Doubleday (115 kníh )
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Bill Bryson The Road to Little Dribbling ENTwenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes From A Small Island, was taken to the nation's heart and became the bestselling travel book ever, and was also voted in a BBC poll the book that best represents Britain.Now, to mark the twentieth anniversary of that modern classic, Bryson…
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John Grisham The Rooster BarMark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady New York hedge-fund…
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Terry Pratchett The Shepherd's Crown ENPresents Sir Terry Pratchett's final Discworld novel, which features the witch Tiffany Aching.
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Terry Pratchett The Shepherds CrownDeep in the chalk, something is stirring. Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots – an old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, a blurring of edges. Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land, her land. There will be a reckoning.
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Joseph Knox The Smiling ManFrom the bestselling author of Sirens, Detective Aidan Waits is on the hunt to find the identity of The Smiling Man. Disconnected from his history and careless of his future, Detective Aidan Waits has resigned himself to the night shift...
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Terry Pratchett The TruthWilliam de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. New printing technology means that words just won't obediently stay nailed down like usual. There's a very real threat of news getting out there. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life - people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want…
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Barney Norris The Vanishing HoursThis was how I heard the most important story of my life, the thing that decided me, the story that determined who I was in the end. At a hotel bar in a quiet English town, two strangers meet by chance and share their stories...
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Terry Pratchett The Wee Free MenEvery Land Needs its Own Witch. There’s a monster in the river, a headless horsemen in the drive. And now Granny Aching has gone, there’s only young Tiffany Aching left to guard the boundaries. It’s her land. Her duty. But it’s amazing how useful a horde of unruly pictsies can be...
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Terry Pratchett Thief Of TimeTime is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang…
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Wiley Cash This Dark Road to Mercy ENA heart-wrenching thriller that explores the nature of love, and the evil that threatens it.Easter Quillby: Wade disappeared on us when I was six, and I never saw him again until I turned twelve, after Mom was buried. She always said he was a loser, even if he was our dad, but it turns out he was much more than that. He was also a thief. Like he was on the day he stole me and my little sister.Bobby Pruitt: Wade took…
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Lauren Kate Torment ENIn Torment fallen angel Daniel and his mortal love Lucinda think they are safe but evil forces are massing against them. As Luce learns more about her past, and discovers that the lives she’s already lived hold the key to her future happiness; she starts to wonder if Daniel has told her the whole truth. What if his version of events isn’t the way things happened? What if that means that she’s really meant to be with…
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Kate Atkinson TranscriptionIn 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, ...
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Jacqueline Wilson Wave Me GoodbyeSeptember, 1939. As the Second World War begins, ten-year-old Shirley is sent away on a train with her schoolmates. She doesn’t know where she’s going, or what’s going to happen to her when she gets there. All she has been told is that she’s going ...
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Terry Pratchett, Melvyn Grant Where's My Cow? ENAt six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, Sam Vimes must go home to read Where's My Cow?, with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. There are some things you have to do.It is the most loved and chewed book in the world. But his father wonders why it is full of moo-cows and baa-lambs when Young Sam will only ever see them cooked on a plate. He can think of a more useful book for a boy who…
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Terry Pratchett WintersmithSAYING IT WITH FROZEN ROSES AND ICEBERGSYoung witch Tiffany Aching leaps into a dance – and suddenly the spirit of winter is in love with her.Now she’s dancing to his tune, and she can’t change the steps.Unless she can work out how to deal with the Wintersmith, there will never be another springtime . . .‘Oodles of dry wit, imagination and shrewdly observed characters’Independent on Sunday
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Curtis Sittenfeld You Think It, Ill Say ItIn ‘The World Has Many Butterflies’, a married woman flirts with a man she meets at parties by playing You think it, I’ll say it, putting into words the bitchy things she guesses he's thinking about their fellow guests....
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Marc Elsberg ZeroWelcome to Freemee. They can give you confidence, power, fame and all the friends in the world. But what will they take in return? ...