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Překlad Ladislav Šenkyřík
Velká Británie prohrála válku o Falklandy a Alan Turing se věnuje vývoji umělé inteligence… To je alternativní historie 80. let minulého století z pera jednoho z nejvýznamnějších anglických prozaiků. Důležitým tématem knihy je však také láska – respektive otázka, jak se vyrovnáme se skutečností, že umělá inteligence patrně nebude umět lhát. Nebude totiž chápat ani naše milosrdné lži, na kterých mezilidské soužití stojí a padá a které my lidé tak dobře ovládáme.
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The Midnight Library
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR FICTION
A BETWEEN THE COVERS AND GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
'BEAUTIFUL' Jodi Picoult, 'UPLIFTING' i, 'BRILLIANT' Daily Mail, 'AMAZING' Joanna Cannon, 'ABSORBING' New York Times, 'THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Independent
Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and try out each of the other lives she might have lived. Which raises the ultimate question: with infinite choices, what is the best way to live?
Swimming in the Dark
You were right when you said that people can't always give us what we want from them. Poland, 1980. Anxious, disillusioned Ludwik Glowacki, soon to graduate university, has been sent along with the rest of his class to an agricultural camp. Here he meets Janusz - and together, they spend a dreamlike summer swimming in secluded lakes, reading forbidden books - and falling in love. But with summer over, the two are sent back to Warsaw, and to the harsh realities of life under the Party. Exiled from paradise, Ludwik and Janusz must decide how they will survive; and in their different choices, find themselves torn apart. Swimming in the Dark is an unforgettable debut about youth, love, and loss - and the sacrifices we make to live lives with meaning.
Adults
Jenny McLaine:
* can't afford her mortgage since her ex moved out
* is about to get dumped by her best friend
* spends all day online-stalking women with picture-perfect lives
And now her mother has appeared on her doorstep, unbidden, to save the day...
Is Jenny ready to grow up and rescue herself this time?
The Sight of You
Joel is afraid of the future.
Since he was a child he's been haunted by dreams about the people he loves. Visions of what's going to happen - the good and the bad. And the only way to prevent them is to never let anyone close to him again.
Callie can't let go of the past.
Since her best friend died, Callie's been lost. She knows she needs to be more spontaneous and live a bigger life. She just doesn't know how to find a way back to the person who used to have those dreams.
Joel and Callie both need a reason to start living for today.
And though they're not looking for each other, from the moment they meet it feels like the start of something life-changing.
Until Joel has a vision of how it's going to end . . .
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
Life is short. No-one knows that better than seventeen-year-old Lenni living on the terminal ward. But as she is about to learn, it's not only what you make of life that matters, but who you share it with. Dodging doctor's orders, she joins an art class where she bumps into fellow patient Margot, a rebel-hearted eight-three-year-old from the next ward. Their bond is instant as they realize that together they have lived an astonishing one hundred years. To celebrate their shared century, they decide to paint their life stories: of growing old and staying young, of giving joy, of receiving kindness, of losing love, of finding the person who is everything. As their extraordinary friendship deepens, it becomes vividly clear that life is not done with Lenni and Margot yet.
Fiercely alive, disarmingly funny and brimming with tenderness, THE ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF LENNI AND MARGOT unwraps the extraordinary gift of life even when it is about to be taken away, and revels in our infinite capacity for friendship and love when we need them most.
'Emotional, involving, witty and sad. Everyone is going to love LENNI AND MARGOT' JILL MANSELL
'Lenni and Margot are two of the most wonderful, warm, witty and wise heroines I've ever met. Beautiful and glorious' CLARE POOLEY, author of The Authtenticity Project
'Such a delight! I fell head over heels for Lenni and Margot, their wit and vibrancy and marvellous outlooks on life. An utter joy' ABBIE GREAVES
The World Beneath Their Feet
Longlisted for the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year
'A gripping history' THE ECONOMIST
'The World Beneath Their Feet contains plenty of rollicking stories' THE TIMES
'Gripping' THE SUNDAY TIMES
'So far as adventure stories go, this book is tops.' Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump
'[Ellsworth] recasts the era as a great Himalayan race...[and] it works brilliantly...his account of the 1953 ascent of Everest...feels unusually fresh' THE SUNDAY TIMES
'Like if Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air met Lauren Hillenbrand's Unbroken ... an inviting and engrossing read' SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
One of the most compelling international dramas of the 20th century and an unforgettable saga of survival, technological innovation, and breathtaking human physical achievement-all set against the backdrop of a world headed toward war.
While tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was raging across the Himalayas. Contingents from Great Britain, Nazi Germany, and the United States had set up rival camps at the base of the mountains, all hoping to become recognized as the fastest, strongest, and bravest climbers in the world.
Carried on across nearly the entire sweep of the Himalayas, this contest involved not only the greatest mountain climbers of the era, but statesmen and millionaires, world-class athletes and bona fide eccentrics, scientists and generals, obscure villagers and national heroes.
Centered in the 1930s, with one brief, shining postwar coda, the contest was a struggle between hidebound traditionalists and unknown innovators, one that featured new techniques and equipment, unbelievable courage and physical achievement, and unparalleled valor. And death. One Himalayan peak alone, Nanga Parbat in Kashmir, claimed twenty-five lives in less than three years.
Climbing the Himalayas was the Greatest Generation's moonshot--one shrouded in the onset of war, interrupted by it, and then fully accomplished. A gritty, fascinating history that promises to enrapture fans of Hampton Side, Jon Krakauer, and Laura Hillenbrand, The World Beneath Their Feet brings this forgotten story back to life.
The Authenticity Project
Six strangers with one thing in common: their lives aren't always what they make them out to be.
What would happen if they told the truth instead?
Julian Jessop is tired of hiding the deep loneliness he feels. So he begins The Authenticity Project - a small green notebook containing the truth about his life.
Leaving the notebook on a table in his friendly neighbourhood cafe, Julian never expects Monica, the owner, to track him down after finding it. Or that she'll be inspired to write down her own story.
Little do they realize that such small acts of honesty hold the power to impact all those who discover the notebook and change their lives completely.
Animal Farm
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master, Mr Jones, and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another. Orwell's chilling 'fairy story' is a timeless and devastating satire of idealism betrayed by power and corruption.
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No One Is Talking About This
A woman known for her viral social media posts travels the world speaking to her adoring fans, her entire existence overwhelmed by the internet - or what she terms 'the portal'. Are we in hell? the people of the portal ask themselves. Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die? Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: 'Something has gone wrong,' and 'How soon can you get here?' As real life and its stakes collide with the increasing absurdity of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary. Irreverent and sincere, poignant and delightfully profane, No One Is Talking About This is at once a love letter to the infinite scroll and a meditation on love, language and human connection from one of the most original voices of our time.
THE FIRST NOVEL FROM PATRICIA LOCKWOOD
'I really admire and love this book. Patricia Lockwood is a completely singular talent and this is her best, funniest, weirdest, most affecting work yet' Sally Rooney, author of Normal People
'A literary star ... Captures better than anything I've ever read what it's like to be online' Hadley Freeman, Guardian
'A furiously original novel, alive and unstable' Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror
A Guardian, Times, Daily Mail, Esquire, Irish Independent, Irish Times, Elle, Independent and Stylist Highlight for 2021
Láska dostává křídla
Sny se někdy plní. Ne každá dívka a mladá žena však sní o „kariéře“ manželky a matky. Klíčem k pestřejšímu životu je vyšší vzdělání a toho se dostává stále více děvčatům z rodiny Davisových. Belinda, nejmladší dcera Clarka a Marty, se po boku bratra lékaře vypracovala na zdatnou a obětavou ošetřovatelku. V jejich ordinaci v malém prérijním městečku se dveře netrhnou a Belinda je věčně v jednom kole. Snad by i přehlédla, že vážný zájem o ni projevují hned dva mladí muži, oba svým způsobem skvělí. Když jí konečně dojde, jak se věci mají, uvrhne ji to ve zmatek a nepohodu a Belinda nevidí jiné východisko než utéci před naléháním nápadníků pryč, co nejdál z provinčního města. Po boku jedné ze zotavených pacientek, bohaté paní Staffordové Smythové se vydává nejprve do Bostonu a pak i poznávat celý širý svět, všechna ta úžasná, starobylá evropská města, o nichž dosud jen četla v knihách. Na této na pohled báječné cestě si však uvědomí, že ze své skutečné životní cesty sešla, a bude ji stát hodně úsilí vrátit se k opravdovým hodnotám… a k Bohu.
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Zásady muštárne
Príbeh o Homérovi Wellsovi sa začína uprostred jabloňových sadov v štáte Maine v Novom Anglicku. V sirotinci v mestečku St. Cloud je Homér najstarší zverenec, nikto si ho neadoptoval, a tak tam zostal a priúča sa u Wilbura Larcha, lekára a neobyčajne láskavého zakladateľa sirotica, ktorý pomáha ženám v meste a je závislý od éteru. Vedomosti, skúsenosti a životné pravdy, ktoré Homér v mladosti získal od doktora Larcha, zúročí ako dospelý, keď sa stane šéfom muštárne a milencom ženy svojho najlepšieho priateľa.
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1984 (český)
WINSTON SMITH provede v dubnu 1984 něco nepřípustného. Ve válečných podmínkách Oceánie drcené krutovládou jedné Strany si začne psát deník, kterému svěřuje pochyby, jež ho už léta mučí. Úředník londýnského Ministerstva pravdy, kde se retušují, falšují či přímo likvidují dějiny, však ve svých zápiscích obtížně hledá srovnání s dřívějšími normálními časy, jejichž útržky doluje ze zasutých vzpomínek, dennodenně atakovaných přívalem propagandistických žvástů. Je snad jediný, kdo si v téhle zemi zachoval zdravý rozum a paměť? Opravdu kdysi zahlédl něco, co představuje zásadní trhlinu ve fazoně Velkého bratra, z jehož všeobjímající náruče není úniku? Ve zrůdném, avšak svým způsobem dokonalém totalitním režimu je Winstonova touha po špetce nezávislosti možná předem odsouzena ke zmaru…
Zcela nový český překlad nejslavnější antiutopie míří ke generaci, jež už krutý a posléze groteskní komunistický útlak nezažila. Kniha, již autor dokončil v roce 1948, ukazuje s prorockou jasnozřivostí smrtelné nebezpečí ideologie zaštiťující se všeobecným dobrem, když žádá, aby se s ní lidé zcela ztotožnili. Fanatici a mocichtiví oligarchové stále číhají na příležitost. Stačí, když na chvíli přestaneme dávat pozor.
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Monkey King
One of the world's greatest fantasy novels and a rollicking classic of Chinese literature, in a sparkling new translation and published in a Clothbound Classics edition.
A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature. High-spirited and omni-talented, he can transform himself into whatever he chooses and turn each of his body's 84,000 hairs into an army of clones. But his penchant for mischief repeatedly gets him into trouble, and when he raids Heaven's Orchard of Immortal Peaches, the Buddha pins him beneath a mountain. Five hundred years later, Monkey King is finally given a chance to redeem himself: he must protect the pious monk Tripitaka on his journey in search of precious Buddhist sutras that will bring enlightenment to the Chinese empire.
Joined by two other fallen immortals - Pigsy, a rice-loving flying pig, and Sandy, a depressive river-sand monster - Monkey King does battle with Red Boy, Princess Jade-Face, the Monstress Dowager, and all manner of dragons, ogres, wizards and femmes fatales; navigates the perils of Fire-Cloud Cave, the River of Flowing Sand and the Water-Crystal Palace; and is serially captured, lacquered, sauteed, steamed and liquefied - but always hatches an ingenious plan to get himself and his fellow pilgrims out of their latest jam.
Comparable to The Canterbury Tales or Don Quixote, Monkey King is at once a gripping adventure, a comic satire and a spring of spiritual insight. With this new translation by the award-winning Julia Lovell, the irrepressible rogue hero of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature has the potential to vault, with his signature cloud-somersault, into the hearts of a whole new generation of readers.
Friends And Heroes
'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid' - Sunday Times
'Wonderfully entertaining' - Observer
Athens, 1941. Harriet Pringle feverishly awaits news of her husband, trapped in the spoilt city of Bucharest. Yet when the young couple are reunited, Guy once again becomes absorbed in his work, leading Harriet to seek the attention of a handsome young officer. But when Greece is defeated and Europe starts to crumble around them, Guy and Harriet are forced to find a new strength amidst the devastation. Manning's exquisite observations on love, marriage and friendship during wartime are brought vibrantly to life.
Made for Love
Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane - his sex doll companion. Life with Hazel's father is strained at best, but it's got to be better than her marriage to dominating tech billionaire, Byron Gogol. For over a decade, Hazel has been quarantining in Byron's family compound, her every movement and vital sign tracked. So when Byron demands to wirelessly connect the two of them via brain chips, turning Hazel into a human guinea pig, Hazel makes a run for it. Will Hazel be able to free herself from Byron's virtual clutches before he finds her?
A gloriously absurd and hugely entertaining satire about intimacy and love from the provocative writer of the acclaimed novel Tampa.
The Spoilt City
'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' - Anthony Burgess
'Glittering characterisation, sharp and eloquent writing' - Sunday Telegraph
Bucharest, 1940. The city is on the brink of invasion and Guy and Harriet Pringle find their position growing ever more dangerous. Harriet longs for safety, while Guy's idealism frustrates his new wife. But when the Germans march in, Guy believes they must separate in a desperate bid to find safety, so Harriet leaves for Athens. The Spoilt City is a dramatic and colourful portrait of a city in turmoil, and of a young couple struggling to make their marriage work in the face of adversity.
Látható sötétség
Goldingnak ez a műve tárgyában is titokzatos, sokrétű alkotás. Tekinthetjük kriminek, de korunk látleletének, mi több, kisenciklopédiájának is. Szereplői, helyszínei, cselekményének fordulatai érzékelhetően maiak és érzékelhetően egyetemesek – ezért olyan ismerősek. Matty, a londoni bombázás tüzéből kivetett kisfiú, aki a szeretetet és a szánalmat egy, a világ szemében perverznek számító tanárban leli fel, s felnőttkorában az őt zaklató kérdésekre előbb Bibliájából, majd szellemlényektől vár választ; Sophy és Toni, a gyönyörű külsejű, de baljós hatalmaktól megszállt ikerpár; az öreg könyvkereskedő és mindenféle vallási-filozófiai divathóborttal sodródó barátja – ők „játsszák el” ezt a különös történetet. Életútjuk végzetszerűen találkozik egy terrorista gaztett gyújtópontjában – hiszen a regénybeli tüzek időtlen idők óta égnek, és terjesztik a „látható sötétet”.
Zbohom, smútok
Živila som sa slovami druhých, nechala sa nimi unášať a napĺňať ich energiou a emóciami. Až do smrti môjho brata, 14. októbra 2015 v Montreale, som nemala potrebu písať. Alexova samovražda ma bolestivo zasiahla a zároveň šialene naštvala. Lebo samovražda je dvojitá bolesť, zúrivosť takéhoto odchodu plodí rozpačité ticho, ktoré zaberie všetko miesto a bráni aj spomínaniu na šťastné dni. Ale ja som nechcela mlčať.
Alex bol neskrotná bytosť, mal pekný, naplnený a vášnivý život, miloval a bol milovaný. Bojoval proti depresii, no ona vyhrala. Rozpovedať príbeh o jeho odvahe, vyjadriť šťastie, že bol mojím bratom, sa mi zdalo zásadné. Nechcela som spracovať jeho odchod ani sa podvoliť zúfalstvu. Túžila som vymyslieť radostný spôsob, ako byť smutná.
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