Lynn Cullen Knihy

Zakázaná láska k autorovi Havrana a jiných hrůzných příběhů může být nebezpečná... „Každičká stránka nabitá dějem... Čtenáři, kteří si zamilovali Pařížskou manželku Pauly McLainové, příběh o životě a láskách Ernesta Hemingwaye, si teď mohou vychutnat další román plný historických skandálů, vášní, tragiky i romantiky." Píše se rok 1845. Edgar Allan Poe, autor Havrana a jiných temných básní i strašidelných příběhů, je hvězdou newyorské společnosti. A zatímco New York, posedlý vším senzačním, se zamiloval do něho, slavný spisovatel propadl zničující lásce k nesmělé básnířce Frances Osgoodové. Bohužel je však ženat, se svou vlastní sestřenicí, Frances je zase vdaná za malíře, zaneprázdněného věčnými milostnými aférami. Přijměte pozvání do časů, kdy se po Broadwayi projížděly kočáry a v salonech zbohatlíků se pod světly plynových lamp předváděly luxusní róby, recitovala poezie a probíraly všemožné skandály. Frances je proti svým citům bezmocná... a nedokáže se bránit ani zničujícímu veřejnému mínění, když jejich láska vyjde najevo. Ocitá se na nebezpečném území a brzy zjistí, že nejde jen o pověst, ale přímo o život. Těžce nemocná Poeova žena se svého muže nechce za žádnou cenu vzdát... Jako bychom se ocitli v jedné z hororových povídek hlavního hrdiny...

"Huge applause... women have always been in science—despite those who would pretend otherwise.” --Bonnie Garmus, New York Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry She gave up everything — and changed the world. A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe. In 1940s and ’50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one’s life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put American cities in lockdown. Some of the world’s best minds are engaged in the race to find a vaccine. The man who succeeds will be a god. But Dorothy Horstmann is not focused on beating her colleagues to the vaccine. She just wants the world to have a cure. Applying the same determination that lifted her from a humble background as the daughter of immigrants, to becoming a doctor –often the only woman in the room--she hunts down the monster where it lurks: in the blood. This discovery of hers, and an error by a competitor, catapults her closest colleague to a lead in the race. When his chance to win comes on a worldwide scale, she is asked to sink or validate his vaccine—and to decide what is forgivable, and how much should be sacrificed, in pursuit of the cure.

With her mother dead of the plague, and her beloved brother newly married and moved away, Cornelia van Rijn finds herself without a friend or confidante―save her difficult father. Out of favor with Amsterdam's elite, and considered brash and unreasonable by his patrons, Rembrandt van Rijn, once revered, is now teetering on the brink of madness. Cornelia alone must care for him, though she herself is haunted by secrets and scandal. Her only happiness comes in chance meetings with Carel, the son of a wealthy shipping magnate whose passion for art stirs Cornelia. And then there is Neel, her father's last remaining pupil, whose steadfast devotion to Rembrandt both baffles and touches her. Based on historical fact, and filled with family dramas and a love triangle that would make Jane Austen proud, I Am Rembrandt's Daughter is a powerful account of a young woman's struggle to come of age within the shadow of one of the world's most brilliant and complicated artists.

Ruth juggles the challenges of raising four daughters and managing the family farm alone while her husband lies in a coma. Yearning for the life of her glamorous sister June, who enjoys a successful career and a luxurious lifestyle, Ruth's envy is complicated by June's long-standing resentment over their shared past and her feelings for John. Their unexpected reunion forces both sisters to confront unresolved tensions and deep-seated emotions, setting the stage for a dramatic reckoning.