Woman from heartbreak house

Woman from Heartbreak House

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Heartbreak House

This play is centred around the eccentric household of Captain Shotover where, at a house-party, the main topic of debate is one young woman's decisio

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Heartbreak Incorporated

From acclaimed comics writer Alex de Campi, a sexy novel about a young woman trying to make it as a journalist in New York City who finds herself work

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Girl From Barefoot House

A powerful and compelling Liverpool saga of one woman's life from bestselling author Maureen Lee.

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Penguin Readers Level 7: The Woman in White (ELT Graded Reader) - Wilkie Collins

<p>Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.- Carefully adapted text.- Accompanying audio and digital version with the print edition, accessed securely online.- The series includes popular classics, bestselling modern fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.- The eight levels of Penguin ...

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House Across the Lake

The utterly gripping new novel from the internationally bestselling author. THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW meets GONE GIRL in this Hitchcockian thriller - fo

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Women Who Run with Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes

<p>Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has plundered this treasure, and muffled t...

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Women Who Run with the Wolves

UPDATED, WITH NEW MATERIAL BY THE AUTHOR"WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES isn't just another book. It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom, and love. An oracle from one who knows." - Alice WalkerWithin every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature...

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The Long Drop - Denise Mina

<p>A masterpiece by the woman who may be Britain's finest living crime novelist. (Daily Telegraph). "Relentlessly tense and exciting". (Sunday Mirror). William Watt wants answers about his family's murder. Peter Manuel has them. But Peter Manuel is a liar. William Watt is an ordinary businessman, a fool, a social climber. Peter Manuel is a famous liar, a r...

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French Braid

The major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author -- a brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s right up to the changed world of todayWhen the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice. Over at her studio, she wants space and sile...

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Hana´s Suitcase - Karen Levine

<p>This award-winning true Holocaust story, newly updated, connects generations through one woman's quest to find the truth behind a mysterious suitcase. In March 2000, Fumiko Ishioka, the curator of a small Holocaust education center in Tokyo, received an empty suitcase from the museum at Auschwitz. On the outside, in white paint, were the words "Hana Brady, M...

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Heaven Has No Favorites: A Novel - Erich Maria Remarque

<p>From one of the twentieth century's master novelists, the author of the classic All Quiet on the Western Front, comes Heaven Has No Favorites, a bittersweet story of unconventional love that sweeps across Europe. Lillian is charming, beautiful . . . and slowly dying of consumption. But she doesn't wish to end her days in a hospital in the Alps. She wants to see ...

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House of Hunger - Hendersonová Alexis

Anotace: WANTED: A bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life`s finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply.A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power, in this dark and enthralling Gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching.Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and depriva...

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House of Hunger - Alexis Hendersonová

<p>WANTED: A bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life's finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply. A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power, in this dark and enthralling Gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching. Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and depr...

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Dying to Be Me

A new edition of the inspirational memoir that touched thousands - one woman's journey from cancer and near-death to ultimate healing and spiritual fr

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According To Her

A book-length interview with the Mother of God. No questions, just answers. Mariamne is an old Jewish peasant woman from Galilee. She is visited by a

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Socialist Realism

Moving west—from Singapore to America, from New York to California—a woman examines the myth of â€finding home†even as she comes to te

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The Kissing Booth (0552568813)

Kniha - autor Beth Reekles, 442 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná When Elle decides to run a kissing booth at the school's Spring Carnival, she locks lips with Noah and her life is turned upside down. Her head says to keep away, but her heart wants to draw closer - this romance seems far from fairy tale and headed for heartbreak. But will Elle get her happily...

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Women Who Run With the Wolves (0345409876)

Kniha - autor Clarissa Pinkola Estes, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us ...

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Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (0753541645)

Kniha - autor Sheryl Sandberg, 230 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Paperback edition of this provocative and inspiring work on overcoming the obstacles facing women on the path to leadership, from "Fortune"'s 10th Most Powerful Woman in Business. Updated with the latest statistics.

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For whom the Bell Tolls (0099908603)

Kniha - autor Ernest Hemingway, 504 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Ma...

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A Little Life

Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly an amazement-and a great gift for its publisher.When four classmates f...

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Garden of Words (1939130832)

Kniha - autor Makoto Shinkai; Midori Motohashi, 220 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná On rainy mornings, Takao can never bring him-self to go to school-instead, he spends that time at the beautiful Shinjuku Gyoen gardens and finds a brief reprieve from everything else in his life among the trees and flowers. And on one of those mornings, he discovers a myster...

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The Testaments (9781784742324)

Kniha - autor Margaret Atwood, 400 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu matná More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially ...

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City of the Dead (1529125952)

Kniha - autor Jonathan Kellerman, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The past comes back to haunt psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis when they investigate a grisly double homicide and uncover an even more unspeakable motive in this riveting thriller from the number one New York Times best-selling master of suspense. Los Angeles is a city of sunlig...

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Exhalation (1101972084)

Kniha - autor Ted Chiang, 350 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others – the basis for the Academy Award nominated film Arrival – comes a groundbreaking second collection of short fiction: nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories. In ‘The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate’, a portal thr...

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Michelle Obama: A Life (0307949311)

Kniha - autor Peter Slevin, 418 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná This is the inspiring story of a modern American icon, the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama. With disciplined reporting and a storyteller’s eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago’s...

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My Beloved World

The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an inspiring testament to her own extraordinary determination and the powe...

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Small Favors - Erin A. Craigová

<p>THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the critically-acclaimed author of House of Salt and Sorrows comes a mesmerizing and chilling fairy-talesque novel about Ellerie Downing, a young woman in a small town with monsters lurking in the trees and dark desires hidden in the shadows--in Amity Falls, nothing is more dangerous than a wish come true. Unique, enc...

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Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (1784706280)

Kniha - autor Caroline Criado-Perez, 304 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná *THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER* 'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things - a monumental piece of research' Caitlin Moran Imagine a world where... · Your phone is too big for your hand · Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for you...

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Lost and Wanted

"Freudenberger's brilliant and compassionate novel takes on the big questions of the universe and proves, again, that she is one of America's greatest writers." --Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less A LitHub, O Magazine, and Entertainment Weekly 'Most Anticipated Book of 2019' A Newsday 'New Book to Look Forward To' Listed in Kirkus Reviews' 'What to ...

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The House of Fortune - Jessie Burton

<p>The House of Fortune is the sequel to Jessie Burton’s million-copy bestseller The Miniaturist. Set in the golden city of Amsterdam in 1705, it is a story of fate and ambition, secrets and dreams, and one young woman’s determination to rule her own destiny.Thea Brandt is turning eighteen, and is ready to welcome adulthood with open arms. At the theatre, Walter, th...

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Breathless - Jennifer Niven

<p>Your first love, your first time, your first heartbreak. The new novel from Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places. You were my first. Not just sex, although that was part of it, but the first to look past everything else into me. Some of the names and places have been changed, but the story is true.Claudine Henry was not supposed to spend her summer on ...

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TRAVELERS THE EXP

A pulse-racing international thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Expats and The Accident §§It's 3:00am. Do you know where your husband is?§§Meet Will Rhodes: travel writer, recently married, barely solvent, his idealism rapidly giving way to disillusionment and the worry that he's living the wrong life. Then one night, on assignment for the award-wi...

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The Cousins - Karen M. McManusová

<p>An explosive YA thriller from international bestselling author of One of Us is Lying.The Storys are the envy of their neighbours: owners of the largest property on their East Coast island, they are rich, beautiful, and close. Until it all falls apart. The four children are suddenly dropped by their mother with a single sentence:You know what you did.They never he...

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From the Embers - Aly Martinez

Anotace: In the aftermath of tragedy, it's strange what you remember. The deafening boom as the house exploded. The paralyzing fear as I searched for my wife. The smoke blinding me as I carried her out. But the woman in my arms was not my wife. Bree and Eason survive the fire that takes their partners - but neither of them are truly living after that fateful ni...

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The House of Fortune: Sequel to The Miniaturist (1509886095)

Kniha - autor Jessie Burton, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The sequel to the million-copy bestseller The Miniaturist, The House of Fortune returns us to the mysterious Brandt family in Amsterdam in 1705 for a story of fate and ambition, secrets and dreams, and one young woman's determination to rule her own destiny. Thea Brandt is turning eighteen, and is ready...

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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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Eat, Pray, Love : One Woman´s Search for Everything - Elizabeth Gilbert

<p>It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: ...

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Eat, Pray, Love: 'One Woman''s Search for Everything Across Italy, India & Indonesia' (0747589356)

Kniha - autor Elizabeth Gilbert, 350 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time...

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A Visit From the Goon Squad - Eganová Jennifer

Anotace: Jennifer Egan`s spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other`s pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect wit...

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A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan

<p>Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Bennie and Sasha never discover each other's pasts, the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with...

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Circe: The No. 1 Bestseller from the author of The Song of Achilles - Madeline Millerová

<p>A FIFTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR Woman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange child - not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. Scorned an...

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Circe: The No. 1 Bestseller from the author of The Song of Achilles - Millerová Madeline

Anotace: A FIFTH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION, FEATURING A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHORWoman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange child - not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. Scorned and r...

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From the Embers: The heart-stopping TikTok romance - Aly Martinezová

<p>THE UNFORGETTABLE ROMANCE THAT'S TAKING TIKTOK BY STORM - PERFECT FOR FANS OF COLLEEN HOOVER AND CARLEY FORTUNEIn the aftermath of tragedy, it's strange what you remember. The deafening boom as the house exploded. The paralyzing fear as I searched for my wife. The smoke blinding me as I carried her out. But the woman in my arms was not my wife.Bree and Eason surv...

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Broken Light: The explosive and unforgettable new novel from the million copy bestselling author - Harrisová Joanne

Anotace: `I inhaled this book in one long breath. It`s addictive - profound, moving and utterly unforgettable. Bernie Moon will live in my imagination for a long time to come.` - CATRIONA WARD, Bestselling author of Sundial and The Last House on Needless StreetA bold and timely novel from #1 bestselling author Joanne Harris that explores how women can feel invisible as t...

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Broken Light: The explosive and unforgettable new novel from the million copy bestselling author - Harrisová Joanne

Anotace: `I inhaled this book in one long breath. It`s addictive - profound, moving and utterly unforgettable. Bernie Moon will live in my imagination for a long time to come.` - CATRIONA WARD, Bestselling author of Sundial and The Last House on Needless StreetA bold and timely novel from #1 bestselling author Joanne Harris that explores how women can feel invisible as t...

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Broken Light: The explosive and unforgettable new novel from the million copy bestselling author - Joanne Harris

<p>'I inhaled this book in one long breath. It's addictive - profound, moving and utterly unforgettable. Bernie Moon will live in my imagination for a long time to come.' - CATRIONA WARD, Bestselling author of Sundial and The Last House on Needless StreetA bold and timely novel from #1 bestselling author Joanne Harris that explores how women can feel invisible as th...

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The Last Word: an utterly addictive and spine-chilling suspense thriller from the TikTok bestseller for 2023 - Taylor Adams

<p>After posting a negative book review, a woman living in a remote location begins to wonder if the author is a little touchy - or very, very dangerous - in this pulse-pounding novel of psychological suspense and terror from the critically acclaimed author of TikTok sensation No Exit.</p> <p> </p> <p>Emma is house-sitting on the rainy Washin...

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Pretend You´re Mine: a fake dating small town love story from the author of Things We Never Got Over - Lucy Score

<p>The first book in Lucy Score's Benevolence series - an unforgettable small town love story</p> <p>Luke Garrison is a hometown hero, a member of the National Guard ready to deploy again. The last thing he's looking for is a woman to ruin his solitude. When the wildly beautiful Harper stumbles into his life, though, he realises she's the perfect decoy: ...

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The Library of Heartbeats: A sweeping, heart-rending Japanese-set novel from the author of The Phone Box at the Edge of the World, 1. vydání - Messina Laura Imai

<p>From the international bestselling author of The Phone Box at the Edge of the World: a powerful, moving novel of grief, hope, friendship and love based around a real archive on an island in Japan, where people travel to record their heartbeats.To find what you have lost, you must listen to your heart . . . On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a lib...

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Her Last Promise

A woman searches for her missing mother in this captivating story of love, heartbreak and forgiveness from the bestselling author Kathryn Hughes.

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What Are You Doing Here?

A moving, powerful autobiography from an inspirational woman, one of the Windrush generation who became a member of the House of Lords.

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Dear Madam President

An empowering letter from former White House Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri to the first woman president, and by extension, to all women wo

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What Are You Doing Here?

A moving, powerful autobiography from an inspirational woman – one of the Windrush generation who became a member of the House of Lords.

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The Star-Child - Oscar Wilde

<p>Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. With warmth, tenderness and quiet wit, Oscar Wilde's fables and fairy tales have moved and delighted for generations. In far-off kingdoms and ocean realms, in the company of giants ...

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The Star-Child - Wilde Oscar

Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. With warmth, tenderness and quiet wit, Oscar Wilde's fables and fairy tales have moved and delighted for generations. In far-off kingdoms and ocean realms, in the company...

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Heir of Fire - Maasová Sarah J.

Anotace: The heir of ash and fire bows to no one.A new threat rises in the third book in the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas.Celaena Sardothien has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak, but now she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth. That truth could change her life-and her future-forever.Meanwhile, monstrous forc...

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Heir of Fire, 1. vydání - Sarah Janet Maas

<p>The heir of ash and fire bows to no one. A new threat rises in the third book in the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas. Celaena Sardothien has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak, but now she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth. That truth could change her life - and her future - forever. Meanwhile, monstrou...

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