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Close Knit
Everyone knows her life story.
But who will win her heart?
Gertie has always wondered what her life would be like if she could pluck up the courage to leave the remote Scottish island where she was born.
It's the only place she's ever known, but it can be stifling. The glue of this community is the Knitting Circle, a group of strong, capable (and nosy) women who gossip, knit and support each other through thick and thin.
So when the chance comes for change - a new job, new friends and maybe even a new romance - a world of possibilities opens up for Gertie: if she can finally be brave enough to make her dreams come true.
Close Knit
Follow Gertie MacIntyre from knitting circle to air stewardess in this glorious and romantic summer novel set in Scotland's windswept Northern isles, by beloved New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan.
In the northernmost reaches of Scotland, where a string of little islands in the North Sea stretches towards Norway, lives Gertie MacIntyre, a proud island girl by birth. Her social circle is small but tight: family and friends, particularly the women in her knitting circle. In the whitewashed cottages of their hometown, everyone knows everyone, and the ladies of the knitting circle know more than most. In a place of long dark winters and geographic isolation, the knitting circle is a precious source of gossip, home, laughter, and comfort for them all. And while she knits, Gertie's busily plotting what to do with the rest of her life.
When Gertie develops a crush on Callum Frost, who owns the local airline, she dares herself to take a job as an air stewardess on the little plane that serves the local islands. Terrifying at first, the sixteen-seat puddle jumper also offers the first taste of real freedom she's ever known. Will Gertie's future lie in the skies? Or will she need to go further afield to find the adventure she craves?
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Žoldnéři fantasie: Chovatelé krakenů
Znamená příchod Krakena, že na scéně se vynoří i dílo H. P. Lovecrafta? Naši literární hosté si to evidentně myslí! Karel Doležal i Jan Dobiáš pojali své povídky v jeho duchu. A Františka Vrbenská, stálice fantastického žánru, nám na konci knihy ve dlouhé stati vysvětlí, že za všechno mohou básníci, najmě Brit Alfréd lord Tennyson. Nekrmte krakeny, a když, dejte pozor, ať Vám neukousnou ruku! Případně polovinu trupu. Mezi soutěžícími opět naleznete jména vycházejících hvězd: Lucie Kaňová, Magda Duhonská, Lukáš Vlasák; i nováčky, kteří se o své místo na obloze teprve derou. Tematicky patří Chovatelé krakenů k nejpestřejším a od historické fantasy přecházejí ke klasické až po moderní humornou a filosofickou. A možná přijde i Cthulhu a zadupe!
Zo starého viniča
V publikácii Z každého rožka troška, ktorú Televízia LUX vydala v roku 2024, čitateľ našiel výber z viac než tridsiatich mojich kníh. V tejto publikácii nájde výťah z mojich prednášok, článkov a besied pre mládež, lekárov, učiteľov a kňazov, ako aj z časopiseckých, televíznych, rozhlasových a knižných rozhovorov za uplynulé roky.
Často sa mi vyčíta, že hovorím a píšem viac o negatívach než o pozitívach v osobnom a spoločenskom živote. Je to tak preto, lebo na lekárskych fakultách ma učili, že lekár musí v kontakte s chorým pacientom hovoriť oveľa viac o jeho chorobách a prevencii, než o tom, čo je v jeho tele absolútne zdravé. A dnešný človek a spoločnosť sú z morálneho a ľudského hľadiska veľmi choré.
Čitateľ sa v tejto knihe stretne s mnohými otázkami. Ak v nej nájde odpoveď aj na niektorú zo svojich vlastných otázok, nepísal som ju zbytočne.
Za krále Klacka
Za krále Klacka... Ono zavedené úsloví užíváme v hovoru zcela samozřejmě, málokdo si přitom uvědomí, že tu jde o jedno z největších bílých míst našich dějin. Tato kniha se pokusí toto místo vyplnit. Představí vám jak onoho pozapomenutého krále, tak jeho rodinu, dvůr, rytíře i věrné rádce, včetně dodnes jednoho z nejčastěji zmiňovaných českých světců: svatého Dyndyho. Dozvíte se, jak to bylo s čínským bohem srandy, jak se loví obří kanci a uspávají draci, či jak mnoho nechybělo a Karlovy Vary nesly jméno docela jiného vladaře. Také proč si kmotřička Smrt přizvala ku pomoci známou Pepku, a ti nejpozornější i kdo býval příslovečný strýček Příhoda. Hlavně však poznáte hrdinské i jiné činy dobrého krále Klacka, jeho život, dobu a mnoho dalšího, neméně zajímavého, ba ještě víc.
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UFO: obrazové dějiny
Záhadná světla na obloze. Únosy mimozemšťany. Vládní zatajování. Oddaní ufologové strávili roky dokumentováním nevysvětlitelných jevů od létajících talířů po mimozemský život. Odhalte historii UFO v ilustrovaném průvodci, který odděluje vědeckou fikci od faktů. Záhadné dějiny létajících talířů se dočkaly prozkoumání do hloubky, od potenciálních mimozemských návštěvníků u Stonehenge až po UFO kulty a tajemství Oblasti 51. Adam Allsuch Boardman ve svém charakteristickém stylu podrobně popisuje letadla a artefakty spojené s hledáním pravdy o UFO.
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Triumf
Brazílska spisovateľská legenda Clarice Lispector písala poviedky počas celej svojej kariéry. V tejto knihe nájdete mnohé z jej najznámejších a najúspešnejších poviedok – od prvej, ktorú napísala ako devätnásťročné dievča, až po výber z tých, ktoré písala v posledných rokoch života. Texty, charakteristické intenzívnymi okamihmi introspekcie, odrážajú jej jedinečný pohľad na svet a ľudskú psychiku, ako aj neutíchajúcu túžbu pochopiť zmysel ľudskej existencie. Tento výber je inšpiratívnym vstupom do fascinujúceho sveta jednej z najnezvyčajnejších literárnych osobností dvadsiateho storočia.
Vybrané poviedky prvýkrát vyšli v diele Všetky poviedky (2019).
Tvorbu prekladu z verejných zdrojov podporil Fond na podporu umenia.
Clarice Lispector bola obdarená výnimočnou inteligenciou, vizionárskym inštinktom a zmyslom pre humor, v ktorom sa striedal naivný úžas so zlomyseľnou komikou.
Rachel Kushner
Dead Against Her
Sheriff Bree Taggert's downfall is part of a killer's cunning design in #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh's novel of murder, lies, and revenge.
Called to an isolated farm to check on an elderly widow, Sheriff Bree Taggert finds a brutal double homicide. One of the victims is Eugene Oscar, the bitter and corrupt former deputy she recently forced out of the department.
Working with criminal investigator Matt Flynn, Bree discovers that she isn't the only one who had a troubling history with Eugene. But someone doesn't want Bree digging up the past. She becomes the target of a stranger's sick and devious campaign calculated to destroy her reputation, career, family, and new relationship with Matt. To make matters worse, she's the prime suspect in Eugene's murder.
When her chief deputy goes missing while investigating the case, Bree refuses to back down. She won't let him become the next victim. His life and her future depend on finding a killer nursing a vengeful rage.
Těhotenské & newborn fotografie
Snili jste někdy o tom, že byste se mohli živit svým koníčkem? Autorka a fotografka Kristina Mack měla přesně takový sen, který se jí díky fotografování miminek podařilo změnit ve skutečnost!
Těhotenské a newborn fotografování je stále rozšířenější a populárnější směr, který však vyžaduje speciální přístup. Jako zkušená profesionálka Vás Kristina naučí pečovat o vaše klienty a jak je připravit před fotografickým sezením.
Popisuje, jak sestavit šatník nebo jaké sehnat rekvizity. Prozradí, co poradit nastávajícím maminkám při pózování, a vysvětlí, jak bezpečně a s láskou zacházet s novorozenci. Seznámí vás s komplikacemi, které sezení newborn fotografování mohou provázet, a také doporučí, jak si s nimi poradit.
Získejte sebevědomí a dovednosti potřebné pro pořizování úžasných a nadčasových těhotenských a novorozeneckých fotografií. Najděte svůj vlastní jedinečný styl, který zaujme vaše potenciální klienty a přeměňte svůj ateliér v ideální místo pro vytvoření těch nejkrásnějších vzpomínek!
Stržená proudem
Napínavá detektivka z britského ostrova, kde se tajemství pohřbívají hluboko pod hladinou mořské vody, a nejen tam.
Merry žije poklidný, samotářský život na ostrově Wight. Živí se tvorbou křížovek, plave v ledových vodách a přátelství udržuje s jediným člověkem – Lucasem Manningem, synem své zesnulé nejlepší přítelkyně. Když Lucas náhle zmizí, Merry okamžitě vycítí, že nejde o náhodu. Jeho otec byl pašerák drog, bratr skončil za mřížemi. Pokračuje Lucas v kriminální tradici své rodiny? Mohla se v něm celý život plést?
Ve spolupráci se soukromým detektivem se Merry pouští do vlastního pátrání. Odhaluje temná tajemství, která se roky skrývala pod povrchem. Která povedou k nalezení Lucase a která odhalí Merryinu pevně střeženou minulost?
Stržená proudem je strhující detektivní román o tom, jak hluboko dokáže minulost zasahovat do přítomnosti. Pro milovníky krimi příběhů s pomalu budovaným napětím, atmosférickým prostředím a nečekaným rozuzlením.
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Optimal
'Actionable tools and insights that are essential to unlocking your potential' Oscar Munoz, former CEO of United Airlines
In his groundbreaking bestseller Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman revolutionized how we think about intelligence. Now, he reveals practical methods for using these inner resources to more readily enter an optimal state of high performance and satisfaction.
There are moments when we achieve peak performance: an athlete plays a perfect game; a business has a quarter with once-in-a-lifetime profits. But for every amazing day, we may have a hundred ordinary and even unsatisfying ones. Fulfilment doesn't come from isolated peak experiences, or elusive 'flow' states, but rather from many consistent good days. So how do we sustain performance, while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance?
In Optimal, Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss reveal how emotional intelligence can help us have a productive day, any day - to consistently work at your 'optimal' level. Based on decades of research on how hundreds of people build the inner architecture of having a good day, they sketch what an optimal state feels like, and show how emotional intelligence holds the key to our best performance.
Optimal will equip you to become a highly effective leader and enable you to build an organizational culture that empowers workers to sustain high performance
Bluey: Swim School
Bluey and her family are playing Swim School, but first they have to learn a lesson about not dobbing on each other.
Will all of Bluey's fun games help Bingo learn anything about swimming? Find out in this hilarious colour board book!
"We're going to pass Big Fish without dobbing."
But Big fish is pretty hard . . .
Can't get enough of Bluey? Also available:
Bluey: The Beach
Bluey: The Pool
Bluey: Little Library
The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories
A revelatory and richly varied collection of Poland's greatest short stories, with a foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk
Witty, surprising and sparkling, this anthology is an essential exploration of Polish literature. Its thirty-nine superb stories run the length of the literal and imaginative creation of Poland, from 1918 (when Poland regained its independence after 123 years of colonization by the neighbouring empires) to the present.
The stories include 'Miss Winczewska', by the acclaimed twentieth-century writer Maria Dabrowska (1889-1965), based on her experience of helping to establish a library for soldiers at the Citadel military base in Warsaw in the interwar period; and 'In the Shadow of Brooklyn' by Stanislaw Dygat (1914-1978), the comical tale of a young man's envy of what he imagines to be his father's success with women. At the contemporary end, it includes a story by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk (1962), 'The Green Children', a historical story set in 1656, narrated by a Scottish doctor who, as the Polish king's physician, travels about the wilds of Poland and encounters two feral children. Curated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, this anthology is a refreshing and glorious new collection of the best in Polish literature.
Masquerade
The Prom meets Groundhog Day in the irresistible new queer YA romance from the author of Straight Expectations.
Prom is supposed to be the night you remember your whole life. But for seventeen-year-old Zach, it's about to become his whole life - after a kiss from a masked stranger, Zach finds himself stuck in a time loop, endlessly repeating the same day.
Zach thinks that the only way to break the cycle is to work out the identity of his mystery admirer. But when everyone around him is wearing masks of one kind or another, how can he ever find out who his true love might be?
Inclusive, feelgood romantic comedy perfect for fans of Adam Silvera, Casey McQuiston, Elite or the movie Palm Springs.
Bluey: Camping
Bluey is on a family camping trip, where she makes a new friend, Jean-Luc.
Even though Bluey and Jean-Luc don't speak the same language, they teach each other how to camp, plant trees and hunt a "wild pig".
This lovely picture book is all about the magic of friendship.
Bluey: The Beach
Join Bluey for a fun day at the beach in this first picture book story from the new hit animation!
Bluey, Bingo, Mum and Dad are at the beach. While Mum is off for a walk, Bluey discovers a beautiful shell and runs to catch up with her.
What will she discover along the way in her first solo adventure?
This new Bluey picture book is perfect for sharing with Bluey fans at storytime and bedtime.
Can't get enough of Bluey? Also available:
Bluey: Meet Bluey! Sticker and Activity Book
Bluey: Little Library
Vanished
From an award-winning historian of race, science and empire, a path-breaking and poignant history of extinction as a scientific idea, an imperial legacy and a political choice
Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90% of species that ever existed are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species can vanish forever, or as capable of pushing our planet to the verge of a sixth mass extinction?
Extinction, Sadiah Qureshi shows us, is a surprisingly modern concept – and a phenomenon that’s not as natural as we might think. In Europe until the late eighteenth century, species were considered perfect and unchanging creations of God. Then in the age of revolutions, scientists gathered enough fossil evidence to determine that mammoth bones, for example, were not just large elephants but a lost species that once roamed the Earth alongside ancient humans. Extinction went from being regarded as theologically dangerous to pervasive, and even inevitable.
Yet Vanished shows us that extinction is more than a scientific idea; it’s a political choice that has led to devasting consequences. Europeans and Americans quickly used the notion that extinction was a natural process to justify persecution and genocide, predicting that nations from Newfoundland’s Beothuk to Aboriginal Australians were doomed to die out from imperial expansion.
Exploring the tangled and unnatural histories of extinction and empire, Vanished weaves together pioneering original research and breath-taking storytelling to show us extinction is both an evolutionary process and a human act: one which illuminates our past, and may alter our future.
Italy Reborn
A major new account of the emergence of Italian democracy after the Second World War.
The rebirth of Italy after the Second World War is one of the most impressive political transformations in modern European history. In 1945, post-fascist Italy was devastated by war and its reputation in the international arena was nil. Yet by December 1955, when Italy was admitted to the United Nations, the nation had contested three acrimonious but free general elections, had a flourishing press, and was a leader in the re-building of Europe. The contrast with Fascism was stark.
This book charts the descent of Italy into Fascism, the scale of the wartime disaster, the Italian resistance to Nazi occupation, and the establishment of the Republic in 1946. The Cold War divided, in 1947, the coalition of parties that had led the resistance to Fascism and Nazism.
The book’s final chapters deal with the consolidation of Italian democracy and with the statesmanship of Alcide De Gasperi, the premier from December 1945 to August 1953. The book argues, first, that De Gasperi deserves more credit than he has typically been accorded for Italy’s post-war democratization and, second, that Italian democracy was constructed on a sound foundation – which is why it has been able to survive its many post-war crises.
Largely based on contemporary Italian sources, the book is written in an engaging, lively way for both the general reader and specialists in Italian history.
Left Behind
The world-renowned economist offers a ground-breaking new vision for inclusive prosperity
Left behind places can be found in prosperous countries?from South Yorkshire, integral to the industrial revolution and now England’s poorest county, to Barranquilla, once Colombia’s portal to the Caribbean and now struggling. More alarmingly, the poorest countries in the world are diverging further from the rest of humanity than they were at the start of this century. Why have these places fallen behind? And what can we do about it?
World-renowned development economist Paul Collier has spent his life working in neglected communities. In this book he offers his candid diagnosis of why some regions and countries are failing, and a new vision for how they can catch up. Collier lays the blame for widening inequality on stale economic orthodoxies that prioritize market forces to revive left behind regions, and on the arrogant, hands-off and one-size fits all approach of centralized bureaucracies like the UK Treasury. As a result, Collier argues, the UK has become the most unequal and unfair society in the western world.
Yet the core message of Left Behind is hopeful: bringing together encouraging case studies of recovery from around the world, Collier shows how renewal is achievable through a combination of collective learning, moral leadership and local agency. With keen insight, he draws lessons from such seemingly disparate fields as behavioural psychology, evolutionary biology and moral philosophy to share a bold, galvanizing vision for a more inclusive, prosperous world.
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