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The Handyman (EN)
Woman on woman. Man - Man. Bisexuality. Flexible. Queer. Some have never questioned their homosexuality. Others are in a straight marriage with kids when suddenly their best friend makes their nipples erect, or a touch from their best mate makes their cock hard. This is a collection of erotic short stories from Cupido.
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Visual Thinking
Do you think in pictures, patterns or words?
In a world engineered for the verbal thinker, those of us with a visual brain can often be overlooked and underestimated. In this landmark book, international bestselling author and activist Temple Grandin transforms our understanding of how our brains are wired differently.
Bringing together cutting-edge research and her own experience as a visual thinker, Grandin reveals a ground-breaking new approach to revolutionizing modern structures such as education, health and media so that they equally serve people with all kinds of minds. Visual Thinking is a perspective shifting book that will open our eyes to the value of a life in picture.
Fiesta
'This is a hell of dull talk...How about some of that champagne?'
Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the Bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman that he loves.
VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on.
Bibi Blocksberg - Zeta’s Magical Fashion Alarm! (EN)
Audiobook Bibi Blocksberg - Zeta’s Magical Fashion Alarm! Put on your best clothes and join Bibi as she attends an enchanted party. When Aunt Mania receives an award for being the Best Herbal Expert out of all the witches, everyone is invited to a grand party to celebrate her. Bibi is super excited, but also nervous - the party takes place just before her herbal exam and she really needs to practice! How will Bibi manage to study hard for her upcoming exam and attend a party at the same time? Bibi Blocksberg Bibi Blocksberg is an ordinary girl except for the fact that she can use magic, owns a flying broom and is a witch! However, Bibi still has a lot to learn.
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B. J. Harrison Reads Youth (EN)
Forty-two years old Marlow is drinking with four other Englishmen. They have known each other since the beginning of their working lives. Some of them have other jobs now, but they still gather to recall the good old days. Marlow tells his friends a story of his early life, when he travelled to the East as a young man in search of adventure.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (EN)
Have you been caught in a long and meaningless conversation of which you want to sneak out but somehow find it difficult to do so? Simon Wheeler was sitting quietly in a tavern in a small mining town when an unknown man approached him. The man was actually sent there with a mission: he had to ask Wheeler if he knew another man called Leonidas Smiley.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Furnished Room (EN)
"The Furnished Room" is a short story about love and dedication, about exhaustion and despair. A young man is searching for a girl he fell in love with. He rents a room near the theatre where she could sometimes be seen and he devotes his days to the dream of finding her. When all of a sudden the sweet fragrance of her perfume fills his room.
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B.J. Harrison Reads The Magic Shop (EN)
A father and his son visit a magic shop. This is not just any magic shop, but the "genuine" one, as the shop owner points out to the father. The father is not impressed but the boy is mesmerized by what he sees and hears. Yet when one trick turns out to be too real and the father is gripped by something he will not easily forget.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (EN)
"True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid. " Dorothy is in a bit of a pickle. Her house has been swept away in a vicious tornado with just herself and her dog inside, and when she walks out the front door again, she finds that she is not in Kansas anymore. She is in the mysterious lands of Oz.
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The Secret Garden (EN)
"Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it. " When her parents die, Mary, spoiled, yet unloved, is shipped from India to England to live with her absent uncle. When she discovers a secret garden, and starts to tend to it, like the flowers, she comes to life.
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Frankenstein (EN)
Determined to make his mark on Science, young student Victor Frankenstein fabricates a creature out of old body parts. His dreams are crushed, however, when he realizes he has created a monster. He runs to the streets, horrified, but when he returns the monster is gone. In time, their paths will cross again, at the price of several innocent lives.
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The Spectaculars
The Greatest Showman Nevermoor, The Spectaculars is the enchanting new adventure series that combines magic, theatre and danger with a large pinch of starstuff...
When three figures arrive at Harper's window in a flying canoe, informing her that she is due to start her apprenticeship, Harper discovers she is a Spectacular - a magical performer, gifted special powers from the stars.
Harper is thrilled to be part of the Spectaculars' travelling theatre and boarding school, until everything is plunged into great danger.
With her new friends Trick and Thief, Harper sets out to save her school... But while dreams come true at the Wondria, nightmares might just be lurking in the wings.
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash: Volume 3
“Choco. Wait, could it be that Choco...?”
Haruhiro and his comrades have become famous due to achievements no one expected from them. With his comrades more confident, Haruhiro is still agonizing over what to do when more experienced volunteer soldiers come to him. Among them is a girl whose name is still in Haruhiro's memories.
At that same time, the town of Alterna moves to retake the Deadhead Watchtower held by orcs. Looking to earn some of the reward money, Haruhiro's party ends up joining their first raid alongside Renji and Choco.
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Králův Havran
Období, které je kulisou této knížky, je počátkem jednoho z nejtemnějších časů našich dějin. Jeden svět se zhroutil a nový ještě neprozářilo světlo. Informací, které o té době máme, je velmi málo. Několik kronik, několik listin a fragmenty archeologických nálezů. Tato přehlídka zdrojů nám představu ni jak nezjednodušuje, protože nezřídka jsou jejich svědectví ve vzájemném rozporu. K těm několika zdrojům sáhl i autor knížky: Základem byla viditelně Prokopiova kronika, je eveidentní, že prolistoval i několik do chovaných dobových listin a (pozdější) kroniku Řehoře z Tours, stejně jako starší kroniku Cassiodorovu. Knížka je ovšem pohledem z druhé strany – není viděna prismatem byzantského generála Prokopia, ale očima jeho pro tivníků – Gótů.
Čtenáři Králova Havrana často naráží na velkou faktografickou introspekci. Autor se často pohybuje na hraně. Ačkoli jde o historický román, styl často evokuje typické formy fantasy románů i s jejich detailně popsaným fa ntaskním světem. Fakt je, že období gótských válek je asi nejvěrnější předlo hou pro svět dračích doupat, hrdinů, runové magie a temných sil. Jakoby Králův Havran, vtělený kroužící gallský bůh Lug, byl fantasy čtením, které se ovšem odehrává v historické realitě. Jsme svědky krvavých masakrů, zaklí nání řeky, kreslení runových čar, střetu světů. Jakoby se světy fantasy eposů a zapadlé historie opravdu potkaly.
Samotný příběh, který je kostrou knížky, je vyprávěný na časové ploše, která začíná v roce 541 a končí v roce 552. Ale je protkaný velkým množstvím od skoků zpět, do retrospekcí z doby 531 až 540. A to nezřídka nikoli chronolo gicky. Jakoby směřoval k tomu, že není podstatná vlastní dějová linka, ale emoce, které její fragmenty vyburcují. Jakoby příběh byl jen záminkou, metaforou, a hlavně příležitostí rozehrát kouzelný dotek odkudsi ze stínů.
Hrdiny knížky vidíme ve světle, které nás opět vrací ke světu fantasy a do jejich nitra nám dovolí nahlédnout jen z některých úhlů. Jakoby se nám chtěli v té dálce času skrýt a zůstat neodhaleni. Udělali malý úkrok do světla, abychom mohli zavnímat, že tu kdysi byli, a pak se zase skryli bariérou času, kamenných stěn, Lukarininých spellů a mystické Theieho kapličky na breton ském pobřeží.
Celý příběh je protkán obrovskou dávkou mystiky, která ho posouvá do další ho rozměru. Zkouší nás vlákat do myšlenkového světa Gótů v šestém století, mystiků, gnostických heretiků. Zasvědcuje nás do řady mystických rituálů, při kterých mrazí, stejně jako do bohatého a komplikovaného myšlenkového světa prvotního křesťanství, patristiky a gnóze. Možná, že to je na celé kníž ce to nejsilnější. Možná je knížka spíše mystickou introdukcí a možná je jen šifrovanou zprávou, kterou se svolává světem a časem bloudící suita krále Totily.
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Plato’s Laches (EN)
Laches, a general in the Athenian army, saw Socrates fight bravely in the battle of Delium. When he and Nicias, another general, are asked to explain the idea of courage, they are at a loss and words fail them. How does courage differ from thoughtless and reckless audacity? Can a lion be said to be courageous? What about small children who have little idea of the dangers they face? Should we call people courageous who do not know whether their bravery will produce good or bad consequences? What kind of education and training promotes both courage and goodness in people, whether they are young or old? Plato constantly presents courage as an essential quality for all who seek to live a good life, so what does it mean when even the bravest leaders of Athens cannot tell us what courage really is?.
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You’re Not Listening
When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you?
This life-changing book will transform your conversations forever.
At work, we're taught to lead the conversation.
On social media, we shape our personal narratives.
At parties, we talk over one another. So do our politicians.
We're not listening.
And no one is listening to us.
Now more than ever, we need to listen to those around us. New York Times contributor Kate Murphy draws on countless conversations she has had with everyone from priests to CIA interrogators, focus group moderators to bartenders, her great-great aunt to her friend's toddler, to show how only by listening well can we truly connect with others.
Listening has the potential to transform our relationships and our working lives, improve our self-knowledge, and increase our creativity and happiness. While it may take some effort, it's a skill that can be learnt and perfected.
When all we crave is to understand and be understood, You're Not Listening shows us how.
* With a new afterword by the author *
One To Watch
OMBEA! Bea Schumacher is a devastatingly stylish plus-size fashion blogger with amazing friends, thousands of Insta followers - and a massively broken heart. Bea indulges in her weekly obsession: the hit reality show Main Squeeze. The fantasy dates! The kiss-off rejections! The surprising amount of guys named Ben! But Bea is sick and tired of the lack of body diversity on the show. Since whenis being a size zero a prerequisite for getting engaged on television?
Although Bea has sworn off men altogether, when Main Squeeze ask her to be its next star, she agrees on one condition: under no circumstances will she actually fall in love.
But when the cameras start rolling, Bea finds herself in a whirlwind of sumptuous couture, Twitter wars, sexy suitors, and an opportunity (or two, or five) to find messy, real-life love in the midst of a made-for-TV fairy tale. Bea has to decide whether it might just be worth trusting these men - and herself - for a chance at her own happily ever after.
The Tablet of Destinies
An immersive and mesmerizing narrative that reimagines the Mesopotamian myth of the Great Flood
A long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans and decided to send a flood to destroy them. But Ea, the god of fresh underground water, didn't agree. He advised one of his devotees, Utnapishtim, to build a quadrangular boat to house humans and animals, and saved these living creatures from the Flood.
Rather than punish Utnapishtim for his disobedience, Enlil, King of the gods, granted the mortal eternal life and banished him to the island of Dilmun. Thousands of years later, when Sinbad the Sailor is shipwrecked and arrives on that very same island, the two begin a conversation about courage, loss, salvation and sacrifice.
Transformation (EN)
Woman - Woman. Man - Man. Bisexuality. Flexible. Queer. Some have never questioned their homosexuality. Others are in a straight marriage with kids when suddenly their best friend makes their nipples erect, or a touch from their best mate makes their cock hard. This is a collection of erotic short stories from Cupido.
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5,99 €