An Entertainment Weekly Summer Reads pick and New York Times bestseller! Beyond the Martial Empire and within it, the threat of war looms ever larger. Helene Aquilla, the Blood Shrike, is desperate to protect her sister's life and the lives of everyone in the Empire. But she knows that danger lurks on all sides: Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable and violent, while Keris Veturia, the ruthless Commandant, capitalizes on the Emperor's volatility to grow her own power, regardless of the carnage she leaves in her path. Far to the east, Laia of Serra knows the fate of the world lies not ... |
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Глобусът "Elite" изобразява картата на Земята по два начина: в неосветено състояние показва релефната картография, а в осветено състояние - политическата картография на континентите. Глобусът има обща височина с поставката 42 cm. Разполага с кабел с дължина 150 cm и с енергоспестяваща халогенна крушка. Характеристики: език: български; материал: пластмаса; диаметър: ∅ 30 cm. Инструкция за употреба: да се избягва излагане на директна слънчева светлина; да се поставя в сухи помещения далеч от радиатори или други източници на топлина; за смяна на крушката: следвайте инструкциите, илюстрирани на ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... When their mother is suddenly taken ill on holiday, five siblings are left to fend for themselves at the elegant, faded hotel, Les Oeillets. Under the increasingly jealous gaze of the glamorous patronne, Mademoiselle Zizi, the children gravitate towards her mysterious and charming lover, Eliot, for comfort. And, amongst the gnarled trees of the old orchards, thirteen-year-old Cecil watches from the sidelines as her achingly beautiful sister, Joss, is drawn into the heart of a toxic affair. A tense, evocative portrait of love and deceit in the Champagne ... |
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The delighted wonder surrounding a cat that has learned to talk quickly turns to dismay when the feline's conversation involves the scandalous remarks he's overheard. "Tobermory" abounds in the irony for which its author, Saki, is well known and admired. Along with the other short stories in this first-rate anthology, it showcases the talents of a renowned British writer. Other stories include Anthony Trollope's "The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne," a subtle study of the psychological cost of maintaining self-esteem; Thomas Hardy's "The Fiddler of the Reels", in which a ... |
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The book is concerned with the history of the Protestant missions in Bulgaria, their evangelistic, educational and literary activities, and offers a case study of a particular Czech-speaking Protestant community in north-western Bulgaria. The history of the Protestant mission is followed since its establishment in the 19th century in the territory of the Ottoman Empire to the foundation of Congregationalist and Methodist missions in southern and northern Bulgaria respectively. The role of American missionaries and linguists such as Albert Long and Elias Riggs in the translation of the Bible into modern Bulgarian is ... |
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Чукът от Nerf е вдъхновен от популярната видео игра Minecraft: Dungeons и пристига в комплект с 3 меки стрелички. За да изстреля стреличка е необходимо да я поставите в цевта, да издърпате долната част на дръжката за зареждане и после да натиснете бутона разположен в горната част за изстрелване. При всяко презареждане бластера ще изстреля по 1 стреличка. В долната част на дръжката си чукът има място за съхранени на 2 меки стрели. Чукът е изработен пластмаса, а стреличките са направени от пяна Nerf Elite. Комплектът е подходящ за битки както на открито, така и на закрито. ... |
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На Моника Белучи, родена в италианското градче Чита ди Кастело, мнозина, подразнени от красотата ѝ, предричат "кариера" на държанка. Ала противно на очакванията тя влиза в юридическия факултет на университета в Перуджа. Всичко се променя през 1989 година, когато представители на агенцията Elite Model Management убеждават девойката да се пробва като модел. Само след година всички световни агенции се борят Моника Белучи да представлява тяхното име. "Вместо учението предпочетох просто да живея" - казва тогава бъдещата актриса. На снимачната площадка на филма "Апартаментът" Моника Белучи ... |
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Учебникът "Die deutschsprachige Literatur im Überblick" обхваща възможно най-пълно и задълбочено немскоезичната литература от античността до края на XX век. В него са включени автори, които са творили през тези литературни епохи. Предназначен e за ученици, студенти и за всички, които се интересуват от немскоезична литература. ... |
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Discover the addictive world of the Twisted series from TikTok sensation, Ana Huang ! Read Twisted Games now for a steamy, angsty forbidden romance. He can't have her... but he's taking her anyway. Stoic, broody and arrogant, elite bodyguard Rhys Larsen has two rules: protect his clients at all costs and do not become emotionally involved. Ever. He has never once been tempted to break those rules... until her. Bridget von Ascheberg. A princess with a stubborn streak that matches his own and a hidden fire that reduces his rules to ash. She's nothing he expected and everything he never knew he needed. Day ... |
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A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. Selections from "Protagoras", "Republic", "Phaedrus" and "Gorgias". ... Plato is outstanding among philosophers, more or less inventing philosophy as we know it in the West. In the "Republic" he begins with the question "What is justice?", but this question soon broadens into an investigation of what is real and how we can know it, so defining the three main areas of philosophy – ethics, metaphysics and epistemology - for the next 2000 years and more. But Plato is remarkable also for the beauty of his writing. The allegory ... |
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Oliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends - a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the detective who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened ten years ago. As a young actor studying Shakespeare at an elite arts conservatory, Oliver noticed that his talented classmates seem to play the same roles onstage and off - villain, hero, tyrant, temptress - though Oliver felt doomed to always be a secondary character in someone else's story. But when the teachers ... |
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Complete and unabridged. ... As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced. His early work includes the beguiling When You are Old, The Cloths of Heaven and The Lake Isle of Innisfree but, unusually for a poet, Yeats's later works, including Parnell's Funeral, surpass even those of his youth. All are present in this volume, which reproduces the 1933 edition of W. B. Yeats's Collected Poems and also contains an illuminating ... |
