Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. The novel touches on themes such as the role of women in Victorian culture, sexual conventions, immigration, colonialism, and post-colonialism. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form, and the novel has spawned numerous theatrical, film and television interpretations. ? ?Characters: ?? Jonathan Harker: A solicitor sent to do business with Count Dracula; Mina's fiancé and prisoner in Dracula's castle.?? Count Dracula: A Transylvanian noble who bought a house in London and asked Jonathan Harker to come to his castle to do business with him.?? Wilhelmina "Mina" Harker (née Murray): A schoolteacher and Jonathan Harker's fiancée.?? Lucy Westenra: A 19-year-old aristocrat; Mina's best friend; Arthur's fiancée and Dracula's first victim.?? Arthur Holmwood: Lucy's suitor and later fiancé.?? Jack Seward: A doctor; one of Lucy's suitors and a former student of Dr Abraham Van Helsing.?? Abraham Van Helsing: A Dutch professor; Jack Seward's teacher and vampire hunter.?? Quincey Morris: An American cowboy and explorer; and one of Lucy's suitors.?? Renfield: A lawyer whom Dracula turned mad.?? Brides of Dracula: Three siren-like vampire women who serve Dracula. Although they are popularly known as "The Brides of Dracula", the novel never calls them this. ? About Author: ? Abraham "Bram" Stoker (1847 – 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned.

CURIOUS creatures of Animal Life have been objects of interest to mankind in all ages and countries; the universality of which may be traced to that feeling which "makes the whole world kin." The Egyptian records bear testimony to a familiarity not only with the forms of a multitude of wild animals, but with their habits and geographical distribution." The collections of living animals, now popularly known as Zoological Gardens, are of considerable antiquity. We read of such gardens in China as far back as 2,000 years; but they consisted chiefly of some favourite animals, such as stags, fish, and tortoises. The Greeks, under Pericles, introduced peacocks in large numbers from India. The Romans had their elephants; and the first giraffe in Rome, under C?sar, was as great an event in the history of zoological gardens at its time as the arrival in 1849 of the Hippopotamus was in London. The first zoological garden of which we have any detailed account is that in the reign of the Chinese Emperor, Wen Wang, founded by him about 1150 A.D., and named by him "The Park of Intelligence;" it contained mammalia, birds, fish, and amphibia. The zoological gardens of former times served their masters occasionally as hunting-grounds. This was constantly the case in Persia; and in Germany, so late as 1576, the Emperor Maximilian II. kept such a park for different animals near his castle, Neugebah, in which he frequently chased.Alexander the Great possessed his zoological gardens. We find from Pliny that Alexander had given orders to the keepers to send all the rare and curious animals which died in the gardens to Aristotle. Splendid must have been the zoological gardens which the Spaniards found connected with the Palace of Montezuma. The letters of Ferdinand Cortez and other writings of the time, as well as more recently "The History of the Indians," by Antonio Herrera, give most interesting and detailed accounts of the menagerie in Montezuma's park. The collections of animals exhibited at fairs have added little to Zoological information; but we may mention that Wombwell, one of the most noted of the showfolk, bought a pair of the first Boa Constrictors imported into England: for these he paid 75l., and in three weeks realised considerably more than that sum by their exhibition. At the time of his death, in 1850, Wombwell was possessed of three huge menageries, the cost of maintaining which averaged at least 35l. per day; and he used to estimate that, from mortality and disease, he had lost, from first to last, from 12,000l. to 15,000l. Our object in the following succession of sketches of the habits and eccentricities of the more striking animals, and their principal claims upon our attention, is to present, in narrative, their leading characteristics, and thus to secure a willing audience from old and young.

The object of this book, which is addressed to all cultured men and women, is to set forth the primitive manifestations of love and to throw light on those strange emotional climaxes which I have called "Metaphysical Eroticism." I have taken no account of historical detail, except where it served the purpose of proving, explaining and illustrating my subject. Nor have I hesitated to intermingle psychological motives and motives arising from the growth and spread of civilisation. The inevitable result of a one-sided glimpse at historical facts would have been a history of love, an undertaking for which I lack both ability and inclination. On the other hand, had I written a merely psychological treatise, disregarding the succession of periods, I should have laid myself open to the just reproach of giving rein to my imagination instead of dealing with reality. I have availed myself of historical facts to demonstrate that what psychology has shown to be the necessary phases of the evolution of love, have actually existed in historical time and characterised a whole period of civilisation. The history of civilisation is an end in itself only in the chapter entitled "The Birth of Europe." My work is intended to be first and foremost a monograph on the emotional life of the human race. I am prepared to meet rather with rejection than with approval. Neither the historian nor the psychologist will be pleased. Moreover, I am well aware that my standpoint is hopelessly "old-fashioned." To-day nearly all the world is content to look upon the sexual impulse as the source of all erotic emotion and to regard love as nothing more nor less than its most exquisite radiation. My book, on the contrary, endeavours to establish its complete independence of sexuality.My contention that so powerful an emotion as love should have come into existence in historical, not very remote times, will seem very strange; for, all outward profession of faith in evolution notwithstanding, men are still inclined to take the unchangeableness of human nature for granted. The facts on which I have based my arguments are well known, but my deductions are new; it is not for me to decide whether they are right or wrong. In the first (introductory) part I have made use of works already in existence, in addition to Plato and the poets, but the second and third parts are founded almost entirely on original research. ?E. L.

A Paleolit táplálkozás kezd?knek azoknak szól, akiknek eddig nem állt módjukban vagy nem volt idejük alaposan elmélyedni a paleolit táplálkozás rejtelmeiben. SZENDI G?BOR k?nyve arra vállalkozik, hogy r?viden és lényegre t?r?en az ? számukra is bemutassa a legfontosabb, legalapvet?bb paleo ismereteket. Hiszen rendkívül sokan vannak, akik elfoglaltságaik, rohanó életük mellett is szeretnének lehet?séget kapni arra, hogy a természet rendje szerint táplálkozva meg?rizhessék vagy visszanyerjék egészségüket. A Paleolit táplálkozás kezd?knek kedvcsináló egy sorsfordító étrend bevezetéséhez és a témában való további elmélyüléshez. Megtudhatjuk, miért és hogyan okoznak a nyugati életmód által átalakított táplálkozási szokások olyan civilizációs betegségeket, amelyek a természeti népeknél ismeretlenek, hogyan okoz a túlzott szénhidrátfogyasztás szív- és érrendszeri megbetegedéseket, hogyan gy?zhetjük le k?nny?szerrel a paleolit étrend segítségével a 2-es típusú cukorbetegséget, valamint hogy miként vezet a paleolit táplálkozás elveinek k?vetése koplalás nélkül is gyors fogyáshoz és az egészséges testsúly folyamatos fenntartásához. SZENDI G?BOR legújabb k?nyvében is a t?le megszokott tudományos alapossággal foglalja ?ssze kutatásainak eredményeit, hogy megértsük ezt a forradalmian új, minden tekintetben tudományosan megalapozott, az ember evolúciójára épül? táplálkozástant.

Hogy saját családja lehessen, t?nkreteszi másét Egyedül vagy. Sebezhet? vagy. ?s van valamid, amit valaki meg akar szerezni. Bármi áron... ?gy t?nik, Claudia Morgan-Brown élete végre révbe ér: ?vé a majdnem t?kéletes álomférj két édes négyévessel, szépen alakul a karrierje is, és számtalan fájdalmas vetélés után végre saját babáját várja. Férje gyakori távolléte miatt hirdetést adnak fel, hogy megfelel? dadust találjanak, aki segít Claudiának. Zoéra esik a választás, aki szinte maga a t?kély: a gyerekek imádják, képzett és tapasztalt, a referenciái is jók. Claudiát az ?szt?ne mégis óvatosságra inti. Vajon mit titkol Zoe? Van oka félni Claudiának? Vajon milyen messzire képes elmenni egy n? azért, hogy saját gyermeke lehessen? A Holtodiglan és a Miel?tt elalszom rajongóinak. A K?nyvjelz? magazin 2015. szeptemberi számában megjelent cikk: "A bébiszitter magányossága"

"D?bbenetes els? regény... Túlságosan hihet? és szívszorító." (Los Angeles Times) Egy anya olyat kért, amit lehetetlen megtenni. Egy apa olyat tett, amit nem lehet megbocsátani. Lulu és Merry gyerekkora sosem volt felh?tlen, de a legnehezebb id?szakok, a legbántóbb szavak, a leghangosabb veszekedések is elt?rpülnek egyetlen nap emlékének árnyékában. ?pp Lulu tizedik születésnapja el?tt a lányoknak olyan traumát kell átélniük, amit legfeljebb csak túlélni lehet, megérteni és feldolgozni sohasem. Azon a végzetes napon apa meg?lte anyát. A tragédia után Lulu és Merry gyermekotthonba, majd nevel?szül?kh?z kerül. De pontosan tudják, a t?rténtek után senkiben sem bízhatnak, és csak egymásra számíthatnak. Harminc éven át próbálnak értelmet adni a gyermekkorban átélt sz?rny?ségnek, mik?zben b?rt?nben ül? apjuk nyomasztó kísértete lengi be a hétk?znapokat. Lulu azzal áltatja magát, hogy apja halott, Merry viszont úgy érzi, bármit is tett, k?zeli kapcsolatban kell maradnia vele. Meyers gy?ny?r?en megírt, letehetetlen els? regénye a család erejébe vetett hit, valamint a szeretteinkhez kapcsoló és t?lük elszakító k?telékek testamentuma. Randy Susan Meyers Bostonban él a férjével, és két feln?tt lány anyja. ?rószemináriumokat tart a Grub Street Writer's Centerben.

Veszély, titok és autós üld?zés. Izgalmak, nyomok és jóbarátok. Csápy, e bogaras James Bond-kaland f?h?se megpróbálja legjobb cimboráival felg?ngy?líteni a rejtélyeket, melyekb?l a Nagy T?lgy?n akad szép számmal. Vajon hol lehet a polgármester lánya, aki elt?nt a Tiltott Zóna mélyén? A repül? autó tényleg létezik vagy csak erdei legenda? A T?lgyet milyen titokzatos betegség rágja? ?s ami mindennél fontosabb: ki vagy mi állhat ezek m?g?tt a felettébb fura események m?g?tt? Lehet, hogy minden mindennel ?sszefügg?

K?r?si Zoltán új novellái ugyanazon a helyszíneken játszódnak, amelyeket már a Budapest, n?város vagy a Szerelmes évek cím? k?nyveiben megismerhettünk. Az írások mindig valami emberi határhelyzetet r?gzítenek, ahol egy-egy emberi sors átfordul és véglegessé válik. ?m a k?tet h?seinek alapvet? kérdése: miért érdemes h?ségesnek lenni valakihez vagy valamihez egy életen át.

C?t?lin-Mihai ?tefan a reu?it s? scrie o carte tulbur?toare despre avatarurile unei identit??i ?n curs de revelare. Poemele sale, imagini fulgurante ale memoriei, sunt ofrande aduse unui timp deja tr?it, mici lumi disp?rute care ??i cer dumicatul de p?ine ?i linguri?a de vin. Ce am fi f?r? amintiri, ce ar fi amintirile f?r? noi cei de acum... Puzzle-ul acestor ?istorii“ personale prinde contur abia dup? ce lucrurile nespuse ?ncep s? se acumuleze ?i s? fie la fel de prezente ca ?i acelea rostite cu ap?sare. Dup? un debut onorabil Muza avatarului (2005), C?t?lin-Mihai ?tefan revine ?n poezie cu un volum c?t se poate de conving?tor, al?tur?ndu-se astfel, celor mai buni poe?i ai celui de-al doilea val dou?miist. (?erban Axinte)Apaosuri este volumul de poeme care te contamineaz? cu mult? candoare, cu un limbaj care te oblig? s? te copil?re?ti p?n? acolo, ?nc?t s? con?tientizezi c? de fapt fiecare etap? a vie?ii nu are s? ?nsemne dec?t ?nc? un pas de ?otron. Poetul divulg?, ?ntr-o manier? inedit?, aromele ?i energiile copil?riei postsocialiste. Altfel spus, Apaosuri este volumul unor holograme lirice pe care poetul, inspirat, ni le aduce ?n acest postmodernism natural-robotizat. Cred c? prin acest volum autorul ??i c??tig?, la propriu, locul binemeritat ?n peisajul poeziei 2000+. (Paul Gorban)

“Goodbye, said the fox. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince The Little Prince first published in 1943, is a novella and the most famous work of the French aristocrat, writer, poet and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The novella is both the most read and most translated book in the French language, and was voted the best book of the 20th century in France. Translated into more than 250 languages and dialects selling over a million copies per year with sales totalling more than 140 million copies worldwide, it has become one of the best-selling books ever published. Saint-Exupéry, a laureate of several of France's highest literary awards and a reserve military pilot at the start of the Second World War, wrote and illustrated the manuscript while exiled in the United States after the Fall of France. He had travelled there on a personal mission to persuade its government to quickly enter the war against Nazi Germany. In the midst of personal upheavals and failing health he produced almost half of the writings he would be remembered for, including a tender tale of loneliness, friendship, love and loss, in the form of a young prince fallen to Earth.

Some people complain that science is dry. That is, of course, a matter of taste. For my own part, I like my science and my champagne as dry as I can get them. But the public thinks otherwise. So I have ventured to sweeten accompanying samples as far as possible to suit the demand, and trust they will meet with the approbation of consumers. Of the specimens here selected for exhibition, my title piece originally appeared in the Fortnightly Review: 'Honey Dew' and 'The First Potter' were contributions to Longman's Magazine: and all the rest found friendly shelter between the familiar yellow covers of the good old Cornhill. My thanks are due to the proprietors and editors of those various periodicals for kind permission to reproduce them here. G.ALLEN THE NOOK, DORKING: September, 1889. Falling In Love "..An ancient and famous human institution is in pressing danger. Sir George Campbell has set his face against the time-honoured practice of Falling in Love. Parents innumerable, it is true, have set their faces against it already from immemorial antiquity; but then they only attacked the particular instance, without venturing to impugn the institution itself on general principles. An old Indian administrator, however, goes to work in all things on a different pattern. He would always like to regulate human life generally as a department of the India Office; and so Sir George Campbell would fain have husbands and wives selected for one another (perhaps on Dr. Johnson's principle, by the Lord Chancellor) with a view to the future development of the race, in the process which he not very felicitously or elegantly describes as 'man-breeding.' 'Probably,' he says, as reported in Nature, 'we have enough physiological knowledge to effect a vast improvement in the pairing of individuals of the same or allied races if we could only apply that knowledge to make fitting marriages, instead of giving way to foolish ideas about love and the tastes of young people, whom we can hardly trust to choose their own bonnets, much less to choose in a graver matter in which they are most likely to be influenced by frivolous prejudices.' He wants us, in other words, to discard the deep-seated inner physiological promptings of inherited instinct, and to substitute for them some calm and dispassionate but artificial selection of a fitting partner as the father or mother of future generations.."

Mme. Vauquer (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Her house (known in the neighborhood as the Maison Vauquer) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest. In 1819, however, the time when this drama opens, there was an almost penniless young girl among Mme. Vauquer's boarders. That word drama has been somewhat discredited of late; it has been overworked and twisted to strange uses in these days of dolorous literature; but it must do service again here, not because this story is dramatic in the restricted sense of the word, but because some tears may perhaps be shed intra et extra muros before it is over. Will any one without the walls of Paris understand it? It is open to doubt. The only audience who could appreciate the results of close observation, the careful reproduction of minute detail and local color, are dwellers between the heights of Montrouge and Montmartre, in a vale of crumbling stucco watered by streams of black mud, a vale of sorrows which are real and joys too often hollow; but this audience is so accustomed to terrible sensations, that only some unimaginable and well-neigh impossible woe could produce any lasting impression there. Now and again there are tragedies so awful and so grand by reason of the complication of virtues and vices that bring them about, that egotism and selfishness are forced to pause and are moved to pity; but the impression that they receive is like a luscious fruit, soon consumed. Civilization, like the car of Juggernaut, is scarcely stayed perceptibly in its progress by a heart less easy to break than the others that lie in its course; this also is broken, and Civilization continues on her course triumphant. And you, too, will do the like; you who with this book in your white hand will sink back among the cushions of your armchair, and say to yourself, "Perhaps this may amuse me." You will read the story of Father Goriot's secret woes, and, dining thereafter with an unspoiled appetite, will lay the blame of your insensibility upon the writer, and accuse him of exaggeration, of writing romances. Ah! once for all, this drama is neither a fiction nor a romance! All is true,—so true, that every one can discern the elements of the tragedy in his own house, perhaps in his own heart. During the day a glimpse into the garden is easily obtained through a wicket to which a bell is attached. On the opposite wall, at the further end of the graveled walk, a green marble arch was painted once upon a time by a local artist, and in this semblance of a shrine a statue representing Cupid is installed; a Parisian Cupid, so blistered and disfigured that he looks like a candidate for one of the adjacent hospitals, and might suggest an allegory to lovers of symbolism. The half-obliterated inscription on the pedestal beneath determines the date of this work of art, for it bears witness to the widespread enthusiasm felt for Voltaire on his return to Paris in 1777: "Whoe'er thou art, thy master see; He is, or was, or ought to be."

Following the Equator (sometimes titled More Tramps Abroad) is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to a failed investment into a "revolutionary" typesetting machine. In an attempt to extricate himself from debt of $100,000 (equivalent of about $2.5 million in 2010) he undertook a tour of the British Empire in 1895, a route chosen to provide numerous opportunities for lectures in the English. Themes:In Following the Equator, an account of that travel published in 1897, the author criticizes racism, imperialism and missionary zeal in observations woven into the narrative with classical Twain wit.In keeping with that wit, and Twain's love of a tall tale, Twain included a number of fictional stories in the body of what is otherwise a non-fiction work. In particular, the story of how Cecil Rhodes made his fortune by finding a newspaper in the belly of a shark, and the story of how a man named Ed Jackson made good in life out of a fake letter of introduction to Cornelius Vanderbilt, were anthologized in Charles Neider (ed) The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain, (Doubleday, 1957) where they are presented as fiction. Chapter I A man may have no bad habits and have worse. —Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. The starting point of this lecturing-trip around the world was Paris, where we had been living a year or two. We sailed for America, and there made certain preparations. This took but little time. Two members of my family elected to go with me. Also a carbuncle. The dictionary says a carbuncle is a kind of jewel. Humor is out of place in a dictionary. We started westward from New York in midsummer, with Major Pond to manage the platform-business as far as the Pacific. It was warm work, all the way, and the last fortnight of it was suffocatingly smoky, for in Oregon and British Columbia the forest fires were raging. We had an added week of smoke at the seaboard, where we were obliged to wait awhile for our ship. She had been getting herself ashore in the smoke, and she had to be docked and repaired. We sailed at last; and so ended a snail-paced march across the continent, which had lasted forty days. We moved westward about mid-afternoon over a rippled and sparkling summer sea; an enticing sea, a clean and cool sea, and apparently a welcome sea to all on board; it certainly was to me, after the distressful dustings and smokings and swelterings of the past weeks. The voyage would furnish a three-weeks holiday, with hardly a break in it. We had the whole Pacific Ocean in front of us, with nothing to do but do nothing and be comfortable. The city of Victoria was twinkling dim in the deep heart of her smoke-cloud, and getting ready to vanish and now we closed the field-glasses and sat down on our steamer chairs contented and at peace. But they went to wreck and ruin under us and brought us to shame before all the passengers. They had been furnished by the largest furniture-dealing house in Victoria, and were worth a couple of farthings a dozen, though they had cost us the price of honest chairs. In the Pacific and Indian Oceans one must still bring his own deck-chair on board or go without, just as in the old forgotten Atlantic times—those Dark Ages of sea travel.

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is abildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens' weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman and Hall published the novel in three volumes. Great Expectations was to be twice as long, but constraints imposed by the management of All the Year Round limited the novel's length. Collected and dense, with a conciseness unusual for Dickens, the novel represents Dickens' peak and maturity as an author. According to G. K. Chesterton, Dickens penned Great Expectations in "the afternoon of [his] life and fame." It was the penultimate novel Dickens completed, preceding Our Mutual Friend. It is set among the marshes of Kent and in London in the early to mid-1800s. From the outset, the reader is "treated" by the terrifying encounter between Pip, the protagonist, and the escaped convict, Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is a graphic book, full of extreme imagery, poverty, prison ships, "the hulks," barriers and chains, and fights to the death. It therefore combines intrigue and unexpected twists of autobiographical detail in different tones. Regardless of its narrative technique, the novel reflects the events of the time, Dickens' concerns, and the relationship between society and man. The novel has received mixed reviews from critics: Thomas Carlyle speaks of "All that Pip's nonsense," while George Bernard Shaw praised the novel as "All of one piece and Consistently truthfull." Dickens felt Great Expectations was his best work, calling it "a very fine idea," and was very sensitive to compliments from his friends: "Bulwer, who has been, as I think you know, extraordinarily taken by the book." ABOUT AUTHOR: Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 – 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular. Born in Portsmouth, England, Dickens was forced to leave school to work in a factory when his father was thrown into debtors' prison. Although he had little formal education, his early impoverishment drove him to succeed. Over his career he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, 5 novellas and hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms. Dickens sprang to fame with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Within a few years he had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire, and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication. The instalment format allowed Dickens to evaluate his audience's reaction, and he often modified his plot and character development based on such feedback. For example, when his wife's chiropodistexpressed distress at the way Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield seemed to reflect her disabilities, Dickens went on to improve the character with positive features. Fagin inOliver Twist apparently mirrors the famous fence Ikey Solomon; His caricature of Leigh Hunt in the figure of Mr Skimpole in Bleak House was likewise toned down on advice from some of his friends, as they read episodes. In the same novel, both Lawrence Boythorne and Mooney the beadle are drawn from real life – Boythorne from Walter Savage Landorand Mooney from 'Looney', a beadle at Salisbury Square. His plots were carefully constructed, and Dickens often wove in elements from topical events into his narratives. Masses of the illiterate poor chipped in ha'pennies to have each new monthly episode read to them, opening up and inspiring a new class of readers.

Emlékezetes nyaralásnak indult. De szerepelt a tervek k?z?tt alkalmi románc is? May, Lara és Clare a legjobb barátn?k, akik elkeseredetten vágynak egy kis kikapcsolódásra. A k?zelmúltban mindhárman nehéz id?szakon mentek keresztül, és igazán nagy szükségük van a leveg?változásra. Tíz napra foglalnak szállást egy luxusszállóban, ám amikor megérkeznek, rád?bbennek, hogy egészen máshol k?t?ttek ki, mint gondolták. Rossz faluba tévedtek... Ren Dullemben semmi sem az, aminek látszik. A bájos macskak? és a képeslapra ill? házikók k?zt rejtélyes titok lappang, melyet a falusiak hosszú évek óta ?riznek. Miért olyan barátságtalan és gyanakvó mindenki? Miért viselkedik olyan gorombán a nyaralóház tulajdonosa? ?s miért él olyan kevés n? a faluban? A kül?n?s légk?r ellenére a három barátn? úgy d?nt, hogy kihozza a helyzetb?l a lehet? legt?bbet. De valóban ilyen pihenésre volt szükségük? Vagy ez a furcsa kis falu és a sok titok életre szóló d?ntésekre kényszeríti ?ket?

Paprika Jancsi és Vitéz László azon mesterkedik, hogy fül?n csípje Torzonborzot, aki ellopta Nagymama kül?nleges kávédarálóját. ?m szerencsétlenségükre ?k maguk kerülnek a hétt?r?s rabló és varázsló barátja, a gonosz Petróniusz Pókuszhókusz karmai k?zé... A világhír? német gyerekk?nyvszerz?, Otfried Preu?ler t?rténete generációk kedvence. T?bb mint harminc nyelven olvasható – most végre magyarul is. A Kolibri Klasszikusok sorozat els? darabját Torzonborz további kalandjai és a szerz? kiváló meseregényei k?vetik.

Megsz?k?tt a dutyiból Torzonborz, a rabló! Ráadásul Nagymamát is elrabolta! Ez a fordulat ?szintén megd?bbenti Paprika Jancsit, Vitéz Lászlót és ?st?llési f?t?rzs?rmestert is. De vajon mihez kezdjenek? Azt remélik, hogy Háy asszonyság, a városka jósn?je segít nekik, hogy újra együtt lehessenek Nagymamával...

Meddig él velünk a kommunista diktatúra emléke? ?s mit kezdjünk vele, ha már nem tudjuk elfelejteni? – így fogalmazhatók meg r?viden Kukorelly Endre Rom cím? k?nyvének alapkérdései. Pontosabb volna egyes szám els? személyben kérdezni, hiszen a k?nyv mindvégig így és innen beszél k?z?s t?rténetünkr?l: már ezzel elhárítva a hamis k?z?sségiség mítoszait és nyomasztó beszédmódjait. Ironikusan, ?nironikusan rákérdez arra, amit ma a térség legszívesebben elfelejtene, illetve amir?l kínzóan ostoba ?nigazoló t?rténeteket gyárt. Kukorelly Endre kikezdi ezt a fárasztó, ?nigazoló retorikát, ám a k?nyv beszél?je nem áltatja az olvasót, hogy ? kívülálló lenne, aki már akkor is átlátott a szitán. Nem, csak éppen meg?rizte ízlését és humorát, ami talán elég ahhoz, hogy hitelesen beszélhessen az ízléstelenség és kedélytelenség világáról. Ami nem csak a múlt.?

Tudod, mi az a klottgatya? Múlt századi tornanadrág. ?s tudod, ki az a Klott Gatya? Nagydarab, sz?r?s szív? tesitanár, a Békés Utcai ?ltalános Iskolában. ?rülhetsz, ha még nem volt hozzá szerencséd! Vagyis inkább szerencsétlenséged. Bezzeg szegény ?t?dik dések! Nekik szeptemberben pont Klott tanár úr lett az osztályf?n?kük. Szerinted sikerült ?t kiutálniuk a Békésb?l, vagy inkább békét k?tnek az ország legfélelmetesebb pedagógusával? ?Bosnyák Viktória megint egy olyan igazi beleél?s, szórakoztató regényt írt...” – Nógrádi Gábor

Apokrif evangélium vagy egyszer? imak?nyv? Hamisítvány vagy hiteles t?rténeti emlék? Elfeledett írás vagy szuperbiztos kód, esetleg mesterséges nyelv? Magyar, román, szanszkrit, latin, netalán t?r?k? A Rohonci kódex hírnevét kül?n?s kett?sség jellemzi: helyet kapott a világt?rténelem megfejtetlen írásainak illusztris társaságában, mik?zben a legutóbbi id?kig komoly kísérlet nem t?rtént rejtélyes jeleinek elolvasására. L?NG BENEDEK k?nyve egy izgalmas nyomozás t?rténete, amelyet a szerz? e Budapesten ?rz?tt, titokzatos és gazdagon illusztrált kódex megfejtése érdekében folytatott. A fiatal tudományt?rténész minden részletre kiterjed?, alapos vizsgálata során az olvasó beavatást nyerhet a máig megfejtetlen, rejtélyes k?nyvek világába, a titkosírások és a kódok t?rténetébe, valamint a rejtjelfejtés hagyományos és modern módszereibe is. Láng Benedek 1974-ben született Budapesten. T?rténészként végzett az ELTE b?lcsészkarán, jelenleg a Budapesti M?szaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetemen oktat humán és társadalomtudományi tárgyakat. Kutatóként az elfogadott és elutasított tudomány határterületei érdeklik mind t?rténeti, mind elméleti szempontból. Ez utóbbi kérdésk?rr?l t?bb k?nyve is megjelent. Budapesten él, n?s, két gyermek apja.

Barnabás, a menyasszonya által kikosarazott fiatal tanár éppen szerelemi csalódásából lábadozik. Laura, a kislányát egyedül nevel? fiatal anyuka szeretne egy társat, aki a gyerekével együtt elfogadja ?t. Egy nap mindketten úgy d?ntenek, vállalják a kockázatot, és regisztrálnak egy internetes párkeres? oldalra. Hasonló elhatározásra jut a harmincas Dóra és a nagymama korú Vica is, és ezzel el?re nem látott bonyodalmak sorát indítják el. A négy társkeres? találkozik alkalmi kalandra vágyó szoknyavadásszal és luxusprostiként dolgozó egyetemista lánnyal, kicsavarodott ízlés? üzletemberrel és alibifeleséget keres? meleg férfival, furfangos pénzvadásszal és kínosan smucig úriemberrel. Kalandjaik során hol egy ?tcsillagos hotelben, hol egy Pest k?rnyéki, rossz hír? találkahelyen, hol egyenesen a rend?rségen találják magukat. Tisztességtelen ajánlatok, b?n?s szenvedélyek, vígjátékba ill? els? randik, szívszorító szakítások kísérik h?seink bolyongását a huszonegyedik század nagy kerít?jének hálójában. ?m mire kikeverednek a párkeresés útveszt?ib?l, megtanulják: érdemes esélyt adni a sorsnak, mert cserébe a sors is kínálhat egy második esélyt.