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The exhilarating new novel from the author of Leave the World Behind – ‘the book of an era’ (Independent)‘These characters, their money and their morality come together in an absolutely devastating thunderclap’KILEY REID, bestselling author of Come and Get It‘A slow-burn tale of connivance and deceit with a knockout ending’OBSERVERMoney talks. But what if it lies?An ambitious young Black woman, plotting her way into the world of the one percent.An old white billionaire, facing his own extinction.He’s attracted to her intelligence, her refusal to be deferential, maybe also her Blackness.She’s drawn to his power and money – and his apparent willingness to share both with her.But how far is each prepared to go to get what they think they deserve?Taut, unsettling, and alive to the seductive distortions of money, Entitlement is a biting tale for our new gilded age.*A GUARDIAN HIGHLIGHT FOR 2024*Praise for Leave the World Behind‘Alam is a worthy descendant of Don DeLillo’ SUNDAY TIMES‘A book that could have been tailor-made for our times’ THE TIMES‘Intense, incisive, I loved this’ DAVID NICHOLLS‘I was hooked from the opening pages’ CLARE MACKINTOSH

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SOON TO BE A MAJOR GLOBAL NETFLIX ADAPTATION STARRING JULIA ROBERTS, KEVIN BACON, ETHAN HAWKE AND MAHERSHALA ALI*A THE TIMES #1 BESTSELLER**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READING PICK 2021*'Easily the best thing I have read all year' KILEY REID, AUTHOR OF SUCH A FUN AGE'Intense, incisive, I loved this and have still not quite shaken off the unease' DAVID NICHOLLS'I was hooked from the opening pages' CLARE MACKINTOSH'Simply breathtaking . . .An extraordinary book, at once smart, gripping and hallucinatory' OBSERVER_______A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrongAmanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a holiday: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. But with a late-night knock on the door, the spell is broken. Ruth and G.H., an older couple who claim to own the home, have arrived there in a panic. These strangers say that a sudden power outage has swept the city, and - with nowhere else to turn - they have come to the country in search of shelter. But with the TV and internet down, and no phone service, the facts are unknowable.Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple - and vice versa? What has happened back in New York? Is the holiday home, isolated from civilisation, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one another?_______FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2020FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2021A DAILY TELEGRAPH, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, IRISH TIMES AND TIME BOOK OF THE YEAREveryone is talking about LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND'You will probably need to read it in as close to one sitting as possible' Sunday Times'A page-turner taking in themes of isolation, race and class' Guardian'A book that could have been tailor-made for our times' The Times'A literary page-turner that will keep you awake even after it ends'Mail on Sunday'An exceptional examination of race and class and what the world looks like when it's ending' Roxane Gay'A thrilling book - one that will speak to readers who have felt the terror of isolation in these recent months and one that will simultaneously, as great books do, lift them out of it' Vogue'Explores complex ideas about privilege and fate with miraculous wit and grace' Jenny Offill'For the reader, the invisible terror outside in Leave the World Behind echoes the sense of disquiet today in a world convulsed by the pandemic' Financial Times'Alam's achievement is to see that his genre's traditional arc, which relies on the idea of aftermath, no longer makes sense. Today, disaster novels call for something different' New Yorker'Read it with the lights on' Jenna Bush Hager, October Book Club pick

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eBook: Amanda a Clay se chystají na dovolenou do odlehlého kouta Long Islandu. Těší se, že si odpočinou od uspěchaného New Yorku, stráví nějaký čas se svými pubertálními dětmi a užijou si luxusní ubytování, které si pronajali na celý týden. Jenže pozdě v noci jejich klid naruší naléhavé ťukání na dveře. Ruth a G. H. tvrdí, že jsou majitelé domku. Tento starší pár panikaří, protože město údajně zničehonic zachvátil výpadek proudu, a tak sem přišli hledat útočiště. Bez televize, internetu a telefonní služby je těžké si jejich slova ověřit. Měli by jim Amanda s Clayem věřit? Co přesně se děje? Je tohle prázdninové ubytování, nacházející se daleko od civilizace, skutečně nejbezpečnější místo? Příběh dvou rodin, které jsou si vzájemně cizí, ale jsou nuceny společně strávit dlouhý víkend.

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Kniha - autor Rumaan Alam, 256 stran, slovensky, pevná s přebalem lesklá Amanda a Clay vyrážajú so svojimi deťmi Rose a Archiem na zaslúženú dovolenku mimo rušného New Yorku. Na niekoľko dní sa ich rajom na zemi stáva luxusný rodinný dom v lese, kde si môžu užívať pokojné chvíle. Jedného večera však bezstarostný odpočinok naruší klopanie na dvere. Ruth a George, majitelia domu, prinášajú znepokojujúce správy. Mesto zasiahol výpadok prúdu, telefónne linky sú hluché a bez internetu a z televízie sa nedá dozvedieť, čo sa vlastne deje. Situácia sa začína zhoršovať. Už to nie sú len tajomné zvuky a podivné správanie zvierat. Mladý Archie ochorie, vypadajú mu zuby, no dobre na tom nie sú ani ostatní. Ako nájsť pomoc vo svete, z ktorého sa vytratili všetky istoty?

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Kniha - autor Rumaan Alam, 232 stran, česky, pevná s přebalem lesklá Amanda a Clay se chystají na dovolenou do odlehlého kouta Long Islandu. Těší se, že si odpočinou od uspěchaného New Yorku, stráví nějaký čas se svými pubertálními dětmi a užijou si luxusní ubytování, které si pronajali na celý týden. Jenže pozdě v noci jejich klid naruší naléhavé ťukání na dveře. Ruth a G. H. tvrdí, že jsou majitelé domku. Tento starší pár panikaří, protože město údajně zničehonic zachvátil výpadek proudu, a tak sem přišli hledat útočiště. Bez televize, internetu a telefonní služby je těžké si jejich slova ověřit. Měli by jim Amanda s Clayem věřit? Co přesně se děje? Je tohle prázdninové ubytování, nacházející se daleko od civilizace, skutečně nejbezpečnější místo? Příběh dvou rodin, které jsou si vzájemně cizí, ale jsou nuceny společně strávit dlouhý víkend.

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eBook: Kiley Reidová: Takový prima věk Zábavný román o následcích toho, když se snažíme dělat správné věci ze špatných důvodů Emira to nemá lehké — brzy jí bude pětadvacet, nedaří se jí najít dobrou práci, má sotva na nájem a tak nějak neví, co se životem. Aby zaplatila složenky, chodí hlídat malou dcerku dobře situovaných manželů Chamberlainových. Když ji jednou večer pošlou s její svěřenkyní do supermarketu, ochranka ji obviní z únosu. Proč? Protože tříletá Briar je běloška, zatímco Emira je černoška. Jakmile se o incidentu dozví Briařina matka Alix, rozhodne se, že takovou nespravedlnost musí odčinit. Tím se rozehrává novodobá komedie mravů, či spíše dobrých úmyslů — které však nemusí až tak dobře dopadnout. Dokáže Alix pochopit, že Emira není jen oběť rasismu, ale především žena z masa a kostí? A co se stane, když se v Emiřině životě objeví někdo z Alixiny minulosti? Román Takový prima věk se s humorem, empatií a nadhledem zamýšlí nad tím, jak hluboce zakořeněné jsou naše předsudky a jak je někdy těžké být dospělým. ––– Vtipná a čtivá sociální satira o privilegiích v současné Americe […]. Za komedií dobrých úmyslů se skrývá mileniální bildungsroman, který osloví všechny dvacátníky snažící se po studiích uchytit v běžném životě.— The Atlantic Kiley Reidová zkoumá vážná témata — rasu, třídu, sex, moc, ambice a život v našem hyperpropojeném světě — s lehkostí a šibalským humorem.— Rumaan Alam, spisovatel

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A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICKTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (JUNE 2021)''A sexy, modern love story'' Reese Witherspoon''I absolutely loved it'' Jodi PicoultSeven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again...When Eva Mercy, a single mother and bestselling erotica writer, and the enigmatic, award-winning novelist Shane Hall meet at a literary event in New York, sparks fly. But what no one knows is that fifteen years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one week together, madly in love. While they may pretend to be strangers, they can''t deny their chemistry.Over the next seven days, amidst a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect. But Eva is wary of the man who broke her heart and wants Shane out of the city so her life can return to normal. Before he disappears, though, she needs a few questions answered . . .With its keen observations of creative life in America today, as well as the joys and complications of being a mother and a daughter, Seven Days in June is a hilarious, romantic, and sexy-as-hell story of two writers discovering their second chance at love.''Deliciously witty'' Zoella Book Club''Hilarious, romantic and incredibly sexy'' Hello!''An absolute page turner . . . exuding love, hope and desire'' Evening Standard''Electric and alive'' Kirkus''A captivating love story'' Melan Mag''A vision of life as it truly is: complications and difficulties punctuated by profound joy'' Rumaan Alam

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Discover a sweeping story that will break your heart and mend it again, perfect for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and The Vanishing Half.''I love a novel this much maybe just once or twice a year.'' - Curtis Sittenfeld, author of RODHAM and ROMANTIC COMEDY''A beautiful multi-generational story of belonging, identity and what it means to find yourself when you''ve lost your family. Sentence by sentence, the writing can take your breath away.'' - Elizabeth Day, author of FRIENDAHOLICWhat if the price of moving forward is losing the only family you''ve ever known? Summer, 1987. On the sweltering streets of the dying New England mill town of Swift River, sixteen-year-old Diamond Newbury is desperately lonely. It''s been seven years since her father disappeared, and while her mother is determined to move on, Diamond can''t distance herself from his memory. When Diamond receives a letter from a relative she has never met, she unearths long-buried secrets of her family''s past and discovers a legacy she never knew she was missing. The more she learns, however, the harder it becomes to reconcile her old life with the one she wants to lead.So begins an epic story spanning the twentieth century that reveals a much larger picture of prejudice and love, of devotion and abandonment - and will change Diamond''s life forever.''Told with warmth and humor by a memorable, irrepressible heroine.'' - Rumaan Alam, author of LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND''Swift River broke my heart, and then offered me hope.'' - Ann Napolitano, author of HELLO BEAUTIFUL''Infused with that satisfying feeling one gets when you realize the missing piece to the puzzle is a sense of self . . . a sensational debut.'' - Paul Beatty, author of THE SELLOUT

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Hudební CD - Hermitage je třinácté studiové album portugalské gothicmetalové hudební skupiny Moonspell. Hermitage je třinácté studiové album portugalské gothicmetalové hudební skupiny Moonspell. Rok vydání : 2021 Seznam stop The Greater Good / Common Prayers / All or Nothing / Hermitage / Entitlement / Solitarian / The Hermit Saints / Apophthegmata / Without Rule / City Quitter (Outro)

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Kniha - autor Eckhart Tolle, 314 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná - autor Eckhart Tolle, 314 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth will be a cornerstone for personal spirituality and self-improvement for years to come, leading readers to a new levels of consciousness and inner peace. Taking off from the introspective work The Power of Now, which is a number one bestseller and has sold millions of copies worldwide, Tolle provides the spiritual framework for people to move beyond themselves in order to make this world a better, more spiritually evolved place to live. Shattering modern ideas of ego and entitlement, self and society, Tolle lifts the veil of fear that has hung over humanity during this new millennium, and shines an illuminating light that leads to happiness and health that every reader can follow.

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From the award-winning poet and playwright behind Barber Shop Chronicles, The Half-God of Rainfall is an epic story and a lyrical exploration of pride, power and female revenge.There is something about Demi. When this boy is angry, rain clouds gather. When he cries, rivers burst their banks and the first time he takes a shot on a basketball court, the deities of the land take note.His mother, Modupe, looks on with a mixture of pride and worry. From close encounters, she knows Gods often act like men: the same fragile egos, the same unpredictable fury and the same sense of entitlement to the bodies of mortals.She will sacrifice everything to protect her son, but she knows the Gods will one day tire of sports fans, their fickle allegiances and misdirected prayers. When that moment comes, it won’t matter how special he is. Only the women in Demi’s life, the mothers, daughters and Goddesses, will stand between him and a lightning bolt.

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Hudební Blu-ray - Skupina Moonspell a jeji živé nahrávky na albu From Down Below - Live 80 Meters Deep. Skupina Moonspell a jeji živé nahrávky na albu From Down Below - Live 80 Meters Deep. Moonspell je portugalská gothic metalová kapela založená v roce 1992. Seznam stop CD/BD/DVD The Greater Good (Live 80 Meters Deep) / Common Prayers (Live 80 Meters Deep) / All or Nothing (Live 80 Meters Deep) / Hermitage (Live 80 Meters Deep) / Entitlement (Live 80 Meters Deep) / Solitarian (Live 80 Meters Deep) / The Hermit Saints (Live 80 Meters Deep) / Apophthegmata (Live 80 Meters Deep) / Without Rule (Live 80 Meters Deep) / The Great Leap Forward (Live 80 Meters Deep) BD/DVD (only) The Greater Porto- Quarantine Series 1 / The Greater Good / In Tremor Dei / Extinct / Opium / Awake! / The Greater Castelo Branco Quarantine Series 2 / The Greater Good / Common Prayers / Breathe (Until we are no more) / Opium / All or Nothing / Em Nome do Medo / SoulSick / Extinct /...

Objev podobné jako Moonspell: From Down Below - Live 80 Meters Deep (CD + 2x DVD + Blu-ray) - CD-DVD-Blu-ray (NPR1116DP)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO PRIZE 2023'A book that could not be more necessary' Observer'Eloquent, clever and devastating' The Times'Deftly illustrates how ageist misogyny remains an acceptable prejudice' GuardianWhat is about women in middle-age and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone?In the last few years, as identity politics has taken hold, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings, the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pitied or abused. Hags asks the question why these women are treated with such active disdain. Each chapter takes a different theme - care work, beauty, violence, political organization, sex - and explores it in relation to middle-aged women's beliefs, bodies and choices.Victoria Smith traces the attitudes she describes back to the same anxieties about older women that drove Early Modern witch hunts, and explores the very specific reasons why this type of misogyny is so powerful today. The demonisation of hags has never felt more now. Victoria Smith has decided in this book that she will be the Karen so nobody else has to be, and she ends on a positive note, exploring potential solutions which can benefit all women, hags and hags-in-waiting.

Objev podobné jako Hags - Victoria Smith

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE‘Dazzling’ GUARDIAN‘Blistering’ THE TIMES''A delight'' DIANA EVANS‘Fiction written at the highest level’ ANN PATCHETT''Hilarious, revelatory'' MARLON JAMESAn electrifying, hilarious and deeply moving tragicomic debut novel following a Jamaican family grappling with a new life in the US.‘What are you?’This is the puzzled question that greets a young Trelawny growing up in a Miami where his racial ambiguity is regarded with confusion and suspicion. It’s not just his neighbours, his Jamaican parents Topper and Sanya don’t seem to understand him either. Then there’s his stubborn older brother Delano, who is determined to secure a better future for his own children, no matter what it takes.As both brothers navigate the challenges littered in their path – a woefully unreliable father, racism, recession and even a hurricane – they find themselves increasingly at odds. Will they make it through together or must one brother’s future come at the cost of the other?Shortlisted for the 2024 Gordon Burn Prize‘An astonishingly assured debut novel … clarity, variety and fizzing prose’ BOOKER PRIZE JUDGES‘So damn funny’ RUMAAN ALAM‘Astonishing’ I NEWSPAPER''Utterly unstoppable’ IRISH TIMESWhat readers say:‘So good it was hard to put down’‘Humour, real feeling … totally recommend’‘So engrossing and entertaining’‘A must read’

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No writer portrayed America's Jazz Age as vividly as F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his effervescent tales of ingenues on the prowl for husbands, Ivy League heirs en route to futures of idle entitlement, and endless alcohol-fueled dance parties at ritzy country clubs, he limned a culture giddy with excess and as reckless as it was refined. Gifted with remarkable powers of observation and a witty way with words, Fitzgerald wrote stories that seem as fresh and modern today as they did when published a century ago. This Great Gatsby and Other Classic Works features Fitzgerald's first two published novels-This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned-and 19 short stories, including the classics "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." The volume also includes Fitzgerald's landmark short novel The Great Gatsby. First published in 1925, this tale of the enigmatic Jay Gatsby and his unrequited love for Daisy Buchanan has been read for decades as a parable about the American Dream. It is regarded as one of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century. This Great Gatsby and Other Classic Works is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an exquisitely designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging and a ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for every home library.

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A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife Brash and belligerent, lunatic and envigorating, with passages of sublime poetry punctuated by obscenities and social-media shorthand. --Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker The author of the crazy-cool Beowulf-inspired novel The Mere Wife tackles the Old English epic poem with a fierce new feminist translation that radically recontextualizes the tale.--Barbara VanDenburgh, USA Today Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf--and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world--there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley, which brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English, recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine, justice is rarely served, and dragons live among us. A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelist's eye toward gender, genre, and history--Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment, powerful men seeking to become more powerful, and one woman seeking justice for her child, but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation of Beowulf, Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation.

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