Frans Reusink Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Svet so zármutkom sledoval bolestnú udalosť dvadsiateho storočia, keď dvaja chlapci kráčali za matkinou rakvou. Princovia William a Harry odprevádzajú princeznú Dianu na poslednej ceste, pričom miliardy ľudí sa zamýšľajú nad ich pocitmi a myšlienkami. Harry, považovaný predtým za bezstarostného, sa po strate matky zmenil. Smútil, mal problémy v škole a cítil sa osamelý, pričom vinil médiá za jej smrť. Ako dvadsaťjedenročný vstúpil do armády, kde sa stal hrdinom, no čelil posttraumatickej stresovej poruche a panickým záchvatom. Hlavne však nedokázal nájsť skutočnú lásku, až kým nestretol Meghan. Ich vzťah zaujal svet a nasledovala rozprávková svadba, no čelili mediálnym útokom, rasizmu a klamstvám. Harry videl, ako jeho manželka trpí, a rozhodol sa uniknúť z rodnej krajiny, aby predišiel opakovaniu tragédie. V tejto knihe Harry prvýkrát otvorene opisuje svoju životnú cestu, plnú sebaspytovania a múdrosti o láske, ktorá prevyšuje zármutok.

Keď Suleika Jaouad v lete 2010 dokončila štúdium na vysokej škole, pripravovala sa na vstup do reálneho života. Zaľúbila sa a odsťahovala sa do Paríža, aby si splnila sen a jedného dňa sa stala vojnovou korešpondentkou. Reálny život ju však zaviedol o úplne inej vojnovej oblasti, než si predstavovala: ako dvadsaťdvaročnej jej diagnostikovali akútnu leukémiu s tridsaťpäťpercentnou šancou na prežitie. Život sa jej v okamihu zrútil ako domček z karát. Prišla o prácu, o bývanie, o nezávislosť. Musela sa vrátiť k rodičom a nasledujúce štyri roky strávila pripútaná na lôžko, kde bojovala o život a písala o svojom utrpení v stĺpčeku pre New York Times. Keď sa napokon vystrábila z choroby, uvedomila si, že vyliečením sa cesta k zdraviu ani zďaleka nekončí. Tisícpäťsto dní sa zúfalo usilovala dosiahnuť jediný cieľ – prežiť, lenže keď sa jej to podarilo, zistila, že vlastne netuší, ako má žiť. Čo jej pomôže vrátiť sa do sveta zdravých? Ako znovu získa to, čo stratila? V snahe nájsť odpovede sa vydá na stodňovú cestu autom naprieč Amerikou, aby sa stretla s ľuďmi, ktorí jej v čase choroby poslali e-mail či list, neúnavne ju odporovali a zdôverovali sa jej so svojimi životnými ťažkosťami

A revelatory biography of the first Black woman to stand for Vice President charts how the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California became one of the most effective power players in the United States

From Maggie O'Farrell, bestselling author of AFTER YOU'D GONE and THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE, comes a gripping novel about the way childhood fears can haunt adult lives. On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years, but she instantly recognises him. Or thinks she does. At the same moment on the other side of the globe, in the middle of a crowd of Chinese New Year revellers, Jake realises that things are becoming dangerous. They know nothing of one another's existence, but both Stella and Jake flee their lives: Jake in search of a place so remote it doesn't appear on any map, and Stella for a destination in Scotland, the significance of which only her sister, Nina, will understand. Gripping, insightful and deft, this is Maggie O'Farrell's finest achievement to date.

Stručné dějiny lidstva pro malé i velké čtenáře. Proslulý kunsthistorik (mj. Příběh umění) se ve své knize zaměřil na mladší čtenáře (ale to neznamená, že by text nebyl zajímavý a užitečný pro dospělé). Jeho kniha čtenáře provede historií od nejstarších počátků až do dvacátého století, seznámí ho s důležitými historickými osobnostmi a událostmi, ale také ho poučí o souvislostech a spojitostech mezi různými údobími a územími. Gombrich své dějiny lidstva vypráví jako příběh, ne vždy právě útěšný a pochopitelně nezavršený. Otevřený konec však znamená naději do budoucna.

Venetian cop, Commissario Guido Brunetti, wonders whom he knows to bring pressure on a local government department, to investigate the lack of official building approval on his apartment. But when that same official phones him at work, clearly scared by some information he plans to give Brunetti, and is later found dead after a fall from scaffolding, something is clearly wrong, something with far greater implications than the fate of Guido's own apartment. Brunetti's investigations take him into the unfamiliar areas of Venetian life - drug abuse and loan sharking - while the deaths of two young drug addicts, and the arrest and release of a suspected drug dealer, reveal, once again, what a difference it makes in Venice to have 'Friends in High Places'.

An unbearably moving, intensely passionate, deeply personal account of life as seen through the eyes of one of America’s best-loved novelists.‘When I began writing this history, I let go of my doubts. I trusted the ghosts of my imagination. They showed me the hundred secret senses. And what I wrote is what I discovered about the endurance of love.’So writes Amy Tan at the beginning of this remarkably candid insight into her life. Tan takes us on a journey from her childhood, as a sensitive but intelligent young Chinese-American, ashamed of her parents’ Chinese ways, to the present day and her position as one of the world's best-loved novelists.She describes the daily difficulties of being at once American and Chinese and yet feeling at times like she was truly neither. Most significantly, and heartbreakingly, she tells the history of her the grandmother who committed suicide as the only means of defiance open to her against a husband who ignored her wishes; her remarkable mother, whose first husband had her jailed when she tried to leave him; and the shocking deaths of both her father and husband when Amy was just 14.How this weight of history has brought itself to bear on the adult Amy looms large in her own story. Ghosts, chance and fate have played a part in her life, and ‘The Opposite of Fate’ is an insight into those ancestors, the women who ‘never let me forget why these stories need to be told’.