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When Caroline Fielding and her husband Joshua, a celebrated actor and director, receive an invitation to visit Charles Netheridge over the Christmas period, they feel they cannot refuse. Netheridge has agreed to fund Joshua's next production if he and his actors perform his daughter Alice's amateur dramatisation of Bram Stocker's Dracula. As Joshua's company begin their preparations, a stranger with an intimate knowledge of vampire lore arrives, asking for shelter from the deepening snow. Soon, the dark nightmares of Dracula are played out off, as well as on, stage. Who exactly has Netheridge invited into his home ? And when a life is taken, can the culprit be found before the snow melts ?

Isolde and Johnny - the star-crossed teenage heirs to New Iberia's criminal empires -have run away together, and Robicheaux is tasked with finding them. But when his investigation brings him too close to both Idsolde's mother and her father's mistress, the venomous mafioso orders a hit on Robicheaux and his partner, Clete Purcel. In order to rescue the young lovers, and save himself, Robicheaux must face a terrifying time-travelling superhuman hitman capable of inflicting horrifying hallucinations on his victims, and overcome the demons that have tormented him his whole life...

Ten strangers are invited to take a holiday at a small island mansion. Over dinner, their unseen host accuses each guest of hiding a guilty secret - and by the end of the evening, one of them is dead. As the hours pass, the survivors realize that the murderer is among them, preparing to kill again... and again... until there are none !

He is Gotham City's protector, its avenging spirits, its Dark Knight. For years he has waged a one-man war to keep its streets safe. But tonight that war has claimed its last and greatest casualty... Batman himself. The Masked Manhunter lies in a coffin in Crime Alley, the place where he was born. His closest friends and deadliest enemies gather to pay their final respects. Each of them tells a very different story of the Batman they knew : How he lived... and how he died. Like a shadow in the night, a dark figure watches over this macabre memorial. He knows that the contradictory tales these heroes and villains are telling cannot possibly all be true. Before the night is over, before the lid is closed on Batman forever, he must answer the question : Whatever happened to the caped crusader ?

As if from nowhere, she appears one day on a seaside promenade, with a black flower and a horrifying story about where she's been. But telling that story will start a chain reaction of dangerous lies and deadly illusions that will claim many more victims in the years to come. Neil Dawson has grown up wanting to be like his father—a writer. When his father commits suicide, he is devastated. But through his grief, Neil knows something isn't right. Looking through his father's papers, he finds a copy of an old novel, The Black Flower. Opening it will take Neil into an investigation full of danger, pain and subterfuge. Hannah Price is also mourning her father. She followed his footsteps into the police force, and knows she has a big reputation to live up to. When she gets assigned to Neil's father's case, it will lead her on a journey into her own past and to the heart of a shattering secret.

Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War Two. Though skilled at bookkeeping, Eilis cannot find a proper job in the miserable Irish economy. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn visits the household and offers to sponsor Eilis in Americaùto live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood "just like Ireland"ùshe realizes she must go, leaving her fragile mother and sister behind. Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and studies accounting at Brooklyn College, and, when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, a blond Italian, slowly wins her over with persistent charm. He takes Eilis to Coney Island and Ebbets Field, and home to dinner in the two-room apartment he shares with his brothers and parents. Eilis is in love. But just as she begins to consider what this means, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her new life.

Una mattina, in una città mai nominata ma perfettamente riconoscibile, Rosario, un bambino di undici anni, si alza, prepara la colazione alla nonna, si affaccia alla finestra e guarda vivere i suoi vicini. Poi prende la borsa degli allenamenti, si veste da calciatore ed esce di casa per compiere il suo primo omicidio. Pedinando Rosario, spiandone i gesti e i pensieri come in una semisoggettiva, De Silva è riuscito a raccontare, con una lingua ricca, affabulante, ipnotica ma priva di pathos, una storia terribile sull’inconsapevolezza delle proprie scelte, sulla casualità del bene e del male. Un romanzo intenso, tragico e bellissimo su quel mondo spaventoso che è il nostro mondo.

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is strange — not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. But she has a dark power of her own : witchcraft. When Circe's gift threatens the gods, she is banished to the island of Aiaia where she hones her occult craft, casting spells, gathering strange herbs and taming wild beasts. Yet a woman who stands alone cannot live in peace for long — and among her island's guests is an unexpected visitor: the mortal Odysseus, for whom Circe will risk everything.

Rencontres improbables sous les Tropiques : un capitaine nordique et une émigrée russe sur la piste de danse d'une taverne bavaroise, un colonel blasé face à une magicienne des mots. Destins contrariés : le mariage arrangé d'une jeune fille confortablement dotée, une maîtresse d'école à la retraite coupable de meurtre, une mère de famille à la poursuite de ses chimères, une vielle dame en odeur de sainteté... Entre rêve et réalité, illusions et confusions, des êtres se croisent et se connaissent, parfois s'aiment ou se séparent...

Daisy Cooper's life has been pretty uneventful - until the moment it suddenly ends. Unfortunately, her death is (literally) an accident: Daisy wasn't meant to die for another fifty years. One terrible, embarrassing clerical error is behind it - and Death himself is to blame. As Daisy battles against her new reality, she starts to learn that letting go isn't just a challenge faced by those left behind. And while she learns how to survive this impossible new reality, friendship, hope and even love begin to come alive in the most unexpected ways... For Daisy Cooper, death was the perfect time to start making sense of life?

Egypt. Awesome land of the Pharaohs. The perfect place for a honeymoon - unless you are being stalked by your husband's ex-girlfriend ! Hercule Poirot is determined not to let jealous young newlyweds ruin his holiday. Until the jealousies boil over into threats. And accidents. And murder !

Un homme ouvre une lettre adressée à sa femme qui vient de mourir et découvre qu'elle lui est envoyée par un ancien amant. Il décide de lui répondre en se faisant passer pour l'infidèle afin de trouver qui est "l'autre"...

An Deck eines Schiffes auf dem Weg von New York nach Europa sitzt Gustav Mahler. Er ist berühmt, der größte Musiker der Welt, doch sein Körper schmerzt, hat immer schon geschmerzt. Während ihn der Schiffsjunge sanft, aber resolut umsorgt, denkt er zurück an die letzten Jahre, die Sommer in den Bergen, den Tod seiner Tochter Maria, die er manchmal noch zu sehen meint. An Anna, die andere Tochter, die gerade unten beim Frühstück sitzt, und an Alma, die Liebe seines Lebens, die ihn verrückt macht und die er längst verloren hat. Es ist seine letzte Reise.

Granted leave from the Questura, Brunetti’s wife Paola ships him off to a villa owned by a wealthy relative on Sant’Erasmo, one of the largest islands in the laguna. There he intends to pass his days rowing, and his nights reading Pliny’s Natural History. The recuperative stay goes according to plan until David Casati, the caretaker of the house, goes missing following a sudden storm. Now, Brunetti feels compelled to investigate, to set aside his leave of absence and understand what happened to the man who had become his friend.

Un encargo editorial pone a Alejandra Varela, especialista en arte urbano, tras la pista de Sniper, un reconocido artista del grafiti, promotor de acciones callejeras al límite de la legalidad -algunas de ellas con resultados fatales- del que casi nadie ha visto jamás el rostro ni conoce el paradero. La búsqueda conducirá a la protagonista de Madrid a Lisboa, y de ahí a Verona y Nápoles en su intento por descifrar cuál es el objetivo al que apunta la mira mortal del cazador solitario.

Mario lo tiene todo para ser feliz. Sus compañeros se quedan a tomar cervezas después del trabajo y miran a las mujeres que pasan por la calle como si fueran lobos, pero él no. Porque, en palabras del autor, “él tenía el privilegio de desear por encima de todas las mujeres a aquella con la que se habría casado”. Blanca es el polo opuesto de Mario. Todo lo que él tiene de conformista lo tiene ella de inquieta. Tras uno de sus viajes, Mario nota que Blanca ha cambiado. Pero ¿realmente ha cambiado tanto “su” Blanca o es que se trata de otra persona? ¿Qué hacer, acostumbrarse a vivir en ausencia de Blanca o rebelarse contra la situación?

Maddy is allergic to the world. She hasn't left her house in seventeen years. Olly is the boy next door. He's determined to find a way to reach her.

It was the dawn of science and technology. Anything seemed possible - even the creation of life itself. Victor Frankenstein becomes obsessed with this idea and works relentlessly to prove his theories; but the glory he imagined becomes a living nightmare - not only for him, but for his friends and family too.

„Jedes Kind weiß, was der Frühling spricht: Lebe, wachse, blühe, hoffe, liebe, Freue dich und treibe neue Triebe, Gib dich hin und fürcht‘ das Leben nicht!“ Hermann Hesse Gedichte und Betrachtungen über den Zauber und die geheimnisvolle Aura des Frühlings.

A cup of tea ? A drop of milk ? A spoonful of poison ? At first sight, nothing would make the very select club called Green Manor stand out from any other English club. Yet behind its thick walls, sunk into its deep chairs, hides the biggest bunch of con artists, bandits and murderers that Queen Victoria's England has ever seen.