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Markéta Záleská

    The Confessions of Max Tivoli
    The House of God
    Where She Came From
    Jack : velký svůdník
    The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    Královna rychlosti
    • 2017
    • 2016

      This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit America the comic book. Inspired by their own fears and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapists, The Monitor, and Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is the winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

      The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    • 2007
    • 2006

      The Confessions of Max Tivoli

      • 288 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.7(6258)Add rating

      Max Tivoli is writing the story of his life. He is nearly seventy years old, but he looks as if he is only seven - for Max is ageing backwards. The tragedy of Max's life was to fall in love at seventeen with Alice, a girl his own age - but to her, Max looks like an unappealingly middle-aged man. However when Max reaches the age of thirty-five, with an appearance to match, he has his second chance at love. But tragedy befalls this star-crossed couple, and desperate measures are required.

      The Confessions of Max Tivoli
    • 2005

      Where She Came From

      • 323 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      4.0(413)Add rating

      After the death of her mother, author and journalist Helen Epstein set out to uncover her mother's past and to learn more about her grandmother and great- grandmother, victims of the Holocaust. The result is this compelling biography, both a chronicle of three generations of women and a social history of Czechoslovakia's Jews.

      Where She Came From
    • 2000

      Královna rychlosti

      • 214 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Několik hodin před vlastní popravou diktuje Marjorie Standifordová své paměti. Loupila a vraždila spolu se svým manželem Lamontem a milenkou Natalií po celém Jihozápadě, přesto tvrdí, že ona sama nikoho nezabila. Aby zajistila svému synovi budoucnost, dala si vyplatit od známého spisovatele honorář za to, že mu přenechá svůj příběh…

      Královna rychlosti
    • 1999

      The House of God

      The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital

      • 210 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      3.9(20458)Add rating

      Now a classic! The hilarious  novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your  doctor never wanted you to know. Six eager interns  -- they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be.  They came from the top of their medical school class  to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a  year in the time-honored tradition, racing to answer  the flash of on-duty call lights and nubile  nurses. But only the Fat Man --the Clam, all-knowing  resident -- could sustain them in their struggle to  survive, to stay sane, to love-and even to be  doctors when their harrowing year was done.

      The House of God