První díl Gilbertova třídílného příběhu dějin století popisuje jeho prvních třiatřicet let, končí zvolením Roosevelta prezidentem Spojených států a nástupem Adolfa Hitlera do úřadu německého kancléře. Málokdo se vyrovná Gilbertovi v jeho mimořádné schopnosti přinést složité a podrobné faktické údaje v živém a přesvědčivém vyprávění. S lehkostí se pohybuje z kontinentu na kontinent a z jedné země do druhé, aby čtenářům přiblížil dramatické události, zápasy a úspěchy století. Nezabývá se však pouze válkami, revolucemi a politickými zvraty.
Mnoho překvapivých poznatků a nepřeberné množství informací vás přenese do doby, kdy Vikingové vládli mořím.
Déle než dvě století byli Vikingové na vrcholu svého rozmachu a slavili největší úspěchy. Tehdy se celá Evropa chvěla hrůzou před jejich děsivými nájezdy. Tato bohatě ilustrovaná a vzrušující interaktivní kniha vysvětluje, proč tomu tak bylo. Vykresluje všechny stránky historie a kultury Vikingů, od poměrně neznámých legend a mýtů až po objevné cesty a výboje i náhodné a neuvěřitelné objevení Ameriky pět set let před Kolumbem.
Provides a rapid short survey, with a geographical introduction, of the whole course of Ireland's history. This revised and enlarged version brings the narrative to the end of 1992, and the illustrations have been correspondingly augmented. It is updated to the Maastricht Treaty.
The Magnificent Conclusion to the Timeless Epic Saga Through years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Miraculously reunited in America, they now have a beautiful son, Anthony, the gift of a love strong enough to survive the most terrible upheavals. Though they are still young, the ordeals they endured have changed them—and after living apart in a world laid waste, they must now find a way to live together in postwar America. With the Cold War rising, dark forces at work in their adopted country threaten their lives, their family, and their hard-won peace. To regain the happiness they once knew, to wash away the lingering pain of the past, two lovers grown distant must somehow forge a new life . . .or watch the ghosts of their yesterdays destroy their firstborn son. The Summer Garden . . . their odyssey is just beginning.
The Magnificent Conclusion to the Timeless Epic SagaThrough years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Miraculously reunited in America, they now have a beautiful son, Anthony, the gift of a love strong enough to survive the most terrible upheavals. Though they are still young, the ordeals they endured have changed them--and after living apart in a world laid waste, they must now find a way to live together in postwar America.With the Cold War rising, dark forces at work in their adopted country threaten their lives, their family, and their hard-won peace. To regain the happiness they once knew, to wash away the lingering pain of the past, two lovers grown distant must somehow forge a new life . . .or watch the ghosts of their yesterdays destroy their firstborn son.The Summer Garden . . . their odyssey is just beginning.
A disinherited English baron and a young New York heiress marry and move West to build an agricultural empire in Palm Springs in the 1920s when it was just a budding town on the edge of the Mojave Desert. This is also the story of a woman finding her own personality and strength in the West against a breathtaking desert landscape that changes constantly and shows its deadly side in poisonous snakes, flash floods and sand storms, with dramatic moments of forbidden romance, reversals, treachery, betrayal and, ultimately, triumphs.
Krv nie je voda... Naozaj je to také jednoduché?
Keď Pete Riley jedného rána otvorí dvere, netuší, že naňho čaká rodičovská nočná mora.
Na prahu stojí neznámy muž, ktorý tvrdí, že Petov dvojročný syn Theo je v skutočnosti jeho. K nešťastnej zámene došlo podľa Milesa Lamberta v nemocnici, kde v ten istý deň porodila jeho žena Lucy aj Petova partnerka Maddie. Oba páry sú v šoku, no snažia sa nájsť cestu, ako prepojiť svoje rozdielne životy a stať sa trochu nekonvenčnou modernou rodinou. Až žaloba podaná na nemocnicu spustí oficiálne vyšetrovanie, ktoré vedie k prekvapivým odhaleniam. Ako veľmi môže jedna rodina veriť druhej? Alebo dokonca jeden partner druhému? Pete a Maddie sú odhodlaní urobiť pre ochranu svojho dieťaťa, čo bude treba. Aj nehrať podľa pravidiel.
An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Dear Luke, First let me say--I love you...I didn't want to leave you... Luke Richardson has returned home after burying Natalie, his beloved wife of sixteen years, ready to face the hard job of raising their three children alone. But there's something he's not prepared for--a blue envelope with his name scrawled across the front in Natalie's handwriting, waiting for him on the floor of their suburban Michigan home. The letter inside, written on the first day of Natalie's cancer treatment a year ago, turns out to be the first of many. Luke is convinced they're genuine, but who is delivering them? As his obsession with the letters grows, Luke uncovers long-buried secrets that make him question everything he knew about his wife and their family. But the revelations also point the way toward a future where love goes on--in written words, in memories, and in the promises it's never too late to keep.
Štyridsaťročná profesorka francúzskej literatúry Caroline Cashionová začne mať bolesti v zápästí. Na lekárskom vyšetrení zistia, že ich príčinou je náboj, ktorý má v oblasti krčných stavcov. Caroline vôbec netuší, ako sa tam ocitol. Požiada rodičov o vysvetlenie, no s prekvapením zistí, že je adoptovaná a jej biologických rodičov v Atlante zastrelili, keď bola ešte dieťa. Aj ju vtedy postrelili, ale prežila. Páchateľa nikdy nechytili.
Šokovaná Caroline sa rozhodne pátrať po svojich koreňoch, snaží sa zistiť podrobnosti spojené s týmto prípadom. Vyhľadá novinára, ktorý kedysi o vražde jej rodičov písal. Ten jej navrhne, že s ňou urobí rozhovor, čo by mohlo vyvolať záujem verejnosti a pomôcť jej odhaliť pravdu. Zrazu sa však z temnej minulosti vynára čoraz viac postáv, ktoré o prípade niečo vedia. Caroline pátra po vrahovi ďalej na vlastnú päsť, lebo chce stoj čo stoj zistiť, čo sa vlastne stalo a prečo. Lenže aj vrah číta noviny...
Psychotriler Náboj sa vám dostane pod kožu, ovládne vašu myseľ i fantáziu a donúti vás rozmýšľať nad mnohými nezvyčajnými vecami.
"Amsterdam, May 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labour camp or - for a chance at survival - to join the camp brothel. On the other side of the barbed wire, SS officer Karl Muller arrives at the camp hoping to live up to his father's expectations of wartime glory. But faced with a brutal routine of overseeing executions and punishments, he longs for an escape. When he encounters the newly arrived Marijke, this meeting changes their lives forever. Woven into the narrative across space and time is Luciano Wagner's ordeal in 1977 Buenos Aires, during the heat of the Argentine Dirty War. In his struggle to endure military captivity, he searches for ways to resist from a prison cell he may never leave. From the Netherlands to Germany to Argentina, The Dutch Wife braids together the stories of three individuals who share a dark secret and are entangled in two of the most oppressive reigns of terror in modern history. This is a novel about the blurred lines between love and lust, abuse and resistance, and right and wrong, as well as the capacity for ordinary people to persevere and do the unthinkable in extraordinary circumstances"--Provided by publisher
