Raine Benares is a seeker who finds lost things and people. Ever since the Saghred, a soul-stealing stone that's given her unlimited power, has bonded to her, the goblin king and the elves have wanted to possess its magic themselves. Which means a goblin thief and her ex-fiancé-an elven assassin-are after her. To survive, she'll need the help of her notorious criminal family

В последнее время редко можно встретить в журналах такие тексты. Между тем, на мой взгляд, они достойны публикации и читательского внимания. Детство — неисчерпаемый источник тем для любого писателя, первые проблемы и сомнения спустя многие годы кажутся смешными, наивными. Но остается ностальгия по тому времени, когда человек только осваивал жизнь. Как можно писать иначе о детстве? Только с любовью… Или Con amore… Желаю всем приятного чтения. Редактор литературного журнала «Точка Зрения», Анна Болкисева

Un caluroso domingo del verano de 2010, el comisario Jaritos asiste a la boda de su hija Katerina, esta vez por la Iglesia y con fanfarria musical. Al día siguiente, poco después de llegar a Jefatura, le informan del asesinato de Nikitas Zisimópulos, antiguo director de banco, degollado con un arma cortante. El macabro homicidio coincide con una campaña que alguien, amparándose en el anonimato, ha emprendido contra los bancos, animando a los ciudadanos a que boicoteen a las entidades financieras y no paguen sus deudas e hipotecas. Lo cierto es que Grecia, al borde de la bancarrota, pasa por un momento muy crítico, y la población no duda en salir a la calle para quejarse de los recortes en sueldos y pensiones. Para colmo, Stazakos, el jefe de la Brigada Antiterrorista, sostiene que el asesinato de Zisimópulos podría ser obra de terroristas. Jaritos, en desacuerdo con esa hipótesis, tendrá que apañárselas con sus dos ayudantes para enfrentarse a un asesino cuyos crímenes apenas acaban de empezar

Guido Guerrieri es un abogado muy especial. Despues de anos de defender a personajes impresentables y de tocar fondo en todos los aspectos de su vida, Guerrieri, quiza en busca de alguna modesta redencion, empieza a trabajar en casos de esos que no aportan dinero ni gloria sino tan solo nuevos enemigos. En Testigo involuntario era un inmigrante senegales acusado del brutal asesinato de un nino. En Con los ojos cerrados, Guerrieri se topa con el caso de una mujer golpeada que ha tenido el valor de denunciar el acoso de su ex pareja. Hasta ahora, ningun abogado quiere representarla por temor a los poderosos personajes implicados. Pero cuando un inspector de policia se presenta en su despacho para pedirle ayuda, y lo hace acompanado de Sor Claudia, una monja que, mas que religiosa, parece una mujer policia, Guido Guerrieri se da cuenta de que este puede ser el caso mas interesante, y mas dificil, de toda su carrera

Vincitore del premio Hugo per il miglior romanzo breve (Novella) in 1977

Fleeing the sorcerous destruction of a long-lost city, Conan fights side-by-side with Valeria of the Red Brotherhood, that notorious and voluptuous she-pirate. Pursued by deadly spies and assassins, the Cimmerian and Valeria find themselves caught squarely in the front ranks of a bloody and savage war. But greater peril lurks in the shadow of a vast and forbidding mountain, where the Spirit Speaker wage occult battle with God-Men, who can read the future--and summon a Living Wind that consumes the soul even as it destroys the flesh.  Even a sword powered by barbarian might is of little use against spirits, much less against great beings of the elder dark, but the final struggle for survival will come down ton...Conan and the Gods of the Mountain

Deep in the Khezankian Mountains, ancient and evil magic is at work, in the hands of a twisted sorceress who calls herself the Lady of the Mists. In the desert, Conan is captured by the Turanians. To rid himself of this curse, he rides with a Turanian comrade against the Lady of the Mist and her minions. From the author of Conan The Valiant

As the Red Terror, a bizarre, magical dark force whose victims disappear without a trace, descends upon Aquilonia, King Conan sets out to destroy its source, evil, conquest-hungry sorcerer-priests from across the sea

A new Conan adventure--from one of today's most popular writers of fantasy and SF!  For decades, millions of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Conan, the barbarian adventurer invented by Robert E. Howard and further chronicled by other fantasy greats, including such notables as L. Sprague de Camp, Poul Anderson, and Robert Jordan.  Now Harry Turtledove, one of today's most popular writers of fantasy and SF, contributes a novel to the Conan saga--a tale of Conan in his youth, in the year or so before he becomes the wandering adventurer we know from the tales of Howard and others.   On the verge of adulthood, he lives in a Cimmerian hamlet, caring for his ailing mother, working in his father's smithy, and casting his eye on the weaver's daughter next door.  Then war comes: an invasion by the Aquilonian Empire. Conan burns to join the fight, but he's deemed too young. Then, from the border country, comes an unbelievable report: The Aquilonians have smashed the Cimmerian defending forces, and can rule as they please. Soon their heavily garrisoned forts dot the countryside. Their settlers follow after, carving homesteads out of other men's land. Every Cimmerian longs to drive the intruders out with fire and sword, but they must stay their hands, for the Aquilonians have promised savage reprisals. Then, intolerably, the Aquilonian commander takes a wholly dishonorable interest in the weaver's daughter -- and he's not a man to wait, or even ask permission.  It's not a recipe for a peaceable outcome

Born in the fires of battle, Conan of Cimmeria lost his father and village when they were slaughtered by the cruel warlord Khalar Zym. Wandering the world alone, Conan was forged into a peerless warrior by hardship and bloodshed. Years later, he crosses paths with Zym and his armies. But before Conan can exact vengeance, he must contend with the warlord's daughter-the seductive witch Marique-and a host of monstrous creatures. Only then will Conan's quest bring him face to face with Zym in an epic battle to avenge his people and save the world. Watch a Video

"The Castle of Terror" is a short story written by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter. It was first published in the 1969 collection Conan of Cimmeria. An exhausted Conan seeks shelter in a ruined castle, where he encounters a pack of slavers and an undead horror

Conan the Freebooter is a 1968 collection of five fantasy short stories written by Robert E. Howard and L. Sprague de Camp, featuring Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. Most of the stories originally appeared in the fantasy magazine Weird Tales in the 1930s. In these stories from Conan's late twenties, the Cimmerian is a mercenary with the Free Company in the city-states of Shem and the lands to the north and east, a war leader of the steppe-raiding Kozaki, and finally a soldier in the service of the kingdom of Kauran. Chronologically, the five short stories collected as Conan the Freebooter fall between Conan of Cimmeria and Conan the Wanderer

In the Ibar Mountains the necromancer Eremius is raising a demon-spawned army, using in of the fabled Jewels of Kurag. Snared in the court intrigues of Aghrapur, trapped by Lord Misrak, the King's deadly master of spies, Conan of Cimmeria must ride to comfort Ermius, accompanies against his will by the sorceress Illyanan. But Illyana herself carries the second Jewel, and whoever possesses both will gain power to challenge the gods. Plots and treachery loom at Conan's back, but those who seek to catch him in their web do not know that they face Conan of Cimmeria, Conan the Valiant

C'est beau, un porte-jarretelles. C'est musical. Y en a qui préfèrent la guitare électrique, libre à eux, tout le monde peut pas avoir ma santé. Moi,le collant, j'admets pour les danseurs à la rigueur. Mais reconnais qu'une frangine, son triangle de panne est beaucoup mieux en situation sous les branches d'un porte-jarretelles en fleur, non ? La couleur de çui d'ici j'te la dirai pas, t'as qu'à m'acheter ; pour le prix que ça coûte, à l'heure d'aujourd'hui, ça vaut même pas la peine de m'emprunter. D'autant que dans ce gros book il est pas question que de porte-jarretelles. Y a aussi le reste. Et crois-moi, ce sont de beaux restes, tu verras !

Cinq bandits de haut vol, deux femmes d’exception, un avocat mythique et… de la musique avant toute chose. D’un côté Jean Villemont, avocat pénaliste amoureux des sommets et sa consoeur Leila Naciri. De l’autre, Franck Jammet, braqueur virtuose et sa compagne Julie Narmon, aussi discrète qu’efficace. Entre eux, un homme et une affaire. Où se trouvait Franck Jammet la nuit du 18 au 19 février 2013 ? Pourquoi Jean Villemont ne se contente-t-il pas de la version officielle ? Qui a réalisé le casse du siècle ? Paul Colize est né en 1953 à Bruxelles. Auteur de romans noirs, il a écrit une douzaine de livres, dont Back Up, paru en 2012 à La Manufacture de livres (et en poche chez Folio, Prix Saint Maur en poche 2013) et Un long moment de silence paru en 2013 à la Manufacture de livres (également repris par Folio), qui a remporté la même année trois récompenses : Prix Landerneau Polar, Prix Boulevard de l'Imaginaire et Prix Polars Pourpres. Il entre avec Concerto pour quatre mains pour la première fois au catalogue de Fleuve Éditions, tandis que L'avocat, le nain et la princesse masquée paraît en mai 2015 chez Pocket

92 pp., México, Siglo XXI Editores, 1974, en, Novelas y relatos. «Carpentier en la maestría de sus novelas y relatos breves», por Salvador Bueno, La Habana, UNEAC, 1974 (Letras Cubanas) La concepción de `lo real maravilloso` de Alejo Carpentier (La Habana, 1904-1980), uno de los más destacados intelectuales contemporáneos, marcó toda una época de producción y crítica literarias. Esta edición incluye un estudio preliminar de Federico Acevedo que ubica y analiza la obra de tal manera que el nuevo lector se anime a leerla y el que ya la conoce la relea con renovado placer Concierto barroco es una novela deliciosa, propositiva, liberadora. En ella, el escritor utiliza los recursos propios del barroco: la parodia, el artificio, la hipérbole, la enu- meración proliferante, con mayor liberalidad, rompe con las ataduras de la cronología histórica y adquiere un extraordinario sentido del humor. Concierto barroco cuenta la historia de la puesta en escena de una ópera de Antonio Vivaldi, estrenada en el teatro Sant`Angelo de Venecia en el. otoño de 1733, en la cual se nana la derrota de Moctezuma por las fuerzas espa- ñolas que capitanea Hernán Cortés. El tema no puede ser más propicio para la pluma de Carpentier, pues se trata de una ópera barroca, que permite, además, enfrentar dos historias, dos culturas, dos mundos -América y Europa-, de cuya contraposición surge, en la óptica carpenteriana, precisamente lo real maravilloso. Novela que da cuenta del gusto de Alejo Carpentier. por la música, una segunda vocación que, junto con la arquitec- tura, subyace en toda su obra y que ya se había manifes- tado con singular vehemencia en Los pasos perdidos

Le pape est mort. Derrière les portes closes de la chapelle Sixtine, cent dix-huit cardinaux venus des quatre continents vont participer à l'élection la plus secrète qui soit. Ce sont tous des hommes de foi. Mais ils ont des ambitions. Et ils ont des rivaux. En secret, les alliances se préparent. Ce n'est plus qu'une question d'heures… L'un de ces cardinaux va devenir la figure spirituelle la plus puissante au monde. Sur la place Saint-Pierre, deux cent cinquante mille chrétiens attendent de voir la fumée blanche apparaître… Robert Harris est né à Nottingham en 1957. Il a été journaliste à la BBC, puis à l'Observer et au Sunday Times, activité pour laquelle il a reçu, en 1992, le titre d' « éditorialiste de l'année ». Il a publié cinq essais dont deux biographies politiques, puis s'est tourné vers la fiction. Il est l'auteur des déjà célèbres Imperium, Pompéi, Archange, Enigma et Dictator. Ses romans se sont vendus à plus de dix millions d'exemplaires et ont été traduits en trente-trois langues

On an ordinary day at a girl's school, two students are reported missing. The subsequent search involves the neighboring widower Old Mr. Rock and his granddaughter and her fiance, and uncovers the hidden lusts, ambitions, suspicions and jealousies that lie beneath the school's placid surface. Admired in his lifetime by W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Eudora Welty, Anthony Burgess, and Rebecca West, among others, Henry Green wrote nine novels, including Loving, Caught, and Blindness. He is also the author of a memoir, Pack My Bags, and Surviving, a book of uncollected writings. Green considered Concluding to be his finest work. First published in the U.S. by Viking (1948), most recent paperback by University of Chicago (1985)

Instead of the book he’s meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction. We learn of Rudolph’s sister, whose help he invites, then reviles as malevolent meddling; his ‘really marvelous’ house, which he hates; the suspicious illness he carefully nurses; his ten-year-long attempt to write the perfect opening sentence; and, finally, his escape to the island of Majorca, which turns out to be the site of someone else’s very real horror story. A brilliant and haunting tale of procrastination, failure, and despair, Concrete is a perfect example of why Thomas Bernhard is remembered as “one of the masters of contemporary European fiction” (George Steiner)

What if life as you know it was a lie? What if the world was not truly ours? What if there were old gods dwelling in the earth beneath our feet? And what if they came back? From award-winning authors Kealan Patrick Burke and Harry Shannon comes a vision of the apocalypse that will make you question everything you thought you knew about the world in which we live

Throughout history cities have been at the center of warfare, from sieges to street-fighting, from peace-keeping to coups de mains. Sun Tzu admonished his readers of The Art of War that the lowest realization of warfare was to attack a fortified city. Indeed, although strategists have advised against it across the millennia, armies and generals have been forced nonetheless to attack and defend cities, and victory has required that they do it well. In Concrete Hell Louis DiMarco has provided a masterful study of the brutal realities of urban warfare, of what it means to seize and hold a city literally block by block. Such a study could not be more timely. We live in an increasingly urbanizing world, a military unprepared for urban operations is unprepared for tomorrow. Di Marco masterfully studies the successes and failures of past battles in order to provide lessons for today’s tacticians

When he found the first one, Simon didn't tell anybody. It was most interesting: soft without being squashy; bendy but with no spring to it; a beautiful new colour, and the scent was strange. He sniffed it again, it made him feel deeply uneasy somewhere inside. It reminded him of something, but he couldn't remember what

A 35-year-old architect is driving home from his London office when his car swerves and crashes onto a traffic island lying below three converging motorways. Uninjured, he climbs the embankment to seek help, but no one will stop for him and he is trapped on the island, where he remains. "Visionary of both style and substance… the literary equivalent of Salvador Dalí or Max Ernst."-The Washington Post Book World "Ballard's novels are complex, obsessive, frequently poetic, and always disquieting chronicles of nature rebelling against humans, of the survival of barbarism in a world of mechanical efficiency, of ethropy, anomie, breakdown, ruin… The blasted landscapes that his characters inhabit are both external settings and states of mind."-Luc Sante

La historia tiene lugar 8 años después de lo sucedido en 'Neuromante'. Turner, un mercenario profesional, es encargado de la extracción del científico Mitchel de la empresa Maas para llevarlo a la competencia, la Hosaka, otra empresa de investigación de biochips. Al mismo tiempo, Marly, una marchante de arte caída en desgracia, es contratada por un excéntrico y misterioso multimillonario, Josef Virek, para encontrar al autor de una serie de obras de arte. Para cerrar el círculo, en Barrytown, cerca de los Proyectos, Bobby Newmark, alias Conde Cero, experimenta un Wilson que casi lo mata al conectar en la matriz usando un bioware prestado por Dos-por-Dia, un traficante de soft de los Proyectos

The season six finale, Tangent Fire, was a bridge novel that is now taking up to the final season of the series, the war in 2025. Only this is the future that arose from Kirov’s many interventions in the past, a future the main characters must own, and struggle to preserve from the fires of WWIII After China seized the Ryukyu Island in Season 6, the war spun off on a tangent when Chinese warships began stopping commercial traffic in the Med. This led to commerce raiding there by the Chinese Navy, and a direct confrontation with the Royal Navy, based in Gibraltar and Malta. That battle rolled to the eastern Med in the defense of Malta, and then the Chinese ally and client state, Egypt, shut down the Suez Canal. Action shifted to the Canary Islands and Cape Verde Islands, as Beijing gave orders for its squadrons there to withdraw to the Indian Ocean. Here, in Condition Zebra, the great grandson of the Admiral Wells we met in WWII now leads a strong Royal Navy fleet to Cape Town. His mission is to open the sea lanes north to the vital Persian Gulf region, but he is confronted by a strong Chinese Indo-Arabian Fleet that has been reinforced when their Med squadrons moved through the Red sea into the Gulf of Aden. Now the strengths and weaknesses on each navy are exposed in the hard garish light of intense naval combat. The Chinese have no carriers here, and must therefore rely on land based air support, but the Indian Ocean is a very big place. While the British have good carrier based air support, Admiral Wells fins his ships outranged by the Chinese SSM’s and inadequately prepared for air defense against these new missiles. In Condition Zebra, both navies lock horns off Madagascar, as Wells pushes north on a mission to occupy Victoria in the Seychelles. Reinforcements are coming, as the American Carrier Strike Group Roosevelt embarks from Darwin to meet the British Fleet at Diego Garcia. In the midst of this combat, Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam, launched a much belated invasion of Kuwait, and an action very much like the Gulf War ensues—only this time the Iraqi Army does not stop at the Saudi border. With the vast oil fields of Arabia in jeopardy, the 1st US Marine Division has been following the Roosevelt group in a massive sealift convoy bound for ports in Oman. As the land battle rages through the deserts of Saudi Arabia, the combined US and Royal Navy fleets must now confront Admiral Sun Wei’s reinforced Indo-Arabian Fleet. Now the presence of a big deck American carrier makes a big difference, and the massive 40 ship Chinese fleet faces its biggest challenge in the crucible of naval fire. As this action ensues, Karpov finds that his only solace is in battle, and takes Kirov and Kursk south into the Java Sea. There they become embroiled in the battle to stave off another big Chinese Operation aimed at Singapore and the Malacca Strait. Action from stem to stern in this one, and the war in 2025 explodes across the vast canvass of the Indian Ocean. Lurking in the background, the simmering hostility between India and Pakistan threatens to ignite yet another flashpoint and bring those two nuclear armed states into the war. Condition Zebra is the opening book the final 8 book season of the Kirov Series, where the fate of the ship and crew will be decided once and for all… with the war in 2025

Set a course for intercourse with this raucous space opera from Yoss, “Cuba’s premiere science-fiction writer” (VICE), where humans explore the limits of the Milky Way—and their libidos. In the 24th century, Josué Valdés’ rise from an orphan in the slums of Rubble City, Cuba to one of the galaxy’s most accomplished explorers was nothing short of meteoric. Josué used to race cockroaches for cash on the streets until he discovered his true-calling: as a sexual ambassador for humanity and the Nu Barsa colony. Every so-called “condomnaut” knows that trade deals in the galactic community depend on sexual pacts, which makes every encounter a close encounter. While some condomnauts have been trained and genetically enhanced to meet the needs of any tentacled insectoid in the galaxy, Josué is a natural whose ego could eclipse the big dipper. Josué and his fellow intrepid condomnauts travel light years across the galaxy and discover that old rivalries—and prejudices—are never far behind. When the first extragalactic beings arrive in the Milky Way, and with them the potential to negotiate for extraordinary new technologies, Josué must call upon every ounce of his talent to seal the deal for his colony and all of humanity. Indirectly investigating current sexual mores, Cuban science fiction rock star Yoss plays upon stereotypes while making it clear that in Communist Cuba what is daring is not always funny and vice versa. Following the success of Super Extra Grande and A Planet for Rent, Yoss brings us another uproarious space adventure with Condomnauts, a wildly inventive and unapologetic tale that would make even Barbarella blush

Condor, c’est l’histoire d’une enquête menée à tombeau ouvert dans les vastes étendues chiliennes. Une investigation qui commence dans les bas-fonds de Santiago submergés par la pauvreté et la drogue pour s’achever dans le désert minéral de l’Atacama, avec comme arrière-plan l’exploitation illégale de sites protégés… Condor, c’est une plongée dans l’histoire du Chili. De la dictature répressive des années 1970 au retour d’une démocratie plombée par l’héritage politique et économique de Pinochet. Les démons chiliens ne semblent pas près de quitter la scène… Condor, c’est surtout une histoire d’amour entre Gabriela, jeune vidéaste mapuche habitée par la mystique de son peuple, et Esteban, avocat spécialisé dans les causes perdues, qui porte comme une croix d’être le fils d’une grande famille à la fortune controversée… Caryl Férey vit à Paris. Après s'être aventuré en Nouvelle-Zélande avec sa « saga maorie » (Haka et Utu), en Afrique du Sud avec Zulu (récompensé entre autres par le Grand Prix de littérature policière en 2008 et adapté au cinéma en 2013) puis en Argentine avec Mapuche, il nous entraîne avec Condor dans une exploration sombre du Chili, dans une course-poursuite sanglante transfigurée par l'amour. Le nouveau roman de Caryl Férey nous fait voyager et frémir autant que réfléchir et nous rappelle, s'il le fallait, que l'auteur s'est imposé comme le maître du thriller des grands espaces et de l'ailleurs

Autodidacta de poderosa imaginación. Juan José Arreola ha ejercido los más disímiles oficios: vendedor ambulante, periodista, maestro y sobre todo charlista de palabra deslumbrante y ademanes categóricos. Inquietador profesional de vidas y sensibilidades, buena parte de la |oven narrativa mexicana le debe enseñanzas definitivas. Su primer libro. Varia invención, lo situó como uno de los mejores cuentistas actuales. Confabularlo le da sitio aparte en nuestras letras. Su evolución literaria podría resumirse así: la ingenuidad que deviene sapiencia; la alusión que se convierte en elusión, el plano vertical que se trueca plano oblicuo. El tema del amor es capital en su obra: va del idealismo adolescente a una visión aterradora y caricaturesca de la mujer, cifra y símbolo de la enajenación, del dolor y de la muerte. Autor de textos redondos por lo que toca a los personajes, la estructura y el estilo, me parece el más perfecto, porque los lastres que venía padeciendo la literatura mexicana desaparecen en él sin dejar huella, Emanuel Carballo Los cuentos que componen Confabularlo rebasan cualquier intento de descripción: fábulas, poemas en prosa, crónicas, simples y llanas narraciones y divertimentos que trascienden, amén de por su profundidad y poesía, por su enorme maestría en el manejo del lenguaje. Clásico ya por la contundencia de su obra, Juan José Arreola nos da en Confabularlo una pequeña muestra de su gran talento literario

Carolyn Turner, vizcondesa Wingate, está completamente escandalizada por la última selección llevada a cabo por la sociedad literaria de Londres. Memorias de una amante es escandalosamente explícito y absolutamente perverso… y despierta en ella sentimientos que nunca supo que tuviera. Está convencida de que esta erótica lectura es el único motivo por el que está sucumbiendo a los encantos del célebre libertino Daniel Sutton, lord Surbrooke. Es del todo imposible que esté enamorándose del granuja y sus ilícitas caricias… ¿o no? Lo último que Daniel deseaba era pronunciar los votos matrimoniales. Desea con ansia a Carolyn, cierto, pero nunca imaginó que una vez que la arrastrara a su cama jamás quisiera dejarla marchar. Pero sólo cuando un asesino convierte a su amada en su objetivo, Daniel se ve incitado a confesar su amor… y a reclamar a Carolyn como su mujer

Émigré à Paris, Kim s'adresse à son ami d'enfance, Arkadi. Avant d'être séparés à l'âge de quatorze ans, les deux garçons ont grandi ensemble dans un hameau communautaire, non loin de Leningrad. Kim et Arkadi vivent des années heureuses. Tous deux pionniers dans un mouvement de jeunesse, ils marchent fièrement vers l'horizon radieux que leur promettent les films de propagande, au rythme des chants qui célèbrent les héros de la guerre et la figure mythique du Travailleur. Mais certains silences des parents sont lourds de sous-entendus. Peu à peu émerge en eux le sentiment qu'on les dupe. Et pour l'adulte aux yeux depuis longtemps dessillés, la nostalgie est double: à celle des scènes de l'enfance que la mémoire baigne d'une lumière neigeuse, vient s'ajouter celle, plus inattendue, de l'époque du mensonge et de l'aveuglement

In a Russian restaurant on Paris's Left Bank, Russian exile Golubchik alternately fascinates and horrifies a rapt audience with a wild story of collaboration, deception, and murder in the days leading up to the Russian Revolution. “Worthy to sit beside Conrad and Dostoevsky’s excursions into the twisted world of secret agents. Joseph Roth is one of the great writers in German of this century; and this novel is a fine introduction to this view of intrigue, necessity, and moral doubt.” The London Times

A dark, poetic mystery about the women of the remote village of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them. Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, Mia Couto’s Confession of the Lioness reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting the women who live there. Mariamar, a woman whose sister was killed in a lioness attack, finds her life thrown into chaos when the outsider Archangel Bullseye, the marksman hired to kill the lionesses, arrives at the request of the village elders. Mariamar’s father imprisons her in her home, where she relives painful memories of past abuse and hopes to be rescued by Archangel. Meanwhile, Archangel tracks the lionesses in the wilderness, but when he begins to suspect there is more to them than meets the eye, he starts to lose control of his hands. The hunt grows more dangerous, until it’s no safer inside Kulumani than outside it. As the men of Kulumani feel increasingly threatened by the outsider, the forces of modernity upon their traditional culture, and the danger of their animal predators closing in, it becomes clear the lionesses might not be real lionesses at all but spirits conjured by the ancient witchcraft of the women themselves. Both a riveting mystery and a poignant examination of women’s oppression, Confession of the Lioness explores the confrontation between the modern world and ancient traditions to produce an atmospheric, gripping novel

During the violence and chaos of the Lebanese Civil War, a car pulls up to a roadblock on a narrow side street in Beirut. After a brief and confused exchange, several rounds of bullets are fired into the car, killing everyone inside except for a small boy of four or five. The boy is taken to the hospital, adopted by one of the assassins, and raised in a new family. “My father used to kidnap and kill people …” begins this haunting tale of a child who was raised by the murderer of his real family. The narrator of Confessions doesn’t shy away from the horrible truth of his murderous father — instead he confronts his troubled upbringing and seeks to understand the distortions and complexities of his memories, his war-torn country, and the quiet war that rages inside of him

Drawing comparisons with Shadow of the Wind, The Name of the Rose and The Reader, and an instant bestseller in more than 20 languages, Confessions is an astonishing story of one man s life, interwoven with a narrative that stretches across centuries to create an addictive and unforgettable literary symphony. I confess. At 60 and with a diagnosis of early Alzheimer s, Adrià Ardèvol re-examines his life before his memory is systematically deleted. He recalls a loveless childhood where the family antique business and his father s study become the centre of his world; where a treasured Storioni violin retains the shadows of a crime committed many years earlier. His mother, a cold, distant and pragmatic woman leaves him to his solitary games, full of unwanted questions. An accident ends the life of his enigmatic father, filling Adrià s world with guilt, secrets and deeply troubling mysteries that take him years to uncover and driving him deep into the past where atrocities are methodically exposed and examined. Gliding effortlessly between centuries, and at the same time providing a powerful narrative that is at once shocking, compelling, mysterious, tragic, humorous and gloriously readable, Confessions reaches a crescendo that is not only unexpected but provides one of the most startling denouements in contemporary literature. Confessions is a consummate masterpiece in any language, with an ending that will not just leave you thinking, but quite possibly change the way you think forever

Carolyn Turner, Viscountess Wingate, is absolutely shocked by the Ladies Literary Society of London's latest selection. Memoirs of a Mistress is scandalously explicit and downright wicked… and it's stirring feelings within Carolyn that she hasn't felt… well, ever! She's sure that this steamy read is the only reason she's succumbing to the charms of notorious rogue Daniel Sutton, Lord Surbrooke. She couldn't possibly be falling for the rascal and his illicit caresses… or could she? The last thing Daniel wanted was to be shackled by marriage vows. He lusted after Carolyn, sure, but he never imagined that once he lured her to his bed he'd never want to let her go. Yet only when a murderer targets his beloved will he be spurred to confess his true love… and claim Carolyn as his bride

Confessions of a Crap Artist is one of Philip K. Dick’s weirdest and most accomplished novels. Jack Isidore is a crap artist—a collector of crackpot ideas (among other things, he believes that the earth is hallow and that sunlight has weight) and worthless objects, a man so grossly unequipped for real life that his sister and brother-in-law feel compelled to rescue him from it. But seen through Jack’s murderously innocent gaze, Charlie and Juddy Hume prove to be just as sealed off from reality, in thrall to obsessions that are slightly more acceptable than Jack’s, but a great deal uglier

A surprised Southern matriarch is confronted by her family at an intervention… A life-altering break-in triggers insomniac introspection in a desperate actor… Streetwise New York City neighbors let down their guard for a naïve puppeteer and must suffer the consequences… In this stunning collection of short stories – five of which are being published for the very first time – bestselling, award-winning author Debra Dean displays the depth and magnitude of her extraordinary literary talent. Replete with the seamless storytelling and captivating lyrical voice that made her debut novel, The Madonnas of Leningrad, a national bestseller, Dean's Confessions of a Falling Woman is a haunting, satisfying, and unforgettable reading experience

Benjamin Daniels is angry. He is frustrated, confused, baffled and, quite frequently, very funny. He is also a GP. These are his confessions. A woman troubled by pornographic dreams about Tom Jones. An 80-year-old man who can’t remember why he’s come to see the doctor. A woman with a common cold demanding (but not receiving) antibiotics. A man with a sore knee. A young woman who has been trying to conceive for a while but now finds herself pregnant and isn’t sure she wants to go through with it. A 7-year-old boy with “tummy aches” that don’t really exist. These are his patients. Confessions of a GP is a witty insight into the life of a family doctor. Funny and moving in equal measure it will change the way you look at your GP next time you pop in with the sniffles

From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a GP. From stampeding nudes to inebriated teenagers, young nurse Michael Alexander never really knew what he was getting himself into. But now, sixteen years since he was first launched into his nursing career – as the only man in a gynaecology ward – he’s pretty much dealt with everything: Body parts that come off in his hands; Teenagers with phantom pregnancies; Doctors unable to tell the difference between their left and right; Violent drunks; Singing relatives; Sexism; …and a whole lot of nudity. Confessions of a Male Nurse is a touching, shocking and frequently hilarious account of one man’s life in nursing. ‘A fantastic read. Everything I had always suspected about nurses and so much more!’ ‘An incredibly emotional journey.’

James Patterson returns to the genre that made him famous with a thrilling teen detective series about the mysterious and magnificently wealthy Angel family . . . and the dark secrets they're keeping from one another. On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: 1) She was the last person to see her parents alive. 2) The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. 3) She can't trust anyone--maybe not even herself. Having grown up under Malcolm and Maud's intense perfectionist demands, no child comes away undamaged. Tandy decides that she will have to clear the family name, but digging deeper into her powerful parents' affairs is a dangerous-and revealing-game. Who knows what the Angels are truly capable of?

Meet Rebecca Bloomwood. She's a journalist. She spends her working life telling others how to manage their money. She spends her leisure time… shopping. Retail therapy is the answer to all her problems. She knows she should stop, but she can’t. She tries Cutting Back, she tries Making More Money. But neither seems to work. The stories she concocts become more and more fantastic as she tries to untangle her increasingly dire financial difficulties. Her only comfort is to buy herself something — just a little something…. Can Becky ever escape from this dream world, find true love, and regain the use of her Switch card? The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic…. (aka Confessions of a Shopaholic) The perfect pick me up for when it’s all hanging in the (bank) balance

As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, we are your neighbors, co-workers, and quite possibly the people closest to you: lovers, family, friends. Our risk-seeking behavior and general fearlessness are thrilling, our glibness and charm alluring. Our often quick wit and outside-the-box thinking make us appear intelligent--even brilliant. We climb the corporate ladder faster than the rest, and appear to have limitless self-confidence. Who are we? We are highly successful, non-criminal sociopaths and we comprise 4% of the American population (that's 1 in 25 people!). Confessions of a Sociopath takes readers on a journey into the mind of a sociopath, revealing what makes the tick and what that means for the rest of humanity. Written from the point of view of a diagnosed sociopath, it unveils these men and women who are “hiding in plain sight” for the very first time. Confessions of a Sociopath is part confessional memoir, part primer for the

Mary Elizabeth, a.k.a. Lola, is accustomed to playing the starring role in the fascinating production that is her life. Her pottery-making single mom and bratty twin sisters are merely bit players in Lola's dramatic existence. But all this changes when she is forced to move from her beloved Manhattan to the boring suburbs of New Jersey. According to Lola, "living in the suburbs is like being dead, only with cable TV and pizza delivery." The worst part is that someone has already snagged the coveted Drama Queen of Suburbia title--and that someone is Carla Santini. Carla, who is "sophisticated, beautiful, and radiates confidence the way a towering inferno radiates heat," isn't about to let anyone take away her hard-earned crown. Undaunted, Lola tries out for and wins the lead in the school play, a role much desired by Carla. In retaliation, Carla makes the entire student body give Lola the silent treatment (and in addition scores tickets to a sold-out concert of Lola's favorite rock band). Can Lola crash the concert, crush Carla, and still have enough energy to wow everyone in the school production of Pygmalion? It's all in a day's work for Lola, Teenage Drama Queen

Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business