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.
Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals had officially replaced religion. Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe, was almost impossible to visit, almost impossible to leave. It was a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. To Lea, it was home. People were equal, neighbours helped each other, and children were expected to build a better world. There was community and hope.
Then, in December 1990, everything changed. The statues of Stalin and Hoxha were toppled. Almost overnight, people could vote freely, wear what they liked and worship as they wished. There was no longer anything to fear from prying ears. But factories shut, jobs disappeared and thousands fled to Italy on crowded ships, only to be sent back. Predatory pyramid schemes eventually bankrupted the country, leading to violent conflict. As one generation's aspirations became another's disillusionment, and as her own family's secrets were revealed, Lea found herself questioning what freedom really meant.
Free is an engrossing memoir of coming of age amid political upheaval. With acute insight and wit, Lea Ypi traces the limits of progress and the burden of the past, illuminating the spaces between ideals and reality, and the hopes and fears of people pulled up by the sweep of history.
'This honest, engaging memoir shares such gems . . . the perfect read for anyone who dreams big' The Times and Sunday Times, Books of the Year
The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo
In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its inception fifty years earlier - a revolutionary landmark for Britain. Her journey was a long one, but she made it, and she made history.
Manifesto is her intimate and fearless account of how she did it. From a childhood steeped in racism from neighbours, priests and even some white members of her own family, to discovering the arts through her local youth theatre; from stuffing her belongings into bin bags, always on the move between temporary homes, to exploring many romantic partners both toxic and loving, male and female, and eventually finding her soulmate; from setting up Britain's first theatre company for Black women in the eighties to growing into the trailblazing writer, theatre-maker, teacher, mentor and activist we see today - Bernardine charts her rebellion against the mainstream and her life-long commitment to community and creativity. And, through the prism of her extraordinary experiences, she offers vital insights into the nature of race, class, feminism, sexuality and ageing in modern Britain.
A deliciously dark, atmospheric novel about family and brotherhood from one of America's most distinctive writers
There's sibling rivalry and then there's the relationship of brothers Cal and Frank Belanger, which takes fraternal antipathy to a whole new level.
Enemies seemingly since childhood, the small town of Littleford, where they are nicknamed 'The Bad Angle Brothers', just isn't big enough to hold them both. So Cal strikes out for the world's wild places -- a gifted geologist in search of gold and other precious minerals, leaving Frank to develop a successful career as the town's lawyer, fixer and local hero.
Apart, their differences are muted by distance, but when Cal, newly rich and newly wed, returns to the town of his birth, to buy a house and raise a family, Frank gives him the opposite of a brotherly welcome. From undermining Cal's marriage, while Cal is away on business, to torpedoing his finances, nothing is off the table, setting the scene for a tale of gleefully vicious betrayals and reprisals, culminating in the ultimate plan: murder.
Few authors have as keen an eye for human nature as the inimitable Paul Theroux, and this riveting tale of adventure, betrayal, and the true cost of family bonds is a remarkable new work from one of America's most distinctive writers.
Every second of our lives - whether we're looking both ways before crossing the street, celebrating the birth of a baby, or moving to a new city - we must cope with an unknowable future by telling stories about what will happen next. Where is the future, the place where we set those stories? Can we trust our future stories? And what sort of futures do they show us?
David Christian, historian and bestselling author of Origin Story, is renowned for pioneering the emerging discipline of Big History, which surveys the whole of the past. But with Future Stories, he casts his sharp analytical eye forward, offering an introduction to the strange world of the future, and a guide to what we think we know about it at all scales, from the predictive mechanisms of single-celled organisms and tomato plants to the merging of colossal galaxies billions of years from now.
Drawing together science, history and philosophy from a huge range of places and times, Christian explores how we prepare for uncertain futures, including the future of human evolution, artificial intelligence, interstellar travel, and more. By linking the study of the past much more closely to the study of the future, we can begin to imagine what the world will look like in the next hundred years and consider solutions to the biggest challenges facing us all.
Alice Stern isn't ready to turn forty. She thought she'd have more time to figure it all out. Above all, she thought she'd have more time with her father, Leonard - but he's lying in a hospital bed and Alice isn't sure if she'll hear his voice again.
When she falls asleep outside their old apartment on the night before her birthday, she's surprised to be greeted the next morning by a much younger Leonard, with a sixteenth birthday card for a teenage Alice who, far from clinging to her youth, is hurtling towards adulthood . . .
Alice soon discovers how she got back here, to 1996 and her sixteenth birthday, and realises she can keep on coming, whenever she chooses.
But faced each time with different versions of her life, and the consequences of her decisions, it's on her not to lose sight of what she wants most . . .
When journalist Dan McCrum followed a tip to investigate the hot new tech company challenging Silicon Valley, everything about Wirecard looked a little too good to be true: offices were sprouting up around the world, it was reporting runaway growth and the CEO even wore a black turtleneck in tribute to Steve Jobs. In the space of a few short years, the company had come from nowhere to overtake industry giants like Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank on the stock market.
As McCrum dug deeper, he encountered a story stranger and more dangerous than he ever imagined: a world of short sellers and whistleblowers, pornographers and private militias, hackers and spies. Before long he realised that he wasn't the only one in pursuit. Shadowy figures were following him through the streets of London, high-flying lawyers were sending ominous letters to his boss, and he was named as the prime suspect in a criminal inquiry. The race was on to prove his suspicions and clear his name.
Money Men is the astonishing true story of Wirecard's multi-billion-dollar fraud, Europe's biggest new tech darling revealed as a house of cards.
Uncovering fake bank accounts, fake offices and possibly even a fake death, McCrum offers a searing exposé that will finally lay bare the truth.
A gruesome curse. A city in upheaval. A monster with unquenchable appetites.
As the last true witches living in a city shifting from magic to industry, Marlinchen and her two sisters are little more than tourist traps as they treat their clients with archaic remedies and beguile them with nostalgic charm. Marlinchen spends her days divining secrets in exchange for rubles and trying to placate their tyrannical, xenophobic wizard father, who keeps his daughters sequestered from the outside world. While at night, she and her sisters sneak out to enjoy the city's amenities and revel in its thrills, particularly the recently established ballet theatre, where Marlinchen meets a dancer who quickly captures her heart.
But as Marlinchen's late-night trysts grow more fervent and frequent, so does the threat of her father's rage and magic. And while the city flourishes with culture and bustles with enterprise, a monster lurks in its midst, borne of intolerance and resentment and suffused with old-world power. Caught between history and progress and blood and desire, Marlinchen must draw upon her own magic to keep her city safe and find her place within it.
From mindfulness and meditation to yoga breaks and spiritual bootcamps, stepping back from daily life remains a human obsession. In this endlessly enlightening book, Nat Segnit experiences retreats around the world as he investigates why we seek solitude, what we get out of it, and what is going on in our brains and bodies when we achieve it. Along the way, he meets yogic scholars, scientists, religious leaders, philosophers and artists, gaining fascinating - and often startling - insights.
'Here are characters who are real and likeable, even when they are complicated and flawed. Paula Hawkins is a genius'
Lisa Jewell
IT'S THE QUIET ONES YOU HAVE TO WATCH
Three women, connected by one brutal crime.
Three women, determined to right the wrongs done to them.
Three women, with everything to hide.
When it comes to revenge, even good people are capable of terrible things.
But only one person killed Daniel Sutherland.
How long can their secrets smoulder, before they explode into flame?
The new SCORCHING bestseller from #1 author of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN and INTO THE WATER
Do you remember your first love?
Nick and Anna are young. They meet at a cinema, both working summer jobs. They've lived different lives. Carry secret hurts. But they're drawn together by something neither understands.
Fast forward and they've long ago gone their separate ways. Inhabiting different worlds. Shaped by the hurt they bear. Yet neither can quite forget the other.
So when tragedy brings them back together, they find themselves asking . . .
What if we took a chance on another life?
What if all it took to improve each day was 5 minutes?
From the Instagram page @MySelfLoveSupply comes A Hug in Your Book, a pocket-sized comfort book that will transform your everyday life through tiny habit changes.
Filled with 5-minute, 15-minute and 30-minute self-care routines tailored to your needs, it is a book full of self-kindness tips, quotes, reminders and routines for happier days.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
A countess with a card trick; love letters filled with deception; a desperate man with a pistol.'The Queen of Spades', one of Pushkin's most popular and chilling stories, is accompanied here by the thrilling 'Dubrovsky' and unforgettable 'Tales of Belkin'.
Gdy mężczyzna z przeszłością pragnie dziewczyny pełnej nadziei, nigdy się nie podda. Spokojne życie Kornelii i Alana zostaje brutalnie przerwane, kiedy dawny wróg znów daje o sobie znać. Mogą uciec lub wrócić do świata, o którym oboje woleliby zapomnieć. Sytuację dodatkowo komplikuje fakt, że do gry wkracza ktoś jeszcze Wspólny cel sprawia, że zyskują potężnego sprzymierzeńca. Złość, śmierć, strach i ból podążają za nimi niczym cień, a marzenia o szczęśliwej przyszłości zaczynają się oddalać. Jeśli chcą być razem, muszą stać się bezwzględni jak ich prześladowca, inaczej przegrają wszystko. Mafijne porachunki, pasja, pożądanie, fascynacja i złożona mroczna obietnica, której oboje za wszelką cenę pragną dotrzymać.
Druga powieść z cyklu Dziewczyna spotyka księcia rozpoczętego bestsellerem ,,New York Timesa"" Ich obietnice.
Przygotuj się na wielką miłość! Julia Quinn
Zafascynowana gwiazdami guwernantka z przypadku i niepoprawny donżuan z wyboru...
Książę Belvoir, Chase Reynaud, obawia się, że nie zapewni należnej edukacji i wychowania swoim dwóm osieroconym podopiecznym. Tym bardziej, że żadna guwernantka nie wytrzymała z nimi dłużej niż dwadzieścia cztery godziny.
Aż zjawia się panna Alexandra Mountbatten. Inteligentna, mądra i wrażliwa - a na dodatek - zachwycająca. Czyż mężczyzna, któremu nie może się oprzeć żadna kobieta, mógłby nie ulec aż tylu zaletom? Tym bardziej, że Chase wyczuwa w Alexandrze ogromną skrywaną namiętność, którą pragnie rozbudzić, zdecydowany na nową zdobycz.
Jednakże Alexandra potrafi dotrzeć nie tylko do jego wychowanic, otaczając je miłością i zrozumieniem, ale swoje wychowawcze zdolności chce wykorzystać również w stosunku do niego.
...do czegóż doprowadzi ta niespodziewana wzajemna edukacja? I jakże może być rozkoszna...
Ten namiętny romans zachwyca wdziękiem, sercem i humorem. ,,Kirkus Review""
TESSA DARE to jedna z najpopularniejszych i najbardziej lubianych autorek romansów historycznych. Jej pełne wdzięku i humoru, inteligentne, seksowne powieści podbijają serca czytelniczek w 20 krajach. W USA są zawsze na szczycie list bestsellerów. Otrzymują najbardziej prestiżowe nagrody gatunku: RITA Award (odpowiednik filmowego Oscara) i nagrody czytelniczek ,,Romantic Times"".
Chmielew i jego mieszkańcy to swoista kapsuła czasu. Tekst publikacji powstał w lutym 1922 roku, czyli równo sto lat od niniejszego wydania. Opisuje życie mieszkańców Chmielewa, małej mazowieckiej osady. Autor pozwala nam oglądać bardzo autentyczny obraz wsi polskiej międzywojnia. Co nam oferuje? Specyficzny język, wymagający czasem detektywistycznych domysłów, przeplatany miejscowym żargonem, bohaterów o oryginalnych przydomkach i mikrokosmos polskich stosunków społecznych.
Kradzieże jabłek, spory o miedzę czy studnie, domowe kłótnie, „towarzyszenie”, czyli randkowanie, wyprawy do miasta, wesela, zabawy, pożar wsi, a w tle echa wojen. Czy tematy poruszane w tekście nie skojarzą się może ze współczesnymi reportażami telewizyjnymi?
Znajdujemy tu polskość od podszewki, nie tę pełną „pól malowanych zbożem rozmaitem”, chociaż narrator pragnie wzorować się na wieszczach, ale prawdziwą, czasem bolesną, zmuszającą nas do zastanowienia, czy się zmieniliśmy? Mamy okazję przejrzeć się w lustrze czasu, przekonać o tym, co technologiczny postęp stu lat w nas zmienił. Bo chociaż tekst dokumentuje ewolucję języka i pozwala uzmysłowić sobie fakt, jak wiele zmian kulturowych przeszliśmy, to jednak zwierciadło czasu mimowolnie podpowiada nam… „a to Polska właśnie”.
KONTYNUACJA BESTSELLERA "ZAPACH MAZUR"
OPOWIEŚĆ O LUDZIACH, KTÓRYM PRZYSZŁO ŻYĆ W ŚWIECIE NIENAWIŚCI I POGARDY DLA DRUGIEGO CZŁOWIEKA.
Kontynuacja losów bohaterów „Zapachu Mazur”- Julianny, Krzysztofa, Trudy… Obraz współczesnych Mazur przeplata się tu z dramatycznymi wydarzeniami schyłku Prus Wschodnich. Rok 1945 dla mieszkańców Prus Wschodnich wcale nie oznacza końca wojny. Wkroczenie Armii Czerwonej przewartościowuje cały dotychczasowy świat. Zaczyna się rozpaczliwa ucieczka ludności cywilnej w stronę Zalewu Wiślanego. Siostry, Anna i Truda, za wszelką cenę pragną przeżyć wojenną zawieruchę. W ich codzienną rzeczywistość wpisany jest strach, upokorzenie i krzywda. Aby przetrwać, muszą nauczyć się życia na nowo. Otoczone systemem okołowojennych pułapek, wyznaczają sobie nowe priorytety, uczą się różnych oblicz ludzkich, podejmują trudne decyzje. Robią to, aby żyć, tak zwyczajnie, jak młode kobiety, aby kochać i być kochanymi. Dokąd zaprowadzą Annę podziemne korytarze? Kim będzie dla niej jasnowłosy mężczyzna? Czy połączy ich uczucie? Czy Truda odnajdzie swoje szczęście w Barwinach?
The mesmerising new novel from Ian McEwan, the bestselling author of Atonement. The world is forever changing. But for so many of us, old wounds run deep. Lessons is an intimate yet universal story of love, regret and a restless search for answers.
'Lessons is deep and wide, ambitious and humble, wise and substantial... McEwan's best novel in 20 years' New Statesman
'Superb... A wonderful author has delivered another mesmerising, memorable novel' Independent
'Lessons triumphantly achieves its primary aim of conveying the "commonplace and wondrous" intertwining of global history and everyday life' Daily Telegraph
While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade.
Twenty-five years later, as the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster spreads across Europe, Roland's wife mysteriously vanishes and he is forced to confront the reality of his rootless existence and look for answers in his family history.
From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Covid pandemic and climate change, Roland sometimes rides with the tide of history but more often struggles against it. Haunted by lost opportunities, he seeks solace through every possible means - literature, travel, friendship, drugs, politics, sex and love.
His journey raises important questions. Can we take full charge of the course of our lives without damage to others? How do global events beyond our control shape us and our memories? What role do chance and contingency play in our existence? And what can we learn from the traumas of the past?
We all want our children to grow up in a world where they feel safe, and where people are kind to each other and the planet. But when we hear about climate change, a mental health crisis, war, it's hard not to worry about the future and how they will cope.
Drawing on over 20 years of helping children and families, psychotherapist Louis Weinstock is here to help. Combining case studies, playful meditations and simple exercises with life-changing insights from history, science, psychology and anthropology, this is a parenting book like no other.
Whether your child is struggling with mental health issues already, or you want to build their capacity to handle change and uncertainty, this book is a safe place to catch your breath and develop the skills to help your child through life's challenges.
You will discover ways to find peace in the middle of chaos, bring deeper levels of love and healing to the troubled parts of your child (and yourself) and find hope when things feel hopeless.
Most importantly, you will see that inside of you there is strength, wisdom and beauty, and no matter what is going on in this mad world, you can guide your child towards a more beautiful tomorrow.
SAND. A hostile world of burning sun.
Outlines of several once-busy cities shimmer on the horizon. Now empty of inhabitants, their buildings lie in ruins.
In the distance a group of people - a family - walk towards us.
Ahead lies shelter: a 'shuck' the family call home and which they know they must reach before the light fails, as to be out after dark is to invite danger and almost certain death.
To survive in this alien world of shifting sand, they must find an object hidden in or near water. But other families want it too. And they are willing to fight to the death to make it theirs.
It is beginning to rain in Fairfax County, Virginia when McKenzie Strathie wakes up. An ordinary teenage girl living an ordinary life - except that the previous night she found a sand-lizard in her bed, and now she's beginning to question everything around her, especially who she really is ...
Two very different worlds featuring a group of extraordinary characters driven to the very limit of their endurance in a place where only the strongest will survive.
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.
Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing relatives are horrified. But Lolly has a greater, far darker calling than family: witchcraft.
'The book I'll be pressing into people's hands forever is Lolly Willowes . . . Starting as a straightforward, albeit beautifully written family saga, it tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness' Helen Macdonald
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