Hľadanie: Angela's Ashes
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Little Earthquakes
This is the story of what comes after 'happily ever after' as three young wives make the journey into motherhood, and discover how it changes their sense of themselves and their relationships with friends and family. There's Becky, a plump, sexy chef, with an overworked husband, an adorable baby girl...and the mother-in-law from hell. There's Kelly, an event planner who's trying to cram sixty hours of work into twenty-hour weeks, all while charting her baby's every move on a spreadsheet and hoping that her husband will pull his life together, pull on some pants, and find a job. And there's Ayinde, who is married to Philadelphia's most prominent basketball star, until the combination of new baby and infidelity threatens their marriage. As these three grow closer while attempting to put their lives in order, we also come to know Lia, who returns home to Philadelphia after her life in Los Angeles ends in horrible tragedy. By turns moving, funny, and inspiring, LITTLE EARTHQUAKES is a great big delicious read from a prodigiously talented author.
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Lacná kniha Casa Negra (-90%)
Hace veinte a?os, un chico llamado Jack Sawyer viajó a los Territorios, un mundo paralelo, para salvar a su madre. Ahora Jack, ex detective de homicidios, decide comprarse una casa en un pueblo tranquilo de Wisconsin. No conserva recuerdo alguno de sus aventuras en los Territorios, pero se vio obligado a dejar la policía de Los Ángeles cuando un suceso casual le despertó un inexplicable malestar.
Cuando se produce una serie de horripilantes asesinatos en Wisconsin, el jefe de la policía local pide a Jack que lo ayude en su investigación. Pero ?son esos asesinatos simplemente obra de un perturbado, o se ha desatado una fuerza misteriosa y maligna? ?Cuál es la causa de las extra?as visiones que tiene Jack? ?Acaso alguien trata de comunicarle algo? Jack se ve arrastrado de nuevo a los Territorios y hacia su propio pasado. Solamente allí podrá encontrar la fuerza necesaria para entrar en la Casa Negra y enfrentarse a los espantosos y viles seres del mal que esta cobija.
En Casa Negra Stephen King y Peter Straub vuelven a contar otra historia de Jack Sawyer, protagonista de El talismán, el primer libro que escribieron juntos.
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Alexander 3: Ends of the Earth
Alexander's epic quest continues into the heart of Asia and on towards the mystery of India. The Macedonian Army march ever onward in search of glory, crushing resistance at every turn. The culture and beauty of Babylon is quickly ravaged and the Palace of Persepolis burnt to ashes and cinder. An empire is destroyed and a new and bloody era begins. But there are other things on Alexander's mind. An ambitious project to unite the peoples of the empire under one homeland, begins to obsess him. There are rebellions and bloodshed, but the curious beauty of Queen Roxanna gives Alexander the strength to fulfil his destiny...This is a truly compelling, romantic and exciting book, and a fitting conclusion to the bestselling Alexander trilogy.
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Lacná kniha Dan Yack
Dan Yack commence comme une parabole et s'ach?ve comme un lamento : Le Plan de l'Aiguille et Les Confessions de Dan Yack furent d'abord publiés séparément avant d'?tre réunis par Blaise Cendrars. Ce livre de dissonances vire sans cesse du burlesque au tragique, de la violence au rire, du drame ? la pantomime. Quand ? Dan Yack, ce milliardaire anglais au nom bizarre, il échappe ? la saisie. D'abord présenté ? la mani?re de Charlot, il ressurgit sous les traits d'un héros en proie au mal du si?cle. Dans le tourbillon des aventures qui l'emportent ? travers le monde, une question pourtant ne le quitte pas : est-il possible de changer sa vie ? Et ? quel prix ? Dan Yack reste le plus secret des grands romans de Blaise Cendrars, celui qui touche au plus br?lant, au plus intime.
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Le Fantôme de Canterville 36
Un ministre américain et sa famille achètent à Lord Canterville son château et tout ce qu'il contient... fantôme compris. Mais la famille Otis n'a vraiment pas peur des fantômes. Alors, lorsqu'un spectre qui a l'habitude de terroriser tout le monde se trouve confronté à deux jumeaux qui ne pensent qu'à lui jouer de mauvais tours, il est plus que déconcerté. Humour anglais au programme ! Oscar Wilde s'en donne à coeur joie en décrivant les malheurs d'un spectre qui ne sait que faire pour effrayer une famille qui lui offre de l'huile pour lubrifier ses chaînes : le bruit empêche tout le monde de dormir ! Dans le registre du rire grinçant, le deuxième conte, Le Crime de Lord Arthur Savile, narre les mésaventures d'un homme à qui l'on a prédit, en lisant dans les lignes de sa main, qu'il allait commettre un crime. Du coup, il se sent obligé de tuer quelqu'un, pour se délivrer de cette malédiction. Et l'on termine avec une courte histoire mettant en scène un millionnaire modèle. Ces trois contes très drôles, écrits à la fin du XIXe siècle, comportent donc quelques expressions ou références obscures pour le lecteur d'aujourd'hui, qui sont expliquées en fin d'ouvrage. --Pascale Wester
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Hawkwind - Epoch - Eclipse: Ultimate Best Of CD
Tracklist:
1. Silver Machine (Original Single Version) (Live At The Roundhouse London) (1996 Digital Remaster)
2. Master Of The Universe (1996 Digital Remaster)
3. Urban Guerilla (1996 Digital Remaster)
4. Sonic Attack (Live at Liverpool And London) (1996 Digital Remaster)
5. The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear In Smoke) (Single Version) (1996 Digital Remaster)
6. Assault And Battery (Part 1)
7. Motorhead
8. Back On The Streets
9. Quark, Strangeness And Charm
10. 25 Years (12'' Remix)
11. Motorway City
12. Angels Of Death (Single Edit)
13. Night Of The Hawks
14. Needle Gun
15. Right To Decide (Radio Edit Mix)
16. Alien (I Am) (Roswell Edit)
17. Love In Space (Single Mix)
18. Silver Machine (Infected By The Scourge Of The Earth) (Radio Edit)
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CLE Dictionnaire du Francais
UN DICTIONNAIRE D'APPRENTIS5AGE Des phrases simples montrant le sens, les emplois et les constructions les plus courants de chaque mot. Des encadrés de grammaire, des encadrés des faux amis en 14 langues et de nombreuses remarques sur l'usage. Présence comme entrées des formes non régulires (verbes conjugués, formes contractées, féminins...) : par exemple pu renvoie pouvoir, eu renvoie avoir, yeux oeil. Signalisation par une flche des mots les plus fréquents de la langue française. La place des adjectifs (avant ou aprs le nom). Le niveau de langue (trs familier, familier, recherché). Certains noms propres dont la prononciation (ou la graphie) est différente en français : Köln pour Cologne, Napoli pour Naples,... UN OUVRAGE DE REFERENCE 22 000 mots illustrés par des exemples modernes pris dans la vie courante. Toutes les conjugaisons indiquées chaque verbe avec un renvoi aux nombreux tableaux. De nombreux tableaux récapitulatifs et annexes : les faux amis dans quatorze langues (allemand, anglais, danois, espagnol, grec, italien, japonais, néerlandais, norvégien, polonais, portugais, roumain, russe, suédois), les sigles les plus courants, l'Histoire et les institutions de la France, les pays et nationalités, l'alphabet phonétique international exemplifié. Des cartes : la francophonie, la France, la Belgique, la Suisse et le Québec.
Metheny Pat - Road To The Sun (Signed Edition) CD
KDO: Slavný hudebník nedávno získal svou jubilejní dvacátou Grammy, navíc vstoupil jako nejmladší člen do Síně slávy časopisu DownBeat. Jeho tvorba je nejčastěji spojována s pojmy jako progresivní jazz nebo post-bop, ale věnuje se i latinské verzi jazzu a jazz fusion. Na nahrávkách s ním spolupracovali třeba saxofonista Chris Potter, bubeník Antonio Sanchez, baskytarista Ben Williams nebo multiinstrumentalista Giulio Carmassi.
CO: Na svém novém album "Road To The Sun" nás Pat Metheny znovu udivuje svou schopností hledat nové hudební cesty při zachování svého typického, okamžitě rozpoznatelného zvuku. Album je rozděleno na dvě části. Pro první "Four Paths Of Light" byl Patem Methenym vybrán jako interpret klasický kytarista Jaqson Vieaux, pro druhou kompozici "Road To The Sun" autor vybral k interpretaci Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.
CD
1. Pat Metheny: Four Paths of Light, Pt. 1,
2. Pat Metheny: Four Paths of Light, Pt. 2,
3. Pat Metheny: Four Paths of Light, Pt. 3,
4. Pat Metheny: Four Paths of Light, Pt. 4,
5. Pat Metheny: Road to the Sun, Pt. 1,
6. Pat Metheny: Road to the Sun, Pt. 2,
7. Pat Metheny: Road to the Sun, Pt. 3,
8. Pat Metheny: Road to the Sun, Pt. 4,
9. Pat Metheny: Road to the Sun, Pt. 5,
10. Pat Metheny: Road to the Sun, Pt. 6,
11. Arvo Pärt: Für Alina (arr. Pat Metheny for 42 string guitar)
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Lacná kniha Le Secret de Chimneys
A Londres, un prince déchu sollicite l'appui des Britanniques pour reconquérir son petit royaume des Balkans. A Paris, un de ses anciens ministres meurt en laissant des Mémoires bourrés de révélations explosives sur la famille royale. En Rhodésie, un aventurier sans le sou se voit confier la mission d'apporter ? un éditeur londonien ce manuscrit que les services secrets anglais, aussi bien que les opposants au prince, aimeraient intercepter... C'est dans le cadre somptueux du manoir de Chimneys, une vieille demeure seigneuriale, que vont se retrouver les protagonistes de cette ténébreuse affaire. Chimneys, le lieu idéal pour un de ces huis clos criminels dont la romanci?re a le secret.
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Bizarre
The human brain is an impossibly complex and delicate instrument - capable of extraordinary calculations, abundant creativity and linguistic dexterity. But the brain is not just the most brilliant of evolutionary wonders. It's also one of the most bizarre.
This book shows a whole other side of how brains work - from the patient who is afraid to take a shower because she fears her body will slip down the drain to a man who is convinced, against all evidence, that he is a cat, and a woman who compulsively snacks on cigarette ashes.
Entertaining though they are, these cases are more than just oddities. In attempting to understand them, neuroscientists have uncovered important details about how the brain works. BIZARRE will examine these details while explaining what neuroscience's most unusual patients have taught us about normal brain function -ideal both for readers seeking a better appreciation of the inner workings of the brain and those who simply want some extraordinary topics for dinner-party conversation.
Elysium
Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology is a gloriously illustrated overview of angels across art, religion, and literature from scholar Ed Simon, writer for The Millions.
Ineffable, invisible, inscrutable—angels are enduring creatures across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and human experiences of the divine as mediated by spiritual emissaries are an aspect of almost every religious tradition. In popular culture, angels are often reduced to the most gauzy, sentimental, and saccharine of images: fat babies with wings and guardians with robes, halos, and harps. By contrast, in scripture whenever one of the heavenly choirs appears before a prophet or patriarch, they first declare, “Fear not!” for terror would be the most appropriate initial reaction to these otherworldly beings. Angels are often not what we’d expect, but it’s precisely in that transcendent encounter that something of the strangeness of existence can be conveyed.
Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology is a follow-up volume to Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology, offering an account of the angelic hierarchies as they’ve been understood across centuries and cultures, and of the individual personages, such as the archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Uriel, who have marked the mythology of the West.
Includes Color Illustrations
Bloodstream
For fans of Hannah Grace and Lauren Asher BLOODSTREAM is a sizzling new enemies-to-lovers racing romance!
He’s a world champion. She’s the new girl on the grid. Will their sizzling chemistry throw him off track?
As the new social media manager for Revolution Racing, Faith is ready to get her drivers in front of the world. With their sizzling good looks, champagne lifestyles, and charming smiles it's going to be easy.
But Julien Moretz is the obstacle she never saw coming. The renowned World Champion doesn't need his personal life splashed across the internet. He's here to race and he's here to win.
Julien has too much at stake to let someone see the real him. But Faith isn't the woman he first thought, and Julien isn't the bad boy he shows the world.
No matter how hard they try to push each other away, as they discover the people behind the media, Faith and Julien could be the most scandalous story of the racing season!
Ed Ruscha / Now Then
A sweeping cross-media survey of Ruscha’s six-decade career, from paintings and works on paper to photographs and artist's books, with essays by leading scholars
Spanning 65 years of Ed Ruscha’s remarkable career and mirroring his own cross-disciplinary approach, Ed Ruscha / Now Then features over 250 objects, produced from 1958 to the present, including paintings, drawings, prints, films, photographs, artist’s books and installations. Published to accompany the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work to date, and his first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, this richly illustrated catalog highlights Ruscha’s most acclaimed works alongside lesser-known aspects of his practice.
Essays by an interdisciplinary group of contributors examine Ruscha’s work under a new light, beyond the categories of Pop and Conceptual art with which he has traditionally been associated, to present fresh perspectives on one of the most influential figures in postwar American art. Taken together, they underscore Ruscha’s singular contributions, including his material exploration of language, experiments with unconventional mediums?such as gunpowder, chocolate or chewing tobacco?and his groundbreaking self-published books. Supplemented by an illustrated chronology and exhibition history, this publication captures the ceaseless reinvention that has defined his prolific, six-decade career.
Ed Ruscha (born 1937) was raised in Oklahoma City and moved to Los Angeles in 1956, where he attended the Chouinard Art Institute (now CalArts). First showing with the Ferus Gallery in the early 1960s, Ruscha was included in Walter Hopps' landmark Pop art show New Painting of Common Objects at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1962. He has since shown his work extensively, most recently in several medium-specific museum surveys, including the 2004 exhibition Cotton Puffs, Q-Tips®, Smoke and Mirrors: The Drawings of Ed Ruscha at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the 2009 exhibition Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting at the Hayward Gallery, London, which traveled to the Haus der Kunst, Munich, and Moderna Museet, Stockholm. In 2005, he represented the United States at the 51st Venice Biennale. Ruscha lives and works in Los Angeles.
Fist of the North Star, Vol. 10
In the original classic manga set in a postapocalyptic wasteland ruled by savage gangs, a hero appears to bring justice to the guilty. This warrior named Ken holds the deadly secrets of a mysterious martial art known as Hokuto Shinken—the Divine Fist of the North Star!
In a postapocalyptic world, humanity has risen from the ashes of all-out nuclear war to a nightmare of endless suffering. It is a time of chaos. Warlords and gangs of savage marauders rule the broken ruins of civilization, terrorizing and enslaving the survivors. Life has become a brutal struggle for existence and death the only release.
Kenshiro has at last found Yuria, the woman he loved but had given up for dead. Determined to possess her, Raoh has come to Yuria’s stronghold. Kenshiro and Raoh’s paths were always destined to lead them to this confrontation, the final battle to decide the successor to Hokuto Shinken. In this fight, both men will unleash the greatest secret technique passed down to them by their master, Ryuken, but only one will survive using it!
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Strangers to Ourselves
New York Times Book Review Top 10 Books of the Year
There are stories that save us, and stories that trap us, and in the midst of an illness it can be very hard to know which is which…
Strangers to Ourselves shares the experiences of five people who have come up against the limits of psychiatric explanations for who they are. It asks, do the stories we tell around mental illness affect its course, its outcomes, even our identities?
Drawing on in-depth reporting, written testimonies and formative events in her own childhood, award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv offers a subtle, compassionate, revelatory account of how we understand ourselves in periods of crisis and distress.
A best book of the year in the Los Angeles Times, Time, Washington Post, New Yorker, and Vogue
Imagine a City
A pilot's love letter to the world's greatest cities from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Skyfaring
Growing up in his small hometown, Mark Vanhoenacker spun the illuminated globe in his bedroom and dreamt of elsewhere - of distant, real cities, and a perfect metropolis that existed only in his imagination.
Now, as a commercial airline pilot, Mark has spent more than two decades crossing the skies of our planet and touching down in the cities he'd always longed to see. Imagine a City celebrates the metropolises he has come to know and love through the lens of the hometown his heart has never left. From the sweeping roads of Los Angeles and the old gates of Jeddah to the intricate, dream-inspired plan of Brasília, he shows us with warmth and fresh eyes the extraordinary places that billions of us call home.
Overwatch 2: Heroes Ascendant: An Overwatch Story Collection
Experience the story of Overwatch 2 from a multiple points of view in this star-studded short story collection, featuring eight tales from award-winning and bestselling authors.
As Null Sector’s global assault brings the world to its knees, millions of voices cry out amid the devastation . . . and heroes around the world are answering the call.
Lyndsay Ely brings heartrending clarity to Ashe and B.O.B.’s pre-Crisis history.
As Null Sector drop pods rain down on Tokyo, Hanzo hears the ghost of his father - and meets with a familiar face - in an electrifying tale by E.C. Myers.
Corinne Duyvis and Sangu Mandanna trace Symmetra’s travels abroad to retrieve a Vishkar asset . . . and an old friend.
Mohale Mashigo lends fresh perspective to Ana and Jack’s relationship as they weave through a broken Istanbul to meet with an informant, one who claims to have knowledge of what brought down Overwatch all those years ago.
These stories and more illuminate the darkest corners of the Null Sector chaos, in the crucible where choices are made and heroes are forged. From the streets of Numbani to the alleys of Junkertown, the highest floors of Lijiang Tower to the stars themselves, don’t miss this exploration of the battles fought all around the globe. This perfect companion read to Overwatch 2’s main story includes tales from award-winning, bestselling science fiction and fantasy authors as well as Blizzard’s stellar narrative designers and cinematic writers. Complete with illustration by Kevin Hong, Hannah Templer, and more, this incredible anthology brings new focus to Overwatch’s universe, and shows that - even in its most uncertain times - the future is still worth fighting for.
Fist of the North Star, Vol. 11
In the original classic manga set in a postapocalyptic wasteland ruled by savage gangs, a hero appears to bring justice to the guilty. This warrior named Ken holds the deadly secrets of a mysterious martial art known as Hokuto Shinken—the Divine Fist of the North Star!
In a postapocalyptic world, humanity has risen from the ashes of all-out nuclear war to a nightmare of endless suffering. It is a time of chaos. Warlords and gangs of savage marauders rule the broken ruins of civilization, terrorizing and enslaving the survivors. Life has become a brutal struggle for existence and death the only release.
Years after the fall of Raoh, Kenshiro has vanished and Rin and Bat have grown to young adulthood. Attempting to honor Ken’s legacy, they wander the wasteland defending the defenseless. Kenshiro himself now seeks only peace, hiding himself away in an isolated settlement. Tormented by the memories of those he has lost, he tries to give up the way of the fist. But the forces of chaos are always on the horizon, and Kenshiro will once again embrace his fate as the successor of Hokuto Shinken…
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Yerba Buena
When Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that clings to her.
Across the city, Emilie Dubois is in a holding pattern. In her seventh year and fifth major as an undergraduate, she yearns for the beauty and community her Creole grandparents cultivated but is unable to commit. On a whim, she takes a job arranging flowers at the glamorous restaurant Yerba Buena and embarks on an affair with the married owner.
When Sara catches sight of Emilie one morning at Yerba Buena, their connection is immediate. But the damage both women carry, and the choices they have made, will pull them apart again and again.
At once exquisite and expansive, astonishing in its humanity and heart, Yerba Buena is a love story about two women finding their way in the world.