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Emma Makepeace, the youngest member of an elite British espionage group, is given her first big assignment and faces the longest night of her life. He must track down and rescue an innocent man wanted by the Russian government and bring him to MI6 before sunrise – before the hit team gets to him.

But the Russians have hacked into the city’s cameras, and spies are searching all over London for the two. Moreover, her man, Michael Primalov, doesn’t really want to be saved.

Caliber, 296 pages, 399 CZK

Young receptionist Remie York has her very last shift at a remote Scottish mountain hotel. After a snowstorm breaks out and cuts off all connection to the outside world, an injured man appears. He claims to be police officer Don Gaines and was involved in an accident. Apart from him, only one prisoner, whom his team was transporting, survived. However, another man appears shortly after: he too is injured and also claims to be Don Gaines. It’s clear that one of them is lying, and Remie must find out who is who before it’s too late.

Caliber, 272 pages, 399 CZK

Love elevates, fulfills desire, arouses passions… But also hatred, jealousy or the desire for revenge. This is exactly the case in this collection of thirteen short stories from the pen of the queen of detective literature. Yes, this time the stories are connected by the motif of love – a feeling that can take a person to dizzying heights… or, on the contrary, knock him down to the darkest depths.

Caliber, 248 pages, 359 CZK

The story of the Garret family, Mercy, Robin and their three children – Alice, Lily and the youngest David – begins on their first vacation together in the summer of 1959 and continues following their lives through the decades to the present day.

The children become independent, leave home, and then Mercy begins to devote herself fully to her hobby, painting, and leaves Robin.

Their children also experience their loves and disappointments with their partners. The family is growing, sometimes everyone gets together, but their lives are still drifting apart.

Ikar, 256 pages, CZK 399

Vilém Javořina, a former Jesuit, is forcibly dragged into the Black Forest by rogue French officers. He escaped from the guillotine only to lead them to the Devil’s Tunnel and help them find the sinister secret that is killing them.

Vilém’s pilgrimage, marked by escape attempts and the gradual loss of the boundary between mirages and reality, is inevitably coming to a dark end… Is the group really haunted by the ghost of the executed Dr. Šulec? How much truth is there to the whispers of the locals about the dead rising from their graves and the barking of hellhounds? And does the black car that drove up from the east, with a coffin-like chest on it, play a role in all of this?

Caliber, 352 pages, CZK 459

It’s a long-winded novel that captures the range of emotions that surface when women share their secrets. It is an empathetic narrative about the intimacy of female friendship, sisterhood, motherhood and grief. And it is precisely in sharing unpleasant experiences and uncertain feelings that they try to provide relief.

Jota, 319 pages, 398 CZK

August March is, without exaggeration, a theater child. He was born in the dressing room of a Broadway theater during intermission, moments after his mother closed the first act with a stirring monologue. The fact that the boy survived childhood can be considered a work of luck, because the old woman who took him in was not exactly the mother of the year. He made a living from what he found in the theater, his teachers were Wilde, Shakespeare, Ibsen and Shaw, Richard II. he could memorize before he learned the alphabet. And he never visited the world out there.

But every show ends once. The theater closes and August, still innocent and unloved by the real world, finds himself on the streets of post-war New York. He has to fight his way through an unknown labyrinth on his own, until his dramatic talent launches him into the path of crime.

Jota, 256 pages, 369 CZK

“All roads once led to Rome. Today they lead to Beijing.” The world is changing and more interconnected than ever in history. Dubbed a “rock star among historians,” Peter Frankopan offers a fresh perspective on the network of relationships that developed along the former Silk Road. New power centers are being formed to the east from Europe through Russia, the Middle East, India and Central Asia to China, but you will not often read about them in the headlines of the Western media. This publication clarifies with clarity and bravado the topics on which the future of all of us depends.

Vyšehrad, 216 pages, 449 CZK

The book provides a number of specific, valuable advice on how to protect your health through gradual and gradual lifestyle changes – at any age. It is the easy implementation of these recommendations in everyday life that makes this book different from most of the titles that have been published in our country and in the world so far. In addition, all these changes will protect us from cardiovascular diseases, but also from other serious diseases of civilization, such as cancer, diabetes or Alzheimer’s disease.

Jota, 232 pages, 448 CZK

The story of a unit of the most elite and bravest warriors of World War II and the direct predecessors of today’s Navy SEALs, told by its last surviving member, ninety-five-year-old George Morgan. Morgan was a fairly ordinary, stocky, seventeen-year-old lifeguard from New Jersey who had joined a new naval engineering unit tasked with destroying the enemy’s coastal defenses before the main Allied forces landed. His first deployment: Omaha Beach during D-Day. Then, when he returned to the States, he found that this was just the beginning of his service. Equipped with a swimsuit, diving goggles and fins, he was sent to Hawaii and then deployed across the Pacific as a member of an elite, pioneering unit of underwater engineers. The foot soldiers said of them that they were “half fish, half fools”. Today we call them frogmen – or Navy SEALs.

Jota, 408 + 16 pages of appendices, CZK 498