![]() He’s finding it hard to believe that Luke Hadler, his best mate from his teenage years, has actually murdered his wife, Karen, and their young son, Billy, before taking the gun to himself. ![]() In the late afternoon heat, where shade has become a fleeting commodity, Kiewarra has seen its paltry population dwindle even further after years of drought, hardship, and the debris of too many farmers struggling to make ends meet.Īaron arrives in a town that shimmers under days of burning blue sky. ![]() Set in the declining Northern Victorian town of Kiewarra, the plot takes off from the first page when close-cropped blond-hairedįederal agent Aaron Falk “drags his heels” up from Melbourne, trailing a cloud of dust and cracked leaves behind him. Writing with the seasoned authority of a longtime author, Harper delivers a slow-burn tale of small-town secrets and age-old animosities. ![]() Hard to believe that The Dry is Harper’s first novel. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, despite having been kept under constant surveillance in a locked, guarded cell. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate an unexplained disappearance. From the Back Cover In the year 1954, U.S. A masterwork of suspense and surprise from the author of Mystic River and Gone, Baby, Gone, Shutter Island carries the reader into a nightmare world of madness, mind control, and CIA Cold War paranoia and is unlike anything youve ever read before. The Washington Post raves, Brilliantly conceived and executed. The New York Times calls Shutter Island, Startlingly original. Book Synopsis The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. ![]() About the Book In a masterful departure from the Boston-based hard-boiled mysteries hes known for, the New York Times-bestselling author of Mystic River offers an atmospheric psychological thriller set in a 1950s asylum for the criminally insane. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the same gods forbade him all he ever wanted in life, the only love of his life, Lady Lostris. The gods told the handsome young warrior Tanus that he would change Egypt’s future. We are listening to Taita, an adorable and talented slave in many ways. If you enjoy Ancient Egypt and adventure, you will have no reason not to like this book. ![]() But among the sea, sand, sun and all the games played on the vacation, and the River God was a very gripping novel that I read in no time. I am not exaggerating if I say I love reading his life story more than his books. ![]() British novelist Wilbur Smith is one of the most exciting authors I have ever read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inheriting the dusty apartment, the Wells family are left with only one warning: Never go down into the cellar. Jonathan Wells and his young family have come to the Paris flat at 3, rue des Sybarites through the bequest of his eccentric late uncle Edmond. ![]() Unique, daring, and unforgettable, it tells the story of an ordinary family who accidentally threaten the security of a hidden civilization as intelligent as our own-a colony of ants determined to survive at any cost. Klappentext Here is the stunning international bestseller in the tradition of Watership Down but with a dark, original twist. ![]() Zusatztext "This book! to put the matter quite simply! is a masterpiece.Exhilaratingly thought-provoking." -The Sunday Times (London) "A marvel of warped imagination and offbeat suspense." -British Esquire "Like Watership Down! to which it will inevitably be compared! Werber's astonishing first novel invites readers into a highly imagined animal world." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) Informationen zum Autor Bernard Werber is a scientific journalist who has studied ants for fifteen years as an avocation. ![]() ![]() In 1999, The Hours won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. ![]() As the historical Woolf did, Cunningham explores themes of marginalized sexual orientations, mental illness, suicide, and existential crisis. Dalloway and Clarissa Vaughan, a 52-year-old publisher in 1990s New York City who yearns for a relationship like Woolf and her husband had. Dalloway over the course of one June day in each of their lives: a fictional Virginia Woolf in the suburbs of London as she starts her novel in 1923 a housewife Laura Brown in 1949 Los Angeles who escapes her unhappy life by reading Mrs. ![]() The story follows three different women, in three different decades, affected by Mrs. Mimicking Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness narrative style, Cunningham re-situates her characters and themes within a modern context, making them his own. Dalloway (of which the working title was “The Hours”). ![]() It is an homage to Virginia Woolf’s 1923 novel Mrs. The Hours is a 1998 novel by the American author Michael Cunningham. ![]() |