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The Lost Pianos of Siberia
Siberia's expansive history is traditionally one of exiles, bitter cold and suffering. Yet there is another tale to tell.
Dotted throughout this remote and beautiful landscape are pianos created during the boom years of the nineteenth century. They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian culture under the influence of Catherine the Great, piano music has run through the country like blood. How these pianos made the journey into this snow-bound wilderness in the first place is remarkable. That they might be capable of making music in such a hostile landscape feels like a miracle.
The Lost Pianos of Siberia is an absorbing story about a piano hunt - a quixotic quest through two centuries of Russian history and eight time zones stretching across an eleventh of the world's land surface. It reveals not only an unexpected musical legacy, but profound and brave humanity in the last place on earth you might expect to find it.
Innocence Lost
She wanted to run her father's business. She got a mad prince, demons, ghosts and a kingdom in debt.
As the only child of a successful merchant, Johanna has her wits and a sense for business.
The royal family is in deep trouble: ever since the crown princess died of illness, the king has attempted to educate his son to become king. However, the prince is "not good in the head" and quite unsuited to the task. In his grief for his daughter, the king has run the coffers dry: he hired dubious magicians for even more dubious tasks. Those magicians circle like vultures waiting for the kingdom to fail. The king must get his son on the throne, preferably supported by a smart and well-off wife.
He holds a ball in his son's honour. Johanna has agreed to a dance. But the guests include a number of magicians who are not there for the festivities.
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The Lost Country, Episode Four
First came the time-storm, which erased half the population. Then came the Dinosaur Apocalypse …
How did it all begin? Well, that depends on where you were and who you ask. In some places it started with the weather—which quickly became unstable and began behaving in impossible ways. In still others it started with the lights in the sky, which shifted and pulsed and could not be explained. Elsewhere it started with the disappearances: one here, a few there, but increasing in occurrence until fully three quarters of the population had vanished. Either way, there is one thing on which everyone agrees—it didn't take long for the prehistoric flora and fauna to start showing up (often appearing right where someone was standing, in which case the two were fused, spliced, amalgamated). It didn't take long for the great Time-displacement called the Flashback—which was brief but had aftershocks, like an earthquake—to change the face of the earth. Nor for the stories, some long and others short, some from before the maelstrom (and resulting societal collapse) and others after, to be recorded.
Welcome to the Lost Country.
From "The Devil's Triangle":
There were six of them, as I said—all of whom rushed us the instant our feet touched the ground. All of whom snarled and charged us like wolverines as we raised our weapons and fired—the flare gun cracking and hissing, blanching the scarlet haze (for the sun had painted everything red and gold), its projectile punching through one of the raptors’ chests and lighting it up so that its ribs were backlit briefly and I could see, if only for an instant, its burning, beating heart.
Yet still they came, another one leaping at me even as I dropped the gun—which clattered against the planks—as I dropped it and grabbed the thing by its neck—then brought the knife down with my other hand and stabbed it between the eyes.
“Run!” I shouted, even as Amanda shot another—her second—and then bolted toward the shore, drawing the others so that I was able to snatch up the flare gun and quickly reload it; so that I was able to pursue them and to shoot one in the back—while Amanda turned and took out the last of them (shooting it in the head so that the back of its skull exploded like a spaghetti dinner thrown against the wall; so that it collapsed, writhing, about 10 feet in front of her—whereupon she quickly approached it and shot it again, just to be sure).
And then she looked at me (as the dead and dying animals lay all around us) and I looked back: our chests heaving; our faces covered in sweat, our worn clothes bloody and disheveled, and I knew that she knew—which was that today we were the predators, the thing needing to be feared—the killers. And that neither of us needed to worry; not about food or other predators or mysterious lights in the sky or anything. Because we were the masters of our fate, we and no one else, not even God. And we were the master of the world’s fate, too.
At which she ran to me and we collided and I held her fast, there on the long jetty in the Atlantic Ocean (in the Bermuda Triangle), there beneath a day moon and the blood-red sky, in an instant in which it was good, so very good, not to be afraid, not to be alone. And as to what may or may not have happened in those breaths, those pulse points between that moment and the next—the next day, the next search, the next milestone; as to that, I offer only a quote from Gandhi: “Speak only if it improves upon the silence.”
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Lost Face
Lost Face was written in the year 1910 by Jack London. This book is one of the most popular novels of Jack London, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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The Flowers I Lost
During our tiny life span, we face uncountable magical moments and none of them lasts forever but we wish it could. This book is made of some of such kind of stories.
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On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle
In 1926, the communist avant-garde poet Konstantin Biebl (18981951) travelled from Czechoslovakia to the Dutch East Indies. In his texts, poetic and often comic, both landlocked Bohemia and the colonized tropical islands are seen disorientingly anew, like mirrors looking at themselves in each other. On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle takes the reader on a journey crisscrossing the poets life and work, with particular attention to his travel writing and his dreams and memories of travel, as they mirror the book authors own life experience as a Czech scholar of Indonesia living in island Southeast Asia. Biebls poetry and travels are also the books point of departure for a broader exploration of the intersections of travel and poetry, the attitudes to colonial/social injustice, and the representation of otherness in Czech literary and visual imagination, beyond Biebls times. In its attention to how poetic travel reflects the Czech historical experience in the shadow of imperial nations, the book moves scholarly reflection on literary travel, modernity, and colonialism to a new ground.
Jan Mrázek grew up in Czechoslovakia and lives on an island in the Malay Archipelago. He is Associate Professor in Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore and has published widely on Indonesia, seafaring, and Czech travel writing.
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The Love I lost
Anglická verzia diela "O koľko lásky som prišla".
Rozprávanie o živote pred vojnou a o prežití rasovo prenasledovanej rodiny v priebehu II. svetovej vojny. Príbeh o spôsobe života, o tragických stratách, o strachu, o utrpení aj o odvahe. Príbeh o schopnosti statočných ľudí pomôcť v hraničných životných situáciách svojim spoluobčanom.
Spomienka na návrat a na opätovné zaradenie sa do spoločnosti a do života po vojne. Vplyv prežitého na druhú aj tretiu generáciu tejto rodiny.
Lost & Found - Veszteség és rátalálás
Azért ilyen nehéz tehát elfogadnunk akár a legapróbb veszteséget is, mert rádöbbent, hogy nem körülöttünk forog a világ, nem tudunk mindent megoldani, véges a hatalmunk. A vesztés alázatra tanít. Rákényszerít, hogy szembenézzünk elménk korlátaival: a ténnyel, hogy a vendéglőben hagytuk a pénztárcánkat; a ténnyel, hogy nem emlékszünk, hol hagytuk. Rákényszerít, hogy szembenézzünk akaratunk korlátaival: a ténnyel, hogy nem áll hatalmunkban megvédeni szeretett tárgyainkat az idővel, a változással, a véletlennel szemben. Mindenekelőtt pedig rákényszerít, hogy szembenézzünk a létezés korlátaival: a ténnyel, hogy előbb-utóbb szinte minden elenyészik vagy megsemmisül. Veszteségeink újra meg újra azt sugallják, hogy számolnunk kell ezzel az egyetemes mulandósággal - a döbbenetes, őrjítő, szívszakasztó ténnyel, hogy valaminek, ami az előbb még itt volt, hirtelen nyoma vész.
Hitték volna, hogy átlagosan kétszázezer tárgyat veszítünk el életünk során? És elgondolkodtak már azon, hogy miképpen viszonyulnak hétköznapi veszteségeink az egész lényünket érintő, "nagy" veszteségeinkhez? Kathryn Schulz újságírót egy megtalált szerelem és egy mélységes gyász egyidejű, együttes élménye vezette arra, hogy esszé-memoár regényében feltegye magának ezeket a kérdéseket. Ez az ikertapasztalat adja könyvének gerincét, amelyben a szerző többek között azt vizsgálja, hogy a veszteség és a rátalálás kölcsönhatása hogyan formálja az életünket. Rávilágít a keresés fontosságára, legyen szó ősi romokról, új eszmékről, barátságról, hitről, értelemről vagy szerelemről. A The New Yorker munkatársaként dolgozó, Pulitzer-díjas Schulz kíváncsian, gyengéden és humorral ír öröm és bánat kapcsolatáról - és arról, hogyan kapcsolódhatunk mi, emberek egymáshoz.
Ztracený řád
Obrovské jmění shromážděné tajným Řádem by stačilo k financování plánu na zásadní změnu společenského uspořádání Spojených států. Zbývá ho jen najít...
Rytíři Zlatého kruhu byli největší a nejnebezpečnější tajnou organizací v americké historii. Nashromáždili nezměrné jmění, které bezpečně poschovávali v podzemních úkrytech po celých Spojených státech. Tyto skrýše se už od dob americké občanské války pokoušejí najít hledači pokladů, ale všichni bezúspěšně.
Až teď, o sto šedesát let později, se objevily dvě frakce Řádu, které usilují o získání skrytého zlata a stříbra. Jedna skupina hodlá poklad zneužít k získání moci, druhá jej chce zachovat netknutý.
Do tohoto lítého sporu je proti vlastní vůli vtažen bývalý agent Cotton Malone, který má k Řádu mnohem blíž, než by kdo čekal. V centru veškerého dění je totiž Smithsonův institut, odkud vedou nitky nejen k rytířům a pokladu, ale i k Malonovi samotnému. Jeho dávný předek Angus Adams totiž býval špionem Konfederace a jak se zdá, životní příběh dávno zesnulého muže představuje jediný klíč k nalezení ztraceného bohatství Řádu. A protože je v sázce velmi mnoho, brzy začne všem aktérům jít o život.
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Half Bad - Fogság
nem tudsz írni, olvasni
de a sebeid gyorsan gyógyulnak,
még egy boszorkányhoz képest is
nem bírod ki naplemente után
a négy fal között
gyűlölöd a Fehér Boszorkányokat,
de Annalise-t szereted,
pedig ő is az
tizennégy éves korod óta
ketrecben tartottak
csak meg kell szöknöd
és megtalálnod Mercuryt, a Fekete
Boszorkányt, aki fiúkat eszik
és mindezt még a
tizenhetedik születésnapod előtt
nem nagy cucc
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Paradise Lost
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When We Got Lost In Dreamland
The landmark new novel from Ross Welford, one of the fastest-growing and most critically acclaimed middle grade authors in the UK, this funny, moving and brilliant sixth book cements his position as the most exciting storyteller around for readers of 10+.
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From tree-top flights and Spanish galleons, to thrilling battles and sporting greatness - it seems like nothing is out of reach when you can share a dream with someone else.
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Revenge Of The Lost Family
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Eight years ago, all the members of the Marques family were brutally murdered, except for one, Venia Marques. She has been locked up in the Los Angeles Prison for the past 7 years. Which member of the Marques family has returned from the dead to seek revenge?
Why does this murderer leave behind a clue with every dead body? To challenge the police? Or to tell the world what ACTUALLY happened with the Marques family eight years ago? Detective Azriel Rovner must get his hands upon the fugitive before he can create a deadly havoc in the city, and he is in for a dangerous chase of the dead...About the author:
Mohit Achra is an indie author, artist and entrepreneur. He has been studying Bachelor's in Visual Arts at Techno Group Of Institutions, Lucknow. Mohit's first literary work to be published world-wide was "Soul of the Demon God", a stand-alone fantasy novel, that was released in November 2019. Mohit also has his very own brand known as "Artembryo", where his team works towards encouraging youth artists in our country.
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Minecraft: The Lost Journals
The brand-new official Minecraft novel is a journey into the unknown! When a young girl teams up with her friend to find the boy's missing uncle, they must leave the safety of the Overworld behind.
Alison and Max must team up to find his missing uncle Nicholas. Using the journal his beloved uncle left as a guide, the duo hurtle headlong into a treacherous and unknown landscape called the Nether. There, they meet a strange girl named Freya and her woefully unheroic dog, Bunny Biter, who agree to help them in their quest. The group must take on dangerous new foes and unravel the cryptic journal to find Nicholas and reunite this fractured family.
Slow Productivity : The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
From the New York Times bestselling author of Digital Minimalism and Deep Work, a groundbreaking philosophy for pursuing meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overload.
Our current definition of “productivity” is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. We’re overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition altogether. But are these really our only choices?
Long before the arrival of pinging inboxes and clogged schedules, history’s most creative and impactful philosophers, scientists, artists, and writers mastered the art of producing valuable work with staying power. In this timely and provocative book, Cal Newport harnesses the wisdom of these traditional knowledge workers to radically transform our modern jobs. Drawing from deep research on the habits and mindsets of a varied cast of storied thinkers – from Galileo and Isaac Newton, to Jane Austen and Georgia O’Keefe – Newport lays out the key principles of “slow productivity,” a more sustainable alternative to the aimless overwhelm that defines our current moment. Combining cultural criticism with systematic pragmatism, Newport deconstructs the absurdities inherent in standard notions of productivity, and then provides step-by-step advice for cultivating a slower, more humane alternative.
From the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, Slow Productivity provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment. The world of work is due for a new revolution. Slow productivity is exactly what we need.
On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle
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The Lost Decade
The Lost Decade was written in the year 1939 by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. This book is one of the most popular novels of Francis Scott Fitzgerald, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.
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The Lost Planet of Enki
This book penetrates the ancient UFO evidence that has successfully been collected and tied to the Sumerian tablets of Mesopotamia and the ancestral bloodline of Jesus Christ. The author believes that modern unidentified flying objects, the story of creation of the Book of Genesis, the life of Jesus, and the ancient off-earth aliens of time gone are not only related but that they must be the same phenomenon. Namely, the same quasi-eternal space humans interacting with Earth during different periods of its history.
The hypothesis of a real-life galactic empire, realistically dressed with the idea of ‘a Force’ and dominating this region of the Milky Way is introduced. The humans of Earth are in for a real shock when it becomes clear that we might eventually become members of a rebel alliance. Four galactic human species are recognized from Earth’s own records!
You are about to uncover the author’s 37-year research on the obscure origin, the current psychological condition, and the expected detrimental destiny of the humans of Earth.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Lost Phoebe (EN)
"The Lost Phoebe" is a short story by Theodore Dreiser. Henry is so devastated by the death of his wife that cannot find peace, he finds himself constantly searching for her. He slowly yet inevitably descends into madness. Dreiser’s vivid descriptions of the couple’s happy days offer a sharp contrast to Henry's gloomy present.
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