Maria Teresa Marenco Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

From the Flap: Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and her Territories "twinner" from a premature and agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories. When a series of gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier by a real-life madman named Albert Fish, the killer is dubbed "The Fisherman" and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help his inexperienced force find him. But is this merely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town? What causes Jack's inexplicable waking dreams, if that is what they are, of robins' eggs and red feathers? It's almost as if someone is trying to tell him something. As that message becomes increasingly impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden past, where he may find the soul-strength to enter a terrifying house at the end of a deserted track of forest, there to encounter the obscene and ferocious evils sheltered within it.

From the author of "Timeline, Sphere, "and "Congo" comes the sequel to the smash-hit "Jurassic Park, "a thriller that's been millions of years in the making. #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER "Fast and gripping."--"The Washington Post Book World" It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, and the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived. . . . "Harrowing thrills . . . fast-paced and engaging."--"People" "A very scary read."--"Entertainment Weekly" "Action-packed."--New York "Daily News" " " "An edge-of-the-seat tale.""--St. Petersburg Times"

Alla fine degli anni Ottanta, Gerald Durrell intraprende una spedizione in Madagascar per catturare alcuni aye-aye, un lemure unico della zona, per garantirne la riproduzione. Durrell considera inaccettabile l'estinzione di una creatura così straordinaria, paragonandola a bruciare un Rembrandt. Giunto sull'isola, che gli appare come un'omelette mal rivoltata, inizia la sua ricerca. Dopo una visita al mercato locale, dove polli simili a piumini sono appesi sotto ombrelloni bianchi, riesce a salvare il primo esemplare, destinato a essere cucinato da una massaia indigena. Con il suo caratteristico umorismo, Durrell trasforma l'indagine scientifica in un'avventura avvincente, anche nello studio del linguaggio dei lemuri, che include suoni come "pop", miagolii e ringhi. Gli animali sono i veri protagonisti, osservati con ironia e ammirazione: oche egiziane in completo di tweed, pappagalli sfavillanti e felini che sembrano la versione malgascia della Pantera Rosa. Anche gli umani sono descritti con uno sguardo divertito, impegnati in un compulsivo shopping natalizio tra bancarelle di scimmie e maialini colorati. Il libro è stato pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1992.

Ooit deden vier jongens in Derry iets moedigs. Het veranderde hen op een manier die ze nauwelijks begrepen. Een kwart eeuw later zijn de jongens mannen die eens per jaar samen jagen in de bossen van Maine. En dit keer valt een verwarde man hun kamp binnen, brabbelend over lichten aan de hemel. Voor ze het weten zijn de vrienden verwikkeld in een strijd met een wezen dat niet van deze wereld is. Hun enige kans is gelegen in hun verleden. En in de dromenvanger... Dromenvanger (Dreamcatcher) was de snelst verkopende roman van King tot dusver. Al vóór publicatie waren de filmrechten ervan verkocht. Castle Rock huurde de beste scriptwriters van Hollywood in: Oscarwinnaar William Goldman (o.a. Marathon Man, All the Presidents Men) en Lawrence Kashdan, die betrokken was bij vier van de populairste films aller tijden: Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi en The Bodyguard. Kashdan verfilmde het verhaal met Morgan Freeman en Tom Sizemore en met de jonge sterren Thomas Jane (The Sweetest Thing), Jason Lee (Almost Famous), Timothy Oliphant (Scream 2), Damien Lewis (Band of Brothers) en Donny Wahlberg (Sixth Sense, Band of Brothers). Het resultaat is een even indrukwekkende film als The Green Mile.

Jurský park, patřící k nejslavnějším knihám žánru sci-fi, nás vtahuje do ztraceného světa pradávných živočichů, který na Zemi kdysi skutečně existoval. V napínavém příběhu sledujeme dobrodružství, jehož počátky stojí na lidské pýše toužící ovládat živly mocnější než člověk. Příběh je vyprávěn z pohledu zúčastněných postav: protiváhou chamtivých sobců je paleontolog Grant, na kterého by se hodila přezdívka Indiana Bones, a také Tim a Lex - vnuk a vnučka miliardáře, který chce na riskantním projektu znovuzrození dinosaurů velkolepě vydělat. „Život je ve skutečnosti celou řadou náhod, z nichž každá událost může změnit všechny následující zcela nepředvídatelným až zničujícím způsobem“. Dospělý velociraptor, rychlý, inteligentní a útočný, představoval nejdravějšího dinosaura, který kdy žil. Napadal oběti ostrými zuby a silnými předními končetinami s drápy.

A terrifying novel of love and slaughter set in London and New Orleans. To serial killer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from a life sentence in prison, he makes his way to America with the intention of bringing his art to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, he inadvertently joins forces with Jay, a dissolute playboy. They set their sights on a young Vietnamese-American runaway, who they deem to be the perfect victim. Moving from the grimy streets of London's Piccadilly Circus to the decadences of New Orleans' French Quarter, Poppy Z. Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites us into the mind of a serial killer in this riveting, unforgettable masterpiece of horror.

"Crichton has an extraordinary capacity to seize upon, then make real and personal, the new and the complex, the intriguing and the frighening." THE NATION In this incisive, detailed survey of five patients, famous thriller author and doctor Michael Crichton explores the dramatic workings of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston's oldest and most prestigious. This readable account covers not only the history of the hospital's place in society, but also the actual minute-to-minute functions of Mass General, where health professionals wage their daily battle against disease and death. Crichton's insightful look at the changes in medicine and surgery caused by technological strides of recent years makes for amazing reading.

Een man, die bijna wordt aangerand door zijn bazin, wordt daarna door haar van aanranding beschuldigd.