David Petrů Books

The Fuhrer's commands were simple - forward to Moscow! And so the mighty Panzer regiments thundered into action - killing, raping, burning their way across the great wastes of Russia.

"Zephyr, Alabama, has been an idyllic home for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson ... a place where monsters swim in the belly of the river, and friends are forever. Then, on a cold spring morning in 1964, as Cory accompanies his father on his milk route, they see a car plunge into a lake some say is bottomless."--Page 4 of cover

Into the screaming inferno of the Russian Front the Tank Battalions of Hitler's Penal Regiments were thrown. That was no surprise: these soldiers were pure cannon fodder to the German High Command men whose lives were considered expendable. And because they were treated like animals, they also learned to live like animals. They stole and cheated in the manner of beasts, and died brutally and bloodily, fighting not only the enemy, but each other. Bestselling author Sven Hassel, whose World War II themed novels have sold more than 52 million copies, tells the gripping story of the soldiers sacrificed in the Fuhrer's Russian Offensive.

Sven Hassel's famous war novel based on the Battle for Warsaw, now relaunched with a stunning new look.

Dan Simmons vzdává hold detektivkám americké drsné školy a daří se mu to na jedničku. Nijak nepolevuje v tempu a svého hrdinu skutečně nenechá ani na chvíli vydechnout. Joe Kurtz býval soukromý detektiv – než se rozhodl vzít spravedlnost do vlastních rukou a brutálně pomstít vraždu své partnerky. Když se po jedenácti letech vězení vrací do Buffala, nemůže být o obnovení licence ani řeč, přesto se najdou jistí lidé, kteří jsou ochotní ho najmout a využívat jeho služeb načerno…

"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recovery, the link between writing and living became more crucial than ever. Rarely has a book on writing been so clear, so useful, and so revealing. On Writing begins with a mesmerizing account of King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. A series of vivid memories from adolescence, college, and the struggling years that led up to his first novel, Carrie, will afford readers a fresh and often very funny perspective on the formation of a writer. King next turns to the basic tools of his trade -- how to sharpen and multiply them through use, and how the writer must always have them close at hand. He takes the reader through crucial aspects of the writer's art and life, offering practical and inspiring advice on everything from plot and character development to work habits and rejection. Serialized in the New Yorker to vivid acclaim, On Writing culminates with a profoundly moving account of how King's overwhelming need to write spurred him toward recovery, and brought him back to his life. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower -- and entertain -- everyone who reads it. --front flap

Fascinující výprava rámovaná otázkami, na které možná nikdy nenajdeme odpověď, ale které jsou o to naléhavější. Brian Greene nás svým typickým přístupným stylem a krásným jazykem provází na dlouhé cestě, jež začíná Velkým třeskem a ústí do konce prostoru a času. Při tom si autor všímá formování těch nejmenších i těch největších fyzikálních struktur, vzniku života, zrodu vědomí, povahy lidského myšlení, představivosti, tvořivosti či způsobů, kterými se člověk potýká se svou existencí, jako jsou mýty, náboženství, filozofie a věda. Prchavým okamžikem lidské existence tato cesta přirozeně nekončí, nýbrž vede ke scénářům dalšího vývoje člověka, poznání, myšlení – a celého vesmíru. Greene nám pomáhá porozumět tomu, jak jsme vznikli, v jakém stavu se nachází vesmír dnes a kam směřuje.

From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law—in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell—can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers—in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives—McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph. Look for Cormac McCarthy's new novel, The Passenger, coming October '22.

The narrative intertwines music and war as a young musicologist, Meta Taverner, embarks on a quest to uncover the origins of a mysterious eighteenth-century sonata manuscript gifted by a Czech immigrant. As she seeks to reunite the lost movements and locate the manuscript's rightful owner, Meta's journey reveals the profound impact of history on personal lives, set against the backdrop of Prague's tumultuous past, from World War I to the Velvet Revolution. The novel explores themes of love, sacrifice, and the enduring power of music.

Paulina, die Tochter des britischen Gesandten am Hof des Herzogtums Altauss, begleitet die Tochter des Herzogs, Prinzessin Margarita, an den Zarenhof nach Petersburg. Hier soll die Prinzessin, den Gepflogenheiten der zeit entsprechend, mit einem russischen Grossfürsten vermählt werden. In Petersburg lern Paulina Prinz Maximus, Margaritas Bruder, kennen und lieben. Der Prinz erwidert ihre Gefühle. Doch ihre Träume von einer gemeinsamen Zukunft drohen an der Heiratspolitik des Zaren zu scheitern.