Anche pubblicato come “Per muovere le ossa”, “Le ossa devono rotolare” e “Far rotolare le ossa”. I premi Hugo e Nebula in 1968

Тебя невзлюбил твой собственный класс. Что бы ты не делала — ты всегда была одна. Но, однажды вернулась твоя подруга. Твоя умершая подруга…

Тебя невзлюбил твой собственный класс. Что бы ты не делала — ты всегда была одна. Но, однажды вернулась твоя подруга. Твоя умершая подруга…

Gdańsk, upalne dni czerwca 2006 roku. Spokój panujący w luksusowym domu seniora "Eden" zostaje zburzony na skutek wydarzeń pełnych grozy. W jednym z apartamentów znaleziono zwłoki pensjonariusza na wózku inwalidzkim. Co dziwniejsze mężczyzna jest oskalpowany. Równocześnie z "Edenu" znika inny pensjonariusz. Sprawa trafia na biurko nadkomisarza Jarosława Patera, hazardzisty i krzewiciela poprawności językowej. Dlaczego zwłoki starego mężczyzny zostały okaleczone? Dlaczego ABW niespodziewanie przejmuje śledztwo, odsuwając od sprawy policjantów? Co się stało z zaginionym? Sytuację komplikuje wzajemna niechęć między nadkomisarzem a dyrektorem "Edenu", doktorem Lieblingiem, oraz traumatyczne wspomnienia Patera. Marek Krajewski znów udowodnił, że jest mistrzem powieści kryminalnej. Jego współpraca z Mariuszem Czubajem, znakomitym znawcą gatunku, zaowocowała powieścią intrygującą, napisaną żywym językiem i świetnie osadzoną w konwencji

Alejandro Magno es uno de los personajes más fascinantes de nuestro pasado y algunos de los mejores cultivadores de novela histórica le han dedicado obras inolvidables. Doherty se suma a esta pléyade de narradores situándose en la primavera del año 334 a.C., cuando Alejandro se dispone a invadir Persia, iniciando la que hoy conocemos como la batalla del Gránico

Aleksandrs Čaks Miglā asaro logs…

Every New Yorker’s worst nightmare is about to become a reality. New York has seen more than its fair share of horrific attacks, but the city is about to be shaken in a way it never has before. After two devastating catastrophes in quick succession, everyone is on edge. Detective Michael Bennett is assigned to the case and given the near impossible task of hunting down the shadowy terror group responsible. With troubles at home to contend with, Bennett has never been more at risk, or more alone, fighting the chaos all around him. Then a shocking assassination makes it clear that these inexplicable events are just the prelude to the biggest threat of all. Now Bennett is racing against the clock to save his beloved city — before the most destructive force he has ever faced tears it apart

Qui connaît vraiment Alex ? Elle est belle. Excitante.Est-ce pour cela qu'on l'a enlevée, séquestrée, livrée à l'inimaginable ? Mais quand la police découvre enfin sa prison, Alex a disparu.Alex, plus intelligente que son bourreau. Alex qui ne pardonne rien, qui n'oublie rien, ni personne.Un thriller glaçant qui jongle avec les codes de la folie meurtrière, une mécanique diabolique et imprévisible où l'on retrouve l'extraordinaire talent de l'auteur de Robe de marié

This was a short story which was only available in the first print runs of Lauren Oliver’s Requiem.  The short story gives us a glimpse into the childhood of Alex, the torture he underwent in the Crypts, how he escaped and his slow path towards reuniting with Lena once again

The year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in Washington D.C., Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at every turn. He represents those who nobody else dares defend, merely because of the color of their skin. When President Roosevelt, under whom Ben served in the Spanish-American war, asks Ben to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in his home town in Mississippi, he cannot refuse. The details of Ben's harrowing story-and his experiences with a remarkable man named Abraham Cross-were passed from generation to generation, until they were finally recounted to Alex Cross by his grandmother, Nana Mama. From the first time hear heard the story, Alex was unable to forget the unimaginable events Ben witnessed in Eudora and pledged to tell it to the world. Alex Cross's Trial is unlike any story Patterson has ever told, but offers the astounding action and breakneck speed of any Alex Cross novel

The fifteenth book in the Alex Cross series The year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in Washington D.C., Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at every turn. He represents those who nobody else dares defend, merely because of the color of their skin. When President Roosevelt, under whom Ben served in the Spanish-American war, asks Ben to investigate rumors of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in his home town in Mississippi, he cannot refuse. The details of Ben’s harrowing story – and his experiences with a remarkable man named Abraham Cross – were passed from generation to generation, until they were finally recounted to Alex Cross by his grandmother, Nana Mama. From the first time hear heard the story, Alex was unable to forget the unimaginable events Ben witnessed in Eudora and pledged to tell it to the world. Alex Cross’s Trial is unlike any story Patterson has ever told, but offers the astounding action and breakneck speed of any Alex Cross novel

Things aren't always as they seem. After Alex Wales crash lands on a planet that doesn't even show up on her navigational map and her ship is damaged, all she wants to do is get help and leave the planet as soon as she can. She's got something to deliver and time is running out. Instead, she stumbles onto a very alluring man who takes her to his village-a seemingly utopian society led by a Priestess. Stuck on this planet with no way of getting off, Alex finds herself drawn to the alluring Damon. But when locals start turning up dead after being mauled and eaten by some sort of monster, she's thrust into the middle of the investigation. As the layers of the mystery slowly unravel, Alex and Damon find themselves facing their pasts, and the many lies woven around the planet of Eden

Первая часть трилогии в цикле «Хроники Ориона». Каждый новый день, она проживала, свято веря, что привычной жизни никогда не наступит конца, что все, кто её любит и ценит, всегда будут рядом. Но в день равенства — праздник мира и спокойствия, этой вере пришёл конец: все, кого она любила, были убиты, а её родная планета уничтожена. Ей лишь чудом удалось спасти свою жизнь. И в этот момент судьба столкнула её с Блейком Бентоном — человеком, который не ведал преград на своем пути, и чья сила воли могла подчинить себе любого. Будучи примером, для подражания и лучшим в своей сфере, этот мужчина, олицетворяющий идеал, даже не догадывался, что теперь, когда в его жизни появилась эта таинственная незнакомка, отнюдь не все будут играть по его правилам. Он спас ей жизнь, заключив фиктивный брак, и дал ей своё имя. Но к чему приведёт столкновение двух равных характеров под покровом тайного брака? К войне? К ненависти? К неожиданной и прекрасной любви? Или, может, им суждено стать спасением друг для друга…

Publisher Comments: Re-creating the lives of two of the most intriguing rulers in history, Shan Sa brings us a novel filled with the sound of hooves, the whistle of arrows, blood, passion, and betrayal. The familiar figure of Alexander the Great comes to new life in this richly imagined tale, which entwines his historical legacy with a fantastic love affair set in a wartime between Western and Eastern civilizations. Abused by his father, King Philip, who loved and hated his beauty; shadowed by his mother, the mystical and overbearing Queen Olympias; educated by Aristotle who wanted him to be a wise philosopher of Macedonia, Alexander develops a complex character. He becomes a brutal warrior, a pitiless strategist, and a poet longing for the world's wonders. Meanwhile, in the remote steppes of Siberia, an abandoned girl grows up among the wild mares, then adopted by the queen of the Amazons – the tribe of female warriors who dominates a wild world of snow and volcano. As a future queen, the young girl is trained to hate men and to fight against all invaders. In the course of his great conquest of Asia, Alexander first meets the stunning Alestria on the battlefield. Surprised to find that his adversary is a woman, he is instantly smitten by the fierce queen. Dazzled by his strength, she decides to kidnap him and make him her "wife." At last, this legendary king – renowned for his beauty and love of men – has found his equal. And at last, this indomitable young woman has found a reason to leave her tribe. Their love, deeply passionate and problematic, evolves against an exotic backdrop of warfare and political turmoil, sweeps from antique Greece to Egypt, across the ancient Iraq and Iran, unto the mysterious kingdoms of India. Review: "An epic fictional romance between Alexander the Great and an Amazon queen drives the latest from Shan Sa (Empress). As a boy, Sa's Alexander is abused by his father, King Philip of Macedonia. Alexander grows into a cruel and narcissistic youth with an unquenchable thirst for revenge. His political ambitions blossom under the tutelage of Aristotle, and after his father's assassination, Alexander sets off to conquer Greece, Persia and Egypt. When he meets Alestria, the young queen of the Amazons (a mythical tribe of nomadic, male-spurning female warriors from the eastern steppes), he has perhaps met his match in love and war. Told in the extravagant voices of Alexander and Alestria, and of Alestria's protector and confidante, Ania, there's little subtlety in this sweeping, heroic romance. But strewn amid the pageantry and clamor are fascinating details about Alexander's world and about the legendary Amazons, who, if they existed at all, might have been his contemporaries – and equals. (July)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review: "Romance, action, and intrigue combine to set the stage for a page-turning romp through alternate history." Booklist

The truth will set her free...or get her killed. Alexandra Riley's day starts out like any other in her normal, predictable world. Then a tall, dark stranger bursts into her father's garage and shatters the illusion. In one shocking moment, she discovers why she's been feeling hot, restless--she's the half-breed daughter of a legendary werewolf and is a much-sought-after prize. Joshua Striker, enforcer in charge of protecting the alphas of the Wolf Creek pack, has come to take Alex home. Nothing more, nothing less. From the first moment he sees her, she becomes the one thing he can't afford--a distraction from his duty. A weakness he doesn't want--but can't resist needing. If only keeping her safe was as simple as fending off males on the hunt for a mate. Through city streets to the mountains of North Carolina, Alex and Joshua have to evade those who don't want their pure bloodlines tainted with human DNA, as well as bounty hunters who think the only good werewolf is a dead one. What Joshua and Alex can't outrun is the passion that flares between them--or the choice Alex must eventually face. Whether to claim her inner wolf, or forfeit her chance to claim Joshua as her own

Getting what you want is largely a matter of knowing where to look—and that’s hard to know until you’ve been there!

Alexandrian Summer is the story of two Jewish families living their frenzied last days in the doomed cosmopolitan social whirl of Alexandria just before fleeing Egypt for Israel in 1951. The conventions of the Egyptian upper-middle class are laid bare in this dazzling novel, which exposes startling sexual hypocrisies and portrays a now vanished polyglot world of horse-racing, seaside promenades, and elegant night clubs. Hamdi-Ali senior is an old-time patriarch with more than a dash of strong Turkish blood. His handsome elder son, a promising horse jockey, can't afford sexual frustration, as it leads him to overeat and imperil his career, but the woman he lusts after won't let him get beyond undoing a few buttons. Victor, the younger son, takes his pleasure with other boys. But the true heroine of the story — richly evoked in a pungent upstairs/downstairs mix — is the raucous, seductive city of Alexandria itself. Published in Hebrew in 1978, Alexandrian Summer appears now in translation for the first time. Yitzhak Gormezano Goren was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1941 and immigrated to Israel as a child. A playwright and novelist, Goren studied English and French literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University. In 1982, he cofounded the Bimat Kedem Theater. “Helps show why postwar Alexandria inspires nostalgia and avidity in seemingly everyone who knew it … The result is what summer reading should be: fast, carefree, visceral, and incipiently lubricious.”— The New Yorker “Luminous … One of the great triumphs of Alexandrian Summer is the richness of the evocation of this city and the multiple cultures pressed within it … A sultry eroticism pervades.”— The Forward "Alexandria, a lush paradise by the sea, comes to antic, full-bodied life… Gormezano Goren’s characters are vividly depicted as they grow up or grow older in a city of conflicting loyalties, riven by resentment, ready to revolt. Readers will be transported." — Publishers Weekly "This novel recalls one gloriously golden summer in a cosmopolitan city on the verge of upheaval… Fluidly written and soberly enticing." — Library Journal "A gifted writer… Gormezano Goren defines the city and its ambiance in lush, sensuous terms… He also describes so well the Diaspora Jew’s knack for downplaying the danger of gathering storms of hatred, a tendency not limited to Alexandria or to any particular era of exile." — The Jerusalem Post "A powerful novel of tensions — sexual, familial, religious, and political — and an affecting but unsparing portrait of the petit bourgeois world of Egyptian Jews standing obliviously on the edge of a precipice. Alexandria-sensual and enchanting-shimmers in these pages." — Dalia Sofer, author of The Septembers of Shiraz "A fine work of art. . riveting from the first page to the last." — Zo Haderekh "A reason to rejoice. . You can't help but keep on smiling with great pleasure." — Maariv "A profound literary experience." — Ahshav