Alexandra Hubáčková Book order (chronological)

Publikace Sámové – jazyk, literatura a společnost je prvním ucelenějším příspěvkem ke studiu původních obyvatel severní Skandinávie. Sámové, kteří jsou u nás známi spíše pod označením Laponci, obývají oblast za polárním kruhem. Je jich kolem šedesáti tisíc a žijí v Norsku, Švédsku, Finsku a Rusku. Přestože ještě donedávna museli čelit politice asimilace, mají dnes vlastní parlament, politické strany, univerzitu a státem garantovanou výuku sámštiny na školách, rozhlasové stanice a televizní programy v sámštině. To, čeho Sámové v posledních letech dosáhli, je předmětem zájmu – a svým způsobem i obdivu – ve vědeckých kruzích i mezi představiteli jiných menšinových a původních populací.

Tayo, a young Native American, has been a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II, and the horrors of captivity have almost eroded his will to survive. His return to the Laguna Pueblo reservation only increases his feeling of estrangement and alienation. While other returning soldiers find easy refuge in alcohol and senseless violence, Tayo searches for another kind of comfort and resolution. Tayo's quest leads him back to the Indian past and its traditions, to beliefs about witchcraft and evil, and to the ancient stories of his people. The search itself becomes a ritual, a curative ceremony that defeats the most virulent of afflictions—despair.

Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers--the low-lifes, the big-timers, and everyone in-between--as the nicest guy around. He may not be the brightest or the most interesting man in town, but nevertheless, he's the kind of officer you're happy to have keeping your streets safe. The sort of man you might even wish your daughter would end up with someday. But behind the platitudes and glad-handing lurks a monster the likes of which few have seen. An urge that has already claimed multiple lives, and cost Lou his brother Mike, a self-sacrificing construction worker fell to his death on the job in what was anything but an accident. A murder that Lou is determined to avenge--and if innocent people have to die in the process, well, that's perfectly all right with him. In THE KILLER INSIDE ME, Thompson goes where few novelists have dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the mind of the American Serial Killer years before Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho, in the novel that will forever be known as the master performance of one of the greatest crime novelists of all time.