NYPD detective Jack Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him - he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each restaurant through a killer's eyes. Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in [...]
Hexenjagd in Charlotte, North Carolina. Man findet in einer unterirdischen kammer den enthaupteten Torso einer jungen Frau, bedeckt von satanischen Symbolen. Die forensische Anthropologin Dr. Tempe Brennan ermittelt.
London is under attack. People are dead. Many more lives hang in the balance as a group of highly trained gunmen storm the historic Stanhope Hotel on Park Lane. The gunmen have given the government just five hours to meet their demands before they blow up the building. One [...]
Rice's lyrical, haunting new novel is a metaphysical thriller of angels and assassins that once again summons up dark and dangerous worlds set in times past.
Richard Cantrell, an American colonel falls passionately in love with an Italian countess in Venice just after World War Two has ended. The fighting may have ended but for some the longed-for peace has come too late.
Here are Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer in the Paris of the 1920s. He looks not only at himself but also at the other writers who were there at the time: James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein
Originally published in 1944, this anthology of stories by Hemingway displays the author's exceptional gift of narrative ability by which he creates a well-told tale simply by describing a scene in his inimitable way.
Michael Corleone's exile in Sicily is ending, but on the instructions of his father, The Godfather, he must bring back to him the young man known as Salvatore Giuliano - if he can find him.
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In a small Southern town in America, a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly gun battle. When the smoke clears, the police chief and the medical examiner are blocked at every turn of their investigation by the families and children, who all close ranks.
Hemingway's men are bullfighters and boxers, hired hands and hard drinkers, gangsters and gunmen. Each of their stories deals with masculine toughness unsoftened by woman's hand. Incisive, hard-edged, pared down to the bare minimum, they are classic Hemingway territory.
From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring; from rural America with its deceptive calm to the heart of war-ravaged Europe, each of the stories in the classic collection is a feat of imagination.
Philip Pirrip - known more commonly as Pip - is an orphan. His visits to the mysterious Miss Havisham are his only escape from his childhood of poverty. But then an anonymous bequest changes his life for ever. And Pip soon discovers the merciless cruelty of love, and the [...]
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Thomas Gradgrind is a cold and industrious man obsessed with facts, statistics and practicality. He raises his oldest children, Louisa and Tom, according to this philosophy, never allowing them to engage in what he considers to be fanciful pursuits. But when Louisa is [...]
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The wealthy but elderly Martin Chuzzlewit takes in an orphaned girl, Mary Graham, to be his nursemaid, promising that she will be well provided for as long as Martin is alive. But when Martin's grandson, young Martin, falls in love with Mary, he is disowned. Cast out, young [...]
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In an old curiosity shop, lives a grandfather and his beautiful granddaughter, 'Little Nell' Trent. When Nell's grandfather gambles away money borrowed from the vengeful and sadistic Daniel Quilp, the shop is seized in payment for overdue debts and both Nell and her [...]
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