Foolish Mortals

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Spisovateľ: Johnston Jennifer
Vydavateľ: Headline
Rok vydania: 2008
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Katalogové číslo: O6886

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After Ciara's estranged father is nearly killed by his second wife in a car accident - or was it an accident? - Ciara begins, gingerly, to reenter his life. As her troubled family gather for the holidays, is it too much to hope that they begin to find peace at last? Of course it is... v angličtine, brožovaná, časť textu označený ceruzou, 312 strán

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