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Train Songs - Don Paterson, Sean O'Brien
''This is the night mail crossing the border,Bringing the cheque and the postal order...'' -- W.H. AudenWordsworth was the first laureate of locomotives: in fact he railed against them, and against the consequent opening up of the Lakes to holiday hordes (''On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway''). His dismay was echoed down the decades by disturbed ruralists, and yet the train has become part of our psychic landscape: some of the best-loved English poems - Edward Thomas''s ''Adlestrop'', or Philip Larkin''s ''Whitsun Weddings'' - have celebrated carriages, platforms and waiting rooms, while locomotion has inspired some of the most characteristic poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Stevenson, Hardy and MacNeice, Betjeman and Auden (whose ''Night Mail'' was written to accompany a 1930s GPO documentary about the postal express from Euston to Glasgow).Co-edited by two of our most distinguished poets, Train Songs offers a round tour - from Wordsworth to Hugo Williams and beyond - starting from the poetry of departures and brief encounters, but taking in the American Blues, the troop trains of two world wars, and the addiction to speed which characterised the European revolutions. Trains have carried the freight of history from the Industrial Revolution onwards - ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Landing Light - Don Paterson
WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2003Landing Light is Don Paterson''s most accomplished and spiritual collection to date. In these poems, he guides us down the labyrinths of our deepest and most private concerns, pursuing the intimacy that the spoken - as well as the printed - word brings. Ceaselessly inquiring, deftly tuned into the emotional crackle of the world, Paterson explores the swings of light and dark that mark our most troubling feelings: utterance and silence, disclosure and concealment, and ultimately the need to both renew and to face finality.''I couldn''t get Don Paterson''s brilliant Landing Light out of my head.'' Spectator''The most animated and animating volume of new poems I have read for years.'' Times Literary Supplement
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It Says Here - Sean O'Brien
It Says Here is Sean O’Brien’s follow-up to his celebrated collection Europa, and has a vision as rich and wide-ranging as its predecessor. Set against shorter, ruthlessly focused pieces – vicious and scabrous political sketches and satires charting the growth of extremism and the disintegration of democracy – are meditations on the imaginative life, dream and remembrance, time and recurrence. There are elegies for friends and fellow poets; paranoiac, brooding pastorals; other poems lay bare the maddening trials of a historically literate mind as it attempts to navigate a world gone post-content, post-intellectual, and at times post-memory. At the centre of the book is the long poem Hammersmith, a shadowy, cinematic dream-vision of England during and since the Second World War. Here, O’Brien charts a psychogeographic journey through the English countryside and the haunted precincts of London, mapping a labyrinth of love, madness and lost history. The result is a stirring, illuminating document of a time of immense societal flux and upheaval by one of our finest poets and most insightful cultural commentators.''In both technical mastery and his belief in the seriousness of the poetic art, O’Brien is WH Auden’s true inheritor.'' Irish Times
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Selected Poems - Don Paterson
Since his debut, Nil Nil, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1993, Don Paterson has lit up the poetry scene in the U.K. His dazzling, intensely lyric and luminous verse has delighted readers ever since, and won many awards along the way. God''s Gift Women took the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1997, Landing Light won it again in 2003 and the Whitbread Award besides, and Rain (2009), his most recent collection, won the Queen''s Gold Medal for Poetry. This selection, drawn from twenty years of work, is made by the author himself and includes not only those poems from his four single volumes, but his thrilling and original adaptations of the poems of Antonio Machado and Rainer Maria Rilke. For any readers unfamiliar with Don Paterson''s work, this Selected Poems offers the perfect introduction to this most captivating of writers; and for fans, an essential gathering from a master craftsman.
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Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets - Don Paterson
Shakespeare''s Sonnets are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago. Perhaps no collection of verse before or since has so captured the imagination of readers and lovers; certainly no poem has come under such intense critical scrutiny, and presented the reader with such a bewildering number of alternative interpretations. In this illuminating and often irreverent guide, Don Paterson offers a fresh and direct approach to the Sonnets, asking what they can still mean to the twenty-first century reader.In a series of fascinating and highly entertaining commentaries placed alongside the poems themselves, Don Paterson discusses the meaning, technique, hidden structure and feverish narrative of the Sonnets, as well as the difficulties they present for the modern reader. Most importantly, however, he looks at what they tell us about William Shakespeare the lover - and what they might still tell us about ourselves.
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Toy Fights - Don Paterson
‘A classic of its kind.’ William Boyd‘Thought-provoking, hilarious, sardonic and scarily brilliant.’ Scotsman‘A work of dazzling craft.’ Times Literary Supplement‘A memoir in a million.’ Sunday Times** Chosen as a Time Book of the Year ** Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He spent his boyhood on a council housing estate.When he wasn’t busy dreading his birthdays, dodging kids who wanted to kill him in a game of toy fights,working with his country-and-western singer dad, obsessing over God, origami, sex or Scottish football cards, he was developing a sugar addiction, playing guitar and descending into madness.While he didn’t manage to figure out who he was meant to be, the first twenty years of his life – before he took a chance, packed his guitar and boarded a train to London – did, for better or worse, shape who he would become‘A book that swan-dives into the filthy waters of growing up and resurfaces clear-eyed, bearing pearls.’ Financial Times ‘Paterson is arguably Scotland’s finest writer at work today, his sense of the absurd is acutely honed, his wisdom hard-won.’ The National‘Wonderful, aggressively wise and always – especially at its most serious – devastatingly funny.’ Geoff Dyer
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The Dream Train: Poems for Bedtime - Sean Taylor
“Full of reassurance and magic.†Sunday TimesFrom Sean Taylor, the author of Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise, and the illustrator of Little Green Donkey, Anuska Allepuz, comes a stunning original bedtime poetry collection to comfort, inspire and reassure little children. From best-selling picture book author, Sean Taylor, comes his first ever poetry collection for children. The Dream Train is a handsome new collection of original bedtime poetry perfect for sharing whilst tucked up in bed, written for the very young. Filled with 30 warm, joyful and atmospheric poems of every kind – from the funny to the gentle, from the surprising to the lyrical – each capture the experience of falling or being asleep, in a pure, emotional way and celebrates the wonderful, busy, imaginative minds of little children. Some poems read like a soothing mantra, helping lull small ones to sleep, others will plant a seed of inspiration to take children bravely and boldly into the next day. This gift of a book takes readers on a visual and imaginative journey into dreamland, and beyond, and showcases the incredibly rich and inviting artwork of Anuska Allepuz. “An original collection for the very young, featuring funny, gentle, surprising and lyrical ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Penguin Modern Poets 4 - Nick Laird, Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson
Other Ways to Leave the Room features the work of three of the most beloved and lauded poets currently at large. Between them, Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson and Nick Laird write lyrical, luminous and often darkly witty poems about the rugged wildness of the Scottish landscape; about fatherhood; about whisky-drinking, alcohol abuse and tenement life; about sex, love and the pursuit of the spiritual; about childhood in the Ireland of the Troubles, and about the strange possibilities of the technological future. What all three have in common is an ability to combine observations of gritty real life with a sense of the mythical proportions always lurking just under the surface of the everyday.The Penguin Modern Poets are succinct guides to the richness and diversity of contemporary poetry. Every volume brings together representative selections from the work of three poets now writing, allowing the curious reader and the seasoned lover of poetry to encounter the most exciting voices of our moment.
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Orpheus - Don Paterson
Rainer Maria Rilke''s 55 Sonnets to Orpheus remain a testimony to a writer whose significance other poets continue to testify to. Don Paterson''s translation offers a radiant and at times distressing version of the great work.
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The Fall at Home - Don Paterson
Aphorisms have been described as ''the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose'' (New Yorker) – short pithy statements that capture the essence of the human condition in all its shades. In this New and Selected, master of the form Don Paterson brings the best examples from his two previous volumes together with ingenious new material relevant to today''s world. Moving and mischievous, canny and profound – these wide-ranging observations of no more than one or two lines demonstrate that the aphorism is the perfect form for our times. Consciousness is the turn the universe makes to hasten its own end. * Agnosticism is indulged only by those who have never suffered belief. * Poet: someone in the aphorism business for the money.
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Embark - Sean O'Brien
Embark is a monumental piece of work: this is OÂ’Brien in his late, Audenesque, hyper-authoritative mode, and the collection has a number of straight-to-the-anthology pieces about mortality, history and culture – steeped, as usual, with great and grim humor, wonderful music and the kind of literate and culturally informed wisdom that is increasingly rare in these deeply thick times. Â
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The Poem - Don Paterson
The Poem attempts to answer several questions: what is a poem? In what way is its use of language distinct? What conditions allow it to arise, and what is its cultural purpose? And how, exactly, do poems work? Part polemic, part technical treatise and part meditation, The Poem is an ambitious contemporary ars poetica. Paterson looks at the writing, transmission and reading of poetry with wit and scholarly flair, drawing together literary analysis, linguistics, metaphysics, psychology and cognitive science in a thorough exploration of how and why poems are composed.The Poem takes the form of three long essays. ‘Lyric’ attends to the music and sound patterns of poetry, and the way in which they work to deepen poetic sense; ‘Sign’ develops a new theory of metaphor, metonym and symbol, and looks at how ideas of ‘meaning’ change under poetic conditions; ‘Metre’ addresses poetry’s relationship to time and to the rhythms of speech, then builds a theory of prosody from the ground up, proposing some radical correctives to existing metrical theory along the way.Through his various professional guises – as major prize-winning poet, as Professor of Poetry at the University of St Andrews and as Poetry Editor at Picador Macmillan – ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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The Arctic - Don Paterson
‘The Arctic’ in Don Paterson’s powerful new collection is the name of a bar frequented by the survivors of several kinds of apocalypse. The poems gathered here are as various as the clientele: elegies for the poet’s musician father; tales of the love lives of gods and the childhoods of psychopaths; troubled encounters between men and women; odes to movies and the male anatomy; studies of art and ambition, politics and parenthood. Other voices enter the fray in renderings of Cavafy, Montale and the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. And in the fourth part of Paterson’s ongoing poem ‘The Alexandrian Library’, the poet-as-amateur scientist – from a weather station at the top of Ben Nevis to the cellar of The Arctic – bears witness to the imminence of man-made extinction. By turns urgent, railing and tender, these are poems of and for our times, by one of our most celebrated and formally adventurous writers.
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Babu Train Podpěry
Podpěry Babu Train jsou univerzální stavební díly pro rozšíření dřevěných vláčkodrah. Jsou kompatibilní s řadou značek včetně Maxim, Brio, Bino, Heros a Thomas. Balení obsahuje 4 dílky z kombinace dřeva a plastu vhodné pro děti od 3 let.
- Kvalitní dřevěný materiál zajišťující odolnost
- Univerzální kompatibilita s hlavními značkami vláčkodrah
- Jednoduché rozšíření stávající dráhy pro větší zábavu
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Babu Train Kolej zatáčka 10cm 4 ks
Kolejová zatáčka od Babu Train je stavební dílek pro rozšíření dřevěné vláčkodráhy. Je kompatibilní s řadou značek jako Maxim, Brio nebo Bino. Balení obsahuje 4 kusy zatáček o délce 10 cm každá.
- Kvalitní dřevěný materiál zajišťující odolnost
- Univerzální kompatibilita s hlavními značkami dřevěných vláčkodrah
- Balení obsahuje 4 kusy pro okamžité rozšíření dráhy
- Bezpečné pro děti od 3 let
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Babu Train Kolej Y 16cm 2ks
Kolej tvaru Y od značky Babu Train umožňuje rozšíření dřevěných vláčkodrah. Dva 16cm díly jsou kompatibilní s dráhami jako Maxim, Brio nebo Bino. Výrobek je vhodný pro děti od 3 let a kombinuje dřevěný a plastový materiál.
- Kvalitní dřevěný materiál zajišťující odolnost
- Univerzální kompatibilita s hlavními značkami vláčkodrah
- Jednoduché rozšíření stávající dráhy o nové možnosti
- Bezpečný výrobek vhodný pro děti od 3 let
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adidas TRAIN ESSENTIALS TEE Dámské zkrácené tričko, fialová, velikost
Dámské zkrácené tričko adidas TRAIN ESSENTIALS nabízí přiléhavý střih pro pohodlí. Zpevňující konstrukce FreeLift zajišťuje volný pohyb, včetně zvedání rukou nad hlavu. Savý materiál AEROREADY účinně odvádí vlhkost během náročného cvičení.
- Přiléhavý střih pro pohodlí a podporu
- Technologie FreeLift pro neomezený pohyb
- Materiál AEROREADY udržující sucho při tréninku
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adidas TRAIN ESSENTIALS SHORTS Pánské šortky, šedá, velikost S 7"
Pánské šortky adidas TRAIN ESSENTIALS jsou vyrobeny z prodyšného materiálu s technologií AEROREADY pro odvod vlhkosti. Jsou vhodné na intenzivní cvičení jako kalistenika, posilování nebo HIIT. Dostupné v šedé barvě a velikosti S s délkou 7 palců.
- Měkký a prodyšný materiál pro pohodlí při pohybu
- Technologie AEROREADY odvádí vlhkost a udržuje sucho
- Univerzální design vhodný na různé typy tréninků
- Praktická délka 7 palců pro volnost pohybu
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Comansi Želvy Ninja Don
Figurka Don ze série Želvy Ninja od značky Comansi je vyrobena z plastu a měří 8 cm na výšku i šířku. Je vhodná pro děti od tří let a slouží jako sběratelský předmět nebo dárek. Postavička věrně zobrazuje oblíbeného hrdinu z animovaných filmů.
- Vysoká kvalita a detailní zpracování z plastu
- Ideální velikost 8 cm pro dětskou hru i sběratelství
- Bezpečný a odolný materiál vhodný pro děti od 3 let
- Perfektní jako dárek nebo doplněk k existující sbírce
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All Aboard the Shapes Train - Oxford Children's Books, Sean Sims
Hop on board our amazing train for a fun-filled learning journey! We''re at the station and ready to go. We''re off to explore shapes, playtime and so much more. All aboard everyone!''This beautifully illustrated and engaging story introduces shape recognition, a key early learning skill. It is great to share with young children. Visit the park, the playground, the boating lake and the funfair to spot circles, squares, triangles, patterns and lots more! With lots to learn, spot, count and talk about on every page, this brilliant train ride is worth taking again and again!
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Queen of the North - Anne O'Brien
From Sunday Times bestseller Anne O’Brien . . .To those around her she was a loyal subject. In her heart she was a traitor.1399: England’s crown is under threat. King Richard II holds onto his power by an ever-weakening thread, with exiled Henry of Lancaster back to reclaim his place on the throne.For Elizabeth Mortimer, there is only one rightful King – her eight-year-old nephew, Edmund. Only he can guarantee her fortunes, and protect her family’s rule over the precious Northern lands bordering Scotland.But many, including Elizabeth’s husband, do not want another child-King. Elizabeth must hide her true ambitions in Court, and go against her husband’s wishes to help build a rebel army.To question her loyalty to the King places Elizabeth in the shadow of the axe.To concede would curdle her Plantagenet blood.This is one woman’s quest to turn history on its head.‘O’Brien is now approaching Philippa Gregory status’ Reader’s Digest‘O’Brien is a terrific storyteller’ Daily Telegraph‘O’Brien cleverly intertwines the personal and political’ The TimesPraise for Queen of the North:‘Once more Anne O’Brien takes her readers on an emotional rollercoaster ride…Elizabeth Mortimer’s story joins the growing list of female lives Anne has gloriously rescued from history’s recycling skip’ Joanna Hickson‘Enthralling ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Paterson - Williams William Carlos
Paterson is both a place--the New Jersey city in whom the person (the poet's own life) and the public (the history of the region) are combined. Originally four books (published individually between 1946 and 1951), the structure of Paterson (in Dr. Williams' words) follows the course of teh Passaic River from above the great falls to its entrance into the sea. The unexpected Book Five, published in 1958, affirms the triumphant life of the imagination, in spite of age and death. This revised edition has been meticulously re-edited by Christopher MacGowan, who has supplied a wealth of notes and explanatory material.
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The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho - Joseph Paterson
''Absolutely loving this . . . A great storyteller and a fabulous actor. Well done, sir!'' DAVID HAREWOOD, actor and author of Maybe I Don''t Belong Here''Phenomenal! Highly recommended'' MALORIE BLACKMAN, author of Noughts and Crosses ''Sings with the words of a man who survives his struggles, and expresses himself through music, language and love'' GRETCHEN GERZINA, author, historian and academicMeet Charles Ignatius Sancho: his extraordinary story, hidden for three hundred years, is about to be told.I had little right to live, born on a slave ship where my parents both died. But I survived, and indeed, you might say I did more...It''s 1746 and Georgian London is not a safe place for a young Black man, especially one who has escaped slavery. After the twinkling lights in the Fleet Street coffee shops are blown out and the great houses have closed their doors for the night, Sancho must dodge slave catchers and worse. The man he hoped would help - a kindly duke who taught him to write - is dying. Sancho is desperate and utterly alone.So how does Charles Ignatius Sancho meet the King, write and play highly acclaimed music, become the first Black person to vote in ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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A Brief History of Life in Victorian Britain - Michael Paterson
The Victorian era has dominated the popular imagination like no other period, but these myths and stories also give a very distorted view of the 19th century. The early Victorians were much stranger that we usually imagine, and their world would have felt very different from our own and it was only during the long reign of the Queen that a modern society emerged in unexpected ways. Using character portraits, events, and key moments Paterson brings the real life of Victorian Britain alive - from the lifestyles of the aristocrats to the lowest ranks of the London slums. This includes the right way to use a fan, why morning visits were conducted in the afternoon, what the Victorian family ate and how they enjoyed their free time, as well as the Victorian legacy today - convenience food, coffee bars, window shopping, mass media, and celebrity culture.Praise for Dicken''s London:Out of the babble of voices, Michael Paterson has been able to extract the essence of London itself. Read this book and re-enter the labyrinth of a now-ancient city.'' Peter Ackroyd
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Hitler's Brandenburgers - Lawrence Paterson
‘A fitting tribute to Germany's clandestine warriors, and a guarantee that their extraordinary efforts have not been relegated to comparative obscurity or entirely forgotten’ - David R Higgins. Hitler's daring and pioneering Brandenburgers special forces served in every German theatre of action. This is the most comprehensive account of an unusual and profoundly successful band of men. Lawrence Paterson traces the origins of the small unit, before the outbreak of war in 1939, as the brainchild of Admiral Canaris and part of his Abwehr intelligence unit through through to its breaking up in 1944 when it was largely converted to a, conventional Panzergrenadier division. At that point, many Brandenburgers transferred to Otto Skorzeny’s SS Jägdverbände. It is well-known that German troops disguised themselves as Allied troops for the Battle of the Bulge - but less well known the Brandenburger operations used such disguises - more effectively -in in advance of the Blitzkrieg in 1939-41. Despite their profound success as commando raiding troops their history has been overshadowed by equivalent Allied units and largely ignored. However, within North Africa the Brandenburgers employed similar techniques to the SAS and LRDG, at first earning Erwin Rommel’s disapproval for their unorthodox methods until he ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Sean Connery James Bond kolekce (6 BLU-RAY)
Blu-ray kolekce obsahuje filmy: Dr. No, Srdečné pozdravy z Ruska, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Žiješ jenom dvakrát, Diamanty jsou věčné. Český dabing. Dr. No (BLU-RAY) Jmenuje se Bond. James Bond. A v téhle strhující bondovské prvotině se nesmrtelný hrdina spisovatele lana Fleminga pouští do jednoho ze svých nejnapínavějších dobrodružství. Sean Connery jako uhlazený, ale chladnokrevný agent 007 stojí tváří v tvář tajemnému dr. No - geniálnímu vědci, který je zapleten do pokusu o zničení amerického vesmírného programu. Bonusy: · Komentář režiséra Terence Younga, herců a tvůrců · Filmy o filmu: 007 - Licence obnovena, Premiérové promítání Bonda, Zbraně Jamese Bonda, Terence Young: Bond Vivant, Náhled do zákulisí, Dr. No 1963 · 007 - Řízení mise: interaktivní průvodce světem Dr. No · Trailery · Televizní a rozhlasové spoty · Databáze fotografií Srdečné pozdravy z Ruska (BLU-RAY) Sean Connery se vrací jako James Bond a s ním i napínavé dobrodružství, nevšední protivníci krásné ženy a exotické lokace! Tentokrát Bond soupeří se zločinnou organizací Spectre v honbě za sovětským dešifrovacím zařízením, během níž se zaplétá do napínavé honičky na lodích, zákeřného útoku vrtulníku a smrtícího souboje na palubě Orient Expressu. Bonusy: · Komentáře režiséra Terence Younga a dalších tvůrců a herců · Filmy o filmy: ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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The Scandalous Duchess - Anne O'Brien
A Sunday Times BestsellerEngland’s Forgotten Queens‘O’Brien cleverly intertwines the personal and political in this enjoyable, gripping tale.’-The TimesWidow Lady Katherine Swynford presents herself for a role in the household of merciless royal prince John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, hoping to end her destitution. But the Duke’s scandalous proposition leaves her life of pious integrity reeling…Seduced by the glare of royal adoration, Katherine becomes John’s mistress. She will leave behind everything she has stood for to play second fiddle to his young wife and ruthless ambition. She will live in the shadows of the most powerful man in England in the hope of a love greater than propriety.But soon the court whispers – whore, harlot, vile temptress – reach the ears of not just John’s bride but his most dangerous political enemies. As the Plantagenet prince is accused of bringing England to its knees, who better to blame than shameless she-devil Katherine Swynford?Dragged from the shadows, Katherine must answer for her sins.Praise for Anne O’Brien‘O’Brien cleverly intertwines the personal and political in this enjoyable, gripping tale.’- The Times‘A gem of a subject … O’Brien is a terrific storyteller’- Daily Telegraph‘Joanna of Navarre is the feisty heroine in Anne O’Brien’s fast-paced ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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War and Power - Phillips Payson O'Brien
'Phillips O'Brien is one of the keenest observers of modern strategy, and his new book takes a deep historical look at the evolution of warfare and its implications for conflicts like the ongoing one in Ukraine' Francis Fukuyama--------------------War and power are two of the most-widely discussed issues in all of human history, and yet they are, time and again, misunderstood often disastrously so.Whilst we might think the outcome of war is determined by so-called Great Powers who dominate their opponents with their impressive size and military prowess, the reality of modern conflict, as renowned strategic historian Professor Phillips Payson O Brien demonstrates, is very different. He urges us instead to look for Full Spectrum Powers .For if we are considering how powerful a nation is and who will win a war, we need to think less about weapons, and more about the economies and societies that produce them; less about individual battles, and more about sustaining campaigns and alliances in which states operate.Using fascinating examples from the late 19th century to the present day, War and Power explains how misunderstanding war and power has led to terrible, even preventable conflicts such as the war in Ukraine and how more accurate ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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A Tapestry of Treason - Anne O'Brien
‘Gripping’ The Times‘Fans of Philippa Gregory and other historical fiction writers will love Anne O’Brien’s A Tapestry of Treason’ YoursHer actions could make history – but at what price?1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York.Surrounded by power-hungry men, including her aggressively self-centred husband Thomas and ruthless siblings Edward and Richard, Constance places herself at the heart of two treasonous plots against King Henry IV. Will it be possible for this Plantagenet family to safeguard its own political power by restoring either King Richard II to the throne, or the precarious Mortimer claimant?Although the execution of these conspiracies will place them all in jeopardy, Constance is not deterred, even when the cost of her ambition threatens to overwhelm her. Even when it endangers her new-found happiness.With treason, tragedy, heartbreak and betrayal, this is the story of a woman ahead of her time, fighting for herself and what she believes to be right in a world of men.Praise for A Tapestry of Treason‘O’Brien’s page-turner vividly brings to life the restriction of women, and the compassion and strength of this real-life figure from medieval ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Wesley - Stacey O'Brien
On Valentine''s Day 1985, biologist Stacey O''Brien met a four-day-old baby barn owl - a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet had no hope of surviving on his own in the wild. O''Brien, then a young assistant in the owl laboratory at Caltech, was immediately smitten, promising to care for the helpless owlet and give him a permanent home. Wesley is the funny, poignant story of their dramatic two decades together.As Wesley grew, O''Brien snapped photos of him at every stage, recording his life from a helpless ball of fuzz to a playful, clumsy adolescent to a gorgeous, gold-and-white, adult owl with a heart-shaped face and an outsize personality that belied his 18-inch stature. When O''Brien develops her own life-threatening illness, the biologist who saved the life of a helpless baby bird is herself rescued from death by the insistent love and courage of this wild animal.Wesley is a thoroughly engaging, heart-warming, often funny story of a complex, emotional, non-human being capable of reason, play, and, most important, love and loyalty.
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Boxspringová postel BRIEN 3 Tempo Kondela
BOXSPRINGOVÁ POSTEL BRIEN 3 Obdivujete-li v amerických filmech vysoké kontinentální postele, tímto kouskem z naší nabídky postelí vám určitě brnkneme na tu pravou notu. Kontinentální postele se často označují také jako boxspringové. Na první pohled působí luxusně a noblesně, a takhle se budete cítit i vy každé ráno. Po luxusním spánku vám nic nebude bránit s grácií začít nový den. Boxspringová kontinentální postel BRIEN vyniká mezi ostatními postelemi vysokým a širokým čelem s dekorativním prošíváním v geometrickém vzoru. Postel je čalouněna kvalitní látkou Inari v jemném šedém provedení. Postel je k dispozici ve dvou rozměrech. 160 x 200 cm 180 x 200 cm Výběr barvy zvolte ve variantě produktu. Pokud Vámi vybraná varianta není ve výběru, je dočasně nedostupná. UNIKÁTNÍ MATERIÁLY Součástí postele je i matrace, která se postará o dokonalý a ničím nerušený spánek. Konstrukce postele je dřevěná, pevná a zaručuje nosnost na jedno lůžko až 120 kg. Konstrukci uzavírá roštová deska, která nahrazuje klasický lamelový rošt. Na ní je matrace, která obsahuje kvalitní jádro z bonelových pružin. Na ní je vrchní matrace, tzv. topper. Kombinace dvou matrací zaručuje, že se dokonale přizpůsobí vašemu tělu a páteři. Vyspěte se dorůžova na posteli BRIEN. MATRACE Z BONELOVÝCH PRUŽIN V bonelové ... Unknown localization key: "more"
Objev podobné jako Boxspringová postel BRIEN 3 Tempo Kondela
Boxspringová postel BRIEN 3 Tempo Kondela
BOXSPRINGOVÁ POSTEL BRIEN 3 Obdivujete-li v amerických filmech vysoké kontinentální postele, tímto kouskem z naší nabídky postelí vám určitě brnkneme na tu pravou notu. Kontinentální postele se často označují také jako boxspringové. Na první pohled působí luxusně a noblesně, a takhle se budete cítit i vy každé ráno. Po luxusním spánku vám nic nebude bránit s grácií začít nový den. Boxspringová kontinentální postel BRIEN vyniká mezi ostatními postelemi vysokým a širokým čelem s dekorativním prošíváním v geometrickém vzoru. Postel je čalouněna kvalitní látkou Inari v jemném šedém provedení. Postel je k dispozici ve dvou rozměrech. 160 x 200 cm 180 x 200 cm Výběr barvy zvolte ve variantě produktu. Pokud Vámi vybraná varianta není ve výběru, je dočasně nedostupná. UNIKÁTNÍ MATERIÁLY Součástí postele je i matrace, která se postará o dokonalý a ničím nerušený spánek. Konstrukce postele je dřevěná, pevná a zaručuje nosnost na jedno lůžko až 120 kg. Konstrukci uzavírá roštová deska, která nahrazuje klasický lamelový rošt. Na ní je matrace, která obsahuje kvalitní jádro z bonelových pružin. Na ní je vrchní matrace, tzv. topper. Kombinace dvou matrací zaručuje, že se dokonale přizpůsobí vašemu tělu a páteři. Vyspěte se dorůžova na posteli BRIEN. MATRACE Z BONELOVÝCH PRUŽIN V bonelové ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Boxspringová postel BRIEN 2 Tempo Kondela
BOXSPRINGOVÁ POSTEL BRIEN 2 Obdivujete-li v amerických filmech vysoké kontinentální postele, tímto kouskem z naší nabídky postelí vám určitě brnkneme na tu pravou notu. Kontinentální postele se často označují také jako boxspringové. Na první pohled působí luxusně a noblesně, a takhle se budete cítit i vy každé ráno. Po luxusním spánku vám nic nebude bránit s grácií začít nový den. Boxspringová kontinentální postel BRIEN vyniká mezi ostatními postelemi vysokým a širokým čelem s dekorativním prošíváním v geometrickém vzoru. Postel je čalouněna kvalitní látkou Inari v jemném šedém provedení. Postel je k dispozici ve dvou rozměrech. 160 x 200 cm 180 x 200 cm Výběr barvy zvolte ve variantě produktu. Pokud Vámi vybraná varianta není ve výběru, je dočasně nedostupná. UNIKÁTNÍ MATERIÁLY Součástí postele je i matrace, která se postará o dokonalý a ničím nerušený spánek. Konstrukce postele je dřevěná, pevná a zaručuje nosnost na jedno lůžko až 120 kg. Konstrukci uzavírá roštová deska, která nahrazuje klasický lamelový rošt. Na ní je matrace, která obsahuje kvalitní jádro z bonelových pružin. Na bonelové matraci je položena další matrace z taštičkových pružin pevně očalouněná potahovou látkou. Pružiny jsou obaleny v taštičkách, díky čemuž je matrace mnohem příjemnější a citlivější ke spacímu. Na ní ... Unknown localization key: "more"
Objev podobné jako Boxspringová postel BRIEN 2 Tempo Kondela
Boxspringová postel BRIEN 2 Tempo Kondela
BOXSPRINGOVÁ POSTEL BRIEN 2 Obdivujete-li v amerických filmech vysoké kontinentální postele, tímto kouskem z naší nabídky postelí vám určitě brnkneme na tu pravou notu. Kontinentální postele se často označují také jako boxspringové. Na první pohled působí luxusně a noblesně, a takhle se budete cítit i vy každé ráno. Po luxusním spánku vám nic nebude bránit s grácií začít nový den. Boxspringová kontinentální postel BRIEN vyniká mezi ostatními postelemi vysokým a širokým čelem s dekorativním prošíváním v geometrickém vzoru. Postel je čalouněna kvalitní látkou Inari v jemném šedém provedení. Postel je k dispozici ve dvou rozměrech. 160 x 200 cm 180 x 200 cm Výběr barvy zvolte ve variantě produktu. Pokud Vámi vybraná varianta není ve výběru, je dočasně nedostupná. UNIKÁTNÍ MATERIÁLY Součástí postele je i matrace, která se postará o dokonalý a ničím nerušený spánek. Konstrukce postele je dřevěná, pevná a zaručuje nosnost na jedno lůžko až 120 kg. Konstrukci uzavírá roštová deska, která nahrazuje klasický lamelový rošt. Na ní je matrace, která obsahuje kvalitní jádro z bonelových pružin. Na bonelové matraci je položena další matrace z taštičkových pružin pevně očalouněná potahovou látkou. Pružiny jsou obaleny v taštičkách, díky čemuž je matrace mnohem příjemnější a citlivější ke spacímu. Na ní ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Boxspringová postel BRIEN 1 Tempo Kondela
BOXSPRINGOVÁ POSTEL BRIEN 1 Obdivujete-li v amerických filmech vysoké kontinentální postele, tímto kouskem z naší nabídky postelí vám určitě brnkneme na tu pravou notu. Kontinentální postele se často označují také jako boxspringové. Na první pohled působí luxusně a noblesně, a takhle se budete cítit i vy každé ráno. Po luxusním spánku vám nic nebude bránit s grácií začít nový den. Boxspringová kontinentální postel BRIEN vyniká mezi ostatními postelemi vysokým a širokým čelem s dekorativním prošíváním v geometrickém vzoru. Postel je čalouněna kvalitní látkou Inari v jemném šedém provedení. Postel je k dispozici ve dvou rozměrech. 160 x 200 cm 180 x 200 cm Výběr rozměru zvolte ve variantě produktu. Pokud Vámi vybraná varianta není ve výběru, je dočasně nedostupná. UNIKÁTNÍ MATERIÁLY Součástí postele je i matrace, která se postará o dokonalý a ničím nerušený spánek. Konstrukce postele je dřevěná, pevná a zaručuje nosnost na jedno lůžko až 120 kg. Konstrukci uzavírá roštová deska, která nahrazuje klasický lamelový rošt. Na ní je matrace, která obsahuje kvalitní jádro z bonelových pružin. Na bonelové matraci je položena další matrace z taštičkových pružin pevně očalouněná potahovou látkou. Pružiny jsou obaleny v taštičkách, díky čemuž je matrace mnohem příjemnější a citlivější ke spacímu. Na ní ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Boxspringová postel BRIEN 1 Tempo Kondela
BOXSPRINGOVÁ POSTEL BRIEN 1 Obdivujete-li v amerických filmech vysoké kontinentální postele, tímto kouskem z naší nabídky postelí vám určitě brnkneme na tu pravou notu. Kontinentální postele se často označují také jako boxspringové. Na první pohled působí luxusně a noblesně, a takhle se budete cítit i vy každé ráno. Po luxusním spánku vám nic nebude bránit s grácií začít nový den. Boxspringová kontinentální postel BRIEN vyniká mezi ostatními postelemi vysokým a širokým čelem s dekorativním prošíváním v geometrickém vzoru. Postel je čalouněna kvalitní látkou Inari v jemném šedém provedení. Postel je k dispozici ve dvou rozměrech. 160 x 200 cm 180 x 200 cm Výběr rozměru zvolte ve variantě produktu. Pokud Vámi vybraná varianta není ve výběru, je dočasně nedostupná. UNIKÁTNÍ MATERIÁLY Součástí postele je i matrace, která se postará o dokonalý a ničím nerušený spánek. Konstrukce postele je dřevěná, pevná a zaručuje nosnost na jedno lůžko až 120 kg. Konstrukci uzavírá roštová deska, která nahrazuje klasický lamelový rošt. Na ní je matrace, která obsahuje kvalitní jádro z bonelových pružin. Na bonelové matraci je položena další matrace z taštičkových pružin pevně očalouněná potahovou látkou. Pružiny jsou obaleny v taštičkách, díky čemuž je matrace mnohem příjemnější a citlivější ke spacímu. Na ní ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Vidět srdcem - Kevin O'Brien
Respektovaný jezuitský pedagog a duchovní Kevin O’Brien nás zve na cestu smysluplného a vnitřně naplněného života. Provází nás na ní svou osobní zkušeností, moudrostí svatého Ignáce z Loyoly a postřehy mudrců, básníků a umělců všech věků. O’Brien ukazuje, jak uskutečnit svůj potenciál tím, že vstoupíme do svých osobních zápasů s odvahou, před mnoho životních otázek se zvědavostí, když budeme opravdově naslouchat svým nejhlubším touhám a nelekneme se vlastní autenticity. Putování (s) touto knihou jsou vlastně praktická duchovní cvičení, která mají sílu změnit náš pohled na život a učinit ho lepší. Jak píše O’Brien: „Pokud vytrváme na cestě s jejími ukazateli v podobě otázek, můžeme objevit něco pozoruhodného: Bůh, kterého hledáme a zpochybňujeme, ve skutečnosti mnohem víc hledá nás.“Kniha byla okamžitě oceněna:2024 ACP Excellence in Publishing Awards, 1. místo v kategorii spiritualita2024 Asociace katolických nakladatelů, 1. místo v kategorii spirituální klasika
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The Country Girls Trilogy - O'Brien Edna
Edna O''Brien''s beloved classics plunge us into the lives and loves of two girls in rural 1950s Ireland (with a new foreword by Eimear McBride).''The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose – there''s no one like Edna O''Brien.'' Anne Enright''Surprising and beautiful and courageous .. A beacon.'' Megan Nolan ''Brilliant and brave.'' Ann Patchett''Glittering energy.'' Colm TóibÃn ONE OF THE BBC''S ''100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD''Caithleen ''Kate'' Brady and Bridget ''Baba'' Brennan are growing up in a repressive Irish village after World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba is a reckless survivor. After being expelled from convent school, they dream of the bright lights of Dublin - and are rewarded with bad luck and bad sex; marry for the wrong reasons; but continue to fight the expectations forced upon ''girls'' of every era to become brave new women.Edna O''Brien''s debut novels revolutionised Irish literature in the 1960s. Banned by the authorities as ''indecent'' and burned by the clergy, they were notorious for their frank portrayal of sexual desire: but scandal turned to fame, and made this glorious coming-of-age tale an instant classic that inspires and delights readers to this day.
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Country Girl - O'Brien Edna
The iconic memoir from the Irish author of the legendary The Country Girls trilogy.''Get ready to applaud, ladies and gentlemen, because there is no one like her.'' Anne Enright''One of the last great lights of the golden age of Irish literature.'' Eimear McBride''Glittering energy.'' Colm TóibÃnI thought of life''s many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, crossed love and unrequited love, success and failure, fame and slaughter ...Born in Ireland in 1930 and driven into exile after publication of her controversial first novel, The Country Girls, was burned in public, Edna O''Brien is now hailed as one of the most majestic writers of her era - and Country Girl is her fabulous memoir.Born in rural Ireland, O''Brien weaves the tale of her life from convent school to elopement, divorce, single-motherhood, moving on to the wild parties of 1960s bohemian in London, encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans, love and unrequited love, and glamorous trips to America as a celebrity writer.Country Girl is a rich and heady accounting of the events, people, emotions, and landscape that have forged a legendary author. O''Brien recasts her life with the imaginative alchemy of a poet, and ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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The Truth Detective - Alex O'Brien
''Through the lens of her personal experience as a poker player, Alex O''Brien reveals the tricks that can help each of us navigate a world beset with uncertainty and misinformation'' ANGELA SAINI''It''s thrilling'' PHILIP BALL''Deserves to be widely read'' ALOM SHAHASHORTLISTED FOR THE GLOBAL POKER INDEX AWARDSThis is a book about getting to the truth. At the poker table you need certain skills to win. The more Alex O''Brien played competitively, the more she realised those skills are essential in everyday life too. From reading body language to calculating risk, dealing with uncertainty and separating emotion from facts, her toolkit will help you make better decisions and understand what''s happening around you. Offering insights from the latest psychology, neuroscience, game theory and more, you''ll encounter new ideas and ways of thinking from pioneering researchers and experts in their field. With O''Brien as your guide, you''ll learn to see clearly, think carefully and cut through the noise of a complex world.
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At Swim-two-birds - Flann O'Brien
Flann O''Brien''s innovative metafictional work, whose unruly characters strike out their own paths in life to the frustration of their author, At Swim-Two-Birds is a brilliant impressionistic jumble of ideas, mythology and nonsense published in Penguin Modern Classics.Flann O''Brien''s first novel tells the story of a young, indolent undergraduate, who lives with his curmudgeonly uncle in Dubin and spends far too much time drinking with his friends. When not drunk or in bed he likes to invent wild stories peoples with hilarious and unlikely characters - but somehow his creations won''t do what he wants them to. A dazzling work of farce, satire, folklore and absurdity that gives full rein to its author''s dancing intellect and Celtic wit, At Swim-Two-Birds is both a brilliant comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, and a portrayal of Dublin to compare with Joyce''s Ulysses.Brian Ó Nualláin, (1911-1966), better known by his pseudonym Flann O''Brien, was born in Strabane, County Tyrone, and studied at University College Dublin before joining the Irish Civil Service. Ifyou enjoyed At Swim-Two-Birds, you might like Vladimir Nabokov''s Pale Fire, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.''This is just the book to give your sister if she''s a loud, dirty, boozy ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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The Love Object - O'Brien Edna
''O''Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere.'' Alice Munro''The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose – there''s no one like O''Brien.'' Anne Enright''Heart-breaking empathy, rigorous honesty and peerless beauty.'' Eimear McBride''A profound intelligence spurred on by a tangible, fizzing joy.'' Megan Nolan''Brilliant and brave.'' Ann Patchett''A revolution.'' John Banville''Glittering energy.'' Colm TóibÃnSpanning five decades of writing, and winning the Frank O''Connor International Short Story Award, The Love Object collects the most luminous stories by Edna O''Brien that have bewitched generation after generation. Here you will find tales of families, feuds, enchantment, despair, and the manifold bonds of love. There are stories about the tension between country and city life, the instinct towards escape and nostalgia for home; always crafted in shimmering prose.
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America Fantastica - Tim O'Brien
“O’Brien’s first novel in two decades was well worth the wait. . . . In the age of ‘mythomania,’ O’Brien takes aim at the lies that power this country, and how and why they sustain us. America Fantastica peers straight into the dark heart of the American psyche, and it''s unafraid of the comedy and tragedy staring back.” — Esquire, Best Books of the FallAn American Master returns: the author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery sparks “a satirical romp through a country plagued by deceit” (Kirkus, starred review)At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in Northern California.“How much is on hand, would you say?” he asked the teller. “I’ll want it all.”“You’re robbing me?”He revealed a Temptation .38 Special.The teller, a diminutive redhead named Angie Bing, collected eighty-one thousand dollars.Boyd stuffed the cash into a paper grocery bag.“I’m sorry about this,” he said, “but I’ll have to ask you to take a ride with me.”So begins the adventure of Boyd Halverson—star journalist turned notorious online disinformation troll turned JCPenney manager—and his irrepressible hostage, Angie ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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The Illustrated Book of Songs - Colm Boyd
From rockers to ravers, The Illustrated Book of Songs is the book every music lover will want. In quick-witted style, Irish writer Colm Boyd navigates us through lists of classic songs for every occasion. Prepare yourself for fascinating facts, cool illustrations and withering commentary on songs presented in lists such as: Songs about Getting Dumped Songs about Prostitution Songs about Environmental Matters Songs about Being a Complete and Utter Asshole Songs about Gender Identity Alternative Christmas Songs The Illustrated Book of Songs features 70 lists, discussing hundreds of songs from different genres and artists - from Adele to Aretha, Jagger to Jarvis, Rufus to Rosalía. Many of the songs are well-known, others are a little more off-radar. Some have amazing musicality, some have lyrics - quite literally - worthy of a Nobel Prize. Some deal with death, others deal with zebras, one song deals with prostitute-frequenting chess players in Bangkok. You get the idea. Each of the book''s lists is accompanied by a scannable Spotify code, allowing readers to use their smartphones to directly access the songs mentioned. So, time to get reading and get listening. Check out the book''s website for more information: colmboyd.com/the-illustrated-book-of-songs.
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Go Higher - Big Sean
Multi-platinum artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Big Sean shares his five key practices for inner work and self-acceptance in this interactive guidebook on maintaining daily mental wellness. Sean Anderson, better known as Big Sean, has reached incredible levels of success in his music career. And while, from the outside, his life looks like a collection of enviable achievements, in truth, he has experienced the highest highs and the lowest lows that come with anxiety and depression. At the age of eighteen, Sean decided to forgo college to sign with Kanye West’s record label. Even though he saw his wildest dreams coming true, almost like a rap fairytale, he found himself contemplating taking his own life. It was in this, his darkest moments, that he started applying the spiritual practices he’d witnessed his mother embrace throughout his childhood from books like The Four Agreements, The Secret, and many more. From that moment on, Sean has been on a journey of inward reflection, self-acceptance, and continual work to become the best version of himself every day. In these pages he walks you through the five practices—accepting, strategizing, trying, trusting, and manifesting—that have given him the skills and confidence to become the beloved father, ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Not Like Other Dads - Sean Szeps
A fearless, frank and funny memoir about reinventing the rules of parenting Sean had wanted to be a mum since the age of four, when he fell in love with Mrs Potts, the motherly teapot in Beauty and the Beast. But there was just one problem: he was not, in fact, a woman. When he was swept off his feet by a handsome Australian man in New York City, Sean's dreams of marriage and parenthood suddenly became a reality. The only things standing in his way: outdated marriage laws, hundreds of thousands of dollars and a healthy dose of internalised homophobia. Though he had to battle intense family drama, depression and a difficult move to the other side of the world, he succeeded in becoming a father to boy-girl twins. What happens when the traditional parenting rules, 10,000 years in the making, simply don't apply? Not Like Other Dads is a raw, rollicking memoir about gay parents raising kids without a map – or nap. Hilarious and tender, Sean's story helps all of us celebrate who we really are ... empowering straight and queer parents alike to rewrite the parenting script. PRAISE'Will have you laughing, crying and feeling deeply moved ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Jack the Wolf - Oisin Scully, Sean Scully
Sean Scully is a world-renowned abstract painter and one of the leading artists of his generation, whose work is held in major museum collections around the world. In Jack the Wolf, he teamed up with his son Oisin to create a children's fairytale: Sean created the paintings and Oisin created the story. Jack the Wolf lives in a beautiful cave on a short mountain, near Colorfull Town. Jack is a happy and benevolent wolf, with only one weakness: CHOCOLATE. Follow Jack the Wolf through the pages of this beautifully illustrated book by world-renowned artist Sean Scully and his son Oisin Scully, to discover the trouble Jack causes to the children of Colorfull Town in his nightly hunts for chocolate dinners, and how his new friend Rebecca the Rabbit helps him restore happiness to the sad children of the town. The publication of Jack the Wolf coincides with the opening of an exhibition at the Cheim Read Gallery in New York City in September 2023 that will feature the original drawings in the book as well as Sean Scully's abstract paintings and sculpture that link visually to the Jack the Wolf world. The remarkable combination of drawings, sculpture, and paintings will ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Barrie - Sean Laidlaw
The remarkable true story that became a viral news sensation.Former Royal Engineer Sean Laidlaw was working as a bomb disposal expert in Syria when he heard whimpering from the rubble of a school that had exploded and collapsed. Upon further inspection he found that the source of the noise was a tiny, abandoned puppy, surrounded by her four dead siblings. A terrified Barrie initially rejected Sean''s advances - but he refused to give up. He made sure she was safe and brought her food and drink, and cordoned off the area to ensure it was safe from explosives. After a few days Barrie grew to trust Sean and eventually the two became inseparable in the three months he was in Syria.Sean had to return to the UK, leaving Barrie behind. When his contract wasn''t renewed he knew he had to bring Barrie home. The two created an unbreakable bond and they were reunited in emotional scenes that have made headlines all over the world. Sean credits Barrie with helping him with his PTSD and their story is a powerful reminder of the incredible bond that dogs and humans have, and how both can save the other.
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Until the Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead - Sean Thomas Russell
Following the top-ten bestselling success of A Battle Won, Under Enemy Colours and A Ship of War, Sean Thomas Russell''s captivating fourth novel Until The Sea Shall Give Up Her Dead is the maritime adventure of 2014. Under the command of Captain Charles Hayden, Royal Navy frigate HMS Themis is sent to counter the threat of the French forces in the West Indies. In the middle of the vast Atlantic, Hayden discovers two Spanish noblemen, castaway in a ship''s boat - a stroke of almost impossible good fortune. The Spaniards'' explanation for their plight seems so improbable that Hayden''s officers suspect them of being criminals or even spies. But they have secrets far more shocking than that - secrets which will haunt Hayden in his new posting. Upon reaching the Barbados station, Hayden finds himself under the command of the vainglorious Sir William Jones, an impetuous and foolhardy officer. Refusing orders will cost Hayden his command. Accepting them might cost him his ship and crew. UNTIL THE SEA SHALL GIVE UP HER DEAD is the brilliant fourth tale in the epic maritime adventures of Charles Hayden. A masterpiece already rivalling the stories of Bernard Cornwell and Patrick O''Brian. Praise for ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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Audrey Hepburn, an Elegant Spirit - Hepburn Ferrer Sean
Now in paperback, an intimate look at the woman the world adored, by the son who adored her with unique photos, drawings, and other rare Audrey memorabilia.She dazzled millions as Gigi. Eliza Doolittle. Holly Golightly. But to her most adoring fan, Audrey Hepburn was best known for her role as “Mummy.” In this heartfelt tribute to his mother, Sean Hepburn Ferrer offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the life of one of Hollywood''s brightest stars. Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit is a stunning compilation of nearly 300 photographs, many straight from the family album and never before published; archival documents, personal correspondence, and mementos; even paintings and illustrations from the actress herself. Sean tells Audrey Hepburn''s remarkable story, from her childhood in war-torn Holland to the height of her fame to her autumn years far from the camera and the crush of the paparazzi. Sean introduces us to someone whose grace, charm, and beauty were matched only by her insecurity about her appearance and talent, and who used her hard-won recognition as a means to help children less fortunate than her own. With this unique biography, Sean celebrates his mother''s history and humanity—and continues her charitable work by donating ... Unknown localization key: "more"
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