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Lényegtelen információkkal elárasztott világunkban a tisztánlátás hatalom. Vajon értjük még egyáltalán a világot, amelyet alkottunk? Tudjuk, mi történik körülöttünk, melyek a jelen legnagyobb kihívásai és döntései? Mit jelez Donald Trump hatalomrakerülése? Mit tehetünk a járványszerűen terjedő álhírek ellen? Miért van válságban a liberális demokrácia? Isten visszatért? Új világháború közeleg? Melyik civilizáció uralja a világot? A Nyugat? Kína? Az iszlám? Nyitva hagyja-e a kapuit Európa abevándorlók előtt? Meg tudja-e oldani a nacionalizmus az egyenlőtlenség és a klímaváltozás problémáit? Mihez kezdjünk a terrorizmussal?Tudjuk, hogy mire tanítsuk a gyerekeinket?What do we really need to know in today's world? In twenty-one bite-sized lessons, Yuval Noah Harari exploreswhat it means to be human in an age of bewildermentSapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present.How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children?Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today's most urgent issues. The golden thread running through his exhilarating new book is the challenge of maintaining our collective and individual focus in the face of constant and disorientingchange. Are we still capable of understanding the world we have created?Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present.How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children?Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today's most urgent issues. The golden thread running through his exhilarating new book is the challenge of maintaining our collective and individual focus in the face of constant and disorientingchange. Are we still capable of understanding the world we have created?

January is a hopeless romantic who narrates her life like she's the lead in a blockbuster movie. Gus is a serious literary type who thinks true love is a fairy-tale. But January and Gus have more in common than you'd think: They're both broke. They'vegot crippling writer's block. And they need to write bestsellers before summer ends. The result? A bet to swap genres and see who gets published first. The risk? In telling each other's stories, their worlds might be changed entirely... Set over onesizzling summer, Beach Read is a witty love story that will make you laugh a lot, cry a little and fall head over heels. For fans of The Flat Share and If I Never Met You.

Niveau A1 bis A2Zielgruppe: Lernende in der Grundstufe auf dem Niveau A1 - A2Das Idealpaar, gibt es das? Was ist am 24. Oktober passiert? Und warum hat jemand eine schlaflose Nacht?In 15 kurzen, überschaubaren Lesetexten erzählt Leonhard Thoma Geschichten von Menschen, die den Leser überraschen.Die Texte sind mit Fotos illustriert, die sowohl als Verständnishilfe als auch als Gesprächsanlass genutzt werden können.Die Geschichten eignen sich für Lernende der Grundstufe, einige können schon mit Deutschkenntnissen auf der Niveaustufe A1 gelesen werden.

Fallaci's harrowing book dealt with the controversial theme of abortion in Italy and the mother's relationship with her unborn child. The story is told through letters written to the protagonists unborn baby.

'It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but did not believe there would ever be a future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go, and then see what happened when I got there.'So begins the mesmerising narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg - orphan, child of the 1960s, a quester by nature. Moon Palace is his story - a novel that spans three generations, from the early years of this century to the first lunar landings, and moves fromthe canyons of Manhattan to the cruelly beautiful landscape of the American West. Filled with suspense, unlikely coincidences, wrenching tragedies and marvellous flights of lyricism and erudition, the novel carries the reader effortlessly along withMarco's search - for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his origins and his fate.'Clever: very. Surprising: always - Auster is a master.' The Times

Edmund Burke was the dominant political thinker of the last quarter of the eighteenth century in England. His reputation depends less on his role as a practising politician than on his ability to set contemporary problems within a wider context ofpolitical theory. Above all, he commented on change. He tried to teach lessons about how change should be managed, what limits should not be transgressed, and what should be reverently preserved. Burke's generation was much in need of advice on thesematters. The Industrial Revolution, the American Revolution, and catastrophically, the French Revolution presented challenges of terrible proportions. They could promise paradise or threaten anarchy. Burke was acutely aware of how high the stakes were.The Reflections on the Revolution in France was a dire warning of the consequences that would follow the mismanagement of change.

'Life affirming, triumphant and tragic . . . masterfully told. . . but also a wonderful page-turner' Guardian'Brilliant and hugely ambitious' New York Times'Extraordinary' Telegraph___HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier.Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall.SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION - THIS NOVEL IS NARRATED BY DEATH___Over 16 million copies sold worldwide.Now a major motion picture.

In this and indeed other lives there are givers and takers. It's safe to say that vampires are very much in the latter camp - unapologetically so. Most of them have had plenty of practice - after all they've been undead for centuries. And they haven'tgot that old without being artful.The Magpyrs are a thoroughly modern, sophisticated vampire family. They're looking to enhance their social status by taking over a kingdom or two. Over the years they've even developed a taste for garlic and for holy icons. They're not going to take 'no'for an answer - particularly from witches or priests...

These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer Carver hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. This fine story suggests that thegreatest of modern short-story writers may, in the year before his untimely death, have been flexing his muscles for a longer work.

How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration /Independent on Sunday/Murakami has been compared to everyone from Raymond Carver to Raymond Chandler - which should tell you only one thing: he's unique /Independent/Sputnik Sweetheart has touched me deeper and pushed me further than anything I've read in a long time /Guardian/

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'There is no harm in a man's cub.'Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling. Set in Central India, Mowgli is raised by a pack of

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the Booker Prize 2019'Epic' Kiley Reid, O, The Oprah MagazineThe Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: theirfamilies, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past.Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' story lines intersect?Weaving together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s, Brit Bennett produces a story that is at once a riveting, emotional family story and a brilliant exploration of the Americanhistory of passing. Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which peoplesometimes feel pulled to live as something other than their origins.

Perfect for fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses and From Blood and Ash.Once, we'd worshipped them as Gods.For nearly 400 years, the Veil has protected us from the Fae of Alfheimr. In their absence, our lives have shifted from decadence and sin to survival and virtue under the guidance of the New Gods. I've spent my entire life tending to the gardens next tothe boundary between our worlds, drawn to the shimmering magic like a moth to the flame.Then, we died on their swords.All of that changes the day the Veil shatters, unleashing the fae upon our world once again. The magic of faerie marks those of us they mean to take, but the Mist Guard protecting Nothrek will kill us all before they let the fae have us. There's nochoice but to flee everything I've ever known, not if I want to live to see my twenty-first birthday as a free woman.Now, they'll claim what's theirs.But before they capture me, Caelum saves me from the Wild Hunt. Fae-marked and on the run, he is able to fight back in ways I only dream of. From tentative alliance to all-consuming passion, our bond strengthens as the fae close in and evil lurks evernearer. With my life on the line, he is everything I shouldn't dare to want and a distraction I can't afford. I can't seem to stay away, not even with something greater on the line.My heart.

Two strangers. One big secret. And a Christmas to remember... Merry has always wanted a family to spend Christmas with, and this year her dream comes true as she says 'I do' to father-of-two Cole. But as she juggles her rapidly-growing business, weddingplanning and the two new children in her life, her dream begins to unravel. Emily is desperately waiting for the New Year to begin, so she can finally have a fresh start. She has always put her family first, leaving little time for happiness and love.When her beloved father Ray moves into a residential home, she discovers a photograph in his belongings that has the potential to change everything. As past secrets come to light, will this be a magical Christmas for Emily and Merry to remember?

Michael Palin's only other novel, HEMINGWAY'S CHAIR (1995),sold over 200,000 copies in the UK alone (65k HBK

Two Lives. Two Loves. One Impossible Choice.Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. Theyve been together for almost a decade, and Lydia thinks their love is indestructible.But shes wrong. Because on her 27th birthday, Freddie dies in a car accident...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Take nothing on its looks

Jules figyelmen kívül hagyta nővére telefonhívását. Ez nem sokkal azelőtt történt, hogy Nel, Jules testvére a vízbe vetette magát. Most Nel halott. Jules-nek vissza kell mennie nővére házához, vigyázzon annak lányára és szembenézzen Nel misztikushalálának körülményeivel. Jules azonban tart mindentől: tart a hosszú temetési ceremóniától, Mill House-tól és a titokba burkolódzó kisvárostól. Jules fél. Tudja, hogy nővére soha nem lett volna öngyilkos...In the last days before her death, Nel called her sister. Jules didn't pick up the phone, ignoring her plea for help.Now Nel is dead. They say she jumped. And Jules has been dragged back to the one place she hoped she had escaped for good, to care for the teenage girl her sister left behind.But Jules is afraid. So afraid. Of her long-buried memories, of the old Mill House, of knowing that Nel would never have jumped.And most of all she's afraid of the water, and the place they call the Drowning Pool . . .

Andris szerencsés kisfiú: két törpe is tündéri keresztapaságot vállal mellette. Szüksége is van a varázslatos társakra, mert egy kisgyereknek néha nem egyszerű eligazodni a felnőttek szabályai között. A vékony hangú Kököjszi és a vastag hangú Bobojszaselyemvitorlás, zászlós, lámpásos kis hajójukon, a Szent Kristófon jelennek meg esténként a kisfiú szobájában, s viszik magukkal csodás kalandok felé, az Időkirály birodalmába, az Emlékezés szigetére.A két törpe és Andris barátságának örökszép történetén számtalan gyerek nőtt fel. Török Sándor klasszikus meseregénye most Makoviczki Dóra színpompás illusztrációival jelenik meg.

The military science fiction sequel to his extraordinary Old Man's War, John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades is the second in The Old Man's War series.Who can you trust, if you can't trust yourself?Three hostile alien races have united against humanity, determined to halt our expansion into space. The mastermind behind this lethal alliance is a traitor - Charles Boutin. He was a Colonial Defence Force scientist, with access to their biggestmilitary secrets. Now the CDF's only hope is to discover Boutin's plan. Trouble is, Boutin's dead.As a super-soldier created from Boutin's own DNA, Jared Dirac may have answers. However, when Dirac fails to access the scientist's memories, he's transferred to the Ghost Brigades for training. These elite troops are also cloned from the dead, so hemight fit in. But will Dirac's memory return as the enemy plots the fate of humankind? And whose side is Dirac really on?'A mix of Starship Troopers and Universal Soldier, Ghost evokes awakening, betrayal, and combat in the best military sci-fi tradition.' - Entertainment WeeklyContinue the gripping space war series with The Last Colony.

Philip Pullman klasszikussá vált, számtalan díjjal elismert ifjúsági trilógiájának első részében megismerjük Lyrát, a rendkívüli kislányt, és az ő Oxfordját, ami nagyon hasonlít a miénkhez, de nagyon más is - például mindenkinek van egy állat alakúdaimónja, mely lelke egy darabkája, egyben örök társa.Lyra kíváncsi, merész és imádja a kalandokat, és bármikor kész megtréfálni otthona, a Jordan-kollégium tudósait. Ám élete igazi nagy kalandja csak akkor kezdődik, amikor valami különösről hall, valamiről, amiről a tudósok is csak suttogva mernekbeszélni, és amihez valahogy köze van az északi fénynek és egy semmihez sem hasonlító iránytűnek...

Giacenta est trop belle. Alors le village rejette, avec sa fille, jusqu'a ce qu'elle meurt de solitude. L'adolescente pousse comme les fleurs sauvages, ses seuls complices sont la montagne et son cabri noir. Mais, pour les hommes, Jella n'est que lafille de sa mcre. Elle doit fuir. Elle franchit le ravin et rejoint l'autre c“té, ou l'attend la sécurité auprcs du vieux Pierre, le garde-barricre. Jusqu'a ce qu'André Retz arrive de la Grande Plaine... La rencontre de Jella et d'André est une histoireƒpre, un affrontement semblable a celui de la montagne et de la Puszta. Et il n'y aura pas de vainqueur.

From the internationally bestselling author of Gorky Park comes a suspenseful World War II story set against the beauty, mystery and danger of occupied Venice.Venice, 1945. The war may be waning, but the city known as La Serenissima is still occupied and the people of Italy fear the power of the Third Reich. One night, under a canopy of stars, a fisherman named Cenzo finds a young woman's body floating in thelagoon and soon discovers that she is still alive and in trouble.Born to a wealthy Jewish family, Giulia is on the run from the Wehrmacht SS. Cenzo chooses to protect Giulia - an act of kindness that leads them into the world of Partisans, Mussolini's broken promises, and, everywhere, the enigmatic maze of theVenice Lagoon...