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Shattered
Imagine your life changing in a second: one minute you are watching the football with a beer, the next you are on the floor in a pool of blood, deprived of the use of your arms and legs. This fall renders you paralysed, robbed of your independence, entirely reliant on others for everything.
This happened to writer Hanif Kureishi on Boxing Day 2022. His account of what happened and its aftermath is a unique, riveting and frequently riotous account of a year-long odyssey home through five hospitals. From despair to hope, rage to courage, it might be the most truthful, and the funniest, medical disaster story ever written.
The Trouble With Mrs Montgomery Hurst
A love letter to Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell, The Trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst is a witty novel of manners and gossip, class and family, scandal and romance.
1841
The trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst is not Mrs Montgomery Hurst - as young Miss Amelia Ashpoint well knows.
The real trouble is the polite society of Wickenshire, with its inescapable gossip about the arrival of the new Mrs Hurst and - whisper it - her three children from a previous marriage.
In Wickenshire, nobody's business is their own. And in this strange match, the local families sense scandal - and they will do anything to expose it.
Meanwhile, Amelia Ashpoint, though handsome, clever and rich, is avoiding talk of marriage at all costs.
For while society expects Amelia to marry well, her heart is drawing her in a very different direction . . .
The Calico Cat at the Chibineko Kitchen
For fans of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY and BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, discover the second book in the irresistibly uplifting Japanese hit series about cats and the healing power of food.
**Contains four mouth-watering recipes**
The Chibineko Kitchen is no ordinary restaurant: the food can bring someone you've lost back to you, for one last time.
It's been months since Kotoko first visited the tiny restaurant by the sea. Now she works there, alongside the chef Kai and his mischievous kitten Chibi.
One sunny morning, the restaurant opens its doors to Nagi, a young woman facing an impossible choice. Should she marry her boyfriend, despite knowing she only has a few years left to live, or protect him from pain by refusing? She is desparate for advice from the one person no longer around to give it - her mother.
Next to visit are an anxious man rebuilding his life after shutting himself away for years, a lonely widow unaware that she is surrounded by friends, and an actor hoping to rekindle his career. Each leaves the restaurant nourished and reminded of what matters most in life.
Moving and irresistibly uplifting, The Calico Cat at the Chibineko Kitchen is a culinary hug for the soul.
The CIA - An Imperial History
How the CIA became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.
In 1947, the United States created the CIA to analyse foreign intelligence, but within a few years the Agency was engaged in other operations - bolstering pro-American governments, overthrowing nationalist leaders, and surveilling domestic dissent - before transforming during the Cold War.
Drawing on decades of research, celebrated intelligence historian Hugh Wilford shows how the Agency created a new Western empire, as successive US presidents used the covert powers of the Agency to hide overseas interventions from postcolonial foreigners and anti-imperial Americans alike. Even the CIA's post-9/11 global hunt for terrorists was haunted by the ghosts of empires past.
Original, and gripping, The CIA tells how America adopted unaccountable power and created a new imperial order.
Till Summer Do Us Part
"I got what I wanted. I became buddy-buddy with my boss in an instant. But the cost will be hefty . . . finding a husband by tomorrow."
Scottie Price just started a new job, and it's a real sausage fest. She's the only woman on a team filled with Brads and Chads and so, expecting a bachelor-pad atmosphere, she is surprised when she finds out that everyone around her is happily married.
In an effort to try and impress her new team, Scottie mentions her own husband. The only problem? He doesn't technically exist. So when her boss offers her and the supposed love of her life a one-on-one session with the best counsellor money can buy - who just happens to be her boss's partner - she has to think quickly.
Enter Wilder Wells. Her best friend's brother.
And next thing she knows, the two of them are on an eight-day marriage camp. With all her co-workers. Sharing a cabin. And unfortunately for Scottie, Wilder's even more handsome than she remembers . . .
From New York Times bestselling author comes a brand new sizzling summer read that will have you laughing, swooning . . . and sweating.
Fast Money
The first book to look at the unstoppable rise of Formula One
As one of the world's most popular sports, and with races in far corners of the globe, Formula One is big business. Its drivers are among the world's most highly paid athletes, and it costs more than a billion pounds to keep its ten teams ticking over.
This is a sport where money - the spending of it, the flaunting of it, the ruthless pursuit of it - matters.
With unparalleled insight and decades of reporting, Christian Sylt and Caroline Reid describe the pivotal moments which have driven the sport to new heights - the influx of tobacco advertising, the first television deals, the reign of Bernie Ecclestone, and much more. Featuring exclusive interviews with the sport's major players and never-before-heard stories, this is a ground-breaking and revolutionary account about how F1 moved from a pastime for wealthy enthusiasts into one of the world's most-watched sports.
Hip-Hop Is History
For a young Black kid growing up in a musical family in 1970s Philadelphia, hip-hop was everything. He stayed up late to hear the newest songs on the radio. He saved his money to buy vinyl as soon as it landed. He even started to make his own songs. That kid was Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson.
Now, in this landmark book, Questlove traces the creative, cultural forces that made and shaped hip-hop, highlighting the forgotten influential gems and the chart-topping hits - and weaves it all together with the stories no one else knows. It is at once an intimate, sharply observed story and a sweeping theory of the evolution of the greatest artistic movement of our time. Questlove approaches it with both the encyclopaedic fluency of an obsessive fan and the unique expertise of an innovative participant.
Hip-hop is history, and also his history.
The Body Snatchers
Welcome to the Best of the Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction
Mill Valley, Marin County, California.
Dr Miles Bennell has lived there all his life. But one day Miles sees a patient who claims her Uncle isn't himself. He's a different person, despite being identical in every way except one: he is only pretending to have emotions.
Miles dismisses this as delusions and refers her to a psychiatrist.
Then he finds the pods. Giant seed pods, filled with a strange, grey substance. A strange grey substance that can slowly, slowly, become a perfect replica of a person.
But what has happened to the people being replicated?
Adapted for screen multiple times, The Body Snatchers is the origin of the phrase 'pod people', and a staple of pulp science fiction. Read by many as an allegory for the Cold War, or McCarthyism, it perfectly encapsulates the paranoia that comes with not knowing who around you can be trusted.
Roadside Picnic
The Strugatsky brothers' poignant and introspective novel of first contact that inspired the classic film Stalker
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some unknown force to venture illegally into the Zone and, in spite of the extreme danger, collect the mysterious artefacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the Zone and the thriving black market in the alien products. Even the nature of his daughter has been determined by the Zone. And it is for her that Red makes his last, tragic foray into the hazardous and hostile depths.
Dune
What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for more than half a century, this is an awe-inspiring world, and a story of truly epic scope.
Paul Atreides, son of Duke Leto Atreides, and all of his family have been sent to the planet Arrakis, having been outmanoeuvred by their arch-enemy Baron Harkonnen.
Arrakis - also known as Dune - is an arid place, but a planet of fabulous wealth, the only source of a drug prized throughout the Galactic Empire: Spice.
What will happen next will change everything. There are secrets on Dune, known only to the planet's native people, the Fremen. They have been waiting for their moment to make their move.
Paul will be brought into the path by terrible events beyond his control. But Paul himself is important. He is the child of destiny, a child of prophecy, and within him is the power to bring the Empire to its knees.
Joint winner of the HUGO AWARD for best novel, 1966
Winner of the NEBULA AWARD for best novel, 1965
Read the book which inspired the Academy Award-winning and jaw-dropping cinematic events Dune: Part One (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024). A science fiction spectacular like no other, this is a deeply climate conscious novel, and a compelling family saga for the ages.
V is for Venom
Fourteen stories. Fourteen more poisons. Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's all made-up ...
Agatha Christie is renowned for her captivating plots and creative ways of killing off ill-fated victims. And what better way to add intrigue to a story than poison? The surreptitious ways they can be administered and the characteristic symptoms they produce make these killer chemicals the ideal method of murder in a 'whodunit'. Christie perfected the use of poisons in her plots; her deft and varied use of toxic substances is one of her great strengths as a writer. But how is it that some compounds prove so fatal, and in such tiny amounts?
The follow up to Kathryn Harkup's best-selling A is for Arsenic, V is for Venom is a compelling exploration of Christie's use of poisons and her extensive chemical knowledge. Featuring fourteen more poisons from the works of Agatha Christie, this book investigates the science behind the deadly substances, the history of their use in real-life murder cases, and how feasible was it to obtain, administer and detect these poisons in Christie's time and today. Combining Christie's murder mysteries, chemical science and true crime, V is for Venom is a celebration of the use of science by the undisputed Queen of Crime.
Love in the Time of Serial Killers
Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn't exactly conducive to modern dating - and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she's used to suspecting the worst.
PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She's even analysing the genre in her dissertation - if she can manage to finish writing it. It's hard to find the time while she spends the summer in Florida, cleaning out her childhood home, dealing with her obnoxiously good-natured younger brother, and grappling with the complicated feelings of mourning a father she hadn't had a relationship with for years.
It doesn't help that she's low-key convinced that her new neighbour, Sam Dennings, is a serial killer (he may dress business casual by day, but at night he's clearly up to something). But it's not long before Phoebe realises that Sam might be something much scarier - a genuinely nice guy who can pierce her armour to reach her vulnerable heart.
Otec Jacques Sevin
Stále s hlavou v oblakoch, snívajúci o veľkých cestách a plavbách na plachetniciach, milovník poézie a rytierstva – taký bol malý Jacques, keď vyrastal na úsvite 20. storočia.
Život tohto temperamentného a umelecky založeného žiaka z jezuitského kolégia navždy poznačia dve stretnutia: najskôr jeho osobné stretnutie s Ježišom, ktoré mu ukáže duchovný smer, a následne stretnutie s Robertom Badenom-Powellom, zakladateľom skautingu v Anglicku.
Jacques Sevin sa stane zakladajúcou osobnosťou katolíckeho skautingu vo Francúzsku. Neskôr sa podieľa na založení Kongregácie sestier Svätého kríža z Jeruzalema. Tento „apoštol nového typu“ však bude musieť za svoju víziu budúcnosti tvrdo bojovať…
50 nejčastějších omylů při výcviku koní
Zbavte se mýtů a trénujte koně podle nejnovějších vědeckých poznatků! Jezdectví je stále plné zastaralých tradic, které se předávají z generace na generaci. Ale co když některé z nich koním spíše škodí, než prospívají? Odborníci na osteopatii, biomechaniku a jezdeckou psychologii.
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Cieľ (Off Campus 4), 2. vydanie
Vysokoškoláčka Sabrina má v plánoch jasno: doštuduje, zaboduje na práve a získa skvele platenú prácu v prestížnej advokátskej kancelárii. Krásny hokejista v jej predstavách nikdy nefiguroval. Johnovi Tuckerovi je preto ochotná venovať len jednu vášnivú noc, ale niekedy aj to stačí, aby sa človeku zmenil život.
Pre Tuckera je tímový duch alfou a omegou, na slávu si v porovnaní s ostatnými spoluhráčmi nepotrpí. Lenže ak sa má stať v dvadsiatich dvoch rokoch otcom, nehodlá zostať v úzadí. Zaumieni si, že sa o všetko postará a ako rodič zahviezdi. Nastávajúca matka jeho dieťaťa je nielen krásna a múdra, ale i nevyspytateľná. Nikoho nepúšťa do svojho srdca a tvrdohlavo odmieta pomoc. Ako ju má Tucker presvedčiť, že niektoré ciele sa dajú dosiahnuť len s asistenciou?
Z anglického originálu The Goal (Elle Kennedy Inc., USA 2016) preložila Klára Kruteková.
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Odkaz (Off Campus 5), 2. vydanie
Životy Garretta a Hannah, Logana a Grace, Deana a Allie a Tuckera a Sabriny sa po vysokej škole nevyvíjajú tak, ako si predstavovali. Iste, sú spolu, ale zrazu čelia skutočným problémom, na ktoré ich štyri roky na Briarskej univerzite nepripravili. Dospelosť je oveľa náročnejšia ako opletačky s láskou a hrdinovia zisťujú, že veľké rozhodnutia môžu mať veľké následky. Hoci pri troche šťastia priaznivé. Svadba. Žiadosť o ruku. Tajný sobáš. Nečakané tehotenstvo. Hádajte, čo ktorý pár čaká!
Odkaz je napínavým zavŕšením skvelej romantickej série o štyroch sympatických pároch zo série Off Campus.
Z anglického originálu The Legacy (Elle Kennedy Inc., USA 2021) preložila Klára Kruteková.
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Skóre (Off Campus 3), 2. vydanie
Allie Hayesová prežíva krízu. Blížia sa promócie a ona stále netuší, čo bude robiť po vysokej. A aby toho na ňu nebolo málo, pasuje sa so zlomeným srdcom po skrachovaní dlhoročného vzťahu. Samozrejme, že divoký sex na jednu noc jej problémy nevyrieši, ale krásnemu hokejistovi Deanovi Di Laurentisovi sa dá len ťažko odolať. Allie túži aspoň na okamih vypustiť z hlavy všetky starosti. Veď na kráľa jednorazoviek si aj tak zanedlho ani nespomenie.
Dean vždy dostane, čo chce. Dievčatá, dobré známky, dievčatá, uznanie, dievčatá... skrátka, rád si užíva a ešte nestretol takú, ktorá by jeho šarmu odolala. Až kým sa pred jeho dverami neobjaví Allie. Divoká blondína mu za jedinú noc obráti svet hore nohami – a teraz sa chce len kamarátiť? Tak to teda nie! On rozhodne, kedy sa to skončí.
Z anglického originálu The Score (Elle Kennedy Inc., USA 2016) preložila Klára Kruteková.
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Omyl (Off Campus 2), 2. vydanie
John je tretiak na vysokej a môže mať každú, na ktorú si ukáže. Život tejto vysokoškolskej hokejovej hviezdy je samý žúr a samá známosť na jednu noc, ale za jeho očarujúcim úsmevom a odzbrojujúcim šarmom sa skrýva strach, že sa po skočení štúdia dostane do slepej uličky. Stretnutie s prváčkou Grace mu prinesie potrebné rozptýlenie, ale pre jediný omyl sa ich cesty rozídu. Logan je odhodlaný stráviť posledný rok na výške dokazovaním, že si zaslúži druhú šancu.
Grace nastupuje do druhého ročníka na Briarskej univerzite, je staršia, múdrejšia a rozhodnutá zabudnúť na arogantného hokejistu, s ktorým takmer prišla o panenstvo. Už nie je tá zakríknutá chuderka z minulého roka. Ak si Logan myslí, že sa mu bude podlizovať ako iné dievčatá, veľmi sa mýli. Chce ju späť? Nech sa posnaží. Tentoraz je vo vedení Grace a plánuje si to užiť.
Z anglického originálu The Mistake (Elle Kennedy Inc., USA 2015) preložila Klára Kruteková.
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Fast Talk Italian 5
Although you can get by in Italy without speaking the language, knowing just a few essential phrases can help you make friends, enjoy service with a smile, and discover richer, more rewarding travel experiences. Fast Talk Italian is the concise language guide that is guaranteed to get you talking with confidence.
Experience a delicious meal at a no-menu trattoria, find a hidden art gallery off the tourist trail, or discover the best cappuccino in Rome.
Essential phrases to meet all your travel needs
How to get local recommendations
Easy-to-use pronunciation guides
Expert tips to boost your confidence
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