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Engagement
A feminist cult classic about love, independence and what it means to be an individual, translated into English for the first time
'I want to have him, I really do. I just don't want him to have me.'
Martina and Gustav, students in 1970s Stockholm, meet and fall immediately into coupledom. But what is coupledom? A route to marriage? A declaration of co-dependency? A new dimension of commitment and responsibility? A sexual confrontation? Or is it a habit that an intelligent person must consider breaking? Martina and Gustav discuss their relationship endlessly, between themselves and with others, as they try to make it work.
Engagement, set during a time of social change and political upheaval, sees Martina trying to engage with the world on her own terms. Unwilling to marry, she finds herself in a state of permanent engagement while her friends settle down to marriage and children; uncertain of the world's future, she engages with demos, sit-ins and philosophy seminars in her quest for a new blueprint for joy. First published in 1976, when it was heralded as an instant classic, Engagement remains as relevant, hilarious and heartbreaking today.
French Kisses
The brand-new book from Diverse Book Award winning author, Jenny Ireland.
When wild-child Margot is forced to go to on a summer holiday to the South of France with her family, she's definitely not happy about it.
Enter Félix and Antoine. They are polar opposites. Félix: mild mannered, caramel haired and sweet. Antoine: dark haired. Tattooed. Arrogant.
The only thing they seem to have in common is that they're both ridiculously attractive, and they both have a thing for Margot. But there's something much more significant about them that's going to come as a real shock to Margot . . .
Fragile Sanctuary - Törékeny menedék
Már a morgolódásából tudnom kellett volna, hogy tartsam távol magam Anson Hunttól. A szexi mosolya, és hogy ő a bátyám legjobb barátja? Az csak újabb két ok. Ráadásul ő az új melós, aki a házamon dolgozik. Ő az én szöges ellentétem: morcos, faragatlan, és meglehetősen ragaszkodik a magányához. Nem számít, hányszor próbálom meglágyítani a kedvességemmel, ez a pasas egyszerűen nem hajlik. Amíg meg nem látja, hogy darabokra hullok. Amikor a világom összedől körülöttem, Anson az, aki elkap, amikor zuhannék. És amikor mindenütt úgynevezett balesetek kezdik keseríteni az életemet, Anson lép közbe, hogy biztonságban legyek. Erre már akaratlanul is megmoccan bennem egy kis lángocska. És csak egy pillanat kell, hogy ez az apró szikra lángra lobbanjon és mindkettőnket elborítson. Csakhogy Anson titkokat rejteget, és a titkainak ára van. Amikor napvilágra kerülnek, egyikünk sem úszhatja meg ép bőrrel...
Bloodguard - A Vérőrző (Ófölde 1.)
Száz év. Több tízezer gladiátor. És csak egy emelkedhet fel…
A Nyíl Királyságban minden hazugság.
Szürkevölgyi Leith azzal a reménnyel érkezett erre az idegen vidékre, hogy elegendő aranyat szerezhet haldokló húga megmentésére. Önként jelentkezik a gladiátorviadalokra, ezekre a kegyetlen, vérszomjas küzdelmekre, ahol csak a legerősebbek maradnak életben. Azt hitte, már nincs vesztenivalója.
Tévedett – és mindent elvettek tőle. A reményt. A szabadságot. És végül az emberségét is.
Csupán dühe által táplált megsebzett teste marad hátra, amelyet megacélozott a túlélésért folytatott többéves harc.
Ekkor ismeri meg Maeve-et, a trónörökös tündelányt, aki megtestesíti mindazt, amit Leith megvet. Ő minden, amit gyűlölnie kellene. Az elbűvölő hercegnő azonban felkínálja neki az egyetlen dolgot, amire szüksége van: az esélyt, hogy elnyerje a hőn áhított vérőrző címet, és ezzel együtt a szabadságát.
De egy titkokra és hazugságokra épülő királyságban a reménynek mindig ára van. És Leith végső bosszúja… még ennél is nagyobb árat követel.
Lépj be az arénába!
„Döbbenetes! A vérőrzőben minden megvan: a gladiátori küzdelmek izgalma mágiával, mitikus lényekkel, trónviszállyal és persze gyönyörű szerelmi történettel keveredik. Kötelező olvasmány minden romantasyolvasónak!”– Lucy, goodreads.com
Szereted a fantáziadús, érzéki, tartalmas könyveket? Vidd haza nyugodtan, tetszeni fog!
Fiatal nőknek, felső korhatár nélkül!
Stepping Up
No one dreams of being a stepparent – and that is where the adventure begins. Through practical guidance and biblical pointers, stepmum and bio-mum Esther Kuku leads you towards peace and fulfilment in your day-to-day family life. Packed with wisdom and encouragement, as well as a good dose of reality, this devotional will strengthen and empower you to embrace the beautiful gift of family that God has entrusted to you.
Rethinking the Penal State
In this book based on his 2024 Adorno Lectures, Loic Wacquant combines social theory, comparative history and structural ethnography to probe criminal punishment as a core function of the state. Extending Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of bureaucratic field and symbolic power, he captures the constitutive duality of punishment, at once material and symbolic, an instrument of class control and a means of communicating values, endlessly oscillating between rehabilitation and retribution. Ranging from the birth of the workhouse prison in sixteenth-century Europe to the deployment of punishment in the colonies to the workaday world of prosecutors in a California criminal court, Wacquant reveals how the penal state curates crime, manages urban marginality, signals sovereignty, and manufactures legitimacy in the eyes of the population by restoring control over bodies out of order. But the penal Leviathan is a bifurcated state which captures nearly exclusively dispossessed and dishonored categories by targeting their neighborhoods: it is everywhere a class-splitting and a race-forging institution based on the stubborn differentiation of "paper penality" and "street penality."Getting inside the machinery of criminal justice shows that punishment must be placed at the epicenter of the political sociology of statecraft, group-making and place-making in the metropolis as well as brought to the forefront of civic debate to articulate a radical penal minimalism suited to reconciling punishment and democratic ideals.
Hodná holka
Kdysi býval Lukáš králem detektivek, ale ty časy už jsou pryč. Teď hledá vyhořelý spisovatel způsob, kterým by se mohl vrátit na výsluní. A jak lépe najít ztracenou múzu než během skutečného detektivního pátrání? Jenže jak se ukáže, psát o zločinech je mnohem snazší než snažit se odhalit, kam zmizela jedna nenápadná dívka. Lukáš přitom získá nečekanou pomoc v podobě Ady. Ta má sice hlavu plnou dětských říkanek, ale o špinavém prádle v sousedství ví víc, než by kdokoliv jiný přiznal. Společně se pouští do pátrání, které stojí na ostrých slovech a ještě ostřejších postřezích. Vyhaslý bestsellerista zjistí, že dobrý spisovatel nutně nemusí být dobrý detektiv – ale naštěstí není na hledání pravdy sám.
Královna české fantastiky Kristýna Sněgoňová se pouští na pole detektivek a jde na to s humorem i zběsilostí sobě vlastní. Tyhle zločiny vás budou rozhodně bavit.
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Nebezpečná pýcha
Remo Falcone je nenapravitelný.
Jako kápo camorry vládne svému území nelítostnou rukou. Pak na něj ale vtrhne chicagská mafie. Nyní se Remo chystá na odplatu. Svatba je posvátná a únos nevěsty představuje svatokrádež.
Serafina je neteří šéfa outfitu a už několik let je zaslíbena jinému. Když ji Remo cestou do kostela unese ve svatebních šatech, Serafina si rychle uvědomí, že nemůže doufat v záchranu. I v rukou nejkrutějšího muže, jakého zná, je ovšem odhodlána držet se své hrdosti. Remo brzy pochopí, že žena, která mu byla vydána na milost, nemusí být tak snadno zlomitelná, jak si myslel.
Bezohledný muž, který se snaží outfit zničit tím, že zlomí někoho, koho mají chránit. Žena odhodlaná srazit monstrum na kolena. Dvě rodiny, které už nikdy nebudou stejné.
Klub zhýralců 4: Bez milosti
Nechci mu ublížit – jen ho potrestat.
Už tak je dost špatné být jedinou ženou, která spoluvlastní Klub zhýralců, ale navíc jsem jediná bez úchylky.
Aspoň jsem si to myslela. Představte si moje překvapení, když mi „úchylkový kvíz“ prozradil, že možná přece jen nejsem tak docela „normální“.
Ve skutečnosti se totiž Emersonu Grantovi podobám mnohem víc, než jsem si myslela.
Je tu jen jeden problém – nemám ponětí, jak se stát něčí dominou. Nebo aspoň do chvíle, kdy mě aplikace spojí s někým, kdo mě to chce naučit.
Je pro mě moc mladý. Moc tvrdohlavý a moc hezký. A abych nezapomněla – je to syn mého kamaráda.
Beau Grant je spratek – což by mi vadilo, kdybych ho za to tak ráda netrestala.
Za jeho nezřízeným chováním se ale skrývá muž, který je nepochopený, nesobecký a jen potřebuje usměrnit.
Pokud ovšem chce, abych se nad ním smilovala, musí si to zasloužit.
Existuje totiž milion důvodů, proč bych se od něj měla držet dál, ale už mě nebaví dělat jen to, co bych měla.
Konečně vím, po čem toužím, a jsem připravená si vzít, co mi patří.
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Nekonečný pád 3: Návrat domů
V závěrečném dílu trilogie se opět vracíme na natáčení filmové série Infinity Falling do Vancouveru. Tentokrát stojí v popředí mladičká herečka Megan Suttonová, která se ve filmu zhostila role hlavní antagonistky. Na druhé straně je pak o něco málo starší lékař na urgentu Cole Buchanan, který se právě potýká s vážným pracovním selháním.
K jejich setkání dojde naprosto náhodně, ale následně zjistí, že mají mnoho společného, a to nejen kamarády, ale i pracoviště. Cole totiž záhy nastupuje na plac jako filmový lékař. Jejich vztah však rozhodně nekopíruje klasické milostné schéma. Cole je zvyklý si užívat a má za to, že na závazky není stavěný, jak se taky v minulosti přesvědčil. Megan je v tomto ohledu naopak doslova nepolíbená, ačkoliv ji v médiích neustále obviňují, že rozvrací cizí vztahy.
Vznikne tak model výhodný pro obě strany – Cole s Megan svůj vztah pouze předstírají na veřejnosti. Co když se však předstírané city změní v opravdové? Dokážou se přenést přes oboustranná vztahová traumata, vysoké pracovní vytížení a v neposlední řadě i přes nemalý věkový rozdíl?
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Marcel Pourtout
Pourtout is a name often mentioned as one of the greats of French coachbuilding. It was the company behind the rakish Darl’mat Peugeots of the 1930s and the famous ‘Embiricos’ Bentley. From modest beginnings, founder Marcel Pourtout – latterly working with designer Georges Paulin – created a respected business that bodied some of the world’s finest and most interesting chassis. When bespoke coachwork became a thing of the past, Carrosserie Pourtout was one of the few companies to survive. It moved on to fresh areas of activity. Quick on its feet, it thrived in a newly dynamised post-war France, whilst remaining a family business under the direction of Marcel Pourtout’s second son Claude. Extravagant publicity vehicles, notably for the ‘Tour de France’ cycle race, replaced special-bodied Hispano-Suizas and Delahayes. Then Carrosserie Pourtout became involved with ACMAT, for whom it created a cab body that redefined the image of the company’s rugged trucks, these becoming a staple of armed forces around the world. Finally it became France’s leading converter of Peugeot light vans and a sub-contractor for the aircraft and oil-prospecting industries. Written by award-winning author Jon Pressnell, this is the first history of Carrosserie Pourtout and has been compiled with the full and generous support of the Pourtout family. Using surviving documentation from the archives held by Kévin Pourtout, it tells the complete story of this enterprising small business, from its inception in 1925 to its demise in 1994.
How To Train Your Dragon School 2: Fight of the Flamestrike
Welcome to HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON SCHOOL. Where Viking and Dragon Heroes are made!
Join Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third and his dragons, Toothless and Windwalker, in their hilarious, hair-raising adventures at the Isle of Berk's Training School for Vikings and Dragons. Where they are BOTTOM in pretty much everything.
Disastrous Lesson Number Two: Boarding-An-Enemy-Ship-At-Sea
Hiccup and his fellow Vikings are SUPPOSED to be learning about enemy ships at sea. But when they come across a mysterious vessel, with a ripped sail and nobody driving it, Hiccup's heart sinks. There is something deeply spooky about this ship.
They really, really shouldn't get onboard.
But... like on so many occasions in Hiccup's life, they are going to do it anyway.
Packed with illustrations, action and a Dragonese dictionary, this series is perfect for developing readers, and the millions of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON fans worldwide.
Pablo and Splash: Viking Voyage
Time-travelling penguins Pablo and Splash are on board a Viking longship in this hilarious full-colour graphic novel. Fans of Bunny vs Monkey or InvestiGATORS will love it.
When Pablo and Splash tell their cheeky friend Benji about the Vikings and their impressive longships, Benji is amazed. He's desperate to steal a time machine and go plundering for treasure with those ancient warriors. Our time-travelling heroes Pablo and Splash must get to Viking-era Ireland in time to warn the monks about the imminent invasion - and make their own mark on history.
1873
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance comes a brilliant account of the earliest truly global financial calamity.
On Friday, 9 May 1873 the Vienna stock market collapsed. Four months later Wall Street was in trouble. Elsewhere, as panic selling spread across financial markets, some countries defaulted on their debts, while the Bank of England was forced to raise its rates to their highest level in a century. It was the first global crash in history. And it was to have calamitous consequences.
In his powerful new book, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance tells the epic story of that crash and explores its economic and human costs. He describes how the growth of the international bond market in the 1850s and 60s funded a frenzy of speculation in railways, construction and nation-building. He examines those who became swept up in the boom, from leading bankers like the Rothschild dynasty to national leaders both visionary and venal, to rogues and chancers like the shameless Jay Gould, to such sceptical onlookers as Mark Twain and Karl Marx. He then traces how, in the subsequent panic, investors were left with catastrophic losses, while governments on both sides of the Atlantic rushed misguidedly to reorder the world's financial system.
As he shows, the blunders made as the crisis unfolded set the stage for twenty years of deflation, and a punitive legacy of aggrieved populism that infected every part of the globe. Amid the crash's many aftershocks, the US abandoned Reconstruction, European powers staged an economic takeover of the heavily indebted Ottoman Empire, and the principle of international free trade came under pressure. Meanwhile there was a revival of antisemitic movements in Europe that blamed 'Jewish finance' for the disaster.
A brilliant evocation of a key turning point in world history, 1873 is also a masterly examination of the unforeseen political and social consequences of financial misjudgements.
The Unicorn Hunters
With her country's future and her own life at stake, an orphaned duchess must journey into a world of myth and there discover a power that may be her salvation - or her demise - in this enchanting new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Winternight Trilogy and The Warm Hands of Ghosts.
Anne of Brittany was a child when her land was invaded, her castle besieged, and her royal father driven to his death.
Now Brittany is occupied by her enemies, her treasury empty, and only one thing is lacking to complete her realm's subjugation: she is required, on pain of the sword, to marry the King of France.
But Anne cannot. She has promised her dead father that Brittany would never be conquered.
Defiantly, she betroths herself in secret to France's greatest enemy. But in a world where courts may spy on each other by magic, there is only one way to solemnize this illicit union.
Under the guise of a hunting party, Anne takes her court deep into a deep forest, a strange place dogged with rumours of ancient enchantments; a place where diviners cannot see. She tells the French that she had gone there to hunt unicorns.
It's a ruse, a lie, a feint.
But when, against all expectations, a unicorn does appear and a wounded stranger stumbles from the trees and falls at her feet, Anne is plunged into a world of enchantment where a doomed sovereign might find the power to change the destiny of her nation - or be lost in the mist for ever.
Not For Disclosure
THE FULL DISCLOSURE THE U.S. GOVERNMENT WILL NEVER REVEAL - the most serious and rigorously sourced book ever published on UFOS by a credible, world expert. A hidden history to challenge everything you think you know.
For over fifty years, Jonathan Caplan KC has gathered extraordinary testimony from scientists, intelligence officers, politicians and military insiders across the world - assembling what may be the most comprehensive body of evidence yet of a reality long denied. When former US intelligence officer David Grusch testified under oath to Congress in 2023 that the United States possesses crashed non-human craft, global attention shifted overnight. But the full story has been kept from the public. Until now.
Caplan uncovers a pattern of secrecy stretching from covert Cold War programmes to alleged presidential briefings and clandestine recovery operations. Spanning sightings, encounters and abductions, and drawing on declassified documents, eyewitness testimony and insider claims, the book explores explosive allegations linking UAP knowledge to figures such as JFK, alongside newly revealed material on secret meetings involving Truman-era officials and the shadowy 'Majestic 12' group. Some who came close to the truth, Caplan suggests, paid the ultimate price.
Yet the most profound question remains: are these phenomena visitors - or something far closer, watching and interacting with us in ways we barely understand?
Meticulously researched, utterly gripping and impossible to ignore, Not For Disclosure is a landmark work that pulls back the curtain on what could be the greatest cover-up in human history.
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young
The son of the FBI's most wanted woman tells the electrifying story of a childhood on the run - and a half-century of revolutionary struggle in America
We all grapple with a past that defines us: culture, religion, a family story. But what happens when you inherit a revolution?
Zayd Ayers Dohrn was born underground. His parents were fugitives after a decade fighting the US government; his mother co-founded a leftist radical group called the Weathermen, and replaced Angela Davis on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. All his life, Dohrn's parents said his birth marked a clean break with violent revolutionary struggle but, in this explosive memoir, he discovers that story wasn't entirely true.
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young offers a page-turning account of an infamous family and their life in hiding, as well as the political battles of the '60s and '70s. At its heart it asks big questions: how can a child survive when the place they feel safest - with their family - also puts them in danger? What does it mean to be a good revolutionary, and how should young people today try to change the world?
Death at the Museum
The second children's murder mystery from number-one-bestselling author of The Appeal, Janice Hallett, perfect for fans of Robin Stevens and Rhian Tracey.
Imagine an old museum with more secrets than anyone could ever guess. A school trip that ends in murder. A crime unsolved for decades. . . But who did it?
Now, Ava and Luke are on the case, following the clues left in a new box of murders. Using School workbooks, museum records, secret recordings and letters the siblings start to unravel the mystery of a body in the basement. But can they discover what really happened . . . before the killer strikes again?
YOU know the facts. YOU have all the clues. Can YOU solve the mystery before they do?
Maiden
THIS PRINCESS IS GOING TO SAVE HERSELF
Discover a world of forbidden magic, court politics and sacrifice in this enchanting new myth retelling from the Sunday Times bestselling author, perfect for fans of Katherine Arden and Naomi Novik.
The Kingdom of Calestra was built on blood. Every spring, when the snow melts in the mountains, one young woman is chosen by lot to be sacrificed to the Great Dragon.
As the Maiden Sacrifice draws near once more, three women stand at the heart of its brutal ritual: Cressyda, desperate and trapped, Alinore, torn between duty and rebellion and Maylie, whose secrets burn hotter than dragonfire. Together, they carry the power to shatter a treaty written in blood and ash.
Yet freedom comes at a cost, and first they must face the ancient fury of the Great Dragon.
The sacrifice is coming.
But this time, the maidens refuse to burn.
Prepare for…
ancient dragons
lady knights
cunning princesses
castle libraries
fierce fairy folk
forbidden magic
and much more!
