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When in French - Love in a Second Language
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARDOES `I LOVE YOU' EVEN MEAN THE SAME THING AS `JE T'AIME'? When Lauren Collins met a Frenchman at a party one night in London, she had no idea that she would one day wake up to find herself married to him, living in Geneva. Feeling almost voiceless in French-speaking Switzerland, Lauren was no longer able to order a salad, let alone talk to her husband's parents. But a language barrier was no match for love... A smart, funny and thoughtful look at how language shapes our lives, When in French shows what happens when two languages, and two very different cultures, collide.
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Obloha na jeseň
Čeliť minulosti je jednoduchšie, ak jej nemusíš čeliť sám.
Keď sa v hostinci, ktorý vedie Grace so svojimi súrodencami, objaví tajomný cudzinec, okamžite sa jej zapáči. Má však starostí až nad hlavu: pomáha viesť bluebellský hostinec, rozbieha vlastnú požičovňu športových potrieb Blue Ridge Outfitters a navyše sa musí vyrovnať s traumou z detstva, hoci si myslela, že už je dávno za ňou.
Špeciálneho agenta Wyatta Jenningsa postrelia pri výkone služby a zranenie v ňom prebudí nepríjemné spomienky. Keď mu šéf nariadi povinné voľno, odíde do Bluebellu v Severnej Karolíne, aby sa porátal s udalosťou z detstva, ktorá navždy zmenila jeho život.
Grace potrebuje získať viac skúseností pre svoju predajňu a požičovňu športových potrieb, preto sa ponúkne Wyattovi, že ho bude sprevádzať na túrach po okolitých horách. Wyatt sa jej postupne začne otvárať a uvedomí si, že ho priťahuje Gracin životný postoj a zmysel pre humor.
Niet pochýb, že tí dvaja si vybudovali zvláštne puto. Wyattovo tajomstvo však môže buď úplne zničiť Gracin život, alebo im obom priniesť uzdravenie.
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When Friendship Followed Me Home
"If you have middle schoolers who are too young to fully grasp John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and love dogs, give them this sweet tearjerker." — School Library Journal
"In this beguiling tearjerker, a foster kid's luck slowly changes after he befriends a scruffy pup he finds outside the library."--People magazine
Ben Coffin has never been one for making friends. As a former foster kid, he knows people can up and leave without so much as a goodbye. Ben prefers to spend his time with the characters in his favorite sci-fi books…until he rescues an abandoned mutt from the alley next-door to the Coney Island Library. Scruffy little Flip leads Ben to befriend a fellow book-lover named Halley—yes, like the comet—a girl unlike anyone he has ever met. Ben begins thinking of her as “Rainbow Girl” because of her crazy-colored clothes and her laugh, pure magic, the kind that makes you smile away the stormiest day. Rainbow Girl convinces Ben to write a novel with her. But as their story unfolds Ben’s life begins to unravel, and Ben must discover for himself the truth about friendship and the meaning of home.
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When in Rome
Rome in the 1950s, there's nowhere quite like it. The narrow stone streets, the fountains and piazzas full of life in the heat of the day, the cafes and bars full of music and desire by night...
This is where Serafina calls home. Having grown-up with her sisters in a tiny apartment tucked in the top of a tumbledown building, she has watched her mother get by on next to nothing, and turn herself beautiful with a sweep of eyeliner and a hand-sewn dress.
When her mother goes out, Serafina and her sisters go singing in the nearest piazza, busking for spare change and cinema tickets. The girls long to meet their matinee idols and Serafina daydreams of Mario Lanza and his spellbinding voice. But the sisters will grow up quickly and for Serafina, a choice opens between the world she knows and the life she dreams of.
A captivating tale of love and music, food and passion, let Nicky Pellegrino take you on a journey to a city of beauty and heartbreak, at one of the most glamorous points in its magical history.
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Maliarova dcéra, 2. vydanie
Sophie Dupontová vypomáha otcovi v jeho ateliéri, zatiaľ čo vlastné práce si necháva pre seba. V súkromí sama maľuje čarovné severo-devonské pobrežie, obľúbené medzi výtvarníkmi, medzi ktorých patrí aj šarmantný Wesley Overtree. Toho však, ako sa zdá, zaujíma viac Sophie ako okolitá scenéria.
Kapitán Stephen Overtree je už zvyknutý, že na seba preberá povinnosti svojho brata Wesleyho. S blížiacim sa koncom dovolenky je poverený nájsť brata a priviesť ho domov. Keď však pricestuje do Devonshiru, zdesený zisťuje, že Wesley sa odplavil do Talianska a dcéru svojho hostiteľa zanechal vo vážnej situácii.
Stephen cíti zodpovednosť a zvláštnu potrebu ochrániť mladú dámu, ktorá mu pripadá akosi dôverne známa. S túžbou odškodniť vlastné minulé zlyhania rovnako ako aj bratove urobí slečne Dupontovej ponuku na sobáš. Neponúka jej lásku, iba manželstvo "na papieri", aby ju uchránil pred škandálom. Ak padne v boji, ako sa obáva, bude aspoň váženou vdovou.
Sophie, ktorá zúfalo hľadá východisko zo svojich ťažkostí, sa zmieta medzi svojou prvou láskou a týmto pochmúrnym mužom, ktorého sotva pozná. Trúfne si počkať na Wesleyho návrat? Alebo má prijať kapitánovu ponuku a modliť sa, aby to jedného dňa neoľutovala?
When in Rome
A city of love, food, music and passion - this is a novel for anyone who fell in love with LA DOLCE VITA. Rome in the 1950s, there's nowhere quite like it. The narrow stone streets, the fountains and piazzas full of life in the heat of the day, the cafes and bars full of music and desire by night...This is where Serafina calls home. Having grown up with her sisters in a tiny apartment tucked in the top of a tumbledown building, she has watched her mother get by on next to nothing, and turn herself beautiful with a sweep of eyeliner and a hand-sewn dress. When her mother goes out, Serafina and her sisters go singing in the nearest piazza, busking for spare change and cinema tickets. The girls long to meet their matinee idols and Serafina daydreams of Mario Lanza and his spellbinding voice. But the sisters will grow up quickly and for Serafina, a choice opens between the world she knows and the life she dreams of.
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Vianoce v Ivy Hille
Strávte Vianoce v anglickej dedinke Ivy Hill, kde v zázračnom súzvuku pôsobia nádej, priateľstvo a nečakaná romantika
Richard Brockwell, mladší syn najvýznamnejšej ivyhillskej rodiny, neprišiel na Vianoce domov už niekoľko rokov. Radšej ich trávi v rodinnom dome v Londýne, ďaleko od Brockwell Courtu. Stále ho prenasleduje staré rodinné tajomstvo a tiene chýb z minulosti. Tento rok sa mu však matka vyhráža, že ak nepríde na Vianoce domov, prestane mu jeho bezstarostný život platiť. Keďže nemá na výber, vyberie sa do Ivy Hillu, rozhodnutý vrátiť sa hneď po sviatkoch späť do Londýna.
Vianoce na vidieku sú však plné prekvapení, vrátane stretnutia s mladým osirelým učňom, prvou láskou, ktorú pred rokmi sklamal, a s Arabellou Awdryovou, mladou dámou, ktorá je oveľa príťažlivejšia, ako si pamätal a ktorá je rozhodnutá nič si s ním nezačať.
Zmenia Vianoce v Ivy Hille so svojím vidieckym šarmom, kytičkami imela a veselými piesňami jeho srdce a jej tiež?
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When You Were Older
I was doing my best to get out the door. And then the phone rang. I almost let it go. New York, September 11th, 2001 Russell Ammiano is rushing to work when he gets a phone call that saves his life. As the city he loves is hit by unimaginable tragedy, Russell must turn his back and hurry home to Kansas. Kansas, September 14th 2001 Ben Ammiano is mentally disabled, and a creature of habit. Any change to his routine sends him into a spin. But now his estranged brother has reappeared, and Ben's simple, ordered world has turned upside down. In a story as heartbreaking as it is uplifting, two brothers must bury their pasts and learn from each other, if they are to survive.
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Things You Can Only See When You Slow Down
The Times Top 10 Bestseller
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WITH OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD
'Is it the world that's busy, or my mind?'
The world moves fast, but that doesn't mean we have to. In this timely guide to mindfulness, Haemin Sunim, a Buddhist monk born in Korea and educated in the United States, offers advice on everything from handling setbacks to dealing with rest and relationships, in a beautiful book combining his teachings with calming full-colour illustrations. Haemin Sunim's simple messages - which he first wrote when he responded to requests for advice on social media - speak directly to the anxieties that have become part of modern life and remind us of the strength and joy that come from slowing down.
Hugely popular in Korea, Haemin Sunim is a Zen meditation teacher whose teachings transcend religion, borders and ages. With insight and compassion drawn from a life full of change, the bestselling monk succeeds at encouraging all of us to notice that when you slow down, the world slows down with you.
Nevesta z Ivy Greenu
Poďte opäť do Ivy Hillu, dedinky, kde majú ľudia pevné vzťahy, kde víťazí láska a tajomstvá budú čoskoro odhalené
Vo vzduchu je jar a zmena. Mercy Groveová sa musela vzdať svojej dievčenskej školy a je presvedčená, že už navždy zostane starou dievkou, keďže muž, ktorého miluje, je nedosiahnuteľný. Premýšľa o tom, že opustí Ivy Hill a stane sa guvernantkou toto rozhodnutie bude mať dôsledky, o akých sa jej ani nesnívalo.
Jej priateľka Jane Bellová zatiaľ čelí inému rozhodnutiu. Má sa vydať za Gabriela Lockea a vzdať sa hostinca? Má ďalšieho muža odsúdiť na bezdetné manželstvo?
Keď sa v dedine objaví tajomná krajčírka, Mercy, Jane a ostatné dámy sa s ňou pokúsia spriateliť, ale čoskoro im začne byť jasné, že nie je tým, za koho sa vydáva. Ženy z Ivy Hillu sa tešia na jednu svadbu, ale čakajú ich mnohé prekvapenia a niektoré sny sa ešte môžu stať skutočnosťou.
When Genius Failed
Picking up where Liar's Poker left off (literally, in the bond dealer's desks of Salomon Brothers) the story of Long-Term Capital Management is of a group of elite investors who believed they could beat the market and, like alchemists, create limitless wealth for themselves and their partners.
Founded by John Meriweather, a notoriously confident bond dealer, along with two Nobel prize winners and a floor of Wall Street's brightest and best, Long-Term Captial Management was from the beginning hailed as a new gold standard in investing. It was to be the hedge fund to end all other hedge funds: a discreet private investment club limited to those rich enough to pony up millions.
It became the banks' own favourite fund and from its inception achieved a run of dizzyingly spectacular returns. New investors barged each other aside to get their investment money into LTCM's hands. But as competitors began to mimic Meriweather's fund, he altered strategy to maintain the fund's performance, leveraging capital with credit on a scale not fully understood and never seen before.
When the markets in Indonesia, South America and Russia crashed in 1998 LCTM's investments crashed with them and mountainous debts accumulated. The fund was in melt-down, and threatening to bring down into its trillion-dollar black hole a host of financial instiutions from New York to Switzerland. It's a tale of vivid characters, overwheening ambition, and perilous drama told, in Roger Lowenstein's hands, with brilliant style and panache.
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Hostinec v Ivy Hille
Prvá séria od obľúbenej autorky!
Vitajte v anglickej dedinke Ivy Hill, kde ľudí spájajú pevné priateľstvá, kde láska kvitne a tajomstvá čakajú na svoje odhalenie
Srdcom dedinky Ivy Hill je zájazdný hostinec The Bell. Po náhlej smrti majiteľa sa jeho vedenia zdráhavo ujíma mladá vdova Jane Bellová, ktorá o podnikaní nevie vôbec nič. Keďže v stávke je živobytie celej dediny a Jane má na krku veľkú pôžičku, musí nájsť spôsob, ako hostinec zachrániť.
Hoci má so svokrou Thorou, bývalou hostinskou, napätý vzťah, obracia sa s prosbou o pomoc práve na ňu. Thore, ktorá hľadá nový zmysel života, sa do cesty pripletú dvaja muž z jej minulosti. Ona sa už dávnejšie zaprisahala, že sa znova nevydá; podarí sa jednému z nich presvedčiť ju, aby láske ešte dala šancu?
Tlak z banky narastá a Jane sa pokúša odhaliť pohnútky niekoľkých mužov, vrátane záhadného cudzinca, ktorí o podnik prejavujú zvláštny záujem. Podarí sa Jane a jej priateľom prinavrátiť život hostincu i jej prázdnemu srdcu?
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When the Facts Change
A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and Thinking the Twentieth Century, spanning a career of extraordinary intellectual engagement. Edited and introduced by Jennifer Homans.
Tony Judt's first collection of essays, Reappraisals, was centred on twentieth-century Europe in history and memory. Some of Judt's most prominent and indeed controversial essays felt outside of the scope of Reappraisals, most notably his writings on the state of Israel and its relationship to Palestine. There would be time, it was thought, to fit these essays into a larger frame. Sadly, this would not be the case, at least during the author's own life.
Now, in When the Facts Change, Tony Judt's widow and fellow historian, Jennifer Homans, has found the frame, gathering together important essays from the span of Judt's career that chronicle both the evolution of his thought and the remarkable consistency of his passionate engagement and intellectual elan. Whether the subject is the scholarly poverty of the new social history, the willful blindness of French collective memory about what happened to the country's Jews during World War II, or the moral challenge to Israel of the so-called Palestinian problem, the majesty of Tony Judt's work lies in his combination of unsparing honesty, intellectual brilliance, and ethical clarity. When the Facts Change exemplifies the utility, indeed the necessity, of minding our history and not letting cheerful fictions suffice in its place. An emphatic demonstration of the power of a great historian to connect us more deeply to the world as it was, as it is, and as it should be, it is a fitting capstone to an extraordinary body of work.
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Lonely Planet's Where To Go When
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Where To Go When, the ultimate trip planner for every month of the year, is a beautifully illustrated book that is both practical and inspiring. For every month of the year it presents 30 recommendations of destinations that are at their best during each month, whether due to their climate, or value or because there's a lot going on. The suggestions feature every flavour of travel experience from culture-rich city breaks and tropical beach holidays to adventurous road trips and wildlife-watching expeditions. Every corner of the planet is covered so you'll find out when the best time to see mountain gorillas is or to go shopping in Paris. The book is organised by month. At the start of each chapter a flowchart guides you through the options so readers can filter the recommendations according to their interests. Whether you're into beaches, trying the local specialities or backpacking off the beaten path, there will suggestions for you. Diagrams also depict the climate, value for money and family friendliness of each suggestion in the month. Then Lonely Planet's authors explain in detail why each destination has been selected. The text describes the place and why it's special at that particular time. The destinations are illustrated by inspiring photographs and have a small infographic that shows the key reasons to go. Practical details make the first step of planning a trip easier. Packed with facts, photos and new ideas for your next adventure, Where to Go When will inspire and interest anybody who loves travel. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, gift and lifestyle books and stationery, as well as an award-winning website, magazines, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in. TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)
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When Buyers Say No
This is a complete and practical guide which highlights the authors' new strategic approaches to selling when the buyer initially declines or is resistant on a sales opportunity. Hopkins and Katt explain that most sales reps take a traditional linear approach to selling, but that the trick in closing is in taking a more creative and circular approach. That's the key. It all starts with how the buyer initially says, "No." Too many sales reps don't pay close attention as to how that's presented. Hopkins and Katt point out that "no" may suggest all sorts of other options -- avenues that can eventually led to the buyer actually saying yes. The authors introduce a novel concept called the Circle of Persuasion which offers sales reps a new approach in this tricky process. Along the way, WHEN BUYERS SAY NO details prescriptive steps and even sample dialogues that will instruct and guide sales professionals on how to best cultivate buyer-seller relationships. There's particular emphasis on how to establish the kind of rapport that ultimately leads to a successful close.
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When She Was Good
When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her irresponsible, alcoholic father thrown in jail. Since then, Lucy has become a furious adolescent - raging against middle-class life and provincial American piety - intent on reforming the men around her: especially her incompetent mama's boy of a husband, Roy. As time rolls on, Lucy struggles to free herself of the terrible disappointment engendered by her father, and is forever yearning for the man he could never be.
It is with scalpel-like precision that Roth depicts the rage, the hatred and the ferocity of feeling that soon takes hold of Lucy's life.
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When We Were Orphans
*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available*
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between London and Shanghai of the interwar years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.
'You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.' John Carey, Sunday Times
'Ishiguro is the best and most original novelist of his generation and When We Were Orphans could be by no other writer. It haunts the mind. It moves to tears.' Susan Hill, Mail on Sunday
'Discloses a writer not only near the height of his powers but in a league all of his own.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent
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Na druhom brehu
Cesta k pravej láske sa skrýva medzi rodinami dvoch zakladateľov Pittsburghu.
Na jar 1822 sa Ellie Ballantyneová rozhodne zanechať školu a vrátiť sa k rodičom do Pittsburghu. Po príchode domov však zistí, že rodičia sú na dlhšiu dobu odcestovaní a nezdá sa, že by súrodenci jej návrat ktovieako vítali. Ellie je však odhodlaná vzdorovať prekážkam a nájsť si svoje miesto na zemi. Zakrátko si otvorí dennú školu pre mladé slečny.
Keď sa však ukáže, že jednou z jej žiačok je aj nenapraviteľná mladá dáma z rodiny Turlockovcov, uvedomí si, že stojí na tenkom ľade. Turlockovci sú totiž otrokári a zámožní obchodníci s whisky. Závidia Ballantyneovcom ich vplyv a navyše ich podozrievajú z abolicionistických aktivít. Ellie sa čoraz väčšmi zamotáva do spleti vzťahov turlockovského klanu a najviac ju to ťahá k peknému Jackovi Turlockovi Láska, ktorá nemá budúcnosť. Zradí vlastnú rodinu a pridá sa k nepriateľovi?
Brilantná rozprávačka Laura Frantz rozvíja strhujúcu ságu rodiny Ballantyneovcov veľkolepým príbehom o láske a oddanosti. Ony sú tým ballantyneovským dedičstvom.
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Dáma z Milkweed Manoru
Keď sa Charlotte priblížila k vysokej sivej budove, ktorá sa mala stať jej dočasným domovom, nemohla si nevšimnúť tajomne zastreté okná. A potom si všimla tú zvláštnu záhradu...
Aj slušná dcéra anglikánskeho duchovného môže spraviť chybu... a Charlotte Lambová musí za svoj poklesok zaplatiť vysokú cenu. Ak sa chce vyhnúť všetečným pohľadom všetkých, ktorí ju poznajú, musí sa ukryť v londýnskej rezidencii naháňajúcej hrôzu, v záhadnom dome plnom starých tajomstiev a nového života.
Tu sa stretáva so svojím bývalým nápadníkom – mužom, ktorý je sám plný tajomstiev. Obaja sú odhodlaní s Božou pomocou ochrániť tých, ktorých milujú. Ani jeden z nich však netuší, akú veľkú obetu bude musieť priniesť.
Román Dáma z Milkweed Manor je dojímavým romantickým príbehom o vykúpení z minulých pádov a kráse obetujúcej sa lásky, pretkaný fascinujúcimi detailmi zo života žien v regentskom Anglicku.
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