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Blue Nights
Blue Nights
Joan Didion
¥66.22
From one of America’s greatest and most iconic writers: an honest and courageous portrait of age and motherhood. Several days before Christmas 2003, Joan Didion’s only daughter, Quintana, fell seriously ill. In 2010, Didion marked the sixth anniversary of her daughter’s death. ‘Blue Nights’ is a shatteringly honest examination of Joan Didion’s life as a mother, a woman and a writer. Recently widowed, and becoming increasingly frail, ‘Blue Nights’ is Didion’s attempt to understand our deepest fears, our inadequate adjustments to ageing and to put a name to what we refuse to see and as a consequence fail to face up to, ‘this refusal even to engage in such contemplation, this failure to confront the certainties of ageing, illness and death. This fear.’ This fear is tied to what we cherish most and fight to conserve, protect, and refuse to let go, for, ‘when we are talking about mortality we are talking about our children.’ To face death is to let go of memory, to be bereft once more, ‘I know what it is I am now experiencing. I know what the frailty is, I know what the fear is.’ The fear is not for what is lost. The fear is for what is still to be lost. You may see nothing still to be lost. Yet there is no day in her life on which I do not see her. A profound, poetic and powerful book about motherhood and the fierce way in which we continue to exalt and nurture our children, even if they only live on in memory. ‘Blue Nights’ is an intensely personal, and yet, strangely universal account of how we love. It is both groundbreaking and a culmination of a stunning career.
Making the Cat Laugh
Making the Cat Laugh
Lynne Truss
¥66.22
SPECIAL PRICE FOR A LIMITED TIME One woman's journal of single life on the margins. A brilliant collection of Lynne Truss’ journalism – recording the life of a metropolitan refugee from coupledom. The alternative ‘Bridget Jones’. For seven long years, starting in ‘The Listener’ in 1988 and continuing in ‘The Times’ and ‘Woman's Journal’, Lynne Truss has been trying to make her cat laugh. It has been an uphill task, which is why she deserves this book, a recognition of outstanding courage in the face of futility. Along the way, 'Margins', 'Single of Life' and 'One Woman's Journal' have collected a band of devoted fans, yet still the cat remains unimpressed. Never have so many jokes about Kitbits been found in such concentration as in ‘Making the Cat Laugh’. But under the headings such as 'The Single Woman Considers Going Out but Doesn't Fancy the Hassle' and 'The Single Woman Stays at Home and Goes Quietly Mad', we discover a writer not only obsessed with cats, but prone to over-reacting generally - to news stories, shopping, passive smoking, Christmas, coupledom, boyfriends, snails, sheds, Andre Agassi, cooking instructions, requests of 'How's the novel going?' and personal remarks of any kind.
Celebrate America Box Set
Celebrate America Box Set
My Ebook Publishing House
¥66.22
Celebrate America Box Set
The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train and Three American He
The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train and Three American He
Anthony Sadler,Alek Skarlatos
¥66.22
The 15:17 to Paris is the amazing true story of friendship and bravery, and of near tragedy averted by three heroic young men who found the unity and strength inside themselves when they – and 500 other innocent travellers – needed it most. On 21st August 2015, Ayoub El-Khazzani boarded train #9364 in Brussels, bound for Paris. There could be no doubt about his mission: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter and enough ammunition to obliterate every passenger on board. Slipping into the bathroom in secret, he armed his weapons. Another major ISIS attack was about to begin, but Khazzani wasn’t expecting Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone. Stone was a martial arts enthusiast and airman first class in the US Air Force, Skarlatos was a member of the Oregon National Guard, and all three were fearless. But their decision, to charge the gunman, then overpower him even as he turned first his gun, then his knife, on Stone, depended on a lifetime of loyalty, support, and faith. Their friendship was forged as they came of age together in California: going to church, playing paintball, teaching each other to swear, and sticking together when they got in trouble at school. Years later, that friendship would give all of them the courage to stand in the path of one of the world's deadliest terrorist organisations.
Birds Art Life Death: The Art of Noticing the Small and Significant
Birds Art Life Death: The Art of Noticing the Small and Significant
Kyo Maclear
¥66.22
‘Now when I hear birdsong, I feel an entry to that understory. When I am feeling too squeezed on the ground, exhausted by everything in my care, I look for a little sky. There are always birds flying back and forth, city birds flitting around our human edges, singing their songs.’ One winter, Kyo Maclear became unmoored. Her father had recently fallen ill and she suddenly found herself lost for words. As a writer, she could no longer bring herself to create; her work wasn’t providing the comfort and meaning that it had before. But then Kyo met a musician who loved birds. The musician felt he could not always cope with the pressures and disappointments of being an artist in a big city. When he watched birds and began to photograph them, his worries dissipated. Intrigued, Kyo found herself following the musician for a year, accompanying him on his birdwatching expeditions; the sounds of birds in the city reminded them both to look outwards at the world. Intricate and delicate as birdsong, Birds Art Life Death asks how our passions shape and nurture us, and how we might gain perspective, overcome our anxieties and begin to cherish the urban wild spaces where so many of us live.
George: A Memory of George Michael
George: A Memory of George Michael
Sean Smith
¥66.22
George is the story of two extraordinary lives – the private man and the public legend. Georgios Panayiotou was just eighteen when he decided to adopt the stage name of George Michael. Sometimes his two worlds would collide with shattering consequences. Bestselling biographer Sean Smith has gone back to the neighbourhoods of North London to trace the astonishing journey of a sensitive but determined boy who grew up to be one of the biggest British pop stars of all time. Along the way, he talks to those close to George, revealing the real man – funny, articulate, intelligent and generous spirited – who hid behind the powerful image he created. He reveals the complex relationship with his high-achieving Greek-Cypriot father; the unconditional love of his mother; his teenage relationships with girls; and his first tragic love affair with another man. George’s career began falteringly with a schoolboy band, exploded with Wham! before he became a solo phenomenon. But at the height of his fame, the world seemed to turn against him. Smith describes his despair at losing the two people who mattered most, how he sought consolation in drugs, his notorious ‘coming out’ and how he ended up in jail. His health failed him and he died heartbreakingly alone on Christmas Day, 2016. Affectionate yet honest and moving, George is both a celebration of George Michael’s music and a lasting tribute to a decent and much-loved man.
Friends who rowed 3000 miles,broke a world record and learnt a lot about life al
Friends who rowed 3000 miles,broke a world record and learnt a lot about life al
Janette Benaddi,Helen Butters
¥66.22
A TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 The incredible true story of four ordinary working mums from Yorkshire who took on an extraordinary challenge and broke a world record along the way. Janette, Frances, Helen and Niki, though all from Yorkshire, were four very different women, all juggling full time jobs alongside being mothers to each of their 2 children. They could never be described as athletes, but they were determined to be busy and the local Saturday morning rowing club was the perfect place to go to have a laugh and a gossip, get the blood pumping in the open air, and feel invigorated. Brought together by their love of rowing, they quickly became firm friends, and it wasn’t long before they cooked up a crazy idea over a few glasses of wine: together, they were going to do something that fewer people than had gone into space or climbed Everest had succeeded in doing. They were going to cross 3,000 miles of treacherous ocean in the toughest row in the world, The Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. Yes, they had children and husbands that they would be leaving behind for two months, yes they had businesses to run, mortgages to pay, responsibilities. And there was that little thing of them all being in their 40s and 50s. But two years of planning, preparation, fundraising, training and difficult conversations later, and they found themselves standing on the edge of the San Sebastian harbour in the Canary Islands, petrified, exhilarated and ready to head up the race of their lives. This is the story of how four friends together had the audacity to go on a wild, terrifying and beautiful adventure, not to escape life, but for life not to escape them.
Egy csipetnyi gy?mbér
Egy csipetnyi gy?mbér
Susan Mallery
¥66.71
Egy csipetnyi gy?mbér
Geek Girl 6. - A nagy finálé
Geek Girl 6. - A nagy finálé
Holly Smale
¥66.79
Geek Girl 6. - A nagy finálé
Kéjutca: Magyar szex euróért
Kéjutca: Magyar szex euróért
Munk Veronika
¥66.79
Kéjutca: Magyar szex euróért
A lányok
A lányok
Emma Cline
¥66.79
A lányok
A kislány, aki lenyelt egy akkora felh?t, mint az Eiffel-torony
A kislány, aki lenyelt egy akkora felh?t, mint az Eiffel-torony
Romain Puértolas
¥66.79
A kislány, aki lenyelt egy akkora felh?t, mint az Eiffel-torony
90 perc
90 perc
Katie Khan
¥66.79
90 perc
A tél jegyesei: A tük?rjáró
A tél jegyesei: A tük?rjáró
Christelle Dabos
¥66.79
A tél jegyesei: A tük?rjáró
Fekete lapok - Wild Cards 1.
Fekete lapok - Wild Cards 1.
George R. R. Martin
¥66.79
Fekete lapok - Wild Cards 1.
Mire vágyik egy herceg?
Mire vágyik egy herceg?
Sabrina Jeffries
¥66.79
Mire vágyik egy herceg?
Erd?terápia: Sinrin-joku, avagy z?ld út a boldogsághoz
Erd?terápia: Sinrin-joku, avagy z?ld út a boldogsághoz
Sarah Ivens
¥66.79
Erd?terápia: Sinrin-joku, avagy z?ld út a boldogsághoz
Digitális detox: Gy?zd le a mobilfügg?séget
Digitális detox: Gy?zd le a mobilfügg?séget
Catherine Price
¥66.79
Digitális detox: Gy?zd le a mobilfügg?séget
A felejtés ideje
A felejtés ideje
Sharon Guskin
¥66.79
A felejtés ideje
A St. Oswald fiúiskola
A St. Oswald fiúiskola
Joanne Harris
¥66.79
A St. Oswald fiúiskola
Beszélgetések a szerelemr?l
Beszélgetések a szerelemr?l
Révai Gábor
¥66.79
Beszélgetések a szerelemr?l