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"Two for the Lions," by Lindsey Davis, takes place in A.D. 73. Lindsey Davis' sleuth – informer Marcus Didius Falco – admits he needs a partner and so teams up (to work on a census project) with Anacrites, a man he loathes because of his previous employment as imperial spy. Falco ultimately discovers that working for the Roman Emperor Vespasian means neither a reliable salary nor a secure job, but first Falco and his partner, paid to engage in delinquent tax collection, wind up in Africa solving gladiatorial school murder mysteries.
“Extremely talented and guaranteed to keep you reading.” – Paranormal Romance Reviews
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Meet Mel: Business owner. Dedicated mom. Natural-born Amazon.
It's been ten years since Melanippe Saka left the Amazon tribe in order to create a normal life for her daughter, Harmony. True, running a tattoo parlor in Madison, Wisconsin, while living with your Amazon warrior mother and priestess grandmother is not everyone's idea of normal, but Mel thinks she's succeeded at blending in as human.
Turns out she's wrong. Someone knows all about her, someone who's targeting young Amazon girls, and no way is Mel going to let Harmony become tangled in this deadly web. With her mother love in overdrive, Ms. Melanippe Saka is quite a force…even when she's facing a barrage of distractions – including a persistent detective whose interest in Mel goes beyond professional, a sexy tattoo artist with secrets of his own, and a seriously angry Amazon queen who views Mel as a prime suspect. To find answers, Mel will have to do the one thing she swore she'd never do: embrace her powers and admit that you can take the girl out of the tribe…but you can't take the tribe out of the girl.
En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, la llegada de los italianos trastoca la apacible vida de un remoto pueblo de la es la griega de Cefalonia. Pero aún más la de Pelagia -hija del médico- a causa del oficial italiano, el capitán Corelli, que va a alojarse en su casa. Surgirá el amor. Y también una tragedia que muy pronto interrumpirá la guerra de mentirijillas y la velada confraternización entre italianos y griegos.
Louis de Bernières ha conseguido un bello canto al amor y una afirmación de la vida y todo lo verdaderamente humano que tenemos los hombres y las mujeres. La ternura lírica y la sutil ironía con que está narrado nos envuelve desde la primera página.
Desde el momento de su primera publicación en 1994, La mandolina del capitán Corelli ha sido un éxito continuo con casi dos millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo.
Ahora se ha convertido en una inolvidable película protagonizada por Penélope Cruz y Nicholas Cage.
Civilization as we know it ended more than fifteen years ago, leaving as it's legacy barren wastelands called the Deadland and a new terror for the humans who survived-hordes of undead Biters. Fifteen year-old Alice has spent her entire life in the Deadland, her education consisting of how best to use guns and knives in the ongoing war for survival against the Biters. One day, Alice spots a Biter disappearing into a hole in the ground and follows it, in search of fabled underground Biter bases. What Alice discovers there propels her into an action-packed adventure that changes her life and that of all humans in the Deadland forever. An adventure where she learns the terrible conspiracy behind the ruin of humanity, the truth behind the origin of the Biters, and the prophecy the mysterious Biter Queen believes Alice is destined to fulfill. A prophecy based on the charred remains of the last book in the Deadland-a book called Alice in Wonderland.
First published in paperback as 'Herogiri' by Random House India, 2010.
What happens when fate chooses an ordinary man for an extraordinary mission?
Arnab Bannerjee has little excitement in his life other than tracking down missing books as the Assistant Librarian in a small college in Delhi. All that changes one day when he is beaten and left for dead after a robbery. Arnab awakens to discover that he has developed fantastic superhuman powers and he tries to master his new¬found powers and to use them for good. As a hooded superhero he takes to the streets on a one-man crusade against injustice. However he soon realizes that in a society where the only power that matters comes from having money or the right connections, one man, even a superhero, can make little difference.
When he embarks on a final, desperate mission, he realizes that to succeed, he has to become a part of the very system he loathes by tapping into a motley set of allies such as the Minister who wants to use his powers to rig elections, the corrupt policeman who shot Arnab for exposing him and the corporate tycoon who wants to sign him up as a brand ambassador!
At one level, Heroes R Us seeks to entertain with a delightfully contemporary take on the superhero genre, and at another level it asks the provocative question of whether in the dark and corrupt times we live in, there is any place left for heroes. Slumdog Millionaire meets Spiderman in this exciting novel that will entertain and make you think at the same time.
Ancient texts refer to 'Gods' flying in craft called vimanas and waging war with what sound like nuclear weapons. These accounts are today classified as myth or legend. What if they turned out to be real? Vimana is an edge-of your seat sci-fi technothriller about a young college student who stumbles upon an ancient war between good and evil. A war that we thought was merely a part of our ancient myths and legends, but unknown to us, is still being waged everyday in our skies. As the forces of darkness conspire to unleash worldwide devastation to coincide with the End Times prophecies in 2012, he discovers his hidden destiny is to join the forces of light in bringing this war to a conclusion. At stake will be the continued existence of the human race. Star Wars meets Transformers in this exciting new thriller that will keep all science fiction fans satisfied.
It began with stories of undead Taliban rampaging through Afghan villages, and faster than anyone could have anticipated; the darkness spreads through the world. In a world laid waste by this new terror, four unlikely companions have been thrown together-a seventeen year old boy dealing with the loss of his family, a US Navy SEAL trying to get back home, an aging, lonely writer with nobody to live for, and a young girl trying to keep her three year old brother safe. When they discover that the smallest amongst them holds the key to removing the scourge that threatens to destroy their world, they begin an epic journey to a rumoured safe zone high in the Himalayas. A journey that will pit them against their own worst fears and the most terrible dangers-both human and undead. A journey through a wasteland now known as Zombiestan.
Z okruchów uczuć i emocji, drobnych i większych spraw, nocą i dniem, powstawała ta niezwykła książka.
Przez 188 dni i nocy Małgorzata Domagalik i Janusz L. Wiśniewski pisali do siebie e-maile o przyjaźni, miłości, samotności, o tym, co codzienne i wyjątkowe. Przytrafiały im się przedziwne i całkiem zwyczajne historie. Czasem, jak to mężczyzna i kobieta, nie do końca się rozumieli, ale wciąż byli ciekawi siebie. Rozważali, jakie są współczesne kobiety, a jacy mężczyźni, co ich dzieli, a co łączy, czym jest miłość, zdrada, feminizm.
Jest w tej książce wiele błyskotliwego fechtunku na słowa i równie błyskotliwych ripost. Jest trochę gry, ale więcej wzajemnej życzliwości, zrozumienia i zadumy. Tego co przeżyli, osiągnęli, co jest dla nich aktualnie najważniejsze. Nie sposób zatem było uniknąć opowieści o dalszych losach bohaterów S@motności w sieci i rozmów o "siostrzanych uczuciach". Mamy zatem w "188 dni i nocy" literaturę i życie.
Bella Donna By Margrett Dawson Sequel to SECRET SERVICES Lady Emma Houndsdale has sworn off men, casual sex and a free-wheeling lifestyle in 1930's England. But when her cruise ship sinks off the coast of Mussolini's Italy and she is mistaken for her dead maid, she finds herself the prisoner of a dashing and dangerous rogue with secrets all his own. Marco Antonioni whisks her from her life of sheltered privilege into a world of risk, lust, and betrayal, where every move is a test of loyalty. He opens her eyes to sensuous delights and forces her to reevaluate all she has known about men and life. Together they dance through passion and danger in a land rife with volatile politics.
«Le directeur a été très gentil avec moi le jour de mon embauche. J'ai eu la permission de gérer ma parfumerie toute seule. Ça marchait bien. Seulement, quand les premiers symptômes sont apparus, j'ai dû quitter la parfumerie. Ce n'était pas une histoire de décence ni rien; c'est juste que tout devenait trop compliqué. Heureusement, j'ai rencontré Edgar, et Edgar, comme vous le savez, est devenu président de la République. C'était moi, l'égérie d'Edgar. Mais personne ne m'a reconnue. J'avais trop changé. Est-ce que j'avais raté la chance de ma vie? En tout cas, je ne comprenais toujours pas très bien ce qui m'arrivait. C'était surtout ce bleu sous le sein droit qui m'inquiétait…»
Premier roman de Marie Darrieussecq. Truismes a connu un grand succès. Il a été traduit dans plus de quarante pays.
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