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Natürlich befolgt Yeine Darr den Befehl ihres Großvaters, sich unverzüglich aus der Provinz zu seinem Palast zu begeben. Schließlich ist er der Herrscher über die ganze Welt. Doch als er sie zu seiner dritten Erbin ernennt, befindet sie sich unvermutet inmitten tödlicher Palastintrigen. Ihre einzige Hoffnung auf Überleben ist ein Bündnis mit Nahadoth – dem zwar versklavten, aber immer noch ebenso mörderischen wie verführerischen Gott der Finsternis.

An ugly duckling as a child, Jodie Bentley had two dreams in life — to be beautiful and rich. She's achieved the first, with a little help from a plastic surgeon, and now she's working hard on the second. Her philosophy on money is simple: you can either earn it or marry it. Marrying is easy, it's getting rid of the husband afterwards that's harder, that takes real skill. But hey, practice makes perfect...

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is feeling the pressure from his superiors, his previous case is still giving him sleepless nights, there have been major developments with his missing wife Sandy, and an old adversary is back. But worse than all of this, he now believes a Black Widow is operating in his city. One with a venomous mind... and venomous skills. Soon Grace comes to the frightening realization that he may have underestimated just how dangerous this lady is.

Malcolm Thomas is not happy. The view he loves is about to be blocked by an ugly building. He decides to take action and forms a protest group. Then things go badly wrong and Malcolm finds himself running for his life. Along the way he gets mixed up with corrupt town planners, violent gangsters, and a kidnapped concert pianist. Malcolm starts to wonder if objecting to the building was such a good idea when he finds himself upside down with a gun in his mouth.

This hilarious story from Monty Python star, Terry Jones, will make you laugh out loud.

Tarp miškų įsikūrusio mažo miestelio gyvenimą gaubia mistinės paslaptys. Garsi vaikų rašytoja Laura Sniegė čia subūrusi literatų draugiją, kurios nauja nare tampa jauna mokytoja Ela Milana. Per žiemos pokylį rašytoja netikėtai dingsta savo namuose apstulbusių svečių akivaizdoje. Ela ima tirti šį įvykį ir kitus paranormalius reiškinius, susijusius su draugijos nariais. Nenorom ji įtraukiama į keistą psichologinį literatų žaidimą, kurio taisyklės išties grėsmingos… Intriguojantis romano siužetas supintas iš siaubo ir mistikos, detektyvo ir juodojo humoro elementų. Daugybę premijų pelniusio suomių autoriaus stilių kritikai įvardija kaip magiškąjį realizmą.<

Ipnotico, esplosivo, ossessivo: un esordio folgorante per un libro venduto in tutto il mondoDue voci, un uomo e una donna, si alternano nel raccontare la loro storia. La storia che li ha portati dove sono adesso: in carcere. Frank come psicologo, Miranda come detenuta. Si erano già conosciuti ai tempi del liceo, quando Frank si era infatuato di questa ragazza, schiva e misteriosa e che neanche si era accorta di lui. Non è inconsueto incontrare casualmente una persona che ci ha fatto perdere la testa tanti anni prima. Di solito la vecchia passione si ridimensiona, più raramente si riaccende. Qui però la situazione è fortemente anomala. Il luogo, la prigione, è claustrofobico, la realtà che si vive è rarefatta e distorta. La relazione tra Frank e Miranda non può essere normale, eppure non è affatto chiaro chi dei due dipenda dall’altro, chi sia libero e chi non lo sia. E il passato, che si disvela a poco a poco coinvolgendo non solo i due protagonisti ma, per cerchi concentrici, le famiglie, i genitori e tutte le persone che fanno parte della loro vita, è un concatenarsi di eventi che ineluttabilmente li portano proprio dove sono adesso. Con un carico di emozioni, di frustrazioni, di passioni che non si sa che strada prenderanno: verso la salvezza? O verso la distruzione?La prigioniera è un romanzo che parla di bene e di male, e di come bene e male siano ripartiti in ugual misura dentro tutti noi. In questo senso è un libro universale: i protagonisti sono persone normali, che vivono, sbagliano e tentano di riscattarsi dagli errori commessi.persone come noi.<

Hailed as "remarkable" by the earned Adam Johnson comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and T.C. Boyle. In his acclaimed first novel, , Johnson takes us on an enthralling journey through memory, time, and the cost of mankind's quest for its own past.

Anthropologist Hank Hannah has just illegally exhumed an ancient American burial site and winds up in jail. But the law will soon be the least of his worries. For, buried beside the bones, a timeless menace awaits that will set the modern world back twelve thousand years and send Hannah on a quest to save that which is dearest to him. A brilliantly evocative apocalyptic adventure told with Adam Johnson's distinctive dark humor, is a thrilling tale of mankind on the brink of extinction.

In fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, five of which have been published in , the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever.

Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, , Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the city's power brokers that most concern him but rather its ordinary citizens. turns an unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them further north, people who in Jones's masterful hands, emerge as fully human and morally complex, whether they are country folk used to getting up with the chickens or people with centuries of education behind them.

In the title story, in which Jones employs the first-person rhythms of a classic detective story, a Korean War veteran investigates the death of a family friend whose sorry destiny seems inextricable from his mother's own violent Southern childhood. In "In the Blink of God's Eye" and "Tapestry" newly married couples leave behind the familiarity of rural life to pursue lives of urban promise only to be challenged and disappointed.

With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw away and the future uncertain, Jones's cornucopia of characters will haunt readers for years to come.

Interweaving the real and the surreal, Charles Johnson spins eight fantastic tales of transformations and metamorphoses. An Illinois farmer teaches a young slave everything he knows — yielding fatal consequences. A young boy growing to manhood as a country sorcerer’s apprentice learns the difference between power and strength. These stories capture human experiences in a new and startling light.<

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The nation's capital that serves as the setting for the stories in Edward P. Jones's prizewinning collection, Lost in the City, lies far from the city of historic monuments and national politicians. Jones takes the reader beyond that world into the lives of African American men and women who work against the constant threat of loss to maintain a sense of hope. From "The Girl Who Raised Pigeons" to the well-to-do career woman awakened in the night by a phone call that will take her on a journey back to the past, the characters in these stories forge bonds of community as they struggle against the limits of their city to stave off the loss of family, friends, memories, and, ultimately, themselves.

Critically acclaimed upon publication, Lost in the City introduced Jones as an undeniable talent, a writer whose unaffected style is not only evocative and forceful but also filled with insight and poignancy.

Oltre agli dei e agli eroi, il mito conosce altri esseri ancora più strani e misteriosi. Creature bizzarre come le Sirene e i Ciclopi, i Centauri e i Satiri, le Sfingi e le Arpie. E poi tutta l’immensa schiera di demoni e draghi, ninfe e giganti, mostri e folletti che si annida nelle selve del mito. Figure nate dalla fantasia di un mondo che praticava la magia, usava i filtri d’amore, credeva alle apparizioni divine, alle statue piangenti, alle guarigioni miracolose. Dall’immaginazione dei greci e dei romani discendono anche i vampiri e i licantropi, le storie di fantasmi e i racconti di streghe, i viaggi sulla luna e le spedizioni in fondo al mare. In questo libro, Giorgio Ieranò indaga il lato oscuro e irrazionale del mondo antico, raccontando le leggende arcane che sono alla radice dei nostri sogni e dei nostri incubi. Perché i demoni pagani, magari travestiti da diavoli cristiani o da personaggi del mondo fantasy, sono ancora tra noi.<