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Stormchild(2011) CORNWELL, BERNARDTim Blackburn's wife died in a ball of flame in the Channel, victim of a mystery bomber. His son had died years earlier in Northern Ireland, killed in a terrorist attack. And his daughter Nicole had vanished in the North Pacific after joining an outlawedVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Sea Lord(2011) CORNWELL, BERNARDJohnny Rossendale has spent the last four years on the seas, away from the titled family he despises. But now he must turn his sailing cutter, the Sunflower, around and sail to Devon, where his mother lies dying. When Johnny makes landfall, though, he finVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Merchant, Soldier, Sage(2013) PRIESTLAND, PROFESSOR DAVIDCompetition, flexibility and profit are still the common currency, even at a time when Western countries have been driven off a cliff by these very values. But will it always be this way? This title argues for the predominance in any society of one of thrVezava: Mehka13,88 € -
Game of Our Lives(2015) GOLDBLATT, DAVIDWhat does it mean when football becomes so central to our private and political lives? Has it enriched us or impoverished us? In this book, the author argues that no social phenomenon tracks the momentous economic, social and political changes of the postVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Boomerang(2012) LEWIS, MICHAELRight now, Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to transport all Greek rail passengers by taxi, and hairdressing is classified as arduous for tax avoidance purposes. This title reveals the true natVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
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From the Ruins of Empire(2013) MISHRA, PANKAJTells the history of the past two centuries, showing how a disparate group of thinkers, journalists, radicals and charismatics emerged from the ruins of empire to create an unstoppable Asian renaissance, one whose ideas lie behind everything from the ChinVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Risk Savvy(2015) GIGERENZER, GERDA guide to making better decisions with our money, health and personal lives. This book shows how we can all use simple rules to become better-informed, risk-savvy citizens.Vezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Boy(2011) DAHL, ROALDTells the story of unadulterated childhood - sad and funny, macabre and delightful - that inspired Britain's favourite storyteller and also speaks of an age which vanished with the coming of the Second World War.Vezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Vanished(2012) WEAVER, TIMVanished is the brilliant third instalment in the Top Ten best-selling David Raker series by Tim Weaver. No life is perfect. Everyone has secrets. For millions of Londoners, the morning of 17 December is just like any other. But not for Sam Wren. An hourVezava: Mehka15,27 € -
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 €
