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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...

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?

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

La famille Lucas vit dans le nord du Wisconsin, belle terre oubliée peuplée d'ouvriers européens immigrés et d'Indiens ojibwés. En 1967, le père, John Lucas, miné par l'alcool, laisse leur ferme se délabrer et s'acharne violemment contre sa femme et ses deux fils ; l'aîné, James, fuit les coups en écoutant Elvis et s'engage dans les marines. Il est dirigé vers les jungles de guerre vietnamiennes. Bill, le cadet, reste pour protéger sa mère, guidé seulement par l'esprit de son frère. Heureusement, dans la ferme voisine, les Morriseau veillent sur lui et le soutiennent pendant le périlleux passage de l'enfance à l'âge d'homme. Les enfants ont un tel instinct de survie, nous dit Mary Relindes Ellis dans ses descriptions magnifiques des paysages du Midwest américain, qu'ils trouvent dans la nature ce que leur environnement familial leur dénie. Et comme les anciens Ojibwés le savent depuis longtemps, ils y trouvent aussi la sagesse et la clairvoyance. Mary Relindes Ellis signe ici un premier roman étonnant, obsédant, lyrique et rédempteur dans la lignée d'un Sherwood Anderson ou d'un Russell Banks.

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