Könyves plakátos október-november
Ők az októberi - novemberi plakátok, amiket volt időm lefotózni. Sok volt még a metróállomások aluljáróiban, de nem volt mindegyiket lehetőségem megörökíteni. Mindhez beszúrtam a rövid fülszövegét, egyelőre angolul, később majd frissítem, és magyarul is fent lesz. Mindegyik könyvnél ott van a waterstones oldalra mutató linkje is, meg lehet nézni ott is.
The Books of the year/az év könyvei a waterstones szerint:
1. Sebastian Faulks - Paris Echo
It was so twentieth century and concrete and hard and opened up to the sky with no alleys or big wooden doorways. ‘Unforgiving’ might be a word for it.
Here is Paris as you have never seen it before, harsh and relentless, a place to be lonely or lost - a city in which every building seems to hold the echo of an unacknowledged past, the shadows of Vichy and Algeria. Itt olvasd tovább
2. Michael Palin - Erebus - The Story of a Ship
In September 2014 the wreck of a sailing vessel was discovered at the bottom of the sea in the frozen wastes of the Canadian arctic. It was broken at the stern and covered in a woolly coat of underwater vegetation. Its whereabouts had been a mystery for over a century and a half. Its name was HMS Erebus.
Now Michael Palin - former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globetrotter - brings this extraordinary ship back to life, following it from its launch in 1826 to the epic voyages of discovery that led to glory in the Antarctic and to ultimate catastrophe in the Arctic. Itt olvasd tovább
3. Tara Westover - Educated
On the highway below, the school bus rolls past without stopping.
I am only seven, but I understand that it is this fact, more than any other, that makes my family different: we do not go to school.
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected.
She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she'd never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn't believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn't exist. Itt olvasd tovább
Storm clouds loom over Europe.
Treason is afoot in the highest social circles. The very security of the nation is in peril.
Jeeves, it transpires, has long been an agent of British Intelligence, but now His Majesty's Government must turn to the one man who can help ... Bertie Wooster.
In this magnificent new homage to P. G. Wodehouse, Ben Schott leads Jeeves and Wooster on an uproarious adventure of espionage through the secret corridors of Whitehall, the sunlit lawns of Brinkley Court, and the private clubs of St James's. Itt olvasd tovább
Speeches of Note: seventy-five extraordinary ways to step into someone else's shoes.
From the author of the international bestseller, Letters of Note, comes a richly illustrated and wonderfully eclectic collection of the world's greatest speeches - the old, new and unspoken. Itt olvasd tovább
6. Richard Powers - The Overstory
The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. itt olvasd tovább:
Forrás, és bővebb infó a könyvekről itt: waterstones
Könyves plakátos októberi szemezgetés:
Markus Zusak - Bridge of Clay
Bridge of Clay is about a boy caught in the current, a boy intent on destroying everything he has in order to become everything he needs to be.
This is a young life in search of greatness, seeking the ultimate cure for his memory and tragedy. Ahead of him lies the bridge, the vision that will save both his family and himself. It’s his attempt to transcend humanness, to make a single, glorious moment. It will be a miracle and nothing less. Itt olvasd tovább
Perfect family, perfect house, perfect life; Jane, Madeline and Celeste have it all ...or do they?
They are about to find out just how easy it is for one little lie to spiral out of control. From the author of Truly Madly Guilty and The Husband's Secret comes a novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. itt olvasd tovább
One house. Nine strangers. Ten days that will change everything...
The eagerly-anticipated new novel from the worldwide Number One bestselling author behind Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning HBO series Big Little Lies and smash-hit novel The Husband's Secret
The retreat at health-and-wellness resort Tranquillum House promises total transformation. Nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage, and absorb the meditative ambience while enjoying their hot stone massages.
Miles from anywhere, without cars or phones, they have no way to reach the outside world. Just time to think about themselves, and get to know each other. itt olvasd tovább
Rhiannon Navin - Only Child
We all went to school that Tuesday like normal. Not all of us came home.
When the unthinkable happens, six-year-old Zach is at school. Huddled in a cloakroom with his classmates and teacher, he is too young to understand that life will never be the same again.
Afterwards, the once close-knit community is left reeling. Zach's dad retreats. His mum sets out to seek revenge. Zach, scared, lost and confused, disappears into his super-secret hideout to try to make sense of things. Nothing feels right - until he listens to his heart . . .itt olvasd tovább
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