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Project Hail Mary

• • 97 %
  • 1 recenze

• anglické
• Andy Weir
• sci-fi
• Penguin Books
• 496
• 2022

A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the...

Alchemised

• • 100 %
  • 1 recenze

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• SenLinYu
• beletrie
• Penguin Books
• 976
• 2025

In this riveting dark fantasy debut, a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy - and the man tasked with unearthing the deepest...

Stephen Fry - Mythos

• • 82 %
  • 2 recenze

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• Stephen Fry
• beletrie
• Penguin Books
• 464
• 2018

The Greek myths are the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt...

MISERY - KING, S.

• • 100 %
  • 1 recenze

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• Stephen King
• beletrie
• Penguin Books
• 370
• 2011

Misery Chastain was dead. Paul Sheldon had just killed her - with relief, with joy. Misery had made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now he wanted...

Nineteen Eighty-Four - Orwell George

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• George Orwell
• Penguin Books
• 328
• 2008
• Orwell George

Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic dystopian tale. One of Britain's most popular novels, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is set in a...

Lolita

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• Vladimír Nabokov
• Penguin Books
• 332
• 2015
• Penguin Books

With one of the most controversial novels of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is a strange, troubling love story told by the one of the most unreliable...

Wreck This Journal - Keri Smith

• • 92 %
  • 20 recenzí

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• Keri Smith
• beletrie
• Penguin Books
• 224
• 2014

For anyone who's ever wished to, but had trouble starting, keeping, or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes this journal; an illustrated book that features a subversive...

Meek One

• • 95 %
  • 1 recenze

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• Fjodor Michajlovič Dostojevskij
• Penguin Books
• 56
• 2015
• Penguin Books

Takes you on a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. This title includes...

Churchill

• • 100 %
  • 1 recenze

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• Andrew Roberts
• Penguin Books
• 1152
• 2019
• Penguin Books Ltd

Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest...

Veg - Jamie Oliver

• • 95 %
  • 1 recenze

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• Jamie Oliver
• Penguin Books
• 312
• 2019
• Penguin Books Ltd

Jamie Oliver is back with brilliantly easy, flavour-packed, and accessible veg recipes. 'It's all about celebrating really good, tasty food that just happens to be meat-free'...

Very Hungry Caterpillar - Carle, E.

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• Eric Carle
• dětské
• Penguin Books
• 24
• 1994

Featuring colourful collage illustrations, simple story, die-cut pages and finger-sized holes, this book is suitable for children.

Matrescence

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• Lucy Jones
• Penguin Books
• 320
• 2024
• Penguin Books

A New Statesman and Daily Mail BOOK OF THE YEAR'The best book I've ever read about motherhood' Jude Rogers, Observer'I kept scribbling in the margins: 'We need to know this...

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

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• Vladimír Nabokov
• beletrie
• Penguin Books
• 368
• 2020

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or...

Malibu Rising

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• Taylor Jenkins Reid
• beletrie
• Penguin Books
• 380
• 2022

August,1983, it is the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone who is anyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: surfer...

Inferno - Dante , Robin Kirkpatrick - Translator

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• Dante Alighieri
• beletrie
• Penguin Books
• 212
• 2013

Discover Dante's original Inferno in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation. Describing Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel...

Mexico City Blues - Jack Kerouac

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• Jack Kerouac
• beletrie
• Penguin Books
• 256
• 2019

I want to be considered a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday' Freewheeling and spontaneous, Mexico City Blues is Jack Kerouac's most...

Antifragile, 1. vydání - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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• Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• naučné
• Penguin Books
• 519
• 2013

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world....

Odyssey - Stephen Fry

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• Stephen Fry
• beletrie
• Penguin Books
• 410
• 2024

READ THE FINAL BOOK IN STEPHEN FRY'S ACCLAIMED INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING GREEK MYTHS SERIES TELLING THE STORY OF THE ODYSSEY CAN A HERO FIND HIS WAY HOME? The most famous...

Lonesome Traveler Jack Kerouac

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• Jack Kerouac
• Penguin Books
• 160
• Penguin Books

The author roams the US, Mexico, Morocco, Paris and London, Kerouac records, in prose of pure poetry, life on the road. In this book, he reveals both the endless diversity of...

Beach Read

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• Emily Henry
• beletrie
• Penguin Books
• 361
• 2020

TWO WRITERS, ONE HOLIDAY. A ROMCOM WAITING TO HAPPEN... January is a hopeless romantic who narrates her life like she's the lead in a blockbuster movie. Gus is a serious...

Otherlands

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• Thomas Halliday
• naučné
• Penguin Books
• 416
• 2023

This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were...

Outsider Camus Albert

• • 100 %
  • 1 recenze

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• Albert Camus
• Penguin Books
• 120
• 2013
• Penguin Books

Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of...

Wreck This Journal - Keri Smith

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• Keri Smith
• Penguin Books
• 224
• 2017
• Penguin Books

Now in spectacular full colour throughout, a special 10th anniversary edition of the internationally bestselling journal that started it all--with more than 7 million copies...

Ultra-Processed People

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• Chris van Tulleken
• naučné
• Penguin Books
• 406
• 2024

Chosen by the SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, FT and DAILY MAIL as one of their BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2023'If you only read one diet or nutrition book in your life, make it this one'...