As If by Chance (Lan David)(Pevná vazba)

As If by Chance (Lan David)(Pevná vazba)

A family day at the beach. There's a song, an argument, a dash across the white sand and into the high rolling waves. We're in Cape Town and David Lan is ten years old. Cut to 1969 and, visiting London fresh out of high school, he interviews theatre luminaries Sybil Thorndike, Tom Stoppard, Trevor

Devil's Fjord (Hewson David)(Pevná vazba)

'As grim as the bleakest of Nordic noir. If you think the solution to the crime will produce a happy ending, just wait till the chilling final pages.'Kirkus Reviews 'Hewson expertly paints a punishing Faroese winter, crafting the perfect backdrop for this chilling addition to the growing field of

Last Chance Summer (Klare Shannon)(Pevná vazba)

In Shannon Klare's fun and sexy YA novel Last Chance Summer, a teen is shipped off to work as a counselor at a summer camp--only to butt heads with her co-counselor. Alex is a sheriff's daughter with a less than pristine reputation. When she's caught drinking at a party by her dad's deputy, she's

Backpacking with the Saints: Wilderness Hiking as Spiritual Practice (Lane Belden C.)(Pevná vazba)

Bernard Shaw's Irish Outlook (Clare David)(Pevná vazba)

Using close readings of Shaw's plays and letters, as well as archival research, David Clare illustrates that Shaw regularly placed Irish, Irish Diasporic, and surrogate Irish characters into his plays in order to comment on Anglo-Irish relations and to explore the nature of

Second Chances (Cacek P. D.)(Pevná vazba)

The sequel to Second Lives, praised by Publishers Weekly as 'a rewarding exploration of the emotions felt both by those confronting their own deaths and those left behind to mourn.' It has been four years since the first Travelers came back, and in that time their numbers have grown. There is

Selected Prose 1934-1996 (Gascoyne David)(Pevná vazba)

David Gascoyne s international reputation rests on his outstanding achievement as poet and translator. The publication of his Selected Prose in his 82nd year was an event of major literary significance. Reading this remarkable collection, the harvest of some sixty years, which includes

Cranswick on Camaro 1967-81 (Cranswick Marc)(Pevná vazba)

Chevrolet was Number One in the sales race. If you needed a car, chances are Chevrolet made it. However, in 1964 there arose a problem. Some guy at Ford came up with a car called the Mustang, maybe you've heard of it? But don't worry, Chevrolet had a solution called the Camaro. In racing, where you

David Bowie Is (Broackes Victoria)(Pevná vazba)

David Bowie's career as a pioneering artist spanned nearly 50 years and brought him international acclaim. He continues to be cited as a major influence on contemporary artists and designers working across the creative arts. This book, published to accompany the blockbuster international

Coincidences: New York by Chance (Higbee Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

What If We Stopped Pretending? (Franzen Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is

When You Get the Chance (Ryan Tom)(Pevná vazba)

Follow cousins on a road trip to Pride as they dive into family secrets and friendships in this contemporary novel--perfect for fans of David Levithan and Becky Albertalli. As kids, Mark and his cousin Talia spent many happy summers together at the family cottage in Ontario, but a fight between

Airstreams: Custom Interiors (Winick David)(Pevná vazba)

Few shapes rolling down the highway are as instantly recognizable as silver Airstream trailer homes. With over 200 sparkling color images and engaging text, this book presents David Winick's adventure re-creating custom-built Airstream home trailers that date from1948 to 2007, including his 75th

The Ice Monster (Walliams David)(Pevná vazba)

Hailed as 'the heir to Roald Dahl' by The Spectator, the UK's #1 bestselling children's author, David Walliams, will have fans of Stuart Gibbs and Gordan Korman in stitches David Walliams burst on to the American scene with his New York Times bestseller Demon Dentist, and now he's bringing his

London in Bloom (Lane Georgianna)(Pevná vazba)

'If a voyage across The Pond is not on your itinerary any time soon, not to worry. This book transports us without ever having to leave our most comfortable reading chair.' --Flower magazine Join acclaimed photographer Georgianna Lane and explore the flower markets, gardens, and floral boutiques

My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism (McGrath Titania)(Pevná vazba)

'Fabulously smart and entertaining . . . If virtue-signalling wokery drives you as nuts as it drives me, you will love it' Piers Morgan 'Required reading for anyone needing an antidote to the mass hysteria of humanity's latest religion' Entertainment Focus After the success of her debut Woke: A

The McKinsey Way (Rasiel Ethan)(Pevná vazba)

'If more business books were as useful, concise, and just plain fun to read as THE MCKINSEY WAY, the business world would be a better place.' --Julie Bick, best-selling author of ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW IN BUSINESS I LEARNED AT MICROSOFT. 'Enlivened by witty anecdotes, THE MCKINSEY WAY contains

Little Sister Rabbit Gets Lost (Nilsson Ulf)(Pevná vazba)

If Thumper had a sister she'd be as daring and adventurous as Little Sister Rabbit. Little Sister Rabbit wants to have an adventure all by herself. She loves stamping in puddles, building boats and skimming stones without her clever big brother telling her what to do. But she's having so much fun

Strategic Nuclear Weapons (Baker David)(Pevná vazba)

Much misinformation has been published by those who support, as well as those who are against, the continued deployment of nuclear weapons as instruments of deterrence. This book provides an apolitical description of strategic nuclear weapons, how they are designed, how they work, and how they are

Plume (Wiles Will)(Pevná vazba)

'Wiles is basically Kafka, if Kafka had spent more time in British hotels and pubs' David Baddiel Will Wiles both re-invents and murders the London novel, in a spectacular act of evil, surgical intensity' Warren Ellis 'It's outstanding' Mail on Sunday, Event

What If Bunny's Not a Bully? (Button Lana)(Pevná vazba)

Ideas about bullies (and how we define people) are turned on their heads in this playful rhyming story that questions why a child is being labeled a bully. Gertie the elephant says everyone on the playground should stay far away from Bunny because she's super mean. But Kitty has questions: How did

The Monocle Travel Guide to Hamburg (Monocle)(Pevná vazba)

If Berlin is Germany's clubbing capital then Hamburg is the dinner party that's as raucous as it is refined - and the guests are a varied bunch too. Stroll around this prosperous port city and you'll brush shoulders with local fishermen casting their nets on the banks of the River Elbe,

Thoreau and the Language of Trees (Higgins Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Trees were central to Henry David Thoreau's creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could see the sap flowing beneath their bark. When Thoreau wrote that the poet loves the pine tree as his own shadow

Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy (Cannadine David)(Pevná vazba)

Few modern women have had as great a political impact as Margaret Hilda Roberts, the grocer's daughter from Grantham who, as Margaret Thatcher, became Britain's first woman prime minister. The longest serving British premier of the twentieth century, Thatcher has been the subject of both adulation