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Supervision
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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)
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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 . . .
A Wild Swan: And Other Tales
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A poisoned apple and a monkey’s paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan’s wing; and a house constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away―the mythic figures of our childhoods and the source of so much of our wonder―are transformed by Michael Cunningham into stories of sublime revelation. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured of a curse. Reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu, rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true.
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell
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The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication. This edition is twofold, for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself, in the written form of a series of lectures given at Oxford in the 1930s; and from these lectures a substantial selection has been made, to form also a commentary on the translation in this book. From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail-shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel’s terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot. But the commentary in this book includes also much from those lectures in which, while always anchored in the text, he expressed his wider perceptions. He looks closely at the dragon that would slay Beowulf ‘snuffling in baffled rage and injured greed when he discovers the theft of the cup’; but he rebuts the notion that this is ‘a mere treasure story’, ‘just another dragon tale’. He turns to the lines that tell of the burying of the golden things long ago, and observes that it is ‘the feeling for the treasure itself, this sad history’ that raises it to another level. ‘The whole thing is sombre, tragic, sinister, curiously real. The “treasure” is not just some lucky wealth that will enable the finder to have a good time, or marry the princess. It is laden with history, leading back into the dark heathen ages beyond the memory of song, but not beyond the reach of imagination.’ Sellic Spell, a ‘marvellous tale’, is a story written by Tolkien suggesting what might have been the form and style of an Old English folk-tale of Beowulf, in which there was no association with the ‘historical legends’ of the Northern kingdoms.
Robin Hood Yard
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London, 1938. With a world war on the horizon, a shocking crime begins to unfold – and one reporter knows too much to be allowed to survive. An absorbing and gripping mystery from the critically acclaimed author of SNOW HILL. November, 1938. Europe is teetering on the edge of war…Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Britain, and a serial killer is at work in London. Johnny Steadman, investigative journalist, is called to the scene of a gruesome murder – a man has been tied to his bed, mutilated and left to bleed to death. This is the second time the killer has struck, and it won’t be the last. Together with DC Matt Turner, Johnny tries desperately to find a link between the victims. When the next Mayor of London is subjected to a vicious Anti-Semitic attack, Johnny begins to wonder if the two cases are connected. Against a backdrop of escalating violence in Nazi Germany, he uncovers a shocking conspiracy that could bring the United Kingdom to its knees. But will Johnny live to tell the tale?
Flashman (The Flashman Papers, Book 1)
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Coward, scoundrel, lover and cheat, but there is no better man to go into the jungle with. Join Flashman in his adventures as he survives fearful ordeals and outlandish perils across the four corners of the world. Expelled from Rugby for drunkenness, and none too welcome at home after seducing his father’s mistress, the young Flashman embarks on a military career with Lord Cardigan’s Hussars. En route to Afghanistan, our hero hones his skills as a soldier, duellist, imposter, coward and amorist (mastering all 97 ways of Hindu love-making during a brief sojourn in Calcutta), before being pressed into reluctant service as a secret agent. His Afghan adventures culminate in a starring role in that great historic disaster, the Retreat from Kabul.
The Tree Climber’s Guide
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`After I finished this book I alarmed my family by going into the garden and climbing the apple tree.' - Damian Whitworth, The Times`One of the publishing sensations of the year ... For anyone who has ever felt a little overwhelmed in a big city, or wanted to step out of the rat race for an hour or two, Jack Cooke will be something of an inspiration.' - Robert Hardman, Daily MailA wonderful cocktail of engaging writing, beautiful illustration and heartfelt appreciation for the natural world. An essential oddity for any book collection.In this charming, witty and exquisitely illustrated companion, Jack Cooke explores the city through its canopy; teetering on the edge of an oak's branches, scurrying up a Scots pine, spying views from the treetops that few have ever had the chance to see. He takes us through the parks, over the canals and rivers and into secret gardens on his journey sometimes only ten foot above the street.Part guidebook, part meditation on the consolations of nature, The Tree Climber's Guide is as uniquely odd, alluring and motley as the trees themselves. It is a journey into the tangle of bark and branches that surround us all and a welcome reminder that the best things in life are free - they just sometimes require a step in the right direction.
Behold the Dreamers
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Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty-and Jende is eager to please. Clark's wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses' summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future. However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers' fa?ades. When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Jongas are desperate to keep Jende's job-even as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice.
The Stone Book Quartet
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A classic work of rural magic realism from one of Britain’s greatest children’s novelists. Through four interconnected fables of a way of living in rural England that has now disappeared, Alan Garner vividly brings to life a landscape situated on the outskirts of industrial Manchester. Smiths and chandlers, steeplejacks and quarrymen, labourers and artisans all live and work hand in hand with the seasons, the elements, and the land. There is a mutual respect and a knowledge of the magical here that has somehow, somewhere been lost to us. These fables beautifully recapture and restore that lost world in simple, searching prose.
The Blue Flower
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’ comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancée Sophie, newly introduced by Candia McWilliam. The year is 1794 and Fritz, passionate, idealistic and brilliant, is seeking his father’s permission to announce his engagement to his heart’s desire: twelve-year-old Sophie. His astounded family and friends are amused and disturbed by his betrothal. What can he be thinking? Tracing the dramatic early years of the young German who was to become the great romantic poet and philosopher Novalis, ‘The Blue Flower’ is a masterpiece of invention, evoking the past with a reality that we can almost feel.
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
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A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on London’s Embankment. Taken to hospital and heavily sedated, he tells the doctors of his incredible fantastical voyage, adrift on the ocean, landing on unknown shores, flying on the back of a huge white bird. Identified as Charles Watkins, a Cambridge Classics professor, he is visited by family and friends, each revealing clues to the nature of his breakdown. As the doctors try to cure him, Watkins begins a fierce battle to hold on to his magnificent inner world, as it gradually acquires a greater reality than the everyday… ‘Briefing for a Descent into Hell’ is one of Doris Lessing’s most brilliantly achieved novels, linking her early work, which explored the nature of subjectivity, with her later experiments in science fiction. Its indictment of the tyranny of society is powerful, disturbing and, as always, magnificently rendered.
Miss Garnet’s Angel
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Salley Vicker’s sensational debut novel, ‘Miss Garnet’s Angel’ is a voyage of discovery; a novel about Venice but also the rich story of the explosive possibilities of change in all of us at any time. Julia Garnet is a teacher. Just retired, she is left a legacy which she uses by leaving her orderly life and going to live – in winter – in an apartment in Venice. Its beauty, its secret corners and treasures, and its people overwhelm a lifetime of reserve and caution. Above all, she’s touched by the all-prevalent spirit of the Angel, Raphael. The ancient tale of Tobias, who travels to Media unaware he is accompanied by the Archangel Raphael, unfolds alongside Julia Garnet’s contemporary journey. The two stories interweave with parents and landladies, restorers and priests, American tourists and ancient travellers abounding. The result is an enormously satisfying journey of the spirit – and Julia Garnet is a character to treasure.
Warhost of Vastmark (The Wars of Light and Shadow, Book 3)
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Tricked once more by his wily half-brother, Lysaer arrives at the tiny harbour town of Merior, to find that his brother’s ship yards have been meticulously destroyed and abandoned. But where is Arithon? The forces of light and shadow circle and feint, drawing ever closer to a huge conflict. Tricked once more by his wily half-brother, Lysaer, Lord of Light, arrives at the tiny harbour town of Merior to find that Arithon’s ship yards have been abandoned and meticulously destroyed, and that the Master of Shadow has disappeared as if into thin air. Meanwhile Arithon and the Mad Prophet Dakar are travelling on foot through the treacherous Kelhorn Mountains towards the Vastmark clans, there to raise further support for his cause. But raising a warhost is a costly business. Is it mere coincidence that Princess Talith – Lysaer’s beautiful, headstrong wife – is taken captive and held for a vast ransom by a master brigand? The forces of light and shadow circle and feint, drawing ever closer to a huge conflict. And in the background the Fellowship of Seven Sorcerers and the Koriani Enchantresses watch and plan, and wait…
Babbit
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„Nu cunosc nici un alt roman american care s? prezinte cu mai mult? acurate?e adev?rata Americ?. [Babbitt] este un document social de prim rang.“ – H.L. Mencken, cronic? la apari?ia romanului, 1922 „Mi-a? dori s? fi scris eu Babbitt.“ – H.G. Wells „Babbitt este un om de afaceri modest, nu îndeajuns de important pentru a lupta cu institu?iile sacre c?rora americanul de rând ?i-a vândut sufletul ca s? se poat? bucura de pace ?i prosperitate. Înfrângerea sa, descris? cu for?a, admirabila în?elepciune ?i umorul unui mare scriitor, este înfrângerea unei întregi na?iuni. De aceea cartea a provocat o atât de profund? tulburare în America ?i a avut un succes atât de durabil. În spiritul acesta trebuie s? o citim dac? vrem s-o în?elegem ?i s? fim impresiona?i de ceea ce are ea s? ne transmit?.“ – Paul Morand „[Lewis ...] a administrat Statelor Unite un pumn drept în plexul solar, a imortalizat un personaj tipic american ?i a ad?ugat limbii noastre câteva cuvinte care au devenit moned? curent?.“ – The Times Clasici moderni Litera pune laolalt? scriitori moderni ale c?ror opere au devenit deja repere clasice. Cele mai importante, mai provocatoare, mai emo?ionante, mai revolu?ionare opere din ultimii 125 de ani – c?r?i care vor continua s? fie citite de la o genera?ie la alta.
Sfinxul
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Ea nu-i poate l?sa s-o prind?, ei nu o pot l?sa in via??.05:36. O femeie alearg? pe Lion’s Head. Este t?n?r?, frumoas?, american?. ?i ?ngrozit?, c?ci este v?n?ta ca un animal.05:37. Inspectorul Bennie Griessel este trezit de ??r?itul telefonului. O femeie a fost ucis?, iar trupul ei zace ?n strad?.07:02. Mahmura, Alexa Barnard, o fosta vedet? pop, devenit? ?ntre timp alcoolic?, descoper? pe podea corpul so?ului ei, fondator ?i director al casei de discuri AfriSound.P?n? la ora 9, cu dou? crime de rezolvat ?i o poft? nebun? s? bea ceva, Griessel ?n?elege c? sarcina de a ?ndruma noua genera?ie de poli?i?ti de la omucideri este ceva mai complicat? dec?t anticipase el.Dup? pr?nz, cursa de salvare a tinerei turiste devine disperat? ?i haotic?, iar pu?in ?nainte de 17:30, Greissel este ?mpu?cat drept ?n inim?.O zi destul de normal?, treisprezece ore tipice de investiga?ie a unei crime ?n Cape Town.?De departe cel mai bun autor sud-african de romane poli?iste.“ The Guardian?Cu Deon Meyer n-ai cum s? dai gre?. ?mi plac c?r?ile lui, le a?tept cu ner?bdare ?i apoi, pur ?i simplu, le devorez.“ Michael Connely?Eroii lui sunt perfect integra?i ?n noua Africa de Sud, unde loialitatea ?i credin?a trebuie puse ?ntotdeauna sub semnul ?ntreb?rii.“ Financial Times (UK)?Parte rom?n poli?ist, parte istorie social? ?n Africa de Sud postapartheid – un amestec palpitant, condimentat cu accente de cruzime ?i de justi?ie ?n stare brut?.“ PeopleNominalizare la Premiul Dagger Interna?ional 2010. Le Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere. Roman publicat ?n 21 de ??ri
O s?pt?m?n? ?n decembrie
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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
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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)
Un singur lucru
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Tr?ind de azi pe m?ine ?ntr-un Bucure?ti plin de tenta?ii, dar consumator de resurse, studentul la Drept Mihnea B?iatu nu ?i-a dat examenele, iar ob?inerea licen?ei ?ncepe s? semene cu un vis imposibil. A ?nv??at ?ns? cum s? c??tige ?ncrederea cet??enilor s?raci cu duhul – ?i nu e pu?in lucru.Plasat ?ntr-un decor suburban, cu personaje caragialiene, Mihnea B?iatu se ?nscrie ?ns?, f?r? doar ?i poate, ?n tipologia eroilor lui Gib I. Mih?escu, urm?ri?i de idealul femeii absolute. Expert ?n practicile ?amorului democrat“ ?i ?n escrocarea cu sistem – erotic? ?i financiar? – a propriet?reselor de mahala, eternul student d? nas ?n nas pe culoarele universit??ii cu femeia perfect?, care-l scruteaz? ?i ea, cu acela?i interes, prin lentila unui lornion de aur…
Alimente care ucid creierul. Cerealele, zah?rul ?i al?i carbohidra?i
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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.
Sora
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n vreme ce alte adolescente viseaz cu ochii deschii la biei, Calla Tor i cunoate deja destinul: la terminarea liceului, fata-lup va deveni partenera masculului alfa Ren Laroche, alturi de care va conduce o nou hait de lupi Gardieni, luptnd umr la umr pentru a apra, chiar cu preul vieii, locurile sacre ale Pzitorilor.Dar, dup ce ncalc legile strvechi ale stpnilor ei salvndu-l de la moarte pe frumosul muritor Shay, ncetul cu ncetul, Calla ncepe s pun la ndoial soarta care i-a fost hrzit, propria existen i ntreaga ei lume. Secrete adnc ngropate ies uor-uor la suprafa i, odat cu ele, devine tot mai clar c nimic nu este ceea ce pare a fi. Ea tie c, dac ascult chemarea inimii, va pierde totul – poate chiar i propria via. Merit oare o iubire interzis sacrificiul suprem O lume seductoare, complicat, n care oamenii sunt pionii unei puternice haite de vrcolaci i nimic nu este ceea ce pare. Am stat cu sufletul la gur pn la ultima pagin.“ – Becca Fitzpatrick, autoarea seriei ngerul Nopii
Suicide's Girlfriend
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Elizabeth Evans traces the complex and often painful threads of human relationships in Suicide's Girlfriend, her most inspired work to date. In these richly textured stories, you'll meet:Oyekan, a confused young Nigerian student who wrestles with feelings his U.S. friends cannot understand.Marie, an adolescent who makes a carefully philosophized, end-of-the-rope stab at salvation for herself and her seven abused siblings.Jenny and Heather, two girls whose friendship has suffered from the distractions of adolescence and the cruelty of one moving on while the other must sit idly by and watch.A group of college boys, whose discovery of a dead body on the side of the road leaves one of them changed in ways he never thought possible.Elegant, acute, and engaging, Suicide's Girlfriend will introduce you to these characters and more, their stories, and an incredible new voice in fiction.
