Siege of Comedians, Paperback - Susan Daitch

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Reducere. Love cryptograms? Tickle your funny bone with this collection of over 350 quotes from comedians, past and present. Cryptograms are presented in a l...

An unmissable gift book, A Small Book of Jewish Comedians is a perfect (please God) post-pandemic pick-me-upIn 1978, Time magazine estimated that a...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXThree men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt 'Papa Doc' and the Tontons Macoute...

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The world of comedy and comedians of the last five decades. By the man the New York Times calls a comic institution himself, the only comedian (twe...

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A tale of adventure and bravery, based on the real-life castle siege in the summer of the year 1300. Knights and nobles, pages and prisoners - and ...

Reducere. The international bestselling series with over 5 million copies sold in the U.S. alone The kingdom is in danger. Renegade knight Sir Keren has succ...

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Set in the world of the Sword of Truth saga, familiar allies, dangerous magic and creatures born from twisted sorcery fight a legendary battle that...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Nathan KeighleyIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 124Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 126 x 203 x ...

The focus of this volume is on essential themes, images and generic patterns, beginning with a Talmudic legend about four scholars. They, by means ...

A lost child, a family divided, the bitter backdrop of war - set in 19th-century France.

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The Effigies seek out the true origins of the Phantoms that terrorize their world in this thrilling follow-up to Fate of Flames, which Elise Chapma...

Travel To A Distant OutpostDurgam's Folly sits at the edge of the kingdom, an embattled outpost against the evil creatures of the world. You travel...

Reducere. Mahmoud Darwish (1942 2008), recipient of France s Knight of Arts and Belles Lettres medal, the Lotus Prize, and the Lannan Foundation Prize for Cu...

Reducere. In the summer of 1991 the Yugoslav People's Army and Serb paramilitary formations attacked the city of Vukovar in a bid to deliver a knock out blow...

The Portuguese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature exercises his capacity for darkness, intellectual inquiry and humour across these reissued ...

DescriptionIn this perceptive retelling of The Iliad, a young Greek teacher draws on the enduring power of myth to help her students cope with the ...

Despite the resounding victory at the battle of Oudenarde, the Duke of Marlborough finds his position as captain-general threatened by political en...

The full story of the most terrible siege in history when over a million people perished, illustrated by pictures recently released from Russian ar...

'For a novel to be witty is one thing, to tell a good story is another, to be serious is yet another, but to be all three is surely enough to make ...

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Reducere. After years as a Ranger's Apprentice, Will is now the protector of his first fief. Not long into his service, everything that can go wrong, does: K...

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This breathless adventure series is the third biggest in the US after Harry Potter and Percy Jackson and this is the sixth in the sequence. A movie...

DescriptionUsing new material unearthed in French archives, Vietnamese-language publications, and the testimony of veterans, this book, now in pape...

Reducere. The Siege of Londonderry was a crucial episode of the Williamite wars that followed the Glorious Revolution of 1689. Catholic forces loyal to the d...

Richard Sharpe avoids the tyrannical Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill and endeavours to rescue a British officer from under the nose of the Tippoo of Mys...

Reducere. An engrossing chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, from the bestselling author of Thermopylae. At the dawn of the...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

One Hundred Men Stand Between Empire and Annihilation.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Nick BrownNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2012D...

A forensic look into the Sepoy rebellion at Meerut in 1857 and the three-month siege and capture of Delhi which followed.Illustrations: 32 Plates, ...

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Reducere. - Graphic account of a bloody battle on the Eastern Front in the final months of World War II - The Germans defended K strin tenaciously--with high...

Reducere. Fletcher Pratt Award McLemore Prize In the spring of 1862, there was no more important place in the western Confederacy--perhaps in all the South--...