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Kingdom(2012) CUSSLER, CLIVE,BLACKWOOD, GRANTWhen Texas oil baron Charlie King contacts Sam and Remi Fargo he has an unusual request. He hired an investigator - and good friend of the pair - to locate his missing father in the Far East. But now the investigator has vanished. Would Sam and Remi be wiVezava: Mehka16,66 € -
How Much is Enough?(2013) SKIDELSKY, EDWARD,SKIDELSKY, ROBERTArgues that wealth is not - or should not be - an end in itself, but a means to 'the good life'. Tracing the concept from Aristotle to the present, this book shows how far modern life has strayed from that ideal. It rejects the idea that there is any singVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Vivid Faces(2015) FOSTER, PROFESSOR R FSurveys the lives and beliefs of the people who made the Irish Revolution: linked together by youth, radicalism, subversive activities, enthusiasm and love. This title deals with argumentative, exciting, subversive and original lives of people who made aVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Case of the Pope(2010) KC, GEOFFREY ROBERTSONIs the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? This book delivers a devastating indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests fromVezava: Mehka23,61 € -
Moment of War(2014) LEE, LAURIEThe author was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately suspected of being a Nationalist spy. ThiVezava: Mehka12,50 € -
Ice-cream War(2011) BOYD, WILLIAMFollows the fortunes of several wildly different characters - including an expat farmer and a young English aristocrat - as they are swept up in the fighting in German East Africa during the First World War, their lives converging amid battle, betrayal, lVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
More Lives than One: A Biography of Hans Fallada(2012) WILLIAMS, JENNYHans Fallada was a drug addict, womanizer, alcoholic, jailbird and thief. This title tells the story of Hans Fallada, whose real name was Rudolf Ditzen. It chronicles his turbulent life as a writer, husband and father, shadowed by mental torment and longVezava: Mehka22,22 € -
Short History of Byzantium(2013) NORWICH, JOHN JULIUSConstantine the Great moved the seat of Roman power to Constantinople in AD 330 and for eleven brutal, bloody centuries, the Byzantine Empire became a beacon of grand magnificence and depraved decadence. In this book, the author provides the definitive inVezava: Mehka26,39 € -
Shadow of the Moon(2011) KAYE, M MTells the story of Winter de Ballesteros, a beautiful English heiress who has come to India to be married; and of Captain Alex Randall, her escort and protector, who knows that Winter's husband to be has become a debauched wreck of a man.Vezava: Mehka20,83 € -
Far Pavilions(2011) KAYE, M MTells the story of an English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu, of his passionate, but dangerous love for Juli, an Indian princess, of divided loyalties, of friendship that endures till death, and of high adventure and of the clash betweVezava: Mehka23,61 € -
Bus Stop Killer(2011) WANSELL, GEOFFREYOn 23 Jun 2011 the convicted double-murderer Levi Bellfield was found guilty of the murder of 13-year-old school girl Milly Dowler. Milly disappeared on her way home from school in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey in 2002. Six months later her body was discoveredVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Cunning Man(2011) DAVIES, ROBERTSONWhen Father Hobbes mysteriously dies at the high altar on Good Friday, Dr Jonathan Hullah - whose holistic ideas have earned him the soubriquet 'cunning man' - wants to know why. But it is only through looking back at his own long life that answers are foVezava: Mehka23,61 € -
Red Sky at Sunrise(2014) LEE, LAURIEPresents a sequence of early recollections, beginning with the dazzling lights and sounds of my first footings on earth in a steep Cotswold valley some three miles long.Vezava: Mehka20,83 € -
Cornish Trilogy(2011) DAVIES, ROBERTSONThe University of St John and the Holy Ghost (known affectionately as Spook) has a problem - and an opportunity. Strange, eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish has died and faculty members have been made executors of his complicated will.Vezava: Mehka26,39 € -
Good Girl(2015) NEILL, FIONARomy Field finds herself at the centre of a scandal, least of all her mother Ailsa - who is also the head of her new school. Ailsa is quick to hold Romy's new boyfriend and his parents responsible for what has happened. But as mother and daughter reveal tVezava: Mehka23,61 € -
Roses of No Man's Land(2013) MACDONALD, LYNWalking straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War, the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasion. In leaking tents they fought another war, a war against agony and death. This book captures a panoraVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Ship of War(2013) RUSSELL, SEAN THOMAS1794. As the terror rages in France, Captain Charles Hayden leaves Plymouth with orders to gather intelligence from a spy off the Le Havre coast. But the enemy lies in wait. In the foulest of weather, Hayden's seamanship is tested to the limit and a terriVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Somme(2013) MACDONALD, LYNThe year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in a desperate struggle to survive, and traditional attitudes to authority were destroyed for ever. On paper, few battles have ever beVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Last Asylum(2015) TAYLOR, BARBARAPresents a memoir of a young historian, who was admitted in England's largest psychiatric institution, Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as Friern Hospital. This memoir tells the story of author's madness years, set inside the wider story of the deVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Brideshead Revisited(2011) WAUGH, EVELYNCharles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitants. BVezava: Mehka12,50 €
