Isabelle Maillet Knihy

The Turtle Warrior is the story of the Lucas family, who live in a beautiful and remote part of Wisconsin inhabited by working-class European immigrants and the Ojibwe. By 1967 the Lucas farm has fallen into disrepair, thanks to the hard drinking of John Lucas, who brutalizes his wife and two sons. When the eldest, James, escapes by enlisting to fight in Vietnam, he leaves young Bill alone to protect his mother with only his own will and the spirit of his brother to guide him. Beautifully written and deeply felt, The Turtle Warrior takes readers from the heartland of America to the battlefields of World War II and Vietnam weaving a haunting tale of an unforgettable world where the physical and spiritual, the past and the present, merge.

A brilliant historical crime novel of Georgian London from the author of The Devil in the Marshalsea.

Leto 1954. Federálny maršal Teddy Daniels prichádza na ostrov Shutter, do sídla nemocnice Ashecliffe, kde liečia duševne chorých zločincov. Spolu s partnerom Chuckom Aulem začína hľadať utečenca, vrahyňu Rachel Solandovú. Práve vtedy na ostrov dorazí hurikán. Lenže v nemocnici Ashecliffe nič nie je také, aké sa na prvý pohľad zdá. A rovnako to platí aj o Teddym Danielsovi. Prišiel, aby našiel pacientku, ktorá záhadne zmizla? Alebo ho sem vyslali, aby preveril tajomné chýry, že v Ashecliffe používajú priveľmi radikálnu psychiatrickú liečbu? Len čo sa vyšetrovanie prehĺbi, otázky pribúdajú. Ako mohla bosá žena ujsť z ostrova? Navyše zo zamknutej izby? Kto im zanecháva stopy v podobe kódov, ktoré treba vylúštiť? A čo sa v skutočnosti deje na Oddelení C? Čím väčšmi sa Teddy s Chuckom približujú k pravde, tým sa stáva prchavejšou a tým väčšmi začínajú byť presvedčení, že sa im možno nepodarí dostať sa z ostrova Shutter. Pretože ktosi sa pokúša dohnať ich k šialenstvu...

Struggling through another Edinburgh winter Rebus finds himself sucked into a web of intrigue that throws up more questions than answers. Was the Lord Provost's daughter kidnapped or just another runaway? Why is a city councillor shredding documents that should have been waste paper years ago? And why on earth is Rebus invited to a clay pigeon shoot at the home of the Scottish Office's Permanent Secretary? Sucked into the machine that is modern Scotland, Rebus confronts the fact that some of his enemies may be beyond justice...

From New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane comes this epic, unflinching tale of the making and unmaking of a gangster in the Prohibition Era of the Roaring Twenties—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Zoe Saldana, and Sienna Miller. Meticulously researched and artfully told, Live by Night is the riveting story of one man’s rise from Boston petty thief to the Gulf Coast’s most successful rum runner, and it proves again that the accolades New York Times bestseller Lehane consistently receives are well deserved. He is indeed, “a master” (Philadelphia Inquirer) whose “true literary forefathers include John Steinbeck as well as Raymond Chandler” (Baltimore Sun). And, “Boy, does he know how to write” (Elmore Leonard).

Ten years have passed since Joe Coughlin's enemies killed his wife and destroyed his empire, and much has changed. Prohibition is dead, the world is at war again, and Joe's son, Tomás, is growing up. Now, the former crime kingpin works as a consigliore to the Bartolo crime family, traveling between Tampa and Cuba, his wife's homeland. A master who moves in and out of the black, white, and Cuban underworlds, Joe effortlessly mixes with Tampa's social elite, U.S. Naval intelligence, the Lansky-Luciano mob, and the mob-financed government of Fulgencio Batista. He has everything -- money, power, a beautiful mistress, and anonymity. But success cannot protect him from the dark truth of his past -- and ultimately, the wages of a lifetime of sin will finally be paid in full

Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from her blue-collar Boston neighborhood. Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro risked everything to find her—only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and broken home. Twelve years later, Amanda, now sixteen, is gone again. The disappearance of little Amanda was the case that troubled Kenzie and Gennaro more than any other. Still haunted by their consciences, they must now revisit the nightmare that once tore them apart—following the trail of a lost teenager into a world of identity thieves, methamphetamine dealers, and Russian gangsters, right up to the doorstep of a dangerously unstable crime boss and his demented wife. Once again Patrick and Angie will be putting everything that matters to them on the line in pursuit of the answer to the burning question: Is it possible to do the right thing and still be dead wrong?

Angus a Sarah Moorcroftovci ešte donedávna viedli vysnívaný život v krásnom londýnskom dome a tešili sa zo svojich dvojčiat Kirstie a Lydie a z malého psíka. Lenže všetko sa zmenilo, keď malá Lydia nešťastnou náhodou vypadla z balkóna a zabila sa. Rok po tejto tragickej udalosti sa rodina rozhodla presťahovať na malý škótsky ostrov, kde Angus po babke zdedil domček, v ktorom pôvodne býval strážca majáka. Chceli tam na všetko zabudnúť a opäť zlepiť úlomky svojho niekdajšieho života dohromady. No ukáže sa, že tento krok nebol práve najšťastnejší. Druhé dvojča Kirstie sa začne z ničoho nič správať veľmi čudne, až napokon začne vyhlasovať, že ona je v skutočnosti Lydia a tá, ktorá zomrela, bola Kirstie. Svet Moorcroftovcov sa opäť začne rúcať. Žeby nevedeli rozoznať vlastné deti? Pocity úzkosti a nepokoja umocňuje aj chladný a nehostinný ostrov. Sarah sa zrazu cíti veľmi osamelá a Kirstie (alebo je to Lydia?) je čoraz viac rozrušená. A keď ich prudká búrka odreže od sveta, duchovia minulosti sú zasa späť...

A cutting-edge international debut thriller set in the world of hackers, techno-thieves and inside traders, for fans of John Grisham. Henrietta 'Harry' Martinez lost her investment banker father, Sal, at a young age. He taught her everything he knew - about taking risks and calculating odds. But Sal made a bad gamble when he went into business with 'The Prophet', an anonymous trader who claims Harry owes him, now her father's jailed for fraud. It's twelve million euros. Or her life. With no money and little time, Harry must track down Sal's crooked partners and escape the people on her trail - journalists, police and hired killers. But Harry has her own skills, honed by her father, skills her enemies haven't anticipated. Now, from the London Stock Exchange to the casinos of the Bahamas, the chase is on. The stakes are high. And the bets are off...

Pilgrim, is the story of a man who cannot die. Ageless, sexless, deathless and timeless, Pilgrim has inhabited endless lives and times. On April 15, 1912 - ironically, the date of the sinking of the Titanic - Pilgrim fails, once again, to commit suicide, his heart miraculously beginning again, five hours after he is found hanging from a tree. Admitted to the Burgholzi Psychiatric Clinic in Zurich, by his dear friend Lady Sybil Quartermaine, Pilgrim - at first, stubbornly mute - begins a battle of psyche and soul with Carl Jung, self-professed mystical scientist of the unconscious and slave to his own sexual appetites. Poring over Pilgrim's journals in his quest to penetrate his patient's armour of silence, Jung is both confounded and shaken by the extraordinary revelations of other existences. Pilgrim is a richly-layered story of a man's search for his own destiny - superbly crafted, breathtaking in scope and brilliantly imagined.

'Who ends up in the kitchen, Gabe?''Misfits,' he said, 'psychos, exiles, culinary artists, and people who just need a job.'In The Kitchen is Monica Ali's stunning follow up to Brick Lane. It opens with a mysterious d