Jacek Manicki Books

Ninety-one-year-old Ira Levinson finds himself stranded and injured after a car crash, struggling to stay conscious. As he drifts in and out of awareness, a familiar figure appears: his late wife, Ruth, who died nine years earlier. She encourages him to hold on by sharing stories from their life together, including their meeting, the art they cherished, and the impact of WWII on their families. Though he knows Ruth isn't truly there, Ira clings to her memories, revisiting both the joys and sorrows of their marriage. Meanwhile, at a bull-riding event, college senior Sophia Danko is navigating life after a breakup when she meets Luke, a cowboy who contrasts sharply with her privileged peers. Through Luke, Sophia is drawn into a world where survival and success are intertwined with life and death. As their romance blossoms, she begins to envision a future that diverges from her original plans—one that Luke could transform, provided his hidden secret doesn’t unravel it first. The lives of Ira and Ruth, along with Sophia and Luke, intersect in unexpected ways, illustrating that even the toughest choices can lead to extraordinary journeys, transcending despair and death to explore the depths of the human heart.

A novel about an American Vietnam War veteran sent to hunt down a Serbian warlord.

Bruce Gold, a middle-aged, Jewish professor of English literature, finds himself on the brink of a golden career in politics -- and not a moment too soon, as Gold yearns for an opportunity to transform a less-than-picture-perfect life: His children think little of him, his intimidating father endlessly bullies him, and his wife is so oblivious that she doesn't even notice he's left her. As funny as it is sad, Good as Gold is a story of children grown up, parents grown old, and friends and lovers grown apart -- a story that is inimitably Heller.

Castleview, an Illinois town, has a phantom castle that Will Shields sees on his first night there, an experience that involves him in murder and mysterious, life-threatening events, because the castle belongs to Morgan Le Fay

Meet Kate Reddy, Fund Manager And Mother Of Two. She Can Juggle Nine Different Currencies In Five Different Time Zones And Get Herself And Two Children Washed And Dressed And Out Of The House In Half An Hour. A Victim Of Time Famine, Kate Counts Seconds Like Other Women Count Calories. As She Hurtles Between Appointments, Through Her Head Spools The Crazy Tape-Loop Of The Working Mother'S Life: Must Remember Client Reports, Bouncy Castles, Transatlantic Phone Call, Nativity Play, Check Dow Jones, Cancel Hygienist, Squeeze Sagging Pelvic Floor, Make Time For Sex. Factor In A Manipulative Nanny, An Australian Boss Who Looks At Kate'S Breasts As If They'Re On Special Offer, A Long Suffering Husband, Her Quietly Aghast In-Laws, Two Needy Children And An E-Mail Lover, And You Have A Woman Juggling So Many Balls That Some Day Soon Something'S Going To Hit The Ground. In An Uproariously Funny And Achingly Sad Novel, Allison Pearson Captures The Guilty Secret Lives Of Working Mothers, The Self-Recriminations, Comic Deceptions, Forgeries, Giddy Exhaustion And Despair As No Other Writer Has Ever Done. With Fierce Irony And A Sparkling Style, She Brilliantly Dramatises The Dilemma Of Working Motherhood At The Start Of The 21St Century.