The Great Mortality
¥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?
¥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
¥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
¥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
¥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
¥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
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks
¥94.10
A fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's seventy-three private notebooks, including illustrations and two unpublished Poirot stories When Agatha Christie died in 1976, at age eighty-five, she had become the world's most popular author. With sales of more than two billion copies worldwide, in more than one hundred countries, she had achieved the impossible more than one book every year since the 1920s, every one a bestseller.So prolific was Agatha Christie's output sixty-six crime novels, twenty plays, six romance novels under a pseudonym and more than one hundred and fifty short stories it was often claimed that she had a photographic memory. Was this trueOr did she resort over those fifty-five years to more mundane methods of working out her ingenious crimesFollowing the death of Agatha's daughter, Rosalind, at the end of 2004, a remarkable legacy was revealed. Unearthed among her affairs at the family home of Greenway were Agatha Christie's private notebooks, seventy-three handwritten volumes of notes, lists and drafts outlining all her plans for her many books, plays and stories. Buried in this treasure trove, all in her unmistakable handwriting, are revelations about her famous books that will fascinate anyone who has ever read or watched an Agatha Christie story.How did the infamous twist in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd really come aboutWhich very famous Poirot novel started life as an adventure for Miss MarpleWhich books were designed to have completely differ-ent endings, and what were theyWhat were the plot ideas that she considered but rejected?Full of details she was too modest to reveal in her own autobiography, this remarkable new book includes a wealth of excerpts and pages reproduced directly from the notebooks and her letters, plus, for the first time, two newly discovered complete Hercule Poirot short stories never before published.
The Known World
¥94.10
In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain he never circumvents the law, Townsend runs his affairs with unusual discipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow, Caldonia, can't uphold the estate's order and chaos ensues. In a daring and ambitious novel, Jones has woven a footnote of history into an epic that takes an unflinching look at slavery in all of its moral complexities. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
The End of Fashion
¥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.
A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories
¥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
¥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 Divine Within
¥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.
The Country of Ice Cream Star
¥94.10
In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off the detritus of a fallen civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they all die of a disease they call Posies—a plague that has killed for generations.When her brother begins showing signs of the disease, Ice Cream Star sets off to find a cure. Led by a captured prisoner who becomes her devoted protector and friend, she travels hundreds of miles across treacherous territory, fighting to protect the only world she has ever known.Written in a lyrical, inventive patois, The Country of Ice Cream Star is a postapocalyptic literary epic as imaginative as The Passage and as ambitious as Cloud Atlas. This is a breathtaking work from a writer of rare and unconventional talent.“Builds towards a powerful, horrifying, and beautifully written climax, one that’s epic in scope but also feels intensely personal.” —New York Times Book Review“Blends elements of American history, popular culture, and political allegory with romance and thriller pacing. This suspenseful, provocative tale is The Hunger Games meets Lord of the Flies and The Walking Dead, only much, much better.” —Booklist“Ice Cream’s language is as potent and earthy as Chaucerian vernacular. . . . One begins to think in this dialect; it is as sweet and addictive as Ice Cream herself.” —Globe and Mail (Toronto)
A Green Desire
¥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 Real Jane Austen
¥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 Stories of Richard Bausch
¥94.10
A 2004 PEN/Malamud Award winner, this collection celebrates the work of American artist Richard Bausch -- a writer the New York Times calls "a master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of this definitive forty-two-story collection (seven of which appear here for the first time) defy expectation, attest to Bausch's remarkable range and versatility, and affirm his place alongside such acclaimed story writers as John Cheever, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and Grace Paley.
The Pleasures of the Damned
¥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 Nymphos of Rocky Flats
¥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
¥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 Weight of Heaven
¥94.10
When Frank and Ellie Benton lose their only child, seven-year-old Benny, to a sudden illness, the perfect life they had built is shattered. Filled with wrenching memories, their Ann Arbor home becomes unbearable, and their marriage founders. But an unexpected job half a world away offers them an opportunity to start again. Life in Girbaug, India, holds promise—and peril—when Frank befriends Ramesh, a bright, curious boy who quickly becomes the focus of the grieving man's attentions. Haunted by memories of his dead son, Frank is consumed with making his family right—a quest that will lead him down an ever-darkening path with stark repercussions. Filled with satisfyingly real characters and glowing with local color, The Weight of Heaven is a rare glimpse of a family and a country struggling under pressures beyond their control. In a devastating look at cultural clashes and divides, Umrigar illuminates how slowly we recover from unforgettable loss, how easily good intentions can turn evil, and how far a person will go to build a new world for those he loves.
Sharpe's Tiger
¥94.10
In a battery of events that will make a hero out of an illiterate private, a young Richard Sharpe poses as the enemy to bring down a ruthless Indian dictator backed by fearsome French troops. The year is 1799, and Richard Sharpe is just beginning his military career. An inexperienced young private in His Majesty's service, Sharpe becomes part of an expedition to India to push the ruthless Tippoo of Mysore from his throne and drive out his French allies. To penetrate the Tippoo's city and make contact with a Scottish spy being held prisoner there, Sharpe has to pose as a deserter. Success will make him a sergeant, but failure will turn him over to the Tippoo's brutal executioners -- or, worse -- his man-eating tigers. Picking his way through an exotic and alien world. Sharpe realizes that one slip will mean disaster. And when the furious British assault on the city finally begins, Sharpe must take up arms against his true comrades to preserve his false identity, risking death at their hands in order to avoid detection and thus to foil the Tippoo's well-set trap.

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