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- 1Q84: Book 3 - Haruki Murakami
1Q84: Book 3 - Haruki Murakami
- Haruki Murakami
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- 456
- 2012
Book Two of 1Q84 ended with Aomame standing on the Metropolitan Expressway with a gun between her lips. She knows she is being hunted, and that she has put herself in terrible...
- 1Q84: Books 1 and 2 - Haruki Murakami
1Q84: Books 1 and 2 - Haruki Murakami
- Haruki Murakami
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- 805
- 2012
The year is 1Q84. This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and...
- Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better a- Jane McGonigal
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better a- Jane McGonigal
- Jane McGonigal
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- 416
- 2012
Autor : Jane McGonigal, , Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : Reality is Broken, Jazyk : Angličtina, Rok vydania : 2012, Počet strán : 416
- Swallows and Amazons - Vintage Children's Clas... - Arthur Ransome
Swallows and Amazons - Vintage Children's Clas... - Arthur Ransome
- Arthur Ransome
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- 528
- 2012
Swallows and Amazons for ever!' The Walker children - also known as Captain John, Mate Susan, Able-Seaman Titty, and Ship's Boy Roger - set sail on the Swallow and head for...
- In the Sea There Are Crocodiles - Adult Editio- Fabio Geda , Howard Curtis - Tr
In the Sea There Are Crocodiles - Adult Editio- Fabio Geda , Howard Curtis - Tr
- Fabio Geda
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- 224
- 2012
I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate comes from a need to breathe. The hope of a better life is stronger than any other feeling. My mother decided it was better to...
- Selected Poems
Selected Poems
- Neruda Pablo
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- 512
- 2012
Selected Poems contains Neruda's resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in the physical landscape and people of Chile. Here we find sensuous songs of...
- Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson EN
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson EN
- Jeanette Winterson
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- 230
- 2012
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted...
- This Is Not The End of The Book
This Is Not The End of The Book
- Umberto Eco, Jean-Claude Carrière
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- 336
- 2012
The book is like the spoon: once invented, it cannot be bettered' - Umberto Eco. These days it is impossible to get away from discussions of whether the book will survive the...
- Sense of an Ending
Sense of an Ending
- Julian Barnes
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- 150
- 2012
This title is winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate...
- Jerusalem - Delisle Guy
Jerusalem - Delisle Guy
- Guy Delisle
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- 336
- 2012
Guy Delisle expertly lays the groundwork for a cultural road map of contemporary Jerusalem, utilizing the classic stranger-in-a-strange-land point of view that made his other...
- People Who Eat Darkness - Richard Lloyd Parry
People Who Eat Darkness - Richard Lloyd Parry
- Richard Lloyd Parry
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- 404
- 2012
In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and twenty-one years old - had stepped into the...
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
- James Joyce
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- 288
- 2012
This title provides with introductions by Dr Dieter Fuchs and Joseph O'connor. Against the backdrop of nineteenth century Dublin, a boy becomes a man: his mind testing its...
- The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock
The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock
- Donald Ray Pollock
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- SLOVART
- 272
- 2012
Willard is a tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific who can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from a slow death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial...
- Christopher and His Kind - Isherwood Christopher
Christopher and His Kind - Isherwood Christopher
- Christopher Isherwood
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- 352
- 2012
In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin....
- Dubliners - Joyce James
Dubliners - Joyce James
- James Joyce
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- 272
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A series of short stories, in which the author captures uneasy souls, shabby lives and innocent minds in the dark streets and homes of his native city. In doing so, he conjures...
- Peter Duck - Ransome Arthur
Peter Duck - Ransome Arthur
- Arthur Ransome
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- 608
- 2012
'Why do they call him Black Jake? Is it because of his hair?' Titty asked. 'Because of his heart' said Peter Duck. The Swallows and Amazons, as well as Captain Flint and the...
- The Man Who Sold the World - Peter Doggett
The Man Who Sold the World - Peter Doggett
- Peter Doggett
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- 432
- 2012
No artist offered a more incisive and accurate portrait of the troubled landscape of the 1970s than David Bowie. Cultural historian Peter Doggett explores the rich heritage of...
- Art of Love Ovid
Art of Love Ovid
- Ovidius
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- 208
- 2012
This book is translated by Tom Payne. It comes with an introduction by Hephzibah Anderson. The Art of Love may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but...
- How to Cure a Fanatic - Amos Oz
How to Cure a Fanatic - Amos Oz
- Amos Oz
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- 112
- 2012
In "How To Cure a Fanatic" Amos Oz analyses the historical roots of violence and confronts truths about the extremism nurtured throughout society. By bringing us face to face...
- Into The Silence Davis Wade
Into The Silence Davis Wade
- Wade Davis
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- 672
- 2012
The price of life is death'. For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they...
- Are You My Mother?. Wer ist hier die Mutter?, englische Ausgabe - Bechdel, Alison
Are You My Mother?. Wer ist hier die Mutter?, englische Ausgabe - Bechdel, Alison
- Alison Bechdel
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- 304
- 2012
Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a literary phenomenon: 'an extraordinarily intimate account of family secrets that manages to be shocking, unsettling and life-affirming at the...
- Chinaman Karunatilaka Shehan
Chinaman Karunatilaka Shehan
- Shehan Karunatilaka
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- 416
- 2012
Autor : Shehan Karunatilaka, Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : Chinaman, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet strán : 416
- Knocking on Heavens Door Randall Lisa
Knocking on Heavens Door Randall Lisa
- Lisa Randall
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- 464
- 2012
Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2011. We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the study...
- Caller - Karin Fossum
Caller - Karin Fossum
- Karin Fossum
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- 296
- 2012
One summer evening Lily and her husband are enjoying a meal while their baby daughter sleeps peacefully in her pram in the garden. But then Lily steps outside to find her baby...