Irma van Dam Knihy

Anatural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love & Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show women oppressed but not defeated.These are hopeful stories about love, lust, fame, and cultural thievery, the delight of new lovers, and the rediscovery of old friends, affirmed even across self-imposed color lines.

Returning frequently to Suwelo's visits to Mr. Hal and his stories about Fanny, this tale transcends time and examines such contradictions as black vs. white, man vs. woman, sexual freedom vs. sexual slavery, past vs. present, etc.

Ve své světoznámé knížce americký spisovatel Mitch Albom vypráví příběh, který zásadně proměnil jeho životní postoje a pohled na smysl existence tváří v tvář konečnosti lidského bytí. Osud nám často posílá neočekávaná setkání, která poznamenají celý náš život. To se stalo i autorovi, když se po dvaceti letech znovu setkal se svým bývalým profesorem Morriem Schwartzem, moudrým a vnímavým mužem, který mu kdysi ukázal cestu, kterou se může vydat. Po studiích ztratil žák kontakt s učitelem, ale po mnoha letech se dozví, že profesor vážně onemocněl, a rozhodne se obnovit jejich vztah. Profesor trpí amytrofickou laterální sklerózou, což je nevyléčitelná choroba vedoucí k postupnému ochabování svalstva. Přes svůj zhoršující se zdravotní stav profesor nabídne, aby se pravidelně scházeli, a jejich úterní setkávání se přemění na poslední „semestr o životě a smrti“. Morrie klade svému studentovi otázky, které si léta nepoložil, a předává mu svou hlubokou životní filozofii. „Jakmile se naučíte, jak umírat, naučíte se, jak žít.“ Albom je autorem mnoha inspirativních příběhů, které byly zfilmovány, a žije se svou ženou v Detroitu.

1978: Lower East Side, New York. Fifteen-year-old Finn Earl's mother, Liz, is a thirty-two year-old masseuse with a taste for cocaine. When Liz's habit forces them to flee the city, they find protection under the wing of one her clients, ageing billionaire Mr Osborne. In Vlyvalle, a golden playground for the super-rich, Finn discovers a people who are stranger, more savage, and more secretive than any tribe in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. Offered a new life and new friends amongst the decadent and beautiful denizens of Osborne's empire, Finn falls in love and grows up fast. He's living a twisted approximation of the American dream - and for a moment everything he wants is there for the taking. But in America, social-climbing is a blood sport. Even on what should be the happiest night of Finn's life, on an island in the middle of a private lake, naked and high with Maya, Osborne's bewitching granddaughter, someone is watching him from the depths of the forest… and laughing. A modern coming-of-age novel in the tradition of HUCKLEBERRY FINN, and a portrait of America as vivid and strange as THE GREAT GATSBY, FIERCE PEOPLE marks the emergence of a dazzling new talent.

As children, Roy and Alison Smith were so close their mother called them by one name: Alroy. But on a cool summer morning when she was fifteen, Alison woke to learn that Roy, three years older, was dead. While her Catholic parents wrestled with their faith and their grief, Alison made the mourners coffee, went to school to be taught by the nuns, and - being all her parents had left - set about coping. But underneath run her private rituals of mourning, her increasing idiosyncrasies, unnoticed by her parents trying to heal themselves and teachers anxious to be kind. Until suddenly, Alison begins to realize something's wrong. This is a book about grief, but it's also a love story, about Alison's love of her brother, of her childhood, and finally of life.

De sociale onrust op Jamaica in oktober 1968, gezien door de ogen van een schooljongen.

Autobiografisch getint relaas van een Amerikaanse puber die opgroeit in een mijnwerkersstadje in West-Virginia in de jaren vijftig.