Karolina Medková Orden de los libros

Tomas ze všeho nejradši tráví čas s tátou kovárně. Právě teď společně pracují na drakobijných mečích, zakázce přímo z paláce od krále Lotharta. Ale draci se přeci v Rivenu neobjevili už přes tisíc let. Navíc když Tom jeden z mečů uchopí, zachvátí ho zvláštní odpor. Jako by mělsnad v ruce hada… A pak se mu v kovářské výhni zjeví podivná tvář. Začíná snad bláznit? Co se to s ním děje? Proč ho plameny děsí, ale zároveň tak přitahují? Tom velmi brzy zjistí, že svět okolo něj není zdaleka tak draků prostý, jak se doposud domníval.

When her mother, who disappeared 16 years before, reappears while a true crime documentary about her case is being filmed, 18-year-old Bel, not buying her mom's unbelievable story about what happened to her, must uncover the real reason Rachel Price is back from the dead.

Medical examiner Faith McIntyre is called in on the case of an unconscious woman clinging to life after a hit and run. The woman is FBI agent Macy Crow is Faith's mirror image -- the twin sister she never knew she had. Faith knew that she was adopted, but now she and Texas Ranger Mitchell Hayden are following a trail of clues Macy left behind. They make a shocking discovery on an isolated country ranch: a burial ground for three women who disappeared thirty years before. Will Faith be able to save her sister and herself from the past? -- adapted from back cover.

THE BRAND NEW FOR 2022, EXPLOSIVE YA CRIME THRILLER FROM THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER TRILOGY.

' Legends of the Fall , an epic tale of three brothers and their lives of passion, madness, exploration and danger at the beginning of the Great War, confirms Jim Harrison's reputation as one of the finest American writers of his generation. This magnificent trilogy also contains two other superb short novels. In Revenge , love causes the course of a man's life to be savagely and irrevocably altered. Nordstrom, in The Man Who Gave up his Name , is unable to relinquish his consuming obsessions with women, dancing and food.'

"Alice and Leo have just moved in together to The Circle, a gorgeous gated community in London. But when Alice tries to get to know their new neighbors, she discovers a devastating, grisly secret about her new home-and begins to feel a strong connection with Nina, the therapist who lived there before. Alice becomes obsessed with trying to piece together what happened, but none of her new neighbors want to talk about it. Soon it becomes clear to Alice that things are not at all as they seem." --Page 4 of cover.

Servant girl Milla witnesses a murder and discovers four strange eggs. Dragon eggs! Her world is turned completely upside down as she finds herself living a secret life in the palace caring for a dragon alongside her former masters. But with unrest and rioting in the town, Milla starts to wonder if keeping the dragons a secret is really the right idea and what role her unknown past might play in it all. Perhaps the dragons are the one thing that can bring all the warring factions together once and for all

In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews) In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders -- Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds.

Hace cinco años, la estudiante Andie Bell fue asesinada por Sal Singh. La policía sabe que fue él. Sus compañeros también. Todo el mundo lo sabe. Pero Pippa ha crecido en la misma ciudad que ha sido y no lo tiene tan claro... Decidida a desenterrar la verdad, Pippa convierte este asesinato en el tema de su proyecto de final de curso. Poco a poco, empezará a descubrir secretos que alguien se ha empeñado en ocultar. Si el asesino sigue suelto ¿qué será capaz de hacer para mantener a Pippa alejada de la verdad?