Paola Merla Knihy

The first book in the Treasures of the Nile series Anippe has grown up in the shadows of Egypt’s good god Pharaoh, aware that Anubis, god of the afterlife, may take her--or her siblings--at any moment. She watched him snatch her mother and infant brother during childbirth, a moment which awakens in her a terrible dread of ever bearing a child. When she learns that she is to be become the bride of Sebak, a kind but quick-tempered Captain of Pharaoh Tut’s army, Anippe launches a series of deceptions with the help of the Hebrew midwives—women ordered by Tut to drown the sons of their own people in the Nile—in order to provide Sebak the heir he deserves and yet protect herself from the underworld gods. When she finds a baby floating in a basket on the great river, Anippe believes Egypt’s gods have answered her pleas, entrenching her more deeply in deception and placing her and her son Mehy, whom handmaiden Miriam calls Moses, in mortal danger. As bloodshed and savage politics shift the balance of power in Egypt, the gods reveal their fickle natures and Anippe wonders if her son, a boy of Hebrew blood, could one day become king. Or does the god of her Hebrew servants, the one they call El Shaddai, have a different plan for them all?

Dvaja mágovia sa zjavia v Anglicku... Ten prvý sa ma bude báť; ten druhý bude túžiť ma vidieť. Pred niekoľkými storočiami, keď v Anglicku ešte existovala mágia, bol najväčším mágom všetkých čias Havraní kráľ. Havraní kráľ ako ľudské dieťa, ktoré vychovali féeri, spojil vedomosti féerov a ľudský rozum a vytvoril anglickú mágiu. Teraz na začiatku 19. storočia, je sotva viac než len legendou a Anglicko so šialeným kráľom a elegantnými básnikmi už neverí, že existuje praktická mágia. Potom sa zjaví samotársky pán Norrell z Hurtfewskeho opátstva a spôsobí, že sochy v Yorskej katedrále sa pohybujú a rozprávajú. Šíria sa správy o návrate mágie do Anglicka a pán Norrell sa sťahuje do Londýna v presvedčení, že musí vláde pomôcť vo vojne proti Napoleonovi. Tu stretáva šikovného mladého mága a prijme ho za žiaka. Jonathan Strange je šarmantný, bohatý a arogantný. Spoločne oslňujú krajinu svojimi činmi. Lenže ich partnerstvo sa čoskoro zmení na súperenie. Pán Norrell sa nikdy nezbavil celoživotného zvyku uchovávať takmer všetko v tajnosti, zatiaľ čo Strangea vždy priťahuje tá najdivšia, najnebezpečnejšia mágia. Fascinuje ho tajomná postava Havranieho kráľa a nerozvážne sa ženie po stopách dávno zabudnutej mágie, pričom ohrozuje nielen svoje partnerstvo s pánom Norrellom, ale aj všetko, čo mu je drahé.

The bestselling author of "A Small Death in Lisbon" tells a gripping tale of a grisly murder that leads a police detective to the seamy side of his famous father's life.

Set during the winter of 1946, one of the coldest on record, "Pavel and I" mines post-war Berlin's messy terrain through the lives of two Pavel, an American soldier who stays on after the war, and Anders, a German orphan. Their paths cross when an ailing Pavel seeks medicine on the black market for his failing kidneys. Anders follows Pavel home with thoughts of stealing from him, but ultimately stays on to help nurse him back to health. A friendship of mutual need and genuine tenderness develops. When a dead Russian spy is delivered to Pavel's frozen apartment, Pavel and Anders find themselves caught in the beginnings of a Cold War conspiracy of epic proportions. Complete with a secret love affair between Pavel and the German mistress of a menacing British military official, and peopled with pimps, prostitutes, Russian and English spies and a Lord-of-the-Flies-style gang of child thieves, "Pavel and I" is a unique, breathtaking noir novel.

Nome: Jack Reacher, ex agente della polizia militare, un vero duro, onesto, coraggioso, praticamente una leggenda vivente. Luogo: Margrave, una tranquilla cittadina della Georgia rurale, dove non succede niente, dove è difficile immaginare che qualcosa possa succedere. Ora, quasi per caso, sull'onda di un vago ricordo, Jack arriva a Margrave, proprio nel momento in cui viene scoperto un efferato delitto. Mezz'ora dopo viene arrestato per omicidio. Ma Jack non ha ucciso nessuno, perlomeno non a Margrave...