While on a school skiing trip, guardian-in-training Rose faces everything from misunderstandings between friends to fights among factions of Moroi as reports of horrific Strigoi attacks raise tensions, ultimately leading Rose and some of those closest to her into a battle that teaches her much about life, death, and love.
Welcome to St. Vladimir, Vampire Academy. This book introduces the friendship between Rosa - half-human, half-vampire, and Lissa, a mortal vampire princess. This is book 1 of a series of 6 books (thus far!). Vietnamese translation by Vu Gia An. In Vietnamese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
The Lost Family is a charming, funny, and elegantly bittersweet study of the repercussions of loss and love that spans a generation, from the 1960s to the 1980s. It is a vivid portrait of marriage, family, and the haunting grief of World War II.
A chi la visitasse per la prima volta, Pagford apparirebbe come un'idilliaca cittadina inglese. Un gioiello incastonato tra verdi colline, con un'antica abbazia, una piazza lastricata di ciottoli, case eleganti e prati ordinatamente falciati. Ma sotto lo smalto perfetto di questo villaggio di provincia si nascondono ipocrisia, rancori e tradimenti. Tutti a Pagford, dietro le tende ben tirate delle loro case, sembrano aver intrapreso una guerra personale e universale: figli contro genitori, mogli contro mariti, benestanti contro emarginati. La morte di Barry Fairbrother, il consigliere più amato e odiato della città, porta alla luce il vero cuore di Pagford e dei suoi abitanti: la lotta per il suo posto all'interno dell'amministrazione locale è un terremoto che sbriciola le fondamenta, che rimescola divisioni e alleanze. Eppure, dalla crisi totale, dalla distruzione di certezze e valori, ecco emergere una verità spiazzante, ironica, purificatrice: che la vita è imprevedibile e spietata, e affrontarla con coraggio è l'unico modo per non farsi travolgere, oltre che dalle sue tragedie, anche dal ridicolo.
A BIG NOVEL ABOUT A SMALL TOWN ... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils ... Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?
Rose staat na de slachting op Academicus Vampyrus voor de grootste uitdaging in haar leven. Nu Mason naar de andere wereld is vertrokken, moet ze Dimitri Belikov, de liefde van haar leven, opsporen en... vermoorden. Zal hij hiertoe in staat zijn nadat ze de hele wereld heeft afgereisd om hem te vinden? Of is het nu eindelijk tijd om zich bij hem te voegen?
Rose weet dat een relatie met een andere hoeder onmogelijk is, want Lissa komt altijd op de eerste plaats. Maar haar liefde voor de aantrekkelijke Dimitri Belikov, die tevens haar leraar is, is steeds moeilijker te onderdrukken... Rose wordt bekropen door vreemde, grimmige stemmingen en spookachtige figuren wijzen op onheil dicht bij de ijzeren hekken van de academie. De onsterfelijke Strigoi willen wraak op Rose voor de doden die zij op haar geweten heeft. In een bloedstollende strijd moet Rose kiezen tussen leven, liefde en de twee personen die voor haar het belangrijkst zijn. Maar betekent haar keuze dat slechts een van hen zal overleven?
