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Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal, Jack Weede, abruptly announces his retirement, creating a rare opportunity for Tracy to ascend to the top job. Energized by the prospect of her long-overdue promotion, Tracy throws herself into her work with renewed zeal, determined to prove her worth to the students, faculty, and School Board, while also managing her personal life--a ten-year-old daughter, a needy doctor boyfriend, and a burgeoning meditation practice. But nothing ever comes easily to Tracy Flick, no matter how diligent or qualified she happens to be

New York Times bestseller!From the bestselling author of The Leftovers and Little Children comes a penetrating and hilarious new novel about sex, love, and identity on the frontlines of America's culture wars. číst celé

A collection of stories focuses on suburban nuclear families, including "Senior Season," "Nine Inches" and "The Smile on Happy Chang's Face."

Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

Pozůstalí Toma Perrotty přinášejí myšlenkově pronikavý pohled na společnost zasaženou nevysvětlitelnou událostí. Poté co 2 % celosvětové populace náhle beze stopy zmizí, se zbytek lidstva zoufale snaží pochopit, co se stalo, a hlavně, co bude následovat. Perrotta ve svém bestsellerovém románu, jejž vysoce ohodnotil mino jiné i Stephen King, originálně rozpracoval představu biblického Nanebevzetí, během nějž jsou v okamžiku spaseni všichni praví křesťané, zatímco ostatní nevěřící jsou ponechání napospas světu, stíhanému pohromami, než nastane konečná apokalypsa. Ale co to znamená, když si Bůh (byl-li to on) vzal vedle křesťanů i muslimy, buddhisty, nebo dokonce alkoholiky a zvrhlíky? Na příběhu lidí z newyorského předměstí ukazuje, jaké důsledky může mít událost, jež popírá veškerou racionalitu; jaké extrémní a fanatické reakce vyvolává, jak nebezpečné démony v lidech probouzí. Zároveň se nevzdává naděje, že i uprostřed všeobecného šílenství se najdou lidé, kteří neztrácí hlavu a dokáží zabránit nejhoršímu, jímž je naprostá ztráta smyslu pro elementární lidskost.

Stonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise children: it’s got good schools, solid values and a healthy real estate market. Parents in the town are involved in their children’s lives, and often in other children’s lives, too—coaching sports, driving carpool, focusing on enriching experiences. Ruth Ramsey is the high school human sexuality teacher whose openness is not appreciated by all her students—or their parents. Her daughter’s soccer coach is Tim Mason, a former stoner and rocker whose response to hitting rock bottom was to reach out and be saved. Tim’s introduction of Christianity on the playing field horrifies Ruth, while his evangelical church sees a useful target in the loose-lipped sex ed teacher. But when these two adversaries in a small-town culture war actually talk to each other, a surprising friendship begins to develop. The Abstinence Teacher illuminates the powerful emotions that run beneath the placid surface of modern American family life, and explores the complicated spiritual and sexual lives of ordinary people. It is elegantly and simply written, characterized by the distinctive mix of satire and compassion that has become Perrotta’s trademark.

A group of parents, trapped in middle-class stability, deal with marriage, kids and their suburban life in very different ways. Now a box-office smash, 'Little Children' is a unique mix of the comical and the compassionate.

A brilliantly funny novel from the author of The Abstinence Teacher' and Little Children', made into an acclaimed film starring Reece Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick.