In the last years of the 9th century, King Alfred is in failing health and his heir an untested youth. The Danes who have failed to conquer Wessex smell an opportunity and Harald Bloodhair leading a Viking horde is led into a trap by the warlord Uhtred inflicting the greatest defeat ever suffered by the Vikings thus saving Alfred's Wessex.
Pôvab, šarm, jemnú eleganciu a poddajnosť - tieto vlastnosti musela mať v tradičnom Japonsku každá gejša. Sajuri sa ako deväťročná dostáva do cudzieho domu v cudzom meste, kde prežíva trápenia a neistoty, dotýka sa jej závisť a žiarlivosť. Ako dospieva, odhaľuje tajomstvá vzťahu medzi mužom a ženou. Hoci je jej úlohou byť pôvabnou ako krehký lupienok a zabávať bohatých, mocných mužov, miluje len jedného, ktorý je pre ňu nedosiahnuteľný. Má gejša právo na skutočnú lásku? Na ceste za šťastím Sajuri prejde mnohými ostrými zákrutami života. Avšak až tá posledná, najkľukatejšia jej naznačí, či sa jej vyplní sen.
Píše sa rok 2058... Technický pokrok je už na takej úrovni, že na dovolenku sa lieta mimo planétu a v reštauráciách obsluhujú roboti s dokonalou ľudskou podobou. Pandora je exkluzívna modelka, ktorej predčasne ukončí kariéru predčasná smrť. Poručíčku Evu Dallasovú, ktorá sa bude čoskoro vydávať za miliardára Roarka, poverili vyšetrovaním tohoto prípadu...
Prvú obeť našli v daždi na chodníku, druhú zavraždili na dvore domu, v ktorom bývala. Poručíčka Eva Dallasová poľahky nachádza súvislosť medzi týmito prípadmi. Všetko do seba zapadá - hádam až príliš. A potom sa stane tretia vražda, ktorá sa doterajšej schéme úplne vymyká...
Both books in the Grail Quest series these books Chronicle the adventures of young Thomas of Hookton, "a big, bony, black-haired country boy". Thomas rejects the church in favour of the life of an archer in France after his village is brutally sacked by the French.
Captain Richard Sharpe, along with his company of redcoats and riflemen, must save Portugal from the invading French in this action-packed, rip-roaring entry in Cornwell's "New York Times" bestselling adventure series.
Thriller z lekárskeho prostredia. Abby je začínajúce lekárka v bostonskej nemocnici. No keď sa postará o to, aby srdce obete autonehody nedostala bohatá pacientka ale 17-ročný smrteľne chorý chlapec, ohrozí nielen svoju kariéru ale aj svoj život... tvrdá väzba, 257 strán
The eighteenth novel in this bestselling series takes Sharpe to battle in Copenhagen.
The sixth novel in the Alex Cross detective seriesA series of meticulously planned bank robberies ends in murder, and detective Alex Cross must pit his wits against the bizarre and sadistic mastermind behind the crimes.
Fresh from his heroic adventures in India (in "Sharpe's Fortress"), Richard Sharpe faces a new enemy when the ship carrying him home is attacked by a formidable French warship. With the help of a Royal Navy captain, Sharpe learns the French ship carries a treaty that could ignite renewed hostilities against the British in India.
In the high-stakes, high-pressure world of presidential politics, where predators carry microphones and one misstep can savage a lifetime of achievement, Kerry Kilcannon is the rarest player of all. Kilcannon believes he can make the system work. And he just may die trying. Driven by the violent nightmare of his childhood, fueled by forces that few could understand, and burdened by secrets no one must know, Kilcannon is running for President--and entering the crucial battleground of California with seven days to go. But for Kilcannon, there are hurdles that his courage, charisma, and compassion may not overcome: the network correspondent he still loves; the reporter bent on their exposure; the rival who'll do anything to win; and the fanatic who believes that he must murder Kilcannon to protect the right to life.
Someone's planning to raid an ancient monastery in Rome. But why? And when? Enter art expert Jonathan Argyll...
English art scholar Jonathan Argyll was amazed to find himself arrested for vagrancy-while searching for a long-lost Raphael in a tiny Roman church. Although General Bottando of the Italian National Art Theft Squad has little confidence in Jonathan's theories, Bottando's lovely assistant, Flavia di Stefano, is intrigued by the idea of a lost classic, and by Jonathan himself. But in the midst of the painting's discovery and the resultant worldwide publicity, a new chain of events is set into action. First vandalism, then murder, surround the painting. And as new facts about its true nature emerge, Bottando sends Flavia and Jonathan to investigate--little knowing that the pair will be on the run for the truth... and for their very lives.
At a young age in the Maine woods, at the side of her father and great-uncle, a Micmac puoin, Diana Jackman learned to move freely in the wilderness, to sense a world invisible to most. A natural tracker from a long line of shamans, healers and hunters - an environmental software writer, estranged wife and mother - she has been taught by betrayal and loss to guard her feelings behind a wall of half-truths and silence. It has cost her many things: her family, her happiness, her peace. And it has brought her to a beautiful, frozen place of magic...and death. Eight hunters have gathered on a vast, isolated estate in northern British Columbia, to track record book white tail deer at the snow-covered confluence of the Sticks and the Dream rivers. Diana Jackman is among them - drawn by the hunt and the ancient Power of her father's people. But someone else is watching the hunting party - an insane and violent force of nature, hiding in the blinding whiteness of the Canadian winter. And now the hunters themselves have become the game. One by one, they are being stalked, slaughtered and gutted like the animals they, themselves, are stalking. The killer is quick, relentless, frighteningly efficient. For the first time in her life, Diana Jackman will know what it is to be prey - but she must fight the instinct to flee. To survive, she will have to rely on her father's teachings, and set out alone to hunt the hunter."
Nora Roberts, kraljica ljubavnih romana, spisateljska superzvijezda i autorica dvjestotinjak bestselera New York Timesa tiskanih u petsto milijuna primjeraka, 1995. postavila si je novi spisateljski izazov. Pod pseudonimom J. D. Robb objavila je roman Goli u smrti, futuristički ljubavni krimi-triler, koji je prvotno bio zamišljen kao početni dio trilogije U smrti, no s godinama je prerastao u seriju čiji će pedeseti naslov biti objavljen 2020. Romani su doživjeli senzacionalan uspjeh i javnost se šest godina pitala tko se krije iza pseudonima, sve dok 2001. to napokon nije otkriveno. Goli u smrti vodi nas u 2058. godinu kada tehnologija vlada svijetom. New Yorkom hara okrutni ubojica žena kojem je za petama Eve Dallas, iskusna policijska poručnica mračne prošlosti, koja živi osamljeničkim životom i potpuno je posvećena svojoj službi. Tijekom istrage Eve će upoznati markantnog i karizmatičnog irskog milijardera i bivšeg kriminalca Roarkea, jednog od osumnjičenika. Eve će se naći na dotad nepoznatom terenu premreženom političkim intrigama i obiteljskim tajnama i unatoč oprezu i upozorenjima, spoznati da strast i zavođenje imaju vlastita pravila...
