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.
Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress's rival and successor, Mrs. Ota, and that the ceremony has been awkwardly arranged for him to meet his potential future bride. But he is most shocked to be drawn into a relationship with Mrs. Ota - a relationship that will bring only suffering and destruction to all of them. Thousand Cranes reflects the tea ceremony's poetic precision with understated, lyrical style and beautiful prose.
Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he believes he loves. Beautiful and innocent, Komako is tightly bound by the rules of a rural geisha, and lives a life of servitude and seclusion that is alien to Shimamura, and their love offers no freedom to either of them. Snow Country is both delicate and subtle, reflecting in Kawabata's exact, lyrical writing the unspoken love and the understated passion of the young Japanese couple.
Przed Państwem Maria Magdalena, druga po Królowej Saby powieść Ewy Kassali o silnych kobietach w Biblii.Czy byłą kochanką Jezusa? Jawnogrzesznicą opętaną przez demony? Kapłanką Izydy, głoszącą własną ewangelię? Kto i dlaczego nazwał ją doskonałością nad doskonałościami?Maria Magdalena Ewy Kassali jest jedną z nas. Możemy się z nią utożsamiać, bo tak jak my kocha, błądzi, cierpi, waha się, marzy o miłości wiecznej i ponadczasowej. Jest wykształcona i wrażliwa, dobra i obdarzona niezwykłą duchową mocą, ale bywa też naiwna, zarozumiała i próżna. Wychowywana w hermetycznym świecie dobrobytu, nie do końca rozumie rzeczywistość i problemy zwykłych ludzi. Jednak przechodzi przemianę, a po upadku na samo dno odradza się do nowego życia. Z wychowanki kapłanek Izydy i salonowej damy staje się apostołką. Po długiej duchowej wędrówce odkrywa swoją życiową misję. Jej zadaniem jest przenoszenie przez czas wiecznego ognia i kobiecej cząstki boskiej energii. Zostaje towarzyszką Jezusa i obok jego matki staje się najważniejszą kobietą w jego życiu.Ta opowieść jest jak wciągający hollywoodzki film wartka akcja, mocne charaktery, dynamika zdarzeń. Jest też jak lustro każdy może zobaczyć w niej swoje własne odbicie. I swoją Marię Magdalenę.W swoich książkach Ewa Kassala łączy szerokie naukowe zgłębianie tematu (każda powieść powstaje przy konsultacji z historykami) z literackim talentem, dzięki czemu czytelnik może poczuć atmosferę starożytnego świata. Możesz iść krok w krok z bohaterkami z legend i zamiast zakurzonej historii doświadczać prawdziwych emocji, dylematów i wątpliwości, z jakimi borykały się najpotężniejsze kobiety, jakie kiedykolwiek stąpały po ziemi. Autorka przywołuje do życia mądre, silne i odważne królowe, które nie bały się używać rozumu i kobiecego uroku, by dostawać to, czego chciały.
Pierwsza część czterotomowej serii o polskich babkach wiejskich, akuszerkach i położnych. Świat dawno już zapomniany, w którym gusła i zabobony walczą z postępem medycyny, a kobiety wszystkich klas społecznych są równe w obliczu cudu narodzin, przeplatającego się z dramatem śmierci. Początek XIX wieku. Opętana nienawiścią do podopiecznych teściowej hrabina Luiza Skrzypowska wygania z pałacu Polę i jej matkę, kucharkę Elżbietę. Pozbawione dachu nad głową kobiety trafiają pod opiekę doktora Wacława, który postanawia wysłać Polę na kurs wiejskich położnych, aby zapewnić jej pracę i pewne utrzymanie. Dziewczyna nie wie, że zakochany w niej mężczyzna pod przykrywką praktyki lekarskiej prowadzi schronisko, gdzie zamożne damy potajemnie rodzą niechciane dzieci. Kilkadziesiąt lat wcześniej Malwina Skrzypowska, teściowa Luizy, zakochuje się w stajennym, co daje początek lawinie niefortunnych zdarzeń, mających wpływ na losy czterech bohaterek. Malwina, Elżbieta, Pola i Luiza muszą się zmierzyć z przeciwnościami, które uwikłanym w osiemnasto- i dziewiętnastowieczne konwenanse kobietom nie dają możliwości wyboru życia według własnych zasad. Czy więź, która łączy hrabinę Malwinę z Elżbietą i jej córką Polą, jest na tyle silna, aby pomogła im przetrwać najtrudniejsze chwile? Czy w czasach, gdy strach, zło i bieda popychają kobiety do najgorszych czynów, bohaterki zachowają ludzką twarz? Agnieszka Olszanowska- autorka kilkunastu książek dla dorosłych, dzieci i młodzieży. W swych powieściach porusza niebanalne tematy, a jej bohaterowie to ludzie ukształtowani przez trudne doświadczenia życiowe. Bibliotekarka z powołania i wykształcenia. Mama trójki dorosłych dzieci. Czas wolny spędza na łonie natury, pielęgnując ogród w rustykalnym stylu.
Żałoba to bardzo indywidualne doświadczenie. Charlie Corbett towarzysząc matce w chorobie, a następnie zmagając się z żałobą po jej śmierci znalazł ukojenie w świecie przyrody. W momencie najgłębszej rozpaczy wyszedł na spacer, błąkając się bez celu usłyszał śpiew skowronka. Do tamtego czasu nie zwracał uwagi na istniejące dookoła ptaki. Ten jeden moment okazał się przełomowy w przechodzeniu przez czas smutku i żałoby. Dwanaście ptaków ratujących życie jest opowieścią o tym, w jaki sposób natura dookoła nas może pomóc w dojściu do równowagi psychicznej. Pełna czułości historia o rodzinie, zabieganiu we współczesnym świecie i przełomowych momentach, w których potrzebujemy wyciszenia, spokoju i uważności.
Kultowe historie miłosne często kończą się dramatem. Romeo i Julia zginęli tragicznie. Jack poświecił się, by Rose przeżyła katastrofę słynnego statku. Czy bilans złamanych serc wzrośnie, gdy los połączy ze sobą Laurę Justy i Jacoba Reeve’a? Czy z tak pechowymi inicjałami mają w ogóle szansę na szczęśliwe zakończenie?
Siedemnastoletnia Laura żyje z diagnozą nieuleczalnej choroby. Każdy dzień może być jej ostatnim, więc stroni od nowych znajomości – nie chce, by ludzie cierpieli po jej odejściu. Jacob Reeve także doskonale wie, czym jest oczekiwanie na śmierć. Może dlatego z łatwością burzy mury, które zbudowała wokół siebie Laura. Związek, na który decydują się pod wpływem impulsu, wkrótce odmieni życia nastolatków. Nie spodziewają się bowiem, że ta relacja okaże się dla nich najcenniejszą lekcją od losu.
Time worth dying for to historia o nieprzewidywalności życia i nieuchronności śmierci. Ale przede wszystkim o tym, że nigdy nie jest za późno, aby zacząć żyć.
Sexus is the first volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life work
Henry Miller called the end of his life in America and the start of a new, bohemian existence in 1930s Paris his 'rosy crucifixion'. His searing fictionalized autobiography of this time of liberation was banned for nearly twenty years. Sexus, the first volume in The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, looks back to his early sexual escapades in Brooklyn, and his growing infatuation with the playful, teasing dance hall hostess who will become the great obsession of his life.
Nexus is the third volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life work
The exhilarating final volume of Henry Miller's semi-autobiographical trilogy, Nexus follows his last months in New York. Trapped in a bizarre ménage-à-trois with his fiery wife Mona and her lover Stasia, he finds his life descending into chaos. Finally, betrayed and exhausted, he decides to leave America and sail for Paris, to discover his true vocation as a writer.
A philosopher, essayist, novelist, pornographer and fervent Catholic who came to regard the brothels of Paris as his true 'churches', Georges Bataille ranks among the boldest and most disturbing of twentieth-century thinkers. In this influential study he links the underlying sexual basis of religion to death, offering a dazzling array of insights into incest, prostitution, marriage, murder, sadism, sacrifice and violence, as well as including comments on Freud, Sade and Saint Theresa. Everywhere, Eroticism argues, sex is surrounded by taboos, which we must continually transgress in order to overcome the sense of isolation that faces us all.
In Kingsley Amis's Take A Girl Like You, twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This perceptive coming of age novel about a northern girl who moves south, wants to fit in and yet wants to preserve her principles, challenges our assumptions about the battle of the sexes and classes in Britain. It is a story about 'the squalid business of the man and the woman' and 'the most wonderful thing that had ever happened' to Jenny Bunn.
Few twentieth century novelists have explored our preoccupation with sex like Kingsley Amis. The results are surprising and often hilarious.
Kingsley Amis's (1922-95) works take a humorous yet highly critical look at British society, especially in the period following the end of World War II. Born in London, Amis explored his disillusionment in novels such as That Uncertain Feeling (1955). His other works include The Green Man (1970), Stanley and the Women (1984), and The Old Devils (1986), which won the Booker Prize. Amis also wrote poetry, criticism, and short stories.
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'A beautiful, sad, utterly convincing account of an entire life' Ian McEwan
William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries the wrong woman. His life is quiet, and after his death, his colleagues remember him rarely.
Yet with truthfulness, compassion and intense power, this novel uncovers a story of universal value - of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history - and in doing so reclaims the significance of an individual life.
'A brilliant, beautiful, inexorably sad, wise and elegant novel' Nick Hornby
'A terrific novel of echoing sadness' Julian Barnes
Discover Toni Morrison’s most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature.
‘An American masterpiece’ AS Byatt
It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. Told with heart-stopping clarity, melding horror and beauty, Beloved is Toni Morrison’s enduring masterpiece.
‘Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours…“Beloved,” is a heartbreaking testimony to the ongoing ravages of slavery, and should be read by all’ Margaret Atwood, New York Times
‘The literary titan we must never stop learning from’ Metro
Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction
**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
An emotionally truthful and visually stunning graphic novel about solace and redemption. "A superb, masterful piece of work." Financial Times"A graphic novel so well drawn and beautifully told I'm certain it will speak to adults too" ObserverHelene is not free to hide from the taunts of her former friends in the corridors at school. She can't be invisible in the playground or in the stairways leading to art class.
Insults are even scribbled on the walls of the toilet cubicles. Helene smells, Helene's fat, Helene has no friends ... now.
When Helene's heart hammers in her chest as Genevieve snickers at the back of the bus, inventing nasty things to say about her, Helene dives into the pages of her book Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. And, in the solace she finds there, Helene's own world becomes a little brighter. But how will the story end? Is there any hope for the wise, strange, plain Jane Eyre? How could Mr Rochester ever love her? On nature camp, arranged by the school as a treat, Helene finds herself in the tent of other outcasts.
Again, her inner and outer worlds become entangled as she reads on - this time putting herself into Jane Eyre's shoes. It would be impossible for Mr Rochester to marry a sausage in a swimsuit, even if he loved her. Wouldn't it? But, while deeply lost in self-doubt, Helene's world is unexpectedly shaken up by a fresh new friendship.
Geraldine snorts with laughter at her jokes! They love being together! Helene begins to worry less about what the cruel girls think - and more about how happy she can be (and make others)... Perhaps Jane Eyre's story will end well after all, too.
It is 1889. Civil war is brewing in Mexico, and sixteen-year-old Teresita has just woken from the strangest dream - a dream that she has died. Only it was not a dream.
This passionate and rebellious young woman has arisen from death with a power to heal - but it will take all her faith to endure the trials that await her and her family now that she has become the Saint of Cabora. The Hummingbird's Daughter is the story of a girl and a country grappling with their destiny. Two decades in the writing, the result is an epic, dazzling novel of love and loss, joy and sacrifice.
A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a white police officer, drawing connections with real-life, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes.
ALIVE
Twelve-year-old Jerome doesn't get into trouble. He goes to school. He does his homework. He takes care of his little sister.
Then Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat.
DEAD
As a ghost, watching his family trying to cope with his death, Jerome begins to notice other ghost boys.
Each boy has a story and they all have something in common...
Bit by bit, Jerome begins to understand what really happened - not just to him, but to all of the ghost boys.
A poignant and gripping story about how children and families face the complexities of race and racism in today's world.
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks.
He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveller.
He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his new book David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface.
His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives - a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim finds one of the wittiest and most original writers at work today at the peak of his form.
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands comes this vibrant, tender and deeply personal memoir that finds light and love in the darkest of places. As a specialist in palliative medicine, Dr Rachel Clarke chooses to inhabit a place many people would find too tragic to contemplate. Every day she tries to bring care and comfort to those reaching the end of their lives and to help make dying more bearable. Rachel's training was put to the test in 2017 when her beloved GP father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She learned that nothing - even the best palliative care - can sugar-coat the pain of losing someone you love. And yet, she argues, in a hospice there is more of what matters in life - more love, more strength, more kindness, more joy, more tenderness, more grace, more compassion - than you could ever imagine. For if there is a difference between people who know they are dying and the rest of us, it is simply this: that the terminally ill know their time is running out, while we live as though we have all the time in the world. Dear Life is a book about the vital importance of human connection, by the doctor we would all want by our sides at a time of crisis. It is a love letter - to a father, to a profession, to life itself.
A historical romance, Sontag's book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining the shape of Western civilization since the Age of Enlightenment, Sontag's novel is an exquisitely detailed picture of revolution, the fate of nature, art and love.
The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California; and Modrzejewska's subsequent triumphant career on the American stage under the name Helena Modjeska.
Arthur Miller's play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man, set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York.
Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman and a straightforward man, with a strong sense of decency and of honour. For Eddie, it's a privilege to take in his wife's cousins, Marco and Rodolpho, straight off the boat from Italy. But, as his niece Catherine begins to fall for one of them, it's clear that it's not just, as Eddie claims, that he's too strange, too sissy, too careless for her, but that something bigger, deeper is wrong - and wrong inside Eddie, in a way he can't face. Something which threatens the happiness of their whole family.
This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction by the author and a new foreword by actor Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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