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It was just supposed to be a family vacation.A terrible accident changed everything.You don't know what you're capable of until they come for your family.After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they’re deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom.When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking a chance on an adventure far from the reach of iPhones and Instagram.But as soon as they set foot on the island, which is run by a tightly knit clan of locals, everything feels wrong. Then a shocking accident propels the Baxters from an unsettling situation into an absolute nightmare. When Heather and the kids are separated from Tom, they are forced to escape alone, seconds ahead of their pursuers.Now it’s up to Heather to save herself and the kids, even though they don’t trust her, the harsh bushland is filled with danger, and the locals want her dead.Heather has been underestimated her entire life, but she knows that only she can bring her family home again and become the mother the children desperately need, even if it means doing the unthinkable to keep them all alive.

Jaký doopravdy byl John Lennon? Zasvěcený pohled do jeho vnitřního světa a osobnostiŽivotopisů legendárního „brouka“ je celá řada, tento jediný je ale z pera člověka, který vyrostl ve stejném prostředí, jež formovalo Johna a ostatní členy Beatles: v poválečném Liverpoolu. Kennyho kniha umožňuje vidět přístavní město plné napětí a tepající životem očima mladého člověka, který v sobě všechno prožité ukládá. Traumata a úzkosti, které John v dětství prožil, utvářely jeho komplikovanou, konfliktní povahu, jež byla odvrácenou stranou jeho tvůrčí geniality a přispěla jak k fenomenálnímu úspěchu skupiny, tak i k jejímu rozpadu. Francis Kenny se Beatles a postavou Johna Lennona zabývá dlouhodobě, tato kniha je jeho již třetí v pořadí na toto téma.

Immersive, gripping, and delivering twist after twist. It's so good you'll read it twice...

The new novel from the master storyteller is his best in years and brilliantly McEwan, a moving love story and a mystery, yet, for all its gripping plotline one of the most ethically and morally layered novels written for our times. Set in 1980s London, the story revolves around Charlie: young and reckless, and in love with his upstairs neighbour, the enchanting Miranda whose hidden, murky past hangs between them. He has spent his inheritance on the acquisition of one of twenty-four highly developed robotic humans--named Adam or Eve--developed by Alan Turing after his success on the Enigma codebreaking machine, central to the Allies WWII victory. As London is consumed by the huge protests over England and Argentina's Falklands War and Margaret Thatcher's jingoistic ambitions, Charlie courts Miranda, and his Adam finds himself central to their affair. Great novelist that he is, McEwan pulls us into the question of what it means to love, what it means to be human in our fast-changing times, and how precarious a construct is the world we live in and think we know.

Colpi alla porta. Sempre più rapidi, sempre più forti. Barricato in cima alla torre abbandonata, Bram Stoker prega che i cardini tengano e si prepara. Appende crocifissi e specchi, carica il fucile e attende. Temendo di non arrivare vivo all'alba, inizia a scrivere tutto quanto accaduto. La storia inizia quando Bram ha cinque anni, un bambino cagionevole che passa tempo con la sorella Matilda. L'unica persona che riesce a farlo stare meglio è Ellen, la giovane tata, ma c'è qualcosa di strano in lei. Bram e Matilda scoprono che Ellen esce di nascosto la notte, proprio quando avvengono brutali omicidi a Dublino, con le vittime trovate senza sangue. I sospetti crescono finché Ellen scompare, portando via anche il misterioso assassino. Gli anni passano e, miracolosamente guarito, Bram studia al Trinity College, mentre Matilda parte per Parigi. Al suo ritorno, porta una notizia terrificante: ha visto Ellen, ancora giovane e bella. I due fratelli non sanno che questo incontro darà inizio a un incubo, culminando in un incontro con una creatura spaventosa e affascinante, che anni dopo ispirerà un romanzo destinato a diventare leggenda.

VICTIM. SURVIVOR. ABDUCTOR. CRIMINAL. YOU WILL BECOME EACH ONE. YOUR PHONE RINGS. A STRANGER HAS KIDNAPPED YOUR CHILD. TO FREE THEM YOU MUST ABDUCT SOMEONE ELSE'S CHILD. YOUR CHILD WILL BE RELEASED WHEN YOUR VICTIM'S PARENTS KIDNAP ANOTHER CHILD. IF ANY OF THESE THINGS DON'T HAPPEN: YOUR CHILD WILL BE KILLED. YOU ARE NOW PART OF THE CHAIN "YOU ARE NOT THE FIRST. AND YOU WILL CERTAINLY NOT BE THE LAST."

"Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain – and it is his mission to carry out the will of the people. Nothing must get in his way: not the opposition, nor the dissenters within his own party. Not even the rules of parliamentary democracy."--Publisher description.

LETHAL WHITE is both a gripping mystery and the page-turning next instalment in the highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. 'I seen a kid killed . . . He strangled it, up by the horse.' When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's story, Strike and Robin Ellacott - once his assistant, now a partner in the agency - set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside. And during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike's own life is far from straightforward: his newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. Plus, his relationship with his former assistant is more fraught than it ever has been - Robin is now invaluable to Strike in the business, but their personal relationship is much, much more tricky than that . . .

In Inghilterra, secondo Philip Larkin, "i rapporti sessuali incominciarono nel 1963", "tra la fine del bando a "Lady Chatterley" e il primo LP dei Beatles". La giovane coppia protagonista del nuovo romanzo di lan McEwan patisce invece gli ultimi fuochi di un clima diffuso di repressione sessuale. La prima notte di nozze, e prima esperienza sessuale per entrambi, scocca infatti alla vigilia di quell'"annus mirabilis". Tutto avviene in appena due ore, in un antiquato hotel vicino alla celebre spiaggia di ciottoli di Chesil Beach. I due sposi stanno cenando in camera, ma già pensano a quello che accadrà più tardi. Edward è un ragazzo di provincia laureato in storia, indeciso se continuare la carriera accademica o lavorare nell'azienda del padre della sposa. Finalmente farà l'amore con Florence: è piuttosto nervoso e sa, per sentito dire, che deve cercare di controllarsi per non concludere troppo in fretta. Florence prova una profonda repulsione per il sesso, un misto di opprimente solitudine e vergogna; ma è ben attenta a mantenere le apparenze di un matrimonio felice e perfetto, ansiosa di non deludere Edward. Ma quello che succederà di lì a poco segnerà per sempre il destino di entrambi...