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The Divorcees
Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unhappiness is hardly grounds for divorce - except in Reno, Nevada.
At the Golden Yarrow, the most respectable of Reno's 'divorce ranches' Lois finds herself living with half a dozen other would-be divorcees, all in Reno for the six weeks' residency that is the state's only divorce requirement. They spend their days riding horses and their nights flirting with cowboys, and it's as wild and fun as Lake Forest, Illinois, was prim and stifling. But it isn't until Greer Lange arrives that Lois's world truly cracks open . . .
Gorgeous, beguiling, and completely indifferent to societal convention, Greer is unlike anyone Lois has ever met - and she sees something in Lois that no one else ever has. Under her influence, Lois begins to push against the limits that have always restrained her. But how much can she really trust her mysterious new friend? And how far will she go to forge her independence, on her own terms?
Set in the glamorous, dizzying world of 1950s Reno, THE DIVORCÉES is a deliciously slow-burn, atmospheric page-turner and a dazzling exploration of female friendship, desire and freedom.
Poslední umělecké dílo
Když světoznámá umělkyně Hanna Stiltjeová představí své nejnovější dílo ve stockholmském Muzeu moderního umění, publikum nevěří svým očím. Místo olejomaleb a bronzových soch, které ji proslavily, vidí podivnou komodu složenou z různého harampádí. Pro samotnou Hannu to však je „Poslední umělecké dílo“, to nejdůležitější z její tvorby – a také vrchol její kariéry. Kousek po kousku se v něm odkrývá příběh dítěte opuštěného rodiči a odvahy žít. Co nejkrásnějšího nám nakonec zůstane? Sofia Lundbergová opět prokazuje mimořádnou schopnost dotknout se těch nejpodstatnějších věcí a donutit nás zamyslet se nad tím, co je v životě opravdu důležité.
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The Sirens
Lucy is running from what she's done - and what someone did to her.
There's only one person who might understand: her sister Jess. But when Lucy arrives at her sister's desolate cliff-top house, Jess is gone.
Lucy is now alone, in a strange town steeped in rumour. Stories of men disappearing without a trace. A foundling discovered in a sea-swept cave. And women's voices murmuring on the waves…
As Lucy searches for her sister, those voices get ever louder. They tell of two sisters, two centuries ago, bound and transported across the world. A world where men always get their way. A world that is at once distant, and achingly familiar.
Are these voices luring Lucy closer to her sister? Or will the secrets of the past pull them both under?
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The Vanishing Point
From the bestselling novelist, travel writer, and "master of the short story" (NPR) comes a brilliant new collection.
The stories in The Vanishing Point are both exotic and domestic, their settings ranging from Hawaii to Africa and New England. Each focuses on life's vanishing points-a moment when seemingly all lines running through one's life converge, and one can see no farther, yet must deal with the implications. With the insight, subtlety, and empathy that has long characterized his work, Theroux has written deeply moving stories about memory, longing, and the passing of time, reclaiming his status, once again, as a master of the form.
The Boy from the Sea
1973. In a close-knit community on Ireland's west coast, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. Named Brendan Bonnar by Ambrose, the fisherman who adopts him, Brendan will become a source of fascination and hope for a town caught in the storm of a rapidly changing world.
Ambrose, a man more comfortable at sea than on land, brings Brendan into his home out of love. But it's a decision that will fracture his family and force him to try to understand himself and those he cares for.
Bookended by the arrival and departure of a single mesmerizing boy, Garrett Carr's The Boy From the Sea is an exploration of the ties that make us and bind us, as a family and community move irresistibly towards the future.
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Kavárna na konci ulice
Příběh jednoho zeleného deníku, který spojil osudy šesti lidí a vytvořil mezi nimi nečekaná pouta přátelství i lásky. Julian Jessop, osamělý starý malíř, si uvědomuje, že většina lidí není k druhým upřímná. Do obyčejného sešitu proto napíše pravdu o sobě a nechá jej na stole v místní kavárně. Ta patří Monice, která do zápisníku přidá svou pravdivou zpověď a odloží ho v nedalekém baru. Tam ho najde Hazard, narkoman a alkoholik, který sám sobě slíbí, že už zůstane jednou provždy čistý.
Zápisník postupně koluje od jednoho člověka k druhému a zachytává jejich nejniternější myšlenky, tužby a závislosti. Záhy se všichni střetnou v Moničině kavárně, kde nesourodá a bizarní skupina lidí zjistí, že upřímnost má opravdu sílu měnit jejich životy k lepšímu. I přesto, že pravda občas bolí.
Instructions for Heartbreak
A beautiful, razor-sharp novel by Sarah Handyside, Instructions for Heartbreak is a life-affirming story about female friendship, self-love and how to survive a broken heart.
What if heartbreak came with a manual?
It starts with a late-night knock on the door. Dee, Liv and Rosa share a flat in south London, while Katie lives close by with her boyfriend. But, when Katie's nine-year relationship ends - suddenly and brutally - she turns up on their doorstep with no idea what to do next, or how to do anything after spending so long with her life entwined with someone else's.
Out comes the martini shaker (an old, well-washed gherkin jar) and, with an unused sketchbook, an idea. They'll make Katie the handbook that she needs to process her heartbreak and start rebuilding her life. There are notes on tears, hangovers and roast chicken, scribblings about music, new bedding and pure, white-hot rage.
But Katie is not the only one nursing a broken heart. Rosa is a hopeless romantic, despite still reeling from her ex's infidelity. Scarred by her ex's parting words, Dee is committed to being commitment-free. And while Liv knows that breaking up with her girlfriend was what she wanted, she can't help but wonder if she did the right thing.
Tested by big life changes, even the closest friendships can fray - could the heartbreak handbook they intended for Katie contain the words they all need to hear?
Hero
Hero is a love story for our times: a novel that exposes the precious things women give up in order to be loved, and in order to be free.
She's a waitress. He's a chef. They used to be best friends, but now, they're in love and living together in a studio apartment. She's also a selkie, Odysseus, and a cowgirl called Quick Fingers. He's a really good man.
When he asks her to marry him, Hero panics. She is lots of things but one thing she doesn't want to be is anybody's wife.
Drawing on a rich history of myth and legend, Hero is a story about what it means for women to be supporting characters in a world written by men. How can you be yourself when you are a product of other people's imaginations? How can you love another person and be free?
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Under the Eye of the Big Bird
In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of the Mothers. Some children are made in factories, from cells of rabbits and dolphins; some live by getting nutrients from water and light, like plants. The survival of the race depends on the interbreeding of these and other alien beings - but it is far from certain that connection, love, reproduction, and evolution will persist among the inhabitants of this faltering new world.
Unfolding over geological eons, Under the Eye of the Big Bird is at once an astonishing vision of the end of our species as we know it and a meditation on the qualities that, for better and worse, make us human.
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Three Wild Dogs (and the truth)
In this poignant, funny and disarmingly honest memoir, one of the world's most beloved storytellers, bestselling author of The Book Thief, tells of his family's adoption of three troublesome rescue dogs - a charming and courageous love story about making even the most incorrigible of animals family.
What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three big, wild, pound-hardened dogs - Reuben, a wolf at your door with a hacksaw; Archer, blond, beautiful, deadly; and the rancorously smiling Frosty, who walks like a rolling thunderstorm?
The answer can only be chaos: there are street fights, public shamings, property trashing, bodily injuries, stomach pumping, purest comedy, and carnage that needs to be seen to be believed . . . not to mention the odd police visit at some ungodly hour.
There is a reckoning of shortcomings and failure, a strengthening of will, but most important of all, an explosion of love - and the joy and recognition of family. Three Wild Dogs (and the truth) is a love letter to the animals who bring hilarity and beauty straight to our doors and into our lives, and change us forever.
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How To Sleep At Night
Shared bed. Different dreams…
Meet Ethan and Gabe: a devoted couple with an adorable daughter and a house in the suburbs. They may have drifted to different ends of the political spectrum, but their marriage still has its spark. Then Ethan makes a shocking announcement: he wants to run for Congress as a Republican. And he will only do it with progressive Gabe's blessing.
Kate is a political reporter at a major newspaper, but the adrenaline rush of chasing a story has lost its thrill. When her ex-girlfriend Nicole - now married and feeling like an accessory in her husband's life - slides into her DMs just as her brother Ethan starts his controversial congressional run, Kate's life is thrown into a tailspin that threatens to derail the success she's worked so hard to achieve.
A sharply observed comedy of manners about public image versus private life, How to Sleep at Night is a witty and whip-smart novel that dissects family ties stretched thin by politics.
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Kniha začátků
Milý a laskavý příběh o tom, jak se na těch nejnepravděpodobnějších místech mohou zrodit ta nejneočekávanější přátelství. Jo přijíždí do Londýna, aby se postarala o papírnictví svého nemocného strýce. Navíc je právě po rozchodu, takže jí tento únik přijde vhod. Jo se usazuje v obchůdku a pomalu poznává své sousedy a pravidelné zákazníky. Mohutného potetovaného optika Erica. Tatéra Landa. Sedmdesátníka Malcolma, který si k ní chodí každý týden kupovat nový sešit. Ruth, reverendku, která skrývá tajemství. Dokáže se jim Jo otevřít a změnit tak svůj život?
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Čajka Jonathan Livingston, 2. vydanie
Richard Bach v knihe oslávil svoju lásku k lietaniu a v alegorickom príbehu o morskej čajke vyslal verejnosti posolstvo o človeku túžiacom po slobode, prekonávaní hraníc a sebarealzácii.
Príbeh bol sfilmovaný v réžii Halla Bartletta s hudbou Neila Diamonda.
Čajka Jonathan Livingston sa stal kultovou knihou našej doby. Vyšla v štyridsiatich jazykoch. Prvé vydanie v slovenčine vyšlo v roku 1999. Teraz priletela Čajka Jonathan na náš knižný trh rozšírená o novú kapitolu.
Víkendoví rebelové - Jeden výjimečný chlapec a jeho táta na fotbalové pouti po Evropě
O fotbalu, autismu, a hlavně o životě.
V roce 2011 se Mirco a malý Jason pustili do jedné velké důležité mise – najít Jasonův oblíbený fotbalový klub.
Postupně však tato groundhoppingová cesta začala získávat hlubší význam. Své zážitky pak Mirco začal sepisovat na blog a brzy se z něj stala senzace.
Tato výjimečná kniha je humorným a zároveň poučným svědectvím o velmi speciálním vztahu otce a syna.
„Jason zatím nenašel svůj oblíbený klub. Možná se nikdy nebude moci rozhodnout. Otec a syn ale nakonec najdou vše, co nikdy nehledali, ale co na své cestě rozhodně potřebovali.“
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Kremulátor
Předlohou pátého románu Saši Filipenka se stal životní příběh Petra Iljiče Něstěrenka, kniha je uměleckou rekonstrukcí jeho neuvěřitelného osudu. Něstěrenko byl prvním ředitelem Prvního moskevského krematoria, které bylo vybudováno v roce 1927. V letech masových represí, tzv. Velkého teroru pracoval Něstěrenko na dvě směny, přes den probíhala kremace poctivých sovětských občanů a v noci těch, pro které si přišla tajná policie a skončili na popravišti.
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Your Neighbour's Table
From the award-winning author of The Old Woman with the Knife comes the thought-provoking story of community and the cultural expectations of motherhood, through four women whose lives intersect in unexpected ways at a government-run apartment complex outside Seoul
When Yojin moves with her husband and daughter into the Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments, she's ready for a fresh start. Located on the outskirts of Seoul, the experimental community is a government initiative designed to boost the national birth rate. Like her neighbours, Yojin has agreed to have at least two more children over the next ten years.
Yet, from the day she arrives, Yojin feels uneasy about the community spirit thrust upon her. Her concerns grow as communal child care begins and the other parents show their true colours. Your Neighbour's Table traces the lives of four women in the apartments, all with different aspirations and beliefs.
Will they find a way to live peacefully? Or are society's expectations stacked against them from the start?
A trenchant social novel from an award-winning author, Your Neighbour's Table incisively illuminates the unspoken imbalance of women's parenting labour and the challenges of working towards a better life.
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead him to take a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own. When he finally makes it to the walled city, a shadowless place of horned beasts and willow trees, he finds his beloved working in a different library – a dream library.
But she has no memory of their life together in the other world and, as the lines between reality and fantasy start to blur, he must decide what he’s willing to lose. A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a parable for these strange times.
Zakázaný deník
Komorní rodinné drama z pera spisovatelky, která se stala mezinárodní bestselleristkou už před druhou světovou válkou a musela bojovat proti předsudkům spojeným s „ženským psaním“ dávno před Elenou Ferrante.
Hlavním tématem deníkového románu je psaní. Psaní jako akt osvobození, sebepoznání, kontemplace i revolty.
Románová protagonistka a vypravěčka Valeria pracuje jako úřednice, má spolehlivého manžela a dvě děti, které se chystají opustit rodné hnízdo. Ocitáme se v Římě roku 1950: čas psaní deníku odpovídá době, kdy text vycházel časopisecky. Zdánlivě banální úvod, v němž jde Valeria manželovi pro cigarety do trafiky, kde si z náhlého popudu koupí „zakázaný“ sešit v černých deskách (zakázaný, protože v neděli se směly prodávat jen tabákové výrobky), odstartuje hrdinčinu cestu k sobě samotné, k reflexi každodenní rutiny a její konfrontaci s vlastními touhami a sny. Valeria nejen že nemá „vlastní pokoj“, řečeno s Virginií Woolf, ale nemá ani kam ukrýt svůj deník a v zaběhnutém rodinném provozu musí složitě krást čas pro sebe a svoje psaní, na němž postupně začne být závislá. Konfrontuje se s tradicionalistickou matkou i pokrokovou dcerou a uvědomuje si, že v životě, k němuž ji vychovali a předurčili, je nešťastná. Není přitom z rodu bovaryovských hrdinek, nechce být obětí literatury, nýbrž – byť si to plně neuvědomuje – autorkou.
Zakázaný deník nejprve vycházel od prosince 1950 do června 1951 v týdeníku La Settimana Incom illustrata, což ho možná neprávem zaškatulkovalo mezi fejetonové romány. Knižně ho pak vydalo nakladatelství Mondadori roku 1952.
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What in Me Is Dark
Paradise Lost might be the most influential poem written in English. For three and half centuries, readers across the world – especially those seeking revolutions in their own time – have found inspiration in its visions of freedom. In return, they have given Milton’s epic new life.
Drawing on his own experiences of teaching literature in prisons, Orlando Reade focuses on twelve unexpected readers – from Malcolm X to Virginia Woolf, Hannah Arendt to Thomas Jefferson – whose lives and works have shaped our world. He shows the many different, surprising and often contradictory ways in which Milton’s poem has been read across centuries and continents.
Boldly original, lively and far-reaching, What in Me Is Dark is the story of how a work of literature born in the ashes of a failed revolution became an indelible part of the modern imagination. Reade guides us through the epic, exploring how Milton came to write its dark and dazzling poetry, and offering a new account of its radical, ever-evolving legacy.
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