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Wish You Were Here
This is a masterly work from one of our greatest writers. On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq. For Jack and his wife Ellie this will have a potentially catastrophic impact. For Jack in particular it means a crucial journey - to receive his brother's remains, but also into his own most secret, troubling memories and into the land of his and Ellie's past. "Wish You Were Here" is both a gripping account of things that touch and test our human core and a resonant novel about a changing England. Rich with Graham Swift's love of the local, full of humour and tenderness in the face of tragedy, it is also, inescapably, about a wider, afflicted world. Moving towards an almost unbearably tense climax, it allows us to feel the stuff of headlines - the return of a dead soldier from a foreign war - as heart-wrenching personal truth.
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Triumph of the City
Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life's work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world's most exciting urban thinkers. Travelling from city to city, speaking to planners and politicians across the world, he uncovers questions large and small whose answers are both counterintuitive and deeply significant. Should New Orleans be rebuilt? Why can't my nephew afford an apartment in New York? Is London the new financial capital of the world? Is my job headed to Bangalore? In Triumph of the City, Glaeser takes us around the world and into the mind of the modern city from Mumbai to Paris to Rio to Detroit to Shanghai, and to any number of points in between to reveal how cities think, why they behave in the manners that they do, and what wisdom they share with the people who inhabit them. 'A masterpiece' Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics 'A brilliant read: persuasive and provocative' Time Out 'Replete with lightly borne learning, this is a tremendous book' Bryan Appleyard, Literary Review 'Fascinating' Sunday Telegraph 'Comprehensive, compelling and strongly recommended" Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist and Adapt 'A hymn to the city' Metro
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The Language of Flowers
The Victorian language of flowers was used to express emotions: honeysuckle for devotion, azaleas for passion, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it has been more useful in communicating feelings like grief, mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen, Victoria has nowhere to go, and sleeps in a public park, where she plants a small garden of her own. When her talent is discovered by a local florist, she discovers her gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses for them. But it takes meeting a mysterious vendor at the flower market for her to realise what's been missing in her own life, and as she starts to fall for him, she's forced to confront a painful secret from her past, and decide whether it's worth risking everything for a second chance at happiness. "The Language of Flowers" is a heartbreaking and redemptive novel about the meaning of flowers, the meaning of family, and the meaning of love.
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Kdo po Žižkovi
Janu Žižkovi jsou věnovány další a další publikace, avšak na jeho nástupce Prokopa Holého je upřena mnohem menší pozornost. Známý a oblíbený autor historických knih Jan Bauer tento dluh ve výročním roce husitské revoluce napravuje, a to zasvěcenou a čtivou formou. Je to namístě: vždyť přízviska „Veliký“ by se nedostalo jen tak někomu!
Prokopův původ a život předtím, než svůj osud svázal s husity, nejsou příliš známé. Totéž platí i pro jeho slavnějšího předchůdce, leč jinak mezi „bratrem Žižkou“ a „panem Prokopem“ nacházíme zajímavé rozdíly, jak vyplývá už z této obvyklé titulatury. Prokop Holý řečený Veliký byl totiž nejen vítězící vůdce polních vojsk, ale také vzdělaný duchovní a vynikající diplomat.
Vraťme se tedy do bouřlivých časů spanilých jízd, přihlížejme koncilním disputacím a jednáním „na nejvyšší úrovni“, cestujme po střední Evropě… a prožijme vzestup a pád pozoruhodné osobnosti, kterou uznávali i protivníci – špičky světské a církevní hierarchie nevyjímaje. Takové renomé si získají a takovou stopu v dějinách zanechají jen výjimečné postavy, a Prokop Holý mezi ně nezpochybnitelně patří.
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Pariah
It's a bad enough day for NYPD detective Callum Doyle when his cop partner is murdered. It's about to get a hell of a lot worse ...When the dead man's replacement is also brutally killed, suspicion falls on Doyle himself. Then he receives an anonymous message. This is just the beginning, it says. Anyone he gets close to will die and that includes Doyle's own family. The only way to keep them alive is to stay away. For good. Doyle is desperate to find out who is responsible, but when his every move puts others in danger he is forced to back off. With the investigation getting nowhere and his isolation deepening, Doyle has to ask himself an uncomfortable question: just how low is he prepared to sink in order to get his life back?
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A přece budu blízko
Je 30. dubna 1951. Pro mladého kněze Jana Bulu si do Rokytnice na Třebíčsku přijíždí tajná policie. Čeká ho mučení, zmanipulovaný soud, poprava. Stejný osud stihne i Václava Drbolu, kněze z nedalekých Babic, kde ozbrojení muži zastřelili tři místní funkcionáře MNV. Přestože Drbola i Bula jsou v době tragédie již ve vězení, budou za útok souzeni. Stejně jako mnoho dalších lidí: odsouzených nakonec bude více než sto, z toho jedenáct dostane trest smrti. Nové dokumenty ovšem ukazují, že oba kněží se pro své zásadové postoje dostávali do konfliktu s komunistickou mocí již od samého počátku. "Pán Bůh mi vyměřil krátký život. Ale věřím, že nebyl nadarmo," píše Jan Bula v posledním dopise před popravou 19. května 1952. Druhý den ráno jej na dvoře jihlavské věznice pověsí. Je mu pouhých jednatřicet let. Jeho matka Marie Bulová bude chodit už do konce života v černém… V září 2011 katolická církev zahájila kanonizační řízení Václava Drboly a Jana Buly, po jehož ukončení by měli být prohlášeni za blahoslavené.
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Stalin, nebo Trockij?
Teprve pád komunistických režimů a aspoň částečné odkrytí dosud tajných archivů a svědeckých vyjádření umožňují pohled na úděsnou realitu sovětské historie, zakrývanou po celá desetiletí kamufláží lživé propagandy. Doslova apokalyptickou podobu má v tomto kontextu příběh vražedné mocenské rivality revolučních vůdců Stalina a Trockého. Před čtenáři se otevírá strhující řetěz zrady, podlosti, zločinů, násilností, mučení a skoro nepochopitelné nenávisti - a to doslova až za hrob.
Na sklade 2Ks
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Death Note: Zápisník smrti. Povídky
Tři roky po událostech slavné série začíná znovu vraždění. Ten samý způsob, ta stejná tajemnost… jen to tentokrát není smrtonoš Ryuk, který přinesl Zápisník smrti mezi lidi. Kdo tentokrát rozjel masakr? A co tím sleduje?
Úspěšná thrillerová série Death Note se vrací – se sborníkem povídek z tohohle světa. V knize najdete jak pilotní kapitolu celé série, tak pak uzavřené příběhy zasazené do světa Zápisníku smrti, odehrávající se před, po i během série. Vrací se i geniální detektiv L, smrtonoš Ryuka a další populární postavy. A především, vrací se i autoři původní série, pánové Cugumi Óba a Takeši Obata, aby navázali na své legendární dílo!
Eagle in the Sky
With a dull but awful roar, the Mirage bloomed with dark crimson flame and sooty black smoke, the wind ripped flames outwards in great streamers and pennants that engulfed all around them, and David staggered onwards in the midst of the roaring furnace that seemed to consume the very air.' Drawn to the sky as though to his natural element, young David Morgan spurns the boardroom future mapped out for him by his family for the life of a jet pilot. Then he meets Debra, the beautiful Israeli writer for whom he will fight, in another country's war, at the controls of his Mirage. Yet the breathless action which brings them together is also the very tragedy that will threaten to tear them apart ...
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Straight
As Derek Franklin, an injured steeplechase jockey, nears the end of his career, he is thrust into trouble and mayhem by the accidental death of his older brother, Greville. "I inherited my brother's desk, his business, his gadgets, his enemies, his horses and his mistress," Derek says. "I inherited my brother's life, and it nearly killed me." With danger besetting him from unknown directions, Derek's only hope of survival is to identify the enemy. But Greville, whose life had as many facets as the gemstones he imported, had left behind more philosophizing than useful clues. "The bad scorn the good," Greville wrote, "and the crooked despise the straight." Derek Franklin must call on all his stamina and endurance to make the final, straight run in his brother's life - without losing his own...
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Napoleon v Rusku 1. díl
Kniha Napoleon v Rusku je prvním svazkem práce o tažení roku 1812, v němž chtěl císař Napoleon porazit ruského imperátora Alexandra, sám ale utrpěl navzdory všem vítězství porážku, která předznamenala jeho pád. Známý napoleonský historik a autor literatury faktu analyzuje příčiny konfliktu, síly, možnosti i plány obou stran a sleduje postup Napoleonovy Velké armády od prvního dne vpádu až po konec bitvy u Borodina.
Only Time Will Tell
The Clifton Chronicles is Jeffrey Archer’s most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author. The epic tale of Harry Clifton’s life begins in 1919, in the backstreets of Bristol. His father was a war hero, but it will be twenty-one tumultuous years before Harry discovers the truth about how his father really died and if, in fact, he even was his father. Only Time Will Tell takes a cast of memorable characters from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take his place at Oxford, or join the fight against Hitler’s Germany. In Jeffrey Archer’s masterful hands, you will be taken on a journey that you won’t want to end, even after you turn the last page of this unforgettable yarn, because you will be faced with a dilemma that neither you, nor Harry Clifton could ever have anticipated.
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Lacná kniha Zpropadení páteři
Dan Starkey, belfastský novinář, kterého známe už z černočerné gangstersko-politické grotesky i Irská šaráda /i , se tentokrát vydává na malý ostrov Wrathlin - meteorologicky vlhký, avšak pokud jde o alkohol prý suchý - s tajným úkolem.
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Zvieratká z Kúzelného lesa – Mačička Kiki, 2. vydanie
Mačacia víla Kiki má milú povinnosť. Každý deň poletuje po lese a zdobí pavučiny blyšťavými kvapôčkami rosy. Jedného dňa stretne uplakaného myšiačika Miška, ktorý sa stratil. A pretože sú v Kúzelnom lese, kde si zvieratká pomáhajú, utrie mu slzičky a spolu sa dajú do hľadania. Podarí sa Kiki doviesť Miška domov? Ich napínavá cesta sa začína... Bonus navyše – na konci knižky nájdete pár zábavných úloh inšpirovaných príbehom.
Iron Council
It is a time of revolts and revolutions, conflict and intrigue. New Crobuzon is being ripped apart from without and within. War with the shadowy city-state of Tesh and rioting on the streets at home are pushing the teeming metropolis to the brink. In the midst of this turmoil, a mysterious masked figure spurs strange rebellion, while treachery and violence incubate in unexpected places. In desperation, a small group of renegades escapes from the city and crosses strange and alien continents in the search for a lost hope, an undying legend. In the blood and violence of New Crobuzon's most dangerous hour, there are whispers. It is the time of the Iron Council.
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Looking for Jake and Other Stories
Step into a London ravaged by unearthly creatures at once utterly alien and chillingly familiar. In China Mieville's award-winning novella 'The Tain', we learn the reason for the invaders' terrible revenge. One survivor must trek through the ruins of the city with a desperate plan to stand against their assault. In addition to 'The Tain', this superb collection contains thirteen short stories, of visionary cityscapes and urban paranoia, ghosts, monsters and impossible diseases. Several of the stories are published here for the first time: these include one set in New Crobuzon, the location of the award-winning series of novels that began with Perdido Street Station; and one in comic-strip form, illustrated by top graphic artist Liam Sharp. This collection displays the sheer imaginative scope of China Mieville's work.
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The City & The City
When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Besźel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he probes, the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger, and more deadly, than anything he could have imagined. Soon his work puts him and those he cares for in danger. Borlú must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own, across a border like no other. With shades of Kafka and Philip K. Dick, Raymond Chandler and 1984, The City & The City is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical and artistic heights.
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Un Lun Dun
The iron wheel began to spin, slowly at first, then faster and faster. The room grew darker. As the light lessened, so did the sound. Deeba and Zanna stared at each other in wonder. The noise of the cars and vans and motorbikes outside grew tinny ...The wheel turned off all the cars and turned off all the lamps. It was turning off London. Zanna and Deeba are two girls leading ordinary lives, until they stumble into the world of UnLondon, an urban Wonderland where all the lost and broken things of London end up ...and some of its lost and broken people too. Here discarded umbrellas stalk with spidery menace, carnivorous giraffes roam the streets, and a jungle sprawls beyond the door of an ordinary house. UnLondon is under siege by the sinister Smog and its stink-junkie slaves; it is a city awaiting its hero. Guided by a magic book that can't quite get its facts straight, and pursued by Hemi the half-ghost boy, the girls set out to stop the poisonous cloud before it burns everything in its path. They are joined in their quest by a motley band of UnLondon locals, including Brokkenbroll, boss of the broken umbrellas, Obaday Fing, a couturier whose head is an enormous pincushion, and an empty milk carton called Curdle ...and you thought a trip down the rabbit hole was a little out of the ordinary. The world of "UnLondon" is populated by astonishing frights and delights that will thrill the imagination.
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Scar
A colossal fantasy of incredible diversity and spellbinding imagination. A human cargo bound for servitude in exile . . . A pirate city hauled across the oceans . . . A hidden miracle about be revealed . . . These are the ingredients of an astonishing story. It is the story of a prisoner's journey. Of the search for the island of a forgotten people, for the most astonishing beast in the seas, and ultimately for a fabled place - a massive wound in reality, a source of unthinkable power and danger.
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