Swing time (defekt) - zadie smithová

'Smith's finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous' Observer 'Superb' Financial Times 'Breathtaking' TLS 'Pitch-perfect' Daily Telegraph'A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class... A page-turner that's also beautifully written ' Glamour'There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith' TelegraphSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017 A dazzlingly exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On BeautyTwo brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, black bodies and black music, what it means to belong, what it means to be free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten either.Bursting with energy, rhythm and movement, Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet. It is a story about music and identity, race and class, those who follow the dance and those who lead it . . . (knihydobrovsky.cz)

'Smith's finest. Extraordinary, truly marvellous' Observer 'Superb' Financial Times 'Breathtaking' TLS 'Pitch-perfect' Daily Telegraph 'A tale of two girls who meet in a West London dance class...A page-turner that's also beautifully written ' Glamour 'There is still no better chronicler of the modern British family than Zadie Smith' Telegraph SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017 A dazzlingly exuberant new novel moving from north west London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, black bodies and black music, what it means to belong, what it means to be free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten either. Bursting with energy, rhythm and movement, Swing Time is Zadie Smith's most ambitious novel yet. It is a story about music and identity, race and class, those who follow the dance and those who lead it ... (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The Autograph Man is Zadie Smith's whirlwind tour of celebrity and our fame-obsessed times. Following one Alex-Li Tandem - a twenty-something, Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised religion - it takes in London and New York, love and death, fathers and sons, as Alex tries to discover how a piece of paper can bring him closer to his heart's desire. Exposing our misconceptions about our idols - about ourselves - Zadie Smith delivers a brilliant, unforgettable tale about who we are and what we really want to be.'A glorious concoction written by our most beguiling and original prose-wizard' Independent on Sunday 'A brilliant comedy with a tantalising throb of mystic philosophy underneath' Philip Hensher, Books of the Year, Spectator'A pleasure from the first page to the last' Evening. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

NW is Zadie Smith's masterful novel about London life. Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet after a chance encounter they each find that the choices they've made, the people they once were and are now, can suddenly, rapidly unravel. A portrait of modern urban life, NW is funny, sad and urgent - as brimming with vitality as the city itself. Praise for NW: 'Her dialogue sings and soars; terse, packed and sassy. Smith is simply wonderful: Dickens's legitimate daughter' Boyd Tonkin, Independent 'Astonishing, dazzling. Really - without exaggeration - not since Dickens has there been a better observer of London scenes. Zadie Smith is a genius. It's hard to imagine a better novel this year - or this decade' A.N. Wilson 'Intensely funny, richly varied, always unexpected. A joyous, optimistic, angry masterpiece. No better English novel will be published this year' Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph 'Absolutely brilliant.So electrically authentic' TIME 'Captivating. Funny, sexy, weird, full of acute social comedy, like London. She's up there with the best around' Evening Standard 'Marvellous ...crackles with reflections on race, music and migration. A lyrical fiction for our times' Spectator 'Undeniably brilliant ...rush out and buy this book' Observer Zadie Smith was born in north-west London in 1975. She is the author of the novels White Teeth, The Autograph Man and On Beauty, and of a collection of essays, Changing My Mind. She is also the editor of The Book of Other People. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel.It is 1873.Mrs Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper - and cousin by marriage - of a once famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years.Mrs Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr Charles Dickens, of being a bully and a moralist; and England of being a land of facades, in which nothing is quite what it seems.Andrew Bogle meanwhile grew up enslaved on the Hope Plantation, Jamaica.He knows every lump of sugar comes at a human cost. That the rich deceive the poor. And that people are more easily manipulated than they realise.When Bogle finds himself in London, star witness in a celebrated case of imposture, he knows his future depends on telling the right story.The 'Tichborne Trial' captivates Mrs Touchet and all of England. Is Sir Roger Tichborne really who he says he is? Or is he a fraud? Mrs Touchet is a woman of the world. Mr Bogle is no fool.But in a world of hypocrisy and self-deception, deciding what is real proves a complicated task... (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Book of the Year 2023 according to New York Times, New Yorker, Guardian, Economist, Observer, The Spectator, Financial Times, Vogue, The Times, The Oldie, i Paper, The Standard, Washington Post, Independent, Daily ExpressSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024‘A writer at the peak of her powers’ The TelegraphTruth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story?In her first historical novel, Zadie Smith transports the reader to a Victorian England transfixed by the real-life trial of the Tichborne Claimant, in which a cockney butcher, recently returned from Australia, lays claim to the Tichborne baronetcy, with his former slave Andrew Bogle as star witness.Watching the proceedings, and with her own story to tell, is Eliza Touchet – cousin, housekeeper and perhaps more – to failing novelist William Harrison Ainsworth. From literary London to the Jamaica’s sugar-cane plantations, Zadie Smith weaves an enthralling story linking the rich and the poor, the free and the enslaved, and the comic and the tragic. ‘It’s difficult to give any idea of how extraordinary this book is.One of the great historical novels, certainly. But has any historical novel ever combined such brilliantly researched and detailed history with such intensely imagined fiction?' Michael Frayn‘As always it is a pleasure to be in Zadie Smith’s mind . .. Dickens may be dead, but Smith, thankfully, is alive’ New York Times‘Zadie Smith’s Victorian-set masterpiece holds a mirror up to Britain . .. The Fraud is the genuine article’ Independent‘Smith’s dazzling historical novel combines deft writing and strenuous construction in a tale of literary London and the horrors of slavery’ Guardian (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The Autograph Man is Zadie Smith's whirlwind tour of celebrity and our fame-obsessed times. Following one Alex-Li Tandem - a twenty-something, Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised religion - it takes in London and New York, love and death, fathers and sons, as Alex tries to discover how a piece of paper can bring him closer to his heart's desire. Exposing our misconceptions about our idols - about ourselves - Zadie Smith delivers a brilliant, unforgettable tale about who we are and what we really want to be.'A glorious concoction written by our most beguiling and original prose-wizard' Independent on Sunday 'A brilliant comedy with a tantalising throb of mystic philosophy underneath' Philip Hensher, Books of the Year, Spectator'A pleasure from the first page to the last' Evening. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

'Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend. She plays many roles round here. And never Scared to tell the whole of her truth, whether Or not anyone wants to hear it. Wife Of Willesden: pissed enough to tell her life Story to whoever has ears and eyes . . .' Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, The Wife of Willesden is a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath's Prologue, brought to glorious life on the Kilburn High Road. Commissioned to celebrate Brent's year as Borough of Culture 2020, The Wife of Willesden will premiere at the Kiln Theatre, London in September 2020. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

výrobek je dodáván částečně sestavený, nohy musí být namontovány Nechte zapůsobit šarm retro stylu. Kulatý příruční stolek SWING TIME v kombinaci bílé barvy a přírodního dřeva se díky šikovnému okraji a kónickým nohám postará o bezstarostné žití a bytí. Všestranně kombinovatelný. K dostání v dalších barvách. (butlers.cz)

Hudební CD - Kompilace swingu určená právě pro vás. Kompilace swingu určená právě pro vás. Seznam stop CD 1 / Puttin' On The Ritz - Fred Astaire / Don't Be That Way - Benny Goodman / On The Sunny Side Of The Street - Ella Fitzgerald / Tuxedo Junction - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra / Lullaby Of Birdland - Sarah Vaughan / Let's Sing Like A Dixieland Band - Louis Armstrong / Bing Crosby / American Patrol - Max Greger & Sein Orchester / St. Louis Blues - Kurt Henkels & Sein Orchester / Pennies From Heaven - Louis Prima / Trumpet Blues And Cantabile - Harry James / Night And Day - Lena Horne / Jumpin' At The Woodside - Count Basie / Pennsylvania 6-5000 - The Andrew Sisters / Take Five - Dave Brubeck / Brazil - Frank Sinatra / Carioca - Kurt Edelhagen & Sein Orchester / Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - Hazy Osterwald Sextett / At The Jazz Band Ball - Monty Sunshine Band / You're The Cream In My Coffee - Nat King Cole / Maria Elena -... (alza.cz)

HOW MANY LIFETIMES DOES IT TAKE TO LEARN HOW TO LIVE? Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old history teacher, but he's been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, from New York to the South Seas, Tom has seen it all. As long as he keeps changing his identity, he can stay one step ahead of his past - and stay alive. The only thing he must not do is fall in love. But what if the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him? (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The gaudy years of the Restoration are long gone and Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to King Charles II, sets off for the French court in search of a fresh start. But royal life at the Palace of Versailles - leaves him in despair, until a chance encounter with the seductive Madame de Flamanville, allows him to dream of a different future. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flaneur named Gaustine opens a 'clinic for the past' that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time.As Gaustine's assistant, the unnamed narrator is tasked with collecting the flotsam and jetsam of the past, from 1960s furniture and 1940s shirt buttons to scents and even afternoon light. But as the rooms become more convincing, an increasing number of healthy people seek out the clinic as a 'time shelter', hoping to escape from the horrors of our present - a development that results in an unexpected conundrum when the past begins to invade the present.Intricately crafted, and eloquently translated by Angela Rodel, Time Shelter cements Georgi Gospodinov's reputation as one of the indispensable writers of our times, a major voice in international literature.Georgi Gospodinov is one of Europe's most acclaimed writers. Originally from Bulgaria, his novels have won his country's most prestigious literary prize twice and have been shortlisted for more than a dozen international prizes - including the 2015 PEN Literary Award for Translation, the Premio Gregor von Rezzori, the Premio Strega Europeo, the Bruecke Berlin Preis, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt Literaturpreis. He has won the 2016 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, the 2019 Angelus Literature Central Europe Prize and the 2021 Premio Strega Europeo, among others. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The adventures of Geralt the Witcher continue in this second novel in the bestselling Witcher series that inspired the Netflix show and video games.The kings and armies are manoeuvring for position, each fearing invasion from across the river, each fearing their neighbours more. Intrigue, dissent and rebellion fester on all sides.After decades of oppression, the elves and other races are fighting each other and attacking the humans - and with growing numbers preparing for battle, the threat of all-out war looms ever greater.Against this backdrop of fear, Geralt and Yennefer must protect Ciri, the orphaned heir who is sought by all sides. For the child of prophecy has the power to change the world - if she lives to use it.Translated by David French. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Discover the Sunday Times bestselling collection from the TikTok sensation and author of On Earth We're Briefly GorgeousIn this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to survive beyond it. Vivid, brave and propulsive, Vuong's poems contend with personal loss, the meaning of family, and the value of joy in a perennially fractured American spirit.The author of the critically acclaimed poetry collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds, winner of the 2016 Whiting Award, the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize and a 2019 MacArthur fellow, Vuong writes directly to our humanity without losing sight of the current moment. Bold and prescient, and a testament to tenderness in the face of violence, Time is a Mother is a return and a forging-forth all at once. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

From acclaimed author and Costa winner Hilary McKay comes The Time of Green Magic: a beautiful, spell-binding novel about new families, a magical old house and a mysterious cat . . .When Tom and Polly marry, blending their single parent families together, their children find it hard to relinquish their old lives. Max realizes his birth dad will never come home now, while Abi suddenly finds herself a middle child, expected to share far too much - especially with grubby little Louis. The family start over together, stretching their finances to the limit and renting an eerie, ivy-covered house, big enough for all of them.But when the children are alone there, strange things start to happen. Worried, Louis summons comfort from outdoors, and a startling guest arrives - is it a cat, or an owl, or something else? Abi reads alone, tumbling deep into books. Max loses his best friend and falls in love.Meanwhile, Louis' secret visitor is becoming much too real. And when Max and Abi too start to see the great spotted cat-thing that arrives in the night, it becomes a problem the three of them must find a way to solve - together. But where has the creature come from, and how will he get back? (knihydobrovsky.cz)

A New York Times bestseller! For the first time in his own words, President-elect Donald J. Trump explains his plan to make America great again! He wants to "put America's interests first--and that means doing what's right for our economy, our national security, and our public safety." Throughout the 2016 campaign, Trump conjured images of American strength and culture when small towns boomed with industry, mom and pop shops bustled, and people said, "Merry Christmas!" The media scoffed at Trump's vision and the people who supported him; they were blinded by the Clinton machine. But their eyes were opened after Trump won 62 million votes and the Oval Office. Even Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan said, "Donald Trump heard a voice in this country that no one else heard." As Trump says in Time to Get Tough, "I've built businesses across the globe. I've dealt with foreign leaders. I've created tens of thousands of American jobs. My whole life has been about executing deals and making real money--massive money. That's what I do for a living: make big things happen..." Trump is about to make the biggest deals of his life, and he's going to make them for America!From reversing lax immigration policies to eliminating regulations that restrict small businesses, Donald Trump understands that America "doesn't need cowardice, it needs courage." President Elect Trump is about to "Make America Great Again" and Time to Get Tough is his blueprint! (knihydobrovsky.cz)

A lyrical celebration of birdsong, and the rekindling of a deep passion for nature.'At this time of year, blackbirds never simply fly: instead, like reluctantly retired officers, they're always "on manoeuvres", and it's easy to see from their constant agitation that for them every flower bed is a bunker, every shed a redoubt and every hedge-bottom a potential place of ambush'As the world went silent in lockdown, something else happened; for the first time, many of us started becoming more aware of the spring sounds of the birds around us. Birdsong in a Time of Silence is a lyrical, uplifting reflection on these sounds and what they mean to us.From a portrait of the blackbird - most prominent and articulate of the early spring singers - to explorations of how birds sing, the science behind their choice of song and nest-sites, and the varied meanings that people have brought to and taken from birdsong, this book ultimately shows that natural history and human history cannot be separated. It is the story of a collective reawakening brought on by the strangest of springs. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

'The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew . . . The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it.'Time is a resource. Everyone knows it must be managed. You can let it move fast or slowly, but what you mustn't do is allow it to stop.On the Discworld, the History Monks have the important job of ensuring that tomorrow always comes. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well . . . time.Monk Lu-Tze, his apprentice Lobsang Ludd and Death's granddaughter Susan must stop the clockmaker before he completes his task. Because a truly accurate clock will stop time completely.And then, there really will be no tomorrow . . .'This is the best Pratchett I've read' Sunday TelegraphThief of Time is the fifth book in the Death series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

One of Cosmopolitan's Best Romance Novels EverTurns out that reading nothing but true crime isn't exactly conducive to modern dating--and one woman is going to have to learn how to give love a chance when she's used to suspecting the worst.PhD candidate Phoebe Walsh has always been obsessed with true crime. She's even analyzing the genre in her dissertation--if she can manage to finish writing it. It's hard to find the time while she spends the summer in Florida, cleaning out her childhood home, dealing with her obnoxiously good-natured younger brother, and grappling with the complicated feelings of mourning a father she hadn't had a relationship with for years.It doesn't help that she's low-key convinced that her new neighbor, Sam Dennings, is a serial killer (he may dress business casual by day, but at night he's clearly up to something). It's not long before Phoebe realizes that Sam might be something much scarier--a genuinely nice guy who can pierce her armor to reach her vulnerable heart. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Folks, life is beautiful! Bring on the drinks, I'm sticking around till I'm ninety! Do you hear?'A young boy grows up in a sleepy Czech community where little changes. His raucous, mischievous Uncle Pepin came to stay with the family years ago, and never left. But the outside world is encroaching on their close-knit town - first in the shape of German occupiers, and then with the new Communist order. Elegiac and moving, Bohumil Hrabal's gem-like portrayal of the passing of an age is filled with wit, life and tenderness. 'What is unique about Hrabal is his capacity for joy' Milan Kundera'Even in a town where nothing happens, Hrabal's meticulous and exuberant fascination with the human voice insists that, as long as there's still breath in a body, life is endlessly eventful' Independent. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. But now her husband is dead. Finally Florentino has another chance to declare his eternal passion and win her back. Will love that has survived half a century remain unrequited? (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Model: Zadie Barva: hnědá Vzor: logo, s potiskem Zapínání: sedlářský knoflík Materiál: polyuretan (bibloo.cz)

Model: Zadie Barva: hnědá Vzor: logo, s potiskem Zapínání: sedlářský knoflík Materiál: polyuretan (bibloo.cz)

Model: Zadie Barva: hnědá Vzor: logo, s potiskem Zapínání: sedlářský knoflík Materiál: polyuretan (bibloo.cz)

Model: Zadie Barva: černá Vzor: logo, s potiskem Zapínání: sedlářský knoflík Materiál: polyuretan (bibloo.cz)

Model: Zadie Barva: černá Vzor: logo, s potiskem Zapínání: sedlářský knoflík Materiál: polyuretan (bibloo.cz)

A new theory of the universe, twenty years in the making, by Stephen Hawking and his close collaborator Thomas Hertog.Perhaps the biggest question Stephen Hawking tried to answer in his extraordinary life was how the universe could have created conditions so perfectly hospitable to life.Pondering this mystery led Hawking to study the big bang origin of the universe, but his early work ran into a crisis when the maths predicted many big bangs producing a multiverse - countless different universes, most of which were far too bizarre to harbour life.Holed up in the theoretical physics department at Cambridge, Stephen Hawking and his friend and collaborator Thomas Hertog worked shoulder to shoulder for twenty years on a new quantum theory of the cosmos. As their discoveries took them deeper into the big bang, they were startled to find a deeper level of evolution in which the physical laws themselves transform and simplify until particles, forces, and even time itself fades away. Once upon a time, perhaps, there was no time. This led them to a revolutionary idea: the laws of physics are not set in stone but are born and co-evolve as the universe they govern takes shape.On the Origin of Time takes the reader on a quest to understand questions bigger than our universe, peering into the extreme quantum physics of black holes and the big bang and drawing on the latest developments in string theory. As Hawking's final days drew near, the two collaborators published a final theory proposing their radical new Darwinian perspective on the origins of our universe.Hertog offers a striking new vision that ties together, more deeply than ever, the nature of the universe's birth with our existence. Their theory profoundly transforms the way we think about our place in the order of the cosmos and may ultimately prove Hawking's biggest legacy. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Tmavě šedý vzorovaný pyžamový set Zadie z kategorie Dámské pyžama značky Henderson, velikost XL, barva šedá. (secretavenue.cz)

Alice doesn't believe in luck, Alice believes in love. Mostly that she's been in love with her best friend, Teddy, for the last three years. When she buys him a lottery ticket for his birthday and he wins 32 million dollars, they are thrown together with the world at their feet. Teddy decides that he will spend his money committing random acts of kindness, and who better to go on that adventure with him than Alice? In the process they get to know themselves and each other better than they ever have before, but money can't buy you love . . .Windfall is a tender and uplifting novel about love, luck, and big life changes, from Jennifer E. Smith. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Keri Smithová pomohla milionům lidí osvobodit jejich kreativitu a nalézt vlastní hlas pomocí interaktivních knížek a teď chce to samé umožnit (nejen) mladším čtenářům. Další ze série jejích destrukčních knížek vás motivuje k tomu, abyste se na čtení podívali novýma očima a oslavili nedokonalost v její plné kráse. Začněte číst všemi pěti smysly a proměňte knihu po svém! A nebojte, bude se vám k tomu hodit i nějaká ta drobná destrukce. (patro.cz)

Princezna Aurélie je mocnou čarodějkou. Jak by ale mohla být šťastná v království, které magii brutálně potlačuje? Své schopnosti však nemůže skrývat navždy, proto uprchne do jiného království. Nachází si zde přátele, zdokonaluje se v kouzlení a začíná něco cítit k muži, s nímž by nikdy vládnout nemohla. Když ji dostihne kruté nebezpečí, musí se rozhodnout – zůstane v utajení, nebo přizná královskou krev a pokusí se zachránit své milované? (patro.cz)

Imaginární svět Keri Smithové nabádá čtenáře k vytvoření něčeho jedinečného: vlastního světa, který si sami vymyslíte. Stačí si připravit seznam všeho, co vás přitahuje nejvíc: věci, které máte rádi nebo sbíráte, oblíbené barvy, tvary, nápady a vše, co vás fascinuje. Tento seznam se stane základním kamenem vašeho vymyšleného světa. Kniha vás provede celým procesem k vytvoření dokonalého místa, v němž se stačí už jenom zabydlet. Tak do toho! (patro.cz)

Život princezny Aurélie je v troskách, stejně jako království, které chtěla zachránit. Její snoubenec zahynul na lodi, a bratr, který se měl stát v jejich zemi králem, musí čelit odporu ze strany Tribunálu. Když během korunovační noci dojde k převratu, Aurélie je nucena uprchnout. Aby zachránila sebe a svou rodinu pustí se do sebevražedného boje. Najde v nejtemnějších chvílích jiskřičku naděje? Pomůže jí láska, kterou považovala za ztracenou? (patro.cz)

Britská autorka Ali Smithová se českému čtenáři představila poprvé v roce 2005 výborem Jiné povídky a jiné povídky. V próze Hotel svět přivádí svůj osobitý styl poutající nápaditostí, poetičností, vtipem i hloubkou k ještě vybroušenější dokonalosti. Pětice hlasů po řadě vypráví v pěti časových rovinách o jednom skončeném životě. Každý promlouvá jakoby jiným jazykem, jinak zachycuje život žitý a skončený v hotelu, zmenšeném odrazu světa, poodkrývá jiné střípky skládající se do obrazu, kterému úplnou podobu dává až hlas šestý, jímž je čtenářovo vnímání. Vyprávění se čte jedním dechem jako napínavá báseň v próze, lehce plynoucí a přitom pronikající hluboko, ponechávající dostatečný prostor čtenáři, jeho pohledu a duši. (patro.cz)

Princezna Aurélie je mocnou čarodějkou. Jak by ale mohla být šťastná v království, které magii brutálně potlačuje? Své schopnosti však nemůže skrývat navždy, proto uprchne do jiného království. Nachází si zde přátele, zdokonaluje se v kouzlení a začíná něco cítit k muži, s nímž by nikdy vládnout nemohla. Když ji dostihne kruté nebezpečí, musí se rozhodnout – zůstane v utajení, nebo přizná královskou krev a pokusí se zachránit své milované? (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Imaginární svět Keri Smithové nabádá čtenáře k vytvoření něčeho jedinečného: vlastního světa, který si sami vymyslíte. Stačí si připravit seznam všeho, co vás přitahuje nejvíc: věci, které máte rádi nebo sbíráte, oblíbené barvy, tvary, nápady a vše, co vás fascinuje. Tento seznam se stane základním kamenem vašeho vymyšleného světa. Kniha vás provede celým procesem k vytvoření dokonalého místa, v němž se stačí už jenom zabydlet. Tak do toho! (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Keri Smithová pomohla milionům lidí osvobodit jejich kreativitu a nalézt vlastní hlas pomocí interaktivních knížek a teď chce to samé umožnit (nejen) mladším čtenářům. Další ze série jejích destrukčních knížek vás motivuje k tomu, abyste se na čtení podívali novýma očima a oslavili nedokonalost v její plné kráse. Začněte číst všemi pěti smysly a proměňte knihu po svém! A nebojte, bude se vám k tomu hodit i nějaká ta drobná destrukce. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Život princezny Aurélie je v troskách, stejně jako království, které chtěla zachránit. Její snoubenec zahynul na lodi a bratr, který se měl stát v jejich zemi králem, musí čelit odporu ze strany Tribunálu. Když během korunovační noci dojde k převratu, Aurélie je nucena uprchnout. Aby zachránila sebe a svou rodinu, pustí se do sebevražedného boje. Najde v nejtemnějších chvílích jiskřičku naděje? Pomůže jí láska, kterou považovala za ztracenou? (knihydobrovsky.cz)

„Přijď a najdi mě.“ To byla poslední slova princezny Aurélie, která Zan nedokáže dostat z hlavy. Ve snaze vyslyšet její volání se proto vydává na dobrodružnou cestu plnou nástrah. Chce Aurélii vyhledat a vrátit jí dar, který pro něj obětovala – vlastní život. Věci však nejsou takové, jaké se zdají být, a Ebonwildeský les skrývá mnohá nebezpečí, o nichž dosud nikdo neměl ani potuchy. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Konečně deník, s kterým se nikdy nudit nebudete! Světový bestseller nyní i pro české tvořitele a kreativce. Destrukční deník je pro všechny, kteří si vždycky přáli vést si deník nebo skicář, ale měli potíž s tím začít, pokračovat, nebo ho dokonce dokončit. Jeho autorkou je kanadská konceptuální umělkyně Keri Smithová, která se zaměřila na výrobu kreativních deníků, a donutí vás podívat se na svět z jiného úhlu pohledu. V téhle knížečce najdete nesmírnou sbírku nápadů, jak ji zničit (pardon, kreativně vyzdobit!). Nebojte se trhání, polévání kávou či jiných destrukčních metod, tahle kniha je k tomu určená! Destrukce je hra! (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Kreativní destrukce není nikdy dost! Proto vydáváme speciální DESTRUKČNÍ DENÍČEK do kapsy! Jak název napovídá, má kapesní formát a najdete v něm oblíbené úkoly z klasického Destrukčního deníku, ale taky celou spoustu nových, takže se máte na co těšit :) Ideální na cesty či pro chvíle nudy během dne, stačí vytáhnout z tašky nebo kapsy a začít zaznamenávat, kreslit a čmárat všechno, co kolem sebe vidíte. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Britská autorka Ali Smithová se českému čtenáři představila poprvé v roce 2005 výborem Jiné povídky a jiné povídky. V próze Hotel svět přivádí svůj osobitý styl poutající nápaditostí, poetičností, vtipem i hloubkou k ještě vybroušenější dokonalosti. Pětice hlasů po řadě vypráví v pěti časových rovinách o jednom skončeném životě. Každý promlouvá jakoby jiným jazykem, jinak zachycuje život žitý a skončený v hotelu, zmenšeném odrazu světa, poodkrývá jiné střípky skládající se do obrazu, kterému úplnou podobu dává až hlas šestý, jímž je čtenářovo vnímání. Vyprávění se čte jedním dechem jako napínavá báseň v próze, lehce plynoucí a přitom pronikající hluboko, ponechávající dostatečný prostor čtenáři, jeho pohledu a duši. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Step back in time and witness how the greatest ancient cultures lived and thrived in this tour through history’s civilisations. Ancient Worlds is a tour through history's most influential civilisations between 3000 BCE and 750 CE, capturing moments that reveal the culture and technology that made them great. Children aged 7-11 will discover how deep knowledge of the Sun, sea, and stars enabled ancient seafarers to navigate the Pacific Ocean; witness the highs and lows of a thrilling chariot race in the Roman Empire's greatest hippodrome, and marvel at the military might of the Mauryan Empire and its incredible war elephants.Dive straight into this book on ancient civilisations for kids, offering: 12 impressive landscape pages capturing the daily life of different periods in time. A fascinating world tour of history, covering civilisations from Ancient Egypt to the Maya. A moment in time on each page, from battle action to a busy market, with annotations that break down each scene. From Sumer, the world's earliest civilisation, to the heyday of the Maya, the tour crosses every continent, taking in developments in urban planning, art and architecture, religion, warfare, trade, and cultural exchange. Children and parents can enjoy exploring the similarities and differences of cultures around the world today, looking at each scene as a window into the lives of the most powerful and innovative peoples in times past. At DK, we believe in the power of discovery.So why stop here? If you like Ancient Worlds, then why not complete the collection? Take a peek at the earth beneath our feet with Life Underground, explore the different environments around us with Habitats of the World, and see how our ancestors lived with Life Through Time. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

eBook:,Princezná Aurelia vidí duše mŕtvych a praktizuje krvavú mágiu. Hoci na hlave nosí korunu, za takéto prehrešky by mohla skončiť na hranici, kde by ju upálili ako čarodejnicu. Preto v prestrojení za slúžku utečie do susedného kráľovstva. Pocit šťastia z novonadobudnutých priateľstiev, z lásky k tajomnému cudzincovi a zo slobodne praktizovanej mágie však netrvá dlho. Prenasleduje ju minulosť – a rovnako aj duša pradávnej kráľovnej, ktorá jej odhalí pravdu o plánovanom sprisahaní, ktorému môže zabrániť jedine ona. Pomôže kráľovstvu, kde by ju bez okolkov odsúdili na smrť, alebo dá prednosť slobode, ktorú sa jej podarilo získať len nedávno? Romantická zápletka, nebezpečná mágia a príbeh plný zvratov. Podmaňujúci retelling rozprávky bratov Grimmovcov. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Od chvíle, kdy roku 1952 v pětadvaceti letech usedla na trůn, byla královna Alžběta II. cílem nepřetržité pozornosti. Co však o nejznámější korunované hlavě světa doopravdy víme? Známá autorka životopisů Sally Bedell Smithová na základě mnoha rozhovorů a dříve utajených dokumentů poodhaluje roušku tajemství a v důvěrných podrobnostech ukazuje pracovní i soukromý život královny, která provedla svoji zemi a Commonwealth šedesáti lety válek a otřesů s nebývalým klidem, inteligencí a důstojností. V knize Alžběta II., Život moderní panovnice se seznámíme s dívkou, jež se nenadále stane „předpokládanou dědičkou“, poté co se její strýc vzdá trůnu. Ve třinácti letech se zamiluje do mladého kadeta Filipa a rozhodne se za něj provdat, ačkoli její rodiče dávají přednost bohatším britským šlechticům. Vidíme dospívající Lilibet opravovat za války náklaďáky a v den vítězství stát na balkóně Buckinghamského paláce po boku Winstona Churchilla. Vidíme mladou královnu, která se pokouší spojit role panovnice a matky dvou malých dětí. Sally Bedell Smithová nás uvádí do paláce a popisuje královninu každodenní práci – „červené krabice“ oficiálních listin, každotýdenní schůzky postupně s dvanácti ministerskými předsedy, náročné zahraniční cesty, neustálý dohled tisku – i její osobní vztahy: s princem Filipem, celoživotní láskou a po čtyřiašedesát let manželem, s dětmi, jejichž manželství většinou zkrachovala, s vnoučaty a přáteli. Nesmírně čtivá, ale badatelsky pečlivě připravená kniha ukazuje zblízka ženu, kterou známe jen na dálku, její čilou povahu, smysl pro humor a bystrý intelekt, díky nimž zvládá nejnáročnější úkoly pracovního i rodinného života. Rovněž poskytuje vhled do fungování poslední velké světové monarchie. (patro.cz)

You are electing to join a secret underground movement. Membership will require you to conduct research on your immediate environment and complete a variety of assignments designed to creatively disrupt your everyday life. That is all you need to know for now. All else will be revealed in time. Society wants us to live a planned existence. The path of the wanderer is not this! The path of the wanderer is an experiment with the unknown. To be idle, to play, to daydream. The Wander Society offers us all a way to experience the joys and possibilities of unplanned time. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of In Order to Live sounds the alarm on the culture wars, identity politics, and authoritarian tendencies tearing America apart.After defecting from North Korea, Yeonmi Park found liberty and freedom in America. But she also found a chilling crackdown on self-expression and thought that reminded her of the brutal regime she risked her life to escape. When she spoke out about the mass political indoctrination she saw around her in the United States, Park faced censorship and even death threats.In While Time Remains, Park sounds the alarm for Americans by highlighting the dangerous hypocrisies, mob tactics, and authoritarian tendencies that speak in the name of wokeness and social justice. No one is spared in her eye-opening account, including the elites who claim to care for the poor and working classes but turn their backs on anyone who dares to think independently.Park arrived in America eight years ago with no preconceptions, no political aims, and no partisan agenda. With urgency and unique insight, the bestselling author and human rights activist reminds us of the fragility of freedom, and what we must do to preserve it. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Pro dívky, které dávají přednost lyžování před přestávkami na horké kakao, neponechává bunda Spyder ZADIE nic náhodě. Zateplení syntetickým peřím a pružným svrškem EXO Shield s voděodolným laminátem zajistí, že živly zůstanou venku a teplo uvnitř. A zatímco jiní mohou při výrobě takto teplé bundy zapomenout na styl, bunda ZADIE má díky barevným variantám něco pro každého. (sportisimo.cz)

Pro dívky, které dávají přednost lyžování před přestávkami na horké kakao, neponechává bunda Spyder ZADIE nic náhodě. Zateplení syntetickým peřím a pružným svrškem EXO Shield s voděodolným laminátem zajistí, že živly zůstanou venku a teplo uvnitř. A zatímco jiní mohou při výrobě takto teplé bundy zapomenout na styl, bunda ZADIE má díky barevným variantám něco pro každého. (sportisimo.cz)