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The Soulmate Equation
Jess Davis is a numbers genius, but when it comes to love she's had to accept there is no magic formula. Juggling a mathematical career with raising her hyper (but adorable) seven-year-old Juno, it's not surprising that her love life is non-existent. Juno has a hunch that her mum would find the perfect man if she stepped out of her comfort zone - but Jess barely has time to make her daughter's lunch, let alone put thought into dating. And when yet another date ends in disaster, she's prepared to give up on love for good. But then she hears about GeneticAlly, a buzzy new matchmaking company that claims to find you the One using a DNA equation. Suddenly, love doesn't seem quite so far out of reach. Until her test shows an unheard-of 98% compatibility with GeneticAlly's founder, Dr River Pena.
B. J. Harrison Reads The Horla (EN)
A three-mast Brazilian ship passes by and a man standing on the shore, waving to it. After sailing on the broad and getting back home, the man starts feeling worse with every passing day. He realizes that there is a supernatural being in his home, taking his strength and sanity away. The man tries to fight back and kill the ghost but it proves more challenging than he had expected.
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A Pocket Full of Rye
Now with a beautiful new series look, the bizarre death of a financial tycoon has Miss Marple investigating a very odd case of crime by rhyme.
Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his counting house when he suffered an agonizing and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain traces of cereals.
Yet, it was the incident in the parlor which confirmed Miss Marples suspicion that here she was looking at a case of crime by rhyme.
Wilder
A desperate village. A child who emerges from the marshes. A falcon that helps her save them all.
The child – if child it was – came out of the wild-ness. It came out of the sparse bleak marsh where few dared go and none came back. And though the village grew accustomed to the creature they did not forget from whence it came. And they whispered that there was no knowing whether she was sent as a blessing or a bane.’
When the child emerges from the wilderness, no one in the village knows what to do with her. She is odd – half-wild, without speech and seems to have an unnatural bond with animals – especially the falcon, who is always circling above her. The Wise-Woman takes her in, and names her Rhodd, but the rest of the villagers remain suspicious.
Over the years, as Rhodd grows, the village realises that the river, which is their connection to the wider world, is beginning to die, and eventually a dark sickness begins to spread. Soon, too soon, the villagers turn their suspicion on Rhodd and her falcon.
And so, Rhodd sets out to discover what – or who – is causing the river to dry up . . . to protect her mother, her falcon and herself…
A beautiful and enthralling adventure about love, belonging, the delicate balance of nature – and the wildness within us all, for fans of The Last Wild and Where the Crawdads Sing, for 9+ readers.
Guard your Heart
Boy meets girl on the Northern Irish border in Guard Your Heart, by Sue Divin,
Derry. Summer 2016. Aidan and Iona, now eighteen, were both born on the day of the Northern Ireland peace deal.
Aidan is Catholic, Irish, and Republican. With his ex-political prisoner father gone and his mother dead, Aidan's hope is pinned on exam results earning him a one-way ticket out of Derry. To anywhere.
Iona, Protestant and British, has a brother and father in the police. She's got university ambitions, a strong faith and a fervent belief that boys without one track minds are a myth.
At a post-exam party, Aidan wanders alone across the Peace Bridge and becomes the victim of a brutal sectarian attack. Iona witnessed the attack; picked up Aidan's phone and filmed what happened, and gets in touch with him to return the phone. When the two meet, alone and on neutral territory, the differences between them seem insurmountable.
Both their fathers held guns, but safer to keep that secret for now.
Despite their differences and the secrets they have to keep from each other, there is mutual intrigue, and their friendship grows. And so what? It's not the Troubles. But for both Iona and Aidan it seems like everything is keeping them apart , when all they want is to be together . . .
Pandora's Box
Pandora's Box (1904) (Die Büchse der Pandora) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the second part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the first is Earth Spirit [1895]), both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed".G. W. Pabst directed a silent film version (Pandora's Box), which was loosely based on the play, in 1929. Both plays together also formed the basis for the opera Lulu by Alban Berg in 1935 (premiered posthumously in 1937).In the original manuscript, dating from 1894, the 'Lulu' drama was in five acts and subtitled 'A Monster Tragedy'. Wedekind subsequently divided the work into two plays: Earth Spirit (German: Erdgeist, first printed in 1895) and Pandora's Box (German: Die Büchse der Pandora). It is now customary in theatre performances to run the two plays together, in abridged form, under the title Lulu. Wedekind is known to have taken his inspiration from at least two sources: the pantomime Lulu by Félicien Champsaur, which he saw in Paris in the early 1890s, and the sex murders of Jack the Ripper in London in 1888.The premiere of Pandora's Box, a restricted performance due to difficulties with the censor, took place in Nuremberg on 1 February 1904. The 1905 Viennese premiere, again restricted, was instigated by the satirist Karl Kraus. In Vienna Lulu was played by Tilly Newes, later to become Wedekind's wife, with the part of Jack the Ripper played by Wedekind himself.
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Seven Faceless Saints
Romance, revolution and mystery intertwine as a young rebel and palace guard hunt a murderer in this gripping YA set in a world inspired by Florence, Italy. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Kerri Maniscalco.
Roz and Damian grew up in Ombrazia, a city ruled by the disciples of the seven faceless saints, where those with magic live in comfort whilst the rest struggle to survive. A city caught in a twenty-year war of attrition, a battlefront consuming a generation of conscripts.
Roz serves as a disciple of the Saint Patience to support her mother, and to spy for the rebellion. Her Ombrazia is corrupt and unjust and she'll tear it down to get justice for the murder of her father at the hands of the Ombrazian military. The Military that Damian now serves.
Damian is the youngest captain in the history of Palazzo security, expected to be ruthless and strong, and to serve the saints with unquestioning devotion. But he's haunted by the ghosts of war, and trying to rebuild his life as he rediscovers the love he once had for Roz.
When a brutal murderer strikes the city, Roz and Damian find they are the only ones willing to hunt the killer no matter the consequences. Forced to work together, they must face their buried emotions, the past they once shared, and the dark and powerful evil that wants to consume their city.
Pád Cařihradu
Dobytí Cařihradu neboli Konstantinopole osmanskými Turky v roce 1453 je definitivním stvrzením zániku Byzantské říše. Barvitá románová freska slavného finského romanopisce Miky Waltariho líčí poslední měsíce v životě města, náboženské i politické spory a boj o moc.
Román je psán formou deníku mladého muže Jeana Angieho, který nedokázal odhalit skutečný smysl své životní pouti a umírá při obraně hroutícího se města. Umírá i jeho životní láska, dcera předního byzantského úředníka, která se obětuje v naivní víře za město i za čest rodu, v němž nechyběla zrada.
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A Heart Finds Love (Barbara Cartland's Pink Collection 104) (EN)
The beautiful Alnina Lester is confronted with a formidable task when her brother, Lord Lester, dies after fighting a duel in Paris. She finds that he has accumulated an enormous number of debts, and to meet his creditors everything in their house, which has been in the Lester family for generations, has to be sold.
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Play
What if you could stop paddling so hard upstream, turn your boat around, and smile and wave?What if you could lighten the load in your life--and your mind and your heart--with tiny daily actions that we all can easily do?
What if everything you needed to get to such a place already existed within each and every one of us?
All we needed was a roadmap, a guidebook, a blueprint to take us from others laughing at us to laughing with us? From being against a cause to creating our own? From surviving to thriving?
In best-selling author Bradley Charbonneau’s latest book PLAY, you’ll uncover your own natural playful state is our default state, it's where we're supposed to be living, it's where we shine. It's where we belong.
I almost don't dare use this word but it's the best word I can find at the moment. Who knows, maybe you'll read the book, arrive at your own level of PLAY, and share with me a word that you feel best describes the mindset we have now achieved. But that word, that feeling, that way of being, is, I know, I know, it's a biggie, but here it is: enlightenment.
Now before you put on a robe and move to a mountaintop in Nepal, hear me out. My first book with my boys (The Secret of Kite Hill) turned a regular, daily, boring walk home from school into a magical, unforgettable, and playful story that became the launch pad for not only my writing career, but the relationship I had with my kids--and myself.
PLAY is a place yet it's not on a map
PLAY is something we all have access to yet few can find it
PLAY is a higher place
This book contains more than words on pages. The bonus materials give you immediate access to videos, blog posts, interviews and podcasts that enhance, explain and entice you to become the architect of your destiny and live a lighter, freer, more playful life.
In this book, you’ll discover:
How (and why) some people seem to float through life on a yacht sipping cocktails while others are paddling upstream in a leaky canoe
The power of mindset and how it's the basis for all action
When to laugh at (and with) yourself before others do to remove all negative power before it materializes
Why you can't sit the entire game on the bench, you're going to have to get up, give up, and get in the game
How the tiniest daily events can make your exuberently happy
Get PLAY today to get off the bench, out of your mind, and into the game.
This is book 10 in the Repossible Series.
Repossible: An introductory guide to the question, “Who will you be next?”
Every Single Day: a clear roadmap towards lasting transformation in you
Ask: if life is a multiple choice quiz, this is the answer
Dare: challenge yourself to truly answer the questions and rocket forward
Create: you’re ready to get real about achieving your dream, here’s what to do
Decide: there’s a fork in the road, you’ll now know what to do
Meditate: this is the source of our creativity, power, and direction
Spark: there’s only one thing better than creating: helping someone else create
Surrender: you’ve done your part, it’s time to be invited to the big stage
Play: we’re through the woods, it’s time to exhale, smile, and play the game
Celebrate: compare your own today to your own yesterday and revel in the progress
Evaluate: measure how far you've come, forecast how far you'll go
Elevate: now that we're at the top of the mountain, it's time to scale up
Share: tell your story, spread your success, and empower others to begin
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Landfill Mountains (EN)
Audiobook Landfill Mountains written by Rab Ferguson. In a world ravaged by the effects of climate change, sixteen-year-old Joe has been left with nothing but mountains full of junk. When Joe and his friends are caught in an avalanche of waste, six-year-old Lily is left deathly ill, and Joe sets out towards a mysterious city to seek out help. Nothing could prepare him for what he finds on the way: a dangerous prince wearing a suit made of stars, the wolf from Red Riding Hood bearing its teeth, and the reality-changing power of storytelling aloud.
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Tools and Weapons
Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simple core belief: when your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world you have helped create.
This might seem uncontroversial, but it flies in the face of a tech sector long obsessed with rapid growth and sometimes on disruption as an end in itself. While sweeping digital transformation holds great promise, we have reached an inflection point. The world has turned information technology into both a powerful tool and a formidable weapon, and new approaches are needed to manage an era defined by even more powerful inventions like artificial intelligence. Companies that create technology must accept greater responsibility for the future, and governments will need to regulate technology by moving faster and catching up with the pace of innovation.
In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne bring us a captivating narrative from the cockpit of one of the world's largest and most powerful tech companies as it finds itself in the middle of some of the thorniest emerging issues of our time. These are challenges that come with no pre-existing playbook, including privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of artificial intelligence, big tech's relationship to inequality, and the challenges for democracy, far and near. While in no way a self-glorifying "Microsoft memoir," the book pulls back the curtain remarkably wide onto some of the company's most crucial recent decision points as it strives to protect the hopes technology offers against the very real threats it also presents. There are huge ramifications for communities and countries, and Brad Smith provides a thoughtful and urgent contribution to that effort.
In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith takes us behind the scenes on some of the biggest stories to hit the tech industry in the past decade and some of the biggest threats we face. From Edward Snowden's NSA leak to the NHS WannaCry ransomware attack, this book is essential reading to understand what's happening in the world around us.
Otherlands
This is the past as we've never seen it before.
Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours. Travelling back in time to the dawn of complex life, and across all seven continents, award-winning young palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday gives us a mesmerizing up close encounter with eras that are normally unimaginably distant.
Halliday immerses us in a series of ancient landscapes, from the mammoth steppe in Ice Age Alaska to the lush rainforests of Eocene Antarctica, with its colonies of giant penguins, to Ediacaran Australia, where the moon is far brighter than ours today. We visit the birthplace of humanity; we hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the Earth has ever known; and we watch as life emerges again after the asteroid hits, and the age of the mammal dawns. These lost worlds seem fantastical and yet every description - whether the colour of a beetle's shell, the rhythm of pterosaurs in flight or the lingering smell of sulphur in the air - is grounded in the fossil record.
Otherlands is a staggering imaginative feat: an emotional narrative that underscores the tenacity of life - yet also the fragility of seemingly permanent ecosystems, including our own. To read it is to see the last 500 million years not as an endless expanse of unfathomable time, but as a series of worlds, simultaneously fabulous and familiar.
Penguin Readers Starter Level: The Happy Prince (ELT Graded Reader)
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.
Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.
The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.
The Happy Prince, a Starter level Reader, is A1 in the CEFR framework. Starter level is ideal for readers who are learning English for the first time. Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, using the present simple and continuous tenses, possessives, regular and irregular verbs, and simple adjectives. Illustrations support the text throughout, and many titles at this level are graphic novels.
In an old town in England, there is a statue of a happy prince. But the prince is not happy. He can see the sad things in the town. Then he meets a swallow. They help the people.
Visit the Penguin Readers website
Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.
Maneskin - Rush! (White) LP
Rocková senzácia Maneskin vydáva nový album Rush!. Dostupné fyzické formáty zahŕňajú štandardný, biely, červený a „picture disc“ vinyl, špeciálne boxy, CD a ďalšie.
'The Lonelest', celosvetový hit skupiny je óda na klasické rockové balady zo starej školy sa už dostal do uší verejnosti, skladba sa objaví na veľmi očakávanom albume. S burcujúcim vokálom a elektrizujúcimi gitarovými sólami podfarbenými elegantnou jemnosťou, singel vidí kapelu v jej zatiaľ najzraniteľnejšej podobe.
„Originálna sila... omladzujúci rock 'n' roll pre mladšiu generáciu,“ MANESKIN je uznávaná štvorčlenná rocková skupina, ktorá začínala ako tínedžeri v uliciach Ríma a teraz je úzko prepojenou skupinou podmanivých hudobníkov. o niekoľko rokov neskôr, ktorí boli všeobecne uznávaní za to, že stáli na čele globálneho oživenia rockovej hudby.
Tracklist:
01. Own My Mind
02. Gossip
03. Timezone
04. Bla Bla Bla
05. Baby Said
06. Gasoline
07. Feel
08. Don't Wanna Sleep
09. Kool Kids
10. If Not For You
11. Read Your Diary
12. Mark Chapman
13. La Fine
14. Il Dono Della Vita
15. The Loneliest
Maneskin - Rush! (Picture Disc) LP
Rocková senzácia Maneskin vydáva nový album Rush!. Dostupné fyzické formáty zahŕňajú štandardný, biely, červený a „picture disc“ vinyl, špeciálne boxy, CD a ďalšie.
'The Lonelest', celosvetový hit skupiny je óda na klasické rockové balady zo starej školy sa už dostal do uší verejnosti, skladba sa objaví na veľmi očakávanom albume. S burcujúcim vokálom a elektrizujúcimi gitarovými sólami podfarbenými elegantnou jemnosťou, singel vidí kapelu v jej zatiaľ najzraniteľnejšej podobe.
„Originálna sila... omladzujúci rock 'n' roll pre mladšiu generáciu,“ MANESKIN je uznávaná štvorčlenná rocková skupina, ktorá začínala ako tínedžeri v uliciach Ríma a teraz je úzko prepojenou skupinou podmanivých hudobníkov. o niekoľko rokov neskôr, ktorí boli všeobecne uznávaní za to, že stáli na čele globálneho oživenia rockovej hudby.
Tracklist:
01. Own My Mind
02. Gossip
03. Timezone
04. Bla Bla Bla
05. Baby Said
06. Gasoline
07. Feel
08. Don't Wanna Sleep
09. Kool Kids
10. If Not For You
11. Read Your Diary
12. Mark Chapman
13. La Fine
14. Il Dono Della Vita
15. The Loneliest
First Person Singular
The eight stories in this new book are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From memories of youth, meditations on music, and an ardent love of baseball, to dreamlike scenarios and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator may or may not be Murakami himself. Is it memoir or fiction? The reader decides.
Philosophical and mysterious, the stories in First Person Singular all touch beautifully on love and solitude, childhood and memory... all with a signature Murakami twist.
Theft of the Master (EN)
"Theft of the Master" aims to appeal to the reader seeking more from a novel than a good read. This is an intricate web of stories speckled with an assortment of finely described characters spanning different historical periods and continents. The story moves along at a terrific rate and entices the reader to discover how the circle will be completed.
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Kniha Začni otázkou prečo pomohla miliónom čitateľov po celom svete prehodnotiť všetko, čo robia – v osobnom živote, v kariére a pri riadení malých či veľkých organizácií.
Táto kniha pokračuje tam, kde tá predchádzajúca skončila. Pomôže vám aplikovať v praxi Simonove zistenia, aby ste našli viac inšpirácie v tom, čo robíte, a tým inšpirovali aj ostatných okolo vás.
Verím, že na naplnenie a uspokojenie z práce má právo každý, nie je to privilégium vyvolených. Každý máme nárok na to, aby sme sa každé ráno zobudili plní inšpirácie, tešili sa do práce, cítili sa tam bezpečne a večer prišli domov naplnení. Kľúčom k dosiahnutiu takého uspokojenia je porozumenie toho, PREČO robím to, čo robím.
Po celosvetovom úspechu knihy Začni otázkou sa ma ľudia začali pýtať: Ako to mám aplikovať v živote, v práci, vo svojom tíme, vo svojej firme či organizácii? S kolegami Davidom Meadom a Petrom Dockerom sme vytvorili tento praktický manuál, aby sme vám krok za krokom pomohli nájsť svoje PREČO. Kniha obsahuje podrobný popis cvičení, mnoho ilustrácií a nástrojov pre každú fázu procesu objavovania. Pomôže vám tiež zodpovedať mnoho dôležitých otázok, ako napríklad:
Čo ak sa moje PREČO príliš podobá tomu, čo o sebe hovorí konkurencia?
Môžem mať viac ako jedno prehlásenie PREČO?
Čo ak moja práca nie je v súlade s mojím osobným PREČO?
Ako tím sa nevieme zhodnúť na našom PREČO – čo máme robiť?
Či už ste vo svojom prvom zamestnaní, vediete tím alebo ste generálny riaditeľ firmy či inej organizácie, nástroje v tejto knihe vás prevedú cestou, ktorá vás aj vašich spolupracovníkov nasmeruje k hlbšiemu uspokojeniu.
Ďakujem vám, že nám pomáhate vybudovať svet, v ktorom stále viac a viac ľudí začína otázkou PREČO.
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