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Fairy Tale
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher - for their world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load.
His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself - and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard.
Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it. Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar.
Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world. King's storytelling in Fairy Tale soars.
This is a magnificent and terrifying tale about another world than ours, in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy - and his dog - must lead the battle.
Poviem ti rozprávku - I tell you a fairy tale
Pôvabné rozprávky z pera skúsenej autorky detskej literatúry zavedú deti do všetkých kútov Slovenska. Tie menšie vtiahnu do sveta tajomných víl, škriatkov, tajuplných kúziel, či hovoriacich zvieratiek. A, samozrejme, aj do sveta, kde zlo dube určite potrestané. Pre väčšie deti a študentov je pripravená špecialita – súbežný preklad do angličtiny. Za každou rozprávkou je pripojený slovníček ťažších výrazov. Publikácia s farebnými obrázkami môže veľmi dobre poslúžiť nielen na rozvoj predstavivosti a slovnej zásoby, ale aj na rozvoj znalosti angličtiny.
Lacná kniha Cinderella Liberator - A Fairy Tale Revolution (-50%)
Rebecca Solnit retells 'Cinderella'. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories. These twists on familiar tales make the perfect Christmas gift.
'She looked like a girl who was evening, and an evening that had become a girl...'
In the kitchen, in her rags, Cinderella, longs to go to the ball. After all, there is nothing worse than not being invited to the party. Enter her fairy godmother...
But that is where the familiar story ends. Cinderella's transformation turns out to be much less about ballgowns, glass slippers and carriages, and much more about finding her truest self. Finally free from the kitchen cinders, who will she turn out to be?
*Recommended for ages 6 and up*
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The Handmaid's Tale
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs.
Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception.
A tale of the thousand stars 1. - Megszámolok veled ezer csillagot
Megszámolok veled ezer csillagot
Egy önkéntes tanárnő tragikus balesetben meghal, így a szívét átültetik Tianba.
Tian a halott lány naplóbejegyzésein keresztül megismerheti annak az életét, a titkait és álmait, akinek a szíve most benne dobog.
Így szerez tudomást a Phupha vadőrnek tett ígéretéról is, hogy megszámol vele ezer csillagot.
Tian ezután úgy dönt, hogy követi a naplóban leírt álmokat.
Ő lesz az új önkéntes tanár, megpróbál összebarátkozni Phuphaval, de ő kőszívűnek mutatja magát. Lassan mégis egyre közelebb kerülnek egymáshoz.
Tian elkezdi megkedvelni, és rájön, hogy mit szerethetett benne annyira a szíve előző tulajdonosa.
Vajon megtartható-e az "ezercsillag" ígéret?
Vajon a szerelem független lehet nemtől, testtől, és a külvilágtól?
Legyőzhet minden akadályt?
Vajon két szív örökre ki tud tartani egymás mellett?
A tale of the thousand stars napjaink egyik legkedveltebb és legeredetibb BL regénye és dráma sorozata.
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B. J. Harrison Reads The Monkey's Paw (EN)
What would you do if you were given a chance to correct the incorrigible? Everything is going well for the White family, but they are human beings after all, and like everybody else, they want money. When a friend of theirs comes to visit, he tells the most extraordinary tale, and leaves them in possession of a mummified monkey’s paw.
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Lacná kniha True Tale of the Monster Billy (-90%)
For fans of Room by Emma Donoghue, an extraordinary novel about a child who is kept incarcerated - from the bestselling, prizewinning author of Skellig Billy Deane is the child of an illicit relationship between a priest and a young hairdresser. He is born on the very day that terrorists attack his town, and the fact that he survives and flourishes persuades his father that he is a special child with special gifts. Even so, Billy's birth can't be made public, and he spends his chidhood in a single room, dreaming of other worlds, occasionally visited at night by his father. When the visits come to a sudden end, his mother decides it's time for Billy to come out into the world, helped by a couple of friendly townspeople, and soon he finds that his supposed gifts bring him a certain celebrity. But his father hasn't gone for good, and there's a terrible reckoning still to be made. David Almond's first adult novel is a brilliant account of a child long kept hidden from the world who finally finds that he can establish his place in it - only to be confronted with a past that won't go away. 'A lovely book, full of wonderments. Billy's memories have real lyricism and a beguiling narrative voice' Sunday Times 'Not only dramatically and emotionally suspenseful, it is also vividly drawn and wonderfully well-paced, as we might expect from a master storyteller' John Burnside, Guardian David Almond is the author of Skellig and other novels and plays for children. He has won many distuinguished awards including the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2010, the Carnegie Medal and two Whitbreads.
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The Fairies, a Fairy Tale (EN)
Audiobook The Fairies, a Fairy Tale. It is a classic folk tale by Charles Perrault. Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was often mistaken for her mother, so like her was she both in nature and in looks. Both of them were so disagreeable and arrogant that no one could live with them. The younger girl, who was a true likeness of her father in the gentleness and sweetness of her disposition, was also one of the most beautiful girls imaginable.
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The Frog Prince, a Fairy Tale (EN)
Audiobook The Frog Prince, a Fairy Tale by Brothers Grimm. A very ancient folk tale, often copied and translated, found in Grimm's compilation of fairy tales. This is a moral tale about a poor shoemaker who receives unexpected help when he thinks he won't be able to make it: elves come into his house and shoulder his work for him.
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The Brave Tin Soldier, a Fairy Tale (EN)
Audiobook The Brave Tin Soldier, a Fairy Tale written by Hans Christian Andersen. The brave tin soldier also called "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a tin soldier's love for a paper ballerina. On his birthday, a boy receives a set of 25 toy soldiers all cast from one old tin spoon and arrays them on a table top. One soldier stands on a single leg, as having been the last one cast there was not enough metal to make him whole.
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A Tale of the Tow-Path (EN)
‘A Tale of the Tow-Path’ by American author Homer Greene, is a short story which follows the exploits of the young son of a farmer, Joe Gaston. Following a disagreement with his father Joe runs away from home, leaving his mother and sister heartbroken. Unbeknownst to him, a horse thief stole into the family stable and took a horse the same night Joe made his escape.
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A Twist in the Tale (EN)
The expected never happens . . . a man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being unfaithful, he quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving unseen, he tips off the police so that the other man is arrested and charged . . . Has he achieved ‘The Perfect Murder’? A tantalising opening to A Twist in the Tale, a fantastic collection of short stories from bestselling author Jeffrey Archer.
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The Enchanted Horse, a 1001 Nights Fairy Tale (EN)
Audiobook The Enchanted Horse, a 1001 Nights Fairy Tale from the The Arabian Nights. "The enchanted horse" is a story that belongs to the Thousand and One Nights. "Once upon a time, there lived a Sultan in the land of Persia, who had two beautiful children who grew up to be the Prince and Princess of Persia. One day during a celebration, an Indian approached the Sultan about an enchanted horse he owned that would take the Sultan anywhere he wished in a very short period of time.
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Snow White and Rose Red, a Fairy Tale (EN)
Audiobook Snow-White and Rose-Red is a German fairy tale written by Brothers Grimm. Snow-White and Rose-Red are two little girls living with their mother, a poor widow, in a small cottage. They are very good little girls, they love each other dearly, and their mother is very fond of them. Dark-haired Rose-Red is outspoken and cheerful and loves to play outside.
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The Elves and the Shoe maker, a Fairy Tale (EN)
A very ancient folk tale, often copied and translated, found in Grimm's compilation of fairy tales. This is a moral tale about a poor shoemaker who receives unexpected help when he thinks he won't be able to make it: elves come into his house and shoulder his work for him. - -.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, a Fairy Tale (EN)
Audiobook Snow Drop and the Seven Dwarfs also known as "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves"is a German fairy tale, written by Brothers Grimm, known across much of Europe and is today one of the most famous fairy tales worldwide. A queen gives birth to a baby daughter, a girl with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony.
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Samko Tále – Kniha o cintoríne
Tento krátky román prináša skľučujúci portrét sveta, ktorý nedávno prešiel a naďalej prechádza prudkými, často krutými zmenami. Stvárniť zmätok prostredníctvom zmätku je ambiciózny projekt, no Kapitáňová to robí odvážne a inteligentne. Výsledok je pozoruhodná kniha a výborne sa číta... (John de Falbe, The Literary Review, London)
Očami desaťročného
Vydarená satira na slovenský nacionalizmus
Novinárka a spisovateľka Daniela Kapitáňová (nar. 1956) si vymyslela neobvyklé literárne alter ego: zakrpateného, duševne zaostalého zberača kartónov Samka Táleho zo slovenského pohraničného mesta Komárno. Samko miluje svoje mesto a nadáva na "cudzích" - čiže predovšetkým na Židov, Maďarov a Čechov. To, že sa sám občas stáva terčom posmechu obyvateľov mesta už nepokladá za tak zábavné.
"Kniha o cintoríne" je jeho vlastný literárny výtvor a vlastne sa skladá z dvoch "kníh". Začína sa krátkym textom, ktorý detsky naivne hlása: "Cintorín má dva vchody. Jedným prichádzajú ľudia a druhým mŕtvoly. Mŕtvoly sú mŕtvi ľudia, ktorí zomreli." Potom nasleduje samotný román, ktorý síce s cintorínom nemá nič spoločné, no napriek tomu má názov "Druhá kniha o cintoríne". Samko sa do ňom púšťa do dlhej tirády o známych a priateľoch, ktorí svoju prekérnu existenciu utápajú v alkohole, alebo si ju robia znesiteľnejšou erotickými eskapádami.
Samkovo rozprávanie, pospájané len voľnými asociáciami, odzrkadľuje infantilné vedomie rozprávača. V tomto nekonvenčnom kompozičnom princípe spočíva pôvab Kapitáňovej textu: tým, že sa Samko Tále nielen necháva ľahko ovplyvniť a nekriticky opakuje nacionalistické heslá svojho okolia, nepredstavuje len patologický izolovaný prípad, ale stáva sa odrazom slovenskej spoločnosti v satirickom krivom zrkadle. Práve táto groteskná nadsádzka rozprávača v prvej osobe však z neho robí sympatickú postavu: Samko Tále vysvetľuje svojim čitateľom sociálny mikrokozmos mesta Komárno bez toho, aby mu sám rozumel. Nie je páchateľom, ale obeťou, ktorá si však nie je vedomá vlastnej slepoty.
Kapitáňová majstrovsky napodobňuje zmätenú logiku svojho hrdinu a najjednoduchšie skutočnosti premieňa na dobrodružné staccato. No Samko Tále nie je len Slovák, je všade: bezmyšlienkovité opakovanie ideologických fráz patrí k základným princípom každého nacionalizmu a neobmedzuje sa len na hraničnú oblasť medzi Slovenskom a Maďarskom.
(Ulrich M. Schmid, 24.11.2010, Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
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Z krvi a popola 2: Kráľovstvo tela a ohňa
Je láska silnejšia než pomsta?
ZRADA…
Všetko, čomu Poppy verila, je lož, vrátane muža, do ktorého sa zamilovala. Uviaznutá medzi tými, ktorí ju vnímajú ako symbol obludného kráľovstva, ani poriadne netuší, kým je bez závoja nepoškvrnenej. Vie však, že nič nie je také nebezpečné ako on. Pán temnoty. Princ Atlantie. Chce, aby s ním bojovala, a tento príkaz veľmi rada splní. Možno ju zajal, no nikdy ju nebude vlastniť.
VOĽBA…
Casteel Da’Neer má mnoho mien a tvárí. Jeho lži sú rovnako zvodné ako jeho dotyk. Jeho pravda je zmyselná ako jeho uhryznutie. Poppy vie, že mu nemôže veriť. Na svoje ciele ju potrebuje živú, zdravú a v celku. No aj on pre ňu predstavuje jedinú cestu, ako dosiahnuť, čo chce — nájsť brata Iana a na vlastné oči sa presvedčiť, či sa z neho stal povýšený bez duše. Spolupracovať s Casteelom a nebojovať proti nemu má svoje riziká. Každým nádychom ju vábi, ponúka jej všetko, o čom kedy snívala. Má s ňou plány. Také, ktoré by jej mohli priniesť nekonečné potešenie i nepoznanú bolesť. Plány, ktoré ju prinútia pozrieť sa za hranice všetkého, čo vedela o sebe – a o ňom. Plány, ktoré by ich životy mohli spojiť nečakanými spôsobmi a na ktoré nie je pripravené ani jedno kráľovstvo. A ona je priveľmi nedbanlivá a nenásytná, aby odolala pokušeniu.
TAJOMSTVO…
V Atlantii však v očakávaní princovho návratu vzrástol nepokoj. Stále častejšie sa šepká o vojne a Poppy je v samom ohnisku všetkých udalostí. Kráľ ju chce využiť, aby odovzdala odkaz. Stúpenci ju chcú vidieť mŕtvu. Vlkolaci sú čoraz nepredvídateľnejší. A ako sa jej schopnosť cítiť bolesť a emócie rozvíja a posilňuje, Atlantínčania sa jej začínajú báť. V hre sú temné tajomstvá ponorené do krvavých hriechov oboch kráľovstiev, ktoré by urobili všetko, aby zatajili pravdu. No keď sa začne otriasať zem a krvácať obloha, môže už byť neskoro.
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Fairy Tale
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher - for their world or ours.
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself - and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her ageing master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.
Charlie starts doing jobs for Mr. Bowditch and loses his heart to Radar. Then, when Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie a cassette tape telling a story no one would believe. What Bowditch knows, and has kept secret all his long life, is that inside the shed is a portal to another world.
King's storytelling in Fairy Tale soars. This is a magnificent and terrifying tale about another world than ours, in which good is pitted against overwhelming evil, and a heroic boy - and his dog - must lead the battle.