Three angels are sent down to bring good to the world: Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, a teenage girl who is the least experienced of the trio. But she is the most human, and when she is romantically drawn to a mortal boy, the angels fear she will not be strong enough to save anyone-especially herself. . . Is love a great enough power against evil?
A series of seismic events--the tanking of Claudia's film, the return of Jeremy's manipulative ex-girlfriend, and the staggering adjustment of their monthly mortgage payments--deal a crushing blow to a young married couple dreaming of the bohemian life and their professional aspirations, and make them question their values and their shared vision of the future.
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As confusion starts to cloud her thinking and her memory begins to fail her, she receives a devastating diagnosis: early onset Alzheimer's disease
Raised amidst the confines of Iranian society, young Tamila Soroush escapes the oppression of Iran for the freedom of America, enjoying her everyday acts of rebellion against her background and capturing her new life through the lens of her camera, all the while searching for a husband who can prevent her return home. Original.
Hij verschuilt zich in je huis. Volgt je wekenlang. Weet alles van jou en je partner. En dan slaat hij toe… Wat zou jij doen wanneer de 50/50-moordenaar jou en je geliefde uitkiest om zijn duivelse spel te spelen? Een psychopaat met een duivelsmasker ontvoert stelletjes en dwingt hen te kiezen wie van hen tot zonsopgang blijft leven en wie niet. De jonge profiler Mark Nelson wordt op zijn eerste werkdag in het team van de succesvolle rechercheur John Mercer meteen in de zaak van de 50/50-moordenaar betrokken. Op de plaats delict ligt het lijk van een verbrande man in bad en vinden ze een verontrustende tekening op de muur van een soort spinnenweb met symbolen. Als een volgend slachtoffer ontsnapt en zich verward en verminkt op het politiebureau meldt, wordt de zoektocht naar diens vriendin een race tegen de klok. Zij moet vóór de ochtend aanbreekt gevonden worden…
Op de dag dat een echtpaar miljonair wordt, komt er een eind aan hun huwelijk.
In this globe-scattered Sri Lankan family, we speak of only two kinds of marriage. The first is the arranged marriage. The second is the love marriage. In reality, there is a whole spectrum in between, but most of us spend years running away from the first toward the second.The daughter of Sri Lankan immigrants who left their collapsing country and married in America, Yalini finds herself caught between the traditions of her ancestors and the lure of her own modern world. But when she is summoned to Toronto to help care for her dying uncle, Kumaran, a former member of the militant Tamil Tigers, Yalini is forced to see that violence is not a relic of the Sri Lankan past, but very much a part of her Western present.While Kumaran’s loved ones gather around him to say goodbye, Yalini traces her family’s roots—and the conflicts facing them as ethnic Tamils—through a series of marriages. Now, as Kumaran’s death and his daughter’s politically motivated nuptials edge closer, Yalini must decide where she stands. Lyrical and innovative, V. V. Ganeshananthan’s novel brilliantly unfolds how generations of struggle both form and fractures families.
Sequel to the top ten bestseller BRETHREN - the most exciting launch in historical adventure since Conn Iggulden.
La vita di Robert Reckliss - direttore della sede newyorkese di un'agenzia di stampa - sta andando in frantumi: in seguito al suicidio di un industriale intervistato dalla sua redazione, è stato sospeso dal lavoro, e il suo matrimonio sta attraversando una grave crisi, iniziata dopo che la moglie ha perso il figlio tanto atteso. Come se non bastasse, una mattina Robert riceve un pacco speditogli da Adam, un amico di cui aveva perso le tracce dopo l'università. L'involucro racchiude una piccola scatola di metallo intarsiato e un biglietto che recita semplicemente: Ti prego, aiutami. Non c'è tempo. Lo scrigno a sua volta contiene due chiavi e un foglietto che riporta un indirizzo e un'unica parola: vitriol. All'inizio, Robert pensa che sia solo l'ennesimo rompicapo escogitato da Adam, grande appassionato di enigmi. Quando si reca all'indirizzo indicato, però, si ritrova coinvolto in una sorta di caccia al tesoro, condotta sopra e sotto le strade di Manhattan, che non ha nulla del gioco e della finzione, perché mira a disinnescare un arcano ordigno che di lì a una settimana distruggerà New York e, probabilmente, l'intero Occidente. Soltanto rintracciando sette chiavi - guidato da indizi criptici e tracce sibilline - e superando sette prove - fisiche e spirituali - Robert potrà neutralizzare l'arma più potente che l'uomo abbia mai conosciuto...
One rainy afternoon in Istanbul a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I want an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old, and unmarried. What happens that afternoon is to change her life, and the lives of everyone around her. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Due to a mysterious family curse all the men die by age 41, so it is a house of women, among them her beautiful, rebellious mother, Zeliha, clairvoyant Auntie Banu and bar-brawl widow, Auntie Cevriye. But when Asya's Armenian-American cousin Armanoush comes to stay, long-hidden family secrets and Turkey's turbulent past begin to emerge.
