his only child. Yet Harry isn't b

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Wee Bird Was Watching

A young girl and her mother settle in the woods for a night's sleep, after a long and tiring journey. But who will keep them safe from harm? A wee bir

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Jewel That Was Ours

"He looked overweight around the midriff, though nowhere else, and she wondered whether perhaps he drank too much. He looked weary, as if he had been up most of the night conducting his investigations . . ." For Oxford, the arrival of twenty-seven American tourists is nothing out of the ordinary . . . until one of their number is found dead in Room 310 at the Randolph Ho...

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Tender is the Night

Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashiona

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Tender is the Night

Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash, the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashion

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Night at the Crossroads

Maigret has been interrogating Carl Andersen for seventeen hours without a confession. He's either innocent or a very good liar. So why was the body o

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'Twas the Night before Christmas

'Twas the Night Before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse...' The traditional and much-loved Christm

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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau - Moreno-Garcia Silvia

Anotace: From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. `The deeply atmospheric novel blends horror, science fiction, and historical events` Time, 100 `Must Read Books of 2022`Carlota Moreau: growing up in a distant and l...

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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

<p>From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. 'The deeply atmospheric novel blends horror, science fiction, and historical events' Time, 100 'Must Read Books of 2022'Carlota Moreau: growing up in a distant and lu...

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Night the Reindeer Saved Christmas

they can fly!Illustrated by Kasia Nowowiejska, this charming picture book was inspired by the little known fact that Santa Claus's reindeer are female

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Theo and the Velvet Onesies

One night when Theo is taking shelter from Luftwaffe bombing on the platform of Aldwych Underground station in London a mysterious man leaves him his

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Night Circus

The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The black sign, painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates,

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Second Night

Nearly two years have passed since the first of the three Runes of the Deathless was won. Caz Wylde is approaching his sixteenth birthday. He and Kyri

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Night Dancer

A bold, brash woman, the only thing her mother refused to discuss was her past. Night Dancer is a powerful and moving novel about the relationship bet

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Night Cleaner

The idea was simple: pack a suitcase, go to another city where you have no connections and try to find a job, anonymously. That was the idea that took

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Dark Night of the Soul

This book contains Pamela's personal story of the deepest crisis she ever experienced in her life. Successful as a writer and spiritual therapist, she was confronted first with illness, then with insomnia and fear, and ultimately with depression and psy

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Notes from the Velvet Underground

Lou Reed, who died in 2013, was best known to the general public as the grumpy New Yorker in black who sang 'Walk on the Wild Side'. In this biography

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Night Games

*Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014*‘The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and whi

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Night Break

Crack the case with the world’s most famous detective! But before he became the great detective, who was young Sherlock Holmes? The eighth book i

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Journey to the End of the Night

First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. This edi

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Night Fountain

Salvatore Quasimodo was born-and lived-through historical tragedies which impressed his mind for ever. What one hears in his lines are the tears of ma

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The Night Fire - Michael Connelly

Anotace: LAPD Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor - but was this flame kept alive, or a secret that was meant to be snuffed out? Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for...

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The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

<p>The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The black sign, painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates, reads:Opens at NightfalllCloses at DawnAs the sun disappears beyond the horizon, all over the tents small lights begin to flicker, as though the entirety of the circus is covered in par...

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Night Watch

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standi

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Wedding Night

It's all gone wrong with the man Lottie thought was Mr Right. Then out of the blue she gets a call from her first love. She decides it muct be Fate, a

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Wedding Night

It's all gone wrong with the man Lottie thought was Mr Right. She decides it muct be Fate, and rushes off to marry him and rekindle their sizzling Gre

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Set the Night on Fire

'An attempt to retell an oft-told tale, this time informed by a desire to suck the hot air out of the more inflated earlier versions . . .this late-arriving history is perhaps the most reliable, and certainly the most entertaining, of all' GuardianFew bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has been a virtually...

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Night Comes

When he was 23 years old, Dale Allison almost died in a car accident. That terrifying experience dramatically changed his ideas about death and the hereafter. In Night Comes Allison wrestles with a number of difficult questions concerning the last t

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Endless Night

Agatha Christie's disturbing 1960s mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Gipsy's Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea - and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl...

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Night Fire

LAPD Detective Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch come together again on the murder case that obsessed Bosch's mentor - but was this flame kept alive, or a secret that was meant to be snuffed out? Back when Harry Bosch was just a rookie homicide detective, he had an inspiring mentor who taught him to take the work personally and light the fire of relentlessness for every case...

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Night Heron

Tell them, the Night Heron is hunting ...A lone man, Peanut, escapes a labour camp in the dead of night, fleeing across the winter desert of north-west China. Two decades earlier, he was a spy for the British. Now Peanut finds Beijing transformed and crawling with danger - he must quickly disappear on its surveillance-blanketed streets or face death. Desperate and ruthles...

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Because a Fire Was in My Head

A wonderful anthology of poems to set fire to the imagination. We only have to 'remember, remember the 5th of November' to see a dark night filled

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West with the Night - Beryl Markham

Anotace: WEST WITH THE NIGHT appeared on 13 bestseller lists on first publication in 1942. It tells the spellbinding story of Beryl Markham -- aviator, racehorse trainer, fascinating beauty -and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and 30s.Markham was taken to Kenya at the age of four. As an adult she was befriended by Denys Finch-Hatton, the big-game hunter of OUT OF AFRI...

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Night at the Crossroads - Georges Simenon

Is Carl Andersen innocent of murder, or a very good liar?Detective Chief Inspector Maigret has been interrogating the enigmatic Danish aristocrat for seventeen hours. A diamond merchant was found dead, shot at point-blank range, in the garage of Andersen’s mansion, yet he will not confess to the crime. To get to the truth, Maigret must delve into the secrets of Three Wi...

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The Night Circus, 1. vydání - Erin Morgenstern

<p>The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white. A sign hanging upon iron gates reads: Opens at Nightfall Closes at Dawn As dusk shifts to twilight, tiny lights begin to flicker all over the tents, as though the whole circus is covered in fireflies. When the t...

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Last Night at the Telegraph Club (0525555250)

Kniha - autor Malinda Lo, 410 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá From the award winning author of Ash comes a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the 1950s. Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashin...

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Tender Is the Night - Francis Scott Fitzgerald

<p>F. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel, Tender is the Night is edited by Arnold Goldman with an introduction and notes by Richard Godden in Penguin Modern Classics.Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife N...

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Night Before Christmas

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

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One Night in Turin

The memoir behind the documentary One Night in Turin, the inside story of a World Cup that changed our footballing nation forever It was the World Cup

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Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. When Christopher decides to find out w

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Night Before Christmas

"'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse."This classic Christmas verse is well known

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Night Before Christmas

'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse...' This picture book edition brings togethe

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Studio 54: Night Magic

There has never been and will never be another nightclub to rival the sheer glamour, energy, and wild creativity that was Studio 54. This catalog acco

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Night Circus - Erin Morgensternová

The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white. A sign hanging upon iron gates reads: Opens at Nightfall Closes at Dawn

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The Murder After the Night Before - Katy Brent

<p>From the author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With It, don't miss this utterly thrilling and laugh-out-loud novel, perfect for fans of Bella Mackie, Dawn O'Porter and Killing Eve. Available to pre-order now! Something bad happened last night. I've woken up with the hangover from hell, a stranger in my bed, ...

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