Portrait of a thief a novel

Portrait of a Thief

A cinematic, entertaining and fast-paced debut novel that is part-Ocean's Eleven, part-The Social Network and part-Crazy Rich Asians, Portrait of a Th

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Portrait of a Thief

A cinematic, entertaining and fast-paced debut novel that is part-Ocean's Eleven, part-The Social Network and part-Crazy Rich Asians, Portrait of a Th

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Thief

The 16th novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series about a brotherhood of vampire warriors and the women who love them.

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Portrait of a Novel

“...literary criticism at its most lucid and engaging, as it shows James embarking on his great work and displays Gorra, filled with enthusiasm and in

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Dream Thief -A Novel

The Dream Thief follows the coming of age story of Nadine Brier, a young girl on an adventure from the small town of Missouri to New York City.

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Portrait of a Mirror: A Novel

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Portrait of a Lady

Henry James’s most famous novel edited by the critically acclaimed author of Portrait of a Novel.

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Destiny Thief

A master of the novel, short story and memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody's Fool now gives us his very first collection of persona

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Destiny Thief

A master of the novel, short story and memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody's Fool now gives us his very first collection of persona

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Water Thief

From the award-winning author of Ishmael’s Oranges comes a searing novel set in Africa, with a Graham Greene-esque moral conflict at its heart

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Portrait of a Scotsman

A stunning new novel from Evie Dunmore and her Oxford Rebels

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Portrait of a Lady

Considered by many to be Henry James's finest novel, The Portrait of a Lady is a subtle examination of Victorian society and power relations, providin

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Portrait of a Lady

An elegant collector's edition of Henry James' most accomplished novel with an introduction by award-winning novelist Colm TĂłibĂ­n.

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Unfinished Portrait

A stunning novel of death and destiny.

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Warriors: A Thief in ThunderClan

The warrior cats leap off the page in this full-color graphic novel adventure—a stand-alone story set in the world of Erin Hunter’s #1 bestselling War

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Book Thief - Markus Zusak

<p>'Life affirming, triumphant and tragic . . . masterfully told. . . but also a wonderful page-turner' Guardian'Brilliant and hugely ambitious' New York Times'Extraordinary' Telegraph___HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster ...

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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - The Graphic Novel (Book 1 of Percy Jackson)

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skat

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Perris, California: A Novel

A gripping portrait of two women's painful family histories and their uneasy reunion in California's invisible poverty belt

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Diary of an Oxygen Thief (1472152751)

Kniha - autor Anonymous, 152 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Hurt people hurt people.Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer's assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He's blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but...

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Blue Self-Portrait

A contemporary novel of angst and high farce, "Blue Self-Portrait" unfolds among Berlin's cultural institutions but is more truly located in the mid-a

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Portrait of the Spy as a Young Man

A thrilling SOE spy novel by a former special forces officer who is 'poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré'

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Both an insight into James Joyce's life and childhood, this novel is about sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice an

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The Book Thief, 1. vydání - Markus Zusak

<p>The internationally bestselling story of a young girl in Nazi Germany who steals books, now a major motion picture starring Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson. Here is a small fact - You are going to die 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. He...

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Fault Lines: A Novel - Emily Itami

<p>SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD "What is the cost of a mother’s desire?...Emily Itami explores this question with wit and poignancy." -- New York Times Book Review "The perfect marriage of Sally Rooney and early Murakami." -- Kathy Wang, author of Impostor Syndrome Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, t...

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel (0525562044)

Kniha - autor Ocean Vuong, 246 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná An instant New York Times Bestseller! Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction, the Carnegie Medal in Fiction, the 2019 Aspen Words Literacy Prize, and the PEN/Hemingway Debut Novel Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2019 New Eng...

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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief - Film Tie-in (Book 1 of Percy Jackson) - Riordan Rick

Anotace: The Lightning Thief: the first book in Rick Riordan`s Percy Jackson series.Look, I didn`t want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek god. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That`s when things started really going wrong. Now I spend my time f...

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians 1: The Lightning Thief, 1. vydání - Rick Riordan

<p>The Lightning Thief: the first book in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series.Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek god. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That's when things started really going wrong. Now I spend my time fi...

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No Graves as Yet (World War I Series, Novel 1)

NO GRAVES AS YET is the utterly compelling first of a five-novel sequence that is a searing, ambitious and masterly portrait of England through the Fi

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The Italian Teacher: The Costa Award Shortlisted Novel - Tom Rachman

<p>***SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD***</p> <p>'Wickedly funny, deeply touching . . . I confess this was the first of Rachman's novels I'd read but I was so swept away by it that I raced out to buy the other three' PATRICK GALE</p> <p>'Relentlessly entertaining' Daily MailRome, 1955</p> <p>The artists are gathering together...

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Derelict Light

In this historical novel a fire nearly destroys Astoria, Oregon, in 1922. A Finnish immigrant is blackmailed into starting it, a lovesick thief gets b

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Dance of Thieves

Mary E. Pearson's Dance of Thieves is a new YA novel in the New York Times bestselling Remnant Chronicles universe, in which a reformed thief and the

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Brigde of Clay - Markus Zusak

THE EPIC BESTSELLING NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK THIEF ‘If The Book Thief was a novel that allowed Death to steal the show... [its] brilliantly illuminated follow-up is affirmatively full of life’ Guardian

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Physics of Sorrow

From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter, this kaleidoscopic 'novel of beginnings' offers a portrait of a man who can wander

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Hue of Blu

The unforgettable novel that's taking TikTok by storm. A raw and tragic portrait of love between two broken souls and the life-altering impact of the

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Town of Babylon, The

In this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity —AndrĂ©s, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his suburban h

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David Hockney: A Life

With clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English painter.

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Poetics of Work

In this new novel by the acclaimed author of Blue Self-Portrait, a poet-narrator existing on a diet of cannabis, bananas and books on oppression under

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In this House of Brede

Rumer Godden's classic 1960s novel is a vivid portrait of a woman's encounter with faith as she enters an order of Benedictine nuns.

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Grapes of Wrath (0141185066)

Kniha - autor John Steinbeck, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality ...

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Six of Crows - neuveden

Anotace: A glorious Collector`s Edition of New York Times bestselling, epic fantasy novel, SIX OF CROWS. Beautifully designed, with an exclusive letter from the author and six stunning full-colour character portraits. This covetable hardback with red sprayed edges is a perfect gift for fans, and a perfect way to discover the unforgettable writing of Leigh Bardugo. Crimin...

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Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

A modern classic - Lola Shoneyin's debut novel is a portrait of a clamorous household in the midst of upheaval. Coming soon to Netflix!

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Bridge of Clay - Markus Zusak

Anotace: THE EPIC NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK THIEF 'If The Book Thief was a novel that allowed Death to steal the show... [its] brilliantly illuminated follow-up is affirmatively full of life.' Guardian 'This is a tale of love, art and redemption; rowdy and joyous.' Times 'Bridge of Clay is one of those monumental books that can draw you across spa...

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The End of Eddy (0099598469)

Kniha - 192 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Edouard Louis grew up in a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line. His bestselling debut novel about life there, The End of Eddy, has sparked debate on social inequality, sexuality and violence.It is an extraordinary portrait of escaping from an unbearable childhood, inspired by the auth...

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Bridge of Clay, 1. vydání - Markus Zusak

THE EPIC BESTSELLING NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK THIEF‘If The Book Thief was a novel that allowed Death to steal the show... [its] brilliantly illuminated follow-up is affirmatively full of life’ GuardianA lost typewriter -- A dead dog -- The bones of the snake that killed it Matthew Dunbar, eldest of five brothers, is on a journey to find them all. Only then ca...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde Oscar

Anotace: Part of Penguin`s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by h...

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Bridge of Clay, 1. vydání - Markus Zusak

THE EPIC NEW NOVEL FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BOOK THIEF'If The Book Thief was a novel that allowed Death to steal the show... [its] brilliantly illuminated follow-up is affirmatively full of life.' Guardian'This is a tale of love, art and redemption; rowdy and joyous.' Times'Bridge of Clay is one of those monumental books that can draw you across space and time' ...

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Razorblade Tears - S. A. Cosby

<p>Ike Randolph left jail fifteen years ago, with not so much as a speeding ticket since. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. Ike is devastated to learn his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Though he never fully accepted his son, Ike is broken by his death. Derek's father Buddy Lee was as ashamed of Derek ...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

Anotace: Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait rather than on Dorian´s own face. The stage is no...

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Charlotte Brontë

<p>Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The original text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. This classic epistolary n...

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The Physics of Sorrow - Gospodinov Georgi

Anotace: From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter, this kaleidoscopic 'novel of beginnings' offers a portrait of a man who can wander uninvited into other people's memories. In the small and the insignificant - that's where life hides, that's where it builds its nest. Our unnamed narrator is not well. He suffers from ...

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The Physics of Sorrow - Georgi Gospodinov

<p>From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter, this kaleidoscopic 'novel of beginnings' offers a portrait of a man who can wander uninvited into other people's memories</p> <p>In the small and the insignificant - that's where life hides, that's where it builds its nest.Our unnamed narrator is not well. He suffers from attacks of '...

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The Weavers of Alamaxa - Elsbai Hadeer

Anotace: `Hadeer Elsbai has written a powerful story of sisterhood, love, and struggle within a rich, vibrant world with complicated characters that leap from the page to smash the patriarchy!` P. Djeli Clark, author of A Master of Djinn, on The Daughters of IzdiharFollowing up on one of the most exciting fantasy debuts, The Daughters of Izdihar, Hadeer Elsbai concludes ...

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The Age of Light - Whitney Scharer

`Whitney Scharer's storytelling is utterly immersive and gorgeous in its details . . . This is a powerful, sensual and gripping portrait of the forging of an artist's soul.' Madeleine Miller, author of Circe `I'd rather take a photograph than be one,' says Lee Miller, shortly after she arrives in Paris in 1929. Gorgeous and talented, Lee has left behind a successful model...

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Mary Queen of Scots : And the Murder of Lord Darnley - Weirová Alison

Anotace: `Weir is excellent on the little details that bring a world to life` Guardian Anne Boleyn: A King`s Obsession by bestselling historian Alison Weir, author of Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, is the second captivating novel in the Six Tudor Queens series. An unforgettable portrait of the ambitious woman whose fate we know all too well, but whose true motivati...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1. vydání - Oscar Wilde

<p>Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by ...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Collins Classics) - Oscar Wilde

<p>HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young... If it was only the other way!' Wilde's first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Collins Classics) - Wilde Oscar

Anotace: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. `How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young... If it was only the other way!` Wilde`s first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires ...

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Prophet Song: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 - Paul Lynch

<p>WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZE A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE AN AMAZON TOP 10 BOOK OF DECEMBER 2023 A Book of the Year for 2023 according to the Guardian, FT, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, Sunday Independent, Economist, Big Is...

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Prophet Song: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 - Lynch Paul

Anotace: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZEA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR`S CHOICEAN AMAZON TOP 10 BOOK OF DECEMBER 2023A Book of the Year for 2023 according to the Guardian, FT, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, Sunday Independent, Economist, Big Issue, Daily ...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1. vydání - Oscar Wilde

<p>Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in the portrait rather than on Dorian’s own face. The stage is now...

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