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"Almost certainly a masterpiece." (Anita Brookner). Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life. Ishiguro's...

Emlékezetes napja maradt életemnek ez a nap, mert nagy változásokat okozott bennem. De ez a nap senki életéből nem hiányzik. Képzeljétek csak el, hogy egy bizonyos nap kiesett volna az életetekből, milyen másképp fordult volna minden.” – De hogy az a nap hozta-e a sorsdöntő fordulatot, amikor a Szép remények hőse, a szegény gyerekből úriemberré vált Pip először járt a...

It was an open and shut case when eighteen-year-old Hannah Docherty was arrested for the brutal murder of her family; she's been incarcerated ever since. When psychotherapist Frieda Klein is asked to assess Hannah, she reluctantly agrees. What she finds horrifies her...Frieda is haunted by the thought that Hannah might be as much of a victim as her family. Frieda soon begins to realise that she's...

Commissioned by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, these tales of dangerous women by the most stellar names in fiction are available for the first time in three-volume paperback. This second volume features an original short story by Megan Lindholm (who also writes as Robin Hobb). In the bittersweet Neighbors' Sarah, a rather strange widow, lives isolated and alone, surrounded by young...

Eredeti név: THE RACKETEERKiadás éve: 2013ISBN: 9783453268173EAN: 9783453268173...

Jane Austen's ability to engross and fascinate her readers began nearly 200 years ago and continues today. Her sharp wit, piercing observations of human nature and unrivalled comic genius have meant that Austen's novels have never fallen from popular taste and continue to enthral millions of readers today. This volume,delightfully illustrated wit Hugh Thompson's delicate drawings, contains three...

Come and explore the colourful world of Hello Kitty in this charming sticker book. Have fun completing the scenes using the big stickers, then choose your favourite colour on the last page! The perfect sticker book for all little fans of Hello Kitty! Eredeti név: HELLO KITTY FUN WITH COLOURSKiadás éve: 2013Oldalak száma: 16 oldalKötésmód: kapcsosISBN: 9780723269472EAN: 9780723269472...

The astonishing memoir of a free man who was sold into slavery in Louisiana where he was kept for 12 years—a powerful, riveting condemnation of slavery, and a story soon to be introduced to a new audience through a major film. Tricked by two men offering him a job as a musician in New York state in 1841, Solomon Northup was instead drugged and kidnapped. Threatened with death, Northup was forced...

'In England everything is typical. If your train is late, it is typical. If there are no seats on the upper deck of a bus, it is typical. If its start to rain at five o'clock just before you leave work, it is typical.' 'The English do not like to be wished "Have a nice day", because to them it sounds like a command. They think, Who the hell do you think you are to order me to have a nice day...

The Bridge at Andau is James A. Michener at his most gripping, the classic nonfiction account of a doomed uprising as searing and unforgettable as any of his bestselling novels. For five brief, glorious days in the autumn of 1956, the Hungarian revolution gave its people a glimpse at a different kind of future--until, at four o'clock in the morning on a Sunday in November, the citizens of Budapest...

‘Most men don’t fear death. They fear those things -- the knife, the shipwreck, the illness, the bomb – which precede, by microseconds if you’re lucky, and many years if you’re not, the moment of death.’ When Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in his fifties he was angry -- not with death but with the disease that would take him there, and with the suffering disease...

The Kidds - treasure hunting family extraordinare - are heading to China, on a journey that will lead them beyond the Great Wall and into the underbelly of Berlin. Bick and Beck Kidd are desperately trying to secure the ancient Chinese artefact that will buy their mother's freedom from renegade pirates. But when the kidnappers force them to locate an even greater treasure - priceless paintings...

This was all about the G file. Nothing else, he decided. No vague personal motives, no circumlocutions, just the one familiar question that had been dogging him for fifteen years. Who killed Barbara Clarissa Hennan? After fifteen years, the G File remains the one case former Chief Inspector Van Veeteren has never been able to solve. But when a woman reports her father - a private detective...

Kiadás éve: 2015Oldalak száma: 100 oldalKötésmód: dobozban / tokbanISBN: 5998618405339EAN: 5998618405339...

To Sam Blount, meeting Julia is the best thing that has ever happened to him. Working at the local college and unsuccessful in his previous relationships, he’d been feeling troubled about his approaching fortieth birthday, “a great beast of a birthday,” as he sees it, but being with Julia makes him feel young and hopeful. Julia Stilwell, a freshman trying to come to terms with a recent...

When a US military satellite crashes into the wilds of Mongolia, a desperate search begins. The satellite contains a code-black physics project - research linked to the birth of our universe. And the last blurry image from the.satellite offers a terrifying glimpse of the future ... Meanwhile, a mysterious parcel arrives at the Vatican, containing a skull scrawled with ancient Aramaic and a tome...

Mickey Haller gets the text, 'Call me ASAP - 187', and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game. When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow path, he...

Sorry! presents an amusing, illuminating and quirky audit of English manners. From basic table manners to appropriate sexual conduct, via hospitality, chivalry, faux pas and online etiquette, Hitchings traces the history of our country's customs and courtesies. Putting under the microscope some of our most astute observers of humanity, including Jane Austen and Samuel Pepys, he uses their lives...

"New York Times"-bestselling author Krentz begins the new Dark Legacy trilogy with a novel of a rare alchemical textNand the passion it sparks in a couple determined to discover its secrets.Eredeti név: COPPER BEACHKiadás éve: 2013Oldalak száma: 403 oldalKötésmód: puhatáblás, ragasztókötöttISBN: 9780515151251EAN: 9780515151251...

The New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Collins has created a deeply moving autobiographical picture book about a father who must go off to the war in Vietnam - and the daughter who stays behind. When young Suzy's father leaves for Vietnam, she struggles to understand what this means for her and her family. What is the jungle like? Will her father be safe? When will he return? The months...