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This book covers the coins that circulated in the Rijeka area over a period of twenty-five centuries. Each period, from antiquity to 1918, is accompanied by a brief historical overview of Rijeka.
Klaić's monumental History of the Croats, one of the most important historiographical reviews of the Croatian past, covers the political, social and cultural history of the Croats from the earliest times to the end of the 19th century.
A novel by one of the best American romance writers. Baron Cain's vivacious groom is actually Southern Kit Weston, who has come to kill him. Baron is the owner of her estate in South Carolina and, unfortunately for Kita, the legal guardian.
You'll See When You Grow Up by Luce Kozine is a striking collection of stories that, from a child's perspective, speaks about the traumas of growing up, the hypocrisy of adults, and the hope that can still save us.
In this edition, we bring you the text of one of the most awaited laws in the last few years, the new Labor Law.
Through the character of the wondrous *lumbur* fish and the narrator, this monumental and richly textured novel explores the history of human diet, gender relations, and socio-political changes from prehistory to the present day.
The magical-realist novel *The Flounder* (*Der Butt*) by Nobel laureate Günter Grass is one of the author’s most ambitious and complex literary achievements. The plot intertwines mythology, history, culinary arts, and the battle of the sexes across several millennia, spanning from the Stone Age to 20th-century Germany. The work’s central motif is inspired by the famous Brothers Grimm fairy tale...
Nick Jordan is a young journalist eagerly awaiting a big story. Orlando Menoni is a cleaner from Uruguay who remembers the missing and tries to come to terms with his loss.
Ivan Pregelj (1883–1960), a Slovenian writer, professor, and Catholic intellectual, briefly taught at the Pazin Gymnasium. The fruit of that experience was the story Božji mejniki (God's Milestones) (1925), later published under the title Plovan pre Šime.
"One Marriage" is a more intimate, psychological portrait of marriage, while "The Promise" is an epic war novel. Both works reflect an author who lived in China and had a deep understanding of the conflicts between East and West.
**Pearl S. Buck**, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, demonstrates her masterful ability to portray human relationships in historical and cultural context in these novels.
*Eine Liebesehe* (Portrait of a Marriage, 1945) is an intimate family saga. At the turn of the 19th century, a wealthy young painter from Philadelphia, William, falls in love with an illiterate peasant woman, Ruth. ...
Black Spring is a collection of essays and short stories by the American writer Henry Miller, which was first published in 1936. "The World of Sex" is Miller's second well-known work, which is particularly controversial due to its explicit content.
A superb thriller about a young woman in search of an identity...
A timeless fairy tale about the beautiful princess Snow White who flees from Evil and her jealous stepmother, finds refuge with the seven dwarfs, and ultimately defeats the evil spell with the help of true love.
Warm stories about the life of Jesus told by his disciple Simon from Capernaum. About the Resurrection, John the Baptist or about the voice crying in the desert, about casting nets and healing Šimun's mother-in-law.
The collection contains 40 stories, which the author used to tell her son Vinko before going to sleep and decided to put them into literary form.
In the book Do I Really Have to Go to School? by Sanja Pilić, find out what worries the main character has when she has to go to school after an interesting and fulfilling summer spent at the seaside.
…I came from the sea.
I'm as black as a black woman. And my hair is blonde. And I'm still all sea. In love with the sea, tangled in fishing nets, enchanted by a certain Ivan from Rovinj.
A certain Marko from Split.
Hmm, and a certain Kristijan from Pula.
Oops!
I shouldn't have admitted it. I have to act like a decent girl, school is starting, and I don't feel like going to school.
Nooooo!...
The hero of this fairy tale is Dobroslav - a poor, honest young man with a pure heart, but quite short. He goes out into the world, in search of a girl who will love him as he is.
Singing, he walks along the forest paths towards the sea and meets the little forest fairy Šumorkinja, who makes him an offer: - Boy, how beautifully you sing! You will give me your beautiful voice and all your songs, and in return I will find you a girl to marry.
Dobroslav accepts the offer and recklessly falls into the spell. It continues a journey full of obstacles, dangers and twists. Desp...
The story is told in an extremely simple way, suitable for preschool children. The book is hardcover, and all pages are richly illustrated in color.
Already in the preface, we learn how Alphonse Daudet bought an old mill, that is, a windmill "in the heart of Provence". The mill is so dilapidated that it is not usable, but Daudet buys it anyway to serve as inspiration for his writing.
A new series of picture books under the collective name "Forest Stories" tells about a magical forest and its inhabitants. It is intended for the youngest, richly illustrated and very imaginatively written. The series contains 6 titles.
