Einstein in Bohemia
By: Michael D. Gordin
3.26
Format: 360 pages, ebook
A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in Prague In the spring of 1911, Albert Ein…
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2. Boletus arcanus
By: Miloš Urban
4.32
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
Boletus Paqueni neboli arcanus je temer neznama houba. Ten, kdo ji najde a sni, ziskava mladi, kras… read more
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3. A Woman in the Polar Night
By: Christiane Ritter
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
For most of us, the Arctic conjures up images of freezing and forsaken solitude. Hence, Austrian pa… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
4. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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- nonfiction
"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
5. Love Letter in Cuneiform
By: Tomáš Zmeškal , Alex Zucker
4.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in Czechoslovakia between the 1940s and the 1990s, Tomas Zmeskal's stimulating novel focuses on… read more
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7. Grandhotel
By: Jaroslav Rudiš
4.08
Format: 176 pages,
Hlavni postavou "romanu nad mraky" je tricetilety samotar Fleischman. V zivote se mu nedari. Nikdy … read more
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8. Příběh kriminálního rady
By: Ladislav Fuks
2.83
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
Psychologicky roman s detektivni zapletkou vypravi o obtiznem a dramatickem patrani po nekolikanaso… read more
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9. Journey to the End of the Night
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann
4.19
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more
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"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
10. Mnichovský komplex: Jeho příčiny a důsledky
By: None
3.94
Format: 450 pages, Paperback
Eseje historika Jana Tesare, vychazejici v novem vydani po ctrnacti letech, se tematicky zameruji n… read more
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11. The Bookseller of Kabul
By: Åsne Seierstad , None
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In spring 2002, following the fall of the Taliban, Asne Seierstad spent four months living with a b… read more
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12. The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
By: Thomas Harris
4.11
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
There's a killer on the loose who knows that beauty is only skin deep, and a trainee investigator w… read more
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14. Zuleiha deschide ochii
By: Guzel Yakhina
4.39
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
Marea revelație a literaturii ruse din 2015, romanul Zuleiha deschide ochii, salutat cu entuziasm l… read more
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"„Inima e sălașul sentimentelor, nu al rațiuni"-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii
"Inima e sălașul sentimentelor, nu al rațiunii."-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii
"Мысли – не речка, плотиной не перегородишь; пусть текут."-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii
"Метлой по спине – это не больно. Почти как веником. Зулейха лежит смирно, как и велел муж, только вздрагивает и царапает ногтями лэукэ при каждом ударе, – поэтому бьет он недолго. Быстро остывает. Вс…"-Guzel Yakhina, Zuleiha deschide ochii
15. The Lying Life of Adults
By: Elena Ferrante
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was u… read more
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"I'm not wise, but I read a lot of novels."-Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults
"As coisas feias que você não conta se tornam cães que comem a sua cabeça enquanto você dorme."-Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults
"...the dead are objects that have broken, a television, the radio, the mixer, and the best thing is to remember them as they were when they were working, because the only acceptable tomb is memory."-Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults
"I’m still fascinated by how our brains elaborates strategies and carries them out without revealing them. To say that it’s a matter of the unconscious seems to me approximate, maybe even hypocritical."-Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults
16. De grote angst in de bergen
By: Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
3.63
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Een groep herders leidt de koeien van het dorp voor de zomermaanden naar Sasseneire, een braakligge… read more
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17. Rituál Turínského koně
By: Martin Skořepa
2.90
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
Když už vaši blízcí nezvládnou odečíst sedm od sta. V televizních reklamách je stárnutí zobrazo… read more
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18. Čarostřelec
By: Jan Horníček
3.36
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Cesta z Reichenbergu do Hejnic se klikatí strmým, zalesněným průsmykem. Stmívá se, nad horami vyje … read more
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19. Vražda v Olomouci
By: Oldřich Daněk
2.88
Format: 154 pages, Hardcover
Dílo Vražda v Olomouci zachycuje poslední dny panování českého krále Václava III. Je srpen a píše s… read more
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20. Rok perel
By: Zuzana Brabcová
3.72
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Jmenuje se Lucie a bude ji čtyřicet. Je redaktorkou nejmenovaného časopisu. Je matkou osmnáctileté … read more
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21. On Time and Water
By: Andri Snær Magnason
4.27
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
In the next hundred years, the nature of water on Earth will undergo a fundamental change. Glaciers… read more
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"Molte persone hanno avuto negli ultimi mesi la sensazione di vivere un'apocalisse, ma occorre ricordare che il significato della parola greca apokálypsis è «rivelazione». In questo senso i fatti rece…"-Andri Snær Magnason, On Time and Water
"Sullo schermo le diapositive continuano a scorrere: adesso sono più che altro foto di loro due sugli sci. Il nonno trasporta legname nel rifugio sopra la Draumadalur, nei Bláfjöll. Il rifugio si chia…"-Andri Snær Magnason, On Time and Water
"Anche se la spudorata devastazione di quel luogo tanto speciale mi rattristava molto, ho optato per parole che tutti potessero considerare sensate e adeguate. Ho usato il linguaggio predominante del …"-Andri Snær Magnason, On Time and Water
"Per tutto il XX secolo abbiamo preteso che la terra ci fosse utile, abbiamo voluto aumentarne la resa [...]. Buonsenso, lo abbiamo chiamato. A che ci serve una palude? Perché avere tante mosche? Perc…"-Andri Snær Magnason, On Time and Water
22. Mille vies valent mieux qu'une
By: Jean-Paul Belmondo
3.59
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Sur un fil, entre deux immeubles, de l’aile d’un avion au toit d’une voiture ou d’un métro, Jean-Pa… read more
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- biography
23. Skutečná cesta ven
By: Patrik Banga
4.28
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Jak těžké bylo uniknout ze stereotypů, předsudků i dramatických zkušeností romské komunity na pražs… read more
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24. Neznámá společnost
By: Pavel Pospěch
4.06
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
Sociologická expedice do nitra vlastní země Události posledních měsíců mohly v mnoha lidech zesí… read more
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25. Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
By: Margalit Fox
3.70
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detec… read more
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- biography
"At bottom, Conan Doyle for the Defense is a story about class identification: those snap judgments, themselves dark diagnostic instruments, that in every age are wielded to separate 'us' from 'them."-Margalit Fox, Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
"In the. Middle Ages and afterwards, Jews, like members of other marginalized groups, were denied the legal protections that England afforded the archetypal citizen: the free white native-born law-abi…"-Margalit Fox, Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
"By the late nineteenth century, as British cities teemed with new inhabitants, crime rates rose and more established residents came to be afflicted with a new, urban, and distinctly modern anxiety. F…"-Margalit Fox, Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer
26. Navzdory básník zpívá
By: Jarmila Loukotková
4.36
Format: 581 pages, Hardback
Ústředním hrdinou románu je François Villon, buřič, tulák, člověk nevázaného života, především však… read more
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27. Einstein in Bohemia
By: Michael D. Gordin
3.26
Format: 360 pages, ebook
A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in Prague In the spring of 1911, Albert Ein… read more
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29. Kriegel: Voják a lékař komunismu
By: Martin Groman
4.51
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
Václav Havel ve svém eseji o Františku Krieglovi v roce 1988 napsal, že by jednou měla vzniknout kn… read more
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30. The Green Halo: A Bird's-Eye View of Ecological Ethics
By: Erazim V. Kohák
4.18
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Presenting a wide range of views and strategies, The Green Halo analyzes the problematic relations … read more
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31. Všechny cesty vedou k válce
By: Vojtěch Boháč
4.65
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Příběh Ruska a Ukrajiny očima českého reportéra, 2011– 2022. Jak se na Ukrajině a v Rusku žilo p… read more
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