Das Buch von Eden

Author	Nicci French
ISBN	0718154959

Monday, the lowest point of the week. A day of dark impulses. A day to snatch a child from the streets ...

The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes a national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when a picture of his face is splashed over the newspapers, psychotherapist Frieda...

Author	Peter Straub
ISBN	0671685635

I don't think one can truly rate Ghost Story as a novel without acknowledging the fact that it's a literary homage to the classics of the genre. Indeed, two characters bear the surnames of Hawthorne and James.

This is my introduction to the work of Peter Straub. Having read The Talisman and Black...

Author	Guillermo del Toro
ISBN	0061558230

A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Ephraim "Eph" Goodweather, head of...

Author	Chevy Stevens
ISBN	0312595670

On the day she was abducted, Annie O’Sullivan, a 32-year-old realtor, had three goals—sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she's about to leave,...

Author	Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
ISBN	0679731210

The Leopard is a story of a decadent and dying aristocracy threatened by the forces of revolution and democracy. Set against the political upheavals of Italy in the 1860s, it focuses on Don Fabrizio, a Sicilian prince of immense sensual appetites, wealth, and great personal magnetism. Around this...

Author	Italo Svevo
ISBN	0375727760

Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo’s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding mind. The mind in...

Author	Natsuo Kirino
ISBN	1400078377

Natsuo Kirino's novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works a night shift making boxed lunches brutally strangles her deadbeat husband and then seeks the help of her co-workers to dispose of the body and cover up her crime.

The ringleader of this...

Author

John le Carré

Now a major motion picture from Fernando Meirelles, the Academy Award-nominated director of City of God

The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome...

Author

Vivian Shaw

Greta Helsing inherited the family's highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. In her consulting rooms, Dr. Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills - vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. Although barely making ends meet, this is just...

Author	Jean-Jacques Rousseau
ISBN	0143037498

"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains."

These are the famous opening words of a treatise that has not ceased to stir vigorous debate since its first publication in 1762. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, Rousseau argues instead for...

Author

D.H. Lawrence

WARNING: This review contains a discussion of the c-word, and I plan to use it. Please don't read this if you do not want to see the word spelled out. Thanks.

This is less a review than an homage to my crazy mother (now I have you really intrigued, don't I?)

It was 1983, and I was in my first...

Author

Paul McEuen

In this riveting debut thriller— the winner of Best First Novel at the 2012 Thriller Awards and a nominee for a Nero Award—the race is on to stop the devastating proliferation of the ultimate bioweapon. Spiral is perfect for fans of Michael Crichton, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, and Richard...

Author	Tom Robbins
ISBN	1842430246

Starring Sissy Hankshaw--flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match--hitchhiking her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bags...Featuring Bonanza Jellybean and the smooth-riding cowgirls of Rubber Rose Ranch. Chink, lascivious...

Author	Gaelen Foley
ISBN	0345480090

Renowned storyteller Gaelen Foley unfurls the seductive tale of the rakish Lord Alec Knight, who never looked for love-until it was right in front of him. . . .

Lord Alec Knight, the most daring and handsome rogue in all of London, is a smooth-talking aristocrat with an abundance of high-society...

Author

Neil Gaiman

The Monarch of the Glen, an American Gods novella.

He was not sure what he had been looking for. He only knew that he had not found it.

Shadow Moon has been away from America for nearly two years. His nights are broken with dangerous dreams. Sometimes he almost believes he doesn't care...

Author

Nicci French

A London social worker makes a routine home visit only to discover her client serving afternoon tea to a naked, decomposing corpse. With no clues as to the dead man’s identity, Chief Inspector Karlsson again calls upon Frieda for help. She discovers that the body belongs to Robert Poole, con man extraordinaire....

Author	Arnon Grunberg
ISBN	9038827261

De vrijheid mag lonken, maar liefst niet de hele dag; wanneer de vrijheid uitsluitend tijdens de zomervakantie lonkt, is het leven al zwaar genoeg. Jörgen Hofmeester is vader van twee dochters en werkzaam voor een gerenommeerd bedrijf. Dankzij een uitgekiend financieel beleid woont hij op stand:...

Author	Arthur Schnitzler
ISBN	1901285162

In naufragio verso la vecchiaia

A 53 anni (esattamente l'età di Schnitzler quqndo scrisse il testo), Casanova è attanagliato "dall'inqietudine dell'avanzante vecchiaia" e colto dalla nostalgia per la natìa Venezia.
Attende a Mantova un segno di riappacificazione da parte dei...

Author

Σίσσυ Θεοφανοπούλου

Ένας παλιός θρύλος θέλει τις γυναίκες να είναι θάλασσες...

Χίος, 1979. Η Θάλεια Μελισσινού, ένα φτωχό κορίτσι, θα φέρει σε λίγους μήνες στον κόσμο τον νόθο...

Author	Paul Grote
ISBN	3423209305

Mitten in die Auseinandersetzungen einer spanischen Großkellerei und einer jungen Kooperative (ihre ehemaligen Traubenlieferanten) platzt der deutsche Reporter Henry Meyenbeeker. Als sein Informant, der Önologe der Kooperative, mit seinem Wagen abstürzt, ist er alarmiert, doch ein Motiv...

Author	Douglas Carlton Abrams
ISBN	1416532544

National bestseller Doug Abrams delivers a captivating ecological thriller about a marine biologist whose fate is altered after the unexpected appearance of a humpback whale sends her on a race to discover the meaning of its mysterious song.

Elizabeth McKay is a dedicated scientist who...

Author	Taylor Smith
ISBN	1551665379

This novel was one of the 100 novels that I received on an eBay clearance. It is a CIA political thriller involving Mariah Bolt who is a continuing character in Smith’s: The Innocents Club. I would ordinarily not have picked it up if I saw it on a library shelf because it’s not one of my go-to genres; however,...

Author	C.W. Gortner
ISBN	0312658508

The era of the Tudors was one of danger, intrigue, conspiracy, and, above all, spies. Summer 1553: A time of danger and deceit. Brendan Prescott, an orphan, is reared in the household of the powerful Dudley family. Brought to court, Prescott finds himself sent on an illicit mission to the king’s...

Author

Massimiliano Colombo

Un episodio crucial en la historia del imperio romano: La rebelión de la Reina Boudica.

Britania, 60 d.C. Desde hace unos años la isla se halla bajo el yugo romano. Aunque las poblaciones locales están lejos de ser dominadas, es mayor el odio entre las tribus que aquel que sienten hacia Roma.

Pero...

Author	Massimiliano Colombo
ISBN	8856627671

355 d.C. Sono trascorsi quasi vent’anni dalla morte di Costantino il Grande, e la stabilità dell’Impero romano è sottoposta a una duplice minaccia: i barbari che premono ai confini, e le lotte intestine rese più aspre dai tentativi di molti generali di autoproclamarsi imperatori. Costanzo...

Author	Nicholas Evans
ISBN	0552144959

This has been recommended to me by several friends here on GR, and while I trust their judgment...I still didn't expect to fall in love with this story as quickly as I did. Before the plot gets going, Evans introduces you to a cast of rich and varied characters that are alone worth reading the book for. I was...

Author

Massimiliano Colombo

Año 55 a. C. Una flota de guerra avista una tierra desconocida que resulta estar poblada por feroces guerreros capaces de infundir temor incluso a los soldados de Julio César. Ante el pánico que se apodera de las tropas, un hombre se arroja a las gélidas aguas. Es Lucio Petrosidio, aquilífero de...

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J.M. Madden

BB Jones has a very nice life, if it’s a little lonely. When her sister calls her to take a job in a pinch, she’s not enthused. She doesn’t need the money and the job itself seems a little dirty- greet a Navy SEAL home, pamper him for three days, then leave. The fact that the man has no one else to welcome...

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Lars Amend

Das Leben, von dem wir alle träumen, ist gar nicht so weit weg. Es liegt direkt vor unseren Füßen. Wir müssen seine Schönheit nur wieder in all ihren Facetten erkennen. Bestseller-Autor und Life-Coach Lars Amend möchte zu diesem Perspektivwechsel aufrufen. It’s All Good ist eine Liebeserklärung...

Author

Henrietta Harding

William Marlow, the first and only son of the Duke of Wellington loves to set the ton ablaze. Known for changing women faster than bed sheets and adept in the swordplay, William thinks it is business as usual when the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos challenges him to a duel. To William's surprise and that...