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The Rising Tide: A Novel Of World War II
A modern master of the historical novel, Jeff Shaara has painted brilliant depictions of the Civil War, the Revolutionary War, and World War I. Now he embarks upon his most ambitious epic, a trilogy about the military conflict that defined the twentieth century. The Rising Tide begins a staggering work of fiction bound to be a new generation’s most poignant chronicle of World War II. With you-are-there immediacy, painstaking historical detail, and all-inclusive points of view, Shaara portrays the momentous and increasingly dramatic events that pulled America into the vortex of this monumental conflict.As Hitler conquers Poland, Norway, France, and most of Western Europe, England struggles to hold the line. When Germany’s ally Japan launches a stunning attack on Pearl Harbor, America is drawn into the war, fighting to hold back the Japanese conquest of the Pacific, while standing side-by-side with their British ally, the last hope for turning the tide of the war.Through unforgettable battle scenes in the unforgiving deserts of North Africa and the rugged countryside of Sicily, Shaara tells this story through the voices of this conflict’s most heroic figures, some familiar, some unknown. As British and American forces strike into the “soft underbelly” of Hitler’s Fortress Europa, the new weapons of war come clearly into focus. In North Africa, tank battles unfold in a tapestry of dust and fire unlike any the world has ever seen. In Sicily, the Allies attack their enemy with a barely tested weapon: the paratrooper. As battles rage along the coasts of the Mediterranean, the momentum of the war begins to shift, setting the stage for the massive invasion of France, at a seaside resort called Normandy.More than an unprecedented and intimate portrait of those who waged this astonishing global war, The Rising Tide is a vivid gallery of characters both immortal and unknown: the as-yet obscure administrator Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose tireless efficiency helped win the war, his subordinates, clashing in both style and personality, from George Patton and Mark Clark to Omar Bradley and Bernard Montgomery. In the desolate hills and deserts, the Allies confront Erwin Rommel, the battlefield genius known as “the Desert Fox,” a wounded beast who hands the Americans their first humiliating defeat in the European theater of the war. From tank driver to paratrooper to the men who gave the commands, Shaara’s stirring portrayals bring the heroic and the tragic to life in brilliant detail. A new level of accomplishment from this already acclaimed author, The Rising Tide will leave readers eager for the next volume of this superb saga of the war that saved and changed the world.From the Hardcover edition.
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Various - 60 Hits of The 60s 3CD
Disc: 1
1. Respect - Aretha Franklin
2. Soul Man - Sam & Dave
3. My Girl - Otis Redding
4. In The Midnight Hour - Wilson Pickett
5. Knock On Wood - Eddie Floyd
6. Walk Like A Man - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
7. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love - Solomon Burke
8. Mercy, Mercy - Don Covay
9. Saturday Night At The Movies - The Drifters
10. Just One Look - The Hollies
11. Do You Want to Know a Secret? - Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas
12. You're My World (Il Mio Mondo) - Cilla Black
13. Poor Me - Adam Faith
14. I'm a Tiger - Lulu
15. Hello Little Girl - The Fourmost
16. I Got Rhythm - The Happenings
17. Got to Get You Into My Life - Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers
18. A House Is Not A Motel - Love
19. If I Had A Hammer - Trini Lopez
20. Last Night - The Mar-Keys
Disc: 2
1. For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
2. (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding
3. Under The Boardwalk - The Drifters
4. I Say A Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin
5. I Got You Babe - Sonny And Cher
6. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - The Animals
7. He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother - The Hollies
8. Sherry - Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
9. Spanish Harlem - Ben E. King
10. You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry & The Pacemakers
11. Where Do You Go to (My Lovely) - Peter Sarstedt
12. Phantasmagoria in Two - Tim Buckley
13. Both Sides Now - Judy Collins
14. Daydream Believer - The Monkees
15. Moon River (1993 Remastered Version) - Danny Williams
16. Sixteen Reasons - Connie Stevens
17. Excerpt From A Teenage Opera - Keith West
18. Morningtown Ride - The Seekers
19. Bad to Me - Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas
20. Apache - The Shadows
Disc: 3
1. The House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals
2. Stand By Me - Ben E. King
3. When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge
4. I'm A Believer - The Monkees
5. Bus Stop - The Hollies
6. Alone Again Or - Love
7. Walk On By - Dionne Warwick
8. Just One Look - Doris Troy
9. Hi Ho Silver Lining - Jeff Beck
10. Green Onions - Booker T. & The MG's
11. The Hippy Hippy Shake - The Swinging Blue Jeans
12. Cathy's Clown - The Everly Brothers
13. No Milk Today - Herman's Hermits
14. Walkin' Back To Happiness - Helen Shapiro
15. Ferry Cross The Mersey - Gerry & The Pacemakers
16. Living In the Past - Jethro Tull
17. Shakin' All Over - Johnny Kidd & The Pirates
18. You Keep Me Hangin' On - Vanilla Fudge
19. 1969 - The Stooges
20. Kick Out the Jams - MC5
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Luzhin Defense
Nabokov said of his chess-playing genius Luzhin, that despite his coarseness and grubby plainness, he is a lovable creation. Discovering his prodigious gift in boyhood, rising to the rank of international Grandmaster, Luzhin develops a lyrical passio
n for chess that renders the real world a phantom. As he confronts the fiery, swift-swooping Italian Grandmaster, Turati, he brings into play his carefully-devised defence. Making masterly play of metaphor and imagery, The Luzhin Defense is the book
that, of his early works, Nabokov felt 'contains and diffuses the greatest warmth'.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom na častejšie obmeny vydaní tejto knihy v zahraničí, kus, ktorý vám zašleme, nemusí mať rovnakú obálku ako je zobrazená tu. Zobrazená obálka môže
byť iba ilustračná. Obsah knihy aj cena budú však identické, bez ohľadu na obálku.
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Hirschfeld Century
"I am down to a pencil, a pen, and a bottle of ink. I hope one day to eliminate the pencil." Al Hirschfeld redefined caricature and exemplified Broadway and Hollywood, enchanting generations with his mastery of line. His art appeared in every major publication during nine decades of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as on numerous book, record, and program covers; film posters and publicity art; and on fifteen U.S. postage stamps. Now, "The Hirschfeld Century "brings together" "for the first time the artist s extraordinary eighty-two-year career, revealed in more than 360 of his iconic black-and-white and color drawings, illustrations, and photographs his influences, his techniques, his evolution from his earliest works to his last drawings, and with a biographical text by David Leopold, Hirschfeld authority, who, as archivist to the artist, worked side by side with him and has spent more than twenty years documenting the artist s extraordinary output. Here is Hirschfeld at age seventeen, working in the publicity department at Goldwyn Pictures (1920 1921), rising from errand boy to artist; his year at Universal (1921); and, beginning at age eighteen, art director at Selznick Pictures, headed by Louis Selznick (father of David O.) in New York. We see Hirschfeld, at age twenty-one, being influenced by the stylized drawings of Miguel Covarrubias, newly arrived from Mexico (they shared a studio on West Forty-Second Street), whose caricatures appeared in many of the most influential magazines, among them "Vanity Fair." We see, as well, how Hirschfeld s friendship with John Held Jr. (Held s drawings literally created the look of the Jazz Age) was just as central as Covarrubias to the young artist s development, how Held s thin line affected Hirschfeld s early caricatures. Here is the Hirschfeld century," "from his early doodles on the backs of theater programs in 1926 that led to his work for the drama editors of the" New York Herald Tribune" (an association that lasted twenty years) to his receiving a telegram from "The New York Times, " in 1928, asking for a two-column drawing of Sir Harry Lauder, a Scottish vaudeville singing sensation making one of his (many) farewell tours, an assignment that began a collaboration with the "Times" that lasted seventy-five years, to Hirschfeld s theater caricatures, by age twenty-five, a drawing appearing every week in one of four different New York newspapers. Here, through Hirschfeld s pen, are Ethel Merman, Benny Goodman, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Katharine Hepburn, the Marx Brothers, Barbra Streisand, Elia Kazan, Mick Jagger, Ella Fitzgerald, Laurence Olivier, Martha Graham, et al. . . . Among the productions featured: "Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, Rent, Guys and Dolls, The Wizard of Oz "(Hirschfeld drew five posters for the original release), "Gone with the Wind, The Sopranos, "and more. Here as well are his brilliant portraits of writers, politicians, and the like, among them Ernest Hemingway (a pal from 1920s Paris), Tom Wolfe, Charles de Gaulle, Nelson Mandela, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Bill Clinton. Sumptuous and ambitious, a book that gives us, through images and text, a Hirschfeld portrait of an artist and his age."
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Megátkozva
"Kiderült, hogy ha megölsz egy istent, hirtelen megugrik a népszerűséged." "Kevin Hearne új lelket lehel az ősi mitológiába, és egy hátborzongatóan ismerős, mégis ijesztően eredeti világot alkot."
Nicole Peeler, a Tempest Rising írója Atticus O'Sullivant nem izgatják túlságosan a boszorkányok. Most mégis arra készül, hogy egy mindkét fél számára előnyős, kölcsönös megnemtámadási egyezményt írjon alá velük, amikor napjaink arizónai Tempéjének boszorkánynépessége hirtelen megnégyszereződik. Ám az új lányok nem csak gonoszak, de a második világháború alatt meglehetősen sötét szerepet töltöttek be a németek oldalán.
Miközben egy bukott angyal a helyi középiskola diákjaira vadászik, és a bakkhánsnők vegasi hordája a városba özönlik, hogy ott terjessze az őket jellemző halálos romlást, és egy veszélyesen szexi, kelta tűzistennő Atticus kegyeit keresi, hősünknek ki kell vennie részét a boszorkányüldözésből. De varázskardja, a szomszédjától kölcsönzött gránátvető, valamint vámpír ügyvédje segítségével Atticus készen áll rá, hogy megtisztítsa a várost, és megmutassa a boszorkányos fehérnépeknek, hogy rossz druidával kukoricáztak. "Egy szellemes, új fantasysorozat."
(Kelly Meding, a Three Days to Dead írója)
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From Third World to First
Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis with not only the world's number one airline, best airport, and busiest port of trade, but also the world's fourth–highest per capita real income?
The story of that transformation is told here by Singapore's charismatic, controversial founding father, Lee Kuan Yew. Rising from a legacy of divisive colonialism, the devastation of the Second World War, and general poverty and disorder following the withdrawal of foreign forces, Singapore now is hailed as a city of the future. This miraculous history is dramatically recounted by the man who not only lived through it all but who fearlessly forged ahead and brought about most of these changes.
Delving deep into his own meticulous notes, as well as previously unpublished government papers and official records, Lee details the extraordinary efforts it took for an island city–state in Southeast Asia to survive at that time.
Lee explains how he and his cabinet colleagues finished off the communist threat to the fledgling state's security and began the arduous process of nation building: forging basic infrastructural roads through a land that still consisted primarily of swamps, creating an army from a hitherto racially and ideologically divided population, stamping out the last vestiges of colonial–era corruption, providing mass public housing, and establishing a national airline and airport.
In this illuminating account, Lee writes frankly about his trenchant approach to political opponents and his often unorthodox views on human rights, democracy, and inherited intelligence, aiming always "to be correct, not politically correct." Nothing in Singapore escaped his watchful eye: whether choosing shrubs for the greening of the country, restoring the romance of the historic Raffles Hotel, or openly, unabashedly persuading young men to marry women as well educated as themselves. Today's safe, tidy Singapore bears Lee's unmistakable stamp, for which he is unapologetic: "If this is a nanny state, I am proud to have fostered one."
Though Lee's domestic canvas in Singapore was small, his vigor and talent assured him a larger place in world affairs. With inimitable style, he brings history to life with cogent analyses of some of the greatest strategic issues of recent times and reveals how, over the years, he navigated the shifting tides of relations among America, China, and Taiwan, acting as confidant, sounding board, and messenger for them. He also includes candid, sometimes acerbic pen portraits of his political peers, including the indomitable Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, the poetry–spouting Jiang Zemin, and ideologues George Bush and Deng Xiaoping.
Lee also lifts the veil on his family life and writes tenderly of his wife and stalwart partner, Kwa Geok Choo, and of their pride in their three children –– particularly the eldest son, Hsien Loong, who is now Singapore's deputy prime minister.
For more than three decades, Lee Kuan Yew has been praised and vilified in equal measure, and he has established himself as a force impossible to ignore in Asian and international politics. From Third World to First offers readers a compelling glimpse into this visionary's heart, soul, and mind.
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The Victoria System
The Victoria System is Eric Reinhardt's acclaimed and controversial French bestseller. It is nominated for The Prix Goncourt, The Prix Renaudot And The Grand Prix Du Roman De L'academie Francaise. David Kolski never sleeps with the same woman twice - apart from his wife. Then he meets Victoria. Head of people at a multinational company, by day she is a ruthless executive in a lightning-paced, high-pressured whirlwind of power and productivity. By night she likes good wine, luxurious hotel rooms, and abandoning herself to her sexual fantasies. David is soon addicted. Under crushing pressure at work to oversee the construction of a huge Paris tower-block in near-impossible circumstances, he takes new vigour and inspiration from his hard-headed capitalist lover. He works harder, faster and better, and then escapes to indulge in the most intense sexual passion he's ever experienced. But when Victoria offers to use her position to help him in his career, a dark shadow falls over their affair. Is she really capable of helping anyone other than herself, or is she hiding something from him? And who are the two men in the Audi he keeps seeing, always a few cars behind him? Complex, compelling and ambitiously structured, The Victoria System is a daringly sensual story of an obsession. Part erotica; part thriller; part novel of ideas, like a series of slightly angled mirrors held up to our globalised, capitalist society, the twists and turns of its narrative create a dazzling interplay of reflections and compel us to question the assumptions and forces of our modern world. "Dark, twisted and devastating...A big novel of amorous adventures in the era of the blackberry. Eric Reinhardt is the new Alexandre Dumas". (Nouvel Observateur). "We often accuse French writers of navel-gazing and ignoring the world around them, but Eric Reinhardt is one of those who gives the lie to this cliche. The visionary analysis of globalised capitalism which established his reputation in Cendrillon is amplified in The Victoria System, an erotic novel which is raw, violent and vertiginous. The combination of the two is a literary tour de force". (Emmanuel Carrere, author of Liminov). "Part classic, part tragedy, part thriller: Eric Reinhardt merges genres and invokes elusive echoes in this highly contemporary novel of a rare depth". (Liberation). "The Victoria System is a fantastic and sensual modern thriller, like nothing I've ever read". (Christian Louboutin). "A powerful novel about the philosophical and moral consequences of ultra-liberalism, and a subtle reflection on the urges of the powerful". (Marianne). Eric Reinhardt is one of the rising stars of French literature. He is the author of five novels and also a freelance publisher of art books. He lives and works in Paris. The Victoria System was first published in French in 2011 and was nominated for the Prix Goncourt, the Prix Renaudot and the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Academie Francaise. It is Eric Reinhardt's first novel to be translated into English. Sam Taylor is the English-language translator of HHhH, by Laurent Binet, and the author of the novels The Island at the End of the World, The Amnesiac and The Republic of Trees. He lives in France and the United States.
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Istanbul City Of A Hundred Na
In Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names, Magnum photographer Alex Webb displays his particular ability to distill gesture, color and contrasting cultural tensions into a single, beguiling frame. He presents a vision of Istanbul as an urban cultural center, rich with the incandescence of its past--a city of minarets and pigeons rising to the heavens during the early-morning call to Muslim prayers--yet also a city riddled with ATM machines and clothed in designer jeans. Webb began photographing Istanbul in 1998, and became instantly enthralled: by the people, the layers of culture and history, the richness of street life. But what particularly drew him in was a sense of Istanbul as a border city, lying between Europe and Asia. "For 30-some years as a photographer, I have been intrigued by borders, places where cultures come together, sometimes easily, sometimes roughly." The resulting body of work, some of Webb's strongest to date, conveys the frisson of a culture in transition, yet firmly rooted in a complex history. With essay by the Nobel Prize winning novelist, Orhan Pamuk.
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Merrick
The Vampire Armand finished with a tantalising moment - the Vampire Lestat rising from the dead in present-day New Orleans to walk again among Anne Rice's unforgettable undead. Now Lestat lives again but in a twilight world of music and memory. In this volume it is his mesmerizing friend and coeval Louis de Pointe du Lac (originating in 18th century France and Interview with the Vampire) who is tortured by the memory of the child vampire, Claudia, whom he loved and lost. With the help of David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the secret Talamasca organisation, Louis calls on the help of Merrick, young and gorgeous mixed-race by-blow of the rich New Orleans Mayfair clan. To save Louis' sanity, Merrick must use her black witchcraft to call up the ghost of Claudia - however dangerous this may be. There are other Mayfair spirits who will not lie still, and her search takes her close to the edge, through blood and terror, ritual and violence. Sweeping from New Orleans to the Brazilian jungle and the island of Haiti, this is vampire literature at its most tantalising, sexy and irresistible.
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Czech Eden
When he first visited the Czech Republic in the 1990s, the rising photographer Matthew Monteith was taken by the details of ordinary life in this country in transition. Captivated by the ineffable--a mood, a sense of place--he made repeated visits, and from 2001-2003 traveled throughout the country with his camera, in hopes of creating a contemporary allegory that would reflect the ideals he had observed in old postcards and in Czech photography from the 1920s and 30s. Combining restraint, brilliant color and a certain thoughtful attention to the uncanny within the everyday, Monteith's photographs parallel a venerable tradition staked out by masters like Joel Sternfeld, and embodied in contemporary work by younger photo-documentarians like Alec Soth. Though at times foreboding, an energetic optimism and humor pervades Monteith's work. His meticulously composed and beautifully produced images focus on individuals, landscapes, oddly stilled cityscapes and the worn traces of the country's long and complex history. Czech Eden, Monteith's first monograph, is not a literal description or documentation, but rather a parable in which the viewer encounters individuals and environments that are cohesive yet contradictory, beautiful but unsettling.
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Last Light
It begins on a very normal Monday morning. But in the space of only a few days, the world's oil supplies have been severed and at a horrifying pace things begin to unravel everywhere. This is no natural disaster—someone is behind this. Oil engineer Andy Sutherland is stranded in Iraq with a company of British soldiers, desperate to find a way home, trapped as the very infrastructure of daily life begins to collapse around him. Back in Britain, his wife Jenny is stuck in Manchester, fighting desperately against the rising chaos to get back to their children in London as events begin to spiral out of control—riots, raging fires, looting, rape, and murder. In the space of a week, London is transformed into an anarchic vision of hell. Meanwhile, a mysterious man is tracking Andy's family. He'll silence anyone who can reveal the identities of those behind this global disaster. The people with a stranglehold on the future of civilization have flexed their muscles at other significant tipping points in history, and they are prepared to do anything to keep their secret—and their power—safe.
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Lacná kniha Last Light
It begins on a very normal Monday morning. But in the space of only a few days, the world's oil supplies have been severed and at a horrifying pace things begin to unravel everywhere. This is no natural disaster—someone is behind this. Oil engineer Andy Sutherland is stranded in Iraq with a company of British soldiers, desperate to find a way home, trapped as the very infrastructure of daily life begins to collapse around him. Back in Britain, his wife Jenny is stuck in Manchester, fighting desperately against the rising chaos to get back to their children in London as events begin to spiral out of control—riots, raging fires, looting, rape, and murder. In the space of a week, London is transformed into an anarchic vision of hell. Meanwhile, a mysterious man is tracking Andy's family. He'll silence anyone who can reveal the identities of those behind this global disaster. The people with a stranglehold on the future of civilization have flexed their muscles at other significant tipping points in history, and they are prepared to do anything to keep their secret—and their power—safe.
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Requiem
1295 AD. The Christian empire in the Holy Land lies in ruins. Returning to Paris, Templar Knight Will Campbell is at a crossroads. He has sworn to uphold the principles of the Anima Templi, a secret brotherhood within the Order whose aim is peace - but peace seems ever more impossible. The Temple has forged an alliance with Will's enemy, King Edward of England, vowing to help him wage war on Scotland. This pact against his homeland strikes at the core of Will's faith and allegiances, while his growing estrangement from his daughter, Rose, leads her into a dangerous affair. Will now faces a bitter choice: to stay with the Temple and fight another war he doesn't believe in, or to break his vows and forge his own path to peace - even if that too means fighting - for the Scots. Soon caught up in bloody conflict, Will is unaware that an even more ominous threat is rising, for there is a warrior king on the throne of France whose desire for supremacy knows no bounds and who will stop at nothing to fulfil his twisted ambitions. The fight for the Holy Land has ended. The Temple's last battle has just begun.
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Yellow Dog
When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the familial paragon becomes an anti-husband, an anti-father. He submits to an alien moral system - one among many to be found in these pages. We are introduced to the inverted worlds of the 'yellow' journalist, Clint Smoker, the high priest of hardmen, Joseph Andrews, the porno tycoon, Cora Susan, and Kent Price, the corpse in the hold of the stricken airliner, apparently determined, even in death, to bring down the plane that carries his spouse. Meanwhile, we explore the entanglements of Henry England: his incapacitated wife, Pamela, his Chinese mistress, He Zhezun, his fifteen-year-old daughter, Victoria, the victim of a filmed 'intrusion' which rivets the world - because she is the future Queen of England, and her father, Henry IX, is its King. The connections between these characters provide the pattern and drive of "Yellow Dog". Novelists have noticed that contemporary reality keeps outdoing their imaginations. Yet there is still the obligation to attempt a reading of the present and the very near future. If, in the twenty-first century, the moral reality is changing, then the novel is changing too, whether it likes it or not. "Yellow Dog" is an early example of how the novel, or more particularly the comic novel, can respond to this transformation. But Martin Amis is also concerned here with what is changeless and perhaps unchangeable - patriarchy, and the entire edifice of masculinity, the enormous category-error of violence, arising between man and man, the tortuous alliances between men and women, and the vanished dream (probably always an illusion, but now a clear delusion) that we can protect our future and our progeny.
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Ransom
A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel’s sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mother’s courage, a family’s terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds.Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer, is set on the path of freedom with him. That night, three hundred miles south in San Francisco, police detective Ted Lee comes home to a silent house, for twenty-nine years, he has been living for his job—and slowly falling out of love with his wife. Across town, in an exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood, a mother tries to shield her three children from the panic rising within her. Four months after her husband’s death, Fernanda Barnes faces a mountain of debt she cannot repay, a world destroyed, and a marriage lost. Within weeks, the lives of these four people will collide in ways none of them could have foreseen. For Fernanda, whose life had once been graced by beautiful homes, security, success, and stunning wealth, the death of her brilliant, brooding husband was already too much to bear. She simply couldn’t imagine a greater loss, until a devastating crime rocks her family to its core—and brings Detective Ted Lee into her life.A man of unshakable integrity, Lee will soon become the one person who tries to save Fernanda’s family from a terrifying fate. Fernanda must draw on a strength she never knew she had. Racing against time in the underbelly of the criminal world, buffeted by the dark side of power, and unmoored by loss and betrayal, no one can predict where this tragedy will take them.Danielle Steel brilliantly explores the collision of a shocking crime with the ordinary lives of its victims in a novel that mesmerizes from start to finish. Ransom is at once a riveting evocation of life’s inexplicable turns of fate and a testament to the human will to survive.From the Hardcover edition.
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Oscar Wilde Complete Illustrated Works
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1909. Excerpt: ... THE PORTRAIT OF MR. W. H. IHAD been dining with Erskine in his pretty little house in Birdcage Walk, and we were sitting in the library over our coffee and cigarettes, when the question of literary forgeries happened to turn up in conversation. I cannot at present remember how it was that we struck upon this somewhat curious topic, as it was at that time, but I know that we had a long discussion about Macpherson, Ireland, and Chatterton, and that with regard to the last I insisted that his so-called forgeries were merely the result of an artistic desire for perfect representation, that we had no right to quarrel with an artist for the conditions under which he chooses to present his work, and that all Art being to a certain degree a mode of acting, an attempt to realise one's own personality on some imaginative plane out of reach of the trammelling accidents and limitations of real life, to censure an artist for a forgery was to confuse an ethical with an aesthetical problem. Erskine, who was a good deal older than I was, and had been listening to me with the amused deference of a man of forty, suddenly put his hand upon my shoulder and said to me, 'What would you say about a young man who had a strange theory about a certain work of art, believed in his theory, and committed a forgery in order to prove it?' 'Ah! that is quite a different matter,' I answered. Erskine remained silent for a few moments, looking at the thin grey threads of smoke that were rising from his cigarette. 'Yes,' he said, after a pause, 'quite different.' There was something in the tone of his voice, a slight touch of bitterness perhaps, that excited my curiosity. * Did you ever know anybody who did that ?' I cried. 'Yes,' he answered, throwing his cigarette into the fire,--' a great friend of mine, Cyril Grah...
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Numan Gary - Intruder (Deluxe) CD
KDO: Gary Numan, jeden z pionýrů elektronické hudby, vlastním jménem Gary Anthony James Webb, začínal v roce 1977 v punkové skupině Mean Street, kterou záhy opustil, aby založil Tubeway Army, s nimž vydal dvě alba. Posléze se vydal na sólovou dráhu a během let se stal jedním z průkopníků a pilířů elektronické taneční hudby. Jeho tvorba byla inspirací pro mnoho další intepretů, z nichž bychom mohli jmenovat kupříkladu Depeche Mode, Prince, Nine Inch Nails, Beck, Damon Albarn a Marilyn Manson. Do britské Top 40 se dostalo 23 jeho singlů a 15 alb.
CO: "Intruder" je 21. sólovým albem Gary Numana. Předchozí album "Savage: Songs From A Broken World" dosáhlo hned po vydání druhého místa v britském žebříčku. Nové album "Intruder" opět produkoval Ade Fenton, který se již podílel na Garyho albech "Jagged", "Dead Son Rising", "Splinter" a "Savage". Stojí za připomenutí, že v listopadu 2018 se Gary konečně představil nadšenému českému publiku ve vyprodaném Lucerna Music Baru.
CD (deluxe):
1. Betrayed
2. The Gift
3. I Am Screaming
4. Intruder
5. Is This World Not Enough?
6. A Black Sun
7. The Chosen
8. And It Breaks Me Again
9. Saints and Liars
10. Now and Forever
11. The End of Dragons
12. When You Fall
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Various - Ultimate 90s Anthems 5CD
KDO: různí umělci
CO: Kompilace „Ultimate 90s Anthems“ přináší na 5CD rovných 100 skladeb z deváté dekády včetně hitů od takových jmen jako Kylie Minogue, En Vogue, Eternal, Jade, Seal, Roxette nebo Moloko.
CD1
1. Cher - Believe
2. Mark Morrison - Return Of The Mack
3. Jimmy Nail - Ain't No Doubt
4. Simply Red - Fairground
5. Snap! - Rhythm Is A Dancer
6. Color Me Badd - I Wanna Sex You Up
7. Eternal - Stay
8. Ultra Naté - Free
9. The Human League - Tell Me When
10. Kylie Minogue - What Do I Have To Do
11. Electronic - Disappointed
12. Duran Duran - Come Undone
13. Marc Almond - The Days Of Pearly Spencer
14. The B-52's - Good Stuff
15. Madness - Lovestruck
16. The Sundays - Summertime
17. The Farm - All Together No
18. White Town - Your Woman
19. Babylon Zoo - Spaceman
CD2
1. Moloko - Sing It Back
2. Bob Marley Versus Funkstar Deluxe - Sun Is Shining
3. Gina G - Ooh Ahh… Just A Little Bit
4. Kym Sims - Too Blind To See It
5. Lonnie Gordon - Happenin' All Over Again
6. Opus III - It's A Fine Day
7. JX - Son Of A Gun
8. Snap! feat. Summer - The First The Last The Eternity (Til The End)
9. Wamdue Project - King Of My Castle
10. Morcheeba - Tape Loo
11. Banderas - This Is Your Life
12. The Family Stand - Ghetto Heave
13. Aswad - Shine
14. Reel 2 Real feat. The Mad Stuntman - Go On Move
15. Pizzaman - Trippin On Sunshine
16. Powerhouse feat. Duane Harden - What You Need
17. Barbara Tucker - I Get Lifted
18. Loveland feat. Rachel McFarlane - I Need Somebody
19. Hardrive - Deep Inside
20. Josh Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness
CD3
1. New Order - World In Motion
2. The Levellers - One Way
3. Space - Me And You Versus The World
4. Airhead - Funny How
5. Kula Shaker - Tattva
6. Terrorvision - Oblivion
7. Fountains Of Wayne - Sink To The Bottom
8. Dinosaur Jr. - I Don't Think So
9. L7 - Monster
10. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Far Gone And Out
11. ZZ Top - Doubleback
12. Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Kill Your Television
13. Super Furry Animals - Do Or Die
14. Subcircus - 86'd
15. Babybird - If You'll Be Mine
16. Northside - My Rising Star
17. Renegade Soundwave - Probably A Robbery
18. Denim - It Fell Off The Back Of A Lorry
19. The Blow Monkeys - Springtime For The World
20. Faith No More - I Started A Joke
21. No Way Sis - I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing
CD4
1. En Vogue - Hold On
2. Brandy feat. Mase - Top Of The World
3. Faith Evans feat. Puff Daddy - All Night Long
4. All-4-One - I Swear
5. Shola Ama - Still Believe
6. Jade - I Wanna Love You
7. Beverley Knight - Flavour Of The Old School
8. Lynden David Hall - Sexy Cinderella
9. Damage - Wonderful Tonight
10. D-Influence - Hypnotize
11. Dr. Alban - Sing Hallelujah!
12. Jane Child - Don't Wanna Fall In Love
13. Cicero - Love Is Everywhere
14. Kylie Minogue - Did It Again
15. Betty Boo - Let Me Take You There
16. Cleopatra - I Want You Back
17. Kim Appleby - Don't Worry
18. Erik - Got To Be Real
19. Sonia - Counting Every Minute
20. Jason Donovan - Rhythm Of The Rain
CD5
1. The Corrs - Dreams
2. Seal - Future Love Paradise
3. Rick Astley - Cry For Help
4. Des'ree - Feel So High
5. Tina Turner - When The Heartache Is Over
6. Roxette - Almost Unreal
7. Lene Marlin - Unforgiveable Sinner
8. Catatonia - Dead From The Waist Down
9. Pretenders - Night In My Veins
10. Aztec Camera - The Crying Scene
11. A-Ha - Dark Is The Night
12. Alison Moyet - This House
13. Dubstar - Stars
14. Tasmin Archer - Arienne
15. Scarlet - I Wanna Be Free (To Be With Him)
16. Barenaked Ladies - It's All Been Done
17. Shakin' Stevens - Radio
18. Peter Andre - I Feel You
19. Coldcut - Autumn Leaves
20. KD Lang - Miss Chatelaine
Numan Gary - Intruder (Limited) 2LP
KDO: Gary Numan, jeden z pionýrů elektronické hudby, vlastním jménem Gary Anthony James Webb, začínal v roce 1977 v punkové skupině Mean Street, kterou záhy opustil, aby založil Tubeway Army, s nimž vydal dvě alba. Posléze se vydal na sólovou dráhu a během let se stal jedním z průkopníků a pilířů elektronické taneční hudby. Jeho tvorba byla inspirací pro mnoho další intepretů, z nichž bychom mohli jmenovat kupříkladu Depeche Mode, Prince, Nine Inch Nails, Beck, Damon Albarn a Marilyn Manson. Do britské Top 40 se dostalo 23 jeho singlů a 15 alb.
CO: "Intruder" je 21. sólovým albem Gary Numana. Předchozí album "Savage: Songs From A Broken World" dosáhlo hned po vydání druhého místa v britském žebříčku. Nové album "Intruder" opět produkoval Ade Fenton, který se již podílel na Garyho albech "Jagged", "Dead Son Rising", "Splinter" a "Savage". Stojí za připomenutí, že v listopadu 2018 se Gary konečně představil nadšenému českému publiku ve vyprodaném Lucerna Music Baru.
2LP (limitovaná edice - 6000 ks / red vinyl)
LP1:
1. A1 Betrayed
2. A2 The Gift
3. A3 I Am Screaming
4. A4 Intruder
5. B1 Is This World Not Enough?
6. B2 A Black Sun
7. B3 The Chosen
LP2:
1. C1 And It Breaks Me Again
2. C2 Saints and Liars
3. C3 Now and Forever
4. D1 The End of Dragons
5. D2 When You Fall
6. D3 The End of Dragons (Alt)
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