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    Jak získat v životě klid a vyrovnanost: Od emočního chaosu k ujasnění
    The Lake House
    The Shape of My Heart
    Morální inteligence. Jak rozvíjet a kultivovat dobro v nás
    Culinaria Italy
    • 2023

      A missing child. June 1933, and the Edevane family's country house, Loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the much-anticipated Midsummer Eve party. Alice Edevane, sixteen years old and a budding writer, is especially excited. Not only has she worked out the perfect twist for her novel, she's also fallen helplessly in love with someone she shouldn't have. But by the time midnight strikes and fireworks light up the night skies, the Edevane family will have suffered a loss so great that they leave Loeanneth forever. An abandoned house. Seventy years later, after a particularly troubling case, Sadie Sparrow is sent on an enforced break from her job with the Metropolitan Police. She retreats to her beloved grandfather's cottage in Cornwall but soon finds herself at a loose end. Until one day, Sadie stumbles upon an abandoned house surrounded by overgrown gardens and dense woods, and learns the story of a baby boy who disappeared without a trace. An unsolved mystery. Meanwhile, in the attic writing room of her elegant Hampstead home, the formidable Alice Edevane, now an old lady, leads a life as neatly plotted as the bestselling detective novels she writes. Until a young police detective starts asking questions about her family's past, seeking to resurrect the complex tangle of secrets Alice has spent her life trying to escape.

      The Lake House
    • 2019

      My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows. In the depths of a nineteenth-century winter, a little girl is abandoned in the narrow streets of London. Adopted by a mysterious stranger, she becomes in turn a thief, a friend, a muse, and a lover. Then, in the summer of 1862, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she retreats with a group of artists to a beautiful house on a quiet bend of the Upper Thames... Tensions simmer and one hot afternoon a gun-shot rings out. A woman is killed, another disappears, and the truth of what happened slips through the cracks of time. Over the next century and beyond, Birchwood Manor welcomes many newcomers but guards its secret closely — until another young woman is drawn to visit the house because of a family secret of her own... As the mystery of The Clockmaker's Daughter begins to unravel, we discover the stories of those who have passed through Birchwood Manor since that fateful day in 1862. Intricately layered and richly atmospheric, it shows that, sometimes, the only way forward is through the past.

      The Clockmaker's Daughter
    • 2019

      Novel of two people whose newfound attraction compels them to see each other in A Whole New Light.

      A Whole New Light
    • 2019
      3.7(122)Add rating

      Viel Spaß in der Hölle! So ein mieser Schuft! Als Carina entdeckt, dass Ehemann Sven sie betrügt, bricht ihre heile kleine Welt zusammen. Klar, Lust und Leidenschaft sind nach zehn Jahren Ehe und zwei Kindern auf der Strecke geblieben. Doch dass Sven mit seiner Neuen all die romantischen Highlights genießt, die sich Carina immer gewünscht hat, ist zu viel. Sie beschließt, ihn direkt in die Scheidungshölle zu schicken. Und die Neue gleich dazu. Soll sie ruhig merken, wie angenehm das Leben an Svens Seite ist, wenn seine Kinder sonntagmorgens Hockeytraining haben oder Brechdurchfall bekommen ... Während ihres Rachefeldzugs blüht Carina auf. Die Männer stehen Schlange – und plötzlich auch Sven. Was tun?

      Ich schenk dir die Hölle auf Erden
    • 2018

      Das bisschen Kuchen

      (K)ein Diät-Roman

      3.5(150)Add rating

      Mach dich dünne! Der Feind trägt Größe 34 und hat es auf Nikis Gatten Wolfgang abgesehen. Nach Jahren der molligen Idylle nimmt Niki den Kampf auf: um ihren Mann, ihre Familie – ihren Körper! Sie geht in eine Fastenklinik, wo sie unter Glaubersalz und Schlemmerphantasien leidet. Bis sie Bekanntschaft mit dem Shiatsu-Masseur macht. Sollte Fasten der neue Sex sein? Aber was war noch mal Sex? „Herrlich fieser Humor.“ Cosmopolitan

      Das bisschen Kuchen
    • 2018

      Culinaria Italy

      • 380 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      4.7(21)Add rating

      How does the blue mold get into Gorgonzola? Where did ice cream come from, in the days before refrigerators? What is there to tell about the wine of Piedmont? How are tomato preserves made? How does one recognize a genuine balsamic vinegar? What are the marks of quality that help to distinguish genuine products from imitations? What food was eaten in ancient Rome, which specialties were served at court during the Middle Ages, and what culinary innovations accompanied the Renaissance? Culinaria Italy takes a look behind the scenes and answers these and many other questions of interest to lovers of Italian Cuisine

      Culinaria Italy
    • 2017

      The Forgotten Garden

      • 648 pages
      • 23 hours of reading
      4.2(189224)Add rating

      "A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, a mystery. A captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory. Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident ten years ago, feels like she has lost everything dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra's life upside down and ends up challenging everything she thought she knew about herself and her family. Inheriting a book of dark and intriguing fairytales written by Eliza Makepeace - the Victorian authoress who disappeared mysteriously in the early twentieth century - Cassandra takes her courage in both hands to follow in the footsteps of Nell on a quest to find out the truth about their history, their family and their past; little knowing that in the process, she will also discover a new life for herself."--Provided by publisher.

      The Forgotten Garden
    • 2016

      Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian lions

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.4(4929)Add rating

      Recently widowed Poldi moves to Sicily in order to quietly drink herself to death with a sea view. But fate intervenes. When she finds the corpse of a young man on the beach, his face blown off with a sawn-off shotgun, she becomes a potential suspect in his murder case. Poldi soon falls for the gorgeous Commissario Montana who has been assigned to lead the case and, after some initial misunderstandings, they form an investigative - and romantic - partnership. Warm, witty and delightful, Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions delivers a lovable protagonist in a vivid setting.

      Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian lions
    • 2016

      Autor, jeden z nejvýznamnějších světových podnikatelů, svého času zanechal práce, aby se soustředil na osobní život a růst, věnoval se meditaci, studiu a stal se duchovním učitelem. Vytvořil postup, díky němuž každý z nás může cíleně působit na svou životní cestu, získat rovnováhu, najít smysl života a dosáhnout v něm spokojenosti. Jeho nesmírně inspirativní kniha je citlivě a výstižně napsaným průvodcem, nepostradatelným pro každého, kdo si přeje zdolávat životní překážky s klidem, jasnou myslí a laskavým srdcem.

      Jak získat v životě klid a vyrovnanost: Od emočního chaosu k ujasnění