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The Herapath Property
Excerpt: "This was the third week of Selwood’s secretaryship to Jacob Herapath. Herapath was a well-known man in London. He was a Member of Parliament, the owner of a sort of model estate of up-to-date flats, and something of a crank about such matters as ventilation, sanitation, and lighting. He himself, a bachelor, lived in one of the best houses in Portman Square; when he engaged Selwood as his secretary he made him take a convenient set of rooms in Upper Seymour Street, close by. He also caused a telephone communication to be set up between his own house and Selwood’s bedroom, so that he could summon his secretary at any hour of the night. Herapath occasionally had notions about things in the small hours, and he was one of those active, restless persons who, if they get a new idea, like to figure on it at once. All the same, during those three weeks he had not once troubled his secretary in this fashion."
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Anne of Green Gables (EN)
One day, in Canada, an eleven year old girl, Anne, arrives at Green Gables. She is going to live with Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, who are brother and sister. But Anne does not know that Matthew and Marilla want a boy and not a girl.
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Soulfly - The Soul Remains Insane: The Studio Albums 1998 - 2004 8LP
Tracklist:
2LP - Soulfly
1. 01 Eye for An Eye
2. No Hope = No Fear
3. Bleed
4. Tribe
5. Bumba
6. First Commandment
7. Bumbklaatt
8. Soulfly
9. Umbabarauma
10. Quilombo
11. Fire
12. The Song Remains Insane
13. No
14. Prejudice
15. Karmageddon
LP - Primitive
1. Back to the Primitive
2. Pain
3. Bring It
4. Jumpdafnckup
5. Mulambo
6. Son Song (Feat. Sean Lennon)
7. Boom
8. Terrorist
9. The Prophet
10. Soulfly II
11. In Memory of
12. Flyhigh
2LP - 3
1. Downstroy
2. Seek 'N' Strike
3. Enterfaith
4. One
5. L.O.T.M
6. Brasil
7. Tree of Pain
8. One Nation
9. 9-11-01
10. Call to Arms
11. Four Element
12. Soulfly III
13. Sangue de Bairro
14. Zumbi, Blank Space, Outro
2LP - Prophecy
1. Prophecy (With Sample)
2. Living Sacrifice
3. Execution Style
4. Defeat U
5. Mars
6. I Believe
7. Moses (With Sample)
8. Born Again Anarchist
9. Porrada
10. In the Meantime
11. Soulfly IV
12. Wings (With Sample + Hidden Track)
LP - Soulfire (Bonus LP)
1. March on the River Dina
2. Cangaceiro
3. Ain't No Feeble Bastard
4. Possibility of Life's Destruction
5. Chaos
6. Soulfire
7. I Will Refuse
8. Under the Sun
9. Tribe (Tribal Terrorism Mix)
10. Quilombo (Zumbi Dub Mix)
11. Umbabarauma (World Cup Mix - Alt. Version)
12. Terrorist (Total Destruction Mix)
13. Berimbau Jam
The Teachings of a Stoic
The discourses of the great Stoic philosopher Epictetus are regarded as some of the most influential teachings of the ancient world. Born into slavery and sent into exile before setting up a school of philosophy, Epictetus delivered a series of lectures where he argued that true happiness comes only when we learn to distinguish what is within our power and what is beyond our personal control.
Using George Long’s 1890 translation, this edition includes a selection of Epictetus’ key principles, as well as a manual of his core philosophy, the Encheiridion. With clarity, conviction and timeless wisdom that is as relevant today as it was two thousand years ago, these teachings navigate the complexities of the human condition and offer rational guidance for the turmoil of modern life.
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The Abandoned Room
Bobby Blackburn can remember the first part of the evening when his grandfather was murdered. The problem is, he cannot remember what happened the rest of the night, or how he ended up in the neighborhood of his grandfather's house the next morning.
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The Golden Ocean
The first novel Patrick O'Brian ever wrote about the sea - and the precursor to the famous Aubrey-Maturin series. The Golden Ocean is the first novel Patrick O'Brian ever wrote about the sea. The novel shares the same sense of excitement and the rich humour of the Aubrey-Maturin novels, invoking the eloquent style and attention to historical detail that O'Brian readers admire so much.The protagonist of this story is Peter Palafox, son of a poor Irish parson, who signs on as a midshipman, never before having seen a ship. He is a fellow who would have delighted the young Stephen Maturin or Jack Aubrey ... and quarrelled with them as well.Together with his life-long friend Sean, Peter sets out to seek his fortune, embarking on a journey of danger, disappointment, foreign lands and excitement. Written in 1956, this is a tale certain to please not only the many admirers of O'Brian, but any reader with an adventurous soul.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his life's work. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger and completed in November 1880. Dostoevsky intended it to be the first part in an epic story titled The Life of a Great Sinner, but he died less than four months after its publication.The book portrays a parricide in which each of the murdered man's sons share a varying degree of complicity. On a deeper level, it is a spiritual drama of moral struggles concerning faith, doubt, reason, free will and modern Russia. Dostoevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, which is also the main setting of the novel.
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The Weight of Loss
A spine-tingling debut about grief and obsession, with a shocking twist of an ending.
Marianne is still reeling from the death of her sister when she starts to exhibit some strange physical symptoms. Each day, it seems, her body betrays her a little bit more, and no one can explain to her what is going on.
Then a doctor offers her the hope of recovery - a stay in Nede, an experimental health retreat deep in the Welsh countryside. Surrounded by high walls and cut off from the outside world, it sounds like exactly what Marianne needs.
Desperate to get her life back on track, she leaves everything behind - her stressful job, her unsatisfactory relationship, her troubled family - hopeful that she finally has a chance to heal. Yet all is not as it seems at Nede. Yes, the surroundings are idyllic. Yes, the other residents seem happy. But something doesn't feel right.
Marianne begins to lose control as she obsessively revisits the days and weeks leading up to her sister's death. But now she must confront a more immediate threat: a dark experiment that appears to be taking over her mind, her body and her precious memories.
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Omega, the Man
Excerpt: "The silver airship cut swiftly through the hot thin air. The noonday sun blazed down upon it and the desert world below. All about was the solemn silence of death. No living thing appeared either in the air or on the drab, gray earth. Only the aircraft itself displayed any signs of life. The sky, blue as indigo, held not the shadow of a cloud, and on the horizon the mountains notched into it like the teeth of a giant saw."
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The Aristocracy of Talent
'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills is misplaced-and that assigning responsibilities to the people best able to discharge them really is better than the time-honoured customs of corruption, patronage, nepotism and hereditary castes' Steven Pinker
Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at birth. For much of history this was a revolutionary thought, but by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why is meritocracy now under attack from both right and left?
Adrian Wooldridge traces the history of meritocracy forged by the politicians and officials who introduced the revolutionary principle of open competition, the psychologists who devised methods for measuring natural mental abilities and the educationalists who built ladders of educational opportunity. He looks outside western cultures and shows what transformative effects it has had everywhere it has been adopted, especially once women were brought into the meritocractic system.
Wooldridge also shows how meritocracy has now become corrupted and argues that the recent stalling of social mobility is the result of failure to complete the meritocratic revolution. Rather than abandoning meritocracy, he says, we should call for its renewal.
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The New Testament 20 - James (EN)
The book of James is a General Epistle (Apostolic Letter). James the half-brother of Jesus wrote it approximately 48-49 A. D. It was likely the first New Testament book (letter) to be written. The key personalities of this book are James and Persecuted Christians. James wrote this book to Jewish believers to encourage them to endure and live bold Christian lives.
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The Valley of Fear
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every deviltry, the controlling brain of the underworld, a brain which might have made or marred the destiny of nations - that's the man!'Summoned to a mysterious manor house by one of the henchmen of his arch nemesis, Professor Moriarty, Holmes and Watson find themselves confronted by the scene of a brutal murder. But the brilliant Holmes soon reveals that there is much more to this case than first meets the eye...First published as a serialisation in The Strand Magazine between 1914 and 1915, this fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel will delight fans of Conan Doyle's legendary detective and his faithful sidekick Watson.
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How to Be the Startup Hero
We are facing a day by day reality to such an extent that has more open doors than any other time in recent memory. It is the best time in history to begin a business. On account of the PC and different leaps forward in a previous couple of years, there are new markets and much more people that we approach.
For any individual who wishes to be an entrepreneur and begin his own business, there are two noteworthy detours toward the begin: the company itself and the financing.
What sort of business would you say you are going to begin? Why? Shouldn't something be said about the execution? By what means will you deal with the procuring? Do you know how your group should resemble? These are nevertheless a couple of the inquiries that you'll require answers to.
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Supernatural: The Work of Ross Lovegrove
This book is the first monograph on the product designer Ross Lovegrove. Written by the designer himself, with a forward by Paola Antonelli, it presents a complete overview of the designer's career, featuring realized and unrealized project. While the main texts explains Ross Lovegrove's philosophy and way of working, the products descriptions reveal the main feature and characteristic of every project. This book will present the work of Ross Lovegrove, one of the most interesting and fascinating individuals working in contemporary design. His work includes a wide range of products from furniture to high-tech products, from water bottles to airplane seats and explores the possibility of realizing sculptural and organic shapes through modern technology and material. Born in 1958, Lovegrove studied industrial design at Manchester Polytechnic and at the Royal College of Art in London. At the beginning of the eighties he started working for the industrial design consultancy Frogdesign in Germany, where he was assigned to projects for Apple and Sony. After this experience he became an in-house designer for Knoll in Paris where he developed different office systems. He went back to England in 1986 where he established his own practice and started to collaborate with the most important design manufacturers such as Kartell, Luceplan and Cappellini. He is currently working on a number of projects in Japan where he enjoys unparalleled success as a European designer. In recent years Ross Lovegrove has worked on a design concept that he likes to define as organic essentialism, inspired by elements and aesthetics taken from the natural world and reshaped in futuristic forms. His interest in this sort of new naturalism, which he terms supernatural, is accompanied by research into new materials, new applications and new methods of production. This combination of archetypal inspiration and up to date technology makes him one of the most interesting and unusual figures in the design world.
Love on the Cape
Living in the past is easy…
But it’s a slippery slope.
Larkin Sinclair has made the hardest promise to keep of all…restart her life and find happiness.
But hard turned to impossible when plans for the Cape would strip every last ounce of will she had left to move on. And she feared the worst. Why exactly was the decidedly growly Ryker Van Buren determined to ruin the only place that connected her to her little boy?
Ryker had a vision and a mission. It was time for his childhood home to finally pay a long overdue debt and what better way to secure his future than by selling off his past? Until he locks eyes with the passionate conservationist who fights him at every turn for the rights to his legacy. He can’t keep his hands off her, but worse, he can’t get her off his land or out of his dreams.
Is there something deeper going on?
A moment of spark and their lives may never be the same.
But, it isn’t going to be easy. The past has a way of ruining everything…especially the future.
"Love on the Cape is the kind of romance I love best--sexy, deeply emotional, rooted in characters who... find love and healing...all beautifully crafted by a writer with brilliant instincts." ~ Barbara O'Neal, seven-time RITA award-winning author of How to Bake a Perfect Life.
Love on the Cape, an On the Cape novel, Cape Van Buren book 1 by USA Today bestselling author MK Meredith is full of depth and surprises and deals with loss in a beautifully sensitive way. Read as a series or standalone.
One-click this sexy contemporary second chance romance now!
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The Time Garden Záhrada času
Talentovaná umelkyňa zo Soulu vytvorila tieto nádherné "antistresové" maľovanky. Záhrada času (The Time Garden) a Komnata času (The Time Chamber) majú vyšší rozmer arteterapie. Nielenže sa ponoríte do kresby, navyše sa stanete aj účastníkom a zároveň tvorcom príbehu.
Maľovanky sú na kvalitnom 170 g/m papieri, ktorý zabraňuje presakovaniu či presvitaniu farieb a umožňuje použitie rôznych techník. Obálka je z veľmi silného kartónu, ktorý zabraňuje ohnutiu listov a chráni vašu prácu, keď si maľovanky beriete so sebou na cesty. Celá knižka má navyše luxusný farebný prebal so zlatou termorazbou, a tak si vás získa na prvý pohľad.
The Gloved Hand
Excerpt: I was genuinely tired when I got back to the office, that Wednesday afternoon, for it had been a trying day—the last of the series of trying days which had marked the progress of the Minturn case; and my feeling of depression was increased by the fact that our victory had not been nearly so complete as I had hoped it would be. Besides, there was the heat; always, during the past ten days, there had been the heat, unprecedented for June, with the thermometer climbing higher and higher and breaking a new record every day.As I threw off coat and hat and dropped into the chair before my desk, I could see the heat-waves quivering up past the open windows from the fiery street below. I turned away and closed my eyes, and tried to evoke a vision of white surf falling upon the beach, of tall trees swaying in the breeze, of a brook dropping gently between green banks.
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Rococo Mastering the Art of Chocolate
Rococo makes the finest chocolates in the world. Its founder, Chantal Coady, has been a pioneer of the nouveau chocolat revolution for 30 years. She established the award-winning Rococo chocolate business and school and continues to blaze the trail for chocolate creativity. In this beautiful and indulgent book, Chantal shares her expertise and chocolate alchemy. From the perfect ganache recipe to delicious salted caramel truffles, and from a stunning chocolate roulade to extreme chocolate combinations, Rococo celebrates gastronomy's finest, most complex and luxurious of ingredients - chocolate.
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Eleonora Akvitánská
Eleonora Akvitánská patřila k předním a zároveň nejspornějším ženským osobnostem středověku. Byla krásná, inteligentní a svéhlavá a za života se o ní šířily nejrůznější, a zdaleka nikoli nepodložené pikantní zvěsti. Vyrostla na nevázaném okcitánském dvoře, na němž působili slavní trubadúři, a dokonce se tvrdilo, že předsedala soudům lásky. Nejprve se provdala za francouzského krále Ludvíka VII. a poté za anglického Jindřicha II., jemuž porodila syny Richarda Lví srdce a Jana Bezzemka. Dožila se dvaaosmdesáti let, ale protivenství a tragédie z mladších let překonala teprve v pokročilém věku a stala se prakticky suverénní vládkyní Anglie.