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The Children of Jocasta
From Natalie Haynes, the Women's Prize shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships, comes The Children of Jocasta, a retelling of Oedipus and Antigone from the perspectives of the women the myths overlooked.
My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents . . .
Jocasta is just fifteen when she is told that she must marry the King of Thebes, an old man she has never met. Her life has never been her own, and nor will it be, unless she outlives her strange, absent husband.
Ismene is the same age when she is attacked in the palace she calls home. Since the day of her parents' tragic deaths a decade earlier, she has always longed to feel safe with the family she still has. But with a single act of violence, all that is about to change.
With the turn of these two events, a tragedy is set in motion. But not as you know it.
'Haynes balances a fresh take on the material . . . giving new voice to the often-overlooked but fascinating Jocasta and Ismene.' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe.
Five Tuesdays in Winter
Writers & Lovers established Lily King as one of our most beloved authors of contemporary fiction. Now, for the first time ever, King collects ten of her finest short stories, opening fresh realms of discovery for avid and new readers alike.
Told in the intimate voices of unique and endearing characters of all ages, these tales explore desire and heartache, loss and discovery, moments of jolting violence and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs. A bookseller's unspoken love for his employee rises to the surface, a neglected teenage boy finds much-needed nurturing from an unlikely pair of college students hired to housesit, a girl's loss of innocence at the hands of her employer's son becomes a catalyst for strength and confidence, and a proud nonagenarian rages helplessly in his granddaughter's hospital room. Romantic, hopeful, brutally raw, and unsparingly honest, some even slipping into the surreal, these stories are, above all, about King's enduring subject of love.
Lily King's literary mastery, her spare and stunning prose, and her gift for creating lasting and treasured characters is on full display in this curated selection of short fiction. Five Tuesdays in Winter showcases an exhilarating new form for this extraordinarily gifted author writing at the height of her career.
'Lily King is one of our great literary treasures' - Madeline Miller, author of Circe
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Tripla koktél
Filmszerűen peregnek a képek a három barátnő életéből. Maggie, Candice és Roxanne ugyanannál a magazinnál dolgoznak. Havonta egy alkalommal kedvenc koktélbárjukban pletykálgatva szürcsölgetik italaikat. Mindhárman szépek, sikeresek és beérkezettek... Vagy mégsem?
Roxanne elbűvölő és magabiztos. Remek a humora és szókimondó. Fennen hangoztatja függetlenségét, de titkos szeretője van, és abban reménykedik, hogy a férfi egy nap elhagyja érte a nejét... Maggie tehetséges, sosem engedi ki az irányítást a kezéből, hisz ő az "Év szerkesztője". Férjével kisbabát várnak, de fogalma sincs arról, mit jelent ez valójában. Céltudatossága szertefoszlik, önmaga számára is meglepő erők kezdenek működni benne... Candice őszinte és tisztességes, a legfiatalabb közülük. Sokáig nem osztja meg a többiekkel szégyellt titkát. De egy nap árnyék tűnik fel a múltból, ami nemcsak az ő életét, de a lányok barátságát is veszélyezteti...
Roxanne, Maggie és Candice története akármelyik mai nőé lehetne. Uralhatatlan, fájdalmas szenvedély, lerázhatatlan, sötét szülői örökség, a görcsös megfelelni vágyás mindennapos lelki küzdelmei nem idegenek a modern nő számára. Élvezetes, olykor torokszorító regény egy nőtől, a nőkről, nőknek...
Madeleine Wickham az olvasók számára Sophie Kinsellaként a Boltkóros sorozat írójaként ismert. Eredeti nevén eltérő hangulatú hangulatú, talán kevésbé humoros, de ugyanannyira érdekes,izgalmas és emberi történetet tár az olvasó elé.
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Na hraně zítřka 2BD (UHD+BD)
USA / Kanada, 2014, 108 min
Filmová adaptace japonské novely. Mimozemšťané obléhají planetu Zemi a lidé se snaží společnými silami bránit. Mezi vojáky bojuje také Keiji Kiriya, který zemře hned při své první akci. Pomocí nevysvětlitelného jevu se ale opět probouzí do dne před bitvou a zjišťuje, že je chycen v časové smyčce. Prožívá svou smrt i vzkříšení znovu a znovu. Nezbývá mu nic jiného než poučit se ze svých chyb a změnit svůj osud.
Režie: Doug Liman
Předloha: Hiroši Sakurazaka (kniha)
Scénář: Christopher McQuarrie, Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth
Kamera: Dion Beebe
Hudba: Christophe Beck, Leo Birenberg
Hrají: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Brendan Gleeson, Noah Taylor, Kick Gurry, Dragomir Mrsic, Charlotte Riley, Jonas Armstrong, Franz Drameh
Zvuk: CZ Dabing
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Half Sick of Shadows
"Laura Sebastian is the next Madeline Miller. . . . a fierce, fresh, lyrical tale that will enthrall until the last page."--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Huntress
"Magical, haunting, unique--I haven't been so excited about an Arthur book since I read The Once and Future King ."--Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author
The Lady of Shalott reclaims her story in this bold feminist reimagining of the Arthurian myth from the New York Times bestselling author of Ash Princess.
Everyone knows the legend. Of Arthur, destined to be a king. Of the beautiful Guinevere, who will betray him with his most loyal knight, Lancelot. Of the bitter sorceress, Morgana, who will turn against them all. But Elaine alone carries the burden of knowing what is to come--for Elaine of Shalott is cursed to see the future.
On the mystical isle of Avalon, Elaine runs free and learns of the ancient prophecies surrounding her and her friends--countless possibilities, almost all of them tragic.
When their future comes to claim them, Elaine, Guinevere, Lancelot, and Morgana accompany Arthur to take his throne in stifling Camelot, where magic is outlawed, the rules of society chain them, and enemies are everywhere. Yet the most dangerous threats may come from within their own circle.
As visions are fulfilled and an inevitable fate closes in, Elaine must decide how far she will go to change destiny--and what she is willing to sacrifice along the way.
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Falling Leaves
This book is the life story and family history of Adeline Yen Mah. Adeline was born in China at a time of great change and trouble. At the same time, she suffered terrible unkindness from the members of her own family. Falling Leaves is a story of pain and fear, but also of hope as Adeline fights for her independence.
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Mighty and Almighty: Reflections on Faith, God and World Affairs
Does America, as George W. Bush has proclaimed, have a special mission, derived from God, to bring liberty and democracy to the world? How much influence does the Christian right have over U.S. foreign policy? And how should America and the West deal with violent Islamist extremists? Traditionally, politicians have sought to downplay the impact of religious beliefs in international affairs. In this illuminating first-hand account, one of the most renowned figures in American politics argues that understanding the place and power of religion - and knowing how best to respond to it - is essential if America is to lead successfully around the world. Here, Madeleine Albright examines religion and foreign affairs through the lens of American history as well as her own personal experiences in public office, with a preface and opening chapters specially written for the UK edition. She offers a sharp critique of U.S. policy, condemnation for those who exploit religious fervor for violent ends, and praise for political, cultural, and spiritual leaders who seek to harness the values of faith to bring people together. Albright has written a thought-provoking work that calls for bold leadership to rein in the many religious rivalries around the globe and lay the groundwork for a new moral consensus. 'Learned, eloquent and thoughtful... Much of what she says seems obvious except that it obviously hasn't been followed.' - Raymond Seitz, Sunday Telegraph.""
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American Gothic Short Stories
With handsome young men who never grow old, and the strangest of relatives appearing from dark corridors and long shadows, the frenzied imagination of the American Gothic is a fertile theme for this next anthology in the Gothic fantasy short story series.
As with other titles in the series, new short fiction complements the work of classic authors including: Gertrude Atherton, Ambrose Bierce, Charles Brockden Brown, George Washington Cable, Charles W. Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Ralph Adams Cram, Stephen Crane, Emma Dawson, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ellen Glasgow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Shirley Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Grace King, H.P. Lovecraft, Herman Melville, W.C. Morrow, Flannery O'Connor, Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Trumbull Slosson, Clark Ashton Smith, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, Madeline Yale Wynne.
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Breathless for You
Set in the 1920s, this passionate, provocative tale is perfect for fans of Downton Abbey and E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey. November 1921. Since arriving in London, Madeline, the young French ward of Ash, the new Duke of Belfield, has become the subject of lurid speculation, and when she's offered the chance to travel to Belfield Hall, Ash's country seat in Oxfordshire, Madeline is eager to seek refuge there. But Oxfordshire is not as quiet a retreat as she assumed, for soon she clashes with a handsome gamekeeper - Nathan Mallory - whose seduction techniques are astounding and addictive. Meanwhile, Madeline's secret nightmares of her own dark past in Paris continue to haunt her. At the same time Madeline realises that her guardian the Duke (whom she holds in the highest regard) has an impossible love too - for his Sophie, the former servant girl. It's in Madeline's power to reunite the two, but quite possibly at the cost of her own happiness - and her choices are made even more difficult by the secret machinations of powerful people who would do anything to keep Sophie and Ash apart ...
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Witchcraft. The Library of Esoterica
Initiating readers in the fascinating and complex history of witchcraft, from the goddess mythologies of ancient cultures to the contemporary embrace of the craft by modern artists and activists, this expansive tome conjures up a breathtaking overview of an age-old tradition. Rooted in legend, folklore, and myth, the archetype of the witch has evolved from the tales of Odysseus and Circe, the Celtic seductress Cerridwen, and the myth of Hecate, fierce ruler of the moonlit night. In Witchcraft we survey her many incarnations since, as she shape-shifts through the centuries, alternately transforming into mother, nymph, and crone-seductress and destroyer.
Edited by Jessica Hundley, and co-edited by author, scholar, and practitioner Pam Grossman, this enthralling visual chronicle is the first of its kind, a deep dive into the complex symbologies behind witchcraft traditions, as explored through the history of art itself. The witch has played muse to great artists throughout time, from the dark seductions of Francisco Jose de Goya and Albrecht Durer to the elegant paean to the magickal feminine as re-imagined by the Surrealist circle of Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, and Leonor Fini. The witch has spellbound through folktales and dramatic literature as well, from the poison apples of The Brothers Grimm, to the Weird Sisters gathered at their black cauldron in Shakespeare's Macbeth, to L. Frank Baum's iconic Wicked Witch of the West, cackling over the fate of Dorothy.
Throughout this entrancing visual voyage, we'll also bear witness to the witch as she endures persecution and evolves into empowerment, a contemporary symbol of bold defiance and potent nonconformity. Featuring enlightening essays by modern practitioners like Kristen J. Sollee and Judika Illes, as well interviews with authors and scholars such as Madeline Miller and Juliet Diaz, Witchcraft includes a vast range of cultural traditions that embrace magick as spiritual exploration and creative catharsis.
Circe : The Sunday Times Bestseller
God. Mortal. Daughter. Monster. Saviour. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Creator. Mother. Witch.
Scorned, rejected and at last exiled from her father's house for her dark gifts, Circe arrives on the remote island of Aiaia with nothing but her wits and magic to help her. But there is danger for a solitary woman in the world, and Circe's independence and strange powers draw the wrath of men and gods alike. To protect what she holds dear, Circe must decide whether she belongs with the deities she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love.
Complicated and wounded, gifted and passionate, Madeline Miller's captivating Circe steps out of myth and into the present as a heroine for our time, and all times.
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Bond
Terry O'Neill was given his first chance to photograph Sean Connery as James Bond in the film Goldfinger. From that moment, O'Neill's association with Bond was made: an enduring legacy that has carried through to the era of Daniel Craig.
It was O'Neill who captured gritty and roguish pictures of Connery on set, and it was O'Neill who framed the super-suave Roger Moore in Live and Let Die. His images of Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore are also important, celebrating the vital role of women in the James Bond world. But it is Terry O'Neill's casual, on-set photographs of a mischievous Connery walking around the casinos of Las Vegas or Roger Moore dancing on a bed with co-star Madeline Smith that show the other side of the world's most recognisable spy.
Terry O'Neill opens his archive to give readers - and viewers - the chance to enter the dazzling world of James Bond. Lavish colour and black and white images are complemented by insights from O'Neill, alongside a series of original essays on the world of James Bond by BAFTA-longlisted film writer, James Clarke; and newly-conducted interviews with a number of actors featured in O'Neill's photographs.
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Učitelka (CZ verze) DVD
Kategórie: dráma, čs. tvorba
Dĺžka: 98 min.
Jazykové verzie: slovenská, česká
Titulky: slovenské, české, anglické
Zvukové normy: 5.1, 2.0
Réžia: Jan Hřebejk
Hrajú: Zuzana Mauréry, Peter Bebjak, Csongor Kassai, Martin Havelka, Zuzana Konečná, Ondřej Malý, Attila Mokos, Éva Bandor, Richard Labuda
Zdánlivě empatická a laskavě vyhlížející učitelka manipuluje prostřednictvím svých žáků jejich rodiči za účelem osobního obohacení, ať už v podobě materiálních výhod, či dokonce vidiny milostného poměru. Nejen z obavy o prospěch svých milovaných dětí většina rodičů třídní učitelce základní školy podléhá a poskytuje jí nejrůznější služby, dárky a jiné pozornosti. Najdou se však tři rodiny, které se rozhodnou učitelce vzepřít a stávající situaci se společně s ředitelkou školy pokusí zvrátit na konspirativní třídní schůzce. Děj strhujícího a velmi aktuálního snímku o síle lidského charakteru inspirovaného skutečnou událostí se sice odehrává na začátku 80. let, ale jde o příběh univerzální, který by se mohl odehrát kdekoliv a v jakékoli době, neboť zkorumpovanost, stejně jako malost a vypočítavost vládnou světem bez ustání.
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Není čas zemřít 2BD (UHD+BD) Digibook
James Bond, agent 007, skončil aktivní službu a užívá si zasloužený odpočinek na Jamajce. Klid však nemá dlouhého trvání – objeví se totiž jeho starý přítel Felix Leiter ze CIA a požádá ho o pomoc. Mise na záchranu uneseného vědce se ukáže být zrádnější, než se na začátku zdálo. Bond se během vyšetřování dostane na stopu nevyzpytatelného zločince, který disponuje nebezpečnou a velmi ničivou novou technologií.
Formát obrazu: 16:9
Celková stopáž: 163 min
Zvuk: CZ, EN
Titulky: české, anglické
Režie: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Scénář: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga, Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Kamera: Linus Sandgren
Hudba: Hans Zimmer
Hrají: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Ana de Armas, Naomie Harris, David Dencik, Rory Kinnear
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Kung Fu Panda 3 (CZ obal) DVD
Jedna z nejúspěšnějších animovaných sérií na světě se vrací a v jejím čele nestojí nikdo jiný než slavný kung-fu bojovník, tak trochu i do šířky urostlý panda Po. A vše začne tím, že se znenadání objeví Poův ztracený biologický otec, společně pak odcestují do tajného pandího ráje, kde se setkají s dalšími pandími členy široké a černobílé rodiny. Ale pak Kai, padouch s nadpřirozenými schopnostmi, proletí Čínou jako vichřice a začne porážet všechny mistry kung-fu, Po musí udělat nemožné: naučit vesnici plnou legraci milujících, těžkopádných bratří umění kung-fu, aby se z nich stalo neohrožené společenství Kung Fu Pand!
Dĺžka: 94 min.
Zvuk: 5.1 CS, EN
Titulky: CS
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Learning to Ride
James Patterson's BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. She never wanted to love a cowboy...Rodeo king Tanner Callen doesn't want to be tied down. When he sees Madeline Harper at a local honky-tonk and everything about her screams New York, he brings out every trick in his playbook to take her home. But soon he learns that he doesn't just want her for a night and, instead, hopes for forever...
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The Most Fun We Ever Had
'A literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler ... an outstanding debut, assured and highly enjoyable' Observer'Should appeal to fans of Maria Semple, Emma Straub and Jennifer Egan ... A moving, immersive, often very funny study of family and sisterhood' Sunday Times'As good as Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections or Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad; it is almost impossible to believe that it is a debut.
The Most Fun We Ever Had is as good as books come' Telegraph'Like Meg Wolitzer. A forensic dissection of family past and present, I loved it. If you like reading about relationships, this one is for you.' Pandora Sykes MEET THE SORENSON FAMILYMARILYN has somehow fallen into motherhood and spent four decades married toDAVID, who's pretty certain he loves her more than anyone has ever loved another person.
WENDY, their eldest, a cause for concern, soothes herself with drink after being widowed young,while VIOLET, lawyer-turned-stay-at-home-mother, is disturbed by the reappearance of a son placed for adoption fifteen years earlier. LIZA, a professor, is pregnant with a baby she's not sure she wants by a man she's not sure she lovesand GRACE, their dawdling youngest daughter, lives a lie that no one in her family suspects. 'A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory' Madeline Miller, author of Circe and The Song of Achilles'Everything about this brilliant debut cuts deep: the humor, the wisdom, the pathos' Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers
Tausend kleine Lügen
Jane flieht vor ihrer Vergangenheit. Sie hat es seit der Geburt ihres Sohnes vor fünf Jahren nirgendwo länger ausgehalten. Nun ist sie im idyllischen australischen Küstenstädtchen Pirriwee gestrandet und hat das Gefühl, endlich angekommen zu sein. Schnell schließt sie Freundschaft mit der lebhaften Madeline und der wunderschönen Celeste. Doch plötzlich geraten die drei Frauen in den Strudel von dunklen Geheimnissen, Lügen und Intrigen. Als dann bei einem Elternschulfest ein Mann tödlich verunglückt, stellt sich die Frage: War es ein wirklich nur ein Unfall?
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Tomb Raider Archives Volume 1
There's only one woman capable of tracking down the world's rarest artifacts: Lara Croft. Armed with her iconic twin pistols, and aided by roguish playboy Chase Carver and her buttoned-up assistant Madeline Hovan, Lara crisscrosses the globe in search of adventure. Join Lara as she fights against a shadowy organization intent on her destruction, faces the ultimate betrayal, and uncovers legendary treasures.
This deluxe hardcover collects issues #1-#15 of the 1999 Top Cow Tomb Raider series and features the art of superstar artists Michael Turner, Marc Silvestri, David Finch, Andy Park and many more, all in an oversized format.
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