Witness for the persecution

Witness for the Persecution

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Witness for the Persecution

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Witness for the Dead

From the author of The Angel of The Crows and The Goblin Emperor comes the long-awaited return to the bestselling, award-winning, world of Maia, a you

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Witness for the Prosecution

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Last Witness

Two years ago William Bantling was put on death row by Florida's Assistant State Attorney, CJ Townsend for the torture and murder of eleven young wome

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Last Witness

From the bestselling author of Richard a Judy Book Club choice Before We Met, comes a compulsive, emotional and timely new thriller, perfect for fans

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Involuntary Witness

A nine-year-old boy is found murdered at the bottom of a well near a popular beach resort in southern Italy. In what looks like a hopeless case for Gu

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Witness for the Prosecution and other stories

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.

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The Fire Witness - Lars Kepler

<p>The authors of The Hypnotist and The Nightmare deliver their most thrilling novel yet<br /> Flora Hansen calls herself a medium and makes a living by pretending to commune with the dead. But after a gruesome murder at a rural home for wayward girls, Hansen begins to suffer visions that are all too real. She calls the police, claiming to have seen a ghost, b...

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No One's Witness

Syd Zolf activates the last three lines of a poem by Jewish Nazi Holocaust survivor Paul Celan—“No one / bears witness for the / witness”—to theor

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Witness for the Prosecution / Svědek obžaloby - Agatha Christie

Jsou skutečně perlové náušnice slečny Carol pravé? A kdo z turistické výpravy do ruin starověkého města Petry – a hlavně jak – ji o ně připravil? Přestože je loupež nadmíru rafinovaná, pan Parker Pyne nečekaného viníka odhalí pomocí psychologické metody, pro něj tak typické (Cena perly). V povídce „bez detektiva“ Rádio pořídí laskavý synovec Charles své staré nemocné teti...

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With No One as Witness

Number One bestseller Elizabeth George creates a serial killer for the first time, setting the globally popular Inspector Lynley his most shocking cas

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Augustine Way – Retrieving a Vision for the Church`s Apologetic Witness

This book puts pastors and churches back at the center of apologetics. It retrieves Augustine's scriptural and ecclesial approach for a healing and ho

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A Life on Our Planet : My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

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Witness Protection and Criminal Justice in Africa Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book examines the concept of witness protection which is still at an early developmental stage in several African countries including Nigeria, from a legal and institutional perspective. Recent developments in Nigeria highlight the need to clarify legal and conceptual issues within the existing legal framework for protecting witnesses. Using the Nigerian case study, ...

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The God is Not Willing : The First Tale of Witness - Steven Erikson

Anotace: 'Awe-inspiring. Prepare to fall in love with epic fantasy all over again.' ANNA SMITH SPARK, author of the bestselling The Court of Broken Knives 'Erikson is an extraordinary writer . . . treat yourself.' STEPHEN R. DONALDSON The thrilling opening chapter in an epic new fantasy from the author of The Malazan Book of the Fallen... Many year...

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Fascism for the Million

Today, the word 'fascism' has become synonymous with political thuggery and persecution. It wasn't always so. Back in the 1930s tens of thousands of ordinary British people joined the British Union of Fascists because they believed that it alone could solve the problems of widespread hunger, slum housing and the threat of world war.

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House of Spies

In this paperback edition of the first book on St Ermin’s, Peter Matthews, a witness to the intelligence battle for supremacy between MI5, MI6 an

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The Eighth Life: (for Brilka) The International Bestseller - Haratischvili Nino

Anotace: LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATIONAN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR The bestselling sensation that UK booksellers are calling this generation`s War and Peace.Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century.At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prosp...

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The Eighth Life: (for Brilka) The International Bestseller - Nino Haratischvili

<p>LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE AND WINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR The bestselling sensation that UK booksellers are calling this generation's War and Peace. Six romances, one revolution, the story of the century. At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a fami...

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The Fraud - Smith Zadie

Anotace: Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literatu...

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Jam is for Girls

'Jam is for Girls' is Shagufta K's fiercely honest debut collection. Her work lays witness to the immigrant experience and gives voice to the women w

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Lou Reed: The King of New York - Hermes Will

Anotace: `A monumental work filled with first-person accounts of the master`s life and a dizzying array of never-before heard details` Michael Imperioli, author of The Perfume Burned His Eyes The most complete and penetrating biography of the rock master, whose stature grows every year.Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed`s living presence has only grown. The great ro...

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Market for Murder

Karen Slocombe and her daughter are nearly caught up in an explosion at the local supermarket in a small West Country village. When Karen then witness

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Funny Story: A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry - Henryová Emily

Anotace: A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry-----Daphne always loved the way her fiance Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together...

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Happiness Falls: ´I loved this book.´ Gabrielle Zevin - Kimová Angie

Anotace: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROPRAH DAILY`S #1 Book of 2023A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERGOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICKFINALIST FOR THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARDAMAZON EDITOR`S CHOICE & TOP TWENTY NOVEL OF THE YEAR`A Brilliant, satisfying, compassionate mystery.` GABRIELLE ZEVIN `I can`t remember a book with more layers. . . I was riveted through the la...

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Hazaras and the Afghan State

The Hazaras, numbering some 2.5 million, have for centuries faced persecution from Afghanistan's majority Sunni population -- politically, socially an

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Wycliffe and the School Bullies

Bullying and persecution among a group of schoolgirls leads to violent retribution and a race against time for Wycliffe.

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The Chant

A SPIRITUAL NIGHTMARE A single-player, third person horror action-adventure game set on a remote island spiritual retreat. A peaceful weekend soon turns to dread after a group chant opens The Gloom, a psychedelic dimension of terror that feeds off negative energy. Interact with a recurring cast of characters, untangle the complex history of the island, and witness terrify...

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Making Gay History : The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights - Eric Marcus

<p>From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage. Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition of Making History, originally published in 1992. Using the heartfelt stories of more than sixty people, he ca...

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A is for Arsenic - The Poisons of Agatha Christie - Harkup Kathryn

Anotace: Shortlisted for the Macavity Awards 2016<br> Fourteen novels. Fourteen poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's all made-up ...<br> Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her books; indeed, she employed it more than any other murder method, with the poison itself often being a cen...

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Kingdom of the Wicked

Two sisters. One brutal murder. A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself . . . A new series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Stalking Jack the Ripper. Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicili...

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The Tree and the River - Becker Aaron

Anotace: A spectacular time-lapse portrait of humankind - and our impact on the natural world - from an award-winning master of the wordless form.For his latest feat of visual storytelling, the acclaimed creator of the Journey trilogy invents, in staggering detail, a familiar world layered with imaginary civilizations. Borrowing from multiple cultures and architectural s...

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The Tree and the River - Aaron Becker

<p>A spectacular time-lapse portrait of humankind - and our impact on the natural world - from an award-winning master of the wordless form.For his latest feat of visual storytelling, the acclaimed creator of the Journey trilogy invents, in staggering detail, a familiar world layered with imaginary civilizations. Borrowing from multiple cultures and architectural st...

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Private Life of the Hare

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS‘To see a hare sit still as stone, to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning, to witness a hare bolt . They

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Bridge Over the Drina

There is no hero or heroine in this book. Instead, there is a bridge, and there are the characters that have loved it, hated it, built it or tried to destroy it. Ivo Andric, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, grew up beside it. For more than four hundred years a bridge has spanned the River Drina in Bosnia. This novel is its chronicle. Radisav, a workman, tries to ...

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The Trial - Kafka Franz

Anotace: Through tight dialogue and absurd settings Kafka creates a maze-like prose to mimic the bureaucracy of early 20th century Germany, trapping his protagonist in an unlawful conviction that alters the path of his life. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. ...

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The Trial - Franz Kafka

<p>Through tight dialogue and absurd settings Kafka creates a maze-like prose to mimic the bureaucracy of early 20th century Germany, trapping his protagonist in an unlawful conviction that alters the path of his life. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These ...

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Among the Sinners

Among the SinnersWritten in English by Karen von Kunes, an author of short stories and literary criticism, and a Senior Lector at Yale University who was included in The 2012 Princeton Review of The Best 300 Professors (published by Random House).Written in the Kunderian playful style of “lightness of form and heaviness of inquiry,” Karen von Kunes’ debut novel Among the ...

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Wind through the Keyhole

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. For readers new to The Dark Tower, THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE is a stand-alone novel, and a wonderful introduction to the series. It is a story within a story, which features both the younger and older gunslinger Roland on his quest to find the Dark Tower. Fans of the existing seven books in the series will also delight in discov...

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The Jasmine Throne (0356515648)

Kniha - autor Tasha Suri, 480 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná One is a vengeful princess seeking to depose her brother from his throne. The other is a priestess searching for her family. Together, they will change the fate of an empire.Imprisoned by her dictator brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once the ...

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The Lost Spells (0241444640)

Kniha - autor Robert Macfarlane; Jackie Morris, 240 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá A timeless, stunning gift to be pored over and cherished for years - dazzlingly beautiful and richly inventive, discover the magical new book from the creators of The Lost Words. Kindred in spirit to The Lost Words but fresh in its form, The Lost Spells is a pocket-sized treas...

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

On the banks of the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer and his friends seek out adventure at every turn.Then one fateful night they witness a murder. The boys swear never to reveal the secret and run away to be pirates and search for hidden treasure. But when Tom gets trapped in a cave with the murderer, can he escape unharmed?

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Guardians of the Galaxy - Annihilation: Conquest

Witness the iconic Marvel heroes come together for the first time in this action-packed adventure to protect the galaxy from the all-consuming threat

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The Chant (PC)

A SPIRITUAL NIGHTMAREA single-player, third person horror action-adventure game set on a remote island spiritual retreat. A peaceful weekend soon turns to dread after a group chant opens The Gloom, a psychedelic dimension of terror that feeds off negative energy. Interact with a recurring cast of characters, untangle the complex history of the island, and witness terrifyi...

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The Fraud - Zadie Smith

<p>Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literatur...

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Kingdom of the Wicked (1529350484)

Kniha - autor Kerri Maniscalco, 384 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Two sisters, One brutal murder, A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself , , , A new series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Stalking Jack the Ripper, Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and p...

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Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold (1405940360)

Kniha - autor Stephen Fry, 496 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná There are Heroes - and then there are Greek Heroes. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes. In this companion to his bestselling M...

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The Jasad Heir - Hashem Sara

Anotace: At ten years old, the Heir of Jasad flees a massacre that takes her entire family.At fifteen, she buries her first body.At twenty, the clock is ticking on Sylvia`s third attempt at home. Nizahl`s armies have laid waste to Jasad and banned magic across the four remaining kingdoms. Fortunately, Sylvia`s magic is as good at playing dead as she is.When the Nizahl He...

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The Jasad Heir - Sara Hashem

<p>At ten years old, the Heir of Jasad flees a massacre that takes her entire family.At fifteen, she buries her first body.At twenty, the clock is ticking on Sylvia's third attempt at home. Nizahl's armies have laid waste to Jasad and banned magic across the four remaining kingdoms. Fortunately, Sylvia's magic is as good at playing dead as she is.When the Nizahl Hei...

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The Whisperling Twins - Hayley Hoskins

<p>From the author of the Branford Boase long-listed debut The Whisperling, comes the next twist in the legacy.Gloucestershire, 1918.We whisperlings are the living voice for the dead. It's always been so. But not everyone likes it...Whisperling twin sisters Violet and Clemency run regular 'Messaging' sessions at their mam's canal-side pub. People come from far and w...

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The Fraud: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller - Zadie Smith

Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Washington Post, Independent, Daily ExpressSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023LONGL...

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The Island of Missing Trees

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021A rich, magical novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a top ten Sunday Times bestsellerIt is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the cit...

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The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids - Mark Lehner

<p>Pierre Tallet’s discovery of the Red Sea Scrolls – the world’s oldest surviving written documents – in 2013 was one of the most remarkable moments in the history of Egyptology. These papyri, written some 4,600 years ago, combined with Mark Lehner’s research and theories, change what we thought we knew about the building of the Great Pyramid at Giza. Here, for the...

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Dalí. The Paintings - Robert Descharnes

<p>The most complete study of Salvador Dalí’s painted works yet. After years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret located previously inaccessible works that epitomize Dalí’s depictions of the subconscious and its strange workings. Complete with updated captions, this opulent edition contextualizes Dalí’s paintings with his own writings, drawings, and arch...

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The Guilty Wife - Elle Croft

<p>'A gripping tale of betrayal, deceit, and duplicity. Fabulous.' Jenny Blackhurst, author of How I Lost You 'Relentless and intense...I loved the final twist.' K.L. Slater, author of The Mistake and Blink 'Kept me reading through the night.' Jane Corry, author of My Husband's Wife andBlood Sisters. I'm guilty of many things. Bethany Reston is happily married. But ...

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The Reappearance of Rachel Price - Jacksonová Holly

Anotace: A stunning new YA thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Good Girl`s Guide to Murder! 18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom`s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness. Rachel is gone, presumed dead. The case is dragged up from the past whe...

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The Reappearance of Rachel Price - Jacksonová Holly

Anotace: A stunning new YA thriller from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder! 18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom's mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness. Rachel is gone, presumed dead. The case is dragged up from the past when the ...

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Dutch Reformed Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1550–1620

Examines the diverse experiences of Reformed Protestant religious refugees fleeing war and persecution in the Netherlands for cities and towns in the

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Among the Sinners - Karen von Kunes

Anotace: Written in the Kunderian playful style of "lightness of form and heaviness of inquiry," Karen von Kunes´ debut novel Among the Sinners makes allusions to Boccaccio's novel The Decameron. Like ten young people who flee from plague-ridden Florence to an abandoned mansion in mediaeval times, the ten young `sinners´ from various countries hide in "The Decameron," a ...

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