María Eugenia Ciocchini Suárez Knihy

V roce 1932 se Amerika zmítala v otřesech velké krize a život se zdál být trpký a obtížný, jako ještě nikdy předtím. Příběh se odehrává ve věznici Cold Mountain, kam jsou transportováni odsouzenci na smrt. John Coffey je člověk, který si trest smrti zaslouží více než kdokoliv jiný. Tento mohutný obr byl odsouzen za smrt dvou malých dívek. Řekli byste možná, že cesta k poslední odplatě bude krátká a milosrdná – ale sami poznáte, jak se můžete mýlit. Doprovodíme společně Johna Coffeye na jeho poslední cestě, podobné zlému snu....

In this autobiography, Mineko Iwasaki lifts the veil on geisha life to reveal a true story of abandonment, rape and overwhelming dedication to art. Mineko tells a tale of reconciling public and private identities, granting an insight into the mind and heart of the geisha performer.

Frances Lennox ladles out dinner every night to the motley, exuberant, youthful crew assembled around her hospitable tableher two sons and their friends, girlfriends, ex-friends, and ftesh-off-the-street friends. It's the early 1960s and certainly "everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." Except financial circumstances demand that Frances and her sons Eve with her proper ex-mother-in-law. And her ex-husband, Comrade Johnny, has just dumped his second wife's problem child at Frances's feet. And the world's political landscape has suddenly become surreal beyond imagination.... Set against the backdrop of the decade that changed the world forever, The Sweetest Dream is a riveting look at a group of people who dared to dream-and faced the inevitable cleanup afterward -- from one of the greatest writers of our time.

The work of Nicholas Koppernigk, better known as Copernicus, shattered the medieval view of the universe and led to the formulation of the image of the solar system we know today. Here his life is powerfully evoked in a novel that offers a vivid portrait of a man of painful reticence, haunted by a malevolent brother and baffled by the conspiracies that rage around him and his ideas while he searches for the secret of life.