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Twenty-Twenty Vision


Christine Beckett is faced with some home truths when her best friend, suffering from dementia, decides after a lifetime to be honest with her; Olivia Fletcher has an epiphany at a vaccination centre about a man who has loved her for decades; Bernard Travers revisits an unlikely romantic interlude with the mother of his teenage pen pal that has sustained him for 40 years. Twenty-Twenty Vision is a collection of interlinked short stories about hindsight and late middle-age regret subtly framed within the first year of the pandemic. It’s also a portrait, an emotional map of the 1950s generation moving into the third age with a mixture of apprehension and regret. The characters make chastening discoveries – one finds after a lifetime that she’s a bullying victim, another draws up a curriculum vitae of her emotional life when there are no jobs left to apply for. The work focuses on a handful of characters – Christine, Olivia, Bernard, Freddie, Triona and Eva – as they revisit their past and grapple with late-life perspectives. The overarching narrative is connected by character and situation, and united in theme, to form a tapestry of late middle-age reckoning.
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As I Dream of You


Falling in love is supposed to hurt. That’s what Franny and Sam, two cynical teens raised on tales of heartbreak and loss, have come to understand. But when they fall for each other, they find the reality of love is something else entirely - it’s electrifying, effortless, all-encompassing, and easy. Theirs is a love that can conquer anything… maybe even death. After a shocking accident ends the couple’s life together before it can really begin, Sam finds himself drowning in thoughts of Franny. He simply can’t imagine a world without her in it. And soon, he doesn’t have to. In a series of vivid lucid dreams that blur the line between reality and fantasy, the two find each other again and vow to never separate. But as time goes on, cracks begin to form in their perfect world, and unsettling truths become harder and harder to ignore. This heartrending yet life-affirming romance from Disney’s Jennifer Lee is paired with breathtaking, career-best art from LeUyen Pham. The result is a sublime YA graphic novel that’s poised to become a classic.
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24,49 €

Aby vzpomínky nevybledly jako číslo na mém předloktí


116927: číslo, které nosí Albrecht Weinberg i ve svých 98 letech dodnes na předloktí, s léty vybledlo. Jeho vzpomínky jsou však oproti tomu zcela zřetelné a jasné. Vzpomínky na mládí, vzestup nacistů, na přátele, kteří najednou přestali být přáteli, a na to, jak ztratil rodinu. Také na Friedel, jeho sestru, s níž si slíbili, že na sebe budou jednou provždy dávat pozor. Společně unikli holocaustu a emigrovali do USA. O desítky let později, když se Friedel už nedařilo dobře, se oba společně vrátili zpět do Německa. Albrecht ji tu provázel až do její smrti a při tom poznal její ošetřovatelku Gerdu. Teprve jí se otevřel a začal vyprávět svůj životní příběh. O své víře v dobro, navzdory všemu. I o tom slibu, že přežije, aby vzpomínka žila dál.
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25,49 €

The Fatal Eggs


What begins as a miracle of science soon turns into a nightmare... After a plague wipes out all of Russia’s chickens, eyes fall on zoologist Periskov and his strange discovery that promises to revive their population. But quickly, the state’s attempt to control nature spirals rapidly out of control, and soon all of Moscow is under siege by creatures they hadn’t bargained for. The Fatal Eggs is Mikhail Bulgakov’s savage, darkly comic tale of progress gone wrong. Blending satire with science fiction, it captures the dangers of unchecked power – and the absurdity of believing that catastrophe can be neatly managed. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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The Old Man and the Sea


Hemingway's enduring story of resilience and solitude: One of the most powerful tales of courage and endurance ever written An ageing fisherman sets out alone into the Gulf Stream, determined to prove that his strength and skill have not left him. When he hooks a great marlin, he begins a struggle that will test his pride and his place in the world. Simple, powerful and deeply moving, The Old Man and the Sea captures what it means to persist - even in the face of inevitable loss. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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15,99 €

The Loft


An Austrian housewife sits in her loft intent on her drawings of birds and insects. Then one day a disturbing package arrives in the post... The loft is her retreat, a place she can draw undisturbed, hidden away even from her own family. But the arrival of the parcel threatens her fragile equilibrium. It contains extracts from the narrator's diary, written twenty years before. They date back to a time when she was sent away by her husband to a remote cottage in a bid to 'cure' her from unexplained sudden deafness. More mysterious packages arrive. Who is sending them? And what did happened all those years ago in the forest?
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15,99 €

The Passengers on the Hankyu Line


The contents of each traveller's heart is a mystery known only to themselves Trundling through the scenic countryside of Kyoto and Osaka is the Hankyu line, a burgundy-coloured electric train that has been carrying its commuters to their destinations for decades. Over the course of a single journey in springtime, and the return journey six months later just as the leaves begin to fall: - a young man meets the woman who happens to take out the last copy of the library book he was about to borrow; - an angry wedding guest dresses in a white gown to upstage the bride; - a university student leaves home for the first time; - a twenty-something finally grows the courage to walk away from an abusive partner - a widow learns independence, as she and her granddaughter discuss their new dog. As the seasons and the landscapes change, passengers jostle and connect, as this timeless train carries each one forward towards the person they intend to become.
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Woman of Genius


Two sisters must find their way in a world designed to confine them. Marcelle is the elder sister, a woman whose ambitions focus on becoming the companion of a 'man of genius'. Marguerite is the younger sister, a girl whose sanity depends on breaking free of the oppressive expectations of society. Both end up focusing their attentions on the same disappointing man. BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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15,99 €

The Anniversary


'On that day, ten years ago, I saw my parents for the last time. Since then I've changed phone numbers, houses, continents, I've erected an impregnable wall and put an ocean between us. They've been the best ten years of my life.' A son is celebrating a bittersweet anniversary. It is a decade since he saw his parents: the father who ruled through petty acts of intimidation and fear, the mother who silently accepted it, fitting herself in the spaces around others' lives. As he looks back, he recalls the airless family home, unsettled only by the ringing of a telephone, or a visitor who was soon rejected. And he remembers how he became possessed by the irrepressible desire to be free, to live his own life. But can you ever escape the grip of your origins? At once unflinchingly honest and razor sharp, The Anniversary is above all a novel of liberation which dismantles the tyranny of the family. It becomes a mirror in which we glimpse something that, even if we have not known it, affects us all.
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18,99 €

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button


The classic, moving tale of a man born old, destined to die young, and live at odds with his time To the confusion and embarrassment of his family, Benjamin Button is born an old man. As the years pass, he grows younger - moving against the current of ordinary life. While those around him age as expected, Benjamin finds himself increasingly out of step, his relationships strained by a life no one else can share. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is F. Scott Fitzgerald's quietly unsettling tale of being a misfit to one's time. Includes the stories: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Winter Dreams and 'The Sensible Thing' BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days
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A közönséges polip életének szakaszai


„Tudom, hogy vannak kivételek – a terhes hím csikóhalak a maguk költőtáskájával, meg hasonlók –, de többnyire a nők hordozzák a jövőt. Ez akár halálos feladat is lehet. A természet bizonyos szegleteiben az utódok abból merítenek erőt, hogy élve falják fel az anyjukat. Emberi körökben rossz szemmel nézik az ilyen extrém viselkedést. Ritkán fordul elő, hogy a gyerekek megeszik az anyjukat a kisbuszban, mert megfeledkezett a sós kekszről. Gyakoribb, hogy az anya önmagát emészti fel. Amikor puha hasadra pillantok, nem szívesen gondolok arra, hogy egyszer majd nővé cseperedsz. Lefektetlek a fehér ágytakaróra, hogy megtörölgesselek a fürdetés után. Ujjam az állad alá csúsztatom, hogy mosolyra késztesselek. Bizalmat sugárzó tekintettel követsz, a szemed sötét, akár az Északi-tenger, mintha már előre megbocsátanád a sok csalódást, amit okozok majd neked. Sima vagy és rózsaszín, és úgy teszek, mintha egyek volnánk. De közben pontosan tudom, hogy nem igaz. Én újra egyedül vagyok a testemben, és te is egyedül vagy a magadéban.” Ellenállhatatlanul szellemes történet felnőtté válásról, anyaságról és a nők közötti barátságról Pen egész életében úgy érezte, elvált szülei titkolnak előle valamit. Amikor az óceánon átrepülve megérkezik Skóciába, hogy elkezdje az egyetemet, valami azt súgja neki, itt az összes kérdésére választ talál. Amikor apja egy régi barátja, az immár Lord Lennox néven ismert híres író meghívja, hogy töltsön el egy hétvégét ősi birtokán a melegszívű, lenyűgöző családjával, Pen egyre közelebb kerül a rejtély megoldásához. Ráadásul életében először szerelmes lesz… A közönséges polip életének szakaszai a felnőtté válás hepehupás ösvényén követi végig Pent, aki az út során arra is rájön, hogy a múlt titkainak megismerése vezetheti el a boldogsághoz.
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16,90 €

Flyboy in the Buttermilk


An electrifying collection of essays from legendary cultural critic and Pulitzer Prize-winner Greg Tate 'Easily one of the greatest wordsmiths … [and] the best American writer and thinker of the past forty years' Washington Post From one of the most original, creative, and provocative writers on American culture comes a now-classic collection of essays, delving 'far and wide into Black music, into film, into the beats and rhyme of culture' (Questlove). These pieces orbit social, pop cultural, political, and economic subjects-- from the rise of hip-hop, the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the music of Miles Davis, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Bad Brains, and many others, to the crisis of the Black intellectual and the irony of the GOP recruiting Black Americans. With unrivalled flair, Tate writes in a voice that is at once angry, joyous, self-critiquing, and dazzlingly witty. Tate teaches us 'it is not too late to say too much, to be so dissatisfied with the world as it is that we throw far too many words toward the sky, and see what the heavens throw back' (Hanif Abdurraqib).
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Když mrtví mlčí


Renomovaný vinař Dirk Levefre je podezřelý z brutální vraždy své ženy. Nikdo nevěří v jeho nevinu, důkazy hovoří proti němu. Dirk se obrátí na svého přítele z mládí, kněze Pavla Wagnera – jediného, kdo mu ještě může pomoci. Pavel neochotně souhlasí. Před lety své rodné město kvůli traumatickému zážitku opustil a nyní ho nemilosrdně dohání stíny minulosti. Spolu se soukromou detektivkou Annou Steinbachovou, která je stále těžce poznamenaná svým posledním případem, dělají vše pro to, aby našli skutečného pachatele. On ani Anna však netuší, že nemají co do činění jen s vraždou. V úkrytu číhá zvrhlý lovec. Loví ženy, aby jim způsobil nepopsatelné utrpení. Dosud ho znají jen jeho oběti. A on se neštítí ničeho, aby to tak i zůstalo.
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19,99 €

Láska s vůní čokolády


Hilma se před časem vzdala úspěšné kariéry ve městě a impulzivně přijala práci ve výrobně čokoládových pralinek Altán ve vesničce uprostřed malebného švédského kraje Dalarna, plného lesů a jezer. Po prvotních komplikacích se provoz Altánu rozjel natolik dobře, že Hilma s majitelkou pralinkárny Maggie mají co dělat, aby všechno stíhaly. Navíc si má Maggie brzy brát svého milovaného Äkeho a Hilma dostane od budoucího ženicha tajný úkol –vskrytu se chopit většiny svatebních příprav. Vše se ještě zkomplikuje, když se na místě postupně objeví celá Hilmina rodina a snaží se společně čelit šokující novince. Zvládne Hilma připravit pro své blízké přátele dokonalou svatbu, vyřešit nečekanou rodinnou situaci, věnovat se práci, a přitom nezanedbat svůj čerstvý vztah s Joelem? A jak ji zasáhne dávný příběh lásky místní rodačky Anny? Hřejivý román plný romantiky a léta z malebného kraje švédských lesů a jezer, volné pokračování knihy Altán s vůní čokolády od držitelky ocenění Feel-good román roku. Přeložila Ela Rohanová
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15,99 €

Letters 1944-1959


A bestseller in France, this is the first English translation of Albert Camus and Maria Casares' fascinating, impassioned letters - a record of one of the great love affairs of the twentieth century You and I met and fell in love passionately, impatiently, dangerously. I regret nothing and I feel that these last days I've lived are enough to justify a life. - Albert Camus to Maria Casares, 1st July 1944 Their affair began in wartime Paris. Maria Casares, a young Spanish actress, was starring in a production of the great writer's play The Misunderstanding, and at an after-party hosted by Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, they embarked on a brief but passionate relationship. Separated by the end of the Occupation and the return of Camus's wife to Paris, the couple were reunited by chance one day on the boulevard Saint-Germain, and from that day forward - until the fatal car crash that took Camus's life in 1960 - they were inseparable. Their correspondence, uninterrupted for over a decade, is testimony to the depth of their connection while also offering a vivid portrait of artistic life in post-war Europe. Camus and Casares debate books and politics; describe encounters with Colette, Cocteau, Gide and Picasso; discuss stardom and everyday life, their love of the sea and nature, their doubts and dreams. Above all, they describe a relationship that feels like an impossible gift. Translated into English for the first time by Sandra Smith and Cory Stockwell, these 865 letters reveal the intimate personal lives of two extraordinary artists, and record one of the great love affairs of the twentieth century.
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58,99 €

My Husband's Wife


Eden Fox, an artist on the brink of her big break, sets off for a run before her first exhibition. When she returns to the home she recently moved into – Spyglass, an enchanting old house in the pretty seaside village of Hope Falls – nothing is as it should be. Her key doesn’t fit. A woman, eerily similar to her, answers the door. And her husband insists that this stranger is his wife. One house. One husband. Two women. Someone is lying. Six months earlier, a reclusive Londoner named Birdy, reeling from a life-changing diagnosis, inherits Spyglass. This unexpected gift from a long-lost grandmother brings her to Hope Falls. But then Birdy stumbles upon a shadowy London clinic that claims to be able to predict a person’s date of death, including her own. Secrets start to unravel and, as the line between truth and lies blurs, Birdy feels compelled to right some old wrongs. My Husband’s Wife weaves a tangled web of deception, obsession and mystery that will keep you guessing until the last page. Prepare yourself for the ultimate mind-bending marriage thriller and step inside Spyglass – if you dare – to experience a story where nothing is as it seems.
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15,99 €

Ride the Pink Horse


Three desperate men converge in the midst of an annual carnival in New Mexico Sailor used to be Senator Willis Douglass' protege. When he met the lawmaker, he was just a poor kid, living on the Chicago streets. Douglass took him in, put him through school, and groomed him to work as a confidential secretary. And as the senator's dealings became increasingly corrupt, he knew he could count on Sailor to clean up his messes. Willis Douglass isn't a senator anymore; he left Chicago, Sailor, and a murder rap behind and set out for the sunny streets of Santa Fe. Now, unwilling to take the fall for another man's crime, Sailor has set out for New Mexico as well, with blackmail and revenge on his mind. But there's another man on his trail as well--a cop who wants the ex-senator for more than a payoff. In the midst of a city gone mad, bursting with wild crowds for a yearly carnival, the three men will violently converge... The suspenseful tale that inspired one of the most beloved films noir of all time, Ride the Pink Horse is a tour-de-force that confirms Dorothy B. Hughes' status as a master of the mid-century crime novel.
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17,99 €

Seven Recipes for Revolution


The Bear meets Attack on Titan in this exhilarating, food-based epic fantasy filled with high stakes and monster steaks, perfect for fans of Pierce Brown and Jay Kristoff. Paprick is a common butcher, carving slabs of meat from gargantuan monsters so elite chefs can prepare magic-granting meals for the rich. But Paprick’s true passion is cooking, and if he can learn the secret art, his dreams of liberating his people and sharing the monsters’ magic with the world could come true. He steals the precious ingredients needed to practise recipes at home, but if he’s caught, he’ll be executed. As his desperation grows, he ventures into the black market and uncovers a spice imported from unknown lands. Combining it with the last of his stolen meat, he cooks a dish the world has never tasted before, with side-effects he couldn’t have foreseen. The dish’s magic grows Paprick to kaiju-size, and legends of his powers spread among the people. Immediately, the rulers arrest him, but Paprick convinces them to make him a chef’s apprentice—if they ever want to learn his Recipe. However, his exposure to the world of high cuisine reveals the rot at its centre, and with his new power, rebellion is only a few recipes away…
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Balatoni bókok


Vannak bókok, amelyek mögött valódi szándék rejtőzik. És vannak nyarak, amelyek örökre megváltoztatnak. Franciska jól ismeri a Balaton nyári szezonjait: forró nappalok, fülledt éjszakák, koktélok, magabiztos férfiak. A plázson dolgozik, és Borival, a barátnőjével meg vannak győződve róla, hogy őket már semmi sem lepheti meg. Ám egyszer csak megjelenik Brian, a félig amerikai, félig magyar fiú, akinek az édesanyja Franci szomszédságában lakik. A két fiatal évek óta nem látta egymást, de az újbóli találkozásuk több mint egyszerű nosztalgia: valami azonnal feléled köztük, amit egyikük sem tud, és talán nem is akar kontrollálni. Egy nyári flörtként kezdődik... Egy hajnali fürdéssel folytatódik a Balatonban... Majd egy eltűnt fiúval, egy furcsa hazugsággal és egy hullával a tóban... Mert a Balaton nemcsak szerelmeket hoz, néha titkokat is a felszínre vet. Vannak férfiak, akiket nem lehet elfelejteni, és vannak álmok, amelyeket nem lehet tovább halogatni. De hogyan maradhat óvatos az ember, ha közben minden porcikájával a bizonytalant vonzza? Borsa Brown regénye egy nyár története, amelyben a vágy és a kétség ugyanabban a pillanatban jelenik meg, amelyben a nevetés mögött ott húzódik a döntések súlya, és amelyben néha egyetlen pillantás többet jelent minden kimondott szónál.
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19,72 €

Beletria je často nazývaná aj krásnou, alebo umeleckou literatúrou. Toto označenie pochádza z francúzskeho názvu belles lettres (krásna literatúra)Výrazom beletria sa súhrnne označujú umelecké prozaické diela. K najznámejším beletristickým žánrom patrí poviedka, novela, román, črta či umelecká reportáž.

Romány, poviedky a novely ponúkajú pútavé príbehy s výraznými postavami a atmosférou. Divadelné hry zase slúžia ako materiál pre divadelné predstavenia a prinášajú konverzácie, dramatické situácie a komediálne alebo tragické prvky.

Beletria je neoddeliteľnou súčasťou literatúry, ktorá obohacuje naše vnímanie sveta a poskytuje nám príležitosť prežívať rôznorodé príbehy a vstúpiť do rôznych svetov. Bez ohľadu na to, či preferujete dobrodružstvo, romantiku alebo reflexiu, beletria vám umožní objaviť nové myšlienky, inšpirácie a zábavu.

Hľadáte knižných hrdinov, ktorí vás zavedú do sveta romantiky, histórie, sci-fi či fantasy? Prinášame vám ten najlepší výber skutočných príbehov, románov, detektívok, noviel a poviedok. K úspešným autorom beletrie patria Jozef KarikaDominik Dán, Róbert Bryndza, Kristína Tormová, Urbaníková EvitaTáňa Keleová Vasilková a Stephen King