Anita Shreve (9 kníh)
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Anita Shreve A Change in Altitude ENMargaret and Patrick, married just a few months, set off on a great adventure a year living in Kenya. While Patrick practices medicine, Margaret works as a photojournalist, capturing a dizzying and sometimes dangerous city on film. When a British couple invites the newlyweds on a climbing expedition to the summit of Mount Kenya, they eagerly agree. But during their arduous ascent a horrific accident occurs. In its…
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Anita Shreve A Change in Altitude ENMargaret and Patrick, married just a few months, set off on a great adventure - a year living in Kenya. While Patrick practices medicine, Margaret works as a photojournalist, capturing a dizzying and sometimes dangerous city on film.When a British couple invites the newlyweds on a climbing expedition to the summit of Mount Kenya, they eagerly agree. But during their arduous ascent a horrific accident occurs. In its…
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Anita Shreve All He Ever Wanted ENA man escaping from a hotel fire sees a woman standing beneath a tree. He approaches her and sets in motion a series of events that will change his life forever. Years later, traveling from New England to Florida by train, he reflects back on his obsession with this unknown and ultimately unknowable woman—his courtship of her, his marriage to her, and the unforgivable act that ripped their family apart.
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Anita Shreve Body Surfing ENAt the age of twenty-nine, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to find her footing again, she has answered an advertisement to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage. But when the Edwards’ two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a destructive web of old…
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Anita Shreve Pilotova ženaŽena pilota musí stále rátať s tým, že jej v noci zaklopú na dvere so zlou správou. No keď sa Kathryn Lyonsová dozvie, že dopravné lietadlo pilotované jej manželom explodovalo, ocitne sa zoči-voči šokujúcim odhaleniam. Vtiahnutá do víru obrovskej publicity živenej chýrmi o manželovom dvojitom živote sa odhodlá overiť ich pravdivosť, nech to stojí čokoľvek. Okruh otázok, na ktoré hľadá odpoveď na cestách medzi…
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Anita Shreve The Lives of Stella Bain ENFrom bestselling author Anita Shreve: an epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, of a woman searching for the secret of her identity. Hauled in a cart to a field hospital in northern France in March 1916, an American woman wakes from unconsciousness to the smell of gas gangrene, the sounds of men in pain, and an almost complete loss of memory: she knows only that she can drive an ambulance, she can…
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Anita Shreve The Stars are Fire1947. Fires are racing along the coast of Maine after a summer-long drought, ravaging thousands of acres, causing unprecedented confusion and fear. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her ...
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Anita Shreve Váha vodyAko sa zachová žena, ktorú zahnali až na pokraj? Nedostatok súkromia na plachetnici obývanej dvoma manželskými pármi pôsobí spolu s prírodným živlom ako katalyzátor reakcií s tragickými následkami.
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Anita Shreve Ztracený ráj CZAmerická spisovatelka ovládá umění vtáhnout čtenáře do vzpomínek, do prostředí, kde člověk prožil své dětství a mládí, kam ho často přivádějí myšlenky při úvahách o životě. Moudrý přístup k žití dává návod, jak si počínat v „opravdovém životě, aby lidské konání mohlo skončit happyendem jako v romantickém románu Ztracený ráj.
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