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Uncanny Valley(2021) WIENER, ANNA‘Joan Didion at a startup’ Rebecca Solnit ‘Impossibly pleasurable’ Jia Tolentino ‘This is essential reading’ StylistVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Undertaking(1998) LYNCH, THOMASLike all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director. These are essays of rare elegance and grace, full of fiVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Dr Johnson's Dictionary(2006) HITCHINGS, HENRYJourney into the history of English and discover how words have entered our language to make it what it is today.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Tales By Japanese Soldiers(2006) TAMAYAMA, KAZUO,NUNNELEY, JOHNAn absolutely unique book, this is the Second World War in Burma as seen through the eyes of ordinary Japanese soldiersVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Sing This at My Funeral(2019) SLUCKI, DAVIDTells the story of the author’s father and grandfather, and the grave legacy that they each passed on to him. This is a story about the Holocaust and its aftermath, about absence and the scars that never heal, and about fathers and sons and what it meansVezava: Mehka33,69 € -
Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny(2020) LIMMYThe hysterical, shocking and incredibly intimate memoir from one of the most original and unique comedians alive today.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Happy Fat(2020) HAGEN, SOFIE‘Perfect, kind, hilarious and persuasive’ Lena Dunham ‘You need this book. Your mum needs this book. Your best friend needs this book. Everyone needs a dose of Happy Fat!’ Julie MurphyVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
World I Fell Out Of(2021) REID, MELANIEThe Sunday Times Bestseller From the award-winning writer of The Times Magazine's 'Spinal Column': a deeply moving, darkly funny, inspirational memoirVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
House Full of Daughters(2017) NICOLSON, JULIETIn the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-siècle Washington DC, an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who she isVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Mitterrand(2014) SHORT, PHILIPAesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: François Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag his tradition-bound and change-averse country into thVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave(2015) DOUGLASS, FREDERICKAn autobiography of author who was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818. He describes his life as a slave - the cruelty he suffered at the hands of plantation owners; his struggles to educate himself in a world where slaves are deliberately kept ignorantVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
With Stars in Their Eyes(2022) BRECKINRIDGE, JAMES B. (ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, COLLEGE OF OPTICAL SCIENCES, ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, COLLEGE OF OPTICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA),PRIDGEON, ALEC M. (FORMER SAINSBURY ORCHID FELLOW, FORMER SAINSBURY ORCHID FELLOW, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW)Vezava: Trda58,68 € -
Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough(2021) SCARBOROUGH, WILLIAM SANDERSTraces Scarborough’s path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce University. Despite the racism he met as he struggled to establish a place in higher education for African AmericVezava: Mehka44,47 €
