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.
Sprankelende roman over het woelige leven van een jonge vrouw
Quinn McKenzie heeft een stoere, blonde vriend en een leuke baan. Alles loopt op rolletjes. Tot ze een lief, onooglijk zwerfhondje adopteert, dat haar hele leven dramatisch zal veranderen. Wanneer Quinns vriend Bill haar verbiedt het hondje te houden en het stiekem naar het asiel brengt, breekt er iets in haar. Ze wordt woest, haalt het beestje onmiddellijk terug en gaat verhuizen - zonder Bill. Iedereen is verbijsterd, maar Quinn is vastbesloten voortaan haar eigen beslissingen te nemen. Toch moet ze toegeven dat ze niet had gerekend op de vele complicaties die volgen. Als Nick er niet was geweest, die aardige ex van haar zus, was het haar nooit gelukt om door te zetten. Eigenlijk wil Nick niets met Quinn - en zij niet met hem. Die ene nacht samen was toch alleen maar bedoeld om hun onrustige gevoelens tot bedaren te brengen?
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 .
'The piteousness of his little soft shroud of hair falling down his brow and swept aside by the hand over blue serious eyes' Described by Kerouac as 'my most serious sad and true book', Visions of Gerard forms the first volume of his memoir cycle the 'Duluoz Legend'. Based on Jack Kerouac's memories of the beloved older brother who died when he was a boy, it is unique among his novels for its dreamlike evocation of the sensations of childhood - its wisdom, anguish, intensity, innocence, joy and pain. It is a haunting exploration of the precariousness of existence. 'Called a "pain-tale" by Kerouac, it's the story of an almost divine, Buddha-like child wracked with sickness and suffering' Guardian
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.
Maggie Cassidy , a 1959 novel by Jack Kerouac written about his times in Lowell, MA from 1938 to 1939. It chronicles Kerouac's real life relationship with teen age heart-throb Mary Carney. It is unique for Kerouac for its high school setting and teenage characters. He wrote the novel in 1953 but it was not published until 1959, after the success of On the Road .
With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to Waiting for the Barbarians and The Master of Petersburg , J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe - and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself. In 1720 the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe is approached by Susan Barton, lately a castaway on a desert island. She wants him to tell her story, and that of the enigmatic man who has become her rescuer, companion, master and sometime lover: Cruso. Cruso is dead, and his manservant, Friday, is incapable of speech. As she tries to relate the truth about him, the ambitious Barton cannot help turning Cruso into her invention. For as narrated by Foe - as by Coetzee himself - the stories we thought we know acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly moving.
