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The Rejects
Imagine you've made it. You and your friends have hit the big time in music and you're going to be a star. But then, quite suddenly, it's over. Your best friends don't want you anymore, and you're on the outside. Perhaps they're tired of your bad habits, they think you're not good enough, or they sense you just don't want it as much as they do. Whatever the cause, you're a reject. So, what do you do next?
Featuring a player rejected by both Nirvana and Soundgarden who became a decorated special forces soldier, Britpoppers who spiralled into addiction before becoming novelists and missionaries, the terrifying story of Guns N' Roses' first drummer, super-rejecting band leaders, self-destroying rappers, troubled hard rock bassists and girl-band burnouts, The Rejects takes an intimate, thoughtful look at people who've been kicked out of bands, what they experienced and what came afterwards.
Coming from a writer with twenty years' music industry experience, The Rejects is a sympathetic study of some of music's most fascinating characters, and what happens when the dream comes crashing to an end. The result is a compelling alternative history of popular music.
Cowboy Bebop: A Syndicate Story: Red Planet Requiem
Prequel novel to the upcoming Netflix series, Cowboy Bebop. Discover the origins of the classic rivalry between Spike and Vicious amongst the dark underbelly of Mars, 2161!
The year is 2161. The Red Dragon Crime Syndicate is king, and for all those lucky enough to be members of this crime family, life is damn good.
Well, not for everyone... For two entry-level gangsters in Tharsis City, Mars, life in the Syndicate isn't quite all guns and glamour. That's right. Long before they were mortal enemies, Spike Spiegel and Vicious were just two friends clawing their way up the crime ladder and trying to have a little fun while doing it.
But when an opportunity to pull a job for their boss arises, it's make or break time. Literally. All they have to do is deliver a suitcase. How hard could it be?
You ready for some history tellin'...space cowboy?
Krutá pravda
Iskrí to medzi nimi, ale ich vzťah je zakázaný
Bezohľadný. Arogantný. Neprístupný!
Všetci ma varovali, že pracovať pod finančným riaditeľom spoločnosti McCord Media bude nočná mora. Dúfala som, že ak nebudem veľmi vyčnievať, Cole McCord si ma nevšimne.
Mýlila som sa.
Prečo som práve s ním musela stráviť jedinú vášnivú noc mesiac predtým, ako som sa stala jeho asistentkou?
Ale ako som mohla tušiť, že z toho nádherného cudzinca z kamarátkinej oslavy sa vykľuje môj nový šéf. No firemná politika zakazuje romániky na pracovisku, takže odteraz vládne medzi nami čisto pracovný vzťah.
Len keby sme spolu neustále nekončili v posteli.
Len keby vo mne nevyvolával pocity, ktoré som nikdy predtým nezažila.
Len keby neskrýval tajomstvo, ktoré by nás mohlo oboch zničiť.
Kniha je voľným pokračovaním zo série Na hrane.
Z anglického originálu Fall Into You (J.T. Geissinger Inc., 2023) preložila Andrea Vargovčíková.
Lacná kniha Wuthering Heights + CD (-90%)
Wuthering Heights is home to the Earnshaw family who, adopt an orphan called Heathcliff. Catherine Earnshaw becomes great friends with Heathcliff and they fall in love. But Catherine decides to marry Edgar Linton since she feels it would degrade her to marry Heathcliff. Desperate without his Catherine, Heathcliff runs away. But when he returns a few years later a series of events starts to destroy the relationship between the Lintons and the Earnshaws.
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Výber poviedok Juraja Paškuliaka obsahuje pestrú zmes príbehov, od humorne ladených, až po strašidelné. Sú o ľuďoch ktorí sa rozhodli chatárčiť, o ufológovi, poľovačke na tigra, o nenaplnenej láske, asociáloch, drsný a pochmúrny príbeh, o mužovi ktorého prenasleduje psychopat. Kniha začína humoreskami a končí hororom, jej čítanie je ako jazda na horskej dráhe. Príbehy sú písané pútavo a pôsobia autenticky. Keď túto zbierku otvoríte a pustíte sa do nej, nebudete vedieť prestať, kým nedočítate do konca.
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Sweet Tooth - Mlsoun 1
Chlapec a hromotluk
Před sedmi lety se jako lesní požár rozšířila nákaza a zabila miliardy lidí. Jediné děti, které se od té doby rodí, patří k nové rase hybridů člověka a zvířat. Jedním z nich je i Gus, milý chlapec se sklonem k mlsání a jeleními rysy.
Na děti, jako je Gus, je však vypsaná odměna. Když se v jeho odlehlém lesním domově objeví krutí lovci, zachrání Guse záhadný násilník jménem Jepperd. Hromotlucký tulák Gusovi slíbí, že ho odvede do rezervace, bájného bezpečného přístavu pro hybridní děti.
MLSOUN se scénářem a kresbou nesmírně talentovaného Jeffa Lemirea je napínavý příběh o přežití v post-apokalyptické Americe o přátelstvích, navázaných za tragických podmínek, a o lidském dobru a zlu. První ze tří vázaných knih obsahuje původní sešity Sweet Tooth č. 112, doplněné o dosud nezveřejněné náčrty a předmluvu od známého herce Michaela Sheena (Mystérium sexu, Duel Frost/Nixon).
Cesty k Šumavě
Tato kniha je podobná divoké jízdě, při níž se potkáte se šumavskými světci, proroky, čarodějkami i zapomenutými příběhy. Průvodcem je bosonohý básník Ondřej z Hory. Má dobrosrdečnou duši farářovu a zároveň spiritualitu mystika, s níž umí probouzet zaniklá místa i spící duchy různých koutů Šumavy a odemykat klíčem mýtu její skrytou poetiku. A má i urputnost, s níž se pídí po zdejších tajemstvích, ať už jsou to prameny archivní či horských potoků. (V. Just) Jedině když investujete dlouhé týdny, měsíce i roky chozením v krajině (na rozdíl chození po krajině), potkáte zde nejen Lesní matku, onu dávnou zapomenutou Bohyni a múzu hor, ale tu a tam i člověka, který je ještě s touto krajinou srostlý. Člověka-samorosta, který vám začne vyprávět. Vyprávět legendy, které otevírají oči a spojují srdce se srdcem. (J. Bílý)
Party Shirt Cookbook
The first cookbook by the Party Shirt guys, the TikTok sensations whose crazy food experiments unleash delicious and unexpected results
In The Party Shirt Cookbook, TikTok powerhouses Xavier Di Petta and Nick Iavarone give you the wild, crazy, and delicious recipes you didn’t know you were craving. They will show you how to take your eating life to the next level, creating super-fun and wacky pairings that anyone can make. With a lot of trial and error, the Party Shirt guys have put together a collection of recipes including: BBQ Rice Krispies Treats, Flamin’ Omelets (think: Cheetos), Chocolate Ramen Crunchies, Oreos and Queso, and Bacon-Wrapped Fried Pickles.
The Party Shirt Cookbook favors the bold—the bold flavors that is! Packed with 100 strangely tasty concoctions and hilarious anecdotes, this book is perfect for snack lovers, adventurous foodies, and junk-food fanatics alike. So head to the kitchen and get ready to put your party shirt on!
101 kultovních filmů, které musíte vidět než umřete
Mnoho filmů, které mají kultovní status, bylo zpočátku propadáky, a až v průběhu let přitahuje skupiny oddaných fanoušků. Některé kultovní filmy jsou velmi dobré, jiné tak špatné, až jsou dobré, a některé jsou komické eskapády, zatímco mnoho dalších spadá do kategorie sci-fi nebo hororů. Ale všechny kultovní filmy mají jedno společné: odmítají zemřít. Kniha známého filmového historika Stevena Jaye Schneidera přináší profily 101 nejvíce nezapomenutelných kultovních filmů všech dob. Patří mezi ně Nosferatu, Reefer Madness, Fantazie, Dotek zla, Taxikář, Invaze zlodějů těl, Lovcova noc, Barbarella, Bezstarostná jízda a mnoho dalších. Každý profil obsahuje shrnutí děje, obsazení a štáb a zajímavá fakta o filmu. Jsou prezentovány chronologicky v samostatných kapitolách pokrývajících každou dekádu od roku 1920 až do současnosti. Vše ilustrováno nezapomenutelnými filmovými fotografiemi a reprodukcemi reklamních plakátů.
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One of the Good Guys
Cole is the perfect husband; a romantic, supportive of his wife's career, keen to be a hands-on dad, not a big drinker. A good guy.
So when his wife leaves him, he's floored. She was lucky to be with a man like him.
Craving solitude, he accepts a job on the coast and quickly settles into his new life. Then he meets reclusive artist Lennie. And though she is quite different from the woman he'd expected, he believes he has finally found a soulmate.
But as their relationship develops, two young women go missing while on a walk protesting gendered violence, right by where Cole and Lennie live. Finding themselves at the heart of a police investigation and media frenzy, Cole soon realises they don't know each other very well at all . . .
If most men say they're one of the good guys, then why are so many women afraid to walk alone at night?
Yerba Buena
When Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that clings to her.
Across the city, Emilie Dubois is in a holding pattern. In her seventh year and fifth major as an undergraduate, she yearns for the beauty and community her Creole grandparents cultivated but is unable to commit. On a whim, she takes a job arranging flowers at the glamorous restaurant Yerba Buena and embarks on an affair with the married owner.
When Sara catches sight of Emilie one morning at Yerba Buena, their connection is immediate. But the damage both women carry, and the choices they have made, will pull them apart again and again.
At once exquisite and expansive, astonishing in its humanity and heart, Yerba Buena is a love story about two women finding their way in the world.
Conan: Blood of the Serpent
Mercenary, thief, soldier, usurper…
CONAN OF CIMMERIA
As sword for hire for a mercenary troop, Conan finds himself in Sukhmet, a filthy backwater town south of the River Styx considered “the arse-end of Stygia.” Serving in the company known as Zarallo’s Free Companions, he fights alongside soldiers of fortune from Zingara, Koth, Shem, and other lands—a hard-handed band of killers loyal to anyone who pays them well.
In a Sukhmet tavern he encounters one soldier in particular—Valeria of the Red Brotherhood, a veteran of freebooters with whom Conan also sailed, launching raids out of the Barachan Isles on the Western Sea. Valeria’s reputation is that of a deadly swordswoman, a notoriety she quickly proves to be accurate. When she runs afoul of an exiled Stygian noble, however, things take a deadly turn, embroiling them both in the schemes of a priest of the serpent god Set.
The first new Conan novel in more than a decade, Blood of the Serpent leads directly into one of Robert E. Howards’s most famous sword-and-sorcery adventures, “Red Nails.” As a bonus feature that story, as well, is included in this volume.
The Pale Blue Eye
April 19th, 1831. In two or three hours I'll be dead. So begins the chilling last testament of Gus Landor, a retired New York City police constable, whose numerous talents include code-breaking, riot control and the 'gloveless interrogation'. A young cadet has been found hanged at a military academy on the shores of the Hudson River. Before his body could be buried, however, it was stolen and his heart brutally carved out.
Fearing a scandal, the top brass at West Point have summoned Landor to help catch the culprit, and keep his discoveries away from prying eyes. As Landor embarks on a thrilling adventure to solve the case, he uncovers a series of dark secrets and finds unlikely assistance in the form of a mischievous young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe.
Full of drama and unexpected twists, The Pale Blue Eye is a brilliantly haunting and atmospheric historical mystery.
Stuffed
In times of plenty, we stuff ourselves. When the food runs out, we're stuffed too. How have people in the British Isles shared the riches from our fields, dairies, kitchens and seas, as well as those from around the world? And when the cupboard is bare, who steps up to the plate to feed the nation's hungry children, soldiers at war or families in crisis?
Stuffed tells the stories of the food and drink at the centre of social upheavals from prehistory to the present: the medieval inns boosted by the plague; the Enclosures that finished off the celebratory roast goose; the Victorian chemist searching for unadulterated mustard; the post-war supermarkets luring customers with strawberries. Drawing on cookbooks, literature and social records, Pen Vogler reveals how these turning points have led to today's extremes of plenty and want: roast beef and food banks; allotment-fresh vegetables and ultra-processed fillers.
It is a tale of feast and famine, and of the traditions, the ideas and the laws which have fed - or starved - the nation, but also of the yeasty magic of bread and ale, the thrill of sugary treats, the pies and puddings that punctuate the year, and why the British would give anything - even North America - for a nice cup of tea.
The Fate of Third Worldism in the Middle East - Iran, Palestine and Beyond
A provocative reinterpretation of the tumultuous late 1970s and early 1980s in the Middle East
In the latter half of the twentieth century, a revolutionary idea promised to upend the global order. Anti-imperialist militancy, bolstered by international solidarity, would lead to not only the national liberation of oppressed peoples but universal emancipation, shattering the division between the prosperous nations of the capitalist West and the poorer countries of the Global South.
The idea was Third Worldism, and among others it inspired struggles in Iran and Palestine. By the early 1980s, however, progressive visions of independence and freedom had fallen to the reality of an oppressive Islamic theocracy in Iran, while the Palestinian Revolution had been eclipsed by civil war in Lebanon, Israeli aggression and intra-Arab conflict.
This thought-provoking volume explores the dramatic decline of Third Worldism in the Middle East. It reveals the lived realities of the time by focusing on the key protagonists – from student activists to guerrilla fighters, and from volunteer nurses to militant intellectuals – and juxtaposes the Iranian and Palestinian cases to offer a riveting re-examination of this defining era. Ultimately, it challenges us to reassess how we view the end of the long 1960s, prompting us to reconsider perennial questions concerning self-determination, emancipation, change and solidarity.
Forms of Enchantment
An anthology of compelling essays by Marina Warner, one of our pre-eminent writers and critics.
Art-writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues Marina Warner. In this new anthology of some of her most compelling work, she captures the visual experience of the work of several artists – with a notable focus on the inner lives of women – through an exploration of the range of stories and symbols to which they allude. Metamorphosis features vividly in the imagery, stories and media of the art that Warner has chosen to write about: in connection with animals in the work of Louise Bourgeois, for instance; with the Catholicism of Damien Hirst; and with performance as a medium of memory and resistance in the installations of Joan Jonas.
Rather than drawing on connoisseurship, the author’s approach grows principally out of anthropology and mythology. She argues that art and aesthetics increasingly fulfil a magical social function – a principle that runs through these writings to give the collection a quality that is polemical as well as coherent. With an introductory essay and illustrations throughout, Marina Warner investigates how artists noted for their treatment of disturbing, uncanny material have reached beyond the visible, to express interior states. Truly inspiring, her writing unites the imagination of artist, writer and reader, creating a reading experience parallel to the intrinsic pleasure of looking at art.
Death on the Lusitania
The ship was doomed before it ever left port. His fate was sealed before he ever stepped on board. From R. L. Graham, Death on the Lusitania is an immersive WW1 historical novel set aboard the ill-fated ocean liner.
'Set on a doomed ocean liner, this engaging and well researched mystery is perfect for lovers of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers' – Philip Gray, author of Two Storm Wood, The Times Thriller of the Year
Welcome on board the Lusitania’s final voyage . . .
New York, 1915. RMS Lusitania, one of the world’s most luxurious ocean liners, departs for war-torn Europe. Among those on board is Patrick Gallagher, a civil servant in Her Majesty’s government tasked with escorting a British diplomat back to England.
When a fellow passenger is believed to have shot himself in his cabin, Gallagher is asked by the captain to investigate the scene but one crucial detail doesn’t fit. The man’s body was discovered in a locked cabin with the key inside and no gun to be found. Was it really suicide? Or murder?
Gallagher believes one of the passengers is a deadly killer - one who could strike again at any moment. And all the while, the ship sails on towards Europe, where enemy submarines patrol dark waters . . .
What Hunts Inside the Shadows
Perfect for fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses and From Blood and Ash.
Book two in the Of Flesh & Bone series!
Once, I fell in love with a man who deceived me.
For weeks, he stood by my side, twisting his words into pretty half-truths. He enraptured me with his smooth temptation, leaving no corner of my being untouched. He consumed my mind and my body, then finally claimed my heart for himself. But Caelum's true identity is terrifying enough to bring me to my knees.
Then, I discovered the truth of who he is.
Caldris is whispered in the Nothrek wind. The legend we only speak of with hushed words, in shuttered rooms, for fear of drawing his wrath once again. His intentions are a mystery, his desires impure, and he seeks to shackle me to his side for all eternity. With the Wild Hunt as our guard, he points us back to where it all began: the village of Mistfell and the boundary where the Veil once shimmered in the wind.
Now, another secret crouches, poised to change everything.
The Mist Guard have been sworn to keep us from crossing into Alfheimr, and from treading Faerie soil, even if innocents must pay with their lives. They have orders to resurrect Mistfell's shimmering barrier, but, once again, there's a greater cost than what has been revealed. Once, the people of Northrek blamed me when the Veil fell.
Soon, they'll want me to pay the price the magic requires.
Berlin
The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - Berlin
Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate acts: the suffering of the First World War, the cosmopolitan city of science, culture and sexual freedom Berlin became, steep economic plunges, the rise of the Nazis, the destruction of the Second World War, the psychosis of genocide, and a city rent in two by competing ideologies. But people do not live their lives in fixed eras. An epoch ends, yet the people continue - or try to continue - much as they did before. Berlin tells the story of the city as seen through the eyes not of its rulers, but of those who walked its streets.
In this magisterial biography of a city and its inhabitants, bestselling historian Sinclair McKay sheds new light on well-known characters - from idealistic scientist Albert Einstein to Nazi architect Albert Speer - and draws on never-before-seen first-person accounts to introduce us to people of all walks of Berlin life. For example, we meet office worker Mechtild Evers, who in her efforts to escape an oncoming army runs into even more appalling jeopardy, and Reinhart Cruger, a 12-year-old boy in 1941 who witnesses with horror the Gestapo coming for each of his Jewish neighbours in turn. Ever a city of curious contrasts, moments of unbelievable darkness give way to a wry Berliner humour - from banned perms to the often ridiculous tit-for-tat between East and West Berlin - and moments of joyous hope - like forced labourers at a jam factory warmly welcoming their Soviet liberators.
How did those ideologies - fascism and communism - come to flower so fully here? And how did their repercussions continue to be felt throughout Europe and the West right up until that extraordinary night in the autumn of 1989 when the Wall - that final expression of totalitarian oppression - was at last breached? You cannot understand the twentieth century without understanding Berlin; and you cannot understand Berlin without understanding the experiences of its people. Drawing on a staggering breadth of culture - from art to film, opera to literature, science to architecture - McKay's latest masterpiece shows us this hypnotic city as never before.