ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
6599 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).
7990 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).
5890 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.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
850 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.
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.
7 am afraid," confessed Pen, "that I am not very well-behaved. Aunt says that I had a lamentable upbrin?in?.Georgette HEYER, The Corinthianhe wild child of Parrish, Mississippi, had come back to the town she'd left behind forever. Sugar Beth Carey gazed from the rain-slicked windshield to the...
Serena Grover Jones staggered in the front door, stepped on a roll of gold foil, and tumbled into the open coat closet. She swore a blue streak as she struggled to get up without crushing the parcels she'd dropped on the floor.A moment later, her husband Bill walked into the house, glanced at his...
FOREWORDWith the exception of certain historical personages, all the characters in this book are wholly fictitious and bear no resemblance to any persons living or dead. A similar statement might be made in regard to many of the places described in these pages; for the Central Highlands are no...
p,ru Lawrence's uncle Ben came to the monthly meeting armed with a police report on J.D. Carver. "He's clean," he said, slapping it down on the long, rustic conference table. "He hasn't been arrested as an adult, and his juvenile record is sealed.""You needn't sound so disgusted, darling," Aunt...
prologueSloh, WyomingSoft-ly, slow-ly the mornin' will creep Dream your sweet dreams and do not weep Cornbread in the morn-in' it will keep Drift soft-ly, slow-ly 'tis time to sleep Soft-ly, slow-ly 'tis time to sleep The intruder finished the old Langtry lullaby and knew there was little time...
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A certain amount of confusion about the death of Quincas Wateryell persists even töday. There are doubts to be explained away, ridiculous détails, con-tradictory testimony from witnesses, divers gaps in the story. Time, place, and last words are uncertain. The family, backed up by neighbors...
0114 hours EST, Carr Bay, MarylandThe light from a three-quarter moon left a blue-white trail on the black water to starboard. A mile ahead on the right, sodium vapor lights floated on the shoreline like yellow polka dots. A foggy haze obscured similar lamps on the coast to the left. Low-lying...
Polly Altér used to like men, but she didn't trust them anymore, or have very much to do with them. Last month, on her thirty-ninth birthday, it suddenly hit her that - though she hadn't planned it that way - almost all her dealings now were with women. Her doctor, her dentist, her accountant, her...
The Oxford dictionaries, based on the work of writers and scholars over hundreds of years, are renowned for setting the highest standards in our changing language. The completely original Oxford American stands as the ultimate American authority on proper writing and speaking. In addition to...
Meet Daniel Valier:
"There were in fact sixty-four arts that
every girl should know to be a perfect
wife, but as far as Daniel Valler knew he
had never met a girl who knew even one
of them
OBOLY THE RICH—the bawdy and
blackly funny story of Daniel Valler's
downfall, is the latest...
He walked through the cool October night, his shoes sinking in the sand at the water's edge; he looked oirt of place in the gray business suit and white shirt, the carefully knotted tie. His pace was purposeful, but it was the purposefulness of long habit—anyone watching would have said he had...
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MAXWELL'S WARNING
There had been plenty of warnings. Some experts had pointed out that the sources of oil were not limitless, that consumption was rising faster than production. Some noted that certain of the oil-producing countries were politically unstable and hostile to the United States....
Saturday, the last day of August, I started work before dawn. I did not witness mist burning off the grass or the sky turning brilliant blue. Steel tables were occupied by bodies all morning, and there are no windows in the morgue. Labor Day weekend had begun with a bang of car crashes and gunfire...
PART ONE
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. . And now, recapping today's headlines," the news broadcaster continued, "the search in Port Smith for littie Mary Shoftel goes on. Grim spokesmen for the Port Smith Police Department this morning released the information that since last Friday evening, more than...
In "Robot Visions," Dr. Isaac Asimov writes about a question inherent in any time travel storywhether individuals traveling in time will alter events that would have occurred without the interference of a time traveler. Most writers who tackle this question write about changing the past and whether...
You broke my heart and now I'm pissed."
"Is that all you came to say?" She stood in the doorway in a nightdress, hugging herself. Her hair was a mess.
"I hate you."
"No, you don't. Look, either go away or come in from the cold, will you?" She turned around and walked off into the kitchen,...
In the few days between arrival at Harvard Law School and the first classes, there are rumors. And stories. About being singled out, made to show your stuff.
Mostly, they're about people who made some terrible mistake. Couldn't answer a question right.
One concerns a boy who did a particularly...
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Emma Harte leaned forward and looked out of the window. The private Lear jet, property of the Sitex Oil Corporation of America, had been climbing steadily up through a vaporous haze of cumulus clouds and was now streaking through a sky so penetratingly blue its shimmer- i ^ ing...
1 IPREFACE;>Physically I am a clumsy person and I deplore the fact. I | think I would be a happier man if I had worker's hands hands capable of making useful things, of plunging into the depths of nature to tap sources of goodness and peace. My adopted father (I always refer to him as my father...
1The elevator doors opened. The President of the United States, with quick, powerful thrusts of his arms and shoulders, rolled his wood-and-steel wheelchair out of the elevator and into the second-floor center hall of the White House."Who's home?" he boomed exuberantly.Followed by his black valet...
She shall be lov'd and fear'd. Her oum S,hall bless her;Her foes shake like a field of beaten com,And hang their heads with sorrow. Good gram with her;In her days eoery man shall eat in safetyUnder his own vine what he plants; and singThe merry songs of peace to all his...
ForewordThe idea of writing this book occurred to Arthur Ashe as we were walking down a fairway on the East Course of the Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York, in the fall of 1990. One member of our group was Frank Hanni-gan, the former executive director of the U.S. Golf Association and,...
Chapter One
Clydon Castle, England, 1192
Bwa%\ Again, again—bang! The sound of the battering ram took precedence over the screaming confusion on the inner battlements, over the death cries below in the outer bailey as arrows struck true, over the thundering headache that pounded inside Reina...
As I walked by myself And talked to myself, Myself said unto me, Look to thyself, Take care of thyself, For nobody cares for thee. n a cold blowy February day a woman is boarding the ten a.m. flight to London, followed by an invisible dog. The woman's name is Virginia Miner: she is fifty-four years...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTSAmong those who contributed to the creation of this book, I particularly want to thank the following: my wife, Sharonfriend, companion, and inspiration on the greatest of journeys; Nancy V. Berberick, writer and fellow spirit, for her enthusiasm from the beginning; George Anderson,...
CHAPTER THE Ladies9 Home Journal is a highly respected magazine. You might even say it's revered. It's the Magazine Women Believe In. I believe in it. My mother must have believed in it, too. She named me Heather Halloran, and, to the best of my recollection, I sprang full-blown from its pages at...
OneIn a public phone booth on Eightieth Street and Lexington Avenue a man spoke with controlled savagery into the phone."They went all the way, the goddamn barbarians , Yes, he's dead. They finally killed himthe poor bastard. Damned Neanderthals. No brains, only brawn. If they'd let him alone, he'd...
The Bermuda Triangle: A Mystery of the Air and Sea1ihere is a section of the western atlantic,off the southeast coast of the United States, forming what has been termed a triangle, extending from Bermuda in the north to southern Florida, and then east to a point through the Bahamas past Puerto Rico...
CHAPTER 1MorsTwo moons hung in the dark red sky. One was full, the other crescent. One seemed to be four times the diameter of the other, and neither was exactly round. In fact, both might better have been described as egglike: a chicken egg and a robin egg. Perhaps even potatolike, large and...
PrologueThe Galactic Empire was falling.It was a colossal Empire, stretching across millions of worlds from arm-end to arm-end of the mighty double-spiral that was the Milky Way. Its fall was colossal, tooand a long one, for it had a long way to go.It had been falling for centuries before one man...
He had never laughed over her bones. The dead had their rights. In the woods he had his manners down.Raphael stuck a new clove into his bad tooth. His mouth sweetened. The pain faded. He stretched out his legs on the sand and pine needles. The trees were silent over him. He could hear cars going...
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orning's Gate was inspired by a diary written by a young Australian soldier in 1916. In the novel, all that relates to the First World War is based upon that diary and extensive research undertaken to verify it. The rest of the novel is fiction, and except with regard to public...
Science and the UFOThere is a problem with the so-called science of UFOlogy: Those practicing it are anything but scientific in their approach to it. All too often we in the UFO community talk about applying the rigors of scientific methodology to our study, and then we fail to do so. For the most...
PREFACE
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Tffls BOOK is a record of an attempt to express some ideas, . ^ some formulations, and some experiments in communication research. In a sense this book is an extension of the previous book Man and Dolphin published by Doubleday in 1961. The main ideas...
SynopsesIt is my intention that Fortune's Favorites be read with full enjoyment as a complete, free-standing novel, without the necessity of having previously read The Grass Crown or The First Man in Rome. The synopses below provide a brief summary of those two books for the reader's convenience...
1 Success often depends on the screwups of the competition, Soph thought as she examined the dark bulk of the spaceship Argent. The Argent had beaten Soph's team to Venus by more than a month but still hung in orbit, silhouetted against the protective dust clouds, farther from its goal than ever....
INTRODUCTION
The Off Off Broadway Alternative by Joseph Papp
Off Off Broadway is an alternative theatre. It takes the playgoer off the beaten track—not just geographically, but also artistically. At its best, it is an idea about theatre, a commitment to theatre as an art form and to theatre...
Preface
This new member of the Oxford family of dictionaries has been prepared especially for those who need a compact, up-to-date guide to American English. It contains words and phrases likely to be met in reading and everyday life, including a number of slang, informal, and technical words...
McKinney, Texas 1976
ithematics gave Georgeanne Howard a head-'ache, and reading made her eyes hurt. At least when she was reading, she could move her finger along the tricky words and fake it sometimes. She couldn't fake math.
Georgeanne laid her forehead on the piece of paper sitting on her...