My Life as a Villainess - Essays (Lippman Laura)(Pevná vazba)

My Life as a Villainess - Essays (Lippman Laura)(Pevná vazba)

Now, finally, Lippman has turned her gimlet eye on a new subject: herself. My daughter was ten days old the first time I was asked if I were her grandmother. In this, her first collection of essays, Lippman gives us a brilliant, candid portrait of an unapologetically flawed

The Book of Delights: Essays (Gay Ross)(Pevná vazba)

As Heard on NPR's This American Life: The New York Times bestselling book of essays celebrating ordinary delights in the world around us by one of America's most original and observant writers, award-winning poet Ross Gay. Pre-order The Book of (More) Delights now, too! 'Ross Gay's eye lands upon

Liza Jane & the Dragon (Lippman Laura)(Pevná vazba)

This enjoyable book delivers a lesson, and its playful drawings invite the young reader into a wonderful place somewhere between fantasy and reality.--New York Times Book ReviewA girl frustrated with her parents' rules fires them and hires a dragon to take their place.--Publishers Weekly, Included

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Volume 5 (Yamaguchi Satoru)(Paperback)

After being reincarnated as the 'villainess' from the otome game Fortune Lover, Katarina expected to meet doom in the form of one of many Catastrophic Bad Ends. She managed to avoid them all, but her engagement with Prince Jeord still looms over her head. In this short story volume, a bitter rival

Steep Trails (Muir John)(Pevná vazba)

A collection of essays exploring 29 years of beloved naturalist John Muir's life as he explored the West. Considered one of the patron saints of twentieth-century environmental activity, John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West but also fought for its

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Volume 6 (Yamaguchi Satoru)(Paperback)

After being reincarnated as the villainess of an otome game, Katarina has now successfully cleared not only the end of the game's storyline, but also graduation from the Academy of Magic, without meeting any Catastrophic Bad Ends!...Or so she thought! Get ready for... Fortune Lover II! In the

My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! Volume 2 (Yamaguchi Satoru)(Paperback)

No Good Deeds (Lippman Laura)(Paperback / softback)

Would you sacrifice your life for the life of another? For someone you love?From the bestselling author of SUNBURNWinner of the Anthony Award for Best

Life Sentences (Lippman Laura)(Paperback)

Author Cassandra Fallows believes she may have found the story that could become her next bestseller. When she was a girl growing up in a racially diverse middle-class neighborhood in Baltimore, a shy, quiet, unobtrusive child named Calliope Jenkins orbited Cassandra's circle of friends. Later

Modernism in the Streets: A Life and Times in Essays (Berman Marshall)(Pevná vazba)

Essays tracing the intellectual life of a quintessential New York City writer and thinker Marshall Berman was one of the great urbanists and Marxist cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and his brilliant, nearly sui generis book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is a

Afterimages: On Cinema, Women and Changing Times (Mulvey Laura)(Pevná vazba)

Marking a return for Laura Mulvey to questions of film theory and feminism, as well as a reconsideration of new and old film technologies, this urgent and compelling collection of essays is essential reading for anyone interested in the power and pleasures of moving images. Its title, Afterimages,

Truth About Life as a Pro Gamer (O'Neal Ciara)(Pevná vazba)

Complete Works - Essays, Travel Journal, Letters (De Montaigne Michel)(Pevná vazba)

Describing his collection of Essays as 'a book consubstantial with its author', Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures in European

Truth About Life as a YouTube Star (Cords Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

Balkans as Europe, 1821-1914 (Snyder Timothy)(Pevná vazba)

This collection of essays places the Balkans at the center of European developments, not as a conflict-ridden problem zone, but rather as a full-fledged European region. Contrary to the commonly held perception, contributors to the volume argue, the Balkans did not lag behind the rest of European

Laura Laura (Francis Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Essays (Davis Lydia)(Pevná vazba)

Penguin's Poems for Life (Barber Laura)(Pevná vazba)

A compilation of poems on childhood, growing up, making a living and making love, family life, getting older, and approaching death, and of mourning and

Essays (Orwell George)(Pevná vazba)

Includes 'The Freedom of the Press', intended as the preface to 'Animal Farm' but undiscovered until 1972. Considered by Noam Chomsky to be Orwell's most important essay. These essays demonstsrate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the last

Life as Creative Constraint: Autobiography and the Oulipo (Kemp Anna)(Pevná vazba)

Life as Creative Constraint is the first book to focus on the extraordinary life-writing of the French experimental writing group, the Oulipo. The Oulipo's enthusiasm for literary games and formal gymnastics has seen its work caricatured as 'lifeless' - impressively virtuoso but moreinterested in

This One Looks Like a Boy: My Gender Journey to Life as a Man (Shenher Lorimer)(Pevná vazba)

Napoleon: A Life (Zamoyski Adam)(Pevná vazba)

The definitive biography of Napoleon -- hailed as 'magnificent' by The Economist. 'What a novel my life has been!' Napoleon once said of himself. Born into a poor family, the callow young man was, by twenty-six, an army general. Seduced by an older woman, his marriage transformed him into a

I Am Life (Helland Larsen Elisabeth)(Pevná vazba)

Life is in all things; personified as an unassuming yet enchanting creature, Life visits flowers, animals, and humans with her gifts of energy and positivity. A pink-winged creature flies across each page; Life is present within all things. The pastel-colored protagonist befriends and animates

You and I, as Mothers: A Raw and Honest Guide to Motherhood (Prepon Laura)(Pevná vazba)

Actress, director, and New York Times bestselling author Laura Prepon's raw and honest guide to navigating motherhood. When Laura Prepon first became a mother, she barely recognized herself. As someone who always loved being prepared, Prepon felt raw, full of stress, and blindsided. She sought