Captain Corelli's Mandolin - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
De Bernieres Louis
Εκδόσεις
Vintage

Εκδοση:1994 Σελίδες:533 Μέτρια κατάστση. Ελάχιστα κιτρινισμένα φύλλα. Βιβλίο τσέπης. Περιγραφή: It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posting to the Greek island of Caphallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from fanatical soldier, whose main aim is to have a peaceful war, he proves in time to be civilised, homorous - and consummate musician. When the local doctor's daughter's letters to her fiance - a member of the underground- go unanswered, the working of the eternal triangle seems inevitable. But can this fragile love survive as a war of bestial savagery gets closer and the lines are drawn between invader and defender?

Fear - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
Abbot Jeff
Εκδόσεις
Sphere

Εκδοση:2006 Σελίδες:402 Μέτρια κατάσταση. Κιτρινισμένα φύλλα. Βιβλίο τσέπης. Περιγραφή: I killed my best friend. I didn't mean to, but I did. This is my story.' Miles Kendrick is in a witness protection programme, hiding from the mob and constantly haunted by his best friend's death. With the aid of psychiatrist Allison Vance, Miles is trying to hold onto his sanity and to recall the events of that tragic night. But when Allison is blown to pieces by a bomb planted in her office, Miles becomes caught up in a deadly conspiracy way beyond his worst nightmares. Targeted by Dennis Groote, a deranged FBI agent, Miles must run for his life - and force himself to remember the terrible truth about the death of his best friend...A gripping, breakneck-paced thriller, FEAR will not let you go until the last bullet flies.

One Morning Like a Bird - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
Miller Andrew
Εκδόσεις
Sceptre

Εκδοση:2008 Σελίδες:373 Πολύ καλή κατάσταση. Βιβλίο τσέπης. Περιγραφή: Tokyo, 1940. While Japan’s war against China escalates, young Yuji Takano clings to his cocooned life: his beloved evenings of French conversation at Monsieur Feneon’s, visits to the bathhouse with friends, his books, his poetry. But conscription looms and the mood turns against foreigners, just when Yuji gets entangled with Feneon’s daughter. As the nation heads towards conflict with the Allies, Yuji must decide where his duty – and his heart – lies.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
Kundera Milan
Εκδόσεις
Faber and Faber

Μετάφραση:Heim Michael Henry Εκδοση:1984 Σελίδες:314 Μέτρια κατάσταση. Κιτρινισμένα φύλλα. Περιγραφή: The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in 1984 and was at once hailed by the critics as a contemporary classic.

La Prisonniere - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
Oufkir Malika
Εκδόσεις
Doubleday

Εκδοση:2000 Σελίδες:293 Καλή κατάσταση. Ελάχιστα κιτρινισμένα φύλλα. Περιγραφή: Malika Oufkir has spent virtually her whole life as a prisoner. Born into a proud Berber family in 1953, the eldest daughter of the King of Morocco's closest aide, Malika was adopted by the Kingto be a companion to his little daughter. At the royal court of Rabat she grew up locked away in a golden cage, among the royal wives and concubines. But when Malika was nineteen, in 1972, her father was arrested after an attempt to assassinate the king. General Oufkir was swiftly and summarily executed. Malika, her beautiful mother and her five brothers and sisters - the youngest of whom was barely three years old - were seized and thrown into an isolated desert gaol.Innocent of any crime other than thatof being Oufkir's family, they were kept locked aay without any contact with the outside world, in increasingly barbaric and inhumane conditions, fighting a daily battle against malnutrition, disease, lonelin...

Scarpetta - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
Cornwell Patricia
Εκδόσεις
Sphere

Εκδοση:2008 Σελίδες:500 Πολύ καλή κατάσταση. Βιβλίο τσέπης. Περιγραφή: Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk - and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard. He says his injuries were sustained in the course of a murder ... that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The only thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered - and that more violent deaths will follow...

Rapture - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
Kate Lauren
Εκδόσεις
Delacorte

Εκδοση:2012 Σελίδες:448 Μέτρια κατάσταση. Περιγραφή: The sky is dark with wings... Like sand through an hourglass, time is running out of Luce and Daniel. To stop Lucifer from erasing the past, they must find the place where the angels fell to earth. Dark forces are after them, and daniel doesn't know if he can do this - live only to lose Luce again and again. Yet together they face an epic battle that will end with lifeless bodies... and angel dust. great sacrifices are made. Hearts are destroyed. And suddenly Luce knows what must happen. For she was meant to be with someone other than Daniel. The curse they've borne has always and only been about her - ande the love she cast aside. The choice she makes now is the only one that truly matters. In the fight for Luce, who will win? Rapture is the astonishing conclusion to the Fallen series. Heaven can't wait any longer.

Snuff - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
Palahniuk Chuck
Εκδόσεις
Vintage

Εκδοση:2008 Σελίδες:197 Καλή κατάσταση. Βιβλίο τσέπης. Περιγραφή: Cassie Wright, porn princess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication. On camera, With six hundred men. Snuff unfolds from the perspectives of Mr 72, Mr 137 and Mr 600, who await their turn on camera in a very crowded green room..

The Da Vinci Code - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
Brown Dan
Εκδόσεις
Corgi books

Εκδοση:2003 Σελίδες:605 Καλή κατάσταση. Βιβλίο τσέπης. Περιγραφή: Harvard Professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night call while on busines in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci - and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vault of history. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, a stunning historical truth will be lost forever.

Because it is my Blood - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
Zevin Gabrielle
Εκδόσεις
MacMiillan

Εκδοση:2012 Σελίδες:347 Πολύ καλή κατάσταση. Βιβλίο τσέπης Περιγραφή: When Anya BAlanchine is released from jail, she's determined to put her life in order. She's going to get over her ex, turn her back on her criminal family and concentrate on her siblings and her studies. But her murdered father's family have a different idea. They're not going to let her walk away so easily. When they take a hit out on her life, Anya's forced to flee to Mexico. There she discovers that life isn't all bad-but she also finds that, so far from home, it's impossible to protect those she loves. Doing nothing isn't an option. But going back to New York could kill her. Literally.

The Associate - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
Grisham John
Εκδόσεις
Arrow books

Εκδοση:2009 Σελίδες:485 Μέτρια κατάσταση. Περιγραφή: Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanting legal students of his generation. But he has a secret from his past, a secret that threatens to destroy his fledgling career, and possibly his entire life. One night that secret cathes up with him in the orm of some bad men in a dark alley. They are going to make him pay a high price for their silence. Will his intellect, cunning and bravery be enough to extricate him from an impossible dilemma?

The Picture of Dorian Gray - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
Ουάιλντ Οσκαρ-Wilde Oscar
Εκδόσεις
Penguin Books

Εκδοση:2009 Σελίδες:213 Μέτρια κατάσταση. Περιγραφή: Dorian Gray is young,rich and beautiful. When he sees an exquisite portrait of himself, he is bewitched, and offers his soul in exchange for eternal youth and good looks. Influenced by his friend Lord Herny Wotton, Dorian becomes drwn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in a secret life of pleasure and ecess, while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. And as Dorian's behaviour sinks further into debauchery and cruelty, the bargain he has struck looks set to destroy him...

What Do You Know? - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
Συλλογικό Εργο
Εκδόσεις
Hamlyn

Εκδοση:1972 Σελίδες:320 Καλή κατάσταση. Σκληρόδετο.

Playing for Pizza - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
Grisham John
Εκδόσεις
Arrow books

Εκδοση:2008 Σελίδες:325 Μέτρια κατάσταση. Περιγραφή: Rick Dockery was α quarterback for one of America's most famous football teams when he gave arguably the worst performance in his league's history.Overnight Rick became a laughing stock and unemployable in his own country. But somehow Rick's agent agent finds him a job. He is guaranteed a starting position and a salary. The only problem is that the team that wants him is in Parma, Italy. The American football league in Italy is tiny and, unlike Rick, the Italian players only get paid in free meals. Rick has never been to Italy, so it's no surprise that the country has a few surprices for him. What follows is a delightful, heart-warming story of an innocent abroad.

The Innocent Man - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
Grisham John
Εκδόσεις
Arrow books

Εκδοση:2006 Σελίδες:501 Μέτρια κατάσταση. Περιγραφή: Ron Williamson was a star college basebal palyer in the small town of Ada, Oklahoma. When he left to pursue his dreams he seemed destined for glory. But years of injury, drinking, drugs and women took their toll. He returned to Ada a lonely drifter,In 1982, a 21 year-old cocktail waitress was rapped and murdered. After five years of fruitless investigation the police arrested Williamson for want of any other suspect. The case against him was built on bogus evidence and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and cinvicts. He was found guilty at trial and sent to Death Row. This is a true story of the criminal justice system gone terribly wrong. Of vengeful prosecutors and incompetent defence lawyers. Of a man's journey to hell. A journey from which he nearly didn't return.

The Body Farm - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
Cornwell Patricia
Εκδόσεις
Warner

Εκδοση:1994 Σελίδες:387 Μέτρια κατάσταση. Ελάχιστα κιτρινισμένα φύλλα. Περιγραφή: Black Mountain, North Carolina: a sleepy little town where the local police deal with one homicide a year, if they're unlucky, and where people are still getting used to the idea of locking their doors at night. But violent death is no respected of venue, and the discovery of the corpse of an 11-year-old girl sends shock waves through the community. Dr kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner on a similar case in Virginia, is called in to apply her forensic skills to this latest atrocity, but the apparent simplicity of the case proves something of a poisoned chalice-until Scarpetta finds enlightenment through the curious pathologists' playground known as the Body Farm...

Bared to You - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
Day Sylvia
Εκδόσεις
Penguin Books

Εκδοση:2012 Σελίδες:340 Μέτρια κατάσταση. Περιγραφή: Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness - beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white hot. I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily… Gideon knew. He had demons of his own. And we would become the mirrors that reflected each other's most private wounds… and desires. The bonds of his love transformed me, even as I prayed that the torment of our pasts didn't tear us apart…

Tell me Something - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
Parks Adele
Εκδόσεις
Penguin Books

Εκδοση:2008 Σελίδες:473 Μέτρια κατάσταση. Ελάχιστα κιτρινισμένα φύλλα Περιγραφή: Die-hard romantic Elizabeth has always wanted two things in life- an Italian husband and lots of rosy-cheeked babies. When she meets fabulously sexy Roberto, she glidesdown the aisle and dreamily pictures holding their first little bundle of joy. But instead they end up running Roberto's family business, where Elizabeth finds there's more to living in Italy than enjoying ice cream in sun-drenched piazzas. She doesn't need to be fluent in the language to understand that her scheming mother-in-law and Roberto's beautiful, significant ex are hellbent on destroying her marriage. And when Elizabeth finds herself craving the company of a gorgeous American stranger, she knows her filthy, flirty thoughts about him are totally inappropriate. But there's no denying he sets her temperature rising... Could it be that Italy is turning Elizabeth's love of romance into a desire for something far more scandalous ...

Chasing Harry Winston - [Used]

Συγγραφέας
Weisberger Lauren
Εκδόσεις
Simon & Schuster

Εκδοση:2008 Σελίδες:370 Μέτρια κατάσταση. Περιγραφή: Emmy is newly single, and not by choice. Leigh, a young star in the publisging business, is within striking distance of landing her dream job as senior editor and marrying her dreamy guy. Adriana is the drop-dead gorgeous daughter of a famous supermodel. Three very different girls have been best friends for a decade in the greatest city on earth. As they near thirty, thy're looking toward their future...but despite all they've earned-first-class travel, career promotions, invites to all the right parties, and luxuries small and large- they're not quite sure they like what they see... One Saturday night at the Waverly Inn, the girls make a pact: within a single year, each will drastically change her life. Their friendship is forever, but everything else is on the table. Three best friends. One year to pull it off.

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