Drago Štajduhar Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Špeciálne vydanie s farebnou oriezkou. Veľkolepý panoramatický román o láske, viere a medicíne od autora medzinárodného bestsellera Rez do živého zobrazuje život troch generácií juhoindickej rodiny, ktorú roky sužujú nevysvetliteľné tragédie. Kérala, India 1900. Dvanásťročné dievčatko, ktorému nedávno zomrel otec, nasadá do člna a plaví sa za svojím štyridsaťročným ženíchom, ktorého prvýkrát uvidí až na svadbe. Budúci manžel však zamlčal, že jeho rodinu už od nepamäti trápi nepochopiteľná pliaga. V každej generácii sa prinajmenšom jeden jej člen utopí – a v Kérale je voda všade. Zmluva s vodou rozpráva neobyčajný životný príbeh budúcej hlavy rodiny, Veľkej ammachi, a zachytáva jej radosti aj trápenia. Naprieč desaťročiami bola svedkyňou ohromných zmien, viera a láska však boli v jej živote prítomné vždy. Vďaka nim nikdy nestratila nádej, že sa jej podarí vymodliť pre rodinu vyslobodenie. Román vás prenesie do južnej Indie dvadsiateho storočia a je oslavou medicíny a ľudskej vynaliezavosti, ale aj pokorným svedectvom o utrpení, ktoré museli predchádzajúce generácie podstúpiť, aby sme ako ľudstvo mohli napredovať. Zmluva s vodou je intímny a autentický príbeh plný hlbokých emócií a právom ho možno považovať za jedno z najkvalitnejších literárnych diel, ktoré v posledných rokoch vznikli.

Her pupils murdered her daughter. Now she will have her revenge. After calling off her engagement in the wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old child, Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her resignation. But first she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that upends everything her students ever thought they knew about two of their peers, and sets in motion a diabolical plot for revenge. Narrated in alternating voices, with twists you'll never see coming, Confessions probes the limits of punishment, despair, and tragic love, culminating in a harrowing confrontation between teacher and student that will place the occupants of an entire school in danger. You'll never look at a classroom the same way again.

Set in the 21st century - a number of decades from now - The Sparrow is the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and talented linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who - in response to a remarkable radio signal from the depths of space - leads a scientific mission to make first contact with an extraterrestrial culture.In the true tradition of Jesuit adventurers before him, Sandoz and his companions are prepared to endure isolation, suffering - even death - but nothing can prepare them for the civilisation they encounter. Or for the tragic misunderstanding that brings the mission to a devastating end. Once considered a living saint, Sandoz returns alone to Earth horrifically maimed, both physically and spiritually, the mission's sole survivor - only to be blamed for the mission's failure and accused of heinous crimes.

Superbly tense and oozing with atmosphere, Anna Downes's debut, The Safe Place, is the perfect summer suspense, with the modern gothic feel of Ruth Ware and the morally complex family dynamics of Lisa Jewell. Welcome to paradise...will you ever be able to leave? Emily is a mess. Emily Proudman just lost her acting agent, her job, and her apartment in one miserable day. Emily is desperate. Scott Denny, a successful and charismatic CEO, has a problem that neither his business acumen nor vast wealth can fix. Until he meets Emily. Emily is perfect. Scott offers Emily a summer job as a housekeeper on his remote, beautiful French estate. Enchanted by his lovely wife Nina, and his eccentric young daughter, Aurelia, Emily falls headlong into this oasis of wine-soaked days by the pool. But soon Emily realizes that Scott and Nina are hiding dangerous secrets, and if she doesn't play along, the consequences could be deadly.

New York Times bestselling Australian author Stephanie Laurens delivers the latest tale in the immensely popular Cynster series. When Chillington is elected an ′honorary Cynster′ at the end of All About Love, he knows he needs a wife , and an heir. His goal; a simple marriage without romance. He agrees to marry a woman he believes to be pliant and quiet. Unfortunately for him, the woman he thinks is Francesca Rawling is really her cousin, Franni.Francesca herself is proud, passionate and opinionated in short, the perfect bride for a Cynster...

A portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship. Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the welcoming promise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid with his parents hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth through the lens of his camera. Photography--and fate--introduce him to Ana, whose family's interweaving obstacles reveal the lingering grasp of the Spanish Civil War--as well as chilling definitions of fortune and fear. Daniel's photographs leave him with uncomfortable questions amidst shadows of danger. He is backed into a corner of difficult decisions to protect those he loves. Lives and hearts collide, revealing an incredibly dark side to the sunny Spanish city. Includes vintage media reports, oral history commentary, photos, and more.

The anomaly called the Breach is the government’s most carefully guarded secret. But there is another secret even less known . . . and far more terrifying. As the U.S. President addresses the nation from the Oval Office, a missile screams toward the White House. In a lightning flash, the Chief Executive is dead, his mansion in ruins, and two cryptic words are the only clue to the assassins’ motives: “See Scalar.” Now Travis Chase of the covert agency Tangent—caretakers of the Breach and all its grim wonders—along with partner and lover Paige Campbell and technology expert Bethany Stewart, have only twenty-four hours to unearth a decades-old mystery once spoken of in terrified whispers by the long since silenced. But their breakneck race cross-country—and back through time and malleable memory—is calling the total destructive might of a shadow government down upon them. For Travis Chase has a dark destiny he cannot be allowed to fulfill . . .

Thirty years ago, in a facility buried beneath a vast Wyoming emptiness, an experiment gone awry accidentally opened a door. It is the world's best-kept secret-and its most terrifying. Trying to regain his life in the Alaskan wilds, ex-con/ex-cop Travis Chase stumbles upon an impossible scene: a crashed 747 passenger jet filled with the murdered dead, including the wife of the [resident of the United States. Though a nightmare of monumental proportions, it pales before the terror to come, as Chase is dragged into a battle for the future that revolves around an amazing artifact. Allied with a beautiful covert operative whose life he saved, Chase must now play the role he's been destined for-a pawn of incomprehensible forces or humankind's final hope-as the race toward Apocalypse begins in earnest. Because something is loose in the world. And doomsday is not only possible...it is inevitable.

Sedemnásta kniha jednej z najúspešnejších špionážnych sérií všetkých čias o legendárnom Gabrielovi Allonovi. Štyri mesiace po atentáte na americkej pôde teroristi z Islamského štátu udrú znova – tentoraz sa ich cieľom stane elegantná londýnska štvrť West End, ktorou otrasie séria mohutných výbuchov. Tieto útoky sú výsledkom dokonalého utajenia, no ich páchatelia predsa len zanechajú po sebe jednu stopu. Táto stopa zavedie Gabriela a jeho tím na juh Francúzska, do prepychového sídla Jeana-Luca Martela a Olivie Watsonovej. Bývalá modelka Olivia predstiera, že netuší, že pravým zdrojom Martelovho rozprávkového bohatstva sú drogy. A Martel zasa zatvára oči pred faktom, že obchoduje s človekom, ktorého cieľom je zničenie Západu. Pod Gabrielovým skúseným vedením sa však obaja stanú hrdinami v globálnej vojne s terorizmom.

The fourth unputdownable book in the DS Mark Heckenburg series. A killer thriller for fans of Stuart MacBride and Luther, from the #1 ebook bestseller Paul Finch.

Ľúbostný romantický príbeh, ktorým pokračuje sága o rode Cynsterovcov autorka zasadila do čarokrásnej škótskej prírody, opradenej dávnymi legendami. Vychýrený zvodca Richard Cynster, prezývaný Škandál, sa za nič na svete nechce oženiť – až kým ho závet jeho príbuzného nezvedie dohromady s krásnou Catrionou Hennessyovou, ktorá ho od prvej chvíle priťahuje. Ani hrdú škótsku krásavicu nenechajú Richardove bozky ľahostajnou, no vonkoncom si nevie predstaviť, že by sa jej manželom mal stať práve člen neslávne známeho cynsterovského klanu...

Ďalší strhujúci triler od autora bestselleru Nočný bežec. Sam Dryden, bývalý príslušník elitných vojenských jednotiek, pokojne žije v pobrežnom mestečku v južnej Kalifornii. Stačí však jediný telefonát od priateľky, ktorá má vážny problém, a s jeho novým životom je koniec. Agentka FBI Marnie Calvertová vyšetruje brutálny zločin v Mojavskej púšti, kde sa zároveň odohralo záhadné, priam neuveriteľné hrdinstvo. Marnie je odhodlaná prísť záhade na koreň, a tak požiada Sama o pomoc. Obaja sa ocitnú v hľadáčiku nebezpečnej medzinárodnej organizácie, ktorá sa desaťročia pokúša ovplyvniť chod sveta. Ak chce Dryden prekaziť ich zvrhlé plány, ktoré by mali za následok smrť miliónov ľudí, bude potrebovať viac než len svoje povestné strategické myslenie..

Godina je 1950. Dok Francuska četvrt New Orleansa vrvi tajnama, sedamnaestogodišnja Josie Moraine tiho kroji svoju vlastitu sudbinu. Premda je kao kći prostitutke djetinjstvo provela u okruženju javne kuće, Josie od života želi više nego što joj New Orleans može ponuditi. I dok smišlja plan kako se izvući iz toga, tajanstvena smrt u Francuskoj četvrti upliće je u policijsku istragu koja će na kušnju staviti njezinu odanost majci, vlastitoj savjesti i osornoj madam iz Ulice Conti. Josie je zarobljena između sna o školovanju na elitnom koledžu i tajnovitog podzemlja. Unatoč izazovima koji čekaju iza svakog ugla, New Orleans je mami da krene u potragu za istinom koja eskalira konačnom kušnjom. S likovima jednako očaravajućim poput onih u njezinoj međunarodnoj uspješnici Pomrčina srca, Ruta Sepetys vješto gradi bogatu pripovijest o tajnama i lažima te snažno podsjeća na to kako nam odluke koje donosimo mogu oblikovati sudbinu. Ruta Sepetys je autorica nagrađivanog povijesnog romana Pomrčina srca. Rođena i odgojena u Michiganu, Ruta je odrasla u obitelji umjetnika, čitatelja i ljubitelja glazbe. Trenutačno sa svojim suprugom živi u Tennesseeju. Soba puna snova je njezin drugi roman.

Napínavý akčný triler uznávaného amerického autora. Sam Dryden, bývalý príslušník elitných vojenských jednotiek, nemôže spávať, a tak si chodieva v noci zabehať. Keď sa raz počas behu na pláži doslova zrazí s Rachel, je mu jasné, že vystrašené dievča je v ohrození života. Ukryje ju pred perfektne vyzbrojenými prenasledovateľmi a postupne sa dozvedá, že tým zasiahol do supertajného vládneho projektu. Jedenásťročná Rachel má totiž zvláštne schopnosti – vie čítať myšlienky a ovplyvňovať konanie iných. Sam sa ocitá pred najťažšou úlohou svojho života: zachrániť Rachel i seba pred ľuďmi, ktorí sú schopní pohnúť nebo i zem, len aby ich zlikvidovali...

America has enemies--ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first--and last--mistake of his career . . . It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people. Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway-her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can't walk away. He needs to help her. Even worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more he's convinced she is at the center of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents' deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power. Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl's life . . . and perhaps his own.

Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.

V pútavom a miestami až desivo mrazivom príbehu rozpráva mladučká Lina o tom, ako sa počas stalinských deportácií Litovčanov v roku 1941 dostala spolu s matkou a bratom do pracovného tábora na ďaleký Sibír. Jej otca, univerzitného profesora, obvinili z protisovietskej činnosti a popravili vo väzení. Rodina odhodlaná nedať sa zlomiť znáša ustavičné ponižovanie, muky a trápenie dozorcov, ale aj nehostinnú zimu za polárnym kruhom, ktorej mnohí z deportovaných podľahli. Bojujú o každú omrvinku chleba, o každú vykopanú repu, aby mali čo do úst. Mnohí chorľavejú, no v blízkosti niet lekárskej pomoci. V najdrsnejších podmienkach sa postupne odhaľujú charaktery deportovaných, ale aj ich strážcov. Niektorí prejavujú ľudskosť, súdržnosť, súcit a pokoru, ďalší by radi prežili aj na úkor iných. No aj v tomto neľudskom a mrazivom prostredí vzplanie láska... Podarí sa Line, jej bratovi Jonasovi a matke prežiť, alebo sa stanú obeťami krutého zaobchádzania, hladu a vyčerpania uprostred nekonečnej ľadovej pustatiny?

Mladej architektke Alix sa dostane do rúk posledná vôľa istej starej dámy, v ktorej ju žiada, aby strávila rok v nádhernom starobylom dome na ostrove. Energická Alix netuší, čo má pani Adelaide Kingsleyová spoločné s jej rodinou, ale na jej podmienky pristúpi. Aspoň bude mať čas na prípravu kamarátkinej svadby. Tajomná Adelaide má však s nájomníčkou svoje plány, a z tých behá mráz po chrbte. Alix má prísť na koreň tajomstvu Valentiny Kingsleyovej, ktorá pred vyše dvesto rokmi záhadne zmizla. Alix si musí poradiť aj s arogantným, hoci príťažlivým architektom Jaredom Montgomerym, ktorý býva v domčeku pre hostí. Medzi nimi to poriadne zaiskrí, lenže Jared má vlastné tajomstvá, a ak vyjdú na povrch, môžu dvojicu rozdeliť. Čím bližšie je svadba najlepšej priateľky, tým viac sa ich vzťah prehlbuje a duchovia vychádzajú zo skrýš – niektorí doslova. Životy Alix a Jareda sú prepojené viac, ako si mysleli, a nádej na spoločnú budúcnosť majú len vtedy, ak napravia chyby svojich predkov.

Nasljednica firentinske loze Medici, Lucrezia udaje se za vojvodu od Ferrare, pristalog Alfonsa d’Estea. Brak je od početka prepun poteškoća i, kako vrijeme prolazi, Lucrezia se sve više otuđuje od supruga. Alfonso je, pak, pod sve većim pritiskom Vatikana koji mu prijeti oduzimanjem titule ukoliko ne bude u mogućnosti osigurati sebi nasljednika. Čini se da je jedino Alfonsova ljubavnica Francesca sposobna obuzdati njegov potisnuti bijes. Odbojnost prema mladoj supruzi ubrzo postaje nepodnošljiva i Alfonso počinje smišljati način za bijeg od svojih problema... Strastvena i dirljiva ljubavna priča uzburkat će vam krv i dotaknuti srce.

It begins with a simple note: Roger Bascombe wishes to inform Celeste Temple that their engagement is forthwith terminated. But Celeste, for all her lack of worldly experience, is determined to find out why her fiance should have thrown her over so cruelly. Adopting a disguise, she follows her erstwhile lover to the forbidding Harschmort manor, where she discovers a world--by turns seductive and shocking--she could never have imagined, and a conspiracy so terrifying as to be almost beyond belief.--From publisher description.

'This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians . . . don't make the mistake of bothering me.' Ignatius J. Reilly: fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this? No. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice and ignorance has a mission: to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress. And he has a pirate costume and hot-dog cart to do it with . . . 'I succumbed, stunned and seduced, page after page, vocal with delight. A masterwork of comedy' The New York Times

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