Ta kategoria dedykowana jest współczesnym czytelniczkom literatury kobiecej. Bardzo szeroki wybór romansów, kryminałów, powieści obyczajowe, poruszająca literatura kobieca, erotyki, harlequiny polskich i zagranicznych autorów. Każda lubiąca czytać kobieta znajdzie coś szczególnego dla siebie.
Polecamy literaturę Sergiusza Piaseckiego, Stanisława Srokowskiego, Diany Palmer czy w końcu Blanki Lipińskiej.
Ivory kończy z wyróżnieniem szkołę dla projektantów i szybko dostaje pracę marzeń. Jednak jej kariera w prestiżowej nowojorskiej firmie odzieżowej nie rozwija się pomyślnie. Nie ma mowy o stworzeniu własnej kolekcji, gdy jest się… asystentką asystentki. Przełom nadchodzi, gdy Ivory wkłada na firmowe przyjęcie sukienkę własnego projektu. Zwraca uwagę Curry’ego, właściciela firmy, który od razu docenia jej talent. To szansa na sukces, ale też wyzwanie, by ukryć, że Curry fascynuje ją nie tylko jako świetny szef.
Książę Darius Carlyle nie chce, by jego kuzyn poślubił aktorkę, ponieważ taki mezalians byłby długo komentowany w towarzystwie. Poza tym uważa, że każda aktorka to cyniczna łowczyni tytułów. By udowodnić tę tezę, zamierza przekonać do małżeństwa Calistę Fairmont, gwiazdę londyńskich teatrów, która często publicznie ogłasza, że nigdy w życiu nie poślubiłaby arystokraty. Jeżeli w ciągu miesiąca uda mu się namówić ją na ślub, kuzyn będzie musiał zerwać ze swoją narzeczoną. Już pierwsze spotkanie z Calistą uświadamia księciu, że chyba zbyt pochopnie zaproponował kuzynowi ten zakład.
„Jeszcze tylko dwa tygodnie. Jakoś wytrzyma. To będzie dla niej egzamin dojrzałości. Obyta w świecie młoda kobieta ze stolicy przyjeżdża na prowincję i wdaje się w miłosny związek, a raczej w beztroski romans z facetem tak nieziemsko atrakcyjnym, że nie sposób pojąć, jakim cudem wciąż jest singlem. A teraz czeka ich rozstanie, do którego musi podejść na zimno. Przed nimi zaledwie kilka wspólnych nocy...
A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery
'Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children'
As well as being a master of the macabre, Shirley Jackson was also a pitch-perfect chronicler of everyday family life. In Life Among the Savages, her caustically funny account of raising her children in a ramshackle house in Vermont, she deals with rats in the cellar, misbehaving imaginary friends, an oblivious husband and ever-encroaching domestic chaos, all described with wit, warmth and plenty of bite.
'Jackson's family chronicles have a genuinely subversive aspect ... Read today, her pieces feel surprisingly modern - mainly because she refuses to sentimentalize or idealize motherhood' The New York Times Book Review
'Comic masterpieces, laced with hints of the discontent that lies beneath' Guardian
When Hanio Yamada realises the future holds little of worth to him, he puts his life for sale in a Tokyo newspaper, thus unleashing a series of unimaginable exploits. A world of murderous mobsters, hidden cameras, a vampire woman, poisoned carrots, code-breaking, a hopeless junkie heiress and makeshift explosives reveals itself to the unwitting hero. Is there nothing he can do to stop it? Resolving to follow the orders of his would-be purchasers, he comes to understand what life is worth, and whether we can indeed name our price.
A story of forbidden sexual passion and thwarted dreams set against the backdrop of a lush summer in rural Massachusetts
Seventeen-year-old Charity Royall is desperate to escape life with her hard-drinking adoptive father. Their isolated village stifles her, and his behaviour increasingly disturbs her. When a young city architect visits for the summer, it offers Charity the chance to break free. But as they embark on an intense affair, will it bring her another kind of trap? Regarded by Edith Wharton as among her best novels, Summer caused a sensation in 1917 with its honest depiction of a young woman overturning the rules of her day and attempting to live on her own terms.
'The best Norwegian novel ever' Karl Ove Knausgaard
Mattis doesn't understand much about the world. He doesn't understand why others call him simple. Or why his sister Hege, who has cared for him in their peaceful lakeside cottage since they were young, gets so frustrated. But he knows that the woodcock which starts to fly over their house every day is a sign something is about to change. And when Hege falls in love, disrupting their familiar existence and unbalancing his thoughts, he decides he must face his fate.
Translated by Torbjørn Støverud and Michael Barnes
'A masterpiece' Literary Review
'Mattis, absurd and boastful, but also sweet, pathetic and even funny, is shown with great insight' Sunday Times
A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once arrested, he is released, but must report to court on a regular basis--an event that proves maddening, as nothing is ever resolved. As he grows more uncertain of his fate, his personal life--including work at a bank and his relations with his landlady and a young woman who lives next door--becomes increasingly unpredictable. As K. tries to gain control, he succeeds only in accelerating his own excruciating downward spiral.
A superb new translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening and visionary short fiction
Strange beasts, night terrors, absurd bureaucrats and sinister places abound in this collection of stories by Franz Kafka. Some are less than a page long, others more substantial; all were unpublished in his lifetime. These matchless short works range from the gleeful miniature horror 'Little Fable' to the off-kilter humour of 'Investigations of a Dog', and from the elaborate waking nightmare of 'Building the Great Wall of China' to the creeping unease of 'The Burrow', where a nameless creature's labyrinthine hiding place turns into a trap of fear and paranoia.
Karl Rossman has been banished by his parents to America, following a family scandal. There, with unquenchable optimism, he throws himself into the strange experiences that lie before him as he slowly makes his way into the interior of the great continent.
Although Kafka's first novel (begun in 1911 and never finished), can be read as a menacing allegory of modern life, it is also infused with a quite un-Kafkaesque blitheness and sunniness, brought to life in this lyrical translation that returns to the original manuscript of the book.
'She understands Karma, she says: "What I do, I reap"'
Her name means sadness, yet Tristessa, a prostitute and morphine addict, lives without cares in her shabby room with a menagerie of pets and an altar to the Virgin Mary. Based on Jack Kerouac's own real-life love affair in Mexico city, this is the story of a man's ill-fated relationship with a woman he portrays with tenderness and dignity, even as her life spirals out of control.
'A narrative meditation studying a hen, a rooster, a dove, a cat, a chihuaha dog, family meat, and a ravishing, ravished junky lady, first in their crowded bedroom, then out to drunken streets, taco stands, and pads at dawn in Mexico City slums' Allen Ginsberg
Kerouac's last published novel, Pic is an endearing portrait of a road trip across America, seen through the eyes of one innocent, adventurous boy.
'Pic', or Pictorial Review Jackson, is a ten-year-old boy from North Carolina. When his grandfather dies and he is sent to live with another relative, his older brother, Slim, comes to rescue him. Together they hitch to New York City and, eventually, all the way to California, encountering hardship, kindness, music, love and danger as they go.
Jude Fawley, the stonemason excluded not by his wits but by poverty from the world of Christminster privilege, finds fulfilment in his relationship with Sue Bridehead. Both have left earlier marriages. Ironically, when tragedy tests their union it is Sue, the modern emancipated woman, who proves unequal to the challenge. Hardy's fearless exploration of sexual and social relationships and his prophetic critique of marriage scandalised the late Victorian establishment and marked the end of his career as a novelist.
The country is changing and, up and down the land, cracks are appearing - within families and between generations. In the Midlands Benjamin Trotter is trying to help his aged father navigate a Britain that seems to have forgotten he exists, whilst in London his friend Doug doesn't understand why his teenage daughter is eternally enraged. Meanwhile, newlyweds Sophie and Ian can find nothing to agree on except the fact that their marriage is on the rocks . . .
Wyrusz z nami do krainy snów nie zawsze spokojnych, gdzie deszcz spada niekoniecznie z nieba. Jeśli masz wystarczająco wiele odwagi, przekonaj się, o czym może śnić czarownica, dlaczego demony nie miewają snów i jak czasem romans ze słodkiego, sennego marzenia staje się koszmarnym dramatem.
"Deszczowe sny" to zbiór opowiadań różnych gatunkowo. Mrożące krew w żyłach opowieści na pograniczu jawy i snu, namiętne pocałunki przy akompaniamencie szumu lejącej się z nieba wody, obezwładniający strach, szybsze bicie serca i sny, które w deszczową noc nie są tylko fantazją umysłu, lecz… rzeczywistością.
Daj się porwać zapierającej dech w piersiach przygodzie, gdzieś na granicy realizmu i iluzji. Gwarantujemy, że będzie deszczowo i tajemniczo, odrobinę fantastycznie, romantycznie, wesoło, a miejscami przerażająco. Ale nie bój się. To tylko sen…
Yasmine jest silną, niezależną kobietą, mieszkającą we własnym domu z trzema psami. Myślała, że niewiele potrzeba jej do szczęścia, gdy pojawia się TEN KTOŚ.
Wydaje się spełnieniem marzeń o mężczyźnie, ale czy to wystarczy, żeby nadał się na męża? Zwłaszcza że przez kolejne miesiące gorącej znajomości wychodzą kolejne niewygodne fakty. Yasmine musi rozważyć wszystkie Za i przeciw, zanim dokona właściwego wyboru.
Los trzydziestoletniej służącej, Marianny Zaczkiewicz, zdaje się przesądzony. Wyrokiem sądu w roku 1896 zostaje skazana na wieloletnie ciężkie roboty na Syberii. Popełniła zbrodnię i musi za nią zapłacić, choć w jej mniemaniu to ona jest skrzywdzoną ofiarą, niesłusznie skazaną i uwięzioną. Trafia na koniec świata ciężko chora i umierająca, lecz wbrew wszystkiemu się nie poddaje. Przystosowuje się do nowych warunków życia na zesłaniu i marzy o powrocie oraz zemście.Poruszająca historia kobiety zdradzonej i wykorzystanej, która postanowiła sama wymierzyć sprawiedliwość i odnaleźć odebrane jej szczęście. Czy w pogoni za wymierzeniem kary swoim oprawcom Marianna zaleczy rany i zapomni o koszmarach przeszłości?
If you came across an absolutely remarkable thing at 3 a.m. in New York City, would you walk away . . . or do the one thing that would change your life forever?
The Carls just appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship – like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armour – April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world, and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the centre of an intense international media spotlight.
Now April has to deal with the pressure on her relationships, her identity and her safety that this new position brings, all while being on the front lines of the quest to find out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us.
Compulsively entertaining and powerfully relevant, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing grapples with big themes, including how the social internet is changing fame, how our culture deals with fear, and how vilification and adoration follows a life in the public eye.
Celebrated bestselling author Sun-mi Hwang is back with a heartwarming new novel about renewal and friendship.
This is the story of a man named Kang Dae-su. His whole life is a miracle, rising from poverty to running a successful construction company. In his twilight years, Kang is diagnosed with a brain tumour. He returns to his childhood home of Cherry Hill. He acquires a crumbling old house in which to retreat from the world, yet the residents of the town have other plans. They seem hell-bent on intruding on Kang’s private property. But who does the house, and Cherry Hill, really belong to? Is it owned by the construction company who is trying to rejuvenate the neighbourhood? Or does it belong to the residents who have used the land to play, think, walk, love and explore for generations? And how is the bitter and despondent Kang’s childhood tied to this magical place?
Elwood Curtis has taken the words of Dr Martin Luther King to heart: he is as good as anyone. Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clearsighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But given the time and the place, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy his future, and so Elwood arrives at The Nickel Academy, which claims to provide ‘physical, intellectual and moral training’ which will equip its inmates to become ‘honorable and honest men’.
In reality, the Nickel Academy is a chamber of horrors, where physical, emotional and sexual abuse is rife, where corrupt officials and tradesmen do a brisk trade in supplies intended for the school, and where any boy who resists is likely to disappear ‘out back’. Stunned to find himself in this vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr King’s ringing assertion, ‘Throw us in jail, and we will still love you.’ But Elwood’s fellow inmate and new friend Turner thinks Elwood is naive and worse; the world is crooked, and the only way to survive is to emulate the cruelty and cynicism of their oppressors.
The tension between Elwood’s idealism and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision which will have decades-long repercussions.
Based on the history of a real reform school in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped and destroyed the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative by a great American novelist whose work is essential to understanding the current reality of the United States.
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