The novel tells the story of a vintage automobile apparently possessed by supernatural forces

In the Pathology Department it was always night. This was one of the things Quirke liked about his job…it was restful, cosy, one might almost say, down in these depths nearly two floors beneath the city's busy pavements. There was too a sense here of being part of the continuance of ancient practices, secret skills, of work too dark to be carried on up in the light. But one night, late after a party, Quirke stumbles across a body that shouldn't have been there…and his brother-in-law, eminent paediatrician Malachy Griffin – a rare sight in Quirke's gloomy domain – altering a file to cover up the corpse's cause of death. It is the first time Quirke encounters Christine Falls, but the investigation he decides to lead into the way she lived – and the reason she died – disturbs a dark secret that has been festering at the core of Dublin's high Catholic society, a secret ready to destabilize the very heart and soul of Quirke's own family…

Liz Fielding Lady Roseanne Napier needs a break from being the -nation's angel – for just one week, so she's Trading Places with a lookalike. Who is the real Lady Rose? Only brooding billionaire George Saxon can find out…

Darcy has invited the Bennets and the Bingleys to spend the Christmastide’s festive days at Pemberley. But as he and Elizabeth journey to their estate to join the gathered families, a blizzard blankets the English countryside. The Darcys find themselves stranded at a small inn while Pemberley is inundated with refugees seeking shelter from the storm. Without her brother’s strong presence, Georgiana Darcy tries desperately to manage the chaos surrounding the arrival of six invited guests and eleven unscheduled visitors. But bitter feuds, old jealousies and intimate secrets quickly rise to the surface. Has Lady Catherine returned to Pemberley for forgiveness or revenge? Will the manipulative Caroline Bingley find a soul mate? Shall Kitty Bennet and Georgiana know happiness? Written in Regency style and including Austen’s romantic entanglements and sardonic humor, Christmas at Pemberley places Jane Austen’s most beloved characters in an exciting yuletide story that speaks to the love, the family spirit and the generosity that remain as the heart of Christmas

Christmas at the Cat Cafe is the wonderfully festive sequel to Melissa Daley's uplifting tale, Molly and the Cat Cafe. The Costwolds' town of Stourton-on-the-Hill has its very own cat cafe. Resident cat Molly, and her kittens, live here in feline paradise, while owner Debbie serves the locals home-made goodies. But even in the most idyllic surroundings, things don't always go to plan... When Debbie's heartbroken sister Linda arrives at the cafe, Debbie insists she move in. But Linda is not alone, and the cats are devastated with the arrival of Linda's dog, Beau. Sadly, Beau's arrival is not the only bombshell - now Molly's home is also under threat when a rival cat moves in on her turf. With Christmas approaching, Molly is unsettled, barely roused by the promise of tinsel to play with. Fearing for her feline family she hopelessly stares out of the cafe window searching for an answer. Only a Christmas miracle could bring everyone together

His Vengeance Was Sweet Judith Easton knew that even the spirit of Christmas wouldn't stop the Marquess of Denbigh from settling the score with her. For the beautiful young widow had injured Denbigh's rigid pride years ago by jilting him for another man. Now that Judith was free from her nightmare marriage to that other man, the bold and handsome Marquess made no secret that he had her in his sights and wanted her in his arms. But how could she trust the tender words on his lips when she could sense the hardness of his heart? And after she had made so grievous a mistake in love once, how could she ever trust her own heart's desire again? The marquess slowed his pace, and Judith followed suit. She turned to him and fixed her eyes on the top button of his greatcoat as his gloved hands cupped her face. She lifted her hands and rested her palms against his chest. And she lifted her eyes to his and then closed them as his mouth came down to cover hers. He was the man she had feared for so long. She tried to remember the impression she had had of his face until now-harsh, the eyes steel-gray, the lips thin. It was he who was kissing her, she told herself. Was this the face of love? The face of hate? And did she, in this moment of abandoned ecstasy, any longer care?

Cat lovers and owners will delight in this charming and quirky collection of poems, stories and essays highlighting the humorous and touching moments arising from owning a cat at Christmas. This enjoyable anthology features timeless classics by James Herriot, Cleveland Amory, Rita Mae Brown and Willie Morris

News anchor Amanda Turner used to love everything about the holidays—the eggnog sugar cookies, the tacky family Christmas sweaters, and a lawn decorated with so many multi-colored lights that 747s could land safely. That is until her boyfriend dumped her in front of the whole town on Christmas Eve. Humiliated, she fled her small town to start a new life. Two years later, she’s finally ready to return to the scene of the emotional crime, until she learns that her ex is engaged. Now, the only thing worse than going home is going home single. Tate Ryan, her tall, dark, and arrogant co-anchor, offers to pose as her boyfriend. There’s one problem, though: they barely like each other, and he recently scooped her story on live TV. But she needs a ride home and a boyfriend fast, so Tate will have to do. As she watches Tate interact with her family and town residents, fully embracing the spirit of the holiday season, she starts to see his kindhearted side. She can’t help but wonder if she was wrong about him. Perhaps he isn’t the conniving co-worker that she once thought. And her new feelings for him would definitely put her on the naughty list. Tate has his own agenda for the weekend that includes telling Amanda he’s been in love with her since the first time they met. He’s ready to reveal all during Christmas dinner but fate has other plans

Death and nostalgia. Isn’t that what the holidays mean to you?

Austin McBride's business was fulfilling women's fantasies, but he'd never indulged in one of his own. Then he met Teddy Spencer. She was smart, sexy…and terrified of commitment. But she also needed him-to play the role of her lover at the company Christmas party. Austin was willing to take the job…as long as he could convince her to make it a full-time position!

Three wishes this Christmas. 1. A new life in the country: It has taken all of Louise Thornton's courage to start again. This will be a different life, one away from the paparazzi – and her cheating celebrity husband! 2. Someone to help decorate the Christmas tree: Louise is determined to make this Christmas perfect for her son. But it's not until she meets meltingly attractive Ben Oliver that she starts to sparkle again. 3. A proposal under the mistletoe? Single dad Ben puts his daughter first. But when he catches Louise under the mistletoe, Ben realizes only he can make Louise's wishes come true…

Meg Jardine, personal assistant extraordinaire, is convinced she's about to lose her job. Her gorgeous, dark and deeply unimpressed boss, William McMaster, is stranded in Melbourne over Christmas – and it's all her fault! With her heart in her mouth, she invites the intimidating billionaire home for the holiday… At Meg's chaotic, cozy family farm, William's cold reserve begins to melt away. Suddenly they're seeing each other in a whole new light, and country girl Meg has shot straight to the top of William's Christmas list!

In this vivid and compelling novel, Tim Murphy follows a diverse set of characters whose fates intertwine in an iconic building in Manhattan’s East Village, the Christodora. The Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple with artistic ambitions. Their neighbor, Hector, a Puerto Rican gay man who was once a celebrated AIDS activist but is now a lonely addict, becomes connected to Milly and Jared’s lives in ways none of them can anticipate. Meanwhile, Milly and Jared’s adopted son Mateo grows to see the opportunity for both self-realization and oblivion that New York offers. As the junkies and protestors of the 1980s give way to the hipsters of the 2000s and they, in turn, to the wealthy residents of the crowded, glass-towered city of the 2020s, enormous changes rock the personal lives of Milly and Jared and the constellation of people around them. Moving kaleidoscopically from the Tompkins Square Riots and attempts by activists to galvanize a true response to the AIDS epidemic, to the New York City of the future, Christodora recounts the heartbreak wrought by AIDS, illustrates the allure and destructive power of hard drugs, and brings to life the ever-changing city itself

This inspired novel is narrated by the as yet unborn first child to be born on October 12, 1992, the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America; his conception and birth bracket the novel. A playfully savage masterpiece

Chromos is one of the true masterpieces of post-World War II fiction. Written in the 1940s but left unpublished until 1990, it anticipated the fictional inventiveness of the writers who were to come along — Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Sorrentino, and Gaddis. Chromos is the American immigration novel par excellence. Its opening line is: "The moment one learns English, complications set in." Or, as the novel illustrates, the moment one comes to America, the complications set in. The cast of characters in this book are immigrants from Spain who have one leg in Spanish culture and the other in the confusing, warped, unfriendly New World of New York City, attempting to meld two worlds that just won't fit together. Wildly comic, Chromos is also strangely apocalyptic, moving towards point zero and utter darkness

Z kostnicy znikaja zwłoki Carla Franconiego, znanej postaci świata przestępczego. Kilka dni później trafiają one, mocno okaleczone, na stół autopsyjny Jacka Stapletona. Poszukiwania odpowiedzi na nasuwajace się pytania prowadzą aż do Gwinei Równikowej…

One missing organ. One genetic breakthrough. One medical conspiracy too terrifying to imagine. In his most prophetic thriller yet, Robin Cook challenges the medical ethics of genetic manipulations and cloning. In the jungles of equatorial Africa, a biotechnology giant has taken transplant surgery and animal research to a new level. Where one mistake could bridge the evolutionary gap between man and ape-and forever change the genetic map of our existence

The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies. Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called Martyr & Pesty. Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancée, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low-orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters. Like Janice, Chase is adrift, she in Earth's stratosphere, he in a vague routine punctuated by Upper East Side dinner parties. Into Chase's cloistered city enters Perkus Tooth, a wall-eyed free-range pop critic whose soaring conspiratorial riffs are fueled by high-grade marijuana, mammoth cheeseburgers, and a desperate ache for meaning. Perkus's countercultural savvy and voracious paranoia draw Chase into another Manhattan, where questions of what is real, what is fake, and who is complicit take on a life-shattering urgency. Along with Oona Laszlo, a self-loathing ghostwriter, and Richard Abneg, a hero of the Tompkins Square Park riot now working as a fixer for the billionaire mayor, Chase and Perkus attempt to unearth the answers to several mysteries that seem to offer that rarest of artifacts on an island where everything can be bought: Truth. Like Manhattan itself, Jonathan Lethem's masterpiece is beautiful and tawdry, tragic and forgiving, devastating and antic, a stand-in for the whole world and a place utterly unique

"Chronicle in Stone"…is epic in its simplicity; the history of a young Albanian and a primitive Albania awakening into the modern world."-Michael Dregni, Minneapolis Star Tribune

One of the last decade's ten most influential books in China, this internationally acclaimed novel by one of the mainland's most important contemporary writers provides an unflinching portrait of life under Chairman Mao. A cart-pusher in a silk mill, Xu Sanguan augments his meager salary with regular visits to the local blood chief. His visits become lethally frequent as he struggles to provide for his wife and three sons at the height of the Cultural Revolution. Shattered to discover that his favorite son was actually born of a liaison between his wife and a neighbor, he suffers his greatest indignity, while his wife is publicly scorned as a prostitute. Although the poverty and betrayals of Mao's regime have drained him, Xu Sanguan ultimately finds strength in the blood ties of his family. With rare emotional intensity, grippingly raw descriptions of place and time, and clear-eyed compassion, Yu Hua gives us a stunning tapestry of human life in the grave particulars of one man's days

At the very edge of its many interlocking worlds, the city of Bombay conceals a near invisible community of Parsi corpse bearers, whose job it is to carry bodies of the deceased to the Towers of Silence. Segregated and shunned from society, often wretchedly poor, theirs is a lot that nobody would willingly espouse. Yet thats exactly what Phiroze Elchidana, son of a revered Parsi priest, does when he falls in love with Sepideh, the daughter of an aging corpse bearer… Derived from a true story, Cyrus Mistry's extraordinary new novel is a moving account of tragic love that, at the same time, brings to vivid and unforgettable life the degradation experienced by those who inhabit the unforgiving margins of history

A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother’s phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this claustrophobic routine is mystery and loss. Relatives mutter darkly about the newly-appointed President Mubarak. Everyone talks with melancholy about the past. People disappear overnight. Her own father has left, too — why, or to where, no one will say. We meet her across three decades, from youth to adulthood: As a six-year old absorbing the world around her, filled with questions she can’t ask; as a college student and aspiring filmmaker pre-occupied with love, language, and the repression that surrounds her; and then later, in the turbulent aftermath of Mubarak’s overthrow, as a writer exploring her own past. Reunited with her father, she wonders about the silences that have marked and shaped her life. At once a mapping of a city in transformation and a story about the shifting realities and fates of a single Egyptian family, Yasmine El Rashidi’s Chronicle of a Last Summer traces the fine line between survival and complicity, exploring the conscience of a generation raised in silence

"Nelio is dead. And however unlikely it may sound, it seemed to me that he died without once being afraid. How can that be possible?"-from Chronicler of the Winds World famous for his Kurt Wallander mysteries, Henning Mankell has been published in thirty-five countries, with more than 25 million copies of his books in print. In Chronicler of the Winds, he gives us something different: a beautifully crafted novel that is a testament to the power of storytelling itself. On the rooftop of a theater in an African port, a ten-year-old boy lies slowly dying of bullet wounds. He is Nelio, a leader of street kids, rumored to be a healer and a prophet, and possessed of a strangely ancient wisdom. One of the millions of poor people "forced to eat life raw," Nelio tells his unforgettable story over the course of nine nights. After bandits cruelly raze his village, he joins the legions of abandoned children living in the city's streets. An act of the imagination, an effort to prove to his comrades that life must be more than mere survival, cuts short Nelio's life. Already published in thirteen countries, Chronicler of the Winds was short-listed for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature and was nominated for the Swedish Publishers Association's August Prize

On Prince Edward Island, where Anne Shirley grew up in the sea-sprayed town of Avonlea, there was no shortage of wonderful stories.  There was the case of Ludovic Speed, who wouldn't propose to the woman he had courted for fifteen years until Anne devised a plan to "speed" him up . . . if it didn't backfire and break his heart.  But no one could blame mischievous Anne for the hilarious battle of the sexes that erupted when a man-hating woman and her cat got quarantined in the same house with a woman-hating bachelor and his dog. From sprawling Penhallow Grange, where a family waits nearly forever for two quarreling lovers to break their stubborn silence, to the tumbledown farm of Old Man Shaw, who awaits the retum of his beloved daughter, L. M. Montgomery has written twelve tales of secret hopes and hidden dreams, filled with enchantment and humor

 Два замечательных человека, John Burkitt и David Morris, подарили нам величественную сагу о жизни обитателей саванны, страны бескрайних просторов, покрытых коврами золотых трав. Ее начало - первые лучи солнца, впервые вспыхнувшие огнем в глазах сыновей Ахади. Ее окончние - трогательная встреча друзей детства... вся несправедливость и жестокость этого мира навечно оставлены позади... друзья обретают долгожданный мир и покой, теперь уже навсегда. И между этими двумя событиями лежат годы и годы... Многие годы до событий, являющихся основой Диснеевского The Lion King и многие годы, последовавшие за этим.  Первая и основная часть "Chronicles of the Pride Lands", так же известная как "Legacy of Ahady". Основное повествование о жизни Муфасы и Taки. Без всякого сомнения, это лучшее, что когда-либо было написано на основе The Lion King, в духе The Lion King. Бесполезно объяснять, насколько прекрасный и живописный мир простирается за этими страницами, этот путь надо пройти самому. Это произведение написано на очень высоком профессиональном уровне

À Paris, le protestant Bernard de Mergy retrouve son frère aîné, converti au catholicisme. Décidés à ne pas quereller leurs croyances religieuses, les deux jeunes gens s'accordent de partager les jouissances qu'offre la cour des Médicis, où les intrigues amoureuses se démêlent à force de duels chevaleresques. Mais tandis que le roi Charles IX s'offre le plaisir barbare d'une chasse à cour, gronde le râle sourd et macabre de la Saint-Barthélemy… Répondant à la mode du roman historique, Mérimée tire du massacre politique orchestré par Charles IX et Catherine de Médicis la matière d'une fiction savoureuse. Violemment ironique, l'auteur peint sous des charmes romanesques l'image monstrueuse d'une France éventrée par la guerre civile pour le seul caprice d'un roi en mal de divertissement

C'est le besoin d'argent qui, très tôt, pousse le jeune Maupassant, alors employé de ministère, à donner des articles de critique littéraire. Mais il rechigne un peu à se lier à un journal comme à se livrer à une écriture trop hâtive : « Jamais mon nom au bas d'une chronique écrite en moins de deux heures. » Et cependant, après la publication de « Boule de suif » au printemps de 1880 - il a trente ans tout juste -, sa réputation de conteur change la donne : c'est une rémunération d'écrivain reconnu qu'on lui offre et, l'année suivante, une soixantaine de chroniques paraissent dans Le Gaulois. D'autres journaux accueilleront aussi sa signature jusqu'à ce que, en 1887, il décide de pleinement se consacrer à ses derniers livres. Mais il aura écrit près de deux cent cinquante chroniques, dont le présent volume offre une anthologie ordonnée selon quatre grands thèmes : société et politique, mœurs du jour, flâneries et voyages, lettres et arts. Ainsi se dessine un témoignage capital sur son époque, mais ainsi se construit aussi une part de son œuvre qu'on ne saurait négliger : dans les journaux, les chroniques alternent avec les contes ou les nouvelles, et des parentés de structure ou de thèmes ne manquent pas d'apparaître au point que l'on hésite à faire de tel texte une nouvelle plutôt qu'une chronique. Assurément, l'unité est ici celle d'un monde et d'une époque : mais c'est aussi bien celle que leur imposent le regard et la plume d'un homme qui a pu se dire « acteur et spectateur de lui-même et des autres »

Majipoor, planète géante, abrite des dizaines de milliards d’habitants, humains, Hjorts, Métamorphes, Vroons, Skandars et autres étrangers. Parce que les métaux y sont rares, la technologie y est presque absente. Mais on y excelle dans les arts et les aménités de la vie. Jeune saute-ruisseau, Hissune est entré au service du Pontife de Majipoor. Il a accès au Registre des Ames où des millions d’habitants de Majipoor ont déposé au fil de milliers d’années des enregistrements de leurs souvenirs. II suffit de prendre une capsule, de la glisser dans une fente spéciale et, d’un seul coup, c’est comme si on était devenu la personne qui a fait l’enregistrement. Hissune en prend une et une autre et une autre encore, et c’est comme s’il voyageait à travers les continents démesurés, les océans interminables de Majipoor, comme s’il explorait les plaines, les déserts, les montagnes, les villes, les palais et les âmes aussi

Quelle aurait été l’histoire du monde si l’Europe chrétienne avait disparu au Moyen Age, ravagée par la peste ? L’Islam et la Chine seraient devenus les civilisations dominantes, découvrant l’Amérique, se faisant la guerre, inventant le chemin de fer et l’atome, cherchant à l’emporter, à imposer la foi de Mahomet, Bouddha ou Confucius… A travers les destins de trois personnages — un sentimental, un révolté et un intellectuel —, Kim Stanley Robinson dépeint de façon étonnamment réaliste sept cents ans de l’histoire d’un univers foisonnant, où les aventures individuelles se mêlent à la trame historique et se répondent à travers les siècles et les continents. D’abord simple soldat dans l’armée de Tamerlan, Bold rencontrera Kyu, un jeune eunuque noir, et I-Chi, une restauratrice chinoise en quête des plats les meilleurs. Incendies, inondations, épidémies, guerres, révoltes, le destin va jouer avec ces personnages et les entraîner, au fil des siècles et de leurs diverses réincarnations, dans des aventures fascinantes. A la fois roman d’initiation et vrai-faux roman historique, Chroniques des années noires est un livre profondément original, une somme impressionnante d’érudition et d’imagination ainsi qu’un merveilleux plaidoyer pour la paix dans le monde et la beauté de la vie

Pour égayer Les Temps modernes, où parurent à cinq reprises ces « Chroniques du menteur », Vian proposait en particulier d’illustrer la très sérieuse revue avec des photos de pin-up. C’est sans doute pourquoi, malgré l’appui de Jean-Paul Sartre qui appréciait l’humour et l’irrévérence du jeune écrivain, sa collaboration fut de courte durée. On apprendra dans ces chroniques comment le pape se proposait de canoniser Édith Piaf ; comment rallonger un film sans dépenser d’argent grâce à des séquences dans le noir ; comment l’homme politique Édouard Herriot détourna neuf mineurs et leurs enfants « pour les manger » ; comment se débarrasser des militaires, du maréchal au sergent… Après deux chroniques refusées, Vian n’insista pas. On le jugerait aujourd’hui « politiquement incorrect ». En général, c’est une preuve de sens de l’humour

Was ist Zeit? Für Tom Winter stellt sich diese Frage auf geradezu existenzielle Weise. Denn in dem abgeschiedenen Haus auf dem Land, in dem er nach seiner Scheidung zur Ruhe kommen will, befindet sich eine mehr als mysteriöse Vorrichtung: eine Art Zeittunnel, die ihn in das New York des Jahres 1962 führt. Zuerst sieht er es als einzigartige Möglichkeit, von vorne anzufangen, sein bisheriges Leben ganz und gar hinter sich zu lassen. Doch es gibt noch jemanden, der den Tunnel durch die Zeit kennt. Und dieser jemand kennt nur ein Ziel: Tom Winter muss sterben… Mit »Chronos« legt Robert Charles Wilson einen einzigartigen Zeitreise-Roman vor. Der preisgekrönte Autor von »Spin« stellt damit einmal mehr unter Beweis, dass seine Romane zum Besten gehören, was die Science Fiction derzeit zu bieten hat

Wznowienie legendarnej książki Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego (1932-2007) z 1975 roku. "Chrystus z karabinem na ramieniu" zaraz po wydaniu został okrzyknięty przez magazyn "Nowe Książki" tytułem książki roku. To zbiór reportaży z Bliskiego Wschodu, Afryki i Ameryki Łacińskiej. Bohaterami reportaży są Palestyńczycy, Syryjczycy, Libańczycy, Jordańczycy i Żydzi, partyzanci Mozambiku i Salwadoru, zamieszkujący jedną wyspę obywatele dwu państw Dominikany oraz Haiti, zmieniające się jak rękawiczki rządy Boliwii, porwany przez terrorystów ambasador RFN w Gwatemali Karl von Spreti, wreszcie prezydent Salvadore Allende i rewolucjonista Che Guevara, którego "Dziennik z Boliwii" Kapuściński opublikował w swoim tłumaczeniu w roku 1969

Trzeci tom tak zwanej "Sagi o wiedźminie". Cztery królestwa ogarnia wojenne szaleństwo. Piękna Filippa Eilhargt powołuje tajną lożę czarodziejek. Wiedźmina dręczą sny. Andrzej Sapkowski, arcymistrz światowej fantasy, po raz kolejny zaprasza do swej krainy Nigdy-Nigdy i przedstawia trzeci tom wychwalanej przez krytykę i uwielbianej przez czytelników wiedźmińskiej sagi. Geralt, wyleczony przez driady z ran odniesionych w czasie nieudanego puczu na wyspie Thanedd, wyrusza na poszukiwanie przeznaczonego mu Dziecka Niespodzianki. Oprócz nieodłącznego Jaskra, trubadura i domorosłego filozofa, do kompanii wiedźmina przystępują: pełna temperamentu łuczniczka Milva, nilfgaardzki rycerz — koszmar ze snów Ciri, którego poszukująnajlepsi szpiedzy Cesarstwa, sprytny gnom zwiadowca, pięciu rubasznych krasnoludów oraz noszący się staroświecko i pachnący intensywnie ziołami cyrulik — osobnik jakby nie z tej bajki