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Rhapsodic
Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. For the last seven years she's been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she's received. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. Only then will the beads disappear.
Everyone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it happen. He's a man who can get you anything you want... at a price. And everyone knows that sooner or later he always collects.
But for one of his clients, he's never asked for repayment. Not until now. When Callie finds the Bargainer in her room, a grin on his lips and a twinkle in his eye, she knows things are about to change. At first, it's just a chaste kiss - a single bead's worth - and a promise for more.
For the Bargainer, it's more than just a matter of rekindling an old romance. Something is happening in the Otherworld. Fae warriors are going missing one by one. Only the women are returned, each in a glass casket, a child clutched to their breast. And then there are the whispers among the slaves, whispers of an evil that's been awoken.
If the Bargainer has any hope to save his people, he'll need the help of the siren he spurned long ago. Only, his foe has a taste for exotic creatures, and Callie just happens to be one.
The Ends of the World
Apocalypse, now?
Death by fire, ice, poison gas, suffocation, asteroid. At five moments through history life on Earth was dragged to the very edge of extinction.
Now, armed with revolutionary technology, scientists are uncovering clues about what caused these catastrophes. Deep-diving into past worlds of dragonflies the size of seagulls and fishes with guillotines for mouths, they explore how - against all the odds - life survived and what these ominous chapters can tell us about our future.
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Chase
James Patterson's BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. A man plunges to his death from the roof of a Manhattan hotel. It looks like a suicide - except the victim has someone else's fingerprints and $10,000 in cash. Enter Detective Michael Bennett.
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Fascism and Democracy
'The feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world ... this prospect frightens me much more than bombs'
On the 70th anniversary of George Orwell's death, a new collection of his brilliant essays written during the Second World War
Fascism and Democracy collects five brilliant examples of Orwell's writing during the darkest days of World War Two. Grappling with the principles of democracy and the potential of reform, the meaning of literature and free speech in times of violence, and the sustainability of objective truth, Orwell offers a compelling portrayal of a nation where norms and ideals can no longer be taken for granted. Like the best of Orwell's writing, these essays also serve as timeless reminders of the fragility of freedom.
All Sorts of Lives
Accessible, lively new biography of an under-served female writer, from a bestselling, acclaimed literary biographer
Published to celebrate Katherine Mansfield's centenary, this is a compact but comprehensive new portrait of her life, work, relevance and wonderfully inspiring personality
Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield's short but dazzling career was characterised by struggle, insecurity and sacrifice ? alongside a glorious, relentless creative drive and openness.
She was the only writer Virginia Woolf admitted being jealous of, yet by the 1950s was so undervalued that Elizabeth Bowen was moved to ask, 'Where is she ? our missing contemporary?' Now, looking back over the hundred years since her death, it is evident how vital Mansfield was to the Modernist movement and how strikingly relevant she is today, helping us to see differently, to savour and to notice things.
In this dynamic and perceptive study, Claire Harman takes a fresh look at Mansfield's life and achievements side by side, through the form she did so much to revolutionise: the short story. Exploring ten pivotal works, we watch how Mansfield's desire to grow as a writer pushed her art into unknown territory, and how illness sharpened her extraordinary vitality: 'Would you not like to try all sorts of lives ? one is so very small.'
Inventive, intimate and informative, All Sorts of Lives is the perfect introduction for those who aren't familiar with Mansfield's work and, for those who are, it offers a new way of viewing and celebrating her and her legacy.
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The Midnight Library
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK
Between life and death there is a library.
When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down, including herself. But things are about to change.
The books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren't always what she imagined they'd be, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger.
Before time runs out, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live?
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Hirst-isms
A revealing collection of quotations from world-renowned artist Damien Hirst
Hirst-isms is a collection of quotations?bold, surprising, often humorous, and always insightful?from celebrated artist Damien Hirst, whose controversial work explores the connections between art, religion, science, life, and death. Emerging in the 1990s as a leading member of the Young British Artists (YBAs), Hirst first became famous and gained a reputation as a provocateur with a series of artworks featuring dead and sometimes dissected animals (including a shark, sheep, and cow) preserved in glass tanks filled with formaldehyde.
Gathered from interviews and other primary sources and organized by subject, these quotations explore Hirst’s early years, family life, and the beginnings of his fascination with art; the major themes of his work; his influences and heroes; his motivation; his process and the boundary-pushing production of his work; and his thoughts on the art world, fame, and money. The result is a comprehensive and nuanced book that sheds new light on a fascinating and important contemporary artist.
Select quotations from the book:
“The less I feel like an artist, the better I feel.”
“I like it when people love my art. I like it when people hate my art. I just don’t want them to ignore my art.”
“Painting’s like the most fabulous illusion, because there’s nothing at stake. Except yourself.”
“I’m interested in the confusion between art and life, I like it when the world gets in the way.”
“Sometimes you have to step over the edge to know where it is.”
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The Invention of Sound
Chuck Palahniuk returns with the chilling tale, in classic Palahniuk tradition, of a father in search of his daughter, a young woman with a secret, and a malicious recording that can make "the whole world scream at the exact same time."
Private detective Foster Gates is a father is in search of his missing daughter, and sound engineer Mitzi harbors a secret that may help him solve the case. It's Mitzi's job to create the dubbed screams used in horror films and action movies. She's the best at what she does.
But what no one in Hollywood knows is the screams Mitzi produces are harvested from the real, horror-filled, blood-chilling screams of people in their death throes--a technique first employed by Mitzi's father and one she continues on in his memory--a deeply conflicted serial killer compelled beyond her understanding to honor her father's chilling legacy.
Soon Foster finds himself on Mitzi's trail. And in pursuit of her dark art, Mitzi realizes she's created the perfect scream, one that compels anyone who hears it to mirror the sound as long as they listen to it--a highly contagious seismic event with the potential to bring the country to its knees.
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The End of Everything
We know the universe had a beginning. But what happens at the end of the story?
With lively wit and wry humour, astrophysicist Katie Mack takes us on a mind-bending tour through each of the cosmos' possible finales: the Big Crunch, Heat Death, Vacuum Decay, the Big Rip and the Bounce. Guiding us through major concepts in quantum mechanics, cosmology, string theory and much more, she describes how small tweaks to our incomplete understanding of reality can result in starkly different futures. Our universe could collapse in upon itself, or rip itself apart, or even - in the next five minutes - succumb to an inescapable expanding bubble of doom.
This captivating story of cosmic escapism examines a mesmerizing yet unfamiliar physics landscape while sharing the excitement a leading astrophysicist feels when thinking about the universe and our place in it. Amid stellar explosions and bouncing universes, Mack shows that even though we puny humans have no chance of changing how it all ends, we can at least begin to understand it.
The End of Everything is a wildly fun, surprisingly upbeat ride to the farthest reaches of all that we know.
The Famoux
Fame can be deadly. Out of the wreckage of environmental collapse, the country of Delicatum emerged. Its most popular celebrities are the Famoux, uniquely beautiful stars of a reality TV show called the Fishbowl. In a world still recovering from catastrophe, they provide a 24/7 distraction. Sixteen-year-old Emilee Laurence is obsessed with the Famoux - they provide a refuge from her troubled home life and the bullies at school. When she receives an unimaginable offer to become a member herself, she takes it. Leaving behind everything she's ever known, Emilee enters a world of high glamour and even higher stakes. Because behind their perfect image lies an ugly truth - an anonymous stalker has been dictating the Famoux's every move, and being popular really is a matter of life or death. If the item details above aren't accurate or complete, we want to know about it. Report incorrect product info. A thrilling dystopian take on fame and celebrity culture, perfect for fans of Suzanne Collins' A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
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Matricás Laci és a csokitorta
A Most én olvasok!-sorozat egy szisztematikusan felépített, pedagógusi szakértelemmel megtámogatott kortárs, magyar "olvasni tanulok"-sorozat.
A Pagony legkiválóbb szerzői írják a sorozat köteteit, melyek négy nehézségi szinten egyre több és bonyolultabb szöveggel és egyre kevesebb képpel vezetik be az olvasás birodalmába a gyerekeket.
Az eddigieket most új, NAGYBETŰS szint egészíti ki, amelyet a teljesen kezdő olvasók is önállóan olvashatnak.
Matricás Lacinak édességre fáj a foga... Az egyik ház ablakából sütiillat száll. Vajon sikerül ellopni a finomságot, vagy inába száll a bátorsága?
NAGYBETŰS SZINT
csupa nyomtatott nagybetű
oldalanként 2-5 sor
rövid, könnyen kiolvasható mondatok
egyszerű, könnyen követhető történet
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Lacná kniha La Bible /fran.TOB/ ekun+deut (-90%)
Rigueur scientifique et ouverture d'esprit furent les mots d'ordre de cette traduction (dite "TOB"), coordonnée par des catholiques, des orthodoxes et des protestants, sortie en 1988. L'équipe a manifesté les mêmes qualités en révisant le texte pour tenir compte de remarques faites au fil des années par de nombreux lecteurs. Oeuvre collective, ce travail ne prétend pas à l'originalité d'une traduction personnelle, mais les vérifications impitoyables auxquelles il a été soumis en font la nouveauté. Outre le texte et les notes, le volume comporte une introduction générale de la Bible et de chaque livre séparément, huit pages de cartes en couleurs, deux plans de Jérusalem aux temps bibliques, un tableau chronologique (12 pages) et un glossaire (20 pages). De l'esprit oecuménique témoignent, outre la traduction, l'ordre des livres et la présence des textes dits "apocryphes" ou "deutérocanoniques". L'Ancien Testament est traduit selon le texte hébreu fixé ne varietur par la tradition juive (les variantes importantes étant mises en notes), "comme une pierre d'attente" d'une future coopération judéo-chrétienne. --Colette-Rebecca Estin
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A János vitéz-kód
A RENDŐRSÉG KÖZLEMÉNYE
"Eltűnt Turchányi Albert, 11 éves általános iskolai tanuló. A körülbelül 145 centiméter magas, zömök testalkatú, barna szemű, szemüveges, rövid, barna hajú fiú 2019. november 25-én, hétfőn az iskolai könyvtárból ismeretlen helyre távozott. Eltűnésekor zöld színű farmernadrágot és szürke "A CSAPATMUNKA AZ, AMIKOR SOKAN CSINÁLJÁK, AMIT ÉN MONDOK" feliratú pólót viselt."
Ugyanekkor Petőfi Sándor János vitéz című művében ismeretlen, új szereplő jelenik meg: egy zömök testalkatú, barna szemű, szemüveges, rövid hajú fiú...x És ezáltal a mű igen különös fordulatokkal gazdagszik. Ám az új János vitéz nem mindenki tetszését nyeri el. Az indulatok elszabadulnak. Úgy tűnik, Magyarországot soha nem látott katasztrófa fenyegeti.
A Pagony legújabb sorozatába, az Abszolút Könyvekbe olyan 9-12 éveseknek szóló, olvasmányos és izgalmas könyveket válogatunk, amelyek abszolút lendületesek, abszolút színvonalasak, abszolút maiak. Abszolút jó őket olvasni!
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Lacná kniha Young Eli Readers: Pb3 Y LA Chaqueta + CD
Una nave espacial aparece en el cielo y todo el mundo tiene miedo. żQuiénes son? żQué quieren? Temas: - Amistad - Aventura - Ingenio - Juegos y actividades lingüísticas - Una grabación de la historia y de la canción - Un diccionario ilustrado ˇVive una increíble aventura con un simpático extraterrestre y su robot! Una nave espacial aparece en el cielo y todo el mundo tiene miedo. żQuiénes son? żQué quieren? Sofía y Javi conocen en la playa a PB3 el extraterrestre y al robot Robina. Todos juntos descubren el terrible plan de los malvados OOs, del Planeta X011. żQué va a suceder? Sílabo Gramática Presente de indicativo (verbos regulares e irregulares) Verbos ser y estar Verbos haber y tener Ir a + infi nitivo Verbo gustar Artículos determinados e indeterminados Vocabulario En la playa Animales Ropa Colores
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Lacná kniha Le Roi s´Amuse (-70%)
Une ambiance de fte rgne la cour de François Ier. Le roi s'encanaille : il boit et rit des railleries de son bouffon Triboulet, qui l'incite la débauche. Tous ignorent que l'amuseur bossu a une fille, Blanche, un joyau qu'il chérit et tient précieusement éloigné des frasques des courtisans. Mais la vigilance d'un pre ne saurait empcher une malédiction de se réaliser et le roi de convoiter la belle Blanche... Jalousies, complots et vengeances composent un drame écrit en 1832, au cur de la bataille romantique, qui inspira l'un des opéras les plus joués au monde : Rigoletto de Verdi. Le dossier de l'édition étudie la mise en scne de Jean-Luc Boutté la Comédie-Française en 1991 (photos tirées de la représentation, commentaires des acteurs et du metteur en scne).
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Late Works of J. M. W. Turner: The Artist and his Critics
An exploration of Turner's final, vital years, including new readings of some of his most significant paintings
The paintings and drawings Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) produced from 1835 to his death in 1851 are seen by many as his most audacious and compelling work, a typical example of "late style." In this study, Sam Smiles goes beyond late style, with its focus on formal qualities and assumptions about personal expression, as an explanatory framework for Turner's late works. Instead, he argues that Turner, in his final fifteen years, was an artist entirely engaged with his own times.
Smiles examines the artist's critical reception in these years and scrutinizes accounts that presumed Turner's physical and mental health collapsed in his seventies, to see what can be reliably said about his work as he aged. Emerging from this study is an artist who used his final years to consolidate the principles that had motivated him throughout his career.
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Overlord, Vol. 5 (manga)
It's come down to this--a
fight to the death, mano a mano, Ainz versus Shalltear! With the odds stacked
against him, Ainz faces off against the deadly vampire lord. But Shalltear is
not the only threat facing our hero--ahem, our overlord! In a far-distant
reptilian kingdom, nefarious forces are on the move. Will Ainz need to meddle in
the affairs of mortals yet again...?
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Being with Dying
The Buddhist approach to death can be of great benefit to people of all backgrounds--as has been demonstrated time and again in Joan Halifax's decades of work with the dying and their caregivers. Inspired by traditional Buddhist teachings, her work is a source of wisdom for all those who are charged with a dying person's care, facing their own death, or wishing to explore and contemplate the transformative power of the dying process. Her teachings affirm that we can open and contact our inner strength, and that we can help others who are suffering to do the same.
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Come On In!
Bukowski's unmistakable charisma - an ex-down-and-outer who wrote of booze and loneliness in maverick, confident free verse - made him one of the world's most popular poets long before he died in 1994. More than a decade later, death has not slowed his production.This collection is selected from an archive of verse that the author left to be published after his death. It includes poems of love and sex, advice to so-called losers (as he once was) to have confidence in themselves (as he did), gambling laments and humbling poems accepting his own imminent ultimate full stop.
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