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Mr Be Strong: The Tourist of Life: A True Story
Mr Be Strong: The Tourist of Life: A True Story
Panagiotis Michael
¥78.97
“One of my dreams was to write a book about my life. Most people stop dreaming when they become adults. We become stern, busy, cynical and we forget to dream. Without my dreams, I wouldn't have made it through life. This book was written as a reminder of the importance of dreams. It is the realization of my own dream, perhaps my biggest one so far. I wrote this book in hopes that someone would gain strength through my story. If my ordeal empowers even just a single reader, then it will have been worthwhile. Had I given up on my dreams, life might have given up on me.” Panagiotis Michael, a professional gymnast, delivers an “aerobics” lesson on finding our inner strength and getting through hard times. After a health ordeal which left him paralyzed as an adolescent and battling cancer as an adult, he shares his experience with us through his empirical writing. He gives us an important lesson on empowering our body through exercise, feeding our soul with laughter, drawing strength from our dreams and never letting go of our hope. Because when you stop dreaming, you stop living! 70% of the sales' net income will be donated to BE STRONG Charitable Organization which supports people with cancer from Greece, in order to create the 1st Cancer Survivors Wellness Centre in Greece.
Hollywood is Dead
Hollywood is Dead
Tina Papados
¥78.97
Hollywood is Dead is a collection of monologues which explore the life of a young actress, who discuses the psychological and thrilling impact of transforming into her film character, Amorette.
Απορρ?ματα
Απορρ?ματα
Κρίτων Τομάζος
¥78.97
Η ν?α αυτ? ?κδοση με τ?τλο ‘Απορρ?μματα’ του ποιητ? και θεατρικο? συγγραφ?α Κρ?τωνα Τομ?ζου, απ? τι? εκδ?σει? ‘Ακακ?α’, απαρτ?ζεται απ? τρ?α κε?μενα συνολικ?, δ?ο ποιητικ?? συλλλογ?? με τ?τλου?: ‘Επιγραμματικ?’ και ‘Πλ?ρη Αιγα?ου’ κι ?να θεατρικ? με τ?τλο: ‘Δι?λογοι, τρ?λογοι, τετρ?λογοι’. Στην απλ? επιφ?νεια δεν αποτελο?ν μια συν?χεια και ε?ναι οπωσδ?ποτε αυτοτελ? ?ργα, που μπορο?ν να ζ?σουν ξ?χωρα το ?να απ? το ?λλο. Ομω?, ?πω? ?σω? στο ?ργο κ?θε συγγραφ?α ? ποιητ?, υπ?ρχει μια ?λλη επιφ?νεια ?που ?σχετα φαινομενικ? ?ργα αποκτο?ν μια βαθ?τερη σχ?ση, συνοχ? και συν?χεια αφο? προ?ρχονται απ? τον ?διο πυρ?να προβληματισμο? κι ?μπνευση? και αποτυπ?νονται σα μια συν?χεια σκ?ψη? και ?κφραση?, ?στω κι αν γρ?φτηκαν σε διαφορετικ? χρ?νο και ανομοιογενε?? χ?ρου? και καταστ?σει?. Τα ποι?ματα ε?ναι πιο πυκν? και λακωνικ? απ? τα εκτεταμ?να αφηγηματικ?, λυρικ? ? ?λλα του ποι?ματα κι οι δι?λογοι πλησι?ζουν μια αυστηρ? λιτ?τητα που αποτρ?πει υπερβ?σει? στη δραματικ? ?νταση, περιπ?τειε? στη πλοκ? ? τι? εξ?ρσει? κι εκκεντρικ?τητε? φανταστικ?ν χαρακτ?ρων. Οι λ?γε? εικ?νε? που διανθ?ζουν την ?κδοση ε?ναι απ? πρωτογεν? ζωγραφικ? ?ργα του συγγραφ?α και καλλιτ?χνη. Τα υπ?λοιπα εναπ?κεινται στην ευαισθησ?α και προσανατολισμ? του κ?θε αναγν?στη.
Tokyo
Tokyo
Mansfield, Stephen
¥78.87
From its obscure origins as a fishing village along a marshy estuary, Tokyo grew into one of the world s largest and most culturally vibrant metropolises. For all its modernity and craving for the new, it is a city impregnated with the past. In the backstreets of districts that have inspired the setting for science fiction novels are wooden temples, fox shrines, mouldering steles and statues of Bodhisattvas that evoke a different age. The point where time past, present and future coexist, Tokyo s thirst for the contemporary is moderated by nostalgia for the past. As an urban laboratory where the cultures of the East and West are remixed into perceptibly Japanese forms, Tokyo embraces sudden transitions, constant flux and transformation. The courtesans of its pleasure quarters inspired Edo-period woodblock artists, novelists and poets. In a later age, its experimental artists, feminist writers and Modern Girls of 1920s Ginza both shocked and electrified the capital. Stephen Mansfield explores a city rich in diversity, tracing its evolution from the founding of its massive stone citadel through rise of a merchant class whose wealth transformed Edo into a home for artists, writers and performers. In contemporary Tokyo he explores the unique crossbred cultures of taste that make the giant conurbation one of the most exciting and creative cities in the world. * City of Literature, Theatre and Art: The print masters Hokusai, Hiroshige and Utamaro; the Kabuki theatre; authors Nagai Kafu, Tanizaki Junichiro, Mishima Yukio, Murukami Haruki; foreign writers Angela Carter, William Gibson and Donald Richie. * City of Architecture: From the fortifications of Edo Castle, great temples and shrines, via the western hybrids of the Meiji era to the post-modernist skyscrapers, giant neon screens and digitalized surfaces of today s city. * City of Calamities: The great fires of the Edo period; floods, famines and typhoons; the 1923 Earthquake, coups and rising militarism in the 1930s; the fire bombings of the Second World War; the 1995 subway gas attack by members of a death cult and the fatalism of residents living on one of the earth s largest fault lines.
Walking Stumbling Limping Falling: A Conversation
Walking Stumbling Limping Falling: A Conversation
Phil Smith, Alyson Hallett
¥78.73
An email conversation between a noted poet.walker and a noted performance.walker about being temporarily prevented from walking “normally” by illness/surgery. Their reflections cover cultural perceptions and personal values associated with walking, personal anecdotes, philosophical reflection, practices for daily-life and an alphabet of falling.
Confessions of a Beauty Addict
Confessions of a Beauty Addict
Haobsh, Nadine
¥78.65
From Nadine Haobsh, aka Jolie in NYC ("The poster child for the blogger generation...you can't help but love her."—New York Post), comes a delectable novel that only a true beauty industry insider could have written!Bella Hunter may be down but she's not out yet—and she's ready to take on the world of beauty...one bad makeover at a time.Pity the poor twenty-eight-year-old beauty expert and columnist for ultra-chic Enchanté magazine, knocked right out of her Jimmy Choos—and out of a job—when her off-the-cuff comment to a reporter is blown way out of proportion. Once the authority on style, Bella's reduced to taking a position at Womanly World, a publishing dinosaur of no interest whatsoever to any woman under fifty. Suddenly she's got to take orders from a dreary and dowdy beauty director—and is soon at war with her male publisher, who might actually be appealing if he wasn't so totally frosty.Bella's supermodel boyfriend, a hometown wedding, and a Paris junket are fine distractions, to be sure. But how can she face her friends and ex-coworkers now that she's stuck in an office where khaki—not Cavalli—is the way of lifeAnd if beauty's not what it's all about...then what is?
Magic City
Magic City
Rhodes, Jewell Parker
¥78.60
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1921. A white woman and a black man are alone in an elevator. Suddenly, the woman screams, the man runs out, and the chase to capture and lynch him begins. When Joe, a young man trying to be the next Houdini, is accused of rape, he must perform his greatest escape by eluding a bloodthirsty lynch mob. And Mary, the motherless daughter of a farmer who tries to marry her off to the farmhand who viciously raped her, must find the courage to help exonerate the man she had accused with her panicked cry. Based on true events, Magic City is a portrait of an era, climaxing in the heroic but doomed stand that pitted the National Guard against a small band of black men determined to defend the town they had built into the "Negro Wall Street." Named by the Chicago Tribune as a Favorite Book of 1997
Whistle
Whistle
Daugharty, Janice
¥78.60
Just out of prison after serving time on a drug charge, Roper Rackard comes across a woman's body while mowing the tall grass at the far end of his new boss's property, and although he is innocent of her death, Roper panics. Terrified that he will be charged with murdering a white woman and sent back to jail, he decides to hide the body where it won't be found. As days and then weeks pass, and the search for the missing woman continues, Roper begins to doubt himself. Did he do the right thingWhy didn't he call for helpWill anybody believe he is innocent and, most important, how can he possibly come forward now?
Cosmic Adventure
Cosmic Adventure
Berman, Bob
¥78.60
Have you ever wondered what happened before the Big Bang, or how we would colonize Mars, or what an alien invasion might really be likeAstronomer Bob Berman has, and in Cosmic Adventure, a collection of twenty-six profound to outrageous essays, he takes readers on a mind-bending tour of the universe, including our own planet Earth. From the most extraordinary cosmic phenomena to the basics of the natural world, Berman challenges us to look at the facts, discoveries, concepts, and awesome wonders of our cosmos in a new light. Written in entertaining, jargon-free language that even a novice stargazer will understand, Cosmic Adventure is a fun-filled, thought-provoking exploration of the secrets beyond the night sky.Bob Berman takes you on a stellar journey in this collection of twenty-five essays that display a lively mix of science, astounding facts, personal anecdotes, and sheer playfulness. Complex, mind-stretching scientific topics become understandable in human terms as Berman links astronomy to our lives. He explores strange new mysteries raised by recent discoveries, and covers areas that haven't been discussed anywhere else before. From the "night terrors" that have haunted humankind since time immemorial to the penniless eccentric who sleeps inside the revolutionary telescope he designed, Berman's scope ranges far and wide.Cosmic Adventure explains aspects of the physical world that have often piqued our curiosity. Who gets to name the starsWhat would an alien invasion really be likeWhat's the inside story behind space program disastersWhy was the early Hubble goof avoidableWhat's the only original idea in recent scienceWhy does time probably not exist at all?
Some Old Lover's Ghost
Some Old Lover's Ghost
Lennox, Judith
¥78.60
Combining the eloquence and compassion of great English storytellers such as Rosamunde Pilcher and Joanna Trollope with a keen sense for how we reconcile the present by connecting to our past, Judith Lennox comes to America with this international bestseller.Rebecca Bennett, thirty-one, financially strapped and reeling from a disastrous love affair, has just taken on the biggest project of her career: writing the biography of Dame Tilda Franklin, considered England's angel to needy children.Mining the past of this distinguished child welfare activist, Rebecca is amazed to discover a history riddled with the passion and pain of mysterious kin and unpredictable love. Delving further into Dame Tilda's life, Rebecca finds parallels with her own experience and begins to regard this woman as a soul mate. Soon a romance blossoms between Rebecca and Tilda's grandson, Patrick, and she is drawn even closer to the family. Yet, just as their relationship begins to grow, Rebecca uncovers a family secret that threatens to destroy her newfound love.Set against the stark beauty of the Fen country and peopled with memorable characters, Some Old Lover's Ghost is an addictive novel of tragedy, recovery, healing, and love that will raise you up and touch your heart.
My Days
My Days
Narayan, R. K.
¥78.60
I am inclined to call this the last chapter, but how can an autobiography have a final chapterAt best, it can only be a penultimate one; nor can it be given a rounded-off conclusion, as is possible in a work of fiction.So begins the last chapter of My Days, the only memoir from R. K. Narayan, hailed as India's most notable novelist and short-story writer by the New York Times Book Review.In his usual winning, humorous style, R. K. Narayan shares his life story, beginning in his grandmother's garden in Madras with his ferocious pet peacock. As a young boy with no interest in school, he trains grasshoppers, scouts, and generally takes part in life's excitements. Against the advice of all, especially his commanding headmaster father, the dreaming Narayan takes to writing fiction, and one of his pieces is accepted by Punch magazine (his first prestige publication ). Soon his life includes bumbling British diplomats, curious movie moguls, evasive Indian officials, eccentric journalists, and the blind urge to fall in love. R. K. Narayan's larger-than-life perception of the human comedy is at once acute and forgiving, and always true to it.
Star Over Bethlehem
Star Over Bethlehem
Christie, Agatha
¥78.55
Previously published in the print anthology Star Over Bethlehem: Poems and Holiday Stories.A retelling of the Christmas story like you've never heard it before.Mary is alone in the stable with the baby Jesus when an angel arrives and offers her a difficult decision to make.
Goldengrove
Goldengrove
Prose, Francine
¥78.55
At the center of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift toward their own risky consolations, thirteen-year-old Nico is left alone to grope toward understanding and clarity, falling into a seductive, dangerous relationship with her sister's enigmatic boyfriend.Over one haunted summer, Nico must face that life-changing moment when children realize their parents can no longer help them. She learns about the power of art, of time and place, the mystery of loss and recovery. But for all the darkness at the novel's heart, the narrative itself is radiant with the lightness of summer and charged by the restless sexual tension of teenage life.Goldengrove takes its place among the great novels of adolescence, beside Henry James's The Awkward Age and L. P. Hartley's The Go-Between.
The Rich and the Dead
The Rich and the Dead
Spector, Liv
¥78.55
To solve the crime of the century, she'll have to go back in time....Welcome to Star Island, where Miami's wealthiest residents lead private lives behind the tall gates of their sprawling mansions. It's a blissful escape from the hot and dirty city—or it was, until New Year's Day 2015, when twelve of the most powerful people in the world were found murdered in the basement of a Star Island mansion. The massacre shocked the nation and destroyed the life of investigator Lila Day. Her hunt for the Star Island killer consumed her. But the case went unsolved, resulting in her dismissal from the Miami PD.Now, three years later, life hands Lila an unexpected second chance: reclusive billionaire Teddy Hawkins approaches Lila and asks her to solve the case. But how do you investigate a crime when all the leads have long ago gone coldThe answer, Teddy tells her, is to solve the case before it happens. He's going to send Lila back in time.With nothing left to lose, an incredulous Lila travels back to 2014, determined to find the Star Island killer once and for all. But as she goes undercover among the members of Miami's high society, she finds herself caring for—and falling for—people who are destined to die that fateful night. Now she must either say good-bye or risk altering the future forever.
Trailerpark
Trailerpark
Banks, Russell
¥78.55
Get to know the colorful cast of characters at the Granite State Trailerpark, where Flora in number 11 keeps more than a hundred guinea pigs andscreams at people to stay away from her babies, Claudel in number 5 thinks he is lucky until his wife burns down their trailer and runs off with Howie Leeke, and Noni in number 7 has telephone conversations with Jesus and tells the police about them. In this series of related short stories, Russell Banks offers gripping, realistic portrayals of individual Americans and paints a portrait of New England life that is at once dark, witty, and revealing.
The Headhunter's Daughter
The Headhunter's Daughter
Myers, Tamar
¥78.55
From Tamar Myers, author of The Witch Doctor's Wife, comes a spellbinding tale of equatorial Africa and a child torn dangerously between two worlds.In 1945, an infant left inadvertently to die in the jungles of the Belgian Congo is discovered by a young Bashilele tribesman on a mission to claim the head of an enemy. Recognized as human—despite her pale white skin and strange blue eyes—the baby is brought into the tribe and raised as its own. Thirteen years later, the girl—now called "Ugly Eyes"—will find herself at the center of a controversy that will rock two separate societies.Young missionary Amanda Brown hears the incredible stories of a white girl living among the Bashilele headhunters. In the company of the local police chief, Captain Pierre Jardin, and with the witch doctor's wife, the quick-witted Cripple, along as translator, Amanda heads into the wild hoping to bring the lost girl back to "civilization." But Ugly Eyes no longer belongs in their world—and the secrets surrounding her birth and disappearance are placing them all in far graver peril than anyone ever imagined.
A Series of Unfortunate Events #11: The Grim Grotto 雷蒙·斯尼奇的不幸历险系列11
A Series of Unfortunate Events #11: The Grim Grotto 雷蒙·斯尼奇的不幸历险系列11
Snicket, Lemony
¥78.55
Warning: Your day will become very dark - and possibly damp - if you read this book. Plan to spend this spring in hiding. Lemony Snicket is back with the eleventh book in his New York Times bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events. Lemony Snicket's saga about the charming, intelligent and grossly unlucky Baudelaire orphans continues to provoke suspicion and despair in readers the world over. In the eleventh and most alarming volume yet in the bestselling phenomenon A Series of Unfortunate Events, the intrepid siblings delve further into the dark mystery surrounding the death of their parents and the baffling VFD organisation. Ages 9+
A Series of Unfortunate Events #7: The Vile Village 雷蒙·斯尼奇的不幸历险系列7
A Series of Unfortunate Events #7: The Vile Village 雷蒙·斯尼奇的不幸历险系列7
Snicket, Lemony
¥78.55
Dear Reader You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake so please put it down. Nobody in their right mind would read this particular book about the lives of Violet Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire on purpose because each dismal moment of their stay in the village of V.F.D. has been faithfully and dreadfully recorded in these pages.I can think of no single reason why anyone would want to open a book containing such unpleasant matters as migrating crows an angry mob a newspaper headline the arrest of innocent people the Deluxe Cell and some very strange hats.It is my solemn and sacred occupation to research each detail of the Baudelaire childrens lives and write them all down but you may prefer to do some other solemn and sacred thing such as reading another book instead.With all due respect Lemony Snicket Ages 10+
Destined to Fly
Destined to Fly
Bloome, Indigo
¥78.55
The scorching finale to the internationally bestselling series bound to thrill fans of Fifty Shades of GreyEmerging from sexual captivity, psychologist Alexandra Blake is feeling a sense of empowerment—along with a strange mix of fear and exhilaration. She holds the key to the cutting-edge aphrodisiac drugs so desperately sought by both her abductors and her lover, Dr. Jeremy Quinn. But in order to unlock the secrets within her, she must now embark upon a quest to explore ancient erotic rituals. After all she's been through, Alexandra thought she'd experienced pleasure at its most extreme. She was wrong.In the stunning conclusion of the Avalon trilogy, Alexandra will reconcile her past and her future, discovering the true purpose behind the role she was always destined to play.
Maggie Sweet
Maggie Sweet
Minthorn Stacy, Judith
¥78.55
"Last night at supper my husband announced that he had taken our entire life savings and spent it on a family cemetery plot." Maggie Sweet has had enough. For nearly nineteen years, she's kept house, lived with her husband Steven's frugal weekly menus and dour taste in home decorating, and humored his humorless mother. Now, at thirty-eight, she's nearly finished raising her twin daughters and wants to begin her long-deferred career as a hairstylist. But Steven won't hear of it. It seems as if everyone else has learned how to live. while Maggie has only learned where she's going to end up after she dies. To make matters worse, Maggie's twenty-year high school reunion is Just around the corner and her long-lost high school boyfriend is back in town. It's not easy for Maggie to sort out her feelings, however, when she has to contend with rampant small-town gossip, surly daughters, and a grandmother who's made it her life's work to keep an eve on Maggie. If only she could see into the future, there is the hope of a second chance at life. In this tender and funny story about friendship, self-worth, family, and unbreakable ties, Maggie Sweet discovers that she has the strength to be her own woman.
Pleasure Control
Pleasure Control
Fox, Cathryn
¥78.55
A dedicated scientist, Laura Manning has an I.Q. that's off the charts. But beneath her pristine white lab coat is a curvaceous body that craves satisfaction. She finds it hard keeping her mind on the experiment and off what's under the lab coat of her bad boy research partner, Jay Cutler, whom she's working with to develop a libido suppressant, an "antidote" for a society gone sex-mad, pumped up and over-stimulated by the miracle of Viagra. With time running out, Jay offers to act as a human guinea pig, injecting himself with the libido suppressant. Laura's role requires lingerie, soft music and candlelight. Her job is to entice him, to determine if the suppressant tamps down his desires. Rather than cooling the flames of lust engulfing them, their "antidote" only heats them up . . . and there's only one scandalous way to deal with it!Suddenly long days of laboratory work are giving way to sizzling nights of sensual experimentation and a different kind of "chemistry" that leaves Jay and Laura breathless and gasping for more! Their professional careers may depend upon a successful climax and there are dangerous competitors determined to steal their research. And maybe their pleasure games have gotten a bit out of control.But who in her right mind would want to pull the plug on her man's libido when the loving is this deliciously hot?