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Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining.Doctor Sleep is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance, the boy at the heart of The Shining, after his terrible experience in the Overlook Hotel. The instantly riveting Doctor Sleep picks up the story of the now middle-aged Dan, working at a hospicein rural New Hampshire, and the very special twelve-year old girl he must save from a group of murderous paranormals.On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless - mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot arequasi-immortal, living off the 'steam' that children with the 'shining' produce when they are slowly tortured to death.Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father's legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally, he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AAcommunity that sustains him and a job at a nursing home where his remnant 'shining' power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes 'Doctor Sleep.'Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan's own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra's soul and survival...

King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. Everyone knows he?s a guaranteed good time?in bed and out?and that?s exactly how he prefers it. Until he meets Hannah Bellinger. She?s immune to his charm and looks, but sheseems to enjoy his? personality? And wants to be friends? Bizarre. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is. Now, Hannah's in town for work, crashing in Fox?s spare bedroom. She knows he?s a notorious ladies? man, but they?redefinitely just friends. In fact, she's nursing a hopeless crush on a colleague and Fox is just the person to help with her lackluster love life. Armed with a few tips from Westport?s resident Casanova, Hannah sets out to catch her coworker?s eye? yetthe more time she spends with Fox, the more she wants him instead. As the line between friendship and flirtation begins to blur, Hannah can't deny she loves everything about Fox, but she refuses to be another notch on his bedpost. Living with his bestfriend should have been easy. Except now she?s walking around in a towel, sleeping right across the hall, and Fox is fantasizing about waking up next to her for the rest of his life and? and? man overboard! He?s fallen for her, hook, line, and sinker.Helping her flirt with another guy is pure torture, but maybe if Fox can tackle his inner demons and show Hannah he?s all in, she'll choose him instead?

What is more important? Friendship, loyalty, or love? Ridge and Sydney are thrilled to finally be together guilt-free. But as the two of them navigate this freedom, Warren and Bridgette's relationship is as tumultuous as ever, and Maggie grapples withher illness. When she comes across an old list of things she wanted to do maybe one of these days, Maggie decides to live life to the fullest and accomplish these dreams. Maggie keeps Ridge updated on her adventures, but he can't help but worry, even asSydney grows more and more suspicious about their friendship. But if she's going to move past this jealousy, she'll need to reconcile how she and Ridge came together with the fact that Maggie will always be in their lives somehow...or end up walking awayfrom the man she loves so much.

A Most tanulok... sorozat két témakörben, a matematikai és az angol nyelvi tudás megalapozásban nyújt segítséget. Már egészen kicsi kortól érdemes napi néhány percet arra áldozni, hogy fejlesszük a gyermekek számolási vagy az idegen nyelv elsajátításáhozszükséges kompetenciáit. Ehhez minden segítséget megtalálhatnak az olvasók ezekben a füzetben, és az életkori sajátosságokat figyelembe vevő feladatokon túl matricák is segítik a játszva tanulást.

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what theprinces must be thinking and feeling - and how their lives would play out from that point on.For Harry, this is that story at last.With its raw, unflinching honesty, Spare is a landmark publication full of insight, revelation, self-examination, and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.Prince Harry wishes to support British charities with donations from his proceeds from Spare. The Duke of Sussex has donated $1,500,000 to Sentebale, an organisation he founded with Prince Seeiso in their mothers' legacies, which supports vulnerablechildren and young people in Lesotho and Botswana affected by HIV/AIDS. Prince Harry will also donate to the non-profit organisation WellChild in the amount of L300,000. WellChild, which he has been Royal patron of for fifteen years, makes it possiblefor children and young people with complex health needs to be cared for at home instead of hospital, wherever possible.

Tibor Fischer legújabb regényének főszereplője, a született lúzer. Tyndale Corbett egy barátjától kölcsönzött bankkártyával érkezik Miamiba, ahol nem sokáig élvezi a luxushotelek és a névtelen gazdagság előnyeit, ugyanis úgy dönt, beadja a helyieknek,hogy ő maga az Isten. A kacagtatóan mulatságos szatirikus regény Angliában és Amerikában is remek kritikákat kapott.A könyv magyar kiadása Megváltás Miamiban címen jelent meg.Using the credit card and identity of a handcuffs salesman, professional failure Tyndale Corbett arrives inMiami for a law enforcement conference to discover the joys of luxury hotels and above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Feeling his previous lack of success might be due to insufficient ambition, Tyndale decides on a newmoney-making scheme. He will up the ante substantially, exponentially and pretend to be someone really important and successful: God. His mission to convince the citizenry of Miami that he is, despite appearances, the Supreme Being results in him takingover the Church of the Heavily Armed Christ. His duties there involve him in forming a private army, hiring call girls, trafficking coke, issuing death threats, beating off church-jackers and sorting out (as almightily as possible) various problems hisparishioners are having with pets. All the while he is working on his grand project, the clincher miracle, dying and coming back to life

In The Last Wolf, a philosophy professor is mistakenly hired to write the true tale of the last wolf of Extremadura, a barren stretch of Spain. His miserable experience is narrated in a single, rolling sentence to a patently bored bartender in a drearyBerlin bar.In Herman, a master trapper is asked to clear a forest's last 'noxious beasts.' Herman begins with great zeal, although in time he switches sides, deciding to track entirely new game... In Herman II, the same events are related from the perspective ofstrange visitors to the region, a group of hyper-sexualised aristocrats who interrupt their orgies to pitch in with the manhunt of poor Herman...These intense, perfect novellas, full of Krasznhorkai's signature sense of foreboding and dark irony, are perfect examples of his craft.

Summer, 1973. Teenage Ruth and her four friends spend the scorching summer days in the river, recreating tableaus of the drowning Ophelia and other tragic heroines. But as autumn draws nearer, real tragedy has found them. Summer, 1997. Ruth returns toher childhood home with her husband and three children, including her eldest daughter seventeen-year-old Maeve. However when Stuart, an old family friend comes to stay, the uneasy relationship between mother and daughter is pushed to its limit. ForStuarts arrival is a reminder of a death in Ruths past, while Maeve is feeling more alive than ever As the heat of the summer burns, how long can the family go before long-held secrets threaten to burst their banks and drown them all? Set between twofateful summers, Jane Healeys The Ophelia Girls is a visceral, heady exploration of illicit desire, infatuation and the perils and power of being a young woman.

The Summer I Turned Pretty is now a major new TV series on Amazon Prime!From the author of Netflix's smash-hit movie To All The Boys I've Loved Before, this is the perfect funny summer romance for fans of The Kissing Booth and Holly Bourne.One girl. Two boys. And the summer that changed everything . . .Every year Isabel spends a perfect summer at her favourite place in the world - the Fisher family's beach house. It has everything a girl could want: a swimming pool, a private stretch of sandy beach... and two (very cute) boys:Unavailable, aloof Conrad - who she's been in love with foreverFriendly, relaxed Jeremiah- the only one who's ever really paid her any attention.But this year something is different. This year, the boys seem to really notice Isabel for the first time. It's going to be an amazing summer - and one she'll never forget . . .'This book has what every girl wants in a summer' - Sarah Dessen, #1 New York Times bestselling authorRead the next instalments in The Summer I Turned Pretty Series: It's Not Summer Without You and We'll Always Have Summer by bestselling author Jenny Han.

Zum ersten Mal erzählt die jüngste Friedensnobelpreisträgerin nun ihr Leben für jugendliche Leser selbst - einfühlsam, aufrüttelnd und direkt. Die damals fünfzehnjährige Malala wollte einfach nur zur Schule gehen - doch für die Taliban haben Mädchen keinRecht auf Bildung. Am 9. Oktober 2012 schossen ihr Terroristen in den Kopf, als sie auf dem Weg von der Schule nach Hause war. Malala hat den Anschlag schwer verletzt überlebt, doch aufgegeben hat sie nicht. Sie setzt ihren Kampf für Bildung unermüdlichfort und ist damit zum Vorbild vieler Jugendlicher auf der ganzen Welt geworden. In einer einzigartigen Zusammenarbeit mit der Bestsellerautorin Patricia McCormick gelingt es Malala auf höchst bewegende Weise und anhand vieler persönlicher Fotos undDokumente, ihren jungen Lesern ein authentisches Bild von ihrem Leben und den Ereignissen in Pakistan zu vermitteln. In ihrem Jugendbuch berichtet die Friedensnobelpreisträgerin 2014 von ihrer Schulzeit und ihren Freundinnen, davon, wie die Anfeindungender Extremisten täglich zunahmen, wie sie Widerstand leistete und ihr Leben dadurch eine tragische Wendung nahm.

Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph ofgood in the face of great adversity.Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sikes, Nancy and 'the Artful Dodger'.For any reader wishing to delve into the works of the great Victorian literary colossus, Oliver Twist is, without doubt, an essential title.

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'Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.' - The Times'A model of how to combine biographical information, analysis and literary criticism into a propulsive narrative' - Daily Telegraph'Worsley's book excels in bringing a broader historical perspective to Christie's life and work, and her enthusiasm is infectious.' - Observer'Paint(s) an intriguing picture of Christie.' - GuardianMs Worsley herself writes engagingly... She combines an almost militant support for her subject with a considered analysis of her books and plays.' - Economist'Admirably scrupulous' - New York Times'Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was.'Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? As Lucy Worsley says, 'She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern'. She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she wasintrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness.So why - despite all the evidence to the contrary - did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure?She was born in 1890 into a world which had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of an internationally renowned bestselling writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of classand gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman.With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was - truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.

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A könyv, amelyről mindenki beszélAz erotikus, mulattató és mélyen megindító Ötven árnyalat-trilógia olyan történet, amely hatalmába keríti és birtokba veszi olvasóját, azután mindig vele marad.Amikor Anastasia Steele, az irodalom szakos egyetemi hallgató interjút készít Christian Greyjel, az ifjú vállalkozóval, gyönyörű, okos és ijesztő férfival találja szemben magát. A nem ebben a világban élő és ártatlan Ana megretten, amikor ráébred, hogyakarja ezt a férfit, és annak rejtélyes tartózkodása ellenére kétségbeesetten próbál közelebb kerülni hozzá. Grey, aki képtelen ellenállni Ana szelíd szépségének, eszének és független szellemének, elismeri, hogy ő is akarja a lányt - de a sajátfeltételei szerint.Ana, akit egyszerre ijeszt és izgat Grey szokatlan szexuális ízlése, habozik. Greyt minden sikere - multinacionális vállalkozásai, hatalmas vagyona, szerető családja - ellenére démonok gyötrik. Amikor a pár vakmerő, szenvedélyes viszonyba kezd, Anafölfedezi Grey titkait és tulajdon, sötét vágyait.

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assaulton the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air

Mint az a legtöbb Agatha Christie olvasó és rajongó jól tudja, hogy a krimi nagyasszonyának regényeiban a gyilkos a legváratlanabb helyeken tűnik fel. De vannak idők, amikor a halál szele megcsapja az embert. Csak a jelekre figyelni. Baljós jelek,elhagyatott, kísérteties házak, szeánszok és rémálmok. Meghasonlott személyiségek és fura, emberhez nem köthető hangok...Murder can occur in the most unexpected places, and there are times when the spectre of death is very close -you just have to look for the signs: omens and haunted houses, seances and nightmares, split personalities and disembodied voices...

Megkerül, ami elveszett...Robert Langdont, a Harvard szimbólumkutatóját az utolsó percben kérik fel egy esti előadásra a washingtoni Capitolium épületében. Közvetlenül megérkezése után azonban egy hátborzongató szimbólumokkal rejtjelezett, nyugtalanító tárgyat fedeznek fel aRotunda kellős közepén. Langdon egy ősi meghívót közvetít benne, amely a titkos ezoterikus bölcsesség rég letűnt világába invitálja megfejtőjét.Amikor brutálisan elrabolják Peter Solomont, a híres filantrópot és szabadkőművest, Langdon nagyra becsült mentorát, a professzor ráébred, hogy csak úgy mentheti meg barátja életét, ha elfogadja a rejtélyes meghívást és követi az utat, akárhova vezessenis.Langdon gyorsan ott találja magát Amerika legnagyobb hatalmi központjának színfalai mögött, a város láthatatlan termeiben, templomaiban, alagútjaiban. Ami mindeddig ismerős volt, az most átváltozik egy mesterien elleplezett múlt titokzatos, félhomályosvilágává, amelyben szabadkőműves rejtélyek és sosem látott felfedezések vezetik őt az egyetlen lehetséges és felfoghatatlan igazsághoz.Az elveszett jelkép az eltitkolt históriák, misztikus ikonok és kódok ragyogóan összecsomózott szőttese

New York is slipping from Cleo's grasp. Sure, she's at a different party every other night, but she barely knows anyone. Her student visa is running out, and she doesn't even have money for cigarettes. But then she meets Frank. Twenty years older,Frank's life is full of all the success and excess that Cleo's lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a green card. She offers him a life imbued with beauty and art-and, hopefully, a reason tocut back on his drinking. He is everything she needs right now.

Az őrület és a halál napjai elmúltak. Senki nem tudja visszaadni az öccsét, ahogyan senki nem tudja eltörölni a borzalmat és az öldöklést, amit az emberei véghez vittek húsvét után. Tudta, hogy sok bűne van, de azt is megtanulta, hogy a hatalom és afelelősség túlélésének egyetlen módja az, ha jót tesz.A Medici család legdicsőségesebb korszaka Lorenzo il Magnifico, a Nagyszerű Lorenzo (1449-1492) idejére esett. 1469, Firenze: Lorenzo de Medici és Clarice Orsini esküvőjét ünnepli a város, a dúsgazdag bankár a római arisztokrata család lányát veszifeleségül. A házasság, amit Lorenzo édesanyja hozott össze, megerősíti a Mediciek politikai helyzetét, és növeli társadalmi presztízsét. Lorenzo életének szerelme azonban Lucrezia Donati, az izgalmas, különleges nő, akivel titokban továbbra istalálkozik. Lorenzo, a keménykezű városvezető a művészetek nagy tisztelője és támogatója, meghívja a fiatal Leonardo da Vincit Firenzébe, hogy a polihisztor művész készítsen számára háborús gépeket. Megígéri, hogy az új fegyvereket kizárólag védekezésrefogja használni, mert nagyapja és apja tanításait követve meg van győződve arról, hogy Firenze jövője a békében és a virágzásban van, a művészetben és az irodalomban. Ezt az elvet azonban lehetetlen az intrikával és politikai cselszövéssel telireneszánsz Firenzében megvalósítani. Egyre erősebbé és harciasabbá válik a Medici-ellenes párt, amelyet IV. Sixtus pápa is támogatott Rómából. Összeesküvést szerveznek a két fivér, Giuliano és Lorenzo ellen, és Giulianot bátyja szeme láttára szúrjákhalálra a firenzei dómban 1478. áprilisában, a húsvéti mise után. Lorenzo megmenekül. A merényletet véres megtorlás követi, amely mind két oldalon szörnyű áldozatokkal jár.

Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 20th century: a story about fathers and sons and the spiritual battles that still rage at America's heart. In the wordsof Kirkus, it is a novel as big as a nation, as quiet as thought, and moving as prayer. Matchless and towering. Gilead tells the story of America and will break your heart.

One week ago, Samantha Kofer was a third-year associate at New York City's largest law firm. Now she is an unpaid intern in a legal aid clinic deep in small-town Appalachia. When Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, her future. Asshe confronts real clients with real problems, she finds herself a world away from her past life of corporate fat cats and fatter bonuses.This is coal country. Meth country. The law is different here. And standing up for the truth means putting your life on the line.America's greatest storyteller brings us a new masterpiece of legal courage and gripping suspense - and his finest heroine since The Pelican Brief.

Robert Langdon, professeur en symbologie, est convoqué d'urgence par son ami Peter Solomon, philanthrope et ma‡on de haut grade, pour une conférence a donner le soir mcme. En rejoignant la rotonde du Capitole, il fait une macabre découverte. Ce sera lepremier indice d'une qucte haletante, des sous-sols de la Bibliothcque du Congrcs aux temples ma‡onniques, a la recherche du secret le mieux gardé de la franc-ma‡onnerie. Une aventure ou s'affrontent les traditions ésotériques et la formidableintelligence de Robert Langdon.Par l'auteur du Da Vinci code.

In this delightful tale, an Eastern Prince arrives in England with some family jewels which he s having reset as a gift for his fiancee. However, the Prince also has a mistress