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In the year 3084, a Modigliani-esque alien journalist with blue-green skin, Alma, boards a state-of-the-art spacecraft named Delta – whose highly advanced computer brain develops a mad teenage crush on her with disastrous results. An incredibly strange and strangely beautiful work of galactic eye candy, DELTA SPACE MISSION defies all rules of perspective and logic, like M.C. Escher and Moebius teaming up on a Romanian Saturday morning cartoon. Fueled...
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Michael Haneke’s futuristic vision follows a global cataclysm, Anne (Academy Award Nominee Isabelle Huppert) and her family set out for a safe haven at their holiday home. But, when they arrive, the home is already occupied by other survivors. Their hopes for safety are immediately dashed by a violent tragedy, which serves as a lesson to take nothing for granted and expect the worst in this new, harsh landscape. Accompanied by a fierce young boy...
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This title contains both volumes of the novel Rascoala by Liviu Rebreanu, in a single book, with 424 pages.
Rascouala is a masterpiece by Liviu Rebreanu, which proves an extraordinary ability to reconstruct the life of the village and the psychology of the peasant masses.
G. Calinescu summarizes the defining feature of Rebreanu's style, pointing out the clarity, simplicity and conciseness of the ensemble, its overwhelming greatness, the fruit of the...
4) Ciuleandra
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Written in the interwar period and published in 1927, this psychological thriller captured the imagination of Romanian readers. The book opens with a shock as Puiu, an aristocrat, murders his wife after returning from a ball at the palace. To avoid a public trial and prison sentence, his father instead arranges to have him committed to a mental asylum.
Discussions with his psychiatrist reveal the madness and passion of Puiu through the imagery of...
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In the backwoods of Transylvania, the ambition of Lucky Mill's new innkeeper runs headlong into the interests of the region's most dangerous man. The fierce clash of wills threatens the fate of the inn, the innkeeper's marriage, and the lives of innocents.
The Lucky Mill (original title in Romanian, Moara cu noroc) is a fascinating 19th century psychological thriller, and the most important work of the Romanian realist author Ioan Slavici.
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A rediscovered classic from the author of For Two Thousand Years, this remarkable novel presents nuanced snapshots of love in the early twentieth century.
Stefan Valeriu, a young man from Romania who has just completed his medical studies in Paris, spends his vacation in the Alps, where he quickly becomes, entangled with three different women. We follow Stefan after his return to Paris as he reflects on the women in his life, at times playing the...
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Fiction. Translated from the Romanian by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno. KYRA KYRALINA, upon publication early in the nineteen twenties, immediately established its author as a leading writer in the Modernist pantheon. The first volume in a series of volumes indebted to Oriental modes of storytelling, such as, found in The Thousand and One Nights, KYRA KYRALINA is a book of great, charm and profound, insight into the human condition.
10) Fire Cake
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Romanian
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Don't you like green eyes? Well, here it is!
Here you are! Do not look
Too longing, that you can like it!
Oh, there are tens and hundreds of young people
Who would like to kiss me,
And, me!
Hotule! You're looking at me;
I know what you're thinking now,
That's why you're ashamed -
I wish I was a lad once
I wouldn't be ashamed of a girl
Not at all.
12) Ocean House
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Romanian
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Ocean House, a villa in Hermosa Beach, California, becomes the scene of emotional, sexual, and moral conflicts caused by people who should never have lived in the same house. Everyone has their, dreams, aspirations, and secrets. Hit by unexpected calamities: children changed at birth, betrayals and revenge, they try to stay afloat.
The house, where I live, belongs to the three Ford sisters, orphaned after a car accident. With no stable income other...
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Romanian
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When the First World War broke out, Apostol Bologa left his home in Romania and joined the Austro-Hungarian army with grand visions of battle, glory, and honor. Instead, the young officer finds himself serving on a near-perfunctory tribunal that sentences deserters and other reprobates to hanging in a small dark forest just behind the Eastern Front.
At first Bologa performs his duties with staunch military bearing, but the weight of the dead slowly...
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Savurati aceste doua romane din seria Jumatatea Perfecta, ambele fiind despre iubire, aventura si conspiratii. In fiecare dintre ele, un barbat dur, de actiune, musca tarana (figurativ vorbind) si isi pierde inima.
Daca va place un roman de suspans si de dragoste, atunci aceasta este cartea perfecta. Personaje puternice si suspans va asteapta sa va farmece dupa-mesele. Seria Jumatatea Perfecta va fi alcatuita din patru romane si veti intalni toate...
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Becka wanted the power and the money. What she got was losing her heart.
Becka is a witch and not a very good one. With her great-grandmother's curse hanging over her she has no idea how to escape her fate. When she suddenly spills her coffee on a stranger she finds out there's more to life than what she thought.
But is she ready for what that means?
Becka's Awakening is the first book in Rowena Dawn's The Winstons Series. If you like paranormal...
16) Poor Dionis
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Romanian
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Si al leer este libro puedes comprender que no importan las circunstancias de tu nacimiento ni las consecuencias en las que tus malas decisiones te metieron, la aparición de esta obra se verá justificada. Si tu viaje por estas páginas logra convencerte de que siempre en la vida, lo importante es no rendirte y seguir luchando aferrado a la fe y con la ayuda de Dios provocar que la circunstancias cambien, especialmente cuando ellas erigen obstáculos...
17) Matt's Dilemma
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Matt Winston, member of a family with paranormal abilities, is a good and caring man. After a bad experience, he enjoys only brief affairs, unwilling to engage his heart. Yet, life doles its own brand of fun and changes everything, when it throws Nora Barnes into his path.
Nora's marriage comes to a bitter end and she is determined to make ends meet and offer a good life to her son. A shooting changes everything for her, and Matt Winston's interference...
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English Romanian Bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids studying English or Romanian as their second language. This is a touching story of friendship between a dog and a little boy. When one of them needs help they are always there for each other. This is what true friendship means.
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A lazy detective, a beautiful immigrant with some strange talents, a horrible case, and paranormal events
With a bruised heart and pride, disillusioned, Mark stopped expecting much from his life lately. He is just doing his job like an automaton, counting the hours until he gets to go home.
Mark's got the habit of making himself scarce when there is a lot of work, but fate throws a horrific human trafficking case in his lap.
What will he do when...
20) A Wonderful Day
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Romanian
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English Romanian Bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids learning English or Romanian as their second language.
This book about gratitude teaches kids to see the good in everything. Danny tells Dad about his day and describes everything that happened. Although Danny's day didn't go as planned, he still managed to enjoy it. It turns out, that in every bad situation you can find a good thing and something to be grateful for.
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