Knihy 2018, 170 – 239, penguin
- My Life - Marc Chagall
My Life - Marc Chagall
- Marc Chagall
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- 176
- 2018
Autor : Marc Chagall, , Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : My Life, Jazyk : Angličtina, Rok vydania : 2018, Počet strán : 176
- The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
The Garden Party - Katherine Mansfield
- Katherine Mansfield
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- 192
- 2018
'They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden party if they had ordered it' A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As...
- To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
- Virginia Woolf
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- 208
- 2018
'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening' To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic...
- Exit West
Exit West
- Mohsin Hamid
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- 228
- 2018
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2018 and finalist for the Neustadt Prize 2018. An extraordinary story of love and hope from the bestselling, Man Booker-shortlisted author of...
- Meatless Days
Meatless Days
- Sara Suleri
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- 192
- 2018
Meatless Days is a searing memoir of life in the newly-created country of Pakistan. When sudden and shocking tragedies hit the author's family two years apart, her personal...
- Nothing but a Circus Daniel Levin
Nothing but a Circus Daniel Levin
- Daniel Levin
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- 208
- 2018
'Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power. You will laugh aloud and you won't put it down' Daniel Kahneman In this eye-opening exploration of the human weakness for...
- Calm - Michael Acton Smith
Calm - Michael Acton Smith
- Michael Acton Smith
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- 224
- 2018
Modern life is hectic and relentless: trains delayed, endless emails filling the inbox, kids squabbling before bedtime... There has never been a more important time to...
- Rest - Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Rest - Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
- Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
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- 232
- 2018
Learning to take time out: the smartest lifehack of all For most of us, overwork is the new normal. Resting means late-night TV binges or hours spent surfing social media. We...
- The Awakening Kate Chopin
The Awakening Kate Chopin
- Kate Chopin
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- 224
- 2018
Autor : Kate Chopin, , Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : The Awakening, Jazyk : Angličtina, Rok vydania : 2018, Počet strán : 224
- Age of Iron - J.M. Coetzee
Age of Iron - J.M. Coetzee
- J. M. Coetzee
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- 208
- 2018
In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been...
- Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- Virginia Woolf
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- 192
- 2018
'She always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.'On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her...
- Riot Days - Maria Alyokhina
Riot Days - Maria Alyokhina
- Maria Alyokhina
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- 208
- 2018
From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in Siberian jail for...
- Statistics Without Tears - Derek Rowntree
Statistics Without Tears - Derek Rowntree
- Derek Rowntree
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- 208
- 2018
This book is written for anyone who needs or wants to know how statistics work. It assumes no expert knowledge, and teaches through words and diagrams rather than through...
- The Call of the Wild - Jack London
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
- Jack London
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- 208
- 2018
'The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect and, while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.' The biting cold and the...
- The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
The Chrysalids - John Wyndham
- John Wyndham
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- 208
- 2018
The disturbing post-apocalyptic novel The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, author of The Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes and dramatised on BBC Radio 4. David Strorm's...
- The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
- Nathanael West
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- 176
- 2018
'He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to draw in others' Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of...
- The Hound of the Baskervilles Penguin Essentials - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles Penguin Essentials - Arthur Conan Doyle
- Arthur Conan Doyle
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- 224
- 2018
'Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!' The death, quite suddenly, of Sir Charles Baskerville in mysterious circumstances is the trigger for one of the...
- The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford
- Nancy Mitford
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- 224
- 2018
Oh the tedium of waiting to grow up! Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the look out for the perfect lover. But...
- Things I Dont Want to Know - Deborah Levy
Things I Dont Want to Know - Deborah Levy
- Deborah Levy
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- 176
- 2018
Things I Don't Want to Know is the first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood. Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I...
- Why Wall Street Matters William D. Cohan
Why Wall Street Matters William D. Cohan
- William D. Cohan
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- 192
- 2018
If you like your smartphone or your widescreen TV, your car or your pension, then, whether you know it or not, you are a fan of Wall Street. William D. Cohan, bestselling author...
- Football in Sun and Shadow - Eduardo Galeano
Football in Sun and Shadow - Eduardo Galeano
- Eduardo Galeano
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- 224
- 2018
This 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,...
- How to Give Up Plastic - A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time. From the Head of Oceans at Greenpeace and spokesperson for their anti-plastic campaignPevná vazba
How to Give Up Plastic - A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time. From the Head of Oceans at Greenpeace and spokesperson for their anti-plastic campaignPevná vazba
- Will McCallum
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- 224
- 2018
Around 12.7 million tonnes of plastic are entering the ocean every year, killing over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals. By 2050 there could be more plastic in the...
- Auschwitz
Auschwitz
- Sybille Steinbacher
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- 176
- 2018
At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life,...
- Terrible Daley-Ward YrsaPaperback
Terrible Daley-Ward YrsaPaperback
- Yrsa Daley-Ward
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- 224
- 2018
Autor : Yrsa Daley-Ward, Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Název : The Terrible, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet strán : 224