Milostný román z Ameriky roku 1888 líčí příběh mladé ženy, která se ocitá v situaci osudového dilema. Musí se rozhodnout, zda se řídit přísnými morálními zásadami, nebo naslouchat hlasu svého srdce.
Als Kind erkrankte Lara an Krebs - und überlebte. Inzwischen ist sie eine junge Frau und lebt ohne finanzielle Sorgen in einem kleinen Dorf an der ligurischen Küste. Der Schatten der tückischen Krankheit bedroht sie jedoch immer noch und läßt sie mit diesem geschenkten Leben nicht fertig werden.
Gail Walton is comfortable and secure with a successful husband, two beloved daughters, and a house in the New Jersey suburbs. But one tragic afternoon shatters her perfect life beyond all recognition. Gail's six-year-old daughter is abducted from the neighborhood park, sexually assaulted, and murdered. Consumed with grief and rage, Gail turns her back on the police investigation and takes the law into her own hands. Armed with a description of the killer and a handgun, she prepares a meticulous trap to exact the ultimate revenge. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Adam Hill is in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client doesn't want Adam or his law firm. He is an unrepentent and outspoken racist with a violent past. He is on Death Row for the murder of two Jewish children in a horrific bombing in 1967. Why would he take on Adam, a complete novice, to defend him? And why would Adam want his case so desperately? The answer lies in the past, in a twenty-year-old secret buried in the madness of another time. . .
At convent school, a girl acquires romantic notions of a lover who will live for her alone. She marries a kind but dull country doctor and discovers that "This life of hers was as cold as an attic that looks north; and boredom, quiet as the spider, was spinning its web in the shadowy places of her heart." Emma Bovary's quest for escape from the emptiness of her bourgeois existence leads to infidelity and financial extravagance, and Gustave Flaubert's powerful and deeply moving examination of her moral degeneration is universally regarded as a landmark of nineteenth-century fiction. Flaubert was brought to trial by the French government on the grounds of this novel's alleged immorality but narrowly escaped conviction. Madame Bovary remains a touchstone for literary discussions of provincial life and adultery as well as a summit of prose art, a pioneering work of realism that forever changed the way novels are written. This complete and unabridged edition features the classic translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling.
Psychologický, lehce ironický román o problémech současného manželství z pohledu muže. Očima konzervativního manžela sleduje autorka soužití v déletrvajícím manželství přes neshody, bouře a roztržky až po stáří, kdy mizí ze vztahu vášeň a žárlivost. Muž vypovídá o vztahu k ženě a zároveň odhaluje i své vlastní nedostatky - žárlivost, malichernost i neochotu přizpůsobit se. Kniha je pohledem na dvojici, ve které se manžel nedokázal oprostit od podvědomého přezíravého postoje k ženám a své vlastní ženě nedokázal ani ve stáří porozumět.... celý text
Román z prostředí hollywoodských filmových ateliérů v 90.letech, kdy v Americe vrcholí kult mládí, krásy a peněz.
After a bitter divorce, Bess and Michael are almost strangers. But when their daughter makes a shocking announcement, the couple must amend past mistakes-and start anew...
Cleopatra Robbins has imagined the moment when she'll meet the man of her dreams. But when Max Fortune strides into the Robbins' Nest Inn, a devastating sensation sweeps through her. She knows it's him. And he's all wrong! Head of the giant Curzon hotel chain, a cynical man whose only passion in life has been for rare works of art, Max is looking for five priceless paintings left to him by his mentor Jason Curzon. Max takes one long look at Cleo Robbins and feels fierce desire sweep through him...a feeling so powerful that he soon starts helping to fix everything from the plumbing to the fractured lives of the inn's quirky denizens. Despite their mutual attraction, Max senses that Cleo is hiding something -- and by the time he realizes it's not the paintings, it's almost too late to save her from the danger rising out of her past. As suspense and desire intensify, this delightful duo sweep us toward a dramatic ending in a love story beyond compare ...GRAND PASSION.
"You're in danger. You and Amanda." The warning draws Bonnie Wheeler to a place she has never been: To the brutally slain body of her husband's ex-wife . . . To the shattering of her perfect world by a murdered woman's secrets . . . To a place where every truth becomes a lie--and every loved one is a stranger . . . To a gathering darkness that threatens her innocent child--and herself . . . To a home where nothing is safe, and there's no one she can trust. No one.
New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts weaves scandal, celebrity secrets, and murder into an explosive novel of Hollywood almost too wicked not to be true: the story of a legendary actress who knows too much—and the woman she’s chosen to reveal it all. . . . Eve Benedict is the kind of subject who could make any biographer’s career. Last of the movie goddesses, she has two Oscars, four ex-husbands, and a legion of lovers, both famous and infamous. Now she is ready to write a tell-all memoir that has even Hollywood’s richest and most powerful worried. Julia Summers never dreamed of being chosen to tell Eve’s story. But even if it means transplanting herself and her ten-year-old son from their quiet life in Connecticut to the withering limelight of Beverly Hills, it’s an opportunity too great to pass up. But Julia never imagined how far someone would go to keep Eve Benedict’s book from being published . . . until she discovers just how dark Eve’s secrets are. And the one man Julia hopes she can trust—Eve’s stepson, Paul Winthrop—may have the most to gain if his stepmother’s story is never told . . . and if Julia’s life ends before she can write a word of the truth. “Roberts does a beautiful job weaving together the movie star’s tittilating tales and the love story that develops.”—USA Today
Americká autorka najpredávanejších kníh Karen Robardsová vytvorila pôsobivý príbeh súčasnej ženy, ktorú vrúcna láska k jedinému synovi drží v manželstve bez lásky — kým sa v jej svete znovu neobjaví milovaný muž a až do základov neotrasie životom, ktorý vybudovala pre seba a pre svoje dieťa. Navonok pôsobí Maggin život idylicky. Jej manžel Lyle, vplyvný podnikateľ a vzor americkej aristokracie, sa k nej pred verejnosťou správa ako ku kráľovnej, avšak za zamknutými dverami ju psychicky aj fyzicky týra. Magdaléna sa zdráha odhaliť toto tajomstvo, lebo sa bojí, že príde o syna Dávida, ktorý nie je Lylovým dieťaťom. Raz večer si Maggy zájde do spoločnosti, aby zabudla na trápenie, a stretne sa so svojou prvou láskou Nickom... mužom, na ktorého nikdy neprestala myslieť. Ani Nick sa nikdy nevzdal nádeje, že Maggy znovu získa. No jeho návrat do Magginho života je nebezpečný. Ak Nick zistí, kto je otcom jej dieťaťa, ohrozí Dávidov život... Román plný napätia, zrady, posadnutosti a nekonečnej lásky je psychologicky najprepracovanejším a najpútavejším dielom známej americkej autorky.
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At 6'6 and 240lbs, Forrest Gump is difficult to ignore. This satire follows him from the football dynasties of Bear Bryant to Vietnam, and from encounters with Presidents Johnson and Nixon to pow-wows with Chairman Mao. It also takes in Harvard University, a Hollywood set, and a NASA mission.
Lynn Schuster is expecting a visit from a man named Marc, a man she has never met but with whom she has something in common--her husband and his wife have just run off together. Marc has called to say there are "things she should know". But when they meet, neither of them is prepared for the powerful sexual attraction they feel.
Classic Joy Fielding, featuring the emotional struggle between a loving wife and the proverbial ‘other woman.’ The young woman was stunning, and her words couldn't have been more clear: "Hello, I'm Nicole Clark. I'm going to marry your husband." Jill Plumley thinks she has the perfect marriage, but how can she keep her attractive husband away from the younger, sexier Nicole? The frightening thing is that Jill knows that David can be stolen away. She had done it herself when she lured David from his wife. She, Jill, had once been the other woman.
For Carrie, Chris and Cathy the attic was a dark horror that would not leave their minds. Of course mother had to pretend they didn't exist and grandmother was convinced they had the devil in them. But that wasn't their fault. Was it? Cathy knew what to do. She knew it was time to show her mother and grandmother that the pain and terror of the attic could not be forgotten...Show them. Show them -- once and for all.
