Carlos Fuentes w tej niedużej, ale fascynującej bogactwem nastrojów i przemyśleń opowieści, mówi, że "wszystko, co ukryte, czeka po prostu na nasze uważne spojrzenie". Pozornie banalny romans, stanowiący główny wątek powieści, eksploduje dramatyzmem, skłaniając czytelnika do zastanowienia się nad zagadką mijającego czasu i odradzającej się w kolejnych wcieleniach miłości.

Zagłębiając się w "podwójny", stworzony przez Fuentesa świat, znajdujemy odpowiedź na pytania, które przed nami stawia. Ale może nie będzie to odpowiedź jednoznaczna, lecz inna dla każdego z nas?

Powieść zaczyna się jakby od środka – głównego bohatera poznajemy jako 93-letniego starca (niegdyś cenionego dyrygenta), wpatrującego się w pewien przedmiot, stanowiący ważny rekwizyt w całej książce. Jest to kryształowa pieczęć (autor opisuje ją dokładnie), będąca czymś w rodzaju amuletu czy symbolu doskonałości (jest okrągła i gładka). Stary dyrygent nie potrafi się bez niej obejść, chociaż z całą pewnością nie służy ona do pieczętowania czegokolwiek. Motyw pieczęci przewija się przez całą książkę. Główny wątek fabularny powieści to historia niespełnionej miłości dyrygenta i utalentowanej śpiewaczki o imieniu Inez. Historię tę poznajemy poprzez retrospekcję. Oto lata II wojny światowej, Anglia, bombardowany Londyn. Dyrygent (wówczas młody, ale już sławny) wywozi piękną Inez do nadmorskiej miejscowości, gdzie jednak miłosna przygoda nie znajdzie spełnienia, natomiast czytelnik dowiaduje się o istnieniu tajemniczej "trzeciej osoby". Jednocześnie z tym wątkiem pojawia się drugi: opowieść o związku dwojga ludzi z prehistorycznej przeszłości – będzie się ona przeplatać z historią dwojga poznanych już bohaterów. Dyrygent i śpiewaczka, po latach sukcesów artystycznych, spotykają się tylko raz, w 19 lat po pamiętnym (i na dobrą sprawę, niezrozumiałym) rozstaniu. Po wspólnym występie – jest to "Potępienie Fausta" Berlioza widzą się już tylko po to, aby się pożegnać i stwierdzić, że nie byli sobie przeznaczeni. Książka Fuentesa zadziwia nieoczekiwanymi chwytami, nagłą zmianą stylistyki i nastrojów. Wielki urok ma też subtelna analiza wątków miłosnych. Ważne miejsce w powieści zajmuje muzyka. W tle wciąż obecny jest motyw ze wspomnianego utworu Berlioza, analizowanego w ciekawy sposób. Na końcowych stronach książki żegnamy się ze starym dyrygentem, który, wiedząc, że niedługo umrze, wraca myślą do Inez i… kryształowej pieczęci.

Antra „Divergentės“ knyga. Vienas sprendimas gali pakeisti tavo gyvenimą arba tave sunaikinti. Tačiau kiekvienas sprendimas turi padarinių. Prasidėjus neramumams tarp luomų, Tričei Prior vėl tenka gelbėti mylimų žmonių ir savo pačios gyvybę. Be to, ją kamuoja sielvartas, slegia kaltė, ramybės neduoda atlaidumo, ištikimybės luomui, visuomenės sanklodos klausimai ir širdies reikalai. Antrasis Veronicos Roth romanas „Insurgentė“ atskleidžia neišsemiamas žmogaus prigimties galias.

Past midnight, Chyna Shepherd, twenty-six, gazed out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend’s family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Forman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A self-proclaimed “homicidal adventurer,” Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immerse himself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse or limits, to live with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit. Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out alive-until, by chance, she learns the identity of Vess’s next intended victim, a faraway innocent only she can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaning beyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resource she has to save an endangered girl — as moment by moment, the terrifying threat of Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.

In early spring of 2059, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called off planet to face a grueling ordeal – giving a seminar at the largest police conference of the year, to be held in a swanky resort. A resort which just happens to be owned by her husband, Roarke, of course.

Even though Eve can't quite see it that way, it's supposed to be at least partly a vacation. But work intrudes in the form of a bloody homicide, and Eve is off and running. The case is complicated by Eve's personal history with the victim – and by the killer's history with Roarke. As danger closes in and the body count rises, Eve must find a way to stop the cycle of violence and revenge, and shove the past back where it belongs.

‘Julia, it’s me. I need you to call me back. Please, Julia. It’s important …’

In the last days before her death, Nel Abbott called her sister.

Jules didn’t pick up the phone, ignoring her plea for help.

Now Nel is dead. They say she jumped. And Jules has been dragged back to the one place she hoped she had escaped for good, to care for the teenage girl her sister left behind.

But Jules is afraid. So afraid. Of her long-buried memories, of the old Mill House, of knowing that Nel would never have jumped.

And most of all she’s afraid of the water, and the place they call the Drowning Pool …

With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, satisfying read that hinges on the stories we tell about our pasts and their power to destroy the lives we live now.

We never saw it coming. The Invasion has begun.

With the world in chaos and the aliens swarming the domed city of Nashville, Maya Talbot continues on her quest to find her children while destruction rains down from above—the aliens have arrived and the invasion has begun. With a crew of unlikely allies and a mother’s incredible determination, she must find her kids and get to safety before it’s too late. But what if Maya can’t outrun the alien invaders, and what if there isn’t anywhere left for the survivors to hide? The race is on and the clock is ticking because the aliens seem bent on annihilating the human race and destroying the planet.

A nine year old boy is found raped and murdered at the bottom of a well near a beach resort in southern Italy. A Senegalese itinerant peddler is accused in what looks like a hopeless case taken on by Guido Guerrieri, counsel for the defence. Faced with small-town racism fuelled by recent immigration from Africa, Guido attempts to exploit the esoteric workings of the Italian courts. More than a perfectly paced legal thriller, this is a relentless suspense novel that goes way beyond the genre.

Non c’è morbosità apparente dietro le azioni del serial killer che tiene in scacco la città di New York. Non sceglie le vittime seguendo complicati percorsi mentali. Non le guarda negli occhi a una a una mentre muoiono, anche perché non avrebbe abbastanza occhi per farlo. Una giovane detective che nasconde i propri drammi personali dietro a una solida immagine e un fotoreporter con un passato discutibile da farsi perdonare sono l’unica speranza di poter fermare uno psicopatico che nemmeno rivendica le proprie azioni. Un uomo che sta compiendo una vendetta terribile per un dolore che affonda le radici in una delle più grandi tragedie americane. Un uomo che dice di essere dio.

From Publishers Weekly

Having ditched her Orchid Beach, Fla., police chief post, returning supersleuth Holly Barker opts for a CIA career in Woods's by-the-numbers thriller, the fourth in the Barker series (Blood Orchid). Barely through basic training at a highly regimented CIA "training farm," Barker's class is suddenly enlisted to track down calculating killer (and opera buff) Teddy Fay (first seen in Woods's Capital Crimes). An ex-CIA agent himself, Fay uses insider information to continue assassinating international political figures who also happen to be enemies of the U.S. Barker stakes out the Metropolitan Opera House, and narrowly misses Teddy in disguise in several contrived set pieces. The narrative accelerates from a somewhat sluggish first half when CIA operatives' solid deliberation moves Barker ever closer to nabbing the elusive Fay-who, by the way, lives mere blocks away from her. But Fay dupes the CIA again, with the help of a Santa Claus costume, and assassinates a Saudi prince before vanishing. Woods's latest lacks the urgent plotting and bracing thrills needed to make it truly memorable, and though Barker is a tough, formidable protagonist, the question remains why she, after absconding with over $5.5 million in untraceable drug money, bothers to clock in at all. Only Barker's dog, Daisy the Doberman, knows for sure.

This time around, Hood is running the California-Mexico border with the ATF, searching for the iron river – the massive and illegal flow of handguns and automatic weapons that fuels the bloody cartel wars south of the border. Gunrunners by nature aren't exactly ethical, but the lengths they'll go to, and the innocent lives they'll risk, are shocking even to Hood. Most shocking of all is the close personal connection Hood finds wrapped up in events south of the border – a connection that shakes him to his core.

Die alte aufgegebene Irrenanstalt im Wald ist nicht verlassen. Oh nein. In den Wänden wimmelt es vor ... vor Wahnsinn?

Jack Reed stößt im Wald von Wisconsin auf ein verlassenes Gebäude, das einst eine bekannte Heilanstalt war. Vor fast 60 Jahren wurde sie aus düsteren Gründen aufgegeben.

Jack will das alte Haus sanieren, um dort ein Ferienhotel zu eröffnen. Doch es beherbergt gefährliche Geheimnisse: 135 geisteskranke Patienten verschwanden mithilfe von Druiden-Magie »in die Wände« - und dort leben sie noch immer.

Nun hält sie nichts mehr auf ... Angeführt von dem bösartigen Quintus kidnappen sie Jacks kleinen Sohn und fordern die Rückkehr des Priesters, der sie damals einfing ...

Herido en acto de servicio, John Corey, detective de la brigada de homicidios de la policía de Nueva York, se recupera en un pueblecito de Long Island habitado por agricultores, pescadores y, por lo menos, un asesino. Tom y Judy Gordon, una joven y atractiva pareja de biólogos conocidos de Corey, han sido hallados en su jardín con sendas balas en la cabeza. Los primeros indicios apuntan a un robo frustrado, pero el rumor de guerra bacteriológica que salpica al centro de investigación de patologías animales de Long Island hace que circule el rumor de que los Gordon se habían apoderado de una sustancia muy peligrosa. El asesinato del matrimonio se convierte en un crimen de repercusiones mundiales y Corey acaba tomando cartas en el asunto. Sus investigaciones nos conducen por tradiciones, leyendas y secretos ancestrales del norte de Long Island, a la vez que el astuto detective se ve envuelto en una trama mucho más compleja de lo que esperaba. Isla Misterio, con un ritmo trepidante y salpicada de ingeniosas pinceladas cómicas, constituye sin duda la novela más lograda de Nelson DeMille.

Mark Hawkins, former park ranger and expert tracker, is out of his element, working on board the Magellan, a research vessel studying the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But his work is interrupted when, surrounded by thirty miles of refuse, the ship and its high tech systems are plagued by a series of strange malfunctions and the crew is battered by a raging storm.

When the storm fades and the sun rises, the beaten crew awakens to find themselves anchored in the protective cove of a tropical island… and no one knows how they got there. Even worse, the ship has been sabotaged, two crewman are dead and a third is missing. Hawkins spots signs of the missing man on shore and leads a small team to bring him back. But they quickly discover evidence of a brutal history left behind by the Island’s former occupants: Unit 731, Japan’s ruthless World War II human experimentation program. Mass graves and military fortifications dot the island, along with a decades old laboratory housing the remains of hideous experiments.

As crew members start to disappear, Hawkins realizes that they are not alone. In fact, they were brought to this strange and horrible island. The crew is taken one-by-one and while Hawkins fights to save his friends, he learns the horrible truth: Island 731 was never decommissioned and the person taking his crewmates may not be a person at all—not anymore.

It is 1943, and the German Army has been defeated at Stalingrad. The Russians have taken 91,000 prisoners; 145,000 German soldiers have been killed. The tide is beginning to turn. But on Guernsey and the rest of the Channel Islands, the only British territory to have been occupied by German troops, such a reversal is unimaginable. Here, in idyllic surroundings, the reality of war seems a lifetime away. While resentment runs high, life goes on, parties are held, love affairs blossom and the Guernsey Amateur Dramatic and Operatic Players can still stage productions of Private Lives, Babes in the Wood and Peter Pan—albeit with suspiciously jackbooted pirates. But when a young local woman is found murdered, both the islanders and the occupiers are forced to acknowledge that this most civilized of wars conceals a struggle that is darker and more bitter than anyone cares to recognize.

Two young couples escape their high-paced New York lifestyles for a quick getaway to an island off of Belize. Upon arriving they learn that their vacation will involve more than wasting the days away on the beach. The owner, Stefan, is a wealthy son of a financial guru, and a cousin to one of the guests. As part of his entertainment, he informs the group that they will be attempting to discover the identities of mercenaries from the 1800s that stormed the island and killed “The Royal Family” who had been abolished from Mainland by the Crown.

When one of the four vacationers goes missing, they realize that the island may have more to offer than a cute mystery and tropical fun. Is the game only a game? Can they leave the island?

n 15th century Venice it is a dangerous time to be alive. A permanent winter has rolled in over the canals and bodies keep washing up on the banks of the city. These bodies are especially hard to identify, since they have been skinned.In the present day, a famous portrait by Titian has been discovered. Its subject: the 15th century suspected murderer Angelico Vespucci. The skins of Vespucci's victims were never found, so his guilt was never proven. Although it is rumoured that when the portrait arises, so will the man. And when flayed bodies start turning up all over the world, it looks like this is more than just a superstition. A murderer has been called back to life, and he is hungry for revenge.