Headstrong and naive, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing…

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The discovery of a radioactive meteorite in Greenland sends Juan Cabrillo and the crew of his hi-tech ship Oregon - in…

Deals with events from Athenian history, and depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis. This work shows…

When Jean Macquart arrives in the peasant community of Beauce, where farmers have worked the same land for generations, he…

Sophocles' plays transformed Greek myths into dramas featuring complex human characters, through which he explored profound…

Presents the story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick…

• Rok vydání 2015

Beautiful, clever, rich and single, Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or…

Jools Holland has had a fascinating life. From playing on bomb sites as a boy in the East End, to skiving off school and…

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In a Norwegian glacier during World War Two a Nazi officer makes an extraordinary discovery - the most legendary ship of all…

• Počet stran 416
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• Rok vydání 2021

The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her lifeWhen a young Mary McAleese told a priest that…

Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins. She exploits the attentions of four very different suitors.…

It's the swinging Sixties and a flood of narcotics is pouring into Britain. Sinister industrialist Dr Julius Gorner is…

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• Rok vydání 2011

The Campus was secretly created by President Jack Ryan to covertly eliminate terrorists. Now it faces its greatest threat: a…

• Detektivka

When a brilliant battleship gun engineer commits suicide, his disbelieving family turn to legendary Van Dorn Detective…

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• Počet stran 302
• Rok vydání 2013

Newly updated version including analysis of the once-in-a-decade leadership changes taking place in November 2012. China's…

Recounts the kidnapping of the author in Africa aged ten, his service as a slave of an officer in the British Navy for ten…

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When a rogue state tries to go nuclear, only two men can stop it... Jack Ryan Jr is in Ho Chi Minh City tailing an ex-CIA…

• Rok vydání 1990

Shatters various images of Andre Gide as the querulous and impious Buddha to a quarter-century of intellectuals.…

Reveals some of the author's deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, and his reactions to books,…

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In October 1943 a US destroyer vanished out of Philadelphia, the result of a Navy experiment with electromagnetic radiation.…

• Počet stran 192
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• Rok vydání 2024

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2023 for Nature Writing''Exquisite, luminous and…

Produkt Penguin Book of Oulipo zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

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• Počet stran 530
• Rok vydání 2011

Polar Shift is the sixth NUMA Files novel by the inimitable Clive Cussler. Giant freak waves send an unsinkable cargo ship…

A collection of short stories, set in the idyllic Salinas Valley in California, where simple people farm the land and…

• Rok vydání 1974

Setting out to make his fortune, a young traveller discovers the remote and beautiful land of Erewhon, and is given a home…

• Brožovaná
• Rok vydání 2011
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1950: the rusting hulk of a steam locomotive is raised from the depths of a Montana lake. Inside are three bodies, bloody…

• Rok vydání 2003

In the final adventure of the Musketeers, the Man in the Iron Mask sees D'Artagnan remain in the service of the corrupt King…

Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white…

1794. As the terror rages in France, Captain Charles Hayden leaves Plymouth with orders to gather intelligence from a spy…

Collects Walter Bonatti's classic writings detailing his exploits on numerous expeditions to different mountains of the…

• Počet stran 176
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2023

A visceral, surrealist tale of becoming, from the shamanic cult hero of contemporary queer poetryBeguiling, outrageous,…

It is 1793. The thunder of cannon fire echoes across the English Channel, chilling the stoutest hearts ...The opening…

Produkt Pure Evil - Wansell, Geoffrey zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Penguin Books Ltd.…

With his lightning-quick wit, unbridled creativity and his ear for the absurd, Milligan revolutionised British comedy.…

Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley…

Barbara must say a final farewell to her four daughters. But how can she find the words? And how can she leave them when…

Tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. This book is suffused with Mailer's obsession both with the…

At the Diamond County Home for the Aged, the inmates prepare for the annual ritual of the Poorhouse Fair. The elderly…

Antiquarian Paxton travels to a small town on the coast of Norfolk and learns of a legend concerning three crowns buried on…

This is a reader covering Tolstoy's later beliefs after he had rejected orthodox religion. The book mainly draws on…

• Počet stran 400
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2010

Escape to the country with Gervase Phinn's heartwarming tales of life as a school inspector in Yorkshire His colourful cast…

When Nora Fischer stumbles, quite literally, into a magical world where everyone is glamorous and life is one long party,…

Presents a story of a country girl's rise to riches as the mistress of a wealthy man which marked the beginning of the…

• Počet stran 592
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2006

The novel tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who…

Mephistopheles takes Faust on a journey through ancient Greek mythology, conjuring for him the beautiful Helen of Troy, as…

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On the day Katharina Linden disappears, Pia is the last person to see her. Terror is spreading through the town. How could a…