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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide
One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century, amplified by China's establishment of an all-seeing high-tech surveillance state. Over a million people have vanished into China's internment camps for Muslim minorities.
Tahir, a prominent poet and intellectual, had been no stranger to persecution. After he attempted to travel abroad in 1996, police tortured him until he confessed to fabricated charges and sent him to a re-education through labour camp. But even having endured three years in the camp, he could never have predicted the Chinese government's radical solution to the Uyghur question two decades later. When he noticed that the park near his home was nearly empty because so many neighbours had been arrested, he knew the police would be coming for him any day. It soon became clear to Tahir and his wife that fleeing the country was the family's only hope.
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night is the story of the political, social, and cultural destruction of Tahir Hamut Izgil's homeland. Among leading Uyghur intellectuals and writers, he is the only one known to have escaped China since the mass internments began. His book is a call for the world to awaken to the unfolding catastrophe, and a tribute to his friends and fellow Uyghurs whose voices have been silenced.
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Lacná kniha The Salt Road (-90%)
From the author of The Tenth Gift comes another story of exotic, foreign lands, entwining storylines spanning generations, and the quests to overcome love lost. ""My dear Isabelle, in the attic you will find a box with your name on it.""Isabelle's estranged archeologist father dies, leaving her a puzzle. In a box she finds some papers and a mysterious African amulet -- but their connection to her remains unclear until she embarks on a trip to Morocco to discover how the amulet came into her father's possession. When the amulet is damaged and Isabelle almost killed in an accident, she fears her curiosity has got the better of her. But Taib, her rescuer, knows the dunes and their peoples, and offers to help uncover the amulet's extraordinary history, involving Tin Hinan -- She of the Tents -- who made a legendary crossing of the desert, and her beautiful descendant Mariata. Across years and over hot, shifting sands, tracking the Salt Road, the stories of Isabelle and Taib, Mariata and her lover, become entangled with that of the lost amulet. It is a tale of souls wounded by history and of love blossoming on barren ground. "From the Hardcover edition."
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Ill Fait ce qu´il Peut
Martin Corridon le savait, cela ne pouvait pas durer. Sa combine commençait s'éventer. Il avait beau séduire, faire peur, et avoir un passif impressionnant, les bruits le concernant se faisaient de plus en plus précis. Viendrait le moment o il lui faudrait sortir avec une escorte. L'argent se faisait rare. Mme s'il ne le souhaitait pas son pire ennemi, il allait devoir répondre aux appels du colonel. L non plus rien de légal ou presque. Aprs tout, infiltrer un groupe de clandestins en pratiquant le meurtre, mme pour le gouvernement, n'était qu'une autre forme d'arnaque avec des cadavres en plus... Il fait ce qu'il peut a paru en 1951 sous le pseudonyme de Raymond Marshall dans la collection Un mystre " sous le titre Ne tirez pas sur le pianiste."
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Lacná kniha Ill Fait ce qu´il Peut
Martin Corridon le savait, cela ne pouvait pas durer. Sa combine commençait s'éventer. Il avait beau séduire, faire peur, et avoir un passif impressionnant, les bruits le concernant se faisaient de plus en plus précis. Viendrait le moment o il lui faudrait sortir avec une escorte. L'argent se faisait rare. Mme s'il ne le souhaitait pas son pire ennemi, il allait devoir répondre aux appels du colonel. L non plus rien de légal ou presque. Aprs tout, infiltrer un groupe de clandestins en pratiquant le meurtre, mme pour le gouvernement, n'était qu'une autre forme d'arnaque avec des cadavres en plus... Il fait ce qu'il peut a paru en 1951 sous le pseudonyme de Raymond Marshall dans la collection Un mystre " sous le titre Ne tirez pas sur le pianiste."
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We Are the Smurfs: Better Together! (We Are the Smurfs Book 2)
The zany, Smurf-tacular tales continue in the second volume in this graphic novel series for young readers—now in paperback!
Follow the Smurfs in the second volume of the all-new We Are the Smurfs comic series that focuses on emotional learning, social responsibility, and overall Smurf-iness!
Featuring three stories and back matter dedicated to helping children explore and better understand their emotions, this full-color graphic novel features Smurfette, Papa Smurf, and everyone else as they go on brand new adventures and escape from Gargamel’s clutches! This paperback edition also includes a sneak peek of the upcoming third volume.
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Clara & Olivia
Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection?
Sadler's Wells, 1933.
I would kill to dance like her.
Disciplined and dedicated, Olivia is the perfect ballerina. But no matter how hard she works, she can never match identical twin Clara's charm.
I would kill to be with her.
As rehearsals intensify for the ballet Coppélia, the girls feel increasingly like they are being watched. And, as infatuation turns to obsession, everything begins to unravel.
The Complete Fiction
Throughout her short but brilliant literary career, Nell Larsen wrote piercing dramas about the black middle class that featured sensitive, spirited heroines struggling to find a place where they belong. Passing is a disturbing story about the unravelling lives of two childhood friends, one of whom turns her back on her past and marries a white racist. Just as disquieting is the portrait in Quicksand of biracial Helga Crane, who is unable to escape her loneliness no matter where and with whom she lives.Race and marriage offer few securities here or in the other stories in this compulsively readable collection, rich in psychological complexities and imbued with a vibrant sense of place - be it 1920s Harlem, Chicago, or Copenhagen.
The Exiled
Trust no one.
It is six months since the Arcadia set sail for the first time in forty years. But this wasn't the freedom the inhabitants were hoping for. Esther Crossland did what she had to do, but it has left a trail of destruction in her wake. Now the wrecked ship is abandoned. Its inhabitants are in exile, trapped in sprawling make-shift shelters made up of warehouse, tents, shipping containers.
Esther and Nik, architects of the rebellion, are on the run. Esther is in hiding, desperate to do something to help her people, and Nik seems to have abandoned all hope, on a journey taking him further and further from home. And neither of them want to face up to their true feelings about one another...
Not only that, there is a new villain in town. With the fall of Commander Hadley, it's left to the ruthless Admiral Janek to deal with the traitors, and her own past is beginning to catch-up with her.
Then the shaky ceasefire negotiated by General Lall, Nik's mum, falls apart. Nik and Esther find themselves in a world of betrayals and double crossings - a game of power, with no one to trust but themselves.
It's time for the final showdown.
Kay Nielsen. 1001 Nights
In the late 1910s, in a Europe ravaged by World War I, Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen put the finishing touches on his illustrations of A Thousand and One Nights. The results are considered masterpieces of early 20th-century illustration: bursting with sumptuous colors of deep blues, reds, and gold leaf, and evoking all the magic of this legendary collection of Indo-Persian and Arabic folktales, compiled between the 8th and 13th centuries.However, publishers retreated from Nielsen's project in the financially strapped postwar climate, and the publication never happened.
A rising star, Nielsen moved on to other work. This world heritage classic's spectacular pen, ink, and watercolor images remained under lock and key for 40 years. Published just once in the 1970s, the illustrations were rescued from oblivion after Nielsen's death in 1957 and are now held by the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Art Institute of Chicago, and in two private collections.This publication is a unique compilation of fine art prints and stunning illustrations reproduced directly from Nielsen's original watercolors?the only complete set of his extraordinary drawings to have survived.
The book features descriptions of all of the images and three generously illustrated essays on the making of this series, the origin of Nielsen's unique imagery, and a history of the tales. In addition, it shows many unpublished or rarely seen artworks by Nielsen and intricate black-and-white drawings Nielsen created for the original publication.
The Nutcracker
Written in 1816 by the German Romantic E. T. A. Hoffmann for his children, nephews and nieces, The Nutcracker captures better than any other story a child's wonder at Christmas. Since its publication, it has inspired hundreds of artists and adaptations, most notably the legendary ballet, scored by Russian composer Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Today, the story - and its enchanting images of sugar plums and nutcrackers, mistletoe and the Kingdom of the Dolls - continues to cast its fantastical spell on readers of all ages.
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was one of the major figures of European Romanticism, specializing in tales of the fantastical and uncanny. He was also a music critic, jurist, composer and caricaturist. His Tales of Hoffmann, available in Penguin Classics, includes such masterpieces as 'Mademoiselle de Scudery', one of the earliest example of crime fiction, and Hoffmann's terrifying version of 'The Sandman'.
Joachim Neugroschel won three PEN translation awards and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. He translated Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs, among other works, for Penguin Classics.
A kór - Kór trilógia 1.
Egy Boeing 777-es száll le a JFK repülőtéren, de hirtelen lefékez az aszfaltcsík kellős közepén. A sötétítők lehúzva. Az áram elment. A kommunikációs összeköttetés megszakadt. A földi személyzet tanácstalan, ám ekkor segélykérő üzenet érkezik. Dr. Eph Goodweather, a Kanári projekt névre keresztelt, biológiai fenyegetéseket vizsgáló gyorsreagálású csoport vezetője fogadja a hívást, és azonnal a géphez siet. Amikor körülnéz a fedélzeten, megfagy benne a vér.
Spanyol Harlem egyik zálogházában az egykori egyetemi tanár és holokauszt-túlélő, Abraham Setrakian érzi, hogy történt valami. És tudja, hogy elérkezett az idő, hogy háború készülődik...
Amikor a vámpírvírus, amely már New Yorkot is megfertőzte, elharapózik az utcákon, megkezdődik a gigantikus méretű háború. Ephnek, akit Setrakian és egy szedett-vedett csapat segít a harcban, meg kell fékeznie a járványt, és meg kell mentenie a városát - a várost, ahol a felesége és a fia is lakik -, mielőtt még túl késő.
What Milo Saw
A BIG story about a small boy who sees the world a little differently Milo curled his thumb and forefinger together to make a small hole and held his fingers up to Al's eyes. 'Look through here. That's what I see. Kind of, only worse.' 'Wow, that must be amazing.' Milo shrugged. 'Not really.' 'I mean, it makes you focus, doesn't it? I bet you see all kinds of stuff that other people miss.' Nine-year-old Milo Moon has retinitis pigmentosa: his eyes are slowly failing and he will eventually go blind. But for now he sees the world through a pin hole and notices things other people don't. When Milo's beloved gran succumbs to dementia and moves into a nursing home, Milo soon realises there's something wrong at the home. So with just Tripi, the nursing home's cook, and Hamlet, his pet pig, to help, Milo sets out on a mission to expose the nursing home and the sinister Nurse Thornhill. Insightful, wise and surprising, What Milo Saw is filled with big ideas and simple truths. Milo sees the world in a very special way and it will be impossible for you not to fall in love with him and then share his story with everyone you know.
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Hands Down
THRILLERS THAT RACE FROM THE VERY FIRST PAGE...
An old friend in need, a dangerous conspiracy – a new case for Sid Halley…
Sid Halley, former British jump racing champion and private detective, is not having a good time. His wife Marina has decided she needs some time out of their marriage to think about the future and Sid is devastated. But then Gary Bremner, an ex-jockey trainer, calls him to ask for his help – he is being threatened by someone in the racing world and he needs a friend he can trust. However, the very next morning, Gary’s stable yard is torched, horses killed, and Gary has disappeared.
Determined to uncover the truth and to help his friend, Sid starts to investigate. He soon finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy that cuts to the very heart of the integrity of British horse racing, and then danger comes closer to home than ever.
Can Sid get to the bottom of what’s going on before he too becomes a victim, while, at the same time, saving his marriage?
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The Witcher Volume 7: The Ballad Of Two Wolves
Hailed as the greatest monster slayer—the infamous witcher Geralt is beckoned to the town of Grimmwald. When a strange occurrence stirs murmurs of a werewolf on the prowl, rumors spread surrounding the arrival of three wealthy sisters—who turned the poverty-stricken town into a flourishing tourist destination, but this change wasn’t welcome by all the town’s residents. Change creates more than fear and anger—but can conceive new enemies . . . and even monsters. With a grand mystery and a beast to slay, Dandelion may just find the inspiration he needs to write the perfect ballad.
Created in close collaboration with CD Projekt Red! Collects issues #1–#4 of the Dark Horse Comics series The Witcher: The Ballad of Two Wolves.
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The House of Doors
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of the early twentieth century. But in 1921 he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health and business interests that have gone badly awry. He is also struggling to write.
His friend Robert Hamlyn offers an escape in the Straits Settlements of Penang, where Robert's steely wife Lesley learns to see Willie as he is - a man who has no choice but to mask his true self.
As Willie prepares to leave, Lesley confides in him secrets of her own, including how she came to know the charismatic revolutionary Dr Sun Yat Sen. And more scandalous still, her connection to an Englishwoman charged with murder in the Kuala Lumpur courts - a tragedy drawn from fact, and worthy of fiction.
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Batman Lil Gotham Calendar Daze
Starting with Batman teaching Robin the true meaning of Halloween and ending with some Father s Day fun as the al Ghuls and Gordons sit down for dinner, Batman: Li l Gotham: Calendar Daze includes all the holiday fun you expect from these heroes and villains. These holiday-centric adventures feature a rogues gallery of appearances by The Penguin, Mr. Freeze, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, The Joker and much more! Collects Batman: Li'l Gotham #1-6.
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Batman & The Joker: The Deadly Duo: The Deluxe Edition
When mysterious monsters are abducting Gotham citizens, Batman will have to team up with his archnemesis—The Joker—to protect his city.
The Joker will go to any lengths to get Harley Quinn back after she is abducted by a strange culprit. But who? Mysterious, Joker-like monsters are stalking the streets of Gotham, collecting severed heads. But why? Jim Gordon is missing, and after receiving a package containing a bloody piece of Gotham’s commissioner, Batman knows he must be willing to do anything to save him. But how?
When The Joker proposes an uneasy alliance with Batman, the answers to those questions begin to become clear— and they will shake Gotham City and the Bat-Family to their core.
This meticulously crafted tale of the Dark Knight’s deadliest team-up will introduce you to a grim and gritty Gotham that only Marc Silvestri could bring you.
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Cells at Work! Omnibus 1 (Vols. 1-3)
Get swept away by the drama in your own bloodstream, with the acclaimed manga that inspired the hit anime. The complete series is now available in these two oversized, 600-page volumes!
Hailed by doctors and educators for its fun and accurate depictions, Cells at Work! follows the spunky Red Blood Cell and cold-as-ice White Blood Cell as they navigate all manner of health problems from the inside out.
Includes Vol. 1-3 of Cells at Work!
Follow the 37 trillion cells inside a human body, including Red Blood Cell, White Blood Cell, Macrophage, and, of course, the cute, little Platelets, as they face off against threats like cedar pollen, parasites, food poisoning, staph infection, and their ultimate nemesis, cancer. Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, these tiny workers are doing their best to keep you moving.
This new omnibus edition brings the series back in a larger page size, with three volumes in one. Collect the entire series in just two books!
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