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Time and the Gods
Time and the Gods is the second book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula LeGuin and others.The book was first published in hardcover by William Heinemann in September, 1906, and has been reprinted a number of times since. It was issued by the Modern Library in an unauthorised combined edition with The Book of Wonder under the latter's title in 1918.Dunsany had a brief preface in the original edition and added a new introduction to the 1922 edition.The book is a series of short stories linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegana. It was preceded by his earlier collection The Gods of Pegana and followed by some stories in The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories.
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Lacná kniha The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X (-90%)
A landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelling figures, rewriting much of the known narrative.
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X - including siblings, classmates, friends, cellmates, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become hundreds of hours of interviews into a portrait that would separate fact from fiction.
The result is this magisterial work that conjures a never-before-seen world of its protagonist, whose title is inspired by a phrase Malcolm X used when he saw his followers stir with purpose to overcome the obstacles of racism. Setting his life not only within the political struggles of his day but also against the larger backdrop of American history, this remarkable masterpiece traces his path from street criminal to devoted moralist and revolutionary.
An author who saw Malcolm X speak and could not stand the phrase 'we may never know', Payne writes cinematically from start to finish and delivers extraordinary revelations - from a hair-raising scene of Malcolm's clandestine meeting with the KKK, to a minute-by-minute account of his murder in Harlem in 1965, in which he makes the case for the complicity of the American government.
Introduced by Payne's daughter and primary researcher, Tamara Payne, who, following her father's death, heroically completed the biography, The Dead Are Arising is a penetrating and riveting work that affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle and the story of the twentieth century.
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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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All the Pretty Horses
John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
All the Pretty Horses is an acknowledged masterpiece from Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy, and a grand love story: a novel about childhood passing, along with innocence and a vanished American age. Steeped in the wisdom that comes only from loss, it is a magnificent parable of responsibility, revenge and survival.
The Duties of Parents
A primer on raising children and the duties all Christian parents have toward those God has entrusted to them.
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Understanding The Quarrelling Style Of Your Spouse
Do you know why couples quarrel the way they do?
In this book, the author highlights the different quarreling styles among couples. You will learn about the rules of revolving arguments between you and your spouse.
If you want to know how to handle anger management in your relationship, This book is for you, it will take you through a step-by-step process on living at peace with the one you love.
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Loot of the Void
Into the Trap-Door City of great spiders goes Penrun after the hidden plunder of the space-pirate Halkon.
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The Age of Reason
The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, critiques institutionalized religion and challenges the inerrancy of the Bible. Published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1807, it was a bestseller in America, where it caused a short-lived deistic revival. British audiences, however, fearing increased political radicalism as a result of the French revolution, received it with more hostility. The Age of Reason presents common deistic arguments; for example, it highlights the corruption of the Christian Church and criticizes its efforts to acquire political power. Paine advocates reason in the place of revelation, leading him to reject miracles and to view the Bible as an ordinary piece of literature rather than as a divinely inspired text. The Age of Reason is not atheistic, but deistic: it promotes natural religion and argues for a creator-God.
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
Follow the fortunes of Emily St. Aubert who suffers, among other misadventures, the death of her father, supernatural terrors in a gloomy castle, and the machinations of an Italian brigand. Considered by many to be the first "Gothic" novel.
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The Crock of Gold
A truly unique novel, The Crock of Gold is a mixture of philosophy, Irish folklore and the neverending battle of the sexes, written with charm, humour and good grace. It achieved enduring popularity, and was frequently reprinted throughout the author's lifetime.
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Carnacki, The Ghost Finder
Detective stories in which the great Thomas Carnacki investigates the supernatural using scientific tools, such as photography, and tools that are augmented by theories of the supernatural, such as the electric pentacle, which uses vacuum tubes to repel supernatural forces.
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Bucholz and the Detectives
The following pages narrate a story of detective experience, which, in many respects, is alike peculiar and interesting, and one which evinces in a marked degree the correctness of one of the cardinal principles of my detective system, viz.: "That crime can and must be detected by the pure and honest heart obtaining a controlling power over that of the criminal."
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The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, and it was indeed the first novel to describe itself by that term. Castle is thus generally credited with initiating the Gothic literary genre, one that would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century. Thus, Walpole is arguably the forerunner of such authors as Charles Robert Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, and Daphne du Maurier.
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James Etta - Etta James: The Montreux Years 2LP
KDO: Etta James, vlastním jméne Jamesetta Hawkins, byla americká soul / R & B zpěvačka, jejíž kontraalt byl jednou z hlavních ozdob slavného labelu Chess od roku 1960 až do roku 1976. Život hudební hvězdy jí přinesl slávu, včetně uvedení do Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, i drogovou závislost. V roce 2008 byl o ní natočen film "Cadillac Records", kde její roli ztvárnila slavná Beyoncé.
CO: Album "The Montreux Years" zachycuje průřez jejími vystoupeními na slavném jazzovém festivalu ve švýcarském Montreux v letech 1977, 1978, 1989 1990 a 1993. V CD verzi je doplněno druhým diskem, který zachycuje unikátní moment v hudební historii, neboť je záznamem prvního vystoupení Etty James na evropské půdě opět na slavném jazzovém festivalu ve švýcarském Montreux z 11. července 1975.
LP1:
1. A1 Breakin' Up Somebody's Home (Live at Casino Montreux, 18th July 1990)
2. A2 I Got the Will (Live at Casino Montreux, 12th July 1989)
3. A3 I'd Rather Go Blind (Live at Casino Montreux, 9th July 1977)
4. A4 A Lover Is Forever (Live at Auditorium Stravinski, 15th July 1993)
5. B1 Damn Your Eyes (Live at Casino Montreux, 12th July 1989)
6. B2 Tell Mama (Live Casino Montreux, 9th July 1977)
7. B3 Running and Hiding Blues (Live at Casino Montreux, 18th July 1990)
8. B4 Something's Got a Hold On Me (Live at Casino Montreux, 12th July 1989)
LP2:
1. C1 Beware (Live at Auditorium Stravinski, 15th July 1993)
2. C2 Come to Mama (Live at Casino Montreux, 18th July 1990)
3. C3 Medley: At Last/Trust in Me/Sunday Kind of Love (Live at Casino Montreux, 12th July 1989)
4. D1 I Sing the Blues for You (Live at Auditorium Stravinski, 15th July 1993)
5. D2 Baby What You Want Me to Do (Encore) (Live at Casino Montreux, 8th July 1978)
The House Without a Key
The Charlie Chan series #1The novel, which takes place in 1920s Hawai‘i, spends time acquainting the reader with the look and feel of the islands of that era from the standpoint of both white and non-white inhabitants, and describes social class structures and customs which have largely vanished in the 21st century.The novel deals with the murder of a former member of Boston society who has lived in Hawai‘i for a number of years. The main character is the victim's nephew, a straitlaced young Bostonian bond trader, who came to the islands to try to convince his aunt Minerva, whose vacation has extended many months, to return to Boston. The nephew, John Quincy Winterslip, soon falls under the spell of the islands himself, meets an attractive young woman, breaks his engagement to his straitlaced Bostonian fiancee Agatha, and decides after the murder is solved to move to San Francisco. In the interval, he is introduced to many levels of Hawaiian society and is of some assistance to Detective Charlie Chan in solving the mystery.
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Kazan, the Wolf Dog
The tale of a "quarter-strain wolf and three-quarters husky" torn between the call of the human and his wild mate.
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The Violet Fairy Book
This is a new collection of Fairy stories in continuation of the series which "The Blue Fairy Book" was the initial volume.
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The Copper-Clad World
Blaine comes out of the hypnosis of the pink gas to find himself deep within Io, the copper-clad second satellite of Jupiter.
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The Holy Knight's Dark Road: Volume 2
After trekking through a labyrinth and coming back in one piece — with a new friend, to boot — Sain finally has time to actually study at Jenifa. In its hallowed chambers of learning, he applies himself to the acquisition of dark magic. A month later, he emerges......Still utterly worthless at dark magic.On top of that, his teachers have given up on him, and his classmates are calling him the Darkness Dork.Just when despair begins to set in, a chance encounter with an enigmatic girl brings him new hope. Her features are unmistakably those of a dark elf — known for their natural affinity for dark magic. He immediately asks to be her apprentice, only to be coldly rejected.This is Sain, though, and “giving up” just isn't in his vocabulary. Through his tireless — and arguably obnoxious — efforts, he chips away at her armor of indifference. Little does he know, though, that an upcoming school event will put their budding friendship to the ultimate test.
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