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Love in the Days of Rebellion(2020) ALTAN, AHMETWith striking clarity and imaginative power, Altan evokes the traumas and upheavals of Ottoman history, showing how-over a hundred years later-the events and wounds of that time still resonate in the tensions and contradictions of today's Turkey.Vezava: Mehka19,62 €
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City of Incurable Women(2022) CASEY, MAUDIn a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignoredVezava: Mehka20,07 €
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Kingmaker: Kingdom Come(2018) CLEMENTS, TOBY1470. Tensions between King Edward and his great ally the Earl of Warwick lie forgotten these past months, but even as winter tightens her grip on the land, the peace is shattered by a vicious attack on one of the King's allies. Long buried secrets are brVezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings(2023) FAIRWEATHER, TONYIn 1948, HMT Empire Windrush sails along the Caribbean picking up excited young men and women before heading for the Mother Country. But what happens during the voyage?Vezava: Mehka16,81 €
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Cursed Village(2020) SAMAROO, HARRIPERSADUsati is a four year old growing up in Sunnyvale, a small, poor and remote sugar cane farming village in Trinidad in the 1940's. He describes the world he sees, and captures the language and culture of the mainly illiterate peasant workers who live aroundVezava: Mehka15,42 €
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Novels(2017) CHATWIN, BRUCEA collected edition of Bruce Chatwin’s acclaimed, captivating novels – On the Black Hill, Utz and The Viceroy of Ouidah – with an introduction by Hanya YanagiharaWhile Bruce Chatwin is best known as a master of travel literature, his three acclaimed novelVezava: Mehka21,02 €
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Bear’s Diary(2020) HANCOCK, RALPHIn 1805 the young Lord Byron, a new undergraduate at Cambridge University, was annoyed to find that he was not allowed to keep a dog in his rooms. So he bought a bear instead. This fascinating historical novel gives the further adventures of Lord Byron’sVezava: Trda28,04 €
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Winston’s Spy(2020) WEBBER, ROBERT1939. The storm clouds of war are gathering over Europe.Alex Carlton is recruited by MI2 (the division of Military Intelligence that deals with Russia and Scandinavia) to go undercover in Finland to gain insight into Finnish intentions.Vezava: Mehka16,04 €
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Mayflower Marriage(2020) DARE, ARMINALA superbly crafted and enthralling historical novel based on extensive research into the author’s Pilgrim ancestors. The story of John and Priscilla Alden paints a realistic portrait of life for the first settlers in AmericaVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Folk of the Loch(2020) BRANDT, IRENE F.This book does not fit into an identified genre. I like to call it a geographical/historical saga as each chapter is based on an artefact, place or event which occurred near to Loch Broom in Wester Ross.Vezava: Mehka14,01 €
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God's Vindictive Wrath(2022) CORDELL, CHARLESThe Vale of the Red Horse, Edgehill, Warwickshire, 1642. The bitter divisions in the kingdoms ruled by King Charles are about to engulf England in bloody civil war.Vezava: Mehka12,61 €
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Jewel(2016) CZERKAWSKA, CATHERINEJean Armour’s marriage to Robert Burns was extraordinary: passionate, tempestuous and enduring against all odds, and its rocky course reveals Jean’s indomitable strength and character. How she lived with, and frequently without, her famous husband is sureVezava: Mehka12,61 €