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A Sunny Place for Shady People
A Sunny Place for Shady People reveals as much about ourselves as it does our ineffably strange, horrific world... A collection of brilliant nightmares from one of our best. - Paul Tremblay
Mariana Enriquez’s A Sunny Place for Shady People is her first story collection since the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, the occult and the macabre, the stories explore love, womanhood, LGBTQ counterculture, parenthood and Argentina’s brutal past.
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Intermezzo
From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude - a period of desire, despair and possibility - a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
Lacná kniha Rose Royal (-50%)
Rose si sľúbila, že s aférami, ktoré prinášajú viac škody ako úžitku, už raz a navždy skončila. Ale to nepočítala so stretnutím s Lucom v bežný večer v bare Royal, kam sa uchyľuje každý deň po práci. Temná novela o potrebe a násilí, ovládaní a nádeji od jedného z najpopulárnejších súčasných francúzskych autorov.
„Nicolas Mathieu dokáže bez príkras a so silnými obrazmi vykresliť prostredie rovnako dobre, ako opisuje násilie emócií.“ République des Pyrénées
„Tento krátky príbeh, ktorý sa číta jedným dychom, navyše s pôžitkom, očakávaním a úžasom, jasne dokazuje, že kvantita nie je zárukou kvality.“ Express
Nicolas Mathieu získal v roku 2018 cenu Prix Goncourt za román Leurs enfants apr?s eux. V slovenskom preklade vyšiel jeho tretí román Connemara.
„Obaja mali za sebou milostné aféry, známosti na jednu noc, deti, neúspechy a smútky. Boli zrelí. Ale päťdesiatka bola ako vstup na nové, zvláštne územie. Ešte nedávno sa im päťdesiatnici zdali starí. Cítili to v kostiach – únavu, chronické choroby –, videli na už suchej pokožke, redších vlasoch. Takáto pravda nechá na vašom tele, ktoré je už na polceste, stopu. Ale teraz, keď sa rodiny rozpadali skôr, ako deti vyrástli, a život sa nekonečne predlžoval, stredný vek nadobúdal podobu druhého dospievania. Luc a Rose na seba hľadeli a nevedeli, čo si majú o tomto novom veku trápnosti myslieť. Boli opatrní, šťastie ich nepostretlo každý deň. Rose sa zdal čoraz krajší. Povedala mu to. Luc jej kompliment neopätoval, ale jeho pohľad jej stačil.“
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Co hledáš, najdeš v knihovně
Kniha Co hledáš, najdeš v knihovně představuje pět hrdinů různého věku, kteří se ocitli v životní krizi. Nespokojená prodavačka v obchodě s dámskou módou, matka po návratu z mateřské dovolené či svědomitý účetní marně toužící po vlastním starožitnictví.
Ke změně životního přístupu je motivují doporučení tajemné knihovnice. Paní Sajuri Komači totiž jako kdyby přesně věděla, pro koho se hodí jaká kniha. A nejen to!
Hřejivý román japonské spisovatelky Mičiko Aojamy představuje pohodovou četbu, a to v tom nejlepším slova smyslu.
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Counting Miracles
The brand new captivating love story by the internationally bestselling and beloved author of The Notebook.
'Find where you belong and make that place your own...'
Tanner has spent his whole life moving from place to place, belonging nowhere. So when his dying grandmother reveals the name and location of the father he never knew, he plans to visit Asheboro to lay the past to rest, then move on - just as he always has.
Kaitlyn knows exactly where she belongs. In Asheboro, she's built a life for herself and her kids that she's proud of, especially after the turmoil of divorce. But when she meets lone wolf Tanner, she can't help but feel something has been missing until now.
Jasper will never belong again. He had everything - and he lost it all. Now with only his old dog Arlo for company, he lives quietly, haunted by the tragic accident that took place decades before.
Three strangers' worlds are about to collide, changing the trajectory of all their lives. Because some paths cross, some merge, and others guide you home...
From the much-loved bestselling author of The Notebook comes a brand-new emotional and powerful novel about the journeys we take and those who touch our hearts along the way.
Playground
Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where they bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game. It sets them up for life: Rafi will get lost in literature, while Todd's work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.
Elsewhere, Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world's first aqualungs; Ina Aroita grows up in naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home.
All of these people meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, marked for humanity's next great adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out into the open sea. As the seasteaders close in, how will Evie play the ever-unfolding oceanic game? Will Ina engage in acts of destruction? Todd and Rafi, now estranged, still find themselves in competition: Todd unravels while working on an idea to redraw the boundaries of human immortality, while Rafi and the residents must decide if they will greenlight the new project on their shores and change their home forever.
Set in the world's largest ocean, Playground explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize and interweaves profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.
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The Last Dream
The Last Dream brings together for the first time twelve unpublished stories from Almodóvar’s personal archive, written between the late sixties and the present day. Delivering a tantalising glimpse into Almodóvar’s world, this wildly inventive collection reflects his most intimate obsessions, as well as his daring evolution as an artist.
Ranging from ‘The Last Dream’ - a beautiful chronicle of the death of Almodóvar’s mother - to a love story between Jesus and Barabbas;, a cult film director out in search of painkillers on a bank holiday weekend, the original story behind the film Bad Education, and a gothic tale of a repentant vampire, these stories delight and surprise.
The Last Dream is a celebration of the relationship between life and art, fiction and reality from an artist unafraid to write about our most intimate moments. It explores desire, mortality and the pain and glory of artistic creation, laced with playful humour and a deep love of literature and culture.
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Na západe nič nové
Erich Maria Remarque (vlastným menom Erich Paul Remark) sa narodil v roku 1898 v Osnabrücku ako syn kníhkupca. Z učiteľského seminára musel odísť na vojnu, po jej skončení bol obchodníkom a novinárom a od roku 1929 žil v zahraničí. V roku 1931 sa usadil vo švajčiarskom meste Ascona, po nútenom odchode z krajiny o dva roky neskôr sa presťahoval do New Yorku, kde získal americké občianstvo. Zomrel v roku 1970 v Locarne. K jeho ďalším slávnym dielam patria romány Traja kamaráti a Nebo nepozná obľúbencov.
Vojnový román Na západe nič nové, ktorý vyšiel v roku 1929, preslávil autora takpovediac za noc. V priebehu osemnástich mesiacov bol preložený do 25 jazykov a vyšiel v celkovom náklade 3,5 milióna výtlačkov. Jeho filmové spracovanie vyvolalo skutočný škandál: verejnosť bola šokovaná pravdivým, realistickým zobrazením vojny, ktorá zničila celú vtedajšiu mladú generáciu, pretože neodvratne predurčovala osudy – aj osud devätnásťročného Paula Bäumera a jeho šiestich spolužiakov, ktorí nasadzovali svoje životy v nezmyselných bojoch netušiac, že z hrozného vojnového besnenia pre nich už niet návratu.
Prekladateľ: Milan Žuffa
The Grand Scheme of Things
Meet Relebogile Naledi Mpho Moruakgomo.Or, for short, Eddie: an aspiring playwright who dreams of making it big in London's theatre world. But after repeated rejections from white talent agents, Eddie suspects her non-white sounding name might be the problem.
Enter Hugo Lawrence Smith: good looking, well-connected, charismatic and . . . very white. Stifled by his law degree and looking for a way out of the corporate world, he finds a kindred spirit in Eddie after a chance encounter at a cafe.
Together they devise a plan which will see Eddie's play on stage and Hugo's name in lights and expose the theatre world for its racism and hollow clout-chasing. But as their plan spins wildly out of control, Eddie and Hugo find themselves wondering if their reputations, and their friendship, can survive.
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Creation Lake
From Rachel Kushner, Booker Prize finalist and two-time National Book Award finalist, comes a new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France
Sadie Smith - a thirty-four-year-old American undercover agent of ruthless tactics, bold opinions and clean beauty - is sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France. Her mission- to infiltrate a commune of radical eco-activists influenced by the beliefs of a mysterious elder, Bruno Lacombe, who has rejected civilisation tout court.
Sadie casts her cynical eye over this region of ancient farms and sleepy villages, and at first finds Bruno's idealism laughable - he lives in a Neanderthal cave and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism. But just as Sadie is certain she's the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counter-histories, his artful laments, his own tragic story.
Beneath this parodic spy novel about a woman caught in the crossfire between the past and the future lies a profound treatise on human history. Creation Lake is Rachel Kushner's finest achievement yet - a work of high art, high comedy and irresistible pleasure.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold Boxed Set
The first three books in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series packaged together in a gorgeous box set.
What would you do if you could travel back in time? Discover the internationally bestselling novels of Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, now a worldwide phenomenon and BookTok sensation, in this special new box set. Step inside Tokyo’s whimsical Café Funiculi Funicula and travel back in time with a cast of unforgettable characters, including:
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: estranged sisters, a newly pregnant customer, and the wife of a man with early onset Alzheimer’s
Tales from the Café: a detective with a gift, a son with regrets, and a man chasing “the one who got away”
Before Your Memory Fades: a comedian with big dreams, a grieving sister, and childhood lovers
For new and longtime fans alike, this boxed set is the perfect collection of heartwarming, uplifting tales that remind us we “don’t have to live burdened by regret” (New York Times). Translated from Japanese in the signature prose of Geoffrey Trousselot, each installment of this series brings new adventure that has captivated millions of readers around the world.
Meet more wonderful characters in the rest of the captivating Before the Coffee Gets Coldseries:
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Book 1)
Tales from the Cafe (Book 2)
Before Your Memory Fades (Book 3)
Before We Say Goodbye (Book 4)
Before We Forget Kindness (Book 5)
Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Boxed Set (Books 1-3)
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Here One Moment
We’re all so busy, caught up in life's moments, big and small . . .
The flight attendant working a shift on her birthday.
The mother struggling alone with two young children.
The newlyweds excited about their tropical honeymoon .
The overworked father missing his kid’s big show.
The young man returning from his best friend’s funeral.
The ER nurse wondering what retirement will bring.
All strangers. All unsuspecting. Each with a life heading in a particular direction – or so they imagine.
Because an elderly woman is about to step into each of their paths. In just a few words, she will make a prediction, tying herself to all of them. And, in being bound to her, these disparate strangers will all face similar existential dilemmas. .
Who is this woman? Is she a genuine clairvoyant? A charlatan? The answer to prayers, or a harbinger of nightmares?
What she will prove to be is an agent of chaos, fraying relationships, putting entire futures into doubt and causing the most ordered of lives to unravel in the most unexpected of ways . . .
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We'll Prescribe You a Cat
For fans of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES, THE CAT WHO SAVED BOOKS and SHE AND HER CAT, discover the award-winning bestselling Japanese novel that has become an international sensation in this utterly charming celebration of the healing power of cats.
A cat a day keeps the doctor away ...
On the top floor of an old building at the end of a cobbled alley in Kyoto lies the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul. Only a select few - those who feel genuine emotional pain - can find it.
The mysterious centre offers a unique treatment for its troubled patients: it prescribes cats as medication.
Get ready to fall in love:
- Bee, an eight-year-old female, mixed breed helps a disheartened businessman as he finds unexpected joy in physical labour;
- Margot, muscly like a lightweight boxer, helps a middle-aged callcentre worker stay relevant;
- Koyuki, an exquisite white cat brings closure to a mother troubled by the memory of the rescue kitten she was forced to abandon;
- Tank and Tangerine bring peace to a hardened fashion designer, as she learns to be kinder to herself;
- Mimita, the Scottish Fold kitten helps a broken-hearted Geisha to stop blaming herself for the cat she once lost.
Brimming with feline comfort and warmth, we see how the company of a wise and satisfied cat never lets us down when we need it most in this irresistible celebration of our furry friends.
Contains five delicious cat line-drawings.
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18,98 €
Édes Anna
Az Édes Annát először a Nyugat közölte folytatásokban 1926. július 1-jétől, s még ugyanebben az évben könyv formájában is megjelent.
A regény cselekménye a magyar történelem drámai pillanatában, a kommün bukása után zajlik. Egy vidéki lány története, aki Pesten a magas rangú Vizy család szolgálatába áll, és ő lesz a tökéletes cselédlány megtestesítője. Látszólag csendes és alázatos, de lelkében mélyen elfojtott érzések lappanganak. Ahogy a történet kibontakozik, Anna sorsa egyre drámaibb fordulatokat vesz, és végül bekövetkezik a tragédia.
Kosztolányi finom lélektani érzékkel, részletgazdag stílusban mutatja be a karakterek belső világát és a kor társadalmi viszonyait. Az Édes Anna nem csupán egy megrázó sors története, hanem mélyebb gondolatokat ébreszt az emberi természetről, az egyéni sorsokról és a társadalmi igazságtalanságokról.
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The Hidden Girl
You can’t alter destiny...
Born and raised in a small village on the Yorkshire moors, Leah Thompson grows more beautiful with each passing day. When she catches the attention of the influential, troubled Delancey family, she knows her life will never be the same again.
Years later, Leah has taken the modelling world by storm, travelling from Milan to London and New York and living life in the lap of luxury. But her past follows her like a dark shadow, mysteriously intertwined with the tragic tale of two young siblings in Poland during the Second World War.
As two generations of secrets threaten to explode, Leah is haunted by a fatal, forgotten prophecy from her past, and must fight to challenge the destiny that has been mapped out for her in the stars . . .
Sweeping and evocative, The Hidden Girl is a lost treasure from global number one bestseller Lucinda Riley, reworked and given new life by Harry Whittaker, Lucinda’s son and co-author of the record breaking and international bestselling phenomenon of 2023, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt.
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Tell Me Everything
A hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-shortlisted author.
It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby in a house next to the sea. Together, Lucy and Bob talk about their lives, their hopes and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, befriends one of Crosby’s longest inhabitants, Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive’s apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known – “unrecorded lives,” Olive calls them – reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning.
Brimming with empathy and pathos, TELL ME EVERYTHING is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, “Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.”
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Colored Television
Jane has high hopes that her life is about to turn around. After a long, precarious stretch bouncing among sketchy rentals and sublets, she and her family are living in luxury for a year, house-sitting in the hills above Los Angeles. The gig magically coincides with Jane's sabbatical, giving her the time and space she needs to finish her second novel-a centuries-spanning epic her artist husband, Lenny, dubs her "mulatto War and Peace." Finally, some semblance of stability and success seems to be within her grasp.
But things don't work out quite as hoped. Desperate for a plan B, like countless writers before her Jane turns her gaze to Hollywood. When she finagles a meeting with Hampton Ford, a hot producer with a major development deal at a streaming network, he seems excited to work with a "real writer," and together they begin to develop "the Jackie Robinson of biracial comedies." Things finally seem to be going right for Jane-until they go terribly wrong.
Funny, piercing, and page turning, Colored Television is Senna's most on-the-pulse, ambitious, and rewarding novel yet.
The Blanket Cats
Is three days with a cat enough to change your life?
The troubled and anxious of Tokyo are desperate to find out. They all have their problems - and they all want to believe that a feline companion from a unique pet shop can help them find a solution. But there are rules: they must be returned after three days, and they must always sleep in their own familiar blankets.
In The Blanket Cats, we meet seven such customers, including a couple struggling with infertility, a middle-aged woman on the run from the police, and two families in very different circumstances simply seeking joy.
But like all their kind, the blanket cats are mysterious creatures with their own unknowable agendas, who delight in confounding expectations. And perhaps what their hosts are looking for isn't what they really need.
Three days may not be enough to change your life. But it might be enough to change how you see it.
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18,90 €
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