Drahomíra Hlínková Libri

"Je na mně, abych jménem hostů připil na zdraví řediteli, Jeho Hanebnosti Mrchodlakovi, a Koleji pro výcvik Pokušitelů. Naplňte si číše! Co to vidím? A jakou přelahodnou vůni, jak skvělý bukét nasávám? Je to možné? Vidím a čichám, že místní sklep i za válečných podmínek vlastní pár tuctů lahví starého, vyzrálého špičkového Farizeje. Dobře, dobře, výborně! Jako za starých časů!" C. S. Lewis připravil tuto knihu krátce před svou smrtí 22. listopadu 1963. Jedná se o sbírku esejů, které se téměř výhradně zabývají náboženskou tematikou. Nejznámější z nich je Přípitek zkušeného ďábla, který je volným doplněním úspěšné knihy Rady zkušeného ďábla.

Strhující příběh mladé ženy, která podstoupila těžké životní zkoušky, aby si uchovala naději...

Buster Keaton zvaný Frigo, muž s kamennou tváří, vypráví svůj vlastní životopis se zvláštním smyslem pro absurditu skutečných situací, které jsou zdrojem humoru, který v dané chvíli dokáže člověka nepříjemně zaskočit.

La voce del cuore è un romanzo che intreccia quattro destini legati da amore, passione, amicizia e tragici fraintendimenti. Katharina Tempest, un'attrice di straordinaria bellezza, raggiunge un sensazionale successo mondiale con il suo primo film. Tuttavia, la sua vera grande interpretazione è la vita stessa, in cui manifesta una profonda instabilità interiore e un'irrefrenabile sete di fama, che sconvolge le esistenze di coloro che la amano di più. I suoi amici - il famoso attore Viktor Mason, lo scrittore Nicholas Latimer e la giovane aristocratica inglese Franceska - sono il suo pubblico più devoto, capace di adorare Katharina ma anche di scorgere oltre la facciata della sua esistenza costruita ad arte. Per oltre vent'anni, Katharina recita il suo straordinario ruolo di vita, caratterizzato da una tumultuosa storia d'amore con Nicholas e da un sincero legame con Franceska, ma tutto è presto minacciato da inganni e tradimenti. Le complesse vicende dei protagonisti e di molti altri personaggi conducono il lettore nel mondo dei famosi, dei ricchi e dei potenti di Londra, Hollywood e New York, tra castelli nello Yorkshire e in Baviera, e ville lussuose sulla Riviera e in California. La trama straordinariamente avvincente e ricca di questo libro è pervasa di romanticismo, tensione e colpi di scena ironici.

The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse and comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Amongst the blackmail, lies and hastily kept secrets of the Nightingale nursing school, another student dies equally mysteriously and it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills. In Shroud for a Nightingale, award-winning P.D. James (author of Death Comes to Pemberley, Original Sin and Children of Men) plots a complex story of secrets, blackmail and suspicion. The novel was adapted for television in 1984, with Roy Marsden as Adam Dalgliesh and Joss Ackland as the surgeon, Stephen Courtney-Briggs.

The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting, nothing is ever quite what it seems...

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here All the drama, color and explosive action of Hotel! The whole fascinating story of a great hospital, where life begins and life ends. BIRTH. A "yellow baby" - "Get the operating room set up for a total transfusion - " EMERGENCY. The nurse's urgent voice on the phone - "Doctor! You patient is hemorrhaging!" LOVE. The hurried embrace in a linen closet. SURGERY. Scalpel slices. Blood spurts. Diagnosis correct? "Hemostat, hemostat quick!" AUTOPSY. The cadaver opened from sternum to pubic bone. "Doctor! The nurse fainted." The dramatic techniques of modern medicine, the crucial, intimate scenes inside a big hospital -

Chronicles the first homicide cases to be solved by DNA testing: the 1983 and 1986 rape-murders of English teenagers Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashforth.

Everyone has a special relationship in their lives ... the one they never forget. Annie, a successful London literary agent, is married to the very dependable, very English Edward. But she can't forget her passionate love affair with Jordan at university, which ended abruptly when he returned to America. Jordan is now married to efficient, pushy Virginia, and is running for the American presidency. But he and Annie are brought together again when a secret from their past is unearthed that could put Jordan's career in jeopardy, and destroy both their marriages. Will they do the right thing and keep the past where it belongs, or will the power of their special relationship prove too strong?

This is the wise, unsettling, drastic story of three women whose lives share a common wound: Zenia, a woman they first met as university students in the sixties. Zenia is smart and beautiful, by turns manipulative, vulnerable - and irresistible. She has entered into their separate lives to ensnare their sympathy, betray their trust, and exploit their weaknesses. Now Zenia, thought dead, has suddenly reappeared. In this richly layered narrative, Atwood skilfully evokes the decades of the past as she retraces three women's lives, until we are back in the present - where it's yet to be discovered whether Zenia's "pure, free-wheeling malevolence" can still wreak havoc. "The Robber Bride" reports from the farthest reaches of the sex wars and is one of Margaret Atwood's most intricate and subversive novels yet. "From the Hardcover edition."

Tento detektivní román je koncipován jako soudní proces s Vicky Lamartineovou, Francouzkou žijící v Londýně, která je obžalována z vraždy majora anglické výzvědné služby Thosebyho, spáchané v londýnském hotelu. Na samém počátku procesu požádá Vicky o změnu obhájce a svěří svou věcdo rukou mladého advokáta Rumbolda, který se rozhodne prokázat její nevinu. Tento úkol je spojený s důkladným pátráním ve Francii, kde za druhé světové války Vicky pracovala jako členka odboje a kam Rumbold odjíždí a prožívá tu nebezpečné dobrodružství. Příběh se tak rozvíjí střídavě v soudní síni, kde žalobce s obhájcem svádějí úporné a zároven vtipné slovní šarvátky, na různých místech v Anglii a Francii, kde probíhá pátrání po minulých dějích.

Marian McAlpin è una giovane donna canadese spiritosa e ben educata. Ha un lavoro insoddisfacente per le "Indagini di Mercato Seymour", un fidanzato di nome Peter e un'amica ferocemente femminista con la quale divide l'appartamento. Poi, un giorno Marian diventa matta. O almeno pensa di esserlo diventata dato che all'improvviso smette di mangiare. il fatto è che Marian non riesce più a capire la differenza tra sé e il cibo. E' come se vivesse nel terrore di essere divorata. Dal lavoro, dagli amici, dal fidanzato. E per non farsi mangiare, non mangia. Comincia così una riscossa tragicomica contro tutti i potenziali divoratori in un ritmo frenetico dettato dalla necessità di non morire di fame. Con un finale a sorpresa ai limiti del cannibalesco. Un romanzo di straordinaria modernità.

A PRESIDENTIAL DYNASTY. AN ARAB TERRORIST ATTACK. DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE. Mario Puzo envisioned it all in his eerily prescient 1991 novel, The Fourth K. President Francis Xavier Kennedy is elected to office, in large part, thanks to the legacy of his forebears-good looks, privilege, wealth-and is the very embodiment of youthful optimism. Too soon, however, he is beaten down by the political process and, disabused of his ideals, he becomes a leader totally unlike what he has been before. When his daughter becomes a pawn in a brutal terrorist plot, Kennedy, who has obsessively kept alive the memory of his uncles' assassinations, activates all his power to retaliate in a series of violent measures. As the explosive events unfold, the world and those closest to him look on with both awe and horror.

Kniha popisuje básnické začátky i nejdůležitější období tvorby amerického básníka Walta Whitmana (1819-1892).