Knihy v angličtině

Jaroslav Najman

This book describes – in English - the author's emigration from Czechoslovakia triggered by a historical event in August 1968. All events in this book are based on recollection of the author's memories…

Britney Spears

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open…

Tess Sharpe

Julia Quinn

The seventh of Julia Quinn's bestselling and beloved Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. This is Hyacinth Bridgerton's story - she's all grown up and ready to cause…

Matthew Reilly

Ľubica Takáčová

Koučovací karty pro manažery jsou součtem cílených otázek v oblastech, se kterými se často lidé, kteří vedou týmy, setkávají ve své praxi a které se ukázaly jako užitečné a přínosné. Vznikly často…

Joanne K. Rowling

When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells…

Harper Lee

From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch – ‘Scout’…

Viktor E. Frankl

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was…

Suzanne Collins

First in the ground-breaking HUNGER GAMES trilogy. In a vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called…

Bradley Trevor Greive, Cameron Bloom

The life-affirming story, accompanied by beautiful photographs, of how an abandoned magpie chick helped one family overcome tragedy.

Amy Ewing

Xiaolu Guo

Award-winning author Xiaolu Guo's extraordinary memoir is a handbook of life lessons: how to be an artist when censorship kills creativity, how to be a woman when sexual abuse is commonplace, how to…

Tom Coraghessan Boyle

Sten Stenson, Vietnam veteran and retired principal, is on vacation in Costa Rica when his tour bus is hijacked. Sten reacts, killing one of the hijackers, and is hailed a hero. Back home, anti-government…

Curtis Sittenfeldová

The Bennet sisters have been summoned from New York City. Liz and Jane are good daughters. They've come home to suburban Cincinnati to help their mother, tidy up the crumbling family home and wrench…

Shanthi Sekaran

A novel that gives voice to two mothers, a young undocumented Mexican woman and an Indian-American wife.

Jeffrey Cranor, Joseph Fink

From the creators of the #1 international podcast WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE and the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel of the same name, comes a collection of episodes from Season Two of their…

Anna Pasternak

Drawing on both archival and family sources, this is a revealing account of the critical role played by Olga Ivinskaya in Boris Pasternak's life and how their own love story inspired the great literary…

Hanif Kureishi

THE NOTHING is Hanif Kureishi's powerful new work: a tense and captivating exploration of lust, helplessness, and deception. Written with characteristic black humour and with an acute eye for detail…

Chris Petit

Berlin 1943. August Schlegel lives in a world full of questions with no easy answers. Why is he being called out on a homicide case when he works in financial crimes? Why did the old Jewish soldier with…

Abraham Verghese

Marion and Shiva, born in Ethiopia in the 1950s, are the illicit twins of an Indian nun and British doctor. With wildly different temperaments, they grow up in a country on the brink of revolution…

Matt Ruff

The critically acclaimed novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction…

Catherine Merridale

Now in paperback, this reveals how Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was sent home from Switzerland in 1917 in a sealed train, by the German government. They hoped this would sow confusion…

Mohsin Hamid

In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, Saeed and Nadia fall in love. But the sound of bombs gets closer, the radio announces new laws and public executions. Meanwhile, rumours spread…