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Carla Neggers

Abandonada

<p>La marshal Mackenzie Stewart estaba pasando un tranquilo fin de semana en New Hampshire, en la casa de su amiga la jueza federal Bernadette Peacham, cuando fue atacada. Ella pudo repeler el ataque, pero el agresor consiguió escapar. Todo sugería que se trataba de un loco violento… hasta que llegó el agente del FBI Andrew Rook.</p><p>Mackenzie había roto con él su norma de no salir con agentes del orden, pero sabía que él no se había desplazado desde Washington para verla, sino porque trabajaba en su caso. A medida que continuaba la caza del misterioso atacante, el caso dio un giro inesperado cuando Mackenzie siguió a Rook a Washington y descubrió que un antiguo juez amigo de Bernadette, ahora caído en desgracia y convertido en informador de Rook, había desaparecido.</p><p>Mackenzie y Rook comprenderían entonces que había más en juego de lo que pensaban y que se enfrentaban a una mente criminal que no tenía nada que perder y estaba dispuesta a jugárselo todo.</p><

Michael Ondaatje

Angielski pacjent

Utkana z niedomówień i nastrojów poetycka opowieść, która zaczyna się pod koniec drugiej wojny światowej, w zrujnowanym pałacu na południu Włoch. Kanadyjska pielęgniarka, Hana, opiekuje się bezimiennym pacjentem, którego płonący samolot rozbił się na Saharze. Ciężko poparzonego uratowali Beduini i przetransportowali do szpitala. Hana otacza go troskliwą opieką, czyta mu książkę, która może być kluczem do poznania jego przeszłości. Pamięć niezwykłego pacjenta stopniowo powraca i odkrywa jego mroczną tajemnicę. Hana towarzyszy mu w ostatnich dniach próbując zapomnieć o swoich bolesnych przeżyciach. "Angielski pacjent" jest historią miłości uwikłanej w okrucieństwa wojny, uczucia niespełnionego, z góry skazanego na przegraną.<

Vladimir Nabokov

Maszeńka

"Maszeńka", napisana na emigracji, uchodzi za najbardziej rosyjską powieść Nabokova. Specyficzny klimat książki, pełen niedopowiedzeń, dwuznaczności, mistyfikacji, fascynuje i urzeka czytelnika, który wraz z bohaterem utworu przeżywa jego duchowe rozterki. Ganinowi – bo tak nazywa się ów bohater – ojczyzna z perspektywy ubożuchnego berlińskiego pensjonatu dla rosyjskich emigrantów jawi się jako nostalgiczny sen, mit, niezatarte wspomnienie. Jednocześnie zaś przeżyta t a m, w Rosji, miłość młodzieńcza i romantyczna, jest dla niego droższa i realniejsza niż szara, nieprzyjazna teraźniejszość. I nagle okazuje się, że dziwnym zrządzeniem losu bliskie jest spotkanie z ukochaną. Ganin przeczuwa, że pojawienie się prawdziwej Maszeńki – nie tej z wyidealizowanych wspomnień młodości – unicestwi kruchą przeszłość…<

Diana Orgain

Bundle of Trouble

Maternal Instincts Mysteries

Chris Northern

The Last King's Amulet

Price of freedom

Diana Orgain

Motherhood Is Murder

Maternal Instincts Mysteries

Norma Otoole

Live-in lover

Beeleine classics

Sally Smith Orourke

The Man Who Loved Jane Austen

New York artist Eliza Knight certainly did not realize it at the time, but her life changed when she bought the old, beat-up vanity table one lazy Sunday afternoon. Tucked away behind the mirror she found two letters, one sealed, but one already opened: "May 12th, 1810. Dearest Jane, the Captain has found me out. I am being forced to go into hiding immediately. But if I am able, I shall still be waiting at the same spot tonight. Then you will know everything you wish to know. F. Darcy." F. Darcy? Fitzwilliam Darcy, the fictional hero of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"? Even more mysterious was the other letter, sealed and never read - from Jane to Darcy. Could this man, possibly the most romantic character ever written and the hero of Eliza's favourite novel, have been a real person? Eliza's initial guarded curiosity turns to astonishment as scientific testing confirms the sealed letter was indeed addressed by Jane Austen. But she is completely baffled by the revelation that the other letter, though proven to be from the same time period - was written by an American. Caught between the routine of her present life and the intrigue of these incredible discoveries from the past, Eliza decides to look deeper. Her research leads to a majestic, 200-year-old estate in Virginia's breathtaking Shenandoah Valley where she meets the one man who may hold the answer. But he also has a secret, one he has kept hidden for years. Now, as the real story of Fitzwilliam Darcy unfolds, Eliza finds her life has become a modern-day romance, one that perhaps only Jane Austen herself could have so eloquently written.<

Tie Ning

The Bathing Women

<p>Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and a modern Chinese classic with over one million copies sold.</p><p>Sisters Tiao and Fan grew up in the shadow of the Cultural Revolution where they witnessed ritual humiliation and suffering. They also witnessed the death of their baby sister in a tragic accident. It was an accident they could have prevented; an accident that will stay with them forever.</p><p>In the China of the 1990s the sisters lead seemingly successful lives. Tiao is a successful children’s publisher but incapable of finding love. Fan has moved to America, desperate to shun her Chinese heritage. Then there is their childhood friend Fei: beautiful, hedonistic and outwardly ambitious.</p><p>As the women grapple with love, rivalry and past secrets will they find the freedom and redemption they crave?</p><p>Spellbinding, unforgettable, and an important chronicle of modern China, The Bathing Women is a powerful and beautiful portrait of the strength of female friendship in the face of adversity.</p><

Victor Oreilly

Games of The Hangman

Hugo Fitzduane

Garth Nix

Mister Monday

The Keys to the Kingdom

<p>Seven days. Seven keys. Seven virtues. Seven sins. One mysterious house is the doorway to a very mysterious world – where one boy is about to venture and unlock a number of fantastical secrets.</p><p>Arthur Penhaligon is not supposed to be a hero. He is supposed to die an early death. But then his life is saved by a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock. Arthur is safe – but his world is not. Along with the key comes a plague brought by bizarre creatures from another realm. A stranger named Mister Monday, his avenging messengers with bloodstained wings, and an army of dog-faced Fetchers will stop at nothing to get the key back – even if it means destroying Arthur and everything around him.</p><p>Desperate, Arthur escapes to the mysterious house that has appeared in town – a house that only he can see. Maybe there he can unravel the secrets of the key – and discover his true fate.</p><

Victor Oreilly

Rules of The Hunt

Hugo Fitzduane

Garth Nix

Grim Tuesday

The Keys to the Kingdom

The second incredible book in The Keys to the Kingdom, now in hardcover. Arthur doesn't think he will ever have to return to the strange house that nearly killed him on Monday -- the house that contains an entire world. But Tuesday brings new challenges -- in the form of an enemy named Grim Tuesday, who threatens the well-being of both Arthur's family and his world. Arthur must retrieve the Second Key from Grim Tuesday in order to save everything -- an adventure that will include stealing a Sunship, surviving a very weird work camp, befriending a bearlike spirit, fighting the voidlike Nithlings, and traveling to the scary Far Reaches for the ultimate showdown..<

Garth Nix

Drowned Wednesday

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<p>It's Wednesday morning and Leaf is visiting her friend Arthur, who is in a hospital bed, after damaging his leg during his adventures in Tuesday's treasure tower. Under his pillow, Arthur finds an invitation from Drowned Wednesday.</p><p>The two friends are swept into the House via the Boarder Sea, however Leaf is taken by a ship, and Arthur is left clinging to his bed, which is in danger of sinking. He is rescued and soon finds out that unlike Monday and Tuesday, Drowned Wednesday is herself a tortured soul, and the first of the Morrow Days to wishes to follow the Will, and allow Arthur to become Rightful Ruler of the House. However, with the aid of magic, Arthur finds out that Leaf is abroad a ship named the Flying Mantis, where she becomes part of the crew and is later attacked and taken by the evil pirate Feverfew. With the aid of the crew of Moth and a group of Raised Rats, Arthur must find Feverfew's secret hideaway, free Leaf and the third part of the Will, after which Drowned Wednesday has promised him the Third Key.</p><p>But, is Wednesday all she says she is, and will she keep her promise and freely hand the Key over to Arthur, and what has happened to his friend Suzy?</p><

Mirek Obarski

Kroki w nieznane. Almanach fantastyki. Tom 5

Kroki w nieznane

Najnowszy almanach fantastyki prezentuje szesnaście różnorodnych opowiadań autorów z Australii, Argentyny, Rosji, Stanów Zjednoczonych, Ukrainy i Wielkiej Brytanii. Wśród nich nowa krew, niedawne debiutantki (McCarron, Swirsky) oraz autorzy rozwijający skrzydła (Bacigalupi, Kosmatka, Ostapenko). Są też stare wygi, z niemałym dorobkiem, których tekstów nie było nam dane posmakować dotychczas (Brown, Kaługin) lub spotykaliśmy się z ich twórczością okazjonalnie (Kessel, szczególnie Waldrop). Oczywiście są także wielkie nazwiska (Egan, Kress, Silverberg, czy Willis), a oprócz tego pisarze za sprawą wyobraźni (Ballantyne), poetyckiego stylu (McDonald), czy prozy o niesamowitym klimacie (Nielsen)…<

Garth Nix

Sir Thursday

The Keys to the Kingdom

<p>On the fourth day there was war...</p><p>Following their adventures in the Border Sea, Arthur and Leaf head for home. But only Leaf gets through the Front Door. Arthur is blocked because someone . . . or something . . . has assumed his identity and is taking over his life.</p><p>Before Arthur can take action, he is drafted by Sir Thursday and forced to join the Glorious Army of the Architect. While Leaf tries to banish Arthur's doppleganger on earth, Arthur must survive his basic training, avoid getting posted to the Front and work out how he can free Part Four of the Will....</p><

Garth Nix

Lady Friday

The Keys to the Kingdom

<p>FOUR OF THE SEVEN TRUSTEES have been defeated and their Keys taken, but for Arthur Penhaligon, the week is still getting worse. His friends have been captured by the Piper, and the New Nithling army still controls most of the Great Maze. Meanwhile, Superior Saturday is causing trouble wherever she can, including turning off all the elevators in the House and blocking the Front Door to prevent escape.</p><p>Amidst all this trouble, Arthur must weigh an offer from Lady Friday that is either a cunning trap for the Rightful Heir, or a golden opportunity he must seize before Superior Saturday or the Piper heats him to it. The race to find the secret of the Middle House is on-and Arthur is in the thick of it.</p><

Vladimirs Obručevs

Saņņikova Zeme

<p>Romāna «Saņņikova Zeme» autors ir pazīstams padomju zinātnieks ģeologs V. Obručevs, kas savos daiļdarbos vairākkārt pievērsies jautājumam par Zemes pagātni. Latviešu lasītājs jau pazīst viņa zinātniski fantastisko romānu «Plutonija».</p><p>Romāna «Saņņikova Zeme» varoņi nonāk polāro ledu ielenktā salā, kur atrod no Sibīrijas ziemeļiem mīklainā kārtā pazudušo onkilonu cilti. Sai salā mīt ari akmenslaikmeta cilvēki vampu un viņu laikabiedri — mamuti un garspalvainie degunradži, kas dzīvojuši uz Zemes pirms divdesmittūkstoš gadiem.</p><

Garth Nix

Superior Saturday

The Keys to The Kingdom

In the sixth adventure of a seven-book series beginning with Mister Monday (2003), Arthur tries to hide his powers, his identity, and his body’s gradual shift toward immortality as he explores the enormous, fantastically constructed House in search of the Sixth Key. Loyal to his friends yet driven by the urgency of his quest, he relentlessly pursues his goal. The cliff-hanger ending will leave fans hungry for the final volume in this fast-paced adventure series. The complex, imaginative framework story of the Keys to the Kingdom series will confound those who have not read the earlier books.<

Michael Ondaatje

Pacientul englez

Garth Nix

Lord Sunday

The Keys to the Kingdom

<p>The stunning conclusion to the blockbuster Keys to the Kingdom series. Arthur Penhaligon wields six of the seven Keys to the Kingdom, but will that be enough to defeat Lord Sunday?</p><p>Master of the Incomparable Gardens, the last of the Trustees, and the most powerful Denizen in the house, Lord Sunday is a fierce opponent. And Arthur is running out of time.</p><p>With everything falling to pieces around him, Arthur must be quick if he is to stem the tide of Nothing and save the House and the Secondary Realms. But he is beset by worries. Will he ever get home to his family? Does he have a home and family left? Is he even really human anymore? And perhaps most urgent of all: What will be revealed when the Will of the Architect is finally made whole?</p><

Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

Rosa candida

El joven Arnljótur decide abandonar su casa, a su hermano gemelo autista, a su padre octogenario y los paisajes crepusculares de montañas de lava cubiertas de líquenes. Su madre acaba de tener un accidente y, al borde de la muerte, aún reúne fuerzas para llamarle y darle unos últimos consejos. Un fuerte lazo les une: el invernadero donde ella cultivaba una extraña variedad de rosa: la rosa cándida, de ocho pétalos y sin espinas. Fue allí donde una noche, imprevisiblemente, Arnljótur amó a Anna, una amiga de un amigo. En un país cercano, en un antiguo monasterio, existe una rosaleda legendaria. De camino hacia ese destino, Arnljótur está, sin saberlo, iniciando un viaje en busca de sí mismo, y del amor perdido.<

Sofi Oksanen

Purga

<p>En una despoblada zona rural de Estonia, en 1992, recuperada la independencia de la pequeña república báltica, Aliide Truu, una anciana que malvive sola junto al bosque, encuentra en su jardín a una joven desconocida, exhausta y desorientada. Se trata de Zara, una veinteañera rusa, víctima del tráfico de mujeres, que ha logrado escapar de sus captores y ha acudido a la casa de Aliide en busca de una ayuda que necesita desesperadamente. A medida que Aliide supera la desconfianza inicial, y se establece un frágil vínculo entre las dos mujeres, emerge un complejo drama de viejas rivalidades y deslealtades que han arruinado la vida de una familia.</p><p>Narrada en capítulos cortos que alternan presente y pasado a un ritmo subyugante, la revelación gradual de la historia de ambos personajes mantiene en vilo al lector hasta la última página. Con meticuloso realismo, Oksanen traza los efectos devastadores del miedo y la humillación, pero también la inagotable capacidad humana para la supervivencia. Una novela de múltiples lecturas y matices, que por su originalidad y su maestría nos asombra y sobrecoge.</p><

Sönke Neitzel

Tapping Hitler's Generals

<p>Between 1939 and 1942, a division of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence created a number of PoW interrogation camps in and around London. Sophisticated tapping equipment was installed and secret gramophone recording were made of private conversations between senior German staff officers.</p><p>In this extraordinary work Professor Neitzel examines these transcripts in depth for the first time. His findings are truly revealing and address important questions regarding the officers’ attitudes towards the German leadership and Nazi policies: How did the German generals judge the overall war situation? From what date did they consider it lost? How did they react to the attempt on Hitler’s life in July 1944? What knowledge did they have of the atrocities?</p><p>By turns insightful and horrifying, this unprecedented research is a must for any serious scholar of the period and anyone interested in exploring the truth behind the image of an ‘unblemished Wehrmact’.</p><

Anna North

The Life and Death of Sophie Stark

<p>“It’s hard for me to talk about love. I think movies are the way I do that,” says Sophie Stark, a visionary and unapologetic filmmaker. She uses stories from the lives of those around her — her obsession, her girlfriend, and her husband — to create movies that bring her critical recognition and acclaim. But as her career explodes, Sophie’s unwavering dedication to her art leads to the shattering betrayal of the people she loves most.</p><p>Told in a chorus of voices belonging to those who knew her best, The Life and Death of Sophie Stark is an intimate portrait of an elusive woman whose monumental talent and relentless pursuit of truth reveal the cost of producing great art, both for the artist and for the people around her.</p><

Vladimir Obrucev

Plutonia

Amjad Naji@Amjad

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Tea Obreht

The Tiger's Wife

Džordžs Orvels

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Romanovskaja Olga

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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

El Sanador Mistico

<p>Esta novela cuenta la historia de Ganesh Ramsumair, sanador y místico, desde sus humildes orígenes hasta que obtiene la fama y el reconocimiento. Sus primeros días en el colegio. Su intento de convertirse en profesor. Su boda con Leela, la hija del tendero Ramlogan. Un día descubre su verdadera vocación: sanador místico, curador de almas. Se convierte en un maestro espiritual y la gente de Trinidad lo rodea para escuchar sus palabras. Con el tiempo se dedicará a la política. Funda su propio periódico, es elegido miembro del comité legislativo y finalmente es galardonado con la Orden del Imperio Británico.</p><p>En esta primera novela está ya presente todo el mundo narrativo de V. S. Naipaul: el ascenso social, el descubrimiento de la cultura y la escritura, el mundo colonial, la falsedad de las políticas poscoloniales, la ternura de la vida cotidiana…</p><

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

A House for Mr. Biswas

<p>"Naipaul has constructed a marvelous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power." – Newsweek – Review</p><p>A gripping masterpiece, hailed as one of the 20th century's finest novels</p><p>A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS is V.S. Naipaul's unforgettable third novel. Born the "wrong way" and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. But his determined efforts have met only with calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning of his father, Mr Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. He marries into the domineering Tulsi family, on whom he becomes indignantly dependent, but rebels and takes on a succession of occupations in an arduous struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. Heartrending and darkly comic, A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS masterfully evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad.</p><

Ozzy Osbourne

Trust Me, I’m Dr. Ozzy

<p>Wondering if science could explain how he survived his 40-year avalanche of drugs and alcohol, Ozzy Osbourne became one of a handful of people in the world to have his entire DNA mapped in 2010. It was a highly complex, $65,000 process, but the results were conclusive: Ozzy is a genetic anomaly. The “Full Ozzy Genome” contained variants that scientists had never before encountered and the findings were presented at the prestigious TEDMED Conference in San Diego-making headlines around the world. The procedure was in part sponsored by of London, which had already caused an international fururoe by appointing Ozzy Osbourne its star health advice columnist. The newpaper argued that Ozzy’s mutliple near-death experiences, 40-year history of drug abuse, and extreme hypocondria qualified him more than any other for the job. The column was an overnight hit, being quickly picked up by to give it a global audience of millions. In TRUST ME, I'M DR. OZZY, Ozzy answers reader's questions with his outrageous wit and surprising wisdom, digging deep into his past to tell the memoir-style survival stories never published before-and offer guidance that no sane human being should follow. Part humor, part memoir, and part bad advice, TRUST ME, I’M DR. OZZY will include some of the best material from his published columns, answers to celebrities' medical questions, charts, sidebars, and more.</p><p>Ozzy Osbourne was born in Aston, Birmingham, in 1948. He has sold over a hundred million records both with Black Sabbath and as a Grammy Award-winning solo artist. He has five children and lives with his wife, Sharon, in California and Buckinghamshire.</p><

Butler- Octavia

Adulthood Rites

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Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul

In A Free State

<p>Winner of 1971 Booker Prize</p><p>«V. S. Naipaul tells stories which show us ourselves and the reality we live in. His use of language is as precise as it is beautiful.» – The London Times</p><p>«A Tolstoyan spirit…The so-called Third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist.» – John Updike, The New Yorker</p><p>«The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have.» – The New York Review</p><

Butler- Octavia

Clay's Ark

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Dawn

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Fledgling

Butler- Octavia

Imago

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