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The Dukays (Paperback)

The Dukays are the oldest aristocratic family in Hungary, and this is the tale of their inexorable decline after the First World War. It ...

We call this living - An almost true story, and it may be partly your own...

This true story of a business woman allows us to look at a life model that seems so different from the usual. Melanie's decision to cope ...

The Mauritanian

The first and only diary written by a Guantánamo detainee during his imprisonment, now with previously censored material restored. Moh...

An Uncommon Life

The pages of this book reveal a truly uncommon life obtained from a highly credible and competent source. The author of the recollections...

Burnout - My way into and out of the crisis

I never believed that I could have health problems. I didn't waste a single thought on it because I didn't have time to be sick. I always...

Molly's Game

When Molly Bloom was a little girl in a small Colorado town, she dreamed of a life without rules and limits, a life where she didn't have...

The making of Donald Trump

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The culmination of nearly 30 years of reporting on Donald Trump, this in-depth report by Pulitzer Prize-win...

The Wife's Tale

A hundred years ago, a girl was born in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar. Before she was ten years old, Yetemegnu was married to a m...

Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust

The heroic story of the “Hungarian Oscar Schindler” who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazis, o...

Elon Musk

In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, veteran technology journalist Ashlee Vance provides the first inside l...

Woody Allen - a biography

Agatha: The Agatha Christie mystery

Sepulchre

1891. Seventeen-year-old Léonie Vernier and her brother abandon Paris for the sanctuary of their aunt's isolated country house near Carca...

Desmond Tutu - The brave and eloquent Archbishop struggling against apartheid in South Africa

Travels with Charley

Oblomov

Oscar and the Lady in Pink by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (Book Analysis) - Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

In this clear and detailed reading guide, we¿ve done all the hard work for you! In Oscar and the Lady in Pink by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, O...

The Photographer at Sixteen

In July 1975, Magda Szirtes died in the ambulance on the way to hospital after she had tried to take her own life. She was fifty-one year...

Night

When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him "the conscienc...

The Young Man

Annie Ernaux's account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger. The relationship pulls her back to memories of...

Stieg - From Activist to Author - FROM ACTIVIST TO AUTHOR

Until the posthumous publication of the Millennium Trilogy, Stieg Larsson was probably best known for his commitment to left-wing causes,...

Simply Austen

"Simply Austen is simply a must for anyone just starting off their Janeite journey or for those wanting a quick refresher course. Jam-pac...

The Disaster Artist

From the actor who somehow lived through it all, a "sharply detailed...funny book about a cinematic comedy of errors" (The New York Times...

Girl, Interrupted

In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLe...

King of the World

This unforgettable account of Muhammad Ali's rise and self-creation, told by a Pullitzer Prize-winning writer, places Ali in a heritage o...

Eminent Hungarians

"Nyáry Krisztián magyar hősöket bemutató új könyve a ma emberének alapvető olvasmánya kellene, hogy legyen. Magyarországon remélhetőleg s...

Infamous - Charlie Sheen

His vices are legendary. His women are unbelievable. His sanity? Constantly in doubt. And so it comes as no surprise that Charlie Sheen i...

Heroes Among Us

In the late 1930s, as it became increasingly clear that Europe was about to be plunged into war again for the second time in the space of...

Life of James Mars - a slave born and sold in Connecticut

Life of James Mars - a slave born and sold in Connecticut is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hanseboo...

J.R. Capablanca

Fatherhood

Matt and Liz Logelin had it all: a perfect marriage, a gorgeous new home in LA, and a baby girl on the way. Just twenty-seven hours after...

Barracoon - The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

New York Times Bestseller . TIME Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 . New York Public Library's Best Book of 2018 . NPR's Book Conci...

Called Out of Darkness - A spiritual confession

Anne Rice has written twenty-eight novels - magnificent tales of other worldly beings, novels set centuries ago and in contemporary times...

Churchill: A life

Einstein: His Life and Universe

Einstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity and ...

Adolf Hitler

Gerald Ford and the Future of the presidency

Molly's Game. Movie Tie-in - The True Story of the 26-Year-Old Woman Behind the Most Exclusive, High-Stakes Underground Poker Game in the World

Now a major motion picture, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin and starring Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, and Michael Ce...

Red, White & Royal Blue

What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? Alex Claremont-Diaz is handsome, charismatic, a genius -...

House of Gucci

On March 27, 1995, Maurizio Gucci, heir to the fabulous fashion dynasty, was slain by an unknown gunman as he approached his Milan office...

Help Me!

Marianne Power was stuck in a rut. Then one day she wondered: could self-help books help her find the elusive perfect life? She decide...

War Diary

The artist and writer Yevgenia Belorusets was in her hometown of Kyiv when Russia's invasion of Ukraine began on the morning of February ...

The Library Book

A dazzling love letter to a beloved institution - our libraries. After moving to Los Angeles, Susan Orlean became fascinated by a myst...

My Life on the Road

Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the coun...

Educated - A Memoir

"A memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University"--

the things i am thinking while smiling politely - Novella in englischer Sprache

"the things i am thinking while smiling politely" (Die Dinge, an die ich denke, während ich höflich lächele) ist die Geschichte der langs...

Notes on Grief

A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yell...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

New cover reissue of Maya Angelou's first and possibly best-loved volume of her autobiography. One of America's most important classics, ...

Let's Pretend This Never Happened

Have you ever embarrassed yourself so badly you thought you'd never get over it? Have you ever wished your family could be just like ever...

The Confessions of the Celebrated Countess of Lichtenau

The Confessions of the Celebrated Countess of Lichtenau is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1799. Hansebooks...

Queen Elizabeth II's Guide to Life

Discover how you, too, could put into practice some of Her Majesty's traits to help overcome adversity, find inner strength and present y...

Letter To My Younger Self - The Big Issue Presents... 100 Inspiring People on the Moments That Shaped Their Lives

NOW INCLUDES BONUS MATERIAL FROM RICHARD OSMAN, DOLLY PARTON, DAVE GROHL AND MANY MORE. Over 10 years ago, The Big Issue began to ask wel...

Along Came A Llama

This charming rediscovered gem in the tradition of All Creatures Great and Small tells the heartwarming tale of how a baby llama transfor...

J.R. Capablanca

The Hard Road Out - One Woman's Escape From North Korea

The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. `A gripping, suspenseful and cathartic m...

Letters to a Young Poet

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest write...

The Terrible

Yrsa Daley-Ward is a writer of Jamaican and Nigerian heritage. Raised in Chorley in the north of England by her mother and grandparents, ...

Letter to Father

Der vorliegende Brief an den Vater gilt als Schlüssel zu Werk und Leben des Prager Dichters Franz Kafka. Anklage und Selbstanalyse zuglei...

Just Mercy - A Story of Justice and Redemption

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the pot...

Abortion - a personal story, a political choice

'How better to honour the women who have fought for abortion rights, those who are still fighting around the world, those who have suffer...