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A Promised Land
Barack Obama A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man viac

American King
Sierra Simone I am Maxen Ash Colchester, and I swore a duty to my country. Then I swore my heart to them. When I went to war, I was taught to never leave a soldier behind. But he left me. Twice I have had the honor of running for the presidency of the United States of America. Once with viac

American Prince
Sierra Simone The world thinks Embry Moore a prince, but I never coveted the throne. Only those upon it. When I was young, I learned the bittersweet truth about loving a hero: it can never last. Twice Maxen Colchester asked me to be his, and twice I turned him down. I thought I was prote viac

American Queen
Sierra Simone My name is Greer Galloway, and I serve at the pleasure of the President of the United States. When I was a girl, I received a warning: Keep your kisses to yourself. Twice I ignored it, and twice my heart was utterly, miserably broken. I didn’t need to learn my lesson a thir viac

And One Last Thing...
Molly Harper "If Singletree’s only florist didn’t deliver her posies half-drunk, I might still be married to that floor-licking, scum-sucking, receptionist-nailing hack-accountant, Mike Terwilliger." Lacey Terwilliger’s shock and humiliation over her husband’s philandering prompt her to add viac

Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama Barack Obama's success in becoming President-Elect of the United States means he will dramatically change the face that his country presents to the world. In this book, he discusses the importance of empathy in politics, his hopes for a different America with different policies, viac

Backlash
Susan Faludi First published in 1991, Backlash made headlines and became a bestselling classic for its thoroughgoing debunking of a decadelong antifeminist backlash against women’s advances. A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, Susan Faludi brilliantly deconstructed the reigning myths about viac

Banana Fish
Akimi Yoshida viac

Becoming
Michelle Obama An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the firs viac

Berenice Abbott
Estrella de Diego   Gary Van Zante   Cara Hoffman Berenice Abbott was one of the first people to photograph New York. Seen through her camera lens the city became a living entity, a remarkable character whom visitors can now pursue as they move through its crowded streets, looking upwards to discover the modern beauty of its sky viac

Better Run Through the Jungle
Mark Kidwell There are zombies in the razorwire. Welcome to 1968...and the end of the world. From the steaming jungles of Vietnam to the brightly lit campus of demonstration-torn Berkeley, California, ravenous hordes of unstoppable ghouls are changing the face of the Age of Aquarius. This viac

British and American History
Eliška Morkesová viac

British and American Life and Institutions
Eliška Morkesová viac

British and American Literature
Eliška Morkesová Tento přehled literatury Velké Británie a Spojených států amerických je vhodný pro studenty angličtiny středních a jazykových škol, hlavně pro ty, kteří se připravují k jazykové zkoušce z angličtiny. Je však vhodný i pro ty, kteří už anglický jazyk zvládli a chtějí si své znalost viac

Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins Sparks are igniting. Flames are spreading. And the Capitol wants revenge. Against all odds, Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to viac

Change We Can Believe In
Barack Obama The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States is a defining moment in American history. After years of failed policies and failed politics from Washington, this is our chance to reclaim the American dream. Barack Obama has proven to be a new kind of leader–one wh viac

Command and Control
Eric Schlosser **The Oscar-shortlisted documentary Command and Control, directed by Robert Kenner, finds its origins in Eric Schlosser's book and continues to explore the little-known history of the management and safety concerns of America's nuclear aresenal.** A myth-shattering exposé of A viac

Dallas
Lee Raintree Texas - Dallas: The Complete Ewing Saga, Including Southfork Ranch, Ewing Oil... viac

Days of Infamy
Harry Turtledove On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched an attack against United States naval forces stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. But what if the Japanese followed up their air assault with an invasion and occupation of Hawaii? With American military forces subjugated and civilians livi viac

Deenie
Judy Blume When Deenie sees the brace for the first time, she wants to scream, Forget it... I'm never going to wear that thing. Everyone will know. Everyone!But the words won't come out. And Deenie, beautiful Deenie, who everyone says should be a model, is stuck wearing a brace from her nec viac

Everyday Fashions of the Forties As Pictured in Sears Catalogs
JoAnne Olian Few publications illustrate so comprehensively what American men, women, and children wore in the 1940s than the Sears catalogs of those years, when the company's fashions typified the tastes of the American mainstream. This book is a compilation of 122 fully illustrated and capt viac

Farragut North
Beau Willimon Stephen Bellamy is a wunderkind press secretary who has built a career that men twice his age would envy. During a tight presidential primary race, Stephen's meteoric rise falls prey to the backroom politics of more seasoned operatives. FARRAGUT NORTH is a timely story about the viac

Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser New York Times Bestseller “Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of startling facts . . . Fast Food Nation points the way but, to resurrect an old fast food slogan, the choice is yours.”—Los Angeles Times In 2001, Fast Food Nation was published to viac

Fifty Years with the Golden Rule
James Cash Penney James Cash Penney was born in 1875 and died in 1971 at age 95. His father was a farmer and preacher, never financially successful, but a role model that inspired his son throughout his life. He taught his son to work hard, giving 110% to whatever job he was doing. He also taught viac

Grimm Omnibus
Jai Nitz   Marc Gaffen   Kyle McVey   David Greenwalt   Jim Kouf   Jose Malaga   Rod Rodolfo   Daniel Govar Homicide detectives Nick Burkhardt and Hank Griffin must maintain order on the streets of Portland... which is no easy feat, as secret societies of mythological creatures known as Wesen threaten the balance of peace and power! Whether journeying to Europe in pursuit of the fabled viac

Harriet the Spy
Louise Fitzhugh Harriet M. Welsch is determined to grow up and be a famous author. In the meantime, she practices by following a regular spy route each day and writing down everything she sees in her secret notebook. Then one morning, Harriet's life is turned upside down. Her classmates find viac

Hellship
Jared Muralt World War II breathes its last breaths. As the Japanese position becomes more hopeless, they become all the more dangerous. U.S. army pilot Captain Edward Baxtor has only one objective: locate and destroy a Japanese convoy of boats. A day that could turn him into a hero may turn viac

Homefront
Mark Kidwell In February of 1968, hell gave up its dead and the entire world became a graveyard filled with hungry cannibalistic ghouls overnight. With HOMEFRONT, the fifth volume in the ongoing ’68 series, the focus on Vietnam and the war shifts to the American continent, revealing three red viac

Internment
Samira Ahmed Set in a horrifying 'fifteen minutes in the future' United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin is forced into an internment camp for Muslim-Americans along with her parents. With the help of newly-made friends also trapped within the camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an viac

Jungle Jim
Mark Kidwell Curliss is a one-man-army, sworn to wade through a wet red jungle gone straight to hell in search of a ghost named Jungle Jim. To the Viet Cong, he's a nightmare. To POWs trapped in enemy hands, he's salvation. To the legions of shambling, hungry dead... He's the Grim Reaper in a viac

Let Love Rule
Lenny Kravitz   David Ritz Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny, and humour. viac

March: Book One
John Lewis   Andrew Aydin Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper’s farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washingt viac

Marriage Story
Noah Baumbach Marriage Story follows the emotional and legal challenges of a divorce between Charlie, a successful New York theatre director, and Nicole, an actress seeking independence in Los Angeles. As they navigate divorce and a custody battle over their son, Henry, the story explores the viac

Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a new collection from him is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious new pieces, including 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', viac

My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman’s experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has many of the advantages of life, on the surface. Young, thin, pretty, a rece viac

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass In this, first and most frequently read of his autobiographies, Douglass provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave as well as a harrowing record of his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom. viac

Paterson
William Carlos Williams Paterson is both a place—the New Jersey city in whom the person (the poet's own life) and the public (the history of the region) are combined. Originally four books (published individually between 1946 and 1951), the structure of Paterson (in Dr. Williams' words) "follows the viac

Pollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter When orphaned 11-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, her philosophy of gladness brings happiness to her aunt and other members of the community, somewhat to their surprise. viac

Raven
Tim Reiterman Tim Reiterman’s Raven provides the seminal history of the Rev. Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the murderous ordeal at Jonestown in 1978.  viac

Rule of War
Mark Kidwell In a doom-shadowed Cambodia infested with the living dead, CIA Special Agent Declan Rule and his canine companion Nero stalk a human monster, a neurosurgeon bent on carrying out grisly experiments that turn P.O.W.s into vicious instruments of war. In Vietnam, Private Kuen Yam and viac

Scars
Mark Kidwell THE GATES OF HELL ARE OPEN...AND THE DEAD WILL LEAVE THEIR MARK! Continuing the epic story of the rise of the living dead in the 1960's, "'68 SCARS" picks up right where the original sold-out comics mini-series left off. From a blood bath atop the US Embassy in Saigon to the chu viac

Siege
Michael Wolff Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller Fire and Fury, once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White House under siege. With Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; now, in Siege, he has written an equally viac

Stargate: Daniel Jackson
Doug Murray   John Watson A seemingly primitive world on the other side of the Stargate holds a deadly secret. Dr. Daniel Jackson leads the expedition, his academic curiosity drawing him toward ancient ruins that promise a discovery of immense value. The local inhabitants, however, guard their planet's tr viac

Strange Fruit, Volume 1
Joel Christian Gill Strange Fruit, Volume I is a collection of stories from African American history that exemplifies success in the face of great adversity. This unique graphic anthology offers historical and cultural commentary on nine uncelebrated heroes whose stories are not often found in histo viac

The Beautiful Ones
Prince From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time―featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death. The Beautif viac

The English speaking countries
Karel Veselý viac

The First Lady
James Patterson   Brendan DuBois "Sir, the First Lady ... has gone rogue." President Tucker is caught up in a media firestorm. The scandal of his affair has sent shockwaves through his re-election campaign, and threatens to derail everything he has worked for. To win the vote, he needs the First Lady to stand viac

The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins The nation of Panem, formed from a post-apocalyptic North America, is a country that consists of a wealthy Capitol region surrounded by 12 poorer districts. Early in its history, a rebellion led by a 13th district against the Capitol resulted in its destruction and the creation o viac

The Meritocracy Trap
Daniel Markovits A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocra viac

The Naval War of 1812
Theodore Roosevelt Written when he was in his early twenties and after he had graduated Harvard, Roosevelt's "The Naval War of 1812" recounts the war between Britain and the States of the early 19th century. In order to write this piece of military history Roosevelt embarked on a long and thorough viac