Mazan Maciejka Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Greg è un uomo in fuga. Dopo la separazione dalla moglie e l'allontanamento dalla sua bambina, la vita si è trasformata per lui in un abisso senza fine. Era un giovane studioso di filosofia e un brillante attivista politico all'università di Melbourne, è diventato «un rivoluzionario che ha soffocato i propri ideali nell'eroina», un «filosofo che ha smarrito l'integrità nel crimine», uno dei «most wanted men» australiani, condannato a 19 anni di carcere per una lunga serie di rapine a mano armata, catturato e scappato dal carcere di massima sicurezza di Pentridge. Eccolo ora a Bombay, nel bizzarro assortimento della sua folla, con i documenti di un certo Linsday in tasca e una strana esilarante gioia nel cuore… A Bombay, infatti, il destino ha calato per Greg la sua carta. A Bombay, diventerà uno Shantaram, un «uomo della pace di Dio», allestirà un ospedale per i mendicanti e gli indigenti, reciterà nei film di Bollywood, stringerà relazioni pericolose con la mafia indiana. Da Bombay partirà per due guerre, in Afghanistan e in Pakistan, tra le fila dei combattenti islamici…

It's 1938 and the exclusive Oriental nightclub in San Francisco's Forbidden City is holding auditions for showgirls. In the dark, scandalous glamour of the club, three girls from very different backgrounds stumble into each other lives.All the girls have secrets. Grace, an American-born Chinese girl, has fled the Midwest and an abusive father. Helen is from a Chinese family which has deep roots in San Francisco's Chinatown. And, as both her friends know, Ruby is Japanese passing as Chinese.Then, in a heartbeat, everything changes. The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and paranoia, suspicion, and a shocking act of betrayal, threaten to destroy their lives.

Jenny Shepherd is twelve years old and missing...Her teacher, Sarah Finch, knows better than most that the chances of finding her alive are diminishing with every day she is gone. As a little girl her older brother had gone out to play one day and never returned. The strain of never knowing what has happened to Charlie had ripped Sarah's family apart. Now in her early twenties, she is back living at home, trapped with a mother who drinks too much and keeps her brother's bedroom as a shrine to his memory. Then, horrifically, it is Sarah who finds Jenny's body, beaten and abandoned in the woods near her home. As she's drawn into the police investigation and the heart of a media storm, Sarah's presence arouses suspicion too. But it not just the police who are watching her...

In a house he is restoring, builder Don Lark meets a woman squatter who turns out to be a ghost. But Sylvie Delaney does not realize she is a ghost, thinking she is alive. Lark learns she was murdered and goes searching for the killer. As he sinks his teeth into his new project, Lark's new neighborhood starts to work its charms on him. He strikes up a romance with the real estate agent who sold him the house. His neighbors, two charming, chatty old ladies, ply him endlessly with delicious Southern cooking. Even Sylvie, the squatter Lark was once desperate to evict from the old house, is now growing on him. But when Lark unearths an old tunnel in the cellar, the house's enchantments start to turn ominous.