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.
When leading theoretical physicist Professor Michael Dine was asked where you could find an accessible and authoritative book that would teach you about the Big Bang, Dark Matter, the Higgs boson and the cutting edge of physics now, he had nothing he could recommend.
So he wrote it himself.
In This Way to the Universe, Dine takes us on a fascinating tour through the history of modern physics - from Newtonian mechanics to quantum, from particle to nuclear physics - delving into the wonders of our universe at its largest, smallest, and within our daily lives. If you are looking for the one book to help you understand physics, written in language anyone can follow, this is it.
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'A tour de force of literally all of fundamental physics' BBC Sky at Night magazine
'Everything you wanted to know about physics but were afraid to ask' Priyamvada Natarajan, author of Mapping the Heavens
Elizabeth Anscombe: defiantly brilliant, chain-smoking, trouser-wearing Catholic and (eventual) mother of seven.
Philippa Foot: pathalogically discreet, quietly rebellious granddaughter of a US president.
Mary Midgley: witty scholar and careful observer of humans and animals alike.
Iris Murdoch: aspiring novelist and Francophile with the power to seduce (almost) anyone.
Written with expertise and flair, Metaphysical Animals is a vivid portrait of the endeavours and achievements of these four remarkable women. As undergraduates at Oxford during the Second World War, they shared ideas (as well as shoes, sofas and lovers). From the disorder and despair of war, they went on to breathe new life into philosophy, creating a radically fresh way of thinking about freedom, reality and human goodness that is there for us today.
'Never again', became Queen Elizabeth II's mantra shortly after Diana's death. More specifically, there could never be 'another Diana' - a member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the British monarchy. Picking up where The Diana Chronicles left off, The Palace Papers reveals how the royal family reinvented itself after the traumatic years when Diana's blazing celebrity ripped through the House of Windsor like a comet.
Tina Brown takes readers on a tour de force journey that shows the Queen's stoic resolve as she coped with the passing of Princess Margaret, the Queen Mother and her partner for seven decades, Prince Philip, and triumphed in her Jubilee years even as the family dramas raged around her. She explores Prince Charles's determination to make Camilla his queen, the tension between William and Harry who are on 'different paths', the ascendance Kate Middleton, the disturbing allegations surrounding Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein, and Harry and Meghan's stunning decision to 'step back' as senior royals. Despite the fragile monarchy's best efforts, 'never again' seems fast approaching.
At a New York City wedding, on a sweltering summer night, four people are trying to be happy.
Yun has everything he ever wanted, but somehow it's never enough.
Emory is finally making her mark, but feels the shame more than the success.
Andrew is trying to be honest, but has lied to himself his whole life.
Fin can't resist falling in love, but can't help wrecking it all either.
And then the world begins to end. The four of them watch as one of the wedding guests sits down and refuses to get back up. Soon it's happening across the world. Is it a choice or an illness?
Because how can anyone be happy in a world where the only choice is to feel everything - or nothing at all?
An intensely compulsive novel for anyone who has ever felt hopeful and helpless in one breath, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW is about how you keep living when the world is on fire. Perfect for fans of Emily John St. Mandel's Station Eleven, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Patricia Lockwood's Nobody is Talking About This and Naomi Alderman's The Power.
'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav Ghosh
The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates. This was the Golden Age of Piracy, a period of violent buccaneering and rollicking legends - but it was also, argues anthropologist David Graeber, a brief window of radical democracy, as the pirate settlers attempted to apply the egalitarian principles of their ships to a new society on land.
For Graeber, Madagascar's lost pirate utopia represents some of the first stirrings of Enlightenment political thought. In this jewel of a book, he offers a way to 'decolonize the Enlightenment', demonstrating how this mixed community experimented with an alternative vision of human freedom, far from that being formulated in the salons and coffee houses of Europe. Its actors were Malagasy women, merchants and traders, philosopher kings and escaped slaves, exploring ideas that were ultimately to be put into practice by Western revolutionary regimes a century later.
Pirate Enlightenment playfully dismantles the central myths of the Enlightenment. In their place comes a story about the magic, sea battles, purloined princesses, manhunts, make-believe kingdoms, fraudulent ambassadors, spies, jewel thieves, poisoners and devil worship that lie at the origins of modern freedom.
This is one of the greatest collections of love poetry ever published. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's youthful relationships and injected with an expressive eroticism, these poems are as accomplished as they are evocative and sensual. First published in 1924 to international acclaim when Neruda was just nineteen, this book is still adored the world over for being one of the most memorable, intense and romantic works of poetry ever written.
It is a work of poetry to be cherished by lovers old and new. The perfect Valentine's Day present.
'Cassie Holmes is an expert on time, and this readable, practical book might just make you rethink how you spend yours' Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Think Again
An expert guide to managing your time for a happier, more fulfilling existence.
The most precious commodity we own isn't money. It's time. We are allotted just twenty-four hours a day, and we live in a culture that keeps us feeling 'time poor' - like we never have enough. Since we can't add more hours to the day, how can we experience our lives more richly?
Based on Professor Cassie Holmes's wildly popular MBA class at UCLA, Happier Hour demonstrates how to immediately improve our lives by changing how we perceive and invest our time. Holmes provides empirically based insights and easy-to-implement tools that will allow you to:
-Spend your hours optimally and feel confident in your choices
-Side-step distractions
-Create and savour moments of joy
-Design your days and weeks with purpose
-Look back on your years without regret
Enlivened by Holmes's upbeat narrative and groundbreaking research, Happier Hour will teach you how small changes can have an enormous impact - helping you feel less overwhelmed, more present and more satisfied with your life overall - things that money can't buy. It all starts by transforming just one hour into a happier hour.
You deserve the absolute world even if right now you don't think you do. You are enough, and you CAN change your life and make a fresh start if you want it. I did it and so can you! - Charlotte Greedy
The motivational guide to celebrating your true authentic self and getting the life you want from social media sensation Charlotte Greedy.
Have you ever felt completely lost, stuck in a place you don't want to be?
One of Instagram's loudest and most loved voices, Charlotte Greedy had a rocky start in life. Now with her partner H, her two sons and her fur babies to contend with, every day is a joyful new lesson in learning to love herself again.
Honest and hilarious, You Do You shares Charlotte's real-life experiences and the lessons she's learnt along the way to inspire you to begin your own journey of self-love, confidence and help you build the life you truly deserve.
You Do You. Always.
This book opens with Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, creating vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped Art Spiegelman. It traces the artist's evolution from a MAD-comics obsessed boy in Rego Park, Queens, to a neurotic adult examining the effect of his parents' memories of Auschwitz on his own son.
The second part presents a facsimile of Breakdowns, the long-sought after collection of the artist's comics of the 1970s, the book that triggers these memories. Breakdowns established the mode of formally sophisticated comics that transformed the medium, and includes the prototype of Maus, cubist experiments, an essay on humor, and the definitive genre-twisting pulp story "Ace Hole-Midget Detective."
Pulling all this together is an illustrated essay that looks back at the sixties as the artist pushes sixty, and explains the obsessions that brought these works into being. Poignant, funny, complex, and innovative, Breakdowns alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir.
January 1804: Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of governess.
At thirty-one years old, she has no previous experience of either teaching or fine country houses. But her mother has died and she desperately needs an independent income if she is to survive.
For her new charge, twelve-year-old Fanny Austen, Anne's arrival is all novelty and excitement.
But Anne is keenly aware that her new role is an awkward one: she is neither one of the servants nor one of the family, and to balance a position between the 'upstairs' and 'downstairs' members of the household is a diplomatic chess game. One wrong move may result in her instant dismissal.
She has just begun to settle into her position when dashing Henry Austen and his younger sister Jane come to stay.
Both take an immediate interest in the pretty, clever governess who quickly becomes drawn into the above stairs life of the Austen family.
Despite her best endeavours, Anne finds that she is beginning to fall in love. But has her survival at Godmersham Park just become a good deal more precarious?
NAJGORĘTSZY #SLOWBURN ROMANS TEGO ROKUJack i ja zrobiliśmy wszystko dokładnie na odwrót. Dzień, w którym zwabił mnie do swojego biura, był jednocześnie dniem naszego pierwszego spotkania i naszych zaręczyn. Magia chwili i huk otwieranego szampana? Nie Jack Hawthorne wcale nie przypominał narzeczonego moich marzeń. Byłam zła i winiłam go za wszystko. Za swoją bezbronność i zamroczenie. Za jego błękitne oczy, za przepastne spojrzenie wycelowane wprost we mnie. Za układ, w który mnie wmanewrował.W jednej sekundzie był dla mnie nikim. W następnej stał się wszystkim.W jednej sekundzie był nieosiągalny. W następnej wydawał się całkowicie mój.W jednej sekundzie myślałam, że jesteśmy zakochani. W następnej - że to tylko kłamstwo.Wpadłaś w kłopoty, Rose. W końcu czego się po sobie spodziewałaś?Książka, którą pokochały twitterowe książkary i booktokerki na całym świecie! #TikTokMadeMeBuyItAUTORKA o sobie Pisanie stało się moim światem i nie wyobrażam sobie, że mogę robić coś innego niż dawać życie nowym bohaterom i nowym historiom. Są rzeczy, dzięki którym jesteśmy naprawdę szczęśliwi - dobra książka, szczeniaczek, przytulenie kogoś, za kim się strasznie tęskniło. To właśnie daje mi pisanie. Mam nadzieję, że czytanie moich książek również Was uszczęśliwia. Wszystko, co chcielibyście wiedzieć o mnie i moich książkach, znajdziecie na mojej stronie internetowej. Bardzo bym chciała Was tam zobaczyć!Opinie czytelniczek"Jedna z tych książek, które zapierają dech w piersiach. Mogę tylko powiedzieć: PRZECZYTAJ TO!"JennySteamy Reads Blog"Marriage For One to uzależniający slowburn romans. Ta książka całkowicie mnie pochłonęła. To emocjonalna, piękna historia. Nie mogłam się od niej oderwać i nie mogę się doczekać kolejnych książek Elli!"MELISSA *Mel Reader*"Jakże piękny, namiętny, chwytający za serce romans! Nigdy nie zapomnę tej historii. Opowieść o Jacku i Rose całkowicie mną zawładnęła. () Wspaniała lektura. Rozkoszny, zachwycający slowburn romans. Genialna historia! Ella Maise mnie zachwyciła! NAJLEPSZA KSIĄŻKA ROKU. Jedna z moich ULUBIONYCH książek. PIĘĆ ZYLIARDÓW GWIAZDEK!"Angie - Angie's Dreamy Reads"Ta książka jest tak słodka i poruszająca! Ri#grumpyxsunshine#slowburnromance#marriagewithbenefits
Miłość pokazuje nam, kim chcemy być. Wojna pokazuje, kim jesteśmy. Światowy bestseller już w Polsce! Dwie siostry, Isabelle i Vianne, dzieli wszystko: wiek, okoliczności ,w jakich przyszło im dorastać, i doświadczenia. Kiedy w 1940 roku do Francji wkracza armia niemiecka, każda z nich rozpoczyna własną niebezpieczną drogę do przetrwania, miłości i wolności. Zbuntowana Isabelle dołącza do ruchu oporu, nie zważając na śmiertelne niebezpieczeństwo, jakie ściąga na całą rodzinę. Opuszczona przez zmobilizowanego męża Vianne musi przyjąć do swego domu wroga. Cena za uratowanie własnego życia i dzieci z czasem staje się dramatycznie wysoka… Inspirowana życiorysem bohaterki ruchu oporu Andrée de Jongh opowieść o sile, odwadze i determinacji kobiet zachwyciła miliony czytelniczek na całym świecie. W tej książce jest wszystko, co kocham – Francja, wielka historia i miłość, nad którą nie można zapanować. Idealna lektura na wolny dzień, samotny wieczór i bezsenną noc. Magdalena Różczka Najbardziej podobało mi się pokazanie skomplikowanej relacji między dwiema siostrami. Czy jesteśmy bohaterami, czy tchórzami? Czy jesteśmy lojalni wobec ludzi, których kochamy najbardziej, czy potrafimy ich zdradzić? Lisa See, autorka bestsellerów Dziewczęta z Szanghaju i Chińskie lalki Kristin Hannah jest autorką wielu bestsellerowych obsypanych nagrodami powieści. Wcześniej prawniczka, obecnie pełnoetatowa pisarka, mieszka z mężem i synem na Hawajach. Słowik: • miliony sprzedanych egzemplarzy; • ponad 75 tygodni na liście bestsellerów New York Times’a; • książka roku Amazon (ocena użytkowników – 4,8 gwiazdki na 5, prawie 30 000 ocen); • powieść historyczna roku portalu Goodreads (ocena użytkowników – 4,5 gwiazdki na 5, ponad 200 000 ocen); • książka roku: iTunes, BuzzFeed, Library Journal, Paste, Wall Street Journal, Week; • prawa wydawnicze sprzedane do ponad 40 krajów; • prawa do ekranizacji zakupione przez Tristar Pictures, scenariusz Ann Peacock (Opowieści z Narni. Lew, Czarownica i stara szafa), reżyseria i produkcja Michelle MacLaren (Gra o tron, Z archiwum X, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead). Na ścianie wisiało przekrzywione, pęknięte lustro. Odbicie jej twarzy było przez to zniekształcone, jedna połowa znajdowała się niżej niż druga. – Jak możesz się bać? – zapytała swoje odbicie. Sforsowała w zamieci przełęcz w Pirenejach, przekroczyła wartkie wody rzeki Bidasoa pod nosem hiszpańskich strażników, pewnego razu poprosiła gestapowca, żeby pomógł jej przenieść przez granicę walizkę pełną fałszywych papierów, ponieważ „pan jest taki silny, a ja taka zmęczona podróżą”, ale nigdy nie czuła się tak zdenerwowana jak teraz. Nagle się dowiedziała, że kobieta może jednym wyborem zmienić całe swe życie i wyrwać z korzeniami dotychczasową egzystencję. Westchnęła ciężko, owinęła się wystrzępionym ręcznikiem i wyszła z łazienki. Przystanęła na moment przed drzwiami, żeby uspokoić bicie serca – nadaremnie – po czym je otworzyła. fragment książki
Błyskotliwa komedia omyłek, której przedmiotem jest gra pozorów i iluzje, jakich dostarcza nam w nadmiarze nasz egoizm i zadufanie. W samym zaś środku intrygi stoi niezwykła bohaterka, pełna życia i wigoru, urocza, nieznośna i apodyktyczna Emma. Emma Woodhouse mieszka z ojcem na angielskiej prowincji. Chociaż sama nie zamierza wyjść za mąż, próbuje swoich sił jako swatka. W sprawach serca jednak nie wszystko da się przewidzieć. Może z konwencjonalnych gestów, grzeczności przewidzianych etykietą, ukradkowych spojrzeń zostaną odczytane prawdziwe intencje? Jak to w komedii omyłek bywa...
Dorocie świat wali się na głowę. Wieloletnie przyjaźnie zawisły na włosku, a narzeczony pokazał swoją prawdziwą twarz. Młoda notariuszka staje przed trudnymi wyborami. Tymczasem dramatyczny list z Izraela burzy spokój jej rodziców. Czy ich życie było zbudowane na kłamstwie? By znaleźć odpowiedź, muszą wyruszyć w przeszłość swojej rodziny. Kim są Rebeka, Rachela i Estera? Co wydarzyło się w czasie drugiej wojny światowej w getcie w Białej? Kamienica to pierwszy z czterech osobnych tomów obyczajowo-historycznego cyklu Sekrety Białej Agnieszki Panasiuk opowiadającej o grupie przyjaciółek z Białej Podlaskiej, których relacje w obliczu życiowych przeciwności zostają wystawione na próbę.
Andrew Holleran's unique literary voice is on full display in this poignant story of lust, dread, and desire - the first novel in sixteen years from one of the most acclaimed gay authors of our time.
'Affecting and engaging' COLM TÓIBÍN
One of BuzzFeed's Hot LGBTQ+ Books From The First Half Of 2022
Out in the drought-struck backwaters of rural Florida, The Kingdom of Sand's nameless narrator lives a life of semi-solitude, enjoying the odd, fleeting sexual encounter and the friendship of a few.
His world is ageing, and the memories of another time flash, then fade - visions of parties filled with handsome young men, the parents whom he chose to spend his life besides, the generation he once knew, struck down by AIDS. But, when forced to watch the slow demise of a close neighbour, he is drawn back to the here and now, and his own borrowed time in this kingdom of sand.
An elegy to sex and the body, but also a tragically honest exploration of loneliness and the endless need for human connection, The Kingdom of Sand marks the much-anticipated return of Andrew Holleran.
A powerful debut YA memoir-manifesto about growing up Black and queer in America from journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson.
This powerful YA memoir-manifesto follows journalist and LGBTQ+ activist George M. Johnson as they explore their childhood, adolescence, and college years, growing up under the duality of being black and queer. From memories of getting their teeth kicked out by bullies at age five to their loving relationship with their grandmother, to their first sexual experience, the stories wrestle with triumph and tragedy and cover topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, inequality, consent, and Black joy.
From the author of the acclaimed comic-strip autobiography Persepolis comes this comic book for grown-ups, a gloriously entertaining and revealing look into the sex lives of Iranian women.
From the bestselling author of Persepolis comes this humorous and enlightening look at the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane's tough-talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbours for an afternoon of tea-drinking and talk. Naturally, the subject turns to loves, sex and vagaries of men...
For the 150th anniversary of the birth of the "Jewish Mark Twain,"a new translation of his most famous works
Tevye the Dairyman and Motl the Cantor's Son are the most celebrated characters in all of Jewish fiction. Tevye is the lovable, Bible-quoting father of seven daughters, a modern Job whose wisdom, humor, and resilience inspired the lead character in Fiddler on the Roof. And Motl is the spirited and mischievous nine-year-old boy who accompanies his family on a journey from their Russian shtetl to New York, and whose comical, poignant, and clear-eyed observations capture with remarkable insight the struggles and hopes and triumphs of Jewish immigrants to America at the turn of the twentieth century.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest times in history, yet who was able to describe his own Auschwitz experience with an unaffected tenderness.
Levi was a master storyteller but he did not write fairytales. These stories are an elegy to the human figures who stood out against the tragic background of Auschwitz, 'the ones in whom I had recognized the will and capacity to react, and hence a rudiment of virtue'. Each centres on an individual who - whether it be through a juggling trick, a slice of apple or a letter - discovers one of the 'bizarre, marginal moments of reprieve'.
Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish partisans trapped behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Wracked by fear, hunger and fierce rivalries, they link up, fall apart, struggle to stay alive and to sabotage the efforts of the all-powerful German army. A compelling tale of action, resistance and epic adventure, it also reveals Levi's characteristic compassion and deep insight into the moral dilemmas of total war. It ranks alongside THE PERIOD TABLE and IF THIS IS A MAN as one of the rare authentic masterpieces of our times.
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