Bill Cosby Pořadí knih

The stunning new thriller from a bestselling, multi-award-winning author explores the story of Titus Crown, the first Black sheriff in Charon County, Virginia. After decades of relative peace, the town faces turmoil when a school teacher is murdered by a former student, who is subsequently shot by Titus's deputies. As Titus investigates these shootings, he uncovers dark secrets and a serial killer lurking in Charon’s shadows, tied to a local church and the town's troubled past. While grappling with the case, Titus struggles to maintain his composure and hide a painful secret from his own history. Complicating matters, a far-right group plans a parade celebrating the town's Confederate heritage, adding to the tensions. Charon is both Titus's home and his heart, and as faith and violence collide, a reckoning looms. Praise for the author includes accolades from notable figures in the literary world, highlighting his powerful voice and ability to address significant themes through strong characters and gripping narratives.

A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust.Titus Crown is the first Black sheriff in the history of Charon County, Virginia. In recent decades, Charon has had only two murders. After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus knows better than anyone that while his hometown might seem like a land of moonshine, cornbread, and honeysuckle, secrets always fester under the surface.Then a year to the day after Titus’s election, a school teacher is killed by a former student and the student is fatally shot by Titus’s deputies. Those festering secrets are now out in the open and ready to tear the town apart.As Titus investigates the shootings, he unearths terrible crimes and a serial killer who has been hiding in plain sight, haunting the dirt lanes and woodland clearings of Charon. With the killer’s possible connections to a local church and the town’s harrowing history weighing on him, Titus projects confidence about closing the case while concealing a painful secret from his own past. At the same time, he also has to contend with a far-right group that wants to hold a parade in celebration of the town’s Confederate history.Powerful and unforgettable, All the Sinners Bleed confirms S. A. Cosby as “one of the most muscular, distinctive, grab-you-by-both-ears voices in American crime fiction” (The Washington Post).

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby's debut novel, republished in a new edition, with a new introduction from the author.

Bývalý vězeň Ike Randolph už patnáct let seká latinu, a trávníky. Poté co vyšel z vězení naposled, založil si zahradnickou firmu a dodržuje zákony, jak to jen jde. Když ale černochovi zaklepe na dveře policie, tuší, že to nic dobrého nevěstí. Na to, co přijde, ale připraven nebyl. Jeho syn Isaiah se spolu svým manželem Derekem stal obětí úkladné vraždy. A i když se Ike se synem po svatbě nikdy pořádně nesmířil, teď je zdrcen žalem. Derekův otec Buddy Lee se za synovu homosexualitu styděl skoro stejně, jako se Derek styděl za otce kriminálníka. Díky svým kontaktům v podsvětí teď ale Buddy hodlá vypátrat, kdo má jeho syna na svědomí. Ike s Buddym nemohou být rozdílnější, krom zkušeností z kriminálu je spojuje jen dlouho potlačovaná láska k synům, jejichž smrt chtějí pomstít. Než si to s viníky vraždy vyřídí, budou čelit nejen vlastním předsudkům vůči světu gayů, ale i vůči sobě navzájem. Dva zavraždění synové. Dva otcové, jeden černoch, druhý běloch. Jak bude chutnat jejich pomsta?

„Bug“ býval nejlepším šoférem podsvětí, než se ošklivě spálil a starý život raději hodil za hlavu. Vybudoval vlastní autodílnu, miluje svou ženu, stará se o rodinu a vášni pro rychlost podlehne jen občas. Jenže pak se to zase zvrtlo, podnik drtí konkurence, poctivá práce nevynáší a „Bug“ se nechá umluvit k poslední velké akci. Vždyť tam, kde se vůně benzinu mísí se strachem, na něj nikdo nemá. A tak to riskne. Najde v asfaltové pustině, kde ho nepronásleduje jen přízrak dávno ztraceného otce, ale i stíny vlastní minulosti, tu správnou cestu? Nebo naopak přijde o všechno, na čem mu záleží?

Essentially, this is the best of the best of 50 years of Peanuts, the comic strip by the late Charles Schulz featuring Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Snoopy, and the rest of the beguiling little gang. Peanuts debuted in 1950 and became a global phenomenon, with book collections selling more than 300 million copies in 26 languages and television specials rerun year after year. To create this all-new Peanuts Guide to Life, we've combed through decades of comic strips to find those single panels which contain such pithy observations as “Babysitters are like used cars. You never know what you're going to get,” and bits of wisdom like “Never lick ice cream off a hot sidewalk.” Each droll, stand-alone “speech bubble” or punchline appears with cartoon art. The panels are organized into short chapters, such as “Love” and “Life's Little Quirks.” For the millions of faithful Peanuts fans, this is a collection of “greatest hits” to cherish and enjoy again and again.

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Just as a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, so a spoonful of humor helps the wisdom go down. In Congratulations! Now What America's funnyman Bill Cosby gently ribs college graduates about their time spent--or lost--in the hallowed halls of the university and postulates what four years of higher education have suited them for: "[If no job offer] ever turns up with a four-day week, a three-hour lunch, and a holiday for Count Basie's birthday, you still might be able to make a few dollars on Jeopardy." But he also assures graduates that their studies were not in vain and bestows advice to job seekers. Those who acquired several piercings while in school are cautioned to make sure the studs and hoops are shined before going to an interview. Those who are buffing their first professional r+sum+ are advised to strike a tone somewhere between "lyrical lying and fanciful fraud." Cosby, whose successful career as a humorist has always turned on his affection for kids, is a regular speaker at college commencements--in the chapter "As I Look Out at Your Foggy Faces," he says it's a hobby of his--and this 130-page book collects bons mots and sage advice from speeches given because he has "a feeling for anesthesiology."Graduates--and their now-broke parents--will find a reason to smile on every page. --Brenda Pittsley

Bill Cosby is classically funny. Now, as the star of CBS-TV's "Bill Cosby's Kids Say the Darndest Things" he again has the perfect platform to bring out the best in all people through the hilariously honest, witty and touching statements of all kinds of children. Now, this sure-fire combination will take to the printed page in the must-have book of the season.

Bill Cosby v této knize vzpomíná na svá klukovská léta v severní Filadelfii. Skvělá kniha plná moudrého humoru.