Publikace: Graves, Tracey Garvis On the Island - Graves, T.G.. Anotace: Originální anglická četba -třicetiletá učitelka angličtiny Anna Emerson dostane nabídku, aby doučovala TJ Callahana v rekreačním domě na Maledivách, přijímá bez váhání... Popis: When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a summer job tutoring T J Callahan at his family's holiday home in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation: a tropical island beats the library any day. T J has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. It would always be summer on the island...A love story with a twist, Tracey Garvis Graves' "On The Island" is a US word-of-mouth success story to rival "Fifty Shades of Grey", with 1500 5; reader reviews online (and counting!) and sales taking it top 10 in the "New York Times", Wall Street Journal and Amazon.com bestseller lists. Film rights have been optioned by MGM, with Temple Hill Productions (responsible for Twilight) slated to produce. When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a summer job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's holiday home in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation: a tropical island beats the library any day. T.J. has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. He's almost seventeen and if having had cancer wasn't bad enough, he now has to spend his first summer in remission with his family instead of his friends. Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Marooned on an uninhabited island, Anna and T.J. work together to obtain water, food, fire and shelter but, as the days turn to weeks then months and finally years, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man. ..As romantic as "One Day" or "The Time Traveler's Wife", US readers have fallen in love with Tracey Garvis-Graves' "On the Island": "If you're looking for something to fill the gap after reading Fifty Shades...here it is!" (Danielle). "I couldn't put this down. I rooted for this couple from the beginning." (Kelkeligan). "A bit Castaway, Survivor and Lost all rolled together, the minute I opened the book, I read till it was finished." (Michele). "I loved, loved, loved this. It was a perfect way to spend a cold Friday night stuck at home." (Kelly Tracey). Garvis-Graves lives in a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa, with her husband and two children. Publikace: Graves, Tracey Garvis On the Island - Graves, T.G..