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MICHAEL FOLEY – EMBRACING THE ORDINARY
It has always been difficult to appreciate everyday life, often devalued as dreary, banal and burdensome, and never more so than in a culture besotted with fantasy, celebrity and glamour. Yet many writers, artists, film-makers and photographers have celebrated the ordinary life around them, and many philosophers, anthropologists, psychologists and neuroscientists have offered insights into the difficulties and rewards of paying attention to the here and now. With characteristic wit and earthiness, Michael Foley - author of the bestselling The Age of Absurdity- draws on the work of these artists and thinkers, and encourages us to delight in the complexities of everyday psychopathology. With astute observation, Foley brings fresh insights to such things as the banality of everyday speech, the madness and weirdness of snobbery, love and sex, and the strangeness of everyday objects and the everyday environment, such as the office. It is all more fascinating, comical and mysterious than you think.
Michael Grant – Fear
It's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.
Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear.
Within the FAYZ, life breaks down while the Darkness takes over, literally—turning the dome-world of the FAYZ entirely black. In darkness, the worst fears of all emerge, and the cruelest of intentions are carried out. But even in their darkest moments, the inhabitants of the FAYZ maintain a will to survive and a desire to take care of the others in their ravaged band that endures, no matter what the cost.
Fear, Michael Grant's fifth book in the bestselling dystopian Gone series, will thrill readers . . . even as it terrifies them.
MICHAEL GRANT – HUNGER
Welcome back to the FAYZ! This is Book 2 in the series that Stephen King calls a "driving, torrential narrative."
An uneasy calm has settled over Perdido Beach. But soon, fear explodes into desperation as food supplies dwindle and starvation sets in.
More and more kids are developing strange powers and, just as frighteningly, so are the animals in the FAYZ: talking coyotes, swimming bats and deadly worms with razor-sharp teeth are just the beginning.
For Sam Temple the strain of leadership is beginning to show and he's got more than just dwindling rations and in-fighting to worry about – Caine is back with the psychotic whiphand, Drake, by his side.
And deep in the ground, the biggest danger of all is getting hungry . . .
The GONE series is Lord of the Flies for the 21st century. In turns breathtaking, harrowing, and utterly terrifying. Its complex characters and moral dilemmas will delight fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner. This is dystopian fiction at its best.
MICHAEL GRANT – LIGHT
The sixth book in the New York Times bestselling Gone series by Michael Grant is another masterful, arresting depiction of life in the FAYZ.
It's been over a year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.
In the time since every person over the age of fourteen disappeared from the town of Perdido Beach, California, countless battles have been fought: battles against hunger and lies and plague, and epic battles of good against evil.
And now, the gaiaphage has been reborn as Diana's malicious mutant daughter, Gaia. Gaia is endlessly hungry for destruction. She yearns to conquer her nemesis, Little Pete, and then bend the entire world to her warped will. As long-standing enemies become allies, secrets are revealed and unexpected sacrifices are made. Will their attempts to save themselves and one another matter in the end, or will the kids of Perdido Beach perish in this final power struggle?
"[T]his book is more than satisfying--it is epic."--VOYA (starred review)
MICHAEL JECKS – NO LAW IN THE LAND
The new riveting novel from the West Country's medieval crime master Michael Jecks.
King Edward II is furious when he learns that his wife Queen Isabella has defied him and remains in France with their son. As the unfortunate messengers of this unhappy news, Sir Baldwin de Furnshill, Keeper of the King's Peace, and his friend, bailiff Simon Puttock, are instantly dismissed from court. Returning to their homes in Devon, the pair are shocked to find that outlaws now hold sway in the land. As the chaos escalates, the bodies of two clerics are found among a party of travellers, all of them - men, women and children - savagely murdered...
MICHAEL KORYTA – THE PROPHET
Two brothers with a shared tragic past, caused by a two-second decision that haunts them both. One decides to avenge it. The other, to forgive. Both will pay for their choices - more than they could ever imagine.When he was a teenager, Adam Austin made a decision that led to the death of his little sister.
His brother Kent learned to forgive her murderer but he never forgave Adam.
Twenty years later, Kent is the coach of the successful high school football team in Chambers, Ohio and Adam is the town's bail bondsman - someone people turn to when they need help.
When the girlfriend of one of Kent's star players asks Adam to track down her father who has just been released from prison, Adam agrees. Days later, she is murdered at the address he gave her.
Overwhelmed by guilt in this horrifying echo of the past - Adam is determined to atone for his mistakes.
But this is a game outside of the brothers' control. And every decision they make is matter of life and death . . .
THE PROPHET is the story of family, of guilt and redemption. Epic in its page-turning power, building suspense all the way to its viscerally compelling climax.
MICHAEL MOORCOCK – BREAKFAST IN THE RUINS
MICHAEL OARD – FROZEN IN TIME
Earth’s past is littered with the mysterious and unexplained: the pyramids, Easter Island, Stonehenge, dinosaurs, and the list goes on and on as science looks for clues to decipher these puzzles.
One such mystery surrounds the now-extinct creature called the woolly mammoth. Author and meteorologist Michael Oard has studied the mammoth and its equally mysterious time period, the Ice Age, for many years and has come to some fascinating conclusions to help lift the fog engulfing the facts. Some of the questions he addresses include:
- What would cause the summer temperatures of the northern United States and European to plummet more than 50 degrees Fahrenheit?
- Why did mammoths become extinct across the entire earth at the same time as many other large mammals?
- Why are the mammoth carcasses found generally in standing positions?
- How could large lakes exist in what are today very dry, desert-like places?
- What was the source of the abnormal of moisture necessary for heavy snow?
- What caused the cold summer temperatures and heavy snowfall to persist for hundreds of years?
MICHELLE LOVRIC – THE MOURNING EMPORIUM
Two summers ago, Venice was dying and an 11-year-old girl made her first (so she thought) visit to the city where she instantly felt she belonged. Teodora, it transpired, was the undrowned child, destined to save Venice from its long-standing enemy, Bajamonte Tiepolo, the traitor. According to a long ago prophecy, Teo and Renzo (the studious son) were the only people equipped to defeat the baddened magic that the traitor brought to the stricken city. But they couldn't kill him - and so, subdued, but bitter, he returned to his shadowy existence.
Now he's back. And in need of a new army, he sets his sights on London - who are weak with mourning the death of their Queen, Victoria.
Teo and Renzo find themselves on board a ship for orphans whose course seems mysteriously set for London. Once again, destiny brings them face to face with their enemy, who will stop at nothing to destroy not only London and Venice but the children at the heart of the prophecy that binds him to his failure.
MIGUEL SYJUCO – ILUSTRADO
It begins with a body.One anonymous winter day, the corpse of Crispin Salvador is pulled from the Hudson River.Gone is the controversial giant of Asian literature.And missing is the only manuscript of his final book, an expose of the corrupt roots of the ruling Filipino families,meant to restore his once dazzling reputation. His student, Miguel, is suspicious of the suicide verdict.He investigates: first sifting through the dead man's work for clues, then journeying from New York to Manila, seeking out family, colleagues, and anyone who might hold pieces of the puzzle.
But when Miguel assembles the fragments of his mentor's past, this ambitious and rewarding novel expands into far wider contexts - political,historical,literary. As patterns emerge, the mistery of a death deepens into the greater mysteries of life - and the reader makes increasingly signifant discoveries of their own, until the startling revelation of the final page.
MIKE RESNICK – KIRINYAGA ( A FABLE OF UTOPIA)
Hailed for his grandeur of imagination and superb worldbuilding, winner of and nominee for more than fifty awards for his outstanding work, Mike Resnick has rightfully won a place as one of science fiction's master storytellers. Now, in Kirinyaga, Resnick presents the haunting and utterly compelling tale of one man's utopia.
By the twentieth second century in the African nation of Kenya, polluted cities sprawl up the flanks of sacred Mount Kirinyaga. Great animal herds are but distant memories. European crops now grow on the sweeping savannas. But Koriba, a distinguished, educated man of Kikuyu ancestry, knows that life was different for his people centuries ago--and he is determined to build a utopian colony, not on earth, but on the terraformed planetoid he proudly names Kirinyaga.
As the mundumugu--witch doctor--Koriba leads the colonists. Reinstating the ancient customs and stringent laws of the Kikuyu people, he alone decides their fate. He must face many challenges to the struggling colony's survival: from a brilliant young girl whose radiant intellect could threaten their traditional ways to the interference of "Maintenance" which holds the power to revoke the colony's charter. All the while, only Koriba--unbeknownst to his people--maintains the computer link to the rest of humanity.
Ironically, the Kirinyaga experiment threatens to collapse--not from violence or greed--but from humankind's insatiable desire for knowledge. The Kikuyu people can no more stand still in time than their planet can stop revolving around its sun.
Deeply moving, swiftly paced, and profound in its implications, Kirinyaga is Mike Resnick's most triumphant work to date. His Fable of Utopia is the book every science fiction reader will want to own and savor for years to come.
MILAN HOLUB – SARAJEVO
“U koje god doba dana i sa koga god uzvišenja bacite pogled na Sarajevo, vi uvijek i nehotice pomislite isto. To je grad, grad koji dotrajava i umire i u isto vrijeme se rađa i preobražava” zapisao je svojevremeno Ivo Andrić, a češki pisac Milan Holub, osjetio i osjeća na svojoj i koži svojih prijatelja. Jer veze sa Sarajlijama su u nekim slučajevima jače od porodičnih. Vjeruješ im svojim životom, dušom. Ovo je knjiga upravo o tome…
Milan Kundera- komplet 1-6
"Milan Kundera 1-6" je komplet koji obuhvata šest knjiga autora Milana Kundera, poznatog češkog pisca. Ovaj komplet vam omogućava da istražite širok spektar Kunderinih dela, koji se bave temama poput postojanja, ljubavi, smeha, zaborava i politike.
Knjige u kompletu su:
- "Nepodnošljiva lakoća postojanja" - Roman koji istražuje filozofske koncepte i međuljudske odnose kroz priču o dvoje zaljubljenih parova.
- "Oproštajni valcer" - Ova knjiga istražuje pitanja smisla i postojanja kroz priču o ljubavi i političkim previranjima.
- "Život je negde drugde" - Roman koji se bavi temama identiteta, umetnosti i ljubavi, prateći glavnog junaka u njegovim introspektivnim razmišljanjima.
- "Smešne ljubavi" - Kroz ovu knjigu, Kundera istražuje ljubav, seksualnost i čežnju kroz niz paralelnih priča.
- "Knjiga smeha i zaborava" - Ova knjiga se bavi temama političke opresije, ličnih sećanja i značaja humora u teškim vremenima.
- "Šala" - Roman koji istražuje tragične posledice političkog represije i manipulacije, prateći priču glavnog junaka koji postaje žrtva političkog režima.
