Hľadanie: Lucian Freud
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Talpra, halottak!
Sophia Siméonidis, a görög származású operaénekesnő egy ideje visszavonultan él párizsi villájában, unalmas férje mellett. Egy reggel arra ébred, hogy az éjjel valaki elültetett a kertjében egy bükkfát. A babonás Sophiát rossz előérzet gyötri, ezért segítségért fordul a szomszéd házat bérlő három csóró bölcsészhez. Az énekesnő váratlan eltűnése után a három történész a negyedik lakótárs, egy minden hájjal megkent volt zsaru segítségével izgalmas nyomozásba kezd. A fordulatokban gazdag történetben többen is gyanúba keverednek; gyilkosság gyilkosságot követ, de sem az élőket, sem a holtakat nem könnyű azonosítani. A megfejtés szálai a múltba vezetnek, a majdnem tökéletes bűntényt kitervelő gyilkos viszont ott van a közelben...
A Fred Vargas írói álnéven működő, nemzetközi hírű és igen népszerű írónő civilben középkorász. Okos és mulatságos regényei krimik a javából. A "Talpra, halottak!"-at Fred Vargas-sorozat második darabjaként jelent meg.
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Die Wahlverwandtschaften
Baron Eduard hat seine Jugendliebe Charlotte geheiratet und kann sich nun der gärtnerisch-architektonischen Umgestaltung seines Landguts widmen. Als er seinen Freund, den Hauptmann Otto, als Dauergast aufnimmt, lädt seine Frau aus Vorahnung ihre unschuldig-jugendliche Nichte Ottilie ein. Dem Titel entsprechend, entstehen zwei unheilvolle Liebesbeziehungen. Charlotte und Otto versagen sich zunächst ihre Neigung zueinander, während Eduard sich rückhaltlos in Ottilie verliebt. In einer Nacht in der beide Ehepartner an den jeweils anderen denken, wird ein Kind gezeugt; die beiden Liebespaare aber gestehen einander ihre Gefühle. Die Situation ist für alle Personen unhaltbar geworden; Otto reist ab und Eduard zieht in den Krieg, während die zwei Frauen zurück bleiben. Als das Kind von Charlotte geboren wird, fällt seine Ähnlichkeit mit den beiden nur geistig Beteiligten auf. Bei der Heimkehr Eduards entsteht zunächst die Hoffnung, den Konflikt gütlich durch Scheidung zu lösen. Doch bei einer Bootsfahrt, bei der erstmals auch Ottilie ihrer Neigung zu Eduard nachgibt, wird sie schuldig am Ertrinken des Kindes. Sie beschließt, sich von der Welt zurückzuziehen. Als Eduard nicht verzichten und sie aus dem Pensionat zurückholen will, hungert sie sich zu Tode. Sie gewinnt die Aura einer Märtyrerin und wird mit dem kurz darauf gestorbenen Eduard in der Gutskapelle bestattet.
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Death Note 5
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Noteto rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal…or his life?
After a week locked up with no one but Ryuk for company, Light is ready to give up his Death Note and all memories of it. Freed from his past actions, Light is convinced he's innocent. But L is ready to keep Light under lock and key forever, especially since the killings stopped once Light was incarcerated. Then a new wave of Kira crimes hits Japan. Someone else has gotten their hands on a Death Note, and these new deaths aren't focussed on making the world a better place, they're focussed on making money. Big business can be murder, and Kira has gone corporate!
Messzire fuss, soká maradj!
Párizsban vagyunk. A tízmilliós városban egy szép napon patkánytetemekkel fenyegető, különös üzenetek bukkannak fel, az üzenetek nyomán itt is, ott is elforgatott négyesre emlékeztető keresztek jelennek meg a lakásajtókon; a jelöletlen ajtók mögött pedig rátalál a rendőrség az első, bolhacsípte hullákra. Valóban pestisjárvány fenyegeti Párizst, vagy a patkánybolhák csak a rendőrök figyelmét hivatottak elterelni?
A rokonszenves, columbósan slampos Adamsberg felügyelő, mindig elegáns helyettesével, Danglard-ral ellentétben nemcsak a logika kérlelhetetlen, ám olykor tévútra sodró szabályait követi, hanem hallgat a megérzéseire is. Ahogy a pestisgyilkos egyre-másra szedi áldozatait, Adamsberg mind közelebb és közelebb bukdácsol a megoldáshoz...
A Fred Vargas írói álnéven működő, nemzetközi hírű és igen népszerű írónő civilben középkorász, és pestisszakértőnek sem utolsó. Regénye izgalmas, okos és mulatságos - vérbeli krimi, melyet most induló Fred Vargas-sorozatunk első darabjaként jelentetünk meg újra.
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Pulse
The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. Each character is bent to a pulse, propelled on by success and loss, by n
ew beginnings and endings. In "East Wind" a divorced estate agent falls in love with a European waitress, but is tempted, despite his happiness, to investigate her past; in "The Limner" a deaf painter discovers his patron's likeness after spending ti
me among his staff. Anchored off the coast of Brazil, Garibaldi spies his future wife through a telescope, and in "Marriage Lines", a widower returns to a remote Scottish Island to relive a favourite holiday. These are also lives in flux - in the 'st
ages, transitions, arguments; incompatibilities which grow' - as in the title story, where a man reflects on the break-up of his marriage, brought into new perspective by the actions of his parents; two writers, a 'good team', return from an event re
hearsing familiar arguments; in "Gardener's World", a couple bond, fall out and bond again over flowers and vegetable patches. Positioned in between are a series of evenings at "Phil & Joanna's", where among the topics of conversation - the environme
nt, politics, the Britishness of marmalade, toilet graffiti and the perils of smoking - we witness the guests' lives shift in sections over the course of a year. Ranging from the domestic to the extraordinary, from the vineyards of Italy to the Engli
sh seaside in winter, the stories in Pulse resonate and spark, each imbued with the humour, poignancy and perception that marks all Julian Barnes' work. This is an imaginative and expertly-constructed new collection from a master of the form.
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Hiába futsz
„A pszichológiai krimiknek újdonsült királynője van.” - New York Journal of Books
„Gyönyörűen felépített és kellőképpen balsejtelmes.” - The Guardian
Biztosan tudni akarod az igazságot?
Claire sokat dolgozik, körzeti orvos Londonban, csendesen, egyszerűen él. Ő az ország egyik leghírhedtebb gyilkossági gyanúsítottjának a lánya, bár ezt nem tudja róla senki.
Majdnem harminc év eltelt a szörnyű éjszaka óta... Míg Claire és az öccse az emeleten aludtak, a házban brutális rémtettet követtek el.
Másnap reggel a rendőrség megtalálta az apjuk autóját, de a férfi eltűnt. Lord Spencert vádolták a bűn elkövetésével, de befolyásos barátai azt vallották, hogy ártatlan.
A lány nyugodtnak tűnő élete csak önámítás. Mélyen belül nyomasztja, hogy nem tudja, vajon egy gyilkos lánya-e, vagy egy olyan férfié, akit igaztalanul megvádoltak. Claire a végsőkig képes elmenni, hogy megtudja az igazságot.
A regény alapjául a huszadik század egyik legismertebb megoldatlan gyilkossági ügye, Lord Lucan esete szolgál.
Flynn Berry Hiába futsz című regénye egyszerre letehetetlen thriller és megrázó történet arról, hogyan hat egy nőre az erőszak és a trauma, hogyan küzd meg az emlékekkel és a legfelsőbb társadalmi osztály kiváltságosaival.
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Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse
On November 18, 1928, the world's most famous mouse made his very first public debut. Today, we celebrate 90 years of Mickey in one of the most expansive illustrated publications on the Disney universe. Starting with the first sketches of a character who was almost named Mortimer, we trace the career of Walt Disney's and Ub Iwerk's most famous creation, one met with an explosion of worldwide popularity preceded only by the earlier successes of Charlie Chaplin.With unlimited access to Disney's vast historical collections as well as public and private collections, the authors bring Mickey's success story to life: concept art, story sketches, background paintings, and animation drawings as well as historical photographs trace the origins and evolution of such timeless favorites as Steamboat Willie, The Band Concert, and Brave Little Tailor. They also follow Mickey as he builds on this legendary library of short cartoons by appearing in two historic feature-length films, Fantasia and Fun and Fancy Free.Unfinished projects, many of them presented for the first time through original storyboard drawings, unveil a Mickey that might have been. Extensive archival research sheds new light on little-known chapters of Mickey's career, such as his pioneering radio shows, the origins of the Mickey Mouse Club, and his use as a patriotic icon during World War II. Along the way, we encounter the work of all major Mickey artists in both film and comics, including such greats as Ub Iwerks, Win Smith, Ferdinand Horvath, Fred Moore, Floyd Gottfredson, Carl Barks, Manuel Gonzales, Paul Murry, Romano Scarpa, Giorgio Cavazzano, Byron Erickson, Cesar Ferioli, and Noel Van Horn.Mickey Mouse has left an indelible mark on everyday culture as well as high art, becoming a favored subject for Pop artists such as Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Roy Lichtenstein. As Walt Disney once said: "I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing-that it was all started by a mouse." And an end to the success story is nowhere in sight. Today, 90 years after his creation, Mickey remains as lovable and popular as ever. Let's pay tribute to the little fellow, his legend, and his legacy with a monument to the one and only Mickey Mouse.Also available as an Art Edition limited to 1,000 copies, with four lithograph prints of Mickey Mouse movie posters from the 1930s.
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Girl (nearly) 16: Absolute Torture
Disaster! Jess tried to hide her horror. Her mum frowned. 'What's wrong, sweetheart? It's what you've always wanted!' Jess's mum has finally capitulated and arranged a trip to see Jess's dad. But this is so the wrong moment: Jess has just got it together with Fred, and in an incredibly romantic way he has scraped money together to get them both tickets to the hottest music festival but instead Jess is going on a road trip with her mum and her grandmother (and her grandfather, but he doesn't quite count as he is ashes in an urn). Jess is keen to keep in touch with Fred by text while she is away, but after a while he just stops responding. And her best friend Flora is now going to the exact same music festival Jess was supposed to go to! Jess can't help her paranoia about Fred working overtime. If Jess isn't careful, her worries are going to completely spoil her much-wanted visit to her dad. But when she gets there, it turns out that everybody has a surprise for each other. Needless to say, some work out better than others In this sequel Sue Limb has surpassed herself. The writing is still fresh, funny and effervescent, but at the same time Sue has captured the difficult, prickly but above all loving relationship between a daughter and her parents.
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Ice Like Fire
Game of Thrones meets Graceling in this thrilling fantasy, the heart-pounding sequel to New York Times bestseller Snow Like Ashes. This action-packed series is perfect for fans of An Ember in the Ashes and A Court of Thorns and Roses.
It’s been three months since the Winterians were freed and Spring’s king, Angra, disappeared—thanks largely to the help of Cordell.
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Mather just wants to be free. The horrors inflicted on the Winterians hang fresh and raw in Jannuari—leaving Winter vulnerable to Cordell’s growing oppression. When Meira leaves to search for allies, Mather decides to take Winter’s security into his own hands. Can he rebuild his broken Kingdom and protect his people from new threats?
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Literary London
A fascinating guide to the best literary landmarks in London that takes the reader into publishing houses and along paths of inspiration, revealing the stories behind the stories.
* One of the world's greatest literary cities, London has streets full of stories and buildings steeped in history.
* The biggest and most beloved names in English literature have all been here, and you can still see or visit their stomping grounds and favourite places.
* Follow Oscar Wilde from the literary salons to Clapham Junction; roam with Julian McClaren Ross through Fitzrovia, dropping in for a pint or three with Dylan Thomas at the Bricklayers' Arms; muse darkly over the Thames with Spencer, Eliot and Conrad; and watch aghast as Lord Byron terrorizes his publisher on Albemarle Street...
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Ancient Light
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The Shadow in the North
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OWC Middlemarch
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Az elveszett cirkáló - Helikon zsebkönyvek 50.
A regényeit többnyire P. Howard néven publikáló Rejtő Jenő (1905-1943) a magyar ponyvairodalom legismertebb és legnépszerűbb írója. Alvilági és légiós hősei - Fülig Jimmytől Rozsdásig, Vanek úrtól Galambig - az irodalmi köztudat részévé váltak, klasszikussá vált mondataikat ("Uram, a késemért jöttem!") mindenki ismeri.
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'Truthful, unpretentious and haunting' The Times Literary Supplement
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Welcome to Rosie Hopkins Sweetshop of Dream
Were you a sherbet lemon or chocolate lime fan? Penny chews or hard boiled sweeties (you do get more for your money that way)? The jangle of your pocket money ...the rustle of the pink and green striped paper bag ...Rosie Hopkins thinks leaving her busy London life, and her boyfriend Gerard, to sort out her elderly Aunt Lilian's sweetshop in a small country village is going to be dull. Boy, is she wrong. Lilian Hopkins has spent her life running Lipton's sweetshop, through wartime and family feuds. As she struggles with the idea that it might finally be time to settle up, she also wrestles with the secret history hidden behind the jars of beautifully coloured sweets. Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams - a novel - with recipes.