Antoine y Mathias no han perdido el contacto desde que se conocieron de niños. Ahora, ya treintañeros, siguen compartiendo muchas cosas, pues ambos han pasado por un divorcio y por la experiencia de ser padres: Antoine, de un niño llamado Louis, y Mathias, de una niña llamada Emily. Pero mientras que Antoine se fue a vivir con su hijo a Londres, Mathias sigue residiendo en su París natal, cada vez más insatisfecho con su trabajo y teniendo que soportar que su hija viva también en la capital inglesa. Por eso cuando Antoine le propone regentar una pequeña librería en Londres, él acaba aceptando la oferta. Sin embargo, sus planes se ven trastocados por la decisión de su ex mujer de trasladarse a París por motivos laborales y de pedirle que se haga cargo él de Emily, para que la niña no tenga que adaptarse de nuevo a un cambio de hogar y colegio. Esto dará pie a que Mathias y Antoine decidan pasar de ser vecinos a vivir en la misma casa para así criar juntos a sus hijos. Eso sí, comprometiéndose a respetar dos reglas básicas de convivencia: no contratar a una canguro y no traer mujeres a casa

En 1958, cuando James Ellroy tenía diez años, el cuerpo de su madre fue hallado en la cuneta de una carretera, en un pequeño pueblo cerca de Los Ángeles. Nunca se descubrió al asesino y el caso quedó cerrado. Ellroy alcanzó el éxito en su faceta de escritor de novelas tan radicales como provocativas, pero la memoria de la muerte de su madre no dejó de perseguirlo. En esta obra Ellroy da cuenta de la frustrada investigación policial; de la volátil trayectoria que tomó su vida a partir de aquel suceso trágico; de la carrera de un antiguo sheriff de Homicidios del condado de Los Ángeles llamado Bill Stoner; de la investigación que el autor y el propio Stoner emprendieron para identificar, años después, al asesino de su madre.Esta autobiografía de James Ellroy es una historia arrebatadora: sobre la naturaleza del crimen, sobre el mero pestañeo que puede separar la lujuria del impulso asesino; sobre el viaje atrevido y revelador del autor a los rincones más oscuros de su memoria

Aš esu senmergė! Tai baisiausia moteriai tekusi kęsti lemtis, nes tai reiškia, kad esu neturtinga ir negraži. Jei būtų tik viena tų blogybių, koks nors vyras panorėtų mane vesti, bet kai abi kartu – esu visai netinkama. Tačiau aš žinau, kad jeigu tiktai galėčiau įveikti šią kliūtį, suteikčiau vyrui daug daugiau nei kitos moterys, nes joms nėra reikalo stengtis. Rašytoja Colleen McCullough (Kolin Makalou; g. 1937 m. ) – viena žymiausių visų laikų australių. Jai suteiktas Australijos nacionalinės vertybės titulas.Milijoniniais tiražais visame pasaulyje leidžiamų „Erškėčių paukščių“ autorės knyga „Misalongio moterys“ mus vėl sugrąžina į atšiaurią ir rūsčią XX a. pradžios Australiją, miestelį keistu Bairono vardu, kuriame viskas priklauso Herlingfordų šeimai. Ten gyvena trys moterys, iš paskutiniųjų besistengiančios sudurti galą su galu: Oktavija, sesuo Druzila ir jos duktė Misė. Karštas Bairono gerbėjas - Misės prosenelis įkūrė poeto vardu pavadintą miestą. Misalongio sodyba įvardinta vietos, kur lordą Baironą ištiko per ankstyva mirtis, garbei. Romantiška? Trisdešimt trejų Misei Rait – visai ne. Nes amžinoji ruda suknelė Misei ir kasdienis, ir šventinis drabužis, o vienintelė prošvaistė – draugystė su bibliotekininke Una ir romanai, kuriuos Misė aistringai skaito. Tačiau vieną dieną miestelyje atsiranda nepažįstamasis, tiesiog kunkuliuojantis energija. Ir viskas ima virsti aukštyn kojomis: jis sujaukia ne tik Misės mintis, bet ir miestelio gyvenimą. Pasirodo, kad Misė – ne tokia jau pilka pelytė, ir kad gyvenimas gali būti visiškai kitoks, jei tik moki svajoti ir turi pakankamai drąsos tas svajones įgyvendinti. Ir kad kartais reikia nerti į meilę kaip į akivarą, ir pažiūrėti, kas iš viso to išeis. “Misalongio moterys” – romanas, pilnas ir romantikos, ir aistros, ir ironijos. Kaip saldainių dėžutė, kurią atidarius, norisi sušveisti vienu prisėdimu

Замечания, мысли о искусстве, о литературе, о критиках, о самом себе

Police Chief Arly Hanks finds her small town, Maggody, has some new inhabitants when she returns from vacation. Soon, Robin Buchanon, local prostitute and moonshiner, disappears, and Arly finds her bloody body at the edge of a marijuana field

"One of the most harrowing, powerful, and imaginative books of the year" (Anthony Doerr) about twin sisters fighting to survive the evils of World War II. Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past. Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad. It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and shared games of their childhood. As part of the experimental population of twins known as Mengele's Zoo, the girls experience privileges and horrors unknown to others, and they find themselves changed, stripped of the personalities they once shared, their identities altered by the burdens of guilt and pain. That winter, at a concert orchestrated by Mengele, Pearl disappears. Stasha grieves for her twin, but clings to the possibility that Pearl remains alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army, she and her companion Feliks-a boy bent on vengeance for his own lost twin-travel through Poland's devastation. Undeterred by injury, starvation, or the chaos around them, motivated by equal parts danger and hope, they encounter hostile villagers, Jewish resistance fighters, and fellow refugees, their quest enabled by the notion that Mengele may be captured and brought to justice within the ruins of the Warsaw Zoo. As the young survivors discover what has become of the world, they must try to imagine a future within it. A superbly crafted story, told in a voice as exquisite as it is boundlessly original, Mischling defies every expectation, traversing one of the darkest moments in human history to show us the way toward ethereal beauty, moral reckoning, and soaring hope

Впервые на русском – один из самых ярких романов 2016 года, «Книга года» по версии New York Times. По историческому размаху и лиричности «Чужекровку» сравнивали с романом Энтони Дорра «Весь невидимый нам свет», а по психологической напряженности – с «Комнатой» Эммы Донохью. Итак, познакомьтесь с сестрами-близнецами Перль и Стасей. Перль Заморска отвечает за грустное, хорошее, прошлое. Стася Заморска должна взять на себя смешное, плохое, будущее. Осенью 1944 года сестры вместе с матерью и дедом попадают в Освенцим. В аду концлагеря двенадцатилетние девочки находят спасение в тайном языке и секретных играх, в удивительном запасе внутренних сил. Став подопытными доктора Менгеле в лагерном блоке, именуемом «Зверинец», они получают определенные привилегии, но испытывают неведомые другим ужасы. Даже самая жестокая рука судьбы оказывается бессильна разлучить близнецов…

Ce sont des enfants. Ils ont la pureté des diamants les plus parfaits. Aucune ombre. Aucune inclusion. Aucune faille. Mais leur pureté est celle du mal. C’est toujours un piège d’ouvrir un roman de Jean-Christophe Grangé. On se dit qu’on va juste en humer les premières pages et puis, bing ! en un clin d’œil, vous voilà pris au piège, cramponné au fort volume qui fi le à cent à l’heure. Il y a là de quoi leurrer les plus éprouvés des lecteurs de Grangé. Et assez d’ombre pour les contenter

Maggody police chief Arly Hanks investigates the death of a local resident who fell from an eighth-floor hotel balcony while on an Elvis Presley Pilgrimage to Memphis

Eastern Propaganda When Chiun an infomercial produced by Man Hyung Sun and his cult of Loonies,   he revels in the leader's sales pitch about the Sun Source and upcoming conversion of all humanity into Koreans. After all, what could be more divine. Chiun knows he has found a true holy man.  Remo knows he has found a true nut. When the CURE pair thwart assassins at a Loonie mass wedding, Chiun is elevated to hero and close personal friend of Sun - and Remo's just fed up.  Especially as CURE ships him to North Korea, where brainwashed American Loonies are dancing to their leader's tune in a gambit to all-out war. But Korea isn't the only split faction at war. Chiun's had about enough of his pupil's disrespect for the Seer Sun, and the former happy couple is headed for the mother of all battles

After inheriting the dark Van Alen Legacy, Schuyler fled to Florence with her forbidden love, Jack. Now the two of them must embark on the mission Schuyler was destined to complete: to find and protect the five remaining gates that guard the earth from Lucifer, lord of the Silver Bloods. Back in New York, Mimi has been elected Regent of a crumbling coven. Struggling with her heartache over the loss of Kingsley and with her overwhelming desire to destroy Jack, she must focus all of her energy on a perilous new threat. Vampires are being abducted and their captors are planning to burn them alive online…for all the world to see. Help arrives in the form of Deming Chen, a Venator from Shanghai, who must untangle the web of deceptions before the killers strike again. As the young vampires struggle for the survival of the coven, they uncover a deadly secret, a truth first discovered by Schuyler’s mother during the Renaissance but kept buried for centuries. And as the Blue Blood enclave weakens yet further, fate leads Schuyler to a terrible choice that will ultimately map the destiny of her heart

Фанфик по "Neon Genesis Evangelion". Попытка понять, о чём же думал Синдзи и что чувствовала Рей в шестом эпизоде «Neon Genesis Evangelion» - в то время, что Синдзи провёл в госпитале после почти смертельной атаки пятого Ангела. И, меня всегда интересовало - что же именно постоянно слушает Синдзи, включая плеер? Ficlet. Частично POV

El planeta Mesklin es grande y muy denso. La gravedad en su superficie varía enormemente desde 3 g en el ecuador hasta 700 g en los polos. Los océanos son de metano líquido y la nieve es amoniaco congelado. En estas condiciones de pesadilla viven los mesklinitas, quienes han desarrollado una cultura y una sociedad perfectamente acorde con las condiciones de su entorno. Barlemann, un osado marinero mesklinita, acepta emprender un viaje imposible para salvar una costosa sonda terrestre averiada en el polo del planeta. Para los mesklinitas el viaje constituye una maravillosa oportunidad de descubrir la ciencia y avanzar en el camino del conocimiento, fuerza motríz que les guía a través de numerosas aventuras

En su última película, James Bond renuncia a la categoría de 007, abandona el servicio y parte hacia Montecarlo, al volante de su Bentley Mulsanne Turbo, para cumplir una misión distinta a todo lo que había hecho hasta aquel momento. ¿Cómo explicar el súbito cambio de vida del hombre que venía siendo la más elogiada arma defensiva de cuantas ha tenido el Estado británico? ¿Y qué imprevisibles consecuencias tendrá esta decisión para el juego internacional de fuerzas cuyo equilibrio nos permite a los ciudadanos corrientes dormir tranquilos? Bond ha sido nombrado heredero de su tío Bruce, de Australia, con una condición de obligado cumplimiento: tiene que gastar las primeras cien mil libras del legado frívolamente, en actividades censurables cuya elección deja a su albedrío, dentro de un plazo determinado. Y Bond decide conciliar parte de ese mandato con su renovada pasión por ese príncipe de los coches que es el Bentley. Pero su abandono del Servicio exige explicaciones más consistentes. En el Parlamento, la oposición interpela al Ministerio a propósito de fallos en el sistema de seguridad británico encubiertos por el Gobierno. El que se sospeche de él no preocupa tanto a Bond como la posibilidad de que en el esclarecimiento de los hechos su honorabilidad se ponga en tela de juicio. Esta nueva y diabólica trama de John Gardner conduce a James Bond hasta un genio de los ordenadores que traiciona al Pentágono. También le enfrenta a un siniestro ejército mercenario que está fraguando una audaz operación terrorista, y le lleva a un alocado vuelo en zeppelín sobre Ginebra coincidiendo con la celebración de una conferencia en la cumbre de defensa de la paz. Y para salvar su honor, James Bond tendrá que vencer todos esos obstáculos…

Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The couple are mismatched from the start — she’s a lesbian, he’s gay — but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind. Worried that Lee will have her committed for her erratic behavior, Peggy goes underground, adopting an African American persona for her and her daughter. They squat in a house in an African American settlement, eventually moving to a housing project where no one questions their true racial identities. As Peggy and Lee’s children grow up, they must contend with diverse emotional issues: Byrdie must deal with his father’s compulsive honesty; while Karen struggles with her mother’s lies — she knows neither her real age, nor that she is “white,” nor that she has any other family. Years later, a minority scholarship lands Karen at the University of Virginia, where Byrdie is in his senior year. Eventually the long lost siblings will meet, setting off a series of misunderstandings and culminating in a comedic finale worthy of Shakespeare

A beautiful and poignant story of one family during the most violent and turbulent years of world history, Miss Burma is a powerful novel of love and war, colonialism and ethnicity, and the ties of blood. Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of Benny and Khin, husband and wife, and their daughter Louisa. After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, and falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, and Benny and Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese Occupation, beginning a journey that will lead them to change the country’s history. After the war, the British authorities make a deal with the Burman nationalists, led by Aung San, whose party gains control of the country. When Aung San is assassinated, his successor ignores the pleas for self-government of the Karen people and other ethnic groups, and in doing so sets off what will become the longest-running civil war in recorded history. Benny and Khin’s eldest child, Louisa, has a danger-filled, tempestuous childhood and reaches prominence as Burma’s first beauty queen, soon before the country falls to dictatorship. As Louisa navigates her new-found fame, she is forced to reckon with her family’s past, the West’s ongoing covert dealings in her country, and her own loyalty to the cause of the Karen people. Based on the story of the author’s mother and grandparents, Miss Burma is a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be, and of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination and freedom

Banned in the UK! Author and Publisher Fined! Not seen in 70 Years! This is the story of Miss Callaghan. Not of any particular Miss Callaghan, but of the hundreds of Miss Callaghans who disappear from their homes suddenly and mysteriously and are seen no more by those who knew and loved them. This is also the story of Raven, who played with clockwork trains, the leader of the White Slave Ring in East St. Louis, who was responsible for the keeping to full strength the army of women for the service of men. James Hadley Chase needs no introduction now. He has established a reputation for unmitigated toughness and plain writing. Under his blunt treatment, the traffic of women in America is shown to be what it is—a loathsome, corrupt stain on the pages of American history

Miss Harriet est un recueil de nouvelles de Guy de Maupassant, publié en 1884. La plupart des contes ont fait l'objet d'une publication antérieure dans des journaux comme Le Gaulois ou Gil Blas, parfois sous le pseudonyme de Maufrigneuse. Le recueil est publié le 22 avril 1884 chez l'éditeur Victor Havard

Astonishing prose brings to life a forgotten woman and a lost world in a strange and bittersweet Southern pastoral. Since his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog- Men, Brad Watson has been expanding the literary traditions of the South, in work as melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as any in America. Inspired by the true story of his own great-aunt, he explores the life of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural, early-twentieth-century Mississippi with a genital birth defect that would stand in the way of the central “uses” for a woman in that time and place — namely, sex and marriage. From the country doctor who adopts Jane to the hard tactile labor of farm life, from the highly erotic world of nature around her to the boy who loved but was forced to leave her, the world of Miss Jane Chisolm is anything but barren. Free to satisfy only herself, she mesmerizes those around her, exerting an unearthly fascination that lives beyond her still

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Anjali Bose is 'Miss New India.' Born into a traditional lower-middle-class family and living in a backwater town with an arranged marriage on the horizon, Anjali's prospects don't look great. But her ambition and fluency in language do not go unnoticed by her expat teacher, Peter Champion. And champion her he does, both to other powerful people who can help her along the way and to Anjali herself, stirring in her a desire to take charge of her own destiny. So she sets off to Bangalore, India's fastest-growing major metropolis, and quickly falls in with an audacious and ambitious crowd of young people, who have learned how to sound American by watching shows like Seinfeld in order to get jobs as call-center service agents, where they are quickly able to out-earn their parents. And it is in this high-tech city where Anjali – suddenly free from the traditional confines of class, caste, gender, and more – is able to confront her past and reinvent herself. Of course, the seductive pull of modernity does not come without a dark side…

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows

Leys Physical Training College was famous for its excellent discipline and Miss Lucy Pym was pleased and flattered to be invited to give a psychology lecture there. But she had to admit that the health and vibrant beauty of the students made her feel just a little inadequate.Then there was a nasty accident — and suddenly Miss Pym was forced to apply her agile intellect to the unpleasant fact that among all those impressively healthy bodies someone had a very sick mind…

This 1946 novel (by the author of the Worzel Gummidge books) is about a woman who goes on a cruise and is swept overboard; she lives for three years on a desert island before being rescued by a destroyer in 1943. When she returns to England it seems to her to have gone mad: she cannot buy clothes without ‘coupons', her friends are only interested in ‘war work', and yet she is considered uncivilised if she walks barefoot or is late for meals. The focus of Barbara Euphan Todd's satire is people behaving heroically and appallingly at one and the same time. Rosamond Lehmann considered Miss Ranskill Comes Home ‘a work of great originality, and delightfully readable, a blend of fantasy, satire and romantic comedy… a very entertaining novel and less light than it seems.’

How come a New York reporter like Ross millan was combing half of Mexico looking for old man Shumway’s missing daughter? Millan had asked himself the question a dozen times-and when he found her, he asked himself a whole lot more questions. For the shapely blonde he’d seen in the photograph turned out to be a fast-talking lady who packed a punch like a prize-fighter, did a little magic on the side, and just happened to be a dip-a very efficient pickpocket. From the day little Miss Myra Shumway walked into Millan’s life things were never quite the same…

When James Lessiter returns to Lenton after many years to claim his family estate, his reappearance opens old wounds never healed. Then he is found bludgeoned to death by a fire poker and the suspects are too numerous to count. Thank heavens Miss Silver is in town to visit a friend

A chance encounter restores Giles Armitage to his fiancee, but the shipwreck has left him with amnesia, and their happiness is threatened by Carola Roland. So when Carola is murdered, Giles is the chief suspect and it takes all Miss Silver's ingenuity to unravel the real significance of the crime

Alex, the Duke of Delahaye, is determined to see his younger brother safely married to provide the necessary heir. Unfortunately the chosen bride, Miss Jane Verey, is less than amenable!

The eponymous heroine of Miss Wyoming is one Susan Colgate, a teen beauty queen and low-rent soap actress. Dragooned into show business by her demonically pushy, hillbilly mother, Susan has hit rock bottom by the time Douglas Coupland's seventh book begins. But when she finds herself the sole survivor of an airplane crash, this "low-grade onboard celebrity" takes the opportunity to start all over again: She felt like a ghost. She tried to find her bodily remains there in the wreckage and was unable to do so.... Then she was lost in a crowd of local onlookers and trucks, parping sirens and ambulances. She picked her way out of the melee and found a newly paved suburban road that she followed away from the wreck into the folds of a housing development. She had survived, and now she needed sanctuary and silence. She's not, of course, the only Hollywood burnout who'd like to vanish into thin air. Her opposite number, a producer of big-budget, no-brainer action flicks named John Johnson, stages a similar disappearing act. After a near-death experience, in the course of which he is treated to a vision of Susan's face, he roams the western badlands. And even after his return to L.A., Johnson is determined to unravel the mystery of this woman's fate. Throughout, Coupland displays his usual gift for capturing the absurdities of modern existence. The distinctive minutiae of our age--junk mail and fast food, sitcoms and Singapore slings, and the "shop fronts bigger and brighter and more powerful than they needed to be"--come to vivid, funny life in this author's hands. And while Susan and John occupy center stage, Coupland is just as generous with his peripheral characters. A scriptwriter and his supernaturally intelligent girlfriend, a recluse who spends his evening generating Internet rumours--all manage to be blessed and cursed, numbed by their pointless existences but full of humanity when put to the test. Picture Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut collaborating on a Tinseltown version of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and you come halfway to grasping Coupland's brand of thoughtful, supremely funny storytelling

In this weird little alternative history novella, acclaimed futurist Charles Stross takes the familiar clashes of the Cold War and stretches and warps them to fit a flattened Earth where the emergence of new continents incites competitive colonization efforts from the Americans and Soviets. When the colonists encounter 1,000-year-old radioactive ruins and poisonous termite-like creatures that exhibit eerie degrees of intelligence, the true nature of their changed world slowly becomes clear. The result is a blend of 1900s H.G. Wells and 1970s propaganda, updated for the 21st century in the clear, chilly and fashionably cynical style that lets Stross get away with premises that would be absurdly cheesy in anyone else’s hands

Sybilla Forsenstrom doesn't exist. For fifteen years she has been excluded from society and, as one of the homeless in Stockholm, she takes each day as it comes, keeping all her possessions in her rucksack – apart from a knife and salami which she stores in a smart briefcase. She is always well-dressed and displays impeccable manners. One night, in The Grand Hotel, she charms a susceptible businessman into paying for her dinner and room. His dead body is discovered the following morning and Sybilla becomes the prime suspect. When a second person is killed in similar circumstances, she becomes the most wanted person in Sweden

Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vicar of Wimslough, the man they had come to see, is dead—a victim of accidental poisoning. Unsatisfied with the inquest ruling and unsettled by the close association between the investigating constable and the woman who served the deadly meal, Simon calls in his old friend Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley. Together they uncover dark, complex relationships in this rural village, relationships that bring men and women together with a passion, with grief, or with the intention to kill. Peeling away layer after layer of personal history to reveal the torment of a fugitive spirit, Missing Joseph is award-winning author Elizabeth George's greatest achievement

“Missing Link” is vintage Frank Herbert. It tells the story of Lewis Orne, junior I-A field man, on the planet Gienah III. He is there to investigate a missing ship, and the natives are nothing but trouble… Originally published in “Astounding Science Fiction” under the editorship of John W. Campbell, Jr. here is a tale from the Golden Age of Science Fiction!

Beer for breakfast, that's how the brother-in-law of the President of the United States starts his day. Beer is his food, his fuel, and his future, if not his finale. His sudsy philosophy immersed him in a continuing controversy, embarrassing the White House, and making him a media personality. It is also giving him some very lucrative consulting jobs for foreign governments. Like the Libyans. They want his help in obtaining plutonium . . . For peaceful purposes, of course . . . a Holy War against Israel being the furthest thing from their minds. Suddenly good old Bobby Jack is missing. And the list of suspects seems endless. America's number-one beer drinker is finally muzzled. But by whom? The Bad Guys or the Good Guys? Terrorists or patriots? The Libyans or the Israelis? The Secret Service or the Mafia? The Destroyer?

The stakes have just been raised for psychologist Alan Gregory: His friend and fellow therapist Hannah Grant has died at the office, mysteriously and suddenly. The police are baffled, leaving another apparent homicide unsolved in Boulder, Colorado. Only Alan has the means to decipher Hannah’s clues, a quest that will take him to Las Vegas and lead him to question the integrity of those closest to him. The clock is ticking as Alan tracks one of Hannah’s most elusive patients; has she been kidnapped, or is she a runaway? The answers to both cases may be locked in the mind of a patient he has been treating for a schizoid personality disorder. In a maze of dilemmas that could cost him his career, or his life, Alan takes a bold risk that will have readers racing to the stunning conclusion of Missing Persons. Smart and fast-paced, Missing Persons showcases the rapid-fire dialogue and taut story lines that have made Stephen White the bestselling author that he is today

Perhaps the most important work in modern Iranian literature, this starkly beautiful novel examines the trials of an impoverished woman and her children living in a remote village in Iran, after the unexplained disappearance of her husband, Soluch. Lyrical yet unsparing, the novel examines her life as she contends with the political corruption, authoritarianism, and poverty of the village. It follows her vacillations between love for Soluch and anger at his absence, and her struggle to raise her children without their father. The novel critically evokes the unfulfilled aspirations of modern Iran, portraying a society caught between a past and a future that seem equally weighed down by injustice. This landmark novel — the first ever written in the everyday language of the Iranian people — revolutionized Persian literature in its beautiful and daring portrayal of the life of a marginal woman and her struggle to survive

Elizabeth MacPherson must solve a mystery that links the present to the past when she takes a tour of the famous crime scenes of the British Isles, and the tour itself becomes the scene of the crime