beneath the earth john boyne

In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality. The secrets we keep and the ways in which they shape us, the impossibility of shared loss, the lengths we will go to in order to protect our families and the distance we will run to protect ourselves.Drawing on a host of enthralling characters â “ a farmer, a cuckold and a teenager exploring his sexuality; good parents, bad parents, writers and soldiers; a student, a rent boy and a hitman â “ Boyne examines the hopeful and the damaged without prejudice or judgement. This, his first collection of short stories, is some of John Boyneâ ™s finest writing to date. It includes â ˜Rest Dayâ ™ which won the 2015 Writing.ie Short Story of the Year award in Ireland.

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An epic.... Impactful and provocative The New York Times An almost note-perfect piece of first-person storytelling Guardian Subtle, intelligent and humane Sunday Telegraph____________John Boyne s acclaimed quartet of Water, Earth, Fire and Air come together at last.Human life is governed by the elements water, earth, fire and air. They are fundamental to our existence. They sustain us, but they also challenge us.In The Elements, John Boyne has created a vivid kaleidoscope to reflect that contradiction: a quartet of intertwined narratives, each providing a different perspective on cause and effect from the points of view of the enabler, the accomplice, the perpetrator and the victim.From a mother on the run from her past, to a young football star on trial, a successful surgeon grappling with childhood trauma, and finally a father on a transformative journey with his son, the four strands weave together to form a tapestry of intersecting lives.Boyne s most ambitious work yet, The Elements is both an engrossing drama and a moving examination of the fault lines inherent to human experience. In crisp, spellbinding prose, he navigates a complex subject with extraordinary empathy and unflinching honesty, at every step challenging us to confront our own perceptions of who we are and what made us that way.

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â ˜An epic.... Impactful and provocativeâ ™ The New York Timesâ ˜An almost note-perfect piece of first-person storytellingâ ™ Guardianâ ˜Subtle, intelligent and humaneâ ™ Sunday Telegraph____________John Boyne s acclaimed quartet of Water, Earth, Fire and Air come together at last. Human life is governed by the elements â “ water, earth, fire and air. They are fundamental to our existence. They sustain us, but they also challenge us. In The Elements, John Boyne has created a vivid kaleidoscope to reflect that contradiction: a quartet of intertwined narratives, each providing a different perspective on cause and effect from the points of view of the enabler, the accomplice, the perpetrator and the victim. From a mother on the run from her past, to a young football star on trial, a successful surgeon grappling with childhood trauma, and finally a father on a transformative journey with his son, the four strands weave together to form a tapestry of intersecting lives. Boyneâ ™s most ambitious work yet, The Elements is both an engrossing drama and a moving examination of the fault lines inherent to human experience. In crisp, spellbinding prose, he navigates a complex subject with extraordinary empathy and unflinching honesty, at every step challenging us to confront our own perceptions of who we are and what made us that way.

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An affectionately illustrated bedtime story with witty wordplay that will also make grown-up readers smile â “ The TimesThere once was a boy called Jeremy GraceWho had a remarkable interest in space.He was quiet and shy, very often alone,Just him and his dog, spending time on their own.Jeremy dreams of journeying through space, but nobody believes in him . . . Nobody, that is, but Maxwell, his incredible dancing dog who encourages him to reach for the stars. The pair embark on an out-of-this-world adventure - but when they are faced with an incoming comet catastrophe, it takes bravery, daring and a little bit of dancing to save the day.Heartwarming and inspirational with a touch of magic, this read-aloud rhyming picture-book story encourages children to follow their dreams.This is the picture book debut from John Boyne, the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. The illustrations are by award-winning rising star Ashling Lindsay.John Boyne, The Bookseller bestseller, May 2024

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From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man whose direction in life takes a vastly different turn than what he expected. It’s the tabloid sensation of the year: two well-known footballers standing in the dock, charged with sexual assault, a series of vile text messages pointing towards their guilt. As the trial unfolds, Evan Keogh reflects on the events that have led him to this moment.Since leaving his island home, his life has been a lie on many levels. He’s a talented footballer who wanted to be an artist. A gay man in a sport that rejects diversity.A defendant whose knowledge of what took place on that fateful night threatens more than just his freedom or career. The jury will deliver a verdict but, before they do, Evan must judge for himself whether the man he has become is the man he wanted to be.

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At the start of his school holidays, Danny Delaney is looking forward to a trouble-free summer. But when his mother returns home one afternoon, flanked by two policemen, he knows that something terrible has happened.Mrs Delaney has accidentally hit a small boy with her car. The boy is in a coma at the local hospital and nobody knows if he will ever wake up.Consumed by guilt, Danny s mother closes herself off, while Danny and his father are left to pick up the pieces of their fractured family.Told in John Boyne s unique style from the point of view of a twelve-year-old boy, The Dare is a brilliantly compelling story about how one moment can change a family forever.

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Pickpocket John Jacob Turnstile is on his way to be detained at His Majesty s Pleasure when he is offered a lifeline, what seems like a freedom of sorts - the job of personal valet to a departing naval captain. Little does he realise that it is anything but - and by accepting the devil s bargain he will put his life in perilous danger. For the ship is HMS Bounty, his new captain William Bligh and their destination Tahiti.From the moment the ship leaves port, Turnstile s life is turned upside down, for not only must he put his own demons to rest, but he must also confront the many adversaries he will encounter on the Bounty s extraordinary last voyage. Walking a dangerous line between an unhappy crew and a captain he comes to admire, he finds himself in a no-man s land where the distinction between friend and foe is increasingly difficult to determine...

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When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler. Quickly, Pierrot is taken under Hitler s wing, and is thrown into an increasingly dangerous new world: a world of terror, secrets and betrayal, from which he may never be able to escape.

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A psychological drama of cat and mouse, A Ladder to the Sky shows how easy it is to achieve the world if you are prepared to sacrifice your soul. If you look hard enough, you can find stories pretty much anywhere. They don’t even have to be your own. Or so would-be writer Maurice Swift decides very early on in his career. A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann gives him an opportunity to ingratiate himself with someone more powerful than him. For Erich is lonely, and he has a story to tell. Whether or not he should do so is another matter entirely. Once Maurice has made his name, he sets off in pursuit of other people’s stories. He doesn’t care where he finds them – or to whom they belong – as long as they help him rise to the top. Stories will make him famous but they will also make him beg, borrow and steal. They may even make him do worse.

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***FEATURED ON BBC 2 s BETWEEN THE COVERS WITH SARA COX***The Faber Book of Reportage is John Carey s remarkable collection of eyewitness accounts that draws on the voices and emotions of the people who experienced some of history s most memorable events. Stunning . . . There are descriptions in this book so fresh that they sear themselves into the imagination. JEREMY PAXMAN Fascinating - thereâ ™s funny stuff, interesting stuff, loads of brilliant stuff really. JO BRAND (on BBC 2 s Between the Covers)What was it like to be caught in the firestorm that destroyed Pompeii? To have dinner with Attila the Hun? To watch the charge of the Light Brigade? To see the Titanic slide beneath the waves? John Carey s best-selling Faber Book of Reportage draws its eyewitness account from memoirs, travel books and newspapers. This is history with the varnish removed.

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Get ready to explore our planet in this gorgeously illustrated book, perfect for curious kids. Lift the giant flaps to discover what lies beneath the Earth s surface, how volcanoes work, why it rains and more amazing facts about the world.This book is perfect curious early learners who love nature. With lift-the-flaps throughout, the interactive elements are perfect for keeping youngsters engaged while learning.

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A glorious fantasy, set in that most imaginary of cities, New York Neil Gaiman on THE CITY WE BECAME The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of her generation. . .Jemisin seems able to do just about everything NEW YORK TIMES Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLYFive New Yorkers must band together to defend their city in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She s got five.But every city also has a dark side. A roiling, ancient evil stirs beneath the earth, threatening to destroy the city and her five protectors unless they can come together and stop it once and for all. The most critically acclaimed author in contemporary science fiction and fantasy GQ N. K. Jemisin is a powerhouse of speculative fiction BUSTLE***Winner of Best Fantasy at the Audie Awards******Winner of the BSFA Award for Best Novel******Shortlisted for the Hugo Awards******Nominated for the Nebula Awards***Also by N. K. Jemisin:The Inheritance trilogyThe Hundred Thousand KingdomsThe Broken KingdomsThe Kingdom of GodsThe Dreamblood DuologyThe Killing MoonThe Shadowed Sun

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In the English town of Ennistone, hot springs bubble up from deep beneath the earth. In these healing waters the townspeople seek health and regeneration, rightousness and ritual cleansing. To this town steeped in ancient lore and subterranean inspiration the Philosopher returns. He exerts an almost magical influence over a host of Ennistonians, and especially over George McCaffrey, the Philosopher s old pupil, a demonic man desperate for redemption.

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A darkly dystopian world full of eerie folklore, in which illnessand difference have been prohibited. But from deep beneath the earth,a rebellion is rising... Perfect for fans of Never LetMe Go and The Luminaries.

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Discover an extraordinary tale of innocence, friendship and the horrors of war. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone Nine-year-old Bruno has a lot of things on his mind. Who is the Fury ? Why did he make them leave their nice home in Berlin to go to Out-With ? And who are all the sad people in striped pyjamas on the other side of the fence? The grown-ups won t explain so Bruno decides there is only one thing for it - he will have to explore this place alone. What he discovers is a new friend. A boy with the very same birthday. A boy in striped pyjamas. But why can t they ever play together?â ˜A small wonder of a bookâ ™ Guardian BACKSTORY: Read an interview with the author JOHN BOYNE and learn all about the Second World War in Germany.

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His relish is infectious Times The funniest book I ve read in ages. Savage but compelling Ian Rankin Funny, rumbustious, unstinting and wonderfully Hogarthian The Observer Sharp, funny, and beautifully written... a brilliant reflection on the landscape we now live in Joanna Cannon_______________What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept. The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a national treasure (his words), his wife Beverley, a celebrated novelist (although not as celebrated as she would like), and their children, Nelson, Elizabeth, Achilles, various degrees of catastrophe waiting to happen. Together they will go on a journey of discovery through the Hogarthian jungle of the modern living where past presumptions count for nothing and carefully curated reputations can be destroyed in an instant. Along the way they will learn how volatile, how outraged, how unforgiving the world can be when you step from the proscribed path. Powered by John Boyne s characteristic humour and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity and oblivion. To err is maybe to be human but to really foul things up you only need a phone.

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Some stories are universal. They play out across human history. And time is the river which will flow through them.It starts with a family, a family which will mutate. For now, it is a father, mother and two sons. One with his fatherâ ™s violence in his blood. One who lives his motherâ ™s artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will change their fate. It is a beginning.Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand years â “ they will meet again and again at different times and in different places. From distant Palestine at the dawn of the first millennium to a life amongst the stars in the third. While the world will change around them, their destinies will remain the same. It must play out as foretold. It is written.A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom is the extraordinary new novel from acclaimed writer John Boyne. Ambitious, far-reaching and mythic, it introduces a group of characters whose lives we will come to know and will follow through time and space until they reach their natural conclusion.

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Simply written and highly memorable Ireland on Sunday A subtle, calculatedly simple and ultimately moving story Irish Times Stays ahead of its readers before delivering its killer-punch final pages Independent A small wonder of a book . . . A particular historical moment, one that cannot be told too often Guardian An extraordinary tale of friendship and the horrors of war...Raw literary talent at its best Irish Independent______________What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil?Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country.All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas.Bruno s friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation.And in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process.The new novel by John Boyne, WATER, is available for pre-order now.

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An exhilarating read Spectatorâ ˜Unsettling and utterly compellingâ ™ Woman and Homeâ ˜incredibly well-writtenâ ™ Good Housekeeping Hypnotically clean, clear prose... powerful and memorable Irish Times You will hurtle through the book, because it is such a compelling story Irish Examiner______From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a challenging and visceral narrative that asks the question: can one cataclysmic moment turn someone into a monster?On the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the trappings of wealth and privilege, a responsible job as a surgeon specialising in skin grafts, a beautiful flat in a sought-after development, and a flash car. But it wasnâ ™t always like this. Hers is a life founded on darkness.Did what happened to Freya as a child one fateful summer influence the adult she would become â “ or was she always destined to be that person? Was she born with cruelty in her heart or did something force it into being?In Fire, John Boyne takes the reader on a chilling, uncomfortable but utterly compelling psychological journey to the epicentre of the human condition, asking the age-old question: nurture â “ or nature?______Praise for John Boyne One of the greatest craftsmen in contemporary literature Colum McCann Among the world s greatest storytellers Donal Ryan One of the most assured novelists of his generation ObserverIrish Times bestseller, May 2024

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Bruno doesn t like his new house. He had to leave all his friends behind in Berlin, and there are no children to play with here - until Bruno meets Shmuel, a boy who lives on the other side of the wire fence near Bruno s house, and who wears a strange uniform of striped pyjamas.A stunning anniversary edition of John Boyne s powerful classic bestseller, with illustrations from award-winning artist Oliver Jeffers.

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A deeply moving and thought-provoking stage play based on the best-selling novel by John Boyne.

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Audiokniha: Něco v ní kdysi zemřelo. Teď všechno spálí na prach...Na první pohled žije Freya pohádkový život, v němž platí pouze její vlastní pravidla. Má všechno, co patří k privilegovanému postavení: dostatek peněz, pověst uznávané chiruržky popáleninového centra, okázalý byt po známém fotbalistovi v prestižní čtvrti a luxusní auto. Ale vždy tomu tak nebylo. Současné idyle předcházela temná minulost. Ovlivnilo to, co se jí v dětství jednoho osudného léta přihodilo, dospělou ženu, jíž se stala? Nebo byla vždy předurčena stát se tím, kým dnes je? Skrývala se v jejím srdci krutost už od narození, či se tam násilně uhnízdila teprve později?Ve třetí části své tetralogie bere John Boyne čtenáře na mrazivou, ale naprosto fascinující psychologickou výpravu do epicentra lidské existence a klade si odvěkou otázku: formují nás geny, nebo výchova?Vychází v koedici s Nakladatelstvím Slovart.„Silné čtení, hypnoticky čistá a jasná próza. Freya Petrusová je dostatečně monstrózní a evokativní, aby vtrhla do vašich snů.“ – Irish Times„Boyne ztvárňuje Freyin hlas s takovou autenticitou, že působí jako důvěrnice šeptající vám do ucha. Její tón – místy ostrý a vtipný, jindy bolestně introspektivní – vás udrží v napětí a zároveň zpochybňuje vaše vnímání.“ – Newbooks Playground„Jsem ohromená. Tohle je pro mě nejznepokojivější a nejtemnější kniha ze série Živly.“ – Angela M., Goodreads„Boyne posouvá hranice společenských očekávání, pokud jde o hrůzné osobní tragédie a tresty, a zpochybňuje naše myšlení.“ – Stephen the Bookworm, Goodreads

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From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a contemplative story about one man trying to move forward from the trauma of his youth to become a better father to his son. Being in limbo, 30,000 feet in the air, offers time to reflect and take stock. For Aaron Umber, it’s an opportunity to connect with his 14-year-old son as they travel halfway across the world to meet a woman who isn’t expecting them.Unsettled by his past, and anxious for his future, Aaron is at a crossroads in life. The damage inflicted upon him during his youth has made him the man he is, but now threatens to widen the growing fissures between him and his only child. This trip could bind them closer together, or tear them further apart.In this penetrating examination of action and consequence, fault and attribution, acceptance and resolution, John Boyne gives us a redemptive story of a father and a son on a moving journey to mend their troubled lives.

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Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends.Forty years later, Odranâ ™s devotion has been challenged by the revelations that have shattered the Irish peopleâ ™s faith in the church. He has seen friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed and has become nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insulting remarks.But when a family tragedy opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within a once respected institution and recognise his own complicity in their propagation.It has taken John Boyne fifteen years and twelve novels to write about his home country of Ireland but he has done so now in his most powerful novel to date, a novel about blind dogma and moral courage, and about the dark places where the two can meet. At once courageous and intensely personal, A History of Loneliness confirms Boyne as one of the most searching chroniclers of his generation.

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â ˜A perceptive, moving exploration of guilt, grief and complicityâ ™ Sunday Expressâ ˜Boyne does not put a foot wrong in this masterly novellaâ ™ Mail on Sunday An intriguing investigation of contemporary trauma... [a] short but powerful book Guardian His quietest novel... but one just as powerful as his larger canvases Business Post___________From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne comes a masterfully reflective story about one woman coming to terms with the demons of her past and finding a new path forward.The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past.But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she has some questions of her own to answer. If her ex-husband is really the monster everyone says he is, then how complicit was she in his crimes?Escaping her old life might seem like a good idea but the choices she has made throughout her marriage have consequences. Here, on the island, Vanessa must reflect on what she did - and did not do. Only then can she discover whether she is worthy of finding peace at all.Can you ever truly wash away your past?__________What readers are saying: A scorching, devastating tale Powerful, challenging and beautifully writtenâ ™ Compelling, propulsive, and completely immersiveâ ™ Written with the same emotional intensity and thought provoking honesty as his longer worksâ ™

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Cyril Avery není pravý Avery - alespoň mu to tak říkají jeho adoptivní rodiče. Ale když není pravý Avery, kdo ve skutečnosti je? Narodil se jako nemanželské dítě mladistvé dívce zavržené její venkovskou irskou komunitou a byl adoptován zámožným dublinským párem prostřednictvím hrbaté redemptoristické jeptišky. Cyril je vržený do světa, a drží ho jen křehké pouto jeho vřelého vztahu k okouzlujícímu a nebezpečnému Julianu Woodbeadovi. Vydán na pospas milosrdenství osudu a náhodám, prochází životem ve snaze poznat sám sebe a svůj původ - a po celá léta bojuje o svou identitu, domov, vlast a o mnoho dalšího. V tomto transcendentním díle nám John Boyne předkládá příběh Irska od 40. let dodnes očima obyčejného muže. Je to román, který rozesměje i rozpláče a připomene všem sílu lidského ducha.Vítěz ceny The Glass Bell Award, román roku.

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Kompletní vydání bestsellerů Chlapec v pruhovaném pyžamu a Chlapec na vrcholu hory. Brunovi se nechce opouštět pokojíček, školu a kamarády v Berlíně a stěhovat se do nového, osamělého a ponurého domu v tajemném místě jménem Aušic. Jenomže Fíra, nadřízený Brunova tatínka, tak rozhodl a devítileté děti do podobných záležitostí nemají co mluvit. S kým si tady ale Bruno bude hrát? Z okna vidí jen vysoký plot a za ním! A pak se jednoho dne seznámí se stejně velkým Šmuelem, chlapcem v pruhovaném pyžamu… Na úspěch bestselleru CHLAPEC V PRUHOVANÉM PYŽAMU, který se stal předlohou oblíbeného filmu, navázal irský autor John Boyne další dětskou prózou pojednávající o holocaustu CHLAPEC NA VRCHOLU HORY. Malý Pařížan Pierrot žije na vrcholu hory, kde v tajemném domě pracuje jeho teta jako hospodyně. Píše se rok 1935 a dům, ve kterém pracuje se jmenuje Berghof, horské sídlo Adolfa Hitlera. Vůdce si vezme Pierrota pod svá ochranná křídla a uvrhne ho do nebezpečného světa moci a tajemství… Je otázkou, zda si i Pierrot uchová svou nevinnost, stejně jako Bruno, hrdina známější knihy Johna Boyna.

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Uznávaný irský spisovatel John Boyne představuje v ambiciózním mytickém vyprávění Poutník u bran moudrosti skupinu postav, jejichž životy budeme sledovat v čase i prostoru, dokud se jejich osudy nenaplní. Nejprve to vypadá jako obyčejný příběh jedné rodiny: matka, otec a jejich dva synové, z nichž jeden je agresivní po otci a druhý spíš citlivý po matce. Jeden odejde, druhý zůstane. Jenže budou se znovu a znovu potkávat v různých dobách a na různých místech, počínaje Palestinou prvního tisíciletí a konče současnou Amerikou. Svět kolem se bude proměňovat, jejich osud bude pořád stejný. Dokud nezažijí skutečnou proměnu

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Skvěle napsaná kniha Komnata ozvěn (The Echo Chamber) bez servítek a neuvěřitelně zábavným způsobem nastavuje zrcadlo dnešní době, především vlivu médií a sociálních sítí na život společnosti, kde může jediný příspěvek odeslaný z mobilního telefonu na Twitter či Instagram převrátit naruby život jedinci i celé jeho rodině, tak jak se to stalo hrdinům románu, rodině Cleverlyových, žijící v dnešním Londýně. Na jejich příběhu John Boyne ukazuje, jak se tak skvělá věcička jako mobilní telefon, neboli 180 gramů kovu, skla a plastu, může stát v rukou „ignorantů a „hlupáků velmi nebezpečnou zbraní. Člověk může být sebelaskavější filantrop, ale stačí pár slov utroušených v dobré víře a míněných jako podpora a svět sociálních sítí si všechno překroutí dle své vůle a učiní z dotyčného monstrum, jak na vlastní kůži poznají George Cleverley (slavný televizní moderátor u BBC), jeho manželka Beverley (spisovatelka, též slavná, ovšem nikoliv tak, jak by chtěla) a jejich tři dospělé či dospívající děti, Nelson, Elizabeth a Achilles). Během několika pouhých dnů absolvují objevnou cestu propletenou džunglí moderního života, kde minulé pravdy už neplatí a pečlivě budovaná reputace se může během okamžiku zhroutit. Na této cestě se dozví, jak nevraživým, rozezleným a neodpouštějícím se svět může stát, když člověk sejde z předepsané cesty.

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Audiokniha: Tichá voda břehy mele. Bez milosti bere, ale současně očišťuje a znovuzrozuje. Připluje na jeden z Aranských ostrovů u západního pobřeží Irska, změní si jméno a zabydlí se v prostém domku daleko od zvědavých vesničanů. Poustevničením v nejzazším cípku své vlasti se chce odstřihnout od dublinské minulosti a na důkaz toho se kajícně oholí na ježka. Třiapadesátiletá Vanessa Carvinová – nyní Willow Haleová – se sem však neuchýlila před ramenem spravedlnosti, které už zasáhlo. Uprchla sem před vědomím spoluviny, k níž soud nepřihlédl a nechal ji, ať nad sebou morální trest vynese sama. Slušně zajištěná Vanessa totiž v životě udělala jednu fatální chybu: cosi podstatného přehlédla a až sled neblahých událostí ji přinutil pochopit, že utonutí její mladší dcery nebyla náhoda... Uhrančivá studie ženy v hluboké krizi se opírá o zpověď vypravěčky s povahou nenápadné, a teď už metodické pozorovatelky. Vanessa je sama sobě vrbou a zároveň jako tichá voda podemílá vše nepevné, i kdyby to měl být sám chrám víry v takzvaně osvědčené konzervativní hodnoty. A tak se poddává přívalu vod, které Irsko omývají, neboť poznává, kolik šance na znovuzrození lze z jejich proudu načerpat. Zastánce slabých a přehlížených John Boyne prostřednictvím této rekapitulace zahajuje volnou románovou tetralogii na počest čtveřice přírodních živlů, které na jeho rodném „zeleném ostrově“ vždy zvítězí nad lidským slavomamem. Vychází v koedici s Nakladatelstvím Slovart. „Empatický, dojemný průzkum duše, která cítí spoluvinu na rodinné tragédii a mohla by se utopit v nevýslovném zármutku. Avšak vysloví-li ho, nezahyne.“ – Mail on Sunday „Méně bývá i o mnoho víc, zvlášť v době, kdy se dar výmluvnosti roztekl v plytkost. Čteme autorův nejtišší román, výrazem málem až akvarel, a přece cítíme, že je to stejně intenzivní dílo jako Boyneova dramaticky rozmáchlá plátna.“ – The Guardian „Prozkoumám domek a usoudím, že je pro moje potřeby zcela dostačující. Fotografie, které jsem si prohlížela online, nelhaly, co se strohosti týče. Vchodové dveře vedou přímo do obýváku, ve kterém je zbudovaná kuchyň. Dále je tu ložnice s postelí pro jednoho – jak podivné bude spát zase jako dítě – a malinká koupelna bez sprchy. Kolem kohoutků na studenou a teplou vodu je navlečená nevzhledná gumová násada, kterou ihned sundám a uložím do skříňky pod umyvadlem. Střechou zřejmě nezatéká, jelikož na kamenné podlaze není ani stopa po vlhkých skvrnách po pravidelném kontaktu s vodou. Prostý, téměř klášterní duch tohoto místa mě těší. Je na hony vzdálený tomu, na co jsem zvyklá.“ – ukázka z textu

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Autor bestsellerů John Boyne přináší drsný příběh mladého muže, kterému se nepodařilo splnit si životní sen. Je to bulvární senzace roku: dva známí fotbalisté jsou obviněni ze znásilnění, ale oba svou vinu důrazně popírají, přestože je usvědčují nechutné esemesky.Mladý Ir Evan Keogh sedí na lavici obžalovaných se svým spoluhráčem Robbiem Wolvertonem, a zatímco žalobce a obhájkyně vynášejí na světlo skutečnosti týkající se případu, Evan se noří čím dál hlouběji do vzpomínek a znovu prožívá klíčové okamžiky svého života. Celou dobu v něm hlodá otázka, která se netýká rozsudku o vině či nevině. Musí sám posoudit, jestli muž, kterým se stal, je tím, kým kdysi chtěl být.

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Krásná a úspěšná Freya si užívá výhod bohatství a prestižního postavení - pracuje jako chirurgyně se specializací na kožní štěpy, žije v luxusním bytě a jezdí drahým autem.Ale Freya vybudovala svůj zdánlivě ideální život na temných základech. Ovlivňuje dospělou ženu to, co se jí přihodilo jednoho osudného léta, nebo byla už od narození předurčena k tomu stát se právě tímhle člověkem? Narodila se s krutostí v srdci, nebo jí byla vnucena?V Ohni zve John Boyne čtenáře na děsivou a uhrančivou cestu do nitra lidské podstaty, aby se pokusil zodpovědět otázku starou, jako lidstvo samo: utváří člověka dědičnost, nebo prostředí?

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From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel. Gretel Fernsby is a quiet woman leading a quiet life.She doesn t talk about her escape from Germany seventy years ago or the dark post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn t talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. But when a young family moves into the apartment below her, Gretel can t help but befriend their little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back painful memories.One night, she witnesses a violent argument between his parents, which threatens to disturb her hard-won peace. For the second time in her life, Gretel is given the chance to save a young boy. To do so would allay her guilt, grief and remorse, but it will also force her to reveal her true identity.Will she make a different choice this time, whatever the cost to herself?

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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers story comprehension and develop vocabulary.Visit the Penguin Readers websiteExclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.One day, Bruno s father gets a new job, and the family have to move from Berlin, Germany, to a new place. There is a strange camp at the end of the garden. Bruno is very unhappy and bored until he meets Shmuel. The two boys become very good friends. But why is Shmuel in the camp? And why is he wearing striped pyjamas?

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Russia, 1915: Sixteen year old farmer s son Georgy Jachmenev steps in front of an assassin s bullet intended for a senior member of the Russian Imperial Family and is instantly proclaimed a hero. Rewarded with the position of bodyguard to Alexei Romanov, the only son of Tsar Nicholas II, the course of his life is changed for ever. Privy to the secrets of Nicholas and Alexandra, the machinations of Rasputin and the events which will lead to the final collapse of the autocracy, Georgy is both a witness and participant in a drama that will echo down the century.Sixty-five years later, visiting his wife Zoya as she lies in a London hospital, memories of the life they have lived together flood his mind. And with them, the consequences of the brutal fate of the Romanovs which has hung like a shroud over every aspect of their marriage...

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There s nothing unusual or different about the Brocket family - and they re keen to keep it that way. But when Barnaby Brocket comes into the world, it s clear he s anything but ordinary. To his parentsâ ™ horror, Barnaby defies the laws of gravity - and floats. Soon, the Brockets decide enough is enough. The neighbours are starting to talk. They never asked for a weird, abnormal, floating child. Barnaby has to go . . .Betrayed and frightened, Barnaby floats into the path of a very special hot air balloon â “ and so begins a magical journey around the world, with a cast of extraordinary new friends.

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The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about.If you do start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy called Bruno. And sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence. We hope you never have to cross such a fence.

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Lines may divide us, but hope will unite us . . .Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas.Bruno s friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. And in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process.

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Leaving behind their home in Berlin, nine-year-old Bruno and his family move to a new house in a desolate area far from his friends. Bruno soon discovers that a mysterious fence runs alongside the new house, separating his family from the strange people in the striped pyjamas on the other side. A chance encounter with a young boy beyond the fence sparks an unlikely friendship that finally reveals the true horror of their situation. The Boy in theStriped Pyjamas features a detailed scheme of work including a range of inspiring activities and drama techniques, written by title consultants and leading Drama in English experts Paul Bunyan and Ruth Moore.

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William Cody grows up surrounded by his father s tales of Buffalo Bill, to whom he is distantly related, and his fantasies of the Wild West.Though he escapes his heritage by fleeing abroad and starting a new life for himself, he finds that he is always drawn back to England and to his ancestry.When his father proposes that together they should recreate Buffalo Bill s stage show, The Congress of Rough Riders of the World for a contemporary audience, William refuses to have any part of it. When tragedy strikes, however, it is to his father that he must eventually return.

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Leading spiritual teacher John Philip Newell reveals how Celtic spirituality, listening to the sacred around us and inside of us, can help to heal the earth, overcome our conflicts and reconnect with ourselves.Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul offers a new spiritual foundation for our lives, once centered on encouragement,guidance and hope for creating a better world.Sharing the long hidden tradition of Celtic Christianity, explaining how this earth-based spirituality can help us rediscover the natural rhythms of life and deepen our spiritualconnection with God, with each other and with the earth.Newell introduces some of Celtic Christianityâ ™s leading practitioners, both saints and pioneers of faith, whose timeless wisdom is more necessary than ever, including:Pelagius, who shows us how to look beyond sin to affirm our sacredness as part of all Godâ ™s creation and courageously stands up for our principles in the face of oppression.Brigid of Kildare, who illuminates the interrelationship of all things and reminds us of the power of the sacred feminine to overcome those seeking to control us.John Muir, who encourages us to see the holiness and beauty of wilderness and what we must do to protect these gifts.Teilhard de Chardin, who inspires us to see how science, faith, and our future tell one universal story that beings with sacredness.

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Audiokniha: Ať sám posoudí, zda je tím mužem, kterým chtěl být. Nebo bude znovu rýt bradou v hlíně.Utekl z téhož zapadlého ostrova, kam se přijela kát Vanessa v baladické próze Voda, ale okovy v mysli setřást nedokáže. Stále na sobě cítí vidlácký původ, otcovu nelásku i kamarádovo pohrdání, nicméně tolik tísně do země nezadupou ani špunty prvotřídních kopaček. Navíc teď Evan Keogh coby špičkový irský fotbalista v ceně pět milionů liber – maskující se značkovým životním stylem i nevinným obličejem hezounka – lítá v ostře sledovaném maléru. Bude se před soudem zodpovídat ze spoluúčasti na znásilnění fanynky, což je v jeho případě docela absurdní. Coby gay si se ženami přece vždycky rozuměl, až ho následkem toho okolí považovalo za zženštilého. Nechtěl se vlastně ani živit čutáním do mičudy a nejradši by se stal malířem, jenže… okolnosti byly proti. Jestli se tedy vše dá svést na osud…Další autorovu vycizelovanou truchlohru na pomezí novely a románu rámuje soudní drama, pravidelně se prolínající s ponorem do vzpomínek protagonisty. Brzy je znát, že Evan není zdaleka taková primadona jako jeho spoluhráč Robbie, do nějž se beznadějně zamiloval a který ho i s celou povedenou famílií nutí křivě vypovídat. Zdaleka už ovšem není jisté, zda spolu ti dva odmítli akceptovat dívčí „ne“ jako odmítnutí, anebo čelí vykutálené zlatokopce. Přestože přelíčení před porotou nabízí zvrat za zvratem div ne jako u Grishama, zřejmé je jediné: kastovní nesnášenlivost i pěstěná přetvářka Britů má tisícero podob. Zaručeně zničí všechny, kdežto láska – ta k bližnímu – má pouze jednu tvář. Čistou, nezištnou, bez podmínek. Pokud ale v citech doteď s Evanem smýkali ti mocnější, rozhodne se konečně sám za sebe? Ve druhém díle tetralogie o živlech míří střelka Boyneova morálního kompasu k nezměrné síle země. Spolehlivě si nás přitáhne zpět a určí míru provinění.Vychází v koedici s Nakladatelstvím Slovart.„Druhý hlas z kvarteta jemně protkaných traumat obyvatel nenápadného irského ostrůvku patří mladíkovi, který to odtud přes ligový klub dotáhl až do soudní síně. Obstát v násilnické historce, jakých se i mimo bulvární drobnohled bohužel dějí stovky, od něho bude chtít podstatně víc dřiny než na hřišti.“ – The Guardian„Jakkoli jde o útlou knihu málem na jedno posezení, předsudků ukazuje nepočítaně. Počínaje tím, jak obratně lze veřejně odsuzovat milostná dobrodružství dívek, a konče úvahami o tom, jak moc se na chování záletníků podepsali pokrytečtí otcové. Perfektní látka pro čtenářský klub, dlouhá právě tak, aby se v diskusi o křivolakostech etiky nic nepřehlédlo.“ – The Irish Times„Strhující a přesvědčivý portrét osamělého mladého muže s vadou charakteru (…), již nikdy není pozdě napravit.“ – Daily Mail„Románový mág Boyne je niterný, bolestný, velmi osobní – a jako vždy skvělý, když zkoumá (…) složitost lidského osudu, který může jeden okamžik, jedno zjištění, rozdrtit jako palicí na prach.“ – Blesk o předešlém dílu VodaS mámou jsem nebyl o samotě od chvíle, kdy to celé začalo. Vlastně si ne¬jsem jistý, jestli jsem s ní byl o samotě od chvíle, kdy mě doprovodila do přístavu toho rána, kdy jsem opustil ostrov, a řekla mi, ať nastoupím na loď a nikdy se nevracím. Jako bych nevěděl, co jí mám říct. Všechno se mezi námi změnilo. Vyrostl ze mě jiný kluk, než jakým jsem se měl stát. Chtěl jsem být malíř. Chtěl jsem být dobrý. Chtěl jsem někoho milovat a být milován. Ale ani jeden z těchto snů se mi nesplnil. Občas mám pocit, že na světě jsou lidé, jejichž osudem je, že se do nich nikdy nikdo nezamiluje. Láska druhého je něco, co je prostě zcela mimo jejich dosah. Nějaká jejich vlastnost, něco vrozeného, něco nepopsatelného od nich všechny odhání. A já mám pocit, že jsem jeden z nich. – ukázka z textu

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â ˜I was gripped immediatelyâ ™ KATERINA DIAMOND, author of THE TEACHERâ ˜I didn t want this book to end.â ™ ELISABETH CARPENTER, author of 99 RED BALLOONSThree women. Three secrets.Antonia is beautiful and happily married. Her life is perfect. So why does she hurt herself when nobodyâ ™s watching?Sophie is witty, smart and married to the best-looking man in town. She likes a drink, but who doesnâ ™t?Olivia is pretending to be a happy wife and mother. But her secret could tear her family apart.Their lies start small, they always do. But if they donâ ™t watch out, the consequences will be deadly.â ˜I loved Beneath the Skin. It s so beautifully written and kept me hooked right to the end. Caroline England knows her wonderful cast of characters inside out. I didn t want this book to end.â ™ ELISABETH CARPENTER, AUTHOR OF 99 RED BALLOONS I loved this book. A clever, glamorous, observational, page turning read which pulled me in right from the start until the pivotal, and most satisfying end. Beneath the Skin transcends the ordinary crime genre, taking it to another level. AMANDA ROBSON, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF OBSESSIONâ ˜Beneath the Skin is a startling debut. It slowly put me under its spell, until I was absolutely beneath its skin. With characters that pulsate off the page, complex relationships, and dark mysteries, this novel follows the lives of four couples. Their dramas are revealed slowly, patiently, and beautifully, until the breath-taking climax. I canâ ™t recommend this enough.â ™ LOUISE BEECH, AUTHOR OF HOW TO BE BRAVEâ ˜Four couples with interlocking histories; eight individuals, all with secrets that are ready to explode. Set in the lush heartland of the Cheshire countryside, this is a tautly elegant psychological thriller, razor-sharp and utterly believable. I loved it.â ™ SARAH JASMON, AUTHOR OF THE SUMMER OF SECRETS

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Sunday Times Bestseller and Blackwell s Non-Fiction Book of the Month.Over one hundred years after its wreck, Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton s ship, was found in the depths of the most hostile sea on Earth. The Ship Beneath the Ice is the astonishing story of the ship and its discovery, told by Mensun Bound, the Director of Exploration on the Endurance22 Expedition. As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration . . . Boundâ ™s account is a triumph â “ Sunday TimesOn 21 November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackletonâ ™s ship, Endurance, finally succumbed to the crushing ice. Its crew watched in silence as the stern rose twenty feet in the air and then, it was gone. The miraculous escape and survival of all twenty-eight men on board have entered legend. And yet, the iconic ship that bore them to the brink of the Antarctic was considered forever lost.A century later, an audacious plan to locate the ship was hatched. The Ship Beneath the Ice gives a blow-by-blow account of the two epic expeditions to find the Endurance. As with Shackletonâ ™s own story, the voyages were filled with intense drama and teamwork under pressure. In March 2022, the Endurance was finally found to headlines all over the world.Written by Mensun Bound, maritime archaeologist and Director of Exploration in the search to find the Endurance, this captivating narrative recounts incredible stories of Shackleton and his legendary ship, and the journey to its rediscovery. Beautifully illustrated with Frank Hurleyâ ™s photos from Shackletonâ ™s original voyage in 1914â “17, as well as from the expeditions in 2019 and 2022, The Ship Beneath the Ice is the perfect tribute to this monumental discovery. The story of Shackletonâ ™s Endurance is one of the most extraordinary in the history of exploration. This is more than just an astonishing sequel. It is a tale just as powerful, and one which redefines the meaning of impossible â “ Sir Michael Palin

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This award-winning, double-sided foldout book takes you on a fascinating journey down through the layers of the Earth, all the way to the planet’s core and out the other side. *Picked by the Guardian as one of ‘15 Modern Classics’ books* When you’re out walking around, whether on the city streets or a country trail, there’s always so much to see and hear. But do you ever stop and look down? Have you ever wondered what’s going on deep in the ground under your feet? There are so many amazing sights to see! One side of the foldout shows the ground beneath the city, whilst the reverse side shows the ground beneath the countryside. The underground scenes include tunnels and pipes, creatures’ burrows, layers of rock and the planet’s molten core, each running seamlessly into the next. Mixing urban and rural settings, covering subjects such as geology, archaeology and natural history, The Street Beneath My Feet offers children the opportunity to explore their world through a detailed learning experience. And its foldout, laperello (or concertina) style, which extends to 2.5 metres in length, is ideal for spreading out on the floor to pore over for hours. Explore even more of the world with The Skies Above My Eyes (August 2018) and The World Around Me (October 2020), companion books from the Look Closer series.

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For fans of Educated and The Sound of Gravel, The Dirt Beneath Our Door tells the remarkable and inspirational story of how a mother escaped a fundamentalist Mormon cult with her eight youngest children, only to struggle with newfound freedom in an America she barely knew. Sixty-one siblings. Five sister wives. Nine children. And one carefully hidden dream: To escape the violent, misogynistic, fundamentalist Mormon cult that kept Pamela Jones perpetually pregnant, broken, and brutalized.Today, Pamela Jones is a self-made millionaire and successful CEO. But growing up, she never could have imagined her life would turn out that way. From a young age, she was told her only purpose in life was to be her husband’s handmaid and bear him as many children as possible. While she endured fear, poverty, deprivation, and abuse, her family constantly moved between rural desert compounds in the United States and Mexico, one step ahead of the law and one step ahead of Ervil LeBaron, aka “The Mormon Charles Manson”—the cult’s frightening leader whose brutal blood atonements left a trail of bodies in his wake. By the time she was newly married at fifteen, Pamela’s husband forbade her any contact with outsiders, including her own family. She’d been raised to believe that her throat would be slit and her blood sprinkled on the soil if she ever tried to escape. But in 2000 at age thirty-four, she knew that if she and her children didn’t escape, they would die. The Dirt Beneath the Door follows their desperate flight across the Mexican border with only the clothes on their backs, two vehicles and two tanks of gas, a five-dollar bill, and two credit cards her husband had secretly taken out in her name. Once settling in Minnesota, Pamela must use her own resilience and grit as a mother to support her children and build an independent life for her family with less than a fifth-grade education–all while exploring the life and liberties that had been denied to her for so long. An unforgettable testament to the power of hope and resilience, The Dirt Beneath Our Door is an epic and harrowing tale of finding freedom, believing in yourself, and achieving the American Dream.

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On Tuesday morning, 23rd September 1975, the corpses of three unmarried siblings, last surviving members of the ancient Luxton clan of Winkleigh, North Devon, were found on their remote farm. All three had had their heads blown off. Robbie s cheeks and neck had been stabbed; Frances had a broken leg. Strangely, each of the four doors to the house had been locked from the inside.The Luxtons idyllic farm on a stretch of lush countryside between Exmoor and Dartmoor had been lovingly tended with outdated methods. There were rumours of a thwarted betrothal, wrangles over money and property, generational feuds in the extended family, bouts of insanity and extreme miserliness.John Cornwell s classic investigation into the violent deaths of these unhappy siblings told a story of a farming family struggling under unbearable practical and emotional pressures, their violent deaths, the police investigation and the proceedings of the inquest. The official verdict was that there had been a suicide pact, but Cornwell decided to revisit the evidence forty years after Earth to Earth was first published, and he finds that there were anomalies in the evidence suggesting alternative, criminal scenarios, and the misery that preceded these savage deaths suggested even darker elements.Were the Luxtons scapegoats of local malice, or victims of a murderous family conflict, stricken by a dire ancestral curse?This new edition of a true crime classic includes a postscript in which the author describes the extraordinary lengths that the great poet Ted Hughes, a neighbour of the Luxtons, went to try and suppress publication of the book.

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July 1910: The grisly remains of Cora Crippen, music hall singer and wife of Dr Hawley Crippen, are discovered in the cellar of 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden. But the Doctor and his mistress, Ethel Le Neve, have vanished, much to the frustration of Scotland Yard and the outrage of a horrified London.Across the Channel in Antwerp, the SS Montrose sets sail on its two week voyage to Canada. Amongst its passengers are the overbearing Antonia Drake and her daughter Victoria, who is hell-bent on romance, the enigmatic Mathieu Zela and the modest Martha Hayes. Also on board are the unassuming Mr John Robinson and his seventeen-year-old son Edmund. But all is not as it seems...

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An award-winning nature therapy session for the soul--encounter the benevolence of the living world through 12 essays on the Earth-healing powers of self-compassion and empathy.When healing is needed at the deepest level, nature will always call us back home--not only to the oak woods or water-filled coves, but to the homes within ourselves.In a series of 12 lyrical nature essays, herbalist, writer, and Earth intuitive Asia Suler illuminates the healing power of the living Earth--and gives us permission to nurture self-compassion and empathy as forces for personal and ecological healing.In a time of unprecedented ecological devastation, it’s easy to feel hopeless and disconnected. It’s easier still to mask our inherent goodness--to imagine that our unique and precious gifts simply aren’t enough, or forget the power of our inborn empathy. For those of us who are highly sensitive, innately attuned to the workings and whispers of the natural world, it can be hard to embody the belief that we’re enough as we are--and that can heal the Earth.Here, Suler reveals the opposite: our goodness, our empathy, our intuitive connections, and our capacity for self-compassion are more than personal traits or antidotes to despair: they are, in fact, our most potent vehicles for planetary transformation. And as we learn to more deeply nurture and accept ourselves, we unlock living, healing connections to Earth.Combining poetic nature writing with exercises and reflection prompts at the end of each essay, Mirrors in the Earth coaxes us to come as we are: to discover and tend the inherent brilliance and medicine that lives in each of us. From the manatee-calm springs of wild Florida to the flower-dotted coves of the world’s most biodiverse mountains, Mirrors in the Earth is an invitation and encounter with the benevolence of the living world--and a nature therapy session for the soul.

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See below the surface of Earth and discover the secrets that lie beneath our feet in this fascinating book about Earth.Author Dr. Lucía Pérez-Díaz offers budding young Earth scientists aged 7-9 everything they need to decode the puzzle that is planet EarthOn a journey like no other, children will learn what our planet was once like, how and why it has changed, and what the future may hold. They will adventure through earthquakes and over towering mountains to learn about our landscapes and unlock clues to Earth⠙s long history.This Earth science book for children offers: A unique adventure through Earth for kids, covering the past, present and future of our planet⠙s geography.An in-depth look at the trending topics of Earth and the environment in relation to rising global temperatures.Material that supports the national curriculum, including plate tectonics and how human actions and the climate affect this.How the Earth Works digs into all that happens beneath our feet in an accessible and lively manner. The pages of this book are charged with Dr. Lucía Pérez-Díaz⠙s passion and expertise, as she helps us to explore the inner workings of our planet. Filled with dynamic illustrations, this geology book takes on plate tectonics in a digestible and adventurous way that you don⠙t want to miss!

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