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The Great Mortality
The Great Mortality
Kelly, John
¥94.87
La moria grandissima began its terrible journey across the European and Asian continents in 1347, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Five years later, twenty-five million people were dead, felled by the scourge that would come to be called the Black Death. The Great Mortality is the extraordinary epic account of the worst natural disaster in European history -- a drama of courage, cowardice, misery, madness, and sacrifice that brilliantly illuminates humankind's darkest days when an old world ended and a new world was born.
Viharfelh?
Viharfelh?
Allison Brennan
¥94.83
J VILGOK VRNAK RD. res lakás, a családnak semmi nyoma, eléggé hátborzongató. De az egész olyan, mintha katonai támaszpontra lelnénk, amit senki se riz. Pilóta nélküli vadászgépek és tankok tétlenkednek a felszállópályán. Rosszindulatú dzsudzsut érzek itt. Valami rettenetes trtént. Az lenne a legokosabb, ha mindenkit figyelmeztetnél, hogy mielbb húzzanak el innen." Miután a térkapuk ezernyi új világhoz nyitottak utat, megkezddtt a bolygók gyarmatosítása. j életre vágyó telepesek ezrei znlenek ki a Naprendszerbl. Az Ilosz, e roppant új határvidék els emberi kolóniája vérben és tzben születik. A független telepesek pusztán elszántságukra, bátorságukra és az otthoni hosszú háborúk tapasztalataira támaszkodva szállnak szembe a hivatalos engedéllyel rendelkez nagyvállalat gyarmatosító hajójával. A küzdelem egyre inkább elfajul. Ráadásul az új, idegen világ felderítése kzben egyre félelmetesebb dolgokra derül fény. James Holdent és kis hajójának legénységét bízzák meg azzal, hogy békét teremtsenek a háborúskodó felek kztt, és értelmet vigyenek a káoszba. m minél jobban belebonyolódik, Holdenben annál határozottabbá válik a meggyzdés, hogy a küldetése eleve kudarcra ítéltetett. Egy halott ember szavai pedig arra emlékeztetik, hogy a galaktikus civilizáció, amely egykor e fldet birtokolta, rkre eltnt. Ugyanis valami elpusztította.
Engel des doods: een juridische thriller
Engel des doods: een juridische thriller
Colleen Cross
¥94.83
Soms kun je het verleden beter laten rusten...Tijdens een boottochtje naar een afgelegen eiland aan boord van een luxueus jacht heeft fraudeonderzoeker Katerina Carter al snel het gevoel dat de charmante, praatjesmakende eigenaar van de boot een duister geheim verbergt. Die manier die hij aanprijst om snel geld te verdienen – zij kan toch niet de enige zijn die doorheeft dat het zaakje stinkt?Eenmaal op het eiland onderzoeken Kat en haar vrienden de geruchten die de ronde doen over een sinistere sekte, de Aquarian Foundation, en gaan ze op zoek naar verborgen schatten. De sekte heeft mensen geld afgetroggeld en het begint erop te lijken dat dezelfde geschiedenis zich weer herhaalt. Tenminste, als Kat aan de anderen kan bewijzen dat sommige dingen te mooi klinken om waar te zijn...Als niemand haar waarschuwingen serieus neemt, gaat ze op pad om een vreselijke waarheid te onthullen die de mensen waarvan ze het meest houdt in doodsgevaar kan brengen. Nu is het een race tegen de klok: Kat moet de moordenaar ontmaskeren voor hij opnieuw kan toeslaan. Dutch books, Dutch thrillers
20 koraka prema naprijed
20 koraka prema naprijed
Jorge Bucay
¥94.50
One man. Four women. Seventeen mysterious years. Dóra, Gabi, Szilvi, and Judit: They were best friends in high school, but a terrible secret bound them together for life. After a delirious night ending in tragedy, they make a pact to leave the country. They must flee to where the past can’t catch up with them. But before they say good-bye, they vow to meet again in Budapest, seventeen years later. Life scatters them to four corners of the world. Dóra starts her new life on the Island of Bali, and though she lives in the land of Earthly Paradise, all she can think about is her unfulfilled, lost love. Szilvi secretly writes a novel in which their shared past plays an important role. Gabi is torn between two successful and charming men, while Judit finally gets the man she’d never even dared to dream of... Seventeen years pass and the date of their reunion draws near. Have they found happiness? Can best friends betray each other for the sake of love? What other surprises does their mysterious past have in store for them? Is it possible to forgive and forget? Eva Fejos is a reporter and novelist, author of eighteen best-sellers. She loves sunshine, coffee, chocolate, and travel, writes her novels in the evening and late at night, and hates getting up early.
Oblik du?e
Oblik du?e
Gordana Benić
¥94.42
Din petice surprinz?tor de diferite, ca nuan?? ?i lucr?tur?, Dincolo de ferestre este o p?tur? multicolor? de pove?ti care pe mul?i ?i va ?nc?lzi. Jongl?nd cu emo?ii ?i st?ri, cu situa?ii ?i detalii, scriind despre orori ?i splendori, st?p?n? deja pe acest nou teritoriu, Irina Georgescu debuteaz? – deloc nea?teptat – cu un volum remarcabil. - Veronica D. Niculescu O colec?ie de dou?zeci ?i dou? de fic?iuni cu miez de magie, montate la limita dintre real ?i fantastic, av?nd ca numitor comun misterul ?i suspansul. ?n spatele pove?tilor se ascund ?ngerii. Ei s?nt pe urmele de?inutului care ?ncearc? s? evadeze din realitatea absurd? a unui penitenciar circular, f?r? ie?ire (?Encarcerado“), sau ale surorilor care scap? de atacatori datorit? muzicii (?Radio“). ?ngerii ?l privesc pe b?rbatul orb care, m?cinat de gelozie, ??i caut? rivalul ?n propria cas? (??ntuneric“) ?i afl? c? locatarii unei sc?ri de bloc s?nt alunga?i de farmecele unei vr?jitoare (?Rebound“). Surprinse ?n momentele cele mai vulnerabile, unele personaje ??i pierd capul – socrul sedus de cuscr? sare pe fereastr? sub privirile ginerelui (?Père Tinel“), b?iatul care g?se?te un pe?te auriu ?n para du?ului ??i pune o dorin?? neinspirat? (?Un tip f?r? noroc“), iar pendula vr?jit?, care d? verdicte la sf?r?itul proceselor, ?l pune ?n ?ncurc?tur? pe judec?tor (?Pendula lui Costic?“). Dincolo de Ferestre vorbe?te despre fragilitatea realit??ii, de limitele ei permeabile ?i de faptul c?, odat? traversat? aceast? barier?, lucrurile nu mai s?nt ce p?reau a fi. (Irina Georgescu Groza)
Groene schijn: juridische thriller
Groene schijn: juridische thriller
Colleen Cross
¥94.42
Lawinegevaar is niet het enige dat levens bedreigt in de bergen…Fraudeonderzoeker Katerina Carter en haar vriend Jace gaan een gezellig weekendje weg naar een huisje in de bergen. De dagen voor kerst zijn immers nog veel romantischer in de juiste omgeving. Bovendien heeft Jace een klus: overdag werkt hij aan de biografie voor een stinkendrijke milieugoeroe terwijl Kat gaat wandelen in de besneeuwde bergen.Maar dan overlijden er twee milieuactivisten uit de buurt onder verdachte omstandigheden. Kat en Jace moeten de waarheid achterhalen voor er nog meer ongelukken gebeuren. Want de bergen kennen geen genade... en de moordenaar net zomin. In de eenzame Rocky Mountains passen mensen normaal goed op elkaar, maar een koelbloedige moordenaar denkt daar anders over. En hij komt steeds dichterbij. Iemand wil duidelijk niet dat de waarheid aan het licht komt en doet er alles aan om Kat te dwarsbomen. Als je van spanning, mysterie en een winterse sfeer houdt, mag je Groene Schijn niet missen!? thrillers kobo plus, thriller ebooks nederlands, bestseller boeken nederlands, thriller boeken
Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse
Call the Midwife: Shadows of the Workhouse
Worth, Jennifer
¥94.10
The sequel to Jennifer Worth's New York Times bestselling memoir and the basis for the PBS series Call the MidwifeWhen twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighborhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped on into the middle of the twentieth century. Orphaned brother and sister Peggy and Frank lived in the workhouse until Frank got free and returned to rescue his sister. Bubbly Jane's spirit was broken by the cruelty of the workhouse master until she found kindness and romance years later at Nonnatus House. Mr. Collett, a Boer War veteran, lost his family in the two world wars and died in the workhouse. Though these are stories of unimaginable hardship, what shines through each is the resilience of the human spirit and the strength, courage, and humor of people determined to build a future for themselves against the odds. This is an enduring work of literary nonfiction, at once a warmhearted coming-of-age story and a startling look at people's lives in the poorest section of postwar London.
The Divine Within
The Divine Within
Huxley, Aldous
¥94.10
Brave New World author Aldous Huxley on enlightenment and the "ultimate reality"In this anthology of twenty-six essays and other writings, Huxley discusses the nature of God, enlightenment, being,good and evil, religion, eternity, and the divine. Huxley consistently examined the spiritual basis of both the individual and human society, always seeking to reach an authentic and clearly defined experience of the divine. Featuring an introduction by renowned religious scholar Huston Smith, this celebration of "ultimate reality" proves relevant and prophetic in addressing the spiritual hunger so many feel today.
A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
Bradbury, Ray
¥94.10
With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, A Sound of Thunder, tells of a hunter sent on safari -- sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of a delicate and harmless butterfly -- and possibly something else much closer to home ...
Paula
Paula
Allende, Isabel
¥94.10
When Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, the author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. In the telling, bizarre ancestors appear before our eyes; we hear both delightful and bitter childhood memories, amazing anecdotes of youthful years, and the most intimate secrets passed along in whispers. With Paula, Allende has written a powerful autobiography whose straightforward acceptance of the magical and spiritual worlds will remind readers of her first book, The House of the Spirits.
The Real Jane Austen
The Real Jane Austen
Byrne, Paula
¥94.10
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things offers a startlingly original look at the revered writer through a variety of key moments, scenes, and objects in her life and work. Going beyond previous traditional biographies which have traced Austen daily life from Steventon to Bath to Chawton to Winchester, Paula Byrne portrait organized thematically and drawn from the most up-to-date scholarship and unexplored sources explores the lives of Austen extended family, friends, and acquaintances. Through their absorbing stories, we view Austen on a much wider stage and discover unexpected aspects of her life and character. Byrne transports us to different worlds the East Indies and revolutionary Paris and different events from a high society scandal to a petty case of shoplifting, She follows Austen on her extensive travels, setting her in contexts both global and English, urban and rural, political and historical, social and domestic wider perspectives of vital and still under-estimated importance to her creative life. Literary scholarship has revealed that letters and tokens in Austen novel often signal key turning points in the unfolding narrative. This groundbreaking biography explores Jane own story following the same principle. As Byrne reveals, small things in the writer world a scrap of paper, a simple gold chain, an ivory miniature, a bathing machine hold significance in her emotional and artistic development. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things introduces us to a woman deeply immersed in the world around her, yet far ahead of her time in her independence and ambition; to an author who was an astute commentator on human nature and the foibles of her own age. Rich and compelling, it is a fresh, insightful, and often surprising portrait of an artist and a vivid evocation of the complex world that shaped her.
The End of Fashion
The End of Fashion
Agins, Teri
¥94.10
The time when "fashion" was defined by French designers whose clothes could be afforded only by elite has ended. Now designers take their cues from mainstream consumers and creativity is channeled more into mass-marketing clothes than into designing them. Indeed, one need look no further than the Gap to see proof of this. In The End of Fashion, Wall Street Journal, reporter Teri Agins astutely explores this seminal change, laying bare all aspects of the fashion industry from manufacturing, retailing, anmd licensing to image making and financing. Here as well are fascinating insider vignettes that show Donna Karan fighting with financiers,the rivalry between Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger, and the commitment to haute conture that sent Isaac Mizrahi's business spiraling.
Hissy Fit
Hissy Fit
Andrews, Mary Kay
¥94.10
“Laced with humor and a sense of place that oozes the aroma of magnolia blossoms.” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution “[A] Southern-fried romp.” —Entertainment Weekly Whether it’s a mystery, sassy women’s fiction, or a combination of the two, New York Times bestseller Mary Kay Andrews always gives her fans a read to remember. And now she’s throwing a Hissy Fit, in the best possible sense. A delicious tale of revenge and renovation, Hissy Fit tells of a wronged spitfire who’s determined to see that the no-good lowdown, lying, cheating varmint of an ex-fiancé who ruined her life and her business gets the comeuppance he so richly deserves…even as she struggles to revitalize a broken-down antebellum mansion for a hunky, if slightly odd, local businessman. If you like the novels of Fannie Flagg, Jennifer Crusie, Adriana Trigiani, and Emily Giffin, or are a devoted follower of Rebecca Wells or Jill Conner Browne’s Sweet Potato Queens, then Mary Kay’s Hissy Fit is not to be missed.
The Nymphos of Rocky Flats
The Nymphos of Rocky Flats
Acevedo, Mario
¥94.10
The first and only vampire book to be declassified by the federal government . . .Felix Gomez went to Iraq a soldier. He came back a vampire. Now he finds himself pulled into a web of intrigue when an old friend prompts him to investigate an outbreak of nymphomania at the secret government facilities in Rocky Flats. He'll find out the cause of all these horny women or die trying! But first he must contend with shadowy government agents, Eastern European vampire hunters, and women who just want his body . . .Skewering sexual myths, conspiracy fables, and government bureaucracy, The Nymphos of Rocky Flats reveals the bizarre world of the undead with a humorous slant and a fresh twist.
Lost
Lost
Maguire, Gregory
¥94.10
Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his home. Is the spirit Winnie's great-great-grandfather, who, family legend claims, was Charles Dickens's childhood inspiration for Ebenezer ScroogeCould it be the ghostly remains of Jack the RipperOr a phantasm derived from a more arcane and insidious originWinnie begins to investigate and finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of specters and shades some from her family's peculiar history and some from her own unvanquished past.In the spirit of A. S. Byatt's Possession,with dark echoing overtones of A Christmas Carol,Lost presents a rich fictional world that will enrapture its readers.
The Pleasures of the Damned
The Pleasures of the Damned
Bukowski, Charles
¥94.10
To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was and remains the quintessential counterculture icon. A hard-drinking wild man of literature and a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he wrote unflinchingly about booze, work, and women, in raw, street-tough poems whose truth has struck a chord with generations of readers.Edited by John Martin, the legendary publisher of Black Sparrow Press and a close friend of Bukowski's, The Pleasures of the Damned is a selection of the best works from Bukowski's long poetic career, including the last of his never-before-collected poems. Celebrating the full range of the poet's extraordinary and surprising sensibility, and his uncompromising linguistic brilliance, these poems cover a rich lifetime of experiences and speak to Bukowski's immense intelligence, the caring heart that saw through the sham of our pretenses and had pity on our human condition (New York Quarterly ). The Pleasures of the Damned is an astonishing poetic treasure trove, essential reading for both longtime fans and those just discovering this unique and legendary American voice.
The Big War
The Big War
Myrer, Anton
¥94.10
They were our husbands, our fathers, our lovers, our sons. They were Americans and Marines. And this is their story: The Big War, Anton Myrer's panoramic novel of Marines in the Pacific in World War II. This is the story of Alan Newcombe, the Boston society Harvard man; Danny Kantaylis, the natural-born leader; Jay O'Neill, the barroom scrapper. Myrer does not glorify war; he does not flinch from describing what the actual experience of warfare was like for a desperate group of Marines trapped in some of the worst fighting conditions of the war. We learn about their lives at home and their fates on the battlefield.
Pulp
Pulp
Bukowski, Charles
¥94.10
Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski's own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.
The Way Life Should Be
The Way Life Should Be
Kline, Christina Baker
¥94.10
Angela Russo is thirty-three years old and single, stuck in a job she doesn't love and a life that seems, somehow, to have just happened. Though she inherited a flair for Italian cooking from her grandmother, she never has the time; for the past six months, her oven has held only sweaters. Tacked to her office bulletin board is a picture torn from a magazine of a cottage on the coast of Maine, a reminder to Angela that there are other ways to live, even if she can't seem to figure them out.One day at work, Angela clicks on a tiny advertisement in the corner of her computer screen—"Do Soulmates Exist?"—and finds herself at a dating website, where she stumbles upon "MaineCatch," a thirty-five-year-old sailing instructor with ice-blue eyes. To her great surprise, she strikes up a dizzying correspondence with MaineCatch—yet as her online relationship progresses, life in the real world takes a nosedive. Interpreting this confluence of events as a sign, Angela impulsively decides to risk it all and move to Maine.But things don't work out quite as she expected. Far from everything familiar, and with little to return to, Angela begins to rebuild her life from the ground up, moving into a tiny cottage and finding work at a local coffee shop. To make friends and make ends meet, she leads a cooking class, slowly discovering the pleasures and secrets of her new small community, and—perhaps—a way to connect her heritage to a future she is only beginning to envision.The Way Life Should Be is about the search for the right relationship and the right life, the difficulty of finding true love, and the yearning for the home that food represents. Laced with recipes and humor, wisdom and wit, it is at once a clear-eyed portrait of Maine, a compassionate look at modern life and love, and a compelling work of literary fiction that explores the gulf between the way life is and the way we want it to be.
A Green Desire
A Green Desire
Myrer, Anton
¥94.10
Two brothers, as different as night and day: one, charming and ruthless, buys his way into Harvard, Wall Street, and high society; the other brother remains by his mother's side and makes his way to the top without the influence of money or prestige.Raised in separate worlds, these brothers are bound by a bitter rivalry for riches and power, but mostly, for the exciting, wildly captivating woman they fight all their lives to possess, a woman whose passion for one destroys her love for the other.Their story consumes an American century, spanning decades of splendor, struggle, upheaval, and war. It's an absorbing saga of innocent dreams and green desire corrupted by gilded temptation.
The Elephant Keeper
The Elephant Keeper
Nicholson, Christopher
¥94.10
"I asked the sailor what an Elephant looked like; he replied that it was like nothing on earth."England, 1766: After a long voyage from the East Indies, a ship docks in Bristol, England, and rumor quickly spreads about its unusual cargo—some say a mermaid is on board. A crowd forms, hoping to catch a glimpse of the magical creature. One crate after another is unpacked: a zebra, a leopard, and a baboon. There's no mermaid, but in the final two crates is something almost as magical—a pair of young elephants, in poor health but alive. Seeing a unique opportunity, a wealthy sugar merchant purchases the elephants for his country estate and turns their care over to a young stable boy, Tom Page. Tom's family has long cared for horses, but an elephant is something different altogether. It takes time for Tom and the elephants to understand one another, but to the surprise of everyone on the estate, a remarkable bond is formed. The Elephant Keeper, the story of Tom and the elephants, in Tom's own words, moves from the green fields and woods of the English countryside to the dark streets and alleys of late-eighteenth-century London, reflecting both the beauty and the violence of the age. Nicholson's lush writing and deft storytelling complement a captivating tale of love and loyalty between one man and the two elephants that change the lives of all who meet them.