Egypt's first Pharaoh-Queen must solve a spate of killings before she can assume her throne... "Ancient Egypt fans...will want to catch up with this series on the double." ( Booklist ) "A rare example of historical crime fiction that ...doesn't give suspense short shrift." ( Publishers Weekly )
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before She Disappeared comes a propulsive thriller exploring “the dark side of family life, where the ties that bind also gag, choke, and strangle” (Publishers Weekly). “Lisa Gardner always delivers heart-stopping suspense.”—Harlan Coben The family you love the most may be the people you should trust the least. . . . Twenty years ago, Melanie Stokes was abandoned in a Boston hospital, then adopted by a wealthy young couple. Gifted with loving parents, a doting brother, and an indulgent uncle, Melanie has always considered herself lucky. Until tonight. Tonight, a has-been reporter turns up, investigating her past. Tonight, the first note arrives, saying, “You Get What You Deserve.” And tonight, Melanie has her first, horrifying vision of the past. Melanie has no memory of her life before the adoption. Now someone wants to give it back, even if it includes the darkest nightmare the Stokes family ever faced: the murder of their first daughter in Texas. As Melanie pursues every lead, chases every shadow in search of her real identity, two seemingly unrelated events from her past will come together in a dangerous explosion of truth. Winner of the Daphne Du Maurier Award for Suspense
Desolation Angels, published in 1965, yet written years earlier around the time On the Road was in the process of publication, is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac, which makes up part of his Duluoz Legend. According to the book's foreword, the opening section of the novel is almost directly taken from the journal he kept when he was a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade mountains of Washington state. Much of the psychological struggle which the novel's protagonist, Jack Duluoz, undergoes in the novel reflects Kerouac's own increasing disenchantment with the Buddhist philosophy with which he had previously been fascinated.
Kdyby vám patřila kouzelná hrací skříňka, která by vás přenesla do jiného světa, určitě byste neváhali. Leo takovou skříňku vlastní, ale uvědomuje si všechna nebezpečí, která na něho v Rondu číhají. Mimi tak bojácná není. „Neboj se, Leo, budeme v bezpečí," říká mu. Ale Leo ví, že v Rondu není bezpečné ani předvídatelné vůbec nic… Fantastický svět Ronda je možná hrozivý, ale Leo s Mimi vědí, že se tam vydat musí. Musí dál hrát svoje role v nekončící bitvě se zlou a krutou Modrou královnou. Znovu se vydávají do světa starožitné hrací skříňky a jsou rozhodnuti se tentokrát do ničeho vážného nezaplést. Ale brzy je kouzelné Rondo zcela pohltí. Jejich výprava na záchranu zmizeného čaroděje se stane ještě nebezpečnější, když jim cestu zkříží slouha Modré královny, Kazisvět, a přiblíží se mračná hrozba, číhající na severní obloze.
Experimentálna novela „Ona“ zaujíma vo Ferlinghettiho diele význačné postavenie. Kniha je fantastickou zmesou niekoľkých tvorivých prístupov – symbolického, expresionistického i surrealistického.
Průvodce pozitivními vibracemi vašeho každodenního života. Barvy a čísla pro nás mají mnoho významů. Všichni máme své osobní číselné vibrace a osobní vibrace barev. Některá z těchto čísel, jako je například naše datum narození, jsou trvalá. Máme rovněž přechodné osobní barvy, které se mění s kalendářem. Když se vědomě obklopujeme svými osobními barvami, dostáváme se do souladu s vesmírnými silami. Barvy a čísla jsou pro náš život a naše postoje důležité. Mohou vytvořit základ pro naše afirmace a rozhodnutí o sobě, a to je právě cílem této malé knihy.
Quinn McKenzie has always lived what she calls a "beige" life. She's dating the world's nicest guy, she has a good job as a high school art teacher, she's surrounded by family and friends who rely on her, and she's bored to the point of insanity. But when Quinn decides to change her life by adopting a stray dog over everyone's objections, everything begins to spiral out of control. Now she's coping with dog-napping, breaking and entering, seduction, sabotage, stalking, more secrets than she really wants to know, and two men who are suddenly crazy...for her.
It is a path that will eventually lead them into the forbidding, barren heart of the western desert, and the answer to one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world .
"His life...ended when he was nine and the nuns of St. Louis de France Parochial School were at his bedside to take down his dying words because they'd heard his astonishing revelations of heaven delivered in catechism on no more encouragement than it was his turn to speak...."Unique among Jack Kerouac's novels, Visions of Gerard focuses on the scenes and sensations of childhood—the wisdom, anguish, intensity, innocence, evil, insight, suffering, delight, and shock—as they were revealed in the short tragic-happy life of his saintly brother, Gerard. Set in Kerouac's hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, it is an unsettling, beautiful, and sad exploration of the meaning and precariousness of existence.
Joe LaBrava first fell in love in a darkened movie theater when he was twelve -- with a gorgeous femme fatale up on the screen. Now the one-time Secret Service agent-turned-photographer is finally meeting his dream woman in the flesh, albeit in a rundown Miami crisis center. When she's cleaned up and sober, though, former movie queen Jean Shaw still makes LaBrava's heart race. And now she's being terrorized by a redneck thug and his slimy marielito partner, which gives Joe a golden opportunity to play the hero. But the lady's predicament is starting to resemble one of her earlier cinematic noirs. And if he's not careful, LaBrava could end up the patsy -- or dead -- in the final reel.
'A very unique cat-a French-Canadian Hinayana Buddhist Beat Catholic savant'Allen Ginsberg Through publishers stopped Maggie Cassidy'sJack Dulouz and On the Road'sSal Paradise form sharing the same name, Kerouac meant the books to be two parts of the same life. While On the Roadmade Paradise (and Kerouac) a hero of the disaffected and restless for generations to come, Maggie Cassidyis an affectionate portrait of the teenager that made the man - of friendship and first love - growing up in a New England mill town. Dulouz is a high school athletics and football star who meet Maggie Cassidy and begins a devoted, inconstant, tender adolescent love affair. It is one of the most sustained, poetic pieces of Kerouac's 'spontaneous prose'.
In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave, Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, eventually, his lover. At last they are rescued by a passing ship, but only she and Friday survive the journey back to London. Determined to have her story told, she pursues the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe in the hope that he will relate truthfully her memories to the world. But with Cruso dead, Friday incapable of speech and Foe himself intent on reshaping her narrative, Barton struggles to maintain her grip on the past, only to fall victim to the seduction of storytelling itself
