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Zelda and Ivy
Zelda and Ivy: The Runaways
The City Record
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The Snowball
Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Prize 2008 The Snowball is the first and will be the only biography of the world's richest man, Warren Buffett, written with his full cooperation and collaboration. Combining a unique blend of "The Sage of Omaha's" business savvy, life story and philosophy, The Snowball is essential reading for anyone wishing to discover and replicate the secrets of his business and life success. Warren Buffett is arguably the world's greatest investor. Even as a child he was fascinated by the concept of risk and probability, setting up his first business at the age of six. In 1964 he bought struggling Massachusetts textile firm ...
Se mnou jsi v bezpečí
Anna žije osamělý život. Přátelí se jen se svou sousedkou a její jedinou útěchou jsou řád a stereotyp. Lidi si striktně drží od těla – ví, kolik škody mohou napáchat. Jednoho dne je svědkem dopravní nehody a v řidičce, která ji zavinila, poznává Carlu. To ona jí kdysi zničila život. Nyní má šanci srovnat účty, ale svou pomstu musí pečlivě naplánovat. Ze všeho nejdřív se rozhodne vetřít do přízně Liamovi, muži, který byl při nehodě zraněn. Také musí sledovat průběh policejního vyšetřování. A hlavně – nesmí dopustit, aby jí Carla znovu zmizela z dohledu. Zatímco se Annina posedlost Carlou stupňuje, vyplouvají na povrch i její vlastní tajemství. Je ale Carla opravdu tak nebezpečná, nebo by se Anna měla bát spíše někoho, kdo je jí mnohem blíž? ______________________ Se mnou jsi v bezpečí je podmanivý psychologický thriller, který vás chytne a nepustí. Pokud se vám líbily knihy Dívka ve vlaku a Zmizelá, neměli byste tento román minout.
D. H. Lawrence and the Child
"In the first major work that considers the importance of childhood representations in shaping the modern writer, Sklenicka unearths the "richness of possibility" D. H. Lawrence found in his depiction of children and the complexities of family life."--Publishers website.
Raymond Carver
The first biography of america’s best-known short story writer of the late twentieth century. The London Times called Raymond Carver "the American Chekhov." The beloved, mischievous, but more modest short-story writer and poet thought of himself as "a lucky man" whose renunciation of alcohol allowed him to live "ten years longer than I or anyone expected." In that last decade, Carver became the leading figure in a resurgence of the short story. Readers embraced his precise, sad, often funny and poignant tales of ordinary people and their troubles: poverty, drunkenness, embittered marriages, difficulties brought on by neglect rather than intent. Since Carver died in 1988 at age fifty, his l...
Alice Adams
The first full-scale biography of prolific writer Alice Adams, whose celebrated stories and bestselling novels traced women’s lives and illuminated “an era characterized both by drastic cultural changes and by the persistence of old expectations, conventions, and biases” (The New Yorker). “Nobody writes better about falling in love than Alice Adams,” a New York Times critic said of the prolific writer. Born in 1926, Alice Adams grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, during the Great Depression and came of age during World War II. After college at Radcliffe and a year in Paris, she moved to San Francisco. Always a rebel in good-girl’s clothing, Adams used her education, sexual an...
Mattaponi Queen
Winner of the 2009 Bakeless Fiction Prize, a confident debut collection from Belle Boggs about life on and around the Mattaponi Indian Reservation Set on the Mattaponi Indian Reservation and in its surrounding counties, the stories in this linked collection detail the lives of rural men and women with stark realism and plainspoken humor. A young military couple faces a future shadowed by injury and untold secrets. A dying alcoholic attempts to reconcile with his estranged children. And an elderly woman's nurse weathers life with her irascible charge by making payments on a decrepit houseboat—the Mattaponi Queen. The land is parceled into lots, work opportunities are few, and the remaining inhabitants must choose between desire and necessity as they navigate the murky stream of possession, love, and everything in between.
