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The Book of Form and Emptiness
One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house - a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, a gentle hum or coo, but others are snide, angry and full of pain. When his mother develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous.
At first Benny tries to ignore them, but soon the voices follow him outside the house, onto the street and at school, driving him at last to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library, where objects are well-behaved and know to speak in whispers. There, he falls in love with a mesmerising street artist with a smug pet ferret, who uses the library as her performance space. He meets a homeless philosopher-poet, who encourages him to ask important questions and find his own voice amongst the many.
And he meets his very own Book - a talking thing - who narrates Benny's life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter.
The Book of Form and Emptiness blends unforgettable characters, riveting plot and vibrant engagement with everything from jazz to climate change to our attachment to material possessions. This is classic Ruth Ozeki - bold, humane and heartbreaking.
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The History of Mr Polly
Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife’s nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional gentleman’s outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to escape his frustrating existence is by burning his shop to the ground, and killing himself. Unexpected events, however, conspire at the last moment to lead the bewildered Mr Polly to a bright new future – after he saves a life, fakes his death, and escapes to a life of heroism, hope and ultimate happiness.
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Wieland: or, The Transformation
Wieland: or, The Transformation: An American Tale is a Gothic novel by Charles Brockden Brown, first published in 1798. It recounts the terrifying story of how Theodore Wieland is driven to madness and murder by a malign ventriloquist called Carwin.
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The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature.
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The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu
Follow the exciting adventures of Commissioner Nayland Smith as he pursues Dr. Fu Manchu across the opium dens of Thames-side London and various country estates.
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Long Live the King!
This is a story of love, intrigue and adventure in a European court. In this story Mrs. Rinehart combines mystery, heart interest, and excitement of her past successes into a story that will be hailed as the most interesting of all her stories.
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Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality
Significant strides have been made in recent years in the movement for LGBTQ+ rights, visibility and empowerment, but the conversation is far from over. After years of feeling the crushing dearth of information on bisexuality, psychological scientist and bestselling author Dr Julia Shaw dug deep and found a colourful and fascinating world that she is bringing out of the shadows. It is a personal journey that starts with her own openly bisexual identity, and celebrates the resilience and beautiful diversity of the bi community.
In Bi: The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality, Shaw explores all that we know about the world's largest sexual minority. From the hunt for a bi gene, to the relationship between bisexuality and consensual non-monogamy, to asylum seekers who need to prove their bisexuality in a court of law, there is more to explore than most have ever realised. This rigorous and fun book will challenge us to think deeper about who we are and how we love.
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The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar: Volume 8
Mitsuki goes to Yggdrasil alone?!In order to protect his new family, the Wolf Clan, Yuuto has decided to return to Yggdrasil with Mitsuki, now his sworn partner for life. The two of them manage to deliver the news to their respective families, and at last the night of the summoning ritual arrives.However, something strange and unexpected occurs! Due to interference by Sigyn, the Panther Clan's master of magical arts, Mitsuki is sent to Yggdrasil by herself.The two lovers are once again separated across time and space; what fate awaits them?
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The Daily Laws
THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE 48 LAWS OF POWER BRINGS YOU 365 MORE Over the last 25 years, Robert Greene has provided insights into every aspect of being human: whether that be getting what you want, understanding others' motivations, mastering your impulses, or recognising strengths and weaknesses. The Daily Laws distills that wisdom into easy-to-digest daily entries whose content spans power, seduction, war, strategy, politics, productivity, psychology, leadership, and adversity. Not only is this beautifully designed volume the perfect entry point for those new to Greene's penetrating insight, but it will also be a Rosetta stone for existing fans to understand and internalise the many lessons that fill his previous books. Read, re-read, and learn.
The Thorny Road of Honor (EN)
The men of our world who experience glory do not generally attain it easily. There have been several martyrs who, before knowing honour, have had to follow a very thorny path.
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Explore the Hero's Journey in stories as old as humanity and as new as last night's dreamThe latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change. — Joseph CampbellSince its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faceshas influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell’s revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Hero’s Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world’s mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.As part of the Joseph Campbell Foundation’s Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, this third edition features expanded illustrations, a comprehensive bibliography, and more accessible sidebars.As relevant today as when it was first published, The Hero with a Thousand Facescontinues to find new audiences in fields ranging from religion and anthropology to literature and film studies. The book has also profoundly influenced creative artists—including authors, songwriters, game designers, and filmmakers—and continues to inspire all those interested in the inherent human need to tell stories.Reviews:“I have returned to no other book more often since leaving college than this one, and every time I discover new insight into the human journey. Every generation will find in Hero wisdom for the ages.” — Bill Moyers“In the three decades since I discovered The Hero with a Thousand Faces, it has continued to fascinate and inspire me. Joseph Campbell peers through centuries and shows us that we are all connected by a basic need to hear stories and understand ourselves. As a book, it is wonderful to read; as illumination into the human condition, it is a revelation.” — George Lucas“Campbell’s words carry extraordinary weight, not only among scholars but among a wide range of other people who find his search down mythological pathways relevant to their lives today....The book for which he is most famous, The Hero with a Thousand Faces [is] a brilliant examination, through ancient hero myths, of man’s eternal struggle for identity.” — Time
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by American humorist Mark Twain. It is commonly used and accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It is also one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular, told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and hero of three other Mark Twain books.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. By satirizing Southern antebellum society that was already a quarter-century in the past by the time of publication, the book is an often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River on their raft may be one of the most enduring images of escape and freedom in all of American literature.
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Chemical Brothers, The - Surrender (20th Anniversary Edition Ltd.) 3CD+DVD
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Disc: 1
1 Music: Response
2 Under The Influence
3 Out Of Control
4 Orange Wedge
5 Let Forever Be
6 The Sunshine Underground
7 Asleep From Day
8 Got Glint?
9 Hey Boy Hey Girl
10 Surrender
11 Dream On
Disc: 2
1 Hey Boy Hey Girl
2 Let Forever Be
3 Out Of Control (21 Minutes Of Madness Mix)
4 Flashback
5 Dream On
Disc: 3
1 Flash back
2 Scale
3 The Diamond Sky
4 Studio K
5 Power Move
6 Enjoyed
7 Electronic Battle Weapon 4
8 Out Of Control (Sasha Club Mix)
9 Music: Response (Gentleman Thief Mix)
10 Music: Response (Futureshock Main Response)
11 Hey Boy Hey Girl (Soulwax Remix)
Disc: 4
1 Hey Boy Hey Girl (Promo Video)
2 Let Forever Be (Promo Video)
3 Out Of Control (Promo Video)
4 Hey Boy Hey Girl (Glastonbury Festival 2000)
5 Music Response (Glastonbury Festival 2000)
6 Block Rockin' Beats (Glastonbury Festival 2000)
7 Song To The Siren (Glastonbury Festival 2000)
8 Under The Influence (Glastonbury Festival 2000)
9 Leave Home (Glastonbury Festival 2000)
10 The Private Psychedelic Reel (Glastonbury Festival 2000)
The Healing Hand (Barbara Cartland's Pink Collection 80) (EN)
Tania, the lovely daughter of the late Lord Amesly, leaves her school in Paris and is travelling by train to Boulogne when her train crashes into another one. She is helped and befriended by a charming young Englishman – Captain Rupert More – and with him she reaches the ferry and unexpectedly meets two friends of her parents, Charles and Selina Bracebridge.
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The Queer Art of Failure
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives-to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Jack Halberstam proposes "low theory" as a mode of thinking and writing that operates at many different levels at once. Low theory is derived from eccentric archives. It runs the risk of not being taken seriously.
It entails a willingness to fail and to lose one's way, to pursue difficult questions about complicity, and to find counterintuitive forms of resistance. Tacking back and forth between high theory and low theory, high culture and low culture, Halberstam looks for the unexpected and subversive in popular culture, avant-garde performance, and queer art. Halberstam pays particular attention to animated children's films, revealing narratives filled with unexpected encounters between the childish, the transformative, and the queer. Failure sometimes offers more creative, cooperative, and surprising ways of being in the world, even as it forces us to face the dark side of life, love, and libido.
The Heads of Cerberus
One of the first dystopian science fantasies, this novel features a grey dust from an ancient glass vial which is capped with a silver figure of Cerberus, the 3-headed mythological dog that guarded the gate to "Pluto's realm", that is, to Hades. The fine dust transports anyone who inhales it to a totalitarian Philadelphia of 2118 AD. It was written by Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1883–1948) under the pseudonym Francis Stevens. Bennett, the first major female writer of fantasy and science fiction, has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy."
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Chemical Brothers, The - Surrender (20th Anniversary Edition Ltd.) 4LP+DVD
Skladba
Disc: 1
1 Music: Response
2 Under The Influence
3 Out Of Control
4 Orange Wedge
5 Let Forever Be
Disc: 2
1 The Sunshine Underground
2 Asleep From Day
3 Got Glint?
4 Hey Boy Hey Girl
5 Surrender
6 Dream On
Disc: 3
1 Hey Boy Hey Girl
2 Let Forever Be
3 Flashback
4 Dream on
5 Out Of Control (21 Minutes Of Madness Mix)
Disc: 4
1 Flash back
2 Studio K
3 Enjoyed
4 Out Of Control (Sasha Club Mix)
5 Hey Boy Hey Girl (Soulwax Remix)
Disc: 5
1 Hey Boy Hey Girl (Promo Video)
2 Let Forever Be (Promo Video)
3 Out Of Control (Promo Video)
4 Hey Boy Hey Girl (Glastonbury Festival 2000)
5 Music Response (Glastonbury Festival 2000)
6 Block Rockin' Beats (Glastonbury Festival 2000)
7 Song To The Siren (Glastonbury Festival 2000)
8 Under The Influence (Glastonbury Festival 2000)
9 Leave Home (Glastonbury Festival 2000)
10 The Private Psychedelic Reel (Glastonbury Festival 2000)
Five Nights at Freddys: Fazbear Frights 9: The Puppet Carver
Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss
this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales
that will keep even the bravest FNAF player up at night...
Consumed by failure... Desperate to keep his kiddie pizzeria from
bankruptcy, Jack lets his animatronics tech pitch him a new invention
that might just give him some perspective. Frustrated by
an unfair arcade game, Colton throws himself into re-engineering
the device at any cost. Marley's best friend goes missing on a tour
of the Freddy's Pizza Factory; she knows what really happened
... but her guilt isn't the only thing threatening to eat her
alive.
Klara and the Sun
'The Sun always has ways to reach us.'
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.
In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly-changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
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