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Jeffrey Archer: Zoufalá ošetřovatelka, jíž zemřel ve spánku kojenec, synek milionáře, od sebe hned po porodu oddělí novorozená dvojčata, a tak chlapci vyrůstají, aniž o sobě vědí. Nat Cartwright žije u středostavovských pokrevních rodičů a odch
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Dobrodružné romány
King’s Men Crow (EN)
Nicholas Carter: It takes courage to survive in this atmospheric historical adventure set during the English Civil War. August 1643: the Siege of Gloucester continues. Can the weak city walls really survive against the might of the Royalists? William Sparrow and Hugo Te
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Kariéra, motivačná literatúra
Just Ask: Why Seeking Support is Your Greatest Strength (EN)
Andy Lopata: “Just Ask: Why Seeking Support Is Your Greatest Strength” (2020) was written for those unable to ask for help and to encourage everyone to do so in their time of need. The piece by the professional networking master, Andy Lopata, delves into the importan
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Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (EN)
Oscar Wilde: Sometimes self-fulfilling prophecies are not all they seem. Lord Arthur Savile is a young British aristocrat about to get married. Mr. Podgers tells people’s fortunes, and he has bad news for the groom: he will commit murder. Unable to get the thoug
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Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Furnished Room (EN)
O. Henry: “The Furnished Room” is a short story about love and dedication, about exhaustion and despair. A young man is searching for a girl he fell in love with. He rents a room near the theatre where she could sometimes be seen and he devotes his days to the dr
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B. J. Harrison Reads Transformation (EN)
Mary Shelley: Guido il Cortese is a young man who inherits a fortune from his father. He is about to marry Juliet, the daughter of one of his father’s friends. Before the wedding was to take place, Guido decided to travel to Paris, where he squandered away his fami
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Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads Frankenstein (EN)
Mary Shelley: Victor Frankenstein is a young scientist who artificially creates a human being. His expectations are however far from reality as is Creation is so monstrous that it cannot fit into human society. This leads to dreadful consequences as the monster decid
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Detektívky
B. J. Harrison Reads The White Maniac: A Doctor’s Tale (EN)
Mary Fortune: A young doctor visits a Baron’s house. The house is very strange: everything is white, there isn’t even one splash of colour. Why is it like that and how can someone can live in such a sterile surrounding? Why was the doctor invited there and what wil
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Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (EN)
Mark Twain: Huck is a young boy who embarks on a long and adventurous journey along the Mississippi River together with the runaway slave Jim. Their trip is marked by many obstacles, the different people they meet from various social classes, and the beautifully idy
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Humor, satira
B. J. Harrison Reads The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (EN)
Mark Twain: Have you been caught in a long and meaningless conversation of which you want to sneak out but somehow find it difficult to do so? Simon Wheeler was sitting quietly in a tavern in a small mining town when an unknown man approached him. The man was actual
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Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Million Pound Bank Note (EN)
Mark Twain: Henry Adams is a poor American who ends up penniless in London after a boating accident swept him out to sea. One day he stumbles upon two brothers who hand him a suspicious envelope. What Henry does not know is that it contains a million pound bank not
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Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Stolen White Elephant (EN)
Mark Twain: Can you imagine that a big white elephant could disappeared into thin air? It may sound impossible or ridiculous but it actually happened. An elephant got sent to Great Britain as a gift to the Queen but it was lost on the way and nobody seems to have a
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Detektívky
B. J. Harrison Reads The Mysterious Key and What It Opened (EN)
Louisa May Alcott: Alice is pregnant with her husband Sir Richard Trevlyn’s child. One day, she listens to a conversation between her husband and a visitor through a keyhole. What she hears is shocking enough to make her faint, and when she comes to, her husband is foun
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B. J. Harrison Reads An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (EN)
Louisa May Alcott: B. J. Harrison narrates “An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving” by author Louisa May Alcott. Thanksgiving is here, but the mother and father of seven children are called away to the bedside of an ill grandmother. The farm is left in charge of the eldest child
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B. J. Harrison Reads Around the World in 80 Days (EN)
Jules Verne: Despite his wealth, the rich British gentleman Phileas Fogg lives a simple and humble life. He is a member of the Reform Club, which is one of London’s best gentleman’s club. One day at the club, Fogg gets involved in an argument. The gentlemen disag
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Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads Youth (EN)
Joseph Conrad: Forty-two years old Marlow is drinking with four other Englishmen. They have known each other since the beginning of their working lives. Some of them have other jobs now, but they still gather to recall the good old days. Marlow tells his friends a st
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Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads Heart of Darkness (EN)
Joseph Conrad: Charles Marlow, sails up the Congo River to meet with Kurtz – a prosperous ivory trader and a man of great abilities. Marlow ends up signing a contract and becoming a riverboat captain for a Belgian company that trades in the Congo. He hopes that this
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Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The Call of Cthulhu (EN)
H. P. Lovecraft: Francis Thurston finds an old collection of letters and articles from his late uncle. They contain detailed descriptions of the so called Cthulhu cult, which Francis gets more and more interested in. He begins to understand his uncle’s fear and dread
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Detektívky
B. J. Harrison Reads The Dunwich Horror and Other Tales (EN)
H. P. Lovecraft: “The Colour Out of Space”, “The Call of Cthulhu” and 15 more stories are combined in the collection “The Dunwich Horror and Other Tales”. Horror, supernatural occurrences, science fiction and fantasy intertwine in order to give you goosebumps and send sh
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Detektívky
B. J. Harrison Reads The Colour Out of Space (EN)
H. P. Lovecraft: A meteorite crashes in an area around Arkham, Massachusetts and normally life is interrupted. The earth is poisoned, the animals are driven mad, the products that grow there become tasteless. One man decides to find out what has really happened but the
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Klasická literatúra
B. J. Harrison Reads The War of the Worlds (EN)
H. G. Wells: Martians have wanted to invade Earth for some time in order to secure their own survival. They make their way to the new planet, but what they don’t realize is that Earth may not be all that suitable for outsiders. H. G. Wells’ science fiction novel “
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Detektívky
B.J. Harrison Reads The Magic Shop (EN)
H. G. Wells: A father and his son visit a magic shop. This is not just any magic shop, but the “genuine” one, as the shop owner points out to the father. The father is not impressed but the boy is mesmerized by what he sees and hears. Yet when one trick turns out t
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Dobrodružné romány
B. J. Harrison Reads The Return of Tarzan (EN)
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Following the events of the first novel, Tarzan is grieving his beloved Jane, who is about to marry someone else. But he soon finds that there is more love to be had as he sets off to visit France, where he, besides causing some serious problems with Rus
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Music From Heaven (Barbara Cartland’s Pink Collection 144) (EN)
Barbara Cartland: The beautiful Martina Bradshaw has sadly lost both her beloved father and her loving mother. They live in the little Kent village of Preston Bailey where her father, a talented musician, had written his music, which had never been successful with the pub