THE HEART-POUNDING NEW THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEED TO KNOW A strange sensation runs through me, a feeling that I don't know this person in front of me, even though he matters more to me than anyone ever has, than anyone ever will. You go into your son's bedroom. It's the usual mess. You tidy up some dirty plates, pick up some clothes, open the wardrobe to put them away. That's when you find it. And you realize a horrifying truth... Your own son might be dangerous. Keep You Close is the chilling, relentless new thriller from the bestselling author of Need to Know.
ONE MAN'S TRUTH IS ANOTHER MAN'S LIE. When big-shot literary agent Peter Katz receives an unfinished manuscript entitled The Book of Mirrors, he is intrigued. The author, Richard Flynn is writing a memoir about his time at Princeton in the late 80s, documenting his relationship with the famous Professor Joseph Wieder. One night in 1987, Wieder was brutally murdered in his home and the case was never solved. Peter Katz is hell-bent on getting to the bottom of what happened that night twenty-five years ago and is convinced the full manuscript will reveal who committed the violent crime. But other people's recollections are dangerous weapons to play with, and this might be one memory that is best kept buried.
Powieść twórcy serialu Downton Abbey i laureata Oscara za scenariusz do filmu Gosford Park w reżyserii Roberta Altmana. Rok 1815. W przededniu bitwy pod Waterloo w Brukseli odbywa się bal na cześć dowódcy wojsk brytyjskich, księcia Wellingtona. Oprócz brytyjskiej arystokracji i oficerów uczestniczy w nim dostawca wojskowy James Trenchard z małżonką oraz córką. Ich obecność, choć dla elit bulwersująca, nie jest przypadkowa. Nim jednak bal się skończy, Sophie przeżyje najstraszliwsze chwile swego życia, a oficerowie ruszą na pole bitwy, gdzie wielu z nich zginie, wciąż w mundurach galowych, w których opuścili bal. Londyn, ćwierć wieku później – stolica zmienia oblicze pod rządami młodziutkiej królowej Wiktorii. Powstają nowe rezydencje, nowe dzielnice elit, takie jak Belgravia, miasto rozkwita. Arystokracja, chcąc nie chcąc, coraz częściej musi przyjmować na salonach coraz bogatszych nuworyszy. Pilnie strzeżona tajemnica łącząca dwie rodziny z tych oddzielonych przepaścią światów tylko czyha, by wywrócić do góry nogami życie bohaterów. Ambicja, zawiść, gniew, chciwość, życzliwość, bezinteresowność – a przede wszystkim miłość – te emocje zawsze kierowały ludzkimi poczynaniami… Ta historia wydarzyła się dwa wieki temu, a mimo to jej bohaterowie nie różnią się tak bardzo od nas.
When two young couples meet for the first time during the Great Depression,
they quickly find they have much in common: Charity Lang and Sally Morgan are
both pregnant, while their husbands Sid and Larry both have jobs in the
English department at the University of Wisconsin.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BRET EASTON ELLIS. Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living. In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Colorado valley, just waiting to be taken by a team of men brave and crazy enough to find them. Will makes up his mind to be one of those men, but the journey, the killing, the harsh conditions and sheer hard luck will test his mind and body to their limits.
In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's 16-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact.
Gurion Maccabee is een krankzinnig, wijs, grappig, onverbeterlijk, verontrustend en goddelijk geïnspireerd jochie van tien jaar. Hij is van zo'n beetje elke Joodse school in Chicago getrapt en wordt op zijn nieuwe school direct in De Kooi ondergebracht: een gesloten programma voor kinderen met gedragsproblemen. Daar ontpopt hij zich echter al snel als de ultieme leider, met messianistische aspiraties. Wat volgt is een angstaanjagende les in hoe de onderdrukking van menselijke en creatieve vrijheid, in combinatie met religieuze hartstocht en de energie van de jeugd, extremistisch gedrag in de hand werkt.
The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America
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When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records–recently declared a national treasure–are now being translated. Drawing on this remarkable archive, Russell Shorto has created a gripping narrative–a story of global sweep centered on a wilderness called Manhattan–that transforms our understanding of early America. The Dutch colony pre-dated the “original” thirteen colonies, yet it seems strikingly familiar. Its capital was cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic, and its citizens valued free trade, individual rights, and religious freedom. Their champion was a progressive, young lawyer named Adriaen van der Donck, who emerges in these pages as a forgotten American patriot and whose political vision brought him into conflict with Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony. The struggle between these two strong-willed men laid the foundation for New York City and helped shape American culture. The Island at the Center of the World uncovers a lost world and offers a surprising new perspective on our own.
