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Trade Paperback. Publisher: Penguin USA | 2024 | Trade Paperback | 352 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: Her husband's cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn't going to take it anymore. She's moving back north, to the city of her dreams-with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and Louise with martinis in hand . . . When sixty-three-year-old Sylvia finds her husband in bed with the floozy of their Boca retirement community, she's shocked and furious . . . at first. By the time her head stops spinning, Sylvia realizes that actually, this isn't what she wants anymore anyway. So she enlists her best friend, the glamorous older widow Evie, to join her in setting up a new life in Manhattan. Sylvia's ex-husband may have lost her life savings, but Sylvia and Evie are scrappy and determined, unopposed to pawning jewelry and roughing it in tiny apartments. And before long, Sylvia signs… Read More

Original Hardcover. Publisher: Ekström & Garay | Utg. 2021 | Original Hardcover | 232 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Svenska --- Information regarding the book: Året är 1921 och överklassdottern Julia Strand arbetar som oerfaren journalist på Svenska Bladet i Stockholm. Hemma brottas hon med faderns förväntningar på hur hon ska leva sitt liv och drömmer om att bryta sig loss från gamla traditioner. En dag öppnar sig en utväg, när Julia blir utsänd som utrikeskorrespondent för att rapportera om irländarnas kamp för självständighet mot britterna. Snart befinner sig Julia mitt i konfliktens centrum i Dublin. Under täckmantel som student vid Trinity College får hon nys om grupperingar som utnyttjar landets oroligheter för egen vinnings skull. Här träffar hon även den mystiska Sean O´Neill, en läkarstudent vars frihetskamp hon blir personligen involverad i. Julia dras nu in i ett dubbelspel som tvingar henne att tänja på såväl professionella som personliga gränser… Read More

Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Random House UK | 2023 | Mass Market Paperback | 224 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: For the sake of women everywhere, Ms Shibata is going to pull off the mother of all deceptions... Discover this prizewinning, thrillingly subversive new novel that's perfect for fans of Convenience Store Woman and Breasts and Eggs. 'Incredibly thought-provoking... you'll love Yagi's writing' STYLIST 'One of the most passionate cases I've ever read for female interiority, for women's creative pulse and rich inner life' NEW YORKER Ms Shibata refuses to clear away the coffee at work one day, because she's pregnant and can't bear the smell. The only thing is . . . Ms Shibata is not pregnant. Being a mother-to-be isn't easy. Ms Shibata has a nine-month ruse to keep up. Before long, it becomes all-absorbing, and with the help of towel-stuffed shirts and a diary app that tracks every stage of her 'pregnancy', the boundary between… Read More

Trade Paperback. Publisher: HarperCollins US | 2023 | Trade Paperback | p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.

Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Grantham Books Services | 2023 | Mass Market Paperback | 160 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and joy of her uncle Satoru, who has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife Momoko left him five years earlier. When Takako's boyfriend reveals he's marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle's offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above the shop. Hoping to nurse her broken heart in peace, Takako is surprised to encounter new worlds within the stacks of books lining the Morisaki bookshop. As summer fades to autumn, Satoru and Takako discover they have more in common than they first thought. The… Read More

Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK | 2022 | Mass Market Paperback | 167 p. | This book is brand new. | Translator: Allen, Jocelyne | Series: DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: Complete the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba experience with these exciting novels featuring original stories. | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.

Trade Paperback. Publisher: Lunds universitet, Media-Tryck | Utg. 2018 | Trade Paperback | 213 sidor ; 24 cm | This book is brand new. | Series: Lund Dissertations in Sociology | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: This study focuses on a border police collaboration project called Turnstone. The purpose of the project was to prevent and fight transnational crime in the Baltic Sea area and increase collaboration between border intelligence officers. Participants in the project included police, coast guard, and border police officers from Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden.Based on observations and interviews, and taking a community of practice perspective, the study illustrates the significance of informal processes and practices for creating a trust-based context conducive to the exchange of sensitive information and the generation of new practices. Face-to-face interactions (involving among other things joking and sharing stories), negotiations, and engaging in… Read More

Trade Paperback. Publisher: Södertörns högskola | Utg. 2017 | Trade Paperback | 305 sidor ; illustrationer ; 23 cm | This book is brand new. | Series: Södertörn Doctoral Dissertations | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: This thesis explores key challenges and opportunities for nature conservation policy and practices at the local level in a context of postsocialist legacies and Europeanization to further understand the ongoing governance changes in Central Eastern Europe.Multi-level governance, Europeanization, and post-socialist studies are used as theoretical vehicles for the analysis of four transboundary national parks: Pieninsky national parks (NP) in both Poland and Slovakia and Bieszczady NP [Poland] and Poloniny NP [Slovakia].Nature conservation and rural development are seen increasingly as interlinked agendas. In practice, however, the local potential for their integration remains limited, and often no strategic vision exists for how to achieve it. Local actors are… Read More

Trade Paperback. Publisher: Penguin USA | 2020 | Trade Paperback | 224 p. | This book is brand new. | Series: BLUE PERIOD | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: Winner of the 2020 Manga Taisho Grand Prize! A manga about the struggles and rewards of a life dedicated to art. The studious Yatora leaves a dry life of study and good manners behind for a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling... Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It's an effortless performance, and, ultimately...a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst -- and he's about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be! | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.

Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Barthelson Förlag | Utg. 2016 | Mass Market Paperback | 192 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Svenska --- Information regarding the book: Sudoku är det roliga och utmanande sifferpusslet som så många har fastnat för! Idag finns det massor med hängivna entusiaster världen över, men fortfarande har Sudokupussel ett oförtjänt rykte om sig att vara svåra att lösa. Denna bok bestående av 160 pussel slår hål på den myten. Här är alla pussel graderade efter svårighetsgrad. Med enkla instruktioner som är lätta att följa är detta den perfekta boken för dem som inte vågat testa tidigare, eller för dem som helt enkelt vill kunna lösa ett pussel utan att ta i från tårna. | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.

Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Barthelson Förlag | Utg. 2019 | Mass Market Paperback | 192 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Svenska | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.

Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Barthelson Förlag | Utg. 2019 | Mass Market Paperback | 192 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Svenska | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.

Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Barthelson Förlag | Utg. 2016 | Mass Market Paperback | 192 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Svenska | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.

Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Barthelson Förlag | Utg. 2019 | Mass Market Paperback | 192 sidor ; illustrationer ; 18 cm | This book is brand new. | Language: Svenska | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.

Mass Market Paperback. Publisher: Penguin USA | 2023 | Mass Market Paperback | 178 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: Far from the warmth of family, she has had her share of troubles and pitfalls. Just when all hope seems lost, a fateful encounter awaits her. When a man with the head of a beast, wielding strange powers, obtains her through a slave auction, Chise's life will never be the same again. The man is a "magus," a sorcerer of great power, who decides to free Chise from the bonds of captivity. The magus then makes a bold statement: Chise will become his apprentice-and his bride! And be sure to watch the beautiful anime streaming on Crunchyroll! | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.

Trade Paperback. Publisher: Idegranen förlag | 2023 | Trade Paperback | 180 p. | This book is brand new. | Original title: ??????/mah?tsukai no yome | Translator: Preinitz, J. | Series: Häxmästarens kontrakt | Language: Svenska | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.

Wiro Bound. Publisher: Beijing Language and Culture University Press | | Wiro Bound | 383 p. | This book is brand new. | Series: Easy Steps to Chinese | Language: Engelska | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.

Wiro Bound. Publisher: Beijing Language and Culture University Press | | Wiro Bound | 250 p. | This book is brand new. | Series: Easy Steps to Chinese | Language: Engelska | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.

Original Hardcover. Publisher: Bokförlaget Wan Zhi | Utg. 2022 | Original Hardcover | 256 p. | This book is brand new. | Original title: Fusang | Translator: Gustafsson Chen, Anna | Language: Svenska --- Information regarding the book: En författare fascineras av historien om den gåtfulla Fusang, en ung kinesisk kvinna som kidnappades och tvingades till prostitution i San Fransisco i mitten av 1800-talet. Den knapphändiga information hon hittar i arkiven berättar en historia om besatthet och begär, om främlingsfientlighet och våld, men också om kärlek och självuppoffring i ett triangeldrama där den som först verkar vara svagast är den som visar sig vara starkast och uthålligast av alla. | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.

Softcover with flaps. Publisher: Bokförlaget Wan Zhi | Utg. 2020 | Softcover with flaps | 108 p. | This book is brand new. | Original title: Nian Yue Ri | Translator: Gustafsson Chen, Anna | Language: Svenska | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery.