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.
Everett Drake właśnie zakończył pracę agenta rządowego. Nareszcie będzie żył bez stresu i natłoku zadań. W samolocie do Miami poznaje Biancę Palmer i umawia się z nią na randkę. Na tym jego spokój się kończy. Bianca jest ścigana przez grupę przestępczą. Everett siłą rzeczy zostaje wciągnięty w sprawę, zresztą i tak nie zostawiłby pięknej Bianki bez pomocy…
Wakacje na Bali – brzmi jak marzenie, ale Kitty O’Hanlon, która przyjechała tu jako opiekunka do dzieci, nie miała ani chwili, by pójść na plażę i skorzystać z uroków tego miejsca. Jest tak zmęczona, że nie martwi jej konieczność powrotu do Londynu. Gdy ostatniego wieczoru poznaje w barze niezwykle przystojnego Santiaga Teveza, postanawia zrobić sobie choć jedną przyjemność i spędza z nim cudowną noc. Nazajutrz rozstaną się bez bólu i na zawsze. Tak przynajmniej sądzi…
Castor Xenakis, by wniknąć w środowisko przestępcze i odnaleźć porwaną siostrę, od lat tworzy swój wizerunek człowieka bez zahamowań i skrupułów, gotowego zaprzedać duszę diabłu za dobrą zabawę. Glory Albright słyszała, że dobrze płaci dziewczynom za wspólną noc. Potrzebuje pieniędzy na leczenie chorej siostry, więc idzie do jego domu na imprezę, licząc, że mu się spodoba. Jest zdumiona, gdy Castor, zamiast potraktować ją jak inne dziewczyny, składa jej zaskakującą propozycję…
Książę Zeus nie chce się żenić z księżniczką Isabeau, ale ze względów dyplomatycznych nie może zerwać zaręczyn. Wpada na pomysł, co zrobić, by to ona je zerwała. Spędza noc z Niną Graine, służącą księżniczki. Paparazzi rozdmuchują skandal i Zeus osiąga zamierzony cel. Jednak nie jest to koniec tej historii. Pół roku później Nina zjawia się w jego pałacu z zaskakującą wiadomością...
Czwarta część miniserii ukaże się w czerwcu
Matka chce wydać Emmę za arystokratę i sprytnie wykorzystuje nadarzającą się okazję. Gdy po upadku z konia nieprzytomna Emma spędza dwa dni w posiadłości sir Roberta Gascoyne’a, rodzice Emmy zmuszają lorda do oświadczyn. Twierdzą, że tylko wówczas reputacja córki nie dozna uszczerbku. Oszołomiona Emma nie protestuje, a Robert... bardzo potrzebuje pieniędzy. Ich zaaranżowane małżeństwo okazuje się udane. Jednak Emmę martwi, że mąż żyje jak odludek i tego samego wymaga od niej. Podobno jego ród jest przeklęty i sprowadza na innych nieszczęścia. Emma, coraz bardziej zakochana w Robercie, wpada na pomysł, jak mu udowodnić, że klątwy nie istnieją...
„Zamknął na moment oczy. Jego napięcie rosło, z każdą sekundą stawało się coraz większe, ledwo wytrzymywał. Zanurzył palce w jej włosach. Tym, co robiła, doprowadzała go do szaleństwa, ale i uszczęśliwiała. To było jeszcze bardziej ekscytujące przeżycie niż w Miami, a przecież seks w Miami był wyjątkowy, fantastyczny. Może chodziło o to, że już znali swoje ciała? A może o to, że dziś wiedział, iż Chloe nie potrafi mu się oprzeć? Że pragnie go z równą siłą co on jej?”.
Lilah to wzór dobrze ułożonej panny. Na ogół spokojna i wierna nakazom etykiety, traci panowanie tylko w obecności Cona, szwagra najbliższej przyjaciółki. Ten niepoprawny bawidamek i żartowniś celowo ją irytuje, toteż ich rozmowy zawsze przeradzają się w kłótnie. Jednak gdy matka i siostry Cona zostają porwane, Lilah, która darzy je sympatią, postanawia mu pomóc. Odkrywa ze zdumieniem, że choć tak bardzo się różnią, działają jak zgrany zespół i mogą się od siebie wiele nauczyć. Niegdysiejsi wrogowie stają się niemal nierozłączni, ale czy Lilah odważy się złamać dla Cona zasady, które od dziecka jej wpajano?
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Josselyn Christie tuż po ślubie dowiaduje się od męża, sycylijskiego arystokraty Cenza Falconego, że jest dla niego jedynie narzędziem, by się odegrać na jej ojcu. Chce od niego uciec, lecz wtedy Cenzo ma wypadek i na skutek uderzenia traci pamięć. Josselyn postanawia odpłacić Cenzowi za to, jak ją potraktował. Mówi mu, że jest jej służącym…
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Brazylijski milioner Caio Salazar i Ana Diaz zawierają związek małżeński, który ma potrwać rok i obojgu przynieść korzyść. Caio zmieni swój wizerunek playboya, który coraz bardziej przeszkadza mu w interesach, a Ana uwolni się od despotycznego ojca. Gdy przychodzi czas rozwodu, Ana uświadamia sobie, że zakochała się w Caiu, ale wie, że on nie odwzajemnia jej uczuć. Podpisuje dokumenty i planuje jak najszybciej wyjechać. Rozwiedzeni małżonkowie niespodziewanie dowiadują się, że grozi im niebezpieczeństwo. Na jakiś czas będą się musieli razem ukryć…
Milioner Curtis Hamilton ma być drużbą na ślubie przyjaciół. Chce pojawić się tam z partnerką, bo obawia się, że w przeciwnym razie kobiety nie dadzą mu spokoju. Prosi o tę przysługę przyjaciółkę z dzieciństwa Jess Carr. Ona nie będzie się starała go uwieść ani nie będzie sobie od razu wyobrażać wspólnej przyszłości. Curtis nie przewidział jednak, że gdy zobaczy Jess w seksownej sukience, to on ulegnie jej urokowi. Teraz myśli już tylko o tym, by spędzić z nią noc, ale Jess nie zamierza wypaść ze swojej roli...
If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture. – Kazuo Ishiguro
From the youthful maximalism of Harajuku to the luxurious sophistication of Ginza, Tokyo is the city of a thousand styles. With diverse and unique subcultures like the kitsch Sweet Lolitas, the dark and dramatic goths and punks, the retro rockabilly's and the elegant and traditional Wa Lolitas, Tokyo is home to an explosion of fashion like no other. This instalment of the beautiful Little Books of City Style series will look at the style evolution of this incredible capital, providing an exquisitely illustrated guide to dressing like a true Tokyoite.
One family's search for a better life: an immersive, kaleidoscopic debut for fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, Homegoing and Pachinko
'Vast and intricate, alight with love and contained fury, A History of Burning is a towering debut by a phenomenal writer. A book I want to press into readers' hands and discuss for hours' Megha Majumdar, author of A BURNING
India, 1898. Pirbhai is thirteen when he steps into a dhow on the vague promise of work; his family is suffering and he will do anything to help. The boat takes him to labour for the British on the East Africa railway. He has no money, no voice, no power - and will make impossible choices in the name of survival.
Sonal is fierce and loving, always willing to fight for what she believes in. When Pirbhai walks into her father's shop, weathered but not broken from his time on the railway, she knows he is part of her future. Together they set out for a new life in Uganda.
So begins the story of their family. Parents, children and grandchildren will scatter across the world, fleeing the brutality of Idi Amin, forging new lives in London, marching for equality in 1990s Canada, searching for a safe mooring.
But under everything lies a secret. And one day, a letter arrives that will fan its embers into a flame.
With a foreword by Paul McCartney
'It's semi-devotional -- a really special place' Florence Welch
'There are certain things that are mythical. Abbey Road is mythical' Nile Rodgers
Many people will recognise the famous zebra crossing. Some visitors may have graffitied their name on its hallowed outer walls. Others might even have managed to penetrate the iron gates. But what draws in these thousands of fans here, year after year? What is it that really happens behind the doors of the most celebrated recording studio in the world?
It may have begun life as an affluent suburban house, but it soon became a creative hub renowned around the world as a place where great music, ground-breaking sounds and unforgettable tunes were forged - nothing less than a witness to, and a key participant in, the history of popular music itself.
What has been going on there for over ninety years has called for skills that are musical, creative, technical, mechanical, interpersonal, logistical, managerial, chemical and, romantics might be tempted add, close to magic.
This is for the people who believe in the magic.
Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater things. She longs for love, but how will she ever find it? She can't even get a signal on her mobile phone. Linda's strict, former rock-star father terrifies any potential suitors away, while her bohemian mother, wafting around in silver jewellery, answers Linda's urgent questions about love with upsettingly vivid allusions to animal husbandry.
When Linda eventually moves to London, she doesn't want to marry 'a man who looks like a pudding', as her good and dull sister Louisa has done, and marries the flashy, handsome son of a UKIP peer instead. But love, and her new life in London, are not quite what she expected . . .
In her bestselling follow-up to Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass, much-loved psychotherapist Julia Samuel invites us into her sessions as she explores the relationships that have the power to touch us and hurt us most: those with our family.
Through eight beautifully told case studies, covering a variety of families across multiple generations, she analyses common issues from losing a parent to children leaving home, and from separation to step-relationships. In doing so she shows how much is, in fact, inherited -- and how much can be healed when it is faced together.
Every Family Has A Story provides the tools that will help with this work of improving our relationships. Its twelve touchstones for family well-being show how to communicate effectively, set boundaries, fight productively and allow change.
This is a wise and insightful exploration of modern life that will help us create the families we wish for.
The second book from the "exact and poetic" (New York Times) author of critical smash Young Skins, winner of the Guardian First Book Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35, Homesickness is an emotionally resonant and wonderfully wry collection that follows the lives of outcasts, misfits, and malcontents from County Mayo to Canada.
When Colin Barrett's debut Young Skins published, it swept up several major literary awards, and, in both its linguistic originality and sharply drawn portraits of working-class Ireland, earned Barrett comparisons to Faulkner, Hardy, and Musil. Now, in a blistering follow-up collection, Barrett brings together eight character-driven stories, each showcasing his inimitably observant eye and darkly funny style
A quiet night in a local pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword-wielding fugitive; a funeral party teeters on the edge of this world and the next, as ghosts simply won't lay in wake; a shooting sees a veteran policewoman confront the banality of her own existence; and an aspiring writer grapples with his father's cancer diagnosis and in his despair wreaks havoc on his mentor's life.
The second piece of fiction from a 'lyrical and tough and smart' (Anne Enright) voice in contemporary Irish literature, Homesickness? marks Colin Barrett out as our most brilliantly original and captivating storyteller.
OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD IN JAPAN
WINNER OF THE NAOKI PRIZE AND THE JAPAN BOOKSELLERS' AWARD
The Night Circus meets Lonely Castle in the Mirror in this million-copy multi-awardwinning Japanese bestseller, available finally in an English translation by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami
In a small coastal town just a stone's throw from Tokyo, a prestigious piano competition is underway. Over the course of two feverish weeks, three friends will experience some of the most joyous - and painful - moments of their lives. Though they don't know it yet, each will profoundly and unpredictably change the others, for ever.
Aya was a piano genius, until she ran away from the stage and vanished; will the tall and talented Makun bring her back? Or will it be child of nature, Jin, a pianist without a piano, who carries the sound of his father's bees wherever he goes? Each of them will break the rules, awe their fans and push themselves to the brink. But at what cost?
Tender, cruel, compelling, HONEYBEES AND DISTANT THUNDER is the unflinching story of love, courage and rivalry. Most of all, it shows how three young people reconcile with the highs and lows of what it means to truly be a friend.
Japanese readers love HONEYBEES AND DISTANT THUNDER:
- 'The novel is a masterpiece'*****'
- 'Each contestant was wonderfully drawn, and I felt very moved'*****
- 'I felt like I was right there, and there were scenes that brought me to tears'*****
- 'This is a beyond a reading experience. It felt like some sixth sense was at work. Wonderful'*****
A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she tells her story from a hotel in New York, opening a window into an extraordinary half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation and summoning up a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history.
'Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose it is a novel whose psychological empathy and historical truths are outstanding' Mail on Sunday
A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities.
A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, but rather than a story of growth the diary reveals a more sinister tale of greed and repulsion.
Driven by nostalgia, a woman visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo. There she finds an isolated world shadowed by decay, haunted by absent students and the disturbing figure of the crippled caretaker.
I hadn't opened the towel that contained her gum since 2013. The last person to touch it was Nina Simone, her saliva and fingerprints unsullied. The idea that it was still in her towel was something I had drawn strength from. I thought each time I opened it some of Nina Simone's spirit would vanish. In many ways that thought was more important than the gum itself.
On Thursday 1 July, 1999, Dr Nina Simone gave a rare performance as part of Nick Cave's Meltdown Festival. After the show, in a state of awe, Warren Ellis crept onto the stage, took Dr Simone's piece of chewed gum from the piano, wrapped it in her stage towel and put it in a Tower Records bag. The gum remained with him for twenty years; a sacred totem, his creative muse, a conduit that would eventually take Ellis back to his childhood and his relationship with found objects, growing in significance with every passing year.
Nina Simone's Gum is about how something so small can form beautiful connections between people. It is a story about the meaning we place on things, on experiences, and how they become imbued with spirituality. It is a celebration of artistic process, friendship, understanding and love.
An ironically upbeat book that asks some of today's most inimitable musicians which song they would choose to be the last one they ever hear If you could choose the last song you'd hear before you died, what would it be and why? Your favorite song of all time? Perhaps the one you danced to at your wedding? The song from that time you got super stoned and just let the chords speak to you? It's a hard question that Mike Ayers has thought about for years. In One Last Song, Ayers invites 30 musicians to consider what song they would each want to accompany them to those pearly white gates. Weaving together their explanations with evocative illustrations and poignant interludes-what your song to die to says about you, what songs famous people have died to, and more.
The book offers insight into the minds of famous artists and provides an entry point for considering how integral music is to our own personal narratives.
Nothing could possibly matter more than learning to discern the authentic voice of God, but few things in life are more susceptible to delusion and deception. When life falls apart and we need God's comfort; in moments of cultural turmoil when we need God's clarity; facing formidable decisions when we need God's guidance; desiring a deeper faith when we need God to say something, anything, to turn the monologue we call prayer into a genuine conversation. Having addressed God's silence in God on Mute, and then How to Pray in his previous bestseller, Pete Greig is back to bring wisdom and guidance to one of the most pressing and perplexing aspects of universal Christian experience - How to Hear God.
Exploring the story of Christ's playful, poignant conversation on the road to Emmaus, Pete draws deeply from the insights of a wide range of Christian traditions. He weaves together the evangelical emphasis upon hearing God in the Bible, and the charismatic commitment to hearing God in the prophetic, with the contemplative understanding of God's 'still, small voice' within.
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