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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.
Svědectví
Když se za Fredovou na konci Příběhu služebnice zabouchly dveře dodávky, neměli čtenáři ani ponětí, zda ji čeká svoboda, vězení, nebo smrt. Ale kdo si počkal, ten se po pětatřiceti letech napětí dočkal Svědectví.
Margaret Atwoodová pokračuje v příběhu Gileádu více než patnáct let poté, co June zmizela neznámo kde, a rozvíjí ho ve zdrcujících výpovědích tří ženských hrdinek, které mají s tímto režimem co do činění, byť každá v jiné roli. Ne náhodou získala věhlasná autorka za své čím dál aktuálnější dílo v němž se sžíravá, bezelstná a neohrožená kritika totality splétají v účinný nástroj prestižní Bookerovu cenu.
Milí čtenáři: K napsání této knihy mě inspirovalo všechno, na co jste se mě kdy ptali ohledně Gileádu a jeho mašinerie. Tedy téměř všechno. Dalším zdrojem inspirace je svět, v němž žijeme. - Margaret Atwoodová
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The Handmaid's Tale
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has 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.
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The Handmaid's Tale And The Testaments Box Set
A box set of Margaret Atwood's bestselling companioned novels, The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments.
In The Handmaid's Tale, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War and the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead's Commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive.
In The Testaments, set more than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, The Republic of Gilead maintains its repressive grip on power, but it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women come together, with potentially explosive results. This beautifully designed slipcase will make the perfect holiday and perennial gift.
The Handmaid's Tale
Provocative, startling, prophetic, and more relevant than ever, The Handmaid's Tale has become a global phenomenon. Now, in this stunning graphic novel edition of Margaret Atwood's modern classic, the terrifying reality of Gilead is brought to vivid life like never before.
"Everything Handmaids wear is red: the colour of blood, which defines us." Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, ecause in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if they are fertile. But Offred remembers the years before Gilead, when she was an independent woman who had a job, a family, and a name of her own. Now, her memories and her will to survive are acts of rebellion.
The Handmaid's Tale and its iconic images - the red of the Handmaids, the blue of the Wives, the looming Gileadean Eye - have been adapted into a film, an opera, a ballet, and multi-award-winning TV series. This groundbreaking new graphic novel edition, adapted and featuring arresting artwork by Renee Nault, is destined to become a classic in its own right.
The Handmaid's Tale
'It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge'. Offred is a Handmaid. She has only one function: to breed. If she refuses to play her part she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. She may walk daily to the market and utter demure words to other Handmaid's, but her role is fixed, her freedom a forgotten concept. Offred remembers her old life - love, family, a job, access to the news. It has all been taken away. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire. Includes exclusive content: In The 'Backstory' you can read Margaret Atwood's account of how she came to write this landmark dystopian novel. "Compulsively readable". (Daily Telegraph).
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The Art and Making of The Handmaid's Tale
Explore the terrifying world of Gilead with this behind-the-scenes look at the Emmy award-winning show The Handmaid's Tale.
The hotly anticipated debut of The Handmaid's Tale-Hulu's groundbreaking show based on Margaret Atwood's best-selling novel-drew a wide audience and rave reviews. Now, this comprehensive book details the process of bringing the story to the small screen with exclusive cast and crew interviews, backstage and set photography, concept art, costume design, and more.
Dive deep into the world of the show's dystopian future as interviews with the show's cast and creators provide insight into the inspiration behind the characters, settings, and themes, as well as it's parallels to the real-world political climate. Showcasing striking visuals and insightful commentary, The Making of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale is the definitive exploration of one of television's most critically acclaimed shows.
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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.
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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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 Handmaids Tale
#1New York Timesbestseller
Look for The Testaments,the sequel toThe Handmaid's Tale, available now.
An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from ';the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction' (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss.
In Margaret Atwood's dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women.
Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead's commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. At once a scathing satire, an ominous warning, and a tour de force of narrative suspense, The Handmaid's Tale is a modern classic.
Includes an introduction by Margaret Atwood
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The Cocktail Balance
Kniha The Cocktail Balance je návodom, ako robiť na Slovensku kvalitné barmanstvo. Barmanská kniha nielen pre skúsených barmanov a barmanky, milovníkov barovej kultúry, ale aj študentov a študentky odborných škôl, ktorá posunie hranice Vašej kreativity od základov. Je to kniha, ktorá je poctou slovenskému barmanstvu. Podstata knihy je v tom, aby ste si z nej vzali čokoľvek, čo potrebujete a zaujme vás.
Je pre všetkých, ktorí sa chcú naučiť niečo nové, inšpirovať a posúvať hranice, pretože len keď rastieme ako jednotlivci, potom rastú aj ľudia a veci okolo nás, kde následne rastieme všetci spolu.
Kniha The Cocktail Balance je rozdelená na 3 základné časti – teoretickú, praktickú a odkazy od najlepších slovenských barmanov.
Teoretická časť obsahuje základy profesionálneho prístupu v jednotlivých kapitolách, ako sa prezentovať a ako sa starať o svojich hostí. Dozviete sa tiež proces cenotvorby cocktailu, efektívne metódy využiteľné na spracovanie kreatívnych myšlienok a v kapitole venovanej gastrofyzike a neurogastronómii to, ako môže vôňa, dotyk, zvuk a vizuál ovplyvniť výslednú chuť cocktailu. A to všetko vytvára komplexný a nezabudnuteľný zážitok pre Vašich hostí.
V knihe tiež nájdete definície 20 moderných ingrediencií, s ktorými autor pracuje pri tvorbe cocktailov – čerešne, zázvor, fialová mrkva či malinové listy. Cocktailová časť je rozdelená na 20 Twisted Classics drinkov, kde autor zdôrazňuje dôležitosť ovládať základy a poznať tie najznámejšie svetové klasiky, ktoré sú dodnes základom aj pre mnoho moderných adaptácii a zároveň 20 autorových Signature drinkov. Nechýba barové náradie, technológie, techniky príprav a prečítate si aj o práci s ľadom.
V knihe The Cocktail Balance nájdete overené procesy, ktoré fungujú a ktorými sa môžete inšpirovať autorom Stanislavom Harciníkom: “Kniha bola pôvodne iba mojim receptárom, keďže sa venujem tvorbe drinkov a baví ma práca s chuťami. Ale uvedomil som si, že mojou súčasťou nie sú len recepty, ale aj celý ten kreatívny proces a prístup, ktorý vám chcem ukázať. A je len na vás, čo si z neho vyberiete.”
“Bar, Cocktail a Hostia sú mojím životným štýlom, čo je alebo bude tým vaším?”
Doors, The - Very Best Of The Doors CD
Tracklist:
1 - Break on Through
2 - Light My Fire
3 - Love Me Two Times
4 - Hello I Love You
5 - People Are Strange
6 - Strange Days
7 - Riders On The Storm
8 - L.A. Woman
9 - Touch Me
10 - Roadhouse Blues
11 - Peace Frog
12 - Love Street
13 - The Crystal Ship
14 - Soul Kitchen
15 - Love Her Madly
16 - Back Door Man
17 - Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
18 - Moonlight Drive
19 - The Unknown Soldier
20 - The End (Version From The Film Apocalypse Now)
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 Wolf-Girl, the Greeks and the Gods: a Tale of the Persian Wars
Myth meets history in a blockbuster retelling of the Persian Wars from multi-award-winning author of Rubicon and Persian Fire Tom Holland, lavishly illustrated by Jason Cockcroft.
"The Persians are coming…" Hearing these words, Gorgo of Sparta is plunged into a dangerous world of vengeful gods and invincible heroes. For a mighty empire threatens Athens, Sparta and all who stand in its path... Calling on the ancient power to transform into a wolf and the blood of Zeus that runs through her veins, Gorgo must lead her nation in one of history's greatest wars. Multi-award-winning author Tom Holland and acclaimed illustrator Jason Cockcroft boldly weave myth and history in this dramatic tale of Greeks and Gods.
Gripping and powerful, this extraordinary illustrated novel will be treasured by readers young and old. Ideal for fans of Percy Jackson, Neil Gaiman and Kevin Crossley-Holland, and the mythical retellings of Madeline Miller, Pat Barker and Stephen Fry, this is a book to be read again and again.
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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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: The Animated Story
A journey, in search of home
Charlie Mackesy's beloved The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse has been adapted into an animated short film, coming to BBC One and iPlayer this Christmas.
This beautifully made hardback celebrates the work of over 100 animators across two years of production - with Charlie's distinctive illustrations brought to life in full colour with hand-drawn traditional animation and accompanying hand-written script.
"I made a film with some friends about a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse - their journey together and the boy's search for home. I hope this book gives you courage and makes you feel loved." Love Charlie x
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The author of the hit parody The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadfully Teddy draws on the simple, idyllic world of Beatrix Potter to shed light on some of the most pertinent issues of our time.
Beatrix, a refined and gentle lady, decides to relocate to the countryside to escape the chaotic city and exorbitant house prices of London, in search of a simpler, more holistic life. Looking forward to painting cute rural animals and writing stories about their charming ways, she desires nothing more than to surround herself with nature and to practice mindfulness and kindness. But after months spent in isolation during ‘hibernation’, all the local wildlife emerge grumpy, sweary and having forgotten all their social skills – Jemima Puddleduck has even been cancelled. Will Beatrix’s new small garden and spare room make all this aggro worth it?