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My Gentle Barn(2014) LAKS, ELLIEThe incredible true story of a place where animals heal and children learn to hope‘When I started The Gentle Barn, some viewed it as a hobby or an obsession, some as an act of selfless devotion.Vezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Henri Matisse(2014) SOOKE, ALASTAIR'One January morning in 1941, only a fortnight or so after his seventy-first birthday, the bearded and bespectacled French artist Henri Matisse was lying in a hospital bed preparing to die.' Diagnosed with cancer, the acclaimed painter, and rival of PicasVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Sacred Willow(2017) ELLIOTT, MAITied in to Ken Burns' forthcoming (2017) TV series on Vietnam, to which the author is a major contributor, the reissue of a Pulitzer finalist memoir of a Vietnamese family in the 20th centuryVezava: Mehka27,32 € -
Conservative Revolutionary(2019) HAYTON, DAVIDA biography of the historian and public intellectual Sir Lewis Namier from his origins in a secular Jewish family in Poland to recognition as the most important historian of his day, whose ‘revolutionary’ method was enshrined in the verb to Namierise. --Vezava: Trda53,46 € -
Book of Pride(2019) FUNK, MASONTHE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Girl Named Carrie(2022) SMITH, JERRIE MARCUSJerrie Marcus Smith remembers her great aunt Carrie as a humourless woman who always wore black and who, Jerrie says, ‘scared me to death’. Only as an adult did Jerrie grasp the impact of Carrie Marcus Neiman. Along with her brother, Herbert Marcus Sr, anVezava: Trda44,25 € -
Best Seat in the House(2022) NICKLAUS II, JACK,YAEGER, DONJack Nicklaus II shares stories, insights, and lessons he’s learned from his father, the Golden Bear, that will delight golf fans of all ages, encourage fathers, and inspire us to focus on what’s most important in life: family.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Life Written by Himself(2021) PETROV, ARCHPRIEST AVVAKUMArchpriest Avvakum’s autobiography is a record of his life, ecclesiastical career, painful exile, religious persecution, and imprisonment, written in the 1660s and ’70s from a cell in an Arctic village where the archpriest had been imprisoned by the tsar.Vezava: Mehka27,45 € -
Franz Kafka(2022) KILCHER, ANDREAS,SCHMIDT, PAVELThe first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka’s graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawingsVezava: Trda66,53 € -
Schoolmaster's War(2021) REE, JONATHANThe wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Rée, told in his own wordsVezava: Mehka22,80 € -
Touching Distance(2013) TURNER, BEVERLEY,CRACKNELL, JAMESA man who had known no limits, a man who had practically achieved the impossible, was now struggling to master life's simple challenges. A year earlier, as James undertook yet another endurance challenge in Arizona, he was knocked off his bike by the wiVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Sure Thing(2015) TOWNSEND, NICKWith a meticulous, entirely legal plan involving dozens of people, perfectly timed phone calls, sealed orders and months of preparation, Curley and Yellow Sam beat the bookmakers and cost them millions.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Thomas Harriot(2019) ARIANRHOD, ROBYN (ADJUNCT RESEARCH FELLOW, SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, ADJUNCT RESEARCH FELLOW, SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, MONASH UNIVERSITY)A new biography of Thomas Harriot, the greatest unknown scientific mind of the RenaissanceVezava: Trda53,21 € -
Life of Crime(2018) OGNALL, HARRYA frank and witty memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge The Hon. Sir Harry Ognall.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €