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Detektívky, trilery, horory 
Sci-fi a fantasy 
Svetová beletria 
Romantická beletria 
Komiksy 
Historické romány 
Česká beletria 
Slovenská beletria 
Humor a satira 
Novely, poviedky, antológie 
Eseje, úvahy, štúdie 
Fejtóny, rozhovory, reportáže 
Skutočné príbehy 
Erotická beletria 
Citáty, výroky, aforizmy, príslovia, porekadlá 
Dráma, divadelné hry, scenáre 
Beletria - ostatné
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Seikyre. Legacy of The Broken Rune Staff
Ten summers have passed by in Northernland since the demise of the evil Queen Helistra. A time of healing and tending the land for her people and for the Forestalls to replenish the Plateau and Great forests of the devastation she had left behind. It had not been spoken of, but two questions remained unanswered hanging over the heads of the Forestalls since her death. Why had they never found the body of Ringwold and where did Queen Helistra groom Grimstone’s rune staff in her evil, all those years ago? Questions that had always bothered the Forestall Martyn, more so now when suddenly the repentant rune staff of Grimstone’s within the reborn Ancient One started to have dreams and for a dwarf, whose people had left Northernland hundreds of years before, to suddenly appear on its shores once more from a distant land called Seikyre! His story of what was happening on Seikyre enough for the Ancient One to send help across waters they had never dared set sail upon since the dwarves disappearance, only to find what was awaiting them would see Northernland put in peril once more!
A Deadly Finish
When polite arguments between members of an exclusive wine tasting society take on a sinister turn, private detective John Tedesco and wine merchant Jos Elsted find themselves caught up in the fallout. Can they work out how and why an outwardly respectable group of wine experts have turned into murder suspects? As his investigations lead him to the island of Madeira , Tedesco encounters a fellow private detective, Tony Camacho, and an opinionated former royal correspondent called Sir Reggie Challenor, who provide him with some interesting leads. Meanwhile , back in Rhyminster, Jos helps the police as they investigate the backgrounds of the club members, which reveals some real surprises. Can Tedesco and his team, including Barker the border terrier, crack the case before the final tasting?
Půjčovna loutek
Jednoho dne dostane XY, vypravěčka příběhů, spisovatelka, která žije v Indii, balíček z Prahy. Je v něm rukopis románu Půjčovna loutek, ve kterém vystupují dva hrdinové podivného jména: Pepe a Puppi. Kdo jsou a jaké jsou jejich osudy? Už jako dítě Pepe pochopil, že hmotná realita světa je jiná, než jak se nám jeví: každý atom je hlavně prázdný prostor. Tento objev ho stále pronásleduje. Co když jsou „prázdná místa“ možné styčné body s jinou, příští existencí? Dvě osoby ho ovlivnily – stárnoucí redaktor Ben a legendární geograf z Kroměříže Ferdinand Stoliczka. Při cestě za poznáním – od moravského blázince přes Prahu, Argentinu nebo Indii – má Pepe průvodkyni, kterou je půvabná Puppi, stejně jako on od dětství trochu šílená: má strach z hadrových panenek, z nichž se sypou piliny. Není přece rozdíl mezi hračkami a lidmi, kteří jsou ve skutečnosti jen loutkami pro různé životní role! Tragikomické příhody lemují fantastickou trasu, po níž jde Pepe z rodné Moravy až ke hrobu slavného krajana v Himálaji. Tam teprve zjistí, že celý život je vyrovnávání a smíření s koncem pozemské pouti a příprava na změnu.
Román ještě nekončí, přestože jeho autor opustil tento svět. Spisovatelka XY se totiž rozhodne příběh dopsat. Jeho závěrečná část je pro čtenáře vzrušujícím a překvapujícím vyústěním dramatu.
Landslide
In a partly-fictionalised account, this book recounts the dramatic story of the 1945 General Election—an event that, to the surprise of many, saw the decisive defeat of wartime hero Winston Churchill and the election of Britain’s first majority Labour government.Drawing on a rich array of diaries, biographies, and autobiographies, it vividly brings to life the gripping personal and political dramas of key figures such as Churchill, Attlee, Morrison, Wilkinson, and Bevin—stories as compelling as any work of melodramatic fiction.Innovatively, the book also makes extensive use of the Mass-Observation archive—including diaries, directives, and field reports—to capture the voices of ordinary people who watched the unfolding events with a mixture of awe, anticipation, and apprehension.
It's Our Secret
In this powerful novel the horrific story of sexual abuse of young children by clergy is told through the lives of three main characters: the abuser, Archdeacon and then Bishop Colin; the abused, Jack; and finally the Reverend Katherine who offers hope and redemption to Jack. The circumstances and lives of Colin, Jack and Katherine are individually recounted and how they intertwine with one another develops through the novel. Despite its distressing storyline, the power of hope and love also shows that there is balance in life’s journey. Numerous themes are explored during the story including the role of institutions and the total disregard of the children’s voices and needs by Church, Police and Social Services who all take the importance of the ‘establishment’ to be a more vital aspect than that of the child. In particular it highlights the Church’s disgraceful policy of primarily wishing to preserve its reputation above the care of these vulnerable children.
The Bombay Boys
In 1945 India, Partition is looming, and it is a dangerous and violent place. A fateful meeting and illicit romance between Joe Benedict and his boss’s wife Molly, starts an unstoppable sequence of events, as on their return to England they unwittingly become the founders of one of the most ruthless criminal gangs in London. Years later, London is ruled by violent gangs. Ambitious Nick Benedict and his best friend Subash, known as Basher, accidentally become involved with the dark side of Joe’s past. This leads Nick to become embroiled with the Magellis, a major London crime family. Eventually, battling for success against the Magellis, Krays and Richardsons, the Bombay Boys, (named for their Indian roots) fight to establish themselves in this violent world. The Bombay Boys is a savage and exciting journey filled with romance and thrills, as the family establish their territory in a gangster world that spans from London to New York, Las Vegas and even Sydney.
Rachel
This remarkable book is the story of the author''s mother, Rachel, a girl born in the Jewish Quarter of Damascus, who in 1927 wins a scholarship to study in Versailles to become a teacher with the Alliance Israelite Universelle. Posted to Baghdad, she meets Victor, a young man from a wealthy Iraqi Jewish family, fresh from study in Germany.The book follows their relationship, through the enormous and appalling upheavals of the twentieth century. The Holocaust is at first only a terrifying rumour to Syrian and Iraqi Jews, whose immediate problems result from the rise, following the collapse of the Ottoman rule, of a predominantly Muslim Arab nationalism whose sources in European fascism and Nazism make it a threat not only to Jews but to all the religious and ethnic minorities of the region, including the ancient Christian sects. The book covers the entire sequence of events, including the rise of Israel and the defeat of the Arab armies sent to suppress it, which led to the dispossession and expulsion, by the new nationalism, of virtually the entire Jewish community, in a vast act of what would now be called ethnic cleansing.In all of this Victor, extraordinarily, retains his nostalgia for an earlier, pre-Nazi Germany, and in the 1950s re-establishes himself in Hamburg.
The Milingimbi Adventure
When Nurse Mary is offered a contract to work in Milingimbi, one of the most beautiful islands in the Top End of Australia, she can’t believe her luck. Leaving behind the peaceful green fields of Ireland, her adventure takes her to the rugged red dirt, forests, beaches and saltwater crocodiles in the Outback. Little does she know, there are many challenges occurring behind the scenes, including missing persons, murders, drugs and dreadful encounters with dangerous native animals, leaving her and her colleague Amanda shocked at what they see each day. Are they ready to confront what’s out there in the huge Northern Territory of Australia?
The Stitching Hour
Originally released as 'The Puppet Tears', this edition of the author's very first novel – a tale of lost love and ultimate retribution – has been revised, extended and updated. Samual Grant has crafted for himself an enviable life: a career he loves, a beautiful home nestled deep in idyllic countryside, and the love and affection of Marianna Pascal – the lifelong focus of the most ardent of his obsessions. All seems well, until Marianna stumbles upon the chilling secret to his success, hidden away in the basement beneath their everyday lives. His dreams now in tatters, Samual must act fast to avoid losing everything he’s contrived into his skewed existence, straying further into the world of the occult than ever before to avoid losing everything he’s spent years amassing. But just how far is he willing to go to retain all that his diseased mind covets?
What Price Freedom?
Samuel Bass is fighting for his country, for himself, for forbidden love and for African Americans held in bondage. Leaving his wife and children, Samuel joins General Washington's newly formed Continental Army. Fighting at the battle of Germantown, he is badly wounded. Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens, aide-de-camp to General Washington, rescues him from death and takes him to the home of a Quaker family in nearby Philadelphia to recover. Here he falls in love with the young woman slave assigned to care for him. Thus begins a tumultuous and, at times, dangerous journey into inner conflict, divided loyalties and a personal mission to provide equal education for everyone, regardless of their colour. In this sweeping narrative, the author skillfully gives an imaginative portrayal of one man’s life set against the background of American War for Independence but which, at the current time of global tension, addresses issues and conflicts that still resound today, such as the struggle for power and the destructive influence of widespread racial prejudice.
Léto, kdy umřel Hikaru 2
Jošiki a Hikaru vyrostli společně v jedné vsi. Ale jednoho dne si Jošiki uvědomil, že Hikarua nahradilo něco jiného. Nějaký Hikaru, který je dokonalou kopií toho předchozího. Ale jak je potom možné, že si Jošiki té výměny všiml? V tomto svazku se dozvíme pravdu z jeho vlastních úst. Zároveň se věci dají do pohybu, protože podivného dění ve vsi si začíná všímat čím dál víc lidí. A na konci čeká krátký bonus, který prozradí, jak tenhle nový Hikaru vlastně uvažuje...
Vojna a mier II (3. a 4. zväzok), 2. vydanie
Tolstoj písal Vojnu a mier v rokoch 1863 – 1869. Kompletné štvorzväzkové vydanie vyšlo v roku 1869. Dobová kritika najprv román odsúdila, ale čitateľský úspech bol obrovský. Dve vydania sa veľmi rýchlo rozpredali. V roku 1873 vyšlo tretie, podstatne prepracované vydanie, ktoré sa vydáva a vychádza v prekladoch dodnes.
Ide o klasický veľkoromán zo života ruskej spoločnosti v prvých desaťročiach 19. storočia. Popri množstve realisticky zobrazených postáv zasadených do historických udalostí plnohodnotne zobrazuje postavy generála Kutuzova a Napoleona. Nájdeme tu opis napoleonských rusko-francúzskych vojen prebiehajúcich v rokoch 1805 – 1812 (v románe je detailne opísaná bitka pri Slavkove 1805, ale aj bitka pri Borodine a francúzske obsadenie Moskvy). Hlavnými hrdinami románu sú dvaja šľachtici Andrej Bolkonský a Pierre Bezuchov, ako aj členovia rodiny Rostovovcov. Pierre Bezuchov je nositeľom Tolstého myšlienok a často veľmi výstižne hodnotí politicko-spoločenské dianie okolo seba, ako aj významné historické postavy.
Román bol niekoľkokrát úspešne sfilmovaný. V edícii Svetová klasika ODEON vychádza v druhom dvojzväzkovom vydaní.
Z ruského originálu Vojna i mir (Chudožestvenaja literatura, Moskva 1972) preložila Ružena Dvořáková-Žiaranová.
Vojna a mier I (1. a 2. zväzok), 2. vydanie
Tolstoj písal Vojnu a mier v rokoch 1863 – 1869. Kompletné štvorzväzkové vydanie vyšlo v roku 1869. Dobová kritika najprv román odsúdila, ale čitateľský úspech bol obrovský. Dve vydania sa veľmi rýchlo rozpredali. V roku 1873 vyšlo tretie, podstatne prepracované vydanie, ktoré sa vydáva a vychádza v prekladoch dodnes.
Ide o klasický veľkoromán zo života ruskej spoločnosti v prvých desaťročiach 19. storočia. Popri množstve realisticky zobrazených postáv zasadených do historických udalostí plnohodnotne zobrazuje postavy generála Kutuzova a Napoleona. Nájdeme tu opis napoleonských rusko-francúzskych vojen prebiehajúcich v rokoch 1805 – 1812 (v románe je detailne opísaná bitka pri Slavkove 1805, ale aj bitka pri Borodine a francúzske obsadenie Moskvy). Hlavnými hrdinami románu sú dvaja šľachtici Andrej Bolkonský a Pierre Bezuchov, ako aj členovia rodiny Rostovovcov. Pierre Bezuchov je nositeľom Tolstého myšlienok a často veľmi výstižne hodnotí politicko-spoločenské dianie okolo seba, ako aj významné historické postavy.
Román bol niekoľkokrát úspešne sfilmovaný. V edícii Svetová klasika ODEON vychádza v druhom dvojzväzkovom vydaní.
Z ruského originálu Vojna i mir (Chudožestvenaja literatura, Moskva 1972) preložila Ružena Dvořáková-Žiaranová.
Eliete - Normálny život
Eliete má po štyridsiatke a žije zdanlivo usporiadaný život – má rodinu, prácu, dom, ale nie je spokojná. Keď jej dni začnú skĺzať do úmornej rutiny, hľadá iskru, ktorá by ju znovu prebudila. Vytvorí si profil na online zoznamke, nehľadá však románik, ale samu seba. Čaká ju flirt, neistota aj otázky, aké si doteraz nekládla. Čo na to jej dcéry, manžel a babka?
Dulce Maria Cardoso píše s jemnou iróniou a neobyčajným pochopením pre veci ukryté pod povrchom „normálnosti“. Jej román je zrkadlom modernej osamelosti, majstrovsky zachytáva rozklad intímnych vzťahov v ére sociálnych sietí a zároveň skúma, čo ostáva z autenticity, keď sa život premení na sled rolí. Eliete – Normálny život nie je len portrét ženy, ale aj spoločnosti, ktorá sa naučila predstierať spokojnosť.
Portrét obyčajnej ženy, ktorá umára v nude a ľahostajnosti svojej rodiny – akási dnešná Madame Bovaryová, odhodlaná zmeniť svoj život a objavovať nové možnosti v ére Tinderu.
Expresso
Dear Debbie
A brand new twisted thriller that will have you cheering "good for her!" from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling and global sensation Freida McFadden, author of The Housemaid!
Sometimes, enough is enough…Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best advice into her column, Dear Debbie, where the wives of New England come for sympathy and neighborly advice. Through her work, Debbie has heard from countless women who are ignored, belittled, or even abused by their husbands.
And Debbie does her best to guide them in the right direction. Or at least, she did. These days, Debbie's life seems to be spiraling out of control.
She just lost her job. Something strange is happening with her teenage daughters. And her husband is keeping secrets, according to the tracking app she installed on his phone.
Now, Debbie's done being the bigger person. She's done being reasonable and practical. It's time to take her own advice.
And now it's time for payback against all the people in her life who deserve it the most.
From #1 Sunday Times and international bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a biting, subversive thriller about what happens when women finally choose to take justice into their own hands – with killer results.
A Titán játékosai
Addig jó, amíg játszunk.
Szegény Pete Garden most vesztette el Berkeley városát. Meg a feleségét is, de abból majd úgyis kap újat, amint gurít egy hármast. Ez mind része a Blöffnek, annak a játéknak, amely a Föld utolsó, egyre fogyatkozó lakóinak már-már a mániája.
A Blöff szabályai azonban egyszer csak megváltoznak, drasztikusan és végérvényesen, Pete Garden pedig egy olyan ellenféllel kerül szembe, aki nem is ember, a tét pedig sokkal nagyobb egy városnál.
Philip K. Dick ebben a regényben egy olyan világot mutat be, amely egyszerre megjósolhatatlan és perverz módon logikus.
Diagnóza život
ŽIVOT SE NEDÁ NAPLÁNOVAT, ALE DÁ SE MILOVAT.
Krásná a úspěšná hotelová manažerka Claudie žije svůj sen. Cestuje po celém světě, je neustále v pohybu a miluje z toho každou vteřinu. Jediné, co miluje ještě víc, je Jáchym. Charismatický a – tak jako ona – prací posedlý hoteliér. Pak ale přijde nečekaná diagnóza, která otřese celým jejím světem. A když se navíc odhalí Jáchymovo tajemství, nezbývá Claudii než hledat sílu začít znovu.
Mezi Českem a slunným Tenerife musí nejen čelit nemoci, ale najít i cestu k vlastnímu štěstí.
Román o odvaze, ženské síle a nových začátcích. Příběh, který dojme, inspiruje a dodá naději, že po bouři vyjde zase slunce.
An Arcane Inheritance
From the exciting and singular voice of Kamilah Cole comes a modern-day dark academia fantasy with a twist, perfect for fans of Babel and A Deadly Education.
Warren University has stood amongst the prestigious elite for centuries, built on the bones – and forbidden magic – of its most prized BIPOC students…hiding the rot of a secret society that will do anything to keep their own powers burning bright. No matter who they must sacrifice along the way.
Ellory Morgan is determined to prove that she belongs at Warren University, an Ivy League school whose history is deeply linked to occult rumours and dark secrets. But as she settles into her first year, something about the ornate buildings and shadowy paths feels strangely…familiar. And, with every passing day, that sense of déja vu grows increasingly sinister.
Despite all logic, despite all reason, despite all the rules of reality, Ellory knows one thing to be true: she has been here before. And if she can’t convince brooding legacy student Hudson Graves to help her remember a past that seems determined to slip through her fingers as if by some insidious magic…this time, she may lose herself for good.
An Arcane Inheritance showcases the rising star of author Kamilah Cole in all its splendour, in a modern-day dark academia speculative fantasy with a romance twist – perfect for dark academia and romantasy readers alike.
Tropes
* Dark Academia
* Dark Magic
* Romantasy
* Gothic
* Mystery Thriller
Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead
?Not even the Church of the Invincible Sun is invincible - and somebody has to do its dirty work. Enter Sister Svangerd and her accompanying priest, both accomplished practitioners. Their mission is simple: to make a meddlesome princess disappear (permanently). To get to her, they must attend the legendary Ecumenical Council, the once-in-a-century convening of the greatest spiritual minds the world has to offer. But when they arrive, they find instead a den of villainy that would make the most hardened criminal blush. To complicate matters further, it appears that some people long considered dead might not be after all. What began as a simple murder is about to escalate into a theological debate of terrifying complexity. From World Fantasy Award-winning author K. J. Parker comes a devilishly clever tale of murder, intrigue, and existential crisis.
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 Karika, Dominik Dán, Róbert Bryndza, Kristína Tormová, Urbaníková Evita, Táňa Keleová Vasilková a Stephen King.
