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.
„54 lekcje życiowe Pana Incognito” to pełna ciepła i humoru opowieść o niezwykłym dziadku Henryku – człowieku, który żyjąc w harmonii z naturą, posiadł mądrość, jakiej próżno szukać w podręcznikach. Każda historia niesie ze sobą ważną lekcję – o życiu, rodzinie, tradycji i tym, co naprawdę ma znaczenie.
To książka, która bawi, wzrusza i skłania do refleksji. Przypomina, że prawdziwa mądrość tkwi w prostych rzeczach.
Pozwól się poprowadzić ścieżkami wspomnień i odkryj, dlaczego warto cenić życie ponad wszystko.
This is the story of a love triangle... of sorts.
'I so enjoyed Storybook Ending. It's the perfect balance of cosiness and originality – warm, comforting, with a hilarious mix-up at its heart that I couldn't wait to see unravel' Beth O'Leary, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Flatshare
April is lonely. Since her office issued a permanent work from home mandate, she's lost herself a little. So, in a bid to break out of the funk, she leaves an anonymous note inside a book for the hot guy at her neighbourhood bookstore.
Laura is a busy single mum. Thanks to the meddling hand of fate, she's the one who finds April's note, thinking it's from the guy who served her at the bookstore. A little flirtation with an attractive man who loves books might be just what she needs.
Meanwhile Westley, handsome but not so perceptive, is too distracted by a movie filming at the shop to notice either woman's furtive glances as they leave notes for each other amid the books in the stacks.
April and Laura's continued anonymous correspondence will shake all three of these characters out of their mundane routines, sparking a glimmer of hope that they might just get what they want: a storybook ending of their own.
An intricate web of miscommunication and serendipitous encounters, Storybook Ending is a playful tribute to romance, friendship and bookstores; and to the objects – from a forgotten slip of paper to someone's heart – left between the pages of books.
Powieść wydana także jako superprodukcja audio, w której głosów użyczyli Monika Łopuszyńska jako Lea Shelton oraz Adam Machalica jako Raise Nazarov! A to wszystko pod okiem Magdaleny Sliskiej, Agnieszki Baranowskiej i Myong Ki Lee. W rolę Lei i Raise'a na okładce wcielili się Aleksandra Kasperek i Filip Ferner. Superprodukcja dostępna w Empik Go i w Audiotece. Lea Shelton wraz z bratem bliźniakiem i najlepszą przyjaciółką wyjeżdża na studia do Nowego Orleanu. Ma nadzieję, że w końcu uwolni się spod kontroli nadopiekuńczej matki pragnącej mieć wpływ na każdy aspekt jej życia. Dziewczyna szybko wpada w wir nowych znajomości i imprez. Na jednej z nich, zorganizowanej w miejscu, gdzie odbywają się nielegalne wyścigi samochodowe, poznaje Raise?a ? chłopaka, o którym krążą legendy. Ze względu na swoje osiągniecia w wyścigach jest nazywany Królem Nowego Orleanu. Wkrótce okazuje się, że Raise zamieszkał z bratem Lei w akademiku i wykorzystuje to, aby lepiej ją poznać. Raise ukazuje Lei swój świat i zakorzenia w niej miłość do samochodów oraz nielegalnych wyścigów, ale co najważniejsze, i do siebie. Jednakże umyka mu pewna tajemnica, która ponownie daje o sobie znać. Ale tym razem z podwójną siłą. Książka zawiera treści nieodpowiednie dla osób poniżej osiemnastego roku życia.
Pięć dziewczyn, cztery historie, jeden wielki sekret. Odina Bianchi wie, że pewne sekrety powinny pozostać w ukryciu. Romans z Noahem – przystojnym i niebezpiecznie czarującym bratem jej najlepszej przyjaciółki Avery – nigdy nie miał wyjść na jaw. Choć chłopak daje jej nadzieję na coś więcej, Odina wciąż ma w pamięci nieudany związek z mężczyzną, który jest ojcem jej synka. Dobrze wie, że gdyby złamała serce Noaha, Avery nigdy by jej tego nie wybaczyła. Ale romans to niejedyny sekret, który ciąży jej coraz mocniej. Odina wie znacznie więcej o zniknięciu swojej dawnej przyjaciółki Josie, niż przyznaje. A im więcej czasu spędza z Noahem i Avery, tym trudniej jest jej ukryć prawdę… Czy zaryzykuje wszystko dla miłości, czy dalej będzie uciekać przed prawdą? Czy przyjaciółki zbliżą się do prawdy i odkryją, co stało się z Josie?
I LOVED this book. I tore through it in a day. I think it's even better than Love Letters! Absolutely loved the clever twist on the matchmaking-romance trope. It was so up my street, it was practically parked on my drive! Gripping, tense and funny in all the right ways, I couldn't put it down.' Katy BrentLike every good romance, this story ends with a wedding. And like every good mystery, it begins with a murder...When Alexandra's fiancé runs off with her so-called best friend, her life veers sharply away from the romance films she's obsessed with. She's worked so hard to get her fairytale ending after the horrors of her past, and despite this setback, she's determined she'll still find her happy ever after. To distract herself, Alexandra tries to focus on her job where she has a secret specialty: matchmaking psychopaths. But in losing the two people closest to her, she's unignorably lonely. So when a hot, overprotective new client wants to date her, and another gorgeous new client wants to become her best friend, she can't help but find the attention a little comforting. Things take a turn the day the human heart is left on Alexandra's doorstep. But is the culprit one of her new admirers, or has a monster from her past returned to destroy her happy ending forever? Matchmaking for Psychopaths is an unbelievably twisty and gripping read about obsession, filled with Tasha Coryell's signature observational humour and satirical slant. What people are saying about Matchmaking for Psychopaths:'A brilliant blend of dark humour and gripping suspense, delivering a fresh and thrilling exploration of obsession and identity' Joanna Wallace 'Bloody brilliant. A wildly original take on the difficulties of love and friendship in today's society. Coryell masterfully weaves a thrilling dark romance that will make you believe some psychopaths deserve a happy ending.' Asia Mackay What everyone is saying about Tasha Coryell'Fun, sassy, confident' Reader Review, 'You won't stop laughing' GLAMOUR 'Completely original' Reader Review, 'Fresh, insightful and wonderfully dry' THE GUARDIAN 'Funny, twisting, enthralling' Reader Review, 'Clever, provocative satire' Pandora Sykes 'Irresistible' Reader Review,
Promoting awareness of endangered wildlife through intimate, personal portraits of extinct species.
This book presents thirty-one extinct species through the personal perspectives of those animals. This intimate approach not only highlights each species but explores the broader implications of losing a species forever. How do we honour such a loss? Can we grieve for species we never knew? These animals range from the well-known passenger pigeon, thylacine and great auk, to lesser-known creatures like the Arabian ostrich, Saint Helena earwig and Bramble Cay melomys. These poignant portraits tug on the heartstrings and aim to inspire readers to protect vulnerable and endangered species today, motivating them to play a positive role in conserving our planet’s biodiversity.
A groundbreaking, global survey of queer art, featuring more than 300 artworks made following the introduction of the term ‘homosexual’ in 1869
An unprecedented and historic new book, The First Homosexuals traces the evolution of the homosexual identity through an archive of more than 300 paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, photographs, and film stills from around the world – many presented in a queer, global, and colonial context for the first time. Accompanying the works are twenty-two original, insightful essays by leading experts in art and queer history, each focusing on one geographical region – from Japan to Australia to the Indigenous populations of South America. Ranging from well-known masterpieces to works by unknown artists and pieces rarely considered in the context of sexuality, The First Homosexuals offers a stunning and illuminating look at the first self-consciously queer art. The book accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition of the same name presented at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago.
Making a successful video game is hard. Even games that are well-received at launch may fail to engage players in the long term due to issues with the user experience (UX) that they are delivering. That’s why makers of successful video games like Fortnite and Assassin’s Creed invest both time and money perfecting their UX strategy. These top video game creators know that a bad user experience can ruin the prospects for any game, regardless of its budget, scope, or ambition.
The game UX accounts for the whole experience players have with a video game, from first hearing about it to navigating menus and progressing in the game. UX as a discipline offers guidelines to assist developers in creating the optimal experience they want to deliver, including shipping higher quality games (whether indie, triple-A or "serious" games) and meeting business goals -- all while staying true to design vision and artistic intent.
At its core, UX is about understanding the gamer’s brain: understanding human capabilities and limitations to anticipate how a game will be perceived, the emotions it will elicit, how players will interact with it, and how engaging the experience will be. This book is designed to equip readers of all levels, from student to professional, with cognitive science knowledge and user experience guidelines and methodologies. These insights will help readers identify the ingredients for successful and engaging video games, empowering them to develop their own unique game recipe more efficiently, while providing a better experience for their audience.
"The Gamer's Brain: How Neuroscience and UX Can Impact Video Game Design"
Is written by Celia Hodent -- a UX expert with a PhD in psychology who has been working in the entertainment industry for over 10 years, including at prominent companies such as Epic Games (Fortnite), Ubisoft, and LucasArts.
Major themes explored in this book:
Provides an overview of how the brain learns and processes information by distilling research findings from cognitive science and psychology research in a very accessible way. Topics covered include: "neuromyths", perception, memory, attention, motivation, emotion, and learning.
Includes numerous examples from released games of how scientific knowledge translates into game design, and how to use a UX framework in game development.
Describes how UX can guide developers to improve the usability and the level of engagement a game provides to its target audience by using cognitive psychology knowledge, implementing human-computer interaction principles, and applying the scientific method (user research).
Provides a practical definition of UX specifically applied to games, with a unique framework. Defines the most relevant pillars for good usability (ease of use) and good "engage-ability" (the ability of the game to be fun and engaging), translated into a practical checklist.
Covers design thinking, game user research, game analytics, and UX strategy at both a project and studio level.
This book is a practical tool that any professional game developer or student can use right away and includes the most complete overview of UX in games existing today.
With the establishment of national kennel clubs, conformation dog shows, and pedigrees that only register “purebred” dogs, the majority of these breeds have only been developed in the last 165 years. Today’s dog comes in a seemingly infinite range of sizes, shapes, coats, and colors. This diversity is the product of selective breeding that, in turn, is primarily in the hands of breeders and judges.
Perhaps nowhere is the diversity of the dog more evident than in the skull, which, in contrast to wild canids, is too often misshapen and deformed. With selective breeding to arbitrary standards of canine beauty comes myriad health concerns, including shortened life expectancy in many cases. We have literally shaped—and continue to alter—the domestic dog, but we must ultimately ask two questions: for what purpose and at what cost to our “best friend”?
How does your brain decide what it’s seeing, from the physical world to other people? For decades, scientists have tried to understand how our brains work, not realising that the answer lies much closer to home than it seems.
The latest research in neuroscience and psychology suggests that the brain is doing the same thing that the scientists are: using past experiences to build theories of how the world works, and using these models to predict and make sense of it. Through this process, your brain constructs the reality that you live in.
In this book Daniel Yon takes the research one step further, uncovering how your brain colours your perception of the world, the judgements you make about other people and the beliefs you form about yourself. With transformative applications for how we engage with other communities and approach mental illness, A Trick of The Mind will revolutionise the way you think.
Trzy bestsellerowe powieści Kathleen Glasgow w wyjątkowym pakiecie!Opis książki: How To Make Friends With the DarkNiespodziewany telefon wywraca życie nastoletniej Tiger do góry nogami. Jej matka nie żyje. Dziewczyna pogrąża się w całkowitym mroku.Nie wie nic o swoim ojcu ani bliższej czy dalszej rodzinie. Matka była całym jej światem. Teraz jej życie szybko zostaje zapakowane do walizki, a Tiger trafia do rodziny zastępczej. Potem do kolejnej. I jeszcze jednej.Czasami rodziną okazują się jednak ludzie, których zupełnie by się o to nie podejrzewało. Oto opowieść o tym, jak pokonać mrok, a nawet się z nim zaprzyjaźnić.Opis książki: You'd Be Home NowHistoria dziewczyny, której wszyscy zawsze mówili, jaka ma być. Teraz nadeszła pora, by stawić czoło problemom, przyjmując życie z całym jego bólem, pięknem, walką i radością.Bohaterka tej głęboko osobistej opowieści - nastoletnia Emory - stara się odnaleźć w sytuacji uzależnienia brata w mieście opanowanym przez plagę opiatów.You'd Be Home Now, Kathleen Glasgow to droga rodziny do zrozumienia i pokochania siebie nawzajem za to, kim są, a nie za to, za kogo są uważani. To wspaniała, chwytająca za serce opowieść o kryzysie narkomanii i jego oddziaływaniu na nas wszystkich.Opis książki: The Glass GirlRozdzierająca opowieść o nastolatce zmagającej się z nałogiem i o podróży, którą musi odbyć, aby wyzdrowieć.Każdy w życiu piętnastoletniej Belli czegoś od niej potrzebuje. Mama oczekuje pomocy w domu, tata - żeby nie sprawiała kłopotów, a były chłopak - żeby nie zawracała mu głowy. Jedyną osobą, która nigdy niczego nie chciała, była jej babcia. Ale teraz babcia nie żyje.Tylko jedna rzecz łagodzi presję: alkohol. To on sprawia, że życie jest łatwiejsze, traci swoje ostre kontury. A przecież to dobrze, w końcu wszyscy piją. Poza tym Bella może przestać, kiedy tylko zechce.Jednak gdy na przyjęciu z okazji Święta Dziękczynienia Bella traci przytomność i budzi się w szpitalu, dociera do niej smutna prawda - coś jest BARDZO nie tak. Nadszedł czas, aby zmierzyć się z rzeczywistością. A dla Belli rzeczywistość to odwyk...
Keep your swearing as fresh as a f*cking daisy with 'The Little Book of Profanities'. There's nothing better than that perfect swear word. In a battle of wits, it can make all the difference. And, like all things in life, variety is the spice of swear words. Why call someone a d*ck, when a choad is so much more...satisfying. Stuffed with 100 of the obscene, offensive and outrageous swear words known to construction workers all over the world, this book encourages you to flex and stretch your foul-mouthed muscles so when that awesome opportunity to use a big, hairy curse word arises you're not hoisted by your own petard.
The Golden Age of Bullshit.
Welcome to the golden age of bullshit, a wiki-wild world knee deep in half-truths and alternative facts, spin and bias, influence and insincerity, little white lies and tall tales, falsehoods and propaganda, and all sorts of other baloney designed to disguise fact from fiction. We live in a post truth, fake news, world where nothing is quite as it seems and everything you read should be seen before believed. But isn’t.
From Brexit buses to Donald Trump, the University of Google to misleading advertising claims, and everything in-between, the bullshit keeps getting bigger and stronger and the lies are turning truer every day. It’s time to call bullshit on bullshit!
The Little Book of Bullshit is the ideal antidote everybody needs to fight the influx of excessive lying and cheating and defrauding that has come to define the 21st century, a tiny tome stuffed with delightfully witty snack-sized nuggets of facts and stats and quotes and boasts all related to the ever-expanding world of bullshit.
CÓRKA PASTORA, KTÓRA PODBIŁA LONDYN
Uboga córka pastora trafia w najwyższe kręgi londyńskiego towarzystwa dzięki kłamstwu o ogromnym majątku. Skromna panna Arabella Tallant wierząca w małżeństwo z miłości znajduje się w sytuacji bez wyjścia. Najwytworniejszy dandys Londynu, pan Robert Beaumaris, kierując się tylko sobie znanym kaprysem, okazuje jej względy, ku zazdrości wszystkich łowców fortun. Czy Arabella będzie miała odwagę wyznać prawdę Niezrównanemu, którego urokowi nie potrafi się oprzeć? A on odkryje w sobie prawdziwe uczucie?
Losy dwóch Polaków i dwóch Rosjan splatają się ze sobą w trakcie podróży nad Bajkał.
Siergiej jest przyjaźnie nastawiony do Polski, za to Timur jest wychowany na sowieckiej wersji historii. Ma pretensje do Polski o to, że nie chciała być w sojuszu ze Związkiem Radzieckim, że przez nią jego kraj się rozpadł. Oskarża Rafała o kłamstwo, gdy ten mówi, że żołnierze Armii Czerwonej zabierali Polakom zegarki. Takie z kopertką. Taki, jaki on sam, Timur, dostał od swojej ukochanej żony.
Kiedy ginie zegarek Rosjanina, ten zaczyna popadać w obsesję. Uważa, że to Polak mu go ukradł w ramach zemsty za dawne czasy. A to czyni ich dalszą, wspólną podróż jeszcze bardziej skomplikowaną…
Theatre critic Alex Lyons made his name from his brutal, brilliant reviews.
So when he sees Hayley Sinclair's dismal one-woman show at the Edinburgh Fringe, he thinks nothing of dashing off another of his trademark one-star pans for the newspaper. He also thinks nothing of taking her home after the performance, failing at any point to mention who he is.
What he doesn't expect is for Hayley to revamp her show into a review of Alex's entire life, exposing what an awful person he really is. Worse, the show is a smash hit, and Alex is about to become national news. But can Hayley bring the establishment down without taking herself with it?
Amelia Applebaum isn’t in love with Walter Holland. He just happens to be her favorite moderately famous, chaotically bisexual YouTuber. Who she just happened to invite to prom. (But it’s fine. No, for real. If you delete the post, it didn’t happen.)
Okay, maybe her friends are right: she’s slightly parasocially infatuated. But Amelia just knows sparks would fly—if only she could meet Walter for real.
If only he would host a meet-and-greet.
If only it were just a short road trip away.
And if only she could talk her best friends into making it the perfect last hurrah before graduation—even Amelia’s newly-single, always-cynical, guitar-toting best friend Natalie.
One thing’s for sure: all roads lead to butterflies.
But what if Amelia’s butterflies aren’t for Walter at all?
Monica Tsai spends most days on her computer coding for a program that seeks to connect strangers online. A self-confessed recluse, she finds herself escaping into a digital world, counting the days until she can return home to her beloved grandparents. They are now in their nineties, and she worries about them – especially her grandmother Yun whose memory has begun to fade.
Monica has become intent on tracking down her grandmother Yun’s long-lost cousin, Meng, before it’s too late. In her search, Monica connects with a young woman archivist who presents her with a single pencil that holds a clue to a hidden family history. Through this discovery Monica comes to learn of her grandmother’s years in Shanghai, working at the Phoenix Pencil Company.
As WWII raged outside their door, Yun and Meng came into a power unique to the women in their family: the ability to reclaim stories from the pencils they were written with. But when government officials uncovered their secret ability, they were both forced into a life of espionage, betraying other people’s stories to survive. These shocking revelations set Monica on a path that will change all their lives in ways she can scarcely imagine.
At once a sweeping family epic and a powerful love story with deep emotional resonance, Allison King’s brilliantly inventive debut novel pushes us to question how well we really know our own stories and the many beguiling ways they can connect our lives.
Like a long winter’s dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful history
Beginning one morning in December, We Do Not Part traces the path of Kyungha as she travels from the city of Seoul into the forests of Jeju Island, to the home of her old friend Inseon. Hospitalized following an accident, Inseon has begged Kyungha to hasten there to feed her beloved pet bird, who will otherwise die.
Kyungha takes the first plane to Jeju, but a snowstorm hits the island the moment she arrives, plunging her into a world of white. Beset by icy wind and snow squalls, she wonders if she will arrive in time to save the bird – or even survive the terrible cold which envelops her with every step. As night falls, she struggles her way to Inseon’s house, unaware as yet of the descent into darkness which awaits her.
There, the long-buried story of Inseon’s family surges into light, in dreams and memories passed from mother to daughter, and in a painstakingly assembled archive documenting a terrible massacre on the island seventy years before.
We Do Not Part is a hymn to friendship, a eulogy to the imagination and above all an indictment against forgetting.
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