Gerda Baardman Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Set against a backdrop of urgency and transformation, this narrative explores the pivotal moments that define our lives. Characters navigate through intense experiences that challenge their beliefs and relationships, revealing the profound impact of choices made in fleeting moments. Themes of resilience, connection, and self-discovery are woven throughout, inviting readers to reflect on their own life-changing instants. The story is a powerful reminder of how quickly life can shift and the importance of seizing the moment.

Sam a Sadie sa priatelia už od detstva. Často sú do seba zamilovaní, no nikdy medzi nimi nič viac ako kamarátstvo nebolo. Nadviažu kreatívne partnerstvo v okúzľujúcej, ale komplikovanej oblasti videoherného dizajnu, a úspech im prinesie slávu, radosť, tragédiu, pokrytectvo a hlavne akýsi druh nesmrteľnosti. Príbeh o láske, aký ste ešte nečítali.Sam Masur, prvák na Harvardovej univerzite, jedného chladného decembrového dňa vystúpi z metra a na stanici v dave čakajúcich ľudí zbadá Sadie Greenovú. Zavolá na ňu. Sadie chvíľu predstiera, že ho nepočuje, no napokon sa otočí a začne sa hra, v ktorej ich legendárna spolupráca vystrelí do herného neba.Blízki priatelia z detstva si požičajú peniaze a za pomoci mnohých ľudí ešte pred skončením štúdia vytvoria svoj prvý kasový trhák, hru Ichigo. Zo dňa na deň im svet začne ležať pri nohách. Skôr než dovŕšia dvadsaťpäť rokov, sú Sam so Sadie geniálni, úspešní a bohatí, no to ich neochráni pred vlastnými kreatívnymi ambíciami či zradou pre vlastné záujmy.Príbeh pokrývajúci obdobie tridsiatich rokov, v ktorom sa presúvame z Cambridgeu v Massachusetts až do Venice Beach v Kalifornii, je chvíľami až za hranicami možného. Tento príbeh skúma rozmanitú podstatu identity, znevýhodnenia, zlyhania, možností vykúpenia v hrách, ale predovšetkým našu potrebu niekam patriť: milovať a byť milovaný.

The White Rock stands, ancient and sacred, off the Pacific coast of Mexico. Four people, across four centuries, each navigating ruptures to the world they know, are irresistibly drawn to it. 2020: A British writer travels with her husband to give thanks for the birth of their child. 1969: An American rock star runs from the law in the final act of his self-destruction.1907: A Yoeme girl is torn from her homeland and taken by force to the coast.1775: A Spanish naval officer prepares to set sail to continue the conquest of the Pacific coast.

<i>Verwachting</i> is de bejubelde roman van Anna Hope, die dit jaar op vele shortlists zal prijken. Voor fans van Zadie Smith, Sheila Heti en Sally Rooney. Hannah, Cate en Lissa zijn jong, ambitieus en onafscheidelijk. Samen wonen ze in een huis in Oost-Londen. Hun dagen zijn gevuld met kunst en activisme en staan bol van liefde en uitgelatenheid. Ze hebben nog hun hele leven voor zich. Tien jaar later is alles anders. Hannah is tevreden met haar leven en met Nathan, maar heeft een allesverzengende kinderwens. Cate is naar Canterbury verhuisd na de geboorte van haar zoon en voelt dat ze zichzelf kwijtraakt. Lissa staat op het punt om door te breken als actrice, maar privé gaat het slecht. Alle drie worstelen ze met dezelfde vraag: wat is een zinvol leven, en hoe bereik je dat? <i>Verwachting</i> is hartverscheurend en opbeurend tegelijk en gaat over je weg vinden in het leven: als moeder, als dochter, als echtgenote, en als goed mens.

When the world's largest search engine / social media company merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous-and, oddly enough, most beloved-monopoly ever known- The Every. Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind- to take down the company from within. With her compatriot, the not-at-all-ambitious Wes Kavakian, they look for the company's weaknesses, hoping to free humanity from all-encompassing surveillance and the emoji-driven infantilization of the species. But does anyone want what Delaney is fighting to save? Does humanity truly want to be free? Studded with unforgettable characters and lacerating set-pieces, The Every blends satire and terror, while keeping the reader in breathless suspense about the fate of the company - and the human animal.

Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish emigre living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns up at the door of a spy chief in London warning him of a dangerous leak, the investigations lead him to this quiet town by the sea . . . Silverview is the mesmerising story of an encounter between innocence and experience and between public duty and private morals. In this last complete masterwork from the greatest chronicler of our age, John le Carre asks what you owe to your country when you no longer recognise it.

'A sublime reading experience- delicate, restrained, surpassingly intelligent, uncommonly poised and truly beautiful' Zadie Smith **WINNER OF THE BETTY TRASK AWARD 2020** Midhat Kamal - dreamer, romantic, aesthete - leaves Palestine in 1914 to study medicine in France, under the tutelage of Dr Molineu. He falls deeply in love with Jeannette, the doctor's daughter. But Midhat soon discovers that everything is fragile- love turns to loss, friends become enemies and everyone is looking for a place to belong. Through Midhat's eyes we see the tangled politics and personal tragedies of a turbulent era - the Palestinian struggle for independence, the strife of the early twentieth century, and the looming shadow of the Second World War. Lush and immersive, and devastating in its power, The Parisian is an elegant, richly-imagined debut from a dazzling new voice in fiction. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2020* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD FICTION AWARD 2019*

Roadnovel over een 18-jarige jongen die samen met een vriend en een vriendin in een auto Amerika doorkruist, op zoek naar zijn onbekende vader.

Literárny fenomén dekády! Jeden z najoceňovanejších románov súčasnosti. Jeden z najoceňovanejších románov súčasnosti. Víťaz Costa Novel Award za najlepší román roka 2018, nominácia na Man Bookerovu cenu za rok 2018 a množstvo ďalších cien. Connell a Marianne pochádzajú z jedného malého mestečka na západe Írska, no zdá sa, že tam sa podobnosť medzi nimi končí. Connell je v škole obľúbený, zatiaľ čo Marianne je samotárka. Marianne je z bohatej rodiny, Connel vyrastal bez otca a jeho matka je upratovačka. Keď však jedného dňa nadviažu rozhovor – síce trápny, no strhujúci – spustia lavínu, ktorá navždy zmení ich životy. Normálni ľudia sú príbehom o neprekonateľnej fascinácii, priateľstve a láske. O ľuďoch, ktorých vzájomná príťažlivosť a zároveň neznesiteľná vzdialenosť dovádzajú k poznaniu, že nemôžu byť spolu ani jeden bez druhého. Podáva svedectvo o tom, aké ťažké je zmeniť sa, stať sa tým, čo považujeme za „normálne“. A s dojímavou nehou odkrýva, ako nás život učí manévrovať v priestore medzi sexom a mocou, tendenciou zraňovať a byť zraňovaný, túžbou milovať a byť milovaný.

A stunning new collection of short stories from the winner of the Women&#39;s Prize for Fiction.

Novinár a spisovateľ Michael Wolff vďaka dobrým vzťahom s Trumpovým kabinetom prináša kuloárne informácie z pracovne najkontroverznejšieho prezidenta všetkých čias. Prvých deväť mesiacov volebného obdobia Donalda Trumpa sa nieslo v znamení búrlivých, šokujúcich a mimoriadne kontroverzných udalostí. Známy autor a novinár Michael Wolff, ktorý mal neobmedzený prístup do Západného krídla, v knihe opisuje dramatické a živelné úradovanie, odrážajúce prezidentovu osobnosť, čím odkrýva pravdu o chaose v Oválnej pracovni.

Annabelin dokonalý život sa rozpadne v okamihu, keď jej oznámia, že jej manžel Matthew zahynul pri havárii lietadla. Pochybnosti, či šlo len o náhodu,v nej prebudia túžbu dopátrať sa pravdy. Na krk jej dýchajú mocní nepriatelia a v hlave víria otázky, či svojho manžela skutočne poznala. Novinárka Marina píše článok o banke Swiss United, kde Matthew pracoval. Keď však odhalí dôkazy o šokujúcom finančnom škandále,v ktorom má prsty zákulisie banky, situácia ju donúti spraviť nepredstaviteľné rozhodnutie.

Rozprávač Odpadlíka, narodený v „agrárnom gete“ Dickensu na južnom okraji Los Angeles, sa zrieka osudu nižšej strednej vrstvy. Vyrastal s osamelo žijúcim otcom, kontroverzným sociológom, a jeho detstvo sa stalo predmetom psychologických výskumov. Očakáva, že otcovo priekopnícke dielo sa zavŕši monografiou, ktorá vyrieši rodinné finančné problémy. Po tragickej smrti otca, ktorého zabil policajt, si uvedomuje, že monografia nikdy nevyjde a ostáva mu len účet za pohreb. Rozhodnutý napraviť krivdu, chce vrátiť Dickens na mapu Kalifornie, pričom si na pomoc berie najslávnejšieho obyvateľa tejto mestskej časti, posledného žijúceho účinkujúceho v seriáli Malí uličníci. Spúšťa najškandalóznejší projekt, ktorý zahŕňa obnovenie otroctva a segregácie na miestnej strednej škole, čo ho nakoniec privádza pred Najvyšší súd. Dielo je prenikavou satirou o mladíkovi s izolovanou výchovou a rasistickom súdnom konaní. Spochybňuje posvätné princípy americkej ústavy, mestského života a hnutia za občianske práva. Napísané absurdným štýlom, dokáže čitateľa rozosmiať aj rozplakať a predstavuje hrozivú, no zábavnú obžalobu našich čias.

„Pohnuté detstvo je ako neviditeľný nepriateľ – nikdy neviete, kedy zaútočí.“ Román o samote, utrpení a priepastiach spôsobených životom, ktorý vás privedie k sladkotrpkému poznaniu o pominuteľnosti bytia. Cena Európskej únie za literatúru za rok 2016. Julesovo bezstarostné detstvo tragicky naruší náhla strata rodičov, ktorí zahynuli pri autonehode. Predtým sebavedomý chlapec je odrazu introvertný a bojazlivý. Spolu so svojimi dvoma súrodencami odchádza do internátnej školy, kde sa každý z nich s traumou vyrovnáva po svojom. Jules zostáva uzavretý vo svojom vnútornom svete, kým si vedľa neho do lavice nesadne Alva, dievčina s červenými vlasmi a okuliarmi s kosteným rámom. Aj ona má svoje ťaživé tajomstvá... Ich neobyčajná náklonnosť hraničí s láskou, no na prahu dospelosti sa ich cesty rozdelia. Jules sa s Alvou opäť stretáva až po rokoch. Zdá sa, že konečne prišiel čas naplniť vzájomnú lásku a vynahradiť si dlhé obdobie odlúčenia. No bolestná minulosť, neviditeľný nepriateľ kdesi v pozadí, čaká na svoju príležitosť...

Tamil Nadu, 1968. Landlords rule over a feudal system that forces peasants to break their backs in the fields or be punished. As a small spark of defiance begins to spread among communities, the landlords vow to break them; party organizers suffer grisly deaths and the flow of food into the marketplaces dries up. But it only strengthens the villagers' resistance. Finally, the landlords descend on one village to set an example for the others. An exciting new release from this Chennai-based poet, writer and activist.

Startlingly radical, dazzlingly witty, unlike anything that has come before - this is the most exciting novel you will read this year. `Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.' Jonathan Franzen

It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.

A guy walks into a bar . . . From here the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy walks into a bar and finds no one else is there. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless. In Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, Sedaris delights with twists of humour and intelligence, remembering his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants) his first colonoscopy (remarkably pleasant) and the time he considered buying the skeleton of a murdered pygmy. By turns hilarious and moving, David Sedaris masterfully looks at life's absurdities as he takes us on adventures that are not to be forgotten.

Mae Hollandová získa prácu v najsilnejšej internetovej spoločnosti na svete, ktorá má symbolický názov Kruh. Dostala tak skvelú životnú príležitosť pracovať v supermodernom kalifornskom sídle, kde všetci horúčkovito pracujú a stretávajú sa v luxusných kluboch, na vlastných športoviskách či skvelých reštauráciách. Kruh spája používateľov osobných e-mailov, sociálnych sietí, uskutočňuje podozrivé bankové operácie a nákupy svojím univerzálnym operačným systémom, ktorý napokon vyústi v jedinú on-line identitu na internete. Mae spočiatku nemôže uveriť svojmu šťastiu -- aj keď sa jej svet za hranicami areálu odcudzí, aj keď ňou otrasie čudné stretnutie s istým kolegom, a aj keď ju práca v Kruhu postupne okráda o vlastný život a súkromie. To, čo sa začalo ako úchvatný príbeh o ženských ambíciách a idealizme, sa čoskoro stane srdcervúcim románom plným napätia a frustrácie. Kde sú vlastne hranice ľudského poznania? Chceme to vôbec vedieť?

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.

Feeling overshadowed by his more-successful younger brother, Harold is shocked by his brother's violent act that irrevocably changes their lives, placing Harold in the role of father figure to his brother's adolescent children and caregiver to his aging parents.

This is Don DeLillo's first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011; in it he represents the wide range of human experience in contemporary America - and forces us to confront the uncomfortable shadows lurking in the background. His characters are plagued by their own deep, often unconscious, longings; they are subjected to shocking violations, exposed to unexpected acts of terror. No matter whether he is focused upon the slums of New York or astronauts in orbit around the Earth, DeLillo chooses never to turn away from the unsettling manner in which humans are brought together. These nine stories describe the extraordinary journey of a great American writer who changed the literary landscape. 'Don DeLillo's richly compressed short stories are the work of a true master . . . In these stories or lucid dreams - sometimes drily shocking or mournfully funny, always masterfully designed - DeLillo himself isolates that stray thought, and makes of it great art.' Guardian

Pekná a bystrá Madeleine Hannová pochádza z napohľad normálnej a dobrej rodiny v New Jersey. Leonard Bankhead je príťažlivý mladík, do ktorého sa Madeleine zaľúbi celou silou svojich dozrievajúcich a neraz rozporuplných emócií. Mitchell Grammaticus študuje religionistiku a chce byť svätcom. Všetci traja chodia na Brownovu univerzitu a neskôr sa stanú súčasťou prekvapivého a sviežeho manželského trojuholníka. No a príbeh o ňom je vtipné rozprávanie o dospievaní generácie tridsiatnikov. Na univerzite všetci traja neraz počuli, že román postupne stráca opodstatnenie v literatúre, keď sa z neho vytratí manželská zápletka, no Jeffrey Eugenides ho v tejto knihe prebúdza k životu s neuveriteľnou energiou a dôvtipom.

The Man Booker Prize finalist Far to Go by acclaimed author Alison Pick is historical fiction at its very best. When Czechoslovakia relinquishes the Sudetenland to Hitler, the powerful influence of Nazi propaganda sweeps through towns and villages like a sinister vanguard of the Reich's advancing army. A fiercely patriotic secular Jew, Pavel Bauer is helpless to prevent his world from unraveling as first his government, then his business partners, then his neighbors turn their back on his affluent, once-beloved family. Only the Bauers' adoring governess, Marta, sticks by Pavel, his wife, Anneliese, and their little son, Pepik, bound by her deep affection for her employers and friends. But when Marta learns of their impending betrayal at the hands of her lover, Ernst, Pavel's best friend, she is paralyzed by her own fear of discovery—even as the endangered family for whom she cares so deeply struggles with the most difficult decision of their lives. Interwoven with a present-day narrative that gradually reveals the fate of the Bauer family during and after the war, Far to Go is a riveting family epic, love story, and psychological drama.

The debut novel from the bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love On two remote islands off the coast of Maine, the local lobstermen have fought savagely for generations over the fishing rights to the ocean waters between them. Young Ruth Thomas is born into this feud, the daughter of one of the greediest lobstermen in Maine. Eighteen years old, as smart as a whip, and irredeemably unromantic, Ruth returns home from boarding school determined to throw her education overboard and join the ‘stern-men’. As the feud escalates, she helps work the lobster boats, brushes up on her profanity, and eventually falls for a handsome young lobsterman. A funny, sparkling novel of unlikely friendships and family ties, Stern Men captures a feisty American spirit through this unforgettable heroine who is destined for greatness despite herself. Stern Men was a New York Times Notable Book.

Tense and heartbreaking to its last page, 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' shows how life under seige creates impossible moral choices. When the everyday act of crossing the street can risk lives, the human spirit is revealed in all its fortitude - and frailty.

Deväťročný Oskar Schell je nádejný vynálezca, hráč na tamburínu, šperkár a pacifista, zbiera fotografie a píše listy vedcom. Jeho otec zahynie 11. septembra 2001 počas teroristického útoku na World Trade Center v New Yorku. Oskar nájde v otcových veciach kľúč s nápisom „Black", a tak si zaumieni pozhovárať sa s každým v meste, koho priezvisko znie rovnako. Dobrodružné hľadanie vedie chlapca cez celý New York, do nie tak dávnej minulosti, a zároveň sa stáva aj cestou jeho dospievania. Sfilmovaný príbeh knihy si môžete od apríla pozrieť aj v slovenských kinách.

On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children —the so-called Lost Boys—was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three countries to find freedom. When he finally is resettled in the United States, he finds a life full of promise, but also heartache and myriad new challenges. Moving, suspenseful, and unexpectedly funny, What Is the What is an astonishing novel that illuminates the lives of millions through one extraordinary man. “A testament to the triumph of hope over experience, human resilience over tragedy and disaster.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "An absolute classic. . . . Compelling, important, and vital to the understanding of the politics and emotional consequences of oppression." —People

Throughout his life Mozart was inspired, fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, disappointed and betrayed by women; and he appeared equally fascinating to them. But, first and last, Mozart loved and respected women. His mother, his sister, his wife, her sisters, his patrons, his friends, his lovers and his artists all figure prominently in his life. Jane Glover introduces us to Mozart’s mother, Maria Anna and his beloved and talented sister, Nannerl. We meet, too, Mozart’s ‘other family’, the Webers: Constanze, his wife, much maligned by history, and her sisters Aloysia, Sophie and Josepha. This is their story. But it is also the story of the women in his operas, all of whom were – like his sister, his mother, his wife and entire female acquaintance – restrained by the conventions and strictures of eighteenth-century society. Yet through his glorious writing, he identified and released the emotions of his characters. They hold up the mirror to their audiences and offer inestimable insight, together constituting yet further proof of Mozart’s true genius and phenomenal understanding of human nature. Rich, evocative and compellingly readable, Mozart's Women illuminates the music and the man, but above all, the women who inspired him.

Short listed for the Richard & Judy Book Club 2007. An uplifting story set in Los Angeles about one man's effort to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern day everyman; a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home. He has done such a good job getting his life under control that he needs no one. His life has slowed almost to a standstill, until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world. One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back, which rapidly develops into an all-consuming pain. At the same time a wide sinkhole appears outside his living room window, threatening the foundations of his house. A vivid novel about compassion and transformation, "This Book Will Save Your Life" reveals what can happen if you are willing to open up to the world around you. Since her debut in 1989, A.M. Homes has been among the boldest and most original voices of her generation, acclaimed for the psychological accuracy and unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling. Her keen ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of her touching and funny new novel, her first in six years.

Meet Sophie Applebaum - as enchanting a heroine as Jane in The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing. Sophie is an outsider and an inventor of rules, simply because she does not fit into any neat description of who she might be- she's Jewish, but lacks religious feeling; a book-lover but a mediocre student; a loyal friend often unpleasantly surprised and a less-than-devoted employee. She falls in love precipitously but isn't sure whom she should marry - or if she wants to marry at all despite all the family pressures and social clamour on this subject. We follow her to school, through college, to her first job with terrible typing skills, through to the realisation that work isn't fulfilment, that your parents aren't quite what you thought and that Mr. Right is sometimes only all right . . . Readers who loved The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishingwon't be disappointed; this is a sparkling, heartfelt, deeply explorative book characterized, as always, by Melissa Bank's light touch, signature humour, and her vast talent for capturing a moment.

A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title, that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders.

Kniha je nielen príbehom o stroskotaní a záchrane, je zároveň úvahou a meditáciou o stvorení a ľudskom poslaní, o jedinečnosti života na Zemi. Druhé vydanie.

Každý, kto čítal autorkinu predchádzajúcu knihu Denník Bridget Jonesovej, si bezpochyby obľúbil pochabú hrdinku, ktorá vyrábala trápne situácie ako na bežiacom páse a po nepríjemných peripetiách s mužmi šťastne zakotvila v náručí šarmantného Marca Darcyho. Ani v pokračovaní svojho slávneho románu nenecháva autorka nikoho na pochybách, že je majsterkou absurdnej komédie. Jej hrdinka zostáva verná svojej povesti a dostáva sa do situácií, pri ktorých čitateľ priam plače od smiechu...

A child prodigy with a talent for languages and an insatiable thirst for knowledge, Ludo shares with his single mother, Sibylla, an obsession with Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, absorbing its lessons in Samurai virtue, and embarks on a quest to find his father, approaching seven men to test their worthiness. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Bored with their lives and tired of their marriage, Paul and Elaine turn a family barbecue into a bonfire and watch their dreams go up in smoke. But will burning down their house solve all their problems?

Kanadská spisovateľka Margaret Atwood v historickom románe Volali ma Grace spracovala prípad vraždy Thomasa Kinneara a jeho gazdinej Nancy Montgomeryovej, ku ktorej došlo v roku 1843 v Hornej Kanade. Zo zločinu obvinili a na trest smrti odsúdili dvoch služobníkov obetí: Grace Marksovú a Jamesa McDermotta. Neskôr však Grace udelili milosť a trest jej zmenili na doživotie. Hoci sa autorka prísne drží faktov a nezmenila ani najmenší detail z vtedajšej tlače alebo z diel iných spisovateľov, ktorí sa o prípad zaujímali, príbeh obohatila fiktívnou postavou psychológa, ktorý má odborne zhodnotiť Gracein duševný stav a jej možnú vinu. Lekár sa zo všetkých síl snaží ostať nezaujatý a profesionálny, a pritom sa čoraz viac sa zaplieta do Graceinho príbehu. Podľa románu nakrútili aj úspešný seriál.

Een ambitieuze oudere zakenman in het Amerikaanse Atlanta wordt geconfronteerd met corruptie, racisme en andere problemen die het hem niet makkelijk maken aan de top.

It begins on the road to Damascus, in a moment graven on the consciousness of Western civilization. "Saul, Saul", asks the crucified Jesus of Nazareth, "why persecutest thou me?" From this experience, &amp; from the response of the Jewish merchant later known as Paul, springs the Christian Church as we know it today. For as A.N. Wilson makes clear in this gripping narrative, Christianity without Paul is quite literally nothing. Jesus, with the layers of scholarship &amp; ceremony stripped away, is a fastidious &amp; fervent Jew who will lead his followers into a stricter, purer observance of Judaism. It's Paul who will claim divinity for him, who will transform him into the Messiah, center of an entirely new religion. In Wilson's astute narrative, we see Paul negotiating the dangerous political currents of the Roman Empire, making converts, &amp; writing the great epistles that define our understanding of Christ &amp; of the sublime paradoxes of his teaching. What drove Paul? What would he think of what his church has become? The answers lie in this biography, which lays bare the psychological journey of Christianity's true inventor.

In a West Virginia girls' camp in July 1963, a group of children experience an unexpected rite of passage. "Shelter is an astonishing portrayal of an American loss of innocence as witnessed by a drifter named Parson, two young sisters, Lenny and Alma, and a feral boy. Like Buddy, the wide-eyed boy so at home in the natural bower of the forest, Lenny and Alma are forever transformed by violence, by family secrets, by surprising turns of love. What they choose to remember, what they meet within and around the boundaries of the camp, will determine the rest of their lives. In a leafy wilderness undiminished by societal rules and dilemmas, Lenny and Alma confront a terrible darkness and find in themselves a knowledge never lent to them by the adult world.

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A tale of two young scholars researching the secret love affair of two Victorian poets that's an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. “Gorgeously written … A tour de force.” —The New York Times Book Review Winner of England’s Booker Prize and a literary sensation, Possession traces the lives of a pair of young academics as they uncover a clandestine relationship between two long-dead Victorian poets. As they unearth their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany—what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas.