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Lacná kniha Exit Ghost (-50%)
Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no voices, no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no news, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age. Walking the streets like a revenant, he quickly makes three connections that explode his carefully protected solitude. One is with a young couple with whom, in a rash moment, he offers to swap homes. They will flee post-911 Manhattan for his country refuge, and he will return to city life. But from the time he meets them, Zuckerman also wants to swap his solitude for the erotic challenge of the young woman, Jaime, whose allure draws him back to all that he thought he had left behind: intimacy, the vibrant play of heart and body. The second connection is with a figure from Zuckerman's youth, Amy Bellette, companion and muse to Zuckerman's first literary hero, E.I. Lonoff. The once irresistible Amy is now an old woman depleted by illness, guarding the memory of that grandly austere American writer who showed Nathan the solitary path to a writing vocation. The third connection is with Lonoff's would-be biographer, a young literary hound who will do and say nearly anything to get to Lonoff's great secret". Suddenly involved, as he never wanted or intended to be involved again, with love, mourning, desire, and animosity, Zuckerman plays out an interior drama of vivid and poignant possibilities. Haunted by Roth's earlier works - the melancholy comedy of "The Ghost Writer", the counterpoint of the imaginary and the real in "The Counterlife", the distinctive dialogues of "Deception" - "Exit Ghost" is a reminder of Roth's incomparable style and themes and an amazing leap into yet another phase in this great writer's insatiable commitment to fiction."
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4,14 €
8,27 €
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Lacná kniha Trees of the World (-70%)
Trees of the World presents almost 250 photographs of the world’s most gorgeous trees from Europe, Africa, the Americas and Australia, including the baobab, yucca and dracaena amongst others. The book contains 30 species and genera, useful information on each species, distribution maps and an impressive picture index.
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11,97 €
39,90 €
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The Man From the Atom
This was one of the 6 science fiction stories published in the first issue (April 1926) of the first magazine devoted to science fiction, Amazing Stories, edited and published by Hugo Gernsback, now considered to be the father of the science fiction genre. He described this story in an inset panel:"In 'Alice in the Looking Glass', the beautiful play of fancy which gave immortal fame to a logician and mathematician, we read of the mysterious change in size of the heroine, the charming little Alice. It tells how she grew large and small according to what she ate. But here we have increase in size pushed to its utmost limit. Here we have treated the growth of a man to cosmic dimensions. And we are told of his strange sensation and are led up to a sudden startling and impressive conclusion, and are taken through the picture of his emotions and despair."The reader with even the most basic knowledge of science will find this story flawed, incredible, perhaps ludicrous. But, after all, it's fiction, more fantasy than science. Suspend your disbelief and let the story carry you where it will, across space and time, to love.The magazine copyright and the individual copyright of the author were not renewed. Therefore this work is in the public domain in the United States. It may also be in the public domain in other countries based on the life of the author, who in this instance died in 1968. Check your country's copyright length at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_length .
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0,88 €
Maybe Not
Colleen Hoover, the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us and It Starts with Us brilliantly brings to life the story of the hilarious and charismatic Warren in this novella.
When Warren has the opportunity to live with a female roommate, he instantly agrees. It could be an exciting change.
Or maybe not.
Especially when that roommate is the cold and seemingly calculating Bridgette. Tensions run high and tempers flare as the two can hardly stand to be in the same room together. But Warren has a theory about Bridgette: anyone who can hate with that much passion should also have the capability to love with that much passion. And he wants to be the one to test this theory.
Will Bridgette find it in herself to warm her heart to Warren and finally learn to love?
Maybe.
Maybe not.
Making It So
The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From his acclaimed stage triumphs to his legendary onscreen work in the Star Trek and X-Men franchises, Sir Patrick Stewart has captivated audiences around the world and across multiple generations with his indelible command of stage and screen. Now, he presents his long-awaited memoir, MAKING IT SO, a revealing portrait of an artist whose astonishing life-from his humble beginnings in Yorkshire, England to the heights of Hollywood and worldwide acclaim-proves a story as exuberant, definitive, and enduring as the author himself.
Chile and Easter Island (Lonely Planet Country Guide)
Complete, practical country guide for independent travellers. More coverage of booming adventure travel destination Patagonia. Expanded focus on activities, adventure and eco-travel, including a dedicated outdoors chapter. Special feature on Chilean wine.
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31,50 €
33,16 €
The Room Where It Happened - A White House Memoir
As President Trump's National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves.
The result is a White House memoir that is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration, and one of the few to date by a top-level official. With almost daily access to the President, John Bolton has produced a precise rendering of his days in and around the Oval Office. What Bolton saw astonished him: a President for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation. "I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn't driven by reelection calculations," he writes. In fact, he argues that the House committed impeachment malpractice by keeping their prosecution focused narrowly on Ukraine when Trump's Ukraine-like transgressions existed across the full range of his foreign policy-and Bolton documents exactly what those were, and attempts by him and others in the Administration to raise alarms about them.
He shows a President addicted to chaos, who embraced our enemies and spurned our friends, and was deeply suspicious of his own government. In Bolton's telling, all this helped put Trump on the bizarre road to impeachment. "The differences between this presidency and previous ones I had served were stunning," writes Bolton, who worked for Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43. He discovered a President who thought foreign policy is like closing a real estate deal-about personal relationships, made-for-TV showmanship, and advancing his own interests. As a result, the US lost an opportunity to confront its deepening threats, and in cases like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea ended up in a more vulnerable place.
Bolton's account starts with his long march to the West Wing as Trump and others woo him for the National Security job. The minute he lands, he has to deal with Syria's chemical attack on the city of Douma, and the crises after that never stop. As he writes in the opening pages, "If you don't like turmoil, uncertainty, and risk-all the while being constantly overwhelmed with information, decisions to be made, and sheer amount of work-and enlivened by international and domestic personality and ego conflicts beyond description, try something else."
The turmoil, conflicts, and egos are all there-from the upheaval in Venezuela, to the erratic and manipulative moves of North Korea's Kim Jong Un, to the showdowns at the G7 summits, the calculated warmongering by Iran, the crazy plan to bring the Taliban to Camp David, and the placating of an authoritarian China that ultimately exposed the world to its lethal lies. But this seasoned public servant also has a great eye for the Washington inside game, and his story is full of wit and wry humor about how he saw it played.
Birnam Wood
FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE
Birnam Wood is on the move...
A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in New Zealand's South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. But they hadn't figured on the enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine, who also has an interest in the place. Can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust each other?
A propulsive literary thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its wit, drama and immersion in character. It is a brilliantly constructed tale of intentions, actions and consequences, and an unflinching examination of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.
The Law and the Lady (Oxford World´s Classics)
Probably the first full-length novel with a woman detective as its heroine, The Law and the Lady (1875) is a fascinating example of Collins' later fiction. Valeria Valerie Woodville's first act as a married woman is to sign her name incorrectly in the marriage register, this slip is followed by a gradual disclosure of secrets about her husband's earlier life, each of which leads to another set of questions and enigmas. Developing many of the techniques at work in The Moonstone in bizarre and unexpected ways, and employing both Gothic and fantastic elements, The Law and the Lady adds a significant dimension to the history of the detective novel.
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7,41 €
7,80 €
Dead Poets Society
Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary! " Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passions run wild. As Keating turns the boys on to the great words of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, they discover not only the beauty of language, but the importance of making each moment count.
But the Dead Poets pledges soon realize that their newfound freedom can have tragic consequences. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams?
Which Way Round the Galaxy
From the bestselling author of How to Train Your Dragon and The Wizards of Once comes an out-of-this-world new adventure...
The O'Hero-Smiths may have rescued their little sister Annipeck, found K2 and Izza's father Everest and triumphed over the robot assassin called the EXCORIATOR - but their story isn't quite over yet. Because there is danger and possibility in the Which Ways. And a new adventure bursting with magic is about to take them through the crossing points and into new worlds.
COME WITH ME IF YOU DARE...
Sailing trip (EN)
There’s nothing like the fresh air in the mountains, waves lapping against the shore, the wind caressing your breast, the water touching your sex. This is a collection of erotic short stories from Cupido. The collection contains the following stories: "She stood naked, wet, in the drying air – with her back against the mast and her face turned towards the sun.
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5,99 €
Moc manželkiných modlitieb
Väčšina manželstiev pociťuje potrebu prehĺbenia svojho vzťahu, ale ako na to? Stormie Omartian prináša osviežujúci pohľad na moc modlitby, ktorá je korením partnerského vzťahu. Stormie, matka troch dospelých detí, okrem príkladov z vlastného života ponúka jednoduché modlitby a biblické verše, ktoré inšpirujú a povzbudzujú ženy, aby dôverovali nádherným Božím zasľúbeniam o uzdravení a obnovení svojho manželstva. Harmonické manželstvo sa v súčasnosti javí ako nedosiahnuteľný sen. No Boh rád urobí aj zdanlivo nemožné, ak ho o to požiadame. Stormie Omartian nám ponúka svedectvá o tom, ako Boh upevňuje jej vzťah s manželom, odkedy sa zaňho začala modliť, a to najmä za tieto oblasti: duchovný život, spravovanie peňazí, úloha otca a lídra, ochrana v práci, zdravie.
Hra osudu 3 - Einarinn
Livak has decided it's time she turned her new-found connections with powerful mages and mighty princes into solid advantage for herself. If she is to have any sort of future with the swordsman Ryshad, they need the means to live independently of her gambling and travel and the ties of his oath. Livak discovers that knowledge of the ancient aetheric magic - Artifice as the Tormalin call it - is being sought by both Messire D'Olbriot and Planir the Archmage. By locating those who hold the secrets of Artifice first, Livak will hold the key to untold riches ...THE GAMBLER'S FORTUNE is a wonderful new fantasy adventure in the Einarinn series, with magical storytelling, powerful characters and a richly detailed world. Look out for more information on this book and others on the
Eyewitness Travel Guides - New York (Pocket Map and Guide)
This is the best of New York City in your pocket. From the Rockefeller Centre to the Staten Island Ferry - the guide covers up to 200 sights and recommendations and slips easily into your pocket or bag. Perfect for on-the-go navigation, you can discover New York's best restaurants, bars and shops, opening times and transport information. You can use the guide to decide your itinerary and then plot your route using the fold-out map. It has everything you need to make the most of your city break or stopover.
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6,53 €
6,87 €
Managing Expectations
A dazzling 'tell-most' memoir: poignant and laugh-out-loud funny scenes from the life of actor Minnie Driver. Managing Expectations is a collection of delicately crafted, hilarious and heartfelt essays, described as a 'tell-most', in which Minnie Driver uses her formidable storytelling skills to examine and understand her less-than-ordinary life.
Suffused with warmth and humour, Minnie shares poignant, candid and honest stories of her unconventional childhood, the shock of fame, motherhood, love, success, failure, the power of sisterly love, and the loss of her beloved mother.In her own words, it's about how things not working out actually worked out in the end, and how reaching for the dream is easily more interesting, expansive, sad and funny than the dream itself coming true.
The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
The sequel to Jonas Jonasson's international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
It all begins with a hot air balloon trip and three bottles of champagne. Allan and Julius are ready for some spectacular views, but they're not expecting to land in the sea and be rescued by a North Korean ship, and they could never have imagined that the captain of the ship would be harbouring a suitcase full of contraband uranium, on a nuclear weapons mission for Kim Jong-un ...
Soon Allan and Julius are at the centre of a complex diplomatic crisis involving world figures from the Swedish foreign minister to Angela Merkel and President Trump. Things are about to get very complicated ...
Praise for The Hundred-Year-Old Man:
`A mordantly funny and loopily freewheeling debut novel about ageing disgracefully' Sunday Times
`Imaginative, laugh-out-loud . . . a brilliant satire on the foibles of mankind' Daily Telegraph
`Fast-moving and relentlessly sunny' Guardian
Na sklade 2Ks
12,30 €
12,95 €
Lacná kniha The Elves of Cintra (-70%)
Fifty years from now, our world looks very different. Governments have fallen. Thousands live in fortified strongholds; others roam the landscape as either predator or prey. Standing against the forces that have tipped the balance from good to evil are a very few heroes, men and women imbued with powerful magic and sworn to a high destiny. Logan Tom is one of those heroes. He's on a desperate quest to deliver the street kids he rescued in Seattle to safety. So, too, is Angel Perez, who is leading a second group in the Oregon wilderness where she encounters the long-hidden Elves of Cintra. And Hawk - just learning his magic - has an encounter with the mystical King of the Silver River, who promises safety for both humans and elves - if only they can reach him...
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2,89 €
9,63 €
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Spellbreaker
A cursed scratch. A full moon rising. With her wits alone, can Sunshine Townsende survive a werewolf feud to find a cure?Sunshine’s bloodline puts her at the bottom rung of a magical society. Surrounded by entitled mages at Papi's Magics and Unmentionables, she works herself to the bone to afford her comatose cousin’s lifesaving treatments. But when an ill-fated flat tire sends her spiraling into a werewolf’s arms, Sunshine soon fears the resulting scratch could end in supernatural disaster.
As a cautious pack leader holds her passport hostage, Sunshine prays the next full moon won’t end in tattered clothes and furry legs. But when she learns her cousin’s survival hinges on her own humanity, she’s forced to do the impossible: either hunt down a lycanthropy cure or escape a group of very pissed-off werewolves.
To protect her family and save her skin, Sunshine must dig deep to embrace her true power…
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0,86 €