Americké

Americká zkušenost se odhaluje prostřednictvím hlasů, které zpochybňují, oslavují a zápasí s ideály, institucemi a neustále se proměňující identitou národa. Tato díla zachycují jak široký oblouk americké historie, tak intimní příběhy jejích lidí – od politických manifestů a kulturních komentářů po osobní eseje a regionální vyprávění.

Americké Shrnutí knih

The Briar Club

od Kate Quinn

Thanksgiving night, 1954: a body in a D.C. boarding house, and the house knows the killer.

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🫂 Found Family 🇺🇸 1950s America 🚩 Soviet Defector 🏛️ Washington Dc 👩‍❤️‍👩 1950s Lesbian Romance

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The Briar Club

Thanksgiving night, 1954: a body in a D.C. boarding house, and the house knows the killer.

od Kate Quinn 2024 432 stran

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300 000+ hodnocení

🫂 Found Family 🇺🇸 1950s America 🚩 Soviet Defector 🏛️ Washington Dc 👩‍❤️‍👩 1950s Lesbian Romance

The Big Short

od Michael Lewis • 2010

Wall Street bet housing never falls. A few misfits read the fine print and won billions.

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🏦 Financial Crises 🏠 Housing Bubble 💰 Wall Street 📰 Narrative Journalism 📉 Short Selling

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The Big Short

Wall Street bet housing never falls. A few misfits read the fine print and won billions.

od Michael Lewis 2010 287 stran

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100 000+ hodnocení

🏦 Financial Crises 🏠 Housing Bubble 💰 Wall Street 📰 Narrative Journalism 📉 Short Selling

The Franklin Scandal

od Nick Bryant • 2008

A credit union fronted a child-trafficking ring. The cover-up is better documented than the crime.

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500+

🔗 Human Trafficking 📁 Institutional Cover-Up 🔍 Investigative Journalism ⚖️ Prosecutorial Misconduct 📰 Media Complicity

Imerzivní

The Franklin Scandal

A credit union fronted a child-trafficking ring. The cover-up is better documented than the crime.

od Nick Bryant 2008 650 stran

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500+ hodnocení

🔗 Human Trafficking 📁 Institutional Cover-Up 🔍 Investigative Journalism ⚖️ Prosecutorial Misconduct 📰 Media Complicity

James

od Percival Everett • 2024

An enslaved man escapes down the Mississippi to rescue his family and reclaim his story.

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🖋️ Reimagined Classic 🗣️ Code-Switching 🚣 River Journey 🫂 Found Family 👤 Secret Parentage

James

An enslaved man escapes down the Mississippi to rescue his family and reclaim his story.

od Percival Everett 2024 303 stran

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500 000+ hodnocení

🖋️ Reimagined Classic 🗣️ Code-Switching 🚣 River Journey 🫂 Found Family 👤 Secret Parentage

World Order

od Henry Kissinger • 2014

Europe invented the state system; now every civilization advances a rival blueprint for world order.

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14 000+

🌍 International Order ⚖️ Balance Of Power 📜 Diplomatic History 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🗺️ Geopolitics

World Order

Europe invented the state system; now every civilization advances a rival blueprint for world order.

od Henry Kissinger 2014 420 stran

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14 000+ hodnocení

🌍 International Order ⚖️ Balance Of Power 📜 Diplomatic History 🇺🇸 American Foreign Policy 🗺️ Geopolitics

Into the Wild

od Jon Krakauer • 1996

A young man sheds his name and cash, walks into the Alaskan wild, and never returns.

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1 000 000+

📖 Narrative Nonfiction 🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness 🏃 Runaway Idealist 💔 Estranged Family ⛰️ Man Vs Nature

Into the Wild

A young man sheds his name and cash, walks into the Alaskan wild, and never returns.

od Jon Krakauer 1996 240 stran

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1 000 000+ hodnocení

📖 Narrative Nonfiction 🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness 🏃 Runaway Idealist 💔 Estranged Family ⛰️ Man Vs Nature

Manufacturing Consent

od Edward S. Herman • 1988

Why a free press produces propaganda as reliably as a state ministry: the structural answer.

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24 000+

📰 Media Criticism 📢 Propaganda Studies ⚙️ Structural Bias 🏢 Corporate Media ⚡ Media Power

Manufacturing Consent

Why a free press produces propaganda as reliably as a state ministry: the structural answer.

od Edward S. Herman 1988 543 stran

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24 000+ hodnocení

📰 Media Criticism 📢 Propaganda Studies ⚙️ Structural Bias 🏢 Corporate Media ⚡ Media Power

One Nation Under Blackmail

od Whitney Alyse Webb • 2022

Seventeen White House visits. The blackmail machine that protected Jeffrey Epstein for decades.

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500+

🏛️ Political Corruption 🕵️ Intelligence History 🔫 Organized Crime 📹 Surveillance State 🕶️ Modern Espionage

One Nation Under Blackmail

Seventeen White House visits. The blackmail machine that protected Jeffrey Epstein for decades.

od Whitney Alyse Webb 2022 432 stran

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500+ hodnocení

🏛️ Political Corruption 🕵️ Intelligence History 🔫 Organized Crime 📹 Surveillance State 🕶️ Modern Espionage

Bowling Alone

od Robert D. Putnam • 2000

The clubs emptied and Americans stopped voting. The damage goes deeper than loneliness.

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9 000+

🏛️ Social Capital 🗳️ Civic Engagement 📉 Community Decline 🏠 Social Isolation 🔄 Generational Change

Bowling Alone

The clubs emptied and Americans stopped voting. The damage goes deeper than loneliness.

od Robert D. Putnam 2000 544 stran

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9 000+ hodnocení

🏛️ Social Capital 🗳️ Civic Engagement 📉 Community Decline 🏠 Social Isolation 🔄 Generational Change

The Fourth Turning

od William Strauss • 1996

America's history runs on an 80-year cycle of four social seasons. The crisis season has begun.

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🕰️ Cyclical History 👥 Generational Dynamics ⚠️ Crisis Forecasting 🏚️ Institutional Decay 🌋 Cultural Upheaval

The Fourth Turning

America's history runs on an 80-year cycle of four social seasons. The crisis season has begun.

od William Strauss 1996 400 stran

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7 000+ hodnocení

🕰️ Cyclical History 👥 Generational Dynamics ⚠️ Crisis Forecasting 🏚️ Institutional Decay 🌋 Cultural Upheaval

The Snowball

od Alice Schroeder • 2008

Buffett mastered compound interest at age ten. People took him a lifetime.

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🧮 Value Investing 📋 Business Biography 📈 Compound Growth ⏳ Long-Term Investing 💰 Wealth Accumulation

The Snowball

Buffett mastered compound interest at age ten. People took him a lifetime.

od Alice Schroeder 2008 832 stran

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54 000+ hodnocení

🧮 Value Investing 📋 Business Biography 📈 Compound Growth ⏳ Long-Term Investing 💰 Wealth Accumulation

Chlapci z Nickelu

od Colson Whitehead • 2019

A boy believes in equality. Then a Florida reform school teaches him the cost of hope.

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🌳 Jim Crow South 🏫 Reform School ⚖️ Idealist Vs Cynic 🔒 Wrongful Imprisonment 🎭 Assumed Identity

Chlapci z Nickelu

A boy believes in equality. Then a Florida reform school teaches him the cost of hope.

od Colson Whitehead 2019 213 stran

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300 000+ hodnocení

🌳 Jim Crow South 🏫 Reform School ⚖️ Idealist Vs Cynic 🔒 Wrongful Imprisonment 🎭 Assumed Identity

Martin Eden

od Jack London • 1909

A sailor meets a refined girl and destroys himself trying to become worthy of her love.

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🔨 Working Class Fiction 🏛️ Gilded Age Fiction 💔 Doomed Ambition 🎨 Artist As Outsider 💕 Class Divide Romance

Martin Eden

A sailor meets a refined girl and destroys himself trying to become worthy of her love.

od Jack London 1909 480 stran

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56 000+ hodnocení

🔨 Working Class Fiction 🏛️ Gilded Age Fiction 💔 Doomed Ambition 🎨 Artist As Outsider 💕 Class Divide Romance

1929

od Andrew Ross Sorkin • 2025

A $255-a-month prosecutor took down Wall Street. The 1929 crash was never about greed.

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30 000+

🏛️ Financial History 📉 Stock Market Crashes 🏦 Wall Street History 💳 Credit And Debt 📋 Banking Regulation

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1929

A $255-a-month prosecutor took down Wall Street. The 1929 crash was never about greed.

od Andrew Ross Sorkin 2025 577 stran

4.16

30 000+ hodnocení

🏛️ Financial History 📉 Stock Market Crashes 🏦 Wall Street History 💳 Credit And Debt 📋 Banking Regulation

Behind the Green Mask

od Rosa Koire • 2011

A veteran appraiser found that green policies are a UN blueprint to abolish private property.

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365

🗺️ Land Use Policy 🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Agenda 21 🎭 Manufactured Consent 🏚️ Eminent Domain Abuse

Imerzivní

Behind the Green Mask

A veteran appraiser found that green policies are a UN blueprint to abolish private property.

od Rosa Koire 2011 172 stran

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365 hodnocení

🗺️ Land Use Policy 🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Agenda 21 🎭 Manufactured Consent 🏚️ Eminent Domain Abuse

Velký Gatsby

od F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gatsby's mansion teemed with strangers. The woman he loved was across the bay, married to another.

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🥂 Roaring Twenties 💔 Obsessive Love 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 💰 Old Money Vs New Money 🍂 Elegiac

Imerzivní

Velký Gatsby

Gatsby's mansion teemed with strangers. The woman he loved was across the bay, married to another.

od F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925 180 stran

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5 000 000+ hodnocení

🥂 Roaring Twenties 💔 Obsessive Love 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 💰 Old Money Vs New Money 🍂 Elegiac

How Civil Wars Start

od Barbara F. Walter • 2022

America is now an anocracy, the regime type three times likelier to fracture into civil war.

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🔬 Civil War Studies 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🌐 Comparative Politics 🪓 Ethnic Factionalism ⚠️ Domestic Extremism

How Civil Wars Start

America is now an anocracy, the regime type three times likelier to fracture into civil war.

od Barbara F. Walter 2022 320 stran

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6 000+ hodnocení

🔬 Civil War Studies 📉 Democratic Backsliding 🌐 Comparative Politics 🪓 Ethnic Factionalism ⚠️ Domestic Extremism

Team of Rivals

od Doris Kearns Goodwin • 2005

Lincoln beat three famous rivals for president. Then he hired every last one of them.

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👤 Presidential Biography 🏛️ Political Leadership ⚔️ Civil War Era 📋 Cabinet Politics 🤝 Political Rivalry

Team of Rivals

Lincoln beat three famous rivals for president. Then he hired every last one of them.

od Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 916 stran

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200 000+ hodnocení

👤 Presidential Biography 🏛️ Political Leadership ⚔️ Civil War Era 📋 Cabinet Politics 🤝 Political Rivalry

Porota

od John Grisham • 1996

A billion-dollar tobacco trial. One juror. And a verdict for sale to the highest bidder.

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300 000+

🎭 Jury Manipulation 🚬 Big Tobacco 💰 Corrupt Justice 🐱 Cat And Mouse 🔀 Double Cross

Porota

A billion-dollar tobacco trial. One juror. And a verdict for sale to the highest bidder.

od John Grisham 1996 464 stran

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300 000+ hodnocení

🎭 Jury Manipulation 🚬 Big Tobacco 💰 Corrupt Justice 🐱 Cat And Mouse 🔀 Double Cross

Caste

od Isabel Wilkerson • 2020

America is a hidden caste system the Nazis once studied: four centuries old, eight rules deep.

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📊 Social Stratification 🔗 Caste Systems ⚖️ Comparative History 🏛️ Institutional Racism 🧱 Structural Inequality

Caste

America is a hidden caste system the Nazis once studied: four centuries old, eight rules deep.

od Isabel Wilkerson 2020 544 stran

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100 000+ hodnocení

📊 Social Stratification 🔗 Caste Systems ⚖️ Comparative History 🏛️ Institutional Racism 🧱 Structural Inequality

Stoner

od John Williams • 1965

William Stoner turns from the soil to the sonnet, and a quiet, unremarkable life begins.

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📚 Campus Novel 🖋️ Quiet Life Portrait 💔 Unhappy Marriage ❤️‍🔥 Forbidden Love Affair 🪨 Stoic Protagonist

Stoner

William Stoner turns from the soil to the sonnet, and a quiet, unremarkable life begins.

od John Williams 1965 292 stran

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200 000+ hodnocení

📚 Campus Novel 🖋️ Quiet Life Portrait 💔 Unhappy Marriage ❤️‍🔥 Forbidden Love Affair 🪨 Stoic Protagonist

The Schopenhauer Cure

od Irvin D. Yalom • 2005

A dying psychiatrist and his former patient swap therapy for philosophy, shaking up a therapy group.

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🧠 Psychological Fiction 📚 Philosophical Novel 🛋️ Therapist-Patient Bond 🕊️ Dying Mentor 💔 Trauma Recovery

The Schopenhauer Cure

A dying psychiatrist and his former patient swap therapy for philosophy, shaking up a therapy group.

od Irvin D. Yalom 2005 358 stran

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31 000+ hodnocení

🧠 Psychological Fiction 📚 Philosophical Novel 🛋️ Therapist-Patient Bond 🕊️ Dying Mentor 💔 Trauma Recovery

Appetite for America

od Stephen Fried • 2010

A railroad restaurant empire that civilized the West and launched America's first female workforce.

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1 000+

🚂 Railroad History 🏨 Hospitality Industry 💼 Gilded Age Business 🏜️ Frontier Settlement 👩‍💼 Women's Labor History

Appetite for America

A railroad restaurant empire that civilized the West and launched America's first female workforce.

od Stephen Fried 2010 751 stran

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1 000+ hodnocení

🚂 Railroad History 🏨 Hospitality Industry 💼 Gilded Age Business 🏜️ Frontier Settlement 👩‍💼 Women's Labor History

The Five Flirting Styles

od Jeffrey A. Hall • 2013

Stop copying someone else's moves. Your flirting instincts already work; here's how to use them.

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109

🧪 Attraction Science 👁️ Body Language 💘 Dating Advice 🗂️ Personality Types 💞 Romantic Connection

The Five Flirting Styles

Stop copying someone else's moves. Your flirting instincts already work; here's how to use them.

od Jeffrey A. Hall 2013 305 stran

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109 hodnocení

🧪 Attraction Science 👁️ Body Language 💘 Dating Advice 🗂️ Personality Types 💞 Romantic Connection

The Poisoner's Handbook

od Deborah Blum • 2010

Jazz Age poisoners had the perfect crime, until a morgue chemist invented toxicology to catch them.

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37 000+

🧪 Forensic Toxicology ☠️ Poison History 🎷 Jazz Age New York 🍸 Prohibition Era 💀 Deadly Substances

The Poisoner's Handbook

Jazz Age poisoners had the perfect crime, until a morgue chemist invented toxicology to catch them.

od Deborah Blum 2010 319 stran

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37 000+ hodnocení

🧪 Forensic Toxicology ☠️ Poison History 🎷 Jazz Age New York 🍸 Prohibition Era 💀 Deadly Substances

The Innocent Man

od John Grisham • 2006

Ada, Oklahoma. Two men condemned for murder. Twelve years later, DNA pointed to the real killer.

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🏛️ Wrongful Convictions ⚖️ Death Penalty 📋 Prosecutorial Misconduct 🔬 Junk Science In Court 🏘️ Small-Town Justice

The Innocent Man

Ada, Oklahoma. Two men condemned for murder. Twelve years later, DNA pointed to the real killer.

od John Grisham 2006 435 stran

3.87

85 000+ hodnocení

🏛️ Wrongful Convictions ⚖️ Death Penalty 📋 Prosecutorial Misconduct 🔬 Junk Science In Court 🏘️ Small-Town Justice

Stařec a moře

od Ernest Hemingway

Eighty-four days empty, an old fisherman rows far offshore and hooks a marlin longer than his boat.

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1 000 000+

📘 Allegorical Fiction 👴 Mentor And Student 🌊 Man Versus Nature 🦈 Dignity In Defeat ⛵ Life At Sea

Imerzivní

Stařec a moře

Eighty-four days empty, an old fisherman rows far offshore and hooks a marlin longer than his boat.

od Ernest Hemingway 1952 96 stran

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1 000 000+ hodnocení

📘 Allegorical Fiction 👴 Mentor And Student 🌊 Man Versus Nature 🦈 Dignity In Defeat ⛵ Life At Sea

The Secret Destiny of America

od Manly P. Hall • 1944

A secret order spent millennia planning one nation. Its symbols are still on your money.

4.10

500+

📜 Esoteric History 🇺🇸 American Civil Religion 🕯️ Secret Societies 👁️ Esoteric Symbolism 🔮 Theosophy

Imerzivní

The Secret Destiny of America

A secret order spent millennia planning one nation. Its symbols are still on your money.

od Manly P. Hall 1944 200 stran

4.10

500+ hodnocení

📜 Esoteric History 🇺🇸 American Civil Religion 🕯️ Secret Societies 👁️ Esoteric Symbolism 🔮 Theosophy

The Invisible Coup

od Peter Schweizer • 2026

Mass migration is not a crisis. It's a weapon, and its architects say so on camera.

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500+

🛂 Immigration Policy 🔐 National Security 🕵️ Foreign Interference 📊 Demographic Change 🏫 Assimilation Politics

Imerzivní

The Invisible Coup

Mass migration is not a crisis. It's a weapon, and its architects say so on camera.

od Peter Schweizer 2026 288 stran

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500+ hodnocení

🛂 Immigration Policy 🔐 National Security 🕵️ Foreign Interference 📊 Demographic Change 🏫 Assimilation Politics

The Lincoln Lawyer

od Michael Connelly • 2005

A Los Angeles lawyer's dream client is accused of assault, but he's hiding a murder.

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200 000+

📚 Legal Thriller ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👨‍💼 Defense Attorney 🃏 Client Deception 🥃 Hard-Boiled

The Lincoln Lawyer

A Los Angeles lawyer's dream client is accused of assault, but he's hiding a murder.

od Michael Connelly 2005 405 stran

4.23

200 000+ hodnocení

📚 Legal Thriller ⚖️ Courtroom Drama 👨‍💼 Defense Attorney 🃏 Client Deception 🥃 Hard-Boiled

The Small and the Mighty

od Sharon McMahon • 2024

The Preamble's author is forgotten. So are eleven other Americans who bent history.

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🏛️ American History 🔍 Hidden Figures 👥 Collective Biography 🌱 Grassroots Activism ✊ Civil Rights History

The Small and the Mighty

The Preamble's author is forgotten. So are eleven other Americans who bent history.

od Sharon McMahon 2024 307 stran

4.37

42 000+ hodnocení

🏛️ American History 🔍 Hidden Figures 👥 Collective Biography 🌱 Grassroots Activism ✊ Civil Rights History

Go as a River

od Shelley Read • 2023

A Colorado farm girl's forbidden love leaves her with a secret she buries for decades.

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100 000+

💔 Forbidden Love 💕 Interracial Romance 🤰 Secret Pregnancy 🏔️ Survival In Wilderness 🏜️ Rural Colorado

Go as a River

A Colorado farm girl's forbidden love leaves her with a secret she buries for decades.

od Shelley Read 2023 320 stran

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100 000+ hodnocení

💔 Forbidden Love 💕 Interracial Romance 🤰 Secret Pregnancy 🏔️ Survival In Wilderness 🏜️ Rural Colorado

Too Big to Fail

od Andrew Ross Sorkin • 2009

The weekend Lehman fell: frantic phone calls, shattered egos, and a global economy on the brink.

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43 000+

🏦 Wall Street 📉 Financial Crises 💼 Investment Banking 🏛️ Government Bailouts 📊 Corporate Downfall

Too Big to Fail

The weekend Lehman fell: frantic phone calls, shattered egos, and a global economy on the brink.

od Andrew Ross Sorkin 2009 813 stran

4.16

43 000+ hodnocení

🏦 Wall Street 📉 Financial Crises 💼 Investment Banking 🏛️ Government Bailouts 📊 Corporate Downfall

Death by China

od Peter Navarro • 2011

America armed its biggest rival: every dollar spent at Walmart helped finance the Chinese military.

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500+

🇺🇸 Economic Nationalism 🏭 Authoritarian Capitalism 💱 Currency Manipulation ⚔️ Trade War Literature 💻 Cyber Warfare

Death by China

America armed its biggest rival: every dollar spent at Walmart helped finance the Chinese military.

od Peter Navarro 2011 303 stran

3.50

500+ hodnocení

🇺🇸 Economic Nationalism 🏭 Authoritarian Capitalism 💱 Currency Manipulation ⚔️ Trade War Literature 💻 Cyber Warfare

Fever 1793

od Laurie Halse Anderson • 2000

1793 Philadelphia: a teen must survive the fever and rebuild her family's coffeehouse.

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🦠 Epidemic Fiction 🫂 Found Family 🏥 Historical Survival 🌱 Crisis Coming Of Age 🏛️ 18th Century America

Fever 1793

1793 Philadelphia: a teen must survive the fever and rebuild her family's coffeehouse.

od Laurie Halse Anderson 2000 252 stran

3.93

100 000+ hodnocení

🦠 Epidemic Fiction 🫂 Found Family 🏥 Historical Survival 🌱 Crisis Coming Of Age 🏛️ 18th Century America

Woke, Inc.

od Vivek Ramaswamy • 2021

Social justice as corporate shield: a CEO exposes how causes mask a massive power grab.

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4 000+

🏢 Stakeholder Capitalism ⚡ Corporate Power 🌱 ESG Investing 🎭 Performative Activism ⚖️ Democratic Backsliding

Woke, Inc.

Social justice as corporate shield: a CEO exposes how causes mask a massive power grab.

od Vivek Ramaswamy 2021 368 stran

4.00

4 000+ hodnocení

🏢 Stakeholder Capitalism ⚡ Corporate Power 🌱 ESG Investing 🎭 Performative Activism ⚖️ Democratic Backsliding

Free to Choose

od Milton Friedman • 1979

Economic freedom isn't one value among many. It is the mechanism that delivers all the others.

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9 000+

🏪 Free Market Economics 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🎓 Chicago School 💰 Monetarism ⚠️ Government Failure

Free to Choose

Economic freedom isn't one value among many. It is the mechanism that delivers all the others.

od Milton Friedman 1979 356 stran

4.22

9 000+ hodnocení

🏪 Free Market Economics 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🎓 Chicago School 💰 Monetarism ⚠️ Government Failure

American Like Me

od America Ferrera • 2018

Actors and athletes on the day their Americanness was questioned, and the moment they claimed it.

4.32

6 000+

🧩 Hyphenated Identity 🌐 Diaspora 👥 Double Consciousness 🌟 Celebrity Memoir ✍️ Personal Essays

American Like Me

Actors and athletes on the day their Americanness was questioned, and the moment they claimed it.

od America Ferrera 2018 337 stran

4.32

6 000+ hodnocení

🧩 Hyphenated Identity 🌐 Diaspora 👥 Double Consciousness 🌟 Celebrity Memoir ✍️ Personal Essays

Fellow Travelers

od Thomas Mallon • 2007

In McCarthy's Washington, a diplomat and a young idealist risk everything for a hidden affair.

3.60

5 000+

🏳️‍🌈 Lavender Scare 🚪 Closeted Romance ⏳ Age Gap Romance 👁️ Political Paranoia 📰 Mccarthy Era

Fellow Travelers

In McCarthy's Washington, a diplomat and a young idealist risk everything for a hidden affair.

od Thomas Mallon 2007 356 stran

3.60

5 000+ hodnocení

🏳️‍🌈 Lavender Scare 🚪 Closeted Romance ⏳ Age Gap Romance 👁️ Political Paranoia 📰 Mccarthy Era

The Jailhouse Lawyer

od Calvin Duncan • 2025

He taught himself law from death row, freed other inmates, and walked free after 28 years.

4.49

1 000+

🔓 Wrongful Conviction 🔗 Mass Incarceration ✍️ Prison Memoir 🤝 Mutual Aid 🧠 Logotherapy

Imerzivní

The Jailhouse Lawyer

He taught himself law from death row, freed other inmates, and walked free after 28 years.

od Calvin Duncan 2025 400 stran

4.49

1 000+ hodnocení

🔓 Wrongful Conviction 🔗 Mass Incarceration ✍️ Prison Memoir 🤝 Mutual Aid 🧠 Logotherapy

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution

od Mark Peterson • 2026

The U.S. Constitution was built to seize a continent. What happens when the land runs out?

4.09

🏛️ Constitutional History 🌎 American Expansion ⚡ Settler Colonialism 💰 Political Economy ⚖️ Minority Rule

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution Shrnutí

Imerzivní

The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution

The U.S. Constitution was built to seize a continent. What happens when the land runs out?

od Mark Peterson 2026 390 stran

4.09

22 hodnocení

🏛️ Constitutional History 🌎 American Expansion ⚡ Settler Colonialism 💰 Political Economy ⚖️ Minority Rule

The Calamity Club

od Kathryn Stockett

A churchgoing spinster opens a brothel to rescue an orphan from a eugenics asylum.

4.60

100 000+

🏚️ Southern Fiction ✊ Feminist Historical 🤝 Found Family 👯‍♀️ Women Outcasts 👩‍🦳 Spinster Heroine

Imerzivní

The Calamity Club

A churchgoing spinster opens a brothel to rescue an orphan from a eugenics asylum.

od Kathryn Stockett 2026 656 stran

4.60

100 000+ hodnocení

🏚️ Southern Fiction ✊ Feminist Historical 🤝 Found Family 👯‍♀️ Women Outcasts 👩‍🦳 Spinster Heroine

Klub rváčů

od Chuck Palahniuk • 1996

An insomniac and a soap salesman start an underground fight club that spirals into anarchy.

4.18

600 000+

🖤 Transgressive Fiction 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🪞 Dissociative Identity ⚔️ Toxic Masculinity 🛒 Anti-Consumerism

Klub rváčů

An insomniac and a soap salesman start an underground fight club that spirals into anarchy.

od Chuck Palahniuk 1996 224 stran

4.18

600 000+ hodnocení

🖤 Transgressive Fiction 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🪞 Dissociative Identity ⚔️ Toxic Masculinity 🛒 Anti-Consumerism

Vyhoďme ho z kola ven

od Ken Kesey • 1962

A gambler fakes insanity and discovers the mental ward's head nurse is the true warden.

4.20

700 000+

🏥 Psychiatric Institution 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🔥 Charismatic Rebel 🫂 Found Family 💔 Tragic Hero

Vyhoďme ho z kola ven

A gambler fakes insanity and discovers the mental ward's head nurse is the true warden.

od Ken Kesey 1962 325 stran

4.20

700 000+ hodnocení

🏥 Psychiatric Institution 🧠 Unreliable Narrator 🔥 Charismatic Rebel 🫂 Found Family 💔 Tragic Hero

Perla

od John Steinbeck • 1947

A poor pearl diver finds a perfect pearl, and the town's greed turns hope into a trap.

3.57

200 000+

🪶 Literary Parable 💰 Corrupting Wealth ⛓️ Colonial Oppression 🎭 Tragic Inevitability 📖 Folkloric Tone

Perla

A poor pearl diver finds a perfect pearl, and the town's greed turns hope into a trap.

od John Steinbeck 1947 96 stran

3.57

200 000+ hodnocení

🪶 Literary Parable 💰 Corrupting Wealth ⛓️ Colonial Oppression 🎭 Tragic Inevitability 📖 Folkloric Tone

Albion's Seed

od David Hackett Fischer • 1989

Four British migrations planted rival cultures in America, each with its own definition of freedom.

4.38

3 000+

🏛️ Colonial America 📖 Cultural History 🗺️ Regional Cultures 🧳 Migration Patterns ⚖️ Comparative History

Albion's Seed

Four British migrations planted rival cultures in America, each with its own definition of freedom.

od David Hackett Fischer 1989 946 stran

4.38

3 000+ hodnocení

🏛️ Colonial America 📖 Cultural History 🗺️ Regional Cultures 🧳 Migration Patterns ⚖️ Comparative History

Evicted

od Matthew Desmond • 2016

Poverty isn't the cause of eviction. Eviction is the cause of poverty, and the market profits.

4.47

100 000+

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏚️ Housing Insecurity ✊ Racial Inequality 🔄 Poverty Cycle 📖 Narrative Ethnography

Evicted

Poverty isn't the cause of eviction. Eviction is the cause of poverty, and the market profits.

od Matthew Desmond 2016 418 stran

4.47

100 000+ hodnocení

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏚️ Housing Insecurity ✊ Racial Inequality 🔄 Poverty Cycle 📖 Narrative Ethnography

Moneyball

od Michael Lewis • 2003

A broke baseball team won by obsessing over one stat the rest of the league ignored.

4.27

100 000+

⚾ Baseball Analytics 📊 Sabermetrics 📉 Market Inefficiencies 💎 Undervalued Assets ⚡ Disruptive Strategy

Moneyball

A broke baseball team won by obsessing over one stat the rest of the league ignored.

od Michael Lewis 2003 272 stran

4.27

100 000+ hodnocení

⚾ Baseball Analytics 📊 Sabermetrics 📉 Market Inefficiencies 💎 Undervalued Assets ⚡ Disruptive Strategy

The Boys in the Boat

od Daniel James Brown • 2013

Left for dead by his family, Joe Rantz climbed into a boat bound for Hitler's Berlin.

4.39

300 000+

🏅 Olympic History 📉 Depression-Era America 🚣 Crew Racing 🎭 Olympic Propaganda 🐶 Underdog Stories

The Boys in the Boat

Left for dead by his family, Joe Rantz climbed into a boat bound for Hitler's Berlin.

od Daniel James Brown 2013 416 stran

4.39

300 000+ hodnocení

🏅 Olympic History 📉 Depression-Era America 🚣 Crew Racing 🎭 Olympic Propaganda 🐶 Underdog Stories

Čtyři větry

od Kristin Hannah • 2021

A mother loses her Texas farm to dust and drives west toward California's broken promise.

4.30

1 000 000+

🏜️ Dust Bowl Fiction 🇺🇸 1930s America ✊ Labor Organizing 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 💗 Mother's Sacrifice

Čtyři větry

A mother loses her Texas farm to dust and drives west toward California's broken promise.

od Kristin Hannah 2021 464 stran

4.30

1 000 000+ hodnocení

🏜️ Dust Bowl Fiction 🇺🇸 1930s America ✊ Labor Organizing 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 💗 Mother's Sacrifice

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