Set in 1890s West Africa, the story follows twin sisters Hassana and Husseina, who are kidnapped and sold into slavery after a devastating raid. Despite their separation, they maintain a deep connection through shared dreams of water, symbolizing their hope and resilience. The narrative explores themes of survival, sisterhood, and the enduring bond between them, raising the question of whether their paths will ultimately converge again.
Whether captured in the passion of love at first sight, or realizing that self-love takes precedent over the latter, the characters in these reimagined stories try to navigate this complex human emotion and understand why it holds them hostage. The focus is on the magical folktales of West Africa, but the author also reimagines iconic Greek myths, ancient legends from the Middle East, and stories from countries that no longer exist
James Patterson raises the stakes to their highest level, ever-when Alex Cross becomes the obsession of a genius of menace set on proving that he is the greatest mind in the history of crime. Detective Alex Cross is a family man at heart--nothing matters more to him than his children, his grandmother, and his wife Bree. His love of his family is his anchor, and gives him the strength to confront evil in his work. One man knows this deeply, and uses Alex's strength as a weapon against him in the most unsettling and unexpected novel of James Patterson's career.When the ones Cross loves are in danger, he will do anything to protect them. If he does anything to protect them, they will die.CROSS MY HEART is the most powerful Alex Cross novel ever, propelled by the ever-ingenious mind of James Patterson, the world's #1 bestselling writer.
Anna Walsh is officially a wreck. Physically broken and emotionally shattered, she lies on her parents' Dublin sofa with only one thing on her mind: getting back to New York. New York means her best friends, The Most Fabulous Job In The World and above all, it means her husband, Aidan.
"Horowitz truly pulls off the wonderful illusion that Arthur Conan Doyle left us one last tale."--San Diego Union Tribune London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap - a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. And then the first murder takes place. THE HOUSE OF SILK bring Sherlock Holmes back with all the nuance, pacing, and almost superhuman powers of analysis and deduction that made him the world's greatest detective, in a case depicting events too shocking, too monstrous to ever appear in print....until now.
V útulku spasiteľov niet priestoru pre radosť a nádej. Väčšinu chovancov priviedli na toto skľučujúce miesto v útlom detstve proti ich vôli. Krčia sa pod krutovládou mníchov, ktorých zverstvá a nemilosrdnosť majú jediný cieľ – slúžiť Obesenému spasiteľovi. Útulok je rozľahlá pevnosť plná spletitých chodieb nasiaknutých pachom storočí náboženského zápalu. V jednej z nich stojí chlapec a cez tmavé okno pozoruje čerstvé prírastky do tohto pozemského pekla. Má štrnásť alebo pätnásť rokov – svojím vekom si nie je istý rovnako ako ani ostatní chovanci. Dávno zabudol svoje pravé meno, teraz mu hovoria Cale. Nepamätá si nič z predchádzajúceho života a netuší, čo ho čaká v budúcnosti... Ani to, že ho nazvú Anjelom smrti.
Projekt Noe – tajný vládny experiment, ktorého cieľom je premeniť ľudské telo na smrtiacu zbraň. Lenže čosi sa škaredo pokazí. Dvanásť testovaných subjektov utečie a roznesie vírus meniaci ľudí na ešte nenásytnejšie, smrtiacejšie a prakticky nezničiteľné bytosti. Trinásty subjekt, šesťročné dievča menom Amy, zachráni agent FBI. Spolu utečú do oregonských vrchov, ďaleko od civilizácie zasiahnutej katastrofálnymi dôsledkami Projektu Noe. Priechod prináša vari až priveľmi reálnu víziu sveta, kde vládne strach a pud sebazáchovy a kde osud ľudstva možno spočíva na pleciach zvláštneho tichého dievčatka. Ambiciózny, silný príbeh z pera oceňovaného a rešpektovaného autora Justina Cronina epickým rozmachom zahŕňa prvky katastrofy a boja o prežitie, sebaobetovania, ale i nádeje, a zaraďuje sa medzi najčítanejšie tituly leta 2010.
This is the story of two women. Their lives collide one fateful day, and one of them has to make a terrible choice. Two years later, they meet again - the story starts there.
Všetko má niekde začiatok, len ho treba nájsť. Všetko má svoj koniec, ale niekto ho musí vybojovať. V októbri 1891 sa sedemnásťročná Léonie Vernierová s bratom Anatolom ukrýva pred hrozbou v Domaine de la Cade, neďaleko Carcassonne. Idylické prostredie skrýva zlovestné sily, ktoré čakajú na nevinnú Léonie. V prastarej vizigótskej hrobke sa skrýva niečo, čo chce ovládnuť ľudské duše a prelievať krv. Kľúčom k záhade je balíček tarotových kariet, ktorý pamätá na všetky príbehy ľudstva. O 116 rokov neskôr, v októbri 2007, prichádza mladá Američanka Meredith Martinová do Francúzska, aby napísala knihu o Claudovi Debussym a objavila korene svojej prenasledovanej rodiny. Pri príchode do hotela Domaine de la Cade narušuje duchov minulosti. S notovým zápisom prízračnej melódie a starou fotografiou neznámeho vojaka začína pátranie, netušiac, že je predurčená dokončiť príbeh tragickej lásky a záhadne strateného dievčaťa. Sviatok Všetkých svätých sa blíži, deň, keď padá závoj medzi svetom živých a mŕtvych. Meredith cíti volanie na opustenú čistinu v lese, kde tajomstvá minulosti spočívajú, ale nespia...
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A collection of stories set in modern-day Thailand depicts this Asian country on the crossroads between the ancient and the modern, focusing on issues of family relations, romance, generational conflicts, and cultural changes.
Tricia Wastvedt's debut novel, met with critical acclaim in England, is a hypnotically readable portrait of a community scarred, but eventually reawakened, by its grief. Two children drown during the summer of 1958 in the English village of Cameldip. Their parents, Isabel and Robert, are bound together in guilt and anger, and as the years pass, the tragedy weaves itself into the invisible fabric of village life.Robert, finding solace in labor, builds several tree houses that transform the look of the town, and as the years pass the structures grow entwined with other houses. It is thirty years after the tragedy when Anna, a young pregnant woman escaping her life in London, arrives in Cameldip and is taken in by Isabel. As Anna slowly uncovers the secrets of the town's past, she becomes inexorably drawn into the conflict in which Isabel and Robert have been locked for three decades. A story of families, old scars, and new beginnings, The River is a lyrical and haunting tale of betrayal, failure, love, and fortitude.
Named as one of the '100 Best Things in the World' by GQ magazine in 2003, the riotous adventures of Vernon Gregory Little in small town Texas and beachfront Mexico mark one of the most spectacular, irreverent and bizarre deacute;buts of the 21st century so far. Its depiction of innocence and simple humanity (all seasoned with a dash of dysfunctional profanity) in an evil world is never less than astonishing. The only novel to be set in the barbecue sauce capital of Central Texas, Vernon God Little suggests that desperate times throw up the most unlikely of heroes. 'A showpiece of superb comic writing . . . Out of the detritus of a morally bankrupt society, Pierre has fashioned a work of comic art.' Sunday Telegraph 'In a just world, this ridiculously funny first novel would come free with every television set . . . Not since reading John Kennedy O'Toole's masterpiece, A Confederacy of Dunces . . . have I laughed so much or felt such sheer delight at the discovery of a wholly fresh comic voice . . . this novel reads like a modern day fairytale.' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday [For details of foreign rights, please contact Conville & Walsh (tel. 020 7287 3030 / fax 020 7287 4545)]
Een depressieve, instabiele jonge vrouw kijkt met heimwee terug op haar jeugd in een hechte familie die ze als buffer gebruikte tussen haar en de beangstigende, onbegrijpelijke buitenwereld.
