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"England, 1920. Eleanor Swift has spent the last few years travelling the world: taking tea in China, tasting alligators in Peru, escaping bandits in Persia and she has just arrived in England after a chaotic forty-five-day flight from South Africa. Chipstone is about the sleepiest town you could have the misfortune to meet. And to add to these indignities - she's now a Lady. Lady Eleanor, as she would prefer not to be known, reluctantly returns to her uncle's home, Henley Hall. Now Lord Henley is gone, she is the owner of the cold and musty manor. What's a girl to do? Well, befriend the household dog, Gladstone, for a start, and head straight out for a walk in the English countryside, even though a storm is brewing... But then, from the edge of a quarry, through the driving rain, Eleanor is shocked to see a man shot and killed in the distance. Before she can climb down to the spot, the villain is gone and the body has vanished. With no victim and the local police convinced she's stirring up trouble, Eleanor vows to solve this affair by herself. And when her brakes are mysteriously cut, one thing seems sure: someone in this quiet country town has Lady Eleanor Swift in their murderous sights..."--Publisher description

Eine Familie zerrieben zwischen den Fronten, zerrissen durch die Grenze, verbunden durch die Liebe Sommer 1987, in einer Hinterhauswohnung in Prenzlauer Berg: Die achtjährige Ella wohnt mit ihren beiden kleinen Brüdern, den Eltern und Großeltern nah an der Grenze, doch davon bekommt sie wenig mit. Ihr Leben besteht aus orangenen Ziehbadewannen, Sommertagen an der Datsche und Balkonen, die von Häusern fallen. Bis ein Urlaub an der ungarisch-österreichischen Grenze ihrer Kindheit ein jähes Ende setzt und die Familie für immer zerreißt. Zwanzig Jahre später führt das Tagebuch ihrer Mutter Ella zurück nach Berlin. Mithilfe der Notizen und Akten aus dem Stasiarchiv versucht sie zu rekonstruieren, warum die Flucht damals so verheerend gescheitert ist. Und was mit ihrem kleinen Bruder Heiko geschehen ist, den sie in all den Jahren niemals vergessen hat. Schmerzlich schön erzählt Unser geteilter Sommer von Sehnsucht und Verlust und davon, was eine Familie im Kern zusammenhält.

Un oasis que se encoge en el desierto del Sahara; un dron robado del ejército de los Estados Unidos; una isla japonesa deshabitada; y el alijo secreto de venenos químicos mortales de un país. Pauline Green, la primera mujer presidenta de los Estados Unidos, navega por los ataques terroristas, el comercio ilegal de armas y las campañas de difamación de su fanfarrón oponente político con una diplomacia cuidadosa y hábil. Hará todo lo que esté a su alcance para evitar iniciar una guerra innecesaria. Cuando un acto de agresión conduce a otro, los países más poderosos del mundo se ven atrapados en una compleja red de alianzas de las que no pueden escapar. Y una vez que todas las piezas siniestras estén en su lugar, ¿puede alguien, incluso aquellos con las mejores intenciones y la mayoría de las habilidades de élite, detener lo inevitable?

Už je to tady, přinášíme česky doposud nevydané muminí komiksy! Druhý muminí omnibus obsahuje první třetinu patnáctiletého kralování Larse Janssona v úloze tvůrce komiksových stripů. Od roku 1960 předala Tove pochodeň svému bratrovi, aby se mohla věnovat jiným uměleckým projektům. V době svého největšího rozmachu vycházel Muminek ve více než 40 zemích a přibližně ve 120 novinách. Denně jej četlo přes 20 milionů čtenářů, což z něj činí nejúspěšnější finský komiks všech dob. Návdavkem se s vámi Sophia Janssonová, dcera Larse a kreativní ředitelka a předsedkyně představenstva společnosti Moomin Characters, podělí o své vzpomínky na vyrůstání ve světě muminků.

Sebrané muminí spisy patří k povinné zimní i letní výbavě každého komiksového fanouška (o obdivovatelích Tove Janssonové se asi nemusíme vůbec zmiňovat). Vzhledem k tomu, že první vydání je z větší části dávno vyprodané, přinášíme muminí omnibus, který obsahuje všech pět knih, které doposud česky vyšly. Čeká vás opravdická nálož muminích stripů, které vycházely v britských novinách (původně Evening News) mezi lety 1954–1975. Autorka je na zakázku kreslila přímo pro britský trh, ale na samém vrcholu muminí kariéry stripy vycházely ve více než 40 zemích a přebíralo je 120 periodik s celkovým nákladem 20 milionů výtisků denně. České noviny mezi nimi bohužel nebyly ani jedny. Tato kniha obsahuje první polovinu celkového objemu existujících muminích stripů. Druhou, česky doposud nevydanou polovinu, připravujeme v další, stejně objemné knize.

State of Terror is a critically acclaimed, Sunday Times and number one New York Times Bestseller; it is an edge of your seat international political thriller by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny.

The story of a Quaker family and a Jewish family in love and at war during WWII.

The compelling and original debut novel from the Costa Prize-shortlisted author of Confession with Blue Horses. Swimming for his life towards traffickers on the Italian shore, Selim enters a world where Kurdish refugees disguise themselves as tomatoes, dates of birth are a matter of opinion, and a residency permit is a ticket to paradise. When he ends up in a small town in Germany, Selim believes he is finally safe, until the law catches up with him and the clock starts ticking. Selim realises there is only one way to avoid deportation... Fifteen years later, in a town hall in Paris, a Registrar receives an unsettling book: 'The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages' fuels her suspicions surrounding an impending Kurdish wedding. She embarks on an investigation that will bring her uncomfortably close to an old acquaintance. Written with real imaginative flair, heart and humour, The Registrar's Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages introduces an unlikely hero who'll prove impossible to forget, and a prodigious new talent in Sophie Hardach.

Sophie Hardach is here to guide us through the strange and wonderful ways that humans have used languages throughout history. She takes us from the earliest Mesopotamian clay tablets and the 'book cemeteries' of medieval synagogues to the first sounds a child hears in their mother's womb and their incredible capacity for language learning. Along the way, Hardach explores the role of trade in transmitting words across cultures and untangles riddles of hieroglyphics, cuneiform and the ancient scripts of Crete and Cyprus. This is a book about languages, the people who love them and the linguistic threads that connect us all.

EVERYONE'S IN DANGER. ANYONE COULD BE NEXT. An imposing, isolated hotel, high up in the Swiss Alps, is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. But she's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when she receives an invitation out of the blue to celebrate her estranged brother's recent engagement, she has no choice but to accept. Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge. Though it's beautiful, something about the hotel, recently converted from an abandoned sanatorium, makes her nervous - as does her brother, Isaac. And when they wake the following morning to discover his fiancée Laure has vanished without a trace, Elin's unease grows. With the storm cutting off access to and from the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic. But no-one has realized yet that another woman has gone missing. And she's the only one who could have warned them just how much danger they're all in . . .

Zoznámte sa s Bensonovcami. Je to príjemný, milý manželský pár. Nikomu sa nepletú do života, občas prehodia so susedmi pár slov. A majú krásne dievčatko Daisy. Niečo však nesedí. Dcérka žije v podkrovnej izbe bez okien, za zamknutými dverami. Vždy keď jej donesú jedlo či zaželajú dobrú noc, dievčatko stŕpne a radšej váži každé slovo. Daisy nie je ich. Uniesli ju. Prednedávnom ju donútili oslavovať desiate narodeniny. Keď naposledy videla pravých rodičov, mala sedem. Teraz sa Bensonovci rozhodli pre súrodenca... Detektív seržant Nathan Cody sa čoskoro stretne s najtemnejším a najstrašnejším prípadom vo svojej kariére.

Charlotte is looking after her best friend's daughter the day she disappears. She thought the little girl was playing with her own children. She swears she only took her eyes off them for a second. Now, Charlotte must do the unthinkable: tell her best friend Harriet that her only child is missing. The child she was meant to be watching. Devastated, Harriet can no longer bear to see Charlotte. No one could expect her to trust her friend again. Only now she needs to. Because two weeks later Harriet and Charlotte are both being questioned separately by the police. And secrets are about to surface. Someone is hiding the truth about what really happened to Alice

Michael Violet je zdánlivě normální sanfranciský obchodník s auty. Zdání však může klamat – ve skutečnosti to je talentovaný kapsář, který krade klíče od nejluxusnějších aut ve městě. Tenhle kriminální život však Michael tají před svým bratrem Jonem, jenž naopak zasvětil svůj život novinařině a odhalování zločinu. Když je však Jon zavražděn, pokusí se Michael, poháněný pocitem viny a touhou po pomstě, využít svého nadání, aby vypátral bratrova vraha. Jenomže proměna zloděje v hrdinu nebude tak snadná, jak sám doufal…

On February 22, 1862, two days after his death, Willie Lincoln was laid to rest in a marble crypt in a Georgetown cemetery. That very night, shattered by grief, Abraham Lincoln arrives at the cemetery under cover of darkness and visits the crypt, alone, to spend time with his son's body. Willie finds himself in a strange purgatory-- the bardo-- where ghosts commisserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance ... and where a struggle erupts over his soul

'Confirms Harris's undisputed place as our leading master of both the historical and contemporary thriller' Daily Mail There was a time when Cicero held Caesar's life in the palm of his hand. But now Caesar is the dominant figure and Cicero's life is in ruins. Cicero's comeback requires wit, skill and courage. And for a brief and glorious period, the legendary orator is once more the supreme senator in Rome. But politics is never static. And no statesman, however cunning, can safeguard against the ambition and corruption of others. 'The finest fictional treatment of Ancient Rome in the English language' Scotsman

From the New York Times bestselling author of Roses comes "epic storytelling that plunges the reader headfirst" into the fate of heiress Samantha Gordon and ranch hand Nathan Holloway as their lives collide in early 1900s Texas. (Jackie K Cooper, The Huffington Post) Texas in the early 1900s was on the cusp of an oil boom that, unbeknownst to its residents, would spark a period of dramatic changes and economic growth. In the midst of this transformative time in Southern history, two unforgettable characters emerge and find their fates irrevocably intertwined: Samantha Gordon, the privileged heiress to the sprawling Las Tres Lomas cattle ranch near Fort Worth, and Nathan Holloway, a sweet-natured and charming farm boy from far north Texas. As changes sweep the rustic countryside, Samantha and Nathan's connection drives this narrative compulsively forward as they love, lose, and betray. In this grand yet intimate novel, Meacham once again delivers a heartfelt, big-canvas story full of surprising twists and deep emotional resonance.

A tale inspired by the infamous Dreyfus Affair finds recently promoted head of Paris's late-19th-century counterespionage agency Georges Picquart leading the effort to convict Dreyfus only to succumb to gradual doubts that a high-level spy remains at large in the military. By the best-selling author of The Fear Index.

The body of a disgraced college lecturer is found on an abandoned railway line. In the four years since his dismissal for sexual misconduct, he'd been living like a hermit. So where did he get the 5,000 pounds found in his pocket? Leading the investigation, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks begins to suspect that the victim's past may be connected to his death. Forty years ago the dead man attended a university that was a hotbed of militant protest and divisive, bitter politics. And as the seasoned detective well knows, some grudges are never forgotten-or forgiven. Just as he's about to break the case open, his superior warns him to back off. Yet Banks isn't about to stop, even if it means risking his career. He's certain there's more to the mystery than meets the eye . . . and more skeletons to uncover before the case can finally be closed.

I turned to Luke and reached for him. My blood felt as though it had seized up in my veins. Lanny, what is it? Luke asked. I clutched his lapel desperatelyIt's Adair. He's free.FOR 200 YEARS SHE'S BEEN HIDINGHe gave her immortality. She tried to destroy him. Now he is searching for her. They must not meet. Or there will be a RECKONING

Una misión de alto riesgo protagonizada por seis valientes mujeres dan cuerpo a esta nueva y apasionante novela. En ella Ken Follett quiere rendir un homenaje a todas aquellas mujeres que arriesgaron sus vida para realizar peligrosas operaciones como agentes encubiertos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una acción trepidante y unos personajes cautivadores son los principales ingredientes de esa historia destinada a convertirse en un clásico del género bélico.

Every major character in Until I Find You has been marked for life – not only William Burns, a church organist who is addicted to being tattooed, but also William's song, Jack, an actor who is shaped as a child by his relationships with older women. And Jack's mother, Alice – a Toronto tattoo artist – has been permanently damaged by William's rejection of her. This is a novel about the loss of innocence, on many levels.

A Stephen King novel telling of unfair imprisonment and escape.

Desde la publicación de Los pilares de la Tierra en 1989 millones de lectores de Ken Follett a lo largo de todo el mundo han esperado ansiosamente este libro. Un mundo sin fin está ambientado en la misma ciudad de Kingsbridge, dos siglos después de la construcción de su majestuoso templo gótico. La catedral y el priorato vuelven a formar la base de esta magnífica historia de amor y de odio, de ambición y de venganza, con el fondo amenazador de la Peste Negra que aniquiló a la mitad de la población europea. Intriga, asesinatos, hambruna, plagas y guerras. Un retrato admirable del mundo medieval y una novela extraordinaria que aporta una nueva dimensión a la ficción histórica.

Enveloped in the dark inner kingdom of her schizophrenia, sixteen-year-old Deborah is haunted by private tormentors that isolate her from the outside world. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a mental hospital where she will spend the next three years battling to regain her sanity with the help of a gifted psychiatrist. As Deborah struggles toward the possibility of the “normal” life she and her family hope for, the reader is inexorably drawn into her private suffering and deep determination to confront her demons. A modern classic, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden remains every bit as poignant, gripping, and relevant today as when it was first published.

Esta es la historia de mis abuelos y de los vuestros, de nuestros padres y de nuestras propias vidas. De alguna forma es la historia de todos nosotros...KEN FOLLETT..Tras el éxito de Los pilares de la Tierra y Un mundo sin fin , Ken Follett presenta esta gran novela épica que narra la historia de cinco familias durante los años turbulentos de la Primera Guerra Mundial, la Revolución rusa y la lucha de hombres y mujeres por sus derechos...«Alta política y bajas pasiones (y viceversa) conforman un folletín de grandes dimensiones que confirma a Follett como relojero mayor del reino del best seller.».Qué Leer..«Ken Follett no es un escritor, sino un fenómeno social.».El Cultural, El Mundo.

Ésta es la novela más intensa y ambiciosa que se ha escrito sobre la guerra del Golfo. Con su indiscutible autoridad en temas militares y de alto espionaje, Forsyth nos lleva desde la planificación estratégica de Saddam Hussein hasta las arriesgadas misiones de comandos especiales tras las líneas iraquíes. La historia gira en torno a una terrible arma secreta que obra en poder del ejército iraquí y cuyo uso puede deparar una estrepitosa derrota de las fuerzas aliadas. Sólo hay una manera de evitar el peligro que se cierne sobre Occidente: infiltrar un agente en la propia Bagdad con una misión suicida... El puño de Dios narra en clave de ficción los pormenores de un conflicto bélico que conmovió el mundo y constituye una de las mejores novelas de Forsyth, maestro de narradores.

Sf thriller exploring our greatest journey and our greatest mystery -- death itself -- from the winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards. Psychologist Dr Joanna Lander has spent two years at Mercy General Hospital studying patients who have been declared clinically dead but then revived. Many have had near-death experiences, NDEs, which are remarkably similar the world over. Then brilliant young neurologist Richard Wright discovers a way to induce an NDE using psychoactive drugs. He's convinced that NDEs are a survival mechanism, and that through them more patients might be brought back from the edge of death. Patients like Joanna's young friend Masie, who is almost certain to die before she gets the heart transplant she desperately needs. So when Joanna realizes that Richard's project is under threat due to a shortage of suitable subjects, she volunteers to take the dangerous journey to the limits of knowledge herself. Immediately fascinated by her simulated near-death experiences, Joanna becomes increasingly desperate to discover the meaning behind the strangely familiar images and feelings she encounters. As she begins to unravel the mystery, her sense of dread grows. Becau

Un hombre se despierta aterrorizado: sufre una especie de resaca y no tiene la menor idea ni de quién es ni de cómo ha llegado hasta estos inmundos baños públicos. Cuando encuentra un periódico descubre que es el 29 de enero de 1958, y la noticia del día es el tercer intento de lanzar el Explorer, el primer satélite espacial estadounidense. Si el lanzamiento resulta fallido una vez más, la URSS dominará la carrera espacial en el futuro inmediato. Luke se pone en marcha para averiguar su identidad, y comprende que su difícil situación tiene mucho que ver con las relaciones que trabó años atrás en la Universidad de Harvard, donde formó parte de un grupo de dos hombres y dos mujeres, unidos sentimentalmente entre sí pero situados sin saberlo en bandos opuestos del teatro político de la guerra fría.

In 1944, Magda Denes was ten years old and living in Budapest. Squeezed into a tiny two-room apartment with her mother, adored brother Ivan, grandparents, aunt and cousin Erwin, the family were learning to adapt to the brutal regime of the occupying German forces. As rumours filtered through about concentration camps and mass deportations, Hungarian Jews found their lives more and more desperate. Starving, terrified, indiscriminately murdered, tortured and abused, they were now barricaded in underground ghettos. They formed militant resistance groups that went out by night to fight the Germans. Ivan and Erwin, both resistance fighters, were shot. Magda's grandfather died of starvation. The depleted family escaped from Budapest and with great difficulty made their way to Spain, via France, and then by boat to America, and a new life.

A penetrating new novel about the burden of celebrity and the making of American myths and heroes by one of America's bestselling writers 'Updike is one of the very few people who are among Oates's peers' - TLS

Historický román o dramatickém životním osudu starořeckého básníka Simónída se odehrává v bouřlivé době plné válek, v 6. století př.n.l. Simónídes byl významným básníkem antického Řecka v 6. stol. před Kristem. V románě je vylíčena jeho životní pouť od narození ve městě Iúlis až do sklonku života v Syrakúsách. Básník, jehož nevzhledná tvář ostře kontrastovala s krásou jeho veršů, žil v době plné válek, intrik a zvratů; to se odráželo i na jeho osobních vzestupech a pádech. Autorka umně skloubila historická fakta s fantazií a podařilo se jí přiblížit čtenářům antický svět velkých tyranů i velkých básníků. A také připomenout, že Simónides je autorem epitafu "Poutníče, zvěstuj Lakedaimonským...", který byl určen Sparťanům padlým u Thermopyl.... celý text

Estamos en 1935. Judith Dunbar, una chica de catorce años, es acogida por una familia muy especial que marcará significativamente su adolescencia. La suntuosa casa de campo que los Carey-Lewis poseen en Cornualles, idílica región del sudoeste de Inglaterra, se convierte en su segundo hogar. Sin embargo, turbada por el despertar de su propia sexualidad y tras una frustrante relación amorosa con Edward, el hijo mayor de la familia, Judith decide hacerse dueña de su propio destino. Lejos de allí, los vientos de guerra que se ciernen sobre Europa se desatan repentinamente. Judith está dispuesta a colaborar en la lucha contra el nazismo, lucha que le toca muy de cerca. Su padre cae prisionero de los japoneses, su madre desaparece. Edward es arrestado por los acontecimientos... La vida de Judith parece hundirse en un infierno de locura y barbarie. Pero en medio del caos, surgirá alguien que siempre ha estado a su lado, aunque ella no lo supiera.

Je to vyprávění o vytrvalých pokusech matky najít vhodného ženicha pro svou dceru a o neúnavných protestech dcery provdat se bez lásky jenom proto, aby se podrobila tradici a přemrštěným požadavkům své matky. Román líčí soukromý i veřejný život čtyř široce rozvětvených rodin, ale přináší také panoramatický obraz Indie krátce po získání nezávislosti, obraz plný nadějí a zklamání, naivity a intrik, politiky a poezie, okořeněný i přítomností českého živlu v tropickém prostředí vzdáleného světa. V duchu tradice G. Eliotové a L. Tolstého napsal Vikram Séth román, který lze bez nadsázky nazvat úplným obrazem lidského života. Velkolepý, vážný i veselý je tento jedinečný příběh, jenž pojednává o odvěkém zázraku - spojení dvou úplně cizích lidí na celý život.... a zcela čtenáře pohltí.

Jádrem románu Vikrama Sétha je příběh lásky - nebo výstižněji - vyprávění o vytrvalých pokusech matky najít vhodného ženicha pro svou dceru a o neúnavných protestech dcery provdat se bez lásky jenom proto, aby se podrobila tradici a přemrštěným požadavkům své matky. Román líčí soukromý i veřejný život členů čtyř široce rozvětvených rodin, ale přináší také panoramatický obraz Indie krátce po získání nezávislosti, obraz plný nadějí a zklamání, naivity a intrik, politiky a poezie, okořeněný i přítomností českého živlu v tropickém prostředí vzdáleného světa. V duchu tradice George Eliotové a Lva Tolstého napsal Vikram Séth román, který lze bez nadsázky nazvat úplným obrazem lidského života. Velkolepý, vážný i veselý je tento jedinečný příběh, jenž pojednává o odvěkém zázraku - spojení dvou úplně cizích lidí na celý život… a zcela čtenáře pohltí. (Vydavatel)

Agnostic theologian Bernard Walsh has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his father, Jack, it is not in quest of a vacation paradise; it is to visit Jack’s dying, estranged sister. The hand of fate and family tensions frustrate the planned reunion, however. And surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, girls looking for Mr Right, a freeloading anthropologist, and assorted tourists all determinedly pursuing their humdrum visions of paradise, Bernard finds Waikiki more like purgatory. Until, that is, he stumbles upon something he had given up hope of finding – the astonishing possibility of love…

John and Laura are on holiday in Venice, but it is a dangerous place for them as they are being followed by two old sisters and there is a killer on the loose.

Captain Ann Campbell is a West Point graduate, the daughter of legendary General "Fighting Joe" Campbell. She is the pride of Fort Hadley until, one morning, her body is found, naked and bound, on the firing range. Paul Brenner is a member of the Army's elite undercover investigative unit and the man in charge of this politically explosive case. Teamed with rape specialist Cynthia Sunhill, with whom he once had a tempestuous, doomed affair, Brenner is about to learn just how many people were sexually, emotionally, and dangerously involved with the Army's "golden girl." And how the neatly pressed uniforms and honor codes of the military hide a corruption as rank as Ann Campbell's shocking secret life.

Bol raz jeden bernandín, a ten mal všetko, čo si len zaželal. Mal kde bývať, mal sa s kým hrať a každý deň ho čakali nové dobrodružstvá... A potom stretol Missy! Missy je krásna bernardínka, ktorá si získala Beethovenovo srdce. Zamilovaných psov však čakajú na ceste k šťastiu veľké prekážky. Podarí sa Beethovenovi vyslobodiť Missy z rúk chamtivých zloduchov a zachrániť svoje šteniatka?