Renáta Hrabušická Book order (chronological)

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.

While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait. Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client.

Gustave Flaubert's novel is a landmark of the nineteenth century, known for its influence and controversy. In this Penguin Classics edition, translated by Geoffrey Wall and featuring a preface by Michele Roberts, we meet Emma Bovary, a beautiful yet discontented woman trapped in a mundane marriage to a mediocre doctor. Longing for excitement, she immerses herself in sentimental novels and seeks escape through extravagant spending and affairs. However, her pursuits lead to disappointment and tragic consequences. Upon its publication in 1857, Flaubert's candid exploration of Emma's desires sparked moral outrage, with many women claiming to be reflections of her character. Flaubert famously stated, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi," asserting a personal connection to his creation. Born in Rouen in 1821, Flaubert turned to writing after an illness disrupted his law career. Although the novel garnered immediate acclaim, its frank depiction of adultery led to a trial for immorality, from which he narrowly escaped conviction. Despite limited success during his lifetime, Flaubert's reputation grew posthumously. If you appreciated this work, you may also enjoy Stendhal's The Red and the Black, available in Penguin Classics. A.S. Byatt praised it as "enchanting and terrible," while Kate Summerscale noted its innovative style.

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.

Dans la Provence du début du siècle, la fortune des grands parfumeurs repose sur la culture des fleurs. Sorenza, fille d'une humble famille de cueilleurs, tiendra sa promesse : elle cultivera la Croix-de-Lumière, le petit lopin de terre légué par son père. Guillaume Garlande, héritier d'une puissante dynastie de parfumeurs de Grasse, lui, court le monde à la poursuite du progrès technique et des essences rares qui porteront encore plus haut le nom de sa famille. Si la belle et orgueilleuse Sorenza aime sa terre et le parfum des roses, si l'ambitieux Guillaume rêve d'accroître sa fortune, l'amour ne peut que les réunir. Malgré ses orages ils resteront toujours fidèles à leur raison d'être, les fleurs et leurs parfums capiteux.

Meet Forrest Gump, the lovable, hurculean, and surprisingly savy hero of this remarkable comic odyssey. After accidentally becoming the star of Univerity of Alabama's football team, Forrest goes on to become a Vietnam War hero, a worl-class Ping-Pong player, a villainous wrestler, and a business tycoon -- as he wonders with cildlike wisdome at the insanity all around him. In between misadentures, he manages to compare battle scars with Lyndon Johnson, discover the truth about Richard Nixon, and survive the ups and downs of remaining true to his only love, Jenny, on an extraordinary journey through three decades of the American cultural landscape. Forrest gump has one heck of a story to tell -- and you've got to read it to believe it.....

Lynn Schuster, whose husband left her for another woman, finds herself attracted to Marc Cameron, the other woman's husband. Her friend Renee warns her to be careful. As they start to lose control of their lives, they both learn about the consequences of being hurt by those you love.

It's their fourth wedding anniversary and Jill and David are blissfully happy - aren't they? Jill was the other woman in David's first marriage, so all of his excuses sound horribly familiar. Call it poetic justice, but someone else is after Jill's husband - and she's young, sexy and ambitious.

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.