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Tiny Speck of Black and Then Nothing
Anna has never met anybody like Loll: a British hostess at the Moonglow bar in the Japanese city of Osaka. With her blonde wigs and shimmering dresses, Loll cuts a mesmerising figure. But Anna is troubled by the secrets Loll hides; the identity of her best client with shadowy links to the city's crime underworld; and the sight Anna witnesses one afternoon: Loll teetering on the edge of a railway track, caught in the deafening rush as a train hurtles by.
Whereas Anna has come to Osaka to learn more about her half-Japanese heritage, Loll has no clear reason for being there and no easily discernible past. And so when she disappears, there are only the barest clues as to where she might have gone. Soon Anna is thrown onto a trail that will take her into the darkest corners of the neon-choked metropolis - hidden, forbidden places from which those who know the city best warn her to stay away.
Fierceland
After many years abroad, Harun and Roz return to Malaysian Borneo for the funeral of their palm-oil baron father, Yusuf - and to reckon with their inheritance. Yusuf might be a hero to many, but his children know that not only has he built the family's immense wealth by destroying huge tracts of rainforest, but also that he was involved in the violent disappearance of a man who stood in his way.
Harun is a successful tech entrepreneur in Los Angeles while Roz is an artist struggling to stay afloat in Sydney, and both are determined to return something their father stole from the forests of their homeland. In their quest for redemption they grapple with the legacy of power and corruption and are haunted - by the ghosts of colonialism, the ghosts of family, the ghosts of language, and the ghosts of the forest itself.
A trailblazing journey across the globe, Fierceland is a language-bending story that weaves the past and the present into an emotionally powerful family saga that plays out at a mythical scale.
Sněžný měsíc, 3. vydání
Realitní agentka Olga byla zavražděna na odlehlém místě v Beskydech před roubenkou, kterou nabízela k prodeji. Stalo se to jen několik měsíců po vraždě jiné makléřky. Oba případy spojují podobné okolnosti, a navíc se zavražděné ženy mohly znát. Kriminalista Josef Bergman proto odjíždí do hor a pátrá mezi místními obyvateli. Není to však jednoduché, protože obyvatelé horských samot jsou nedůvěřiví a uzavření a spousta z nich má tajemství, o která se s Bergmanem rozhodně dělit nechtějí.
Divorced, Beheaded, Ghosted
Dating can be a royal pain, but who better to guide you through the drama than Henry VIII's six wives?
Inspired by the true lives of Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr, Divorced, Beheaded, Ghosted reimagines the six queens as the kind of friends you wish you could text about your situationship.
With 30 different modern-day scenarios, each queen dishes out their own sharp, witty responses to modern dating dilemmas. Whether you are in your Anne Boleyn era, being breadcrumbed by a man who pursued you first, or like Catherine of Aragon, facing unscrupulous accusations of still having Hinge downloaded on your phone, this book will offer you all the regal wisdom and historical sass you need to snap back.
Filled with tried and tested advice from the most iconic group of women in history, Divorced, Beheaded, Ghosted is the go-to guide for navigating today's dating scene with a hilarious Tudor twist.
The AI Con
A smart, incisive take-down of so-called 'artificial intelligence', exposing the real harm these technologies do to our jobs, health, society and environment, who stands to gain from them, and how to fight back.
Have tech companies created artificial minds? Are they going to replace all our jobs? Will they take over the world?
The answers to these questions, as the expert authors of The AI Con make clear, are 'no', 'they wish' and 'LOL, definitely not'. In fact, these fears are all symptoms of the hype being used to justify data theft, motivate surveillance capitalism and devalue human creativity in order to replace meaningful work with jobs that treat people like machines.
Packed with real-world examples of the injustices and harms already being done in the name of 'AI', The AI Con arms you to spot the hype in all its guises, expose the exploitation it aims to hide and push back against it at work and in your daily life.
The Amateur
A riveting thriller about an ordinary man's quest for extraordinary vengeance
Charlie Heller is a cryptographer not a spy, let alone an assassin. But the murder of his fiancée and the failure of the CIA to follow up on the case makes everything different. Heller uses his contacts to get behind the Iron Curtain himself and to pursue the three men who killed her.
The Amateur is a richly enjoyable thriller. Heller is a total amateur. He is very clever but he has no idea about spy-craft and no sense of what the real stakes are. But as a total amateur with no knowledge of the rules of the game, perhaps he can almost accidentally outwit his enemies, both in the Warsaw Pact and in the CIA itself?
Orator
A gripping new biography of one of the most influential and fascinating figures in classical history: Cicero
When the Roman statesman Cicero was murdered in 43 BCE, his head was cut off and his tongue pierced with pins - a final, brutal act of revenge against a man whose words had shaped a generation and made him many enemies. Rising from provincial obscurity to the highest elected office in Rome, Cicero became the greatest orator of his age, a figure who believed that speech itself could defend a republic.
Yet Cicero was far more than a master of rhetoric. His long and turbulent life unfolded alongside the collapse of the Roman Republic, and often at its very centre. He moved among Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great, crushed a conspiracy that threatened the foundations of Rome and cast himself as the republic's last hope. His writings on politics, philosophy and society would prove enormously influential, while his uneasy response to the rise of autocratic power continues to provoke admiration and debate.
In this gripping new biography, the distinguished classicist Catharine Edwards brings Cicero vividly to life, revealing both the brilliance and the contradictions of a man caught between principle and ambition. At a moment when democratic institutions feel fragile, and the power of persuasion is once again under scrutiny, Cicero's life speaks to us with renewed urgency.
Agáta na stopě 1: Tajný klíč
Třináctiletá Agáta je rozený detektiv. Pokoj má plný detektivních románů a vždycky si všímala věcí, které jiní přehlíželi. Její první případ je konečně tady a nebude to nic menšího než záchrana Londýna! Nevinně vypadající srážka motorkáře s postarší dámou je začátkem série podivných událostí, které Agátu dovedou až k tajnému klíči od labyrintu podzemních chodeb. Starý Londýn skrývá mnoho tajemství a Agáta se nezastaví, dokud záhadě nepřijde na kloub. Jaké stopy odhalí a kdo je doopravdy ta nebohá dáma?
Five Nights at Freddy's - Fazbear Frights 6: Přízrak Blackbird
Nole se stává obětí děsivého monstra, které nemilosrdně trestá hříchy minulosti. Jake, který bojuje s nemocí, si stále častěji představuje, že je znovu zdravý. A Toby? Ten zoufale touží získat uznání, a proto se upne k vítězství v arkádové hře. Ve světě Five Nights at Freddy's ovšem mívá zábava děsivé následky!
Fotbaloví hrdinové - Velká kniha omalovánek
Tato velká kniha omalovánek přináší desítky dynamických ilustrací slavných hráčů v akci, při střelbě, kličkách i oslavách gólů, které čekají jen na to, až je oživíš podle své fantazie. Nabízí skvělou kombinaci zábavy a inspirace: procvičíš si kreativitu, ponoříš se do světa fotbalu a zároveň poznáš své oblíbené hráče zase o něco víc.
Procházky Znojmem
Moderní průvodce pro ty, kdo Znojmo milují, i pro ty, kteří ho objevují poprvé a chtějí ho poznat jinak než z rychlé návštěvy centra. Krok za krokem vás provede po konkrétních trasách: od historických ulic a vyhlídek nad Dyjí přes slavné podzemí až po klidná zákoutí stranou hlavního ruchu. Dozvíte se, kde se psaly dějiny, kam zajít za atmosférou, vínem i výhledy a jak číst město v souvislostech. Nechybí mapky, fotografie a příběhy míst, která dávají Znojmu jeho jedinečný charakter.
Things I Learned From My Dog
A child’s heartfelt friendship with its dog becomes an unexpected source of life’s most important lessons, from award-winning creators Victor D.O. Santos and Dena Seiferling Out with his mother at the Sunday market, a six-year-old boy asks her if they can buy a dog—and the answer reshapes his entire childhood. Over the course of the next decade, Luna, his best friend and the dog from that fateful day, is not only by his side during the most important moments, but also unknowingly the one who teaches him some of the most valuable lessons he’ll ever learn. Things I Learned From My Dog shows us the extent to which friendship, love, and loss can guide our paths and shape us into the people we will become.
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Nighty Night, Dinos
Send your child’s favorite dinosaurs off to bed—and your child, too!—with this rhyming bedtime story that teaches the value of sleepStomp and swim and fly and creep!Yawn . . . these dinos need their sleep.Now it’s time for nighty night.T-Rex pulls his blankie tight.Just like your little dinosaur, these dinos love to play. But unlike your little dinosaur, they also love to sleep! Velociraptor snuggles under a cozy fern, Brontosaurus hugs his bear, and pretty soon, they all fall asleep until morning. But shh, don’t wake them! They need sleep to stay healthy, big, and strong, and so does your little dinosaur.A sweet rhyming picture book perfect for your bedtime routine, Nighty Night, Dinos combines 11 of your child’s favorite dinosaurs (something they love) and the importance of sleep (something they, well, tolerate). But these gentle illustrations of dinosaurs tucked into bed will make bedtime seem exciting, and pretty soon you’ll have a snoozing little dino, too.
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19,99 €
Pop Scars
*THE HEARTBREAKING, FUNNY AND SHOCKINGLY HONEST MEMOIR FROM ANTHONY KAVANAGH, AKA 90S POP STAR AND HEARTTHROB, KAVANA*
'My name is Anthony, but some people know me as Kavana or Kav. I've been called a pop star, a has-been, a heartthrob and a mess. I've been all of them. I once thought fame would give me everything I wanted. Wrong wish. This is my story about life as a 90s pop star, a lost decade in Hollywood, addiction, homelessness, and what it's like being an outsider, desperately trying to get back into a world that's moved on without you. But when things fall apart, it doesn't always mean it's the end. Sometimes it can be the making of you, just not the version you expected.'
Pop Scars is a story told with fearless honesty that's as funny as it is heartbreaking, chronicling the highs, the lows and the chaos of hitting rock bottom and then finding out that rock bottom has a basement.
Hounds of the King
‘One day a golden-haired warrior came riding to a Saxon village in Mercia, and tossed a penny to a boy… The warrior was called Harold, and the boy was Beornoth: the one Earl Godwin’s heir, the other a lowly thegn’s son.’For Beornoth became a Housecarl — one of that proud band of warriors who swore oaths to guard their King to the death, and who were known as ‘The King’s hounds’. A magnificent picture of Saxon England, follows the fortunes of the finest flower of English warriors, destined to serve their King until the savage hilltop fight known to future generations as the Battle of Hastings.
Blow by Blow
A contender for the G.O.A.T. - the greatest of all time - Jeff Beck left an indelible mark on rock history. His sudden loss in 2023 prompted an outpouring of grief and respect from his peers that only underlined his place in the pantheon of legendary guitar slingers.
Not many could have filled the shoes of Eric Clapton in the Yardbirds, but for Beck it only marked the beginning of a trailblazing career that defied expectation and labels. From the wedding pop of Hi Ho Silver Lining through the ground-breaking proto-metal of the Jeff Beck Group, and from the landmark jazz rock recorded of the mid-seventies to the cutting-edge electronica of the 21st century Beck never stood still. Across it all, as he seemed to deliberately swerve the straitjacket of megastardom, his genius as an instrumentalist remained constant.
In Blow by Blow, Brad Tolinski and Chris Gill provide fresh insight and understanding into life of one of rock's most enigmatic heroes. Drawing on nearly thirty hours of interviews with Beck himself, numerous conversations with those closest to him, and extensive new research, they shed light on the man and musician Jimmy Page once said had "shifted the whole sound and face of electric guitar music."
Heathermoor
Still reeling from the betrayal that shattered her at Neverthorn, Harlow Daygon is in hiding.
Again.
Magically disguised and barely holding it together, she and the rest of House Phoenix are masquerading as students at Heathermoor, Neverthorn's mysterious Scottish sister school.
The castle looks like a fairytale on acid, the Fae here wield wild magic like it's a contact sport, and the headmaster might be one cryptic riddle away from full-blown villain.
But for the first time in a long time Harlow feels almost at home.
Too bad peace never lasts in the Dwimmer world.
The Grym Dunaras is still lost. The kraken gold has vanished. And Typhon has found them.
And this time, he's not the only danger. Close on his heels is a member of the Senate who'd love nothing more than to burn Heathermoor to the ground.
If Harlow can't hold her team-or herself-together, she'll lead her found family straight into a war they can't win.
Or survive.
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Tropes:
Enemies to Lovers
Second Chance
Chosen One
Found Family
Slow Burn
Forced Proximity
Older FMC
Professor x Student
Secret/Hidden Identity
Kamayan - The Filipino Cookbook
'A beautiful, flavour-packed introduction to Filipino food, Rex's cooking is fresh, vibrant and very delicious' Jamie Oliver
Preorder the first cookbook from Rex de Guzman, chef, restauranteur and finalist on The Great Cookbook Challenge with Jamie Oliver and make vibrant, irresistible Filipino recipes at home.
Join Filipino chef Rex De Guzman on a culinary tour through the vibrant cuisine of the Philippines, where salty, sour and sweet combine to create bold dishes bursting with flavour. Savour delicious ribbons of barbecued pork, heaped bowls of garlic rice billowing with fragrant steam and neon vegetables pickled in sour vinegar, all finished off with melt-in-the-mouth condensed milk créme caramel.
From the classics like Chicken Adobo and Charred Aubergine Omelette to adaptations for the everyday kitchen like Roasted Cauliflower and Peanut Stew with Miso and Harissa, Kamayan is your ultimate guide to Filipino cooking.
Dokonalá
Úspešná slovenská autorka Lucia Sasková má na svojom konte už pätnásť románov. Po minuloročnom hororovo ladenom príbehu Vianočná sa teraz vracia k svojej obľúbenej téme narušenej ľudskej psychiky a ponúka čitateľom ďalší znepokojujúci príbeh, o ktorom budú premýšľať ešte dlho po dočítaní poslednej strany.
Hlavná hrdinka prežila traumatické detstvo v nefunkčnej rodine, ktoré ju poznačilo natoľko, že stratila všetky nádeje na normálny život. Smrť brata, ktorý bol jej jedinou oporou, v nej zablokovala akékoľvek emócie, a tak sa chtiac-nechtiac musela postaviť na vlastné nohy a naučiť sa postarať o seba sama. Za dokonalou maskou, ktorá sa stala jej každodennou súčasťou, sa však skrývajú temné skutky a tajomstvá, ktoré akoby zázrakom ostávajú dlhý čas bez povšimnutia. Keď po rokoch poruší vlastné pravidlá a zblíži sa s mužom, ktorý je jej úplným protikladom, začnú jej zdanlivú dokonalosť nahlodávať dosiaľ nepoznané pocity a postupne ničia jej minulosť, prítomnosť i budúcnosť.
Čoho všetkého je schopná žena, ktorá hľadá neexistujúcu dokonalosť a smrť pokladá za jediné možné riešenie problémov?
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