In the early eighteenth century, a woman finds herself set adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, eventually, his lover.
Kdyby vám patřila kouzelná hrací skříňka, která by vás přenesla do jiného světa, určitě byste neváhali. Leo takovou skříňku vlastní, ale uvědomuje si všechna nebezpečí, která na něho v Rondu číhají. Mimi tak bojácná není. „Neboj se, Leo, budeme v bezpečí," říká mu. Ale Leo ví, že v Rondu není bezpečné ani předvídatelné vůbec nic… Fantastický svět Ronda je možná hrozivý, ale Leo s Mimi vědí, že se tam vydat musí. Musí dál hrát svoje role v nekončící bitvě se zlou a krutou Modrou královnou. Znovu se vydávají do světa starožitné hrací skříňky a jsou rozhodnuti se tentokrát do ničeho vážného nezaplést. Ale brzy je kouzelné Rondo zcela pohltí. Jejich výprava na záchranu zmizeného čaroděje se stane ještě nebezpečnější, když jim cestu zkříží slouha Modré královny, Kazisvět, a přiblíží se mračná hrozba, číhající na severní obloze.
It is a path that will eventually lead them into the forbidding, barren heart of the western desert, and the answer to one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world .
Autor nás zavedl do starobylého Egypta, do dob, kdy vrcholí boj o moc a na trůn by měla zasednout poprvé královna - žena. Jak se to známé Hatšepsovet podařilo a s jakými překážkami se setkali její přívrženci, se dozvíte na stranách tohoto románu, kterému nechybí detektivní zápletka, jak je to v Dohertyho dílech běžné. Paul Doherty je uznávaný historik, který brilantně využívá své znalosti při psaní napínavých detektivních příběhů, odehrávajících se na pozadí skutečných historických událostí. I v tomto románu dokonale uplatnil své oslnivé znalosti o Egyptě, a tak vznikl strhující příběh, ve kterém se působivě prolíná fikce se skutečností.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before She Disappeared comes a propulsive thriller exploring “the dark side of family life, where the ties that bind also gag, choke, and strangle” (Publishers Weekly). “Lisa Gardner always delivers heart-stopping suspense.”—Harlan Coben The family you love the most may be the people you should trust the least. . . . Twenty years ago, Melanie Stokes was abandoned in a Boston hospital, then adopted by a wealthy young couple. Gifted with loving parents, a doting brother, and an indulgent uncle, Melanie has always considered herself lucky. Until tonight. Tonight, a has-been reporter turns up, investigating her past. Tonight, the first note arrives, saying, “You Get What You Deserve.” And tonight, Melanie has her first, horrifying vision of the past. Melanie has no memory of her life before the adoption. Now someone wants to give it back, even if it includes the darkest nightmare the Stokes family ever faced: the murder of their first daughter in Texas. As Melanie pursues every lead, chases every shadow in search of her real identity, two seemingly unrelated events from her past will come together in a dangerous explosion of truth. Winner of the Daphne Du Maurier Award for Suspense
Quinn McKenzie has always lived what she calls a "beige" life. She's dating the world's nicest guy, she has a good job as a high school art teacher, she's surrounded by family and friends who rely on her, and she's bored to the point of insanity. But when Quinn decides to change her life by adopting a stray dog over everyone's objections, everything begins to spiral out of control. Now she's coping with dog-napping, breaking and entering, seduction, sabotage, stalking, more secrets than she really wants to know, and two men who are suddenly crazy...for her.
'The piteousness of his little soft shroud of hair falling down his brow and swept aside by the hand over blue serious eyes' Described by Kerouac as 'my most serious sad and true book', Visions of Gerard forms the first volume of his memoir cycle the 'Duluoz Legend'. Based on Jack Kerouac's memories of the beloved older brother who died when he was a boy, it is unique among his novels for its dreamlike evocation of the sensations of childhood - its wisdom, anguish, intensity, innocence, joy and pain. It is a haunting exploration of the precariousness of existence. 'Called a "pain-tale" by Kerouac, it's the story of an almost divine, Buddha-like child wracked with sickness and suffering' Guardian
'A very unique cat-a French-Canadian Hinayana Buddhist Beat Catholic savant'Allen Ginsberg Through publishers stopped Maggie Cassidy'sJack Dulouz and On the Road'sSal Paradise form sharing the same name, Kerouac meant the books to be two parts of the same life. While On the Roadmade Paradise (and Kerouac) a hero of the disaffected and restless for generations to come, Maggie Cassidyis an affectionate portrait of the teenager that made the man - of friendship and first love - growing up in a New England mill town. Dulouz is a high school athletics and football star who meet Maggie Cassidy and begins a devoted, inconstant, tender adolescent love affair. It is one of the most sustained, poetic pieces of Kerouac's 'spontaneous prose'.
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