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Dreamland
In the coastal resort of Margate, hotels lie empty and sun-faded 'For Sale' signs line the streets. The sea is higher - it's higher everywhere - and those who can are moving inland. A young girl called Chance, however, is just arriving.
Chance's family is one of many offered a cash grant to move out of London - and so she, her mother Jas and brother JD relocate to the seaside, just as the country edges towards vertiginous change.
In their new home, they find space and wide skies, a world away from the cramped bedsits they've lived in up until now. But challenges swiftly mount. JD's business partner, Kole, has a violent, charismatic energy that whirlpools around him and threatens to draw in the whole family. And when Chance comes across Franky, a girl her age she has never seen before - well-spoken and wearing sunscreen - something catches in the air between them. Their fates are bound: a connection that is immediate, unshakeable, and, in a time when social divides have never cut sharper, dangerous.
Set in a future unsettlingly close to home, against a backdrop of soaring inequality and creeping political extremism, Rankin-Gee demonstrates, with cinematic pace and deep humanity, the enduring power of love and hope in a world spinning out of control.
A méregkeverő patikárius
A 18. századi London szűk sikátorainak mélyén egy titkos kis patika körül különös vevőkör alakul. Városszerte azt rebesgetik, hogy a titokzatos Nella gyógykészítménynek álcázott mérgeket árul olyan kétségbeesett nőknek, akik mindenáron meg akarnak szabadulni az életüket megkeserítő férfiaktól. A patikáriust azonban veszélybe sodorja legújabb vevője, egy tizenkét éves, koravén kislány, akinek végzetes hibája olyan események láncolatát indítja el, amelyek a következő évszázadokra is kihatnak.
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5,39 €
Talpas történetek
Az erdélyi Hargita-hegység vidékére kalauzul el bennünket ez a vidám történet. Az író összebarátkozik Ambrussal, a medvével, és kölcsönösen megajándékozzák egymást: az író ajándéka egy zsebtükör, a macié pedig egy üveg málnaszörp.
A szörppel ezután nem sok kaland történik, a tükörrel viszont annál több: mancsról-mancsra jár az álmélkodó erdei állatok között, s végül az is kiderül róla, nem is olyan hétköznapi, mint amilyennek látszik. Vajon mi a tükör különlegessége? Hogyan alakul medve és ember között a barátság? Miért fütyül közbe a fenyőrigó? És ki lesz a híres hargitai borbély? A remek stílusban megírt, fordulatos könyvből nem hiányozhatnak a játékos betétversek sem.
A felújított kiadáshoz Tuza Edit készített színes illusztrációkat.
A Million to One
Adiba Jaigirdar, author of one of TIME's Best YA books of all time and winner of the YA Book Prize 2022, gives Titanic an Ocean's 8 makeover in this nail-biting heist set onboard the infamous ship.
Four friends have stolen aboard the Titanic. They're after the Rubaiyat - a book inlaid with priceless jewels. Josefa is a charismatic thief, Hinnah a daring acrobat, Violet an outstanding actress and Emilie a talented artist.
It is Josefa's plan, but she needs all of their skills. Despite their very different backgrounds, in a world of first-class passengers and suspicious crew members, the girls must work together to pull off the heist of their lives.
But careless mistakes, old grudges and new romances threaten to jeopardise everything they've worked towards. And with the Titanic sailing ever further north, the girls' chances of survival are a million to one...
A heart-pounding, romantic adventure from the award-winning author of Hani and Ishu's Fake Guide to Dating.
Converted
When the world's biggest brands want to sharpen their digital marketing strategy, they call Neil Hoyne - Google's Chief Measurement Strategist and Senior Fellow at the Wharton School. In his first book, he offers a simple, research-backed playbook that anyone can use to find their best customers and develop relationships that last.
Under pressure for quick results and facing fierce marketplace competition, too many marketers are boxed into spaghetti-to-the-wall forms of digital marketing that limit the potential of their long hours, countless experiments, and warehouses of data. And in the end, they watch their competition sprint ahead.
But what if you built a business around long-term relationships with customers, using data to understand who they are, what they need, and where to find more customers just like them? You can. And you'll leave your competitors, with all of their data and their short-term thinking, to poke around in the scraps. In Converted, you will learn how to:
- Understand the full value of each relationship
- Engage in an ongoing conversation with your best customers
- Ask the right questions so you can anticipate your customers' needs
- Find more great customers
A real person is always on the other end of the transaction. Converted shows you how to win their hearts.
Under Pressure
A romance that will make you laugh, cry, fall in love and believe that true love overcomes everything. Specially evil.
The passage from the girlhood to the adulthood is a milestone for every young person... and it wouldn't be different to Amanda Summers, a shy, inexperienced, full of fears and insecurities that came from the age itself, as well as from her past. Like most of the girls in this phase, her feelings are intense and her head is crowded of doubts, fears and dreams.
In Under Pressure, we will follow Mandy's growth journey: her entry into the adult life, the discovery of first the first love, the friendships and the transition from girl to woman.
It was supposed to be the most incredible moment of her life... She just couldn't imagine that it would be followed by the terror of the physical and psycological bullying.
From the ”After Dark” series and ”The girls” author, a romance that will make you laugh, cry, fall in love and believe that true love overcomes everything. Specially evil.
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3,06 €
My Cat Yugoslavia
In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young girl namedEmine is married off to a man she hardly knows. But soon her country is torn apartby war, and she is forced to flee with her family.
Decadeslater Emine's son, Bekim, has grown up a social outcast in a country suspiciousof foreigners. Aside from casual hook-ups, his only companion is a pet boaconstrictor - until one night in a gay bar, Bekim meets a talking cat. It isthis witty, charming, manipulative creature that starts him on a journey backto Kosovo to confront his demons and make sense of the remarkable, cruelhistory of his family. And soon he learns that love can be found in the mostunexpected places.
Eye of Heaven: Fargo Adventures 6
Baffin Island: Husband-and-wife team Sami and Remi Fargo are on a climate-control expedition in the Arctic, when to their astonishment they discover a Viking ship in the ice, perfectly preserved—and filled with pre–Columbian artifacts from Mexico.
How can that be? As they plunge into their research, tantalizing clues about a link between the Vikings and the legendary Toltec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl—and a fabled object known as the Eye of Heaven—begin to emerge. But so do many dangerous people. Soon the Fargos find themselves on the run through jungles, temples, and secret tombs, caught between treasure hunters, crime cartels, and those with a far more personal motivation for stopping them. At the end of the road will be the solution to a thousand-year-old mystery—or death.
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Twenties Girl
Lara has always had an overactive imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just don't get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit of Lara's great aunt Sadie - in the form of a bold, demanding Charleston-dancing girl - has appeared to make one last request: Lara must track down a missing necklace Sadie simply can't rest without. Lara's got enough problems of her own. Her start-up company is floundering, her best friend and business partner has run off to Goa, and she's just been dumped by the love of her life. But as Lara spends time with Sadie, life becomes more glamorous and their treasure hunt turns into something intriguing and romantic. Could Sadie's ghost be the answer to Lara's problems and can two girls from different times end up learning something special from each other
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Ghosts and Gadgets
Join the wonderfully weird Otherhand family and their faithful guardian, Edgar the raven, and discover the dark secrets of Castle Otherhand. The rumblings and wailings from the Lost South Wing can no longer be ignored, as one by one, members of the castle are being found frozen, 'scared to death'. With mother, Minty, obsessing over her latest fad - sewing - and father, Valevine, busy experimenting with a machine to discover the Lost Otherhand treasure, it's up to aspiring ghost-hunters Solstice and Cudweed to solve the mystery. But as usual, things don't go quite as planned... It's just as well Edgar is there to save the day! Second in a brand new six book series of tales of mystery (with a touch of goth-froth) for 9 year olds from bestselling author, Marcus Sedgwick. With quirky black and white line illustrations from new talent, Pete Williamson. Dedicated website on Raven Mysteries: www.ravenmysteries.co.uk
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7,99 €
Weller Paul - Fat Pop CD
„Cosmic Fringes”,
„True”,
„Fat Pop”,
„Shades of Blue”,
„Glad Times”,
„Cobweb / Connections”,
„Testify”,
„That Pleasure”,
„Failed”,
„Moving Canvas”,
„In Better Times”,
„Still Glides the Stream”
Weller Paul - Fat Pop LP
„Cosmic Fringes”,
„True”,
„Fat Pop”,
„Shades of Blue”,
„Glad Times”,
„Cobweb / Connections”,
„Testify”,
„That Pleasure”,
„Failed”,
„Moving Canvas”,
„In Better Times”,
„Still Glides the Stream”
Ratolesť
Dvadsaťdvaročný Lobbi zdedil po matke lásku k záhradníctvu, najmä k pestovaniu ruží. Po jej smrti sa rozhodne odísť z Islandu, opustiť starnúceho otca a svojho autistického brata, a vydá sa do nemenovanej krajiny. Jeho dočasným domovom sa stáva dedinka so stredovekým kláštorom, kde sa zamestná ako záhradník. Na Islande však ostala aj Flóra Sól, Lobbiho dcéra, plod nečakaného a krátkeho ľúbostného vzplanutia. Usporiadaný a pomaly plynúci život vykoľají nečakaný príchod Flóry Sól a jej matky, a Lobbi sa zrazu ocitá v úplne novej životnej situácii, konečne pochopí, čo to znamená byť otcom a synom a pomaly nachádza cestu k Anne, matke svojho dieťaťa, ktorá bola doteraz preňho neznámou ženou.
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12,30 €
12,95 €
Catalyst
From the author of New York Times bestsellers Contagious and Invisible Influence comes a revolutionary approach to changing anyone's mind.
Everyone has something they want to change. Marketers want to change their customers' minds and leaders want to change organisations. Start-ups want to change industries and nonprofits want to change the world. But change is hard. Often, we persuade and pressure and push, but nothing moves. Could there be a better way?
This book takes a different approach. Successful change agents know it's not about pushing harder, or providing more information, it's about being a catalyst. Catalysts remove roadblocks and reduce the barriers to change. Instead of asking, "How could I change someone's mind?" they ask a different question: "Why haven't they changed already? What's stopping them?"
The Catalyst identifies the key barriers to change and how to mitigate them. You'll learn how catalysts change minds in the toughest of situations: how hostage negotiators get people to come out with their hands up and how marketers get new products to catch on, how leaders transform organisational culture and how activists ignite social movements, how substance abuse counselors get addicts to realise they have a problem and how political campaigners change deeply rooted political beliefs.
The Shakespearean Ethic
Originally published by Chatto & Windus in 1959, this book has long been out of print and largely neglected by Shakespearean scholars. It offers a viewpoint seldom considered: an unusual and exceptionally clear insight into Shakespeare’s philosophy. It does so with freshness, modesty and conviction.Appreciating the danger Shakespeare faced in writing at a time of major religious intolerance, Vyvyan shows how subtly the plays explore aspects of the perennial philosophy allegorically. In doing so, Shakespeare raises the fundamental question of ethics: What ought we to do? ‘Shakespeare,’ says the author, ‘is never ethically neutral. He is never in doubt as to whether the souls of his characters are rising or falling.’ There is a constant pattern in the tragedies: ‘first the hero is untrue to his own self, then he casts out love, then conscience is gone – or rather inverted – and the devil enters into him.’ Vyvyan shows us this pattern of damnation, or its counterpart – a pattern of regeneration – working out in certain plays, contrasting Hamlet with Measure for Measure and Othello with The Winter’s Tale, where a similar dilemma and choice confront the hero. His intuitive insights also illumine Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Titus Andronicus which focus on the fall, whereas The Tempest explores most fully the pattern of regeneration and creative mercy. Here is a book, both thought-provoking and persuasive, which will send many readers back to Shakespeare’s plays with fresh vision and clearer understanding. To assist such readers, this edition cross-references the quotations in the text to the relevant place in the play. The text has been completely reset and the index expanded.
John Vyvyan, born in 1908 in Sussex, was educated mainly in Switzerland. His first profession was archaeology, and he worked with Sir Flinders Petrie in the Middle East. Illness, which dogged him all his life, ended this kind of arduous field work, and he retired from archaeology to become a Shakespearean scholar and to write. Studies such as The Shakespearean Ethic, Shakespeare and The Rose of Love (1960) and Shakespeare and Platonic Beauty (1961), led to the offer of a visiting lectureship at the State University of New York. He died in Exmouth in 1975.
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9,27 €
A varázslatos karkötő 3: A lidércek tanyája
Mi lenne, ha egy karkötő segítségével bármit elő tudnál teremteni a semmiből? Evie-re varázslatos kaland vár, amikor komisz lidércekre bukkan a szomszéd kertben!
Az olimpiai és világbajnok Jessica Ennis-Hill fantasztikus sorozatának harmadik része.
Lacná kniha Historie du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut
Alors qu' dix-sept ans, il s'apprte quitter Amiens o il achve ses études de philosophie, des Grieux voit arriver le coche d'Arras. Une jeune fille en descend, si charmante qu'il s'avance vers elle pour l'interroger : ses parents l'envoient pour tre religieuse, et elle sait qu'elle va tre malheureuse. Décidé l'arracher la tyrannie de ses parents, il la loge dans une hôtellerie dont le maître lui est dévoué et le lendemain, la pointe du jour, tous les deux partent pour Paris. Lorsqu'elle s'est tragiquement achevée, des Grieux fait le récit de sa tumultueuse liaison avec Manon au marquis de Renoncour qui la rapporte dans ses Mémoires que Prévost fait paraître au mois de mai 1731. C'est ainsi la voix mme du chevalier que nous entendons, c'est l'émotion qu'il éprouve raconter et revivre ce qu'il a vécu qui nous touche - et sa parole fait entendre des accents si vrais que l'on a pu croire que Manon et des Grieux avaient véritablement existé, ou que l'abbé Prévost transposait un moment de sa propre vie. Mais le réalisme poignant de ce récit traversé de souffrances, de cette histoire o le plaisir se vit, s'achte, et conduit la mort, n'est redevable qu' l'art éblouissant de l'auteur.
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5,34 €
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Az első világháború előtti évek Párizsában Émilienne volt a legszebb nő, aki után minden szív dobogott. Kislány korában szegény sorban nevelkedett a Montmartre-on, de világéletében vonzották a nagyváros tündöklő fényei. Hamarosan a legnépszerűbb varieté, a Folies Bergére sztárja lett, királyok, hercegek szeretője, és egész Európa egyetértett abban, hogy ő a leggyönyörűbb.
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