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Bartleby, the Scrivener
The narrator, an elderly lawyer who has a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, title deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known.The narrator already employs two scriveners, Nippers and Turkey. Nippers suffers from chronic indigestion, and Turkey is a drunk, but the office survives because in the mornings Turkey is sober even though Nippers is irritable, and in the afternoon Nippers has calmed down even though Turkey is drunk.
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The Haunted Hotel (EN)
When Lord Montbarry dies suddenly in his Venice palace, and his courier goes missing, suspicion is instantly thrown on his new wife, the beautiful Countess Narona, who has collected his life insurance and fled to America. Montbarry’s former fiance´ Agnes, still harbouring feelings for him, and Henry Westwick, Montbarry’s younger brother, decide to investigate this tragedy and head for the palace, now a hotel.
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Uemura’s Reflections on the Mind of Plato (EN)
"Plato was not a Platonist! I would like to show . . . that anyone who reads the dialogues of Plato without bias or an ax to grind will find a humorous, witty, pleasant friend; and not a desiccated scholarly mandarin. Plato was an open-minded, tolerant, reasonable individual, not a tight-lipped, pietistic, puritan.
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The New Testament 15-16 - Timothy (EN)
The book of 1st Timothy is a Pastoral Epistle (letter from Paul to a church leader). The author is Paul who wrote it approximately 62 A. D. The key personalities are the Apostle Paul and Timothy. It was written to give encouragement and leadership guidelines to a young pastor named Timothy at the church in Ephesus.
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The Charterhouse of Parma
The Charterhouse of Parma tells the story of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo and his adventures from his birth in 1798 to his death in 1829 (?). Fabrice’s early years are spent in his family’s castle on Lake Como, while most of the novel is set in a fictionalized Parma (both in modern-day Italy).
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The Queen of Spades
Pushkin's story tells of the Russianized German card player, Hermann--an engineer in the army in Russia--who becomes obsessed with the secret of three consecutive winning cards after hearing a story about an old countess' winnings years prior. His obsession drives him to manipulate the countess' ward, Lizaveta Ivanovna, into letting him into their home.
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The Kiss Curse - Átkozott csókok
Erin Sterling nagy sikerű könyve, az Ex Hex - Csiribú, szerelem! szereplői, Gwyn és a hátborzongatóan jóképű Wells Penhallow visszatérnek, hogy megküzdjenek a varázslókat érintő újabb kihívásokkal és a köztük fellángoló mágikus vonzalommal.
Gwyn Jones boldogan él a Észak-Georgia hegyei között megbúvó Sírvölgyben. Anyjával és unokatestvérével, Vivienne-nel nagyon jó csapatot alkotnak, a Boszorkánykonyha nevű boltja remekül megy, és a városka fiatal boszorkáit is sikeresen terelgeti. Elérkezik a halloween, és minden tökéletes, egy dolgot leszámítva: felbukkan Llewellyn 'Wells' Penhallow, Rhys Penhallow legidősebb bátyja.Miután Rhys boltot nyit éppen szemben a Boszorkánykonyhával, rádöbben, hogy Gwyn személyében veszedelmes vetélytársa akadt.A versengés hevében elcsattan egy váratlan, szenvedélyes csók, ezért úgy döntenek, inkább távol tartják magukat egymástól, mágikus vonzalom ide vagy oda. Ám a városkába hamarosan titokzatos boszorkánytársaság érkezik, és Gwyn varázsereje fogyatkozni kezd. Nem marad más választásuk: össze kell fogniuk Wellsszel, hogy kitalálják, mi a boszorkányok szándéka, és hogyan szerezhetik vissza a lány bűbájos képességeit, mielőtt túl késő lenne.
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The Young Buglers
The Young Buglers, A Tale of the Peninsular War is a book by British author G.A. Henty. It was published by Blackie and Son Ltd, London. It tells of the Peninsula War through the eyes of two orphaned brothers, Tom and Peter Scudamore.
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The Blazing World
The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, better known as The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. It has been described as an early forerunner of science fiction.
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Weeknd, The - Kiss Land 2LP
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (narodený 16. februára 1990), profesionálne známy ako Weeknd, je kanadský spevák, skladateľ a hudobný producent. Je známy svojou nekonvenčnou hudobnou produkciou, umeleckými reinvenciami a jeho charakteristickým používaním falzetu. Medzi jeho ocenenia patria4 ceny Grammy, 20 Billboard Music Awards, 22 Juno Awards, 6 American Music Awards, 2 MTV Video Music Awards, Latin Grammy Award a nominácie na Oscara a Primetime Emmy Award.
Kiss Land je debutový štúdiový album, ktorý vyšiel 10. septembra 2013 prostredníctvom XO a Republic Records. Album podporil hlavný singel s rovnakým názvom, ako aj skladby „Belong to the World“, „Love in the Sky“, „Live For“, „Pretty“ a „Wanderlust“. O produkciu albumu sa primárne postarali okrem iných DannyBoyStyles, samotný Weeknd a DaHeala.Kiss Land získal pozitívne recenzie od kritikov. Album debutoval na druhom mieste amerického rebríčka Billboard 200 a za prvý týždeň sa predalo 95 000 kópií. K augustu 2015 sa z albumu predalo v Spojených štátoch 273 000 kópií.
Tracklist:
A1. Professional 6:08
A2. The Town 5:07
B1. Adaptation 4:43
B2. Love In The Sky 4:28
B3. Belong To The World 5:07
C1. Live For 3:44
C2. Wanderlust 5:05
C3. Kiss Land 7:35
D1. Pretty 6:21
D2. Tears In The Rain 7:24
What's Bred in the Bone
This was the top-prize-winning novel from 20,000 entries in one of the richest literary awards ever offered in Britain. Its convoluted and colorful plot turns on questions of heredity and atavism: the ancestry of the Waring twin brothers and of Elma Clifford. Elma comes on her mother's side from a line of gypsy snake dancers, and she displays a periodic urge to dance wildly with a feather boa in her bedroom. A murderous judge, multiple mistaken identities and scenes of tribal life in South Africa decorate this extraordinary novel, which is certainly a testament to Grant Allen's versatility and grasp of the popular market.Excerpt: "Elma felt sure she was mad that night. And, if so, oh, how could she poison Cyril Waring's life with so unspeakable an inheritance for himself and his children? She didn't know, what any psychologist might at once have told her, that no one with the fatal taint of madness in her blood could ever even have thought of that righteous self-denial. Such scruples have no place in the selfish insane temperament; they belong only to the highest and purest types of moral nature."In his biography of Allen, Professor Peter Morton says about this book: "Twice in his career Allen finds he has a great popular success on his hands. What's Bred in the Bone (1891), a sensational thriller written to order at top speed, secures him one of the largest literary prizes ever awarded in Britain: a thousand pounds from George Newnes, the publishers of the magazine Tit-Bits. What's Bred in the Bone comes first in a field of 20,000 entrants to take the prize. It sells hugely in its first year, goes into seventeen impressions, appears in the form of a silent film in 1916, and is translated into several languages, including Icelandic. Nothing demonstrates better Allen's cold-blooded judgment in analysing and meeting the popular taste." The novel was published serially in 1890 and 1891.(Reference: Peter Morton's website about Grant Allen https://sites.google.com/site/petermortonswebsite/.)
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Končí sa to nami
Lily si v detstve vytrpela svoje. Po otcovej smrti opúšťa rodný Maine a usádza sa v Bostone, v meste, kde je všetko lepšie. Aspoň tak jej to kedysi tvrdil Atlas, Lilina spriaznená duša a prvá láska. V Bostone spoznáva ambiciózneho lekára Ryla, no ten sa jej v slabej chvíli prizná, že má averziu k vzťahom, prioritou je kariéra a rodina uňho nemá miesto. Ryle však nedokáže pustiť červenovlásku z hlavy, a tak svoje zásady poruší. Lilin život sa konečne dostáva do správnych koľají, no keď si myslí, že nemôže byť šťastnejšia, pocíti tvrdý úder. Lily si v mladosti písala denník. Po rokoch sa začíta do svojich zápiskov o Atlasovi a rodinnom trápení, čím otvorí staré rany. No občas je aj bolestná spomienka dobrá, najmä ak človeku vo vhodnej chvíli pomôže správne sa rozhodnúť. Končí sa to nami je výnimočná kniha. Autorka pri písaní siahla do vlastných bolestných spomienok a zvečnila okamihy, ktoré by najradšej zo svojho života vymazala. V prvom rade však v tomto odvážnom a hlboko osobnom románe vyrozprávala dojímavý a nezabudnuteľný príbeh lásky.
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The Battle of Life
The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth and followed by The Haunted Man.It is noteworthy in that it is the only one out of the five books that does not have any use of supernatural elements. It bears the greatest resemblance to The Cricket on the Hearth in two aspects: that it is not a social novel and that it is resolved with a romantic twist. As is typical with Dickens, the ending is a happy one, and some might argue an overly happy one.
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The Book of Dragons (EN)
Audiobook The Book of Dragons written by Edith Nesbit. A princess is locked away on a remote island guarded by a dragon. Many suitors try and fail to save her, but one day a clever boy arrives. So begins ‘The Island of Nine Whirlpools‘, one of Edith Nesbitt’s eight dragon stories in ‘The Book of Dragons’ (1899). The tales may be over a hundred years old, but they contain a timeless quality that ignites the imagination and creates a sense of wonder.
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The Second Jungle Book
The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. All of the stories were previously published in magazines in 1894-5, often under different titles. The book is less well-known than the original.
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Brood of the Witch-Queen
There was sincerity in the appeal, spoken in the softest, most silvern tone which he had ever heard. He stood beside the veiled woman, and met the glance of her dark eyes with a consciousness of some magnetic force in the glance which seemed to set his nerves quivering.
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The Feminist Man - Sexy erotica (EN)
"Dreams grew large in the 1960's, but we were convinced that everything was possible – even fucking your professor on his desk, with the rest of the university walking back and forth out in the hall without a clue. " It's so many years ago, and yet, the Parisian freelance journalist cannot help thinking about her old professor every time she finishes an article.
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The New Testament 8 - Corinthians 2 (EN)
The book of 2nd Corinthians is a Pauline Epistle (letter from Paul). The Apostle Paul wrote it about 56 A. D. The key personalities of this book are the Apostle Paul, Timothy, and Titus. Paul wrote this letter to the church in Corinth to defend and protect his Apostleship, and to teach and warn against false teachers who were spreading heresy.
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The Illustrated World of Tolkien. The Second Age
This volume is an in-depth and exquisitely illustrated guide to the Second Age of Middle-earth, one of the least-explored periods of Arda's history. The Illustrated World of Tolkien: The Second Age, is the follow up companion to the best-selling The Illustrated World of Tolkien, and gathers together artwork, charts, and fascinating and scholarly writing from renowned Tolkien expert David Day. Exploring the languages, poetry and elements of the heroic ages of Norse, Greek and Roman mythologies that may have influenced Tolkien's writing, it is a reference guide for any fan of Tolkien's work, Tolkien's world and the imaginative brilliance his vision inspired.
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