Valentina Guani Książki

The blockbusting new thriller in the Women's Murder Club series from number one bestselling author James Patterson

Detective Lindsay Boxer finally gets married. But a missing newborn and a series of violent attacks push the Womens Murder Club back to full throttle before the wedding gifts are even unwrapped.

Elfrida Phipps loves her new life in the pretty Hampshire village. She has a tiny cottage, her faithful dog Horace and the friendship of the neighbouring Blundells - particularly Oscar - to ensure that her days include companionship as well as independence. But an unforeseen tragedy upsets Elfrida's tranquillity: Oscar's wife and daughter are killed in a terrible car crash and he finds himself homeless when his stepchildren claim their dead mother's inheritance. Oscar and Elfrida take refuge in a rambling house in Scotland which becomes a magnet for various waifs and strays who converge upon it, including an unhappy teenage girl. It could be a recipe for disaster. But somehow the Christmas season weaves its magical spell and for Elfrida and Oscar, in the evening of their lives, the winter solstice brings love and solace.

A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. And after California's golden boy, Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there finally seems to be a lead in his case--a very devastating lead.As fire after fire consume couples in wealthy, comfortable homes, Lindsay and the Murder Club must race to find the arsonists responsible and get to the bottom of Michael Campion's disappearance. But suddenly the fires are raging too close to home.Frightened for her life and torn between two men, Lindsay must find a way to solve the most daunting dilemmas she's ever faced--at work and at home.

Four crime-solving friends face off against a killer in San Francisco in the Women's Murder Club novel that started James Patterson's thrilling series. Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburn is a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., and Cindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle. But the usual procedures aren't bringing them any closer to stopping the killings. So these women form a Women's Murder Club to collaborate outside the box and pursue the case by sidestepping their bosses and giving each other a hand. The four women develop intense bonds as they pursue a killer whose crimes have stunned an entire city. Working together, they track down the most terrifying and unexpected killer they have ever encountered--before a shocking conclusion in which everything they knew turns out to be devastatingly wrong. Full of the breathtaking drama and unforgettable emotions for which James Patterson is famous, 1st to Die is the start of the #1 New York Times bestselling series of crime thrillers.

The basis for DEEP WATER, now a major ITV TV series, starring Anna Friel. 'One of the most hypnotically gripping books I've read in a long, long time.' TESS GERRITSEN Your friend's child is missing. It's your fault. No family is perfect. A husband, three children and a full-time job, so many plates to keep spinning. No wonder you forgot you were supposed to be looking after your friend's daughter. But no one has seen her since yesterday. And she's not the first to go missing from your small town. So who's hiding something? 'She writes with a singular voice and a passion that roars off the page . . . With a sharp, double-twist ending it announces Daly as a potential star' Daily Mail 'Fiendishly addictive' Guardian 'Riveting! Daly plunges straight into the heart of every parent's worst nightmare with page-turning results' Lisa Gardner 'The sort of book that causes you to lose half a day without even noticing' Elizabeth Haynes, author of Into the Darkest Corner

The next thrilling novel in the Women's Murder Club series. After a dramatic shoot out at a ferry dock, Detective Lindsay Boxer is called to the scene to find that three people have been killed, and one of her closest friends, Claire, has been shot and lies bleeding, whilst the murderer is on the run. Lindsay promises Claire that she'll hunt down this killer and bring him to justice, but sadly, it doesn't prove to be so straightforward. A man comes forward claiming to be the ferry murderer and Yuki Castellano, one of the Women's Murder Club, prepares to set out the charges against him. But it's not all over, a child has been abducted and is still missing. To increase the mystery and confusion, there are a series of suspicious and unexplained deaths in the building where Cindy lives - another member of the Women's Murder Club is in danger. Lindsay discovers yet more abducted children, and the hunt begins in earnest to find the children.

Join the Women's Murder Club on an exhilarating thrill ride as love and murder test their friendships like never before. Someone is killing the richest people in the city-and the Women's Murder Club will pay a high price for hunting him. At the party of the year, San Francisco's most glamorous couple is targeted by a killer-and it's the perfect murder. While Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile killings, a saintly street preacher is brutally executed. Reporter Cindy Thomas inquires into this neglected case and discovers the victim may have had very dark secrets. As the search for two criminals tests the limits of the Women's Murder Club, Lindsay sees sparks fly between Cindy and Lindsay's partner, Detective Rich Conklin. The Club now faces its toughest challenge: Will love destroy all that the four friends have built?

Award-winning author Elizabeth George delivers another masterpiece of suspense in her Inspector Lynley series: Lynley and his pugnacious and deeply loyal Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers find themselves up against one of the most sinister murder cases they have ever encountered.When a Member of Parliament shows up at New Scotland Yard requesting an investigation into the suicide of the son of one of his constituents in the beautiful town of Ludlow, the Assistant Commissioner sees two opportunities in this request: the first is to have an MP owing him a favour, and the second is to get rid of Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, whose career at the Met has been hanging by a thread for quite some time. So he assigns Havers to the case and for good measure partners her with the one person who shares his wish to see the back of her, Detective Chief Superintendent Isabelle Ardery.But Ardery has her own difficulties. She is not happy to be sent away from London and as a result is in a rush to return. This causes her to overlook things, important things, and prevents her from uncovering an earlier crime that set everything in motion.

In an isolated country town afflicted by interminable drought, a charismatic and dedicated young priest calmly opens fire on his congregation, shooting dead five parishioners before being gunned down himself. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden arrives in Riversend. His assignment is deliberately simple: describe how the townspeople are coping as the anniversary of their tragedy approaches. But as Martin meets the locals and hears their version of events, he begins to realise that the accepted wisdom – that the priest was a paedophile whose imminent exposure was the catalyst for the shooting, established through an award-winning investigation by his own newspaper – may be wrong. Just as Martin believes he’s making headway, a dramatic new development rocks the town. The bodies of two German backpackers - missing since the time of the church shootings - are discovered in a dam in the scrublands. It's the biggest story in Australia, the media arrive en masse. Instead of gently easing back into reporting, Martin finds himself thrown into a media storm, and with it a complex mystery. What was the real reason behind the priest’s shooting spree? And how does it connect to the backpacker murders, if at all? Martin struggles to uncover the town’s dark secrets, putting his job, his mental state, and his life all at risk as events escalate around him.

Alex Cross i Bree Stone są prawie w drodze do ołtarza, gdy dochodzi do morderstwa. Ofiarami zabójcy padają dwaj skorumpowani mieszkańcy Waszyngtonu - sprzedajny kongresman oraz stosujący pokrętne machlojki lobbysta. Wkrótce giną kolejni zdeprawowani politycy. W mediach wrze - opinia publiczna chce wiedzieć, czy zabójca jest samotnym bohaterem, który postawił sobie za cel oczyszczenie kręgów władzy, czy członkiem samozwańczej straży obywatelskiej. Po kolejnej fali zabójstw do sprawy zostaje oddelegowany agent FBI, Max Siegel, człowiek, który kompletnie nie umie dogadać się z Crossem i wszczyna wojnę o zakres kompetencji własnych i detektywa. Niebawem staje się jasne, że zabójca jest zawodowcem zbrojnym w wiedzę o wszystkich zwyczajach swoich ofiar i że musi współpracować z kimś z wewnątrz elit. Niestety, obecność Siegla jest dla Alexa bardziej przeszkodą niż pomocą. Cross musi użerać się z nadgorliwym agentem, tropić snajpera i planować ślub. Jakby tego było mało, na horyzoncie pojawia się również Kayle Craig, śmiertelny wróg detektywa, który wybrał sobie znakomity czas na zemstę.

In "I, Alex Cross," Detective Alex Cross is devastated by the murder of his niece and vows to find her killer. As he investigates, he uncovers a dangerous world tied to Washington's elite and a notorious club. With thrilling twists and revelations, this gripping tale showcases Cross at his best.

With San Francisco under siege and every cop a suspect, the Women's Murder Club must risk their lives to save the city-and each other. With a beautiful baby daughter and a devoted husband, Detective Lindsay Boxer can safely say that her life has never been better. Things seem to be going well for a change when all the members of the Women's Murder Club gather to celebrate San Francisco Medical Examiner Claire Washburn's birthday. But the party is cut short when Lindsay is called to a gruesome crime scene, where a woman has been murdered in broad daylight. As Lindsay investigates, shocking video footage of another crime surfaces: the video is so horrific that it shakes the city to its core. Their faces obscured by masks, the cold blooded criminals on the tape could be anyone-and now all of Lindsay's co-workers are suspects. As a rash of violence sweeps through San Francisco, and public fear and anger grows, Lindsay and her friends must risk their lives in the name of justice, before it's too late. With shocking twists and riveting suspense, 14th Deadly Sin proves yet again that when it comes to suspense fiction, "nobody does it better" than James Patterson (Jeffrey Deaver).

Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered - a predator known only as "the Wolf. "Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold. And it looks as if a shadowy figure called the Wolf - a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organize crime - is behind this business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves. Even as he admires the FBI's vast resources, Alex grows impatient with the Bureau's clumsiness and caution when it is time to move. A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track the Wolf and try to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive. As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too. His ex-fiancee, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life - and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped.

A high-powered San Francisco defense attorney becomes the defendant in a scandalous murder case involving accusations of adultery and sexual abuse, divorce, an ugly custody battle, extortion, and conflicting loyalties

Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed a singular trail through popular culture -- from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of six novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, Tales is both a wry comedy of manners and a deeply involving portrait of a vanished era.

Alex Cross must face the world's most dangerous agents, criminals, and assassins. The fate of the world rests in his hands. In broad desert daylight, a mysterious platoon of soldiers evacuates the entire population of Sunrise Valley, Nevada. Minutes later, a huge bomb detonates a hundred feet above the ground and lays waste to homes, cars, and playgrounds: a town annihilated in an instant. The Russian supercriminal known as the Wolf claims responsibility for the blast. Alex Cross is on vacation in San Francisco with his girlfriend, Jamilla Hughes, when he gets the call. World leaders have just four days to prevent an unimaginable cataclysm. Racing down the hairpin turns of the Riviera in the most unforgettable finale James Patterson has ever written, he confronts the truth of the Wolf's identity, a revelation that even Cross himself may be unable to survive.

Robert Langdon zostaje pilnie wezwany do położonego koło Genewy centrum badań jądrowych CERN. Jego zadanie – zidentyfikować zagadkowy wzór wypalony na ciele zamordowanego fizyka. Langdon ze zdumieniem stwierdza, że jest to symbol tajemnego bractwa iluminatów – potężnej, aczkolwiek nieistniejącej od czterystu lat organizacji walczącej z Kościołem, do której należały najświetniejsze umysły Europy, chociażby Galileusz. Jak się okazuje, iluminaci przetrwali w ukryciu do czasów współczesnych i planują straszliwą wendetę – wysadzenie Watykanu przy użyciu antymaterii wykradzionej z genewskiego laboratorium. Langdon i Vittoria Vetra, córka zamordowanego fizyka, mają zaledwie dobę, by odnaleźć utajnioną od XVI wieku siedzibę iluminatów i zapobiec niewyobrażalnej tragedii. Czy zdołają na czas rozszyfrować wskazówki zapisane w jedynym zachowanym w archiwach Świętego Miasta egzemplarzu legendarnego traktatu Galileusza? Jak zakończy się dramatyczny wyścig z czasem – po tajemnych kryptach i katakumbach, wyludnionych katedrach, tropem symboli iluminatów zakamuflowanych przed wiekami miejscach znanych każdemu mieszkańcowi Rzymu? Zagadka goni zagadkę, prowadząc do najbardziej nieoczekiwanego finału.

Na stronach nowej powieści Fredericka Forsytha poznajemy losy kilku mężczyzn, którzy część swojego życia dobrowolnie poświęcili nieustraszonej i honorowej walce ze złem w konfliktach zbrojnych XX wieku, zarówno podczas II wojny światowej, jak i w Wietnamie. W walce nawiązały się przyjaźnie, które są bez przesady na życie i śmierć. Gdy jednego z nich tragicznie dotyka okrutna i bezwzględna zbrodnia, nie może jej pozostawić bez odwetu. Zwraca się więc do swojego dawnego przyjaciela… Po bezwzględnym mordercy jakby zniknęła ziemia. Osamotniony mściciel ma do dyspozycji jedynie jedną niejasną wskazówkę, ale mimo to nie rezygnuje z poszukiwań zabójcy z byłej Jugosławii. Nieświadomie prowadzi również nierówną walkę z amerykańskimi agencjami wywiadowczymi, które próbują schwytać pewnego islamskiego terrorystę… Fabuła książki osiąga kulminację 10 września 2001 roku, w przeddzień dnia, który na zawsze pozostanie w pamięci całego świata jako dzień straszliwego zła. Czy można walczyć ze złem innym złem i jaka jest w świecie pełnym przemocy cena przyjaźni, to już każdy czytelnik musi zdecydować sam.

"When the bady of eleven year old Thuy Sen is found in San Francisco bay, the police qwiftly charge Rennell and Payton Price with her grisly murder. A twelve person jury, helped along by an incompetent lawyer for the defence, is quick to find the brothers guilty - and to sentence them both to die for their crimes.

Jack Mullen is a driven student of the law. His brother Peter is a servant of the rich, parking the cars of the Hamptons' elite-and perhaps satisfying their more intimate needs as well. Then Peter's body is found on the beach. Jack knows the drowning was no accident, but someone's unlimited power and money have bought the cops, the judges, the system. Now Jack is learning a lesson in justice he never got in law school ... and his astonishing plan to beat the billionaires will have you reeling-and cheering-to the very last page.

RED to wyjątkowy oddział policji stworzony przez burmistrza Nowego Jorku. Wybrani detektywi prowadzą śledztwa, w które są zamieszani ludzie z pierwszych stron gazet – politycy, aktorzy i sportowcy. Elita chroni elitę. W Nowym Jorku trwa festiwal filmowy, na który zjechały wszystkie gwiazdy Hollywood. Impreza rozpoczyna się tragedią – zabójstwem znanego producenta. Sprawę prowadzą detektywi Zach Jordan i Kylie MacDonald. Czeka ich żmudne i trudne śledztwo, bo morderca wymyślił precyzyjny scenariusz, wybrał głównych aktorów. Jest reżyserem krwawego widowiska i to od niego zależy, kto zginie, a kto przeżyje.

Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk - and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard. He says his injuries were sustained in the course of a murder ... that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The only thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered - and that more violent deaths will follow...

NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him - he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter's killer. Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her fiance were murdered while on holiday in Rome. Since then, young couples in Madrid, Salzburg, Athens and Paris have been found dead. Little connects the murders, other than a postcard to the local newspaper that precedes each new victim. Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter, Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm - and they think they know where the next victims will be. With relentless logic and unstoppable action, Postcard Killers may be James Patterson's most vivid and compelling thriller yet.

Nie widzisz jej. Ale ona widzi ciebie. Życie Owena Picka rozpada się na kawałki. Trzydziestotrzyletni nauczyciel zostaje zawieszony w pracy, po tym jak dwie uczennice oskarżają go o molestowanie. Mieszkający w pokoju gościnnym ciotki, sfrustrowany swoim życiem Owen szuka profesjonalnych porad w internecie. Tymczasem w sąsiedztwie Picka zamieszkuje rodzina Foursów, freelancerka Cate i psycholog dziecięcy Roan oraz dwójka ich nastoletnich dzieci. Pewnego dnia córka zwierza się matce, że sąsiad śledził ją, gdy wracała do domu. Siedemnastoletnia Saffyre Maddox przez trzy lata była pacjentką Roana Foursa. Po zakończeniu terapii podąża za nim jak cień, przy okazji poznając sekrety psychologa i jego rodziny. W walentynkową noc Saffyre znika, a ostatnią osobą, która widziała ją żywą, okazuje się Owen Pick. „Niewidzialna dziewczyna” to niepokojący thriller psychologiczny, pełen poczucia krzywdy, samotności i odrzucenia oraz nagromadzonego przez lata żalu. To historia ludzi, którzy, choć żyją blisko siebie, nie dostrzegają prawdy o nich samych.

The nineteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. 'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out - she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings. As she learns more, Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of a terrifying terrain of conspiracy on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it . . . Praise for the groundbreaking series: 'One of the best crime writers writing today' Guardian 'Devilishly clever' Sunday Times 'The top gun in this field' Daily Telegraph 'Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns' Mirror 'The Agatha Christie of the DNA age' Express

Doktor Kay Scarpetta przeprowadza sekcję zwłok Toni Darien, młodej biegaczki znalezionej martwej w Central Parku, gdzie policja podejrzewa gwałt i morderstwo. Scarpetta ma wątpliwości, ponieważ oznaki śmierci sugerują, że zmarła co najmniej trzydzieści sześć godzin wcześniej. Razem z mężem, Bentonem Weseleyem, psychiatra sądowym, otrzymują nieprzyzwoitą kartkę świąteczną od byłej pacjentki Bentona, Dodie Hodge. Kay bierze udział w programie telewizyjnym o tematyce kryminalnej, gdzie podczas transmisji Dodie dzwoni do studia. Gospodyni programu, Carley Crispin, łamie zasady i próbuje poruszyć temat zniknięcia bogatej finansistki, Hannah Starr. Po powrocie do domu Scarpetta otrzymuje paczkę, która może być bombą. Carley kradnie jej telefon i przekazuje go Warnerowi Ageemu, psychiatra sądowemu, który w przeszłości przyczynił się do problemów Bentona. W śledztwie uczestniczy siostrzenica Kay, Lucy, zastępca prokuratora Jamie Berger oraz detektyw Pete Marino. Lucy ma osobisty interes w rozwiązaniu zagadki zniknięcia Hannah, ponieważ została przez nią oszukana. Wkrótce odkrywają, że sprawy Toni Darien i Hannah Starr mogą być ze sobą powiązane i związane z przestępczą rodziną Chandonne’ów, wrogami Bentona.

The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log in which all cases are entered. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta moves to South Carolina and opens a private forensic pathology practice. A string of brutal killings shatters her dreams of a quiet life.

At the peak of his legal career, Tony Lord is suddenly called to defend his friend, Sam Robb, who is charged with murder. However, Lord has regrets about returning to Lake City, Ohio, where he too, was suspected of murder. Yet, knowing the pain of unjust accusation, he feels compelled to help Sam.

When Hadiyyah Upman disappears from London in the company of her mother, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is as devastated as the girl's father. They are her close friends as well as neighbours, but since the child is with her mother, nothing can be done. Five months later, Hadiyyah is kidnapped from an open air market in Lucca, Italy, and this triggers an investigation in the full glare of the media spotlight. Barbara's clever manipulation of the worst of London's tabloids forces New Scotland Yard to become involved. But rather than Barbara herself, her superior officer DI Thomas Lynley is assigned to handle a situation made delicate by racial issues, language difficulties, and the determination of an Italian magistrate to arrest and convict someone - anyone - for the crime.

As Noone's friendship grows with a dying boy, he feels he can unlock his innermost feelings. But troubling questions arise, and he is forced to confront all his relationships - familial, romantic and erotic.

No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the twenty-fourth engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Someone is following you... One summer evening in New England, two young girls stumble upon a body. Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta arrives at the scene to find a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force. Someone is taunting you... Meanwhile, people close to Scarpetta start receiving suspicious calls. Could they be linked to Scarpetta's anonymous cyber stalker, Tailend Charlie? Someone wants to destroy you... A second death shocks Scarpetta to her core. Because analysis of the body shows a material that doesn't exist on earth. And it's clear that someone, or something, is coming for her, and is hell-bent on creating chaos...

Patricia Cornwell delivers the next enthralling thriller in her high-stakes series starring Kay Scarpetta - a complex tale involving a serial sniper who strikes chillingly close to the forensic sleuth herself.

Mama odeszła to książka szczera, intymna, wciągająca i bardzo osobista. Trzydziestojednoletnia Nikki Eaton – niezamężna, seksualnie wyzwolona i samodzielna finansowo – raczej nigdy nie myślała o sobie w kategorii córki. A jednak kiedy z dnia na dzień nieoczekiwanie traci matkę, przechodzi ogromną wewnętrzną przemianę. Jeden burzliwy rok, wypełniony przerażającymi zdarzeniami i rozpaczą, przyniesie jej oświecenie, wiedzę, a nawet – niespodziewanie – miłość, która pomoże jej się podźwignąć.

A beautiful summer ́s evening in a Kent field and around their two caravans a group of strawberry pickers celebrates a birthday. An idyllic scence. But this is a group leading dangerous lives - exploitative employers, British regulations and gang masters with guns will all threaten them as they take to the caravan road to find their destinies.

You are being watched. The death of a Hollywood mogul's daughter has the police convinced it's an accident. But Dr. Kay Scarpetta knows better. It's almost as if someone is leaving evidence only she would spot. They are always three steps ahead Scarpetta is sidetracked when she receives a video clip revealing disturbing secrets about her niece, Lucy. But before she can react, the FBI raid Lucy's estate. Time is running out Scarpetta suspects one person is behind it all: the murder, the videos, the FBI. She needs to stop them before it's too late - and everyone she loves is destroyed.

After working on one of the worst mass killings in US history, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta returns home to recover, but an unsettling call drives her straight back to work. The body of a young woman has been discovered inside the sheltered gates of MIT, draped in an unusual cloth and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. A preliminary examination reveals that the body is covered in a fine dust that under ultra-violet light fluoresces blood-red, emerald-green and sapphire-blue, and physical evidence links this to another series of disturbing homicides in Washington, DC. As Scarpetta pieces together the fragments of evidence she discovers that the cases connect, yet also seem to conflict, and with so much at stake, it's clear that she is the only one who can solve it . . . Dust is a thrilling, addictive novel featuring one of the most iconic, original and compelling characters in crime fiction today.

Copenhague, 1905. Severine Riis, esposa del pintor danés Viktor Riis, posa para él, siempre de espaldas. Para sobrellevar el silencio de las sesiones, comienza a escribir un diario con sus reflexiones íntimas. Bucarest, 1985. Joen Alsted, embajador de Dinamarca, hereda seis cuadros de Viktor y se relaciona con la familia Moore, donde su hija Freya cautiva a Sophia, su esposa, quien anhela ser madre. Londres, 2005. Tras la muerte de su marido, Sophia decide vender las obras de Riis, y el joven historiador del arte Peter Finch se encarga de su documentación. Freya, ahora casi treintañera, es invitada a la casa de Sophia, donde descubre los diarios de Severine. Esto desata una investigación sobre la vida y obra de Riis, con consecuencias inesperadas. Paula Vene Smith presenta una historia cautivadora en la que seis cuadros enigmáticos impactan la vida de varios personajes a través del tiempo. La autora explora la relación entre arte y vida, creando un caleidoscopio de emociones que atrapa al lector desde el inicio.

There were four of us down there for the first thirty-two months and eleven days of our captivity. And then, very suddenly and without warning, there were three. Even though the fourth person hadn't made any noise at all in several months, the room got very quiet when she was gone. For a long time after that, we sat in silence, in the dark, each of us wondering what this meant for her and for us, and which of us would be the next in the box.

In Abby Williams Ritter has created an appealingly feisty yet vulnerable heroin...An excellent debut The Times

Notes George W. Bush's affiliations with Enron and big oil, presenting a tongue-in-cheek plan for ending his political career while charging political leaders with enabling a growing divide between American classes.

A “gem of a novel” that sends up marriage, academia, and literary stardom, by the New York Times–bestselling author of They May Not Mean To, But They Do (Publishers Weekly). In this delightful novel from an author who “has been favored in so many ways by the muse of comedy,” we meet Margaret Nathan, the brilliant but forgetful author of an unlikely bestseller (The New York Review of Books). Happily married to a benevolently egotistical, slightly dull but sexy professor, Margaret seems blessed—until she finds herself seduced by an eighteenth-century novel she discovers in the library. Wrapped in its lascivious world, Margaret begins to imitate its protagonist, embarking on a hilarious jaunt around Manhattan in search of renewed passion. Will she find fulfillment through her escapades or settle for her husband? Part romantic comedy, part intellectual parody, Rameau’s Niece is wise, affecting, and thoroughly entertaining.

POWIEŚĆ, KTÓRĄ TESS GERRITSEN ZASKAKUJE SWOICH WIERNYCH CZYTELNIKÓW, ŁĄCZĄC KRYMINAŁ Z THRILLEREM PSYCHOLOGICZNYM ORAZ ROMANSEM Z WĄTKAMI PARANORMALNYMI. I PO RAZ KOLEJNY DOWODZĄC, ŻE JEST NIEZRÓWNANĄ PISARKĄ I ŻE ŻADEN GATUNEK NIE JEST OBCY. Ava Collette, próbując uciec od traumatycznego wydarzenia w jej życiu, przeprowadza się z Bostonu na wybrzeże Maine. Ma nadzieję, że atmosfera wynajętego na odludziu domu będzie sprzyjać pracy nad książką, na którą czeka wydawca. Wkrótce Ava przekonuje się jednak, że to miejsce nie zapewnia jej tak potrzebnego spokoju. Regularne wizyty nieproszonego gościa wprawiają ją w przerażenie i nie pozwalają skupić się na pisaniu, a dziwne zachowanie mieszkańców pobliskiego miasteczka, w którym doszło do niewyjaśnionych zabójstw, tylko podsyca nasilające się w niej poczucie zagrożenia. Zwłaszcza kiedy próbując dowiedzieć się czegoś na temat morderstw, natrafia na mur milczenia.

"Definire "pigro" un bambino significa non aver capito nulla di lui." Quello che spesso chiamiamo "pigrizia" è in realtà uno stato psicofisico che ha delle ragioni accertabili, molto simili a ingranaggi inceppati, ad anelli deboli della catena che regola il buon funzionamento della mente e del corpo di ognuno di noi. MeI Levine, esperto dei problemi dell'apprendimento, individua otto cause di scarso rendimento, e le illustra una per una con il racconto di un caso esemplare: disfunzione motoria; difficoltà di memoria a lungo termine; scarsa capacità di controllo dell'"energia mentale"; impulsività e frenesia sociale; inadeguatezza linguistico-espressiva; difficoltà di ideazione e di elaborazione di pensiero critico e creativo; problemi di organizzazione. Che fare una volta individuata l'origine del problema? Il passo successivo, come ci mostra Levine, è stabile alcune modalità di intervento, in grado di esaltare i punti di forza della personalità di ciascuno e spingerlo così ad affrontare ogni ostacolo con l'energia ritrovata dell'ottimismo. La pigrizia non è un male incurabile. Come ci insegna questo libro, semplicemente non esiste. Esistono piuttosto tecniche e strategie per valorizzare e potenziare tutti quegli aspetti che consentono ai presunti pigri di sfruttare al meglio conoscenze, abilità e doti peculiari. Facendo di ogni bambino l'eroe di uno sforzo produttivo e felice.