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Zaklínač II.: Meč osudu


Zaklínač – ošlehaný muž bez věku, jehož bílé vlasy nejsou znakem stáří, ale mutace, kterou musel podstoupit. Placený i dobrovolný likvidátor prapodivných tvorů: mantichor, trollů, vidlohonů, strig, amfisbain – pokud ovšem ohrožují lidský rod; v takovém případě zabíjí i bytost zvanou člověk. Prvotřídní, skvělý bojovník, který není neporazitelný ani nezranitelný – naopak, téměř z každého dobrodružství si odnáší další šrámy na těle i na duši.
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27,99 €

Watching Alice


Later, when she tried to remember the moment everything unravelled, she’d think of the body at the bottom of the stairs—shocking, silent, and terrifying. After discovering her husband Jason’s latest affair, Alice knows their marriage is over. But Jason refuses to walk away from their children—or their home. So they strike a desperate deal: they’ll keep the house, taking turns living there. Half a week each. Simple. But the arrangement quickly becomes suffocating. Each time Alice returns, her space has changed—Jason’s mess taking over, her belongings misplaced. And Alice can’t shake the feeling she’s being watched, by someone who tracks her moments alone. Is Jason playing mind games? Or is someone els? s her grip on reality spirals, Alice begins to wonder if the end of their marriage might be the end of her.
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12,49 €

The Underground Sisters


From the bestselling author of The Secret Midwife comes a story of selfless sacrifice, women’s bravery and the importance of keeping memories alive. We’ll make sure they never forget. We’ll make sure that every recipe, every poem, every note is remembered, and never, ever forgotten. Even if it takes me a lifetime, I promise you that no one will forget…Amsterdam, 1940: Schoolteacher Aletta knows the war will soon reach her and the Jewish children in her class. When her family hide an injured Allied airman in their home, they must decide: how much will they risk when resistance could prove deadl? aris, 1940: Since her mother’s death, Chloe has dedicated herself to protecting her brothers. So when the SS accuses Claude of being in the Resistance, she sacrifices herself to save him. Forced together in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Chloe, Aletta and her mother, Emma, forge an unbreakable bond. Surrounded by unimaginable cruelty, they mount their own kind of resistance—secretly teaching children and preserving fellow prisoners’ precious memories. In a place designed to strip away humanity, their friendship becomes an act of defiance, their determination to bear witness a lifeline of hope. As the war rages on and whispers of a longed-for liberation grow, can their courage and sisterhood see them through to freedom? And if they survive, how can they ever be the sam? ased on true events, this is an inspiring testament to the power of friendship and the resilience of the human spirit.
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12,49 €

Segítség, francia lettem!


Bretagne az új Toszkána - csak több vajjal és almaborral. Harminc évvel ezelőtt Mark Greenside beleszeretett Bretagne-ba. Aztán - minden józan ész ellenére - kölcsönkért pénzből vett egy százéves parasztházat egy ötszáz lelkes faluban, úgy, hogy egy szót sem tudott franciául, semmit nem értett a házakhoz, és halvány fogalma sem volt arról, hogyan boldoguljon egy teljesen idegen környezetben. Azóta eltelt három évtized. Mark még mindig rendszeresen félreérti a franciákat, a franciák pedig még mindig türelmesen próbálják megérteni őt. Szomszédai vigyáznak rá: lefordítják a hivatalos leveleit, kijavítják a beszédét, és időről időre megmentik a kisebb-nagyobb katasztrófáktól. A Segítség, francia lettem! szellemes, melegszívű és ismerősen emberi történet mindazoknak, akik érezték már magukat elveszettnek vagy reménytelenül kívülállónak - egészen addig a pillanatig, amíg meg nem találták a helyüket.
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19,44 €

Battle Royale - Első kötet


Valahol, valamikor egy diktatórikus távol-keleti országban, az állami vezetők kegyetlen kísérletet eszelnek ki: negyvenkét középiskolást egy lakatlan szigeten arra kényszerítenek, hogy életre-halálra megvívjanak egymással. Géppisztolytól kezdve a sarlón át a konyhai étkészletből származó villáig, bármilyen fegyver a rendelkezésükre áll. A Programnak csak egyetlen túlélője lehet: a győztes. Takami Kósun regénye, melyet gyakran neveznek a 21. századi Legyek urának, botrányos karriert futott be. Bár megjelenését a japán kormány is ellenezte, a regény 1999 óta több kontinensen vezette a sikerlistákat, több millió példányban fogyott el, számos feldolgozást ért meg,és számos más művet ihletett azóta világszerte.
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15,46 €

Szitakötő - Nemzedékünk regénye


Ha egy nemzedék legfényesebb elméi pislákolni kezdenek, s aztán végleg kihunynak - azt iszonyú nehéz elfogadni. Főleg amikor a Szitakötő, a tizenöt éve róluk írt regény újra megjelenik, valamicskét javítgatott szöveggel. Hajdani tisztánlátásom immár meglep, tévedéseim némelyike mosolyt kelt. Szárnycsattogtatás és sokféle zizegés a levegőben. Valamint - ahogyan az egyik szereplőm mondja: - sok férfisírás. Amit gyakran koedukált nevetés követ. Íme a nyolcak hiteles históriája, akik a gyerekkori hízótáborban ismerkedtek össze, s azután háromnegyed évszázadon át kísérték figyelemmel az életünket. Ami jószerivel egybeesett Magyarhon legújabbkori történelmével. Az annak idején jövőbelinek szánt utolsó fejezet 2026-ban játszódik. A Szitakötő tehát utolérte az időt. (Vámos Miklós)
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22,53 €

Retro


Ash is a failed actress who is done trying to ‘make’ something of her life when she scrolls past an ad for Retro. The algorithm thinks she can afford recreational time travel? Then she sees the caption: Come away with us! We’re hiring. Time Travel Agents, the guides who lead ultra-wealthy explorers on trips to the past on the ‘Retro Metro’, must blend seamlessly into any historical period. Ash is a perfect fit. She’s an actress after all. Or at least she used to be. So begins Ash’s life at Retro, chaperoning rich tourists through history’s most Instagrammable eras. She wrangles bachelorette parties chasing hunky cowboys in the Old West, throws ‘'20s for your twenties’ birthday bashes at speakeasies, and rolls her eyes at Wall Street men trying their luck in the Gold Rush. For the first time in years, Ash’s life feels enviable. She barely notices the strange glitches in her memory or the way her present-day relationships are starting to slip. But as the trips intensify and her present begins to fray, Ash confronts an unsettling question: Was diving into the past ever really an escape, or just another way to lose herself?
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24,99 €

Dogs on Dates


A shaggy-dog graphic novel love story to melt the coldest of hearts. If you can't believe in a cute, funny boy who was nice to you once . . . what can you believe in? Meet Bernie and Brad, two single dogs getting by in Dog City. Bernie has just dropped out of university and Brad, working for an environmental charity, is trying not to have a meltdown about the melting ice caps. When the pair crash into one another's lives, they em(bark) on a series of dates - new food spots, terrible films, nights in and mishaps a plenty - as they realise that maybe it's not just about meeting the right match, but whether you can then make it work. Funny, anxious, and heartwarming, this is the story of two dogs trying to find hope in love, and in each other.
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24,99 €

The Making of the Modern Middle East


Jeremy Bowen, the International Editor of the BBC, has been covering the Middle East since 1989 and is uniquely placed to explain its complex past and its troubled present. In The Making of the Modern Middle East he offers a gripping and invaluable guide, showing how it came to be and what its future might hold. In part based on his acclaimed podcast, 'Our Man in the Middle East', Bowen takes us on a journey across the Middle East and through its history. He meets ordinary men and women on the front line, and their leaders, whether brutal or benign. He explores the power games that have so often wreaked devastation on civilian populations as those leaders, whatever their motives, jostle for political, religious and economic control. Clear throughout is Bowen's deep understanding of the political, cultural and religious differences between countries as diverse as Erdogan's Turkey, Netanyahu's Israel and Palestine, whether Hamas-controlled Gaza or the West Bank. His long experience of covering events in the region make this an extraordinarily powerful account of one of the world's greatest problems.
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19,99 €

On Thin Ice


I have one shot to build a better life—not just for me, but for my little brother still stuck in the dump I escaped from. Now that I’ve gotten to Sovereign Kings University, I have to make it worth it. Keep my head down, ignore the rich kids, and graduate. At least that was my plan before I busted a hockey player’s knee and became public enemy number one. Now the team’s golden boy captain, Alexander, leads the charge against me. Kane, the brooding defenseman never misses a chance to humiliate me. Yet, being painfully ignored by Mountain, the reserved giant of a goalie, may just hurt the most. Beneath their hostility I find sparks of desire and unexpected depth, but can I risk losing my heart to one hockey player—let alone all three? I’m certainly in for a long, hard season.
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15,99 €

Smrt je vždycky osamělá


Napínavý příběh s nádechem fantastična, plný nostalgie a atmosféry starého Hollywoodu, zavádí čtenáře do kalifornských Benátek 50. let. Osamělý spisovatel tam uprostřed palem, kanálů a chátrajících domů začíná tušit, že kolem něj roste síť zločinu. Napovídají tomu podivné telefonáty, mořské chaluhy nalezené na prahu domu a řada záhadných nehod, z nichž některé končí smrtí. S pomocí detektiva Crumleyho a stárnoucí herečky nakonec dochází k překvapivému odhalení a zároveň i k pochopení vlastní tvůrčí síly.
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19,99 €

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Finnegans Wake


'A great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page' - Anthony Burgess James Joyce's final work, Finnegans Wake, conjures up the dark underground worlds of sexuality and dream with supreme linguistic virtuosity. Here Joyce undermines traditional storytelling and the English language, and confronts the different kinds of betrayal - cultural, political and sexual - that he saw at the heart of Irish history. Dazzlingly inventive, with passages of great lyrical beauty and humour, Finnegans Wake remains one of the most remarkable works of the twentieth century. 'Here words are not the polite contortions of twentieth-century printer's ink. They are alive. They elbow their way on to the page, and glow and blaze and fade and disappear' Samuel Beckett With a new introduction by Brian Fox.
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19,99 €

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Rasputin Swims the Potomac


IN A WORLD THAT'S LIKE OURS BUT EVEN STRANGER . . . A TV star president is campaigning for a constitutionally dubious third term, normal Americans are falling into an unexplained weeping sickness and a wrestler claiming to be the reincarnated mystic Rasputin is making a spandex-clad entrance into politics. Meanwhile Clarence Thomas Jr. is a journalist just trying to make sense of his country as it unmoors from reality. But with violence and bullshit erupting everywhere, things seem to be approaching collapse. Or maybe it's all building to a grand gesture: something political, romantic, religious, insane and quite possibly fatal. From award-winning author Ben Fountain, Rasputin Swims the Potomac is outrageously funny, wildly imagined and razor-sharp satire. It asks: what could possibly grow out of what we have now, except for something even stranger, harder to grasp and more tumultuous? And will what comes next be better or, somehow, even worse?
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24,99 €

I, Spy


Kendal Carter is out in thecold and she wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s been four years since herdaughter Rosie was born and Kendal has kept her miles away from the danger ofher former life as a spy. But when their hiding place is discovered, Kendal isforced to turn to old contacts for help. Her longtime friend and ex-handlerRico doesn’t miss his chance to pull his best spy back in. Whisking them toLondon, Rico offers them a luxury safe house in an area with good schools. Howcan Kendal resis? ut there’s a catch, of course. Rico wants Kendal to come back to work for hisespionage agency Bon Temps. He’s offering an assignment with no apparentdownside, investigating one of the dads at Rosie’s new school who works at oneof London’s biggest, murkiest tech firms and suspected of being up to no good. It should be easy enough for someone with her experience, and luckily, motheris the perfect cover. However, it doesn’t take long for Kendal to realize that Rico’s got an agendaof his own. The tech firm may be dealing in darker and more deadly secrets thanthey all realize, plus the world of coffee mornings and playdates comes withits own web of allegiances and betrayals. Kendal soon finds herself in way toodeep . . . A gripping blend of suspenseful spy thriller with heartfelt women’s fiction, I,Spy is the first in a propulsive debut series about the masks we all wear,whether as a spy or as a parent.
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34,49 €

The Eustace Diamonds


''She liked lies...To lie readily and cleverly, recklessly and yet successfully, was, according to the lessons which she had learned, a necessity in a woman''Lizzie Eustace is young, beautiful, and widowed. Her determination to hold on to the Eustace family''s diamond necklace in the face of legal harassment by her brother-in-law''s solicitor entangles her in a series of crimes - apparent and real - and contrived love-affairs. Her cousin Frank, Tory MP and struggling barrister, loyally assists her, to the distress of his fiancée, Lucy Morris. A pompous Under-Secretary of State, an exploitative and acquisitive American and her unhappy niece, a shady radical peer, and a brutal aristocrat are only some of the characters in this, one of Trollope''s most engaging novels: part sensation fiction, part detective story, part political satire, and part ironic romance.The Eustace Diamonds (1873) belongs to Trollope''s Palliser series. Though often considered the least political of the six novels, it is a highly revealing study of Victorian Britain, its colonial activities in Ireland and India, its veneration of wealth, and its pervasive dishonesty. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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13,49 €

Servaná slova


Druhá autorova kniha přináší tentokrát soubor kratších textů. Vyhýbají se pointám, potlačují význam příběhu – a naopak cílí k zachycení „záchvěvů duše“, jež podprahově určují naše životy.
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19,49 €

A Tale of Two Cities


A gorgeously giftable special hardback edition of A Tale of Two Cities, abridged for readers aged 9-12 years. Bound in high-quality cloth with a dazzling new foil-stamped cover design, Puffin's Clothbound Classics are a gift that book lovers of all ages will treasure forever. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.' Charles Darnay is an exiled French aristocrat, fleeing a Paris torn apart by the French Revolution. Sydney Carlton lives a decadent life in London, where the wealthy waste and the poor starve. The two couldn't be more different. Except they happen to look alike - and love the same woman. When Charles is captured after returning to Paris to save his servant, Sydney might be his only hope - but will their resemblance be enough to save his life? Gift the best-loved classics to a new generation with Puffin's stunning Clothbound Classics. Bound in high-quality cloth with dazzling new foil-stamped designs, these coveted and highly collectable hardback editions will be treasured forever. The perfect gift for book lovers and new readers alike. This is an abridged edition of the classic novel, designed for younger readers.
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24,99 €

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The Penguin Book of the International Short Story


The best in short fiction from around the world, from celebrated anthologist and author John Freeman and award-winning novelist Rabih Alameddine In The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, writers from different nations, languages and sensibilities come together in a globe-spanning and long overdue tour of modern fiction. In 'Super-Frog Saves Tokyo', Haruki Murakami presents a man who believes a giant amphibian is enlisting him to protect his city from an impending earthquake. In 'War of the Clowns', Mozambique's Mia Couto sketches a perfect allegory for our divided culture. In the predecessor story to her iconic novel The Vegetarian, Han Kang depicts a protagonist quietly undergoing an unlikely transformation in a high-rise in Seoul. A Colm Tóibin character thinks, 'I do not even believe in Ireland', while Carol Bensimon reflects from Brazil, 'All great ideas seem like bad ones at some point'. Salman Rushdie brings us to unsettled rural India, Olga Tokarczuk to a circus exhibit, Abdellah Taia to the queer Arab world, Ted Chiang to a far-off galaxy. For a long time, it was the norm for three quarters of the stories in international anthologies to be American or English. In this collection, the work of thoughtful and accomplished translators opens the door wide for those curious about what lies beyond the Western canon and classroom. Writers from six continents, ranging from new voices to literary icons, each offer a window into a distinct point of view, both transcending and illuminating their place of origin. They offer not only captivating prose, but a reminder of the power of the imagination across space and time.
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39,99 €

Green City Wars


In a city of sunshine and secrets, the shadows belong to the animals. In a solar-powered future, humans live in luxury, served by unseen Little Helpers - artificially enhanced animals who maintain their perfect green cities. The animals' number one rule: 'do not bother the humans'. Yet, beneath this tranquil facade, a complex underworld of animal politics, crime and conflict thrives. Enter Skotch, a freelance raccoon investigator. Until now, his biggest problem has been a lack of work. Now, his work may get him killed. His latest case? Finding a fugitive mouse scientist. But powerful forces are also after Doctor Meece, and they're willing to kill for his secrets. Can Skotch navigate this treacherous web, outsmart rat gangsters, beat a deadly weasel assassin and keep his pelt intact? More importantly, can he find his quarry before the elusive rodent breaks Rule One in the most apocalyptic way - and shatters their fragile world? For those who loved John Scalzi's Starter Villain and Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model, Green City Wars is a crime-inspired adventure that will draw you deep into an incredible new world . . .
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23,99 €

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