Matteo Colombo Knihy

The hero-narrator is a sixteen-year-old native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. After leaving his prep school in Pennsylvania, he spends three days navigating New York City. Holden is both simple and complex, making it difficult to draw definitive conclusions about him or his experiences. He is deeply drawn to beauty, almost to the point of being trapped by it. The novel features various voices—children's, adults', and underground—but Holden's voice stands out as the most powerful. His expression transcends his own vernacular while remaining true to it, delivering a poignant mix of pain and pleasure. Like many artistic souls, he internalizes much of his pain, choosing to share his joy with others. This emotional complexity is available for readers who can appreciate it. J.D. Salinger's classic tale of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951 and has been recognized as one of the best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has faced challenges for its candid language and themes of sexuality, becoming a must-read for many teenage boys in the 1950s and 60s.

*A collection of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the No. 1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favorite Humorist. číst celé

Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. The author reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs.

Medical school dropout and former sex addict Victor Mancini comes up a scam to pay for his mother's Ahzheimer care by pretending to be choking in a restaurant and coning the individuals who "save" him into giving him money

A collection of short stories that twist and inspire the imagination.

Takes the form of a 'coma diary' kept by one Misty Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in hospital after a suicide attempt. Once, she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at art school and being brought back to Waytansea Island, she's been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid.

Al Franken, one of America's savviest satirists has been studying the rhetoric of the Right. He has listened to their cries of 'slander', 'bias' and even 'treason'. He has examined the Bush administration's policies of squandering our surplus, ravaging the environment, and alienating the rest of the world. He's even watched Fox News. A lot. And in this fair and balanced report, Al bravely exposes them all for what they are: liars. Lying, lying, liars.

Haunted is a novel made up of twenty-three horrifying, hilarious, and stomach-churning stories. They’re told by people who have answered an ad for a writer’s retreat and unwittingly joined a “Survivor”-like scenario where the host withholds heat, power, and food. As the storytellers grow more desperate, their tales become more extreme, and they ruthlessly plot to make themselves the hero of the reality show that will surely be made from their plight. This is one of the most disturbing and outrageous books you’ll ever read, one that could only come from the mind of Chuck Palahniuk.

As thirteen-year-old Madison tries to figure out how she died and ended up in Hell, she learns how to manipulate the corrupt system of demons and bodily fluids.

As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there--longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, a pair of semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart--half tavern, half temple--stands Brokeland. When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complications to the couples' already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen-year-old Julius Jaffe's life.

Kniha je humornou, ironickou a čiernou výpravou americkými dejinami a súčasnou politikou. Autor kritizuje všetky americké vlády ako populistické a klamárske, pričom sám sa dopúšťa niektorých skreslení a neprofesionálnych dedukcií. Napriek tomu ponúka zaujímavý pohľad na americkú politiku a odhaľuje mnohé úvahy a údaje bez zastierania ich pozadia. Michael Moore hodnotí nové storočie a lobistickú skupinu hlúpych bielych mužov, pričom kniha slúži ako jeho manifest o trestných činoch a priemernosti. Vyzýva OSN, aby zvrhla Bushovcov, a žiada Afroameričanov, aby nad nepriateľskými obchodmi zavesili tabule LEN BELOSI. Jeho ostrá kritika prezidenta Georgea W. Busha, ktorého označuje za zlodeja a uzurpátora, je prepojená s jeho názorom na americkú politickú scénu. Bill Clinton je označený za jedného z najlepších republikánskych prezidentov, pričom Moore poukazuje na to, že Američania sa v deväťdesiatych rokoch zaujímali len o povrchné škandály. Kritizuje korporácie, ktoré ovládajú krajinu a bránia chudobným v prístupe k bohatstvu. Podľa prieskumov je 60 percent Američanov nespokojných so svojou vlasťou, kde vládnu peniaze a nečestné súdy. Ak vás zaujíma, čo trápi Ameriku, táto kniha je pre vás.

From the master of literary mayhem and provocation, a novel about a porn queen's attempt to break the world's record for consecutive acts of sexual intercourse on film - or die trying.

"Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67 on arrival midwestern American airport greater _____ area. Flight _____. Date _____. Priority mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc." Thus speaks Pygmy, one of a handful of young adults from a totalitarian state sent to the United States, disguised as exchange students, to live with typical American families and blend in, all the while planning an unspecified act of massive terrorism. Palahniuk depicts Midwestern life through the eyes of this thoroughly indoctrinated little killer, who hates Americans with a passion, in this cunning double-edged satire of a xenophobia that might, in fact, be completely justified. "From the Hardcover edition."