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A new Kennedy has been elected president. A man who has inherited all the good looks, wealth, and youthful idealism of his famous uncles. He is Francis Xavier Kennedy - and suddenly the old dynastic dream of a better America again seems possible.But the energetic new president is also haunted by the darker side of the Kennedy legacy - a legacy of tragedy that he may be powerless to escape.When his daughter is kidnapped by terrorists, President Kennedy is forced to make desperate decisions. As his violent reprisals take effect, the world holds its breath. A compelling, prescient and engrossing novel from the author of The Godfather.

The novel that put the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments on the literary map. The Booker Prize winner's first novel is both a scathingly funny satire of consumerism and a heady exploration of emotional cannibalism. Marian McAlpin is an “abnormally normal” young woman, according to her friends. A recent university graduate, she crafts consumer surveys for a market research firm, maintains an uneasy truce between her flighty roommate and their prudish landlady, and goes to parties with her solidly dependable boyfriend, Peter. But after Peter proposes marriage, things take a strange turn. Suddenly empathizing with the steak in a restaurant, Marian finds she is unable to eat meat. As the days go by, her feeling of solidarity extends to other categories of food, until there is almost nothing left that she can bring herself to consume. Those around her fail to notice Marian’s growing alienation—until it culminates in an act of resistance that is as startling as it is imaginative. Marked by blazingly surreal humor and a colorful cast of eccentric characters, The Edible Woman is a groundbreaking work of fiction.

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?

Kniha, kterou C. S. Lewis k vydání připravil krátce před svou smrtí, obsahuje (kromě sbírky esejí zabývajících se výhradně náboženskou tématikou), hlavně esej Přípitek zkušeného ďábla, který je volným doplněním nejúspěšnější Lewisovy knihy Rady zkušeného ďábla. "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!"

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

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here All the drama, color and explosive action of Hotel! The whole fascinating story of a great hospital, where life begins and life ends. BIRTH. A "yellow baby" - "Get the operating room set up for a total transfusion - " EMERGENCY. The nurse's urgent voice on the phone - "Doctor! You patient is hemorrhaging!" LOVE. The hurried embrace in a linen closet. SURGERY. Scalpel slices. Blood spurts. Diagnosis correct? "Hemostat, hemostat quick!" AUTOPSY. The cadaver opened from sternum to pubic bone. "Doctor! The nurse fainted." The dramatic techniques of modern medicine, the crucial, intimate scenes inside a big hospital -

It stirs depths that Cat's Eye did not reach, and grants deeper stronger powers to women's friendship in distress' MARINA WARNER An exceptional novel from the winner of the 2000 Booker Prize

The story of two brilliant women and the men to whom they ransomed their hearts.

Agatha Christie's most exotic murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.