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How Proust can change your lif
'What a marvellous book this is ...de Botton dissects what [Proust] had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention taking your time, being alive and adds his own delicious commentary. The result is an intoxicating as it is wise, amusing as well as stimulating, and presented in so fresh a fashion as to be unique ...I could not stop, and now much start all over again.' Brian Masters, Mail on Sunday 'De Botton not only has a complete understanding of Proust's life ...but what is particularly charming about this small, readable book is its tongue-in-cheek benignity, its lightly held erudition and its generous way of lending itself to what is not only the greatest book of the century but also the darkest and the most eccentric' Edmund White, Observer 'It contains more human interest and play of fancy than most fiction ...de Botton, in emphasizing Proust's healing, advisory aspects, does us the service of rereading him on our behalf, providing of that vast sacred lake a sweet and lucid distillation.' John Updike, New Yorker 'De Botton's little book is so charming, amusing and sensible that it may even itself change your life.' Allan Massie, Daily Telegraph 'This engaging book is one of the most entertaining pieces of literary criticism I have read in a long while.' Sunday Telegraph 'A very enjoyable book' Sebastian Faulks
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Braxton Toni - Breathe Again: The Best Of CD
Breathe Again
Un-Break My Heart
He Wasn''t Man Enough
I Don''t Want To
How Could An Angel Break My Heart
You''re Makin'' Me High
Love Shoulda Brought You Home
Another Sad Love Song
You Mean The World To Me
A Better Man
I Belong To You
Seven Whole Days
How Many Ways
Give U My Heart
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9,41 €
9,90 €
The Hobbit
Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services -- as a burglar -- on a dangerous expedition to raid the treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo&aposs life is never to be the same again. The Hobbit became an instant success when it was first published in 1937, and more than 60 years later Tolkien&aposs epic tale of elves, dwarves, trolls, goblins, myth, magic and adventure, with its reluctant hero Bilbo Baggins, has lost none of its appeal. ´One of the best loved characters in English fiction... a marvellous fantasy adventure´ Daily Mail
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Endal
The remarkable story of Endal, voted 'Dog of the Millennium', and how, through his remarkable skills, companionship and unstinting devotion, he gave Allen Parton a reason to live again. Allen Parton was seriously injured while serving in the Gulf War. He lost the use of both of his legs, plus all memories of his children and much of his marriage. He was left unable to walk, talk or write - isolated in his own world. After five years of intensive therapy and rehab, he was still angry, bitter and unable to talk. Until a chance encounter with a Labrador puppy - Endal - who had failed his training as an assistance dog on health grounds. They 'adopted' each other, and Endal became Allen's reason to communicate with the outside world, to come to terms with his injuries, and to want to live again. Not content with learning over 200 commands to help Allen complete everyday tasks like getting dressed and going out to the shops in his wheelchair, Endal gave Allen the ability to start living again, and to become a husband and father again in his own special way. This is the incredible story of Allen, his wife Sandra, and his family. And, of course, Endal.
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Lacná kniha Siddhartha
In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river wh
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Smart Casual
More hilarious than your boss on the dance floor at the Christmas party, Smart Casual will make sure you'll never look at work the same way again! Olivia Smith is stuck in a rut. Working nine-to-five in a dreary The Office-style company, her only hope is
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4,70 €
4,95 €
Clara's War
On 21 July, 1942, the Nazis took control of the small Polish town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again. While those around her were either slaughtered or transported, Clara and her family hid perilously in a hand-dug bunker. Living in the house above and protecting them were the Becks. Mr. Beck was a womaniser, a drunkard and a self-professed anti-Semite, yet he risked his life throughout the war to keep his charges safe.Nevertheless, life with Mr. Beck was far from predictable. From the house catching fire, to Beck's affair with Clara's cousin, to the nightly SS drinking sessions in the room just above, Clara's War transports you into the dark, cramped bunker, and sits you next to the families as they hold their breath time and again. Sixty years later, Clara Kramer has created a memoir that is lyrical, dramatic and heartbreakingly compelling. Despite the worst of circumstances, this is a story full of hope and survival, courage and love.
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The Elephant Whisperer
When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of 'rogue' elephants on his reserve at Thula Thula, his commonsense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of survival - notorious escape artists, they would all be killed if Lawrence wouldn't take them. He agreed, but before arrangements for the move could be completed the animals broke out again and the matriarch and her baby were shot. The remaining elephants were traumatised and very angry. As soon as they arrived at Thula Thula they started planning their escape...As Lawrence battled to create a bond with the elephants and save them from execution, he came to realise that they had a lot to teach him about love, loyalty and freedom. Set against the background of life on the reserve, with unforgettable characters and exotic wildlife, this is a delightful book that will appeal to animal lovers everywhere.
HRC L5 BLUE - STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL + MR HYDE
The young Robert Louis Stevenson suffered from repeated nightmares of living a double life, in which by day he worked as a respectable doctor and by night he roamed the back alleys of old-town Edinburgh. In three days of furious writing, he produced a story about his dream existence. His wife found it too gruesome, so he promptly burned the manuscript. In another three days, he wrote it again. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was published as a "shilling shocker" in 1886, and became an instant classic. In the first six months, 40,000 copies were sold. Queen Victoria read it. Sermons and editorials were written about it. When Stevenson and his family visited America a year later, they were mobbed by reporters at the dock in New York City. Compulsively readable from its opening pages, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is still one of the best tales ever written about the divided self. This University of Nebraska Press edition is a small, exquisitely produced paperback. The book design, based on the original first edition of 1886, includes wide margins, decorative capitals on the title page and first page of each chapter, and a clean, readable font that is 19th-century in style. Joyce Carol Oates contributes a foreword in which she calls Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde a "mythopoetic figure" like Frankenstein, Dracula, and Alice in Wonderland, and compares Stevenson's creation to doubled selves in the works of Plato, Poe, Wilde, and Dickens. This edition also features 12 full-page wood engravings by renowned illustrator Barry Moser. Moser is a skillful reader and interpreter as well as artist, and his afterword to the book, in which he explains the process by which he chose a self-portrait motif for the suite of engravings, is fascinating. For the image of Edward Hyde, he writes, "I went so far as to have my dentist fit me out with a carefully sculpted prosthetic of evil-looking teeth. But in the final moments I had to abandon the idea as being inappropriate. It was more important to stay in keeping with the text and, like Stevenson, not show Hyde's face." (Also recommended: the edition of Frankenstein illustrated by Barry Moser) --Fiona Webster
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Le Zahir
The press chat cites 65 million copies of Coelho's eight previous novels in print, making the Brazilian author one of the world's bestselling novelists (150 countries and 56 languages). This book, whose title means the present" or "unable to go unnoticed" in Arabic, has an initial staggered laydown of eight million copies in 83 countries and 42 languages. It centers on the narrator's search for his missing wife, Esther, a journalist who fled Iraq in the runup to the present war, only to disappear from Paris; the narrator, a writer, is freed from suspicion when his lover, Marie, comes forward with a (true) alibi. He seeks out Mikhail, the man who may be Esther's most recent lover and with whom she was last seen, who has abandoned his native Kazakhstan for a kind of speaking tour on love. Mikhail introduces the narrator to a global underground "tribe" of spiritual seekers who resist, somewhat vaguely, conventional ways of living. Through the narrator's journey from Paris to Kazakhstan, Coelho explores various meanings of love and life, but the impact of these lessons is diminished significantly as they are repeated in various forms by various characters. Then again, 65 million readers can't be wrong; the spare, propulsive style that drove The Alchemist, Eleven Minutes and Coelho's other books will easily carry fans through myriad iterations of the ways and means of amor."
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Sinatra Frank - Nothing But The Best 2CD
CD 1:
1. Come Fly with Me
2. The Best Us Yet to Come
3. The Way You Look Tonight
4. Luck Be a Lady
5. Bewitched
6. The Good Life
7. The Girl from Ipanema
8. Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
9. Summer Wind
10. Strangers in the Night
11. Call Me Irresponsible
12. Somethin' Stupid
13. My Kind of Town
14. It Was a Very Good Year
15. That's Life
16. Moonlight Serenade
17. Nothing But the Best
18. Drinking Again
19. All My Tomorrows
20. My Way
21. Theme from New York, New York
22. Body and Soul
CD 2:
1. White Christmas
2. It's Christmas Time Again
3. Go Tell It on the Mountain
4. An Old Fashioned Christmas
5. When Angels Sang of Peace
6. The Little Drummer Boy
7. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
8. Do You Hear What I Hear?
9. The Secret of Christmas
10. The Twelve Days of Christmas
11. Christmas Candles
12. We Wish You the Merriest
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Mutiny on the Bounty (stage 1)
It is night in the south seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the long voyage home to England. But the sailors on the ship are angry men, and they have swords and guns. They pull the captain out of bed and take him up on deck. He tries to run, but a sailor holds a knife to his neck. 'Do that again, Captain Bligh, and you're a dead man!' he says. The mutiny on the Bounty happened in April, 1789. This is the true story of Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian, and the ship that never came home to England.
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Lacná kniha Rottweiler (-70%)
La premire fille avait une morsure dans le cou. Selon la police, les analyses ADN désignaient son fiancé. Qu'importe ! La presse sensation s'était tout de suite emparée de l'histoire : elle avait baptisé le tueur le Rottweiler, et le surnom lui était resté. Le dernier corps est découvert tout prs du magasin d'antiquités d'Inez Ferry, dans le quartier de Marylebone, Londres. Depuis la mort de son mari, Inez complte son modeste revenu en acceptant des locataires au-dessus de la boutique. Les activités obsessionnelles et imprévisibles du Rottweiler sment la suspicion au sein de cette petite communauté disparate : un maniaque, un assassin se cache parmi eux.
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The Inventors
Nate and Cat absolutely love inventing. You name it, they've tried to build it. After accidentally turning their headmaster blue, they win a year's scholarship with the world's richest, cleverest, most charismatic inventor, Ebenezer Saint. And along with twenty-three of the brightest scientific minds in the land, they begin their year-long stay in the Saint's Solutions paradise, a vast industrial compound filled with unimaginable inventions. But it soon becomes clear that all is not what it seems. Ebenezer Saint is hiding a dark agenda - and if Nate and Cat ever want to see their families again, they will have to out-wit, out-run and out-invent the world's greatest inventor.
Mission, The - Anthology: The Phonogram Years 2CD
Tracklist:
Disc 1
Serpent's Kiss 4.13
Garden Of Delight (Extended Version) 4.53
Like a Hurricane 4.58
Crystal Ocean (Edit) 5.18
Shelter From The Storm (Janice Long BBC Session) 5.25
Stay With Me (7' Version) 4.36
Blood Brother (Live At Astoria 1988) (Previously Unreleased) 6.55
And The Dance Goes On.... 4.12
Wasteland (7' Version) 3.57
Severina (7' Version) 3.57
Tomorrow Never Knows (Amphetamix) 4.53
Beyond The Pale (7' Version) 4.19
Kingdom Come (Liz Kershaw BBC Session) 4.59
Tower Of Strength (Bombay Edit Mix) 7.09
For Ever More 5.54
Disc 2
Amelia 2.46
Into The Blue (7' Edit) 3.46
Butterfly On A Wheel (7' Edit) 4.59
Deliverance (Sorcerer's Mix) 8.41
Belief (Mike Fraser Version) 6.49
Grapes Of Wrath (Demo) 3.45
Hands Across The Ocean (Tim Palmer Version) 4.10
Diamond Cuts Diamond (Demo) 4.58
Bird of Passage 6.21
Metal Guru 2.27
Never Again (7' Edit) 5.04
Shades Of Green (Utah Saints 7' Remix) 3.58
Trail Of Scarlet (Sitar Mix) 4.05
Like A Child Again (7' Edit) 3.40
Afterglow (Full Length Olympic Mix) 8.09
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8,54 €
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101 konyha
Ahelyett, hogy konyhánk kialakítása érdekében nyakunkba vennénk a várost, most egyetlen helyen, a BBC Good Homes magazinjának 101 konyha című praktikus kézikönyvéből hozzájuthatunk azokhoz az ötletekhez és tanácsokhoz, amelyekre szükségünk lehet. Akár a helyiség teljes átalakításához fogunk, vagy egyszerűen csak egy gyors felújításra van szükségünk, a 101 konyha garantáltan a segítségünkre lesz álmaink megvalósításában. A könyv a következő stílusok, illetve kategóriák szerint csoportosította az enteriőröket: kortárs, klasszikus, Shaker, retro, rusztikus, költségkímélő. Minden egyes konyhát egy egész oldalas színes fotó illusztrál, amit a BBC Good Homes magazin csapatának információi, továbbá szakmai titkai kísérnek az adott stílus egyes részleteiről, ide értve a színeket, a világítást, a kiegészítőket és a padlóburkolatot is. Egyben van tehát minden, ami egy ízléses konyha kialakításához szükséges.
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2,85 €
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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Greatest Hits CD
1. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
2. Long Time Gone
3. Just A Song Before I Go
4. Southern Cross
5. Marrakesh Express
6. Helplessly Hoping
7. Shadow Captain
8. Our House
9. Guinnevere
10. See The Changes
11. Teach Your Children
12. Wooden Ships
13. Delta
14. 49 Bye-Byes
15. Wasted On The Way
16. Carry On
17. In My Dreams
18. Cathedral
19. Daylight Again
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Onze Minutes
Maria est une toute jeune Brésilienne du Nordeste. Elle, qui n’aspire qu’ l’Aventure, au grand amour, et travaille comme vendeuse dans un magasin de tissus, s’offre une semaine de vacances Rio de Janeiro. Sur la plage de Copacabana, un Suisse lui propose de devenir danseuse de cabaret Genve. Elle voit l le début d’un conte de fées, mais la réalité sera tout autre. Maria en vient se prostituer : sans honte, puisqu’elle apprend son âme ne pas se plaindre de ce que fait son corps, et qu’elle s’interdit de tomber amoureuse. Aprs tout, la prostitution est un métier comme un autre, avec ses rgles, ses horaires et ses jours de repos… Mais le sexe — tout comme l’amour — reste pour elle une énigme. C’est alors qu’elle rencontre un jeune peintre qui la trouble, car, s’il est aussi perdu qu’elle, il sait parler le langage de l’âme. Pour découvrir le sens sacré de la sexualité, Maria devra trouver le chemin de la réconciliation avec elle-mme. Paulo Coelho décrit pas pas l’initiation d’une jeune prostituée, un parcours qui montre les limites de la prétendue libération sexuelle et s’achve par un retour romantique aux valeurs de cur et de l’esprit.
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Lacná kniha Onze Minutes (-90%)
Maria est une toute jeune Brésilienne du Nordeste. Elle, qui n’aspire qu’ l’Aventure, au grand amour, et travaille comme vendeuse dans un magasin de tissus, s’offre une semaine de vacances Rio de Janeiro. Sur la plage de Copacabana, un Suisse lui propose de devenir danseuse de cabaret Genve. Elle voit l le début d’un conte de fées, mais la réalité sera tout autre. Maria en vient se prostituer : sans honte, puisqu’elle apprend son âme ne pas se plaindre de ce que fait son corps, et qu’elle s’interdit de tomber amoureuse. Aprs tout, la prostitution est un métier comme un autre, avec ses rgles, ses horaires et ses jours de repos… Mais le sexe — tout comme l’amour — reste pour elle une énigme. C’est alors qu’elle rencontre un jeune peintre qui la trouble, car, s’il est aussi perdu qu’elle, il sait parler le langage de l’âme. Pour découvrir le sens sacré de la sexualité, Maria devra trouver le chemin de la réconciliation avec elle-mme. Paulo Coelho décrit pas pas l’initiation d’une jeune prostituée, un parcours qui montre les limites de la prétendue libération sexuelle et s’achve par un retour romantique aux valeurs de cur et de l’esprit.
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11,39 €
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