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ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
6490 Ft
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Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
4990 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
1030 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
6995 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
4999 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
4999 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
1It was early in November of 1139 that the tide of civil war, lately so sluggish and inactive, rose suddenly to sweep over the city of Worcester, wash away half its livestock, property and women, and send all those of its inhabitants who could get away in time scurrying for their lives northwards...
Chapter One
High above the Pacific the great white house rode on the cliff top like a ship at anchor. From the sea it seemed to slumber in the blazing midday sun, resting serenely on its wide green lawns against the shelter of the tall trees behind. But the coast road had been busy with...
Mv beginnings were hardly auspicious. My father was killed in the battle for Caen in the late summer of 1944 just six months before my birth and I was plucked into the world by Caesarean operation because my mother's doctors considered her in too weak a state to survive a normal delivery. Their...
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change of seasons was upon the Four Lands as late summer faded slowly into autumn. Gone were the long, still days of midyear where sweltering heat slowed the pace of life and there was a sense of having time enough for anything. Though summer's warmth lingered, the days had begun to shorten,...
To prepare their young daughter Lisele for her role as heir to the Hulzein dynasty, Bran Tregare and Rissa Kerguelen send her on an important diplomatic mission. But a strange gravitational anomaly strands the crew of the March Hare in orbit around a lost colony where the barbaric remnants of...
Endangered SpeciesAThe emerald water smashes against the dark volcanic cliffs. Fine white spray hovers over the harsh rock, creating a misty veil that glimmers in the fading light. In the distance, two yellow suns set simultaneously, separated by about forty degrees as they disappear together below...
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Chapter One"Please sign here, and here, and here."Arabella Crawford removed the top of the red lacquered Dupont fountain pen. She stared at the shiny gold point. Her hand was steady, her emotions controlled. Her face showed nothing of her feelings to the ten men seated at the huge, round, English...
FOREWORDUntil the 1950s, the fifteenth century was almost totally neglectedby historians and this fact, together with the scantiness ofcontemporary sources, and the unreliability of sixteenth centurytreatment of the period, made the fifteenth century seem asremote as the dark ages.There are now,...
THE BOOKC^n 19n 1960, there appeared what must have been one of the least heralded books in the history of American publishing. It was called Americans of Jewish Descent, and was put togethernot "written" exactlyby a scholarly New Yorker named Malcolm H. Stern. The book consisted almost entirely of...
FOREWORD
Sex is no longer a dirty word in literary biography. As a pioneer of sexual emancipation Lytton Strachey put it: "Discretion is not the better part of biography."
Other daring writers sharpened their arrows for the kill. When Hugh Walpole was delivering a panegyric on romantic love, H....
PreludeThe wanderer slipped across space and time, sailing an ocean of darkness in which stars hung like lantemfish. Watchful eyes might have observed it shimmering out of focus, melting and recrystallizing here now, gone now, always somehow creeping ahead of where the eye would look for it next....
Chapter One
Charles Paris looked out from the bar of the Pinero Theatre, Warminster, over the gathering September twilight, and felt mildly guilty that he wasn't really listening to what Gavin Scholes was saying. The warmth of the third large Bell's and the glow of being in work cocooned him and...
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The old man with the word GANZER in faded gold letters on his cap was in startling contrast to his surroundings. He had a long, much patched and filthy overcoat which almost reached his ankles and a pair of ancient boots without laces. He was unwashed with at least a week's growth of beard...
PrologueAt 16.40 hours on Sunday, 7th June, 1981, fourteen aircraft took off from the IsraeH Air Force base at Etzion in the Sinai desert. All were advance fighter aircraft: eight F16's and six F15's. But for this mission the F16's had been stripped of their cannon and air-to-air missiles and armed...
The third book in the Song of Earth series. First books are The Celestial Steam Locomotive and Gods of the Greataway. When the alternate worlds of humankind and gnomedom begin to merge, only the bravery of a gnome and the help of a young woman can save the gnomes. This is a strange and fun...
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d he sun was akeady sinking into the deep green of the hills to the west of the valley, the red and gray-pink of its shadows touching the comers of the land, when Flick Ohmsford began his descent. The trail stretched out unevenly down the northern slope, winding through the huge boulders which...
ChapterONEThe killer waited patiently, oblivious to the cold or the uncomfortable surface of the roof. Beside him lay a high-powered rifle with telescopic sights. A pair of binoculars, mounted on a small tripod, were positioned on the parapet of the roof in front of him. Through them he got a...
DIRKJames 'Big Boy' Epstein was strictly a New York phenomenon. First-generation Irish-Italian mother, immigrant Jewish father. Or maybe it was the other way around. It didn't make any difference. Out of Hell's Kitchen by way of the Fulton Fish Market, he was strictly illegitimate. Onetime driver...
Cast of CharactersChineseAlute (1854-1875): Wife of Emperor Tung Chih. Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi (the 'Old Buddha') was strongly suspected of having caused her death.An Teh-hai: Head eunuch at the court of Tzu-hsi, the 'Old Buddha'. Despite her friendship and protection, he was executed after...
The third book in the Song of Earth series. First books are The Celestial Steam Locomotive and Gods of the Greataway. When the alternate worlds of humankind and gnomedom begin to merge, only the bravery of a gnome and the help of a young woman can save the gnomes. This is a strange and fun...
To prepare their young daughter Lisele for her role as heir to the Hulzein dynasty, Bran Tregare and Rissa Kerguelen send her on an important diplomatic mission. But a strange gravitational anomaly strands the crew of the March Hare in orbit around a lost colony where the barbaric remnants of...
Fedlap sarkai kopottasak, gerinc megtört, előzéklapon bélyegző nyomat. In 1871 the nation of Germany is born. From humble beginnings, Karl Jochum rises to become the creator and owner of Berlin's most luxurious hotel - the Hotel Quadriga. Behind its facade, the lives and loves of Karl, Ricarda...
ONEi.He called her his daughter, and continued so till the end. One thing was certain. She couldn't go where he was going.Victoria Station had made one small concession to modernity even though the trains still ran into it from the nineteenth century. At its eastern end there was a brand-new...
INTRODUCTIONBefore writing about the life, times and predictions of Nostradamus, I feel I must write about the extraordinary effect he and his works have had upon my personal life. Some are almost beyond belief.Certainly it was Nostradamus who turned my ideas toward making writing my career. I...
It was shaping up as a beautiful morning. The last thing I wanted to hear about was murder.A cool Pacific current had swept its way across the coastline for two days running, propelling the pollution to Pasadena. My house is nestled in the foothills just north of Bel Air, situated atop an old...
The angel, eternally alighting with arched wings and delicate, stretched feet, spread his hands palms outwards towards the radianee, and bowed in ceremonious humility the youthful, narrow head> with its long gold hair still erect and quivering from his flight. The shuddering hum of his great wings...
Preface
Rue du Faubourg St Honoré, Paris, France: 27 December 1938
He tried to contain his astonishment. So! It had been an affaire de coeur after all. No other reason could possibly account for such a complete turn-around. It had ended in disaster, obviously: that's why she was here now. What...
I went back to Cannes yesterday, wandered. It seemed the proper time. The film festival had been in May. The Miss America Contest was to be in September.
It was July now.
Midway.
Early evening. A light wind. The sun was deciding to go down, the mist was rising to cover the not-so-distant...
Chapter One
The small brown bird, appearing like a mote of dust on a vast tapestry of cloudless blue sky, fluttered ite wings as it struggled to ascend in the thin, cold Tibetan air, to flee the menacing figures below. In the distance, crowning a soaring peak, a golden temple gleamed in the...
Fedlapok élei kissé kopottasak, sarkai enyhén meghajlottak. Ancient Evil threatens the Elves: The ancient tree created by long-lost Elven magic, is dying. When Wil Ohmsford is summoned to guard the Amberle on a perilous quest to gather a new seed for a new tree, he is faced with the Reaper, the...
YOUNG MR KEEFE Seen at a fashionable cocktail party in San Francisco, Jimmy Keefe might have been written off as another of those restless, rootless young men who have come of age since the Koreán War. Certainly California, like other states, has many like him - attractive, personable, even...
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AINT PETER'S FAIR of that year, 1143, was one week past, and they were settling down again into the ordinary routine of a dry and favourable August, with the com harvest already being carted into the barns, when Brother Matthew the cellarer first brought into chapter the matter of...
Chapter One
IN THE fine, bright morning in early May when the whole sensational affair of the Gwytherin relics may properly be considered to have begun, Brother Cadfael had been up long before Prime, pricking out cabbage seedlings before the day was aired, and his thoughts were all on birth,...