LAPD detective Harry Bosch is down on his luck - his house is condemned in the
aftermath of the earthquake, his girlfriend has left him and he has been
suspended for attacking his superior officer. To occupy time, he examines the
old case files covering a murder which took place on October 28, 1961. The
victim was Marjorie Phillips Lowe - his mother ...The case forces Bosch to
confront the demons of the past, and as he digs deeper into the case, he
discovers a trail of cover-ups that lead to the high-ups in the Hollywood
Hills ...
Le jour de ses 16 ans, Dylan est mis à la porte par sa mère. Livré à lui-même, sans toit ni ressources, il doit apprendre à vivre dans la rue. Il y a des règles, des codes à comprendre : comment faire la manche, où sont les foyers, quels gangs sont à éviter. Une solidarité le lie à ses compagnons d’infortunes Ambre, Twitch ou la blonde et innocente Jenna, qui a fui son foyer en même temps que son père incestueux. C’est grâce à elle qu’il va trouver le courage de rendre une première visite à ses deux frères. Mais sa mère qui fait croire à Dan, son futur mari, que Dylan est son neveu, ne voit pas ces visites d’un si bon oeil. Elle éloigne alors son fils en lui fournissant l’adresse de son grand-père, perdu de vue. Dylan décide de le rejoindre pour Noël, mais c’est un vieil homme gravement malade qu’il retrouve. L’espoir de l’adolescent se brise une nouvelle fois, quand, à peine retourné en ville, il est pratiquement battu à mort par la bande du mac du quartier. Après une convalescence difficile, il touche le fond en s’aliénant au petit escroc et à la drogue qu’il lui fournit pour faire passer la douleur. C’est lorsqu’on est au plus bas qu’on trouve parfois l’impulsion pour remonter à la surface…
Henderson's boys, part of a secret army of intelligence agents, have to parachute into enemy territory, travel cross-country, and outsmart a bunch of adults in order to achieve their objective.
Will is on the run. He's killed a man and now he must flee Oxfordand attempt to find his father-an explorer who sought the North Pole and who never returned from his expedition. Will's search for his father leads him to another world, where he encounters a girl and her wildcat daemon...Lyra. After crossing the abyss between the worlds, Lyra finds herself thrown together with Will, in a beautiful but eerily deserted city. It is a city haunted by Spectres-soul-destro ghostly forms that prey on adults, leaving aworld dominated by orphaned children. But even in another world Will cannot evade those who seek to destroy him, and thus the journey continues-Lyra and Will's destinies are intertwined and their
Just as Hitler is preparing to invade Britain in 1940, the Henderson Boys are faced with a decision: head south to neutral Spain or sabotage the German invasion plans.
C.J. Townsend is a brilliant prosecutor known for keeping her cool even when trying the most horrific cases. The latest: an accused serial killer who savors cruelty and considers murder an art. But this case is different. C.J. recognizes the suspect. She knows what he's capable of. After all these years she still has the nightmares to prove it. Now she's walking a fine line between justice and revenge. Even C.J. isn't prepared for where it will take her.
A gdyby tak wyruszyć w podróż w towarzystwie siedmiu gadających owadów pod
przewodnictwem rezolutnego Świerszcza? I gdyby podróżować, siedząc sobie
wygodnie wewnątrz… OGROMNEJ brzoskwini? Siedmioletni James, któremu szalony
nosorożec stratował rodziców, trafia pod opiekę dwóch okropnych ciotek. Nic
dziwnego, że niemal bez zastanowienia rzuca się w tę magiczną przygodę.
Wszyscy na pokład! Przed wami jedna z najlepszych współczesnych baśni z
biblioteczki Roalda Dahla, autora Charliego i fabryki czekolady i Matyldy, w
nowym, znakomitym przekładzie Michała Rusinka.
„Bez tego dziecka wszyscy zginiemy”.W „Zorzy Polarnej” poznajemy Lyrę
Belacquę, sierotę z równoległego świata, w którym nauka, teologia i magia
splatają się ze sobą. Lyra i jej dajmon w zwierzęcej postaci mieszkają – na
wpół dzicy i beztroscy – wśród akademików oksfordzkiego Kolegium Jordana.
Kiedy Lyra wyruszy na poszukiwanie uprowadzonego przyjaciela, odkryje
złowieszczą intrygę, w której główną rolę odkrywają porwane dzieci, a jej
wyprawa przeobrazi się w pogoń za zrozumieniem tajemniczego zjawiska zwanego
„Prochem”. Los zawiedzie ją na skute lodem ziemie Arktyki, gdzie władzę
sprawują klany wiedźm, a niedźwiedzie polarne toczą wojny. Niezwykła podróż
Lyry będzie miała poważne konsekwencje wykraczające daleko poza granice
świata, który zamieszkuje.
Bestialska zbrodnia. Śledztwo pełne znaków zapytania. Stephen King w szczególnie owocnym okresie twórczości przedstawia jedną ze swoich najbardziej niepokojących opowieści. W miejskim parku znalezione zostaje zmasakrowane ciało jedenastoletniego chłopca. Naoczni świadkowie i odciski palców wskazują na jednego z najbardziej lubianych obywateli Flint City – Terry'ego Maitlanda, trenera drużyn młodzieżowych i nauczyciela angielskiego. Detektyw Ralph Anderson, którego syna Maitland kiedyś trenował, nakazuje natychmiastowe aresztowanie. Maitland ma alibi, ale ślady DNA stają się niepodważalnym dowodem. Sprawa wydaje się oczywista, jednak w miarę postępu śledztwa wychodzą na jaw przerażające szczegóły, a napięcie narasta do nie do zniesienia poziomu. Terry Maitland, na pozór miły człowiek, może skrywać mroczne oblicze. Odpowiedź na to pytanie szokuje, tak jak tylko Stephen King potrafi. King jest autorem ponad pięćdziesięciu światowych bestsellerów, w tym Trylogii o Billu Hodgesie oraz zbioru opowiadań Bazar złych snów. Otrzymał wiele nagród, w tym National Medal of Arts. Mieszka w Bangor w stanie Maine z żoną, pisarką Tabithą King.
In these two delightful history-mysteries, seven boys in Ancient Rome solve strange crimes . . . thanks to some help from their cranky teacher, a little bit of logic, and a lot of amusing misadventure.It seems the boys can get nothing Their teacher's fiftieth birthday is long past (they should have done their math homework); the servant they bought as a present for his birthday isn't just your run-of-the-mill Gaul slave but a courier running for his life; and, to top it all off, the message he's carrying requests the assassination of a Roman senator—the father of one of the boys.
The Shepherd's Hut is an exquisite, brutal coming of age novel. It tells the story of Jaxie, a boy on the run from his past, and explores the way love and hate combine to form a young man's beliefs.
Tous deux fraîchement diplômés de Princeton, John et Joe sont davantage affamés de littérature que de nourritures terrestres, et ils ont la ferme intention de tourner le dos à tout ce qu'on attend d'eux aux États-Unis : un mariage, un bon job, une visite hebdomadaire aux parents. Ainsi s'embarquent-ils pour un long voyage qui les mènera de Munich à Nairobi sur une moto BMW immaculée, baptisée en l'honneur du périple : le Nil Blanc. Objet littéraire singulier, ces carnets de voyage constituent un roman de formation itinérant. En même temps qu'ils arpentent champs de ruines gréco-romaines, villages de Bédouins ou capitales du tiers-monde, les deux amis font l'apprentissage de l'altérité, de la solitude, et, aussi, des inévitables désillusions au détour du chemin. L'opulente nature africaine est ici magnifiée sous une plume d'une fougue et d'une franchise irrésistibles qui ont le charme de ses vingt ans.
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Tom Hanks due December 2020. Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence
Two years ago William Bantling was put on death row by Florida's Assistant State Attorney, CJ Townsend. Now three cops crucial to Bantling's conviction have been brutally slain. CJ knew the shocking secret they took to their graves. But it's clear that somebody else also knows the truth...
A random predator is terrorizing Southern California. After children start disappearing, it's up to the FBI's best to stop a killer. — Criminal profiler Laurel Madden is at the top of her field. But being the best comes at a price. Brilliant, beautiful and aloof, Agent Madden has a dark side and even darker secrets. Maybe that's why she understands the criminal mind so well.Sent to cover the disappearance of the children, reporter Claire Fillespie arrives in California with another, more personal agenda: to rip away the veil of secrecy that surrounds and protects Madden. Claire has evidence that Madden committed murder...and got away with it. Until now. And Claire won't rest until there's justice for the victim - someone she cared about.Between these two determined woman stands veteran FBI agent Dan Sprague - torn by duty, loyalty to one woman and an intense attraction to the other that's as unwelcome as it is irresistible.As the balance shifts dangerously between thse three, one thing becomes clear: hunting killers is a dangerous game.
From the bestselling author of The Girls comes a “brilliant” (The New York Times) story collection exploring the dark corners of human experience. “Daddy’s ten masterful, provocative stories confirm that Cline is a staggering talent.”—Esquire NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY An absentee father collects his son from boarding school after a shocking act of violence. A nanny to a celebrity family hides out in Laurel Canyon in the aftermath of a tabloid scandal. A young woman sells her underwear to strangers. A notorious guest arrives at a placid, not-quite rehab in the Southwest. In ten remarkable stories, Emma Cline portrays moments when the ordinary is disturbed, when daily life buckles, revealing the perversity and violence pulsing under the surface. She explores characters navigating the edge, the limits of themselves and those around them: power dynamics in families, in relationships, the distance between their true and false selves. They want connection, but what they provoke is often closer to self-sabotage. What are the costs of one’s choices? Of the moments when we act, or fail to act? These complexities are at the heart of Daddy, Emma Cline’s sharp-eyed illumination of the contrary impulses that animate our inner lives.
Frank Bones is a self-destructive, take-no-prisoners, bad boy comic at the bottom rung. Lloyd Melnick is a long-lost acquaintance whose work on the smash hit The Fleishman Show has made him the hottest comedy writer in town. When their worlds collide the consequences involve a crashed Hummer, corrupt police officers, enraged ex-husbands, sultry bartenders, and high-speed chases to Mexico and back. A brilliant satire, The Bones is a stunning debut that reveals, in all its hilarity and ache, the dark heart of comedy.
Le soir de Noël, un vieil homme égoïste et solitaire choisit de passer la soirée seul. Mais les esprits de Noël en ont décidé autrement. L'entraînant tour à tour dans son passé, son présent et son futur, les trois spectres lui montrent ce que sera son avenir s'il persiste à ignorer que le bonheur existe, même dans le quotidien le plus ordinaire.
