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Americana
Don DeLillo's Americana - part of the limited edition PENGUIN STREET ART series: timeless writing, enduring design.
' "My life," I said, "is a series of telephone messages which nobody understands but me" '
David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making. But David's dream is turning sour, nightmarish. He wants reality, to touch, feel and record what is real. He takes a camera and journeys across America in a mad, roving quest to discover and capture some sense of his own and his country's past, present and future.
'DeLillo's swift, ironic, and witty cross-country nightmare doesn't have a dull or unoriginal line' Rolling Stone
Don DeLillo was born and raised in New York City. He has written fifteen novels and three stage plays and has won many honours including the National Book Award for White Noise, the International Fiction Prize for Libra, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Mao II, the Jerusalem Prize, the Howells Medal for Underworld and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.
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 Fundamentalistby Mohsin Hamid / The Believers by Zoe Heller /How to Be Good by Nick Hornby / Lights out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair
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According to Yes
Dawn French, number one bestselling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous and Oh Dear Silvia, returns with her joyously funny new novel, According To YES. The Foreign Land of the Very Wealthy - otherwise known as Manhattan's Upper East Side - has its own rigid code of behaviour. It's a code strictly adhered to by the Wilder-Bingham family. Emotional displays - unacceptable. Unruly behaviour - definitely not welcome. Fun - no thanks. This is Glenn Wilder-Bingham's kingdom. A beautifully displayed impeccably edited fortress of restraint. So when Rosie Kitto, an eccentric thirty-eight-year-old primary school teacher from England, bounces into their lives with a secret sorrow and a heart as big as the city, nobody realises that she hasn't read the rule book. For the Wilder-Bingham family, whose lives begin to unravel thread by thread, the consequences are explosive. Because after a lifetime of saying no, what happens when everyone starts saying ...yes? 'I adored According to YES. It's so different to anything I've read in forever, so charming, wise, brilliantly written. I loved it all' Marian Keyes 'There is lots of fun to be had reading this book. It's impossible not to warm to Rosie, a funny and open-hearted woman who acts as a salve and comfort blanket for this unhappy, inhibited family. There's something quite joyous about the way she unashamedly romps her way through the novel, changing the lives of those around her for the better' Express 'French can spin a yarn ...which sets According to YES apart from the usual chick-lit template. Think the vicar of Dibley, without the dog collar. YES YES YES indeed' Independent Further praise for Dawn French: 'A fantastic slam-dunk pageturner. Funny, enriching ...page after page I laughed out loud' Mail on Sunday 'A hilarious snapshot of family life in the twenty-first century' Sunday Express 'Extremely funny' Sunday Times 'Dawn tackles the big ones - love, death, grief, childhood, motherhood, parenthood - head on' Guardian 'Makes you laugh on every page' The Times 'A brilliantly observed, very funny novel of family life' Woman and Home 'Funny, really enjoyable, highly recommended. A wonderful writer - witty, wise, poignant' Daily Mail
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21028 New York City
Osláv architektonickú rozmanitosť New Yorku vďaka detailnému modelu mesta z LEGO® kociek. Panoramatické modely z edície LEGO Architecture Skyline Collection môžeš vystavovať doma aj v kancelárii a sú určené pre všetkých tých, ktorí sa zaujímajú o cestovanie, architektúru, históriu a dizajn. Každá stavebnica je navrhnutá v presnom pomere s predlohovou budovou a presne odzrkadľuje jej farby. Táto stavebnica obsahuje budovy Flatiron Building, Chrysler Building™, Empire State Building, One World Trade Center a Sochu slobody. Súprava obsahuje dekoratívnu ceduľku „New York City“.
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Le Pere Goriot
Nobody writes about money like Balzac, and his classic chronicle of a young man from the provinces clawing his way to success in 19th century Paris, even as an older man is victimized by the same milieu, shrewdly captures the financial dimension of so much that goes on between people. The boarding house in which the two protagonists live is a microcosm of their world, and Goriot's treatment by his daughters would make Lear blanch.
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First Love And Others Novella
This new collection brings together "First Love", "The Calamative", "The End" and "The Expelled", these four novellas are among the first major works of Beckett's decision to use French as his language of literary composition. Rich in verbal and situational humour, they offer a fascinating insight into many of the issues which preoccupied Beckett all his working life. As the first novella reveals, nobody writes with quite such cruel and unnervingly clever wit as Beckett...
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PHOTO OF THE TALL MAN PR3
Kelly Logan reads about the Tall Man in the newspaper. He's a dangerous criminal, but nobody knows what he looks like, except that he is very tall. But sixteen-year-old Kelly has her own worries -how will she get on in the big city? She's too busy to think about the Tall Man, until a late-night phone message makes her think again. Find out what happens next in this fast-moving thriller.
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Oxford Bookworms Library 4 Persuasion
At nineteen Anne Elliot refuses an offer of marriage from Frederick Wentworth, persuaded to do so by Lady Russell, a friend of her dead mother. Wentworth is a sailor, with no money and an uncertain future, says Lady Russell - just a nobody, certainly not worthy of a baronet's daughter. Eight years later Wentworth returns, a rich and successful captain, looking for a wife. Anne is still unmarried, but Captain Wentworth clearly prefers the company of the two Musgrove girls ...
Lennon John - Legend CD
1.Imagine
2.Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
3.Mother (Single Edit)
4.Jealous Guy
5.Power To The People
6.Cold Turkey
7.Love
8.Mind Games
9.Whatever Gets You Thru The Night
10.#9 Dream
11.Stand By Me
12.(Just Like) Starting Over
13.Woman
14.Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
15.Watching The Wheels
16.Nobody Told Me
17.Borrowed Time
18.Working Class Hero
19.Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
20.Give Peace A Chance
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Naomi Klein's new international bestseller This Changes Everything is a must-read on our future, one of the defining and most hopeful books of this era. Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. Once a decade, Naomi Klein writes a book that redefines its era. No Logo did so for globalization. The Shock Doctrine changed the way we think about austerity. In This Changes Everything , her most provocative and optimistic book yet, Naomi Klein has upended the debate about the stormy era already upon us, exposing the myths that are clouding the climate debate. You have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. You have been told it's impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it - it just requires breaking every rule in the "free-market" playbook. You have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all around the world, the fight back is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiring. It's about changing the world, before the world changes so drastically that no one is safe. Either we leap - or we sink. This Changes Everything is a book that will redefine our era. "The most important book I've read all year - perhaps in a decade...crucially, she leaves the reader with a sense of optimism." (Stephanie Merritt, Observer, Books of the Year). "A book of such ambition and consequence it is almost unreviewable...The most momentous and contentious environmental book since Silent Spring." (Rob Nixon, The New York Times). "Naomi is like a great doctor - she can diagnose problems nobody else sees." (Alfonso Cuaron). "Damn right, this changes everything...one of the greatest nonfiction works of all time...not just a book. It is a path of survival" (D. R. Tucker, Washington Monthly).
The Complete Cosmicomics
Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William Weaver in Penguin Modern Classics.'Naturally, we were all there, - dld Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?' The Cosmicomics tell the story of the history of the universe, from the big bang, through millennia and across galaxies. It is witnessed through the eyes of 'cosmic know-it-all' Qfwfq, an exuberant, chameleon-like figure, who takes the shape of a dinosaur, a mollusc, a steamer captain and a moon milk gatherer, among others. This is the first complete edition in English of Italo Calvino's funny, whimsical and delightful stories, which blend scientific fact, flights of fancy, parody and wordplay to show the strangeness and the wonders of the world. Italo Calvino (1923-1985), one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. Among his other works published in Penguin Modern Classics are Italian Folktales, Hermit in Paris, Into the War, The Path to the Spiders' Nests, Numbers in the Dark, Six Memos for the Next Millennium and Why Read the Classics?If you liked The Complete Cosmicomics, you might enjoy Jorge Luis Borges' Fictions, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'The complete and definitive collection ... a masterpiece' Gilbert Adair, Evening Standard'Dazzling ... a book of revelation' Tim Adams, Observer 'If you have never read Cosmicomics, you have before you the most joyful reading experience of your life' Salman Rushdie'A landmark in fiction, the work of a master' Ursula K Le Guin, Guardian
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Oxford Bookworms Library 2 Murders in Rue Morgue
The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery. Except Auguste Dupin, who could see further and think more clearly than other people. The answers to the mystery were all there, but only a clever man could see them.
Bee Gees - One Night Only CD
1. Intro: You Should Be Dancing/Alone
2. Massachusetts
3. To Love Somebody
4. Words
5. Closer Than Close
6. Islands in the Stream
7. Our Love (Don't Throw It All Away)
8. Night Fever/More Than a Woman
9. Lonely Days
10. New York Mining Disaster 1941
11. I Can't See Nobody
12. And the Sun Will Shine
13. Nights on Broadway
14. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?
15. Heartbreaker
16. Guilty
17. Immortality
18. Tragedy
19. I Started a Joke
20. Grease
21. Jive Talkin'
22. How Deep Is Your Love
23. Stayin' Alive
24. You Should Be Dancing
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Metuzalémovy děti
Lidstvo se chystá vydat se ke hvězdám, ale ve svém jádru je stále stejné. Stejně sobecké, nepoučitelné, manipulovatelné a závistivé. Krycí nátěry jeho podstaty, veškeré hraní si na civilizované a osvícené bytosti, končí v okamžiku, kdy veřejnost zjistí, že mezi sebou mají skupinku lidí, jejichž doba života několikanásobně překračuje obvyklý průměr.
Nikdo se nehodlá spokojit s vysvětlením, že nejde o žádnou zázračnou kůru dlouhověkosti, ale o důsledek dlouhodobého genetického programu. Všichni jsou zajedno: Howardovy rodiny musí předat své žárlivě střežené tajemství dlouhověkosti všem!
Veškeré zákony na ochranu svobod jednotlivce, mezinárodní úmluvy i zvyklosti jdou stranou a stejná argumentace, jaká je vytvořila, nyní slouží k ospravedlnění jakýchkoli prostředků, potřebných k získání údajného tajemství. Práva sobecké menšiny musí ustoupit zájmům lidstva jako celku!
Politické strany i hnutí se předhánějí, kdo z nich získá více zásluh na daru dlouhověkosti pro všechny, komu z nich takovýto slib vynese více politického kapitálu a tím i momentální moci...
Až na to, že žádné takové tajemství, které by bylo možné podivínské hrstce zabavit, neexistuje. A zastavit již jednou rozjetou mašinerii nelze...
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Tenkrát na Východě
Fotografická publikace doprovází stejnojmennou výstavu v Galerii hlavního města Prahy. Ukazuje život obyčejných lidí v Československu za vlády komunistické strany. Známými i dosud nepublikovanými fotografiemi připomíná proměny, jimiž tato společnost za onu dobu prošla, především postupující zmar a devastaci skrývající se za pompézními komunistickými slavnostmi a manifestacemi oddanosti, jakož i všudypřítomné politické dusno posilované propagandou. Všímá si ale i její druhé, odvrácené strany - blahodárného soukromí v hospodách, na chatách a na chalupách, kde lidé teprve žili přirozeně a do jisté míry i svobodně. Kniha se tak stává živou, oživující vodou pro paměť toho, kdo tuto dobu zažil, a historickým dokumentem pro mladší generace, které tuto nejspravedlivější společnost nepoznaly. Obsahuje fotografie Josefa Koudelky, Dagmar Hochové, Jindřicha Štreita, Markéty Luskačové, Jana Lukase, Viktora Koláře, Gustava Aulehly a mnoho dalších významných fotografů.
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Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1)
Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife-between desire and danger.Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.
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21042 Socha slobody
Osláv monumentálne spojenie architektúry a sochárstva s touto stavebnicou LEGO® Architecture 21042 Socha slobody. Ikonický symbol Spojených štátov sa týči v prístave New Yorku viac než 305 stôp nad ostrovom Liberty Island a víta príchodzích moreplavcov z celého sveta. Pôsobivé stvárnenie v podobe modelu LEGO verne reprodukuje harmonické spojenie sochárstva a architektúry tejto pamiatky s bohato zdobeným podstavcom s líniou štítov, tehlami a balkónmi so stĺpmi. Nádherná socha má vejúcu róbu, rozlomené okovy, korunu so 7 lúčmi, ikonickú tabuľu a zdvihnutú ruku so zlatou pochodňou. Model je v autentickej pieskovo-zelenej a béžovej farbe s ozdobným štítkom. Prináša uspokojivý zážitok zo stavania všetkým, ktorí sa zaujímajú o architektúru, cestovanie, históriu a dizajn. Je to skutočná symbolická ozdoba pre domácnosti alebo kancelárie.
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The Anatomy Lesson
At forty, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. Zuckerman, whose work was his life, is unable to write a line. Now his work is trekking from one doctor to another, but none can find a cause for the pain and nobody can assuage it. Zuckerman himself wonders if the pain can have been caused by his own books. And while he is wondering, his dependence on painkillers extends to an addiction to vodka and marijuana. The third volume of the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound, The Anatomy Lesson is a great comedy of illness and provides some of the funniest scenes in all of Roth's fiction as well as some of the fiercest.
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Day We Disappeared
The unforgettable new novel from Lucy Robinson. Annie has a secret. But if she's not going to tell, we won't either. It's a heart-breaking secret she wishes she didn't have - yet Annie isn't broken, not quite yet. Especially now there's someone out there who seems determined to fix her. Kate has run away. But she's not going to tell us why - that would defeat the point of running, wouldn't it? It's proving difficult to reinvent herself, however, with one person always on her mind. Scratch beneath the surface and nobody is really who they seem. Even Annie and Kate, two old friends, aren't entirely sure who they are any more. Perhaps you can work it out, before their pasts catch up with them for good...A gripping and unpredictable story of two young women running from their pasts. We defy you to guess the twist...Lucy Robinson is the author of The Greatest Love Story of All Time, A Passionate Love Affair with a Total Stranger and The Unfinished Symphony of You and Me. Lucy worked in theatre and then television documentaries before starting a blog for Marie Claire about her laughably unsuccessful foray into the world of online dating. She did not meet a man during this time but she did become a novelist: every cloud has a silver lining. She now lives in Bristol with her partner, The Man, whom she met when she took off to Buenos Aires to become a bohemian writer in 2010. Praise for The Day We Disappeared: "What a book! Fabulous characters, dark secrets and a clever, compulsive plot that will take you completely by surprise. Read it!" (Lucy Diamond, Sunday Times top 10 bestselling author of The Year of Taking Chances). "Lucy Robinson has managed to pull off a very rare thing: a novel that is as sad as it is funny, as it is psychologically thrilling...Totally satisfying. I could not put it down!" (Katy Regan, bestselling author of How We Met). "I couldn't put this book down: a fabulously original love story that swoops and twists and wraps you in its big-hearted, funny yet dark-edged world." (Lucy Dillon, bestselling author of A Hundred Pieces of Me Top notch, unforgettable women's fiction). The Day We Disappeared is a rare gem, a novel that haunts, inspires and captivates. The story took me completely by surprise. Its compulsive, funny, sad and shocking, and is the finest example of a romantic mystery you'll read all year - Victoria Fox, bestselling author of Power Games "Clear a space in your life for this awe-inspiring gem of a book. Seriously, you'll need a place for all the bits of shattered earth to land. Enthralling from the get-go and packed with an irresistible blend of brilliant characters, intriguing drama and a plot twist that will slam-dunk your brain into the middle of next week, this is a novel you'll be talking about for a very long time. It's an overwhelming accomplishment that cements Lucy Robinson's place amongst the very best in the business. Please, please read it." (Isabelle Broom, Books Editor Heat magazine). "One of Britain's most talented rising stars." (Huffington Post). "Intriguing and uplifting - a real page-turner full of humour and mystery, with a pair of heroines you'll welcome into your heart." (Julie Cohen). Praise for Lucy Robinson: "We want to climb the highest mountain and shout about this book to the world. We laughed, we cried, we fell in love - and we haven't stopped going on about it ever since!" (Heat). "Romantic and laugh-out-loud hilarious." (Cosmopolitan). "One of Britain's most talented rising stars." (Huffington Post).
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Great Expectations
The convict scares Pip into stealing food for him and a file to grind away his leg shackles. He warns Pip not to tell anyone and to do as he says or he will cut out Pip's heart and liver. Pip returns home, where he lives with his older sister Mrs. Joe, whose name is later revealed to be Georgiana Maria, and her husband Joe Gargery. His sister is very cruel and beats him as well as her husband with various objects regularly; however, Joe is much kinder to Pip. Pip's sister, called Mrs. Joe throughout the novel, often reminds Pip that she was the one who "brought him up by hand". Early the next morning, Pip steals food and drink from the Gargery pantry (including a pie for their Christmas feast) and sneaks out to the graveyard. It is the first time in Pip's life he's felt truly guilty. During Christmas dinner with the minister Mr. Wopsle, Mr. and Mrs. Hubble, and Uncle Pumblechook, Pip and Mrs. Joe's moderately wealthy uncle, nobody notices the missing food or brandy until Uncle Pumblechook drinks some brandy and spits it out. Pip realizes that he filled the brandy jug not with water, but with tar-water, (a foul-tasting tonic made of pine tar and water often used for medicinal purposes), instead. He had brought some of the brandy to the convict and had to replace it somehow. Pip sits at the table being told how lucky he is by all the relatives all the while in fear that someone will notice the missing pie. However, the moment his sister goes to the pantry to retrieve the pie and discovers it is missing, soldiers approach the house and ask Joe to repair their handcuffs and invite Joe, Pip and Mr. Wopsle to come with them to hunt for some escaped prisoners from the local jail. As they hunt through the marshes outside the village, they accost two convicts while engaged in a fight. One of them is the convict helped by Pip; the convict freely confesses to the theft of the file and "some wittles" (i.e. victuals) in order to shield Pip. The police take the two to the Hulk, a giant prison ship, and Pip is carried home by Joe, where they finish Christmas dinner. A while after Pip's encounter with the convict, Pip's life returns to normal. He continues to attend the local school which is run by Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt, and becomes friends with Biddy, an orphan who was adopted by the Wopsles; even though no more was said of the incident with the convict and he has been absolved of any wrong doing, he still feels guilty for the theft. A wealthy old woman named Miss Havisham asks Pip's Uncle Pumblechook to find a boy of a certain age and bring him to her home to play. Pumblechook immediately selects Pip and brings him to Miss Havisham's, who lives in the village in Satis House. Miss Havisham is a spinster who wears an old wedding dress with one shoe on and has all the house clocks stopped at 20 minutes to nine. She has not seen sunlight in years and claims that she just wants to see Pip play cards with Estella, a young girl she has adopted.
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