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Napadlo vás někdy, jaké máte štěstí, že v ruce udržíte tištěnou knihu? Šákja si o něčem takovém může nechat jen zdát. Žije v chráněném bydlení uvězněná ve vlastním těle, závislá na pomoci pečovatelů i na přesném plánování každého pohybu. Kvůli vrozené nemoci jí postupně ochabují všechny svaly. Své frustrace i touhy si ventiluje na sociálních sítích. Když napíše, že by si přála otěhotnět, aby mohla jít na potrat jako normální žena, spustí sérii dramatických událostí, které otřesou jejím životem.
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Maratonská zeď
Když se na pražském maratonu zhroutí německý běžec a zemře na podivné bodnutí do stehna, kapitán Lenz netuší, že ho čeká jeden z nejzapeklitějších případů kariéry. Byla to nešťastná náhoda, sebevražda, nebo chladnokrevný zločin? Vyšetřování komplikuje řada více i méně nepředvídatelných okolností: oslabení týmu, rodinné povinnosti i nedořešený vztah s půvabnou kolegyní. Práce u kriminálky je jako závod – a tentokrát je Lenz možná až příliš daleko od cílové rovinky.
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A History of Romance Novels
When you pick up the latest Emily Henry novel, or settle in for an evening with the newest volume of your favorite romantasy, you are taking part in a process stretching back two millennia. The ancient Greeks considered it a highlight of one's life to hear with one's own ears the words of the great romantic poets of their day. The Romans enjoyed sprawling romantic epics that only reunited their lovers after continent-spanning struggles against foreign armies, pirates, and treacherous monarchs. The Middle Ages sung hushed stories of lust far from the ears of the Church, while its great poets probed the darker boundaries of courtly love, and the writers of the seventeenth century delighted in giving young women ten-volume romances, delivered over the course of a decade, to fill their bookshelves and lonely hours. Writing about love, its complexities, and resolutions, has been a part of the literary tradition since its inception, but it is only in the last three centuries that the format has grown into the publishing juggernaut we know today. From the intensely observed novels of Jane Austen, through the great Sensation Novels of the 1860s that fused romance and mystery, and into the great industrial and marketing machine that was Mills & Boon and Harlequin at their height, new developments in publishing have linked up with new ideas about womanhood, sex, and romance, to produce an ever-evolving approach to the romance novel, culminating in our own modern Golden Age, where more people from more backgrounds are writing more types of romance than ever before for a readership than is larger than it has ever been, and is consuming its favourite literary form in convenient new formats. A History of Romance Novels: From Trembling Innocents to Hunky Werewolves explores the long story of our love affair with love stories, during both its eras of creative flourishing, and the long periods of industrially motivated stagnation, to give even the most dedicated romance reader a few new veins to mine, and a few more characters to fall in love with.
In The Footsteps of Marco Polo
In the summer of 1961, Stanley Johnson, accompanied by Tim Severin and Michael de Larrabeiti, set out from Oxford on two BSA 500cc Shooting Star motorcycles to follow Marco Polo’s route from Venice to Beijing. Although they came tantalizingly close to the Chinese frontier, they were forced to divert to India. With one motorcycle out of action, the three of them rode the remaining machine down the Grand Truck Road from Kabul to Calcutta. In 2023, Stanley set off again with his fourth son, Max, to finish the journey he had started sixty-two years earlier. With a brilliant camera-crew in tow, they followed Marco Polo's precise route across China, all the way to the Summer Palace of Kubla Khan in Xanadu and on to Beijing itself. This book tells the tale of an extraordinary dream come true.
ShipCraft 35 - British Anti-Aircraft Cruisers
The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject, highlighting differences between ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and highly detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the subjects, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references – books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites. This volume completes Les Brown’s coverage of British cruisers of the Second World War, concentrating on ships with a primarily anti-aircraft role. It begins with the innovative inter-war conversions of old ‘C’ class ships and moves on to the Dido class – not originally designed as AA ships but armed with a new 5.25in dual-purpose gun that made them effective air-defence ships. Also included are the small number of merchant ships converted to cruiser-standard AA ships. With its unparalleled level of visual information – paint schemes, models, line drawings and photographs – this book is simply the best reference for any modelmaker setting out to build one of these famous cruisers.
My Passover Seder
**A delightful rhyming tale about the sights, sounds, smells and customs of a traditional Passover Seder.**This engaging board book takes young readers on a journey through a typical Seder celebration, from the arrival of the first guests and the breaking of the matzah, through the sharing of the Exodus story and the Passover dinner, to the arrival of Elijah and the singing of final prayers.
Football's Full English Puzzle Book
Test your football knowledge and brush up on your sports trivia with Football’s Full English Puzzle Book, a compendium of football fun covering every team that has played in the Football League, including a dedicated section on each of the 65 clubs that have tasted football at the top table of England’s beautiful game. If you know your Arsenal from your Accrington and your Loughborough from your Liverpool, give your brain cells a run out!The footy fun doesn’t stop there; as well as crosswords, there are Codewords, Hidden in Plain View, Transformers, Identity Crisis, Word Spiral, Fantasy Five-a-side, Read All About It, Name Drop, Lions & Lionesses, Name Link, Who’s Driving The Bus? Mixed Bag & True or False?
Slipped Again
Having gathered all 12 of the 16/87s – those who slip through time on each full moon – together, Jess still feels alone. It seems each of their lives are falling apart, and she still doesn’t know what to do with the information they found out from the timeslip. Jess also doesn’t know what role ‘The Chronos Club’ is going to play, other than their members all experience full moon disappearances too, with each group born a decade before the next. Dieter from the 15/44s seems to be the key, but Jess has no idea how the pieces of the jigsaw fit together. They don’t feel remarkable, experiencing the same love, loss, betrayal, pain, marriage, births and deaths, as anyone else, yet having to deal with the consequences of having jumped three years into the future and back again. They know what’s coming and they’re going to try to stop it.
Street Sweeper
“Really beautiful and vivid detailing in the storytelling.” – Chris Gribble, Former Head of The National Centre for WritingLondon, 2002. When Almir, a twenty-one-year-old Kosovan ex-boy soldier, is relocated to London with a new identity, flashbacks undermine his ability to keep his job as a street sweeper. Then he meets Roland, a forty-year-old British Jamaican, a Council surveyor trying to escape his Pentecostal upbringing, and failed relationship with Shirl with whom he has a fifteen-year-old son. Roland and Almir become closer as Roland offers first friendship, then sex, yet Almir remains secretive about his past, and struggles to identify as gay, forcing Roland to question their relationship. And who is Muzzafer, the name Almir repeatedly shouts out during frequent nightmares? As tension builds, Almir confronts his involvement in a war atrocity, which threatens to destabilise his sanity and his new UK life. But, against all these powerful obstacles, Almir and Roland’s love for each other continues to grow. Is it strong enough to last?
What was that Bang?!?
BANG!!’… "What was that sound?!" asks an inquisitive 9-year-old Bean. "It was a balloon bursting" responds his seemingly sure-footed father Meabo. "Was there a bang inside the balloon?" responds the now even more confused child. As is often the case with children, a simple question can easily lead a conversation down a rabbit hole of what, why, when, and how. So begins a journey deeper (both physiologically and intellectually) than Bean had ever thought possible. In a world where information is literally at our fingertips, it’s easy to just respond with an answer to an ostensibly basic question from a child. Simple factual answers often lack context, and abstract analogies can provide even further confusion. The graphic educational fiction novel ‘What was that BANG?!’ is a dialogue between two characters Meabo, and his son Bean. Through playful conversation, the characters take readers through the journey a sound can take from source to conscious perception. Beyond leaving children with just scientific facts, the story encourages active questioning, developing logical thought processes, and instilling a growth mindset.
Miracles Cost Extra
‘If I can’t get off – get me out – at any price!’ When millionaire property tycoon Billy Danvers is arrested and awaiting trial for murdering his wife’s lover, his best friend – a respectable city banker – turns to London’s most powerful criminal to pull off the ultimate escape. But when it comes down to huge sums of money, the line between loyalty and betrayal begins to blur. Miracles Cost Extra is a razor-sharp thriller that delivers a stunningly authentic look at how justice can be bent, bought, or broken. It takes readers deep inside the world of high-stakes prison breaks, underworld fixers, and the shadowy border between law and crime. Written by Henry Milner, a legal heavyweight who has defended some of Britain's most notorious criminals. With decades of firsthand courtroom experience, the author crafts a story so true-to-life, it could have been ripped from his case files. ‘Drawing on a lifetime defending crime, Milner writes with elegant, compelling clarity; a novel that’s simply a joy to read.’ Judge Rinder‘A well plotted and thoroughly entertaining tale of lust, murder, bribery, loyalty, betrayal and revenge.' James Morton, Author of Krays: The Final Word
Marsh, Weald and Downs
All is not as it seems in the bucolic Sussex countryside. Throw another log on the fire and listen as the mysterious Uncle Franklin tells his tales of ghosts, strange beasts, murderous Morris dancers and other bizarre characters. This entrancingly dark collection of stories set in the forests of the Weald, the lonely marshes of the Pevensey levels and the South Downs of a hundred years ago conjures up a vivid description of the Sussex countryside on the cusp of the modern age. With references to real villages and local folklore, these linked stories are interspersed with authentic Sussex recipes. Open the pages and be transported to the top of the Downs on Midsummer’s Eve, a snug cowshed in the early hours of Christmas morning, or to a Maypole dance in a beautiful village... but what will happen next?
Hope at Brimstone Lodge
Earl Edward Chester is to inherit Brimstone Lodge. To escape his mother's continuous drive towards him producing a suitable wife and the next heir, he takes a bet with friends to marry the first single girl he meets. Eleanor, a country girl, goes against all her natural instincts when she marries Edward, who she believes is the estate manager. After a blissful period, all Eleanor's dreams come tumbling down when she finds out who Edward really is. Decision time. Does Eleanor give up on her marriage to Edward, or rise to the challenge as the new Countess of Buxto? surprising opportunity of help comes from an unexpected connection. Will this person mould her new life? Will they give her hope?
Movieville
This year … take a road trip of a lifetime, in an automobile that’s the first, and last, of its kind, in a world where the thrill and suspense of the movies come to life ... and your Counterpart has a script of its own …Welcome to Movieville! Intrigued during an investigation, journalist Richard Morrow never imagined that following a mysterious girl into a basement would lead them, along with a group of bystanders, to a barren, barely populated new world, a world inadvertently created by the fusion of MovieMagic! and Creative Energy by burnt-out film critic, Magnus Hope. Instantly merged with fictional Counterparts, they run, propelled by their hosts’ ongoing stories, thrust into menacing movie-like scenarios that seem to appear at random. Meanwhile, the enigmatic Movieville Moguls seek Talents from Earth to populate their domains, deploying sinister Extras and Agents to ensnare the heroes as they search for the portal back to Earth, or to the mythical Land of Independents. Aided, amongst others, by a conflicted Agent and a wise-cracking non-humanoid ally, the group strives to discover the truth about their Counterparts and the creation of the extraordinary world of Movieville.
Apart
When Amy’s boyfriend and soulmate, James, is killed in a road accident, her world shatters. Consumed by grief and desperate to know he’s all right, she turns to mediumship. Meanwhile, up in heaven, James is facing his own turmoil. A glitch in his celestial pain filter means he misses Amy and is dismayed by her heartbreak. He appeals to God for help with contacting her, but an underintuitive heavenly app and an elderly psychic are among the obstacles that stand in the way of communicating across the great divide. As Amy’s grief overwhelms her, despite the support of a new group of friends, James is compelled to take drastic action to convince her it’s time for a fresh start. But will divine intervention end up causing more harm than good?
The Divide
Oxford, 2050. Britain is fractured. The Divide – a vast wall – splits the country from Kent to Cumbria. Families and lovers are torn apart. Civil war and economic collapse have left mistrust, propaganda and fear in their wake. Petrichor Jones, a specialist in Roman bronzes at the Ashmolean Museum, longs to see her sister Jasmine, who defected years earlier to Anglia. But Oxford, now capital of Wessex, is suffocating. Rumours swirl of the Dark Politic, a clandestine force controlling the media, and Petrichor begins to suspect her own boyfriend may be working against her. When she encounters the secretive Astronomy Club, she is drawn into a perilous underground network. With their help, she attempts the dangerous journey beneath the Divide. Along the way, she must decide who to trust, confront betrayal and risk everything to reunite with Jasmine. Love, resilience and rebellion collide in a world where freedom is fragile and lost innocence can never be regained.
Discovering Harry’s Autism
Harry is cheeky, funny, playful, clever and kind. He loves playing with his brother, koala cuddles and playgrounds. He is also autistic. Discovering Harry’s Autism is a book written by six year old Harry. Journey through this book with Harry to discover his own experience of autism, and to explore his unique world of imagination and marshmallows!When Harry received his autism diagnosis his family could not find a book that would help him understand what it meant, so they decided to make their own. They soon realised that Harry didn’t need a book to tell him about autism, he already knew about autism because he was living it every day. Instead, they created this book with Harry so that he could teach people about autism and share his unique experience. Through Harry’s own words, and vibrant illustrations drawn by his Mum and coloured in by Harry and his family, you will discover a very personal, individual and heart-warming insight into Harry’s world.
The Other Fuhrer: Muck-Lamberty and Adolf Hitler
Germany 1920. A new political movement is born. It is led by a charismatic ex-serviceman whose aim is to create a ‘National Community’ in the war-devastated country. His followers call him ‘Führer.’ But this is not Adolf Hitler. His name is Friedrich Lamberty, better known as Muck, and his methods are very different from Hitler’s. He and his followers, who call themselves the New Crowd, trek through the centre of Germany singing, dancing and playing with local people. By the end of 1920 they have brought hundreds of thousands of people out of their homes to join in a ‘revolution of the soul.’ But then an unexpected and shocking development causes the New Crowd to break up. Muck disappears from the scene as quickly as he arrived. The story of Muck-Lamberty’s rise and fall, told here for the first time in English, throws new light on Germany in the early twentieth century. It examines the country’s unique youth movement, the impact on young people of world war and revolution, the strange post-war dance craze, the revolution in sexual behaviour, and the development of new ways of thinking about what it meant to be German - and Jewish. In each of these areas, Muck-Lamberty is compared with Adolf Hitler to find out why he was initially more successful than the Nazi leader, but then failed to establish himself as a ‘Führer.’
Too Near the Sun
Roman Britain. Midsummer AD 371. Two years have passed since the traumatic invasions of the Barbarica Conspiratio were finally suppressed. But in a Britannia still suffering sporadic raids by barbarians from beyond the frontiers there is said to exist a scroll listing the names of influential men – and women – plotting to secede from the Empire and use the taxes saved to boost the island’s defences. And where: Claudius Caninus (Canio) has unwisely disclosed that he dreamt he is the grandson of the long-dead usurper emperor Allectus, although he is still unsure whether he actually believes the dream. Aelia Aureliana is the owner of one of the finest villas in the province, a worshipper of the sun god Helios/Sol, and mysteriously certain that Canio really is Allectus’s grandson – but will not tell him why. Tribunus Maximus, an army officer, suspects that Aelia knows the location of the scroll and is blackmailing Canio to find it for him. But to do so Canio must get close to Aelia, and the closer he gets the more he falls under the spell of both the woman and her ambitions.
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