In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .
Irresistible, one-woman shopping phenomenon Becky Bloomwood is back in this hilarious, heartwarming, New York Times bestselling tale of married life, best friends, and long-lost sisters (and the perils of simply having to own an Angel handbag!).
The scorching new installment of Marriage to a Billionaire
Horror, misztikum és természetfeletti jelenségek
Síron túli fuvallatoktól borzonghat az olvasó, miközben olvassa ezeket a kísértethistóriákat. A legjobbakat válogattuk ki a rémtörténetek bőséges tárházából. Képzeletgazdag illusztrációk mutatják be nekünk a kísértetek, a családi átkok és a vérfagyasztó események világát, a széppróza legördögibb, nemegyszer földöntúli jellemeit. A kötetben többek között Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Oscar Wilde és Bram Stoker rémtörténetei kaptak helyet.
Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two sisters from a bourgeois family. Though their personalities are very different - Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid - they are inseparable best friends. Both are beautiful, modern and living a carefree life... until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away the family's wealth, and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to two 'Gold Mountain' men: Americans. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, the two sisters set out on the journey of a lifetime, one that will take them through the villages of southern China, in and out of the clutches of brutal soldiers, and even across the ocean, through the humiliation of an anti-Chinese detention centre to a new, married life in Los Angeles's Chinatown. Here they begin a fresh chapter, despite the racial discrimination and anti-Communist paranoia, because now they have something to strive for: a young, American-born daughter, Joy. Along the way there are terrible sacrifices, impossible choices and one devastating, life-changing secret, but through it all the two heroines of this astounding new novel by Lisa See hold fast to who they are - Shanghai girls. (Payot.ch)
A szexualitás ábrázolása kétezer év művészetében
E páratlan gyűjtemény az emberi szexualitás különböző – sokszor meglepően merész - irodalmi és képzőművészeti ábrázolásait mutatja be az antikvitástól napjainkig. A számtalan szövegrészletet többek közt Boccaccio, Casanova, Oscar Wild és Henry Miller műveit – több mint 400 kép illusztrálja: festmények, rajzok , fotók és szobrok a világ minden tájáról.