The courtship of eva eldridge : a story of bigamy in the marriage-mad fifties - diane simmonsová

Everyone Got marrIed In the 1950s, then moved to the suburbs to have the children of the soon-to-be-famous baby boom. For Americans who had survived the Great Depression and World War II, prosperous married life was a triumph. The unwed were objects of pity, scorn, even suspicion. And so in the 1950s, Eva Eldridge, no longer so young and marginally employed, was the perfect target for handsome Vick, who promised everything: storybook romance, marital respectability, and the lively social life she loved. When he disappeared not long after their honeymoon, she was devastated.Eva hadn't always been so vulnerable. Growing up pretty and popular in rural Oregon, she expected to marry young and live a life much like that of her parents, farming and rearing children. But then the United States threw its weight into World War II and as men headed to battle, the government started recruiting women to work in their places. Eva, like many other young women, found that life in the city with plenty of money, personal freedom, and lots of soldiers and sailors eager to pay court was more exhilarating than life down on the farm. After the war, she was ambivalent about getting married and settling down-at least until Vick arrived. Refusing to believe her brand-new husband had abandoned her, Eva set about tracking down a man who, she now believed, was more damaged by wartime trauma than she had known. But instead of a wounded hero, she found a long string of women much like herself-hard-working, intelligent women who had loved and married Vick and now had no idea where-or even who-he was. Drawing on a trove of some eight hundred letters and papers, Diane Simmons tells the story of Eva's poignant struggle to get her dream husband back, as well as the stories of the women who had stood at the altar with Vick before and after her. Eva's remarkable life illuminates women's struggle for happiness at a time when marriage-and the perfect husband-meant everything. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Kniha - autor Xiaolu Guo, 318 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Award-winning author Xiaolu Guo's extraordinary memoir is a handbook of life lessons: how to be an artist when censorship kills creativity, how to be a woman when sexual abuse is commonplace, how to love when you've never been shown how. A story of modern China, it is WILD SWANS for a new generation. (alza.cz)

Kniha - autor Thomas Harding, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná A personal and panoramic new history of Germany in the 20th century, by the author of "Hanns & Rudolf". Reveals the story of the country through the inhabitants of one small wooden building. Now in paperback. 'A passionate memoir about Germany.' Neil MacGregor (alza.cz)

The Reinvention of Humanity tells the story of a small circle of renegade scientist-explorers who changed something profound: what it means to be normal. In the early twentieth century, these pioneering anthropologists, most of them women, made intrepid journeys that overturned our assumptions about race, sexuality, gender and the nature of human diversity. From the Arctic to the South Pacific, from Haiti to Japan, they immersed themselves in distant or isolated communities, where they observed and documented radically different approaches to love and child-rearing, family structure and the relationship between women and men. With this evidence they were able to challenge the era's scientific consensus - and deep-rooted Western belief - that intelligence, ability and character are determined by a person's race or sex, and show that the roles people play in society are shaped in fact according to the immense variety of human cultures. Theirs were boundary-breaking lives, filled with scandal, romance, rivalry and tragedy. Those of Margaret Mead and her essential partner Ruth Benedict resulted in fame and notoriety. Those of Native American activist Ella Deloria and the African-American writer and ethnographer Zora Neale Hurston ended in poverty and obscurity; here their achievements are brought fully into the light for the first time. All were outsiders, including the controversial founder of their field, the wild-haired professor, German immigrant and revolutionary thinker, Franz Boas. The Reinvention of Humanity takes us on their globe-spanning adventures and shows how, together, these courageous and unconventional people created the moral universe we inhabit today. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Who Moved My Cheese? offered millions of readers relief for an evergreen problem: unanticipated and unwelcome change. Now its long-awaited sequel digs deeper, to show how readers can adapt their beliefs and achieve better results in any field. Johnson's theme is that all of our accomplishments are due to our beliefs: whether we're confident or insecure, cynical or positive, open-minded or inflexible. But it's difficult to change your beliefs - and with them, your outcomes. Find out how Hem, Haw, and the other characters from Who Moved My Cheese? deal with this challenge. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Kniha - autor Michael Finkel, 204 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. A remarkable tale of survival and solitude- the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods, never talking to another person and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins for twenty-seven years. . (alza.cz)

The Story of Czechs and Slovaks in Canada s podtitulem, It all began with Prince Rupert vytvořil JUDr.Josef Čermák, Q.C. ojedinělé encyklopedické dílo o historii Čechů a Slováků v Kanadě, které je dějovou linií přivedeno až do současnosti se záměrem zobrazit většinu oborů lidské činnosti, v nichž Češi a Slováci v Kanadě vynikli.Kniha obsahuje rejstřík jmenný a věcný cca se čtyřmi tisíci hesel, což dosvědčuje řadu priorit, které autor sleduje od symbolického předání území Kanady dědici tzv. Zimního krále (Friedrich V. Falcký 1596 - 1632), princi Rupertovi. Kniha napsaná v angličtině, je přínosem nejen pro generace Čechů a Slováků v Kanadě, ale při dnešní znalosti anglického jazyka také pro mladší obyvatelstvo, které zde najde velké penzum vědomostí o emigrantech i exulantech do zemí Severní Ameriky, o jejich povolání, včetně vědeckých oborů, v nichž vynikli. Na jednotlivých osudech lidí - osobností - se paralelně promítá historie našich zemí, od její lidské velikosti až po animozity, které nutně provázejí opuštění rodné země.Poznáváme jména a osudy mnohých, kteří svými činy nebo objevy obohatili světovou vědu, aniž bychom tušili jejich domácí kořeny. Kniha je důležitá i pro navázání osobních kontaktů v rozličných oborech, neboť se zabývá hojně současností. Řada osobností se o díle pochvalně vyjádřila. Za všechny jmenujeme: členy Katedry východoevropských studií Torontské univerzity, členy Střediska pro zahraniční studia v Kanadě, USA, ČR, SR a jinde, Společnost pro vědu a umění, krajanské spolky v celé šíři působení, členy mezinárodní organizace Sokol a řadu významných osobností z univerzit v Torontu, Edmontonu, Praze, Brně, Washingtonu, Montrealu, aj., včetně studentů a několika generací. Redakce některých krajanských novin obohatily dílo originálními fotografiemi, které doplňují autorův archiv. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The Story of Czechs and Slovaks in Canada s podtitulem, It all began with Prince Rupert vytvořil JUDr.Josef Čermák, Q.C. ojedinělé encyklopedické dílo o historii Čechů a Slováků v Kanadě, které je dějovou linií přivedeno až do současnosti se záměrem zobrazit většinu oborů lidské činnosti, v nichž Češi a Slováci v Kanadě vynikli. Kniha obsahuje rejstřík jmenný a věcný cca se čtyřmi tisíci hesel, což dosvědčuje řadu priorit, které autor sleduje od symbolického předání území Kanady dědici tzv. Zimního krále (Friedrich V. Falcký 1596 – 1632), princi Rupertovi. Kniha napsaná v angličtině, je přínosem nejen pro generace Čechů a Slováků v Kanadě, ale při dnešní znalosti anglického jazyka také pro mladší obyvatelstvo, které zde najde velké penzum vědomostí o emigrantech i exulantech do zemí Severní Ameriky, o jejich povolání, včetně vědeckých oborů, v nichž vynikli. Na jednotlivých osudech lidí – osobností - se paralelně promítá historie našich zemí, od její lidské velikosti až po animozity, které nutně provázejí opuštění rodné země. Poznáváme jména a osudy mnohých, kteří svými činy nebo objevy obohatili světovou vědu, aniž bychom tušili jejich domácí kořeny. Kniha je důležitá i pro navázání osobních kontaktů v rozličných oborech, neboť se zabývá hojně současností. Řada osobností se o díle pochvalně vyjádřila. Za všechny jmenujeme: členy Katedry východoevropských studií Torontské univerzity, členy Střediska pro zahraniční studia v Kanadě, USA, ČR, SR a jinde, Společnost pro vědu a umění, krajanské spolky v celé šíři působení, členy mezinárodní organizace Sokol a řadu významných osobností z univerzit v Torontu, Edmontonu, Praze, Brně, Washingtonu, Montrealu, aj., včetně studentů a několika generací. Redakce některých krajanských novin obohatily dílo originálními fotografiemi, které doplňují autorův archiv. (patro.cz)

Kniha - autor Barack Obama, 464 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man asking big questions about identity and belonging. The son of a black African father and a white American mother, President Obama recounts an emotional odyssey. He retraces the migration of his mother's family from Kansas to Hawaii, then to his childhood home in Indonesia. Finally he travels to Kenya, where he confronts the bitter truth of his father's life and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. (alza.cz)

The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller'THE ROYAL BOOK OF THE YEAR ... You've read their side of the story, now read the real story' Daily MailTHIS CRISIS IS AS BIG AS THE ABDICATION - SAYS LACEY, HISTORICAL ADVISOR TO THE CROWN.The world has watched Prince William and Prince Harry since they were born. Raised by Princess Diana to be the closest of brothers, how have the boy princes grown into very different, now distanced men?From royal expert and bestselling author Robert Lacey, this book is an unparalleled insider account of tumult and secrecy revealing the untold details of William and Harry's early closeness then estrangement. It asks what happens when two sons are raised for vastly different futures - one burdened with the responsibility of one day becoming king, the other with the knowledge that he will always remain spare.How have William and Harry each formed their idea of a modern royal's duty and how they should behave? Were the seeds of damage sowed as Prince Charles and Diana's marriage painfully unraveled for all the world to see? In the previous generation, how have Prince Charles and Prince Andrew's lives unfolded in the shadow of the Crown? What choices has Queen Elizabeth II made in marshalling her feuding heirs? What parts have Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle played in helping their husbands to choose their differing paths? And what is the real, unvarnished story behind Harry and Meghan's dramatic departure?In the most intimate vision yet of life behind closed doors, with the family's highs, lows and hardest decisions all laid out, this is a journey into royal life as never offered before. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The powerful, heart-breaking memoir of Dita Kraus, the real-life Librarian of AuschwitzBorn in Prague to a Jewish family in 1929, Dita Kraus has lived through the most turbulent decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Here, Dita writes with startling clarity on the horrors and joys of a life delayed by the Holocaust. From her earliest memories and childhood friendships in Prague before the war, to the Nazi-occupation that saw her and her family sent to the Jewish ghetto at Terezin, to the unimaginable fear and bravery of her imprisonment in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and life after liberation.Dita writes unflinchingly about the harsh conditions of the camps and her role as librarian of the precious books that her fellow prisoners managed to smuggle past the guards. But she also looks beyond the Holocaust - to the life she rebuilt after the war: her marriage to fellow survivor Otto B Kraus, a new life in Israel and the happiness and heartbreaks of motherhood.Part of Dita's story was told in fictional form in the Sunday Times bestseller The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe. Her memoir tells the full story in her own words. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women- the brilliant, bookish Elena, and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults, with husbands, lovers, aging parents, and children. Their friendship has been the gravitational center of their lives. Both women fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up-a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. In this final novel she has returned to Naples, drawn back as if responding to the city's obscure magnetism. Lila, on the other hand, could never free herself from the city of her birth. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect the neighborhood. Proximity to the world she has always rejected only brings her role as its unacknowledged leader into relief. For Lila is unstoppable, unmanageable, unforgettable.The four volumes in this series constitute a long remarkable story that readers will return to again and again, and each return will bring with it new revelations. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Kniha - autor Maria Augusta von Trapp, 312 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná In her own beautiful, simple words, Baroness Maria Augusta Trapp tells the dramatic story that inspired the classic American musical and film "The Sound of Music." 8-page photo insert. (alza.cz)

66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, one of the leading scientists of a new generation of dinosaur hunters, armed with cutting edge technology, is piecing together the complete story of how the dinosaurs ruled the earth for 150 million years. The world of the dinosaurs has fascinated on book and screen for decades – from early science fiction classics like The Lost World, to Godzilla terrorizing the streets of Tokyo, and the monsters of Jurassic Park. But what if we got it wrong? In The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, top dinosaur expert Brusatte, tells the real story of how dinosaurs rose to dominate the planet. Using the fossil clues that have been gathered using state of the art technology, Brusatte follows these magnificent creatures from their beginnings in the Early Triassic period, through the Jurassic period to their final days in the Cretaceous and the legacy that they left behind. Along the way, Brusatte introduces us to modern day dinosaur hunters and gives an insight into what it’s like to be a paleontologist. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is full of thrilling accounts of some of his personal discoveries, including primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs, monstrous carnivores even larger than T. rex, and feathered raptor dinosaurs preserved in lava from China. At a time when Homo sapiens has existed for less than 200,000 years and we are already talking about planetary extinction, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs is a timely reminder of what humans can learn from the magnificent creatures who ruled the earth before us. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Kniha - autor Josef Čermák, 453 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá The Story of Czechs and Slovaks in Canada s podtitulem, It all began with Prince Rupert vytvořil JUDr.Josef Čermák, Q.C. ojedinělé encyklopedické dílo o historii Čechů a Slováků v Kanadě, které je dějovou linií přivedeno až do současnosti se záměrem zobrazit většinu oborů lidské činnosti, v nichž Češi a Slováci v Kanadě vynikli. Kniha obsahuje rejstřík jmenný a věcný cca se čtyřmi tisíci hesel, což dosvědčuje řadu priorit, které autor sleduje od symbolického předání území Kanady dědici tzv. Zimního krále (Friedrich V. Falcký 1596 – 1632), princi Rupertovi. Kniha napsaná v angličtině, je přínosem nejen pro generace Čechů a Slováků v Kanadě, ale při dnešní znalosti anglického jazyka také pro mladší obyvatelstvo, které zde najde velké penzum vědomostí o emigrantech i exulantech do zemí Severní Ameriky, o jejich povolání, včetně vědeckých oborů, v nichž vynikli. Na jednotlivých osudech lidí... (alza.cz)

A beautiful picture-book adaptation of Thomas Harding's Costa-shortlisted biography for adults, exquisitely illustrated by Britta Teckentrup.On the outskirts of Berlin, a wooden cottage stands on the shore of a lake. Over the course of a century, this little house played host to a loving Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, wartime refugees and a Stasi informant; in that time, a world war came and went, and the Berlin Wall was built a stone's throw from the cottage's back door.Thomas Harding first shared this remarkable story in his Costa-shortlisted biography The House by the Lake - now he has rendered it into a deeply moving picture-book for young readers. With words that read like a haunting fairy-tale, and magnificent artwork by Britta Teckentrup, this is the astonishing true story of the house by the lake. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Dekorativní paraván je jedinečnou ozdobou pro moderní interiéry.Paraván je oboustranně potištěný.Díky perfektnímu zpracování a originálním motivem tištěným v kvalitě Full HD dodává paraván jedinečné kouzlo každému interiéru.Dekorativních paraván do bytu je originální nápad na výzdobu interiéru. Za zmínku stojí jejich praktické využití - pokojový paraván lze využít např. za účelem uschování sušáku. Je to velmi originální ozdoba místností, které může využít nejen doma ale i v obchodních prostorách jako např.: v kadeřnictví, v ordinaci. Paraván se ideálně hodí do: pokoje jako dekorační nábytek oddělující velkou obývací místnost od jídelny či kuchyně garsonky pro oddělení denní části od ložnice ložnice např. na oddělení otevřeného šatníku butiků a kosmetických salónů - jako originální doplněk a šatna v jednom společných dětských pokojů jako diskrétní rozdělení prostoru velkých bytů a loftů Rozměr 5-dílného:výška: 172 cmdélka: 225 cmdélka jednoho dílu: 45 cm Technické údaje: (inpostele.cz)

Dekorativní paraván je jedinečnou ozdobou pro moderní interiéry.Paraván je oboustranně potištěný.Díky perfektnímu zpracování a originálním motivem tištěným v kvalitě Full HD dodává paraván jedinečné kouzlo každému interiéru.Dekorativních paraván do bytu je originální nápad na výzdobu interiéru. Za zmínku stojí jejich praktické využití - pokojový paraván lze využít např. za účelem uschování sušáku. Je to velmi originální ozdoba místností, které může využít nejen doma ale i v obchodních prostorách jako např.: v kadeřnictví, v ordinaci. Paraván se ideálně hodí do: pokoje jako dekorační nábytek oddělující velkou obývací místnost od jídelny či kuchyně garsonky pro oddělení denní části od ložnice ložnice např. na oddělení otevřeného šatníku butiků a kosmetických salónů - jako originální doplněk a šatna v jednom společných dětských pokojů jako diskrétní rozdělení prostoru velkých bytů a loftů Rozměr 5-dílného:výška: 172 cmdélka: 225 cmdélka jednoho dílu: 45 cm Technické údaje: (dekorhome.cz)

HORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZESELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, MAIL ON SUNDAY AND OBSERVERBelonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of rabbis and philosophers but of a poetess in the ghetto of Venice; a boxer in Georgian England; a general in Ming China; an opera composer in nineteenth-century Germany. The story unfolds in Kerala and Mantua, the starlit hills of Galilee, the rivers of Colombia, the kitchens of Istanbul, the taverns of Ukraine and the mining camps of California. It sails in caravels, rides the stage coaches and the railways; trudges the dawn streets of London, hobbles along with the remnant of Napoleon's ruined army. The Jewish story is a history that is about, and for, all of us. And in our own time of anxious arrivals and enforced departures, the Jews' search for a home is more startlingly resonant than ever. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Soon to be an HBO series, book four in the New York Times bestselling Neapolitan quartet about two friends in post-war Italy is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted epic by one of today's most beloved and acclaimed writers, Elena Ferrante, "one of the great novelists of our time." (Roxana Robinson, The New York Times) Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery uncontainable Lila. In this book, life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship, examined in its every detail over the course of four books, remains the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. But now, she has returned to Naples to be with the man she has always loved. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from Naples. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Yet somehow this proximity to a world she has always rejected only brings her role as unacknowledged leader of that world into relief. Ferrante is one of the world's great storytellers. With the Neapolitan quartet she has given her readers an abundant, generous, and masterfully plotted page-turner that is also a stylish work of literary fiction destined to delight readers for many generations to come. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

John Dolittle is a highly respected doctor in the village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, yet he loves animals so much that his house is soon full of them. With all his patients scared away, and the expense of feeding his menagerie mounting, a friend suggests that the Doctor become a vet instead.With the help of Polynesia the parrot, Doctor Dolittle swiftly learns the language of the animals so that he can talk to all of his new patients. However, when a message comes from Africa, telling of a terrible sickness among the monkeys there, the Doctor and his animal friends depart on a thrilling and dangerous adventure that they are never likely to forget.This new edition contains original illustrations and extra material for young readers including a glossary and a quiz-yourself section.show less (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.Doctor Dolittle is one of the most delightful and fascinating characters in children's literature. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition is illustrated with Hugh Lofting's own drawings, and includes updated material and an afterword by remarkable author Philip Ardagh.Doctor Dolittle's house in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh is full to the brim with eccentric characters, from Polynesia the parrot to Gub-Gub the pig. After learning the language of all his animals, the gracious and kind-hearted doctor hears that the monkeys in Africa have become inflicted with a terrible disease. So with a team of trusty creatures by his side, the doctor sets sail on an action packed adventure to save them. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Whisky - Blended Malt, země původu Skotsko, zlatá barva, aroma whisky, objem 0,7 l. Zboží určené pro osoby starší 18 let. Přepočet Nedáte dopustit na požitek z kvalitní whisky? Compass Box The Story Of The Spaniard 0,7l 43% GB oceníte při zvláštních příležitostech i při popíjení v příjemné společnosti. Zemí původu je Skotsko, které je vůbec nejtradičnějším výrobcem. Hned po nalití do sklenice na vás zapůsobí její zlatá barva. Obsah alkoholu činí 43 %. Skotská whisky nebo též známá jako scotch whisky na rozdíl od jiných alkoholických nápojů, chutná nejlépe, pokud má pokojovou teplotu. Led zkrátka otupí její velmi jemnou chuť, a tak byste nebyli schopni vnímat její jednotlivé chuťové nuance. Klíčové přednosti whisky Compass Box The Story Of The Spaniard 0,7l 43% GB Dopřejte svým chuťovým buňkám zážitek díky whisky Compass Box Pálenka typu blended malt, smíchaná z jednosladových variant Země původu whisky Compass Box: Skotsko Nebude lahodit jen jazyku ale i... (alza.cz)

Mysteriously summoned to a houseboat on the Morava River, a few friends, associates, and collaborators of an old writer listen as he tells a story that will last until dawn: the tale of the once well-known writer's recent odyssey across Europe. As his story unfolds, it visits places that represent stages of the narrator's and the continent's past, many now lost or irrecoverably changed through war, death, and the subtler erosions of time. His wanderings take him from the Balkans to Spain, Germany, and Austria, from a congress of experts on noise sickness to a clandestine international gathering of jew's-harp virtuosos. His story and its telling are haunted by a beautiful stranger, a woman who has a preternatural hold over the writer and appears sometimes as a demon, sometimes as the longed-for destination of his travels.Powerfully alive, honest, and at times deliciously satirical, The Moravian Night explores the mind and memory of an aging writer, tracking the anxieties, angers, fears, and pleasures of a life inseparable from the recent history of Central Europe. In crystalline prose, Peter Handke traces and interrogates his own thoughts and perceptions while endowing the world with a mythic dimension. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

The international bestselling author of the "exciting, suspenseful, inspirational" (Brad Thor, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Code Name: Lise weaves another exceptional and thrilling hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS's most daring spies in World War II before marrying into European nobility. Perfect for fans of A Woman of No Importance and Code Girls. When Aline Griffith was born in a quiet suburban New York hamlet, no one had any idea that she would go on to live "a life of glamour and danger that Ingrid Bergman only played at in Notorious" (Time). As the US enters the Second World War, the young college graduate is desperate to aid in the war effort, but no one is interested in a bright-eyed young woman whose only career experience is modeling clothes. Aline's life changes when, at a dinner party, she meets a man named Frank Ryan and reveals how desperately she wants to do her part for her country. Within a few weeks, he helps her join the Office of Strategic Services-forerunner of the CIA. With a code name and expert training under her belt, she is sent to Spain to be a coder, but is soon given the additional assignment of infiltrating the upper echelons of society, mingling with high-ranking officials, diplomats, and titled Europeans, any of whom could be an enemy agent. Against this glamorous backdrop of galas and dinner parties, she recruits sub-agents and engages in deep-cover espionage to counter Nazi tactics in Madrid. Even after marrying the Count of Romanones, one of the wealthiest men in Spain, Aline secretly continues her covert activities, being given special assignments when abroad that would benefit from her impeccable pedigree and social connections. Filled with twists, romance, and plenty of white-knuckled adventures fit for a James Bond film, The Princess Spy brings to vivid life the dazzling adventures of a remarkable American woman who risked everything to serve her country. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Jazyková úroveň A1-A2. Podle příběhu Johanny Spyri. Když malá Heidi osiří, je poslána do Alp žít se svým podivínským dědečkem. Život v horách si zamiluje, hraje si na slunci a vyrůstá obklopená čistou přírodou. Její život se ale náhle změní, když je přinucena žít ve městě. Najde si tam novou kamarádku, ale po životě v horách se jí začne stýskat. Dokáže najít cestu zpátky tam, kam patří? (patro.cz)

Kniha - 224 stran, anglicky, pevná bez přebalu lesklá (alza.cz)

In a village far away, deep in a valley, all the animals and birds disappeared some years ago. Only the rebellious young teacher and an old man talk about animals to the children, who have never seen such (mythical) creatures. Otherwise there's a strange silence round the whole subject. One wretched, little boy has dreams of animals, begins to whoop like an owl, is regarded as an outcast, and eventually disappears. A stubborn, brave girl called Maya and her friend Matti, are drawn to explore in the woods round the village. They know there are dangers beyond and that at night, Nehi the Mountain Demon comes down to the village. In a far-off cave, they come upon the vanished boy, content and self-sufficient. Eventually they find themselves in a beautiful garden paradise full of every kind of animal, bird and fish - the home of Nehi the Mountain Demon. The Demon is a pied piper figure who stole the animals from the village. He, too, was once a boy there, but he was different, mocked and reviled, treated as an outsider and outcast. This is his terrible revenge, one which has punished him too, by removing him from society and friendship, and every few years he draws another child or two to join him in his fortress Eden, where he has trained the sheep to lie down with the wolves, and where predators are few. He lets the two children return to the village, telling them that one day, when people are less cruel and his desire for vengeance has crumbled, perhaps the animals might come back... (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Hudební CD - Desáté studiové album americké heavy metalové skupiny Trivium produkoval Josh Wilbur (např. Lamb Of God). Desáté studiové album americké heavy metalové skupiny Trivium produkoval Josh Wilbur (např. Lamb Of God). Kapela Trivium vznikla v roce 2000 v Orlandu na Floridě. Věnuje se melodickému death metalu, trash metalu i metalcore. Rok vydání : 2021 (10.album) Seznam stop CD X / In The Court Of The Dragon / Like A Sword Over Damocles / Feast Of Fire / A Crisis Of Revelation / The Shadow Of The Abattoir / No Way Back Just Through / Fall Into Your Hands / From Dawn To Decadence / The Phalanx (alza.cz)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

New York Times Bestseller Worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller” (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident-which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster-a 60-year-old human rights scholar-hits the car of Evelyn Ortega-a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala-in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz-a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile-for her advice. These three very different people are brought together in a mesmerizing story that moves from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil, sparking the beginning of a long overdue love story between Richard and Lucia. Exploring the timely issues of human rights and the plight of immigrants and refugees, the book recalls Allende's landmark novel The House of the Spirits in the way it embraces the cause of "humanity, and it does so with passion, humor, and wisdom that transcend politics” (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post). In the Midst of Winter will stay with you long after you turn the final page. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

LP vinyl - Desáté studiové album americké heavy metalové skupiny Trivium produkoval Josh Wilbur (např. Lamb Of God). Desáté studiové album americké heavy metalové skupiny Trivium produkoval Josh Wilbur (např. Lamb Of God). Kapela Trivium vznikla v roce 2000 v Orlandu na Floridě. Věnuje se melodickému death metalu, trash metalu i metalcore. Rok vydání : 2021 (10.album) Seznam stop LP1 X / In The Court Of The Dragon / Like A Sword Over Damocles / Feast Of Fire / A Crisis Of Revelation / The Shadow Of The Abattoir LP2 No Way Back Just Through / Fall Into Your Hands / From Dawn To Decadence / The Phalanx (alza.cz)

LP vinyl - Páté album kapely. Anaal Nathrakh je britská extrémní metalová skupina založená v roce 1999 v Birminghamu v Anglii. Páté album kapely. Anaal Nathrakh je britská extrémní metalová skupina založená v roce 1999 v Birminghamu v Anglii. Jméno skupiny je v irštině název pro hadí dech (anál nathrach) a byl převzat z filmu Johna Boormana z roku 1981 Excalibur. Obsah: In The Constellation Of The Black Widow I Am The Wrath Of Gods And The Desolation Of The Earth More Of Fire Than Blood The Unbreakable Filth Of The Soul Terror In The Mind Of God So Be It The Lucifer Effect Blood Eagles Carved On The Backs Of Innocents (alza.cz)

Based on period documents and photography, the book maps in detail the development of Czech non-university sciences from the 18th century when the Society of Unknown Scholars in the Austrian Lands was founded in Olomouc. The main attention is focused on the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and its most important precursors, whether the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, active in 1953-1992, or earlier institutions, such as the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts (originally the Emperor Franz Joseph Czech Academy for Sciences, Literature and Arts), founded in 1890, or the Royal Bohemian Society of Learning, which existed already from the 18th century. Individual chapters are devoted also to Masaryk Academy of Labour and the main scientific institutions of the Germans living in the Czech lands - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Deutscher Wissenschaft, Kunst und Literatur in Böhmen (Society for the Support of German Sciences, Arts and Literature in Bohemia). Attention is, however, also devoted to our most important scientists with whose research results as well as the milieu in which they worked and work the reader is acquainted with through archival and contemporary sources. The patrons and sponsors who made it possible for Czech science to reach a global level are also not forgotten. The entire process of the development of Czech non-university science is places in the wider social context, which influenced the development of the scientific institutions and the position of scientists in them. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

From reconstructing Shakespeare's accent to the rise and fall of Received Pronunciation, actor Ben Crystal and his linguist father David travel the world in search of the stories of spoken English. Everyone has an accent, though many of us think we don't. We all have our likes and dislikes about the way other people speak, and everyone has something to say about 'correct' pronunciation. But how did all these accents come about, and why do people feel so strongly about them? Are regional accents dying out as English becomes a global language? And most importantly of all: what went wrong in Birmingham? Witty, authoritative and jam-packed full of fascinating facts, You Say Potato is a celebration of the myriad ways in which the English language is spoken - and how our accents, in so many ways, speak louder than words. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

"Kent Heckenlively and Judy Mikovits are the new dynamic duo fighting corruption in science." --Ben Garrison, America's #1 political satirist Dr. Judy Mikovits is a modern-day Rosalind Franklin, a brilliant researcher shaking up the old boys' club of science with her groundbreaking discoveries. And like many women who have trespassed into the world of men, she uncovered decades-old secrets that many would prefer to stay buried.From her doctoral thesis, which changed the treatment of HIV-AIDS, saving the lives of millions, including basketball great Magic Johnson, to her spectacular discovery of a new family of human retroviruses, and her latest research which points to a new golden age of health, Dr. Mikovits has always been on the leading edge of science.With the brilliant wit one might expect if Erin Brockovich had a doctorate in molecular biology, Dr. Mikovits has seen the best and worst of science. When she was part of the research community that turned HIV-AIDS from a fatal disease into a manageable one, she saw science at its best. But when her investigations questioned whether the use of animal tissue in medical research were unleashing devastating plagues of chronic diseases, such as autism and chronic fatigue syndrome, she saw science at its worst. If her suspicions are correct, we are looking at a complete realignment of scientific practices, including how we study and treat human disease.Recounting her nearly four decades in science, including her collaboration of more than thirty-five years with Dr. Frank Ruscetti, one of the founders of the field of human retrovirology, this is a behind the scenes look at the issues and egos which will determine the future health of humanity. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Hudební CD - Šestnácté dtudiové album vydané v roce 2020 Šestnácté dtudiové album vydané v roce 2020 Seznam stop CD Fuck the Factoid / Backlash Just Because / That Curse of Being in Thrall / Contagion / Joie De Ne Pas Vivre / Invigorating Clutch / Zero Gravitas Chamber / Fluxing of the Muscle / Amoral / Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism / Acting in Gouged Faith / Feral Carve-up / A Bellyful of Salt and Spleen / White Kross (04:06) - Sonic Youth Cover / Blissful Myth (01:52) - Rudimentary Peni Cover (alza.cz)

SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING ASHLEY JUDD From W. Bruce Cameron, the author of A Dog's Purpose, the number one New York Times bestseller and major film comes a completely unforgettable adventure as one devoted dog makes her way home. When Lucas Ray rescued his puppy Bella he knew his life would change forever. Smuggling her into his building isn't easy, particularly with his prying neighbours, and Lucas decides to risk taking her to work. The joy on the faces of the veterans in his hospital as Bella distributes her unique brand of comfort makes it all worth it. But then Bella is picked up by animal control and Lucas makes the heartbreaking decision to send her away. Lucas hasn't understood Bella's feelings, though. There might be hundreds of miles separating them but Bella wants her master and she is coming to find him . . . A Dog's Way Home is a heartwarming story perfect for fans of Marley & Me, A Street Cat Named Bob and The Art of Racing in the Rain. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

LP vinyl - The Style Council byla britská kapela, kterou v roce 1983 ve Wokingu založil Paul Weller, bývalý zpěvák a kytarista The Jam. The Style Council byla britská kapela, kterou v roce 1983 ve Wokingu založil Paul Weller, bývalý zpěvák a kytarista The Jam, a klávesák Mick Talbot, dřívější člen Dexys Midnight Runners a The Merton Parkas. Poté se stálými členy stali i bubeník Steve White a Wellerova tehdejší manželka, zpěvačka Dee C. Lee. (alza.cz)

Can you succeed without being a terrible person? We often think not: recognising that, as the old saying has it, 'nice guys finish last'. But does that mean you have to go to the other extreme, and be a bully or Machiavellian to get anything done?In THE ART OF FAIRNESS, David Bodanis uses thrilling historical case studies to show there's a better path, leading neatly in between. He reveals how it was fairness, applied with skill, that led the Empire State Building to be constructed in barely a year - and how the same techniques brought a quiet English debutante to become an acclaimed jungle guerrilla fighter. In ten vivid profiles - featuring pilots, presidents, and even the producer of Game of Thrones - we see that the path to greatness doesn't require crushing displays of power or tyrannical ego. Simple fair decency can prevail.With surprising insights from across history - including the downfall of the very man who popularised the phrase 'nice guys finish last' - THE ART OF FAIRNESS charts a refreshing and sustainable new approach to cultivating integrity and influence. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Soon to be a major motion picture, this heart-warming and inspirational tale follows Enzo, a loyal family dog, as he tells the story of his human family, how they nearly fell apart, and what he did to bring them back together. A captivating and moving story of an extraordinary family, how they almost fell apart, and how they were brought back together again by the wisest and most loyal member - Enzo the dog. Heart-wrenching but deeply funny, The Art of Racing in the Rain is an uplifting tale about the wonders and absurdities of human life … as only a dog could tell it. Now a major motion picture from Fox 2000 starring Milo Ventimiglia, Amanda Seyfried and Kevin Costner. (knihydobrovsky.cz)

Plnobarevná obrazová česko/anglická publikace se věnuje osobnosti a osudům českého egyptologa Jaroslava Černého. Vedle řady vyobrazení a fotografií památek starého Egypta spjatých s Jaroslavem Černým je součástí obrazového doprovodu i přetištění mnoha osobních dokumentů, zápisků a fotografií této vynikající osobnosti české vědy. (patro.cz)

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Prag - Et klenodie i Europas hjerte handler om opstaen og udbygning af vores hovedstad fra begyndelse til nutiden. Alt efterfulgt af en rakke flotte billeder og flere detaljerede tegninger af de vigtigste sevardigheder, inklusive et illustreret kort over Prags historiske center. (patro.cz)

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Praga - klejnot w sercu Europy to historyczna wycieczka o początkach i przebiegu budowy naszej stolicy od jej założenia do współczesności, całość dopełniają niezliczone piękne zdjęcia i kilka uzupełniających szczegółowych ilustracji najważniejszych zabytków, łącznie z ilustrowaną mapą zabytkowego centrum Pragi. (patro.cz)

Praga - Zaklad v srcu Evrope je zgodovinska ekskurzija skozi čas nastanka in gradnje naše prestolnice od začetka do sodobnosti; to vse z dodanimi številnimi prelepimi fotografijami in z podrobnimi slikami najbolj pomembnih spomenikov, vključno s slikovnim zemljevidom zgodovinskega centra Prage. (patro.cz)

Prága - ékszer Európa szívében: íme egy történelmi kirándulás fővárosunk keletkezésének titkaiba a kezdetektől fogva a mai napig, építészeti történetébe, s mindez kiegészítve számtalan gyönyörű fényképpel, a legfontosabb műemlékek aprólékos illusztrációjával, beleértve Prága illusztrált történelmi térképét is. (patro.cz)

Praha – juvelen i hjertet av Europa” er en historisk studietur om hvordan hovedstaden var oppsto og utviklet seg, fra den spede begynnelsen og frem til var tid. Historien kompletteres med et utall vakre bilder og flere utfyllende illustrasjoner av de viktigste minnesmerkene, inklusive et illustrert kart over Prahas historiske sentrum. (patro.cz)