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My Twenty-Five Years In Provence - Peter Mayle

From the moment Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, uprooted their lives in England and crossed the Channel permanently, they never looked back. Here the beloved author of A Year in Provence pays tribute to the most endearing and enduring aspects of his life in France—the charming and indelible parade of village life, the sheer beauty, the ancient history. He celebrates the café and lists some of his favorites; identifies his favorite villages, restaurants, and open-air markets; and recounts his most memorable meals. A celebration of twenty-five years of Provençal living—of lessons learned and changes observed—with his final book Mayle has crafted a lasting love letter to his adopted home, marked by his signature warmth, wit, and humor.

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A Year in Provence - Peter Mayle

The bestselling, much-loved classic account of an English couple enjoying the fruits of French rural living - an irresistible feast of humour and heart. Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in the Luberon Valley and began a new life. In a year that begins with a marathon lunch and continues with a host of gastronomic delights, they also survive the unexpected and often hilarious curiosities of rural life. From mastering the local accent and enduring invasion by bumbling builders, to discovering the finer points of boules and goat-racing, all the earthy pleasures of Provencal life are conjured up in this enchanting portrait.

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Up in Smoke - My True Story of Life as a Firefighter - Leigh Hosy-Pickett

''Firefighters are a unique breed. It takes a certain kind of individual to enter a burning building to rescue someone they have never met before.'' A third-generation firefighter, Leigh Hosy-Pickett has seen it all in his twenty-five years in the job. He''s battled infernos and pulled people from the wreckage of twisted metal. He''s experienced pain and trauma in the discharge of his duty, and been supported by the laughter and strength of character you find within every fire station. A family away from home, firefighters share intimate trust and healthy mutual banter - a spark of light often desperately needed amongst the darkness. Leigh shares his deeply personal story and the funniest, most eye-opening and moving experiences from a life lived amongst the smoke. A celebration of the everyday heroism of our Fire Service, Up In Smoke is a clear-eyed and honest record of the many sacrifices made for us all in the line of duty. ''A real insight into the commitment of our firefighters'' Nick Knowles ''Highly inspiring and impossible to put down'' Nazir Afzal OBE

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3x Provence - Peter Mayle

V souborném vydání volné "provensálské" trilogie je možné s autorem nerušeně znovu prožívat radosti i strasti života cizince, který se rozhodl uskutečnit svůj sen žít v místě, jež dosud znal pouze jako turista. Pro přistěhovalce je všechno nové, barevnější, voňavější, a to se netýká pouze výborného vína a kuchyně. Ani poté, co v nové zemi zapustí kořeny a nerozlučně je proplete s kořeny jihofrancouzských olivovníků, levandule a vinné révy, jej však nepřestává udivovat a bavit umění života starousedlíků, což glosuje s humorem ryze anglickým. Dobré jídlo a pití a schopnost místních obyvatel obojí vychutnat do posledního drobku a kapky je však pro něj jedním z mnoha důvodů, proč na Provence nedá dopustit. Peter Mayle (1939) je jedním z nejznámějších současných anglických spisovatelů. Dlouho žil v USA a pracoval v reklamní agentuře, poté se stal novinářem, publicistou a spisovatelem na plný úvazek. Koncem 80. let 20. století se přestěhoval do Francie s odhodláním napsat román. Výsledkem jeho snah se stala kniha Rok v Provenci, která mu přinesla mezinárodní úspěch a získala řadu ocenění. Postupně následovaly další úspěšné knihy, které byly přeloženy do více než dvaceti jazyků, česky vyšly např. Navždy Provence, Hotel Pastis, Psí život, Znovu Provence, Podfuk jako víno, Dobrý ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Navždy Provence - Peter Mayle - audiokniha

Audiokniha: Druhá část volné trilogie vonící levandulí a chutnající po těch nevybranějších lahůdkách a nejlepším víně. Nechte se okouzlit vtipným vyprávěním o zdánlivě všedních událostech francouzského venkova, z nichž se rodí umění žít. Z každé maličkosti, kterou můžeme spolu s autorem objevovat a obdivovat, na nás dýchá pohoda a vlídný humor, ať už jde o zpívající ropuchy v St. Pantaléon, přednášku na téma pastis či sousto za soustem s labužníkem-přeborníkem. Audioknihu v neodolatelném podání Pavla Soukupa a v režii Luboše Koníře hudebně doprovodil Dominik Svoboda. Peter Mayle (1939) Slavný britský spisovatel narozen v Brightonu, proslavený především řadou knih zabývajících se jeho pobytem v Provence. V roce 1975 se rozhodl ukončit své patnáctileté působení v reklamním průmyslu a začal se věnovat vzdělávacím knihám včetně série věnované sexuální výchově dětí a mladistvých. Ve svých padesáti letech se do historie zapsal knihou Rok v Provenci vypravující o roce stráveném v Ménerbes, vesnici na jihu départmentu Vaucluse v oblasti Provence. Tato kniha se okamžitě stala bestsellerem a získala řadu ocenění a byl podle ní natočen i televizní seriál. Francouzská vláda samotného autora jmenovala roku 2002 Rytířem Čestné legie. Pavel Soukup (1948) Divadelní a televizní herec a především výborný dabér, který propůjčil hlas mnoha zahraničním ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Mých 25 let v Provenci - Peter Mayle - audiokniha

Audiokniha: Shrnutí a doplnění autorovy trilogie o Provence pro všechny milovníky dobrého vína a jídla. Radost ze života je skoro podmínkou existence v Provenci. Před čtvrt stoletím vyrazil autor se svou ženou Jennie na nenápadnou dovolenou do Nice a obrátilo jim to život naruby. I když zprvu to vypadalo, že nebude dovolená stát za nic, protože neustále pršelo. Před nepříznivým počasím v Anglii chtěli utéct do slíbeného ráje, a teď tohle! Rozhodli se vrátit domů, kde se překvapivě na místní poměry počasí umoudřilo. Jenže při cestě zpět se to rozhodli vzít autem přes oblast Provence a zároveň počasí se rozhodlo jim vynahradit své škaredé chování… Pak už se stačilo jen usadit do jedné z nesčetných kaváren, dát si šálek kávy a vznikla láska na celý zbytek života. Přestěhovali se tam a nikdy svého rozhodnutí nelitovali. V této poctě jednomu z nejmalebnějších míst na Zemi Mayle vzpomíná na začátky v novém prostředí a popisuje každodenní zvyklosti místních, lidové léčitelství, obchody, restaurace, sousedské radosti i starosti, gastronomické speciality a neodmyslitelné dobré víno. Nahlédneme také do autorových myšlenek, poznatků a okouzlení krajinou. Byť sledujeme postupné pronikání ruchu, byznysu a globalizace do ospalé francouzské provincie, stále je to podle autora dobré místo k životu. ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Znovu Provence - Peter Mayle - audiokniha

Audiokniha: Třetí část volné trilogie vonící levandulí a chutnající po těch nevybranějších lahůdkách a nejlepším víně. Znovu Provence zavádí čtenáře opět do slunné Provence mezi vinice, lány levandule, dubové lesíky a olivovníkové sady na jihu Francie. Místní starousedlíci, jakoby navzdory modernímu světu, stále ještě žijí přirozeným tempem ročních období, radují se z dobrého jídla a vína, a i když ve skutečnosti možná ani tady neexistuje ideální vesnice, přece nalezneme řadu zcela zvláštních důvodů, proč si Provence oblíbit.

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Rok v Provenci - Peter Mayle - audiokniha

Audiokniha: „Vítejte v krajině levandule, výborného vína a lanýžů.“ Humorné vyprávění, ze kterého dýchá provensálská atmosféra plná skvělého jídla, místních zvyků a svérázných postaviček. Rok v Provenci je první částí volné trilogie vonící levandulí a chutnající po těch nejvybranějších lahůdkách a nejlepším víně. Chronologicky popisuje rok jednoho Brita, který se rozhodl přestěhovat do malé vesnice v malebné francouzské oblasti Provence. S anglickým humorem v jeho nejlaskavější podobě nás autor seznamuje s radostmi i úskalími života cizince, který se rozhodl uskutečnit svůj sen žít v místě, které dosud znal pouze jako turista. Kniha Rok v Provenci získala řadu ocenění, například British Book Awards pro rok 1989 za nejlepší cestopisnou knihu.

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Rok v Provenci - Peter Mayle

Rok v Provenci, kniha britského publicisty a spisovatele Petera Mayleho, nás provází měsíc po měsíci rokem novopečeného majitele domu v Provenci. S anglickým humorem v jeho nejlaskavější podobě nás autor seznamuje s radostmi i úskalími života cizince, který se rozhodl uskutečnit svůj sen žít v místě, které dosud znal pouze jako turista. Pro přistěhovalce je všechno nové, barevnější, voňavější, a to se netýká pouze výborného vína a kuchyně. Občasné potíže s úřady či rekonstrukcí domu jsou mnohonásobně vyváženy krásnou přírodou, kulinářskými zážitky, poznáváním neobvyklých zvyků, sportů a nových přátel. Kniha se stala mezinárodním bestsellerem, posloužila jako předloha pro TV seriál a získala prestižní cenu British Book Awards pro rok 1989 za nejlepší cestopisnou knihu a řadu dalších ocenění.

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Twenty-Five Years of the Life Review - Robert Disch

In this thought-provoking book, professionals in the field of aging examine the history and concept of the life review. The life review--a theory about the nature of the life cycle first presented in 1962--has become a foundation for program development with the elderly. This unique analysis of the life review goes beyond the early formulation both in theory and practice. Critics of the life review suggest ways in which the theory can be modified and expanded and offer several unique methods of creatively adapting these criticisms and changes to practical purposes. Proponents of the life review--while emphasizing that reminiscence is not a panacea--proclaim its historical, educational, and therapeutic value.

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My Heart is in Venice - Jensen Helga

Venice was where it all began…Libby and Will spent a glorious honeymoon in this magical city. They didn’t have much money, but they had a whole lot of love and a bright future ahead of them.And Venice was where it all went wrong…Two kids and twenty-five years later, they are struggling with money problems but somehow Will manages to fulfil his promise to Libby to take her back to Venice for their anniversary. This time, they are doing it in style and a masked ball awaits. But among the beautiful buildings and romantic canals, Libby learns that her husband has a secret that breaks her heart.The trust is broken and the marriage is over. But there are decades of love and two grown sons between them.Can they ever find their way back to each other or have they missed their chance forever?A funny and heartwarming second-chance romance, perfect for fans of Milly Johnson and Julie Caplin.Readers are falling in love with My Heart is in Venice:''A believable story with laugh-out-loud moments...so relatable and true to life! Loved it!'' Harriet J. Kent''Funny, heartwarming and addictive.'' Susan Buchanan''I would highly recommend this fabulous book which is full of the trials and tribulations ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Chasing the Ghost - Peter Marren

**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN’S BEST BOOKS OF 2018**Join renowned naturalist Peter Marren on an exciting quest to see every species of wild plant native to Britain.The mysterious Ghost Orchid blooms in near darkness among rotting leaves on the forest floor. It blends into the background to the point of invisibility, yet glows, pale and ghostly. The ultimate grail of flower hunters, it has been spotted only once in the past twenty-five years. Its few flowers have a deathly pallor and are said to smell of over-ripe bananas. Peter Marren has been a devoted flower finder all his life. While the Ghost Orchid offers the toughest challenge of any wild plant, there were fifty more British species Peter had yet to see, having ticked off the first 1,400 rummaging in hedges, slipping down gullies and peering in peat bogs. But he set himself the goal of finding the remaining fifty in a single summer. As it turned out, the wettest summer in years. This expert and emotional journey takes Peter the length and the breadth of the British Isles, from the dripping ancient woods of the New Forest to the storm-lashed cliffs of Sutherland. He paddles in lakes, clambers up cliffs ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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One Question a Day: A Five-Year Journal (1250108861)

Kniha - autor Hannah Caner, 368 stran, anglicky, Pevná bez přebalu lesklá - autor Hannah Caner, 368 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá A simple journal that offers one question per day, to be answered on the same day for five years in a row. The questions range from the prosaic ("What did you have for lunch today?") to the contemplative ("Can people really change?"), giving readers a comprehensive look back at their thoughts and feelings over a five-year span. For anybody who has ever given up journaling after being intimidated when facing a blank page, this book makes it easy to take a snapshot of your inner life in just a few minutes each day. The beauty of this journal is that it enables readers to track their emotional growth as well as keep track of memories, and provides an interesting walk down memory lane a few years later. The simple one-question prompts make this book to journaling as adult coloring books are to art - a gateway product with...

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Operation Chiffon - Peter Taylor

On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, the top-secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to Ireland.‘A gripping exploration of how MI5 and MI6 worked for a ceasefire with the IRA – and how one meeting changed everything’ Telegraph''An extraordinary story . . . A true tale of espionage'' The TimesApril 1998: the Good Friday Agreement is signed, ending decades of violence and bloodshed in Northern Ireland. The process of getting the IRA to end its so-called ‘armed struggle’ was always the prerequisite of the search for peace. It was Operation Chiffon that finally helped make it possible.Operation Chiffon takes us inside the top-secret intelligence operation whose roots go back to the bloodiest years of the conflict in the early 1970s, involving officers from MI6 and, later in the 1990s, MI5. The remarkable story, which has remained hidden for forty years, is now revealed by legendary BBC journalist Peter Taylor with unique access to the officers involved. Drawing on exclusive interviews and Taylor’s fifty years of covering the conflict, the book narrates in first-hand detail how those involved risked their careers – and their lives ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Five Minds - Guy Morpuss

SHARING A BODY CAN BE MURDERAlex, Kate, Mike, Sierra and Ben have spent twenty-five years trapped together. And there''s no escape. They share one body, part of humanity''s answer to its dangerously spiralling population.After more than two decades of bickering and petty vendettas, the one thing they can agree on is that they need a better host, and so they travel to a Death Park where they can win enough to get them the upgrades that will make the next twenty-five years bearable. But things go very wrong when Kate accepts a dangerous offer, and one of them disappears.Someone is trying to kill off members of the commune. But why? Is one of them responsible? Or is an outsider playing a deadly game? It''s hard enough to catch a murderer. It''s almost impossible when you might be sharing a body with them...

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Interview with a Wizard - Peter J. Carroll

Peter J Carroll developed the Theories and Practices of Chaos Magic which caused a revolution in magical and esoteric thinking in the last few decades of the twentieth century, and they continue to heavily influence it in the twenty-first century. As the first in a new tradition of Sorcerer-Scientists, Carroll developed a paradigm in which Magic lies far closer to Science than to Religion. He formed a worldwide magical order to promote and develop new insights into magic and then largely disappeared from public view to procreate and build a business empire and continue scientific and metaphysical research in private. This book of interviews reveals the extraordinary life and adventures and thoughts of one of the worlds most exceptional antinomian thinkers. It contains much that may intrigue, surprise, amaze, and outrage the reader on a very wide range of topics. The appendix contains Carrolls Hypersphere Cosmology thesis which presents a radical alternative to the big-bang theory, and which has, so far, resisted all attempts to falsify it. Peter J. Carroll is one of the founders of the Magical Pact of the Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT) which he led for a decade. He has spent thirty-five years in research and experiment ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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The Possibility of Literature - Peter Boxall

The Possibility of Literature is an essential collection from one of the most powerful and distinctive voices in contemporary literary studies. Bringing together key compositions from the last twenty-five years, as well as several new pieces, the book demonstrates the changing fate of literary thinking over the first decades of the twenty-first century. Peter Boxall traces here the profound shifts in the global conditions that make literature possible as these have occurred in the historical passage from 9/11 to Covid 19. Exploring questions such as ''The Idea of Beauty'', the nature of ''Mere Being'', or the possibilities of Rereading, the author anatomises the myriad forces that shape the literary imagination. At the same time, he gives vivid critical expression to the imaginative possibilities of literature itself – those unique forms of communal life that literature makes possible in a dramatically changing world, and that lead us towards a new shared future.

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Police Vehicles of the Twenty-First Century - John A. Godwin

Police vehicles have always been an essential part of protecting law and order in the United Kingdom. Whether responding to emergency incidents, stopping fleeing motorists or providing protection to the public in the most hostile of situations, the country’s police forces have a wide variety of assets at their disposal. Beyond the commonly seen neighbourhood patrol vehicles are many specialist resources, including fast traffic vehicles, armed response teams, mounted units for transporting police horses, marine support units for patrolling on the water and the provision of air support from above delivered by aircraft, helicopters and drones. Since 2000, much has changed: vehicle manufacturers have come and gone, police vehicle liveries have almost universally adopted the blue and yellow ‘Battenburg’ scheme, and as environmental considerations come to the fore, police forces have assessed and incorporated both hybrid and all-electric vehicles into their fleets.John Godwin presents a fascinating insight into police vehicles over the last twenty-five years, including examples from many of the forty-five Territorial Police Forces of the UK, the three Specialist Police Forces, Parks Police, Ports Police and several others.

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Hot Air - Peter Stott

The shocking inside story of the fight to halt climate change over the past twenty-five years by a world-renowned scientist. Ours is the age of global warming. Rising sea levels, extreme weather, forest fires. Dire warnings are everywhere, so why has it taken so long for the crisis to be recognized? Here, for the first time, climate scientist Peter Stott reveals the bitter fight to get international recognition for what, among scientists, has been known for decades: human activity causes climate change. Across continents and against the efforts of skeptical governments, prominent climate change deniers and shadowy lobbyists, Hot Air is the urgent story of how the science was developed, how it has been repeatedly sabotaged and why humanity hasn''t a second to spare in the fight to halt climate change.

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Sixty Years of Airfix Models - Jeremy Brook

The best-known and most important manufacturer of plastic model kits in the UK, Airfix has been at the forefront of the industry since 1955 when the first Airfix aircraft kit appeared in UK branches of Woolworth''s. The kits were made to a constant scale and covered a wide variety of subjects, from aircraft to birds and from tanks to dinosaurs. In 1981 the famous London-based company closed down and only the kits survived intact. For the next twenty-five years Airfix was run by Palitoy and later Humbrol, but suffered from a lack of investment. In 2006, Hornby Hobbies Ltd, the train and Scalextric manufacturer, bought the ailing company and transformed it. Money and resources were ploughed into the range, and today Airfix releases around twenty new kits per year, designed to an incredibly high standard. The old kits of the 1950s and 1960s are gradually being replaced by new state-of-the-art tooling, all bearing that most prestigious name - Airfix. Published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the first Airfix aircraft kit, Sixty Years of Airfix Models, tells the full story, year by year, of the company and its products.

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My Family and Other Animals (1909621986)

Kniha - 376 stran, anglicky, Pevná bez přebalu lesklá - 376 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's hilarious account of five years in his childhood spent living with his family on the island of Corfu. With snakes, scorpions, toads, owls and geckos competing for space with one bookworm brother and another who's gun-mad, as well as an obsessive sister, young Gerald has an awful lot of natural history to observe. This richly detailed, informative and riotously funny memoir of eccentric family life is a twentieth-century classic.This edition features an afterword by Peter Olney, former Keeper of Birds at the London Zoo, and a distinguished ornithologist who was awarded the Zoological Society of London's Silver Medal in 2003.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and...

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Before My Actual Heart Breaks - Tish Delaney

WINNER OF THE AUTHORS'' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD__________________________________________________''Fresh, entertaining, funny and moving'' RODDY DOYLE''A touching tale of how one woman survives a tough beginning to eventually end up exactly where her heart belongs'' ANNE GRIFFIN, author of When All is Said__________________________________________________''If I could go back to being sixteen again, I''d do things differently.''''Everyone over the age of forty feels like that, you total gom,'' says my best friend Lizzie Magee.When she was young Mary Rattigan wanted to fly. She was going to take off like an angel from heaven and leave the muck and madness of troubled Northern Ireland behind. Nothing but the Land of Happy Ever After would do for her.But as a Catholic girl with a B.I.T.C.H. for a Mammy and a silent Daddy, things did not go as she and Lizzie Magee had planned.Now, five children, twenty-five years, an end to the bombs and bullets, enough whiskey to sink a ship and endless wakes and sandwich teas later, Mary''s alone. She''s learned plenty of hard lessons and missed a hundred steps towards the life she''d always hoped for. Will she finally find the courage to ask for the love she deserves? Or is it too late?

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Diana: Her True Story - In Her Own Words - Andrew Morton

When Diana: Her True Story was first published in 1992 it changed the way the public viewed the British monarchy. Never before had a senior royal spoken in such a raw, unfiltered way about her marriage, her hopes and fears and her extraordinary life inside the House of Windsor. An icon in life and a legend in death, Diana continues to fascinate and now, more than twenty-five years on, Andrew Morton has revisited the secret tapes he and the late princess made, to reveal startling new insights into her life and mind.A unique literary classic, Diana: Her True Story is the closest we will ever come to her autobiography.

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The Grave in the Ice - Satu Rämö

THE THRILLING SECOND BOOK IN THE ICELAND-SET HILDUR CRIME SERIES.Detective Hildur Rúnarsdottir and her trainee Jakob are plagued by their own demons while working on the chilly west coast of Iceland: Hildur by the disappearance of her younger sisters twenty-five years ago and Jakob by a custody battle that has left him unable to see his son.When a local politician is found shot dead on a ski trail, the two must put aside their personal problems to investigate the murder. While initially thought to be a crime of passion, there are much darker secrets hiding beneath the surface. Hildur and Jakob soon realise that even the dead can't stay buried forever.Translated by Kristian LondonPraise for Satu Rämö:'Satu Rämö's Hildur series is a wildly successful publishing phenomenon that has put the genre of "Nordic blue" on Europe's literary map' The Guardian'Atmospheric and startlingly original' Sunday Times'Hildur Rúnarsdóttir, a police detective who surfs the icy waters of Iceland, barrels into the genre like a tsunami. This book must be read in one sitting' Max Seeck, NYT and Der Spiegel bestselling author'Rämö plans to continue Hildur's story, and if she does it as well as in this, her debut novel, she may become ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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In The Cairngorms - Nan Shepherd

First published in 1934, In The Cairngorms is Nan Shepherd''s only book of poems. It took her twenty- five years to write these forty-six poems. Each is possessed of a fierce intensity; together, they offer glimpses into what she once called the burning heart of life''. Shepherd''s lifelong acquaintance with the Scottish mountains was a spiritual as well as a geographical exploration: in the Cairngorms she discovered both elemental beauty and profound metaphysical mystery. Her huge gifts as a poet were to convey these discoveries in language that remains strange and thrilling.''

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Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety - Dr. John Duffy

Your Guidebook for Parenting Teens in the New Teenage Years“If you are a parent―or have children in your life in any significant way and that you love―this book is required reading.” ―Michael Hainey, author of New York Times bestseller After Visiting FriendsBook Authority''s Best Parenting Book of All Time Awards#1 Best Seller in School Age Children, Parenting Teenagers, Child Psychology, Adolescent Psychology, Anxieties & Phobias, and HyperactivityA parenting wake-up call that could change how you raise your child.Learn about the “New Teen” and how to adjust your parenting skills. Strategies for parenting teens are now beginning years too late. Kids are growing up with nearly unlimited access to social media and the internet, and unprecedented academic, social, and familial stressors. Starting as early as eight years old, children are exposed to information, thought, and emotion they are unprepared to process.Unprecedented teenage depression and anxiety. Because of the exposure they face, kids are emotionally overwhelmed at a young age and often are continuing to search for a sense of self well into their twenties.Urgent advice for parents of teens. Dr. John Duffy’s parenting book is a necessary guide that addresses the hidden phenomenon of the changing teenage brain. Dr. Duffy, a ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz - Michela Wrong

‘Joyous … a book that makes other journalists weep with envy’ The Economist''Provocative, touching, and sensitively written … an eloquent, brilliantly researched account’ Sunday TimesOne of The Economist’s best books by foreign correspondents.A story of grim comedy amid the apocalypse and a celebration of the sheer indestructibility of the human spirit in a nation run riot: Michela Wrong’s vision of Congo/Zaire during the Mobutu years is incisive, ironic and revelatory.Mr Kurtz, the colonial white master, brought evil to the remote upper reaches of the Congo River. A century after Conrad’s ''Heart of Darkness'' was first published, Michela Wrong revisits the Congo as the era of Mobutu Sese Seko collapses into absurdity, anarchy and corruption. Hers is a brilliant portrait of the grotesque as confusion takes over: pink lipsticked rebel soldiers mingle with tracksuited secret policemen in hotels where fin de siecle dinner parties are ploughing through hotel wine cellars rather than see bottles lost to the new regime.Congo, Africa’s richest country in terms of its natural resources, has institutionalised kleptomania: everyone is on the take. In a country where the minimum wage has dropped to below $150 a year, the government over twenty-five years spent $250 million providing courtesy cars. ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Discipleship for Every Stage of Life – Understanding Christian Formation in Light of Human Development - Chris A. Kiesling

The field of life span development in psychology has much to offer those engaged in making disciples, and Chris Kiesling brings those insights to bear in this volume. He appropriates the most useful observations from this discipline in light of biblical teaching.Drawing on more than twenty-five years of experience teaching faith development topics in academic and local church settings, Kiesling assembles a toolkit that will help those in ministry think comprehensively about discipleship at every stage of life. Taking into account physical, cognitive, emotional, and social aspects of human development from infancy through older adulthood, Kiesling guides readers in making practical use of these insights in churches and educational settings.Pastors, ministry leaders, and educators will benefit from this treatment, which brings cutting-edge findings from the social sciences into dialogue with Scripture, theology, and practical ministry.

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My Friends - Fredrik Backman

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Most Anticipated Book of 2025: Goodreads • USA TODAY • Marie Claire • BookPage • Literary Lifestyle • Book Riot • Sunset Magazine • Totally Booked with Zibby Owens #1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life twenty-five years later.Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a long pier in the corner of one of the most famous paintings in the world. Most people think it’s just a depiction of the sea. But Louisa, an aspiring artist herself, knows otherwise, and she is determined to find out the story of these three enigmatic figures. Twenty-five years earlier, in a distant seaside town, a group of teenagers find refuge from their bruising home lives by spending long summer days on an abandoned pier, telling silly jokes, sharing secrets, and committing small acts of rebellion. These lost souls find in each other a reason to get up each morning, a reason to dream, a reason to love. Out of that summer emerges a transcendent work ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Knife in the Back - Karen Rose

The explosive new thriller in the New Orleans series, from Sunday Times bestselling author Karen Rose.''Intense, complex and unforgettable'' James Patterson''Fast and furious'' Sun''High-wire suspense that keeps you riveted'' Lisa GardnerNaomi Cranston''s five years in jail for something she didn''t do were the worst of her life. Now the former NOPD cop is being targeted again by the people who framed her for stealing evidence. If she doesn''t comply with their demands to deliver drugs, they''ll hurt her teenage son, Everett.When she arrives at the Burke Broussard Investigation Agency asking for help, Burke is reluctant to assist a convicted cop. But her story and her courage in standing up to the criminals touch him to the core. Even if taking on the case puts him and the rest of his team in grave danger.As they try to work out who is responsible for framing Naomi, they must do all they can to keep their families safe. There might be something far more sinister at play than a drugs enterprise - and someone would do anything to stop Burke and the team finding out what. And there''s one question they all need to grapple with: why was Naomi targeted in the ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Woman in the Pillory - Brigitte Reimann

Kathrin – five years into a disenchanting marriage – struggles to work the farm with her sister-in-law while her husband Heinrich is away fighting for the Third Reich. To help them with the harvest, Heinrich arranges for Alexei, a Russian prisoner of war, to labour in the fields. Though initially suspicious of this watchful stranger, Kathrin is soon drawn to Alexei, with ruinous consequences.First published in 1956, Woman in the Pillory is a formative novella by one of East Germany’s most significant writers, showcasing Brigitte Reimann’s vivid ideological engagement with the legacy of Nazi Germany and the Communist drive to create ‘a new kind of person’ following the devastation of the war.

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The Future of Employment in Africa - Loic De Canniere

The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labour Markets and Welfare explores the major trends that will define the face of the sub-Saharan continent in the next three decades. The near doubling of Africa’s population by 2050 will lead to more than twenty million new job seekers entering the African labour market every year until then. Right now, Africa doesn’t seem armed to offer jobs to this many people, resulting in possible unrest and intra-African or intercontinental migration flows, including to Europe. Climate change creates additional migratory pressure as it threatens the future of agriculture and livestock.The author explores the opportunities for increased job creation in Africa. Work provides income, and decent and meaningful jobs contribute to prospects and social stability. The evolution of the labour market is essential for the continent’s future. Fortunately, Africa has some major strengths. The continent has the youngest population in the world and represents a wealth of creativity and innovation. Moreover, Africans excel in ‘market-creating innovation’: the ability to see market opportunities and innovations that others do not. Africans create their own jobs through micro and small enterprises. A young well-trained middle class, familiar with digital technologies, is emerging. Africa’s abundant natural resources also ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Stories I Only Tell My Friends - Rob Lowe

A wryly funny and moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye.Teen idol at fifteen, international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at twenty, and one of Hollywood''s top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-seventies Malibu, where he embarked on his unrelenting pursuit of a career in Hollywood. The Outsiders placed Lowe at the birth of the modern youth movement in the entertainment industry. During his time on The West Wing, he witnessed the surreal nexus of show business and politics both on the set and in the actual White House. And in between are deft and humorous stories of the wild excesses that marked the eighties, leading to his quest for family and sobriety. Never mean-spirited or salacious, Lowe delivers unexpected glimpses into his successes, disappointments, relationships, and one-of-a-kind encounters with people who shaped our world over the last twenty-five years. These stories are as entertaining as they are unforgettable.

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A Tattoo on my Brain - Daniel Gibbs, Teresa H. Barker

Dr Daniel Gibbs is one of 50 million people worldwide with an Alzheimer''s disease diagnosis. Unlike most patients with Alzheimer''s, however, Dr Gibbs worked as a neurologist for twenty-five years, caring for patients with the very disease now affecting him. Also unusual is that Dr Gibbs had begun to suspect he had Alzheimer''s several years before any official diagnosis could be made. Forewarned by genetic testing showing he carried alleles that increased the risk of developing the disease, he noticed symptoms of mild cognitive impairment long before any tests would have alerted him. In this highly personal account, Dr Gibbs documents the effect his diagnosis has had on his life and explains his advocacy for improving early recognition of Alzheimer''s. Weaving clinical knowledge from decades caring for dementia patients with his personal experience of the disease, this is an optimistic tale of one man''s journey with early-stage Alzheimer''s disease.

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My Crazy World - Christy Dignam

THE IRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'He holds nothing back and gives everything' Bono Christy Dignam, lead singer of Aslan and one of Ireland’s greatest rock stars, reveals all in this extraordinary tale of excess and devotion to his music. Growing up in Finglas, Dublin, there was only one thing Christy Dignam ever wanted to do – and that was sing. By the early 1980s, he had formed the band Aslan, part of a new wave of acts coming out of Ireland. Repeatedly chewed up and spat out in the feeding frenzy to sign 'the next U2', they stuck to their principles. developed a loyal following, and their first album Feel No Shame went to No 1 in their home country, showcased by the song ‘This Is’, which Christy proudly acknowledges has become 'part of Ireland's DNA'. But just as America seemed ready to fall for Aslan, Dignam was battling with heroin addiction, perhaps caused by having been sexually abused as a child, and so he was kicked out of the band. In 1993, after five years in the wilderness, he rejoined Aslan, leading the outfit to a triumphant second coming, despite struggling with further drug problems and serious illness. ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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The Road Washes Out in Spring – A Poet's Memoir of Living Off the Grid - Baron Wormser

A new edition of an evergreen back-to-nature book in the tradition of Thoreau.  For nearly twenty-five years, poet Baron Wormser and his family lived in a house in Maine with no electricity or running water. They grew much of their own food, carried water by hand, and read by the light of kerosene lamps. They considered themselves part of the “back to the land” movement, but their choice to live off the grid was neither a statement nor a protest: they simply had built their house too far from the road and could not afford to bring in power lines. Over the years, they settled into a life that centered on what Thoreau would have called “the essential facts.” In this graceful meditation, Wormser similarly spurns ideology in favor of observation, exploration, and reflection. “When we look for one thread of motive,” he writes, “we are, in all likelihood, deceiving ourselves.” His refusal to be satisfied with the obvious explanation, the single thread of motive, makes him a keen and sympathetic observer of his neighbors and community, a perceptive reader of poetry and literature, and an honest and unselfconscious analyst of his own responses to the natural world. The ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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My Friends - Fredrik Backman

You have to take life for granted, the artist thinks, the whole thing: sunrises and slow Sunday mornings andwater balloons and another person’s breath against your neck. That’s the only courageous thing a person can do.In the corner of a world-famous painting, three tiny figures sit on the end of a pier, a secret hidden in plain sight.Twenty-five years ago, a group of teenagers found solace in each other during one unforgettable summer. Their friendship inspired a transcendent work of art, a painting that now mysteriously belongs to eighteen-year-old aspiring artist Louisa.Driven to learn the story behind its creation, Louisa embarks on a journey to the seaside town where it all began. But as she gets closer to the painting’s birthplace, Louisa learns that happy endings do not always take the form we expect.Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger’s life years later.

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Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy - Henry A. Kissinger

Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and the world'Leaders,' writes Henry Kissinger in this compelling book, 'think and act at the intersection of two axes: the first, between the past and the future; the second between the abiding values and aspirations of those they lead. They must balance what they know, which is necessarily drawn from the past, with what they intuit about the future, which is inherently conjectural and uncertain. It is this intuitive grasp of direction that enables leaders to set objectives and lay down a strategy.'In Leadership, Kissinger analyses the lives of six extraordinary leaders through the distinctive strategies of statecraft which he believes they embodied.After the Second World War, Konrad Adenauer brought defeated and morally bankrupt Germany back into the community of nations by what Kissinger calls 'the strategy of humility'. Charles de Gaulle set France beside the victorious Allies and renewed its historic grandeur by 'the strategy of will'. During the Cold War, Richard Nixon gave geostrategic advantage to the United States by 'the strategy of equilibrium'.After twenty-five years of conflict, Anwar Sadat brought a vision of peace to the Middle East by a 'strategy of transcendence'. ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Poems to Fall in Love With - Chris Riddell

A celebration of love from the author and illustrator of Goth Girl, Ottoline and the Cloud Horse Chronicles, Poems to Fall in Love With sees Chris Riddell select and illustrate his very favourite classic and modern poems about love – gorgeously presented in this giftable hardback.This beautifully illustrated collection explores love in all its guises, from silent admiration through passion to tearful resignation. These poems speak of the universal experiences of the heart and are brought to life with Chris''s exquisite, intricate artwork.This perfect gift, this book features famous poems, old and new, and a few surprises. Classic verses sit alongside the modern to create the ultimate collection. Includes poems from Neil Gaiman, Nikita Gill, Carol Ann Duffy, E. E. Cummings, Shakespeare, Leonard Cohen, Derek Walcott, Hollie McNish, Kae Tempest, John Betjeman and Roger McGough and many more.Enjoy more poetry with Chris''s Poems to Live Your Life By, one of the Bookseller''s best poetry books of the last twenty-five years.

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A Week in Paris - Rachel Hore

SECRETS FROM THE PAST, UNRAVELLING IN THE PRESENT From the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller comes a gripping and moving story spanning 25 years and World War II, secrets, family and enduring love.The streets of Paris hide a dark past… September, 1937. Kitty Travers enrols at the Conservatoire on the banks of the Seine to pursue her dream of becoming a concert pianist. But then war breaks out and the city of light falls into shadow. Nearly twenty-five years later, Fay Knox, a talented young violinist, visits Paris on tour with her orchestra. She barely knows the city, so why does it feel so familiar? Soon touches of memory become something stronger, and she realises her connection with these streets runs deeper than she ever expected. As Fay traces the past, with only an address in an old rucksack to help her, she discovers dark secrets hidden years ago, secrets that cause her to question who she is and where she belongs…Praise for Rachel Hore's novels: ‘A tour de force. Rachel's Paris is rich, romantic, exotic and mysterious’ JUDY FINNIGAN ‘An elegiac tale of wartime love and secrets’ Telegraph ‘A richly emotional story, suspenseful and romantic, but unflinching in its portrayal ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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The Happy Depressive: In Pursuit of Personal and Political Happiness - Alastair Campbell

Are you happy? Does it matter?Increasingly, governments seem to think so. As the UK government conducts its first happiness survey, Alastair Campbell looks at happiness as a political as well as a personal issue; what it should mean to us, what it means to him. Taking in economic and political theories, he questions how happiness can survive in a grossly negative media culture, and how it could inform social policy. But happiness is also deeply personal. Campbell, who suffers from depression, looks in the mirror and finds a bittersweet reflection, a life divided between the bad and not-so-bad days, where the highest achievements in his professional life could leave him numb, and he can somehow look back on a catastrophic breakdown twenty-five years ago as the best thing that happened to him. He writes too of what he has learned from the recent death of his best friend, further informing his view that the pursuit of happiness is a long game.Originally published as part of the Brain Shots series, the pre-eminent source for high-quality, short-form digital non-fiction.

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A Week in Paris - Rachel Hore

SECRETS FROM THE PAST, UNRAVELLING IN THE PRESENT From the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller comes a gripping and moving story spanning 25 years and World War II, secrets, family and enduring love.The streets of Paris hide a dark past… September, 1937. Kitty Travers enrols at the Conservatoire on the banks of the Seine to pursue her dream of becoming a concert pianist. But then war breaks out and the city of light falls into shadow. Nearly twenty-five years later, Fay Knox, a talented young violinist, visits Paris on tour with her orchestra. She barely knows the city, so why does it feel so familiar? Soon touches of memory become something stronger, and she realises her connection with these streets runs deeper than she ever expected. As Fay traces the past, with only an address in an old rucksack to help her, she discovers dark secrets hidden years ago, secrets that cause her to question who she is and where she belongs…Praise for Rachel Hore's novels: ‘A tour de force. Rachel's Paris is rich, romantic, exotic and mysterious’ JUDY FINNIGAN ‘An elegiac tale of wartime love and secrets’ Telegraph ‘A richly emotional story, suspenseful and romantic, but unflinching in its portrayal ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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The Expressive Body in Life, Art, and Therapy - Daria Halprin

Drawing on her extensive experience in expressive arts therapy, Daria Halprin presents a unique approach to healing through movement and art. She describes the body as the container of one''s entire life experience and movement as a language that expresses and reveals our deepest struggles and creative potentials. Interweaving artistic and psychological processes, she offers a philosophy and methodology that invites the reader to consider the transformational capacity of the arts. In this essential resource for anyone interested in the integration of psychotherapy and the arts, Halprin also presents case studies and a selection of exercises that she has evolved over her career and practised at the Tamalpa Institute for over twenty-five years.

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A Jewish Girl in Paris - Levensohn Melanie

Paris, 1940: The City of Lights under German occupation. Christian, son of a bank director, falls in love with Jewish girl Judith. The young couple secretly plan to flee, but suddenly Judith disappears. Christian begins a frantic search.Montreal, 1982: Shortly before his death, Lica Grunberg confesses to his daughter, Jacobina, that she has an older half-sister, Judith. Lica escaped the Nazis but lost all contact with his first-born daughter. Jacobina must promise her father to find the sister she never knew. But the search languishes for twenty-five years, until Jacobina is spurred on by her much-younger friend Béatrice, a French diplomat experiencing a painful midlife crisis.At the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., they meet Grégoire. Not only does he make Béatrice's head turn, he also finds clues to Judith's whereabouts. Soon the two women discover a dark family secret, stretching over two continents and six decades. It will change their lives forever.

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Financial Shenanigans, Fourth Edition: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks and Fraud in Financial Reports - Howard Schilit, Yoni Engelhart, Jeremy Perl

The bestselling classic from the “Sherlock Holmes of Accounting”—updated to reflect the key case studies and most important lessons from the past quarter century.This fourth edition of the classic guide shines a light on the most shocking frauds and financial reporting offenders of the last twenty-five years, and gives investors the tools they need to detect:•Corporate cultures that incentivize dishonest practices•The latest tricks companies use to exaggerate revenue and earnings•Techniques devised by management to manipulate cash flow as easily as earnings•Companies that use misleading metrics to fool investors about their financial performance•How companies use acquisitions to hide deterioration in their underlying businessThis new edition focuses on the key case studies and most important lessons from the past quarter century, and brings you up to date on accounting chicanery in the global markets. Howard Schilit and his team of renowned forensic accounting experts expose financial reporting miscreants and unveil the latest methods companies use to mislead investors. You’ll learn everything you need to know to unearth deceptive reporting and avoid costly mistakes.

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Running in the Family - Michael Ondaatje

Twenty-five years after leaving his native Sri Lanka for the cool winters of Ontario, a chaotic dream of tropical heat and barking dogs pushes Michael Ondaatje to travel back home and revisit a childhood and a family he never fully understood. Along with his siblings and children, Ondaatje gathers rumours, anecdotes, poems, records and memories to piece together this fragmented portrayal of his family's past, his father's destructive alcoholism and the colourful stories and secrets of ancestors both disgraced and adored throughout centuries of Sri Lankan society.In an exotic, evocative portrait of the heat, wildlife, sounds and silences of the Sri Lankan landscape, Ondaatje combines vivid recreations of a privileged, eccentric older generation with a deeply personal reconciliatory journey in which he explores his own ghosts, and how his family's extraordinary history continues to influence his life.

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Provence od A do Z - Peter Mayle

Anglický spisovatel Peter Mayle, jemuž se Provence stala druhým domovem, pro své věrné i nové čtenáře formou slovníku v heslech uspořádal svůj pohled na tento svérázný, levandulí provoněný kraj. Výběr hesel je ovšem velice osobní - čtenáři se tedy setkají s pestrou směsicí témat, jež autorovi přišla nejpřitažlivější, nejbizarnější, nejzábavnější, nejtypičtější: most v Avignonu a osel, česnek a kruhový objezd, levandule a Pařížané, větry a muzeum vývrtky, zahrady a pastis… Koláž dojmů a zkušeností, kterou Peter Mayle předkládá svým typickým humorným stylem, s nadhledem a zároveň velkou náklonností, propojuje všudypřítomné a pro Francii neodmyslitelné téma: jídlo a pití.

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O lanýžích, šampaňském a jiných požitcích - Peter Mayle

Proč si někdo pořídí další pár bot, ač jich doma má 399, druhou helikoptéru, pátý dům, sud plný kaviáru? Jaké to je mít dům plný služebných, jezdit limuzínou či bydlet v nejlepších hotelech? Peter Mayle chtěl znát odpovědi na tyto otázky, a tak se pustil do několikaletého výzkumu životních zvyklostí bohatých lidí. Všechno si na vlastní kůži vyzkoušel a výsledek s lehkostí a typickým jemným humorem sepsal. Soubor pětadvaceti fejetonů vás provede po světě bohatství a luxusu, dozvíte se, kde si nejlépe pořídit lanýže, abyste nenaletěli, jak přichází na svět pravé šampaňské, kterak si počínat při nákupu starožitností, co vás čeká, když si necháte šít boty na míru, či proč je vlastně lépe služebnictvo vůbec nemít. K bohatství však patří i útraty nedobrovolné, jako jsou právníci, tajné milenky či spropitné, a i o nich dovede Peter Mayle psát, jak je u něho ostatně zvykem, nadmíru zábavně.

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Hotel Pastis - Peter Mayle

Simon Shaw si zdánlivě nemá nač stěžovat: je mu dvaačtyřicet, je zdravý, bohatý a úspěšný. Jenomže se zrovna rozvedl a jeho bývalá žena se ho snaží připravit nejen o spoustu peněz, ale (za vydatného přispění jeho klientů) i o všechnu energii. Na radu svého majordoma, přítele i důvěrníka Ernesta se Simon vydává odpočívat do jižní Francie. Náhoda (či nehoda) uvězní Simona v jedné luberonské vesnici a přivede mu do cesty okouzlující Nicole, která ho nadchne pro úžasný plán: koupit ve vsi opuštěnou četnickou stanici s nádherným výhledem do kraje a proměnit ji v útulný provensálský hotýlek. Simon, Nicole a pochopitelně Ernest se po hlavě vrhnou do nového života. Všechno běží jako na drátkách, idyla je na spadnutí…, bohužel však dojde k vyloupení banky v blízkém městečku, což otevře hráz povodni neblahých událostí a nepříjemných odhalení, které ohrožují ráj na zemi, jenž si Simon hodlal vybudovat. Hoteliérem v ráji aneb Loupež po provensálsku O autorovi Peter Mayle (1939-2018) byl jedním z nejznámějších současných anglických spisovatelů. Dlouho žil v USA a pracoval v reklamní agentuře, poté se stal novinářem, publicistou a spisovatelem na plný úvazek. Koncem 80. let 20. století se přestěhoval do Francie s odhodláním napsat román. Výsledkem jeho snah se ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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Podfuk s diamanty - Peter Mayle

Bonviván, světák, labužník a příležitostný detektiv Sam Lewitt se opět vrací z Los Angeles do kouzelné a sluncem zalité Provence. Když jedné dámě z místní společenské smetánky náhle zmizí diamanty, Elena, Samova partnerka jak v lásce, tak v řešení zapeklitých situací, přiletí prošetřit událost pro pojišťovnu, pro kterou pracuje. Tato krádež je však jen tou poslední v sérii zdánlivě vzájemně nesouvisejících, avšak čím dále tím více odvážných loupeží. Elena se do vyšetřování pustí ráda, protože jí to umožní nejen setkat se opět se starými přáteli, ale zejména se Samem. Spolu pak postupně zjistí, že ty odvážné a "dokonalé" loupeže mají společného jmenovatele. Čím více podrobností odkrývají, tím jasněji si uvědomují, jak nebezpečné může být odhalit plnou pravdu... Mezitím však je třeba přebudovat jeden starý dům, dělit se o láhve rosé a vychutnávat plody provensálského léta. Peter Mayle (*1939 v Brightonu) patří k nejznámějším současným anglickým spisovatelům. Jako dítě žil nějaký čas na Barbadosu, kde po válce pracoval jeho otec. Školu opustil v šestnácti letech a po návratu do Anglie nastoupil do zaměstnání u Shell Oil. Brzy ho zlákala reklama a ve dvaceti letech přesídlil do USA, kde 15 let pracoval v reklamní agentuře. Od roku 1975 se stal novinářem, publicistou ... Unknown localization key: "more"

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