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Silent House
In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, first arrived to serve the poor fishermen. Now mostly bedridden, she is attended by her faithful servant Recep, a dwarf and the doctor's illegitimate son. They share memories, and grievances, of the early years, before Cennethisar became a high-class resort. Her visiting grandchildren are Faruk, a dissipated failed historian; his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgun; and Metin, a high school student drawn to the fast life of the nouveaux riches, who dreams of going to America. But it is Recep's nephew Hassan, a high-school dropout, lately fallen in with right-wing nationalists, who will draw the visiting family into the growing political cataclysm issuing from Turkey's tumultuous century-long struggle for modernity.
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Facts are Scared
What is the true human cost of the war in Afghanistan? What are the real effects of the austerity measure? And how did the London riots spread so quickly? "Facts are Sacred", the "Guardian's" award-winning datablog, publishes and analyses seemingly benign data - released under the auspices of transparency - to bring its readers astonishing revelations about the way we live now. It reveals how data has changed our world and what we can learn from it. Now, the most telling findings from the blog are brought together to give us the facts and figures behind the headlines, beautifully illustrated with extensive data visualisations. Ground-breaking and fascinating, it celebrates a resource that has pushed the boundaries of modern journalism and is a manifesto for a new way of seeing things.
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Seventy Times Seven
A hit man trying to find answers to his brother's murder. An informer trying to flee his past. A family under threat. Rural Northern Ireland and small-town Alabama: Two places connected by a deadly act - an act that draws two men,and those closest to them, into a spiral of lies, violence and murder as they try to lay their ghosts to rest. But can you ever be forgiven for the sins of your past?
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Running with the Kennyans
After years of watching Kenyan athletes win the world's biggest races, from the Olympics to big city marathons, "Runner's World" contributor Adharanand Finn set out to discover just what it was that made them so fast - and to see if he could keep up. Packing up his family (and his running shoes), he moved from Devon to the small town of Iten, in Kenya, home to hundreds of the country's best athletes. Once there he laced up his shoes and ventured out onto the dirt tracks, running side by side with Olympic champions, young hopefuls and barefoot schoolchildren. He ate their food, slept in their training camps, interviewed their coaches, and his children went to their schools. And at the end of it all, there was his dream, to join the best of the Kenyan athletes in his first marathon, an epic race through lion country across the Kenyan plains. With global attention on both the London Marathon in April 2012 and the London Olympics in the summer, there has never been a more exciting time to experience what it is really like to train and race with the stars of distance running.
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11,39 €
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Gazdagodj lelki békével
Vigyázz, nehogy a pénzgyűjtés során túl sok mindent feladj magadból, mert az igazán gazdag ember az,
aki ugyanúgy ura a saját elméjének, mint a saját vagyonának.
Ha olvastad a korábbi munkáimat, meglátod, hogy ennek a könyvnek új, eddigiektől különböző célja van.
Minden könyvem többféle módon is megmutatja, hogy az élet többről szól, mint a pénz megkereséséről. Itt most teljesebben tudom bizonyítani neked ezt a tényt, mint ahogyan évekkel ezelőtt és azt is megmutatom, hogy a lelki béke önmagában olyan hatalmas erő, amely elősegíti a pénzkeresetet. Az én személyes tapasztalataimban megláthatod a sajátjaidat.
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11,70 €
12,32 €
Júlia 795 – 796.
Jules Bennett: A kulisszák mögöttProducerek, operatőrök és színészek hada lepi el nemsokára a máskor oly csendes Barrington-birtokot, hogy sorozatot forgassanak a családfő, a legendás lovas életútjáról. Csakhogy ami a kulisszák mögött történik, az talán még izgalmasabb, mint maga a film! Grant Carter érzi, hogy ez lesz pályafutása nagy lehetősége, így megfogadja, hogy semmi sem terelheti el a figyelmét a munkáról. Ám amikor belebotlik a szexi és határozott zsokéba, Tessába, a gondolatai egyre csak körülötte keringenek. Lehet, hogy életre szóló szerelmek nem csak a filmvásznon léteznek?
Susanne James: Felsőbb osztályba léphetA tanári állásra pályázó Ria igencsak elcsodálkozik, amikor a tekintélyes magániskola igazgatói irodájában nem egy unalmas öregúr, hanem egy jóképű pasi fogadja. Jasper csupán néhány hónapig helyettesíti a bátyját, mégis körültekintően akarja kiválasztani a tantestület új tagját. Ria azonban egy pillanat alatt elnyeri a tetszését. Azonnal fel is veszi a csinos lányt, és a kapcsolatuk egyre jobban elmélyül. Ám ahhoz, hogy ebből igazi szerelem legyen, meg kell tanulniuk bízni egymásban…
Na stiahnutie
8,45 €
Szívhang 722 – 723.
Alison Roberts: Vicces lányTe jó ég! – gondolja Noah Baxter kétségbeesetten. Épp most okozott balesetet! És nem elég, hogy belehajtott hátulról egy mozgássérült fiatal nő autójába, óriási forgalmi dugót okozva ezzel, még harsányan nevetett is a viccén. Abby ugyanis már rég megtanulta, hogy humorral üsse el a megismerkedések kellemetlen első perceit, és ez a kék szemű, fekete hajú, jóképű pasi ráadásul még hihetetlenül vonzotta is. Micsoda véletlen, hogy ő is orvos! Habár még soha nem találkoztak a kórház folyosóin vagy a büfében, Abby nagyon reméli, hogy hamarosan összefutnak…
Fiona Lowe: Híd a szívedhezLeo Costa, a sikeres sebész minden nőt levesz a lábáról, azt azonban senki sem tudja, milyen súlyos tragédia terhét cipeli. Amikor szeretett nagyanyja betegsége miatt vissza kell térnie a szülővárosába, megismerkedik Abbie McFarlane-nel, a helyi családorvossal, és úgy érzi, vele el tudná viselni a kényszerű, hosszú vakációt. Csakhogy a lányt óvatossá teszi a rejtély, amely Leót körülveszi. Vajon miféle démonok kísértik a férfit a folyó közelében?
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8,45 €
When We Were Orphans
*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available*
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between London and Shanghai of the interwar years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.
'You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.' John Carey, Sunday Times
'Ishiguro is the best and most original novelist of his generation and When We Were Orphans could be by no other writer. It haunts the mind. It moves to tears.' Susan Hill, Mail on Sunday
'Discloses a writer not only near the height of his powers but in a league all of his own.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent
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Artist of the Floating World
It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.
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Unconsoled
Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life. Ishiguro's extraordinary study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control was met on publication by consternation, vilification - and the highest praise.
Tarzan: Savage Lands
"A Treacherous Lord" - Lord Greystoke has arrived at the logger's camp in the Congo, and will stop at nothing to find and eliminate his long-lost cousin, Tarzan. "A Crazed Queen" - Robbie and Jane set out through the jungle to warn Tarzan, and find themselves trapped in the sprawling ancient city of Opar, where the insane Queen La is running an illegal Coltan mine. "An Epic Battle" - With a volcano threatening to explode, Tarzan, Robbie and Jane must form an unlikely alliance to save themselves. Not everyone will make it out alive...
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A History of the Arab Peoples
In a bestselling work of profound and lasting importance, the late Albert Hourani told the definitive history of the Arab people from the seventh century, when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian Peninsula westwards, to the present day. It is a masterly distillation of a lifetime of scholarship and a unique insight into a perpetually troubled region. This updated edition by Malise Ruthven adds a substantial new chapter which includes recent events such as 9/11, the US invasion of Iraq and its bloody aftermath, the fall of the Mubarak and Ben Ali regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, and the incipient civil war in Syria, bringing Hourani's magisterial History up to date. Ruthven suggests that while Hourani can hardly have been expected to predict in detail the massive upheavals that have shaken the Arab world recently he would not have been entirely surprised, given the persistence of the kin-patronage networks he describes in his book and the challenges now posed to them by a new media-aware generation of dissatisfied youth. In a new biographical preface, Malise Ruthven shows how Hourani's perspectives on Arab history were shaped by his unique background as an English-born Arab Christian with roots in the Levant.
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Letters of T.S. Elliot
Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents a period of anxious and fast-moving professional recovery and personal and spiritual consolidation. Following the withdrawal of financial support by his patron Lady Rothermere, Faber & Gwyer (subsequently Faber & Faber) takes over the responsibility for Eliot's literary periodical "The Criterion". He supplements his income as a fledgling publisher, 'just as I did ten years ago, by reviewing, articles, prefaces, lectures, broadcasting talks, and anything that turns up.' His work as editor is internationalist above all else, and Eliot makes contact with a number of eminent and emergent writers and thinkers, as well as forging links with European reviews. Eliot's responsibilities during this period extend to caring for Vivien, who returns home after months in a French psychiatric hospital and whom he looks after with anxious fortitude; and the personal correspondence with his mother closes with her death in September 1929.
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Capital
Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have. At forty, Roger Yount is blessed with an expensively groomed wife, two small sons and a powerful job in the City. An annual bonus of a million might seem excessive, but with second homes and nannies to maintain, he's not sure he can get by without it. Elsewhere in the "Capital", Zbigniew has come from Warsaw to indulge the super-rich in their interior decoration whims. Freddy Kano, teenage football sensation, has left a two-room shack in Senegal to follow his dream. Traffic warden Quentina has exchanged the violence of the police in Zimbabwe for the violence of the enraged middle classes. For them all, this city offers the chance of a different kind of life. "Capital" is a post-crash state-of-the nation novel told with compassion and humour, featuring a cast of characters that you will be sad to leave behind.
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The Art of Living
With all the wit, knowledge and wisdom of one of the UK's foremost cultural commentators, Stephen Bayley takes the reader on a satirical roller-coaster ride through the world of art and design in the late 20th century.
Someone once said you can find beauty anywhere. But all Eustace Dunne can see is ugliness.
The buildings are grey, the people are tired and unimaginative, the food is inedible and life is drab, drab, drab.
Growing up in an England ravaged by the Second World War, Eustace resolves to make things beautiful again. A mercurial stint in art school gives him a springboard into a world that is changing so fast you have to hold on tight to keep up. And in that world, ambition, timing and a modicum of talent can transform you into anything you want to be.
Before long he's an artist, a designer, a restaurateur, an entrepreneur, a genius. But becoming a bastion of perfect taste can be a grubby business. Eustace's charm may have secured his influence on the homes and hearts of a nation, but there are still people out there who know where the bodies are buried...
Lacná kniha El Reino de Este Mundo (-50%)
Novela calificada por Mario Vargas Llosa como "una de las mas acabadas que haya producido la lengua espanola", EL REINO de ESTE MUNDO recrea de forma incomparable los acontecimientos que, a caballo entre los siglos xviii y xix, precedieron y siguieron a la independencia haitiana. Estimulado por la prodigiosa historia original y valiendose de un magistral dominio de los recursos narrativos, Alejo Carpentier alumbro en su palacio de Sans-Souci y la ciudadela de La Ferrire arquitecturas dignas de Piranesi.
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10,12 €
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Bliss
This novel, by the author of "Oscar and Lucinda", tells the story of a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell. For the first time in his life, Harry Joy sees the world as it really is, and takes up a notebook to explore and note down the true nature of the Underworld.
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Oracle Night
Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality. Paul Auster's mesmerizing eleventh novel reads like an old-fashioned ghost story. But there are no ghosts in this book - only flesh-and-blood human beings, wandering through the haunted realms of everyday life. "Oracle Night" is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster's reputation as one of the boldest, most original writers at work in America today.
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8,54 €
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A könyvlovas
Troublesome Creek lakói számára nem könnyű az élet.
Mindenért meg kell küzdeniük - a könyveket leszámítva.
Amikor ugyanis Roosevelt életre hívja a lovas könyvtárprogramot Kentuckyban, Troublesome Creek is kap egy saját mozgókönyvtárost a 19 éves Cussy Mary Carter személyében.
Cussy nem csupán egy egyszerű könyvmoly, hanem a fajtája utolsó női tagja is, aki szokatlan kék bőrszíne miatt tűnik ki a tömegből. Az emberek többsége azonban ódzkodik a könyvtárprojekttől és Cussy családjától is, mivel bajkeverőnek tekintik a kékeket. Ahhoz, hogy Cussy megszerettesse az olvasást a hegyek között élőkkel, meg kell küzdenie az előítéletekkel, amelyek egyidősek az Appalache-hegységgel, és a gyanakvással, amely olyan mély, mint az itteni völgyek.
A valóságban is létező kentuckyi kék bőrű emberek és az 1930-as években működő kentuckyi lovas könyvtárszolgáltatáselszánt és elkötelezett tagjai által ihletett kötet.
A valódi bátorságról szól, az elképesztő kitartásról és egy nőről mesél, aki hitt abban, hogy a könyvek utat mutatnak nekünk- és akár haza is találhatunk általuk.
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