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Believers
Zoe Heller's The Believers - part of the limited edition Penguin Street Art series: timeless writing, enduring design. "On the flyleaf of the diary she was keeping that year, she had inscribed Socrates' words: "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel's children will have to deal with this unsettling secret themselves, but meanwhile, they are trying to cope with their own dilemmas. Rosa, beautiful, disillusioned revolutionary, is grappling with a new-found attachment to Orthodox Judaism. Unhappily married Karla is falling in love with an unlikely suitor at the hospital where she works. Adopted brother Lenny is back on drugs again. In the course of battling their own demons and each other, every member of the family is called upon to decide what - if anything - they still believe in. "Beautiful, stunningly written ...a subtle, funny family farce about faith and identity". (Guardian). Zoe Heller is also the author of Everything You Know and Notes on a Scandal. The Penguin Street Art series marries timeless writing with enduring design. Some of the world's leading street artists have designed new covers especially for ten classic contemporary books from Penguin: Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd; Armadillo by William Boyd; And The Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave; What a Carve Up by Jonathan Coe; Americana by Don DeLillo; Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris; The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid; The Believers by Zoe Heller; How to Be Good by Nick Hornby; and Lights out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair.
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127 Hours: Between a Rock and Hard Place
On Sunday April 27, 2003, 27-year old Aron Ralston set off for a day's hiking in the Utah canyons. Dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, Ralston, a seasoned climber, figured he'd hike for a few hours and then head off to work. 40 miles from the nearest paved road, he found himself on top of an 800-pound boulder. As he slid down and off of the boulder it shifted, trapping his right hand against the canyon wall. No one knew where he was, he had little water, he wasn't dressed correctly, and the boulder wasn't going anywhere. He remained trapped for five days in the canyon: hypothermic at night, de-hydrated and hallucinating by day. Finally, he faced the most terrible decision of his life: braking the bones in his wrist by snapping them against the boulder, he hacked through the skin, and finally succeeded in amputating his right hand and wrist. The ordeal, however, was only beginning. He still faced a 60-foot rappell to freedom, and a walk of several hours back to his car - along the way, he miraculously met a family of hikers, and with his arms tourniqued, and blood-loss almost critical, they heard above them the whir of helicopter blades, just in time, Aron was rescued and rushed to hospital. Since that day, Aron has had a remarkable recovery. He is back out on the mountains, with an artificial limb, he speaks to select groups on his ordeal and rescue, and amazingly, he is upbeat, positive, and an inspiration to all who meet him. This is the account of those five days, of the years that led up to them, and where he goes from here. It is narrative non-fiction at its most compelling.
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We are made of glue
From bonding to bondage, from B&Q to Belarus, along with seven smelly cats, three useless handymen, two slimy estate agents, social workers, a bonker lady. The story of a very unlikely friendship. Georgie Sinclair's husband has walked out; her sixteen-year-old son is busy surfing born-again websites; and all those overdue articles for Adhesives in the Modern World are getting her down. So when Georgie spots Mrs Shapiro, an eccentric old Jewish émigré neighbour with an eye for a bargain and a fondness for matchmaking, rummaging through her skip in the middle of the night, it's just the distraction she needs. And although they mistrust each other at first – Georgie doesn't like the look of that past-its-sell-by-date fish, while Mrs Shapiro thinks Georgie needs to smarten herself up and grab a new husband – a firm friendship is formed over the reduced-price shelf at the supermarket. Then Mrs Shapiro is admitted to hospital and to Georgie's surprise, she is named as her next of kin. But sorting out Mrs Shapiro's semi-derelict mansion in Highbury, home to seven stinky cats with agendas of their own, is no easy job when the handyman called in to change the locks turns out to be not what he seems and his two assistants, 'the Uselesses', are doing more breaking than fixing. And what about the two slimy estate agents (one with a charming taste for bondage) who start competing to trick Mrs Shapiro into selling her rickety old house, or the social worker determined to commit her to a nursing home? As Georgie steps in to help her new friend, she finds herself unravelling a mystery which takes her from Highbury to wartime Europe to the Middle East, and learning a bit about DIY along the way.
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Winnetou I.
A híres vadász, Old Shatterhand saját maga beszéli el, hogyan nyeri el a legnemesebb apacs, Winnetou barátságát. A történetnek komor hangulatot kölcsönöz a vadon rózsája, a gyönyörű indián lány, Nsocsi tragikus sorsa, értelmetlen halála. Megismerkedünk a Vadnyugat híres hőseivel: Old Death nyomkeresővel, Old Firehand trapperrel, majd találkozunk régi ismerőseinkkel: Sam Hawkens, Dick Stone és Will parker vadászokkal. A komancsok között és Kaliforniában átélt sok érdekfeszítő élmény után a szerző - a legnemesebb törzsfőnök élete és halála tükrében - maradandó emléket állít a pusztulásra ítélt rézbőrű fajnak. A tragikusan végződő regénytrilógiát az apacs-hagyatékról szóló beszámoló zárja.
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Ördögi szérum
Dr. Andrey Vinon portugál orvos egykori egyetemi évfolyamtársa meghívására a dél-afrikai Fokvárosba érkezik. Izgatottan várja, hogy a híres Groote Schuur Hospital küszöbét átlépje, ahol a világ első szívátültetését végezték. Tanulni akar, tapasztalatokat szerezni a helyi orvosok munkájáról, s kiváltképp az ismeretlen betegségek gyógyítása érdekli. Beleszeret a tökéletes szépségű. félvér Nanny nővérbe, nem is sejtve, hogy ez a kapcsolat a poklok poklát jelenti majd számára. A gyönyörű teremtés ugyanis hirtelen lebénul, eszméletét veszti, s az ájulásból nem tér magához. Andreyt letartóztatják, mivel őt gyanúsítják Nanny Durban állapotának előidézésével...
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Gyilkos-Anders és barátai (meg akik nem azok)
Gyilkos-Anders, egy recepciós és egy kiugrott lelkésznő találkozása a boncasztalon vagyis nem, egyelőre nem a boncasztalon, hanem egy motelnek álcázott kuplerájban a keresztény egyháztörténelemnek és a svéd kriminalisztika menetének teljesen új irányt szab.
A regényben nem szokványos pénzkereseti lehetőségek után kutat első (és második) pillantásra jelentéktelennek tűnő fiatal portás, egy nagydumás istentagadó lelkészcsaj és egy reménytelenül fafejű verőember. Először céges szintre emelik a verési-pénzbehajtási szolgáltatást, utána bibliai alapokon nyugvó, borban tocsogó egyházat alapítanak, végül újrafazonírozzák a Mikulást, s közben - ahogy azt Jonasson korábbi hőseitől, a százéves embertől és a remekül számoló analfabétától megszokhattuk - folyton menekülnek valakik elől, közben milliókat veszítenek, hogy aztán újra nyerjenek, s közben Jonasson egy pillanatra sem áll le a sziporkáival. Vagyis ismét itt az év legviccesebb könyve!
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A Spotter's Guide to Film (and TV) Locations
Discover the ultimate collection of film and TV locations with the next instalment in Lonely Planet's Spotter's Guide series. Featuring locations from more than 100 of the most iconic scenes ever committed to film, we'll show you where incredible moments from Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Thelma & Louise, Game of Thrones and many more favourites were shot. Whether you're sat in the dark of your local cinema, or curled up on the sofa, each film has the rare ability to transport you to amazing destinations around the globe. Inside this book, you'll be able to explore the real-life locations for some of the most famous productions of all time, filmed in countries including Canada, Australia, Jordan, Croatia, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, Tunisia and India. Many of these locations effortlessly played themselves, while others were disguised as hostile, alien deserts, futuristic cityscapes, or Jedi hideaways. While a film's job is make you forget you're watching one, there are certain locations that can transport you right into the world of a movie. If you want to feel like 007 with a license to kill, you can take a boat out to James Bond Island, otherwise known as Khao Phing Kan, in Thailand, home to The Man with the Golden Gun. If you want to follow in the footsteps of Holly Golightly, then enjoy a coffee and a Danish pastry outside Tiffany's in Manhattan. Or perhaps you'd like to celebrate something momentous by running up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum like Rocky Balboa. Whether you're a film buff, a travel addict, or both, this book will help to convince you that CGI is never a substitute for the real thing. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)
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Futurist Cookbook
Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an easy-to-read cookbook. Here are recipes for ice cream on the moon; candied atmospheric electricities; nocturnal love feasts; sculpted meats. Marinetti also sets out his argument for abolishing pasta as ill-suited to modernity, and advocates a style of cuisine that will increase creativity. Although at times betraying its author's nationalistic sympathies, The Futurist Cookbook is funny, provocative, whimsical, disdainful of sluggish traditions and delighted by the velocity and promise of modernity. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was born in 1876 to Italian parents and grew up in Alexandria, Egypt. He studied in Paris and obtained a law degree in Italy before turning to literature. In 1909 he wrote the infamous Futurist Manifesto, which championed violence, speed and war, and proclaimed the unity of art and life. Marinetti's life was fraught with controversy: he fought a duel with a hostile critic, was subject to an obscenity trial, and was a staunch supporter of Italian Fascism. Alongside his literary activities, he was a war correspondent during the Italo-Turkish War and served on the Eastern Front in World War II, despite being in his sixties. He died in 1944. Lesley Chamberlain is a novelist and historian of ideas. Her thirteen books include Nietzsche in Turin, The Secret Artist: A Close Reading of Sigmund Freud and The Food and Cooking of Russia. Suzanne Brill is an art historian and writer. She has translated several books for Italian art historians including Caro Pedretti's Leonardo: Architect, which was nominated for the John Florio prize. "A paean to sensual freedom, optimism and childlike, amoral innocence ...it has only once been answered, by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World". (Lesley Chamberlain).
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Portraits
Druhý svazek fotografických cyklů obsahuje Sudkovu portrétní tvorbu. Potrtréty provázely Sudka dlouhou řadu let: zejména v předválečné době patřily k nejdůležitějším součástem jeho fotografické živnosti, v letech čtyřicátých a padesátých pak Sudek fotografoval zejména své blízké přátele-umělce. Mezi portrétovanými osobnostmi byl budoucí nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturu Jaroslav Seifert, malíři, spisovatelé, vědci, lékaři, politici, architekti, herci a mnohé jiné významné osobnosti veřejného života. Knihu doprovází vedle Sudkova životopisu, úplné bibliografie a soupisu jeho výstav též rozhovor se znalcem jeho díla Janem Řezáčem.
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L´Oiseau Bariole
Dans ce paysage désolé de l'Europe de l'Est ravagée par la tourmente de la guerre, un petit garçon de six ans est envoyé la campagne par ses parents. Campagne hostile dans laquelle les plus extravagantes superstitions survivent. L'enfant a les cheveux noirs, l o tout le monde est blond. Tel l'oiseau bariolé, il tente en vain de convaincre ceux qui l'entourent qu'il fait partie des leurs. Peine perdue. Il reste l'autre, le Bohémien ", celui par qui le malheur arrive, condamné tre persécuté... "
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Három zsák ravaszság
Rókáné komámasszony és sündisznó asszonyság szőlőt lopni indul. Abban bíznak, hogy ha bajba is kerülnek, szorult helyzetükből kisegíti majd őket Rókáné nagy ravaszsága. De vajon mire elég három zsák ravaszság? Ki tud-e szabadulni a csapdába esett róka, vagy a kicsi sündisznótól kell segítséget kérnie?
A híres mesemondó, Benedek Elek rajongói ezúttal a vidám, játékos vagy éppen elgondolkodtató tanulsággal szolgáló állattörténetek hőseivel ismerkedhetnek meg. Kacor király, Mackó koma, Holló úr és Egerecske kalandjai elevenednek meg a könyv lapjain, hogy esti mese formájában szórakoztathassák a legfiatalabb korosztályt.
Bányai Éva illusztrációinak köszönhetően az állathősök szinte életre kelnek, hogy újra elvarázsolhassanak kicsit és nagyon egyaránt.
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Choke
Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mother's hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who 'saves you' will feel responsible for you for the rest of their lives. Multiply that a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy flow of cheques, week in, week out. Victor also works at a theme park with a motley group of losers, cruises sex addiction groups for action, and visits his mother, whose Alzheimer's disease now hides what may be the startling truth about his parentage.
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Poppy Shakespeare
Who is mad? Who is sane? Who decides? Welcome to the Dorothy Fish, a hospital in North London. N has been a patient for thirteen years. Day after day she sits smoking in the common room and swapping medication. Like the other patients, N's ambition is never to be discharged. Then in walks Poppy Shakespeare in a short skirt and snakeskin heels. Poppy is certain she isn't mentally ill and desperate to return to her life outside and, though baffled, N agrees to help her. But in a world where everything's upside down, are they crazy enough to upset the system?
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Očarování
Výbor z díla významného amerického černošského básníka střední generace, oceňovaného pro bohatý jazykový i tematický záběr tvorby prosycené autorovým hudebním cítěním, prožitkem vietnamské válečné zkušenosti a smyslem pro inspiraci klasickými i syrově současnými jazykovými projevy. Českým čtenářům je Komunyakaa, nositel prestižní Pulitzerovy ceny za r. 1994, spolu prakticky se všemi svými básnickými vrstevníky zatím prakticky neznámý s výjimkou několika časopiseckých ukázek výbor z jeho dosavadních jedenácti sbírek v uspořádání a překladu Josefa Jařaba je proto významným prvním krokem k mapování skutečně současné americké poezie.
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Life Expectancy
Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the first and last time since his stroke. What he says before he dies is that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson -- five dates whose terrible events Jimmy will have to prepare himself to face. The first is to occur in his 20th year, the second in his 23rd year, the third in his 28th, the fourth in his 29th, the fifth in his 30th. Rudy is all too ready to discount his father's last words as a dying man's delusional rambling. But then he discovers that Josef also predicted the moment of his grandson's birth to the minute, as well as his exact height, weight, and the fact that Jimmy would be born with syndactyly - the unexplained anomaly of fused digits on his left foot. Suddenly, the old man's predictions take on a chilling significance. What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five dark days? What nightmares will he face? What challenges must he survive? As the novel unfolds, picking up Jimmy's story at each of these crisis points, the path he must follow will defy every expectation. And with each crisis he faces, he will move closer to a fate he could never have imagined. For who Jimmy Tock is and what he must accomplish on the five days his world turns is a mystery as dangerous as it is wondrous - a struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through.
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Lacná kniha Life Expectancy (-90%)
Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the first and last time since his stroke. What he says before he dies is that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson -- five dates whose terrible events Jimmy will have to prepare himself to face. The first is to occur in his 20th year, the second in his 23rd year, the third in his 28th, the fourth in his 29th, the fifth in his 30th. Rudy is all too ready to discount his father's last words as a dying man's delusional rambling. But then he discovers that Josef also predicted the moment of his grandson's birth to the minute, as well as his exact height, weight, and the fact that Jimmy would be born with syndactyly - the unexplained anomaly of fused digits on his left foot. Suddenly, the old man's predictions take on a chilling significance. What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five dark days? What nightmares will he face? What challenges must he survive? As the novel unfolds, picking up Jimmy's story at each of these crisis points, the path he must follow will defy every expectation. And with each crisis he faces, he will move closer to a fate he could never have imagined. For who Jimmy Tock is and what he must accomplish on the five days his world turns is a mystery as dangerous as it is wondrous - a struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through.
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Le Collaborateur
Écrites pendant la guerre et publiées clandestinement dans le recueil Servitude et grandeur des Français, ces trois nouvelles donnent la parole « l'adversaire », qu'il soit un journaliste hostile la Résistance et aux communistes, réparateur de radios et collaborateur, ou une jeune Allemande qui a suivi les soldats Paris. Mais les situations changent, les idées évoluent et peu peu les adversaires basculent dans le camp des alliés... Mlant rage et allégresse, gravité et anecdotes légres, Aragon riposte l'Occupation et participe au combat avec sa plume. Trahison et courage, deux thmes toujours d'actualité...
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Echo Burning
Jack Reacher is six foot five and dangerous, adrift in the hellish heat of Texas, moving like a shark in the water, and looking for a lift through the vast empty landscape. A Cadillac stops. A ride, but with a hitch. A pretty young woman, alone. Her husband's in jail. When he comes out, he's going to kill her. Her family's hostile, she can't trust the cops, and lawyers won't help. Reacher is her last option. Will this be the first time he says no - to a lady in distress?
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Winnetou II.
A kiadó a szerző eredeti szövegei alapján készült új fordításokat jelenteti meg, és nem a régebbi, az ifjúság számára átdolgozott regényeket adja ki újra.
A híres vadász, Old Shatterhand saját maga beszéli el, hogyan nyeri el a legnemesebb apacs, Winnetou barátságát. A történetnek komor hangulatot kölcsönöz a vadon rózsája, a gyönyörű indián lány, Nsocsi tragikus sorsa, értelmetlen halála. Megismerkedünk a Vadnyugat híres hőseivel: Old Death nyomkeresővel, Old Firehand trapperrel, majd találkozunk régi ismerőseinkkel: Sam Hawkens, Dick Stone és Will parker vadászokkal. A komancsok között és Kaliforniában átélt sok érdekfeszítő élmény után a szerző – a legnemesebb törzsfőnök élete és halála tükrében – maradandó emléket állít a pusztulásra ítélt rézbőrű fajnak. A tragikusan végződő regénytrilógiát az apacs-hagyatékról szóló beszámoló zárja.
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