Hľadanie: Lucian Freud
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Red Notice
November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes paid to the state by one of the world's most successful hedge funds. Magnitsky's brutal killing has remained uninvestigated and unpunished to this day. His farcical posthumous show-trial brought Putin's regime to a new low in the eyes of the international community. Red Notice is a searing expose of the wholesale whitewash by Russian authorities of Magnitsky's imprisonment and murder, slicing deep into the shadowy heart of the Kremlin to uncover its sordid truths. Bill Browder - the hedge fund manager who employed Magnitsky - takes us on his explosive journey from the heady world of finance in New York and London in the 1990s, through his battles with ruthless oligarchs in the turbulent landscape of post-Soviet Union Moscow, to his expulsion from Russia on Putin's orders. Browder's graphic portrait of the Russian government as a criminal enterprise wielding all the power of a sovereign state illuminates his personal transformation from financier to human rights activist, campaigning for justice for his late lawyer and friend. With fraud, bribery, corruption and torture exposed at every turn, Red Notice is a shocking but true political roller-coaster that plays out in the highest echelons of Western power.
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Sans feu ni Lieu
Tout semble accuser Clément Vauquer, un accordéoniste simplet mais ni fou, ni cruel, du meurtre de deux femmes. Recherché par la police, Clément se terre chez la vielle Marthe. Mais cela ne peut durer, il faut découvrir l’assassin. Louis Kehlweiler, dit l’Allemand, et ses trois assistants, Marc, Lucien et Mathias, héros de Debout les morts" et de "Un peu plus loin sur la droite", mnent l’enqute, décidés innocenter Clément."
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The Lincoln Lawyer
THE LINCOLN LAWYER: Operating out of the back of a Lincoln car, and with two ex-wives and dozens of guilty clients, defence attorney Mickey Haller can't afford to miss a trick. When a Beverly Hills rich boy is arrested for brutally beating a woman, Haller has his first high-paying - and seemingly innocent - client in years. But then the case starts to fall apart, and the suspect isn't quite who he seems - and Haller quickly discovers that when you swim with the sharks, it's easy to wind up as prey. THE BRASS VERDICT: When another lawyer, Jerry Vincent, dies, Mickey Haller inherits all his clients - putting his stalled career back on track. The only problem is the detective handling the case - Harry Bosch - is convinced the killer must be one of Vincent's clients. Suddenly Mickey is faced with the biggest challenge of his career: how to successfully defend a client who might just be planning to murder him. THE REVERSAL: When Mickey Haller is invited to prosecute a case, he knows something strange is going on. To switch sides would be akin to asking a fox to guard the hen-house. But the high-profile case of Jason Jessup, a convicted child-killer who spent almost 25 years on death row before DNA evidence freed him, is an intriguing one. But as a new trial date is set, it starts to look like Mickey's been set up...
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Fallen Grace
Grace Parkes has just had to do a terrible thing. Having given birth to an illegitimate child, she has travelled to the famed Brookwood Cemetery to place her small infant's body in a rich lady's coffin. Following the advice of a kindly midwife, this
is the only way that Grace can think of to give something at least to the little baby who died at birth, and to avoid the ignominy of a pauper's grave. Distraught and weeping, Grace meets two people at the cemetery: Mrs Emmeline Unwin and Mr James So
lent. These two characters will have a profound affect upon Grace's life. But Grace doesn't know that yet. For now, she has to suppress her grief and get on with the business of living: scraping together enough pennies selling watercress for rent and
food; looking after her older sister, who is incapable of caring for herself; thwarting the manipulative and conscience-free Unwin family, who are as capable of running a lucrative funeral business as they are of defrauding a young woman of her fort
une. A stunning evocation of life in Victorian London, with vivid and accurate depictions, ranging from the deprivation that the truly poor suffered to the unthinking luxuries enjoyed by the rich: all bound up with a pacy and thrilling plot, as Grace
races to unravel the fraud about to be perpetrated against her and her sister.
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Blitzeis
Nach seinem fulminanten und mehrfach ausgezeichnetem Debüt Agnes, einem vielschichtigen Roman über Identität, legt Peter Stamm einen schmalen Band mit neun Erzählungen nach. Seinem bewährten kurzen, knappen, lakonischen Stil bleibt er in seinen Stories treu. Die Sätze sind bis aufs Skelett abgemagert, da gibt es nicht ein Gramm einer überflüssigen Beschreibung. Seine Themen sind die großen Sujets der Literatur: Einsamkeit, Krankheit, Tod. Sie spielen in der Schweiz, in Schweden und New York. Stamms Könnerschaft setzt ein, wenn es darum geht, alltägliche Kleinigkeiten genau zu beobachten, die, ohne daß er es explizit erwähnt, zu den großen, oft tödlichen Konsequenzen im Leben eines Einzelnen führen. In der Geschichte "Am Eisweiher" treffen sich eine Gruppe Jugendlicher, um abends baden zu gehen. Stefanie hat eine Fahrradpanne und ihr hilfsbereiter Freund Urs radelt noch einmal ins Dorf zurück, um die nötigen Werkzeuge für die Reparatur zu holen. Währenddessen vergnügt sich die Schöne mit einem anderen Jungen beim Schwimmen. Es wird dunkel. Die beiden Schwimmer ziehen sich ins Bootshaus zurück und sind nicht erfreut, als Urs plötzlich auch am Bootshaus auftaucht. Keiner von ihnen sagt wenige Stunden später der Polizei, warum der Junge völlig kopflos in den See gesprungen ist, ohne an die Pfähle im Wasser zu denken, die sie alle aus ihrer Kindheit kennen. Der Reiz: Bei Peter Stamm bleibt immer ein wesentlicher Teil der Handlung unter der Oberfläche seiner Geschichten verborgen, er läßt ihnen und dem Leser ihr Geheimnis. --Manuela Haselberger
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Rabbit and Bear: The Pest in the Nest
Gorgeously illustrated and with a classic feel, this is a brilliantly funny story of a rabbit and a bear whose friendship is tested by a very noisy woodpecker ... Ideal for readers moving on from picture books.
'A perfect animal double-act.' (The Times, Book of the Week)
'PEACE AND QUIET,' shouts Rabbit. 'THAT'S ALL I WANT.'
Owch. He's hurt his own ears again.
What with Bear's snoring, and a BANG!BANG!BANG! noise from up in the tree, Rabbit knows that Something Simply Has To Be Done.
But high in the branches, perhaps Bear can show Rabbit how to see the world from a different place ...
From novelist and playwright Julian Gough, and the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, Jim Field, this is a tale of friendship, wisdom, and how to be REALLY NOISY.
'Rabbit's Bad Habits is a breath of fresh air in children's fiction, a laugh-out-loud story of rabbit and wolf and bear, of avalanches and snowmen. The sort of story that makes you want to send your children to bed early, so you can read it to them.' Neil Gaiman
*Shortlisted for the Sainsbury's Children's Book Award and the Children's Book of the Year in the Irish Book Awards*
Read all the Rabbit and Bear books:
1. Rabbit's Bad Habits
2. The Pest in the Nest
3. Attack of the Snack
4. A Bite in the Night
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Scooby-Doo! és a félelmetes bikalovas
Fred, Vilma, Diána, Bozont és Scooby látogatást tesz a világhírű cowboynál, Bucky McCoynál. Éppen időben. Egy vészjósló rodeós bohóc szabotálni próbálja Bucky rodeóját, és ebben semmi vicces sincsen! Most már csak a bandán múlik, hogy kiderítsék ki áll a gyanús ügy hátterében. Vajon ki tudja-e bogozni Scooby és a banda e különös rejtély szálait, mielőtt még újabb galiba történne?
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Rozprávka - O princovi zlostníkovi CD (kartón)
O princovi Zlostníkovi a šľachetnom Milkovi
Rozprávky z ďalekých krajín
Milko a Zlostník
Kde bolo tam bolo, bola raz jedna krajina, v ktorej mali zlého a krutého princa. Nikto mu nikdy inak nepovedal ako Zlostník. Napriek jeho nepeknému vzhľadu i povahe, ho jeho matka nadovšetko milovala, hýčkala a rozmaznávala všakovakým spôsobom. Zlostníkovi robil na dvore spoločníka šľachetný Milko. Bol jeho presným opakom, a tak ho mali všetci veľmi radi. Zlostník mu závidel jeho krásny vzhľad i jeho obľúbenosť medzi dvoranmi, a tak sa rozhodol, že sa nepohodlného spoločníka strasie. Ako to všetko dopadne? To sa dozviete v našej rozprávke.
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Víla Dobruška: Gabriela Škrabáková
Milko: Dušan Cinkota
Zlostník: Marián Miezga
Hortenzia: Eva Matejková
Buk: Peter Gecík
Drúk: Marek Kundlák
Ako sa stal Milko škriatkom
Milko si zachráni holý život, no musí z rodného kráľovstva odísť. Utiahne sa teda do hôr a vedie skromný a jednoduchý život. Vo svojej záhrade raz stretne vílu premenenú na užovku, daruje jej život a víla ho za odmenu premení na škriatka, ktorý sa môže stať neviditeľným. Milko sa nepozorovaný vráti do rodného kráľovstva a dá Zlostníkovi aj jeho matke Hortenzii poriadnu príučku.
Účinkujú:
Víla Dobruška: Gabriela Škrabáková
Milko: Dušan Cinkota
Zlostník: Marián Miezga
Hortenzia: Eva Matejková
Dvorania: Norman Šáro a Pavol Katrinec
Dvorné dámy: Júlia Horváthová a Daniela Pribullová
Milko v ríši víl
Milko vyslobodí z rúk únoscov krásnu dievčinu Marhuľku a dozvedá sa príbeh o kráľovstve, kde žijú iba samé ženy. V tomto kráľovstve panuje víla, do ktorej sa Milko už z počutia zamiluje. Nepozorovaný, ako škriatok, prenikne na ostrov, na ktorý nesmie vstúpiť mužská noha a bojuje o lásku krásnej víly. Ako to všetko napokon dopadne? To vám neprezradíme. Spoločne však budeme držať Milkovi palce, aby dokázal preniknúť do srdca víly, ktorá nikdy nevidela muža, ba mužov sa priam bojí....
Účinkujú:
Víla Dobruška: Gabriela Škrabáková
Víla Kala: Lucia Vráblicová
Milko: Dušan Cinkota
Zornička: Henrieta Jančišinová
Marhuľka: Táňa Pauhofová
Buk: Peter Gecík
Drúk: Marek Kundlák
Na motívy francúzskych rozprávok napísala Milka Luptáková
Réžia: Oľga Janíková
Dramaturgia: Lucia Blašková
Hudba: Rastislav Dubovský
Zvuková réžia: Ing. Peter Daniška
Výtvarný návrh C Miroslav Regitko
Grafická úprava C Layout JS.
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The Detection Collection
Ten years since it was first published in hardback, and now for the first time in mass market paperback, this volume of short stories by the cream of British crime writing talent celebrates 75 years of the quintessential Detection Club.
The Detection Club represents the cream of British crime writing talent. Founded on the cusp of the 1930s, the Club’s first President was G.K. Chesterton, and since then the mantle of Presidency has passed to some of the most significant names inthe history of crime fiction, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Julian Symons. The Club meets three times a year - to dine, to plot, and to exchange ideas.
This anthology includes eleven new stories by the Best of British: Robert Barnard, Lyndsey Davis, Colin Dexter, Clare Francis, Robert Goddard, John Harvey, Reginald Hill, P.D. James, H.R.F. Keating, Michael Ridpath and Margaret Yorke, and has been edited by the Club’s President, Simon Brett. Among the authors are a number of bestsellers, as well as winners of both Diamond and Gold Daggers.
This outstanding collection is a must for crime lovers everywhere.
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Through the Window
In these seventeen essays (and one short story) the 2011 Man Booker Prize winner examines British, French and American writers who have meant most to him, as well as the cross-currents and overlappings of their different cultures. From the deceptiveness of Penelope Fitzgerald to the directness of Hemingway, from Kipling's view of France to the French view of Kipling, from the many translations of Madame Bovary to the fabulations of Ford Madox Ford, from the National Treasure Status of George Orwell to the despair of Michel Houellebecq, Julian Barnes considers what fiction is, and what it can do. As he writes in his preface, 'Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.' When his "Letters from London" came out in 1995, the "Financial Times" called him "our best essayist". This wise and deft collection confirms that judgment.
Under the Greenwood Tree
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "Under the Greenwood Tree" by Thomas Hardy. 'At sight of him had the pink of her cheeks increased, lessened, or did it continue to cover its normal area of ground? It was a question meditated several hundreds of times by her visitor in after-hours - the meditation, after wearying involutions, always ending in one way, that it was impossible to say'. The arrival of two newcomers in the quiet village of Mellstock arouses a bitter feud and leaves a convoluted love affair in its wake. While the Reverend Maybold creates a furore among the village's musicians with his decision to abolish the church's traditional 'string choir' and replace it with a modern mechanical organ, the new schoolteacher, Fancy Day, causes an upheaval of a more romantic nature, winning the hearts of three very different men - a local farmer, a church musician and Maybold himself. "Under the Greenwood Tree" follows the ensuing maze of intrigue and passion with gentle humour and sympathy, deftly evoking the richness of village life, yet tinged with melancholy for a rural world that Hardy saw fast disappearing. "The Penguin English Library" - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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Silks
After collaborating on Dead Heat (2007), bestseller Francis and his son, Felix, deliver another gripping thriller with a thoroughbred racing backdrop. Soon after London barrister Geoffrey Mason, an amateur jockey by avocation, starts receiving a series of threatening messages from a former client, Julian Trent, whose conviction for assault was overturned on appeal, Mason reluctantly accepts the defense of a jockey, Steve Mitchell, accused of the pitch-fork murder of fellow rider Scot Barlow at a steeplechase event. Mitchell and Barlow had fallen out over Barlow's sister, a vet and Mitchell's former girlfriend, who took her own life just a short while before. When unknown parties order Mason to lose the case, he must balance his professional ethics and his sense of self-preservation. The solid writing and engaging lead will carry readers along at a brisk pace, though some may find the dramatic courtroom revelation of the murderer overly theatrical. (Sept.)
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Lacná kniha Silks (-50%)
After collaborating on Dead Heat (2007), bestseller Francis and his son, Felix, deliver another gripping thriller with a thoroughbred racing backdrop. Soon after London barrister Geoffrey Mason, an amateur jockey by avocation, starts receiving a series of threatening messages from a former client, Julian Trent, whose conviction for assault was overturned on appeal, Mason reluctantly accepts the defense of a jockey, Steve Mitchell, accused of the pitch-fork murder of fellow rider Scot Barlow at a steeplechase event. Mitchell and Barlow had fallen out over Barlow's sister, a vet and Mitchell's former girlfriend, who took her own life just a short while before. When unknown parties order Mason to lose the case, he must balance his professional ethics and his sense of self-preservation. The solid writing and engaging lead will carry readers along at a brisk pace, though some may find the dramatic courtroom revelation of the murderer overly theatrical. (Sept.)
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Promise To Keep
When Thursday Tilford returns to Haslar Hospital after two years serving as a VAD in Egypt, she finds many changes. With the town packed with troops waiting to leave for the Normandy beaches, and Haslar on standby for the wounded, Thursday's thoughts go to the two men who are vying for her heart - Connor Kirkpatrick, the naval doctor she met at Haslar in 1940, and army doctor Mark Sangster who travelled on the troopship to Egypt with her. Although she longs to keep her promise to Connor, Thursday's feelings for Mark force her to consider the nature of promises and even, in the end, the nature of love itself. It is only as the war ends and she is presented with an ultimatum that she understands the truth about love, about promises - and about herself. Lilian Harry's new novel will delight her fans with the warmth and authenticity that she brings when describing the courage and sacrifice of wartime.
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Lady Friday
Friday is here! The race is on to find the secret of the Middle House. The fifth eagerly awaited installment in Garth Nix's best selling fantasy series,The Keys to the Kingdom. Arthur Penhaligon's adventures in the House get ever more perilous as the week unfolds. On the fifth day, there was fear! Four of the seven Trustees have been defeated and their Keys taken, but for Arthur, the week is still getting worse. Suzy Blue and Fred Initial Numbers Gold have been captured by the Piper, and his New Nithling army still controls most of the Great Maze. Superior Saturday is causing trouble wherever she can, including turning off all the elevators in the House and blocking the Front Door. Arthur can't even find out what is happening back home. All he knows is that Leaf isn't on earth any more. She's missing and so are hundreds of other people who were transferred from regular hospitals to a private institution run by a 'Doctor Friday'. From there they have been taken somewhere else in the Secondary Realms, for Lady Friday's own horrible purposes. Amid all this trouble, Arthur's mother is also missing, and he must weigh up an offer from Lady Friday that is either a cunning trap for the Rightful Heir or a golden opportunity he must seize -- before Superior Saturday or the Piper beats him to it.
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Secretariat
The remarkable true story of ‘Big Red,’ one of America’s finest racehorses.
When her beloved Meadow Stables is faced with closure following her father’s illness, housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over. Despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge she calls in assistance from trainer Lucien Laurin and a host of successful jockeys.
Pitted against the Phipps’ racing dynasty, Penny takes the decision to breed her mare Somethingroyal to the Phipps’ Bold Ruler, the nation’s favourite stallion. With the toss of a coin it is agreed that one family will take Somethingroyal’s first foal with the losing stable taking the colt out of Hasty Matelda and Somethingroyal’s second foal. Penny loses the toss, but the wait for the unborn foal proves fortuitous when a bright red chestnut colt is born, Secretariat. Nicknamed “Big Red,” with Laurin’s guidance, Penny manages to navigate the male-dominated business of horse racing, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years and what may be the greatest racehorse of all time.
Now, more than 30 years after its initial publication, the story of "Big Red" continues to be a classic. Secretariat is the tale of a great racehorse but also a testimony to the dedication of Penny Chenery. Following her triumph with Secretariat she was elected as the first female member of The Jockey Club, changing the face of American horse racing forever.
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A Certain Idea of France - The Life of Charles de Gaulle
The definitive biography of the greatest French statesman of modern times
In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he spoke to his compatriots over the BBC, urging them to rally to him in London. 'Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.' At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered into history.
For the rest of the war, de Gaulle frequently bit the hand that fed him. He insisted on being treated as the true embodiment of France, and quarrelled violently with Churchill and Roosevelt. He was prickly, stubborn, aloof and self-contained. But through sheer force of personality and bloody-mindedness he managed to have France recognised as one of the victorious Allies, occupying its own zone in defeated Germany. For ten years after 1958 he was President of France's Fifth Republic, which he created and which endures to this day. His pursuit of 'a certain idea of France' challenged American hegemony, took France out of NATO and twice vetoed British entry into the European Community. His controversial decolonization of Algeria brought France to the brink of civil war and provoked several assassination attempts.
Julian Jackson's magnificent biography reveals this the life of this titanic figure as never before. It draws on a vast range of published and unpublished memoirs and documents - including the recently opened de Gaulle archives - to show how de Gaulle achieved so much during the War when his resources were so astonishingly few, and how, as President, he put a medium-rank power at the centre of world affairs. No previous biography has depicted his paradoxes so vividly. Much of French politics since his death has been about his legacy, and he remains by far the greatest French leader since Napoleon.
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Vörös Hold
Harminc évvel előbbre járunk az időben, és már megszálltuk a Holdat Az amerikai Fred Fredericks először utazik a Holdra, azzal a szándékkal, hogy üzembe állítson egy kommunikációs eszközt a kínai Holdi Természettudományos Alapítvány számára. De néhány órával a megérkezése után egy gyilkosság tanúja lesz, és rejtőzködésbe kényszerül. Ta Sunak, a híres műsorvezetőnek is ez az első útja a Holdra. Neki vannak kapcsolatai, befolyásos embernek számít, de ő is úgy találja, hogy a Hold sok veszedelmet rejteget bármelyik odautazó számára. És végül ott van Csan Csi is, a kínai pénzügyminiszter lánya, akinek a sorsát érthető módon figyelemmel kísérik a hatalom birtokosai. Ő magánjellegű indokból utazik a Holdra, de amikor titokban vissza akar térni a Földre, az ezt követő események láncolata mindent megváltoztat – mind a Földön, mind a Holdon. A Vörös Hold a New York Times bestseller-szerző Kim Stanley Robinson legújabb nagyszabású története a világűr felfedezéséről és a politikai forradalmakról.
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The Detection Collection
Ten years since it was first published, this volume of short stories by the cream of British crime writing talent celebrates 75 years of the quintessential Detection Club. The Detection Club represents the cream of British crime writing talent. Founded on the cusp of the 1930s, the Club's first President was G.K. Chesterton, and since then the mantle of Presidency has passed to some of the most significant names inthe history of crime fiction, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Julian Symons. The Club meets three times a year - to dine, to plot, and to exchange ideas. This anthology includes eleven new stories by the Best of British: Robert Barnard, Lyndsey Davis, Colin Dexter, Clare Francis, Robert Goddard, John Harvey, Reginald Hill, P.D. James, H.R.F. Keating, Michael Ridpath and Margaret Yorke, and has been edited by the Club's President, Simon Brett. Among the authors are a number of bestsellers, as well as winners of both Diamond and Gold Daggers. This outstanding collection is a must for crime lovers everywhere.
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