Journey the service the man

Journey. The Service. The Man.

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Lawrence of Arabia: An in-depth glance at the life of a 20th Century legend - Fiennes Ranulph

Anotace: The authoritative and illuminating biography of T. E. Lawrence - the man who inspired the iconic film Lawrence of Arabia - from "The World`s Greatest Living Explorer" Ranulph Fiennes.Thomas Edward Lawrence first set foot on the hot sands of Arabia in 1909.By 1918 there was a GBP20,000 price on his head.His journey to this point has long been legend. From his fir...

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Darling: A razor-sharp, gloriously funny retelling of Nancy Mitford´s The Pursuit of Love - Knightová India

Anotace: `A savagely funny, bracingly sad, dazzlingly clever reimagining of The Pursuit of Love. I loved it. Meg Mason, author of Sorrow and Bliss `A triumph! Brilliantly done, faithful but imaginative, tremendously romantic and very funny.` Nina Stibbe, author of Reasons to be CheerfulMarooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself dest...

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The Sun, the Sea and the Stars: Ancient wisdom as a healing journey - Bochis Iulia

Anotace: In this modern tale for the ages, hit Instagram illustrator @iuliastration takes us a on a healing journey.Following the story of a traveller as they move from darkness to light through the rhythm of the seasons, this is a deeply relatable quest for inner peace told through calming and original illustrations.Using ancient wisdom and philosophical quotes from aro...

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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent - Dench Judi

Anotace: Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig; being painted green and cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside; acting opposite a child with a pumpkin on his head... these are just a few things Dame Judi Dench has done in the name of Shakespeare.In this book, Judi tells us about every Shakespearean role she`s played throughout her career. Writt...

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Orphan X The Book Service Ltd (Penguin)

*The Nowhere Man is available for pre-order now* 'OUTSTANDING IN EVERY WAY' Lee Child* 'Do you need my help?' It was the first question he asked. They called him when they had nowhere else to turn. As a boy Evan Smoak was taken from an orphanage. Raised and trained in a top secret programme, he was sent to bad places to do things the government denied ever happened. Then ...

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The Imitation of the Rose - Lispector Clarice

Anotace: Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Thirteen short tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the twentieth century. The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the lum...

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The Tearsmith - Doom Erin

Anotace: A GRIPPING TALE OF IMPOSSIBLE LOVE, DISCOVER THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED NO.1 ITALIAN BESTSELLER NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ENGLISH Legend speaks of the Maker of Tears: a man with eyes like glass, who crafts all the fears that dwell in people`s hearts . . . What will it take for star-crossed orphans Nica and Rigel to face him and his creations?----Growing up ...

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The Fall - Camus Albert

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranea...

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The Sun My Heart: The Companion to The Miracle of Mindfulness - Hanh Thich Nhat

Anotace: The sequel to the bestselling Miracle of Mindfulness. A "friend rather than a book," The Sun My Heart is a true spiritual classic with wisdom for any situation.One of Thich Nhat Hanh´s most beloved books, The Sun My Heart contains the journey, on the path of everyday practice, from mindfulness to insight. Using the objects and events of everyday life in his herm...

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The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama - Macintyre Ben

Anotace: `The pre-eminent historian of the secret world . . . His books have set the gold standard for accurate historical reporting, but read like heart-pounding thrillers` Mick HerronFrom the author of Sunday Times #1 bestsellers COLDITZ, SAS: ROGUE HEROES and THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR . . .On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Pri...

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The Curse of Sins - Dramis Kate

Anotace: Pre-order the sequel to Kate Dramis`s TikTok fantasy phenomenon, The Curse of Saints, and the next installment in Aya`s journey . . . ----He`d once called her dangerous. And he had been right.Aya was not a pawn.She was a spy.A warrior.A weapon.Aya has returned home at last.But she is not the same person who left Tala all those months ago.And Tala isn`t the same ...

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The Fraud - Smith Zadie

Anotace: Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel. It is 1873. Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literatu...

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Pick the Lock - King A. S.

Anotace: From Michael L. Printz Award winner A.S. King, a weird and insightful new novel about a girl intent on picking the lock of her toxic family.Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane`s mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and their mendacious father who confines...

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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe - McCullers Carson

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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The Trading Game: A Confession - Stevenson Gary

Anotace: `An unforgettable story of greed, financial madness and moral decay` Rory Stewart`Hilarious, shocking and deeply sad - often in the same sentence` Sunday Times`The Wolf of Wall Street with a moral compass` Irvine WelshAn outrageous, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world - from someone who survived the trading game and then blew it all ...

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The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life - Bartlett Steven

Anotace: The new book by STEVEN BARTLETT: entrepreneur, podcaster and Dragon`s Den starThis is not a book about business strategy. Strategy changes like the seasons. This is a book about something much more permanent. At the very heart of all the success and failure I`ve been exposed to - both my own entrepreneurial journey and through the thousands of interviews I`ve co...

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The Queen Of Spades - Puškin Alexandr Sergejevič

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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The Davenports: Discover the swoon-worthy New York Times Bestseller - Marquis Krystal

Anotace: "If this whole series existed right now, I`d tear through it to the exclusion of everything else in my life." -Teen Librarian ToolboxThe Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in a changing United States, their fortune made through the entrepreneurship of William Davenport, a formerly enslaved man who founded the Davenport Carr...

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Empire: Book 2 of The Golden Age - Iggulden Conn

Anotace: IN CONN IGGULDEN`S LATEST GOLDEN AGE EPIC, JOIN PERICLES, THE LION OF ATHENS, ON A JOURNEY TO SECURE THE FATE OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE----Pericles returns home more than a hero: he`s the leader of Athens, the empire`s beacon of light in the dark.But even during times of peace, the threat of Sparta - Athens`s legendary rival - looms large on the horizon. When a sud...

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The Lily of Ludgate Hill - Matthews Mimi

Anotace: A sizzling historical romance perfect for all fans of Bridgerton and Jilly CooperFortune favours the bold. But is Lady Anne daring enough to accept a favour from a wicked gentleman? Lady Anne Deveril has voluntarily renounced any fanciful notions of love and marriage. And yet, fate now puts Anne back into the entirely too enticing path of Mr. Felix Hartford. Th...

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Empire: Enter the battlefields of Ancient Greece in the epic new novel from the multi-million copy bestseller - Iggulden Conn

Anotace: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERJOIN PERICLES, THE LION OF ATHENS, ON A JOURNEY TO SECURE THE FATE OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE`The master historical storyteller` DAILY EXPRESS`Iggulden draws the Greek world convincingly and he is strongest writing battle scenes` THE TIMES on the Golden Age series`The sights, sounds and smells of Athens bring history to life with gripping ...

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The Cat Who Taught Zen: The beautifully illustrated new tale from the bestselling author of Big Panda and Tiny Dragon - Norbury James

Anotace: Following the phenomenal international success of Big Panda and Tiny Dragon and The Journey, James Norbury's latest book introduces readers to a very special cat on a remarkable adventure. "I've learnt that what we want is seldom what we need, and what we need is almost never what we want" This is the tale of a cat wise in the ways of zen, ...

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Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy - Chalmers David J.

Anotace: From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worldsIn the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David J. Chalmers predicts, we will have virtual worlds that are impossible to distinguish from non-virtual worlds. ...

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The Lives of Brian - Johnson Brian

Anotace: `It wasn`t me. I didn`t do it. And I`ll never do it again!` says Brian Johnson of The Lives of Brian. That AC/DC`s legendary front man got to do it all is one of the most cheering and entertaining stories in rock `n`roll history.The son of a British army sergeant-major and Italian mother, Brian grew up in Dunston, Tyne and Wear, as it emerged from the shadow of...

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The Romantic - Pelz Monika, Boyd William, Boyd William

Anotace: From one of Britain`s best-loved and bestselling writers comes an intimate yet panoramic novel about the tumult and unexpected nature of life, set in the 19th centuryA new "whole life" novel from William Boyd, the author of Any Human Heart. Set in the 19th century, the novel follows the roller-coaster fortunes of a man as he tries to negotiate the random stages,...

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Say You´ll Be My Jaan: The must read fake engagement romcom of the year - the perfect feel good pick me up! - Kumar Naina

Anotace: "Think of it like Tinder. Except your parents are the algorithm" Meghna has tried everything to find her jaan: blind dates, the dreaded apps, even attempting conversations with strangers. Everything except arranged marriage. Then Seth, her best friend and the-one-who-got-away, asks her to be his "best man" and suddenly her parent's tas...

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Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World - Kleinová Naomi

Anotace: *THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, AND PROSPECT*`If I had to name a single book that makes sense of these last few dark years, it would be this one` New York Times`A deeply compelling read ... urgent and necessary` Evening StandardNaomi Klein, author of era-defining bestsellers, The Shock...

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A Spy In The House Of Love - Nin Anais

Anotace: Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterrane...

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Lou Reed: The King of New York - Hermes Will

Anotace: `A monumental work filled with first-person accounts of the master`s life and a dizzying array of never-before heard details` Michael Imperioli, author of The Perfume Burned His Eyes The most complete and penetrating biography of the rock master, whose stature grows every year.Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed`s living presence has only grown. The great ro...

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The Neighbor Favor: The swoon-worthy and gloriously romantic romcom for fans of Honey & Spice - Forest Kristina

Anotace: Sometimes love is closer than you think . . . Fall head over heels with this charming and heart-fluttering romantic comedy`Sweet, swoony and full of heart` Lynn Painter, New York Times bestselling author of MR WRONG NUMBER`The perfect celebration of falling in love on and off the page` Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka, authors of THE ROUGHEST DRAFT____...

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Pucking Around: The TikTok sensation - a why choose hockey romance - Rath Emily

Anotace: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING TIK TOK SENSATION AND START OF THE JACKSONVILLE RAYS SERIES!I can`t fall for a player, let alone three...My name is Rachel Price, and two months ago, I walked away from the perfect man. We shared one magical night. No names. No strings. I never thought I`d see him again. I was wrong.It turns out my perfect man is actually the playbo...

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A Head Full of Music: The soundtrack to my life - Richard Cliff

Anotace: Foreword by Bob StanleyOn a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Webb, was mooching down Waltham Cross High Street. He heard some music blaring out of a parked car. It stopped him in his tracks.The song was `Heartbreak Hotel` by Elvis Presley. It sounded like nothing he had ever heard before. In that instant, the schoolboy wh...

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A Head Full of Music: The soundtrack to my life - Richard Cliff

Anotace: Foreword by Bob StanleyOn a sunny Saturday morning in May 1956, a fifteen-year-old, then called Harry Webb, was mooching down Waltham Cross High Street. He heard some music blaring out of a parked car. It stopped him in his tracks.The song was `Heartbreak Hotel` by Elvis Presley. It sounded like nothing he had ever heard before. In that instant, the schoolboy wh...

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Embracing Hope: On Freedom, Responsibility & the Meaning of Life - Frankl Viktor E.

Anotace: `Viktor Frankl gives us the gift of looking at everything in life as an opportunity` - Edith Eger, bestselling author of The ChoiceAn inspirational new collection on turning tragedy into triumph by Holocaust survivor and multi-million copy bestselling author of Man`s Search for Meaning.During his lifetime, world renowned psychiatrist and Auschwitz survivor Vikto...

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That Summer Feeling: The perfect swoon-worthy summer romance - Morrissey Bridget

Anotace: Fall in love with this perfect summer read that will sweep you away . . .`Shimmering with sun-soaked magic` Ashley Herring Blake, author of DELILAH GREEN DOESN`T CARE__________When Garland Moore`s husband gifts her divorce papers on Valentine`s Day, it feels like she`ll never find love again. So when some friends invite her to their camp in the Blue Ridge Mounta...

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The Paris Affair: A breath-taking historical romance perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley - Schneider Fiona

Anotace: `A sweeping, and heartfelt tale of love and sacrifice` Amanda Geard, author of THE MOON GATE`This is a heart wrenching story of love, bravery, and impossible choices.` Louise Fein, author THE LONDON BOOKSHOP AFFAIROne Parisian night, a woman vanishes without a trace, leaving behind the man she loves. Sixty years later, the search begins... In 1942, French chef...

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Beowulf: Dragonslayer - Sutcliff Rosemary

Anotace: Grendel prowled in, hating all men and all joy and hungry for human life. So swift was his attack that no man heard an outcry; but when the dawn came, thirty of Hothgar`s best and noblest thanes were missing.Only Beowulf, foremost among warriors, has the strength and courage to battle with Grendel the Night-stalker. In this thrilling re-telling of the Anglo-Saxo...

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To Be Read at Dusk - Dickens Charles

Anotace: `The monstrous thought came into my mind as I perused the fixed eyes and the saturnine face, that this was a spirit, not a man.`Three ghostly tales from a master of the form, `The Signalman`, `The Trial for Murder` and the title story, `To Be Read at Dusk`.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Cl...

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Pnin (anglicky) - Nabokov Vladimir

Anotace: Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the ruination of his beautiful lumber-room-as-office; the removal of his teeth and the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable boarding house; and the tria...

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Murtagh

Anotace: Master storyteller and internationally bestselling author Christopher Paolini returns to the World of Eragon in this stunning epic fantasy set a year after the events of the Inheritance Cycle. The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the consequences of the reluctant...

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Fritz and Kurt - Dronfield Jeremy

Anotace: "Extraordinarily touching" - The Jewish ChronicleWhen everything is taken away from you, love and courage are all you have left.In 1938, the Nazis come to Vienna. They hate anyone who is different, especially Jewish people.Fritz and Kurt`s family are Jewish, and that puts them in terrible danger.Fritz, along with his father, is taken to a Nazi prison camp, a ter...

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A Thousand Broken Pieces - Tillie Cole

Anotace: PRE-ORDER THE HEARTBREAKING SEQUEL TO A THOUSAND BOY KISSES TODAY . . .--CAN TWO BROKEN HEARTS MAKE A WHOLE . . . ? After losing her beloved sister three years ago, Savanna Litchfield has been living half a life. When Savannah`s therapist suggests joining a trip around the world for grieving teens she agrees to go clutching tightly to the unread journal her sist...

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Diddly Squat: Home to Roost

Anotace: Welcome back to Clarkson`s Farm.So, that went well ...The spring barley crop failed. Just like the oil seed rape. And the durum wheat. Then the oats turned the colour of a hearing aid and the mushrooms went mouldy. Farming sheep, pigs and cows was hardly more lucrative. Jeremy would be better off trying to breed ostriches.But in the face of uncooperative weather...

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On Freedom (EXP) - Snyder Timothy

Anotace: Brought to you by Penguin.A brilliant exploration of freedom - what it is, how it´s been misunderstood, and why it´s our only chance for survival - by the acclaimed, bestselling author of On Tyranny.Timothy Snyder has been called `the leading interpreter of our dark times´. As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mas...

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King of Dead Things - Holness Nevin

Anotace: Magical contemporary London. Two lives are about to collide. A journey of self-discovery.For fans of dark fantasy like Cemetery Boys, Noughts and Crosses and Threads that Bind from major new YA talent Jamaican British author Nevin HolnessThe first time Eli had tried taking magic that wasn`t his, it had wrapped around his palms like razor wire, tight enough that ...

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A Winter in New York - Silverová Josie

Anotace: Where better to start again than New York? Iris arrives in the city of dreams, intent on restarting her culinary career, and leaving her recent heartache behind. Wandering the streets at a famous food festival, Iris feels like she's living in a movie. Then she stumbles upon a gelateria that looks strangely familiar. Inside, she meets Gio: a perfect leadin...

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Chess: A Novel - Zweig Stefan

Anotace: Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil. ...

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Passing - Larsen Nella

Anotace: Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware of her African-American heritage. When she renews her acquaintance with her childhood friend Irene, who has not hidden her origins, both women are forced to reassess their marriages, the lies they have told - and to confront the secret...

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Notes on Nationalism - Orwell George

Anotace: `The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs`Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a...

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Be Useful: Seven tools for life - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Anotace: The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life-distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone.The world`s greatest bodybuilder. The world`s highest paid movie star. The leader of the world`s sixth largest economy. That these are the same person so...

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Giovanni´s Room - Baldwin James

Anotace: Baldwin`s ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his time`Audacious... remarkable... elegant and courageous` Caryl PhillipsDavid, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancee to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an in...

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Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy - Kissinger Henry

Anotace: Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world`Leaders,` writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, `think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead. They must balance what they kn...

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Deception - Pearse Lesley

Anotace: THE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LESLEY PEARSEWhat happens when the person closest to you has led a life of deception?After the funeral of her mother, Sally, Alice Kent is approached by a man named Angus Tweedy. He claims to be her father and tells her that he served time in prison for marrying Sally bigamously.What does he hope to gain by tel...

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Dark Horse - Hurwitz Gregg

Anotace: THE HEROEvan Smoak: former off-the-books assassin - code name Orphan X. His world is divided into those who deserve his help and those who`ve brought his singular brand of justice upon themselves.THE VICTIMA desperate father reaches out. His teenage daughter Anjelina has been kidnapped by a brutal criminal cartel and spirited over the border into Mexico. And whi...

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Well Played: Well Met 2 - DeLuca Jen

Anotace: Stacey put her life on hold when she stayed in Willow Creek to care for her sick mother. But it`s been years now. Even the local Renaissance Faire, where she spends summer pouring drinks and flirting with patrons, is losing its attraction. She vows to have her life figured out by next summer`s Faire. It`s past time she found The One.Dex MacLean, her summertime F...

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American Royals 2 : Majesty - McGeeová Katharine

Anotace: Beatrice Washington now rules America as its first ever queen, but her family are more concerned about rushing through her arranged marriage to a man she barely knows. No one can know that her heart really belongs to her bodyguard - but even their love is under threat.Meanwhile, Princess Samantha is under more scrutiny than ever before - and she still longs to b...

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Here One Moment - Moriarty Liane

Anotace: The new novel from the worldwide Number One bestselling author behind the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning HBO series Big Little Lies and recent smash hit bestseller Apples Never Fall. We`re all so busy, caught up in life`s moments, big and small . . . The flight attendant working a shift on her birthday.The mother struggling alone with two young children.The newl...

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Liberation Day : Stories - Saunders George, Saunders George

Anotace: The "best short-story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose-wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned-Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collect...

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Then Things Went Dark - Fitzgerald Bea

Anotace: Six people land on a desert island ready to make their reality show debut. The contestants are hungry to prove themselves. The stakes are high and losing is not an option. But three weeks and eighteen episodes later, five of the six contestants sit in a Portuguese police station, and none of them are winners.Because twelve million people were watching when Rhys ...

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