Nestled on the shores of Lake Erie, the small town of Port Ariel, Ohio, is a welcome haven for Natalie St. John. Back home for the first time in years, she plans to visit old friends, mend a broken heart, and take a break from her busy veterinary practice. But her peace is shattered her first night back, when she discovers the murdered body of her friend, Tamara Peyton. Was it a random act of violence…or something personal? The answer becomes clear as Natalie is stalked by the voice of "Tamara," whose terrifying phone calls warn her that she, too, is going to die. One by one, the people closest to Tamara are being savagely murdered. But neither Natalie nor Sheriff Nick Meredith recognizes the face of the devious killer who walks among them, hiding behind a well-crafted lie. Now, a murderer's deadly act of vengeance demands one more sacrifice-and Natalie has been chosen to pay the price…

Après la signature du traité de paix entre François 1er et Charles Quint, en 1538, la ville de Gand s'est rebellée. Afin de briser cette révolte, Charles Quint est obligé de passer avec ses troupes à travers la France. C'est pourquoi il envoie à la cour de François 1er, son ambassadeur secret, don Sanche d'Ulloa. Ce dernier réussit sa mission, mais pendant son absence, un affreux malheur s'est abattu sur sa famille. Sa fille, Reyna-Christa, n'a pu résister à don Juan Tenorio, gentilhomme qui, bien que marié à dona Silvia, l'a séduite. Pour éviter le déshonneur et la honte, elle s'est laissée mourir. Léonor, sa soeur, part alors à la recherche de son père, poursuivie à son tour par Don Juan, ébloui par sa beauté…

Written in elegant and precise prose, Don Vicente contains two novels in F. Sionil José's classic Rosales Saga. The saga, begun in José's novel Dusk, traces the life of one family, and that of their rural town of Rosales, from the Philippine revolution against Spain through the arrival of the Americans to, ultimately, the Marcos dictatorship. The first novel here, Tree, is told by the loving but uneasy son of a land overseer. It is the story of one young man's search for parental love and for his place in a society with rigid class structures. The tree of the title is a symbol of the hopes and dreams-too often dashed-of the Filipino people. The second novel, My Brother, My Executioner, follows the misfortunes of two brothers, one the editor of a radical magazine who is tempted by the luxury of the city, the other an activist who is prepared to confront all of his enemies, real or imagined. The critic I. R. Cruz called it "a masterly symphony" of injustice, women, sex, and suicide. Together in Don Vicente, they form the second volume of the five-novel Rosales Saga, an epic the Chicago Tribune has called "a masterpiece."

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year “A rich symphony of humanity. . If Oz’s eye for detail is enviable, it is his magnanimity which raises him to the first rank of world authors.” —Sunday Telegraph (UK) At Tel-Kedar, a settlement in the Negev desert, the longtime love affair between Theo, a sixty-year-old civil engineer, and Noa, a young schoolteacher, is slowly disintegrating. When a pupil dies under difficult circumstances, the couple and the entire town are thrown into turmoil. Amos Oz explores with brilliant insight the possibilities — and limits — of love and tolerance. “Vivid, convincing, and haunting.” —New York Times Book Review

Following the extraordinary success of her novel Veronica, Mary Gaitskill returns with a luminous new collection of stories-her first in more than ten years. In “College Town 1980,” young people adrift in Ann Arbor debate the meaning of personal strength at the start of the Reagan era; in the urban fairy tale “Mirrorball,” a young man steals a girl’s soul during a one-night stand; in “The Little Boy,” a woman haunted by the death of her former husband is finally able to grieve through a mysterious encounter with a needy child; and in “The Arms and Legs of the Lake,” the fallout of the Iraq war becomes disturbingly real for the disparate passengers on a train going up the Hudson-three veterans, a liberal editor, a soldier’s uncle, and honeymooners on their way to Niagara Falls. Each story delivers the powerful, original language, and the dramatic engagement of the intelligent mind with the craving body-or of the intelligent body with the craving mind-that is characteristic of Gaitskill’s fiction. As intense as Bad Behavior, her first collection of stories, Don’t Cry reflects the profound enrichment of life experience. As the stories unfold against the backdrop of American life over the last thirty years, they describe how our social conscience has evolved while basic human truths-“the crude cinder blocks of male and female down in the basement, holding up the house,” as one character puts it-remain unchanged

Lawyer Saul Goodman of Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad offers his own particular brand of funny, down-to-earth legal advice. Got the long arm of the law around your neck? Does Lady Justice have her eye on you? Were you set up at a lineup? Saul Goodman can help! There are some crazy laws out there. Did you know that in New Mexico there’s a law that says “idiots” can’t vote? Or that Massachusetts still has a ban on Quakers and witches? Or that in Georgia it’s illegal to put a donkey in a bathtub? Even if you’re not bathing a donkey (and hey, if you are, no judgment from me!), you could be breaking the law right now and not even know it. That’s why you need Don’t Go to Jail! You can carry the advice of a seasoned legal practitioner with you anywhere you go, helping you to stay out of the courts and in the good graces of the criminal justice system. Want to be your own attorney? Want to avoid getting hauled in on a warrant? Want to keep the cops from discovering the baggie of “your friend’s” marijuana stashed under the passenger seat of your car? This is your chance to get those tips and many more savory bits of indispensable legal advice—all for much less than my usual hourly fee

“Death is a funny thing. It brings out the best and worst in people. It casts light on the truth and makes life blindingly clear.” Her visions have helped solve crimes; her instincts have helped find missing people; she can predict future events and sense your thoughts. These are some of the extraordinary gifts that define the remarkable Allison DuBois, the real-life medium, wife, and mother whose life is the inspiration for the hit NBC television series Medium

"Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too. Kim Otto is a great, great character – I love her." Lee Child, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers "Diane writes like the maestro of the jigsaw puzzle. Sit back in your favorite easy chair, pour a glass of crisp white wine, and enter her devilishly clever world of high skullduggery." David Hagberg, New York Times Bestselling Author of Kirk McGarvey Thrillers "Expertise shines on every page!" Margaret Maron, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Judge Deborah Knott Mysteries Jack Reacher: Friend or Enemy?

The author of the critically admired, award-winning A Replacement Life turns to a different kind of story — an evocative, nuanced portrait of marriage and family, a woman reckoning with what she’s given up to make both work, and the universal question of how we reconcile who we are and whom the world wants us to be. Maya Shulman and Alex Rubin met in 1992, when she was a Ukrainian exchange student with “a devil in [her] head” about becoming a chef instead of a medical worker, and he the coddled son of Russian immigrants wanting to toe the water of a less predictable life. Twenty years later, Maya Rubin is a medical worker in suburban New Jersey, and Alex his father’s second in the family business. The great dislocation of their lives is their eight-year-old son Max — adopted from two teenagers in Montana despite Alex’s view that “adopted children are second-class.” At once a salvation and a mystery to his parents — with whom Max’s biological mother left the child with the cryptic exhortation “don’t let my baby do rodeo”—Max suddenly turns feral, consorting with wild animals, eating grass, and running away to sit face down in a river. Searching for answers, Maya convinces Alex to embark on a cross-country trip to Montana to track down Max’s birth parents — the first drive west of New Jersey of their American lives. But it’s Maya who’s illuminated by the journey, her own erstwhile wildness summoned for a reckoning by the unsparing landscape, with seismic consequences for herself and her family. Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo is a novel about the mystery of inheritance and what exactly it means to belong

Beneath the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small village where the children run in and out of one another's houses and play unafraid in the streets. But the sleepy village is like a pond through which not enough water runs – beneath the surface it is beginning to stagnate. When a naked body is found by the lake at the top of the mountain, its seeming tranquility is disturbed forever. Enter Inspector Sejer, a tough, no-nonsense policeman whose own life is tinged by sadness. As the suspense builds, and the list of suspects grows, Sejer's determination to discover the truth will lead him to peel away layer upon layer of distrust and lies, in this tiny community where apparently normal family ties hide dark secrets. Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum's novels evoke a world that is terrifyingly familiar. Don't Look Back introduces the tough, ethical Inspector Sejer to British readers for the first time

Себастиан Смайт работает в издательстве, где ему поручают перевод старого французского романа. Неожиданным образом действие романа начинает перекликаться с событиями, которые происходят вокруг самого Себастиана и его знакомых, повергая в ужас окружающих и самого Смайта. Одновременно с этим, в жизнь Себастиана врывается начинающий актер Хантер Кларингтон

The comic who's a guy's guy, Tim Allen is the star of ABC's Home Improvement, one of television's most successful sit-coms. In this first book, Allen shares his hilarious and helpful musings on being a hapless male in America. Black-and-white illustrations

In Don't Tell, Lauren knows that by returning to the town where her mother drowned seven years ago, she'll be reliving one of her most haunting memories. When she arrives, she is propelled into a series of mysterious events that mimic the days leading up to her mother's death. Maybe her mother's drowning wasn't an accident after all…and maybe Lauren is next

Based on a remarkable true story, an unforgettable Somali girl risks her life on the migrant journey to Europe to run in the Olympic Games. At eight years of age, Samia lives to run. She shares her dream with her best friend and neighbor, Ali, who appoints himself her "professional coach." Eight-year-old Ali trains her, times her, and pushes her to achieve her goals. For both children, Samia's running is the bright spot in their tumultuous life in Somalia. She is talented, brave, and determined to represent her country in the Olympic Games, just like her hero, the great Somali runner Mo Farah. For the next several years, Samia and Ali train at night in a deserted stadium as war rages and political tensions continue to escalate. Despite the lack of resources, despite the war, and despite all of the restrictions imposed on Somali women, Samia becomes a world-class runner. As a teenager, she is selected to represent her country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She finishes last in her heat at the Games, but the sight of the small, skinny woman in modest clothes running in the dust of athletes like Veronica Campbell-Brown brings the Olympic stadium to its feet. Samia sets her sights on the 2012 Games in London. Conditions in Somalia have worsened, and she must make the arduous migrant journey across Africa and the Mediterranean alone. Just like millions of refugees, Samia risks her life for the hope of a better future. Don’t Tell Me You’re Afraid is the unforgettable story of a courageous young woman, and it is also a remarkable window onto a global crisis

Krystia’s family is hiding Jews from the invading Nazis, but the risks are immense. How much will she risk for her friends? A gripping story based on true events. During the Soviet occupation of Ukraine during World War II, some of Krystia’s family are harrassed; others are arrested and killed. When the Nazis liberate the town, they are welcomed with open arms. Krystia’s best friend Dolik isn’t so sure. His family is Jewish and there are rumours that the Nazis might be even more brutal than the Soviets. Shortly after the Nazis arrive, they discover a mass grave of Soviet prisoners and blame the slaughter on the Jews. Soon, the Nazis establish ghettoes and begin public executions of Jews. Krystia can’t bear to see her friends suffering and begins smuggling food into the ghetto. When rumours circulate that the ghetto will be evacuated and the Jews will be exterminated, Krystia must decide if she’s willing to risk her own family’s safety to save her friends

Simon Quinn can have any woman he wants, but he prefers them jaded, worldly, and free of illusions. His life is one of danger and temporary pleasures. An Irish commoner, he has nothing more than his expertise as a lover and mercenary to recommend him and no title, property, or family to redeem him.Lysette Rousseau is a deadly beauty who can seduce or betray with equal skill. She should be just the sort of woman Simon entertains, but something about her sets him on edge. At times she is a femme fatale he cannot abide, at others she is warm, sweet, and irresistibly alluring. His reactions to both sides of her are equally powerful, but for opposite reasons. It seems almost as if there are two women in one…

Melting ice, a military arms race, the rush to exploit resources at any cost—the Arctic is now the stage on which our future will be decided. And as temperatures rise and the ice retreats, Vladimir Putin orders Russia’s oil rigs to move north. But one early September morning in 2013 thirty men and women from eighteen countries—the crew of Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise—decide to draw a line in the ice and protest the drilling in the Arctic. Thrown together by a common cause, they are determined to stop Putin and the oligarchs. But their protest is met with brutal force as Putin’s commandos seize the Arctic Sunrise. Held under armed guard by masked men, they are charged with piracy and face fifteen years in Russia’s nightmarish prison system. Ben Stewart—who spearheaded the campaign to release the Arctic 30—tells an astonishing tale of passion, courage, brutality, and survival. With wit, verve, and candor, he chronicles the extraordinary friendships the activists made with their often murderous cellmates, their battle to outwit the prison guards, and the struggle to stay true to the cause that brought them there

A girl who repeatedly halves her boyfriend; a waitress who turns into Elvis; a family of conceptual artists who live their art. Every story packs its share of explosive material, often with a side of magic. Consider Angela Carter as the fairy godmother of this award-winning writer

Laugh aloud even as you look at life anew with these stories from the bestselling author of Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung? In 108 brief stories with titles like “The Bad Elephant,” “Girlfriend Power,” and “The Happiness License,” Ajahn Brahm offers up more timeless wisdom that will speak to people from all walks of life. Drawing from his own experiences, stories shared by his students, and old chestnuts that he delivers with a fresh twist, Ajahn Brahm shows he knows his way around the humorous parable, delighting even as he surprises us with unexpected depth and inspiration

Хочешь быть счастливым — будь им! Стоит ли метаться из крайности в крайность, совершать массу ненужных и неверных поступков, изводить себя негативными переживаниями? Достаточно просто остановиться, задуматься и направить свои мысли в правильное русло. Как это сделать — давно известно. Теперь Вы тоже сможете изменить свою жизнь, обрести душевный покой, стать уверенным в себе и успешным в делах. Это проще, чем вы думали! Брайан Трейси — один из ведущих американских специалистов по проблемам социальной психологии предлагает читателю взглянуть на себя и свою жизнь под иным углом зрения, посмотреть на вещи проще и рациональнее. Книга представляет интерес для всех читателей с активной жизненной позицией

Книга включает 108 коротких историй о том, как обернуть самые разные жизненные ситуации во благо себе и другим. Каждая из этих историй сочетает в себе буддийскую мудрость и английский юмор. Книга написана англичанином, физиком по образованию, который в начале 70-х годов уехал в Таиланд, чтобы стать буддийским монахом, и сегодня является настоятелем буддийского монастыря в Австралии, а также известным писателем и лектором

Dona Huana mācības Karloss Kastaņeda Jaki indiāņu zināšanu ceļš Antropoloģijas students, kas grasās pētīt psihotropo augu pielietošanu Meksikas indiāņu kultūras kontekstā, vēl pašam to nezinot, satiekas ar Senās Meksikas šamaņu zināšanu mantinieku, magu un skolotāju donu Huanu Matusu un kļūst par tā skolnieku. Sākotnēji šķietami nevainīgais lūgums "pastāstīt par augiem" izvēršas par patiesi aizraujošu, ekstraordināru un dramatisku iniciāciju Rietumu kultūras cilvēkam svešu jēdzienu un tēlu pasaulēs

*NEW YORK TIMES* BESTSELLER • With unparalleled reporting, a Pulitzer Prize–winning *New York Times* reporter continues to break news about the most important political story of our lives as he chronicles the clash between a president and the officials of his own government who tried to stop him. In the early days of the Trump presidency, the people who work in the institutions that make America America saw Trump up close in the Oval Office and became convinced that they had to stand up to an unbound president. These officials faced a situation without parallel in American history: What do you do, and who do you call, if you are the only one standing between the president, his extraordinary powers, and the abyss? Michael S. Schmidt’s *Donald Trump v. The United States* tells the dramatic, high-stakes story of those who felt compelled to confront and try to contain the most powerful man in the world as he shredded norms and sought to expand his power

Hace veinte años, el antropólogo Carlos Castaneda electrizó a millones de lectores con la descripción de su iniciación y acceso a otra realidad bajo la tutela del indio brujo yaqui don Juan. Ahora, Taisha Abelar, que fue instruida por los miembros femeninos del grupo de don Juan, narra su propio `cruce` en este llamativo libro. Mientras se encontraba viajando por México, Taisha Abelar se involucró con un grupo de brujos y comenzó un riguroso proceso de entrenamiento físico y mental, diseñado para permitirle romper los límites de la percepción ordinaria. En el libro Donde Cruzan los Brujos narra los detalles de ese proceso, aportando a los lectores un enfoque sumamente práctico acerca de las responsabilidades y peligros que debe afrontar una bruja. La cautivadora historia de Taisha Abelar es de un valor incalculable ya sea como trabajo antropológico o como un `manual para brujos`, a la vez, también es una provocativa obra sobre la espiritualidad femenina

Lo que no supimos decir nos dolerá eternamente y sólo el valor de un corazón abierto podrá liberarnos de esta congoja. Nuestros encuentros en la vida son un momento fugaz que debemos aprovechar con la verdad de la palabra y la sutileza de los sentimientos. Viendo inminente el final de su vida, Olga decide escribir a su nieta una larga carta para dejar constancia de lo que ninguna de las dos ha sabido ni decir ni escuchar. Cuando la nieta regrese, sólo encontrará la relación de los pensamientos, sentimientos, delicadeza y esperanza, soledad y amargura que la vida ha ido tejiendo. Por la carta, se sabrá cuál fue la historia de la familia, las peleas con la hija muerta, los desencuentros y las heridas que nunca cicatrizaron. Con esta obra intimista y epistolar, Susanna Tamaro conquistó a trece millones de lectores en todo el mundo. Con gran sensibilidad revela la riqueza de los sentimientos que permanecen ocultos. Diálogo que enseña a conocer mejor la naturaleza de nuestras relaciones, Donde el corazón te lleve es una obra narrativa exquisita: dulce remembranza de una voz que se deja llevar por los tímidos dictados del corazón

Premio Nacional De Narrativa 1997 En esta magnífica novela, Álvaro Pombo describe el esplendor y la decadencia de lo que parecía una unidad familiar que se imagina perfecta. La narradora, la hija mayor de la familia, había pensado que todos -su excéntrica madre, sus hermanos, su aún más excéntrica tía Lucía y su enamorado alemán- eran seres superiores que brillaban con luz propia en medio del paisaje romántico de la península, una isla casi, en la que vivían, aislados y orgullosamente desdeñosos de la chata realidad de su época. Pero una serie de sucesos y el desvelamiento de un secreto familiar que la afecta decisivamente, descubre a la narradora el verdadero rostro de los mitificados habitantes de aquel reducto. Una revelación que cambiará irremisiblemente el sentido de la vida…

Ni tan siquiera el ensordecedor ruido de las hélices del helicóptero parece capaz de romper la pesada calma que se cierne sobre un tranquilo pueblo costero situado al sur de Inglaterra. Unos pocos curiosos, desde los acantilados o desde los escasos veleros fondeados en 1a bahía, aplauden lo que creen es el final feliz del rescate de una joven atrapada en una playa abrupta y de difícil acceso. En realidad, la mujer ha sido asesinada y, según todos los indicios, torturada y violada. Su desnudo cuerpo no arroja pista alguna sobre su identidad. El agente Nick Ingram, encargado de la investigación, recela enseguida de un joven actor que paseaba por el lugar de los hechos. El posterior descubrimiento de sus relaciones con la víctima, así como sus actividades en el campo de la pornografía para costearse su lujoso tren de vida, hará que todo le señale como el principal sospechoso. Pero al mismo tiempo, en el puerto de un cercano pueblo, aparece una niña de tres años con aspecto de haber sido abandonada y con una preocupante actitud de desconfianza y ensimismamiento. La llegada del padre conducirá también hasta la mujer de la playa, que es, en realidad, la madre de la niña. A la policía tampoco le pasa por alto que la pequeña se siente aterrorizada cada vez que su padre se le acerca; un dato revelador que se suma a otras oscuras circunstancias, como el hecho de que el marido no posea una coartada sostenible. Será necesario algo más que arduas investigaciones para conseguir desvelar los aspectos más oscuros y secretos de las vidas de los allegados a la víctima y para localizar las claves que permitan desvelar la identidad del asesino

Un psiquiatra de La Sorbona especializado en mentes criminales viaja a la Barcelona de 1956. Quiere realizar un estudio sobre el caso de Teresa Pla Meseguer, llamada La Pastora, una mujer acusada de veintinueve muertes. Se trata del maquis más buscado por la Guardia Civil, y se ha convertido en una leyenda popular porque sigue libre. Sólo un periodista barcelonés parece tener claves importantes en torno al personaje, pero lo que el viajero francés le propone es algo fuera de lo normal: no desea datos sobre Teresa, sino un encuentro cara a cara. El idealista Lucien Nourissier y el cínico Carlos Infante emprenderán ese viaje a las tierras del Maestrazgo, donde se esconde su casi imposible objetivo. A lo largo de su investigación deberán sortear la vigilancia de los guardias, distinguir las pistas verdaderas de las falsas y esquivar los mil obstáculos que les salen al paso. La novela se convierte entonces en una búsqueda, en una huida, en una aventura que nos descubre las miserias y la humanidad de una España terrible. Y en el centro de este relato crudo y fascinante que se lee sin tregua, más allá del mito del guerrillero, emerge el personaje insospechado de la Pastora, histórico y real, que fue tanto mujer como hombre, y siempre estuvo en fuga del mundo y de sí mismo. Donde nadie te encuentre es una novela sobre el redescubrimiento de nuestro pasado y la infinita soledad del ser humano

La posibilidad de producir un gran número de individuos a partir de un mismo material genético (clonación) no es nueva ni en el campo de la investigación científica ni en el de la ciencia ficción. Pero faltaba una obra que hiciera con el tema de los clones lo que un Asimov y un Lem con la robótica o un Van Vogt y un Kuttner con la telepatía: llevar a cabo su sociología novelada, analizar con detalle la nueva cultura a la que podrían dar lugar. Y eso es precisamente lo que hace Kate Wilhelm en Donde solian cantar los dulces pájaros, premio Hugo a la mejor novela de 1977, y llamada a convertirse en un clásico del género, en la medida en que da cumplida expresión, consolidando, a uno de sus temas más inquietantes

A Rosie y a Alex le sería muy difícil decir cuánto hace que son amigos. Desde pequeños se han pasado notas en clase, se han peleado, se han reído de la narizota de la señorita Casey e incluso se han dejado de hablar porque Rosie no quería que la perra de Alex acudiera a su fiesta de cumpleaños. Sin duda, están hechos el uno para el otro, y a pesar de ello, jamás se les ha pasado siquiera por la cabeza que su amistad pudiera derivar en algo más. No obstante, el día en que el padre de Alex acepta un trabajo en Boston, Alex debe abandonar Irlanda con su familia y empezar una nueva vida en Estados Unidos, lejos de su país, y lo que es más doloroso, lejos de su mejor amiga. La amistad de ambos recibe un duro golpe; A partir de ese momento, Rosie y Alex deberán aprender a vivir separados, y sólo a través de cartas, correos electrónicos y llamadas de teléfono podrán saber qué les depara el destino. Sin embargo, ese mismo destino demasiado a menudo elige ser caprichoso, sin importarle siquiera la distancia: Rosie y Alex deberán esperar a vivir separados por un océano entero para darse cuenta, poco a poco, sin apenas advertirlo, de que lo que aprendieron a vivir como una gran amistad es en realidad un sentimiento mucho más profundo, difícil de describir en sus cartas… Un amor que, más allá del arco iris, espera que uno de los dos pronuncie su nombre y no renuncie a la oportunidad de ser feliz…

There are no fairy tales in the world like the Irish. For humor and exaggeration and excitement they can’t be beaten. On of the best teller of Irish tales is Seumas MacManus. In this book you have the perfect combination of good tales and perfect story teller. You’ll laugh as you haven’t laughed for many a day at “Conal and Donal and Taig”, “Manus the Miller,” and other stories found here

1803 — im Mittelmeer. Mit seiner Unerschrockenheit schafft sich Vizeadmiral Richard Bolitho viele Feinde: den Kapitän des Australienfahrers, von dem er eine mißhandelte Gefangene entführt; den französischen Admiral, der den Seekrieg zu einer privaten Vendetta macht; und seinen besten Freund, der in Malta über ihn richten soll. Dazu kommt noch eine schwere Verwundung, die er geheimhalten muß… Das sind dunkle Wolken über Bolithos Kurs, und zum ersten Mal denkt er an Kapitulation. Bis ihm sein Neffe Adam in der letzten großen Schlacht ein erschütterndes Beispiel an Mut und Opferbereitschaft gibt

In our world, called the Verite, he is a Scottish laird, an engineer, and a master of virtual reality design. In the computer-generated universe of Virtu, created by the crash of the World Net, he is a living legend. Scientist and poet with a warrior’s soul, Donnerjack strides like a giant across the virtual landscape he helped to shape. And now he has bargained with Death himself for the return of love. The Lord of Entropy claimed Ayradyss, Donnerjack’s beloved dark-haired lady of Virtu, with no warning, leaving a hole in the Engineer’s heart. But Death offered to return her to him for a price: a palace of bones… and their first-born child. Since offspring have never before resulted from any union of the two worlds, Donnerjack accepts Death’s conditions—and leads his reborn lover far from the detritus and perpetual twilight of Deep Fields to his ancestral Scottish lands, hoping to build a sanctuary and a self for Ayradyss in the first world. But there is no escaping, because cataclysmic change is taking place in Virtu. A bizarre new religion is sweeping through this ever-shifting universe where the homely can be virtually beautiful, the lame can walk and the blind can see. Now it’s threatening to spill over into Verite. And its credo is a call for a different kind of order. For all the ancient myths still occupy Virtu. And the Great Gods on Mt. Meru are amassing great armies in anticipation of the time when a vast computer system attempts to take over the reality that constructed it

A note about this book: Donners of the Dead is set in 1851 – couples were often thrust into marriage together with short courtships, racism was widespread and not overly frowned upon, and women had little to no rights. What wouldn't fly in today's day and age was unfortunately the norm back then - it is worth keeping that in mind when reading this book. Jake McGraw was unlike anyone I’d ever known. He was brash, rude, unapologetic and arrogant; chauvinistic, close-minded, and terribly stubborn. He was built like a tree, tall with a hard chest and wide shoulders and hands that looked like they could wrestle a bear. He was a cigar-chomping, scruffy-faced, beast of a man. I was pretty sure I hated him. And I know he hated me. But among the flesh-eating monsters in these snow-capped mountains, he was the only thing keeping me alive The year is 1851 and pioneers in search of California gold are still afraid to travel on the same route as the tragic Donner party did years before. When the last wagon train to go into the Sierra Nevada mountains fails to arrive at their destination, Eve Smith, an 18-year old half-native girl with immense tracking skills is brought along with the search party, headed by an enigmatic former Texas Ranger, Jake McGraw. What they find deep in the dangerous snow-covered terrain is a terrifying consequence of cannibalism, giving new meaning to the term “monster.” While the search party is slowly picked off, one by one, Eve must learn to trust Jake, who harbors more than a few secrets of his own, in order to survive and prevent the monstrosities from reaching civilization

So und ähnlich lauten die Schlagzeilen der Zeitungen, die von der Flugzeugkatastrophe berichten – und keiner der Reporter hat auch nur die leiseste Ahnung, daß Donovans eigentliche Geschichte erst mit seinem Tode beginnt. Dr. Cory, ein von Forschungsdrang besessener Arzt, raubt dem Sterbenden das Gehirn und erhält es künstlich am Leben. Er mißt die Reaktionen des Gehirns und steigert dessen Energien, bis aus dem Experimentierobjekt ein mächtiges, dämonisches Etwas wird, das eine unheimliche Aktivität entwickelt und seine Umwelt zu beherrschen beginnt

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Samantha is a stranger in her own life. Until the night she disappeared with her best friend, Cassie, everyone said Sam had it all-popularity, wealth, and a dream boyfriend. Sam has resurfaced, but she has no recollection of who she was or what happened to her that night. As she tries to piece together her life from before, she realizes it's one she no longer wants any part of. The old Sam took "mean girl" to a whole new level, and it's clear she and Cassie were more like best enemies. Sam is pretty sure that losing her memories is like winning the lottery. She's getting a second chance at being a better daughter, sister, and friend, and she's falling hard for Carson Ortiz, a boy who has always looked out for her-even if the old Sam treated him like trash. But Cassie is still missing, and the facts about what happened to her that night isn't just buried deep inside of Sam's memory-someone else knows, someone who wants to make sure Sam stays quiet. All Sam wants is the truth, and if she can unlock her clouded memories of that fateful night, she can finally move on. But what if not remembering is the only thing keeping Sam alive?