New York Times bestseller Brenda Novak's second novel in the Evelyn Talbot series, HELLO AGAIN, sees the return of psychiatrist Dr Evelyn Talbot in her purpose-built facility housing America's most terrifying psychopaths. This is SILENCE OF THE LAMBS meets Karen Rose...
Fascinujúci román o sláve, láske, hudbe a o tom, čo sa stane, keď sa šťastie pominie a zhasnú reflektory. Daisy Jones & The Six je príbeh raketového vzostupu rockovej kapely, ktorej hudba charakterizovala jednu éru a ktorej náhly rozpad vyvolal množstvo nezodpovedaných otázok. Pripravte sa na bláznivý, nezabudnuteľný výlet do Los Angeles 70. rokov, sex, drogy a rock and roll! Len čo sa úspešná rocková kapela The Six spojila so začínajúcou speváčkou Daisy Jonesovou, vypuklo hotové šialenstvo. Ich piesne ovládli hitparády, ich albumy zneli z každého gramofónu, ich koncerty po celej krajine boli beznádejne vypredané. A potom, 12. júla 1979, sa z ničoho nič rozpadli. Nikto netušil prečo. Až doteraz. Ich vzťahy boli divoké rovnako ako ich hudba – boli priateľmi, milencami, bratmi aj rivalmi. Sami neverili tomu, aké mali šťastie, kým oň neprišli. Táto kniha zachytáva príbeh ich začiatkov i búrlivých nocí, ale každý z nich si pravdu pamätá trochu inak. Jediné, čo všetci vedia s istotou, je fakt, že od chvíle, keď Daisy Jones bosá vystúpila na pódium v klube Whisky, kapela sa navždy zmenila. Pri tvorbe hudby totiž nikdy nejde iba o hudbu. A niekedy môže byť veľmi ťažké určiť, kde sa končí melódia a začínajú sa city.
Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and hoping to reconnect with her estranged family. That's why she is there. Dene is there because he has been collecting stories to honour his uncle's death, while Edwin is looking for his true father and Opal came to watch her boy Orvil dance. All of them are connected by bonds they may not yet understand. All of them are there for the celebration that is the Big Oakland Powwow. But Tony Loneman is also there. And Tony has come to the Powwow with darker intentions.
Šestnásťročná Starr Carterová žije v dvoch svetoch: býva v chudobnej černošskej štvrti a navštevuje snobskú strednú školu na predmestí. Krehkú rovnováhu medzi nimi naruší večer, keď sa stane svedkyňou streľby, pri ktorej policajný dôstojník pripraví o život jej najlepšieho priateľa z detstva Khalila. Khalil v čase vraždy pri sebe nemal zbraň. Jeho smrť zakrátko upúta pozornosť celoštátnych médií. Niektoré ho opíšu ako grázla, iné ako drogového dílera a gangstra. Starrina najlepšia kamarátka zo školy dokonca naznačí, že si zomrieť zaslúžil. Keď sa ukáže, že polícia nemá záujem prípad vyriešiť, ulice zaplnia demonštranti a černošská štvrť sa zmení na vojnovú zónu. Všetkých zaujíma, čo sa v osudný večer skutočne stalo. Odpoveď pozná iba Starr. No čokoľvek, čo sa rozhodne (alebo nerozhodne) prezradiť, môže zničiť jej rodinu a ohroziť jej život. Strhujúci debutový román Angie Thomasovej o obyčajnom dievčati v neobyčajnej situácii inteligentne, citlivo a s neochvejnou úprimnosťou zobrazuje problém rasizmu a policajnej brutality.
Christine Lucasová, žena v zrelom veku, sa každé ráno zobúdza po boku cudzieho muža, v cudzom dome. V zrkadle nespoznáva vlastnú tvár. Ten muž jej každé ráno opakuje, že je jej manžel a že utrpela stratu pamäti pri dopravnej nehode. Lenže do nasledujúceho rána sa všetky spomienky z jej pamäti znova vymažú. Christine veľmi túži byť ako ostatní ľudia, zistiť, kto vlastne je a čo sa udialo v minulosti. Lekár ju presvedčí, aby si písala denník. Zapisuje si všetko, čo sa udeje počas dňa a na čo si spomenie z minulosti. A tak každé ďalšie ráno si denník prečíta a znova pomaly objavuje seba a svoj predchádzajúci život. Z minulosti postupne vystupujú na povrch rôzne záhadné udalosti. Christine netuší, či to je pravda, či pracuje jej fantázia, alebo narušená pamäť...
A sweeping story of upstairs, downstairs, love and loss by the author of Mr Rosenblum's List.
Clara Marsh is an undertaker. She spends her solitary life among the dead, preparing their last baths, beautifying their bodies, and bidding them farewell with a bouquet from her own garden. But Clara's carefully structured life shifts when she discovers a neglected little girl, Trecie, playing in the funeral parlour, desperate for a friend. It changes even more when Detective Mike Sullivan starts questioning her again about a body she prepared three years ago, an unidentified girl found murdered in a nearby strip of woods. Unclaimed by family, the community christened her Precious Doe. When Clara and Mike learn Trecie may be involved with the same people who killed Precious Doe, Clara must choose between her solitary but steadfast existence and the perils of binding one's life to another. Clara's search for the girl pulls her into a spiralling series of events that threaten to endanger the few people Clara has grown to love - and finally brings her own tragic and long-buried past to the surface. Darkly atmospheric and tautly written, TETHERED is a haunting and ultimately heart-breaking novel that explores the themes of love, loss, faith and redemption.
It's 1985 and Brian Jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition - to make it onto TV's foremost general knowledge quiz. But no sooner has he embarked on 'The Challenge' than he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with his teammate, the beautiful and charismatic would-be actress, Alice Harbinson. When Alice fails to fall for his slightly over-eager charms, Brian comes up with a foolproof plan to capture her heart once and for all. He's going to win the game, at any cost, because - after all - everyone knows that what a woman really wants from a man is a comprehensive grasp of general knowledge . . . STARTER FOR TEN is a comedy about love, class, growing-up and the all-important difference between knowledge and wisdom. Are you up to the challenge of the funniest novel in years?
As the first girl to be born into the Nachimanda family in over thirty-five years, the beautiful Devi is the object of adoration of her entire family. Spirited and strong-willed, she befriends the shy Devanna, a young boy whose mother has died in tragic circumstances. Together they grow up amidst the luscious jungles, rolling hills, and coffee plantations of Coorg in Southern India; cocooned by an extended family whose roots to this beautiful land can be traced for centuries. Their futures seem inevitably linked, but everything changes when, one night, they attend a "tiger wedding." It is there that Devi gets her first glimpse of Machu, the celebrated tiger killer and a hunter of great repute. Although she is still a child and Machu is a man, Devi vows to marry him one day. It is this love that will gradually drive a wedge between Devi and Devanna, sowing the seed of a devastating tragedy that will change the fate of all three --- an event that has unforeseen and far-reaching consequences for generations to come. Told in rich, lyrical prose and set against the background of a changing society, TIGER HILLS is a sweeping saga about one woman's determination to live life on her own terms --- and a riveting novel about the choices we make in the name of family, nation, and love.
A young Las Vegas cop named Wayne Tedrow, Jr. travels through the 1960s, from JFK's assassination to Vietnam, unaware that J. Edgar Hoover is the one pulling the strings.
