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Drahomíra Hlínková

    Death on the Nile
    Voice of the Heart
    Můj nádherný svět grotesky
    Hedvábná medúza
    Special Relationship
    Přípitek zkušeného ďábla a jiné eseje
    • „Je na mně, abych jménem hostů připil na zdraví řediteli, Jeho Hanebnosti Mrchodlakovi, a Koleji pro výcvik Pokušitelů. Naplňte si číše! Co to vidím? A jakou přelahodnou vůni, jak skvělý bukét nasávám? Je to možné? Vidím a čichám, že místní sklep i za válečných podmínek vlastní pár tuctů lahví starého, vyzrálého špičkového Farizeje. Dobře, dobře, výborně! Jako za starých časů!“ C. S. Lewis připravil tuto knihu krátce před svou smrtí 22. listopadu 1963. Jedná se o sbírku esejů, které se téměř výhradně zabývají náboženskou tematikou. Nejznámější z nich je Přípitek zkušeného ďábla, který je volným doplněním úspěšné knihy Rady zkušeného ďábla. Druhé vydání

      Přípitek zkušeného ďábla a jiné eseje
    • Special Relationship

      • 392 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Annie was at Oxford in the 1960s. Her son, Tom, finds an old photograph in his trunk - his mother, obviously in love with an unknown man who bears a strong resemblance to Tom. He recognises the man as none other than Jordan Hope, America's newest presidential hopeful - and his real father?

      Special Relationship
    • Hedvábná medúza

      • 255 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Strhující příběh mladé ženy, která podstoupila těžké životní zkoušky, aby si uchovala naději...

      Hedvábná medúza
    • Buster Keaton zvaný Frigo, muž s kamennou tváří, vypráví svůj vlastní životopis se zvláštním smyslem pro absurditu skutečných situací, které jsou zdrojem humoru, který v dané chvíli dokáže člověka nepříjemně zaskočit.

      Můj nádherný svět grotesky
    • Voice of the Heart

      • 928 pages
      • 33 hours of reading
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      The story of two brilliant women and the men to whom they ransomed their hearts.

      Voice of the Heart
    • Death on the Nile

      • 96 pages
      • 4 hours of reading
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      "Linnet Ridgeway is rich, beautiful and clever. She appears to have everything. But Linnet also has enemies. When she is shot dead on a passenger boat in Egypt, it is fortunate that Hercule Poirot is also on the trip. But even for the great Belgian detective, this is not a simple case"--Cover

      Death on the Nile
    • Shroud for a Nightingale

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
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      The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Amongst the blackmail, lies and hastily kept secrets of the Nightingale nursing school, another student dies equally mysteriously and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills. In Shroud for a Nightingale, award-winning P.D. James (author of Death Comes to Pemberley, Original Sin and Children of Men) plots a complex story of secrets, blackmail and suspicion. The novel was adapted for television in 1984, with Roy Marsden as Adam Dalgliesh and Joss Ackland as the surgeon, Stephen Courtney-Briggs.

      Shroud for a Nightingale
    • The Final Diagnosis

      • 310 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
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      The daily activities and problems of Joe Pearson, chief pathologist at Three Counties reveal the drama of life in a large general hospital

      The Final Diagnosis
    • Chronicles the first homicide cases to be solved by DNA testing: the 1983 and 1986 rape-murders of English teenagers Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashforth.

      The blooding
    • The Robber Bride

      • 528 pages
      • 19 hours of reading
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      From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—one of Margaret Atwood’s most unforgettable characters lurks at the center of this intricate novel like a spider in a web. The glamorous, irresistible, unscrupulous Zenia is nothing less than a fairy-tale villain in the memories of her former friends. Roz, Charis, and Tony—university classmates decades ago—were reunited at Zenia’s funeral and have met monthly for lunch ever since, obsessively retracing the destructive swath she once cut through their lives. A brilliantly inventive fabulist, Zenia had a talent for exploiting her friends’ weaknesses, wielding intimacy as a weapon and cheating them of money, time, sympathy, and men. But one day, five years after her funeral, they are shocked to catch sight of Zenia: even her death appears to have been yet another fiction. As the three women plot to confront their larger-than-life nemesis, Atwood proves herself a gleefully acute observer of the treacherous shoals of friendship, trust, desire, and power.

      The Robber Bride