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Autor: Celeste Ng
Little Fires Everywhere
Vydavateľstvo: Abacus
Dátum vydania: 2. apríla 2020
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Posielame do 5 až 21 dníBežná cena: 11,95 €Vaša cena: 11,35 €'Just read it . . . Outstanding' Matt Haig'To say I love this book is an understatement . . . It moved me to tears' Reese Witherspoon'Beautifully written, completely charming, and extremely wise on the subject of adolescence and influence' Nick HornbyEveryone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Christine Manganová
Tangerine
Bežná cena: 11,50 €Vaša cena: 10,93 €The perfect read for fans of Daphne du Maurier and Patricia Highsmith, set in 1950s Morocco, Tangerine is a gripping psychological literary thriller. The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason. After the horrific accident at Bennington, the two friends - once inseparable roommates - haven't … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Tim Harford
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
Vydavateľstvo: Abacus
Dátum vydania: 1. augusta 2018
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Posielame do 5 až 21 dníBežná cena: 13,95 €Vaša cena: 13,25 €Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? Why was the horse collar as important for human progress as the steam engine? How did the humble spreadsheet turn the world of finance upside-down? The world economy defies comprehension. A continuously-changing … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Bežná cena: 11,50 €Vaša cena: 10,93 €Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin. His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there. But, as it turns out, Allan will not . .. Escaping (in his slippers) through his bedroom window, into the flowerbed, Allan makes his getaway. … Zobraziť viac info ►
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Bežná cena: 9,95 €Vaša cena: 9,45 €Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure - these are things that happen in the Glass Room. High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a wonder of steel and glass and onyx built specially for newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer, a Jew married … Zobraziť viac info ►
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Autor: Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram
Bežná cena: 9,95 €Vaša cena: 9,45 €In 1978, gifted student and writer Greg Roberts turned to heroin when his marriage collapsed, feeding his addiction with a string of robberies. Caught and convicted, he was given a nineteen-year sentence. After two years, he escaped from a maximum- security prison, spending the next ten years on the run as Australia's most wanted man. Hiding … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: David Sedaris
Calypso
Bežná cena: 11,50 €Vaša cena: 10,93 €David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book. If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong. When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, relaxing vacations spent playing … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Simon Mawer
Prague Spring
Bežná cena: 11,50 €Vaša cena: 10,93 €It's the summer of 1968, the year of love and hate, of Prague Spring and Cold War winter. Two English students, Ellie and James, set off to hitch-hike across Europe with no particular aim in mind but a continent, and themselves, to discover. Somewhere in southern Germany they decide, on a whim, to visit Czechoslovakia where Alexander Dubcek's 'socialism … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Bežná cena: 15,50 €Vaša cena: 14,73 €Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of INFINITE JEST, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss … Zobraziť viac info ►
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Bežná cena: 10,95 €Vaša cena: 10,40 €Can true love triumph in the face of fierce family opposition? Mr Ali's marriage bureau is flourishing but trouble isn't far away once son Rehman begins secretly to woo TV journalist Usha in the small cafes and on the beautiful beaches of South Indian Vizag in an ill-advised romance. Meanwhile the lovely Aruna has a problem or two all her own. She enjoys … Zobraziť viac info ►
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Autor: Iain M. Banks
Transition
Bežná cena: 10,95 €Vaša cena: 10,40 €Imagine a world that is one of infinite parallel worlds, that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Presiding over this world is the Concern, an all-powerful organisation whose operatives possess extraordinary powers. … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Bežná cena: 13,50 €Vaša cena: 12,83 €On its present course, the US faces a world of rising new countries that will compete with it ever more fiecely as its own power is declining. In order to slow and improve this steady leakage of power, the US must change course internationally, economically and domestically. It must also restructure to remain the world's most competitive economy. And … Zobraziť viac info ►
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Bežná cena: 14,50 €Vaša cena: 13,78 €Somewhere in the not-so-distant future the residents of Ennet House, a Boston halfway house for recovering addicts, and students at the nearby Enfield Tennis Academy are ensnared in the search for the master copy of Infinite Jest, a movie said to be so dangerously entertaining its viewers become entranced and expire in a state of catatonic bliss … Zobraziť viac info ►
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Autor: Anita Shreveová
Fortune`s Rock
Bežná cena: 10,50 €Vaša cena: 9,98 €In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rock, where she has left her boots and discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire. ' It is the summer of 1899, and Olympia Biddeford and her parents have retired from the heat of … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Bežná cena: 10,50 €Vaša cena: 9,98 €Welcome to the wonderful world of America's foremost humorist David Sedaris, where learning French, like life, is littered with idiosyncratic delight . .. 'The Italian was attempting to answer the teacher's latest question when the Moroccan student interrupted, shouting, "Excuse me, but what's an Easter?" The teacher called upon the rest of us to explain. "It … Zobraziť viac info ►
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Autor: Gregory David Roberts
Shantaram
Bežná cena: 12,50 €Vaša cena: 11,88 €A novel of high adventure, great storytelling and moral purpose, based on an extraordinary true story of eight years in the Bombay underworld. 'In the early 80s, Gregory David Roberts, an armed robber and heroin addict, escaped from an Australian prison to India, where he lived in a Bombay slum. There, he established a free health clinic and also … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Malcolm Gladwell
Tipping Point
Bežná cena: 10,50 €Vaša cena: 9,98 €In this brilliant and original book, Malcolm Gladwell explains and analyses the 'tipping point', that magic moment when ideas, trends and social behaviour cross a threshold, tip and spread like wildfire. Taking a look behind the surface of many familiar occurrences in our everyday world, Gladwell explains the fascinating social dynamics that cause … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Iain M. Banks
Wasp Factor
Bežná cena: 10,50 €Vaša cena: 9,98 €Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Bežná cena: 9,99 €Vaša cena: 9,49 €One of the wildest and most beautiful regions in Italy, known for its rugged coastline and mountains, Calabria is also home to the deadly 'Ndrangheta. An organised Mafia crime operation more feared in Italy than the Cosa Nostra or the Camorra, it is shrouded in mystery. Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara of Italy's elite Anti-Mafia Investigation Department … Zobraziť viac info ►
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Autor: Tim Tzouliadis
The Forsaken
Bežná cena: 12,95 €Vaša cena: 12,30 €Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands of men, women and children to Stalin's Russia. Where capitalism had failed them, Communism promised dignity for the working man, racial equality, and honest labour. What in fact awaited … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Bežná cena: 8,95 €Vaša cena: 8,50 €Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she'd rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at a dinner party draws Isabel into the case of a doctor whose career has been ruined, she cannot ignore what may be a miscarriage of justice. Because for Isabel ethics are not theoretical at all, … Zobraziť viac info ►
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Bežná cena: 14,24 €Vaša cena: 13,53 €The author's prose has the merits of simplicity, euphony and precision. … Zobraziť viac info ►
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Autor: Alexander McCall Smith
Sunday Philosophy Club
Vydavateľstvo: AbacusDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 11,58 €Vaša cena: 11,00 €Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' - and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the city's Georgian facades its moral compasses … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Bežná cena: 13,50 €Vaša cena: 12,83 €With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing … Zobraziť viac info ►
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Bežná cena: 10,50 €Vaša cena: 9,98 €Even the arrival of her baby can't hold Mma Makutsi back from success in the workplace, and so no sooner than she becomes a full partner in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - in spite of Mma Ramotswe's belated claims that she is only 'an assistant full partner' - she also launches a new enterprise of her own: the Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe. Grace … Zobraziť viac info ►
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Bežná cena: 10,95 €Vaša cena: 10,40 €With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young woman who got mixed up with drug runners and delivered a suitcase of drug money to Europe over a decade ago. But when she least expects it, her reckless past catches up with her; convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at an infamous women's prison … Zobraziť viac info ►
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Bežná cena: 26,50 €Vaša cena: 25,18 €When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible - and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and … Zobraziť viac info ►
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Bežná cena: 13,50 €Vaša cena: 12,83 €Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - this is the acclaimed, internationally bestselling biography of the ultimate icon of inventiveness. Walter Isaacson tells the story of the rollercoaster life and … Zobraziť viac info ►
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Bežná cena: 11,50 €Vaša cena: 10,93 €While F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing the novels we remember him for today, he was also publishing short stories in popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire. Although many of Fitzgerald's short stories are celebrated and anthologised today, more remain out of print than would be expected for a writer of his stature. Some of these … Zobraziť viac info ►
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Autor: Anita Shreveová
The Lives of Stella Bain
Vydavateľstvo: Abacus
Dátum vydania: 25. septembra 2014
Jazyk: anglickýDostupnosť: Vypredané v e-shopeBežná cena: 10,50 €Vaša cena: 9,98 €Hauled in a cart to a field hospital in northern France in March 1916, an American woman wakes from unconsciousness to the smell of gas gangrene, the sounds of men in pain, and an almost complete loss of memory: she knows only that she can drive an ambulance, she can draw, and her name is Stella Bain. A stateless woman in a lawless country, … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Autor: Dennis Lehane
The Drop
Bežná cena: 10,50 €Vaša cena: 9,98 €The Drop follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski through a cover scheme of funelling cash to local gangsters -- 'money drops' -- in the underworld of Boston bars. Under the heavy hand of his employer and cousin Marv, Bob finds himself at the centre of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighbourhood's past … Zobraziť viac info ► -
Bežná cena: 12,50 €Vaša cena: 11,88 €A million readers bought The Undercover Economist to get the lowdown on how economics works on a small scale, in our everyday lives. Since then, economics has become big news. Crises, austerity, riots, bonuses - all are in the headlines all the time. But how does this large-scale economic world really work? What would happen if we cancelled everyone's … Zobraziť viac info ►
