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Beletria 
Odborná a populárno-náučná literatúra 
Pre deti a mládež 
Cudzojazyčná literatúra 
Učebnice, slovníky 
Umenie 
Hobby, voľný čas 
Biografie - Životopisy 
Geografia, mapy, sprievodcovia 
Kuchárske knihy 
Zdravie, životný štýl 
Ezoterika 
Poézia 
Partnerstvo a rodičovstvo 
Časopisy
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The Second Death of Locke
Love. Loyalty. Sacrifice.
Grey Flynn has dedicated her life to her mage, Kier.
She will be his blade on the battlefield, his healer and protector. The deep well of raw power inside her is Kier's to use. Grey would do anything for Kier - be anything for him - if he would only ask.
When a quest to protect the child of an enemy kingdom pulls them into the dangerous heart of their nation's war, Grey and Kier will need to decide what they are willing to sacrifice to protect their secret.
For Grey is no ordinary magical well, but heir to the lost island of Locke - the root of all power. If she dies, all magic dies with her.
The Second Death of Locke is a devastatingly romantic epic fantasy about the undying bond between a knight and their mage, perfect for fans of The Knight and the Moth and The Everlasting.
The New People
A newly married couple move into a flipped foreclosure, unaware that the former homeowners are still living in the attic. A striking and intimate debut about motherhood, loss and the true cost of starting over.
After the housing crash in 2008, Emma and Rachel move into a charming little house in a conservative college town, hoping for a fresh start after a painful miscarriage.
Emma finds herself struggling in the shadow of her wife's success: tenure-track professor and now bestselling novelist. Desperate to build something of her own, and without Rachel's knowledge, Emma pursues IVF.
The house becomes a refuge from the town Emma is convinced is set against her - until strange occurrences make her question whether she and Rachel are truly alone.
They aren't.
Charlotte and Dirk, the former homeowners displaced by the recession, are secretly living above Emma and Rachel's attached garage.
As Charlotte listens to the interlopers below, her growing resentment pushes her into small acts of defiance, eventually full-blown sabotage.
But when her campaign to drive out the couple goes too far, Charlotte's and Emma's stories converge in an explosive climax that will reveal the lengths people will go to reclaim what they've lost.
Tenderness
A story of love, liars and secrets . . . Shady, sexy, suspicious - perfect summer holiday reading'
The Times, 2026 Must-Read round-up
Shay was no longer in the cult, but still, it made her wedding guests nervous that she was bringing them to an island . . .
On a remote island off the coast of Virginia, family and friends gather to celebrate the wedding of Shay O'Connor and Andrew Pruitt. From the moment the guests arrive, all they can whisper about is the bride, who recently left the headline-making cult Synanon.
Told from the interwoven perspectives of Shay's brother William, her longtime friend Joel, and Shay herself, this slow-burn mystery excavates dark family histories and romantic regrets. As the wedding approaches, Joel and William pull at the loose threads of Shay's story, and it becomes clear there is an even greater threat on the island than the secrets each character is keeping from one another.
Set in the tinderbox of the 1970s, Tenderness is a lit match, bringing hidden truths to light, and asking if we can ever see ourselves or the people we love for who they truly are.
'INTOXICATING. You'll find yourself turning page after page, utterly swept up in the heady spell it casts, and the emotional heft that rises to an astonishing crescendo' Megan Abbott
EuroCity - Vlaky, které spojily Evropu
Jak se zrodila síť prestižních evropských expresů a jak se její vývoj promítl do železniční dopravy v České republice? To vám přiblíží publikace o historii evropské sítě komfortních mezinárodních vlaků, která započala v padesátých letech minulého století v západní Evropě. Právě tam se objevily první vlaky kategorie TEE, které postupně vystřídaly spoje InterCity a nakonec i EuroCity, jež se od roku 1991 dostaly také na naše území.
Nejde o encyklopedii plnou technických detailů, ale o poutavý průvodce významnými okamžiky, legendárními vlaky a zajímavými příběhy moderní železniční dopravy. Hlavní pozornost je věnována vývoji vlaků vyšší kvality na českém území v posledních pětatřiceti letech. Nechybí přehled palubních gastronomických služeb ani technický popis elektrických a motorových lokomotiv a jednotek, které tyto prestižní spoje u nás v minulosti vozily či dodnes vozí.
Kniha je určena jak železničním nadšencům a odborníkům, tak všem čtenářům se zájmem o historii cestování a evropské dopravy.
Guilty Secrets
Editor Martin Edwards has commissioned an entertaining range of stories from the membership of the world's most celebrated group of crime and mystery writers, the Crime Writers' Association (CWA). Founded over 70 years ago by John Creasey, the Crime Writers' Association supports, promotes and celebrates this most durable, adaptable and successful of genres, while supporting writers of every kind of crime fiction and non-fiction. In this new collection, enjoy 23 original, thrilling mysteries packed full of enthralling characters, drama and intrigue, by the following authors: Martine Bailey, Christine Poulson, Dea Parkin, Martin Edwards, C.J. Carver, Kate Ellis, Shawn Reilly Simmons, Phil Lecomber, L.C. Tyler, Glenda Young, Antony Johnston, Simon Dinsdale, Renita D'Silva, Paul Gitsham, Yvonne Eve Walus, Brian Price, Pam Plumb, Nick Guthrie, Margaret Holbrook, Andy Sykes, Cath Staincliffe, Roland Moore and Rachel Amphlett.
The Flame Tree Beyond and Within short story collections bring together tales of myth and imagination by modern and contemporary writers, carefully selected by anthologists, and sometimes featuring short stories from a single author. Overall, the series presents a wide range of diverse and inclusive voices with myth, folkloric-inflected short fiction, and an emphasis on the supernatural, science fiction, the mysterious and the speculative. The books themselves are gorgeous, with foiled covers, printed edges and published only in hardcover editions, offering a lifetime of reading pleasure.
Diplomatic Adventures
Moscow in the Cold War. Karachi during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. Buenos Aires at the time of Perón’s death. Three critical chapters of twentieth-century history – and as a young diplomat, Tony Rossiter had a box seat.In Moscow in 1968, Western diplomats were kept under surveillance, their flats were bugged, and they were harassed by the KGB. From Moscow, Tony went to Karachi, a quasi-colonial world of servants and snobby expatriates. When war broke out, his young family huddled together as bomb blasts shook the walls. After a week of air attacks, women and children were belatedly evacuated. Transferred to Buenos Aires, it was out of the frying pan into the fire. Tony arrived, shortly after Perón’s reinstatement as president, as the Montoneros urban guerrillas were stepping up terrorist attacks against Western targets.Unlike the memoirs of most former diplomats, this book is not about high-level bureaucracy. Instead, it provides rare insight into the day-to-day life of a young man working at the coalface. Rossiter’s background was unusual for his era, and this vivid and evocative memoir offers a unique glimpse behind the curtain of international diplomacy.
Červená karkulka musí zemřít
Inspektorka Lyla Rondellová pracuje na případu svého života. Má za úkol vyšetřit sérii záhadných úmrtí a zatím má jedinou stopu – to, že každé z nich se zdá být založeno na jiné klasické pohádce. Tisk si na případu, kterému dal název „Vraždy Grimmova Rozparovače“, parádně smlsne.
A jak se mrtvoly hromadí, celý Lylin svět se obrací vzhůru nohama. Krvavá stopa vraha sahá hluboko do její vlastní minulosti, a když odhalí pravdu, nic už nebude jako dřív.
Tváří v tvář skutečnosti, že vše, co zná, je fikce, musí Lyla zapojit vlastní kreativitu, pokud chce zabránit dalším vraždám...
Zloději těl
Mladý šlechtic James Willoughby přijíždí do Edinburghu studovat medicínu. Tamní univerzita nabízí vše, po čem touží – kromě možnosti pitvat lidské tělo. Musí se tedy přihlásit na jednu ze soukromých škol, kterou si však z finančních důvodů nemůže dovolit.
V zoufalství uzavře dohodu s asistentem proslulého anatoma Aneurinem „Nyem“ MacKinnonem, který mu nabídne práci a tím i přístup ke studiu. James si však brzy uvědomí, že uzavřel smlouvu s ďáblem. Nye totiž patří k vykradačům hrobů. James je Nyem okouzlený a přidá se k jeho skupině nechvalně známé krádežemi mrtvol sloužících jako anatomické vzorky. James se tedy stává zlodějem těl, a nejenže je od té doby neustále jednou nohou ve vězení, ale navíc se spolu s Nyem a jeho lidmi ocitne uprostřed války zlodějských gangů, které se neštítí ani chladnokrevné vraždy.
A Fate Worse Than Drowning
For fans of A Dark and Drowning Tide and The Lighthouse Witches comes a queer speculative fiction novel about a lighthouse keeper who made a devil's bargain to save her sister.
But when a shipwrecked survivor washes ashore, she is left with an impossible choice…
One deal with the devil makes a fool. Two? A villain...
A year ago, Elle made a deal with the devil to save her sister. Now, they live on a desolate spit of land beyond Halifax harbour. Elle, as a lighthouse keeper, steers unsuspecting sailors to their destruction; those are the terms of her bargain. Liney need never know the cost. Her safety is worth every drop of blood.
But a sinner's pact is not so simple. When the devil returns, demanding more-more shipwrecks, no survivors-Elle knows what she must do to keep Liney safe...
Another ship. Another crew killed in the devil's name.
Then a woman washes ashore. Is she a soul to be sacrificed, or part of a darker design? As Liney and the stranger grow closer, Elle faces an impossible choice: kill, and break Liney's heart, or forfeit her own soul.
Danger arises from all sides: the merciless sea, ruthless men on the mainland, and the infernal bargain itself…
Souls and sisterhood, fate and fire-what must be sacrificed for the devil to get his due?
A riveting tale of doomed love and a chilling Faustian bargain, A Fate Worse Than Drowning is a masterwork of queer speculative fiction that will captivate fans of gothic literature.
Tropes
Gothic Fiction
LGBTQ+
Speculative Fiction
Deal with the Devil
Rising Reign - Wolves of Crescent Creek 3
From TikTok sensation Tessa Hale comes the final book in a why-choose, enemies-to-lovers shifter romantasy series where everyone has demons and holding on to the ones you love is the ultimate test.
Love means sacrifice.
And that's what I've done: given everything to keep those I care about safe.
Now, I'm back where it all began, trapped with the architect of my nightmares. And this time, I know he won't stop until he breaks me.
But my wolves won't stop either. They'll do anything to bring me home and end the one who has me in his sights.
Only there are more monsters and enemies than we ever could've imagined, and when new secrets are revealed, it will take everything we have to defeat them…
Mystical Power and Politics on the Swahili Coast
Traces changing visions of mystical power and authority on the island of Pemba, whose people's reputed resistance to outside rule has shaped the national narratives of both Zanzibar and Tanzania. For two centuries, Pemba, the second largest island of Zanzibar, has been known by East Africans and outsiders alike as rich in dangerous knowledge. Despite Pembans' reputation for piety and deep Islamic knowledge,uchawi- 'mystical work and power', sometimes termed 'magic', 'witchcraft', or 'sorcery' - has long featured in diverse visions of their identity and as key to worldly power. Today, as traditional methods of securing agency are called into question and new ways proliferate, the mystical world is an intensely conflicted realm where the nature of power, ethical action, and reality itself is continually reframed. This luminous ethnography follows Pemban notions of invisible and worldly power through the Zanzibar Revolution of 1964, the trials of multiparty democracy, the rise of Islamic revival, and intensifying neoliberalism. Through an exploration of rural imaginings of power, it argues that nations and the grammars that underwrite them are made in and by their peripheries, which give 'the centre' shape. Highlighting the intersections of mystical practices, religion, and politics-as-such on the Swahili Coast, the book contributes new perspectives to studies of the imagination, power, and religious transformation in Africa, the Indian Ocean, and the larger Islamic world.
Stolen by Shadows - Beasts of the Briar 6
The sixth in Elizabeth Helen's Amazon top 5 and Sunday Times bestselling Beasts of the Briar series, a spicy Beauty and the Beast retelling filled with enchanted fae, morally gray characters, a stupidly hot villain, and a princess who has found her Prince Charming. All five of them.
The sixth in Elizabeth Helen's Amazon top 5 and Sunday Times bestselling Beasts of the Briar series, a spicy Beauty and the Beast retelling filled with enchanted fae, morally gray characters, a stupidly hot villain, and a princess who has found her Prince Charming. All five of them.
Once upon a time, I used to look upon the sun. Now, there is only darkness.
And the Prince of Thorns.
I am his captive, his thrall. Caspian, the man he used to be, is nothing but a memory. And if the Prince of Thorns gets his way, all of the Enchanted Vale-and the four other princes bound to my heart-will fall to ruin.
As I navigate the treacherous Below, my mates risk everything to reach me. But the Green Flame is spreading across the realms, corrupting all it touches. If they can't fight it, Caspian won't be the only one consumed by its power.
It's now or never. Either we defeat the god who seeks to tear our world apart...or we die together, becoming nothing but shadow.
But I've learned something down here. Beautiful things can grow in the dark. I'll do whatever it takes to protect my home and family...and bring Caspian back to me.
Cool Machine
1981. New York City is beginning to emerge from financial ruin and decline, energized by rampant real estate development and a Wall Street unchained by Reagan-era predatory capitalism. Up in Harlem, successful business owner/master fence Ray Carney has just been named Sterling Furniture's Dealer of the Month. When the banks won't give his beloved wife, Elizabeth, a loan for her new travel agency, however, Carney gambles on one last heist, and finds himself entangled with a legendary criminal mastermind.
1983. To some, Carney's friend and partner in crime Pepper is a stone-cold sociopath. To others, a top thief with questionable people skills. Either way, he's feeling his age in his troubled gut and his aching bones. When he takes on a bodyguard gig as a favor to Elizabeth, he's plunged into the alien territory of the East Village art and club scene. Luckily for him, whether you're uptown or down, everyone speaks the same language of violence - Pepper is a native speaker.
1986. Carney has always been haunted by his inability to save his cousin Freddie. Now, twenty years after Freddie's death, he has a chance to rescue Freddie's son from the violent forces of the city. But coming out of retirement and teaming up with Pepper again will mean risking the safety and security he's spent decades building for his family, with only one shot to get it right.
With his usual pitch-perfect prose, Whitehead paints a portrait of a city in transition, where shimmering skyscrapers rise to the heavens as displaced people huddle in abandoned tunnels below. In a dazzling display of protean imagination, Cool Machine roves all over the city, from Windows on the World to Sugar Hill, to show that in New York, and in the lives of Whitehead's vivid characters, it's what's below the surface that reveals the truth.
Sexy upíři 3: Tři královny
Thea a Julian zpečetili své pouto a nyní se jako druh a družka vracejí mezi upíří elitu na Plese slunovratu. Tam ale jejich vztah není největším překvapením večera, protože se zároveň do světa živých oficiálně vrací Julianova sestra.
Novopečený pár se musí vypořádat se spoustou nových výzev, zrádných spojenectví a nečitelných vztahů. Klíč k jejich budoucnosti se může nacházet v minulosti, ale aby ho Julian našel, musí se opět stát monstrem, kterým kdysi býval.
Thea se snaží najít svou matku, ale místo toho se ocitne v zajetí a zapomene, kým ve skutečnosti je. Budoucnost samotného magického světa visí na vlásku, v rodině Rousseauxových narůstá napětí a v upířím světě se schyluje k lásce. Podaří se Julianovi a Thee zachránit svou lásku, anebo oba zaplatí nejvyšší cenu?
Boží mlýn s turbem: Zabíjení
Z temných mračen, která se nad lidstvem léta stahovala, konečně uhodilo. Většina světové populace podlehla vražednému viru. V agonii se zmítající civilizaci dorazila mimořádně silná série elektro-magnetických pulzů. Většina elektroniky byla nenávratně zničena. Státní struktury, policejní složky, armády, to všechno se rozpadlo. Svět, jak jsme ho znali, přestal existovat.
Dvaadvacet let po těchto událostech se osamělý muž vrací zpět do života a zjišťuje, že už tak osamělý není. Náhle se ocitá mezi přáteli. Smrt sice porazil, ale bez nich by byl stejně ztracený, a to i přesto, že se s jeho tělem něco děje a obdivuhodně rychle se hojí. Ovšem ne vše je zalité sluncem. Za humny doutná válka, kterou bude setsakra těžké když už ne vyhrát, tak alespoň neprohrát.
Drsný vědeckofantastický román z ponuré éry soumraku lidstva, kdy nožů není nikdy dost a kdy nejlepším přítelem člověka už dávno není pes, ale spolehlivá, dobře naolejovaná bouchačka. A protože zbraně jsou nebezpečné hračky, občas ukápne i nějaká ta kapka krve. Tahle vize nedaleké budoucnosti se vám líbit nebude.
A jestli ano, jste divní.
Prince of Swords - Arcana Academy 2
I am terrified. Yet my heart skips a beat. This man might be a monster, but he is my monster.
Clara Graysword is Oricalis's most wanted. Hunted and cornered, not even her mastery of tarot can save her this time . . . until the mysterious Worldkeepers appear. This secretive order may hold the key to changing Clara's fate. If she dares to trust them.
But the most dangerous alliance of all is one she's already deeply ensnared within: Prince Kaelis.
Kaelis, second-born prince of Oricalis and headmaster of Arcana Academy, is the one man she can't escape - maybe she doesn't want to escape. Ruthless, dangerous, and bound to Clara by destiny and desire, Kaelis tests her heart as much as her loyalty. Together, they grow closer to the most powerful secrets of the tarot . . . and to the truths they both hide that could destroy the passion that they no longer deny.
Hidden in plain sight within Arcana Academy, Clara walks the dagger's edge. Revelations about Oricalis threaten everything she thought she knew, and every choice she makes is the difference between salvation and ruin.
To change the world, Clara must risk everything - her power, her beliefs, and her heart.
Moje rodina a jiná nedorozumění
Sbírka, kterou držíte v ruce, představuje konečně úplný soubor všech autorových povídek o rodině Krausových. V Kostelní ulici na Letné žilo po boku tatínka, navrátilce z pekla nacistických koncentráků, a starostlivé maminky jejich pět dětí: nejstarší Ivan, budoucí spisovatel, jeho bratr Michael, Eliška, Kateřina a nejmladší Jan. Mikropříběhy vykreslují absurdity tíživých poválečných let i lidské nedokonalosti výrazných osobností této historií zkoušené rodiny, natěsnané v jednom nevelkém bytě.
Nahoře
Jednoho letního víkendu bouřka odřízne od světa restauraci na vrcholu výletnicky oblíbené hory a uvězní zde různorodou skupinku návštěvníků. Z náhodného setkání vzniká večírek při svíčkách, kde si každý chce užít svou chvíli – a něco po sobě zanechat. Nahoře je svižná, odlehčená novela o potřebě být viděn a dát svému životu nějaký význam, ale také o tom, co vypluje na povrch, když už není kam utéct.
Půlměsíční město 2: Rod nebes a dechu, 3. vydání
Bryce a Hunt se snaží vrátit do normálu. Povedlo se jim zachránit Crescent City, ale protože v poslední době zažili tolik otřesů, chtějí si hlavně odpočinout. Zpomalit. Zjistit, co je čeká v budoucnosti. Asteriové je zatím nechávají na pokoji, ale s rostoucí aktivitou rebelů se svět opět začíná otřásat. Bryce s Huntem tak čeká volba: mlčet, zatímco jsou ostatní utlačováni, nebo bojovat za správnou věc. A zrovna jim dvěma mlčení nikdy moc nešlo.
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