Enter a world where the sometimes shocking and often hilarious mating habits of the privileged are exposed by a true insider. In essays drawn from her witty and sometimes brutally candid column in the New York Observer, Candace Bushnell introduces us to the young and beautiful who travel in packs from parties to bars to clubs. Meet "Carrie," the quintessential young writer looking for love in all the wrong places..."Mr. Big," the business tycoon who drifts from one relationship to another..."Samantha Jones," the fortyish, successful, "testosterone woman" who uses sex like a man...not to mention "Psycho Moms," "Bicycle Boys," "International Crazy Girls," and the rest of the New Yorkers who have inspired one of the most watched TV series of our time. You've seen them on HBO, now read the book that started it all... Źródło: lubimyczytac.pl

Przez niemal siedemdziesiąt lat rozgrywa się akcja tej opowieści o ludziach i czasach, w jakich przyszło im żyć. Są lata dwudzieste XX wieku. W nowo powstałej Czechosłowacji żydowski magnat samochodowy Viktor Landauer zleca budowę niezwykłego domu – symbolu nowoczesności. Zamieszkuje tam z ukochaną żoną Liesel i dziećmi. Landauerowie jeszcze nie wiedza, ze wkrótce będą musieli opuścić swa posiadłość, a do „szklanego domu” Liesel powróci jako sędziwa dama. Zajmująca historia wielkiej miłości w… małżeńskim trójkącie i samego domu, zmieniającego swe przeznaczenie w rytm kolejnych burz, wstrząsających minionym stuleciem aż po upadek komunizmu. Źródło: lubimyczytac.pl

Nothing captures the charm of Edinburgh like the bestselling Isabel Dalhousie series of novels featuring the insatiably curious philosopher and woman detective. Whether investigating a case or a problem of philosophy, the indefatigable Isabel Dalhousie, one of fiction's most richly developed amateur detectives, is always ready to pursue the answers to all of life's questions, large and small. Isabel's son, Charlie, is now of an age--eighteen months--to have a social life, and so off they go to a birthday party, where, much to Isabel's surprise, she encounters an old adversary, Minty Auchterlonie, now a high-flying financier. Minty had seemed to Isabel a woman of ruthless ambition, but the question of her integrity had never been answered. Now, when Minty takes Isabel into her confidence about a personal matter, Isabel finds herself going another round: Is Minty to be trusted? Or is she the perpetrator of an enormous financial fraud? And what should Isabel make of the rumors of shady financial transactions at Minty's investment bank? Not that this is the only dilemma facing Isabel: she also crosses swords again with her nemesis, Professor Dove, in an argument over plagiarism. Of course her niece, Cat, has a new, problematic man (a tightrope walker!) in her life. And there remains the open question of marriage to Jamie--doting father of Charlie. As always, there is no end to the delight in accompanying Isabel as she makes her way toward the heart of every problem: philosophizing, sleuthing, and downright snooping in her inimitable--and inimitably charming--fashion. Źródło: goodreads.com