In the early eighteenth century, a woman finds herself set adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, eventually, his lover.
Kdyby vám patřila kouzelná hrací skříňka, která by vás přenesla do jiného světa, určitě byste neváhali. Leo takovou skříňku vlastní, ale uvědomuje si všechna nebezpečí, která na něho v Rondu číhají. Mimi tak bojácná není. „Neboj se, Leo, budeme v bezpečí," říká mu. Ale Leo ví, že v Rondu není bezpečné ani předvídatelné vůbec nic… Fantastický svět Ronda je možná hrozivý, ale Leo s Mimi vědí, že se tam vydat musí. Musí dál hrát svoje role v nekončící bitvě se zlou a krutou Modrou královnou. Znovu se vydávají do světa starožitné hrací skříňky a jsou rozhodnuti se tentokrát do ničeho vážného nezaplést. Ale brzy je kouzelné Rondo zcela pohltí. Jejich výprava na záchranu zmizeného čaroděje se stane ještě nebezpečnější, když jim cestu zkříží slouha Modré královny, Kazisvět, a přiblíží se mračná hrozba, číhající na severní obloze.
It is a path that will eventually lead them into the forbidding, barren heart of the western desert, and the answer to one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world .
After the death of her husband Pharoh Tuthmosis II, Hatusu has confounded her critics by winning a great battle against the Mitanni. Aided by her lover, Senenmut, she is determined that all sections of Egyptian society should accept her as the first Pharaoh-Queen of Egypt - an acceptance that needs the favour and support of the priests. When a spate of killings takes place in the Divine Temple of Horus, the naturally superstitious priests interpret this as a sign of the Gods' disapproval of Hatusu's rule of Egypt. The royal city turns once again to respected judge Amerotke to find the truth.
In Huntsville, a man goes to the electric chair for the kidnap, torture and murder of six small children. In Boston, a nine year old girl has been admitted to ER, unconscious and full of morphine. She remembers nothing about herself or her past.
Quinn McKenzie has always lived what she calls a "beige" life. She's dating the world's nicest guy, she has a good job as a high school art teacher, she's surrounded by family and friends who rely on her, and she's bored to the point of insanity. But when Quinn decides to change her life by adopting a stray dog over everyone's objections, everything begins to spiral out of control. Now she's coping with dog-napping, breaking and entering, seduction, sabotage, stalking, more secrets than she really wants to know, and two men who are suddenly crazy...for her.
'The piteousness of his little soft shroud of hair falling down his brow and swept aside by the hand over blue serious eyes' Described by Kerouac as 'my most serious sad and true book', Visions of Gerard forms the first volume of his memoir cycle the 'Duluoz Legend'. Based on Jack Kerouac's memories of the beloved older brother who died when he was a boy, it is unique among his novels for its dreamlike evocation of the sensations of childhood - its wisdom, anguish, intensity, innocence, joy and pain. It is a haunting exploration of the precariousness of existence. 'Called a "pain-tale" by Kerouac, it's the story of an almost divine, Buddha-like child wracked with sickness and suffering' Guardian
Experimentálna novela „Ona“ zaujíma vo Ferlinghettiho diele význačné postavenie. Kniha je fantastickou zmesou niekoľkých tvorivých prístupov – symbolického, expresionistického i surrealistického.
Maggie Cassidy , a 1959 novel by Jack Kerouac written about his times in Lowell, MA from 1938 to 1939. It chronicles Kerouac's real life relationship with teen age heart-throb Mary Carney. It is unique for Kerouac for its high school setting and teenage characters. He wrote the novel in 1953 but it was not published until 1959, after the success of On the Road .
Desolation Angels, published in 1965, yet written years earlier around the time On the Road was in the process of publication, is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, which makes up part of his Duluoz Legend. According to the book's foreword, the opening section of the novel is almost directly taken from the journal he kept when he was a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade mountains of Washington state. Much of the psychological struggle which the novel's protagonist, Jack Duluoz, undergoes in the novel reflects Kerouac's own increasing disenchantment with the Buddhist philosophy with which he had previously been fascinated.
Průvodce pozitivními vibracemi vašeho každodenního života. Barvy a čísla pro nás mají mnoho významů. Všichni máme své osobní číselné vibrace a osobní vibrace barev. Některá z těchto čísel, jako je například naše datum narození, jsou trvalá. Máme rovněž přechodné osobní barvy, které se mění s kalendářem. Když se vědomě obklopujeme svými osobními barvami, dostáváme se do souladu s vesmírnými silami. Barvy a čísla jsou pro náš život a naše postoje důležité. Mohou vytvořit základ pro naše afirmace a rozhodnutí o sobě, a to je právě cílem této malé knihy.
Photographer Joe LaBrava specialises in capturing the soul of Miami's street life & since he used to do dirty jobs for the government, he understands his subject very well. So when his friend Maury enlists his help to sort out a problem with an ex-film star, Joe is more than happy to help.
