Jacques and His Master is a deliciously witty and entertaining "variation" on Diderot\''s novel Jacques le Fatalist, written for Milan Kundera\''s "private pleasure" in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. When the "heavy Russian irrationality" fell on Czechoslovakia, Milan Kundera ...
When Kathy, a young recovering alcoholic recently separated from her husband, fails to a open a series of tax letters that have been sent to her in error, the State of California seizes the house she and her brother have inherited from her father. Th e State sells the house at auction to Behrani, a former ...
Celebrate the tenth anniversary of&,nbsp,Twilight! This special new audiobook,&,nbsp,Life and Death,&,nbsp,is&,nbsp,a bold and surprising reimagining of the original&,nbsp,Twilight&,nbsp,by Stephenie Meyer.&,nbsp,Listeners will relish experiencing the deeply romantic and extraordinarily ...
A paperback edition of the intimate final memoirs from the great dissident-turned-politician who, along with Walesa and Gorbachev, is an icon of the magnificent, bloodless collapse of Soviet Bloc Communism.
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"Step inside a fairy tale."--Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Caraval Get swept away by the New York Times bestseller that Melissa Albert, author of The Hazel Wood, calls "eerie" and "lovely." As.
Cena:16.2€ | Autor:LEWYCKA, MARINA | Rok vydania:2012 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9781905490912 | Vydavateľ:Fig Tree
Cena:10.12€ | Autor:Reilly, Vanessa | Rok vydania:2006 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780194070003 | Vydavateľ:Oxford University Press
Over the past 10 years Hanif Kureishi has charted the gradual widening of the gulf between fundamentalist Islam and Western values. Starting with THE BLACK ALBUM, Kureishi portrayed the ongoing argument between Islam and Western liberal values, between Islamic certainty and Western rational scepticism. ...
Historians love to write about rulers—kings, emperors, presidents—or about vast social forces-migration, industrialisation-but what if they are all missing the point? Thinking about our own lives, isn\''t it clear that what makes the world go round are families, colleagues, teams, associations: in other ...
The Moomin family and their friends are the delightful creation of Tove Jansson, and are full of a particular humour and magic that has enchanted generations of children and adults alike. Using the author's original characters and artwork, Moomin and the Birthday Button is part of a stunning new ...
Kirk and Sweeney je 12-ročný dominikánsky rum pomenovaný podľa dreveného škunera (druh rýchlej plachetnice), ktorý bol v časoch prohibície jednotkou v pašovaní rumu z Karibiku do USA a neskôr slúžil pre výcvik pobrežnej stráže. Rum Kirk and Sweeney sa vyrába z najlepšej, ručne obrábanej čerstvej cukrovej ...
Elizabeth Bennet is young, clever and attractive, but her mother is a nightmare and she and her four sisters are in dire need of financial security and escape in the shape of husbands.
''Frost-demons have no interest in mortal girls wed to mortal men. In the stories, they only come for the wild maiden.'' In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, an elderly servant tells stories of sorcery, folklore ...
"My Family and Other Animals" is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. ''''What we all need,'''' sa id Larry, ''''is sunshine.a country where we ...
The book that topped the international online poll held in Agatha Christie''s 125th birthday year to discover which of her 80 crime books was the world''s favourite. 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from ...
Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler are at their sparkling best in this fabulously original sequel to the bestselling ZOG.Meet the Flying Doctors: Princess Pearl, Sir Gadabout and, of course, their tru
