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Janet G Woititz

Małżeństwo na lodzie

Książka ukazuje problem w jaki sposób rodziny alkoholików mogą same sobie pomóc w zdrowieniu. W rozważaniach autorka omawia typową rodzinę amerykańską, jednak wiele ogólnych twierdzeń tu przytaczanych będzie prawdziwych także w odniesieniu do innych szczególnych sytuacji rodzinnych.Autorka mówi; 'Mam odwagę powiedzieć ci, że możesz nauczyć się żyć z alkoholikiem. Nie tylko żyć ale być szczęśliwa i produktywna, bez względu na to, co on robi. Naprawdę wiem jak możesz wzbogacić swoje życie. Zdecyduj czy chcesz spróbować. Jeśli nie chcesz, zostań ze swoimi nieszczęściami. Wybór należy do ciebie.'<

Janny Wurts

The Curse of the Mistwraith

Janusz L. Wiśniewski

S@Motność W Sieci

S@motność w Sieci opisuje miłość dwójki Polaków, którzy prawie całą swoją znajomość ograniczają do kontaktów w Internecie. Jakub, ceniony na świecie polski genetyk, na stałe pracuje i mieszka w Niemczech. Któregoś dnia otrzymuje na ICQ wiadomość od Polki, chcącej zwierzyć mu się ze swoich problemów. Ta niewinna wiadomość zapoczątkowuje ich znajomość i fascynację sobą nawzajem. Uczucie, którym się darzą, w pewnym momencie przeradza się w coś na miarę miłości na odległość… Akcja powieści widziana jest oczami dwóch osób: Jakuba i Jej (nie wiadomo, jak ma na imię bohaterka, mimo iż jest jedną z głównych postaci, choć w filmie nadano jej imię Ewa). Autor często zmienia bohatera, który rozwija akcję – raz obserwujemy działania Jakuba, raz Jej. Taki sposób prowadzenia akcji pozwala czytelnikowi lepiej poznać obydwoje bohaterów. Bieżące wydarzenia często przerywane są retrospekcjami z przeszłości postaci, co pozwala czytelnikom lepiej zrozumieć uczucia bohaterów w danym momencie oraz w kontekście całej książki. Książka ukazała się w Polsce w czasie, w którym miłość przez Internet była jeszcze czymś niewyobrażalnym. Obecnie internetowe miłości zadziwiają coraz mniej osób, dlatego książka nieco straciła na swojej oryginalności i niepowtarzalności, ponieważ wirtualne miłości są coraz częściej spotykanym motywem w romansach i powieściach miłosnych. <

Janusz Leon Wiśniewski

Intymna Teoria Względności

<p>Zbiór opowiadań o najintymniejszych zakamarkach ludzkiej duszy, ukazujący zaskakujące powiązania między biologią czy chemią a reakcjami psychologicznymi, emocjonalnymi człowieka. Jak ważny jest dla małżeństwa jest tlenek azotu? Jakie są przyczyny uczucia lekkości, które ogarnia człowieka po pierwszej spowiedzi? Jaki wpływ na limfocyt T4 może mieć miłość?</p><p>W Intymnej teorii względności Janusz L. Wiśniewski wyjaśnia te i inne zależności, łącząc w sposób nieco postmodernistyczny język literacki z kodem naukowym.</p><p>Intymna teoria względności to także opowieść o różnych rodzajach miłości i śmierci, nadziei i rozpaczy zainspirowana autentycznymi ludzkimi losami. Ukazuje portrety niespełnionych kochanków, bezradnych rodziców, niekochanych dzieci, samotnych ojców. Postęp technologiczny i naukowy w niczym nie zmienia ich dramatów.</p><

Janusz Leon Wiśniewski

Los Powtórzony (opowiadanie)

<p>Ludzki los to nie tylko prosta suma wydarzeń w życiu człowieka. To przede wszystkim zapis stanów emocjonalnych – buntu wobec przeznaczenia, pogodzenia się z losem, rozpaczy wobec nieuchronności tego, co przed nami, ale także walki, aby się nie poddać.</p><p>Ukazując galerię losów współczesnych Polaków, Janusz Wiśniewski stara się przedstawić i uzasadnić ich postawy wobec spraw najważniejszych: miłości, rodziny, cierpienia, nadziei, wierności, pożądania, uczciwości, przyjaźni, honoru i śmierci. Z typową dla siebie wrażliwością snuje niezwykłą historię dwojga ludzi, która tym razem jest opowieścią o poświęceniu i jego granicach w obliczu wyboru między miłością i samotnością. Tworząc współczesną sagę rodzinną, Wiśniewski pozostaje wierny znanej z "S@motności w Sieci" fascynacji wiedzą i mądrością – podgląda i analizuje świat z różnych perspektyw w poszukiwaniu odpowiedzi na najważniejsze jego zdaniem pytanie: Jak dobrze przeżyć raz dane nam życie?</p><

Janusz Leon Wiśniewski

Los Powtórzony (powieść)

<p>Ludzki los to nie tylko prosta suma wydarzeń w życiu człowieka. To przede wszystkim zapis stanów emocjonalnych – buntu wobec przeznaczenia, pogodzenia się z losem, rozpaczy wobec nieuchronności tego, co przed nami, ale także walki, aby się nie poddać.</p><p>Ukazując galerię losów współczesnych Polaków, Janusz Wiśniewski stara się przedstawić i uzasadnić ich postawy wobec spraw najważniejszych: miłości, rodziny, cierpienia, nadziei, wierności, pożądania, uczciwości, przyjaźni, honoru i śmierci. Z typową dla siebie wrażliwością snuje niezwykłą historię dwojga ludzi, która tym razem jest opowieścią o poświęceniu i jego granicach w obliczu wyboru między miłością i samotnością. Tworząc współczesną sagę rodzinną, Wiśniewski pozostaje wierny znanej z "S@motności w Sieci" fascynacji wiedzą i mądrością – podgląda i analizuje świat z różnych perspektyw w poszukiwaniu odpowiedzi na najważniejsze jego zdaniem pytanie: Jak dobrze przeżyć raz dane nam życie?</p><

Janusz Leon Wiśniewski

Martyna

<p>„Martyna” to historia młodych kobiet – nie tylko tytułowej Martyny, które uwikłane w codzienność poszukują własnej drogi do samorealizacji, często dokonując dramatycznych wyborów. Ich losy, a także ich miłości to często tylko pretekst, aby opowiedzieć prawdę o polskiej współczesnej codzienności. Opowiedzieć ją szczerze, otwarcie, bez tematów tabu. Pójść w jej poszukiwaniu z tymi kobietami do kościoła, ale także wejść do ich łóżek.</p><p>Tak naprawdę „Martyna” to nic innego jak literacki zapis rozmowy o rzeczach ważnych i najważniejszych. Takich jak miłość, uczciwość, godność, odpowiedzialność lub prawo do szczęścia. To także rozmowa o konieczności wyboru między obietnicą spełnienia „tu i teraz” a strachem przed konsekwencjami odrzucenia w przyszłości.</p><

Janusz Leon Wiśniewski

Molekuły Emocji

<p>Molekuły Emocji to pełen refleksji, przenikliwości i intymności zbiór opowiadań o lękach, pragnieniach, tęsknotach i codziennych dramatach… Czasem wydaje nam się, że otaczająca nas rzeczywistość zmusza do podejmowania trudnych decyzji, że ludzie napotykają te same problemy, żyją tym samym „ustabilizowanym” życiem.</p><p>Czy właściwie znamy całą prawdę o dzisiejszym człowieku? Czy dokładnie wiemy czego pragnie, czego się boi, o czym myśli i do czego dąży? Trzeba wiele subtelności i empatii by dotrzeć do głębi, do magii, która ukryta jest w każdym z nas, nie poddawać ocenie tego co powierzchowne. Nie lada to wyzwanie nawet dla autora, obserwatora i kronikarza codzienności, który opowiada te historie w „swoim” niepowtarzalnym stylu, z nauką, erotyką i emocjami w tle.</p><

Janusz Leon Wiśniewski

S@motność w Sieci. Tryptyk. Z Życia Pewnej Książki: Na Granicy Fikcji I Rzeczywistości

Janusz Leon Wiśniewski

S@motność w sieci. 15 Minut Poźniej

Janusz Leon Wiśniewski

Zespoły Napięć

<p>Przychodzą, odchodzą, znikają i pojawiają się znowu. Najczęściej jednak po prostu są. Jak wschody słońca, tyle że przez kilka dni w miesiącu. Są epicentrum kobiecości, misternym tworem ewolucji. Według Natalie Angier, autorki książki "Kobieta. Geografia intymna" (Prószyński i S-ka), kobiety krwawią co miesiąc, "bo są po prostu mądre". I jeśli nawet trąci to płaczliwą martyrologią, jest to naga prawda.</p><p>Janusz L.Wiśniewski już w swojej pierwszej bestsellerowej powieści "S@motność w Sieci" zaprezentował się jako wnikliwy i życzliwy obserwator kobiecej duszy. W zbiorze opowiadań "Zespoły napięć" opisuje konsekwentnie świat kobiet: uważa, że jest zupełnie inny niż świat mężczyzn. A także lepszy, ciekawszy, bogatszy w przeżycia. Bardziej i częściej wzruszający. I o tych wzruszeniach jest ta książka.</p><

Jay Wood

Her incurable passion

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Jeannette Walls

Half Broke Horses

<p>A True Life Novel</p><p>Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly). Now she brings us the story of her grandmother – told in a voice so authentic and compelling that the book is destined to become an instant classic.</p><p>"Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, in Jeannette Walls's magnificent, true-life novel based on her no-nonsense, resourceful, hard working, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town – riding five hundred miles on her pony, all alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car ("I loved cars even more than I loved horses. They didn't need to be fed if they weren't working, and they didn't leave big piles of manure all over the place") and fly a plane, and, with her husband, ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette's memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle.</p><p>Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds – against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn't fit the mold. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night. It will transfix readers everywhere.</p><

James Watson

AVOID BORING PEOPLE: Lessons from a Life in Science

Jennifer Weiner

Good in Bed

<p>From Publishers Weekly</p><p>It is temping at first but unwise to assume Candace Shapiro is yet another Bridget Jones. Feisty, funny and less self-hating than her predecessor, Cannie is a 28-year-old Philadelphia Examiner reporter preoccupied with her weight and men, but able to see the humor in even the most unpleasant of life's broadsides. Even she is floored, however, when she reads "Good in Bed," a new women's magazine column penned by her ex-boyfriend, pothead grad student Bruce Guberman. Three months earlier, Cannie suggested they take a break apparently, Bruce thought they were through and set about making such proclamations as, "Loving a larger woman is an act of courage in our world." Devastated by this public humiliation, Cannie takes comfort in tequila and her beloved dog, Nifkin. Bruce has let her down like another man in her life: Cannie's sadistic, plastic surgeon father emotionally abused her as a young girl, and eventually abandoned his wife and family, leaving no forwarding address. Cannie's siblings suffer, especially the youngest, Lucy, who has tried everything from phone sex to striptease. Their tough-as-nails mother managed to find love again with a woman, Tanya, the gravel-voiced owner of a two-ton loom. Somehow, Cannie stays strong for family and friends, joining a weight-loss group, selling her screenplay and gaining the maturity to ask for help when she faces something bigger than her fears. Weiner's witty, original, fast-moving debut features a lovable heroine, a solid cast, snappy dialogue and a poignant take on life's priorities. This is a must-read for any woman who struggles with body image, or for anyone who cares about someone who does.</p><

Jennifer Weiner

Then Came You

<p>Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior with a full scholarship, acquaintances instead of friends, and a family she’s ashamed to invite to Parents’ Weekend. With the income she’ll receive from donating her “pedigree” eggs, she believes she can save her father from addiction. </p><p>Annie Barrow married her high school sweetheart and became the mother to two boys. After years of staying at home and struggling to support four people on her husband’s salary, she thinks she’s found a way to recover a sense of purpose and bring in some extra cash.</p><p>India Bishop, thirty-eight (really forty-three), has changed everything about herself: her name, her face, her past. In New York City, she falls for a wealthy older man, Marcus Croft, and decides a baby will ensure a happy ending. When her attempts at pregnancy fail, she turns to technology, and Annie and Jules, to help make her dreams come true.</p><p>But each of their plans is thrown into disarray when Marcus’ daughter Bettina, intent on protecting her father, becomes convinced that his new wife is not what she seems…</p><p>With startling tenderness and laugh-out-loud humor, Jennifer Weiner once again takes readers into the heart of women’s lives in an unforgettable, timely tale that interweaves themes of class and entitlement, surrogacy and donorship, the rights of a parent and the measure of motherhood.</p><

Jerry Weintraub

When I Stop Talking You

<p>Here is the story of Jerry Weintraub: the self-made, Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised impresario, Hollywood producer, legendary deal maker, and friend of politicians and stars. No matter where nature has placed him-the club rooms of Brooklyn, the Mafia dives of New York 's Lower East Side, the wilds of Alaska, or the hills of Hollywood -he has found a way to put on a show and sell tickets at the door. "All life was a theater and I wanted to put it up on a stage," he writes. "I wanted to set the world under a marquee that read: 'Jerry Weintraub Presents.'"</p><p>In WHEN I STOP TALKING, YOU'LL KNOW I'M DEAD, we follow Weintraub from his first great success at age twenty-six with Elvis Presley, whom he took on the road with the help of Colonel Tom Parker; to the immortal days with Sinatra and Rat Pack glory; to his crowning hits as a movie producer, starting with Robert Altman and Nashville, continuing with Oh, God!, The Karate Kid movies, and Diner, among others, and summiting with Steven Soderbergh and Ocean's Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen.</p><p>Along the way, we'll watch as Jerry moves from the poker tables of Palm Springs (the games went on for days), to the power rooms of Hollywood, to the halls of the White House, to Red Square in Moscow and the Great Palace in Beijing-all the while counseling potentates, poets, and kings, with clients and confidants like George Clooney, Bruce Willis, George H. W. Bush, Armand Hammer, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, John Denver, Bobby Fischer…well, the list goes on forever.</p><p>And of course, the story is not yet over…as the old-timers say, "The best is yet to come."</p><p>As Weintraub says, "When I stop talking, you'll know I'm dead."</p><p>With wit, wisdom, and the cool confidence that has colored his remarkable career, Jerry chronicles a quintessentially American journey, one marked by luck, love, and improvisation. The stories he tells and the lessons we learn are essential, not just for those who love movies and music, but for businessmen, entrepreneurs, artists… everyone.</p><

Jesmyn Ward

Salvage the Bones

<p>A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; she's fourteen and pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull's new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting.</p><p>As the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to their dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family-motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce-pulls itself up to face another day. A big-hearted novel about familial love and community against all odds, and a wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, Salvage the Bones is muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real.</p><

Jess Walter

Land Of The Blind

Working the weekend shift, Caroline Mabry is confronted with a confession of murder from a charming derelict. At first sceptical, when she realizes he is the former politician Charles Mason, Caroline finds herself scrambling to investigate his long and progressively darker tale.<

Jess Walter

The Financial Lives Of the Poets

<p>Meet Matt Prior. He's about to lose his job, his wife, his house, maybe his mind. Unless…</p><p>In the winning and utterly original novels Citizen Vince and The Zero, Jess Walter ("a ridiculously talented writer" – New York Times) painted an America all his own: a land of real, flawed, and deeply human characters coping with the anxieties of their times. Now, in his warmest, funniest, and best novel yet, Walter offers a story as real as our own lives: a tale of overstretched accounts, misbegotten schemes, and domestic dreams deferred.</p><p>A few years ago, small-time finance journalist Matthew Prior quit his day job to gamble everything on a quixotic notion: a Web site devoted to financial journalism in the form of blank verse. When his big idea – and his wife's eBay resale business – ends with a whimper (and a garage full of unwanted figurines), they borrow and borrow, whistling past the graveyard of their uncertain dreams. One morning Matt wakes up to find himself jobless, hobbled with debt, spying on his wife's online flirtation, and six days away from losing his home. Is this really how things were supposed to end up for me, he wonders: staying up all night worried, driving to 7-Eleven in the middle of the night to get milk for his boys, and falling in with two local degenerates after they offer him a hit of high-grade marijuana?</p><p>Or, he thinks, could this be the solution to all my problems?</p><p>Following Matt in his weeklong quest to save his marriage, his sanity, and his dreams, The Financial Lives of the Poets is a hysterical, heartfelt novel about how we can reach the edge of ruin – and how we can begin to make our way back.</p><

Jess Walter

The Zero

<p>What's left of a place when you take the ground away?</p><p>Answer: The Zero.</p><p>Brian Remy has no idea how he got here. It’s been only five days since his city was attacked, and Remy is experiencing gaps in his life – as if he were a stone skipping across water. He has a self-inflicted gunshot wound he doesn’t remember inflicting. His son wears a black armband and refuses to acknowledge that Remy is still alive. He seems to be going blind. He has a beautiful new girlfriend whose name he doesn’t know. And his old partner in the police department, who may well be the only person crazier than Remy, has just gotten his picture on a box of First Responder cereal.</p><p>And these are the good things in Brian Remy’s life. While smoke still hangs over the city, Remy is recruited by a mysterious government agency that is assigned to gather all of the paper that was scattered in the attacks. As he slowly begins to realize that he’s working for a shadowy operation, Remy stumbles across a dangerous plot, and soon realizes he’s got to track down the most elusive target of them all – himself. And the only way to do that is to return to that place where everything started falling apart.</p><p>From a young novelist of astounding talent, The Zero is an extraordinary story of searing humor and sublime horror, of blindness, bewilderment, and that achingly familiar feeling that the world has suddenly stopped making sense.</p><

Jill Williamson

By Darkness Hid

Blood Of Kings

Given the chance to train as a squire, kitchen servant Achan Cham hopes to pull himself out of his pitiful life and become a Kingsguard Knight. When Achan's owner learns of his training, he forces Achan to spar with the Crown Prince-more of a death sentence than an honor. Meanwhile, strange voices in Achan's head cause him to fear he's going mad. While escorting the prince to a council presentation, their convoy is attacked. Achan is wounded and arrested, but escapes from prison-only to discover a secret about himself he never believed possible.<

Jill Williamson

To Darkness Fled

Blood Of Kings

<p>Achan, Vrell, and the Kingsguard Knights have fled into Darkness to escape the wrath of the former prince. They head for Ice Island to rescue two of Sir Gavin's colleagues who were falsely imprisoned years ago.</p><p>Darkness is growing and only one man can push it back. Achan wanted freedom, not a crown. His true identity has bound him more than ever. He must learn decorum, wear fancy clothes, and marry a stranger.</p><p>Achan knows one thing for certain. He will not be a puppet prince. Either he will accept his role and take charge or he will flee. But which will he choose?</p><

Joby Warrick

The Triple Agent

<p>A stunning narrative account of the mysterious Jordanian who penetrated both the inner circle of al-Qaeda and the highest reaches of the CIA, with a devastating impact on the war on terror.</p><p>In December 2009, a group of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters gathered at a secret base in Khost, Afghanistan, to greet a rising superspy: Humam Khalil al-Balawi, a Jordanian double-agent who infiltrated the upper ranks of al-Qaeda. For months, he had sent shocking revelations from inside the terrorist network and now promised to help the CIA assassinate Osama bin Laden’s top deputy. Instead, as he stepped from his car, he detonated a thirty-pound bomb strapped to his chest, instantly killing seven CIA operatives, the agency’s worst loss of life in decades.</p><p>In The Triple Agent, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Joby Warrick takes us deep inside the CIA’s secret war against al-Qaeda, a war that pits robotic planes and laser-guided missiles against a cunning enemy intent on unleashing carnage in American cities. Flitting precariously between the two sides was Balawi, a young man with extraordinary gifts who managed to win the confidence of hardened terrorists as well as veteran spymasters. With his breathtaking accounts from inside al-Qaeda’s lair, Balawi appeared poised to become America’s greatest double-agent in half a century-but he was not at all what he seemed. Combining the powerful momentum of Black Hawk Down with the institutional insight of Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side, Warrick takes the readers on a harrowing journey from the slums of Amman to the inner chambers of the White House in an untold true story of miscalculation, deception, and revenge.</p><

John C Wright

Titans of Chaos

John C Wright

Fugitives of Chaos

John C Wright

Orphans of Chaos

The Chaos Chronicles

<p>Wright’s new fantasy is a tale about five orphans raised in a strict British boarding school who begin to discover that they may not be human beings. The students at the school do not age, while the world around them does. </p><p>The children begin to make sinister discoveries about themselves. Amelia is apparently a fourth-dimensional being; Victor is a synthetic man who can control the molecular arrangement of matter around him; Vanity can find secret passageways through solid walls where none had previously been; Colin is a psychic; Quentin is a warlock. Each power comes from a different paradigm or view of the inexplicable universe: and they should not be able to co-exist under the same laws of nature. Why is it that they can?</p><p>The orphans have been kidnapped from their true parents, robbed of their powers, and raised in ignorance by super-beings no more human than they are: pagan gods or fairy-queens, Cyclopes, sea-monsters, witches, or things even stranger than this. The children must experiment with, and learn to control, their strange abilities in order to escape their captors. </p><

Barbara Wood

Die sieben Dämonen

John Weisman

Direct Action

<p>In this compulsive page-turner, six-time New York Times bestselling author John Weisman blows the lid off one of Washington's deepest real-world secrets. The CIA, currently incapable of performing its core mission of supplying critical and time-sensitive human-based intelligence for the global war on terror, must now outsource the work to private contractors. Drawing on real-world crises and actual CIA operations, Direct Action takes readers deep inside this new and unreported covert warfare that is being fought on a daily basis by anonymous shadow warriors all across the globe.</p><p>Racing against the clock and shuttling between Washington, Paris, and the Middle East, one of those shadow warriors, former CIA case officer Tom Stafford, must slip below the radar to uncover, target, and neutralize a deadly al-Qa'ida bombmaker before the assassin can launch simultaneous multiple attacks against America and the West. And as if that weren't enough, Stafford must simultaneously open a second front and mount a clandestine war against the CIA itself, because for mysterious and seemingly inexplicable reasons the people at the very top of the Central Intelligence Agency want him to fail.</p><p>The characters and operations in Direct Action are drawn from true-life CIA personnel and their real-world missions. With Direct Action, John Weisman confirms once again Joseph Wambaugh's claim that "nobody writes better about the dark and dirty world of the CIA and black ops."</p><

John Williams

Augustus

John Wilson

The timid bride

Monterey library press

John Wyndham

The Chrysalids

<p>At first he does not question. Then, however, he realizes that the he too is out of the ordinary, in possession of a power that could doom him to death or introduce him to a new, hitherto unimagined world of freedom.</p><p>Perfect timing, astringent humour… One of the few authors whose compulsive readability is a compliment to the intelligence Spectator Remains fresh and disturbing in an entirely unexpected way Guardian</p><

John Wyndham

The Day of the Triffids

<p>Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere twenty-four hours before is gone forever.</p><p>But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world. The Triffids can grow to over seven feet tall, pull their roots from the ground to walk, and kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers. With society in shambles, they are now posed to prey on humankind. Wyndham chillingly anticipates bio-warfare and mass destruction, fifty years before their realization, in this prescient account of Cold War paranoia.</p><

John Wyndham

The Midwich Cuckoos

Cuckoos lay eggs in other birds' nests. The clutch that was fathered on the quiet little village of Midwich, one night in September, proved to possess a monstrous will of its own. Imt promised to make the human race look as dated as the dinosaur. An SF classic, almost immediately turned into a movie (1960) and remade later by famous John Carpenter (Village of the Damned, 1995), is a fine example of Wyndham's brilliiant prose. An SF roadmark and A MUST for all SF lovers!<

Jon Wells

Sniper: The True Story of Anti-Abortion Killer James Kopp

<p>Sniper opens in October 1998 near Buffalo, NY. A man is alone in the dark in a forest. He clutches an assault rifle and is thinking about his mission. “You can cut holes in the fences around the death camps,” he thinks. “A trickle of relief in the abortion holocaust. It is your duty to do it.” He nestles the rifle into his shoulder and shoots at his target through the back window of a house, then flees. Barnett Sepia, a doctor who provides abortions, is fatally wounded.</p><p>The shooter is James Kopp, the son of a Marine, who came to embrace the pro-life cause and ultimately the notion of “justifiable homicide”: against abortion providers. Kopp fancies himself a lone wolf in the movement; a celibate man driven to “defend the unborn.” He is nicknamed “Atomic Dog” in the movement and helps orchestrate assaults on abortion clinics. As the story unfolds, he becomes the central figure in an international manhunt for multiple shootings in Canada. On the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted list, Kopp flees to Mexico, Ireland, and France. Award-winning journalist Jon wells followed Kopp’s footsteps, traveled to his hometown, and interviewed investigators in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, and France to tell this gripping detective story and dark psychological drama.</p><

Jonathan Watts

When a Billion Chinese Jump

<p>Asian environmental correspondent for the Guardian, Watts travels to the four corners of China, from the southwest Himalayan region, rebranded as “Shangri-la” to attract tourists, to Xanadu (Shangdu) in Inner Mongolia, exploring how Beijing is balancing economic growth with sustainability and whether China will “emerge as the world’s first green superpower” or tip our species “over the environmental precipice.” What he finds is both hopeful and disturbing. Wildlife refuges, rather than focusing on biodiversity, breed animals for meat and traditional remedies like black bear bile. The city of Ordos plans to build a huge wind farm and solar plant, but these benefits are offset by its coal-liquification mine, “an environmentalist's worst nightmare” of greenhouse gases and water exploitation. The Chinese dictatorship, envied by other nations for its ability to enact environmental changes without the slow democratic process, turns out to be ineffective, with power lying with developers and local bureaucracies. Readers interested in global warming will appreciate the firsthand information about China, and Watts’s travels are so extensive and China is changing so fast, some material is likely to be fresh and new even for Sinologists.</p><

Joseph Wambaugh

Cuervos de Hollywood

Joseph Wambaugh, maestro del thriller policíaco, ha vuelto con una adictiva novela focalizada una vez más en los oficiales de la Hollywood Station del LAPD; en concreto en el papel que desempeñan los «cuervos», nombre popular dela Oficina de Relaciones Comunitarias (CRO), formado por policías que no están satisfechos en las calles y que se sienten más seguros velando por la «calidad de vida» de los vecinos.<

Joseph Wambaugh

El caballero azul

<p>El caballero azul era una narración en primera persona. Bumper Morgan es un policía de la calle a punto de jubilarse. No quiere dejarlo. Tiene cincuenta y tantos. Está con una mujer espléndida. La perspectiva de un amor eterno mano a mano lo desconcierta. Está enganchado al placer mundano y a veces apasionante del trabajo policial. En el fondo del corazón, tiene miedo. El trabajo en su territorio de ronda le permite vivir en un nivel distanciado y circunscrito. Reina benévolamente en su pequeño reino. Da y recibe afecto de una forma compartimentada que nunca pone a prueba su vulnerabilidad. Le asusta amar a pecho descubierto. Sus últimos días en el cuerpo van pasando. Aumenta el rechazo a dejarlo. Interceden acontecimientos violentos. Sirven para salvarlo y condenarlo, y le procuran el único destino lógico posible". James Ellroy comentando el libro Hollywood Station del mismo autorsis.</p><p>Joseph Wambaugh fue durante catorce años miembro del Departamento de Policia de Los Ángeles, del que se retiró con el grado de sargento. Neoyorquino de nacimiento, es uno de los nombres de referencia del Procedural, una corriente dentro de la novela negra que incide sobre el tratamiento literario del "procedimiento" que se emplea en la policía para la resolución de los delitos. Es autor de más de quince novelas, entre las que destacan "Los Nuevos Centuriones", "El Caballero azul", "Los chicos del coro" (no confundir con la producción francesa del mismo título), "La Estrella Delta" o "Hollywood Station" (todas ellas adaptadas al cine y la televisión), con Campo de cebollas, deja la ficción para adentrase en terrenos de la crónica y consigue un éxito editorial de primer orden y su mejor obra. Actualmente reside en California y es "Gran Maestro" de los escritores de misterio de America.</p><

Joseph Wambaugh

Hollywood Crows

<p>When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they're just having some fun. But in Hollywood, nothing is ever what it seems. To them, Margot is a harmless socialite, stuck in the middle of an ugly divorce from the nefarious nightclub-owner Ali Aziz. What Nate and Bix don't know is that Margot's no helpless victim: the femme fatale is setting them both up. But Ms. Aziz isn't the only one with a deadly plan.</p><p>In HOLLYWOOD CROWS, Wambaugh returns once again to the beat he knows best, taking readers on a tightly plotted and darkly funny ride-along through Los Angeles with a cast of flawed cops and eccentric lowlifes they won't soon forget.</p><

Joseph Wambaugh

Hollywood Moon

<p>There's a saying at Hollywood station that the full moon brings out the beast-rather than the best-in the precinct's citizens. One moonlit night, LAPD veteran Dana Vaughn and "Hollywood" Nate Weiss, a struggling-actor-turned cop, get a call about a young man who's been attacking women. Meanwhile, two surfer cops known as Flotsam and Jetsam keep bumping into an odd, suspicious duo-a smooth-talking player in dreads and a crazy-eyed, tattooed biker. No one suspects that all three dubious characters might be involved in something bigger, more high-tech, and much more illegal. After a dizzying series of twists, turns, and chases, the cops will find they've stumbled upon a complex web of crime where even the criminals can't be sure who's conning whom.</p><p>Wambaugh once again masterfully gets inside the hearts and minds of the cops whose jobs have them constantly on the brink of danger. By turns heart-wrenching, exhilarating, and laugh-out-loud funny, Hollywood Moon is his most thrilling and deeply affecting ride yet through the singular streets of LA.</p><

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