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The Fire Keeper
Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents J.C. Cervantes' fiery and fast-paced sequel to The Storm Runner.
Zane Obispo has an impossible choice to make: save other godborns like him from the angry gods, or rescue his father Hurakan from his eternal prison.
Zane Obispo's new life on a beautiful secluded tropical island, complete with his family and closest friends, should be perfect. But he can't control his newfound fire skills yet (inherited from his father, the Maya god Hurakan); there's a painful rift between him and his dog ever since she became a hell hound; and he doesn't know what to do with his feelings for Brooks.
One day he discovers that by writing the book about his misadventures with the Maya gods, he unintentionally put other godborn children at risk. Unless Zane can find the godborns before the gods do, they will be killed.
To make matters worse, Zane learns that Hurakan is scheduled to be executed. Zane knows he must rescue him, no matter the cost. Can he accomplish both tasks without the gods detecting him, or will he end up a permanent resident of the underworld?
In this cleverly plotted sequel to The Storm Runner, the gang is back together again with spirited new characters, sneaky gods, Aztec royalty, unlikely alliances, and secrets darker than Zane could ever have imagined. Secrets that will change him forever.
Nicolas le Floch Affair
This novel opens at the beginning of the year 1774, the last year of Louis XV's reign. Over fifteen years have passed since the first novel in the series, THE CHATELET APPRENTICE, and Nicolas is by now well established in his police career, and in his position as a trustee of King Louis XV. The only fly in the ointment is his fraught relationship with a wealthy widow, Julie de Lasterieux. When Julie is found dead in suspicious circumstances following an argument with Nicolas, he quickly becomes the prime suspect. Although the King and his police boss, Sartine, believe in his innocence, Nicolas has many enemies keen to strengthen the case against him. To deflect attention, Nicolas is sent on a secret Royal mission to London to negotiate the silence of the publisher of a number of scurrilous pamphlets about the King's mistresses. When an attempt is made on his life en route to London, Nicolas starts to wonder whether the attempt to frame him for murder is part of a wider political conspiracy. On his return to Paris, Nicolas has to continue the fight to clear his name and unmask the culprit, as well as helping attend the ailing King. This novel is an intelligent and well-researched historical thriller, crammed with details about the food, politics and social conditions of the time. Parot doesn't stint on showing us the mud, muck and degrading living conditions of the poor in pre-revolutionary France, in contrast to the luxurious life enjoyed by the Royal family and their courtiers at Versailles. In the character of the more working class detective Bourdeau, Nicolas' assistant, Parot neatly depicts the growing tension between the people and the privileged aristocracy. At times though, the plot can seem a little slowed by discussions of food and recipes by the characters, and by the political gossip, which can be a touch confusing notwithstanding the useful provision of a dramatis personae at the beginning of the book. Overall, THE NICOLAS LE FLOCH AFFAIR maintains the high standards of the series, but would not be the obvious starting point for a reader new to the series.
Have You Seen...?
This is veteran film writer David Thomson's personal, irreverent, hilarious and utterly original take on the 1,000 films he has most loved - and hated - from esteemed classics to forgotten curiosities, guilty pleasures to noir treats, horror gems to kitsch disasters. The result is probably the most enjoyable film book you will ever read (and you'll never think about "The Sound of Music" in the same way again).
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Gulliver's Travels The Original Story
Lemuel Gulliver is a ships surgeon whose amazing story begins with a shipwreck on the high seas and continues as he encounters a race of miniature people known as Lilliputians. A second journey takes him to Brobdingnag, kingdom of giants, and eventually to the land of the Houyhnhms, horses with reason, who share their domain with the brutish Yahoos. Will Gulliver ever make it home again?
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One Piece 3in1
Join Monkey D. Luffy and his swashbuckling crew in their search for the ultimate treasure, the One Piece!
As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally ate the Gum-Gum Fruit, an enchanted Devil Fruit that gave him the ability to stretch like rubber. Its only drawback? He'll never be able to swim again-a serious handicap for an aspiring sea dog! Years later, Luffy sets off on his quest to find the "One Piece," said to be the greatest treasure in the world...
Luffy and his crew befriend some of the exotic mer-people on Fish-Man Island, a beautiful and dangerous underwater civilization. They learn that while some on the island are working toward a better relationship with humans, the Fish-Man Pirates are attempting to grasp ultimate power. Luffy and the Straw Hat Crew step into battle once again!
* This best-selling manga of high seas adventures just got bigger with this 3-in-1 collection!
* Releases 4 times a year for 26+ volumes. Series is ongoing. Original series is at 84 volumes and is ongoing.
* 3-in-1 volumes 1-19 have sold over 175,000 copies (Bookscan, 02/17).
* Single volumes 1-78 have sold through over 1.5 million copies (Bookscan, 02/17).
* The best-selling manga in the world with over 400 million copies in print worldwide.
* Frequent New York Times best seller (06/16).
* Serialized simultaneously with Japan in VIZ Media's Weekly Shonen Jump digital magazine.
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Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer - in case he or she decides to strike again.
The Night Sky Month by Month
Learn how to observe and navigate the night sky with this guide to stargazing for beginners!
The dazzling reference book shines bright with crystal-clear charts of the planets, stars, and constellations in both the northern and southern hemispheres for each month of the year! It's perfect for anyone interested in stargazing and astronomy.
This unique astronomy book explains and demystifies the changing night sky. It includes:
- Illustrated overviews that introduce each month with a guide to the main attractions, such as bright stars, prominent constellations, and meteor showers
- An introduction explains what the universe is, our place within it, how it appears to us in the night sky, and how our view of it changes with time and place
- Each illustrated overview features a planet locator, showing the position of the planets during the month introduced
- Charts that show the positions of all stars visible to the naked eye in even the darkest skies
Discover a complete year-round atlas of the night sky! Filled with easy-to-use star charts showing the constellations, alongside specially commissioned artworks and photography, this space book has everything the budding astronomer needs to understand the night sky. You'll learn how to recognise different kinds of objects and see how they move through the sky over the course of the night and the year.
Whether you're new to astronomy or a seasoned stargazer, The Night Sky Month by Month enables everyone to be awed by stargazing. It covers sky-watching without any equipment at all, as well as with the use of binoculars and telescopes. Plus, the newly updated edition features an astronomy calendar detailing the annual and one-off celestial events for the decade ahead, ensuring you'll never miss a visible planet or solar eclipse again.
It's the perfect astronomy gift for adults fascinated with space.
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GUARDIAN DE LOS ARCANOS
En el año 70 despuĂ©s de Cristo, los judĂos se sublevaron contra los romanos. La revuelta terminĂł cuando las legiones del general Tito irrumpieron en el templo de JerusalĂ©n, matando a los Ăşltimos resistentes y saqueando sus tesoros. Poco antes, sin embargo, el sumo sacerdote habĂa entregado el objeto más sagrado, el sĂmbolo de Israel, al joven David. Desde aquel momento, y hasta que llegara la señal que Ă©l habĂa profetizado, David y sus descendientes serĂan los guardianes del secreto del templo. En diciembre de 1944, un alto oficial nazi ocultaba en una antigua mina una misteriosa y pesada caja de madera traĂda desde Francia. Nadie, ni siquiera los prisioneros que tuvieron que cargar con ella a travĂ©s de la nieve, supo jamás lo que realmente contenĂa.Hasta que en la actualidad…El inspector Yusuf Jalifa (uno de los protagonistas de El enigma de Cambises) está visitando una tumba en el Valle de los Reyes cuando recibe aviso de que, en una necrĂłpolis cercana, se ha encontrado el cadáver de un anciano europeo. Cuando lo ve, y se fija en los detalles, Jalifa asocia esta muerte con el primer caso en el que trabajĂł en su vida: el asesinato de una mujer israelĂ, antigua prisionera de los campos de concentraciĂłn, asesinada en un templo egipcio. Parece que al final ha descubierto a su asesino. Y cuando el inspector registra la casa del muerto, se encuentra con otra sorpresa: en el sĂłtano se amontonan piezas arqueolĂłgicas y libros de historia. ÂżQuiĂ©n era este hombre? ÂżPor quĂ© asesinĂł a la mujer israelĂ? Para averiguarlo, tendrá que solicitar la colaboraciĂłn de un policĂa israelĂ, con quien se lleva mal desde el principio.Mientras, en JerusalĂ©n, una periodista palestina investiga una carta anĂłnima que ha recibido. En ella se adjunta fotocopia de un documento medieval y, cuando lo descifra, le pone sobre la pista de un tesoro de poderes mĂsticos que, en el año 1100, fue transportado desde JerusalĂ©n al castillo de Castelombres, en tierra de los cátaros.Un objeto sagrado, de gran poder mĂstico, cuyo paradero se desconoce desde hace siglos. Un tesoro por el cual ha sido asesinada gente. Un objeto cuyo descubrimiento podrĂa ser manipulado para empeorar la conflictiva situaciĂłn entre israelĂes y palestinos. Un policĂa resuelto a descubrir la verdad, cueste lo que cueste.
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Vengeful
A super-powered collision of extraordinary minds and vengeful intentions-V. E. Schwab returns with the thrilling follow-up to Vicious.
Magneto and Professor X. Superman and Lex Luthor. Victor Vale and Eli Ever. Sydney and Serena Clarke. Great partnerships, now soured on the vine.
But Marcella Riggins needs no one. Flush from her brush with death, she's finally gained the control she's always sought-and will use her newfound power to bring the city of Merit to its knees. She'll do whatever it takes, collecting her own sidekicks, and leveraging the two most infamous EOs, Victor Vale and Eli Ever, against each other once more.
With Marcella's rise, new enmities create opportunity-and the stage of Merit City will once again be set for a final, terrible reckoning.
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19,90 €
20,95 €
The Umbrella Academy Library Editon Volume 1
Umbrella Academy is Netflix's most watched show of 2019 with over 45 million viewers and a second season on the way! Catch up on the best selling comic series with this Deluxe Oversized Hardcover collection of the complete first series, Apocalypse Suite, with the short stories "Mon Dieu!" and "But the Past Ain't Through with You," as well as an expanded 50-page sketchbook section featuring work by Gerard Way, Gabriel Bá, James Jean, and designer Tony Ong. In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-three extraordinary children were spontaneously born by women who'd previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, "To save the world." These seven children form The Umbrella Academy, a dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers. Nearly a decade after their first mission, the team disbands, but when Hargreeves unexpectedly dies, these disgruntled siblings reunite just in time to save the world once again. Now a NETFLIX original series, with a second season coming soon!
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Blessing in Disguise
In Blessing in Disguise, Danielle Steel's wise, warm-hearted novel, one of her most unforgettable characters discovers the highs and lows of being a mother to three very different daughters.
As a young intern at an art gallery in Paris, Isabelle McAvoy meets Putnam Armstrong, wealthy, gentle, older and secluded from the world. Her time at his Normandy chateau is the stuff of dreams, for when she learns she is pregnant, she knows that marriage is out of the question.
Returning to New York, Isabelle enters a new relationship that she hopes will be more stable but before long she realizes she has made a terrible mistake and once again finds herself a single mother.
With two young daughters Isabelle unexpectedly finds happiness and a love that gives her a third child, a baby as happy as her beloved father. And yet, life brings more change . . .
Her three girls grow up to be very different women and Isabelle's relationship with each of them is unique. When one final turn of fate brings a past secret to light, it bonds mother and daughters closer, turning a challenge into a blessing.
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A legszebb karácsonyi ajándék
Rágcsáliában mindenki a karácsonyra készülődött, miközben én még mindig dolgoztam. Néhány órám maradt csupán, hogy ünnepi vacsorát főzzek 153 rokonnak (meg a barátoknak!) és megvegyem az ajándékokat. A bajuszom végére sem kívántam, hogy két szemtelen manó elrángasson az Északi-sarkra!
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Complete Short Stories: Volume Two - The 1960S Part One
Following on from the 1950s collection, this is the second collection of Brian Aldiss' short stories, taken from the 1960s. A must-have for collectors. Part one of four. This collection gathers together, for the very first time, Brian Aldiss' complete catalogue of short stories from the 1960s, in four parts. Taken from diverse and often rare sources, the works in this collection chart the blossoming career of one of Britain's most beloved authors. From stories of high-tech hive minds hunting wild robots, to the story of Mr Meacher, who is given an injection which helps him gain a dimension, this book proves once again that Aldiss' gifted prose and unparalleled imagination never fail to challenge and delight. The four books of the 1960s short story collection are must-have volumes for all Aldiss fans, and an excellent introduction to the work of a true master.
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13,25 €
13,95 €
Challenger Customer
The long-awaited sequel to the bestselling sales classic The Challenger Sale. 'A handbook of practices that will help you get into your customers' heads, deliver good value, and win the sale' Daniel H Pink, author of To Sell is Human and Drive Four years ago, the authors behind The Challenger Sale overturned decades of conventional wisdom with a bold new approach to sales. Now they reveal something even more surprising: the highest-performing sales teams don't focus on friendly, attentive customers. Instead, they target challenger customers. Challenger customers are sceptical, less interested in meeting, and ultimately indifferent as to who wins the deal. But they also have the credibility, persuasive skill and will to challenge the status quo that will get a deal to the finish line far more often than customers who are easier to connect with. Based on new CEB research from thousands of B2B marketers, sellers and buyers around the world, The Challenger Customer shows you how to find these 'mobilizers' and equip them with the tools to effectively challenge their own organizations on your behalf. This ground-breaking book is the blueprint you need to make the sale again and again.
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14,20 €
14,95 €
A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth
For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place - covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape by way of incessant volcanic eruptions, the atmosphere in a constant state of chemical flux. And yet, despite facing literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter, life has been extinguished and picked itself up to evolve again. Life has learned and adapted and continued through the billions of years that followed. It has weathered fire and ice. Slimes begat sponges, who through billions of years of complex evolution and adaptation grew a backbone, braved the unknown of pitiless shores, and sought an existence beyond the sea.
From that first foray to the spread of early hominids who later became Homo sapiens, life has persisted, undaunted. A (Very) Short History of Life is an enlightening story of survival, of persistence, illuminating the delicate balance within which life has always existed, and continues to exist today. It is our planet like you've never seen it before.
Life teems through Henry Gee's lyrical prose - colossal supercontinents drift, collide, and coalesce, fashioning the face of the planet as we know it today. Creatures are engagingly personified, from 'gregarious' bacteria populating the seas to duelling dinosaurs in the Triassic period to magnificent mammals with the future in their (newly evolved) grasp. Those long extinct, almost alien early life forms are resurrected in evocative detail. Life's evolutionary steps - from the development of a digestive system to the awe of creatures taking to the skies in flight - are conveyed with an alluring, up-close intimacy.
'A dazzling, beguiling story . . . told at an exhilarating pace' Literary Review
'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically changing canvas of life understandable and exciting. Who will enjoy reading this book? - Everybody!' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel
Disaster Diaries: ALIENS
Sam, Arty and Emmie have barely got over a recent zombie infestation when their sleepy little town finds itself the victim of an alien invasion! But the aliens are very small and kind of, well, cute looking - how dangerous can they be? SPOILER ALERT: they're VERY dangerous. And when they disintegrate the mayor with their ray guns it'll be up to Sam, Arty and Emmie to save the day. Again.
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8,08 €
8,50 €
Renoir T25
La belle vie: impressionism's most joyful paintings. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is universally acclaimed and celebrated: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flock to his retrospectives. His work shows art at its most light-hearted, sensual and luminous. Renoir never wanted anything ugly in his paintings, nor any dramatic action. "I like pictures which make me want to wander through them when it's a landscape," he said, "or pass my hand over breast or back if it's a woman." Renoir's entire oeuvre is dominated by the depiction of women - again and again he painted "these faunesses with their pouting lips" (Mallarme) and invented a new image of feminine beauty and sensuality. A prolific painter - he made several thousand works in his lifetime - he is perhaps the most beloved of the Impressionists. About the Series: Every book in TASCHEN's "Basic Art Series" features: a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist; approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions; and a concise biography.
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10,97 €
11,55 €
Just So Stories
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. How did the leopard get its spots? Why do the tides ebb and flow? How did the elephant get its trunk? And how was the alphabet made? Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of fables answers the great questions of animal- and humankind in a fun, eloquent and magical way - for children and adults alike. Kipling's beautifully imaginative answers echo the animal fables he heard during his childhood in India, paired with the folk tales he collected throughout his life. Kipling's enjoyment in playing with language, as well as his own delight in fatherhood, makes these stories a joy to read aloud, and children will request these tales as bedtime stories again and again. However, adults will also revel in Kipling's fanciful storytelling and gift for language, as every reading uncovers a new joke, subtext or fascinating embellishment. From the author of 'The Jungle Book' and 'Kim', 'Just So Stories' is the newest addition to the available canon of Kipling's work available in the handy format of Collins Classics!
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3,47 €
3,65 €
Chasing Fire
Nora Roberts - the world's greatest storyteller Rowan Tripp is addicted to danger. Ever since she turned eighteen, Rowan has been a 'smoke jumper', fighting back the ferocious forest fires that sweep through the Montana mountains each year. She can read a wildfire like no one else - and is prepared to put her life on the line again and again to save others. But now Rowan is mourning the death of her good friend and partner, Jim -haunted by the belief that she could have saved him. Determined to carry on, Rowan throws herself into training the new recruits to the smoke-jumping team - not realising there is a different kind of danger waiting for her. She has always had a strict rule: never get romantically involved with a workmate. But the moment she meets Gull Curry that rule is severely tested. And when it becomes clear that someone blames Rowan for Jim's death, and is determined to get revenge, Rowan realises this is one fight she can't win on her own ...
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10,74 €
11,31 €