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On 14 February 1989, Valentine\'s Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been \'sentenced to death\' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have written a novel called The Satanic Verses, which was accused of being \'against Islam, the Prophet and the Quran\'. So begins the extraordinary story of how a writer was forced

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Mayští stařešinové a otcové vyprávějí dětem legendy a příběhy, aby se jejich potomci mohli seznámit s ovzduším slávy civilizace dávných Mayů. Tématy jsou staré zvyky, legendy o dávných panovnících a jejich činech, kouzelných bytostech, ve které Mayové věřili, o zaniklých bájných místech, mayské legendy o stvoření, příběhy o lásce, o vztazích mezi lidmi a lidských vlastnostech, bajky. Zkrátka jsou to

In \"Colditz: The Full Story\", Major Pat Reid brings together the many dramatic discoveries resulting from research that has covered the five continents. From all walks of life, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French, German and Polish prisoners - as well as those from the British Commonwealth and USA - were incarcerated in suffocating intimacy for five years in an alien and hostile land. Under these conditions,

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One of the most critically acclaimed memoirs ever written. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics\' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. Lorna sage\'s outstanding childhood and adolescence brings to life her eccentric family and bizarre upbringing in rural Wales. The period is

When Harriet Westaway receives an unexpected letter telling her she’s inherited a substantial bequest from her Cornish grandmother, it seems like the answer to her prayers. She owes money to a loan shark and the threats are getting increasingly aggressive: she needs to get her hands on some cash fast. There\'s just one problem - Hal\'s real grandparents died more than twenty years ago. The letter has

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Take your partners, please. Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear: in Joanne Harris\' first collection of short stories the miraculo us goes hand-in-hand with the mundane, the sour with the sweet, and the beautiful, the grotesque, the seductive and the disturbing are never more than

Yumiko is a young Japanese woman who has made London her home. She has a job, a boyfriend; Japan seems far away. Then, out of the blue, her brother calls to tell her that her father has died in a mountaineering accident.

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Wendezeit. Die westdeutsche Chirurgin Dorothea Mayfeld fliegt zu einem Kongreß nach Prag, trifft ihren amerikanischen Kollegen und Geliebten Henry Goldstein und dessen ostdeutschen Freund Hermann Nehmer, ohne den Goldstein, so erzählt er Dorothea, nicht am leben wäre. Eine schicksalhafte Beziehung aus NS-Zeit und Krieg, in die auch die Frau sich unversehens hineingezogen fühlt. Aber auch bei ihr durchdringen

Erscheinungsjahr: 2010Gewicht: 180 gr / Abmessung: 19 cmVon Müller, HertaDie Geschichte von einer, die wegging, ohne anzukommen. Irene, vom \"Diktator aus dem andern Land\" verjagt, findet sich in Deutschland wieder als Fremde. Im neuen Land stehen den Namen Dinge gegenüber, die nicht zu ihnen passen wollen, die nichts gemein haben mit den Wünschen aus der Ferne.Nach ihrer Ausreise aus dem Rumänien

When you\'re a cop in Marseilles, threats of violence and revenge go with the territory. Usually they come to nothing, but when friends and colleagues start turning up dead it soon becomes clear that someone from Jacquot\'s past has a score to settle a nd intends to see it through. But this killer is different.

The one thing to remember about an adventure is that if it turns out the way you expect it to, it has not been an adventure at all ...Shanghai, 1925. Irene, a museum curator (and, unofficially, a treasure hunter) is searching for a set of legendary copper scrolls which describe the forgotten history of Cambodia\'s ancient Khmer civilisation. Her mentor has sent her to China to enlist the help of Simone,