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Patrick Modiano The Occupation Trilogy ENWhen Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature he was praised for using the 'art of memory' to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. Born in 1945, Modiano's brilliant, angry writings burst onto the Parisian literary scene and caused a storm. His first, ferociously satirical novel, La Place de l'Étoile, was remarkable in seriously questioning both Nazi collaboration…
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Christopher Dell The Occult, Witchcraft and Magic ENFrom the days of the earliest Paleolithic cave rituals, magic has gripped the imagination. Magic and magicians appear in early Babylonian texts, the Bible, Judaism, and Islam. Secret words, spells, and incantations lie at the heart of nearly every mythological tradition. But for every genuine magus there is an impostor. During the Middle Ages, religion, science, and magic were difficult to set apart. The Middle Ages…
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Ryan Holiday The Obstacle is the WayProfile Books: We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of college at nineteen to serve as an apprentice to bestselling 'modern Machiavelli' Robert Greene and is now a media consultant for billion-dollar brands, draws on the philosophy of the Stoics to guide you in every situation, showing…
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Douglas Preston The Obsidian Chamber ENA TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCE After a harrowing, otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachussetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead. A SHOCKING RETURN Sick with grief, Pendergast's ward, Constance, retreats to her chambers beneath the family mansion at 891 Riverside Drive – only to be taken captive by a shadowy figure from the past. AN INTERNATIONAL MANHUNT Proctor,…
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Jane Harris The Observations ENThis work is set in Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley - the wide-eyed Irish heroine of 'The Observations' - takes a job as a maid in a big house outside Edinburgh working for the beautiful Arabella. Bessy is intrigued by her new employer, but puzzled by her increasingly strange requests and her insistence that Bessy keep a journal of her most intimate thoughts…
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Jason Fung The Obesity CodeScribe Publications: We are in the midst of an obesity epidemic, but despite being inundated with diet advice we are only getting fatter. We count calories and exercise regularly, yet still the pounds won't budge. Why? In this highly readable and provocative book, Dr Jason Fung sets out a groundbreaking new theory: that obesity is caused by our hormones, rather than a lack of self-control. He reveals that…
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Erik Matthysen The Nuthatches ENThe Nuthatches is based on the European Nuthatch, with comparative information on the other west Paleartic and world species. Comparisons with other nuthatch species provide general perspectives on biological species separation problems.
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The Nutcracker and Other Christmas TalesThis Christmas treasury features 10 heart-warming stories, including the title tale by Alexander Dumas which inspired the well-known ballet. The contents also include works by Louisa May Alcott, ...
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Fiona Watt, Olga Demidova (ilustrácie) The NutcrackerOne magical Christmas night, a little girl's Nutcracker doll comes to life! Little children will love pressing the pages to hear special arrangements from Tchaikovsky's famous Nutcracker ballet. With simple text and stunning illustrations by ...
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Shobhna Patel The NutcrackerThe magic of Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker comes to life in this theatrical pop-up book created by papercut artist Shobhna Patel, whose delicate laser-cut pop-ups will enchant readers young and old. Patel has invented a new paper-engineering technique called the “paperscope,” which is used for the first time in this charming book. The classic story begins on Christmas Eve when a little girl named Clara and her…
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Giacomo Casanova The Nun of Murano ENIn this outrageous episode from the memoirs of the world's most infamous seducer, Casanova recalls his amorous exploits in a Venetian convent.
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Pavla Parik The Numbers with Olivin the WizardKnížka pro nejmenší čtenáře, plná nápaditých ilustrací, vytvořených čistě z darů přírody, bez použití lepidel nebo jiných chemických preparátů. Každé dítě v ní najde svou oblíbenou barvu – možná to bude autíčko...
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Chris Anderso, David Sally The Numbers Game ENThe Numbers Game by Chris Anderson and David Sally reveals football's astonishing hidden rules. Football is 50 % luck. Managers only have 19 % influence. Substitutes should be made in the 58th, 73rd, or 79th minute. Darren Bent's goals win more games than Wayne Rooney's. We are at the dawn of football's data revolution. From passes completed ratios to average transfer fees, we are blitzed by statistics - but mostly…
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Michael Calvin The Nowhere MenA fascinating insight into the enclosed world of football scouts in the UK. A teenaged boy plays football in a suburban park. His name is Raheem Sterling. The call is made: “Get down here quick...
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Christian White The Nowhere ChildA child was stolen twenty years ago. Little Sammy Went vanishes from her home in Manson, Kentucky – an event that devastates her family and tears apart the town’s deeply religious community...
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Bruce Chatwin The NovelsWhile Bruce Chatwin is best known as a master of travel literature, his three acclaimed novels must not be overlooked. Here we see a writer exploring human life, from its freedoms to its limits, in ever more exhilarating and unexpected ways. In On the Bla
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Jennifer McGruther The Nourished Kitchen ENA cookbook from the author of the popular website Nourished Kitchen, featuring over 160 recipes based on the traditional foods philosophy of eating, which emphasizes whole grains, dairy, red meat, organ meats, and fermented foods. The traditional foods movement is a fad-free approach to cooking and eating that emphasizes nutrient-dense, real food, and values quality, environment, and community over the convenience…
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Hanif Kureishi The NothingOne night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the noises growing louder. I am sure they are making love in Zenab's bedroom which is next to mine. Waldo, a feted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill
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Hanif Kureishi The Nothing ENOne night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the noises growing louder. I am sure they are making love in Zenab's bedroom which is next to mine. Waldo, a f?ted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill health to his London apartment. Frail and frustrated, he is cared for by his lovely younger wife, Zee. But when he suspects that Zee is beginning an affair with…
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Rainer Maria Rilke The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ENWhile his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's card to distinguish him from the city's untouchables. Every person he sees seems to carry their death with them, and he thinks of the deaths, and ghosts, of his aristocratic family, of which only he remains. The only novel by one of the greatest writers of poetry in German, the semi…
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Nicholas Sparks The Notebook ENSet amid the austere beauty of the North Carolina coast, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner recently returned form the Second World War. Noah is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together,…
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