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Hide and Seek：A Lying Game Novel
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From the author of the New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars comes a killer new series, The Lying Game. Sutton Mercer had a life anyone would kill for – and someone did. But thanks to a view from the afterlife and Emma Paxton, her long-lost twin sister, Sutton has a chance to solve her own murder. Emma slips into Sutton’s old life to piece together her disappearance. But can Emma keep up the charade long enough to discover what really happened to Sutton…or will she become the next victim? Let the lying games begin.
Araby
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A funny and intensely moving portrait of childhood, death and a man’s relationship with his larger-than-life mother. This poignant, witty, warm-hearted yet unsentimental novel charts the turbulent relationship of a mother and son. As a young boy, Rory Keenan finds his mother bewilderingly and embarrassingly eccentric as his childhood is punctuated by hilarious, cringe-making episodes caused entirely by her unpredictable behaviour and bizarre habits and exploits. Kitty has a huge appetite – for food, for mysterious imaginary illnesses and for strange hobbies. Her irrespressible, opinionated nature ensures that she (and, against his will, Rory too) is the centre of any attention to be had. At the end of Kitty’s life, Rory, now a grown man, begins to come to terms with his confused feelings for Kitty – he loves her devotedly, but nevertheless her cussedness still infuriates him. As memories and secrets from his family’s stormy past in Ireland and London echo through the tragedy of her final, very real illness we are given an outstandingly vivid and compassionate vision of life, love and death.
The Yips
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The hilarious Man Booker-longlisted novel from the author of ‘Darkmans’ and ‘The Burley Cross Postbox Theft’. 2006 is a foreign country; they do things differently there. Tiger Woods' reputation is entirely untarnished and the English Defence League does not exist. But storm-clouds are gathering above the bar of Luton's less-than-exclusive Thistle Hotel. Among those caught up in the unfolding drama are a man who's survived cancer seven times, a woman priest with an unruly fringe, the troubled family of a notorious local fascist, an interfering barmaid with three E's at A-level but a PhD in bullshit, a free-thinking Muslim sex therapist and his considerably more pious wife. But at the heart of every intrigue and the bottom of every mystery is the repugnantly charismatic Stuart Ransom – a golfer in free-fall.
A Book of Common Prayer
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An engrossing novel about political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking. Set in the ruined Central American nation of Boca Grande, A Book of Common Prayer is the story of two American women and their conflicting experiences of wealth, politics and personal history. We follow the intriguing life of Grace Strasser-Mendana – an American expatriate and member of one of Boca Grande’s most influential families – alongside the story of Charlotte Douglas, whose daughter Medin has run off with a group of Marxist radicals. What follows is an exploration of the women’s ability to make sense of the behaviour that surrounds them, as their worlds are made hazy by the atmosphere of evil and innocence that envelops their strained and entangled lives.
The Confession of Katherine Howard
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The new novel from the bestselling author of THE SIXTH WIFE. When 12-year-old Katherine Howard comes to live in the Duchess of Norfolk's household, poor relation Cat Tilney is deeply suspicious. The two girls couldn't be more different: Cat, watchful and ambitious; Katherine, interested only in clothes and boys. Their companions are in thrall to Katherine, but it's Cat in whom Katherine confides and, despite herself, Cat is drawn to her. Summoned to court at 17, Katherine leaves Cat in the company of her ex-lover, Francis, and the two begin their own, much more serious, love affair. Within months, the king has set aside his Dutch wife Anne for Katherine. The future seems assured for the new queen and her maid-in-waiting, although Cat would feel more confident if Katherine hadn't embarked on an affair with one of the king's favoured attendants, Thomas Culpeper. However, for a blissful year and a half, it seems that Katherine can have everything she wants. But then allegations are made about her girlhood love affairs. Desperately frightened, Katherine recounts a version of events which implicates Francis but which Cat knows to be a lie. With Francis in the Tower, Cat alone knows the whole truth of Queen Katherine Howard – but if she tells, Katherine will die.
The Lover’s Dictionary: A Love Story in 185 Definitions
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How does one talk about love? We are all beginners when it comes to love, from those tentative first dates to learning how to live with, or without, someone. But how does one describe love? How does one chart its delights and pleasures, its depths and desolations? Do we even have the right words to describe something that can be both utterly mundane and completely transcendent, pulling us out of our everyday lives and making us feel a part of something greater than ourselves? David Levithan's The Lover's Dictionary starts where we all once started – with the alphabet. Constructing the story of a relationship as a dictionary, Levithan explores the intimacies and workings of love through his nameless narrator, to paint a moving portrait of love through everyday words. Cleverly using the confines of language to provide an intimate window into the great events and quotidian trifles of being part of a couple, Levithan gives us an indelible and deeply moving portrait of love in our time.
Anita and Me
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Nine-year-old Meena can’t wait to grow up and break free from her parents. But, as the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the mining village of Tollington, her struggle for independence is different from most. Meena wants fishfingers and chips, not chapati and dhal; she wants an English Christmas, not the usual interminable Punjabi festivities – but more than anything, she wants to roam the backyards of working-class Tollington with feisty Anita Rutter and her gang. Blonde, cool, aloof, outrageous and sassy, Anita is everything Meena thinks she wants to be. Meena wheedles her way into Anita’s life, but the arrival of a baby brother, teenage hormones, impending entrance exams for the posh grammar school and a motorcycling rebel without a future threaten to turn Anita’s salad days sour. Anita and Me paints a comic, poignant, compassionate and colourful portrait of village life in the era of flares, power cuts, glam rock, decimalisation and Ted Heath. It is a unique vision of a British childhood in the Seventies, a childhood caught between two cultures, each on the brink of change.
The Devil and Miss Prym
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A novel from Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. A stranger arrives in the small mountain village. He carries with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. Burying these in the vicinity, the stranger strikes up a curious friendship with a young woman from the village – Miss Prym. His mission is to discover whether human beings are essentially good or evil. In this stunning novel, Paulo Coelho’s unusual protagonist sets the town a moral challenge from which they may never recover. A fascinating meditation on the human soul, The Devil and Miss Prym illuminates the reality of good and evil within us all, and our uniquely human capacity to choose between them.
The Other Queen
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A dramatic novel of passion, politics and betrayal from the author of The Other Boleyn Girl. They can fear me, and they can hate me. They can even deny me. But they cannot kill me. 1568. The Virgin Queen Elizabeth I has ruled England for ten years, but refuses to name a successor, despite the rival claims that threaten her kingdom. Bess of Hardwick, the new Countess of Shrewsbury, has secured her future with her fourth marriage to George Talbot. Ambitious and shrewd, Bess anticipates royal favour when she and the Earl are asked to give sanctuary to the fugitive Mary Queen of Scots. But the Scottish queen rails against house arrest in a desolate castle and plots to regain her throne. The castle becomes the epicentre of intrigue against Elizabeth, the Earl blinded by admiration for the other queen. Even Bess’s own loyalty is thrown into question. If Elizabeth's spymaster William Cecil links the Talbots to the growing conspiracy to free Mary, they will all face the Tower…
Disguise
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Hugo Hamilton, the internationally acclaimed author of ‘The Speckled People’ and ‘Sailor in the Wardrobe’, turns his hand back to fiction with a compelling drama tracing Berlin's central historical importance throughout the twentieth century. 1945. At the end of the second world war in Berlin, a young mother loses her two-year-old boy in the bombings. She flees to the south, where her father finds a young foundling of the same age among the refugee trains to replace the boy. He makes her promise never to tell anyone, including her husband – still fighting on the Russian front – that the boy is not her own. Nobody will know the difference. 2008. Gregor Liedmann is a Jewish man now in his sixties. He's an old rocker who ran away from home, a trumpet player, a revolutionary stone-thrower left over from the 1968 generation. On a single day spent gathering fruit in an orchard outside Berlin with family and friends, Gregor looks back over his life, sifting through fact and memory in order to establish the truth. What happened on that journey south in the final days of the war? Why did his grandfather Emil disappear, and why did the Gestapo torture uncle Max? Here, in the calmness of the orchard, along with his ex-wife Mara and son Daniel, Gregor tries to unlock the secret of his past. In his first novel since the best-selling memoir ‘The Speckled People’, Hugo Hamilton has created a truly compelling story of lost identity, and a remarkable reflection on the ambiguity of belonging.
Illumination
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A powerful story of revolution, love and intense rivalry set in 1870 during the four-month siege of Paris. 1870. All over Paris the lights are going out. The Prussians are encircling the city and Europe’s capital of decadent pleasure and luxury is becoming a prison, its citizens caught between defiance and despair. Desperate times lie ahead as the worst winter for decades sets in and starvation looms. One man seems to shine like a beacon in the shadows. Jean-Jacques Allix promises to be the leader the people need, to save the city itself. Painter Hannah Pardy, his young English lover, believes in him utterly; taking up arms for his cause, she is drawn into the heart of the battle for Paris. But as the darkness and panic spreads it is harder and harder to see things as they really are, and Hannah struggles to separate love from self-interest and revolutionaries from traitors. Faced with impossible decisions, Hannah must confront the devastating reality of her beloved Paris to establish what truly matters to her – and what she will do to protect it.
Will & Tom
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Will & Tom is a glimpse into the life of the infamous artist JMW Turner as a young man during a week spent at Harewood House fighting for a commission against his childhood friend and rival Tom Girtin. 1797, West Yorkshire. When rising artist Will Turner arrives at Harewood House in high summer, his intention is to sketch the house and grounds, receive his commission and return to London, where he has started attracting serious attention at the Royal Academy. But things at the grand house are not quite as he expects. The atmosphere is strange, both above and below stairs, and Will’s treatment by his hosts is surprisingly offhand. Most perplexing of all, however, is the appearance of another painter – his childhood friend and now rival, Tom Girtin. While Tom is welcomed into the aristocratic circle, Will finds few allies. As it becomes harder to ignore the whispers of scandal , Will witnesses something that will threaten both his commission and his friendship. Alive with intrigue, artistic rivalry, Will & Tom offers a glimpse into the early life of Britain’s greatest painter, J M W Turner, through the story of a complicated, vibrant friendship, and how it is tested by the dark dynamic of art and power.
A Spy by Nature
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For all fans of TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY comes this masterclass in suspense about a spy caught up in his own web of deception… Alec Milius is young, smart and ambitious – with a talent for deception. When a chance encounter opens the door to a career with MI6, he is desperate to make his mark. But life as a spy begins to take a terrible toll on himself and those around him, and soon Alec is chasing not just success but survival. Forced to work alone, he spins a web of deceit that traps him centre stage in a game of global espionage. In this new job, the difference between truth and a lie can be a matter of life and death. And for Alec, it’s getting harder to tell them apart… A Spy By Nature is the bestselling novel with which Charles Cumming announced his arrival as heir apparent to masters like John le Carré and Len Deighton; compellingly told, utterly authentic and heart-racingly intense, it will grip you till the very last page.
Legea conspira?iei
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Paris, iulie 1942: Sarah, o feti?? evreic? ?n v?rst? de zece ani, este arestat? ?n toiul nop?ii, ?mpreun? cu p?rin?ii ei, de poli?ia francez?, dar nu ?nainte de a-?i ?ncuia fratele ?n ascunz?toarea lor secret?, convins? fiind c? se va ?ntoarce dup? numai c?teva ore pentru a-l elibera.Paris, mai 2002: Julia, o jurnalist? american?, stabilit? de mul?i ani la Paris ?i m?ritat? cu un francez, trebuie s? scrie un articol despre razia de la Vel’ d’Hiv, cu ocazia comemor?rii a ?aizeci de ani de la acest eveniment de trist? amintire ?n istoria Fran?ei. ?n timpul investiga?iei sale, Julia descoper? ?nt?mpl?tor o serie de secrete de familie ad?nc ?ngropate, care o leag? de Sarah, ?i simte nevoia de a reconstitui destinul tragic al fetei. Pe m?sur? ce se ad?nce?te ?n trecutul ei, lucrurile pe care le afl? o tulbur? ?i o fac s?-?i pun? ?ntreb?ri cu privire la propria existen??.Se numea Sarah este povestea ?nduio??toare a dou? familii unite de un secret teribil, dar ?i o tulbur?toare pagin? de istorie: Tatiana de Rosnay descrie un episod real din Fran?a aflat? sub ocupa?ie ?i rupe t?cerea care ?nconjoar? un subiect dureros, uneori chiar tabu, din istoria francezilor.
Safari ?ns?ngerat
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Ce-ai face dac? propria ta sor? ar disp?rea ?ntr-o bun? zi f?r? urm??C?nd afl? c? sora ei mai mic? a disp?rut, Beatrice Hemming se ?ntoarce cu primul avion acas?, la Londra. ?n scurt? vreme, Tess este g?sit? moart?, aparent o sinucidere, iar poli?ia ?nchide dosarul. Convins? c? sora ei nu s-ar fi sinucis niciodat?, Beatrice se mut? ?n apartamentul lui Tess ?i p?trunde tot mai ad?nc ?n via?a ?i ?n secretele acesteia, ?n ?ncercarea de a-l descoperi singur? pe criminal. Pe urmele lui Tess, Beatrice afl? despre rela?ia ei ascuns?, despre participarea ei la un experiment medical, dar se afund? tot mai mult ?ntr-o ?ntunecat? camer? a oglinzilor, plin? de revela?ii tulbur?toare.C?ut?nd cu disperare adev?rul despre moartea surorii ei, va reu?i oare s? se redescopere pe sine?
Amprenta omului
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n anii 1870, Jacques Rebière i Thomas Midwinter, doi tineri ambiioi, descoper c au aceeai fascinaie de a nelege cum funcioneaz mintea omeneasc.Cercetrile lor n noul domeniu al psihiatriei i poart dintr-un ospiciu englezesc de la ar n cmpiile Africii, din slile de conferin ale Parisului n Alpii austrieci i n California. i nsoesc n aceast cltorie iniiatic Sonia, sora devotat a lui Thomas, i Katharina, o fost pacient, a crei sosire n sanatoriul lor de boli nervoase dezvluie pentru prima dat direciile diferite ale cercetrii lor. La trecerea ntr-un nou secol i n vreme ce Europa este divizat de Primul Rzboi Mondial, cei doi prienteni sunt constrni la o tragic introspecie a propriilor idealuri i credine.Impresionant i provocator n acelai timp, romanul lui Sebastian Faulks caut rspuns la ntrebarea ce fel de fiine suntem noi, oamenii, i dac nu cumva nebunia este preul pe care l pltim pentru a fi umani.Cel mai ambiios roman al lui Sebastian Faulks de pn acum… Dragoste, loialitate, curaj, compasiune, generozitate… acetia sunt polii n jurul crora graviteaz povetile sale.“ – The Independent
Vecinul
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Dup? Aurul spartanilor ?i Imperiul pierdut, so?ii Sam ?i Remi Fargo se ?ntorc ?ntr-o nou? aventur? extraordinar?.Mae?tri ai v?n?torilor de comori, Sam ?i Remi Fargo nu sunt deloc obi?nui?i cu v?n?toarea de oameni. Dar un baron texan al petrolului apeleaz? la ei cu o rug?minte personal?: un detectiv particular angajat s?-i g?seasc? tat?l disp?rut s-a pierdut f?r? urm? ?i el. Dat fiind c? detectivul le este prieten, ar fi dispu?i Sam ?i Remi s?-i caute pe am?ndoi? ?n ciuda suspiciunilor, cei doi accept? noua provocare, iar ceea ce vor descoperi va fi mai mult dec?t ?i-ar fi putut imagina. ?n c?l?toria care ?i poart? prin Tibet, Nepal, Bulgaria, India ?i China, Sam ?i Remi Fargo se trezesc implica?i ?n traficul cu fosile de pe pia?a neagr?, descoper? un cuf?r vechi de secole, un regat tibetan disp?rut, un dirijabil inventat cu secole ?naintea vremii sale… ?i un schelet care ar putea transforma complet ?ntreaga istorie a evolu?iei umane.Plin de imagina?ie ?i cu un suspans care-?i taie r?suflarea, Regatul dovede?te ?nc? o dat? de ce Clive Cussler este considerat ?unul dintre cei mai buni autori contemporani de thriller“. – New York PostRomanele lui Cussler sunt publicate ?n peste 40 de limbi, ?n mai bine de o sut? de ??ri ale lumii.
Albastru de safir. Culorile dragostei
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B?iatul vrea adev?rul…Criminalul vrea s? se distreze…Steven Lamb, un b?iat de doisprezece ani, sap? gropi ?n Parcul Na?ional Exmoor, ?n c?utarea cadavrului unchiului s?u, necunoscut, disp?rut la v?rsta de unsprezece ani. Bunica lui Steven este convins? c? fiul ei nu e mort ?i ?nc? ?l mai a?teapt? s? se ?ntoarc? acas?, ?n timp ce familia se destram? ?n jurul ei. Iar Steven este hot?r?t ca, aduc?nd bunicii oasele fiului ucis, s? refac? leg?turile dintre ei ?i s? dea un sens lumii din jurul s?u.O scrisoare trimis? de copil presupusului uciga? al unchiului s?u declan?eaz? un joc periculos ?ntre un copil disperat ?i un criminal ?n serie aflat ?n ?nchisoare, care se plictise?te. Un joc care va avea mult mai multe consecin?e terifiante dec?t ??i putuse imagina Steven vreodat?…“Bauer dovede?te un talent remarcabil ?n crearea ritmului, a intrigii ?i, cel mai important, reu?e?te s? intre chiar ?i ?n pielea celor mai resping?toare personaje ale sale.“ – Kirkus Reviews“Original, fluid ?i plin de atmosfer?, este un debut care ??i taie respira?ia.“ – Val McDermidPremiul Gold Dagger, 2010Roman publicat ?n 17 ??ri
Umbra nop?ii
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O noapte ploioas?, ?n Londra. Un ritual de ini?iere din cadrul unei bande se sf?r?e?te cu focuri de arm? ?ntr-o ma?in? care vireaz? brusc pe trotuar ?i plonjeaz? ?ntr-o sta?ie de autobuz. Totul duce la moartea unei victime nevinovate. Dar realitatea este mult mai teribil?…O via?? este distrus? ?i alte trei sunt marcate pentru totdeauna: a t?n?rului care a ap?sat pe tr?gaci, a unui b?tr?n gangster care pl?nuia o r?zbunare mortal? ?i a femeii ?ns?rcinate care se lupt? cu disperare s? descopere adev?rul. Cum se va descurca ea, cu numai dou? s?pt?m?ni ?nainte de a na?te, ?ntr-o lume ?n care moartea este un risc profesional??ntr-un ora? ?n care violen?a poate fi ?nt?mpl?toare sau meticulos planificat?, ?n care bandele de adolescen?i intr? ?n conflict cu cele ale infractorilor de carier? ?i ?n care loialitatea se pl?te?te cu s?nge, orice este posibil.
Dincolo de s?nge
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Uneori singura solu?ie este v?rsarea de s?nge.Un criminal ac?ioneaz? animat de cele mai perverse dorin?e, f?r? nici o remu?care ?n fa?a tinere?ii ?i inocen?ei victimelor. Are o list? lung? la activ ?i nu las? urme. Uciderea ?i mutilarea adolescentei Jennifer Maidment este ?n sine un act de o cruzime ?nfior?toare, iar dr. Tony Hill descoper? ?n scurt timp c? nu este dec?t primul dintr-o campanie care vizeaz? un grup de tineri aparent f?r? nici o leg?tur? ?ntre ei, ademeni?i de monstru prin intermediul unei re?ele de socializare online.Un nou caz ?nfrico??tor, care ?i rede?teapt? celebrului psiholog ?i profiler Tony Hill fantomele trecutului.
Otr?vurile din Caux – Nestemata scobit?. Vol. 1
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Dup? ?nfr?ngerea Regelui ?i a Reginei M?tr?gun?, ?n Caux este din nou lini?te. Totu?i, a mai r?mas de ?ndeplinit o Profe?ie: bunul rege Verdegris, acum bolnav de moarte, urmeaz? a fi g?sit ?i vindecat de Nobilul Vl?star, nimeni alta dec?t Ivy Manx.Al?turi de prietenul ei Rowan, t?n?ra trebuie s? se aventureze ?n interiorul Breslei Degust?torilor, condus? de diabolicul Vidal Vinegret. Colac peste pup?z?, primejdiile se ?nmul?esc odat? cu apari?ia unei plante otr?vitoare care-i amenin?? c?l?toria: feriga rea, cunoscut? ?i ca f?c?toarea-de-regi, cea care ??i poate ?nnebuni victimele, lu?ndu-le prizoniere ?ntr-un t?r?m ?ntunecat.Vor reu?i eroii no?tri s? contracareze ac?iunile du?manilor lor ?i s? ?nf?ptuiasc? Profe?ia? Ce alte noi aventuri li se mai deschid ?nainte?Aventurile lui Ivy Manx continu? ?ntr-o nou? carte misterioas? ?i mortal de hazlie.
