Panny

Panny

Edward Fosca je vrah. Mariana je o tom přesvědčená. Jenže pohledný a charismatický profesor řecké tragédie je na Cambridgeské univerzitě nedotknutelný. Studenti ho zbožňují, zejména členky tajného studentského spolku nazvaného Panny. A právě z jejich řad vzešla první oběť. Je vážně možné, že by se profesor zaměřil na jednu ze svých studentek? Když se objeví další tělo, Mariana se rozhodne Foscu zastavit – i kdyby ji to mělo stát její vlastní život.„Bestsellerový autor Mlčící pacientky přichází s napínavým příběhem spojujícím řeckou mytologii, vraždu a posedlost, kterým znovu stvrzuje, že Michaelides je předním hráčem na poli psychologických thrillerů.“– Publishers Weekly„Chytré a sofistikované vyprávění plné opravdového napětí – vynikající román podle všech měřítek.“– Lee Child, britský autor thrillerůAlex Michaelides se narodil na Kypru, vystudoval literaturu na Cambridge University a scenáristiku na American Film Institute v Los Angeles. Jeho debutový román Mlčící pacientka se více než rok udržel na žebříčku bestsellerů New York Times a prodal se v rekordních padesáti zemích. Panny jsou jeho druhý román. Autor žije v Londýně.

El misterio de las cuatro cartas

El misterio de las cuatro cartas

Vuelve Hércules Poirot, el detective más célebre de la historia de la novela negra, en un apasionante nuevo caso que llevará sus células grises al límite.Hércules Poirot se encuentra con una mujer muy enfadada esperando a la puerta de su casa: le exige saber por qué motivo le ha enviado una carta acusándola del asesinato de Barnabas Pandy, un hombre a quien no conoce y que aparentemente falleció por causas naturales. El problema es que Poirot no le ha enviado ninguna carta y, además, tampoco conoce al Sr. Pandy. El desconcierto es total cuando el investigador belga descubre que en su salón le espera un desconocido que también afirma haber recibido una carta firmada por su puño y letra esa misma mañana y, sorprendentemente, también lo acusa del asesinato de Barnabas Pandy. ¿Cuántas cartas más de este tipo se han enviado en su nombre? ¿Quién las ha enviado y, sobre todo, por qué? Y más importante aún, ¿alguien asesinó a Barnabas Pandy?

PEN America 1: Classics

PEN America 1: Classics

The first issue of PEN's literary journal, Classics features tributes to Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino, a conversation between Richard Howard and Susan Sontag, a PEN panel discussion on the literary fact and fiction, and much more. PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers is published by PEN American Center. Featuring fiction, poetry, conversation, criticism, and memoir, PEN America champions international authors and provides first-hand insight into the minds of contemporary writers through provocative symposia.   In 2000, PEN America was named one of the Ten Best New Magazines by Library Journal. PEN America has been a finalist for the Utne Independent Press Award for international coverage, and work from recent issues has been selected for Best American Essays, Best American Stories, and the Pushcart Prize.

Normal Girl

Normal Girl

"Randa, what's wrong with you?""Nothing. I mean, I'm a crazy cocaine addict with a hankering for heroin, but other than that, I'm just a nice Jewish girl from the Upper East Side with Prada shoes. How could anything be wrong?" Molly Jong-Fast's Normal Girl is striking-and as funny as it as real. Inspired by her own experiences growing up in the decadent, fast-paced netherworld of New York City's jet set, Jong-Fast's debut novel is a hilarious, hard-edged walk past the velvet rope.At just nineteen, Miranda Woke seems to have it all. Her parents are famous socialites, she's already been written up on Page Six sixteen times, she's on all the right invitation lists, and drugs and alcohol are never in short supply. But while her image screams "It girl," she'd rather be a normal girl, and the A-list feels even more uncomfortable than her Manolo Blahnik shoes. In fact, she's become the "living embodiment of an awkward phase" with "more issues than Harper's Bazaar." Neither Xanax nor Deepak Chopra tapes help. And now that her junkie party has trashed her parents' house, she has to liquidate her trust fund to pay Mom's decorator for a quick fix. But worst of all, Miranda thinks she just murdered her own boyfriend.In an all-too-glamorous world where the cell phone is always ringing, Miranda sees no escape other than a downward spiral of cocaine, Valium, and heroin. It takes friends who offer more than air kisses to force Miranda to look in the mirror and get some help.

Le Messager

Le Messager

À Jérusalem, la découverte du tombeau de l'apôtre Jacques le Mineur a tourné au drame. Simon Cohen, son découvreur, est mort dans l'explosion de son laboratoire où il examinait les restes de cet apôtre qui pourrait être le propre frère du Christ. Cet attentat a été commandité par Christus Causa, groupuscule catholique radical qui ne supportait pas que l'on puisse remettre en cause le mythe de la virginité de Marie. Sarah Cohen, généticienne et veuve de Simon, reprend la quête de son mari. Elle part à la recherche d'une relique du Christ pour comparer l'ADN de Jésus à celui de son supposé frère et prouver au monde l'existence de cette fratrie : à Vienne se trouve la Lance de Longin, l'arme qui aurait transpercé le flanc du Christ sur le Mont Golgotha. Le père Gabriel, entré en religion par rédemption après avoir été garde du corps d'un gouverneur devenu président des Etats-Unis, est recruté de force par Christus Causa. Le groupuscule souhaite l'utiliser pour avoir l'oreille de l'homme le plus puissant du monde. En son sein, Gabriel réalise la menace qui pèse sur Sarah, la femme du découvreur du tombeau. Il décide de la protéger dans sa quête, aussi profane et dangereuse soit-elle. De la folie d'Hitler aux frasques du général Patton, l'enquête de Sarah et Gabriel les mènera sur les sentiers obscurs de l'histoire.

Target of the Heart

Target of the Heart

A first mission by a new team should not risk everything—except this time it must. “I can’t wait for the next one to come out.” Launching a new Special Operations helicopter company may be the hardest assignment a commander could draw. Forming it with a team of rookie pilots, then slamming them into a Black Ops crisis mission to infiltrate China—well that’s just uncalled for. And what is Major Pete Napier to do with the soft-spoken woman who can outfly him on his best day? Maybe China isn’t his biggest challenge. “Buchman’s research is amazing and his attention to detail is astounding.” [Can be read stand-alone or in series. A complete happy-ever-after with no cliffhangers. Originally published in “The Night Stalkers 5E” series in 2016. Re-edited 2021 for improved reader experience but still the same great story.] Buy now to join the military romance adventure.

CLASSICS FOR CHRISTMAS: 180+ Novels, Christmas Tales, Poems & Carols in One Volume (Illustrated)

CLASSICS FOR CHRISTMAS: 180+ Novels, Christmas Tales, Poems & Carols in One Volume (Illustrated)

This carefully crafted ebook: "CLASSICS FOR CHRISTMAS: 180+ Novels, Christmas Tales, Poems & Carols in One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) Where Love Is, God Is (Leo Tolstoy) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The First Christmas Of New England (Harriet Beecher Stowe) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) Christmas at Thompson Hall (Anthony Trollope) Christmas in the Olden Time (Walter Scott) The Romance of a Christmas Card (Kate Douglas Wiggin) The Twelve Days of Christmas Silent Night Ring Out, Wild Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson) Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley) Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown) Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton) Granny's Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne) Christmas At Sea (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford) Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) The Birds' Christmas Carol (Kate Douglas Wiggin) The Wonderful Life - Story of the life and death of our Lord (Hesba Stretton) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe (Elizabeth Harrison) Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Christmas In India (Rudyard Kipling) The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown) The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter) Toinette and the Elves (Susan Coolidge) The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Fyodor Dostoevsky) At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) The Princess and the Goblin (George MacDonald) The Ice Queen (Ernest Ingersoll) Thurlow's Christmas Story (John Kendrick Bangs) Christmas Every Day (William Dean Howells) The Lost Word (Henry van Dyke) The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (E. T. A. Hoffmann) The Little Match Girl ...

PEN America 13: Lovers

PEN America 13: Lovers

Who is dear to you? PEN America 13: Lovers features short fiction by Don DeLillo, new poetry by John Ashbery and Marilyn Hacker, a conversation between Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem, and much more—including a forum on literary love with John Barth, Jessica Hagedorn, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lily Tuck, and many others. PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers is published by PEN American Center. Featuring fiction, poetry, conversation, criticism, and memoir, PEN America champions international authors and provides first-hand insight into the minds of contemporary writers through provocative symposia. In 2000, PEN America was named one of the Ten Best New Magazines by Library Journal. PEN America has been a finalist for the Utne Independent Press Award for international coverage, and work from recent issues has been selected for Best American Essays, Best American Stories, and the Pushcart Prize. ----- PEN American Center is the largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, the world's oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization. International PEN was founded in 1921 to dispel national, ethnic, and racial hatreds and to promote understanding among all countries. PEN American Center, founded a year later, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship. Its 3,400 distinguished members carry on the achievements in literature and the advancement of human rights of such past members as James Baldwin, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, Arthur Miller, Marianne Moore, Eugene O'Neill, Susan Sontag, and John Steinbeck. To learn more about PEN American Center, please visit: www.pen.org. PEN American Center welcomes readers and writers from all walks of life to join us in our mission to protect free expression and celebrate literature. To learn how to become a Professional or Associate Member of PEN, please visit: pen.org/join.

Orlando

Orlando

Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend, it is arguably one of her most popular novels; Orlando is a history of English literature in satiric form.

Rebel Spurs

Rebel Spurs

In 1866, only men uprooted by war had reason to ride into Tubacca, Arizona, a nondescript town as shattered and anonymous as the veterans drifting through it. So when Drew Rennie, newly discharged from Forrest's Confederate scouts, arrived leading everything he owned behind him-his thoroughbred stud Shiloh, a mare about to foal, and a mule-he knew his business would not be questioned. To anyone in Tubacca there could be only one extraordinary thing about Drew, and that he could not reveal: his name, Rennie. Drew had come west from Kentucky to find a father he had thought dead until the year before. Kinship with a man like Hunt Rennie, however-the legendary . . .

The Duel

The Duel

The Duel is one of Chekhov’s longest works, skirting the edge between novel and novella. Like many of Chekhov’s works, it was first published as a serial.Laevsky is a womanizing drunkard, a slave to life’s vices. His wantonness clashes with the moralistic zoologist Von Koren, who grows to despise Laevsky. Their mutual enmity culminates in a duel—though neither they, nor their friends, really want it to happen.

Leaving

Leaving

L’AMORE DI UNA MADRE. UNA FIGLIA ALLA RICERCA DELLA VERITÀ. UN MISTERO INSOLUBILE.Sono passati dieci anni da quando Alice Metcalf, etologa presso il Rifugio per elefanti del New England, è misteriosamente scomparsa in seguito a un grave incidente. La figlia Jenna aveva tre anni all’epoca e da allora, a dispetto della ostinata rassegnazione di sua nonna e della totale assenza di suo padre, non ha mai smesso di pensare a sua madre e di sperare di vederla ricomparire all’improvviso. Finché un giorno si fa coraggio e decide di chiedere l’aiuto di due improbabili alleati: Serenity, una sensitiva ormai non più sulla cresta dell’onda, e Virgil, il detective che conduceva le indagini sul caso e che ora, tra un whisky e l’altro, svolge in proprio inchieste di ogni tipo. Jenna cerca gli indizi di una possibile traccia nel diario di sua madre, e apprende che Alice era particolarmente interessata a studiare il rapporto che gli elefanti femmina instaurano con i loro figli, a come elaborano il lutto e a come è organizzata la loro memoria. Pur temendo di averla persa per sempre, si convince ancora di più che sua madre non può averla abbandonata di sua volontà, che il legame che aveva instaurato con lei da bambina era speciale e che qualcosa l’ha indotta a fuggire. Grazie anche all’aiuto di Serenity e Virgil, la memoria di quel che accadde si fa in Jenna sempre più circoscritta, le immagini della madre e degli eventi di cui è stata protagonista diventano sempre più nitide e iniziano a susseguirsi a ritmo crescente. In un vortice ipnotizzante di ricordi, i tre si trovano coinvolti in una ricerca ricca di colpi di scena il cui esito nessuno di loro può dare per scontato. Ma per scoprire cosa è successo veramente ad Alice, si renderanno conto che dare una risposta a domande difficili implica anche essere pronti ad affrontare risposte ancora più difficili da accettare...

The Cossacks

The Cossacks

The Cossacks" is one of Tolstoy's greatest works. In this semi-autobiographical work we meet the central character of Olenin, a young man of twenty-four who has yet to make anything of himself in life. Olenin joins the Russian army and is assigned to a remote post. There he falls in love with a beautiful young Cossack woman who has already been promised to another man, a Cossack warrior. What will become of Olenin? Will he fight for the love that he has found? Read this gripping narrative set in pre-revolutionary Russia and find out for yourself.

The Awakening

The Awakening

The story is about a nobleman named Dmitri Ivanovich Nekhlyudov, who seeks redemption for a sin committed years earlier. His brief affair with a maid had resulted in her being fired and ending up in prostitution.

The Swallow's Nest

The Swallow's Nest

In this heartwarming novel of marriage, motherhood, and forgiveness, three women fight for the chance to raise the child they've all come to love. After a challenging year of seeing her husband Graham through cancer treatment, lifestyle blogger Lilia Swallow is ready to celebrate his recovery. But just as their festive party gets underway, a mysterious guest presents Lilia with a beautiful baby boy, and vanishes. Toby is Graham’s darkest secret—the son he conceived in a moment of despair. Lilia is shocked by Graham’s betrayal, but even more surprised by the love she feels for his child. Once abandoned, Toby is now desperately wanted by three women: Lilia, who takes him into her home and heart; Marina, who bore him and now regrets giving him up; and Ellen, who sees in him a chance to correct the mistakes she made with her own son, Toby's father. A custody battle begins, and each would-be mother must examine her heart, confront her choices and weigh her dreams against the fate of one vulnerable little boy. Each woman will redefine family, belonging and love—and the results will alter the course of not only their lives, but also the lives of everyone they care for.

Master of Ballantrae

Master of Ballantrae

Gothic romance of adventure and revenge. Brothers Henry and James Durie take opposite sides during the Jacobite uprising of 1745 to ensure the survival of their estate regardless of the outcome of the war. Believing that James had died along with the hopes of the Stuarts at the Battle of Culloden, Henry acquires his brother's property. However, things are not so simple.

Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Issue # 21

Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Issue # 21

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up twenty fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction.No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high-quality fiction equals Pulphouse."This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a lot of life to them, and are worthwhile reading." —Tangent Online on Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Issue #1Includes:"Santa's Shrinkage" by David H. Hendrickson"A Crafty Christmas" by Annie Reed"The Ghost of Christmas Beta" by J. Steven York"Emergency Elf" by Stefon Mears"A Grave Kind of Love" by Robert J. McCarter"The A*****e of Christmas Present" by Ezekiel James Boston"Christmas at Lake Mead" by Lisa Silverthorne"The Ghost of Christmas Present" by David Stier"Christmas Weather" by O'Neil De Noux"Max, Marilyn, Murder, and Me" by Ray Vukcevich"Scurvy and Forgiveness" by Rob Vagle"The Friendly Beasts" by Nina Kiriki Hoffman"Christmas at Glosser's" by Robert Jeschonek"A Corner of the Mind" by Ron Collins"Other People's Stupidity" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Wedding Season

Wedding Season

“Perfect for fans of Debbie Macomber.” —Publishers Weekly The last person she wants to see in Magnolia, North Carolina, could be exactly whom she’s been waiting for…Mariella Jacob was one of the world’s premier bridal designers, but one viral PR disaster later, she’s trying to get her torpedoed career back on track in small-town Magnolia, North Carolina. With a secondhand store and a new business venture helping her friends turn the Wildflower Inn into a wedding venue, Mariella is finally putting at least one mistake behind her. Until that mistake—in the glowering, handsome form of Alex Ralsten—moves to Magnolia too.Mariella ruined Alex’s wedding by announcing that his starlet bride-to-be was sleeping with Mariella’s fiancé. While he’s furious when they’re forced to work together, there’s no denying Mariella is hardworking, talented…and gorgeous. In fact, though Alex keeps reminding himself that they’re enemies, something deeper is growing…daring them to admit that a rocky past might lead to something unexpectedly wonderful.Includes a Bonus novella! Josie Trumbull has rebuilt her life after her dreams were crushed by a career-ending injury. Now she teaches ballet in Magnolia and has mostly made peace with her life and future. Until her best friend, and proprietor of the bookstore next door, Stuart Madison, takes her completely by surprise.  Don't miss the newest book in THE CAROLINA GIRLS series, The Front Porch Club!The Carolina Girls series Book 1: Wildflower Season Book 2: Mistletoe Season Book 3: Wedding Season Book 4: The Wish List Book 5: The Front Porch Club

Hammer and Bolter: Issue Sixteen

Hammer and Bolter: Issue Sixteen

About Hammer and Bolter Hammer & Bolter is Black Library’s monthly fiction magazine. Each issue is packed with all-new short stories, serialised novels, interviews, previews and more.In this issue: The Shadow in the Glass – Steve Lyons Gilead's Curse, Chapter Four – Nik Vincent & Dan Abnett Beneath the Flesh (Part Two) – Andy Smillie Redeemed – Jim Swallow An Extract from Know No Fear by Dan Abnett