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Olga Bártová

    The Last Checkmate
    Mortal Engines: A Darkling Plain
    Ik ben Eleanor Oliphant
    Wreck this journal : now in color
    Educated
    Česká architektura 1999-2002
    • 2024

      Unesená

      • 328bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen
      3,4(56)Tarief

      Autobiografie dívky, kterou rodiče nechali unést a poslali na drsnou převýchovu. Patnáctiletá Elizabeth je vzorná žačka a skvělá sportovkyně, ale jednoduché to s ní není – chodí tajně ven, často se opíjí a trpí silnými výbuchy vzteku. Rodiče s ní jednoho dne ztratí trpělivost a rozhodnou se pro převýchovu. Elizabeth je s jejich vědomím unesena do divočiny, kde v drsných podmínkách stráví s dalšími „problémovými“ dívkami tři měsíce. Další rok prožije v uzavřené internátní škole, jejíž program připomíná spíš sektu. Teprve o mnoho let později dokáže vyprávět svůj traumatizující příběh

      Unesená
    • 2023

      Captured by the Gestapo, Maria is imprisoned in Auschwitz while her family is sent to their deaths. Realizing her ability to play chess, the sadistic camp deputy, Fritzsch, intends to use her as a chess opponent to entertain the camp guards. Literally playing for her life through four grueling years, Maria intends to orchestrate Fritzsch's downfall. Maria, vowing to avenge the murder of her family, challenges her former nemesis to one final game, certain to end in life or death, in failure or justice. Print run 30,000

      The Last Checkmate
    • 2022

      Ik ben Eleanor Oliphant

      • 398bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen
      4,2(814321)Tarief

      Eleanor Oliphant heeft haar leven vrij goed onder controle. Ze draagt elke dag dezelfde kleren, eet elke dag dezelfde maaltijd, en koopt elk weekend twee flessen wodka. Met Eleanor Oliphant gaat eigenlijk alles goed. Haar zorgvuldig gestructureerde leven loopt op rolletjes en ze mist niks. Of althans, soms (best wel vaak eigenlijk) is ze eenzaam en zou ze gelukkig willen zijn. Als Eleanor op een dag samen met een collega een oudere man helpt die gevallen is, verandert haar hele leven onverwachts. De muren die haar al zo lang beschermen verdwijnen als sneeuw voor de zon, en ze zal voor het eerst de confrontatie met haar angsten en twijfels aan moeten gaan. Want Eleanor Oliphant weet misschien wel hoe ze moet functioneren, maar ze heeft geen idee hoe ze moet leven.

      Ik ben Eleanor Oliphant
    • 2022

      The Topeka School

      • 304bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen
      3,5(21703)Tarief

      Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting "lost boys" to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. He is one of the cool kids, ready to fight or, better, freestyle about fighting if it keeps his peers from thinking of him as weak. Adam is also one of the seniors who bring the loner Darren Eberheart--who is, unbeknownst to Adam, his fathers' patient--into the social scene, to disastrous effect. Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is the story of one family's struggles and strengths: Jane's reckoning with the legacy of an abusive father, Jonathan's marital transgressions, the challenge of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity. It is also a riveting prehistory of the present: the collapse of public speech, the trolls and tyrants of the New Right, and the ongoing crisis of identity among white men

      The Topeka School
    • 2022

      The Book of Dirt

      • 320bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen
      3,9(318)Tarief

      Deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, Jakub Rand is forced to sort through Jewish books for a so-called Museum of the Extinct Race. Hidden among the rare texts is a tattered prayer book, hollow inside, containing a small pile of dirt. Meanwhile Frantiska Roubickova contemplates her failed marriage, despairing of her conversion to Judaism. When the Nazis summon her two eldest daughters for transport, she must sacrifice everything to save them. Decades later, Bram Presser embarks on a quest to find the truth behind the stories his family built around these remarkable survivors.

      The Book of Dirt
    • 2020

      Mortal Engines: A Darkling Plain

      • 384bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen
      4,2(9727)Tarief

      MORTAL ENGINES launched Philip Reeve's brilliantly-imagined creation, the world of the Traction Era, where mobile cities fight for survival in a post-apocalyptic future. Now, in time for the film debut, the critically acclaimed MORTAL ENGINES quartet is repackaged with a fantastic and eye-catching cover featuring new artwork. In the fourth and final brilliant installment of Philip Reeve's award-winning quartet, after twenty years, the devastating world war between the predatory Traction Cities and their enemies is ending. Wren and her father Tom Natsworthy travel the Bird Roads in their airship, trying to forget Hester's betrayal. But in the ruined wreckage of the city of London they make a discovery that changes everything. And Hester faces an implacable foe with the means and the will to destroy the entire human race.

      Mortal Engines: A Darkling Plain
    • 2020

      Educated

      • 352bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen
      4,5(10034)Tarief

      Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

      Educated
    • 2020

      The Mars Room

      • 352bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen
      3,4(35495)Tarief

      **LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018****THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'Kushner is one of our most outstanding modern writers.' STYLIST'More knowing about prison life [than Orange Is The New Black]...

      The Mars Room
    • 2019

      Infernal Devices

      • 384bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen
      3,6(564)Tarief

      Wren longs to escape from Anchorage. She craves the dangerous adventures her parents once had - and a charming submarine pirate is ready to take her to sea. But the object that she steals for him ignites a conflict that will tear the whole world apart... The third thrilling instalment of Reeve's critically acclaimed MORTAL ENGINES quartet.

      Infernal Devices
    • 2019

      Imaginární svět

      • 192bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen
      3,7(6)Tarief

      Imaginární svět Keri Smithové nabádá čtenáře k vytvoření něčeho jedinečného: vlastního světa, který si sami vymyslíte. Stačí si připravit seznam všeho, co vás přitahuje nejvíc: věci, které máte rádi nebo sbíráte, oblíbené barvy, tvary, nápady a vše, co vás fascinuje. Tento seznam se stane základním kamenem vašeho vymyšleného světa. Kniha vás provede celým procesem k vytvoření dokonalého místa, v němž se stačí už jenom zabydlet. Tak do toho!

      Imaginární svět