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Olive Kitteridge
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - NOW AN HBO MINISERIES At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive's own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and her husband, Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse. As the townspeople grapple with their problems, mild and dire, Olive is brought to a deeper understanding of herself and her life-sometimes painfully, but always with ruthless honesty. Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition-its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires. Praise for "Olive Kitteridge" "Perceptive, deeply empathetic . . . Olive is the axis around which these thirteen complex, relentlessly human narratives spin themselves into Elizabeth Strout's unforgettable novel in stories." "-O: The Oprah Magazine " "Fiction lovers, remember this name: "Olive Kitteridge." . . . You'll never forget her. . . . [Elizabeth Strout] constructs her stories with rich irony and moments of genuine surprise and intense emotion. . . . Glorious, powerful stuff." "-USA Today" "Funny, wicked and remorseful, Mrs. Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red-blooded original. When she's not onstage, we look forward to her return. The book is a page-turner because of her." -"San Francisco Chronicle" ""Olive Kitteridge" still lingers in memory like a treasured photograph." "-Seattle Post-Intelligencer" "Rarely does a story collection pack such a gutsy emotional punch." "-Entertainment Weekly" "Strout animates the ordinary with astonishing force. . . . [She] makes us experience not only the terrors of change but also the terrifying hope that change can bring: she plunges us into these churning waters and we come up gasping for air." "-The New Yorker"
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Beach Houses Down Under
"Beach Houses Down Under" is a new title in this internationally best-selling series that examines another outstanding collection of homes built beside the beach. These modern and traditional houses, designed with the beachside lifestyle in mind, are in locations that are often as spectacular as they are remote, as well as some which are located on more modest and easily accessible sites. This book offers inspiration for those who aspire to own a beach house, as well as those who just want to take pleasure in the beautiful settings in which others have built their homes. Architectural adaptations to the often harsh beachside environment are explained and illustrated in this superb volume.
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Bringing Up Bebe
The secret behind France’s astonishingly well-behaved children. When American journalist Pamela Druckerman has a baby in Paris, she doesn’t aspire to become a "French parent." French parenting isn’t a known thing, like French fashion or French cheese. Even French parents themselves insist they aren’t doing anything special.Yet, the French children Druckerman knows sleep through the night at two or three months old while those of her American friends take a year or more. French kids eat well-rounded meals that are more likely to include braised leeks than chicken nuggets. And while her American friends spend their visits resolving spats between their kids, her French friends sip coffee while the kids play.Motherhood itself is a whole different experience in France. There’s no role model, as there is in America, for the harried new mom with no life of her own. French mothers assume that even good parents aren’t at the constant service of their children and that there’s no need to feel guilty about this. They have an easy, calm authority with their kids that Druckerman can only envy.Of course, French parenting wouldn’t be worth talking about if it produced robotic, joyless children. In fact, French kids are just as boisterous, curious, and creative as Americans. They’re just far better behaved and more in command of themselves. While some American toddlers are getting Mandarin tutors and preliteracy training, French kids are- by design-toddling around and discovering the world at their own pace.With a notebook stashed in her diaper bag, Druckerman-a former reporter for "The Wall Street Journal"-sets out to learn the secrets to raising a society of good little sleepers, gourmet eaters, and reasonably relaxed parents. She discovers that French parents are extremely strict about some things and strikingly permissive about others. And she realizes that to be a different kind of parent, you don’t just need a different parenting philosophy. You need a very different view of what a child actually is.While finding her own firm "non," Druckerman discovers that children-including her own-are capable of feats she’d never imagined.
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Darkest Corners
"Gripping from start to finish, The Darkest Corners took me into an underbelly I didn't know existed, with twists that left me shocked and racing forward to get to the end."-Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Queen For fans of Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places and Sara Shepard’s Pretty Little Liars, The Darkest Corners is a psychological thriller about the lies little girls tell, and the deadly truths those lies become. There are ghosts around every corner in Fayette, Pennsylvania. Tessa left when she was nine and has been trying ever since not to think about it after what happened there that last summer. Memories of things so dark will burn themselves into your mind if you let them. Callie never left. She moved to another house, so she doesn’t have to walk those same halls, but then Callie always was the stronger one. She can handle staring into the faces of her demons—and if she parties hard enough, maybe one day they’ll disappear for good. Tessa and Callie have never talked about what they saw that night. After the trial, Callie drifted and Tessa moved, and childhood friends just have a way of losing touch. But ever since she left, Tessa has had questions. Things have never quite added up. And now she has to go back to Fayette—to Wyatt Stokes, sitting on death row; to Lori Cawley, Callie’s dead cousin; and to the one other person who may be hiding the truth. Only the closer Tessa gets to the truth, the closer she gets to a killer—and this time, it won’t be so easy to run away. More Praise for The Darkest Corners: “A tight, twisted thriller, full of deft reversals and disturbing revelations—deeply, compulsively satisfying!”-Brenna Yovanoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Replacement “As dark as Gillian Flynn and as compulsive as Serial…Kara Thomas’s mystery debut is intricate, chilling, and deeply compelling. Unforgettable!”—Laura Salters, author of Run Away "You'll be up all night tearing through the pages, gasping through the twists and turns."-Bustle.com [STAR] “Thomas carefully crafts the suspense, leaving present-tense narrator Tessa—and readers—to doubt even those she loves the most… An unsettling story of loss, lies, and violence lurking in the shadows of a small town.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review [STAR] "On the heels of Making a Murderer and The Jinx comes a psychological thriller strongly rooted in the truecrime tradition...Expertly plotted with plenty of twists and turns—never mind a truly shocking conclusion—this gritty thriller is sure to find a wide audience among teens and adults alike. Equally concerned with a quest for the truth and the powerful motivation of guilt, this compelling novel won’t linger on the shelf." —Booklist, Starred Review [STAR] "A cerebral mystery wrapped in heart-pounding suspense...[for readers] who love dark mysteries or fans of Netflix's Making a Murderer."Shelf Awareness, Starred Review "Clearly drawn…[and] alive until the twisty end."—Bulletin "Strong character development and thrilling reveals…this novel is a sure bet."—SLJ From the Hardcover edition.
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Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's heart-tugging wildlife epic March of the Penguins. In this concise, crisply written guide, Patricia Aufderheide takes readers along the diverse paths of documentary history and charts the lively, often fierce debates among filmmakers and scholars about the best ways to represent reality and to tell the truths worth telling. Beginning with an overview of the central issues of documentary filmmaking--its definitions and purposes, its forms and founders--Aufderheide focuses on several of its key subgenres, including public affairs films, government propaganda (particularly the works produced during World War II), historical documentaries, and nature films. Her thematic approach allows readers to enter the subject matter through the kinds of films that first attracted them to documentaries, and it permits her to make connections between eras, as well as revealing the ongoing nature of documentary's core controversies involving objectivity, advocacy, and bias. Interwoven throughout are discussions of the ethical and practical considerations that arise with every aspect of documentary production. A particularly useful feature of the book is an appended list of 100 great documentaries" that anyone with a serious interest in the genre should see. Drawing on the author's four decades of experience as a film scholar and critic, this book is the perfect introduction not just for teachers and students but also for all thoughtful filmgoers and for those who aspire to make documentaries themselves. "
Oldfield Mike - The Studio Albums 1992-2003 8CD
KDO: Anglický hudebník a skladatel, který se během kariéry věnoval řadě hudebních stylů od elektronické muziky, přes folkovou, new age, až k vážné hudbě, se proslavil hned v roce 1973, kdy debutoval deskou Tubular Bells. U nás je dobře znám i díky písni Moonlight Shadows, kterou natočil se zpěvačkou Maggie Reilly.
CO: Sbírka 8CD kompletuje všechna Oldfieldova alba z let 1992 až 2003: Tubular Bells II (1992), The Songs of Distant Earth (1994), Voyager (1996), Tubular Bells III (1998), Guitars (1999), The Millennium Bell (1999), Tr3s Lunas (2002), Tubular Bells 2003 (2003).
CD1
1. Sentinel
2. Dark star
3. Clear light
4. Blue saloon
5. Sunjammer
6. Red dawn
7. The bell
8. Weightless
9. The great plain
10. Sunset door
11. Tattoo
12. Altered state
13. Maya gold
14. Moonshine
CD2
1. In the beginning
2. Let there be light
3. Supernova
4. Magellan
5. First landing
6. Oceania
7. Only time will tell
8. Prayer for the Earth
9. Lament for Atlantis
10. The chamber
11. Hibernaculum
12. Tubular world
13. The shining ones
14. Crystal clear
15. The sunken forest
16. Ascension
17. A new beginning
CD3
1. The song of the sun
2. Celtic rain
3. The hero
4. Women of Ireland
5. The voyager
6. She moves through the fair
7. Dark island
8. Wild goose flaps its wings
9. Flowers of the forest
10. Mont St. Michel
CD4
1. The source of secrets
2. The watchful eye
3. Jewel in the crown
4. Outcast
5. Serpent dream
6. The inner child
7. Man in the rain
8. The top of the morning
9. Moonwatch
10. Secrets
11. Far above the clouds
CD5
1. Muse
2. Cochise
3. Embers
4. Summit day
5. Out of sight
6. B blues
7. Four winds
8. Enigmatism
9. Out of mind
10. From the ashes
CD6
1. Peace on Earth
2. Pacha mama
3. Santa Maria
4. Sunlight shining through cloud
5. The doge's palace
6. Lake Constance
7. Mastermind
8. Broad sunlit uplands
9. Liberation
10. Amber light
11. The millennium bell
CD7
1. Misty
2. No mans land
3. Return to the origin
4. Landfall
5. Viper
6. Turtle island
7. To be free
8. Firefly
9. Tres lunas
10. Daydream
11. Thou art in Heaven
12. Sirius
13. No Mans Land (Reprise)
CD8
1. Introduction
2. Fast guitars
3. Basses
4. Latin
5. A minor tune
6. Blues
7. Thrash
8. Jazz
9. Ghost bells
10. Russian
11. Finale
12. Harmonics
13. Peace
14. Bagpipe guitars
15. Caveman
16. Ambient guitars
17. The sailor's hornpipe
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La Barbare
Elle rêvait d'orages et d'absolu... À 21 ans, Anne est enfermée dans un mariage doré et gaspille ses journées dans des aventures sans passion. Tout l'afflige et l'ennuie. Ce serait donc ça la vie, une traversée en somnambule ? Un jour, un télégramme du Maroc lui annonce la mort de son père. Sa vie va basculer... elle ne sera plus jamais la même.
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On Giving Up
From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive.
To give up or not to give up?
The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple.
Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself is quite another. One form of self-sacrifice feels positive, something to admire and aspire to, while the other is profoundly unsettling, if not actively undesirable.
There are always, it turns out, both good and bad sacrifices, but it is not always clear beforehand which is which. We give something up because we believe we can no longer go on as we are. In this sense, giving up is a critical moment - an attempt to make a different future.
In On Giving Up, acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips illuminates both the gaps and the connections between the many ways of giving up, and helps us to address the central question: what must we give up in order to feel more alive?
Luigi & Iango
The first monograph on the celebrated photographic duo Luigi & Iango, accompanying a major exhibition of their work
While many photographers seek to capture the aesthetics of a moment, Luigi Murenu and Iango Henzi aspire to transcend a single genre, capturing a timeless quest for pluralistic beauty and artistic expression. One of the most creative imagemakers working in the industry today, Luigi & Iango share their stunning portfolio of work – from icons of contemporary culture and supermodels to Japanese Kabuki and portraits of artists and performers – in their first ever monograph. Luigi Murenu and Iango Henzi (known as Luigi & Iango) are a Swiss-Italian photography duo. Since starting to work together in 2013, they have photographed stories and series for the world’s leading magazines, captured iconic celebrities such as Madonna, Gisele Bündchen, Rihanna, Penélope Cruz, and Cate Blanchett among others.
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Very Important People
A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men
Million-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne. In today's New Gilded Age, the world's moneyed classes have taken conspicuous consumption to new extremes. In Very Important People, sociologist, author, and former fashion model Ashley Mears takes readers inside the exclusive global nightclub and party circuit?from New York City and the Hamptons to Miami and Saint-Tropez?to reveal the intricate economy of beauty, status, and money that lies behind these spectacular displays of wealth and leisure.
Mears spent eighteen months in this world of "models and bottles" to write this captivating, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking narrative. She describes how clubs and restaurants pay promoters to recruit beautiful young women to their venues in order to attract men and get them to spend huge sums in the ritual of bottle service. These "girls" enhance the status of the men and enrich club owners, exchanging their bodily capital for as little as free drinks and a chance to party with men who are rich or aspire to be. Though they are priceless assets in the party circuit, these women are regarded as worthless as long-term relationship prospects, and their bodies are constantly assessed against men's money.
A story of extreme gender inequality in a seductive world, Very Important People unveils troubling realities behind moneyed leisure in an age of record economic disparity.
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