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Lacná kniha Elizabeth (-90%)
Elizabeth Taylor is known internationally as one of the most beautiful and talented women ever to grace the silver screen. She has won two Academy Awards and starred in over sixty films. She is just as well known for her tempestuous personal life, marrying eight times and suffering through innumerable health problems. A cultural icon, she has been written about before ...but never like this. This moving book traces for the first time Elizabeth's journey through the dark and often lonely world of a fame unparalleled in the 1960s and 1970s, a time during which alcohol and drugs played a major part in her life. It would be with her fifth (and sixth) husband Richard Burton (with whom she made twelve movies, including Cleopatra") that she would learn life lessons about love and loyalty that would inform the rest of her life and, finally, be the catalyst for her recovery from alcoholism in the 1980s. This book also details her philanthropic work as an AIDS activist in the 1990s as well as her stunning success as a business woman today (with a multi-million-dollar fragrance). Based on years of research, this is not just a star's biography ...it's an unforgettable woman's story."
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Akkor is szeretnél?
Kismackót nyugtalanítja valami. Vajon mennyire szereti őt az édesanyja? Akkor is szereti, ha Kismackó rosszalkodik? Akkor is, ha valami nagy baj lesz? Igen. Az anyai szeretet mindennél erősebb, és Kismackó megtanulja, hogy ez nem fog megváltozni soha. Megható történet az anyai szeretetről és a gyermeki kíváncsiságról Szabó T. Anna és Dragomán Pali anya és fia közös fordításában.
Nullánál is kevesebb - Helikon Zsebkönyvek 126.
"Nem akarom, hogy izgasson bármi is. Ha izgatnak a dolgok, akkor csak rosszabb lesz, akkor csak még valami miatt kell aggódnom. Nem annyira fájdalmas, ha nem izgat semmi."
Bret Easton Ellis, a kortárs amerikai próza egyik legjelentősebb szerzője mindössze huszonegy éves volt, amikor 1985-ben megjelent első könyve, a Nullánál is kevesebb. A regény szinte azonnal kultikussá vált, 1987-ben filmet is forgattak belőle. Szereplői dúsgazdag Los Angeles-i családok gyerekei, akik gond- és céltalanul tengődnek hedonizmus és nihilizmus határvidékén - unatkozó fiatalok, akiknek mindennapjai a semmitmondó fecsegés, az egymást érő bulik, a drogok és az érzelmek nélküli szex jegyében telnek. A Nullánál is kevesebb megrázó, változatlanul aktuális bemutatása az érzelmi kiüresedés kollektív drámájának - és már felsejlenek benne mindazon (ön)pusztító indulatok, melyeket a szerző későbbi brutális remekművében, az Amerikai psychóban enged majd igazán szabadjára.
Elizabeth Finchová
Jak už jsme u Juliana Barnese zvyklí, v jeho textech se elegantně propojuje román a esej. V tomto prozaickém díle jde o přátelský vztah mezi neúspěšným hercem a starší učitelkou Elizabeth Finchovou, která mu po své smrti zanechá knihovnu i poněkud záhadné osobní zápisky. Esejistická část se týká života Juliana Apostaty, římského císaře, který se pokusil zvrátit křesťanský vývoj své říše. Jakkoli pro Elizabeth Finchovou platí to, co pro předcházející autorova díla, dost možná je román jeho nejhlubším i nejradikálnějším textem, pokud jde o úvahy o historii a křesťanství či o koncepci alternativních dějin. Navíc jde o román vysoce aktuální, neboť v sobě odráží pochybnosti a roztříštěnost současného světa.
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Lacná kniha How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood (-50%)
'I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife'. So said Elizabeth Taylor, and therein lay her secret. From her days as a youthful minx at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to her post-studio reign as America's lustiest middle-aged movie queen, Taylor has defined the very essence of Hollywood stardom. Marching through the decades swathed in mink, discarding husbands nearly as frequently as she changed her diamond necklaces, Taylor dominated the headlines as no other star before or since. From America's sweetheart to America's homewrecker and then back again, she uncannily reflected (and at times predicted) the always shifting cultural zeitgeist. "How to Be a Movie Star" is a different kind of book about Elizabeth Taylor: an intimate look at a girl who grew up with fame, who learned early - and well - how to be famous.
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History Is All You Left Me
You’re still alive in alternate universes, Theo, but I live in the real world where this morning you’re having an open casket funeral. I know you’re out there, listening. And you should know I’m really pissed because you swore you would never die and yet here we are. It hurts even more because this isn’t the first promise you’ve broken.
OCD-afflicted seventeen-year-old, Griffin, has just lost his first love – his best friend, ex-boyfriend and the boy he believed to be his ultimate life partner – in a drowning accident. In a desperate attempt to hold onto every last piece of the past, a broken Griffin forges a friendship with Theo’s new college boyfriend, Jackson. And Griffin will stop at nothing to learn every detail of Theo’s new college life, and ultimate death. But as the grieving pair grows closer, readers will question Griffin's own version of the truth – both in terms of what he’s willing to hide, and what true love ultimately means...
Praise for History is All You Left Me
"History Is All You Left Me overflows with tenderness and heartache. Even when its hero is screwing up royally, maybe especially then, Silvera's humanity and compassion carve out a space where it's not the falling that's important, it's how you pick yourself back up. There isn't a teenager alive who won't find their heart described perfectly on these pages." Patrick Ness
"Adam Silvera is a master at capturing the infinite small heartbreaks of love and loss and grief. History Is All You Left Me is a beautiful meditation on what it means to survive devastating loss. This book will make you cry, think, and then cry some more." Nicola Yoon
B. J. Harrison Reads Where Love Is, God Is (EN)
B. J. Harrison reads the classic by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Martin Avdeitch is a devoted shoemaker, who works in his basement and meets sorrow in life. His family has died, except for one son. When he faces a crisis, he turns to God to look for an answer to his hardships and find meaning in his life again.
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Ultra. Proč je noc černá. Why The Night is Black
Kniha skutečných příběhů „posledních“ nejvýznamnějších kanibalských Papuánských náčelníků a autentický záznam komunikace při symbolickém „Posledním Prvním Kontaktu“.
Po tisíciletí byly takového příběhy předávány z generace na generaci pouze verbálně. Tato kniha /bohatě doplněných černobílými fotografiemi/ je první zaznamenaný materiál přepsaných autentických nahrávek rozhovorů s posledními přírodními lidmi doby kamenné předtím, než je navždy změní globalizace. Všichni mluví v první osobě a popisují své skutečné zážitky, neboť v džungli se nerozlišuje (západním úhlem pohledu) přirozené od nadpřirozeného. Všechno je reálné.
Až dosud bývaly „první kontakty“ věcí moci, násilí, zvětšování teritorií a území vlivu, /ale naše země nikdy nekolonizovala jiné/ a o dnes již zaniklých animistických kulturách se zachovala svědectví prospektorů, misionářů, vojáků a antropologů, aniž domorodci vyprávějí sami o sobě. První kontakt s posledními přírodními národy až dosud nikdy neučinili umělci, přestože jde o "Setkání kultur"....
Jedná se rozšířenou verzi knihy Proč je noc černá, jejíž první vydání roku 2005 získalo cenu Magnesia Litera za objev roku.
A book of true stories told by the ‘last’ prominent cannibal Papuan tribal chiefs and the authentic record of communication during the symbolic ‘Final First Contact’.
For thousands of years, stories like these have been part of the tribes’ oral tradition, passed down from generation to generation. This book /richly supplemented with black and white photographs/ is the first ever transcription of authentic recorded interviews, conducted with the final indigenous tribespeople before their primeval culture is forever changed by globalisation. The first-person accounts describe the tribesmen’s true stories, at least from their point of view: for them, there is no distinction between the natural and the supernatural – everything is equally real.
Until now, ‘first contacts’ have been a matter of power, violence, the expansion of territories and spheres of influence /but our country has never colonized others/ and there are testimonies of prospectors, missionaries, soldiers, and anthropologists about the now extinct animist cultures, without the natives telling their own stories. The first contact with the last natural nations had never previously been made by artists, despite the fact that it was a Meeting of Cultures…
This is an expanded version of the book Why the Night is Black, the first edition of which won the 2005 Magnesia Litera Award for Discovery of the Year.
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The Island of Missing Trees
A rich, magical new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a top ten Sunday Times bestseller
It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, chilli peppers and wild herbs. This is where one can find the best food in town, the best music, the best wine. But there is something else to the place: it makes one forget, even if for just a few hours, the world outside and its immoderate sorrows.
In the centre of the tavern, growing through a cavity in the roof, is a fig tree. This tree will witness their hushed, happy meetings, their silent, surreptitious departures; and the tree will be there when the war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to rubble, when the teenagers vanish and break apart.
Decades later in north London, sixteen-year-old Ada Kazantzakis has never visited the island where her parents were born. Desperate for answers, she seeks to untangle years of secrets, separation and silence. The only connection she has to the land of her ancestors is a Ficus Carica growing in the back garden of their home.
In The Island of Missing Trees, prizewinning author Elif Shafak brings us a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature, and, finally, renewal.
One Of Us Is Next
The sequel to the international bestseller One of Us is Lying
Welcome back to Bayview High . . .
It's been a year since the events of One Of Us Is Lying.
But nothing has settled for the residents of Bayview. Not now someone has started playing a sinister game of Truth or Dare.
Choose truth? You must reveal your darkest secret.
Choose dare? Well, that could be even more dangerous. Even deadly.
When the game takes an even darker turn, suddenly no one at Bayview High knows who to trust.
But they need to find out who is behind the game, before it's too late.
This is Me (EN)
Audiobook This is Me, written by Shari Low. This is. Denise. Married to Ray, her first and only love, Denise has never, for one moment, regretted putting the husband she idolised on a pedestal above everyone and everything else. But, after forty years of marriage, he is gone, leaving Denise to discover that their perfect marriage was fatally flawed.
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All You Need Is Kill
Když na Zemi zaútočí vražedná mimozemská monstra, je Keidži Kirija jenom jedním z mnoha rekrutů, vyslanými zabíjet... a umírat. A Keidži také téměř okamžitě umře – jen aby se vzápětí probudil ráno před bitvou, vyrazil opět do boje a znovu zemřel. A znovu. A znovu. Keidžiho jedinou nadějí na únik z ubíjející časové smyčky je zvítězit nad nepřáteli, jenže jak toho dosáhnout?
Pod manga adaptací slavného příběhu (který inspiroval i film s Tomem Cruisem, Na hraně zítřka) je podepsaný mj. Takeši Obata, jeden z tvůrců série Death Note – Zápisník smrti!
Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Inchbald (Illustrated)
A colourful figure of the late eighteenth century, Elizabeth Inchbald ran away as a teenager to become an actress on the London stage. In spite of numerous obstacles and dangers in her path, she persevered in her profession, establishing an exemplary professional reputation. She enjoyed great success as a playwright, producing original farces and hilarious comedies. She also wrote two successful prose romances, A ‘Simple Story’ (1791) and ‘Nature and Art’ (1796), which serve as early examples of the novel of passion, having an impact on the development of the novel in English literature. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Inchbald’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, many rare plays, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Inchbald’s life and works* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts* All the novels, with individual contents tables* Includes the two apocryphal novels ‘Appearance is against Them’ and ‘Emily Herbert’, originally ascribed to Inchbald, though now generally believed to be by another author* Features many plays appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Excellent formatting of the play texts* Rare non-fiction essays on the works of other playwrights* Includes a bonus biography– discover Inchbald’s intriguing life* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genresPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titlesCONTENTS:The NovelsAppearance is against Them (1786)Emily Herbert (1786)A Simple Story (1791)Nature and Art (1796)The PlaysThe Mogul Tale (1784)I’ll Tell You What (1785)Appearance is Against Them (1785)The Widow’s Vow (1786)The Midnight Hour (1787)Such Things Are (1787)Animal Magnetism (1788)The Child of Nature (1788)The Married Man (1789)Next Door Neighbours (1791)Everyone Has His Fault (1793)To Marry, or Not to Marry (1793)The Wedding Day (1794)Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are (1797)Lovers’ Vows (1798)The Wise Man of the East (1799)The Massacre (1833)
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This is Our Undoing (EN)
Audiobook This is Our Undoing, written by Lorraine Wilson. Could you condemn one child to save another? In a near-future Europe fracturing under climate change and far-right politics, biologist Lina Stephenson works in the remote Rila Mountains. But when an old enemy dies, Lina's dangerous past resurfaces and puts her family's lives at risk. Trapped with her vulnerable sister and the dead man's family, Lina is facing pressure from all sides: her enemy's eldest son is determined to destroy her in his search for vengeance, whilst his youngest carries a sinister secret.
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Drevený album Life is a Journey
Život je cesta a niekedy aj cesta môže byť cieľ... Výnimočný drevený zápisník pre tých, ktorých lákajú diaľky a radi ochutnávajú a spoznávajú svet. Nedovoľte, aby vaše unikátne zážitky upadli do zabudnutia! Zaslúžia si byť zaznamenané a raz si ich budú čítať vaše deti :)
30 listov vám zaručí dostatok tvorivého priestoru na zápisky, kresbičky aj vkladanie máp, lístkov, či fotiek. Je len na vás, akými zážitkami ho zaplníte. Rozmery: A5 (23?19,5cm) Počet strán: 30 listov (220g).
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Rally is life
RALLY IS LIFE: to je vášeň a touha po závodění a po vítězství - někdy za každou cenu a na hraně zákona i zdraví. Třetí kniha mistra republiky v rally Petra Poulíka přináší ve vší syrovosti a nahotě nevšední a strhující pohled do "hlubin závodníkovy duše," do jeho nejniternějších myšlenek a emocí. Příběh je opět inspirovaný osobními zkušenostmi autora.
Spolu s hrdiny knihy zažijete skutečnou bolest, strach, ale i čirou radost - za volantem závodních strojů i v každodenním životě.
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Inside IS – 10 dnů v Islámském státě
Jürgen Todenhöfer cestoval jako první západní publicista, v doprovodu těžce ozbrojených džihádistů, po „Islámském státě“. Byla to dobrodružná akce s nejistým koncem. Jedině tak ale bylo možné poznat zblízka život nejnebezpečnějších teroristů na světě, jejich všední den a motivaci.
Provést natolik podrobné rešerše v IS se dosud nikomu nepodařilo.
„Člověk tam musí přijít, aby pochopil fenomén ‚Islámského státu‘. Máme-li nad nepřítelem zvítězit, musíme ho poznat,“ tvrdí autor.
Jeho kniha důrazně varuje před radikálními a nelidskými cíli „Islámského státu“, pro něž neexistuje žádné ospravedlnění. Především z hlediska islámu. Podle Todenhöfera je IS dítětem války proti Iráku, jež neměla sebemenší oporu v mezinárodním právu.
Reportáž z „říše zla“ je naléhavou výzvou k nalezení politického východiska ze spirály násilí na Blízkém východě a obhajobou rozumné protiteroristické politiky.
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Az én hibám
Nicholas Leisternek lehetetlen ellenállni. Kék szem, éjfekete haj, magas termet... minden stimmel, kivéve, hogy ő Noah új mostohatestvére, és megtestesíti mindazt, amitől a lány egész életében menekült. És lassanként az is kiderül, hogy kettős életet él, és súlyos titkot rejteget milliomos apja elől...
Together is Better
Most of us live our lives by accident - we live as it happens. Fulfilment comes when we live our lives on purpose. 'What are you going to do with your life? What are you doing with your life now?' 'Do you have goals? A vision? A clear sense of why you do what you do?' Almost everyone knows someone who has grappled with at least one of these questions. The answers can often seem elusive or uncertain. Though there are many paths to follow into the unknown future, there is one way that dramatically increases the chances we will enjoy the journey. To travel with someone we trust. We can try to build a successful career or a happy life alone, but why would we? Together is better. This unique and delightful little book makes the point that together is better in a quite unexpected way. Simon Sinek, bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, blends the wisdom he has gathered from around the world with a heartwarming, richly illustrated original fable. Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion.