Alessandro Storti Boeken

The Fart Powder was such a successful invention that Doctor Proctor couldn't stop there. Next up: a Time-travel Bath Bomb. Throw the Bath Bomb in the tub, lather up and imagine where you'd like to visit. The battle of Waterloo? No problem. The French Revolution? Let's go! Doctor Proctor has plans for this new invention. Years ago he lost his true love, Juliette Margarine, and now he wants to change the past and win her back. But when his plan goes awry, it's up to Nilly and LIsa to travel in time and save the day. Full of humour and witty dialogue, Jo Nesbø creates wonderfully weird characters and lets his imagination run wild in his Doctor Proctor series. A must read for fans of David Walliams and Roald Dahl.

Healing Through Words is a guided tour on the journey back to the self, a cathartic and mindful exploration through writing. This carefully curated collection of exercises asks only that you be vulnerable and honest, both with yourself and the page. You don't need to be a writer to take this walk; you just need to write - that's all.

De blinde assistente van een messenwerper wordt levenloos aangetroffen in een park in Marseille. Ze is de ex van een goede vriend van Tom Stilton, en samen onderzoeken ze haar dood. Intussen wordt in Stockholm het lijk van douanebeambte Bengt Sahlmann aangetroffen. Er is gepoogd het op zelfmoord te laten lijken, maar dat is overduidelijk niet het geval en de politie legt onmiddellijk de link met een grote drugsvangst van de douane. De zaak belandt op het bureau van Mette Olsäter, die het team leidt dat een grote internationale drugszwendel onderzoekt. Olivia Rönning is terug uit Mexico en raakt bij toeval betrokken bij de zaak-Sahlmann. Ze kiest daarin – hoe kan het ook anders – een heel andere weg dan het team van Mette Olsäter en komt zo op het spoor van de moordenaar. Maar die weet op zijn beurt inmiddels ook wie Olivia is…

After feeling disconnected for so long my mind and body are finally coming back to each other. [4e de couverture].

Het levensverhaal van een Javaanse vrouw die opgroeide in de kraton, het vorstenverblijf in Djokja.

Een tienermeisje lijkt ritueel vermoord te zijn en het onderzoeksteam van Munch wordt op de zaak gezet. De bijdrage van superrechercheur Krüger is cruciaal, maar ze worstelt met zelfmoordneigingen en verslaving. Dan duikt er een verontrustend filmpje op dat nieuwe details prijsgeeft. Ondertussen zit Munchs dochter midden in een emotionele crisis en komt ze in contact met een zeer zieke geest…

WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in lifeâe(tm)s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.

Duistere spanning en zwarte magie Op een nacht, wanneer de maan mysterieus rood kleurt, worden zes meiden naar een afgesloten park geleid. Ze hebben niets met elkaar gemeen. Ze weten niet hoe ze daar gekomen zijn of waarom ze daar zijn, maar zonder elkaar zullen ze het niet overleven. Kort daarvoor zijn Minoo, Rebecka, Vanessa, Anna-Karin, Linnéa en Ida in het stadje Engelsfors aan een nieuw schooljaar begonnen. Ze ontdekken allemaal dat ze bijzondere gaven hebben. In het park horen ze dat er een eeuwenoud Kwaad in Engelsfors huist. En volgens een even oude voorspelling zijn zíj uitverkoren om dat te verslaan. Alleen als ze samenwerken, kunnen ze de duistere machten overwinnen en veel tijd is er niet meer…

The stunning first instalment in the internationally bestselling Malin Fors series of Swedish crime novels, a Richard & Judy Bookclub selection.

"Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy's bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. On Miranda's twelfth birthday, Billy has a falling-out with her mother and disappears from Miranda's life. Sixteen years later she receives news that Billy has died and left her Prospero Books, which is teetering on bankruptcy-- and one final scavenger hunt. Home in Los Angeles, Miranda finds clues that Billy has hidden for her inside novels on the store's shelves, in locked drawers of his apartment upstairs, in the name of the store itself. She is drawn into a journey where she meets people whose stories reveal a history that Miranda's mother has kept hidden-- and the terrible secret that tore her family apart."-- Adapted from book jacket.

In Reykjavík pleegt de veertigjarige patiënt Daniel zelfmoord in een inrichting. Vrijwel gelijktijdig komt een bejaarde leraar bij een brand om het leven. Deze beide gevallen houden verband met elkaar, want de leraar heeft Daniel in de jaren zestig lesgegeven en heeft hem pasgeleden weer opgezocht in het ziekenhuis. Aan inspecteur Erlendur en zijn kompaan Sigurđur Óli de taak om de achtergronden van beide zaken te onderzoeken. Ook de broer van Daniel begint naspeuringen te doen. Onafhankelijk van elkaar komen ze tot gruwelijke conclusies.

In 1940, eighteen-year-old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MIS tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past for ever. Ten years later, now a producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence.

Jasmin è una donna, una madre, un soldato dell’esercito svedese di stanza in Kosovo. Vive per l’amore del figlio Dante, che ha avuto da un suo commilitone, un uomo poco affidabile che cerca di affogare nell’alcol e nella droga gli orrori della guerra. Jasmin in Kosovo è stata ferita gravemente, e durante il ricovero in ospedale, mentre lottava tra la vita e la morte, la sua anima si è trovata per qualche giorno in un’affollata e misteriosa città portuale dove tutti i cartelli sono scritti in cinese e dove ha visto imbarcarsi, per non tornare mai più, uno dei suoi uomini. Ma Jasmin è forte e sa come tornare dalla città misteriosa, sa che si deve stare molto attenti a non farsi rubare la targhetta d’argento che ti mettono al collo quando arrivi nella città misteriosa, perché è il lasciapassare per il ritorno. Due anni dopo la prima esperienza nella città dei morti, Jasmin ci ritorna di nuovo con il figlio: hanno avuto un incidente d’auto e solo lei riesce ad allontanarsi per tornare di nuovo nel mondo dei vivi, lontano dal porto delle anime. Dante è molto più grave, dev’essere operato, e Jasmin non può abbandonarlo nella città misteriosa: deve tornare, lottare per quello che ha di più caro, in un terribile gioco di morte che rischia di vederla sconfitta. Un thriller dal ritmo cinematografico che non lascia respiro, con una nuova protagonista che piacerà ai fan dell’IpnotistaI e ne conquisterà di nuovi.

<b>Roma, 1982.</b> Quando Ronald Reagan varca la soglia degli appartamenti privati del papa, Giovanni Paolo II fa uscire tutti i presenti, comprese le guardie del corpo. Lasciare soli il pontefice e il presidente degli Stati Uniti è una grave infrazione del protocollo e un rischio per la sicurezza. Ma nessuno deve venire a conoscenza del loro segreto… <b>Washington, oggi.</b> Dopo due mandati, per Danny Daniels è giunto il momento di lasciare la Casa Bianca. Il suo successore ha già annunciato grandi cambiamenti. A cominciare dallo scioglimento della Sezione Magellano, considerata un'inutile voce di costo. Stephanie Nelle sarà quindi costretta a dare le dimissioni, abbandonando il suo unico agente ancora attivo: Cotton Malone… <b>Siberia, oggi.</b> Che cosa succederebbe se il nuovo presidente degli Stati Uniti e il suo vice venissero assassinati prima di aver prestato giuramento? Cotton Malone spera di non doverlo scoprire mai. E ha solo quarantotto ore di tempo per sventare i piani di un uomo che, da anni, si nasconde in quel deserto di ghiaccio e attende nell’ombra l’occasione giusta per vendicarsi…