''I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought. Now ever where I go there''s.'' Death, to be precise. And plenty of it. In unpleasant variations. This isn''t real life ...
The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, now an aged and wealthy man, discovers and adopts a sixteen-year-old orphan, Toru, as his heir, identifying him with the tragic protagonists of the three previous novels, each of whom died at the age of twenty. ...
Agatha Raisin''''s detective agency has become so successful that she decides to take time off for rest and relaxation. But as soon as she does, she remembers that when she does have time on her hands, she doesn''''t know what to do with it. So it doesn''''t take much for the vicar of a nearby village ...
First published 1982 as Love and death, by the Folio Society--T.p. verso.
It happened at the ball.Where beautiful but bold Lillian Bowman quickly learned that her independent American ways weren''''t entirely "the thing." And the most disapproving of all was insufferable, snobbish, and impossible Marcus, Lord Westcliff, London''''s most eligible aristocrat. It happened in ...
''''I''''ve been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp''''. So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceaucescu''''s totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before; but this time she knows it will be worse. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of men''''s suits bound for ...
Jeremy Marsh, a science journalist and debunker from New York, has set his sights on finding the real reasons behind the mysterious lights that appear in an ancient southern cemetery, and he heads to the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, in s earch of the truth. Sceptical by nature, he comes ...
One war waged against one man: RAMBO First came the man: a young wanderer in a fatigue coat and long hair. Then came the legend, as John Rambo sprang from the pages of FIRST BLOOD to take his place on the world s cultural landscape. This remarkable novel pits a young, disillusioned and ragged Vietnam ...
At long last, New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore returns with one of fantasy''s most beloved and enduring icons, the dark elf Drizzt Do''Urden, in an all-new trilogy full of swordplay, danger, and imaginative thrills. Centuries ago, in the city of Menzoberranzan, the City of Spiders, the ...
Myron is summoned to Paris at the behest of an old lover, Terese. She is in unspecified trouble and needs his help. When he gets there, he discovers that her husband has been murdered and she is the main suspect. The interesting thing is that more than one blood-type has been discovered at the scene ...
In the exclusive town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, where the sweetest smiles hide the darkest secrets, four pretty little liars - Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna - have been very bad girls. Spencer stole her sister''''s boyfriend; Aria is brokenhearted over her English teacher; Emily likes her new friend ...
Magráta s Verencem mají dceru a připravují velkou oslavu k jejímu křtu. Na oslavu jsou pochopitelně pozvány i čarodějky - Bábi, Stařenka a Anežka Nulíčková. Bábino pozvání ukradnou straky a Bábi, která se cítí tímto domnělým přehlédnutím uražena, se rozhodne opustit Lancre, protože dojde k názoru, že ...
Family. They''re supposed to watch your back. Not stab you in it When the enemy is one of your own, the payback is twice as hard. The Butler brothers are the Kings of the East End, and their motto is ''what goes around, comes around''. In their world, family counts; so when the truth about Vinny''s cousin''s ...
Marian Keyes, the No. 1 bestselling author of Rachel''''s Holiday, is back with her stunning new novel The Mystery of Mercy Close and the return of the legendary and beloved Walsh sisters. Helen Walsh doesn''''t believe in fear - it''''s just a thing invented by men to get all the money and good jobs ...
