Josephine Ruitenberg Poradie kníh

A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain Acclaimed as one of the best books of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Time, and Amazon, and named a Top 10 Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Young Mungo is a brilliantly constructed and deeply moving story of queer love and working-class families by the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain. Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--and they should be sworn enemies. Yet against all odds, they fall in love as they find sanctuary and dream of escape in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. But when Mungo's mother sends him on a fishing trip to a remote loch with two strange men, he will need all his strength and courage to find his way back to a place where he and James might still have a future.

The lives of four generations in one family of wealthy German Jews, through both World War I and World War II.

Een Zuster van de Duisternis neemt Richard Cypher gevangen en voert hem diep de Oude Wereld in, naar het hart van de Imperiale Orde. Zijn geliefde Kahlan blijft achter. Zij is vrij omdat Richard zich in zijn wanhoop heeft opgeofferd, maar ze legt zich er niet bij neer. Ze ontkracht de profetie en verbreekt haar laatste gelofte aan Richard door een leger op de been te brengen dat de oprukkende strijdmacht van de Imperiale Orde tot staan zal moeten brengen. Lukt dat niet, dan is het met de vrijheid van de mens voorgoed gedaan.

V neprístupných končinách Arktídy objaví satelit NASA pod hrubou vrstvou ľadu unikátny nález – tristo rokov starý meteorit so stopami fosílií. Je to naozaj dôkaz existencie mimozemského života? Úradujúci prezident Zach Herney povolá štyroch vynikajúcich vedcov, aby potvrdili pravosť nálezu a vyslobodili ho z ľadového zovretia na ďalší výskum. Nejde len o prevratný vedecký dôkaz, ale v predvolebnom období aj o body na strane úradujúceho prezidenta. Opozičný kandidát senátor Saxon totiž postavil svoju kampaň práve na kritike drahého vesmírneho výskumu, ktorý neprináša nijaké výsledky. Tímu odborníkov za polárnym kruhom a Rachel, dcére senátora Saxona a spravodajskej dôstojníčke Bieleho domu, odrazu ide o život. Nečakane sa ocitnú uprostred nebezpečnej hry najvyšších vojenských a politických kruhov Ameriky.

At thirty-five, Mary Frazier Armstrong, called "Frazier" by friends and enemies alike, is a sophisticated woman with a thriving art gallery, a healthy bank balance, and an enviable social position. In fact, she has everything to live for, but she's lying in a hospital bed with a morphine drip in her arm and a life expectancy measured in hours. "Don't die a stranger," her assistant says on her last hospital visit. "Tell the people you love who you are." And so, as her last act on earth, Frazier writes letters to her closest family and friends, telling them exactly what she thinks of them and, since she will be dead by the time they receive the letters, the truth about herself: she's gay. The letters are sent. Then the manure hits the fan in Charlottesville, Virginia, because the funny thing is, Frazier Armstrong isn't going to die after all.