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Careful Use
For philosophically minded Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, getting through life with a clear conscience requires careful thought. And with the arrival of baby Charlie, not to mention a passionate relationship with his father
Jamie, fourteen years her junior, Isabel enters deeper and rougher waters. Late motherhood is not the only challenge facing Isabel. Even as she negotiates a truce with her furious niece Cat, and struggles for authority over her son with her formidab
le housekeeper Grace, Isabel finds herself drawn into the story of a painter's mysterious death off the island of Jura. Perhaps most seriously of all, Isabel's professional existence and that of her beloved Review come under attack from the machiavel
lian and suspiciously handsome Professor Dove. A master storyteller whether debating ethics in Edinburgh or pursuing lady detectives in Africa, here Alexander McCall Smith is as witty and wise as his irresistibly spirited heroine.Upozornenie: Vzhľado
m na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsah knihy aj cena budú však identické, bez ohľadu na obálku.
The World According to Bertie (44 Scotland Street 4)
Poor put-upon Bertie is still struggling to escape his overbearing mother?s influence, his yoga lessons and his pink bedroom while wondering why new baby brother Ulysses looks uncomfortably like his psychotherapist. The insufferably handsome Bruce has returned from London to land, on his feet and rent-free, in the arms of heiress Julia Donald. But all is not well among the residents of 44 Scotland Street: Angus?s dog and constant companion Cyril is under threat of execution, victim of a miscarriage of justice, while pretty, indecisive Pat and hopeless romantic Matthew are on the verge of making the most terrible mistake of their lives ...Big Lou finds a new man, Matthew and Pat edge their relationship towards something more permanent - although this development is not without complications, when a glimpse of someone who just might be her handsome, caddish ex-flatmate Bruce sets Pat's pulse racing - and Domenica's friendship with Antonia is tested to the limit when an assortment of her belongings mysteriously appear in Antonia's new flat.
Sunday Philosophy Club
Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' - and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the city's Georgian facades its moral compasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty and murderous intent. Instinct tells Isabel that the young man who tumbled to his death in front of her eyes at a concert in the Usher Hall didn't fall. He was pushed.The Sunday Philosophy Club marks new territory - but familiar moral ground - from the author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. With Isabel Dalhousie Alexander Mccall Smith introduces a new and pneumatic female sleuth to tackle murder, mayhem - and the mysteries of life. As her hero WH Auden maintained, classic detective fiction stems from a desire for an uncorrupted Eden which the detective, as an agent of God, can return to us. But then Isabel, being a philosopher, has a thing or two to say about God as well.
Lacná kniha McCall Smith - Tea Time for the Traditionally Buil (-25%)
It is a troublesome fact on which even Mma Ramotswe and her assistant Mma Makutsi agree: there are things that men know and ladies do not, and vice versa. It is unfortunate, for example, when Mma Ramotswe's newest client is the big-shot owner of the ailing Kalahari Swoopers, that one thing lady detectives know very little about is football. And when the glamorous Violet Sephotho sets her sights on Mma Makutsi's unsuspecting fiance, it becomes exasperatingly clear that some men do not know how to recognise a ruthless Jezebel even when she is bouncing up and down on the best bed in the Double Comfort Furniture Shop. In her attempt to foster understanding between the sexes and find the traitor on Mr Football's team, Mma Ramotswe ventures into new territory, drinks tea in unfamiliar kitchens and learns to trust in the observational powers of small boys. And, as wise and warm-hearted as his heroine, Alexander McCall Smith reminds us that we must dig deep to uncover the goodness of the human heart.
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Lacná kniha The Good Husband of Zebra Drive (No 1 Ladies Detective Agency 8) (-25%)
As winter turns to spring across the red earth, acacia trees and slow green rivers of Botswana, all is not quite as it should be on Zebra Drive, home to Mma Ramotswe and her beloved husband Mr J. L. B. Matekoni. At the No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency t
here are the usual number of cases to be pursued, from persistent theft at Teenie Magama's printing works to the rather more serious case of three suspicious deaths at the Mochudi hospital, but there is discontent among the ranks. It is bad enough th
at Mr Matekoni's apprentice Charlie is off on another escapade and Mma Makutsi's impending marriage threatens her happy working relationship with Mma Ramotswe. And when - in trying to prove himself a worthy husband - Mr J. L. B. Matekoni himself deci
des to try a little detective work, disaster looms ...Tender, witty and wise, the latest instalment in the lives of Alexander McCall's Smith's extended Botswana family instructs us with familiar modesty in the importance of trust, love, not judging b
y appearances and what really makes a good husband.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsah knihy
aj cena budú však identické, bez ohľadu na obálku.
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Love Over Scotland
With his characteristic warmth, inventiveness and brilliant wit, Alexander McCall Smith gives us more of the gloriously entertaining comings and goings at 44 Scotland Street, the Edinburgh townhouse. Six-year-old prodigy Bertie perseveres in his heroic struggle for truth and balanced good sense against his insufferable mother and her crony, the psychotherapist Dr Fairbairn, going as far as to make a short-lived bid for freedom on a trip to Paris with the Edinburgh youth orchestra. Domenica sets off on an anthropological odyssey with pirates in the Malacca Straits, while Pat attracts several handsome admirers, including a toothsome suitor named Wolf. And Big Lou, eternal source of coffee and good advice to her friends, has love, heartbreak and erstwhile boyfriend Eddie's misdemeanours on her own mind.
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The unbearable lightness of s
To the casual observer, the great enlightened city of Edinburgh, home of no-nonsense philosophers and cream teas, might appear immune to the rollercoaster of strong emotions. But at 44 Scotland Street, as Matthew and Elspeth embark on the risky enterprise of married love, the raffish portrait painter Angus Lordie has a premonition of disaster. And soon enough Irene Pollock is shocked to learn that her small son Bertie harbours a highly unsuitable ambition; the gloriously vain Bruce discovers a wrinkle and confronts rejection; and Angus finds himself facing the grave consequences of unbridled bliss, not to mention a large Glaswegian gangster bearing gifts ...
Right Attitude To Rain
The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain - just as in life the key to happiness lies in making the best of what you have. Bruised in love by her faithless Irish husband, Isabel Dalhousie is a connoisseur of intimat
e moral issues: she edits a philosophical journal and spends a great deal of her time considering how to improve the lives of those around her. There is her housekeeper Grace, whose future she must secure; her niece Cat, who is embarking on a new rel
ationship with a dubious workaholic mummy's boy; and even an American couple newly arrived in Edinburgh on a tour. And then there is Jamie, Cat's ex-boyfriend, a handsome, gifted musician fourteen years Isabel's junior, with whom she is slowly and ho
pelessly falling in love. Intensely thoughtful and consistently entertaining, THE RIGHT ATTITUDE TO RAIN is shot through with compassion and unassuming intelligence.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý
vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže byť iba ilustračná. Obsah knihy aj cena budú však identické, bez ohľadu na obálku.
Las orchestra saves the world
With a failed marriage behind her, La -- short for Lavender -- moves to the Suffolk countryside on the eve of the Second World War to nurse her broken heart. Lonely and at a loss, a friend encourages her to bring the villagers and the men from the local airbase together by forming an amateur orchestra. One of her musician recruits is Feliks, a handsome and enigmatic Polish refugee. A friendship begins to blossom between the two, and La finds her feelings stirring to life again. Poignant, tender and inspiring, La's Orchestra Saves the World celebrates the power of love and friendship in the shadow of the collective tragedy of war, as well as the extraordinary healing power of music.
Franciaország második legrosszabb vendéglője
A Találkozzunk Toscanában! című regény folytatásában Paul Stuartot ezúttal egy hangulatos kis francia faluba kísérjük, ahol a helyi étteremről az a hír járja, hogy az ország második legrosszabb vendéglője.
Az elismert skót gasztroszakértő Az étel filozófiája című könyvén dolgozik, amikor különc nagynénje, Chloe felajánlja neki, hogy töltse vele a nyarat a francia vidéken. Ottlétük alatt azonban mintha minden kizökkenne a rendes kerékvágásból: a hírhedt étterem egyetlen pincérnője az esti műszak közben hozza világra gyermekét, a szakács pedig összerúgja a port a segédjével, aki azonnal felmond. Paul hamar a konyhában találja magát, és az ő feladata lesz felvirágoztatni a falu gasztronómiai központját, miközben a férfifaló Chloe a jóképű, de dilettáns séf társaságában múlatja az időt. Vajon ő lesz a hóbortos hölgy hatodik férje?
A váratlan drámák közepette Paul képtelen az írásra összpontosítani, és még arra is rádöbben, hogy nagynénje múltja sötét titkokat rejt...
A skót szerző most sem okoz csalódást: humor, romantika, napsütés, gasztrokalandok és egy csipetnyi rejtély egyetlen könyvben, Alexander McCall Smith módra!
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Találkozzzunk Toscanában!
Paul Stuart, az elismert skót gasztroszakértő lába alól kicsúszik a talaj, amikor a barátnője egyik napról a másikra faképnél hagyja. A férfi úgy dönt, hogy szerkesztője javaslatára legújabb szakácskönyvét Toscanában fejezi be, hátha a levegőváltozás (no meg alkalomadtán egy kis szarvasgombás tészta és egy üveg vörösbor) meggyógyítja összetört szívét, és az alkotói válságból is kihúzza. De amikor Paul megérkezik Olaszországba, nem egészen úgy történnek a dolgok, ahogy várta... A félresikerült autókölcsönzés után nem marad más választása, mint buldózerre pattanni, az idilli Montalcinóba vezető útja során azonban a szokatlan járműnél sokkalta nagyobb meglepetések is érik. Miközben kellemesen lubickol a toszkán vidék csodás látnivalóiban és ízeiben, a legkülönbözőbb alakokat sodorja elé a sors - köztük egy fiatal amerikai nőt, aki megdobogtatja a szívét.
A Találkozzunk Toscanában! az érzékek ünnepe, az emberi kapcsolatok tanulmánya és a véletlenek vígjátéka. Bájos és örömteli szerelmi történet mindazoknak, akik valaha is álmodtak újrakezdésről. Kedves nyári olvasmány, amely garantáltan mosolyt csal az olvasó arcára.
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The Department of Sensitive Crimes
Mister Varg is a Sandinavian Blanc novel. Scandinavian Blanc is different from Scandinavian Noir: there is nothing noir about the world of Ulf Varg, a detective in the Sensitive Crimes Department in the Swedish city of Malmo. Ulf is concerned with very odd, but not too threatening crimes - injuries to the back of the knee caused by an unknown hand, young women who allow their desperation for a boyfriend to get the better of them, and peculiar goings-on in a spa on Sweden's south coast.
Of course, Ulf is a Swedish detective, and Swedish detectives, by convention, lead lives beset with problems of one sort or another. For a start, there is his name: Ulf derives from the Old Norse word for wolf and Varg means wolf in modern Swedish. But his character is far from vulpine: Ulf is a sympathetic, well-educated, and likeable man, with a knowledge of and interest in Nordic art. He has a dog called Marten, the only dog in Sweden who is capable of lip-reading (but only in Swedish). Martin becomes depressed and needs treatment. Dogs in Sweden are, apparently, particularly prone to Seasonal Affective Disorder. But this is summer - and there must be something else going on.
Ulf has a number of colleagues into whose lives we gain an insight. There is Anna, married to an anaesthetist, but very fond of Ulf; there is Erik, whose sole interest is fishing; Carl, whose father has written a book on the Danish philosopher, Kierkegaard; and there is poor Blomquist, from the uniformed branch, who goes on and on about health issues but who seems to have extraordinary luck in investigations. There is also Ulf's psychotherapist, Dr Svensson, whose observations on Ulf's life - and many other topics - enlightens - or possibly confuses.
Mister Varg introduces us to the world of this typically Scandinavian character and his friends and colleagues. Further adventures are planned.
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16,99 €
No. 1. Női Nyomozóiroda
Precious Ramotswe túlad atyai örökségén, és a tehenekért kapott pénzen megnyitja Botswana legjobb, egyszersmind egyetlen női magánnyomozó irodáját.
Barátai - Mr. J. L. B. Maketoni autószerelő-műhely tulajdonos és széptevő, valamint a főváros leggyorsabban gépelő sikítós titkárnője, Mma Makutsi - segítségével kell megoldania egy különös apa, egy pórul járt férj, egy elvesztett középsőujj és egy elrabolt fiú esetét...
Noha a legendásan gyors észjárással, ravaszsággal és tökéletes ösztönnel megáldott, szókimondó Mma Ramotswe a botswanai élet sötét botrányainak, galádságainak és piszkos ügyeinek bugyraiba vezeti az olvasót, történetei finom humorral, rejtélyekkel és életkedvvel átszőtt, szívet melengető modern afrikai mesék.
A világszerte húszmillió példányban megjelent No. 1. Női Nyomozóiroda regényekből rádiójáték-sorozat és díjnyertes televíziós sorozat készült.
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Lacná kniha No. 1. Női Nyomozóiroda (-70%)
Precious Ramotswe túlad atyai örökségén, és a tehenekért kapott pénzen megnyitja Botswana legjobb, egyszersmind egyetlen női magánnyomozó irodáját.
Barátai - Mr. J. L. B. Maketoni autószerelő-műhely tulajdonos és széptevő, valamint a főváros leggyorsabban gépelő sikítós titkárnője, Mma Makutsi - segítségével kell megoldania egy különös apa, egy pórul járt férj, egy elvesztett középsőujj és egy elrabolt fiú esetét...
Noha a legendásan gyors észjárással, ravaszsággal és tökéletes ösztönnel megáldott, szókimondó Mma Ramotswe a botswanai élet sötét botrányainak, galádságainak és piszkos ügyeinek bugyraiba vezeti az olvasót, történetei finom humorral, rejtélyekkel és életkedvvel átszőtt, szívet melengető modern afrikai mesék.
A világszerte húszmillió példányban megjelent No. 1. Női Nyomozóiroda regényekből rádiójáték-sorozat és díjnyertes televíziós sorozat készült.
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Handsome Man’s De Luxe Cafe
Even the arrival of her baby can't hold Mma Makutsi back from success in the workplace, and so no sooner than she becomes a full partner in the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - in spite of Mma Ramotswe's belated claims that she is only 'an assistant full partner' - she also launches a new enterprise of her own: the Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe. Grace Makutsi is a lady with a business plan,but who could predict temperamental chefs, drunken waiters and more? Luckily, help is at hand, from the only person in Gaborone more gently determined than Mma Makutsi ...Mma Ramotswe, of course.
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