Un matin, le Petit a décrété : — Je veux mon papa. Il a repoussé son bol de chocolat et j'ai su, moi, Benjamin Malaussène, frère de famille, que le Petit n'avalerait plus rien tant que je n'aurais pas retrouvé son vrai père. Or ce type était introuvable. Probablement mort, d'ailleurs. Après deux jours de jeûne le Petit était si transparent qu'on pouvait lire au travers. Mais il repoussait toujours son assiette : — Je veux mon papa

Si je voulais l'envoyer rejoindre Crâne pelé dans la baille, je n'aurais qu'une bourrade à lui administrer. Mais je ne tiens pas à procéder ainsi car ce faisant je perdrais le plus important témoin de mon affaire. Et comme ce témoin est par la même occasion le principal inculpé, vous comprendrez sans qu'on vous l'écrive au néon dans la cervelle que je sois enclin à ne pas me séparer de lui. Un inculpé de cette catégorie, je l'aurai payé le prix !

Lorsque votre chef vous demande à brûle-pourpoint ce que vous pensez d'un copain, on ne peut que la boucler un instant, ne serait-ce que pour se demander ce qui le pousse à poser une question pareille et aussi comment on va y répondre. Le grand patron est agité. Il est adossé au radiateur, ou plutôt, comme il mesure deux mètres, il est assis dessus. Il passe sans arrêt sa main fine sur son crâne en peau de fesse véritable. Ses yeux bleuâtres me considèrent avec intérêt. Je sens qu'à moins d'accepter de passer pour une truffe le moment est venu de me manifester. Je me racle le gosier. — Wolf, je balbutie… Wolf… Ben, c'est un bon petit gars, non ? — Non, San-Antonio : Wolf n'est pas un bon petit gars, et vous le savez aussi bien que moi…

"Tandis que mon père s'endort peu à peu contre moi, je lui parle une dernière fois: plus tard, tu ne pourras pas vivre avec le secret des Jardin. Il te tuera... Tu feras un livre, le nain jaune, pour le camoufler. Au même âge que toi, j'en ferai un, des gens très bien, pour l'exposer. Et je vivrai la dernière partie de ta vie... La mienne. Dors mon petit papa, dors... Ce livre aurait pu s'appeler "fini de rire". C'est le carnet de bord de ma lente lucidité". (A.J.)

Moi, tu me connais ? Je suis pas le genre de mec qui paie pour calcer une gonzesse. Mais j'appartiens pas non plus à l'espèce qui se fait douiller. Les écailles, je laisse Ça aux vrais harengs. Alors, te dire ce qui m'a pris de marcher dans cette combine de cornecul, franchement je pourrais pas. Y a des moments, dans la vie, où on perd les pédales. Note que j'en ai trouvé une chouette, chemin faisant, pour compenser. Si j'avais pu prévoir l'hécatombe qui découlerait de mes prouesses matelassières, je serais resté chez maman. Tu me crois pas ? Attends que je fasse le compte des allongés… Oh ! puis non : j'aurais pas assez de doigts

Il me regarde avec intérêt et commisération. — Vous êtes monsieur Berthier ? demande-t-il. Il se dégrafe le col pour avoir plus de possibilités oratoires. — Non, réponds-je, pourquoi ? — Je venais à cause que Mme Berthier a eu un petit ennui, fait-il gauchement. — Ah ? — Oui, elle s'est fait écraser par une auto… — Et elle est morte ? — Tuée net. — C'est ce que vous appelez un petit ennui, vous ?

Sie ist wirklich ein Traumpferd, diese wunderbare kraftvolle Stute Laska, die ihren Besitzer Horst Hartung von Sieg zu Sieg trägt. Instinktiv scheint sie seinem Willen zu folgen, der beide, Pferd und Reiter, bis an die Grenzen ihrer Leistungsfähigkeit führt. Immer wieder erleben sie den Rausch des Sieges und gehen unter dem Jubel der Zuschauer durchs Ziel. Neben ihnen haben die anderen kaum eine Chance, und so sind Neid und Mißgunst nur die allzu natürliche Folge. Pferd und Reiter werden das Ziel skrupelloser Intrigen. Um sie kampfunfähig zu machen, ist jedes Mittel recht, auch Drogen und Entführung. Das ist die Kehrseite des Erfolges: daß dieses äußerlich so glanzvolle Leben ständig von Gefahren bedroht ist, daß es überdies fast nur aus Training und Wettkampfbesteht und daß in ihm kaum Zeit ist für die Liebe. Und doch gibt es eine Frau, die dieses Leben trotz allem teilen möchte: Angela, die nach all den unruhigen Jahren Heimkehr, Glück und Ziel bedeutet

Ryden habría cedido a las exigencias del amor? Jennifer no pudo resistirse a esa bañera deliciosa. Se desnudó y se sumergió en la espuma fragante, con un suspiro de placer. No quería pensar en nada, no quería recordar el desastre en que se había metido al a conocer los dos hermanos, Noel y Ryden, los propietarios de la casa. Yo estaba casi dormida cuando un ruido en la puerta la sorprendió. Alguien trataba de entrar! ¿Cuál? Noel, el amigo en quien podía confiar y que sabía su verdadera identidad? O Ryden… el irresistible Ryden, a quien ella deseaba con la locura?

El cirujano Justin Webb, toda una leyenda en Texas, se enfrentaba al mayor desafío de su vida: conseguir el amor de la detective Winona Raye, independiente, descarada, desenvuelta y bellísima. Cuando Winona descubrió un bebé abandonado en la puerta de su casa, el doctor aprovechó la oportunidad, y le ofreció que se casaran para darle un hogar al niño. Winona no tenía ninguna prisa en recorrer el camino hacia el altar, pero Justin había decidido estar cerca… aunque ella no quisiera

Las pesadillas atormentaban a Douglas Quaid de forma recurrente. Aunque jamás había estado en Marte, no dejaba de soñar que se hallaba en el planeta rojo, enzarzado en misiones peligrosas, entre agentes hostiles, junto a una deslumbrante mujer. Una vida, evidentemente, mucho más atractiva que la monotonía de un simple obrero de la construcción en la Tierra del año 2089. Pero podía llevarle a la locura. Hasta que decidió recurrir a Rekall, una empresa capaz de materializar los sueños imposibles desus clientes, y cuyo lema era: "Podemos recordarlo todo para usted". Y ahí fué donde empezaron realmente sus problemas…

Myron Bolitar no es uno más. Es la única esperanza de Terese Collins. Hace ocho años ambos huyeron a una isla caribeña para dedicarse a amarse. Pero ella desapareció sin dejar ni el más mínimo rastro, incluso para alguien tan avieso como Bolitar. Hasta que sonó el teléfono a las cinco de la mañana. Sólo dijo: «Ven a Parísۛ», dejando el aroma de un encuentro romántico, sensual, lleno de fantasías, con el que recuperar el tiempo perdido. Pero Bolitar ya presagiaba que Terese había pronunciado aquellas palabras con otra intención: era un grito de socorro. Rick, el ex marido de Collins y periodista estrella de la CNN, ha aparecido asesinado en París. Ella es la única sospechosa. La prueba preliminar de ADN, sin embargo, señala a otra: su hija. ¿Pero no murió hace más de diez años? Bolitar nunca habría imaginado todo lo que ocultaba Terese Collins: un íntimo secreto que sólo devastará a los dos, sino que podría cambiar el mundo. Un secreto en el que se cruza el periodismo y la Interpol, incluso el Mossad

Una mujer a bordo de un transbordador desaparece en extrañas circunstancias y la detective Eve Dallas se pregunta: si la mujer no saltó y no está a bordo, ¿dónde demonios puede estar?

Todo comenzó un día cualquiera para aquellas tres adolescentes de Belham, Massachusetts. Ellas iban a pasar un día como cualquier otro, en el bosque bebiendo cerveza y fumando un poco. Todo iba bien, hasta que presenciaron aquella escena. Ellas no estaban preparadas para ver algo así, les arrancó la inocencia de cuajo, quebró su amistad, y se convirtió en un reguero de sangre y dolor, mucho dolor… Han pasado veinticinco años desde que ocurriera aquello, y el secuestro de Carol Cranmore, una adolescente de Belham, ha puesto en guardia a la policía y al FBI. Estos últimos, creen saber a lo que se enfrentan, un nuevo ataque de un asesino en serie, posiblemente el mismo que llevan buscando más de veinticinco años… conocido como El Viajero. Solo existe una persona que haya sido capaz de escapar de las garras de este asesino, pero su estado es tan deplorable que apenas puede que ayuda a la investigación que están llevando a cabo. Darby McCormick, miembro del Departamento de Policía de Boston, es acosada por los fantasmas del pasado, y asumirá este caso como algo personal. Intentara encontrar y salvar a Carol, aunque le cueste la vida en el intento… Mientras tanto, Carol despierta en una celda oscura. Está asustada, no sabe donde está…oye gritos a lo lejos…gritos de mujeres encerradas como ella. Pero de vez en cuando suena un zumbido, y todas las celdas se abren. Carol cruza el umbral, bajo la atenta mirada de un sádico asesino, dispuesto a dar rienda suelta a sus fantasías mas perversas. Se inicia una caza que solo tiene dos reglas básicas: esconderse o morir

Considerado por la Academia Sueca uno de los autores de mayor talento, aclamado por la crítica como el nuevo Stephen King y considerado por los lectores el sucesor de Stieg Larsson, el maestro escandinavo del terror se imagina en su nueva novela qué pasaría si Estocolmo fuese tomado por los zombies. Algo muy extraño está ocurriendo en la capital de Suecia: en medio de una inusual ola de calor, la gente se da cuenta de que no puede apagar la luz ni los aparatos eléctricos. De repente, una noticia sacude a la nación: en la morgue los muertos están resucitando. ¿Qué es lo que quieren? Lógicamente, volver a casa…

The last thing Mason Starling remembers is the train crossing a bridge. An explosion . . . a blinding light . . . then darkness. Now she is alone, stranded in Asgard—the realm of Norse legend—and the only way for her to get home is to find the Spear of Odin, a powerful relic left behind by vanished gods. The Fennrys Wolf knows all about Asgard. He was once trapped there. And he’ll do whatever it takes to find the girl who’s stolen his heart and bring her back—even if it means a treacherous descent into the Underworld. But time is running out, and Fenn knows something Mason doesn’t: If she takes up the Spear, she’ll set in motion a terrible prophecy. And she won’t just return to her world . . . she’ll destroy it. In this pulse-pounding sequel to Starling, Lesley Livingston delivers another electrifying blend of nonstop action and undeniable romance that will leave readers breathless

A supernatural thriller from the master of suspense. Californian James Falcon's compelling Romanian mother told him so many folk stories that by the time he reaches college in 1943, he is something of an expert on the strigoi, the legendary, undying vampires who infested the most isolated forests of Wallachia. Mostly as a joke, he writes a term paper on the strigoi. But the joke turns serious when US counterintelligence approach him to recruit his expertise. James hunts down strigoi murderers in war-ravaged Europe, Nazi assassins hired to run down run down the French and Belgian resistance in exchange for Transylvanian independence, although the principal one, the terrible Dorin Duca, continues to elude him. In the Cold War, he must fight once more, as Duca goes on the rampage, spreading his strigoi infection all across London, England. With Jill, a police dog handler of great beauty and resilience, James is assigned to Britain's MI6 to go on the hunt again. But even after the threat is driven away, James will still uncover more secrets about the immortal predators secrets that come ever closer to home…

…Everything we know about the Scythians we have learned either from archeological artifacts or historical references by ancient Greek and Roman historians… “…The representations of the Scythians that the explorers had seen earlier on the ancient fugs, vases, bas-reliefs, and jewelry, had now come to life before their very eyes…” This is a gripping story of the bellicose Scythians, full of suspense and flights of imagination

Le gars qui pourrait me prouver par a + b qu'il a, au cours de son existence, exécuté une besogne plus débectante que celle à laquelle je me livre depuis une huitaine de jours aurait droit, selon moi, au salut militaire, au salut étemel et à une place assise dans les chemins de fer. Faut vraiment avoir le palpitant arrimé avec du gros filin pour tenir le choc. Et je le tiens, moi, le choc, parce que mon job c'est justement de ne pas faire la fine bouche. Voilà une semaine que je visite les morgues de France à la recherche d'un cadavre…

A group of unsuspecting oil workers deals with an unexplainable power outage. Being that their isolation makes them mostly inaccessible, as they are on a man-made island ten-miles off the coast of Barrow, AK, they come to the difficult decision they must go find help themselves. After a harrowing trip over the ice, they make it to Barrow only to find that it was also dark and devoid of any normal life. Things went from bad to worse when one of them is attacked by a gray-skinned man. With nowhere else to go, they break into an abandoned house and begin to give aid to their injured friend. During their search for supplies in the house, they find a woman sitting alone. Her skin is gray like the man who attacked them earlier. For her, though, she’s near-comatose, sitting at the kitchen table, covered in an odd mucus, and seemingly paralyzed. Tears flow down her face as the group decides her fate. Before they’re able, the man who is injured from the attack awakens, and it’s clear he isn’t well. This coincides with an ominous gathering of more Gray-skinned people outside. After several moments, they attack the house. The group escapes and makes their way to the corporate headquarters of the company they work for, which was their plan from the beginning. Along the way, they save a woman and child trapped in a house by a group of Grays. Once at the headquarters, the woman, who has everything to lose, exposes a plot by foreign powers to destroy the United States. B.J. Farmer (Billy Farmer) is a new author…. Yeah, I’m actually writing this, so I’ll just finish it in the first-person. Actually, I won’t bore you with the details of my wonderful book. You’ll see enough of it on this page if you stick around

Un día Diana ingresa, accidentalmente, en el correo electrónico de un hombre al que no conoce pero con el que inicia un juego mediático, anónimo y audaz, que les concede a ambos la cuota de seducción que les estaba faltando. Y así, lo que empieza como una travesura deviene una necesidad: los mensajes son un remedio para Diana, una ilusión que le cubre los días vacíos, y la llena de expectativas. Desde las cenizas se desarrolla en un universo pequeño, engañosamente simple, de personajes identificables y comunes. Sin embargo, Claudia Amengual los vuelve únicos

A Susie Salmon (sí, igual que el pez) la mataron. Fue violada, asesinada y luego descuartizada en un campo de trigo cuando volvía del colegio una helada tarde de invierno. A sus 14 años, era una joven como tantas, que soñaba con ir a la universidad, conocer chicos, vestirse a la moda y ser actriz o fotógrafa. Pero ahora ya no está para contarnos sus planes, sus ansias de futuro… o tal vez sí. Desde la atalaya de su cielo, en el que ahora habita eternamente, Susie observa la vida en la Tierra de aquellos a quienes dejó. Desde ese cielo donde ahora puede concretar todos sus sueños de adolescente, Susie también relata de forma minuciosa la brutal preparación y ejecución de su asesinato, cometido por un conocido, un vecino del lugar, y descubrir que no es la única chica que ha hecho `desaparecer` dicho individuo. Una narración fría y distante de un acto perverso, en las que Susie intercala sus ingenuas y curiosas experiencias en su cielo. La realidad más atroz y perturbadora, junto con la fantasía de un mundo donde el muerto puede al fin realizar todos sus deseos. Excepto uno: volver a la Tierra junto a los suyos. A Susie sólo le queda dedicarse a observar, cuidar e intentar de alguna forma, intervenir en la vida de aquellos a quienes dejó atrás: su obstinado padre, que no descansará hasta saber lo que realmente le ocurrió, su madre, que termina aislada de todo y de todos, sus hermanos, que lucharán por sobrevivir al vacío dejado por ella y reconstruir sus vidas, sus amigos, inmersos en la lucha diaria por seguir sin su presencia, e incluso en el chico que estaba enamorado de ella y que no logra olvidarla. Desde su cielo, Susie debe aprender también a resignarse, dejar vivir a los vivos y continuar su derrotero. Queramos verlo o no, el Mal forma parte de nuestra vida cotidiana, y esta novela desgarradora

Desde Rusia con amor es la quinta novela de James Bond escrita por Ian Fleming. La inteligencia soviética planea un golpe contra la inteligencia occidental, para esto han escogido como blanco al agente 007 de MI6. La agente Tatiana Romanova es inducida por la coronel Rosa Klebb para que le ofrezca a Bond un decodificador soviético a cambio de que él la lleve a Inglaterra. El agente Grant se asegurará de que no falle la misión. Bond será ayudado por Kerim Bey, un musulmán que se encubre bajo la identidad de un vendedor de tapetes. El desenlace final será que Kerim Bey morirá a manos de Grant en el Expreso de Oriente, Grant será eliminado por Bond y Rosa Klebb será arrestada, no sin antes herir a Bond con un cuchillo escondido en su zapato. El desenlace de esto se ve en la novela Dr. No, en donde Bond se cura

PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA 2004 ESTA NOVELA, QUE PROVOCÓ UN NOTABLE ESCÁNDALO EN SU PAÍS EN EL MOMENTO DE SU PUBLICACIÓN, SUPONE UN PRODIGIOSO EJERCICIO NARRATIVO TANTO DESDE EL PUNTO DE VISTA DEL ESTILO COMO DEL ESTRUCTURAL. EL LENGUAJE CRUDO Y PRECISO Y EL ELEVADO TONO ERÓTICO DE DESEO, ROMPE CON TODAS LAS CONVENCIONES DE LO QUE SE HA VENIDO LLAMANDO LA LITERATURA FEMENINA. EL DIRECTOR DE UNA FÁBRICA DE PAPEL, ATEMORIZADO POR LOS PELIGROS DEL SIDA, SE FIJA DE NUEVO EN SU ESPOSA PARA HACER USO DE ELLA COMO DE LAS PROSTITUTAS QUE HABÍA FRECUENTADO HASTA ENTONCES. EN LA CONFORTABLE RESIDENCIA DEL MATRIMONIO SE SUCEDEN UNAS ESCENAS DE EXTRAÑA OBSCENIDAD Y DE VIOLENCIA INUSITADA, BAJO LA MIRADA DE SU PROPIO HIJO, COMO UNA CRÓNICA DE LOS DIFERENTES MECANISMOS POSIBLES DE DOMINACIÓN EN EL SENO DE LA PAREJA. LA MUJER, DESESPERADA, ENCONTRARÁ OTRO AMANTE MÁS JOVEN QUE, A LA POSTRE, LE CONVERTIRÁ EN SU NUEVO VERDUGO

Fitzwilliam Darcy regresa a su propiedad rural de Pemberley para pasar la Navidad con su hermana Georgiana. El recuerdo de Elizabeth Bennet parece perseguirle a todas partes. Distraído y distante, Georgiana trata de averiguar qué le pasa. Él le cuenta sus encuentros con Elizabeth, pero también deja muy claro que, aparte de la opinión que la joven pueda tener de él, la posición social de la dama, claramente inferior a la de su familia, es un obstáculo insalvable para cualquier posible relación entre ambos. A su regreso a Londres, toma la decisión de olvidarla por completo y se propone buscar a alguna joven adecuada para ser su esposa. En su interior se impone un fuerte sentido del deber y del honor que supera momentáneamente a sus sentimientos. Para ello, acepta la invitación de un viejo amigo suyo, lord Sayre, para pasar una semana en el castillo de Norwycke, donde se reunirán algunos de sus antiguos compañeros de estudios y varias damas, entre las que se encuentra lady Sylvanie, hermanastra del anfitrión, una hermosa y misteriosa mujer que consigue desde el principio captar su interés. Pero ¿conseguirá hacerle olvidar a su Elizabeth?

The Swedish Academy, in awarding J.M.G. Le Clézio the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature, praised Desert as Le Clézio's "definitive breakthrough as a novelist." Published in France in 1980, Desert received the Grand Prix Paul Morand from the Académie Française, was translated into twenty-three languages, and quickly proved to be a best-selling novel in many countries around the world. Available for the first time in English translation, Desert is a novel composed of two alternating narratives, set in counterpoint. The first takes place in the desert between 1909 and 1912 and evokes the migration of a young adolescent boy, Nour, and his people, the Blue Men, notorious warriors of the desert. Driven from their lands by French colonial soldiers, Nour's tribe has come to the valley of the Saguiet El Hamra to seek the aid of the great spiritual leader known as Water of the Eyes. The religious chief sends them out from the holy city of Smara into the desert to travel still further. Spurred on by thirst, hunger, and suffering, Nour's tribe and others flee northward in the hopes of finding a land that can harbor them at last. The second narrative relates the contemporary story of Lalla, a descendant of the Blue Men. Though she is an orphan living in a shantytown known as the Project near a coastal city in Morocco, the blood of her proud, obstinate tribe runs in her veins. All too soon, Lalla must flee to escape a forced marriage with an older, wealthy man. She travels to France, undergoing many trials there, from working as a hotel maid to becoming a highly-paid fashion model, and yet she never betrays the blood of her ancestors

A VIVID AND ASSURED WORK OF FICTION FROM A MAJOR NEW VOICE FOLLOWING THE LIFE OF A YOUNG MAN GROWING UP, LEAVING HOME, AND COMING BACK AGAIN, MARKED BY THE STARK BEAUTY OF CALIFORNIA'S MOJAVE DESERT AND THE VARIOUS FATES OF THOSE WHO LEAVE AND THOSE WHO STAY BEHIND. This series of powerful, intertwining stories illuminates Daley Kushner's world — the family, friends and community that have both formed and constrained him, and his new life in San Francisco. Back home, the desert preys on those who cannot conform: an alfalfa farmer on the outskirts of town; two young girls whose curiosity leads to danger; a black politician who once served as his school's confederate mascot; Daley's mother, an immigrant from Armenia; and Daley himself, introspective and queer. Meanwhile, in another desert on the other side of the world, war threatens to fracture Daley's most meaningful — and most fraught — connection to home, his friendship with Robert Karinger. A luminous debut, Desert Boys by Chris McCormick traces the development of towns into cities, of boys into men, and the haunting effects produced when the two transformations overlap. Both a bildungsroman and a portrait of a changing place, the book mines the terrain between the desire to escape and the hunger to belong

Richard Gale, a college football star, travels to Mexico to prove himself after failing in every business opportunity that his wealthy father had handed him. When he arrives at an Arizona border town, a chance meeting with an old friend launches him into an adventure to save a young Spanish beauty from a ruthless Mexican bandit.Within the mystical beauty of the desert landscape, this extraordinary novel touches on many complexities of humanity, including honor, lust, vengeance, and love. And in this western classic, Zane Grey captures the grandeur of the true Old West as only he can

Life is good for Joanna Brady in the small desert community of Bisbee. She has Jenny, her adored nine-year-old daughter, and solid, honest, and loving husband, Andy, a local lawman who's running for Sheriff of Cochise County. But her good life explodes when a bullet destroys Andy Brady's future and leaves him dying beneath the blistering Arizona sun. The police brass claim that Andy was dirty-up to his neck in drugs and smuggling-and that the shooting was a suicide attempt. Joanna knows a cover-up when she hears one…and murder when she sees it. But her determined effort to track down an assassin and clear her husband's name are placing herself and her Jenny in serious jeopardy. Because, in the desert, the truth can be far more lethal than a rattler's bite

LAPD detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to hunt the brutal killer who is Bosch’s “white whale” — a man responsible for the murder of an entire family. A year has passed since LAPD detective Renée Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. But after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her own ticket within the department, Ballard takes back her badge, leaving “the Late Show” to rebuild and lead the cold case unit at the elite Robbery-Homicide Division. For years, Harry Bosch has been working a case that haunts him — the murder of an entire family by a psychopath who still walks free. Ballard makes Bosch an offer: come volunteer as an investigator in her new Open-Unsolved Unit, and he can pursue his “white whale” with the resources of the LAPD behind him. First priority for Ballard is to clear the unsolved rape and murder of a sixteen-year-old girl. The decades-old case is essential to the councilman who supported re-forming the unit, and who could shutter it again — the victim was his sister. When Ballard gets a “cold hit” connecting the killing to a similar crime, proving that a serial predator has been at work in the city for years, the political pressure has never been higher. To keep momentum going, she has to pull Bosch off his own investigation, the case that is the consummation of his lifelong mission

Disclaimers: The characters of Xena, Gabrielle, Lao Ma, Alti, Borias, and everyone else who sounds familiar belong to Pac Ren and Universal Studios. I am not making money off of this story

Return to the world of Melissa Marr's bestselling series and discover how the events of Wicked Lovely set a different faery tale in motion. . . . Originally presented as a manga series and now available for the first time as a stand-alone novel, Desert Tales combines tentative romance, outward strength, and inner resolve in a faery story of desert and destiny. The Mojave Desert was a million miles away from the plots and schemes of the Faerie Courts—and that's exactly why Rika chose it as her home. The once-mortal faery retreated to the desert's isolation after decades of carrying winter's curse inside her body. But her seclusion—and the freedom of the desert fey—is threatened by the Summer King's newfound strength. And when the manipulations of her trickster friend, Sionnach, thrust Rika into a new romance, she finds new power within herself—and a new desire to help Sionnach protect the desert fey and mortals alike. The time for hiding is over

A los cincuenta y dos años, David Lurie tiene poco de lo que enorgullecerse. Con dos divorcios a sus espaldas, apaciguar el deseo es su única aspiración, sus clases en la universidad son un mero trámite para él y para los estudiantes. Cuando se destapa su relación con una alumna, David, en un acto de soberbia, preferirá renunciar a su puesto antes que disculparse en público. Rechazado por todos, abandona Ciudad del Cabo y va a visitar la granja de su hija Lucy. Allí, en una sociedad donde los códigos de comportamiento, sean de blancos o de negros, han cambiado, donde el idioma es una herramienta viciada que no sirve a este mundo naciente, David verá hacerse añicos todas sus creencias en una tarde de violencia implacable. Una historia profunda, extraordinaria, que por momentos atenaza el corazón, y siempre, hasta el final, subyuga

Fiona Marlowe, interior designer to the rich and powerful, finds her wealthy old client, Albert Lodge, dead on the floor of his library in the posh McLean suburb of Washington, D.C. As the investigation unfolds, Fiona discovers she has detective talent, and her innate curiosity spurs her into sticking her nose where it does not belong. Albert’s eighty year old eccentric sister, Opal, arrives from her ranch in south eastern Oregon to settle the estate. She has talked her ranch hand, Jake Manyhorses, into the role of private investigator as she is convinced one of the numerous family members murdered Albert for his money. With Opal's encouragement Fiona joins Jake in the investigation as it spirals into the netherworld of betrayal, blackmail and smuggling, none of which Jake or Fiona bargained for when they said yes to helping Opal solve the mystery of Albert’s demise

Leaving her native Canada behind, Cydney is visiting Norwich, England with her best friend after finishing university. And she’s on the hunt…for a British boy toy to help fill her vacation. At a nightclub one night, she finds the perfect candidate–he’s tall, muscular and as good-looking as sin. She doesn’t waste any time seeing if he could be the one to occupy her time. Wulfric–a shape shifting, immortal warrior charged by the Anglo-Saxon god, Tiw, to protect mortals from werewolves sired by Fenris the wolf–had followed his prey’s scent trail to a nightclub. Following inside to continue the hunt, he’s confronted by a gorgeous woman who introduces herself while grabbing him by the crotch. He’s even further distracted when he realizes that she’s his mate, as well. But as things heat up between them, the disappearance of Cydney’s best friend forces Wulfric to tell her the truth about him before he’s ready. And the chance of having to let her go could be one battle he’ll lose in the end

A notorious rake and spymaster, the Earl of Wycliff unexpectedly finds himself married to Brynn Caldwell, the beauty he encounters on a Cornish beach, but a centuries-old family curse, intrigue, treachery, and betrayal could separate them forever

The owner of the Isle of Desire after her father's death, Lady Clare knows she must marry to protect her inheritance but nonetheless feels betrayed when her guardian chooses a fearsome knight, and not the poet she requested, to be her spouse

The cruel code of her plantation society forced her to renounce the man she could never forget. Lilah Remy would marry another, her days filled with anguish, her nights with torment. But Joss San Pietro had vowed to possess the woman whose beauty haunted him and enslaved his body and soul!

Shade is a demon with heart, but like his brothers he's harbouring a dark secret, one that brings him, and his lovers, to their knees. Runa succombed to Shade's charms a year ago, and she thought he was the perfect guy — until she found him in bed with two other women. Runa shows up at Shade's apartment looking for him, and revenge, but finds herself kidnapped by Roag, Shade's enemy. In Roag's dungeon, Runa and Shade find themselves forever changed, and forever bonded as lifemates. As they make their escape and race to warn others about Roag's evil plans, Runa and Shade must find a way to save themselves before their destiny, and Roag's vengeance, destroys them all

In DESIRED (Book #5 in the Vampire Journals), Caitlin Paine wakes to discover that she has once again traveled back in time. This time, she has landed in eighteenth century Paris, an age of great opulence, of kings and queens – but also of revolution. Reunited with her true love, Caleb, the two of them finally have the quiet, romantic time together that they never had. They spend idyllic time together in the city of Paris, visiting its most romantic sites, as their love grows ever deeper. Caitlin decides to give up the search for her father, so that she can savor this time and place, and spend her life with Caleb. Caleb takes her to his medieval castle, near the ocean, and Caitlin is happier than she ever dreamed. But their idyllic time together is not destined to last forever, and events intercede that force the two of them apart. Caitlin once again finds herself united with Aiden and his coven, with Polly and with new friends, as she focuses again on her training, and on her mission. She is introduced to the lavish world of Versailles, and encounters outfits and opulence beyond what she ever dreamed. With never ending feasts and parties and concerts, Versailles is a world of its own. She is happily reunited with her bother Sam, who is also back in time, and having dreams of their father, too. But all is not as well as it seems. Kyle has traveled back in time, too – this time, with his evil sidekick, Sergei – and he is more determined than ever to kill Caitlin. And Sam and Polly each fall ever deeper into toxic relationships, which just might threaten to destroy everything around them. As Caitlin becomes a true and hardened warrior, she comes closer than ever to finding her father, and the mythical Shield. The climactic, action-packed ending, takes Caitlin through a whirlwind of Paris’ most important medieval locations, on a hunt for clues. But surviving this time will demand skills she never dreamed she had. And reuniting with Caleb will require her to make the hardest choices – and sacrifices – of her life

"Desmit mazi nēģerēni" (Ten Little Niggers, 1939) ir viens no populārākajiem britu detektīvlitaratūras karalienes Agatas Kristi darbiem, kura atskaņas līdz pat mūsdienām sastopamas neskaitāmos visdažādāko žanru romānos un jo īpaši šausmu filmās un pat datorspēlēs. 1939. gadā šo romānu ar nosaukumu "Un tur nesēž vairs neviens" turpinājumos publicēja britu laikraksts "Saturday Evening Post", un tā bija pirmā reize, kad tika mainīts romāna nosaukums. Vēlāk grāmatas nosaukums — galvenokārt politkorektuma vārdā — mainīts vairākkārt. Romāns saucies arī "Desmit mazi indiāņi", un tekstā sastopamais dzejolītis pārveidots tā, lai būtu par indiāņiem. ASV iznākušajā "Un tur nesēž vairs neviens" versijā dzejolītis ir par karavīriem un arī ceļotājiem liktenīgā sala iemantojusi Karavīru salas nosaukumu. Romāna sižets ir vienkāršs un ģeniāls. Desmit cilvēki dodas uz salu netālu no Devonas krastiem. Salā viesi nonāk namā, kur katrā istabiņā ir ierāmēts bērnišķīgs dzejolītis par desmit maziem nēģerēniem, kas cits pēc cita ņem nelabu galu. Drīz vien salas viesi apjauš, ka desmit mazie nēģerēni patiesībā ir viņi. Un arī slepkava, iespējams, ir viens no viņiem

As Nuclear Winter wrapped its gloomy arms around the planet, man experienced a state of anguished misery and desolation. In order to survive, some became territorial, shunning outsiders. Those in positions of leadership wielded it like a club. While others resisted. This is how the world ends. Not with a bang, but with many nuclear bombs detonated around the planet. It was no longer a topic of conversation around the dinner table as in years past. Nuclear winter enveloped the planet with its relentless barrage of dark, sooty air. With each passing day, more and more people died. In a desperate attempt to give people a chance to survive, some government leaders chose to marshal the assets of their community. It was a polite way of saying take from those who have and give to those who have not. Hank Albright and his family were not selfish people. However, they were survivors and they’d prepared for the worst. What happens when an all-powerful government sets its sights on what you own? Will you willingly give away the food and necessary to keep your family alive? Or, will you fight for what is yours? For the Albright’s, they stood shoulder to shoulder and declared, I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees. This is more than the story of nuclear conflict. It’s about the devastating effects wrought by Nuclear Winter. Our possible future is seen through the eyes of the Albright family whose roots stretch back to the early settlement of the Florida Keys. While they fight for survival, they trek across a rapidly deteriorating landscape wrought with danger from both the elements and their fellow man. It was not our fight, but it became our problem

From the internationally acclaimed playwright and author of Art comes a first novel of extraordinary brilliance: the outpourings — at once eccentric, dark, and exceedingly funny — of an old man reflecting upon his life, marriages, friendships, love affairs, and the enragingly separate existence of his spoiled, and lost, only son. He has had a full life, and now, in his later years, retired, his second wife getting on his nerves, love affairs a distant memory, he has a few things that he’d like to get off his chest. As he talks — half to himself, half to the son he can’t understand — we’re introduced to Nancy, his too-happy wife; to their housekeeper, Mrs. Dacimiento, who still can’t put the bag properly over the rim of the garbage can; to his chum Lionel; to his daughter and her wannabe-truly-Jewish husband; and to the heartbreaking Marisa Botton, his idiotic, irresistible mistress. Finally, we witness his chance re-encounter with the charming Genevieve Abramowitz, who in telling him a story of her own leads him to his final overtures. Yasmina Reza has written a symphonic monologue — a passionate kvetch, a truly original work

The greatest solar event in history turned off the world’s power and destroyed much of its technology. The sun’s barrage continues today effectively bringing humanity back to a new Stone Age. This is a time of desolation, where every day is a desperate fight for survival. Food and water are disappearing, and many will kill to take these from you. On a beach in Mexico, a small town in Wyoming, and a rural ranch in Illinois, epic battles between good and evil will be fought. Meanwhile, a 150 year old secret may lead a lucky few to a place that holds the promise of a new future, unless the sun sets on humanity first