Alessandra Emma Giagheddu Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

During a summer party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is happily dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and watches as her mother speaks to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime. A crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy—her vivacious, loving, nearly perfect mother. Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress living in London. The family is gathering at Greenacres farm for Dorothy’s ninetieth birthday. Realizing that this may be her last chance, Laurel searches for answers to the questions that still haunt her from that long-ago day, answers that can only be found in Dorothy’s past. Dorothy’s story takes the reader from pre–WWII England through the blitz, to the ’60s and beyond. It is the secret history of three strangers from vastly different worlds—Dorothy, Vivien, and Jimmy—who meet by chance in wartime London and whose lives are forever entwined. The Secret Keeper explores longings and dreams and the unexpected consequences they sometimes bring. It is an unforgettable story of lovers and friends, deception and passion that is told—in Morton’s signature style—against a backdrop of events that changed the world.

The Man Booker Prize finalist Far to Go by acclaimed author Alison Pick is historical fiction at its very best. When Czechoslovakia relinquishes the Sudetenland to Hitler, the powerful influence of Nazi propaganda sweeps through towns and villages like a sinister vanguard of the Reich's advancing army. A fiercely patriotic secular Jew, Pavel Bauer is helpless to prevent his world from unraveling as first his government, then his business partners, then his neighbors turn their back on his affluent, once-beloved family. Only the Bauers' adoring governess, Marta, sticks by Pavel, his wife, Anneliese, and their little son, Pepik, bound by her deep affection for her employers and friends. But when Marta learns of their impending betrayal at the hands of her lover, Ernst, Pavel's best friend, she is paralyzed by her own fear of discovery—even as the endangered family for whom she cares so deeply struggles with the most difficult decision of their lives. Interwoven with a present-day narrative that gradually reveals the fate of the Bauer family during and after the war, Far to Go is a riveting family epic, love story, and psychological drama.

A long-lost letter arriving at its destination fifty years after it was sent lures Edie Burchill to crumbling Milderhurst Castle, home of the three elderly Blythe sisters, where Edie's mother was sent to stay as a teenager during World War II.

Early thirtysomething Emma decides it�s time to have the baby - but it just doesn�t happen to order. Emma goes through a funny, touching and ultimately moving journey as she struggles to accept the reality that maybe it�s never going to happen. The Baby Trail is a novel rich in texture, light and dark, and humour with a biting undercurrent.

Kathy Reichs je forenzná antropologička, certifikovaná Americkou radou súdnej antropológie, producentka úspešného seriálu Kosti a autorka série bestsellerov z prostredia forenzných vied. Hlavná protagonistka jej románov doktorka Temperance Brennanová je nepochybne autorkino knižné alter ego. Na montrealskej ulici zastrelia deväťročnú Emily Anne Tousaintovú. Mladá tínedžerka zmizla z domu v Severnej Karolíne a stovky kilometrov odtiaľ sa našli zvyšky kostry, ktorá by jej mohla patriť. Temperance sa na vlastnú päsť púšťa do nebezpečného vyšetrovania v prostredí, kde zlo veľmi často nosí masku a ukrýva sa.

Do montrealského Ústavu súdneho lekárstva priviezli telo židovského obchodníka. Muž má prestrelenú lebku a pre rozsiahle poškodenie hlavy nie je možné určiť trajektóriu strely a stanoviť spôsob smrti. Tempe Brennanová sa pri obhliadke obete v pitevni stretne so záhadným mužom, ktorý jej odovzdá fotografiu kostry. Tvrdí, že kosti sú kľúčom k vysvetleniu, prečo musel obchodník zomrieť. Cesta za pravdou zavedie Brennanovú až do Izraela. Tempe tuší, že je na stope objavu, ktorý môže otriasť dvetisícročnými dejinami kresťanstva.

Victorine is a dutiful housewife, respectable schoolteacher and mother in the Vendee in the 1900s, cooking the gigot for the family lunch, obeying her husband, walking the long beaches of the Atlantic with her children. But then an old childhood acquaintance turns up and her life is turned upside down forever. She falls passionately in love for the first time in her life. But her lover's work takes him back to Indochina, and Victorine abandons her life and her family to go with him. Everything is strange - the extraordinary voyage to get there, the life they lead in the sultry tropical heat, the glamour of colonial life - but life there is also a lie. Less than two years later, Victorine returns home and resumes her life: what happened?

Doktorka Temperance Brennanová, forenzná antropologička známa aj zo seriálu Kosti, má nový prípad. V pivnici pod pizzeriou v starom nájomnom dome v Montreale sa našli ostatky troch mladých žien. Polícia podľa starožitných gombíkov usúdila, že telá pred vyše sto rokmi pochovali v neoznačenom hrobe. Tempe Brennanová má iný názor. Nebude ľahké dokázať, že nejde o archeologický nález, ale o obete násilia spáchaného v nedávnej minulosti. Brennanová je odhodlaná vyniesť pravdu na svetlo. Zistí, že dom kedysi patril montrealskému mafiánovi a neskôr si niektoré izby prenajímali podivné indivíduá. Rozbor kostí a svedectvo sestry bývalej nájomníčky ju nasmerujú k nevyriešeným prípadom nezvestných dievčat a k únosom páchaným psychopatickými dvojicami.

The third volume in Gary Jennings' historical epic that began with Aztec and Aztec Autumn. In this colorful and exciting era of swords and cloaks, upheaval and revolution, a young beggar boy, in whose blood runs that of both Spanish and Aztec royalty must claim his birthright. From the torrid streets of the City of the Dead along the Veracruz Coast to the ageless glory of Seville in Old Spain, Cristo the Bastardo connives fights, and loves as he seeks the truth—without knowing that he will be the founder of a proud new people.As we follow the loves and adventures of Cristo and experience the colorful splendor and barbarism of the era, a vanished culture is brought back to life in all its magnificence.“This exotic, sensuous novel works on many levels. It is at once history, mystery, and a coming-of-age novel all permeated by the teeming world of seventeenth century Mexico as seen through the eyes of a teenage boy.” -- Library Journal

Do malej dedinky v Guatemale prichádza doktorka Temperance Brennanová so svojím tímom forenzných špecialistov, aby v rámci vládneho programu pomohla odhaliť a identifikovať ostatky obetí masakru, ktorý mal zostať zabudnutý. Odkrývanie masového hrobu však naruší nečakaný útok na dvoch členov jej tímu. Krátko nato ju miestny detektív požiada o pomoc s identifikáciou zvyškov ľudského tela nájdených v septiku. Guatemalská polícia sa domnieva, že by mohli súvisieť s vyšetrovaním zmiznutia štyroch mladých dievčat z prominentných rodín. Tempe ochotne spolupracuje a pátranie ju privedie až k tajomstvám ľudí, čo sa v túžbe po moci a po peniazoch neštítia ničoho.

V horách v Severnej Karolíne havarovalo lietadlo. Forenzná antropologička doktorka Temperence Brennanová prichádza na miesto nešťastia medzi prvými. Keď v blízkosti lietadla objaví zohavenú dolnú končatinu, čo nepatrí nikomu z mŕtvych pasažierov, začína sa náročné vyšetrovanie, ktoré od začiatku prináša oveľa viac otázok ako odpovedí. Doktorka je totiž presvedčená, že okolité lesy ukrývajú aj zvyšok záhadného tela, a rozbieha vlastné pátranie.

Sebastian Senecal è un professore di lettere e filosofia di quarantacinque anni: ha una moglie e due bambini, è appassionato del suo lavoro e dei suoi studi e sa apprezzare i piccoli piaceri della vita. All'avvicinarsi dell'estate, con l'esplosione dei suoi colori, dei suoi odori, dei suoi sapori, il professore decide di fare qualcosa di insolito e per lui entusiasmante: costruire un fantastico portico nel suo giardino, in cui passeggiare e ragionare di filosofia, di stoici ed epicurei, di gioie e di dolori...Il nuovo romanzo dell'autore de "La prima sorsata di birra". Una storia breve e delicata, intrisa di dolcezza e malinconia insieme.

Do Montrealu zavítalo leto a doktorka Temperance Brenannová sa ujala náročného poslania riaditeľky oddelenia forenznej antropológie v provincii Quebec. Jej prvá pracovná zastávka je novoobjavené pohrebisko v centre mesta. Tempe stačí jeden pohľad na ľudské ostatky zabalené v igelitových vreciach a je jej jasné, že víkend strávi v laboratóriu. Ide o veľmi brutálnu vraždu. Kto však je tá osoba s ryšavými vlasmi a s drobnou kostrou? Brenannová je presvedčená, že po uliciach chodí vrah, a zapojí všetky svoje kriminalistické vedomosti i schopnosti, aby ho zastavila.