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Olga Bártová

    The Last Checkmate
    A Darkling Plain
    Eleanor Oliphant está perfectamente
    Wreck this journal : now in color
    Educated
    Česká architektura 1999-2002
    • Ptáček tisíce příběhů

      • 344 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      Osud bájného ptáka rozhodne o budoucnosti světa Marjan Dastáníová úspěšně vede dvojí život. Jen málokdo ví, že když zrovna není ve škole, cestuje a stará se o bájná zvířata. Na mise ji vysílá tajuplná rodinná organizace, která chce tvory prodat a ještě více tak zbohatnout. V dobrodružství, které ji zavede napříč kontinenty a spojí ji s těmi nejdivočejšími bájnými zvířaty, musí vypátrat Ptáčka tisíce příběhů dřív, než ho najde někdo s nekalými úmysly. Čím blíž však má k mytickým tvorům, tím větší hrozí nebezpečí, že přijde o přátelství – a vše, co ji poutá k životu, který znala.

      Ptáček tisíce příběhů2025
    • Unesená

      • 328 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Autobiografie dívky, kterou rodiče nechali unést a poslali na drsnou převýchovu. Patnáctiletá Elizabeth je vzorná žačka a skvělá sportovkyně, ale jednoduché to s ní není – chodí tajně ven, často se opíjí a trpí silnými výbuchy vzteku. Rodiče s ní jednoho dne ztratí trpělivost a rozhodnou se pro převýchovu. Elizabeth je s jejich vědomím unesena do divočiny, kde v drsných podmínkách stráví s dalšími „problémovými“ dívkami tři měsíce. Další rok prožije v uzavřené internátní škole, jejíž program připomíná spíš sektu. Teprve o mnoho let později dokáže vyprávět svůj traumatizující příběh

      Unesená2024
      3,4
    • Captured by the Gestapo, Maria is imprisoned in Auschwitz while her family is sent to their deaths. Realizing her ability to play chess, the sadistic camp deputy, Fritzsch, intends to use her as a chess opponent to entertain the camp guards. Literally playing for her life through four grueling years, Maria intends to orchestrate Fritzsch's downfall. Maria, vowing to avenge the murder of her family, challenges her former nemesis to one final game, certain to end in life or death, in failure or justice. Print run 30,000

      The Last Checkmate2023
      4,2
    • Eleanor Oliphant está perfectamente

      • 320 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Eleanor Oliphant siempre dice lo que piensa. Lucha por dejar de ser alguien con pocas habilidades sociales. Se ha preparado un calendario vital cuidadoso y estricto para evitar interacciones sociales: los fines de semana los pasa sola comiendo pizza congelada y bebiendo vodka y todos los miércoles habla con su madre. Pero todo cambia cuando Eleanor conoce a Raymond, el informático de la oficina. Juntos abandonarán la soledad en la que han estado viviendo. Una novela cálida y elegante. La historia de una heroína fuera de lo común, cuya inexplicable rareza e ingenio descarado la llevará a darse cuenta de que la única manera de sobrevivir en el mundo real es abriendo su corazón a la amistad.

      Eleanor Oliphant está perfectamente2022
      4,2
    • The Topeka School

      • 304 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting "lost boys" to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. He is one of the cool kids, ready to fight or, better, freestyle about fighting if it keeps his peers from thinking of him as weak. Adam is also one of the seniors who bring the loner Darren Eberheart--who is, unbeknownst to Adam, his fathers' patient--into the social scene, to disastrous effect. Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is the story of one family's struggles and strengths: Jane's reckoning with the legacy of an abusive father, Jonathan's marital transgressions, the challenge of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity. It is also a riveting prehistory of the present: the collapse of public speech, the trolls and tyrants of the New Right, and the ongoing crisis of identity among white men

      The Topeka School2022
      3,5
    • The Book of Dirt

      • 320 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, Jakub Rand is forced to sort through Jewish books for a so-called Museum of the Extinct Race. Hidden among the rare texts is a tattered prayer book, hollow inside, containing a small pile of dirt. Meanwhile Frantiska Roubickova contemplates her failed marriage, despairing of her conversion to Judaism. When the Nazis summon her two eldest daughters for transport, she must sacrifice everything to save them. Decades later, Bram Presser embarks on a quest to find the truth behind the stories his family built around these remarkable survivors.

      The Book of Dirt2022
      3,9
    • A Darkling Plain

      • 568 páginas
      • 20 horas de lectura

      Wren and her father are Tom traveling the Bird Roads in their airship, trying to forget that Hester has betrayed them. In the ruined wreckage of the city of London they make a discovery that will change the world. The fourth instalment of Reeve's critically acclaimed MORTAL ENGINES quartet.

      A Darkling Plain2020
      4,2
    • Educated

      • 400 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Born to survivalists in Idaho, Tara Westover didn't go to school. As she grew older, her father became more radical and her brother more violent. At sixteen, Tara knew she had to leave home. In doing so she discovered both the transformative power of education, and the price she had to pay for it.

      Educated2020
      4,5
    • The Mars Room

      • 352 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      Romy Hall is starting two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. Her crime ? The killing of her stalker. Inside awaits a world where women must hustle and fight for the bare essentials. Outside : the San Francisco of her youth. The Mars Room strip club where she was once a dancer. Her seven-year-old son, Jackson. As Romy forms friendships over liquor brewed in socks and stories shared through sewage pipes her future seems to unfurl in one long, unwavering line - until news from beyond the prison bars forces Romy to try and outrun her destiny.

      The Mars Room2020
      3,4