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Redeeming 6. Część druga

Redeeming 6. Część druga

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Joey Lynch żył w piekle od dnia narodzin.Badania w szpitalu ujawniają wstrząsającą prawdę. Joey już w pierwszych chwilach życia stał się ofiarą maltretowania. Aoife usłyszała od lekarza, że to prawdziwy cud, że mężczyzna żyje. Prawda ścina ją z nóg i kobieta tonie w morzu łez. Świadomość, że najważniejszy dla niej człowiek na świecie musiał znosić ten koszmar w cierpieniu, jest dla niej ogromnym ciosem. Rozpoczynają się poszukiwania ojca Joeya. Tym razem się nie wywinie. Wkrótce jednak znika też Joey. Świat Aoife rozpada się kawałek po kawałku, a ból oraz strach miażdżą jej serce. Książka zawiera treści nieodpowiednie dla osób poniżej osiemnastego roku życia. Opis pochodzi od Wydawcy.

Mai fidarsi delle apparenze

Mai fidarsi delle apparenze

Fiction & Literature

I Delaney sono un punto di riferimento per la loro comunità, e Joy e Stan sono l'invidia di tutti i loro amici. Dopo cinquant'anni di matrimonio e di duro lavoro alla scuola di tennis di loro proprietà, sono pronti a godersi serenamente la pensione. Joy è però dispiaciuta che nessuno dei quattro figli - Amy, Logan, Troy e Brooke - voglia rilevare l'attività di famiglia; la Delaneys Tennis Academy è stata per tutti una seconda casa che ha saputo accogliere gioie e dolori, per quanto lei preferisca ricordare soprattutto le prime. Non ha nipoti a cui badare, anche se è certa che presto arriveranno, e per occupare il tempo si dedica all'ascolto di podcast su argomenti disparati, dall'emicrania alla demenza senile. Solo un bussare insistente in tarda serata interrompe la voce del suo speaker preferito. Una sconosciuta si presenta alla porta confusa e sanguinante dopo un litigio con il fidanzato. Stan e Joy la fanno entrare, contenti di ospitare Savannah - questo il nome della ragazza - nella loro casa spaziosa per tutto il tempo che vorrà.Quando però il giorno di San Valentino Joy scompare e la ragazza non si trova da nessuna parte, la polizia interroga l'unica persona rimasta: Stan. E, per essere uno che si dichiara innocente, sembra avere molto da nascondere. Persino i suoi figli non sono sicuri che dica la verità.Costretti a riesaminare la loro storia familiare sotto una luce del tutto nuova, i Delaney riaprono vecchie ferite e scoprono ombre inquietanti. Il loro padre è davvero l'uomo che hanno sempre creduto che fosse? E qual è la parte giusta da cui stare?

Trois jours et trois nuits

Trois jours et trois nuits

Fiction & Literature

" Les écrivains ont aimé Lagrasse. Là-bas, ils ont trouvé des amis, des conseillers, des guides, des hommes simples surtout. Personne n'était là pour convaincre l'autre. Mais le pari n'était pas gagné d'avance ", écrit Nicolas Diat dans sa préface.Que s'est-il passé dans cette abbaye des Corbières, entre Carcassonne et Narbonne ? À l'ombre de bâtiments immenses dont la fondation remonte au VIIIe siècle, quarante-deux jeunes chanoines mènent une vie de prière placée sous l'égide de la Règle de saint Augustin. Pendant trois jours et trois nuits, quinze écrivains les ont rejoints pour partager leur quotidien. Office, étude, travail manuel, promenade, repas, ils ont eu le privilège d'être sans cesse avec eux.Voici les beaux récits de ces expériences inoubliables, pleines de péripéties et de surprises..." Les frères étaient bons avec moi. Ils venaient me parler. On s'asseyait dans les fauteuils et ils m'apprenaient des choses sur la pensée augustinienne que j'avais attendu quarante-neuf ans pour découvrir car – faisons des confessions – j'avais peu lu Augustin. En outre, longtemps je m'étais promené du côté de la Mongolie extérieure où l'on disait autrement ces choses-là (et par surcroît, dans une langue impossible). "Sylvain Tesson" Après avoir passé trois jours et trois nuits à Notre-Dame de Lagrasse où j'ai vécu, prié, mangé ou lavé la vaisselle avec les chanoines, je ne pouvais m'empêcher, au moment de partir, de faire le parallèle, aussi scabreux fût-il, entre eux et leur saint dont les écrits sont d'actualité comme jamais. Depuis son évêché d'Hippone, actuelle Annaba, au nord-est de l'Algérie, Augustin a vécu avec sérénité la chute de l'Empire romain en proie aux invasions barbares, symbolisée par le premier sac de Rome, œuvre des Wisigoths en 410, avant ceux des Ostrogoths et des Vandales. "Franz-Olivier Giesbert" Je descends aux vêpres en pantalon et polo Lacoste blanc, par solidarité avec le look virginal desbrothers. À ma connaissance, ledresscode blanc est le seul et unique point commun entre Sainte-Marie de Lagrasse et le Nikki Beach de Saint-Tropez. Le chantre qui joue de l'orgue ressemble au Christ voilé de San Martino à Naples. Il a les yeux verts et interprète Bach comme Jimi Hendrix brûlait sa guitare électrique. "Frédéric BeigbederLes auteurs de ce livre reversent leurs droits aux chanoines de Lagrasse pour la restauration de leur abbaye.

Fiction River: Pulse Pounders

Fiction River: Pulse Pounders

Fiction & Literature

Starts with a bang. Ends with a bang. And a lot of bang in between. Pulse Pounders. Ranging from straight thriller to science fiction, fantasy to pulp adventure, these stories make your heart race. Share the excitement as a woman held hostage in a chair has only a few minutes to escape, and a man trapped in a time loop revisits a crisis point in the past. Including an original never-before-published Frank Herbert story, these page-turners show why Adventures Fantastic says Fiction River “is one of the best and most exciting publications in the field today.” “Fiction River: Crime edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch leads off with strong new tales by three familiar EQMM contributors: Doug Allyn with a gangster whodunnit, Steve Hockensmith with a con game story, and Brendan DuBois with a fresh variation on the old brothers-who-took-different-paths ploy. A sampling of other contents, including experimental short-shorts by Melissa Yi and M. Elizabeth Castle and a clever turn on the greedy-relatives-want-inheritance by Kate Wilhelm, suggest high quality throughout." —Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine on Fiction River Special Edition: Crime “Among the volume’s better entries are Doug Allyn’s “Hitler’s Dogs,” in which narrator Doc Bannan seeks the truth about his gang mentor’s death, and Steve Hockensmith’s “Wheel of Fortune,” which relates the schemes of a pair of con artists.” —Publishers Weekly on Fiction River Special Edition: Crime “… [this] fabulous collection runs the genre gamut and more.” —Genre Go Round Reviews on Fiction River Special Edition: Crime

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

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The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several characters through these events.

What Happens in Paradise

What Happens in Paradise

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Spend your winter on sunlit shores in the New York Times bestselling follow-up to Winter in Paradise, as secret lives and new loves emerge under the bright Caribbean sky. A year ago, Irene Steele had the shock of her life: her loving husband, father to their grown sons and successful businessman, was killed in a helicopter crash. But that wasn't Irene's only shattering news: he'd also been leading a double life on the island of St. John, where another woman loved him, too.Now Irene and her sons are back on St. John, determined to learn the truth about the mysterious life—and death—of a man they thought they knew. Along the way, they're about to learn some surprising truths about their own lives, and their futures.Lush with the tropical details, romance, and drama that made Winter in Paradise a national bestseller, What Happens in Paradise is another immensely satisfying page-turner from one of America's most beloved and engaging storytellers.

The Rumor

The Rumor

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A friendship is tested in this "thrilling" page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand (Us Weekly). Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket for their perfect marriages, their beautiful kids, their Saturday night double dates with their devoted husbands. But this summer, something's changed, and if there's anything Nantucket likes better than cocktails on the beach at sunset, it's a good rumor. And rumor has it... that Madeline, a novelist, is battling writer's block, with a deadline looming, bills piling up, and blank pages driving her to desperation — and a desperately bad decision; and that Grace, hard at work to transform her backyard into a garden paradise, has been collaborating a bit more closely than necessary with her ruggedly handsome landscape architect. As the gossip escalates, and they have the possible loss of the happy lives they've worked so hard to create, Grace and Madeline try mightily to set the record straight — but the truth might be even worse than rumor has it. 

Selected Stories

Selected Stories

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Selected Stories, Jack London. Revised version of http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/1821 . Selected Stories London, Jack, 1876-1916 Library of America New York 1982 Taken from the original type-setting tapes used by the Library of America: 1911-1918

The Pact

The Pact

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“Engrossing...The Pact is compelling reading.”—PeopleIn this heart-rending tale of love and friendship, Jodi Picoult brings to life a familiar world, and in a single terrifying moment awakens every parent’s worst fear: We think we know our children . . . but do we ever really know them at all?The Golds and the Hartes, neighbors for eighteen years, have always been inseparable. So have their children—and it’s no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily’s friendship blossoms into something more. But the bonds of family, friendship, and passion—which had seemed so indestructible—suddenly threaten to unravel in the wake of unimaginable tragedy.When midnight calls from the hospital come in, no one is ready for the truth. Emily is dead at seventeen from a gunshot wound to the head. There’s a single unspent bullet in the gun that Chris pilfered from his father’s cabinet—a bullet that Chris tells police he intended for himself. But a local detective has doubts about the suicide pact that Chris describes.This extraordinary, poignant novel paints an indelible portrait of two families in anguish . . . and creates an astonishingly suspenseful courtroom drama as Chris is put on trial for murder.

The Tailgate

The Tailgate

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A stirring portrait of a relationship at a crossroads, this digital original short story follows two irresistible young lovers as they cope with college life, and invites us into a world we don't want to leave. Clendenin Hughes first kissed Dabney Kimball during a Nantucket snowstorm freshman year of high school. Ever since that moment - God, the rush, the chemistry! - Dabney has known that she and Clen are an unsplittable unit - essentially the same person in two different bodies. Of course, with Dabney now at Harvard and Clen at Yale, those bodies are 140 miles apart. And traveling is a serious challenge for Dabney, for reasons she'd prefer not to discuss, reasons having to do with her mother (or lack thereof). But with the big Harvard-Yale game coming up, Dabney is determined to make the trek to New Haven to see Clen. She's even borrowed a sexy black outfit from a classmate down the hall. But when she arrives at the tailgate to see sparks flying between Clen and Jocelyn, a girl with dark blue eyes and luscious black hair, Dabney fears the collapse of a bond she has never questioned before, a bond so important that she'll be lost without it. To learn the fates of Dabney and Clen, read Elin Hilderbrand's novel, The Matchmaker.

A Carolina Valentine

A Carolina Valentine

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A Valentine’s Day wedding, a fake girlfriend and a bachelor auction—what could go wrong? After an unexpected—but heated—New Year’s kiss, Dr. Paul Thorpe has done his utmost to keep things from turning awkward with his colleague, nurse Aimee Baker. But when she asks him to participate in the bachelor auction at the hospital’s fundraising gala, he takes his chances and agrees on one condition: that Aimee accompany him to his brother’s Valentine’s Day wedding as his pretend girlfriend. What he doesn’t tell her is that his ex-fiancée will also be in attendance. Aimee agrees, knowing Paul’s participation in the auction will raise the money needed for a mobile health clinic. And as much as she’s looking forward to spending a weekend with Paul, she’s also certain it won’t go anywhere. Everyone knows that Paul doesn’t date, and after Aimee’s divorce, that’s fine with her…or so she tells herself. But as the weekend goes on, their fake relationship is beginning to feel all too real, despite the limit on their time together. Will this Valentine’s Day wedding date make it past the weekend?

The Vegetarian

The Vegetarian

Fiction & Literature

FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—from the Nobel Prize citation WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • “Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of renunciation.”—Entertainment WeeklyOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century“Ferocious.”—The New York Times Book Review (Ten Best Books of the Year)“Both terrifying and terrific.”—Lauren Groff“Provocative [and] shocking.”—The Washington PostBefore the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself.  Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her. A Best Book of the Year: BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Time, Elle, The Economist, HuffPost, Slate, Bustle, The St. Louis Dispatch, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly

The Masters of Horror for Halloween

The Masters of Horror for Halloween

Fiction & Literature

e-artnow presents to you this unique collection made especially for Halloween with carefully picked out stories from the very masters of the genre: H. P. Lovecraft: The Call of Cthulhu The Shadow Over Innsmouth Dagon The Dunwich Horror The Picture in the House The Outsider The Silver Key In the Vault The Whisperer in Darkness The Thing on the Doorstep The Shadow out of Time The Colour out of Space The Music of Erich Zann The Haunter of the Dark The Rats in the Walls Pickman's Model From Beyond Herbert West-Reanimator At The Mountains Of Madness Edgar Allan Poe: The Fall of the House of Usher The Cask of Amontillado The Pit and the Pendulum The Tell-Tale Heart The Masque of the Red Death The Black Cat The Murders in the Rue Morgue Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge The Devil's Dictionary Chickamauga Arthur Machen: The Three Impostors The Hill of Dreams The Terror The Secret Glory The White People The Great God Pan The Inmost Light The Shining Pyramid The Red Hand The Great Return

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

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Oliver Twist s'inspire au moins en partie de l'histoire autobiographique de Robert Blincoe, publiée dans les années 1830 et très appréciée du public — même si subsiste un doute quant à son authenticité — où l'auteur, orphelin élevé à la dure dans un hospice paroissial, est soumis à un labeur forcé et aux pires souffrances dans une manufacture de coton.

Silver Girl

Silver Girl

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Meredith Martin Delinn just lost everything: her friends, her homes, her social standing — because her husband Freddy cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars.Desperate and facing homelessness, Meredith receives a call from her old best friend, Constance Flute. Connie's had recent worries of her own, and the two depart for a summer on Nantucket in an attempt to heal. But the island can't offer complete escape, and they're plagued by new and old troubles alike. When Connie's brother Toby — Meredith's high school boyfriend — arrives, Meredith must reconcile the differences between the life she is leading and the life she could have had.Set against the backdrop of a Nantucket summer, Elin Hilderbrand delivers a suspenseful story of the power of friendship, the pull of love, and the beauty of forgiveness.“Clearly the Madoff family inspired this plot, but Hilderbrand gives it her own sun-kissed, optimistic spin — which is not to say it’s all Rosa rugosa, just that there’s a silver lining to the ugliest of circumstances.” —Elisabeth Egan, New York Times

Το Μυστικό του Συζύγου

Το Μυστικό του Συζύγου

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Μητέρα τριών κοριτσιών και σύζυγος του Τζoν-Πολ, η Σεσίλια ανακαλύπτει στη σοφίτα έναν παλιό φάκελο. Γραμμένος από το χέρι του άντρα της, λέει: «Να ανοιχτεί σε περίπτωση θανάτου μου». Γεμάτη περιέργεια, τον ανοίγει - και ο χρόνος σταματά. Στο γράμμα του, ο Τζον-Πολ ομολογεί ένα τρομερό λάθος, το οποίο, αν αποκαλυφθεί, θα καταστρέψει την οικογένειά τους, καθώς επίσης και τη ζωή άλλων ανθρώπων. Η Σεσίλια θέλει να κάνει το σωστό, αλλά το σωστό για ποιον; Αν προστατέψει την οικογένειά της αποσιωπώντας το μυστικό, η αλήθεια θα της σαπίσει την καρδιά. Αν όμως το αποκαλύψει, θα πληγώσει όσους αγαπά περισσότερο στη ζωή της…

The Lion Women of Tehran

The Lion Women of Tehran

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An “evocative read and a powerful portrait of friendship, feminism, and political activism” (People) set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran—from nationally bestselling author Marjan Kamali. In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. Lonely and bearing the brunt of her mother’s endless grievances, Ellie dreams for a friend to alleviate her isolation.Luckily, on the first day of school, she meets Homa, a kind girl with a brave and irrepressible spirit. Together, the two girls play games, learn to cook in the stone kitchen of Homa’s warm home, wander through the colorful stalls of the Grand Bazaar, and share their ambitions of becoming “lion women.”But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their previous bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls’ high school in Iran, Ellie’s memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, her sudden reappearance in Ellie’s privileged world alters the course of both of their lives.Together, the two young women come of age and pursue their own goals for meaningful futures. But as the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences.“Reminiscent of The Kite Runner and My Brilliant Friend, The Lion Women of Tehran is a mesmerizing tale” (BookPage) of love and courage, and a sweeping exploration of how profoundly we are shaped by those we meet when we are young.

L'últim adéu

L'últim adéu

Fiction & Literature

Una història de misteri orquestrada per personatges pintorescs i ambientada entre els anys trenta i l'actualitat. Una novel·la absorbent com només la Kate Morton ho sap fer.Totes les famílies tenen secrets.I, per a algunes, només cal un esdeveniment per canviar-ho tot.Un nen desaparegut...Juny, 1933. A Loanneth, la mansió al camp de la família Edevane, tot està net i polit, a punt per a la tan esperada festa del solstici d'estiu. L'Alice Edevane, una noieta de setze anys que fa les primeres passes com a escriptora, està molt il·lusionada, ha trobat el gir argumental perfecte per a la seva novel·la i a més s'ha enamorat perdudament del jardiner de la casa. Tanmateix, a mitjanit, quan els focs d'artifici il·luminin el cel, la família Edevane haurà patit una pèrdua tan gran que es veurà obligada a abandonar Loanneth per sempre...Una casa abandonada.Al cap de setanta anys, després d'un cas especialment complicat, la Sadie Sparrow, investigadora a Scotland Yard, està de permís laboral forçós i busca refugi a la casa del seu avi a Cornualles, però aviat s'adona que estar sense fer res no és fàcil. Un dia surt a córrer i per causalitat arriba a una vella casa abandonada envoltada de vegetació i de boscos espessos, i topa amb la història d'un nen petit desaparegut sense deixar rastre...Un misteri sense resoldre.Mentrestant, a l'àtic d'una casa elegant de Hampstead, la formidable Alice Edevane, ja vella, fa una vida tan curosament planificada com les novel·les policíaques que escriu. Fins que una jove detectiu comença a fer preguntes sobre el passat familiar en un intent de desenterrar l'intrincat embull de secrets dels quals l'Alice ha mirat de fugir tota la vida...La crítica ha dit...«L'escriptora supervendes Kate Morton sobresurt un cop més amb aquesta novel·la de misteri amb l'Anglaterra dels anys trenta com a suggerent teló de fons. La trama és impecable i els personatges, modelats amb habilitat i reunits al final del llibre com a resultat de la investigació de la Sparrow, queden tan sorpresos com els lectors per l'inesperat desenllaç.»Publishers Weekly«Morton escriu amb perícia novel·les amb aroma d'una altra època i una atmosfera torbadora, amb prou trames per omplir l'àtic del castell de Milderhurts.»Bookpage