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Day We Disappeared
The unforgettable new novel from Lucy Robinson. Annie has a secret. But if she's not going to tell, we won't either. It's a heart-breaking secret she wishes she didn't have - yet Annie isn't broken, not quite yet. Especially now there's someone out there who seems determined to fix her. Kate has run away. But she's not going to tell us why - that would defeat the point of running, wouldn't it? It's proving difficult to reinvent herself, however, with one person always on her mind. Scratch beneath the surface and nobody is really who they seem. Even Annie and Kate, two old friends, aren't entirely sure who they are any more. Perhaps you can work it out, before their pasts catch up with them for good...A gripping and unpredictable story of two young women running from their pasts. We defy you to guess the twist...Lucy Robinson is the author of The Greatest Love Story of All Time, A Passionate Love Affair with a Total Stranger and The Unfinished Symphony of You and Me. Lucy worked in theatre and then television documentaries before starting a blog for Marie Claire about her laughably unsuccessful foray into the world of online dating. She did not meet a man during this time but she did become a novelist: every cloud has a silver lining. She now lives in Bristol with her partner, The Man, whom she met when she took off to Buenos Aires to become a bohemian writer in 2010. Praise for The Day We Disappeared: "What a book! Fabulous characters, dark secrets and a clever, compulsive plot that will take you completely by surprise. Read it!" (Lucy Diamond, Sunday Times top 10 bestselling author of The Year of Taking Chances). "Lucy Robinson has managed to pull off a very rare thing: a novel that is as sad as it is funny, as it is psychologically thrilling...Totally satisfying. I could not put it down!" (Katy Regan, bestselling author of How We Met). "I couldn't put this book down: a fabulously original love story that swoops and twists and wraps you in its big-hearted, funny yet dark-edged world." (Lucy Dillon, bestselling author of A Hundred Pieces of Me Top notch, unforgettable women's fiction). The Day We Disappeared is a rare gem, a novel that haunts, inspires and captivates. The story took me completely by surprise. Its compulsive, funny, sad and shocking, and is the finest example of a romantic mystery you'll read all year - Victoria Fox, bestselling author of Power Games "Clear a space in your life for this awe-inspiring gem of a book. Seriously, you'll need a place for all the bits of shattered earth to land. Enthralling from the get-go and packed with an irresistible blend of brilliant characters, intriguing drama and a plot twist that will slam-dunk your brain into the middle of next week, this is a novel you'll be talking about for a very long time. It's an overwhelming accomplishment that cements Lucy Robinson's place amongst the very best in the business. Please, please read it." (Isabelle Broom, Books Editor Heat magazine). "One of Britain's most talented rising stars." (Huffington Post). "Intriguing and uplifting - a real page-turner full of humour and mystery, with a pair of heroines you'll welcome into your heart." (Julie Cohen). Praise for Lucy Robinson: "We want to climb the highest mountain and shout about this book to the world. We laughed, we cried, we fell in love - and we haven't stopped going on about it ever since!" (Heat). "Romantic and laugh-out-loud hilarious." (Cosmopolitan). "One of Britain's most talented rising stars." (Huffington Post).
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Born To Run
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Writing about yourself is a funny business...But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this.' -Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That's how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humour and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger and darkness that fuelled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as 'The Big Bang': seeing Elvis Presley's debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candour, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song 'Born to Run' reveals more than we previously realized. Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star's memoir. This is a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and loners, artists, freaks or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the holy river of rock and roll. Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep. Like many of his songs ('Thunder Road', 'Badlands', 'Darkness on the Edge of Town', 'The River', 'Born in the U.S.A.', 'The Rising', and 'The Ghost of Tom Joad', to name just a few), Bruce Springsteen's autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences.
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Zappa Frank - Zappa '88: The Last U.S. Show 4LP
"We Are Doing Voter Registration Here",
The Black Page (New Age Version),
I Ain't Got No Heart,
Love Of My Life,
Inca Roads,
Sharleena,
Who Needs The Peace Corps?,
I Left My Heart In San Francisco,
Dickie's Such An Asshole,
When The Lie's So Big,
Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk,
Sofa #1,
One Man, One Vote,
Happy Birthday, Chad!,
Packard Goose Pt. I,
Royal March From "L'Histoire Du Soldat" (Stravinsky),
Theme From The Bartok Piano Concerto #3 (Bartok),
Packard Goose Pt. II,
The Torture Never Stops Pt. I,
Theme From "Bonanza",
Lonesome Cowboy Burt,
The Torture Never Stops Pt. II,
City Of Tiny Lites,
Pound For A Brown,
THE BEATLES MEDLEY (Lennon/McCartney),
Peaches En Regalia,
Stairway To Heaven (Page/Plant),
I Am The Walrus (Lennon/McCartney),
Whipping Post (Allman),
Bolero (Ravel),
America The Beautiful (Bates/Ward)
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Landscape Photography 4 Seasons
Landscape photography is one of the medium's most popular areas. New technology and techniques have made it possible to interpret the landscape in exciting new ways, and a host of amateur and professional photographers are rising to the challenge. Each volume in this set of four seasonally-themed books is small enough to go anywhere with you, and offers a wealth of tips and tricks alongside stunning contemporary landscape images from a selection of today's best photographers. Here's an idea of what you can learn: Spring - Everything about the natural environment is changing at lightning pace, from the blossoming flowers and trees to the weather itself. The tips, tricks, and location ideas in these pages will help you get every shot perfect, and take advantage of the extended "magic hours" after dawn and before dusk. Summer - Full sun is perfect for the beach, but challenging for photographers. The advice in this book will help you bring out every detail in brightly lit scenes and the accompanying dark shadows. It's a great opportunity for contemporary HDR work, or dramatic, high-contrast compositions. Fall - Traditionally known as the most beautiful season of the year, but with everyone competing to catch the reddening leaves how can you make sure your pictures stand head and shoulders above the rest? This volume is packed with tips on composing with color and ensuring that your camera captures every tone perfectly. Winter - Covering everything you need to shoot breath-taking winter scenes, from protecting your equipment from the elements, to understanding how and when to override your camera's built-in metering. Winter is also the season that responds best to black and white, giving you another set of options in the field and the digital darkroom alike.
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Hologram for the King
New from Dave Eggers, National Book Award finalist A Hologram for the King. In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the face of the global economy's gale-force winds. This taut, richly layered, and elegiac novel is a powerful evocation of our contemporary moment - and a moving story of how we got here. Praise for A Hologram for the King: "Absorbing ...modest and equally satisfying: the writing of a comic but deeply affecting tale about one man's travails that also provides a bright, digital snapshot of our times". (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). "A fascinating novel". (New Yorker). "A spare but moving elegy for the American century". (Publishers Weekly). "Eggers understands the pressures of American downward-mobility, and in the protagonist of his novel, Alan Clay, has created an Everyman, a post-modern Willy Loman...The novel operates on a grand and global scale, but it also is intimate". (Chicago Tribune). "Completely engrossing". (Fortune). "Eggers can do fiction as well as he likes". (Los Angeles Times). Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, How We Are Hungry, You Shall Know Our Velocity, What is the What, The Wild Things and Zeitoun. Zeitoun was the winner of the American Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and What is the What was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award and won France's Prix Medicis. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco. A native of Chicago, he lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.
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The Honey - Guides Classic Reprint
Excerpt from The Honey-Guides Similarly, it was impossible to compare the parasitic breeding habits of the honey-guides with those of the cowbirds, cuckoos, and other brood parasites until more information was available. It was essential to make such comparisons, and hence it was necessary to find out more about the honey-guides. In the pages that follow I have brought together all that is known of these birds from the literature, from museum specimens, from the unprinted observations of many naturalists in Africa, and from my own personal field studies. If at times it may seem that unnecessary detail has been set forth I would remind the reader that our studies are still in the fact-finding stage, and that some of these possibly tedious minutiae may turn out to be revealing and significant in the light of further data on the one hand, and, on the other, may help to qualify or to support some of the statements derived from them and other similar crumbs of evidence. Throughout, every effort has been made to integrate all available knowledge, even when that integration is still on the merely suggestive level. In a field where the gaps in knowledge and in the evidence are so numerous, it seems better to venture occasionally with an interpretation or an opinion not yet wholly provable by the actual data than to follow the safer, but intellectually sterile, course of attempting to understand nothing because it is not yet possible to understand all. In each of these ventures I have tried to point out clearly that the interpretations are tentative, and quite possibly of more temporary than permanent validity. I consider them important and useful because they will serve to direct further inquiries and to arouse more searching question ings. Also, since few of the naturalists resident in Africa and the appropriate parts of Asia have the chance to know the species of the family not found in their own special areas, they are not in a position to apply the data on one or two species to the problems arising from other related forms elsewhere except through the medium of a com prehensive and integrated report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.show less
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Shop Design
As any dedicated shopper will tell you, a well-designed shop is not merely a commercial establishment, but a leisure experience to be savored at length. But the standards are constantly rising, as retail designers endeavor to create ever more adventurous spaces that will entice even the most jaded consumer. Shops are becoming mini-universes which shoppers can wonder at, be inspired by—and, of course, make their favorite shopping destinations. This comprehensively illustrated book chronicles the hottest retailing trends at the forefront of shop design.
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Lost In A Good Book
Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed, is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. The sinister Goliath Corporation wants its operative Jack Schitt out of the poem in which Thursday trapped him, and it will do almost anything to achieve this - but bribing the ChronoGuard? Is that possible? Having barely caught her breath after The Eyre Affair, Thursday must battle corrupt politicians, try to save the world from extinction, and help the Neanderthals to species self-determination. Mastadon migrations, journeys into Just William, a chance meeting with the Flopsy Bunnies, and violent life-and-death struggles in the summer sales are all part of a greater plan. But whose? and why?
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Red Sky at Noon
'The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they mounted their horses and rode across the grasslands towards the horizon on fire ...' Imprisoned in the Gulags for a crime he did not commit, Benya Golden joins a penal battalion made up of Cossacks and convicts to fight the Nazis. He enrols in the Russian cavalry, and on a hot summer day in July 1942, he and his band of brothers are sent on a desperate mission behind enemy lines. Switching between Benya's war in the grasslands of Southern Russia, and Stalin's plans in the Kremlin, between Benya's intense affair with an Italian nurse and a romance between Stalin's daughter and a journalist also on the Eastern Front, this is a sweeping story of passion, bravery and human survival where personal betrayal is a constant companion, and death just a heartbeat away. Praise for Red Sky at Noon 'The gripping final instalment of the Moscow Trilogy tells of a man wrongly imprisoned in the Gulags and his fight for redemption. Love in dark times, meticulously researched... In this searing tale of love and war, most moving is the redemptive relationship between a soldier and a nurse that blooms amid the brutality. An homage to the author's favourite Russian writers and the Western masterpieces of Larry McMurtry, Cormac McCarthy and Elmore Leonard, such influences pervade this atmospheric tale told in the author's distinct own voice.' - Observer 'Mythic and murderous violence in Russia...there are power-drunk Nazis and Soviet traitors, including a particularly memorable villain ...Written with brio & deep knowledge of its fascinating subject matter... a deeply satisfying pageturner.' - Book of the Month, The Times 'In this third volume of The Moscow Trilogy, the fate of combatants and civilians is often harsh. With his feel for vivid and immediate drama and impressive research, the author evokes the extreme turbulence and violence impacting on individuals. Writing with passion, Montefiore makes the point that, up against the huge forces of war, the struggle for personal resolution can be tragic - but never wasted.' - Daily Mail 'The final instalment of Montefiore's loosely connected Moscow Trilogy: amidst the killing and the chaos, a group of prisoners are offered a chance of redemption on a secret mission behind enemy lines on horseback. Montefiore has a keen sense of place and an eye of unexpected details. Switching between the frontline on the Russian steppes and Stalin in the Kremlin, this is an EXCITING FAST-PACED ADVENTURE AND A LAMENT FOR LOVE IN DARK AND BRUTAL TIMES.' - Mail on Sunday 'I devoured Red Sky at Noon. A heartstopping, heartbreaking, technicolour epic. A grand homage to the Russian masters Babel & Grossman, echoes of Hemingway & Dostoevsky, and a propulsive delight that is entirely Montefiore's own. Gripping storytelling allied with intimate, unsqueamish knowledge of Russian history - a special combination.' - AD Miller, author of Snowdrops
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A Harmadik Birodalom hatalmon
Impozáns trilógiájának második részében a cambridge-i történész Hitler uralmának azt a hat évét mutatja be, mely 1933-tól, a hatalomra kerüléstől 1939-ig, a második világháború kitöréséig tartott. A politikai, gazdasági és művészeti élet riasztó változásaitól kezdve az oktatáson és az egyházak helyzetén át minden részletet kimerítően elemez: a tények és adatok sorjázását a korszak jelentős német személyiségeinek, emigránsoknak és hétköznapi embereknek, például egy hamburgi tanárnőnek a személyes feljegyzéseiből, naplóiból vett idézetek hozzák emberközelbe. Egy olyan állam képe rajzolódik ki előttünk, amely a hétköznapi élet minden területére erőszakosan rátelepedett, és azt saját céljainak megfelelően alakította át. Evans megmutatja, hogy a nácizmus hatékonyságának kulcsa pontosan a rendszer irracionalitásában és önkényességében rejlik: a gondolkodó elme sehol nem talál fogódzót. A panoramikus képet adó mű döbbenetes erővel mutatja be, hogyan vált az egész lakosság egy gyűlölet emésztette, megszállottan a háborúra készülő diktatúra rabjává.
A feljelentéstől való félelem egyre inkább elnémította a szabad kocsmai beszélgetést. Az a tudat, hogy a feljelentéshez elég egyetlen, nyilvános helyen elhangzott óvatlan szó vagy mondat, általános félelmet és szorongást keltett a lakosságban. "Mindenki remeg a félelemtől - írta Victor Klemperer zsidó származású professzor a naplójába 1933. augusztus 19-én. - Már nem biztonságos sem a levél, sem a telefonbeszélgetés, sem az utcai társalgás. Mindenki fél, hogy a mellette álló személy besúgó lehet." Nem is az számított, hogy tényleg mindenütt voltak-e besúgók, hanem hogy így hitték.
Az emberek eltréfálkoztak a helyzeten, hogy könnyítsenek a félelmükön, persze lehetőleg zárt körben. Egy vicc szerint "Németországban eztán a foghúzást orron keresztül fogják végezni, mert a száját senki sem nyithatja ki." "A német üdvözlés" mintájára elterjedt "a német pillantás" szófordulat, amint azt értették, hogy ha két barát nyilvános helyen találkozik, először is körülnéznek, és ellenőrzik, nincs-e valaki hallótávolságon belül. Bőven születtek humoros anekdoták is.
Svájcban egy náci fejes megkérdezi, mi az a középület ott. "Az a tengerészeti minisztériumunk", feleli a svájci. A náci kineveti: "Maguknak két-három hajójuk van, minek ahhoz tengerészeti minisztérium?" Mire a svájci: "Miért, maguknak Németországban mi szükségük van igazságügy-minisztériumra?"
Richard J. Evans (1947) neves brit történész, szakterülete Németország modern kori történelme. 1998-tól 2010-ig legújabb kori történelmet oktatott a cambridge-i egyetemen, ahol 2008-ban a modern kori történelem Regius ("királyi") professzorává nevezték ki. Az 1724-ben alapított rangos címet többek között a Yale, a Harvard, az oxfordi és a londoni egyetem neves professzoraiból álló bírálóbizottság javaslatára a mindenkori uralkodó adományozza.
2000-ben Evans - a védelem oldalán - történész tanúként kulcsfontosságú szerepet játszott David Irvingnek a Deborah Lipstadt és kiadója ellen indított rágalmazási perében.
A Harmadik Birodalommal foglalkozó trilógiájának első kötete, A Harmadik Birodalom születése, 2012-ben jelent meg magyarul. A második kötet, A Harmadik Birodalom hatalmon, a hitleri diktatúra időszakát (1933-1939) tekinti át. A harmadik - Antony Beevor szavaival "történészi remekmű" - a második világháborús éveket (1939-1945) öleli fel. A nagyszabású történeti munka, melyet az olvasók és a szakma is kimagasló elismeréssel fogadott, eddig 16 nyelven jelent meg.
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Black Wind
Clive Cussler's "Black Wind" is the eighteenth "Dirk Pitt" adventure, and a masterclass in adventure writing. In the dark, final days of World War Two, two submarines set out from Japan bearing a deadly virus destined for US cities. But neither boat was heard of again...Present day: NUMA Special Projects Director Dirk Pitt rescues a team of scientists from a deadly cloud of poison gas in the North West Pacific. Discovering that this was no natural phenomenon, Pitt is quickly on the hunt for a pair of lost WWII submarines and their deadly cargo. But he soon learns that he's not the only one searching for the virus: a sinister group of very able terrorists are aiming to relaunch the attack on the US some sixty years later. With time running out, only Dirk Pitt and the NUMA team stand between evil forces and a terrifying assault on America's west coast...With pulse-pounding suspense and jaw-dropping action on almost every page, Black Wind is a Clive Cussler story that no adventure junkie dare miss. "Black Wind" is the eighteenth of Clive Cussler's bestselling "Dirk Pitt" novels - the series that also includes "Sahara" and, his first novel, "Mayday" - co-authored with his son Dirk Cussler, in which our hero races against a terrorist organisation to prevent a biological attack on the US. Praise for Clive Cussler: "No holds barred adventure ...a souped-up treat". ("Daily Mirror"). "Frightening and full of suspense ...unquestionably entertaining". ("Daily Express"). Bestselling author Clive Cussler has thrilled readers for four decades with his classic adventure novels filled with intrigue and plot twists. As well as the "Dirk Pitt" series there are also the "NUMA" and "Oregon Files", the "Isaac Bell" adventures and the "Fargo" series. Other "Dirk Pitt" titles available in Penguin paperback are "Atlantis Found", "Valhalla Rising", "Trojan Odyssey", "Treasure of Khan", "Arctic Drift", "Crescent Dawn" and "The Kingdom".
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Architecture Now! 8
Today's starchitects. Currents in architecture around the world. "Architecture Now!" has become the international reference for information on what is happening in the world of contemporary architecture. Volume 8 reviews new and exiting projects completed and under construction in the whole world. No style, no building type is ignored, making "Architecture Now! 8" is a true compendium of what anybody interested in buildings today needs to know. From well-known figures such as Zaha Hadid, Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA fame and Thom Mayne of Morphosis, to rising stars like Joshua Prince-Ramus (REX) and Sou Fujimoto and on to less-known architects who are the "stars" of tomorrow like the Indians of Studio Mumbai, the Norwegian Todd Saunders, the Spaniards Nieto Sobejano, and the Colombian Giancarlo Mazzanti, or Chinese architects like Wang Shu and Zhu Xiaofeng, they are all here and many more as well. Don't miss this opportunity to see the best of what architecture has to offer...Now! For anyone interested in the zeitgeist and building design in the 21st century, the "Architecture Now!" series is an essential work of reference. Easy-to-navigate illustrated A-Z entries include current and recent projects, biographies, contact information, and websites. The featured architects and practices include: 2012Architecten, 24H Architecture, Effan Adhiwira, AFF Architekten, al bordE, Aparicio + Donaire, Ron Arad, Birk und Heilmeyer, Odile Decq Benoit Cornette, FELIX-DELUBAC, Foster + Partners, Sou Fujimoto, Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, Manuelle Gautrand, Frank O. Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Hapsitus, HplusF Architects, IA+B, Arata Isozaki, Jakob + MacFarlane, Diebedo Francis Kere, Kengo Kuma, Li Xiaodong, LIN Finn Geipel Giulia Andi, Luis Longhi, LOT-EK, Gurgit Singh Matharoo, Maurer United, Giancarlo Mazzanti, Morphosis, Neri & Hu, Neutelings Riedijk Architects, Ryue Nishizawa, Jean Nouvel, Bassam El Okeily, Olson Kundig Architects, Carlos Ott, Muti Randolph, Rare Architecture, REX, Fernando Romero, Todd Saunders, Savioz Fabrizzi, Kazuyo Sejima & Associates, Studio Mumbai, Terrain, Undurraga Deves, UNStudio, Urbana, Various Architects, Vo Trong Nghia, Isay Weinfeld, Changki Yun, and Peter Zumthor.
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Semmi sem lehetetlen
"Teljesen elmerültem a mágia világában. Elolvastam róla minden könyvet, és csak gyakoroltam és gyakoroltam, éjt nappallá téve, megállás nélkül. A varázslás lett az én világom... egyesek azt mondják: A rögeszmém."
Steven Frayne, ismertebb nevén Dynamo napjaink legnagyobb illuzionistája! Ezt minden túlzás nélkül állíthatjuk, hiszen trükkjeivel hollywoodi hírességeket éppúgy elkápráztat, mint az utca emberét.
Ránézésre átlagos fiatal srác, aki imádja a hip-hopot és lelkes focirajongó. Gyerekkorában sokat csúfolták gyakori betegeskedése miatt, de tehetségével, no és a nagyapjától ellesett fantasztikus kártyatrükkökkel egyre több rajongót szerzett. Az igazi áttörésre New Yorkban került sor, amikor egy Houdini emlékesten ő is fellépett, és a közönség soraiból valaki hangosan bekiabált: Ez a srác tisztára olyan, mint egy dinamó! Nos, ezzel a névválasztást is kipipálhatjuk, innentől kezdve ugyanis Dynamo néven bűvöli a közönséget.
Az újabb mérföldkő London, ahol videóra vette néhány mutatványát - az utcán és rapper barátainak egy-egy fellépésekor, a kulisszák mögött. Nem telt bele egy év, és a sztárvilágban híre ment elképesztő show-jainak: Snoop Dogg, Ian Brown, a Coldplay és a Gorillaz tagjai kifejezetten Dynamót kérték fel, hogy szórakoztassa őket a turnékon, később pedig a FooFighters-ös srácoknak, Nelly Furtadónak és Will Smithnek is leesett az álla a produkciója láttán.
Ha ennyi nem lenne elég, azt is eláruljuk, hogy Robbie Williams is ódákat zeng tehetségéről, és miért is ne tenné, hiszen Dynamo a szeme láttára varázsolt bankjegyet egy sportfogadási szelvényből. Sőt, egész Anglia a lábai előtt hever, amióta bebizonyította: nem csak a földön állja meg a helyét, hanem a vízen is; 2011-ben ugyanis a vízen - konkrétan a Temzén - járt.
Ennek fényében nem csoda, hogy egymillió rajongója van a Facebookon, debütáló TV-sorozata, mely nálunk a Discovery Channelen látható Varázslat a világ körül címmel, nézettségi rekordot döntött. Első könyvében lélegzetelállítóan izgalmas utazásra hív, melyben az élete igaz története mellett azt is elmeséli, hogyan lesz hóból gyémánt, hogyan kerül pénzérme a kólás dobozba, na és azt is, hogyan találja ki, mire gondol a másik. Ahogy Dynamo mondja: Semmi sem lehetetlen! És mi hiszünk neki.
"Az ember sokszor a legsötétebb időszakokból tanul a legtöbbet" - vallja önéletrajzi kötetében Dynamo, azaz Steven Frayne, akinek a hírhedt bradfordi Delph Hill lakótelepen felnőve egyszerre kellett megküzdenie a fájdalmas Crohn-betegséggel és a kisebbeket terrorizáló, erőszakos nagyfiúkkal. Amikor azonban néha dédapja megmutatta neki élete első bűvésztrükkjét, a kis Steven rájött, hogy a sors többet tartogat számára. Élete új értelmet nyert: abban a pillanatban született meg Dynamo, a 21. század legelképesztőbb bűvésze, aki ámulatba ejtő és megdöbbentő trükkjeivel újkorszakot nyitott a mágia történetében.
Első könyvében Dynamo lélegzetelállító, világ körüli utazásra invitálja olvasóit. Újra átélhetjük vele, ahogy Lindsay Lohant lebegteti Szingapúrban; ahogy gyémánttá változtatja a havat az osztrák hegyek között; és ahogy vízen jár a Temzén. És eközben Dynamo felfedi egyik legnagyobb titkát: hogyan lesz a lehetetlenből lehetséges? Mi kell a valaha látott legbámulatosabb trükkök valóra váltásához? És miért van szüksége mindenkinek varázslatra?
Mindez nem illúzió - hanem az elképesztő Dynamo életének igaz története.
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Beowulf
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself, in the written form of a series of lectures given at Oxford in the 1930s; and from these lectures a substantial selection has been made, to form also a commentary on the translation in this book. From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail-shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel's terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot. But the commentary in this book includes also much from those lectures in which, while always anchored in the text, he expressed his wider perceptions. He looks closely at the dragon that would slay Beowulf 'snuffling in baffled rage and injured greed when he discovers the theft of the cup'; but he rebuts the notion that this is 'a mere treasure story', 'just another dragon tale'. He turns to the lines that tell of the burying of the golden things long ago, and observes that it is 'the feeling for the treasure itself, this sad history' that raises it to another level. 'The whole thing is sombre, tragic, sinister, curiously real. The "treasure" is not just some lucky wealth that will enable the finder to have a good time, or marry the princess. It is laden with history, leading back into the dark heathen ages beyond the memory of song, but not beyond the reach of imagination.' Sellic Spell, a 'marvellous tale', is a story written by Tolkien suggesting what might have been the form and style of an Old English folk-tale of Beowulf, in which there was no association with the 'historical legends' of the Northern kingdoms.
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Apák könyve
"[Az Apák könyve] ...családhistória is. Sok-sok apa vonul fel benne, ám nem mint Esterházynál "egynevűsítve", hanem megannyi külön-külön történet külön-külön alakjaként. Tizenkét nemzedékről szól, tizenkét prizmán áttörve ugyanannak a "nemzetségnek" (ugyanannak?) a históriája, a fejezetek sora mintegy háromszáz évnyi magyar történelmet, itteni sorsot, jelleget vesz elő s elő; az író fájlalja, hogy végződésével a könyv már nem az övé, holott ő maga is folytatódik, az élet is.
Ami főleg izgatott:
mitől regény itt a regény? Valóban a történelem írja e történetet, ez nagy hűség, s ennek áldoz-ajándékoz a nyelvezet is. S valóban elkapható a szál, a sodrata-jellege, és ekkor innen várjuk a fordulatokat. Nem a főszereplők "aktívumából". Késélen alakítják s szenvedik el ők a dolgokat.
Persze, történeti hitele van csaknem mindennek. De - az én mércém szerint - azért annyira jó regény ez, mert olyan, mintha kitalációs lenne. Persze, legyinthet valaki e mániámra: legyen a regény igenis minél inkább kitalációs hatású. Világos, hogy egy ilyen regényre elszánt írónak nagy büszkesége a historikus hitel. Ellenben megismétlem: a sikert az adja igazából, hogy a dolog, részleteiben is, jól van kitalálva.
Nagyon nem akaródzna nekem Vámos regényét akár az apakönyvek sorába begyömöszölni, azaz helyét kisaccolni. A későbbi korok döntik el némely könyvek valódi jelentőségét, és Vámost népszerűségének tehertétele kétségkívül sokféleképp nyomja. Ha nem a magyarról lenne szó, akkor is így mondanám: nem igazán "normális" az erre-normás közfelfogás." (Tandori Dezső)
Az Apák könyve Vámos Miklós leghíresebb, legsikeresebb, legtöbb nyelvre fordított regénye, s mint Bodor Béla is hangsúlyozza: főműve. 2000-ben jelent meg először, azóta idehaza még két tucat kiadást ért meg. Minthogy elfogyott, az Európa új kiadással és új borítóval áll elő.
"E regény viharként söpört át Európán. Pompás családtörténet, mely az olvasót minden erőlködés nélkül húzza át három évszázad magyar történelmén. A főszereplők magukkal ragadóak, Vámos írásmódja igazán nagyszerű, hibátlan elegye a személyesnek és az általánosnak." (Kate Saunders, (London) Times)
"Vámos pontosan tudja, hogyan viccelhet tragikus történetekkel, és azt is, hogyan alakíthat humoros jeleneteket szomorúakká, miközben nem tesz mást, csak a figuráit ábrázolja... A Csillag család tagjai történetük folyamán több halált is elkönyvelhetnek a magyar szabadságért, mégis a magyarok küldik őket haláltáborba és munkaszázadba. Egyetlen túlélőjük groteszk gesztussal az apák könyvét pusztítja el." (Thomas Meissner, Frankfurter Allgemeine)
"Mondj gyorsan egy magyar regényírót. Arthur Koestler: 1 pont. A Nobel-díjas Kertész Imre: 2. Esterházy Péter: 3. Koestler szenvedélye a politika, Kertés
z leghíresebb regénye egy tizenéves fiú auschwitzi kalandjairól szól, Esterházy szlengjátékos és modernista. Most itt van Vámos Miklós, 14 regény szerzője, írt filmet, színdarabot, novellákat, tudósította a Nation- és a Washington Post-ot is. Talán ugyanannyira idegesíti, mint engem, hogy még csak az Apák könyvé-t fordították angolra. Remek kezdet!... Irodalmi fegyvertára képes fönntartani érdeklődésünket egyik elátkozott nemzedéktől a másikig. Ellentmondásos jellemek virtuóz portréit adja, világuk és történelmük érzékletes ábrázolásával egyetemben... Üzenet amerikai kiadójának: Kérünk még!" (Jane Smiley, New York Times Book Review)
"Az ember úgy érzi, mintha Márquez elveszett kisöccse írta volna, akit titokban száműztek Kelet-Európába. Boldogok lehetünk, hogy ez a kiváló szerző és az Apák könyve végre megjelent az USA-ban is." (Tama Janowitz)
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Beowulf
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself, in the written form of a series of lectures given at Oxford in the 1930s; and from these lectures a substantial selection has been made, to form also a commentary on the translation in this book. From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail-shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel's terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot. But the commentary in this book includes also much from those lectures in which, while always anchored in the text, he expressed his wider perceptions. He looks closely at the dragon that would slay Beowulf 'snuffling in baffled rage and injured greed when he discovers the theft of the cup'; but he rebuts the notion that this is 'a mere treasure story', 'just another dragon tale'. He turns to the lines that tell of the burying of the golden things long ago, and observes that it is 'the feeling for the treasure itself, this sad history' that raises it to another level. 'The whole thing is sombre, tragic, sinister, curiously real. The "treasure" is not just some lucky wealth that will enable the finder to have a good time, or marry the princess. It is laden with history, leading back into the dark heathen ages beyond the memory of song, but not beyond the reach of imagination.' Sellic Spell, a 'marvellous tale', is a story written by Tolkien suggesting what might have been the form and style of an Old English folk-tale of Beowulf, in which there was no association with the 'historical legends' of the Northern kingdoms.
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Bohemians
"The unforgettable story of the birth of modern America and the western writers who gave voice to its emerging identity" "The Bohemians" begins in 1860s San Francisco. The Gold Rush has ended; the Civil War threatens to tear apart the country. Far from the front lines, the city at the western edge roars. A global seaport, home to immigrants from five continents, San Francisco has become a complex urban society virtually overnight. The bards of the moment are the Bohemians: a young Mark Twain, fleeing the draft and seeking adventure; literary golden boy Bret Harte; struggling gay poet Charles Warren Stoddard; and beautiful, haunted Ina Coolbrith, poet and protectorate of the group. Ben Tarnoff's elegant, atmospheric history reveals how these four pioneering western writers would together create a new American literature, unfettered by the heavy European influence that dominated the East. Twain arrives by stagecoach in San Francisco in 1863 and is fast drunk on champagne, oysters, and the city's intoxicating energy. He finds that the war has only made California richer: the economy booms, newspapers and magazines thrive, and the dream of transcontinental train travel promises to soon become a reality. Twain and the Bohemians find inspiration in their surroundings: the dark ironies of frontier humor, the extravagant tales told around the campfires, and the youthful irreverence of the new world being formed in the west. The star of the moment is Bret Harte, a rising figure on the national scene and mentor to both Stoddard and Coolbrith. Young and ambitious, Twain and Harte form the Bohemian core. But as Harte's star ascends--drawing attention from eastern taste makers such as the "Atlantic Monthly"--Twain flounders, questioning whether he should be a writer at all. The Bohemian moment would continue in Boston, New York, and London, and would achieve immortality in the writings of Mark Twain. San Francisco gave him his education as a writer and helped inspire the astonishing innovations that radically reimagined American literature. At once an intimate portrait of an eclectic, unforgettable group of writers and a history of a cultural revolution in America, "The Bohemians" reveals how a brief moment on the western frontier changed our country forever.
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Dictionary Of Music, The Penguin: Sixth Edition (Dictionary, Penguin)
This text is now in its sixth edition. It has been thoroughly revised and expanded and the additional entries, of which there are over 500, include musical instruments, recent compositions, new composers and rising stars of the opera world. There is also a new subject area - classic musicals and their composers. The book covers opera and ballet as well as orchestral, solo, choral and chamber music. Detailed entries include performers working today, composers and their works, instruments of every kind, musical terms and genres, orchestras, performers and conductors, and authors whose work has inspired musical composition.
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist - part of the limited edition PENGUIN STREET ART series: timeless writing, enduring design.
'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America . . . '
So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invited to join him for tea, you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out. For he is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled and better educated. He knows the West better than you do. And as he tells you his story, of how he embraced the Western dream -- and a Western woman -- and how both betrayed him, so the night darkens. Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear . . .
'Beautifully written . . . more exciting than any thriller I've read for a long time' Philip Pullman
Mohsin Hamid is the author of three novels: The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Moth Smoke and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. His fiction has been translated into over thirty languages, received numerous awards, and been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has contributed essays and short stories to publications such as the Guardian, The New York Times, Financial Times, Granta, and Paris Review. Born and mostly raised in Lahore, he spent part of his childhood in California, studied at Princeton University and Harvard Law School, and has since lived between Lahore, London, and New York.
The PENGUIN STREET ART series marries timeless writing with enduring design. Some of the world's leading street artists have designed new covers especially for ten classic contemporary books from Penguin: Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd / Armadillo by William Boyd / And The Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave / What a Carve Up by Jonathan Coe / Americana by Don DeLillo / Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris / The Reluctant Fundamentalistby Mohsin Hamid / The Believers by Zoe Heller /How to Be Good by Nick Hornby / Lights out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair
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