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Adrian Goldsworthy Antony and Cleopatra ENThe love affair between Antony and Cleopatra is one of the most famous stories from the ancient world and has been depicted in countless novels, plays and films. As one of the three men in control of the Roman Empire, Antony was perhaps the most powerful man of his day. And Cleopatra, who had already been Julius Caesar's lover, was the beautiful queen of Egypt, Rome's most important province. The clash of cultures,…
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Richard Hammond As You Do ENMoving quickly on from the devastating crash that nearly killed him, Richard ranges widely over his life and times—a visit to Glastonbury with James May reminds of him of his early years of playing in a band and how and why he never quite made it as a rock star; the stunts and other perils that come his way like the Top Gear North Pole race (why is it Richard who is out in the howling elements in a dog sled while…
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Rory MacLean Berlin ENThe first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century. A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams realised and evils executed. No other city has repeatedly been so powerful and fallen so low. And few other cities have…
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Gillian Flynn Dark Places ENLibby Day was just seven years old when her older brother massacred her family while she hid in a cupboard. Her evidence helped put him away. Ever since then she has been drifting, surviving for more than 20 years on the proceeds of the 'Libby Day fund'. But now the money is running out and Libby is desperate. When she is offered $500 to do a guest appearance, she feels she has to accept. But this is no ordinary…
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Philip K. Dick Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ENWorld War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life. Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. But in…
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Alfred Lansing Endurance ENOne of the most remarkable tales of human courage and determination. The story is gripping and the book is a classic of its kind Sir Ranulph Fiennes Endurance is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of the expedition was to cross…
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Paul Torday Girl on the Landing ENThe novel begins as Michael, a middle-aged man of means, is dressing for dinner at a friend's country house in Ireland. As he descends the grand staircase, he spots a small painting of a landing with an old linen press and the white marble statue of an angel. In the background is a woman clad in a dark green dress. During dinner, Michael comments on the painting to his hosts but they say there is no woman in the…
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Gillian Flynn Gone Girl ENWhat are you thinking, Amy? The question I've asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do? Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the…
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Boris Akunin He Lover Of Death ENSenka Skorikov, orphan and urchin, has been abandoned to the murky world of Moscow's gangster district. While picking a pocket or two, he glimpses the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, and joins the gang of her overlord lover, The Prince, so desperate he is to meet her. Senka climbs the criminal ranks, uncovering a stash of precious metal, and gradually capturing the heart of his beloved Death - so named for…
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Hip Hotels ENThe book collects the most fashionable and unique hotels world-wide. You will enjoy a creative visual feast during reading. Each project includes a large number of beautiful pictures and design plans as well as introduction of the hotels features and style.
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Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb I Am Malala ENThe highly anticipated memoir of Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl from Pakistan's Swat region who stood up to the Taliban.I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday. We'd finished for the day and I was on the open-back truck we use as a school bus. There were no windows, just thick plastic sheeting that flapped at the sides and a postage stamp of open sky at the…
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Adrian Goldsworthy In the Name of Rome ENThe Roman army was one of the most effective fighting forces in history. The legions and their commanders carved out an empire which eventually included the greater part of the known world. This was thanks largely to the generals who led the Roman army to victory after victory, and whose strategic and tactical decisions shaped the course of several centuries of warfare. This book, by the author of The Punic Wars,…
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Robert Hilburn Johnny Cash: The Life ENThe definitive, intimate, no-holds-barred biography of Johnny Cash. In Johnny Cash: The Life, Robert Hilburn conveys the untarnished truth about a musical icon. Drawing upon his personal experience with Cash and a trove of never-before-seen material from the singer's inner circle, Hilburn creates an utterly compelling, deeply human portrait of one of the most influential figures in modern popular culture.
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Mil Millington Love and Other Near Death Experiences ENRob Garland's marriage is the least of his problems. He knows he should be dead. Faced with an ultimatum from his girlfriend to either sort himself out, or call the wedding off, he tries to come to terms with how he's still alive. Soon, he finds himself with others who ought to be dead but are alive. That's when things become yet more worrying.
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Jan Urban Pragocalypsa 3: Dědictví zkázy CZZávěrečný díl velmi úspěšné vtipné fantasy trilogie o partě českých X-menů, kteří se snaží zachránit svět před apokalypsou, která začíná v Praze… Jsou věci, kterým se v životě občas prostě nevyhnete, i když o nich víte kdovíjak dlouho dopředu. Například návštěva rodinné oslavy, zubařská prohlídka u doktora Moriartyho, nemanželské dítě, středně závažná pohlavní choroba, pavouk velikosti dlaně v záchodové míse nebo…
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Angel's Game ENIn an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man - David Martin - makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city's underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house letters…
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John Higgs The KLF ENThey were the bestselling singles band in the world. They had awards, credibility, commercial success and creative freedom. Then they deleted their records, erased themselves from musical history and burnt their last million pounds in a boathouse on the Isle of Jura. And they couldn't say why. This is not just the story of The KLF. It is a book about Carl Jung, Alan Moore, Robert Anton Wilson, Ken Campbell, Dada,…
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte The Painter of Battles ENA man lives alone in a watchtower by the sea. On the circular walls of the tower he is painting a grand mural - the timeless landscape of a battle.He is a former war photographer, and the painting is his attempt to capture the photo he was never able to take; to encapsulate, in aninstant, the meaning of war. But one day a stranger knocks on his door andannounces that he has come to kill him. The man is a shadow from…
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Wladyslaw Szpilman The Pianist ENThe powerful, bestselling memoir of a young Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds, alongside moving extracts from the diary of the German officer who saved his life.
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Prisoner of Heaven ENYou've read The Shadow of the Wind - now read what happens next... The Prisoner of Heaven returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop. It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea from The Shadow of the Wind have married. They now have a son, Julian, and are living with Daniel's father at Sempere & Sons. Fermin still works with them…
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Bernhard Schlink The Reader ENFor 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems. Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna.…
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Téa Obreht, Téa Obreht The Tiger's Wife'Having sifted through everything I have heard about the tiger and his wife, I can tell you that this much is fact: in April of 1941, without declaration or warning, the German bombs started falling over the city and did not stop for three days...
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Watchers in the Shadows ENA mysterious toymaker who lives as a recluse in an old mansion, surrounded by the mechanical beings he has created ... an enigma surrounding strange lights that shine through the mists that envelop the small island on which the old lighthouse stands ... a shadowy creature that hides deep in the woods ... these are the elements of a mystery that bind will bind 14-year-old Irene to Ismael during one magical summer…