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I Never Knew That About the Irish(2015) WINN, CHRISTOPHERFrom County Leitrim, the most sparsely populated county in the Republic of Ireland to County Louth, Ireland's smallest county, discover the site of the first play performed in the Irish language, sail the longest navigable inland waterway in Europe and waVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
HMS Unseen(2000) ROBINSON, PATRICKAfter being betrayed by Iraq, the presumed dead Ben Adnam defects to Iran to plot his revenge. Adnam plans to steal a submarine and create a new weapon which will cause shocking air disasters in America. To complete his revenge Adnam ensures the blame isVezava: Mehka19,62 €
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Apaches(1998) CARCATERRA, LORENZONone of their leaders is more evil than Lucia Carney whose drug empire grows and grows at the cost of thousands of lives, many of them innocent ones. With the forces of law and order incapable of breaking the gangs, a new type of enforcement is required;Vezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Leper's Companions(2000) BLACKBURN, JULIATo escape from her own sadness, a woman finds refuge in a past time. A man's discovery of a mermaid washed up on the sand starts a chain of events that leads three of the villagers to accompany the enigmatic figure of the leper on a pilgrimmage to the HolVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Devil's Valley(2000) BRINK, ANDREFusing invention and reality, magic realism and earthy humour, Lochner's adventures in the valley centre around the journey he undertakes to discover the truth about the elusive and erotic figure of Emma, one of Brink's most remarkable creations.Vezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Rules of the Wild(1999) MARCIANO, FRANCESCASet in contemporary Nairobi, this is at once a sharp-eyed dissection of white society in modern Kenya and the moving story of a young woman, Esme, struggling to make sense of her place in Africa, and her feelings for the two men she loves.Vezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Cross Legged Knight(2002) ROBB, CANDACEWilliam of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, is bringing home the remains of Sir Ranulf Pagnell, patriarch of a powerful local family, who has died in France. When it appears the dead woman was a midwife known to many of the city's women, including Lucie, OwVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Bachelor Of Arts(2000) NARAYAN, R KChandran is a good-natured, popular, rather dreamy student who works hard to pass his exams. Not all is well in Chandran's horoscope and while some customs can be forgotten, others must be strictly observed: customs that temporarily cause Chandran to turnVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Waiting For The Mahatma(2000) NARAYAN, R KThe first that indolent young Sriram knows about Mahatma Ghandi's visit to Malgudi is when a collection box is waved beneath his nose by the most beautiful girl he has ever seen. Yet that is how Sriram leaves Malgudi to become a passionate apostle of theVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Alas Poor Darwin(2001) ROSE, HILARY,ROSE, STEVENToday, genes are called upon to explain almost every aspect of our lives, from social inequalities to health, sexual preference and criminality.Vezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Firebird(2001) DOTY, MARKTells the story of a ten-year-old in top hat, cane and a red chiffon scarf, interrupted while belting out Judy Garland's 'Get Happy' by an alarmed mother at the bedroom door exclaiming, in shame and exasperation: 'Son, you're a boy'.Vezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Lie Down In Darkness(2000) STYRON, WILLIAMIn this novel, the South looms dark and ominous in the background with its Biblical rhetoric, its conflict between a tradition of religious fundamentalism and modern scepticism, racial contrasts and the industrialisation of a rural society.Vezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Grits(2001) GRIFFITHS, NIALLIn the late 1990s, a group of young drifters find themselves together on the coast of Wales. They explore and attempt to overcome the yearnings and addictions that brought them this place, promiscuity, drugs, petty crime, the intense and angry search forVezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Set This House On Fire(2001) STYRON, WILLIAMThe day after Peter Leverett met his old friend Mason Flagg in Italy, Mason was found dead.Vezava: Mehka25,22 €
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Old Love Stories(2001) SINGER, ISAAC BASHEVISThis classic collection explores the varieties of wisdom gained with age and especially those that teach us how to love, as 'in love the young are just beginners and the art of loving matures with age and experience'. Tales of curious marriages and divorcVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Lying Stones of Marrakech(2001) GOULD, STEPHEN JAYIn this new collection of essays, Gould has once again applied biographical perspectives to the illumination of key scientific concepts and their history, ranging from the origins of palaeontology to modern eugenics and genetic engineering.Vezava: Mehka22,42 €
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August(2002) WOODWARD, GERARDEver since Aldous Jones careened over the handlebars of his bicycle in 1955 and landed next to Farmer Evans's first field, it has become a tradition for him to take his family camping in Wales. As the years pass, Aldous's family idyll starts to disintegraVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Avengers(2001) COHEN, RICHWhen they were not yet twenty years old three young Jews left their families in Western Poland and came to the Lithuanian ghetto of Vilna. In 1943 they escaped the ghetto and led their band of resistance fighters deep into the forests of Poland, where theVezava: Mehka22,42 €
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Dubin's Lives(1999) MALAMUD, BERNARDWilliam Dublin is middle-aged, a distinguished biographer seeking increased accomplishment and the key to his inner feelings. Then his imagination is caught by Fanny, a young girl of twenty-three, and he is thrown into an intense, erotic love affair thatVezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Colours Of The Mountain(2000) CHEN, DAA unique modern memoir of growing up in rural China, Colours of the Mountain is a powerful and moving story of supreme determination and extraordinary faith against the most impossible odds.Vezava: Mehka22,42 €
