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Všetci v meste poznajú Delaneyovcov, úspešnú rodinu tenistov, v ktorej sa raketa dedí z pokolenia na pokolenie. Stan a Joy sa spoznali vďaka tenisu a odvtedy to medzi nimi len iskrilo. Po päťdesiatich rokoch manželstva sa však aj posledná iskra kamsi vytratila, a keď predajú spoločne vybudovanú tenisovú akadémiu, neostane nič, čo by ich spájalo. Samozrejme, okrem štyroch detí a nádeje na vnúčatá. Potom im raz v noci zaklope na dvere neznáme zakrvavené dievča. Predstaví sa ako Savannah a prosí o záchranu pred násilným partnerom. Delaneyovci neváhajú a dobrosrdečne prijmú mladú ženu pod svoju strechu. Onedlho však Joy zmizne a aj po Savannah akoby sa zľahla zem. Jediným podozrivým je Stan, a hoci odmieta vinu, vie viac, ako priznáva. Čo sa naozaj stalo? Kam zmizla mama a ako to súvisí so záhadnou neznámou? Neistota a pochybnosti postavia súrodencov proti sebe a nútia ich prehodnotiť rodinnú minulosť v novom svetle. Inak sa nikdy nedozvedia pravdu.
Z anglického originálu Apples Never Fall (Macmillan by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd, Sydney 2021) preložila Tamara Chovanová.
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Új nap virrad apa és lánya számára
Baxter Shaw nehezen tudta elfogadni a felesége halálát - mint ahogy nyolcéves lányának, Miának is nehezére esett alkalmazkodni a helyzethez. Baxter kilépett a zenekarból, leszámolt az álmával, és arra koncentrált, hogy egyedül fel tudja nevelni a lányát. De Mia viselkedési zavarai miatt a nehézségek fokozódtak. Egyikük sem hajlandó szembenézni a múlttal - egészen addig, amíg rá nem kényszerülnek, hogy megtegyék.
Egy DNS-teszt váratlan eredménye birtokában Baxter és Mia Spanyolországba utaznak, hogy feltárják gyökereiket, amelyekről eddig nem volt tudomásuk. Több száz éves villában találják magukat, amelyet olívaültetvény övez, és Baxter ráébred, talán még nem késő, hogy álmai nyomába szegődjön. A másik kultúra, a gyógyító környezet felvillantja előtte a lehetőséget: akár a szerelem is újra rátalálhat.
The Love of My Life
I have held you every night for ten years and I didn't even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house. Who are you?
Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she'd do anything for them. But almost everything she's told them about herself is a lie. And she might just have got away with it, if it weren't for her husband's job.
Leo is an obituary writer and Emma is a well-known marine biologist, so, when she suffers a serious illness, Leo copes by doing what he knows best - reading and writing about her life. But as he starts to unravel her past, he discovers the woman he loves doesn't really exist. Even her name is fictitious.
When the very darkest moments of Emma's past life finally emerge, she must somehow prove to Leo that she really is the woman he always thought she was...
But first, she must tell him about the love of her other life.
Zámek
Hlavním hrdinou románu Zámek je mladý zeměměřič K. Přijíždí neznámo odkud do neznámé vesnice, aby zde provedl geodetické měření.
Brzy si všimne, že mu místní obyvatelé nevěří a bojí se ho. Situaci zpočátku příliš nerozumí, ale postupně pochopí, že celý zdejší život ovlivňuje prostřednictvím různých více či méně významných byrokratů tajuplný zámek nad vesnicí. Proč mu ten, kdo ho do vesnice povolal, najednou začíná házet klacky pod nohy.
Absurdně groteskní Kafkův román patří mezi jeho vrcholná díla. Do dnešních dnů má tato kniha stovky, ne-li tisíce fascinujících výkladů a je naprosto jisté, že nenechá v klidu ani současného čtenáře, protože Kafka ve své rozporuplnosti – to je dvacáté století, kam všichni alespoň jednou nohou patříme.
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Brother Alive
In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in Staten Island. The boys are a conspicuous trio: Dayo is of Nigerian origin, Iseul is Korean and Youssef indeterminately Middle Eastern, but they are so close as to be almost inseparable. Nevertheless, Youssef is keeping a secret from his brothers: he has an imaginary double, a familiar who seems absolutely real, a shapeshifting creature he calls Brother.
The boys' adoptive father, Imam Salim, is known for his radical sermons extolling the virtues of opting out of Western ideologies. But he is uncharismatic at home, a distant father who spends evenings in his study with whiskey-laced coffee, writing letters to his former compatriots back in Saudi Arabia. Like Youssef, he too has secrets, including the cause of his failing health, the reason for his nighttime excursions from the house and the truth about what happened to the boys' parents. When Imam Salim's path takes him back to Saudi Arabia, the boys will be forced to follow. There they will be captivated by an opulent, almost futuristic world and find traces of their parents' stories. But they will have to change if they want to survive in this new world, and the arrival of a creature as powerful as Brother will not go unnoticed.
With stylistic brilliance and intellectual acuity, in Brother Alive Zain Khalid brings characters to vivid life with a bold energy that matches the great themes of his novel - family, capital, power, sexuality and the possibility of reunion for those who are broken.
Someday, Maybe
Stunningly honest and bursting with wit, Someday Maybe is the story of grief and resilience that you won't be able to stop talking about.
Here are three things you should know about my husband:
He was the great love of my life despite his penchant for going incommunicado
He was, as far as I and everyone else could tell, perfectly happy.
On New Year’s Eve, he killed himself
And here is one thing you should know about me:
I found him.
Bonus fact: No. I am not okay
Eve is left heartbroken by her husband's unexpected death, but everyone around her – her friends, her boisterous British-Nigerian family, her toxic mother-in-law – seems to be pushing her to move on. Unable to face the future, Eve begins looking back, delving through the history of her marriage in an attempt to understand where it went wrong. So begins an unconventional love story about loss, resilience, and a heroine bursting with rage and unexpected joy.
Street Haunting
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
'The hour should be evening and the season winter, for in winter the champagne brightness of the air and the sociability of the streets are grateful'. In such conditions, Virginia Woolf takes to London's streets in search of a pencil. The account of her journey - the people, the places, the pleasure - soon becomes one of the great paeans to city life. This collection also includes other wonderful essays, such as 'How Should One Read a Book?' and 'The Sun and the Fish'.
'One of the great writers of the twentieth century' Guardian
Ghost Lover
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Three Women and Animal comes an electric masterclass in short fiction
Behind anonymous screens, an army of cool and beautiful girls manage the dating service Ghost Lover, a forwarding system for text messages that promises to spare you the anguish of trying to stay composed while communicating with your crush.
At a star-studded political fundraiser in a Los Angeles mansion, a trio of women compete to win the heart of the slick guest of honour.
In a tense hospital waiting room, an inseparable pair of hard-partying friends crash into life's responsibilities, but the magic of their glory days comes alive again at the moment they least expect it.
In these nine riveting stories, Lisa Taddeo brings to life the fever of obsession, the blindness of love and the mania of grief. Featuring Taddeo's arresting prose that continues to thrill her legions of fans, Ghost Lover dares you to look away.
Billy No-Mates
When Max Dickins decided to propose to his girlfriend, he realised there was no one he could call on to be his best man.
He quickly learned that he wasn't the only man struggling with friendships. For decades, countless studies from across the world have confirmed that men have fewer close friends than women - and the problem gets worse the older men get. But what goes wrong? And what can men do about it? Dickins is going to find out.
Join Max on his funny and charmingly candid search as he takes a defibrillator to his social life. As he ultimately discovers that if he wants a Best Man, then he needs to be a better man.
The Weather Woman
Neva is born into a world of trickery and illusion, where fortunes are won and lost on the turn of a card. But she is also born with an extraordinary gift: she can predict the weather. In Regency England, where the proper goal for a gentlewoman is marriage and only God can foretell the future, this is a dangerous power to possess.
In order to stand up to the men of science, Neva adopts a sophisticated male disguise, created by her brilliant clockmaker father. But what will happen when she falls in love with a charismatic young man?
Girlfriend on Mars
Kevin is a thirtysomething homebody, happily committed to his hydroponics-expert girlfriend, Amber, as they grow weed in their basement in Vancouver.
Out of the blue, Amber announces that she has been selected for a reality show where she will compete for one of two seats on the first human-led mission to Mars. If selected, she must stay on Mars for good, because the technology to come home doesn't exist yet. Is this a suicide mission or a bold new frontier?
Girlfriend on Mars is the story of love unravelling in a world where truth is dictated by Facebook ads and 'reality TV' is as scripted as any politician's speech. With rapt viewers voting for Amber to stay on the show and crates of Mars-mission branded protein shakes arriving at his door, is it any wonder Kevin wants to stay in the basement forever?
The Librarianist
Selected as a Washington Post Book of the Summer
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes a novel about an ordinary man who thought life's surprises were behind him - until a chance encounter changed everything
Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market and returns her to the senior center that is her home. Hoping to fill the void he's known since retiring, he begins volunteering at the center. Here, as a community of strange peers gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from his past, the events of his life and the details of his character are revealed.
Behind Bob Comet's straight man facade is the story of an unhappy child's runaway adventure during the last days of the Second World War, of true love won and stolen away, of the purpose and pride found in the librarian's vocation, and the pleasures of a life lived to the side of the masses. Comet's experiences are imbued with melancholy but also a bright, sustained comedy; he has a talent for locating bizarre and outsized players to welcome onto the stage of his life.
With his inimitable verve, skewed humor, and compassion for the outcast, Patrick deWitt has written a wide-ranging and ambitious document of the introvert's condition. The Librarianist celebrates the extraordinary in the so-called ordinary life, and depicts beautifully the turbulence that sometimes exists beneath a surface of serenity.
Euphoria
A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bound to be and yearning for so much more.
The woman in question is Sylvia Plath in the final year of her life. As Plath's marriage to Ted Hughes unravels, Sylvia turns increasingly to writing to express her pain and loss, yet also her resilience and power. She has decided to die, but the art she creates in her final weeks will set her name, and the world, ablaze.
Love Untold
The funny, moving and uplifting new novel from Ruth Jones, co-creator of Gavin & Stacey and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Never Greener and Us Three.
Grace is about to turn ninety. She doesn't want parties or presents or fuss. She just wants to heal the family rift that's been breaking her heart for decades.
But to do that she must find her daughter Alys - the only person who can help to put things right.
And when she finds her - if she does - she risks betraying granddaughter Elin. Who is far less forgiving of the past, with its hurts and secrets and lies. Meanwhile Grace's great-grand-daughter Beca is oblivious to all these worries, too busy navigating the highs and lows of teenage life and keeping secrets of her own.
All families have their problems. And most of them get resolved. But Grace's problem is thirty years old. And she doesn't have time on her side.
So is it too late for her to make peace? Or is reconciliation still within reach?
Love Untold is about mothers and daughters and the complex bond between them. It's about the heartache that comes from leaving things unsaid and the power of true forgiveness. It is a joy-filled, life-affirming, sob-inducing novel - with characters you'll come to know and love - from no.1 bestselling author Ruth Jones.
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books.
Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and joy of her uncle Satoru, who has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife Momoko left him five years earlier.
When Takako's boyfriend reveals he's marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle's offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above the shop. Hoping to nurse her broken heart in peace, Takako is surprised to encounter new worlds within the stacks of books lining the Morisaki bookshop.
As summer fades to autumn, Satoru and Takako discover they have more in common than they first thought. The Morisaki bookshop has something to teach them both about life, love, and the healing power of books.
Az elveszett newporti nyarak
2019: Egy népszerű valóságshow keretei között újítanak fel mutatós régi házakat, a legfrissebb kiszemelt a Rhode Island-i Newportban található Sprague Hall - de a műsor producere aknára fut: jelenleg is a patinás Sprague család leszármazottja, Lucia "Lucky" Sprague lakik a villában, aki csak azzal a feltétellel engedélyezi a forgatást, hogy a romos állapotban levő csónakházhoz nem szabad hozzányúlni.
1899: Énektanárt vesznek fel a Sprague-vagyon naiv, ifjú örökösnője mellé, akit a család egy hozományvadász olasz herceghez szeretne feleségül adni, ezért a fiatal nőnek el kell sajátítania a tökéletes illemet. Az énektanárnak azonban a szolid látszat ellenére megvan a maga pikáns múltja: tulajdonképp búvóhelynek választotta a Sprague Hallt.
1958: Lucia "Lucky" Sprague Mussolini Olaszországából menekült Newportba. Mindig is úgy érezte, nem tartozik a Sprague Hallba, noha a Rhode Island-i közeg apránként befogadta: a nagy múltú dinasztia utolsó sarja lett a férje. De egy sorsszerű éjjelen feltárul a villához tartozó régi csónakház titka, és Luckynak emiatt mindent át kell értékelnie.
A valóságshow kamerái forognak, és a ház lerántja a leplet a titkokról, amelyeket a Sprague család örökre el akart temetni.
The Swimmers
Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
"Up there," she says, "I'm just another little old lady. But down here, at the pool, I'm myself."
For the people who swim there each day, the local pool is a haven of unexpected kinship and private solace. For Alice, her daily laps have become the ritual that gives her life meaning, even though she may not remember the combination to her locker or where she put her towel.
But one day, a crack appears deep beneath the surface of the water, and then another, and then another. The pool must close for repairs, and with that Alice is plunged into dislocation and chaos.
Away from the steady routines of her swimming, she is engulfed by difficult memories of her own past. And as her sense of home, and of herself, slip further out of her grasp, her daughter must navigate the newly fractured landscape of their relationship.
From the internationally bestselling author of The Buddha in the Attic comes a novel about memory and loss, mothers and daughters, the stories that make up a life, and what happens when they start to unravel.
Matky a dcéry
AJ ŠŤASTNÉ RODINY MAJÚ SVOJE TRÁPENIA...
Naomi žije v krásnom prostredí na pobreží južného Anglicka vo vile, ktorá bola jej útočiskom
a istotou, a tak ju pomenovali Vila Kotva. Má dve dospelé dcéry a pred časom náhle
ovdovela.
Do susedného domčeka sa nasťahuje nový nájomník, Ellis, ktorý však pre Naomi nie je cudzí
– poznali sa už v mladosti. Stará iskra medzi nimi vzbĺkne nanovo a vzkriesi v nich radosť a
túžbu po spoločnom živote.
Problémom je, ako túto novinu prijmú Naomine dcéry, najmä staršia Martha, ktorá otca
zbožňovala a nerada by videla niekoho na jeho mieste. Mladšia Willow je tomuto vzťahu
oveľa viac naklonená, keďže otca vnímala celkom inak.
Naomi sa nikdy nepriznala, že jej manželstvo s Colinom nebolo také harmonické, ako
vyzeralo navonok, a aj Willow skrýva tajomstvo, o ktoré sa s nikým nepodelila, lebo by naň
najradšej zabudla.
Citlivo napísaný román Matky a dcéry rieši problematiku a dynamiku vzťahov v rodine, ktorá
navonok pôsobí šťastne.
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Család a dombon 2.
Ami sok, az sok!
Úgy látszik, minden sínen van. Három csodás kisfiú, szerető férj, családi ház, barátok, kellemes munka és elegendő énidő. Már-már túl nagy a nyugalom! Mi kellhet még a boldogsághoz? Talán egy kislány… – ábrándozik Gyömbi, ám a sors tréfás kedvében van: a vágyott lányka helyett újra fiúbaba érkezik a családba. Ráadásul nem is egy, hanem egyszerre kettő!
Mert, valljuk be, ami sok, az sok(k)! Öt gyerek kifejezetten az. A menetközben befogadott kölyökkutyáról és a megszaporodott cicákról nem is beszélve.
Ha eddig hullámvasút volt az élet, most trambulin lett – minden előzetes terv felborul, az élet a dombon a feje tetejére áll. Fel-le pattogni, bármily mókás, sokszor ijesztő, néha veszélyes, és nagyon fárasztó. Olykor sosem tapasztalt helyzetekbe, rémisztő magasságokba vagy mélységekbe kerülünk, forog velünk a világ, hogy azt sem tudjuk, hol áll a fejünk. Csak reménykedünk, hogy jó helyre érkezünk, és nem szakad át a védőháló, ha túl gyorsan zuhanunk.
Patak Gyöngyvér a Család a dombon folytatásában emeli a tétet. Még több kaland vár ránk, és megannyi érzelem ragad el minket az események sodrásában. Kihívások, kudarcok és katarzisok követik egymást. A nagy kérdés pedig az, hogyan lehet gyerekek mellett megőrizni az ép eszünk, valamint a testi és lelki egészségünk.
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