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The Mill on the Floss
The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. Oggs, evidently in the 1820s, after the Napoleonic Wars but prior to the first Reform Bill (1832). The novel spans a period of 10-15 years, from Tom and Maggie’s childhood up until their deaths in a flood on the Floss. The book is fictional autobiography in part, reflecting the disgrace that George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) herself had while in a lengthy relationship with a married man, George Henry Lewes.
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The Cask of Amontillado
"The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado") is a short story, written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book.The story is set in a nameless Italian city in an unspecified year (possibly sometime during the eighteenth century) and concerns the deadly revenge taken by the narrator on a friend who he claims has insulted him. Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th-century fascination with the subject, the narrative revolves around a person being buried alive – in this case, by immurement.
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Captains Courageous
The adventures of Harvey Chaney Jr., an arrogant and spoiled son of a railroad tycoon. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen on the Grand Banks, Harvey cannot persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince them of his wealth. However, the captain of a passing schooner offers him a job as crew until they return to port. With no other choice, Harvey accepts, and there begins a series of trials and adventures where the boy learns to adjust to his rough new life, and takes the first steps towards becoming a man.
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The Pat Hobby Stories
The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in Esquire magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once-successful writer who becomes a forgotten hack on a Hollywood lot. "This was not art" Pat Hobby often said, "this was an industry" where whom "you sat with at lunch was more important than what you dictated in your office."
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The Revolt of Man
The Revolt of Man was written during a certain summer holiday; day by day chapter by chapter, was read out, as it was finished, to two ladies. It is needless to say that their comments on the progress of events were often most valuable. Above all I may now acknowledge their advice as to the conclusion of the story. At first it ended in a real battle. ‘Let the Revolt of Man be bloodless,’ said my advisers. It is bloodless. The advice was excellent, and I followed it; and now, after fourteen years, I take this opportunity of thanking them.
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Adam Bede
Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time.The story's plot follows four characters' rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope—a rural, pastoral and close-knit community in 1799. The novel revolves around a love triangle between beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel, Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the young squire who seduces her, Adam Bede, her unacknowledged suitor, and Dinah Morris, Hetty's cousin, a fervent, virtuous and beautiful Methodist lay preacher.
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Kim
Kim, aka Kimball O'Hara, is the orphan son of a British soldier and a half-caste opium addict in India. While running free through the streets of Lahore as a child he befriends a British secret service agent. Later, attaching himself to a Tibetan Lama on a quest to be freed from the Wheel of Life, Kim becomes the Lama's disciple, but is also used by the British to carry messages to the British commander in Umballa. Kim's trip with the Lama along the Grand Trunk Road is only the first great adventure in the novel...
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever
A CRAZY ADVENTURE IN A CRAZY WAR.
Following a rowdy night at his local New York bar, ex-Marine and merchant seaman "Chick" Donohue decides to complete a legendary mission. He will travel to Vietnam, track down his buddies in combat and bring them a cold beer from home. It'll be the greatest beer run ever!
Now, decades on from 1968, he recounts the remarkable true story of how he actually did it.
Armed with Irish luck and a backpack full of alcohol, Chick works his passage to Vietnam, lands in Qui Nhon and begins to track down his serving friends one by one.
But things quickly go awry, and as he talks his way through checkpoints and unwittingly into dangerous situations, Chick sees a lot more of the war than he ever anticipated - spending a terrifying time in the Demilitarized Zone and getting caught up in Saigon during the Tet Offensive.
With indomitable spirit, Chick survives on his wits, but what he finds in Vietnam comes as a shock. By the end of his epic adventure, battered and exhausted, Chick finds himself questioning why his friends were ever led into the war in the first place.
BUDMO!
With its emphasis on fresh ingredients, time-honoured heritage, and warm hospitality, Slavic cuisine is having a moment. In 2019, Georgian food was named cuisine of the year by a leading hospitality consulting firm, and the interest in Eastern European and Caucasian cuisines has only continued to rise. And yet for many American home cooks, the dishes and flavours of the former Soviet Republics might seem as far off as Siberia until now. Meaning cheers! in Ukrainian, Budmo! is the first cookbook to celebrate classic Slavic recipes with a modern, creative twist. Presented by Ukrainian-born, California-based chef, blogger, and culinary instructor Anna Voloshyna, bright flavours and vibrant ingredients sing from each plate. A gorgeous magenta pkhali comes alive with roasted beets and a tangy pomegranate molasses. Borscht is reinvented with green sorrels and semi-soft eggs. And Voloshyna even shares a personal recipe for her Ukrainian grandmother s duck roasted to a delicious crispy-brown perfection. These are the dishes that are perfect for gathering your favourite people with, and each one is bound to uncover the mouthwatering flavours and traditions of this endlessly fascinating part of the world.
101 Design Classics
With expert analysis, great photography, and a huge selection of familiar and unusual objects, this book explains what truly makes a design great and reveals the hidden stories behind the everyday things that surround us. The author, a writer and journalist specialising in design, has chosen 101 objects that have had a major influence on the world of design history, delving into the makers, the designers, and developments in production and style that made these pieces into design classics. The text incorporates design sketches, portraits of many well-known and some unknown designers, as well as numerous exciting anecdotes from the sewing box of design history.The selection of designers includes, but is not limited to, legends such as Charles & Ray Eames, Verner Panton, Alexander Girard and other protagonists of classical modernism. Also here are post-war designers such as Finn Juhl, Gilbert Rohde, Pierre Paulin, and Gae Aulenti, and postmodern and contemporary designers such as Philippe Starck, Marcel Wanders, and Konstantin Grcic. This book provides an in-depth and informative overview of 20th-century design - and a glimpse of the first true classic objects of the 21st century.
A ?széttört idő legendája
Párizs, 1463 – A Châtelet tömlöcében Villon raboskodik, halálos ítéletének végrehajtására várva… Anglia, 1912 – Tatiana Kensington Burroughs, a Kensington-major úrnője New York-i utazást tervez a kor legnagyobb és legmodernebb óceánjáróján, a Titanicon… Actiumi-öböl, i. e. 31 – A Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa által vezetett hadiflotta felsorakozik, hogy megakadályozza Antonius és Cleopatra szökését Görögországból… London, 2018 – Adam Banks antikváriustól, az SAS valamikori ezredesétől elrabolják legértékesebb kincsét, az időkristályt… 2018. június 7-én megáll az idő a Földön! A köztes világ alakváltói, az időn kívül létező primorok azonban adnak egy utolsó esélyt néhány kiválasztottnak, hogy megfordítsák az emberiség sorsát. A tét nagy, az idő rövid: mindössze néhány órájuk van a feladat végrehajtására… Miként kapcsolódik a történetbe az ókori Római Birodalom és Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, a középkori Párizs és François Villon, illetve a Titanic katasztrófája? Molnár Csaba idősíkokon átívelő, pörgős, izgalmas kalandregényéből mindez kiderül.
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Feltárul az emberi lélek
Kryon egyik fő tanítása az, hogy: „Nagyobbak vagytok, mint azt hiszitek!” Isten egy része vagyunk, és a születésünkkor a lelkünk sok részre hasad. Hogy mit is jelent ez? Hogyan lehetünk mi (a lelkünk) széthasadva, és hogyan létezhetünk egyszerre több helyen? Hova távozik a lelkünk, amikor meghalunk? Mikor kapjuk meg a lelkünket? Ezekre a kérdésekre a Kryontól kapott válaszok igen ezoterikusak és hihetetlenül bonyolultak. Az a vágy, hogy tudjuk és értsük ezeket a válaszokat, ott van minden olyan emberben, akit én keresőnek hívok. A ti személyes tapasztalataitok és utatok vezetett el benneteket ehhez a könyvhöz. Nem véletlen, hogy most e sorokat olvassátok, és a teljes Kryon-kíséret, valamint a saját Felettes Énetek is szeretettel, örömmel és tisztelettel ünnepli, hogy úgy döntöttetek, most itt lesztek. Azt kívánom, hogy a könyvben szereplő információk változtassák meg a nézőpontotokat és gazdagítsák életeteket!
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A zongoristaprojekt
Imádni valóan romantikus, szívet melengető olvasmány mindenkinek, aki valaha is az Igazit kereste, ám végül sokkal jobbat talált. Te: kedves, zongorázni tudó szexisten Én: reménytelenül romantikus adománybolti eladó Honeysuckle Jonesnak van egy nem is olyan apró gondja, legjobb barátnőinek, Nellnek és Tashnek pedig eltökélt szándéka segíteni ezen. Egy férfira van szüksége, aki figyelmes, intelligens és jó a humora. De mindenekelőtt ügyes kezű. Szerencsére Honey új szomszédja – a zsémbes, kiállhatatlan ex-séf Hal – egyetlen szempontnak sem felel meg. Noha a vonzalom valósággal szikrázik kettejük közt, Hal nyilvánvalóan a lehető legrosszabb választás lenne. Ám amikor Honey megtudja az okát, miért is vált ilyen keserűvé, úgy dönt, ad neki még egy esélyt. Közben pedig rádöbben, hogy a legjobb dalban sincs mindig a helyén minden hang. Pompásan szórakoztató, felemelő és szexis romantikus komédia, amelyet Lucy Diamond, Paige Toon és Giovanna Fletcher rajongói különösen szeretni fognak.
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Amolyan lépcsőházi, szerelmes
„Beletörődtem a sorsba. Az öröklétbe. Hogy ennyi ideig tart, míg elengedlek, hogy tiltakozásom hiábavaló, egy önámítás. Lelkem gyötrelme. Terelni próbálom gondolataimat, de minden irányban te vagy. A szőke hajad lengén a szélben, szoknyád is tartja a ritmust, és lépteid nyomán zeng a dallam. Innen tudom, hol jársz. Melyik lépcsőfokot taposod, átkelsz-e értem a sáros utcán, vagy félreáll utadból a világ, hiszen felismerte, amit én nem mertem ez idáig: itt nincs megállás.” Létezik olyan szerelem, mely örökké tart? Ami nem múlik el akkor sem, ha már rég véget ért a kapcsolat. Lehet tiszta szívből szeretni valakit, akit évek óta nem láttál? Élhetsz teljes életet úgy, hogy a másik feled nélkül képtelen vagy boldog lenni? Tóth-Bertók Eszter regénye e kérdésekre keresi a választ, és egy olyan pár életébe enged bepillantást, akik mérhetetlenül, lehetetlen módon szeretik egymást. Így vagy úgy, de örökre.
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Lyrebird
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller She will change your life forever...In the south-west of Ireland, rugged mountains meet bright blue lakes and thick forests. Deep in the woods, a young woman lives alone, forever secluded from the world, her life a well-kept secret. She possesses an extraordinary talent, the likes of which no-one has seen before: a gift that will earn her the nickname Lyrebird. When Solomon stumbles into Laura's solitary existence, her life is turned on its head. Pulled from her peaceful landscape to the cacophony of Dublin, she is confronted by a world desperate to understand her. But while Solomon knows the world will embrace Laura, will it free her to spread her wings - or will it trap her in a gilded cage? Like all wild birds, she needs to fly free...Lyrebird is a thoughtful, deeply moving love story; a story of the wild heart in us all and the quiet that lies underneath the world's noise.
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Oliver Twist
Dickens's classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictment of Victorian England's Poor Laws. Filled with dark humor and an unforgettable cast of characters Oliver Twist, Fagin, Nancy, Bill Sykes, and the Artful Dodger, to name a few Dickens's second novel is a compelling social satire that has remained popular since it was first serialized in 1837- 39.
A nő nem férfi
Ahonnan én jövök, ott megtanultuk hallgatásra kényszeríteni magunkat. Azt tanították nekünk, hogy a hallgatás megment minket.
Palesztina, 1990. A tizenhét éves Isra inkább könyveket olvas, mint hogy az apja által választott kérőket szórakoztassa. Egy hét múlva azonban a naiv, álmodozó lányt sebtében eljegyzik és feleségül veszik, s hamarosan már Brooklynban él. Isra küzd, hogy megfeleljen zsarnoki anyósának, Faridának, valamint újdonsült furcsa férjének, Adamnek, és a nyomás csak fokozódik, amikor négy leánygyermeknek ad életet... fiúk helyett, akiket Farida szerint szülnie kellene.
Brooklyn, 2008. A tizennyolc éves Deya, Isra legidősebb lánya egyetlen vágya, hogy főiskolára mehessen, ám a nagyanyja, Farida nyomására kénytelen férjjelöltekkel találkozni. Vajon más választása lett volna, ha a szülei túlélik a halálos autóbalesetet, amikor ő még csak nyolcéves volt? Nagyanyja azonban eltökélt a kérdésben: Deya méltó jövője kizárólag a megfelelő férfival kötött házasság révén biztosított.
Ám a sorsnak megvan a maga akarata, Deya hamarosan sokkoló titkokat derít ki a családjával kapcsolatban, ami arra készteti, hogy megkérdőjelezze mindazt, amiről azt gondolta, hogy tudja a szüleiről, a múltjáról és saját jövőjéről.
A Brooklynban élő palesztin-amerikai nők három generációja egyéni vágyai és szigorú hagyományok között őrlődik. Szívszorító regény szeretetről, intrikáról, bátorságról és árulásról, ami bármilyen háttérrel rendelkező nőben visszhangot kelt.
Ismerd meg sorsukat!
Ha megérintettek a Tej és méz verssorai,
ez a regény is utat talál a szívedhez!
Mélyedj el! Kapcsolj ki! Légy jelen!
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Emily in Paris: Paris, J'Adore!
The official authorized companion to the much-loved Netflix show Emily in Paris.
Paris, J'Adore! is Emily Cooper's diary about her life in France so far. From leaving her boyfriend in Chicago to starting at marketing firm Savoir in Paris, it reveals all the thrill, fear and confusion Emily experiences as she embarks on her new life. She becomes acquainted not only with French workplace etiquette - the long lunches, the arguments, the determined reluctance to use social media - but also with Gabriel, the hottest chef in town. Some things, though, are beyond comprehension: like why the first floor in a Parisian apartment building is the second floor and the first floor is the ground floor.
As the months go by, Emily learns how it's perfectly normal to have a glass of Sancerre for breakfast and how you should never turn up early at work. But more than anything, she learns about love, female friendships, and how exciting it is to step out of your comfort zone in this beautiful and intriguing city.
Paris, J'Adore! is also a guidebook to how to be a Parisian, with tips on fashion, romance, and where to capture the perfect selfie in the City of Lights.
Written in Emily's voice, it will contain the following sections:
1. Emily's Fashion Paris - all about Emily's favourite outfits and designers - from Cadault to Chanel - as well as tips on what to wear to the beach, where to find the best boutiques, and how to dress like a Parisian;
2. Emily's Romantic Paris - the best bridges to kiss and break up on, where you can find the most breathtaking views and the most perfect backstreets, why the magic of the Eiffel Tower twinkling at night is the most intoxicating backdrop to falling in love, and a selection of the most evocative French songs to sing along to;
3. Emily's Secret Paris - where Parisians show Emily the real Paris, from the hamman in the Mosquee de Paris to the Atelier des Lumieres, and from small independent French cinemas to delightful neighbourhood restaurants;
4. Emily's Workplace Paris - how to navigate tensions and emotions in a French boardroom, lunch and coffee break rituals, Sylvie's own version of Savoir's Employee Handbook, and how to teach the French about social media;
5. Emily's Escapades from Paris - including the delights of the Champagne region, the sheer glamour of Saint-Tropez and the opulence of the Chateau de Versailles.
Packed with four-colour photographs, exquisite illustrations and beautiful shots of Paris, Paris, J'Adore! is a hugely desirable gift book for all the fans of the show.
Roger Ballen: Boyhood
This new and expanded edition of Roger Ballen's widely acclaimed 1979 photobook Boyhood features new and unpublished images taken by the photographer in the '70. Quoted by Andre Kertesz, Bruce Davidson and Elliott Erwitt as a rare and intimate view of the spirit of youth, these images are able to bring back the childhood of everyone.
In photographs and stories, Ballen leads us across the continents of Europe, Asia, and North America in search of boyhood: boyhood as it is lived in the Himalayas of Nepal, the islands of Indonesia, the provinces of China, the streets of America. Each stunning black and white photograph (culled from 15,000 boy photos shot during Ballen's four-year quest of his subject) depicts the magic of boys revealed in their games, their adventures, their dreams, their mischief. Boyhood is able to connect boys all around the world across the borders of nationality and culture.
More of an ode or a memory than a literal document, Ballen's first book is as powerful and current today as it was 43 years ago presenting a stunning series of timeless images that transcend social and cultural particularities.