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Death from a Top Hat
Now retired from the tour circuit on which he made his name, master magician The Great Merlini spends his days running a magic shop in New York's Times Square and his nights moonlighting as a consultant for the NYPD. The cops call him when faced with crimes so impossible that they can only be comprehended by a magician's mind. In the most recent case, two occultists are discovered dead in locked rooms, one spread out on a pentagram, both appearing to have been murdered under similar circumstances. The list of suspects includes an escape artist, a professional medium, and a ventriloquist, so it's clear that the crimes took place in a realm that Merlini knows well. But in the end it will take his logical skills, and not his magical ones, to apprehend the killer.
Reprinted for the first time in over twenty years, Death from a Top Hat is an ingeniously-plotted puzzle set in the world of New York stage magic, which was at its pinnacle in the early twentieth century. In 1981, the novel was selected as one of the top ten locked room mysteries of all time by a panel of mystery-world luminaries that included Julian Symons, Edward D. Hoch, Ellery Queen's co-creator Frederic Dannay, and Otto Penzler.
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The Eye of the World
The Eye of the World and its sequels in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series show the extent to which one can go with a traditional fantasy framework, with added gusto. Stock elements are abound: a reluctant hero--in fact five humble village folk--plucked from wholesome obscurity to fight dark powers; an eternal evil enemy who can be defeated but not destroyed, until the end of the world, which is fast approaching; a mysterious sisterhood with vast powers and who love to manipulate thrones and kingdoms from the shadows (think of the Bene Gesserit of the Dune series); a ferocious battle-hardened warrior race (echoes of the Fremen of Dune, or the Haruchai of the Thomas Covenant novels). Jordan didn't become a bestselling author merely by mixing up traditional ingredients; a master storyteller, he ingeniously gives unusual twists to these conventional fantasy elements. He also excels in the descriptive and narrative skills needed to create a detailed and coherent imaginary world. The many lands he portrays are vast in scope and contain amazingly varied countries and peoples, while retaining the inner coherence needed to make them satisfying places for a fantasy fan to roam around in. However, Jordan's writing never attains the subtlety or sophistication of, say, George RR Martin and there are some annoying stylistic tics: he seems unable to introduce a female character without commenting on her neckline and thereafter has them forever smoothing their dresses. To his publisher's credit, Jordan's books are fortunate among fantasy novels in not having covers that look like an explosion of a teenager's bedroom. The absence of such lurid artwork is, perhaps, part of their appeal.
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Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations 2020 2LP
KDO: Britskou heavymetalovou kapelu Diamond Head založili v roce 1976 kytarista Brian Tatler a bubeník Duncan Scott a jako jedni z prvních byli řazeni k takzvané "Nové vlně britského heavy-metalu". Přes mnohé rozchody a personální změny skupina působí dodnes a jako jeden ze svých hlavních hudebních vlivů ji uvádějí i Metallica nebo Megadeth.
CO: Letos uplynulo čtyřicet let od vydání prvního alba a skupiny k této příležitosti připravila jeho speciální verzi. Všechny skladby znovu nahrála, dala desce nový obal a k sedmi původním skladbám vlastního alba natočila i čtyři bonusy - cover verze skladeb od Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Judas Priest a Metallicy.
LP1
1. A1 Lightning to the Nations
2. A2 The Prince
3. A3 Sucking My Love
4. B1 Am I Evil?
5. B2 Sweet and Innocent
6. B3 It's Electric
7. B4 Helpless
LP2
1. C1 No Remorse
2. C2 Immigrant Song
3. D1 Sinner
4. D2 Rat Bat Blue
Lacná kniha Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox (-90%)
Teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has a new mission – and this time it's personal. Artemis's mother is dangerously ill, and the only way to find a cure is for Artemis – with Holly Short by his side – to go back in time to battle his younger, more evil self . . . Action packed and full of humour – a must-read for boys and girls aged 10+.
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Collins English for the TOEFL Test - Practice Test Pack for the TOEFL Test
* Improve your score by working through realistic practice tests written by TOEFL experts * Feel completely confident about how the TOEFL Test works The Collins Practice Tests for the TOEFL Test Pack contains all the advice and practice you need to succeed in the TOEFL Test. It includes: - access to four online practice tests that replicate the real test experience. Find out your score and practise to target your weak spots through tutorials and practice exercises - a book containing two complete TOEFL tests (as featured online) with a key, audio scripts and model answers. Includes a mini-dictionary with COBUILD definitions of difficult words from the tests - a booklet with a detailed guide to every section of the test, with useful tips and strategies on how to get the best result - an MP3 CD with audio for the tests in the book Also available for TOEFL Test preparation from Collins: Collins Skills for the TOEFL Test: Reading and Writing Collins Skills for the TOEFL Test: Listening and Speaking Collins Key Words for the TOEFL Test You can trust Collins COBUILD 'Practice Tests for the TOEFL Test' contains a mini-dictionary with definitions based on COBUILD content. The 4.5 -billion-word Collins Corpus is the world's largest database of the English language. It is updated every month and has been at the heart of Collins COBUILD for over 25 years.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Slytherin Edition
Let the magic of J.K. Rowling's classic Harry Potter series take you back to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This irresistible Slytherin House Edition celebrates the noble character of the Hogwarts house famed for its pride, ambition and cunning.
As Harry's story reaches its epic conclusion, his battle to vanquish Lord Voldemort brings unforgettable Slytherin moments and characters - a mysterious silver doe leading Harry to the Sword of Gryffindor; Crabbe conjuring deadly Fiendfyre in the Room of Requirement ... and many more!
With vibrant sprayed edges in Slytherin house livery, this edition features beautiful house-themed cover artwork with gorgeous silver foiling. The bespoke introduction offers unique insights into Slytherin house and an exciting feature article celebrates the contribution made by heroic Slytherins to the defeat of the Dark Lord. The book boasts exclusive new illustrations by Kate Greenaway winner Levi Pinfold, including a spectacular image depicting sisters Bellatrix Lestrange and Narcissa Malfoy at the side of Lord Voldemort. These highly collectable, beautifully crafted House Editions are lovingly designed to be treasured and read for years to come.
A must-have for anyone who has ever imagined sitting under the Sorting Hat in the Great Hall at Hogwarts waiting to hear the words, 'Better be SLYTHERIN!'
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De Lucia, Paco - Paco De Lucia: The Montreux Years CD
Tracklist:
1. Vámonos (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 2012)
2. La Barrosa (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 2006)
3. Solo Quiero Caminar (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 1984)
4. Alta Mar (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 1984)
5. El Tesorillo (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 2006)
6. Buana Buana King Kong (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 1984)
7. Variaciones de Minera (Edit) (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 2012)
8. Zyryab (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 2006)
De Lucia, Paco - Paco De Lucia: The Montreux Years 2LP
Tracklist:
A1 Vámonos (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 2012)
A1 La Barrosa (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 2006)
B1 Solo Quiero Caminar (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 1984)
B1 Alta Mar (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 1984)
C1 El Tesorillo (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 2006)
C1 Buana Buana King Kong (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 1984)
D1 Variaciones de Minera (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 2012)
D2 Zyryab (Live - Montreux Jazz Festival 2006)
War Report: From D-Day to Berlin
This is WWII history, as it happened. All the horror and excitement of eleven months that changed the world.
On D-Day (6 June 1944) a team of BBC reporters, trained and were embedded with British troops, achieved a first in war reporting: they landed side by side with soldiers, in gliders, by parachute, in assault-craft, talking into portable recording machines to 'tell it as it was'. For eleven months reporters such as Richard Dimbleby, Chester Wilmot and Frank Gillard were in the vanguard, filing over 1,500 dispatches covering the desperate exchanges on the D-Day beaches, the battle for Caen, the advance through Normandy, the liberation of Paris and, finally, the German surrender in 1945.
75 years after the invasion of Normandy, the dispatches of War Report collected here are as visceral and urgent as ever, and provide a remarkable account of Allied efforts to liberate Europe and end the war. With a foreword by John Simpson, War Report is a vital piece of modern history, direct from the front line.
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Franklin Aretha - The Genius Of Aretha Franklin CD
KDO: Bývá nazývána Královnou soulu. Přes padesát let je její tvorba součástí americké kultury. Aretha Franklin je zřejmě nejdůležitější soulovou zpěvačkou světa. Je druhou nejúspěšnější držitelkou cen Grammy, v roce 1987 byla jako vůbec první žena uvedena do rock'n'rollové síně slávy.
CO: Reprezentativní výběr nahrávek jedné z největších hvězd americké hudební historie. Na kompilaci najdete snad všechny zásadní písně Arethy Franklin, vše je nově zremasterováno!
CD1
1. I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) [2021 Remaster] [02:51],
2. Do Right Woman - Do Right Man (2021 Remaster) [03:15],
3. Respect (2021 Remaster) [02:26],
4. Baby I Love You (2021 Remaster) [02:43],
5. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman [2021 Remaster] [02:44],
6. Chain of Fools (2021 Remaster) [02:47],
7. (Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone [2021 Remaster] [02:24],
8. Ain't No Way (2021 Remaster) [04:13],
9. Think (2021 Remaster) [02:18],
10. I Say a Little Prayer (2021 Remaster) [03:34],
11. Bridge Over Troubled Water (2021 Remaster) [05:33],
12. Rock Steady (2021 Remaster) [03:14],
13. Day Dreaming (2021 Remaster) [03:59],
14. Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do) [2021 Remaster] [03:27],
15. Something He Can Feel (2021 Remaster) [06:21]
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The first part of the publishing phenomenon that has sold more than 3.5 million copies across Europe - now available in paperback. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history.
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The Unknown Kimi Raikkonen
'I loved it. I thought it was fascinating - really, really interesting story that he's got to tell... I've known him for years and I learned an awful lot.' Marc Priestley
Kimi Raikkoenen is the Finnish superstar Formula One driver with a reputation for being fast on the track and silent off it - until now!
In this superb and authorised portrait of Raikkoenen, Kari Hotakainen gets to reveal the side of the man that few beyond his close family and friends have ever seen. Enigmatic and private, Ferrari's former world champion driver rarely opens up to outsiders, but he granted Hotakainen exclusive access to his world and to his way of thinking. It ensures that this will be a book that will delight all fans of motorsport, who have long revered the Finn.
Including never-previously-seen photographs from his own collection, The Unknown Kimi Raikkoenen takes the reader into the heart of the action at grands prix around the world, behind the scenes as race strategies are planned, and opens up the private side of his life that he normally guards so carefully.
With all the cult appeal of I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the raw excitement of Formula One and the insight of the best biographies, this is a book every sports fan will want to treasure.
Mind the Gap: Mind the Gap: The Narrative Power of Illustrations and Drawings
Drawing is not a myth, but a tool, a means of gaining knowledge and the basis for illustrative and artistic pictorial expressions
How pictures can be used to tell a story, how are they made, and how the head and the hand collaborate in the creative process? Just as each image is unique, so are the individual intentions of the artists. The technical craftsmanship of HOW is as much a decisive criterion for the quality of an image as its contextual WHAT. In addition to all depiction methods, rules of design, and phenomena of perception, a number of additional factors are important in making convincingly narrated images.
This book invites readers to question the world with alert eyes, to discard conventions and to open up to other ways of thinking and new ways of seeing and approaching things: to dare to be playful and ready for any kind of experiment, to ultimately throw all rules overboard in order to find their very own artistic individuality. The author's approach is not so much a step-by-step instruction with template-like schemes, instead it focuses on the intrinsic logic of things, their connections and relations, and the link between presentation and design.
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The Hobbit
The first new illustrated edition of The Hobbit for more than 15 years contains 150 brand new colour illustrations. Artist Jemima Catlin's charming and lively interpretation brings Tolkien's beloved characters to life in a way that will entice and entertain a new generation of readers. Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable and quiet life. His contentment is disturbed one day when the wizard, Gandalf, and the dwarves arrive to take him away on an adventure. Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out on to the floor when he caught a sudden thin ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance! Whisked from his comfortable hobbit-hole by Gandalf the wizard and a band of dwarves. Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon...
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Lacná kniha The Remorseful Day
For a year, the murder of Yvonne Harrison has baffled Thames Valley CID. But one man has yet to tackle the case, Chief Inspector Morse. So why is he adamant that he will not lead the reinvestigation, despite two anonymous phone calls that hint at new
evidence? And why does he seem to be carrying out his own private enquiries?
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Young Neil & Crazy Horse - Way Down In The Rust Bucket 4LP
KDO: Neil Young je zásadní postava nejen americké rockové historie. Invenční kytarista, skladatel, zpěvák a dnes už také podnikatel v hudebním průmyslu inspiroval celou řadu následovníků. Působil v kapelách Shadows a Buffalo Springfiled, v uskupení Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, ale především se proslavil jako sólový muzikant. Je označován za jednoho z největších rock'n'rollových interpretů a nejrespektovanějších kytaristů.
CO: Živý záznam pořízený v roce 1990 v rámci turné k albu Ragged Glory. K dispozici jako 2CD a 4LP a také v limitované verzi i na 4LP+2CD+DVD.
LP1:
1. Country Home (Live) [09:16],
2. Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze (Live) [05:41],
3. Love to Burn (Live) [13:57],
4. Days That Used to Be (Live) [04:55],
5. Bite the Bullet (Live) [03:58],
LP2:
1. Cinnamon Girl (Live) [04:05],
2. Farmer John (Live) [06:03],
3. Over and Over (Live) [10:22],
4. Danger Bird (Live) [10:27],
5. Don't Cry No Tears (Live) [04:22],
6. Sedan Delivery (Live) [05:44],
LP3:
1. Roll Another Number (For the Road) [Live] [04:47],
2. F+!#in' Up (Live) [05:14],
3. T-Bone (Live) [06:44],
4. Homegrown (Live) [04:47],
5. Mansion on the Hill (Live) [05:57],
LP4:
1. Like a Hurricane (Live) [13:01],
2. Love and Only Love (Live) [13:19],
3. Cortez the Killer (Live) [11:27]
Mluvit a naslouchat
Reprezentativní výbor textů Gertrudy Steinové (1874-1946) v překladu Jiřího Měsíce přináší českému čtenáři dosud neznámé texty jedné z nejvýznamnějších představitelek angloamerického modernismu. Ve třech oddílech zachycuje tři nejpodstatnější tvůrčí období této autorky a proměny jejího stylu od vypjatých experimentů rané tvorby po pozdní přednášky, v nichž Steinová odkrývá filosofické pozadí svého díla i moderního umění.
Crowded House - Farewell To The World: Live At Sydney Opera House (Remaster 2006) 2CD
KDO: Crowded House je novozélandsko-australská rocková skupina, kterou založil Neil Finn v roce 1985 po rozpadu jeho předchozí skupiny Split Enz. Skupina se stala známou pro své melodiční písně, chytlavé harmonie a vynikající hudební řemeslo. Debutové album "Crowded House" bylo vydáno v roce 1986 a obsahovalo hity jako "Don't Dream It's Over" a "Something So Strong". Tyto písně se staly ikonickými a zajistily skupině mezinárodní úspěch. Crowded House pokračovali ve vydávání dalších úspěšných alb, včetně "Temple of Low Men" (1988) a "Woodface" (1991). Skupina si získala pověst vynikajících koncertních interpretů a měla silnou fanouškovskou základnu. Písně Crowded House, jako "Weather with You", "Four Seasons in One Day" a "Fall at Your Feet", zůstávají populární dodnes a jsou často hrány v rádiích. I když skupina prošla několika změnami v sestavě a krátkou pauzou v 90. letech, znovu se spojili a pokračují v hraní koncertů a vydávání nové hudby. Crowded House si udržují status ikonické rockové skupiny a mají stále věrnou fanouškovskou základnu po celém světě.
CO: V reedici vychází záznam charitativního koncertu z australského Sydney z roku 1996.
CD1
1. Mean to Me (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
2. World Where You Live (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
3. When You Come (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
4. Private Universe (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
5. Four Seasons in One Day (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
6. Fall at Your Feet (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
7. Whispers and Moans (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
8. Hole in the River (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
9. Better Be Home Soon (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
10. Pineapple Head (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
11. Distant Sun (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
12. Into Temptation (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
13. Everything Is Good for You (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
CD2
1. Locked Out (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
2. Something so Strong (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
3. Sister Madly (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
4. Italian Plastic (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
5. Weather with You (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
6. It's Only Natural (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
7. There Goes God (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
8. Fingers of Love (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
9. In My Command (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
10. Throw Your Arms Around Me (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
11. Don't Dream It's Over (Live at Sydney Opera House) [2006 - Remaster]
The Mystery of the Blue Train
The daughter of an American millionaire dies on a train en route for Nice...When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again -- for a heavy blow has killed her,
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