Why do we make things? Why do we choose the emotionally and physically demanding work of bringing new objects into the world with creativity and skill? Why does it matter that we make things well? What is the nature of work? ...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba306 KčSkladem 1 ks
New from the bestselling author of Atonement and The Children Act Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse but John's not there. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal C
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Knihabrožovaná vazba154 KčSkladem 1 ks
When two Parisian women are shockingly murdered in their homes, the police suspect young accordionist Clement Vauquer, who was seen outside both of the apartments in question. It seems on the surface like an open-and-shut case. But now Clement has...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba408 KčSkladem 1 ks
Siblings Sophia, Harry and Francis have lost both their parents in the last six months. Attending the funeral for their estranged father, they wonder what will become of them now that the last connection to their difficult childhood has been severed...
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Přečtenávýborný stav143 KčSkladem
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974 - the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother's prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor...
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Knihabrožovaná vazba268 KčSkladem 2 ks
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides'. It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces...
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Přečtenávýborný stav111 KčSkladem
Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario. In these dazzling stories she deals with the self-discovery of adolescence, the joys and pains of love and the despair and guilt of those caught in a narrow existence.
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Knihabrožovaná vazba260 KčSkladem 1 ks
When Zoe Walker sees her photo in the classifieds section of a London newspaper, she is determined to find out why it's there. There's no explanation: just a grainy image, a website address and a phone number...
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He is the Little Prince, the mysterious, innocent and beautiful boy who appears to a pilot stranded in the desert and makes an extraordinary request. He has captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world since his story ...
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Knihapevná vazba256 KčSkladem 1 ks
Including 'The Hill We Climb,' the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, this luminous poetry collection by Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment ...
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Přečtenávýborný stav189 KčSkladem
The young D’Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis are 'the inseparables' - ready to sacrifice everything in a duel or game of dice in order to defend their honour or that of the King and Queen of France...
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Přečtenávýborný stav160 KčSkladem
1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce’s death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy.1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can’t re
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Přečtenávýborný stav127 KčSkladem
A gripping and dark fictionalised account of life inside the Manson family from one of the most exciting young voices in fiction...
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Discover the original and propulsive thriller from the massive Japanese bestselling author. Satoshi looks like an innocent schoolboy but he is really a viciously cunning psychopath...
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Alice is one of the most beloved characters of English writing. A bright and inquisitive child, one boring summer afternoon she follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole. At the bottom she finds herself in a bizarre world full of strange creatures, and...
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