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Alimente care ucid creierul. Cerealele, zah?rul ?i al?i carbohidra?i
Alimente care ucid creierul. Cerealele, zah?rul ?i al?i carbohidra?i
Perlmutter Dr. David, Loberg Kristin
¥66.22
În via?a lui Hercule Poirot, nici m?car o programare la dentist nu poate avea loc f?r? s? se întâmple o crim?, iar de data aceasta, cel ucis este însu?i dentistul. Dar, în timp ce poli?ia consider? moartea acestuia drept sinucidere, Poirot ?tie mai bine care este adev?rul, iar curând vor mai fi omorâte ?i alte persoane. S? fie aceste crime verigi ale lan?ului revolu?ionar menit s? r?stoarne ordinea democratic? din Marea Britanie în tulburele deceniu patru al secolului XX? S? fie neatr?g?toarea ?i banala domni?oar? Seale un geniu al crimei? Ca la un joc de c?r?i, Poirot are sentimentul c? i se for?eaz? mâna într-o anume direc?ie a investiga?iei. Agatha Christie î?i ?ese din nou intriga palpitant? cu o m?iestrie de neegalat, oferindu-le cititorilor un deznod?mânt absolut surprinz?tor.
O s?pt?m?n? ?n decembrie
O s?pt?m?n? ?n decembrie
Faulks Sebastian
¥66.22
Delicatee i for, stihuri-volute i umor, uimitoare bogie de limbaj i sensibilitate incandescent, poezie-n proz i invers. Emoie. Sau o sinecdoc splendid. Trebuie not de subsol“ Rzvan PetrescuCine-a spus Madame Bovary c’est moi a fost detept. Aa e i scrisul Anei Barton: i place, te excit i apoi te rcorete. Rmi, dup lectur, cu senzaia de ntlnire rar.“ Ara eptiliciIronic, dar ludic. Dulce, dar muctor. Brocat, delicat i cu un sim al detaliului precum o dantel frivolité. Prospect de femeie se ia pe nemncate, pe inima goal, cci o umple cu vrf i ndesat. Nu are contraindicaii, iar supradozajul este recomandabil pentru cord i neuron.“ Petronela RotarVine n literatur dinspre publicistic. i o face n for, cu o plcere acaparant a povestirii. Posed tiina fermecrii cititorului datorit firescului i lipsei de inhibiii. Ana Barton are toate atuurile unei scriitoare de excepie.“ Alexandru Petria
T?cere
T?cere
Fitzpatrick Becca
¥66.22
Nu mi e fric de moarte. tiu c ntr-o zi va suna telefonul c s-a dus mama-mare, care are aproape 90 de ani acum. C se va duce tata, care, deja jumtate paralizat, e jumtate mort. C ntr-o zi va pleca i mama. Apoi sper s urmez, firesc, eu. Dar dac nu va fi aa, ci altfel, tiu de pe acum c nimic nu e ntmpltor i prin asta trebuie s trec. Nu o s m mai ntreb cu disperare: de ce mie Sunt leciile mele, crucile mele de dus. M tiu cu moartea bine, iar proximitatea ei m-a fcut doar excepional de vie.“Exist necesare i salvatoare guri de aer. Guri de ap. La o adic, i-o gur de lacrimi poate face o treab foarte bun: te mntuiete de-un AVC. Trind ns cteva zile cu ochi i mini n cartea Petronelei Rotar, am fost obligat la o revelaie: gura de cuvinte. Una rarisim, de-o frumusee care frizeaz visul, roie-camelie, pletoric, dulce-amruie i parfumat cu licorile secrete ale Semiramidei. Nu s-a nscut ca s-o priveti de la distan, s te uimeti departe. i se deschide a srut fierbinte, cteodat cast, alt dat tremurat, iar de ndat ce-ai atins-o, du-te ncet ctre oglind, cu ochii-nchii. Deschide-i i privete: este a ta. Respir. Gura asta de cuvinte-inim eti tu. (Ana Barton)
Destiny’s Conflict: Book Two of Sword of the Canon (The Wars of Light and Shadow
Destiny’s Conflict: Book Two of Sword of the Canon (The Wars of Light and Shadow
Janny Wurts
¥66.22
The long-awaited second book of the fourth story arc - Sword of the Canon - in the epic fantasy series, the Wars of Light and Shadow. Lysaer’s unstable integrity lies under threat of total downfall, and as his determined protector, Daliana will face the most frightening decision of her young life. Arithon, Master of Shadow, is marked for death and still hunted, when his critical quest to recover his obscured past entangles him in a web of deep intrigue and ancient perils beyond his imagining. Elaira’s urgent pursuit of the Biedar Tribes’ secret embroils her in the terrible directive of the Fellowship Sorcerers, while Dakar — the Mad Prophet — confronts the hard reckoning for the colossal mistake of his misspent past, and Tarens is steered by a destiny far from his crofter’s origins. The penultimate volume of The Wars of Light and Shadow will touch the grand depths of Athera’s endowment, and deliver the thrilling finale of arc IV, the Sword of the Canon. War, blood, magic, mystery – and the most hidden powers of all – will stand or fall on their hour of unveiling.
Under Shadows (The Dome Trilogy, Book 3)
Under Shadows (The Dome Trilogy, Book 3)
Jason LaPier
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The third instalment in the wondrous sci-fi Dome Trilogy by Jason LaPier Once a dome operator, then a fugitive, Jax Jackson is now ready to go home. But he is stopped when, from out of the shadows his greatest nightmare ambushes him, and drags him back to a deep-space lair. Now a public relations officer for the profitable Modern Policing and Peacekeeping, Stanford Runstom still thinks like the detective he longed to be during his years of service as a law enforcement officer. Violence between space gangs and ModPol is on the rise, and if Runstom is going to find out why, he will have to defy authority and enlist the unlikeliest allies. Skilled assassin Dava was taught to survive by Space Waste boss Moses Down, so when he’s captured by ModPol, she goes on the warpath. Her trust issues are an asset when sniffing out traitors in her gang, but will she be able to control her rage and become the leader needed to stop the sabotage of an ark carrying a thousand sleeping Earthling refugees?
The Future Homemakers of America
The Future Homemakers of America
Laurie Graham
¥66.22
Filled with warmth, wit and wisdom, ‘The Future Homemakers of America’ takes us to the heart of female friendship. A novel fans of ‘Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood’ will not be able to resist. Norfolk,1953. The Fens have never seen anything quite like the girls from USAF Drampton. Overpaid, overfed and over here. While their men patrol the skies keeping the Soviets at bay, some are content to live the life of the Future Homemakers of America – clipping coupons, cooking chicken pot pie – but other start to stray, looking for a little native excitement beyond the perimeter fence. Out there in the freezing fens they meet Kath Pharaoh, a tough but warm Englishwoman. Bonds are forged, uniting the women in friendship that will survive distant postings, and the passage of forty years.
The Loss of Leon Meed
The Loss of Leon Meed
Josh Emmons
¥66.22
‘Josh Emmons is the real deal: a major league prose writer who has fun in every sentence; you want to keep reading him for the pure pleasure of his company’ Jonathan Franzen Over the course of one December, ten residents of Eureka, California, are brought together by a mysterious man, Leon Meed, who repeatedly and inexplicably appears – in the ocean, at a local music club, clinging to the roof of a barrelling truck, standing in the middle of Main Street’s oncoming traffic – and then, as if by magic, disappears. Each witness to these bewildering events – young and old, married and single, punk and evangelical, black, white and Korean – interprets them differently, yet all of their lives are irrevocably changed. Over time, these ten characters, previously only tenuously connected, form a strange community of shared experience. Highly original and brilliantly written, Josh Emmons’s award-winning debut is a mystery, a love story and something else entirely.
Hero Born (Seeds of Destiny, Book 1)
Hero Born (Seeds of Destiny, Book 1)
Andy Livingstone
¥66.22
It’s in the darkest hour, when all hope is lost, that heroes are born. After witnessing the deaths of everyone he holds dear, Brann is wrenched from his family home and thrust into a life of slavery. Now he must do everything he can to survive. Miles away, word is spreading of a growing evil; a deposed and forgotten Emperor is seeking a weapon to use in his bid to rise once again to power. Ruthless and determined, nothing and no one can stand in his way. Especially not a galley slave like Brann. But heroes can be forged in the most unlikely of ways, and Brann’s journey has only just begun.
Green Glowing Skull
Green Glowing Skull
Gavin Corbett
¥66.22
A breathtakingly original, darkly comic, surprisingly contemporary and deeply surreal tale from the author of THIS IS THE WAY, Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. After fleeing his dying parents and the drudgery of work in Dublin for the Manhattan of his imagination – a place of romance and opulence, dark old concert halls and mellow front parlours quieted by the hiss of the phonograph cylinder – Rickard Velily hopes to be reborn as an Irish tenor, and to one day be reunited with the love of his life. At the very peculiar Cha Bum Kun Club, a masonic-style refuge for immigrants who can’t quite cut it in New York City, he meets Denny Kennedy-Logan and Clive Sullis, and a plan is enacted: to revive the art songs and ballads of another time for a hip young city in thrall to technology and money. But that is without reckoning on meddlesome sprites, the phantoms of the past – and more malign forces who plot to subjugate the human race. Green Glowing Skull is a half-crazed brain-shunt of a trip around the spirit world, the cyber world and a woozily recognisable real world – a darkly comic tale of mythologies, machines and the metaphysical swirl.
Spy Hook
Spy Hook
Len Deighton
¥66.22
The long-awaited reissue of the first part of the classic spy trilogy, HOOK, LINE and SINKER, when the Berlin Wall divided not just a city but a world. Working for the Department was like marriage is supposed to be - ''til death do us part' - but the Department is really not like that; and neither are many marriages, including that of Bernard Samson. The cool and cynical field agent of the GAME, SET and MATCH trilogy has grown older and wiser. But things have not gone well for Samson: old pals are not as friendly as they used to be and colleagues are less confiding than they once were. Now, starting with his mission to Washington, life has become even more precarious for Bernard. Ignoring all warnings, friendly, devious and otherwise, he pursues his own investigation and, in California, meets with the biggest surprise of his life…
The Northern Clemency
The Northern Clemency
Philip Hensher
¥66.22
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008. An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher. Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading of Thatcher's government in 1996, ‘The Northern Clemency’ is Philip Hensher's epic portrait of an entire era, a novel concerned with the lives of ordinary people and history on the move. Set in Sheffield, it charts the relationship between two families: Malcolm and Katherine Glover and their three children; and their neighbours, the Sellers family, newly arrived from London so that Bernie can pursue his job with the Electricity Board. The day the Sellers move in there is a crisis across the road: Malcolm Glover has left home, convinced his wife is having an affair. The consequences of this rupture will spread throughout the lives of both couples and their children, in particular ten-year-old Tim Glover, who never quite recovers from a moment of his mother's public cruelty and the amused taunting of fifteen-year-old Sandra Sellers, childhood crises that will come to a head twenty years later. In the background, England is changing: from a manufacturing- and industrial-based economy into a new world of shops, restaurants and service industries, a shift particularly marked in the North with the miners' strike of 1984, which has a dramatic impact on both families. Inspired by the expansive scale and webs of relationships of the great nineteenth-century Russian novels, ‘The Northern Clemency’ shows Philip Hensher to be one of our greatest chroniclers of English life.
A Bit of Difference
A Bit of Difference
Sefi Atta
¥66.22
A rich, fearless novel from the winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Deola Bello is tired of London, but she’s not ready to give up on life. When her charity job takes her home to Nigeria, her thoughts turn to the future, as she questions whether her peripatetic existence is still right for her. Deola encounters changes in her family and her home, while a new friendship with Wale, a charming hotelier, offers more lasting potential. But is Deola really equipped to cope with the altered social mores that are part of modern Nigeria? Sefi Atta’s urgent, incisive voice guides us through this intricate and vivid narrative, challenging preconceived notions of Africa and bringing to life contemporary Nigeria. With boldness and refreshing honesty, A Bit of Difference looks at the complexities of our globalised world, through a very human lens.
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
Hilary Mantel
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A brilliant – and rather transgressive – collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Including a new story The School of English. Hilary Mantel is one of Britain’s most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday fa?ades. Childhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes in ‘Comma’; nurses clash in ‘Harley Street’ over something more than professional differences; and in the title story, staying in for the plumber turns into an ambiguous and potentially deadly waiting game. Whether set in a claustrophobic Saudi Arabian flat or on a precarious mountain road in Greece, these stories share an insight into the darkest recesses of the spirit. Displaying all of Mantel’s unmistakable style and wit, they reveal a great writer at the peak of her powers.
Beasts Royal: Twelve Tales of Adventure
Beasts Royal: Twelve Tales of Adventure
Patrick O’Brian
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Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick O’Brian – made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and elegantly repackaged. On the indigo waters of the South Sea, the crew of a schooner are attacked by a man-eating tiger-shark. In the humid depths of the African jungle, a thirty-foot python plots to rid himself of his rival, a wily old crocodile. Amid the heat and dust of the Punjab, the snake-charmer Hussein escapes into the forest on the elephant that he trained when a mahout in his youth. With the dry wit and unsentimental precision O’Brian would come to be loved for, we see the drama and tragedies of the natural world unfold for these, as well as other birds and beasts, in these twelve tales of animal adventure that would appear together in 1934 as the author’s second book. O’Brian’s debut, Caesar, had been published in 1930 and became an instant success, seeing him hailed as the ‘boy-Thoreau’. His second novel, Hussein, would expand upon one of the stories included in this collection and has been praised by Martin Booth of The Daily Telegraph as being ‘…as fresh today as when it was written.…so rich in detail, it is breathtaking.’ As with Caesar and Hussein, Beasts Royal sheds fascinating light on the formation of the literary genius behind the Aubrey-Maturin series of historical adventure tales, for which he is deservedly famous.
Supervision
Supervision
Alison Stine
¥66.22
Something is wrong with Esmé. Kicked out of school in New York, her sister sends her to live with their grandmother in the small town she hasn’t visited since she was a child. But something is wrong with the grandmother Ez hasn’t seen for years; she leaves the house at midnight, carrying a big black bag. Something is wrong with her grandmother’s house, a decrepit mansion full of stray cats, stairs that lead to nowhere and beds that unmake themselves. Something is wrong in the town where a child disappears every year, where a whistle sounds at night but no train arrives. And something is definitely wrong with her cute and friendly neighbour with black curls and ice-blue eyes: he’s dead.
Ignite the Shadows (Ignite the Shadows, Book 1)
Ignite the Shadows (Ignite the Shadows, Book 1)
Ingrid Seymour
¥66.22
Sixteen-year-old Marci Guerrero is one of the best teen hackers in Seattle. However, she’d give up all her talents to know she isn’t crazy. Marci feels possessed by shadowy spectres that take control of her body and make her do crazy things. While spying on the clandestine group known as IgNiTe, she is confronted by their mysterious leader, James McCray. His presence stirs the spectres inside her brain into a maddening frenzy. Her symptoms and ability to control them don’t go unnoticed by James, who soon recruits her. As IgNiTe reveals its secrets, Marci starts to realise that half the world’s population is infected with sentient parasites, which are attacking and eventually supplanting the human brain. Now Marci wishes she was crazy, because this truth is far worse . . .
Darkhaven (The Darkhaven Novels, Book 1)
Darkhaven (The Darkhaven Novels, Book 1)
A. F. E. Smith
¥66.22
Ayla Nightshade never wanted to rule Darkhaven. Yet her half-brother Myrren hasn’t inherited the family’s ability to shapeshift, so their father, Florentyn, forces Ayla to take over as heir to the throne. When Ayla is accused of Florentyn’s brutal murder only Myrren believes her innocent and aids her escape. A fugitive from her own guard, Ayla must now fight to clear her name if she is ever to wear the crown she never wanted and be allowed to return to the home she has always loved. But does something more sinister than the power to shapeshift lie at the heart of the Nightshade family line?
Graynelore
Graynelore
Stephen Moore
¥66.22
Rogrig Wishard is a killer, a liar and a thief. Rogrig is the last person the fey would turn to for help. But they know something he doesn’t. In a world without government or law, where a man’s loyalty is to his family and faerie tales are strictly for children, Rogrig is not happy to discover that he’s carrying faerie blood. Especially when he starts to see them wherever he goes. To get his life back, he’s going to have to journey further from home than he’s ever been before and find out what the fey could possibly want from him. But that’s easier said than done when the punishment for abandoning your family is death.
Grim Tidings (Wolves of Llisé, Book 2)
Grim Tidings (Wolves of Llisé, Book 2)
Nancy K. Wallace
¥66.22
Book two in the sumptuous Wolves of Llisé trilogy. As the son of Llisé’s ruler, Devin Roché knows its laws only too well. It’s a land where keeping historical records is forbidden. To do so would mean imprisonment – or death. Only bards may share the histories of their provinces, but Devin’s quest to learn from them ended in tragedy. His best friend Gaspard has been kidnapped, Master Bards are being murdered and whole communities are disappearing. Clearly someone doesn’t want Devin to know the true history of Llisé. With his guard Marcus and a wolf pack for protection, Devin sets out to discover the truth. But as terrible secrets come to light, Devin realizes that some knowledge can be deadly.
Dangerous Women Part 2
Dangerous Women Part 2
George R.R. Martin,Gardner Dozois
¥66.22
Dangerous Women Vol. 2, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, includes stories by Lev Grossman, Sharon Kay Penman, S. M. Stirling, Sam Sykes, Caroline Spector, and Nancy Kress, and features an entirely new 28,000-word "Outlander" novella by New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon.
Unexpected Rain (The Dome Trilogy, Book 1)
Unexpected Rain (The Dome Trilogy, Book 1)
Jason LaPier
¥66.22
In a domed city on a planet orbiting Barnard's Star, a recently hired maintenance man named Kane has just committed murder. Minutes later, the airlocks on the neighbourhood block are opened and the murderer is asphyxiated along with thirty-one innocent residents. Jax, the lowly dome operator on duty at the time, is accused of mass homicide and faced with a mound of impossible evidence against him. His only ally is Runstom, the rogue police officer charged with transporting him to a secure off-world facility. The pair must risk everything to prove Jax didn’t commit the atrocity and uncover the truth before they both wind up dead.