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High Flyer(2004) SHAKESPEARE, NICHOLASThomas Wavery is the new Consul General at Abyla on the tip of North Africa. A career diplomat, Wavery was once a high flyer, but an affair with a younger woman has dashed his dreams of ambassadorship. He arrives in Abyla with his wife suing for divorce,Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Siege Of White Deer Park(1986) DANN, COLINTerror has come to White Deer Park, driving panic-stricken animals before it. A killer beast is on the loose - a predator so silent and skillful that it leaves almost no trace, and has never been seen. As the deaths mount up, Owl, Fox, Badger and the elVezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Scott Fitzgerald(2004) TURNBULL, ANDREWScott Fitzgerald follows the life of one of America's most enduring authors, from his early years in St Paul and at Princeton to New York in the twenties, the French Riviera, Baltimore, and finally Hollywood.Vezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Bullet Points(2005) WATSON, MARKPsychologist Peter Kristal has a method for sorting out people's lives. His technique gains him a modicum of success: a thriving practice in Chicago with a client list of thriving stars. But by concentrating on his rival Richard he is blind to the otherVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Woman In The Fifth(2008) KENNEDY, DOUGLASHarry Ricks is a man who has lost everything. A romantic mistake at the small American college where he used to teach has cost him his job and his marriage.Vezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Lambs Of London(2005) ACKROYD, PETERMary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile.Vezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Earl Of Petticoat Lane(2007) MILLER, ANDREWHenry and Miriam were raised in East London, but their families had emigrated from Eastern Europe, and they were not to end their lives in the East End.Vezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Zigzag Way(2005) DESAI, ANITAEric is an uncertain, awkward young man, a would-be writer, and a traveller in spite of himself. On the Día de los Muertos, the feast day when the locals celebrate and remember their dead, the various strands of the novel come together hauntingly, bringinVezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Lifelines(2005) ROSE, STEVENIn Lifelines, neuroscientist Steven Rose offers a theory of life that insists that we as humans - along with all living creatures - create our own futures, though in circumstances not of our own choosing.Vezava: Mehka22,42 €
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With Billie(2006) BLACKBURN, JULIADuring the 1970s a young woman called Linda Kuehl, planning to write a biography of Billie, recorded interviews with more than 150 people. Kuehl died in 1978 and her book never came out, but her recordings survived to provide the raw material for this extVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Where Soldiers Fear To Tread(2007) BURNETT, JOHNIn 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia. Held at gunpoint by a child soldier, having to watching a baby die of malaria in his arms, the expVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Being Indian(2006) VARMA, PAVANIn Being Indian, Pavan Varma, whom the Guardian has called 'one of the country's most perceptive writers', demolishes the myths and generalisations as he turns his sharply observant gaze on his fellow countrymen to examine what really makes Indians tick aVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Power of Dreams(2006) HARRIS, ROSIEIn time, though, they are able to open up a little shop and it seems as if life is looking up for both young women. But fate soon intervenes and they are reduced to living in even greater squalor, barely able to eke out enough money to support themselveVezava: Mehka26,62 €
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Shadow of the Pomegranate(2006) PLAIDY, JEANWhilst the young King Henry VIII basks in the pageants and games of his glittering court, his doting queen's health and fortunes fade. Henry's affection for his older wife soon strays, and the neglected Katherine decides to use her power as Queen to dangeVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Before I Forget(2005) BRINK, ANDREChris Minaar is a distinguished South African writer, an old writer, but a writer who has lost whatever gift he had for writing. It is on New Year's Eve, courtesy of his stalled car, that he meets Rachel, a young sculptress who becomes the great love of hVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Years Of Hope(1995) BENN, TONYYEARS OF HOPE is a kind of 'prequel' to the published series of DIARIES, and will cover fully the peerage renunciation, as well as revealing his early career, touching on schooldays, RAF service during the war, early involvement with politics etc.Vezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Devil's Footprints(2008) BURNSIDE, JOHNOnce, on a winter's night many years ago, after a heavy snow, the devil passed through the Scottish fishing town of Coldhaven, leaving a trail of dark hoofprints across the streets and roofs of the sleeping town.Vezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Of Love and Evil(2011) RICE, ANNEToby O'Dare, former government assassin, is called upon by the angel Malchiah, to solve a terrible crime of poisoning and to seek out the truth behind the presence of an earthbound restless spirit - a diabolical dybbuk - that is causing chaos in the city.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Perfect Partnership(2004) MARTELLA, MAUREENShe longs to handle an investigation, to escape from her desk and get down and dirty with the agency detectives. All that's standing in her way are three macho detectives, and an increasingly surly bank manager who calls with irritating regularity, demandVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Faithful Spy(2007) BERENSON, ALEXCIA agent John Wells has been undercover so long that his bosses are no longer sure he's still loyal - or even still alive. For years Wells has been building his cover in the mountains of Afghanistan, his existence known only to a few senior CIA officiaVezava: Mehka23,82 €
