Evan Osnos: Joe Biden

President Joseph R. Biden has been called both the luckiest man and the unluckiest – fortunate to have sustained a fifty-year political career that reached the White House, but also marked by deep personal losses that he has suffered.

Yet even as Biden's life has been shaped by drama, it has also been powered by a willingness, rare at the top ranks of politics, to confront his shortcomings, errors and reversals of fortune. His trials have forged in him a deep empathy for others in hardship – an essential quality as he addresses a nation at its most dire hour in decades.

Evan Osnos, journalist of the New Yorker illuminates Biden's life and captures the characters and meaning of an extraordinary presidential election. He draws on lengthy interviews with Biden and on revealing conversations with more than a hundred others, including President Barack Obama and Biden family members. The insider, interesting and credible book depicts the presidential candidate’s long and eventful Senate career, his eight-year vice presidency, years of neglect when Democrats stood behind Hillary Clinton in 2016 and the decision to fight for the presidency against Donald Trump.

György Bálint: Kertésznapló 2021

In this unusual gardening diary, György Bálint - the country’s Bálint farmer - gives useful advice month by month, week by week on relevant gardening tasks and also shares the most important theoretical knowledge with his reader. The volume is also a diary in which the reader can record information about his or her own garden, worksperformed, and things left to do. "Gardens nowadays have two tasks: to be beautiful and useful. The two aims are not contradictory, they actually help each other: a blossoming cherry tree is not only amazingly beautiful, but also ripens valuable fruit. A trellis with grapes is not only spectacular, but also very pleasant on hot summer days.  In the modern garden everyone will find a place for themselves: a playground for children, a sunbathing area for adults, a quiet and pleasant corner for the elderly.The garden gives work to everyone, not only young men in good strength, but also women, teenagers and the elderly as well.  For centuries the calendar has been the most sought-after reading by families, they could mark birthdays, obligations, recreation days. In this calendar, I would like to draw the Readers' attention to the most important information about the garden. If I have, I achieved my goal.  Dear All, I wish you a good read and a rich harvest! " György Bálint

Ferenc Pál: Ami igazán számít- Hogyan bánjunk jól magunkkal és másokkal?

I would like to share with you a few really important moments through this book, when conviction grows into recognition: Now I know what really matters.

Once we have found our own answers, it is worth developing certain skills and behaviors in ourselves so that we can apply what we have already discovered in our daily lives.

This book also intends to be a summary of my professional studies and human experience. I was hoping that what the various human fields had developed in knowledge and research results will reach those who really need it.  You. Therefore, more than ten major topics have been included in the volume, hopefully gathering the most useful information of each area.

How do we recognize and make the necessary changes? How do we counterbalance ourselves in times of difficulty? What do we do with the painful wounds of our past, the uncertainty of our future? How should we communicate more effectively? How do we use our experiences wisely and live productive, fruitful lives? How can spirituality become a life force for us? What can we do to avoid burnout and become a cheerful person? Not only to be smart with our devices but without them as well? How can we give our children what they really need? In other words, how to treat ourselves, each other, and the Earth fairly?

J.K. Rowling: The Ickabog

As tall as two horses. 

Eyes like glowing balls of fire. 

Long, razor-sharp claws. 

The Ickabog is coming…

Duskaldia was once the happiest country in the world. Abundant in gold, a king with a magnificent mustache ruled it, and the sausages, cheeses, and cakes made in its cities were so wonderful that whoever tasted them danced in joy! Everything across the empire was beautiful and good, except for the misty northern part, the Marshland, where, according to an old legend, the terrible Ickabog lived. Every sane person knew that Ickabog was just a legend to scare bad kids. But legends have that strange quality of sometimes coming to life…

Can a rumor overthrow the popular king and force his country to its knees? Two brave children drift into an adventure that they never would have undertaken on their own, that much is certain.

The peculiar atmosphere of the fairy tale told by one of the most outstanding narrators of the world is made an unforgettable read for all ages with the colorful repertoire of characters and the imaginative plot.

J.K. Rowling will donate the full proceeds from the sale of the book to organizations dedicated to helping those who have been particularly affected by the coronavirus epidemic.