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The Elephant in the Room
eelings travel even when people cant...Its been almost a year since Silas mum travelled halfway around the world to Turkey, hoping to secure the immigration paperwork that would allow her to return to her family in the United States.The long separation is almost impossible for Sila to bear. But things change when Sila accompanies her father (who is a mechanic) outside their Oregon town to fix a truck. There, behind an enormous stone wall, she meets a grandfatherly man who only months before won the state lottery. Their new alliance leads to the rescue of a circus elephant named Veda, and then to a friendship with a unique boy named Mateo, proving that comfort and hope come in the most unlikely of places.A moving story of family separation and the importance of the connection between animals and humans, this novel has the enormous heart and uplifting humour that readers have come to expect from the beloved author of Counting by 7s.
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The Elephant Vanishes
When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset; a couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's; a woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden;
Motionless In White - Scoring The End Of The World 2LP
„Motionless In White“ je americká metalcorová skupina zo Scrantonu v Pensylvánii. Založená bola v roku 2004 na strednej škole Chrisom Cerullim, Angelom Parentom, Frankom Polumbom a Mikom Costanzom. Sú známi hlavne svojimi temnými hororovými textami a vystupovaním, ktoré súvisia s ich gotickým imidžom. "Motionless In White" sa 10. júna vracajú s veľmi očakávaným novým štúdiovým albumom s názvom „Scoring The end of the world“ prostredníctvom Roadrunner Records. „Scoring The End of the World“ plne zahŕňa šírku dynamickej, hlbokej a temnej vízie kapely a prichádza po „Disguise“ z roku 2019. Špeciálna deluxe edícia albumu "Scoring The End Of The World"obsahuje štyri nové bonusové skladby: „Hollow Points“, „Fool's Gold“, „Timebomb“ (STEOTW Mix) a „Porcelain: Ricky Motion Picture Collection“. a bude k dispozícis exkluzívnym alternatívnym obalom.
Tracklist:
A1. Meltdown
A2. Sign Of Life
A3. Werewolf
A4. Porcelain
B1. Slaughterhouse (feta. Bryan Garris)
B2. Masterpiece
B3. Cause Of Death
B4. We Become The Night
C1. Burned At Both Ends II
C2. BFBTG: Corpse Nation
C3. Cyberhex
C4. Red White & Boom (Feat. Caleb Shomo)
C5. Scoring The End Of The World
D1. Hollow Points
D2. Fool's Gold
D3. Timebomb (STEOTW Mix)
D4. Porcelain (Ricky Motion Picture Collection)
All The Lovers In The Night
From international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes All the Lovers in the Night, an extraordinary, deeply moving and insightful story set in contemporary Tokyo.
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her thirties. Living alone, and unable to form meaningful relationships, she has little contact with anyone other than Hijiri, someone she works with. When she sees her reflection, she’s confronted with a tired and spiritless woman who has failed to take control of her own life. Her one source of solace: light. Every Christmas Eve, Fuyuko heads out to catch a glimpse of the lights that fill the Tokyo night. But it is a chance encounter with a man named Mitsutsuka that awakens something new in her. And so her life begins to change.
As Fuyuko starts to see the world in a different light, painful memories from her past begin to resurface. Fuyuko needs to be loved, to be heard, and to be seen. But living in a small world of her own making, will she find the strength to bring down the walls that surround her? All the Lovers in the Night is acute and insightful, entertaining and captivating, pulsing and poetic, modern and shocking. It’s another unforgettable novel from Japan’s most exciting writer.
The Elephant in the Room
Someone has smashed Father Giant's favourite elephant. It wasn't Olive and her brother Grub. Nor was it the naughty newt, the laughing lady or the yucky yak.So WHO is the culprit? A magnificently madcap mystery that will keep readers guessing until the very end.
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Shooting an Elephant
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
Today, George Orwell is perhaps most famous for his iconic novels - Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm - but in his own time it was his remarkable nonfiction writing which drew most attention. Kind-hearted, intelligent, often funny, occasionally indignant, always insightful: his essays are some of the best ever written. Among others, this selection includes 'Shooting an Elephant', 'Such, Such Were the Joys' and 'Some Thoughts on the Common Toad'.
White Stripes, The - Elephant: 20th Anniversary (Clear with Red & Black Smoke) 2LP
The White Stripes bola americká rocková dvojica založená v roku 1997 v meste Detroit. Jej členmi boli Jack White a Meg White. Potom, ako vydali niekoľko albumov a singlov sa v roku 2002 dostali do väčšieho povedomia verejnosti ako súčasť garage rock revival scény. "Elephant" je štvrtý štúdiový album amerického rockového dua White Stripes. Vyšlo 1. apríla 2003 prostredníctvom V2, XL a Third Man Records. Album sa nahrával dva týždne v apríli 2002 – s výnimkou poslednej skladby albumu "Well, It's True That We Love One Another", ktorá bola nahraná v novembri 2001 a produkoval sa bez použitia počítačov, namiesto toho s použitím osemstopového magnetofónu a rôzneho vybavenia nie staršieho ako 1963. "Elephant" získal uznanie kritikov a často sa uvádza ako najlepšie dielo White Stripes. Album si vyslúžil niekoľko ocenení, vrátane nominácie na album roka a víťazstva v kategórii Najlepší album alternatívnej hudby na 46. udeľovaní cien Grammy. V roku 2012 ho časopis Rolling Stone zaradil na 390. miesto v zozname „500 najlepších albumov všetkých čias“ a navyše ho zaradil na piaty najlepší album dekády 2000. Autori a recenzenti chválili Elephant ako jeden z najlepších albumov 21. storočia.
Tracklist:
LP 1:
1. Seven Nation Army
2. Black Math
3. There's No Home for You Here
4. I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself
5. In the Cold, Cold Night
6. I Want to Be the Boy to Warm Your Mother's Heart
7. You've Got Her in Your Pocket
LP 2:
1. Ball and Biscuit
2. The Hardest Button to Button
3. Little Acorns
4. Hypnotize
5. The Air Near My Fingers
6. Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine
7. It's True That We Love One Another
The House in the Cerulean Sea
An enchanting story, masterfully told, The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune is about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place - and realizing that family could be yours.
'I loved it. It is like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket. Simply perfect' - V. E. Schwab, author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
He expected nothing. But they gave him everything . . .
Linus Baker leads a quiet life. At forty, he has a tiny house with a devious cat and his beloved records for company. And at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth, he's spent many dull years monitoring their orphanages.
Then one day, Linus is summoned by Extremely Upper Management and given a highly classified assignment. He must travel to an orphanage where six dangerous children reside, including the Antichrist. There, Linus must somehow determine if they could bring on the end of days. But their guardian, charming and enigmatic Arthur Parnassus, will do anything to protect his wards. As Arthur and Linus grow ever closer, Linus must choose between duty and his dreams.
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune is an uplifting, heart-warming fantasy tale that's become a New York Times, USA Today and Washington Post bestseller.
'Likely to cause heart-swelling' - Washington Post
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Souvenir 2CD
Skladba
1 Electricity
2 Red Frame / White Light
3 Messages
4 Enola Gay
5 Souvenir
6 Joan Of Arc
7 Maid Of Orleans
8 Genetic Engineering
9 Telegraph
10 Locomotion
11 Talking Loud And Clear
12 Tesla Girls
13 Never Turn Away
14 So In Love
1 Secret
2 La Femme Accident
3 If You Leave
4 (Forever) Live And Die
5 We Love You
6 Shame
7 Dreaming
8 Sailing On The Seven Seas
9 Pandora's Box (It's A Long, Long Way)
10 Then You Turn Away
11 Call My Name
12 Stand Above Me
13 Dream Of Me
1 Everyday
2 Walking On The Milky Way
3 Universal
4 If You Want It
5 Sister Marie Says
6 History Of Modern, Pt. 1
7 Metroland
8 Dresden
9 Night Café
10 Isotype
11 The Punishment Of Luxury
12 What Have We Done
13 Don't Go
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Lacná kniha The Reptile Room (-70%)
There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery and despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming and clever Baudelaire children read on...The siblings endure a car accident, a terrible smell, a deadly serpent, a long knife, a brass reading lamp, and the re-appearance of a person they hoped to never see again. Then again, why trouble yourself with the unfortunate resolutions? Avoid these books in Lemony Snicket's international bestselling series and you'll never have to know what happens!
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Trading in the Zone (2. vydání)
Býčí trh v akciích znamenal i býčí trh publikací, zabývajících se tím, jak na akciích vydělat. Tradingová scéna byla zahlcena nápady - některé byly dobré a jiné špatné, některé byly originální a jiné pouze vykrádaly předchozí práce. Občas se ale stane, že určitý spisovatel přijde s něčím, co ho vydělí z davu, s něčím výjimečným. Jedním z takových spisovatelů je Mark Douglas. Jeho kniha Trading in the Zone představuje roky výzkumu a rozjímání - celoživotní dílo, které je pro nás, profesionální obchodníky, klenotem. Trading in the Zone je hloubkovou studií výzev, kterým se musíme postavit, rozhodneme-li se začít s obchodováním.
Pro začátečníka představuje jedinou výzvu, zjistit, jak vydělat peníze. Jakmile takový začátečník zjistí, že tipy, rady brokerů a další způsoby, jak ospravedlnit nákup či prodej nefungují vždycky, pochopí, že si buď musí koupit nějakou obchodní strategii, nebo ji sám vyvinout. Potom už by snad obchodování mělo být jednoduché, ne? Stačí se držet pravidel a peníze vám samy spadnou do klína. V tomto bodě, ne-li dříve, začátečník zjistí, že obchodování může být velmi snadno extrémně frustrující. Tato zkušenost vede k tomu, že statisticky 95% obchodníků přijde o všechny peníze během prvního roku obchodování. S akciemi je to podobné - analytici poukazují na to, že většina obchodníků s akciemi selhává i v provedení jednoduchého scénáře nakoupení a podržení investice.
Proč se lidem, kteří jsou jinak extrémně úspěšní, nedaří, co se týče obchodu? Rodí se snad člověk obchodníkem? Mark Douglas říká, že ne. Nezbytné je podle něj získat obchodnickou mysl. Zní to jednoduše, ale ve skutečnosti je obchodnická mysl zcela odlišná od všeho, s čím se setkáváme v běžném životě. A právě tato kniha vás naučí obchodnickou mysl vytrénovat.
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Gilda cannot stop thinking about death. Desperate for relief from her anxious mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local church and finds herself abruptly hired to replace the deceased receptionist Grace. It's not the most obvious job - she's queer and an atheist for starters - and so in between trying to learn mass, hiding her new maybe-girlfriend and conducting an amateur investigation into Grace's death, Gilda must avoid revealing the truth of her mortifying existence.
A blend of warmth, deadpan humour, and pitch-perfect observations about the human condition, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is a crackling exploration of what it takes to stay afloat in a world where your expiration - and the expiration of those you love - is the only certainty.
The Woman in Me
The Woman in Meis a brave andastonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.
In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharingher voiceher truthwas undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time herincredible journeyand the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history.
Written with remarkable candorand humor, Spears's groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and loveand theimportance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Architecture & Morality (40th Anniversary: The Singles Edition) CD
Tracklist:
1 Souvenir
2 Motion & Heart (Amazon Version)
3 Sacred Heart
4 Souvenir (Demo)
5 Choir Song (Rough Mix)
6 Motion & Heart (Live at Drury Lane, 1981)
7 Joan Of Arc
8 The Romance Of The Telescope (Unfinished)
9 Joan Of Arc (Live at Drury Lane, 1981)
10 Joan Of Arc (Rough Mix)
11 New Song (Georgia Demo)
12 She's Leaving (Demo)
13 Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc)
14 Navigation
15 Sealand (Demo)
16 Submarines
17 Maid of Orleans (Demo)
18 Joan Of Arc (Maid of Orleans) (Live at Drury Lane, 1981)
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Motionless In White - Scoring The End Of The World (Deluxe Edition) CD
„Motionless In White“ je americká metalcorová skupina zo Scrantonu v Pensylvánii. Založená bola v roku 2004 na strednej škole Chrisom Cerullim, Angelom Parentom, Frankom Polumbom a Mikom Costanzom. Sú známi hlavne svojimi temnými hororovými textami a vystupovaním, ktoré súvisia s ich gotickým imidžom. "Motionless In White" sa 10. júna vracajú s veľmi očakávaným novým štúdiovým albumom s názvom „Scoring The end of the world“ prostredníctvom Roadrunner Records. „Scoring The End of the World“ plne zahŕňa šírku dynamickej, hlbokej a temnej vízie kapely a prichádza po „Disguise“ z roku 2019. Špeciálna deluxe edícia albumu "Scoring The End Of The World"obsahuje štyri nové bonusové skladby: „Hollow Points“, „Fool's Gold“, „Timebomb“ (STEOTW Mix) a „Porcelain: Ricky Motion Picture Collection“. a bude k dispozícis exkluzívnym alternatívnym obalom.
Tracklist:
01. Meltdown
02. Sign Of Life
03. Werewolf
04. Porcelain
05. Slaughterhouse (Feat. Bryan Garris)
06. Masterpiece
07. Cause Of Death
08. We Become The Night
09. Burned At Both Ends II
10. BFBTG: Corpse Nation
11. Cyberhex
12. Red White & Boom (Feat. Caleb Shomo)
13. Scoring The End Of The World (Feat. Mick Gordon)
14. Hollow Points
15. Fool’s Gold
16. Timebomb (STEOTW Mix)
17. Porcelain: Ricky Motion Picture Collection
Zayn - Room Under The Stairs CD
Zain Javadd Malik (narodený 12. januára 1993) je britský spevák. Zayn sa v roku 2010 zúčastnil konkurzu ako sólový súťažiaci v televíznom seriáli britskej hudobnej súťaže The X Factor. Po vypadnutí ho priviedli späť do súťaže, aby založil päťčlennú chlapčenskú skupinu One Direction, ktorá sa stala jednou z najlepších. - predaj chlapčenských kapiel všetkých čias. Zo skupiny odišiel v marci 2015 a podpísal zmluvu na sólové nahrávanie s RCA Records. Štvrtý štúdiový album nesie názov Room Under The Stairs a spevák sľubuje, že pôjde o doposiaľ najosobnejšiu nahrávku plnú reflexie jeho súčasného života, ktorú dával dohromady posledných šesť rokov. Spolu s ním produkoval album Dave Cobb, známy americký producent a mnohonásobný držiteľ GRAMMY, ktorý má výraznú zásluhu aj na úspechu filmu Zrodila sa hviezda.
Tracklist:
01. "Dreamin"
02. "What I Am"
03. "Grateful"
04. "Alienated"
05. "My Woman"
06. "How It Feels"
07. "Stardust"
08. "Gates of Hell"
09. "Birds on a Cloud"
10. "Concrete Kisses"
11. "False Starts"
12. "The Time"
13. "Something in the Water"
14. "Shoot at Will"
15. "Fuchsia Sea"
The Room Where It Happened - A White House Memoir
As President Trump's National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves.
The result is a White House memoir that is the most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration, and one of the few to date by a top-level official. With almost daily access to the President, John Bolton has produced a precise rendering of his days in and around the Oval Office. What Bolton saw astonished him: a President for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation. "I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn't driven by reelection calculations," he writes. In fact, he argues that the House committed impeachment malpractice by keeping their prosecution focused narrowly on Ukraine when Trump's Ukraine-like transgressions existed across the full range of his foreign policy-and Bolton documents exactly what those were, and attempts by him and others in the Administration to raise alarms about them.
He shows a President addicted to chaos, who embraced our enemies and spurned our friends, and was deeply suspicious of his own government. In Bolton's telling, all this helped put Trump on the bizarre road to impeachment. "The differences between this presidency and previous ones I had served were stunning," writes Bolton, who worked for Reagan, Bush 41, and Bush 43. He discovered a President who thought foreign policy is like closing a real estate deal-about personal relationships, made-for-TV showmanship, and advancing his own interests. As a result, the US lost an opportunity to confront its deepening threats, and in cases like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea ended up in a more vulnerable place.
Bolton's account starts with his long march to the West Wing as Trump and others woo him for the National Security job. The minute he lands, he has to deal with Syria's chemical attack on the city of Douma, and the crises after that never stop. As he writes in the opening pages, "If you don't like turmoil, uncertainty, and risk-all the while being constantly overwhelmed with information, decisions to be made, and sheer amount of work-and enlivened by international and domestic personality and ego conflicts beyond description, try something else."
The turmoil, conflicts, and egos are all there-from the upheaval in Venezuela, to the erratic and manipulative moves of North Korea's Kim Jong Un, to the showdowns at the G7 summits, the calculated warmongering by Iran, the crazy plan to bring the Taliban to Camp David, and the placating of an authoritarian China that ultimately exposed the world to its lethal lies. But this seasoned public servant also has a great eye for the Washington inside game, and his story is full of wit and wry humor about how he saw it played.
Lacná kniha Príbeh hradu Bratislava - The Story of The Castle in Bratislava (-50%)
Príbeh hradu Bratislava prezentuje národnú kultúrnu pamiatku Bratislavský hrad ako významnú súčasť kultúrno-historického dedičstva Slovenska.
Je vhodná pre čitateľa každej vekovej kategórie, je napísaná pútavo, zrozumiteľne, plná krásnych fotografií
, strašidelných príbehov a povestí. Dejiny Bratislavského hradu sú v nej podané netradičnou formou. Čitateľ sa nenútene dozvedá základné historické fakty, ale aj príbehy o ľuďoch, ktorí v hrade žili, milovali sa, nenávideli, zomreli. Texty dopĺňa via
c ako 100 súčasných fotografií rôznych autorov, dobových grafík, obrazov, listín, vedút a máp Bratislavského hradu z verejných aj súkromných archívov.
Kniha je v súčasnosti jedinou publikáciou o Bratislavskom hrade a je unikátna aj preto, lebo hrad
sa momentálne pripravuje do rekonštrukcie. Je vynikajúcim darčekom pri rôznych spoločenských príležitostiach.
Contents
A representative illustrated book "The Story of the Castle in Bratislava" presents the national cultural monument, Bratislava Cast
le, as an important part of Slovakias cultural and historical heritage.
The book is designed for readers of each age; it is written grippingly, comprehensibly, full of wonderful photographs, scary stories and legends. The history of Bratislava Cast
le is presented in non-traditional way. The reader can informally learn basic and historical facts, but also stories of people that lived, loved, hated, and died in the castle. The textual part is complemented by more than 100 modern photographs of v
arious authors, period graphics, paintings, deeds, vedutas and maps of Bratislava Castle from public and private archives.
The book is currently the only publication about Bratislava Castle and is also unique, because nowadays the castle is being pre
pared for reconstruction. The book can be a lovely gift on various social occasions.
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Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Would you share your deepest secrets to save a friend?
In a tranquil neighbourhood of Tokyo, seven teenagers wake to find their bedroom mirrors are shining.
At a single touch, they are pulled from their lonely lives to a wondrous castle filled with winding stairways, watchful portraits and twinkling chandeliers. In this new sanctuary, they are confronted with a set of clues leading to a hidden room where one of them will be granted a wish. But there's a catch: if they don't leave the castle by five o'clock, they will be punished.
As time passes, a devastating truth emerges: only those brave enough to share their stories will be saved.
Tender, playful, gripping, LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR is a mesmerizing tale about the importance of reaching out, confronting anxiety and embracing human connection.