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    Čekám, až si pro mě v noci přijdou
    Star Wars. Letopisy rytířů jedi. Kniha druhá
    All My Rage
    In Memoriam
    Výpravy na druhý konec světa : další dobrodružství mladého přírodovědce
    • Runtime: 16 hours and 25 minutesIt’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He’s found it, more or he’s built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he’s gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey’s long-absent father reappears, bringing along an English millionaire and a scheme to find gold in the townland, and suddenly everything the three of them have been building is under threat. Cal and Lena are both ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey, but Trey doesn’t want protecting. What she wants is revenge.A nuanced, atmospheric tale that explores what we’ll do for our loved ones, what we’ll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide.

      The Hunter2025
      4.0
    • A beautiful meditation on war, violence, memory and injustice, set in the occupied Palestinian territories.

      Minor Detail2025
      4.3
    • Čekám, až si pro mě v noci přijdou

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Básníkova zpráva o jedné z celosvětově nejakutnějších humanitárních krizí. Mučivé vyprávění o útěku jedné rodiny před genocidou. Přátelé Tahira Hamuta Izgila zmizeli jeden po druhém. Brutální perzekuce ujgurského národa čínskou vládou probíhala už dlouho, v roce 2017 však nabrala děsivých rozměrů. Ujgurové, převážně muslimská menšina obývající západní Čínu, prožívali ozvěnu největších hrůz dvacátého století zesílenou vševědoucím hi-tech státním dozorem. Přes milion lidí zmizelo v čínských internačních táborech pro muslimské menšiny.

      Čekám, až si pro mě v noci přijdou2024
      4.6
    • It's 1914, and talk of war feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in an idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. At seventeen, they're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting his own private battle - an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the dreamy, poetic Ellwood - not having a clue that Ellwood is in love with him, always has been. When Gaunt's German mother asks him to enlist in the British army to protect the family from anti-German attacks, he signs up immediately, relieved to escape his overwhelming feelings for Ellwood. The front is horrific, of course, and though Gaunt tries to dissuade Ellwood from joining him on the battlefield, Ellwood soon rushes to join him. In the trenches, Ellwood and Gaunt find fleeting moments of solace in one another, but their friends are all dying, right in front of them, and at any moment they could be next. An epic tale of both the devastating tragedies of war and the forbidden romance that blooms in its grip, In Memoriam is a breathtaking debut.

      In Memoriam2024
      4.5
    • All My Rage

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir comes a brilliant, unforgettable, and heart-wrenching contemporary novel about family and forgiveness, love and loss, in a sweeping story that crosses generations and continents.Lahore, Pakistan. Then.Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their…

      All My Rage2023
      4.5
    • An upcoming title from Bantam, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK[Bokinfo].

      Spare2023
      3.8
    • An Iraqi zombie novel, risen from the rubble of the Iraq War - think Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried crossed with Stephen King Winner of the Arabic Booker Prize - the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Winner of Le Grand Prix de LImaginaire 2017 - a French prize for the best foreign novel

      Frankenstein in Baghdad2022
      3.6
    • The Four Winds

      • 512 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America’s most defining eras—the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life. The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.

      The Four Winds2022
      4.3
    • Uznávaný přírodovědec a tvář populárních dokumentů BBC vypráví o svých prvních cestách do neznáma za neprostupnou panenskou divočinou. Po úspěšných výpravách do Afriky a Jižní Ameriky se David Attenborough se svým kameramanem Charlesem Lagusem na konci 50. let minulého století vydali na Madagaskar, Novou Guineu a do Tichomoří, kde natáčeli divoká zvířata a původní obyvatele s neznámými zvyky. Na ostrově Pentecost sledovali domorodé rituály, které daly vzniknout bungee jumpingu, a na Tonze se stali prvními Evropany, kteří byli svědky královského obřadu pití kavy. V australském Severním teritoriu objevovali prastaré skalní malby. Attenborough a Lagus obdivovali nádherné tvory, jako jsou rajky, chameleoni a sifaky, v jejich přirozeném prostředí. V této knize Attenborough vypráví svým okouzlujícím a vtipným stylem o mimořádných dobrodružstvích s pozoruhodnými lidmi a zvířaty. Sir David Attenborough má téměř sedmdesátiletou kariéru televizního publicisty a popularizátora přírody a jeho přelomové snímky zahrnují Život na Zemi a Modrou planetu. Je známý svou snahou o ochranu druhové pestrosti na Zemi a jeho knihy se prodaly po celém světě ve více než milionovém nákladu.

      Výpravy na druhý konec světa : další dobrodružství mladého přírodovědce2022
      4.8
    • Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      "Edgar-Award nominee Elle Cosimano's adult debut Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is the first in a witty, fast-paced mystery series, following struggling suspense novelist and single mom Finlay Donovan, whose fiction treads dangerously close to the truth as she becomes tangled in real-life murder investigations.."--

      Finlay Donovan Is Killing It2022
      4.0