Penguin Books (2776 kníh )
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C.S. Forester Flying Colours ENA humiliated and shipless captive of the French, Horatio Hornblower faces execution unless he can escape and make a triumphant return to England ...Forced to surrender his ship, HMS Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornblower is held prisoner in a French fortress. Prospects turn bleaker when he learns that he and Lt. Bush are to be tried and executed in Paris as part of Napoleon's attempts…
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J.M. Coetzee Foe ENNobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J M Coetzee reimagines Daniel DeFoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe in Foe. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. In an act of breathtaking imagination, J M Coetzee radically reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe. In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous…
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Gertrude Stein FoodSadder than salad. From apples to artichokes, these glittering, fragmented, painterly portraits of food by the avant-garde pioneer Gertrude Stein are redolent of sex, laughter and the joy of everyday life.
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Pauline Francis Food for Thought ENFarm work isn’t Joe’s idea of holiday fun. He wanted to spend the summer surfing. But when he finds himself in the middle of a disagreement about GM (genetically-modified) crop trials, life becomes more interesting. He also meets two very different girls. But what do they really want from him?
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Michael Pollan Food Rules ENAn enhanced edition of Food Rules - beautifully illustrated and packed with additional food wisdom. Michael Pollan’s Food Rules prompted a national discussion helping to change the way Americans approach eating. This new edition illustrated by celebrated artist Maira Kalman - and expanded with a new introduction and nineteen additional food rules - marks an advance in the national dialogue that Food Rules inspired.…
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Harlan Coben Fool Me Once ENIn the course of eight consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers, millions of readers have discovered Harlan Coben’s page-turning thrillers, filled with his trademark edge-of-your-seat suspense and gut-wrenching emotion. In Fool Me Once, Coben once again outdoes himself. Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Fooled by Randomness ENEveryone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy – or something altogether more unpredictable? This book is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. It is all about luck: more precisely, how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Nowhere is this more…
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Fooled by Randomness /The Black Swan ENText v anglickom jazyku! Mimoriadne vydanie dvoch kníh, ktoré patria k tým, ktoré ovplyvnili názory ľudí na súčasnú spoločnosť. V prvej knihe Taleb odhaľuje skryté pravidlá náhodnosti v živote spoločnosti na na trhoch, v druhej rozvíja následky vysoko nepravdepodobných zmien, ktoré nás obvykle zaskočia.
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Eduardo Galeano Football in Sun and ShadowThis unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes and villains, those who lived for football and those ...
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J.D. Salinger For Esme - with Love and Squalor ENThis is a collection of nine exceptional short stories. The book includes two of Salinger's most famous and critically acclaimed pieces, which helped to establish him among contemporary literary greats. The title story - a soldier's recollection of his meeting with a young girl, Esme, before being sent into combat - prompted a flood of readers' letters when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1950. The…
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Robert Irwin For Lust Of KnowingThe history of Orientalism shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the chronology of Harun al-Rashid's military campaigns against Byzantium...
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Nancy F. Koehn Forged in CrisisAcclaimed Harvard Business School professor, Nancy Koehn, draws lessons from leaders who triumphed in turbulent times in Forged in Crisis. What do Ernest Shackleton, Rachel Carson, and Howard Schultz have in common? ...
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Lesley Pearse Forgive Me ENLesley Pearse, No. 1 UK bestselling author of The Promise and Belle, is back with Forgive Me, a compelling story of a daughter uncovering her mother's secret past. Eva Patterson's life is forever altered by the devastating discovery of her mother, Flora, dead in the bath leaving only a note: Forgive Me. Until Flora's suicide, Eva's world had been secure - but overnight everything changes. For when Flora leaves Eva a…
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Jacqueline Wilson Four Children and It ENThis number one bestseller from Jacqueline Wilson, creator of Tracy Beaker, Hetty Feather and The Illustrated Mum, is a funny, moving and heartwarming story of four children who discover a way to make wishes come true. Echoing the classic E Nesbit novel, Five Children and It, this new story from this mega-selling author, winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, is a brilliant read not just for those familiar…
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Four Weddings and a Funeral ENContemporary / British English Four Weddings and a Funeral one of the most successful films from Britain. It's a Saturday morning, and Charles is still asleep. He should be on his way to Angus and Laura's wedding! Charles is always late, and he is worried that he will never find the right woman to marry.
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Jane Fallon Foursome ENRebecca, Daniel, Alex and Isabel have been best friends since university. Rebecca married Daniel, Alex married Isabel and, for twenty years, they have been inseparable. But all that is about to change...When Alex walks out on Isabel, Rebecca thinks things can't get any worse. But then she finds out the reason why and she's left harbouring a secret she'd rather forget...And there's more upheaval to come in Rebecca's…
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Megan Miranda Fragments of the LostA suspenseful psychological mystery about one girl's search to uncover the truth behind her ex-boyfriend's death. Perfect for fans of We Were Liars and 13 Reasons Why.Jessa Whitworth knew she didn't belong in her ex-boyfriend Caleb's room. But she couldn'
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Anthony Trollope Framley Parsonage EN'He was sickened also with all these lies. His very soul was dismayed by the dirt through which he was forced to wade. He had become unconsciously connected with the lowest dregs of mankind, and would have to see his name mingled with theirs in the daily newspapers.' Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond his small country parish of Framley. In a naive attempt to mix in influential circles, he agrees to…
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Mary Shelley Frankenstein ENNever did I behold a vision so horrible as his face, of such loathsome, yet appalling hideousness. The scientist Victor Frankenstein, obsessed with possessing the secrets of life, creates a new being from the bodies of the dead. But his creature is a twisted, gruesome parody of a man who, rejected for his monstrous appearance, sets out to destroy his maker. Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale, conceived after a…
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Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson Frankenstein / Dracula / Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ENThree horror classics with an introduction by Stephen King Some of literature s most popular and enduring horror icons in one indispensable tome.
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Jeanette Winterson FrankisssteinIn Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI...
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David Yoon Frankly in LoveFrank Li is a high school senior living in Southern California. Frank's parents emigrated from Korea, and have pretty much one big rule for Frank - he must only date Korean girls. But he's got strong feelings for a girl in his class...
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J.D. Salinger Franny and Zooey ENFranny Glass is a pretty, effervescent college student on a date with her intellectually confident boyfriend, Lane. They appear to be the perfect couple, but as they struggle to communicate with each other about the things they really care about, slowly their true feelings come to the surface. The second story in this book, Zooey, plunges us into the world of her ethereal, sophisticated family. When Franny's…
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Steven D. Levitt Freakonomics ENn Freakonomics Steven Levitt asks a series of provocative and profound questions about contemporary living and helps us to see the familiar world through a completely original lens. He examines everything from education to traffic jams, from food to guns, from sports to getting elected, from betting to parenting, pushing back the boundaries of economics along the way. Levitt turns conventional economics on its head,…