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.
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.
'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of my tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.'
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants.
Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these?
In What A Time To Be Alone,The Slumflower will be your life guru, confidante and best friend. She'll show you that being alone is not just okay: it's just about the best freaking thing that's ever happened to you. As she says, 'You're bad as hell and you were made with intention.' It's about time you realised.
Peppered with insightful Igbo proverbs from Chidera's Nigerian mother and full of her own original artwork, What A Time To Be Alone will help you navigate the modern world. We can all decide our own fates and Chidera shows us how, using a three-part approach filled with sass, wisdom and charm.
Learn how to celebrate YOU - decide your self-worth, take time to heal and empower yourself in this messy world.
Don't worry about THEM - avoid other people's demons and realise that everyone is protecting themselves from something - no matter how aggressive their method.
Feel the togetherness in US - sustain and grow healthy relationships and avoid toxicity in your friendships.
Own your story. Create your own narrative. Read this book. #WATTBA
In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.
Soon they discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages.
Greek Lessons tells the story of two ordinary people brought together at a moment of private anguish - the fading light of a man losing his vision meeting the silence of a woman who has lost her language. Yet these are the very things that draw them to one another. Slowly the two discover a profound sense of unity - their voices intersecting with startling beauty, as they move from darkness to light, from silence to expression.
Greek Lessons is a tender love letter to human intimacy and connection, a novel to awaken the senses, vividly conjuring the essence of what it means to be alive.
Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple - they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Every year for the past decade, they have left behind their lives to drink far too much wine and soak up the sea air with their favourite people in the world. Except this year, they are lying through their teeth. Harriet and Wyn broke up six months ago. And they still haven't told anyone.
This is the last time they'll all be together here. The cottage is for sale, and since they can't bear to break their best friends' hearts, they'll fake it for one more week. But how can you pretend to be in love - and get away with it - in front of the people who know you best?
A passionate, provocative and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #MeToo, and whether we can separate an artist’s work from their biography.
What do we do with the art of monstrous men? Can we love the work of Roman Polanski and Michael Jackson, Hemingway and Picasso? Should we love it? Does genius deserve special dispensation? What makes women artists monstrous? And what should we do with beauty, and with our unruly feelings about it?
Claire Dederer explores these questions and our relationships with the artists whose behaviour disrupts our ability to understand the work on its own terms. She interrogates her own responses and behaviour, and she pushes the fan, and the reader, to do the same. Morally wise, deeply considered and sharply written, Monsters gets to the heart of one of our most pressing conversations.
The islands of Prospera lie in a vast ocean: in splendid isolation from the rest of humanity, or whatever remains of it. . .
Citizens of the main island enjoy privileged lives, attended to by the support staff who live on a cramped neighbouring island, where whispers begin to grow into cries for revolution.
Meanwhile, life for Prosperans is perfection – and when it’s not, their bodies are sent to the mysterious third island: a facility named The Nursery, to be rebooted and restart life afresh.
Proctor Bennett is a Ferryman, who shepherds the soon-to-be retired into the unknown. He never questioned his work until the day he is delivered a cryptic message:
“The world is not the world…”
These simple words unravel something that he has secretly suspected. They seep into strange dreams – of the stars and the sea – and the unshakeable feeling that someone is trying to tell him something important.
Something greater than anyone could possibly imagine, which could change the fate of humanity itself…
A sparkling anthology starring Lady Whistledown – the elusive Regency-era gossip columnist popularized in No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix.
Lady Whistledown Tells All!
Society is abuzz when the Season’s most promising debutante is jilted by her intended – only to be swept away by the deceitful rogue’s dashing older brother – in Julia Quinn‘s witty, charming, and heartfelt tale.
When the scandalous actions of his beautiful fiancée are recorded in Lady Whistledown’s column, a concerned groom-to-be rushes back to London to win his lady’s heart once and forever, in Suzanne Enoch‘s enchanting romantic gem.
Karen Hawkins captivates with an enduring story of a handsome rogue whose lifelong friendship – and his heart – are tested when the lovely lady in question sets her cap for someone else.
A dazzling and delightful tale by Mia Ryan has a young woman cast out of her home by an insufferable yet charming marquis – who intends to take possession not only of the house . . . but its former occupant as well!
Join the Bridgertons, and the rest of the ton, as they pore over (and gossip about) Lady Whistledown’s latest musings. The elusive Regency-era gossip columnist – popularized in No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix – reveals society’s most recent secrets in this glittering anthology!
Who Stole Lady Neeley’s Bracelet?
Was it the fortune hunter, the gambler, the servant or the rogue? All of London is abuzz with speculation, but it is clear that one of four couples is connected to the crime . . .
Lady Whistledown’s Society Papers, May 1816
Julia Quinn enchants: A dashing fortune hunter is captivated by the Season’s most desired debutante . . . and must prove he is out to steal the lady’s heart, not her dowry.
Suzanne Enoch tantalizes: An innocent miss who has spent her life scrupulously avoiding scandal is suddenly – and secretly – courted by London’s most notorious rogue.
Karen Hawkins seduces: A roving viscount comes home to rekindle the passionate fires of his marriage . . . only to discover that his beautiful, headstrong bride will not be so easily won.
Mia Ryan delights: A lovely, free-spirited servant is dazzled by the romantic attentions of a charming earl . . . sparking a scandalous affair that could ruin them both.
You’ll hear it first from Lady Whistledown!
Tommy Dees is in the weeds – restaurant speak for beyond overwhelmed. He’s been working at Sunset Estates Retirement Community to get the experience he needs to attend one of the best culinary schools in the world. And he also needs a letter of recommendation from his sadistic manager. In exchange for the letter, Tommy has to meet three conditions – including train new-hire Gabriel.
Gabe, with the dimples and kind heart, who Tommy crushed on during summer camp at age ten and then never saw again. Unfortunately, Gabe doesn’t remember Tommy at all. The training proves distracting as old feelings resurface, and the universe seems to be conspiring against them.
With the application deadline looming and Gabe on his mind, can Tommy keep it all together or is it a recipe for disaster?
Exiled from his university position for an inexcusable blunder, art historian Don Lamb flees to London, a city alive with sex and creativity. There, over the course of a long, hot summer, as he is immersed in the anarchic art and gay scenes of the mid-90s, Don sees his carefully curated life irrevocably changed. But his epiphany is also a reckoning, as his unexamined past is revealed to him in a devastating new light.
Intense and atmospheric, Tiepolo Blue traces Don’s turbulent awakening, and his desperate flight from art into life.
Minęły trzy lata od powrotu ojca Tima i jego żony Cynthii z Whitecap Island do Mitford. W małym miasteczku, które stało się drugim domem dla milionów czytelników, życie wszystkich jego obywateli toczy się swoim torem. Chociaż ojciec Tim nie lubi zmian, jeszcze bardziej nie podoba mu się życie na emeryturze. W czasie gdy razem z Cynthią przygotowuje się do rocznej posługi duszpasterskiej za granicą stanu, następujące po sobie wydarzenia mocno wstrząsają jego wiarą i całym miasteczkiem Mitford. Przez lata ojciec Tim pomagał innym odnaleźć przebaczenie, teraz musi sam znaleźć odwagę i łaskę, żeby wybaczyć sobie.
"Opowiadania, facecje, anegdoty i jeden esej" to zbiór 24 tekstów bardzo zróżnicowanych tematycznie. Łączy je w zasadzie tylko to, że podane są prozą, a inspirowane przede wszystkim realem, choć nie tylko. Niektóre próby mają wydźwięk surrealistyczny, poprzetykane są fatalizmem i spirytualizmem, proponując tym samym gamę różnorodnych emocji, zadziwienia oraz wzruszeń.Adam Paluch, ur. w 1943 r. na Podolu, emerytowany profesor antropologii kultury Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego specjalizujący się w etnobotanice i medycynie niekonwencjonalnej. Pasjonuje się także zagadnieniami epistemologicznymi i metodologicznymi w naukach humanistycznych oraz diarystyką. Ma słabość do jazzu, havan, kotów i dobrej literatury. Ostatnio wydał "Dwie sagi galicyjskie" (2018).
"Ta historia nie jest emanacją wyników badań, przeprowadzonych rozmów, wykonanych testów. Nie znam nawet naukowych książek i publikacji opisujących istotę tej historii. Jest to obraz przedstawiony przez człowieka tkwiącego w tych wydarzeniach, gdzie uczucia są głównymi bohaterami. Zwykłość staje się tutaj niezwykłością. Czy świat jest zawsze wrogi dla porzuconych dzieci, czy może dla opiekunów decydujących się na ich przyjęcie pod swój dach? Czy połączenie światów dorosłych i dzieci genetycznie im obcych ma sens, bez szkód wyrządzonych sobie nawzajem?"(fragment książki)Czy autor odpowie na te i inne pytania?Czy ból związany z przeżyciami pozwoli mu na obiektywną ocenę?Czy w takiej sytuacji można w ogóle mówić o obiektywizmie?Zostawmy to czytelnikowi, jego wrażliwości, empatii i założeniom - ale niech nie przysłonią realiów.
Piątkowy wieczór marzeń w społeczności Ogrodników Pozytywnych Zmian to wyjątkowe wydarzenie, w trakcie którego gwiazdą wieczoru może zostać każdy z członków tej wspaniałej grupy. Ogrodnicy charakteryzują się zasadą Nie oceniaj tylko doceniaj i wspieraj. Gospodarzem wieczoru marzeń jest założyciel grupy ogrodników a zarazem lider transformacji, Mariusz Kamiński, który co piątek zaprasza jedną osobę z grupy, aby mogła opowiedzieć o sobie i swoich największych marzeniach. Stałym punktem tych ogrodniczych spotkań jest historia, która w sposób bardzo emocjonalny jest napisana dla każdej gwiazdy wieczoru przez Anię Remisz.Ania trafnie opisuję każdą z osób, pokazując z serca te najistotniejsze cechy charakteryzujące uczestnika. Dzięki temu dla każdego z nich unikatowe opowiadanie jest wspaniałą pamiątką uwieczniającą ten wyjątkowy wieczór. Niniejsza książka jest zbiorem 33 opowiadań napisanych przez Anię (wyjątkiem jest jedna historia napisana przez Marcina Łaptosa dla Ani), które są bardzo osobiście połączone z każdym uczestnikiem wieczoru marzeń. Czasem ta historia bywa bardzo prorocza, czego dowodem jest niniejsza książka.Obecnie Ania jest zaangażowana w projekt Bajki dla Furaha będąc też ambasadorką fundacji HELP FURAHA.
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