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One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed. Harrowing yet hopeful, Loung's powerful story is an unforgettable account of a family shaken and shattered, yet miraculously sustained by courage and love in the face of unspeakable brutality.

Bundeling van twee romans waarin de communicatie tussen mensen en paarden en wolven een grote rol speelt.

MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife. Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue...

A recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of "Naked", presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn French. A number one national bestseller now in paperback.

Psychotherapist Frieda Klein thought she was done with the police. But once more DCI Karlsson is knocking at her door. A man's decomposed body has been found in the flat of Michelle Doyce, a woman trapped in a world of strange mental disorder. The police don't know who it is, how he got there or what happened - and Michelle can't tell them. But Karlsson hopes Frieda can get access to the truths buried beneath her confusion. Painstakingly, Frieda uncovers a possible identity for the corpse: Robert Poole, a jack of all trades and master conman. But the deeper Frieda and Karlsson dig into Poole's past, the more of his victims they encounter - and the more motives they find for murder. Meanwhile, violent ghosts from Frieda's own past are returning to threaten her. Unable to discover quite who is telling the truth and who is lying, they know they are getting closer to a killer. But whoever murdered Poole is determined to stay free - and anyone that gets too close will meet the same fate.

It is 1945. As the German Army retreats and the tide of war sweeps back over Eastern Europe, the lives of the inhabitants are changed forever.

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview—a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics, to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course!) with a quadriplegic companion; a family gathers for a wedding in the face of imminent death. Through it all is Sedaris's unmistakable voice, without doubt one of the freshest in American writing.

They call him the Wolfman - because he takes a bite out of his victims and because they found the first victim in the East End's lonely Wolf Street. Scotland Yard are anxious to find the killer and Inspector Rebus is drafted in to help, thanks to his supposed expertise in the modus operandi of serial killers. But his Scotland Yard opposite number, George Flight, isn't happy at yet more interference - it's bad enough having several Chief Inspectors on your back - and Rebus finds himself dealing with racial prejudice as well as the predations of a violent maniac. When Rebus is offered a serial killer profile of the Wolfman by an attractive female psychologist, it's too good an opportunity to miss. But in finding an ally, he may have given his enemies an easy means of attack.

Edinburgh is a city steeped in history and tradition, a seat of learning, of elegant living, known as the 'Athens of the North'. But that isn't all. The city's flip-side is a city of grudges, blackmail, violence, greed and fear - where past and present clash and old wounds fester. In any year Detective Inspector John Rebus can expect gang warfare, murder, assault and battery at the very least. In this collection he investigates the hanging of a student actor during the Festival, an arson attack on a bird watcher and the witnessing of an apparent miracle...

The Sunday Times bestseller - an intensely moving and beautifully written new novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders and Waterland

Vita da poliziotto, quella del sergente John Rebus. Una vita in cui il crimine è un appuntamento quotidiano, il senso d’impotenza è una costante inalterabile, le sigarette e l’alcol sono gli unici alleati per non soccombere di fronte all’angoscia delle miserie umane… Eppure nulla, nella tormentata vita di Rebus, è paragonabile alla disperazione che si è abbattuta su di lui e sulla sua città da quando è entrato in azione lo «Strangolatore di Edimburgo», che ha già ucciso due ragazzine e minaccia di colpire ancora. C’è infatti qualcosa, in quell’assassino, che perseguita John Rebus come uno spettro, che lo spinge a indagare fin nei recessi più oscuri della città, nonostante la diffidenza dei superiori, cercando anche il più piccolo indizio che serva a spiegare l’inspiegabile. Ma lui non può sapere che sta cercando nel posto e nel tempo sbagliati. Perché ciò che lo collega all’assassino non appartiene né a Edimburgo né al presente: è qualcosa che si trova nella mente stessa di Rebus, in attesa dietro la porta sprangata del suo passato. Gli ci vorranno l’affetto di una collega, la comprensiva ispettrice Gill Templer, la testardaggine del giornalista Jack Morton e l’inatteso, sofferto intervento del fratello Michael, per trovare il coraggio di capire, per individuare la strada giusta. Una strada segnata da una serie di cerchi e croci…

Thursday's Children by Nicci French is the fourth novel in the bestselling Frieda Klein series, following Blue Monday, Tuesday's Gone and Waiting for Wednesday. Expect the same satisfyingly rich combination of brilliant, three-dimensional characters, psychological suspense, police procedural and ever-present menace. It's sure to add to Nicci French and Frieda Klein's growing number of fans. Praise for the Frieda Klein series: 'Brilliantly crafted . . . masterly control of suspense' Daily Mirror 'Tense, frightening, gripping' Easy Living 'Nerve-tingling and addictive' Daily Express Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. The couple are married and live in Suffolk. There are fourteen other bestselling novels by Nicci French, all published by Penguin. Blue Monday was the first thrilling instalment in the Frieda Klein series, followed by Tuesday's Gone and Waiting for Wednesday.

A forty-ton truck careens out of control on a snowy road, threatening a teenage girl on horseback. In moments, a family's life is shattered, and a mother embarks on a desperate quest to save her injured daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. This journey leads her to a legendary figure known for calming wild horses and healing broken spirits. Tom Booker, the inheritor of an ancient gift, faces his greatest challenge yet. Annie Graves travels across the continent with her daughter, Grace, and their wounded horse, Pilgrim, to seek help at the Booker ranch in Montana. Annie risks everything—her career, marriage, and comfortable life—believing the Whisperer can save them. The accident has left Pilgrim savage and deemed dangerous, with many insisting he should be put down. Yet, Annie refuses to give up, sensing that the horse's fate is tied to Grace's, who has withdrawn into a painful silence. If Pilgrim dies, Annie fears something in Grace will die too. Over the coming weeks, under the vast Rocky Mountain sky, their lives—and Tom Booker's—will be transformed in unforeseen ways. This epic tale of healing and redemption explores our deep connections with nature and the journey of self-discovery, celebrating the power of belief and the possibility of hope.

It is the time of the Great Terror. Inspector Pekkala - known as the Emerald Eye - was the most famous detective in all Russia. He was the favourite of the Tsar. Now he is the prisoner of the men he once hunted.

1965. Leo Demidov, ex agente della polizia segreta, è costretto dal granitico apparato sovietico a restare a Mosca mentre la moglie e le figlie partono per New York in missione diplomatica. Il viaggio finisce in tragedia e Leo chiede di indagare sul terrorista che ha attaccato la sua famiglia. La risposta è di nuovo e sempre una: NIET. Assetato di giustizia e di verità, Leo inizia allora la sua personale ricerca, da Mosca all’America degli anni Sessanta fino all'Afghanistan tormentato dall'invasione russa degli anni Ottanta, in un’odissea che svela i lati nascosti della storia, della politica e, in ultima istanza, della natura umana.

A junkie lies dead in an Edinburgh squat, spreadeagled, cross-like on the floor, between two burned-down candles, a five-pointed star daubed on the wall above. Just another dead addict - until John Rebus begins to chip away at the indifference, treachery, deceit and sleaze that lurks behind the facade of the Edinburgh familiar to tourists. Only Rebus seems to care about a death which looks more like a murder every day, about a seductive danger he can almost taste, appealing to the darkest corners of his mind . . .

1956. La mort du « petit père des peuples » a plongé le pays dans le chaos. Tandis que Khrouchtchev entreprend sa politique de déstalinisation, les langues se délient : le temps est venu de régler les comptes. Ex-agent zélé du MGB, Leo Demidov, aujourd'hui repenti, est à la tête d'un département de criminologie. Avec sa femme, Raïssa, il a adopté deux fillettes. Mais l'aînée, Zoya, hait ce père de substitution. Et elle n'est pas la seule... Dans l'ombre, quelqu'un attend son heure, une femme que la colère et le sentiment d'injustice ont rendue ivre de vengeance. Pour sauver les siens, Leo n'aura bientôt plus d'autre choix que de se jeter dans la gueule du loup : le terrifiant goulag de la Kolyma...

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 national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, psychotherapist Frieda Klein is left troubled: one of her patients has been relating dreams in which he has a hunger for a child. A child he can describe in perfect detail, a child the spitting image of Matthew. Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson doesn't take Frieda's concerns seriously until a link emerges with an unsolved abduction twenty years ago and he summons Frieda to interview the victim's sister, hoping she can stir hidden memories. Before long, Frieda is at the centre of the race to track the kidnapper. But her race isn't physical. She must chase down the darkest paths of a psychopath's mind to find the answers to Matthew Farraday's whereabouts. And sometimes the mind is the deadliest place to lose yourself.

Une enseigne au néon, flamand rose éblouissant, surplombe la route côtière à la sortie de Jacksonville (Floride), indiquant le Flamingo, le plus grand cinéma en plein air du monde. Le nuit, l'immense écran s'éclaire et la magie des images venues d'Hollywood éclate en plein ciel. C'est dans ce décor incarnant les rêves un peu mégalomanes d'Hubert Lee, son propriétaire - et peut-être le rêve américain des années 60 - que le narrateur, Abe Lee, a grandi. Aujourd'hui, il repasse le film de sa vie : les rivalités entre son père et Turner West, l'entrepreneur de pompes funèbres voisin ; son coup de foudre contrarié pour Grace, la fille de Turner ; la sérénité de sa mère qui dissimulait si bien les secrets de son cœur ; l'étonnante séduction du " juge " habile à piloter, mais si maladroit à terre... Retraçant le face-à-face de deux familles par la voix de son témoin le plus sensible, Flamingo a l'exubérance et le pouvoir envoûtant des grandes sagas du Sud, où les destins se nouent et se dénouent au rythme des passions et des discordes. C'est le roman d'une Amérique mythique qui symbolisait encore la réussite, la grandeur et la liberté. Un choc de lecture intense. Une formidable réussite romanesque, comparée aux Etats-Unis à celle du Monde selon Garp de John Irving ou du Prince des marées de Pat Conroy.

In this extraordinary memoir, readers are immersed in a whirlwind of emotions, experiencing laughter and tears simultaneously. The narrative begins with Bill, who, after the loss of their parents, seeks to avoid further conflict among the siblings. At twenty-four, he is weary, while Beth and the narrator, both angry and combative, lash out at the world around them. They arrive in California with a fierce determination to reclaim their lives, feeling a sense of responsibility to reinvent themselves and their surroundings. The siblings, especially the narrator and young Toph, embrace a reckless exhilaration, fueled by the belief that after losing their parents, anything is possible. This fatalistic attitude leads them to confront life with a mix of arrogance and urgency, as they navigate their grief and the vibrant chaos of San Francisco. The city, filled with eccentric ideas and people, becomes a backdrop for their rebellious spirit, marked by public nudity and wild aspirations. Amidst this, the narrator grapples with the energy of youth, torn between a desire to celebrate life and an impulse toward destruction. The memoir captures the essence of a moment in time when everything feels possible, yet precarious.

Het seizoen van de kersenbloesem schetst een fascinerend en intiem beeld van een land waarvan wij zo weinig weten. Het tekent een eerlijk en gevoelig portret van een onvergetelijke familie en een bijzondere vrouw. Het seizoen van de kersenbloesem begint in de jaren zeventig van de negentiende eeuw. De zoon van grootgrondbezitter Miwa is de meest begeerde vrijgezel uit de omgeving. Tot ieders verbazing kiest de familie echter de dochter van de eenvoudige dokter Shirai tot zijn bruid: Ayako, die zo mooi is dat mannen die haar tegenkomen pardoes in het water vallen. Ayako krijgt vier kinderen, waaronder Haruko. Haruko´s leven speelt zich aanvankelijk af op het platteland, binnen de muren van de hofstee waar ze woont met haar familie en bedienden. Hun huis fungeert als middelpunt van de gemeenschap, waar de dagen en seizoenen volgens vastgestelde patronen verlopen. Maar de tijden veranderen, en de traditionele maatschappij komt steeds meer onder druk van buitenaf te staan. Het seizoen van de kersenbloesem is de liefdevolle, geromantiseerde biografie over de moeder van de auteur, op wie Haruko werd gebaseerd. Ruriko Pilgrim schreef een buitengewoon aangrijpend portret van eenJapanse familie in een tjidperk waarin Japan veranderde van een introverte, traditionele maatschappij naar een moderne, op het Westen gerichte economische wereldmacht.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2017 Universal and essential, the heart-breaking story of an ordinary American family shaped by tragedy Michael is a precocious kid, smart and funny, obsessed with books and music. His sister Celia is the sensible one in the family: tougher than the boys, unshakeably certain about how the world works. And then there's Alec, the most ambitious and also the most sensitive, growing up in the shadow of his older siblings. While all three are still young, the course of their lives is changed forever. In a family marked by tragedy, Michael, Celia and Alec struggle for years to save one another from the destructive legacy of guilt. Weaving together the voices of five family members, Adam Haslett imagines how a single event can define many lives, unfolding a rich and painful novel that has all the makings of an American classic.

A shattering new novel by Edgar Award-winner Minette Walters, The Echo unveils the secrets and betrayals, past and present, that always come home to haunt the ones who try to bury them. A destitute man has been found dead on the property of a wealthy socialite. Who is he? Why did he go there to die? A reporter investigates the man's identity--and is swiftly ensnared in a web of deception as tangled and complex as the hearts and minds that spun it...--back cover

An eccentric Count who runs a famous Paris horror theatre, cursed with unexpected death . . . A beautiful young heiress and aspiring leading lady who just might be involved in the dark arts . . . An enigmatic gentleman whose shadowed past will at last be exposed. Their fates and hidden agendas intertwine in Sarah Smith’s compelling novel of an ancient house, dark arts, and love gone wrong–a murderous tale unfolding in the shadow of the guillotine. . . .

Astrid Bell scheint anderen Menschen nur Unglück und Tod zu bringen. Erst wird ihre Nachbarin ermordet, dann stirbt auch noch eine ihrer Kundinnen eines gewaltsamen Todes. Die Polizei glaubt nicht an einen Zufall. Psychothriller.

Twelve hours after a women's broken body is washed up on shore, her traumatised 3-year old daughter is discovered 20 miles away, alone & abandoned. Police suspicion falls on an actor whose boat is moored yards from the toddler & the victim's husband.

A haunting psychological suspense novel, now re-released to tie in to the major new film starring George Clooney

Nina Landry is supposed to be taking her two children away for Christmas. However, her 15-year-old daughter, Charlie, has gone missing. Has Charlie run away? Or has something more sinister happened to her? And why will nobody take her disappearance seriously?

Nicci French, bestselling author of thriller Blue Monday, tells the dark story of a woman trying to discover what happened to her husband in What To Do When Someone Dies. Ellie Faulkner's world has been destroyed. Her husband Greg died in a car crash - and he wasn't alone. In the passenger seat was the body of Milena Livingstone - a woman Ellie's never heard of. But Ellie refuses to leap to the obvious conclusion, despite all the whispers and suspicions. Maybe it's the grief, but Ellie has to find out who this woman was - and prove Greg wasn't having an affair. Soon she is certain their deaths were no accident. Are Ellie's accusations of murder her way of avoiding the truth about her marriage? Or does an even more sinister discovery await her? 'You'll be hooked from the first page. A compulsive page-turner' Daily Express Nicci French is the pseudonym for the writing partnership of journalists Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Together they have written 13 books, including Losing You, The Safe House and Until It's Over.

Nel 1963 l'autore e illustratore americano Maurice Sendak pubblicò Nel paese dei mostri selvaggi : il libro narrava la storia di Max, che una sera mentre gioca in casa combina un guaio. Per punirlo, la mamma lo manda a letto senza cena. Nella cameretta, con l'aiuto della sua immaginazione, il bambino fa sorgere una specie di giungla e intraprende un viaggio alla volta del Paese delle creature selvagge. Sebbene si tratti di mostri terribili e davvero spaventosi, Max è in grado di soggiogarli fino addirittura a diventarne il Re. In breve tempo il libro divenne un classico per l'infanzia di tutto il mondo. Qualche anno fa, il regista di culto Spike Jonze ha deciso di trasformare quella storia in un film e ha chiesto a Dave Eggers di lavorare alla sceneggiatura. L'incredibile sensibilità per il mondo infantile e il suo immaginario e le sue straordinarie capacità di narratore fanno di Eggers il perfetto erede e continuatore di una figura leggendaria come Sendak. Dal suo lavoro con Jonze è nato un romanzo, questo romanzo. Le creature selvagge è una favola per lettori di tutte le età piena di magia e di avventura, che ci porterà in compagnia di Max in un viaggio attraverso una terra meravigliosa e bizzarra. Un viaggio mozzafiato e affascinante nel corso del quale tutte le paure e le angosce dell'infanzia diventano le creature selvagge con le quali deve misurarsi Max. E con le quali si misura ognuno di noi. Ogni giorno.

A chilling novella of prejudice, ambition and cunning as villagers react to a brutal double murder.

Bonnie finds her summer fling boyfriend and fellow band member, Hayden, dead on the floor of a friend's London apartment. She proceeds to hide the corpse and obliterate every sign of her presence at the crime scene. Hayden's well-known involvement with other women could have provided Bonnie a motive for murder. To complicate matters, at least one more person appears to have altered the crime scene.

From an award-acceptance speech at a New England liberal arts college to a lecture on evil in Amsterdam, Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through a series of eight formal addresses

Keuze uit de verhalen van de Amerikaanse schrijver (1962- ).

Een Amerikaans meisje verliest op zesjarige leeftijd haar ouders en groeit op in een allesbehalve conventioneel, maar liefdevol gezin.

Nina Landry woont met haar twee kinderen op Sandling Island, in een kleine gemeenschap die wordt omringd door troosteloze vlakten en de Noordzee. Ze viert haar veertigste verjaardag, waarvoor haar tienerdochter Charlie een surpriseparty heeft georganiseerd. Iedereen is aanwezig, behalve Charlie zelf. Is ze weggelopen? Of is er iets rampzaligs gebeurd?

Een klein meisje vindt het lichaam van haar moeder, die met bruut geweld om het leven is gebracht. Een gepensioneerde journalist reist door Engeland om ouders van vermiste meisjes te interviewen. En Frieda Klein raakt met tegenzin bij deze zaken betrokken.

Deze kennismakingsbundel biedt een selectie van zijn beste verhalen uit de bundels Adventures in Capitalism en Exhibitionisme, alsmede een niet eerder gepubliceerd verhaal en een fragment uit Geesteskind.In al Litts verhalen is sprake van een schijnbaar normale situatie die langzamerhand transformeert tot een bizarre gebeurtenis, zodat ze de lezer verbijsterd achterlaten.

Kritische beschouwing van de traditionele economische wetenschap.

Een vrouw krijgt tegelijk de zorg voor haar pasgeboren kind en haar ongeneeslijk zieke moeder.

Een misdaadverslaggeefster raakt er steeds meer van overtuigd dat een seriemoordenaar de moord waarvoor hij ter dood is veroordeeld, niet heeft gepleegd.

Bundel met acht heel uiteenlopende detectiveverhalen.