ConstantinF's bookshelf: all en-US Wed, 07 May 2025 20:38:46 -0700 60 ConstantinF's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Sezonul uraganelor 61195855
„O experiență literară intensă și hipnotică." Mariana Enríquez

Vrăjitoarea a murit. După ce corpul ei este descoperit plutind pe apele canalului de irigație, satul La Mantosa este cutremurat de zvonuri despre circumstanțele în care a avut loc crima. Într-un adevărat torent lingvistic, Fernanda Melchor realizează un portret colectiv al vieții localnicilor, oameni apăsați de sărăcie și violență, misoginie, superstiții și prejudecăți. Străbătut de un lirism captivant și tulburător, Sezonul uraganelor este o frescă formidabilă a lumii contemporane mexicane, cu demonii și rarele ei străfulgerări de lumină.]]> 216 Fernanda Melchor 6069785185 ConstantinF 0 to-read 3.69 2017 Sezonul uraganelor
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]]> <![CDATA[It Happened One Summer (Bellinger Sisters, #1)]]> 55659629
Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? She’s determined to show her stepfather—and the hot, grumpy local—that she’s more than a pretty face.

Except it’s a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there’s an undeniable attraction simmering between them. Piper doesn’t want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. Yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. LA is calling her name, but Brendan—and this town full of memories—may have already caught her heart.

Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood “It Girl� who is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong.]]> 397 Tessa Bailey 0063045656 ConstantinF 0 to-read 3.91 2021 It Happened One Summer (Bellinger Sisters, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)]]> 58684524
While her ultra-wealthy parents want her to carry on the family legacy of world-renowned surgeons, Alexis doesn’t need glory or fame. She’s fine with being a “mere� ER doctor. And every minute she spends with Daniel and the tight-knit town where he lives, she’s discovering just what’s really important. Yet letting their relationship become anything more than a short-term fling would mean turning her back on her family and giving up the opportunity to help thousands of people.

Bringing Daniel into her world is impossible, and yet she can’t just give up the joy she’s found with him either. With so many differences between them, how can Alexis possibly choose between her world and his?

The New York Times bestselling author of Life's Too Short delivers a refreshingly modern fairy tale perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Emily Henry.]]> 389 Abby Jimenez 1538704374 ConstantinF 0 to-read 4.26 2022 Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)
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]]> Mexican Gothic 53152636
Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi’s dreams with visions of blood and doom.

Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help Noemí, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family’s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness.

And Noemí, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind.]]> 320 Silvia Moreno-Garcia 0525620788 ConstantinF 4 3.66 2020 Mexican Gothic
author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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average rating: 3.66
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rating: 4
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]]> Dead Poets Society 67238 166 N.H. Kleinbaum 0553282980 ConstantinF 3 4.19 1988 Dead Poets Society
author: N.H. Kleinbaum
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average rating: 4.19
book published: 1988
rating: 3
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]]> Spinning Silver 36896898 Spinning Silver draws readers deeper into a glittering realm of fantasy, where the boundary between wonder and terror is thinner than a breath, and safety can be stolen as quickly as a kiss.

Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders, but her father’s inability to collect his debts has left his family on the edge of poverty—until Miryem takes matters into her own hands. Hardening her heart, the young woman sets out to claim what is owed and soon gains a reputation for being able to turn silver into gold.

When an ill-advised boast draws the attention of the king of the Staryk—grim fey creatures who seem more ice than flesh—Miryem’s fate, and that of two kingdoms, will be forever altered. Set an impossible challenge by the nameless king, Miryem unwittingly spins a web that draws in a peasant girl, Wanda, and the unhappy daughter of a local lord who plots to wed his child to the dashing young tsar.

But Tsar Mirnatius is not what he seems. And the secret he hides threatens to consume the lands of humans and Staryk alike. Torn between deadly choices, Miryem and her two unlikely allies embark on a desperate quest that will take them to the limits of sacrifice, power, and love.

Channeling the vibrant heart of myth and fairy tale, Spinning Silver weaves a multilayered, magical tapestry that readers will want to return to again and again.]]> 465 Naomi Novik ConstantinF 4 4.20 2018 Spinning Silver
author: Naomi Novik
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average rating: 4.20
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]]> Tom Lake 63241104 In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers.

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.]]> 309 Ann Patchett 006332752X ConstantinF 3 3.92 2023 Tom Lake
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]]> The Wishing Game 62926992
Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it’s like to grow up without parents who loved her. In a childhood marked by neglect and loneliness, Lucy found her solace in books, namely the Clock Island series by Jack Masterson. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher’s aide, she is able to share her love of reading with bright, young students, especially seven-year-old Christopher Lamb, who was left orphaned after the tragic death of his parents. Lucy would give anything to adopt Christopher, but even the idea of becoming a family seems like an impossible dream without proper funds and stability.

But be careful what you wish for. . . .

Just when Lucy is about to give up, Jack Masterson announces he’s finally written a new book. Even better, he’s holding a contest at his home on the real Clock Island, and Lucy is one of the four lucky contestants chosen to compete to win the one and only copy.

For Lucy, the chance of winning the most sought-after book in the world means everything to her and Christopher. But first she must contend with ruthless book collectors, wily opponents, and the distractingly handsome (and grumpy) Hugo Reese, the illustrator of the Clock Island books. Meanwhile, Jack “the Mastermind� Masterson is plotting the ultimate twist ending that could change all their lives forever.

. . . You might just get it.]]> 304 Meg Shaffer 0593598830 ConstantinF 4 4.01 2023 The Wishing Game
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]]> <![CDATA[The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)]]> 139399948 In the seventh installment in the Strike series, Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in the trap of a dangerous cult.

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside.

The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths.

In order to try to rescue Will, Strike's business partner, Robin Ellacott, decides to infiltrate the cult, and she travels to Norfolk to live incognito among its members. But in doing so, she is unprepared for the dangers that await her there or for the toll it will take on her. . .

Utterly pulse-pounding, The Running Grave moves Strike's and Robin's story forward in this epic, unforgettable seventh installment of the series.]]> 960 Robert Galbraith 0316572101 ConstantinF 5 4.56 2023 The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)
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average rating: 4.56
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rating: 5
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]]> Culoarea purpurie 25594344
Mai mult decât unul dintre cele mai importante romane americane, mai mult decât un clasic al literaturii feministe şi o lectură esenţială a literaturii LGBT, cartea lui Alice Walker este, în primul rând, o poveste despre „sarea pământului�: despre oameni cu bune şi rele, despre raportul dintre ei și tot ce-i înconjoară şi despre orbecăiala lor prin această lume.

„Acest roman o situează pe Walker alături de Faulkner.�

The Nation]]> 296 Alice Walker 6067102099 ConstantinF 4 4.27 1982 Culoarea purpurie
author: Alice Walker
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average rating: 4.27
book published: 1982
rating: 4
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]]> Water for Elephants 43641
Beautifully written, Water for Elephants is illuminated by a wonderful sense of time and place. It tells a story of a love between two people that overcomes incredible odds in a world in which even love is a luxury that few can afford.]]> 368 Sara Gruen 1565125606 ConstantinF 3 4.11 2006 Water for Elephants
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average rating: 4.11
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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]]> Și munții au ecou 18337668
ŞI MUNŢII AU ECOU este un roman incitant şi provocator, demonstrându-ne modul în care autorul înţelege în profunzime legăturile şi acţiunile care ne definesc şi ne modelează vieţile şi, în final, ce înseamnă să fii om.]]> 416 Khaled Hosseini ConstantinF 5 4.29 2012 Și munții au ecou
author: Khaled Hosseini
name: ConstantinF
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2012
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)]]> 46000520
But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.

Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?

Alternate cover edition can be found here .]]> 382 Richard Osman ConstantinF 4 3.86 2020 The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
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average rating: 3.86
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]]> Menajera (The Housemaid, #1) 181063745
În fiecare zi, fac curățenie în casa familiei Winchester. O iau pe fiica lor de la școală. Le gătesc o cină delicioasă și mă retrag în cămăruța mea de la mansardă. Încerc să ignor faptul că Nina face mizerie doar ca să mă privească cum curăț. Trec cu vederea toate minciunile absurde pe care le spune și îmi mușc buza de jos de fiecare dată când mă acuză pe nedrept.

Îmi este mult mai greu să-l ignor pe soțul ei perfect, Andrew, cu șarmul lui blând și zâmbetul frumos. Visez uneori să fiu în locul Ninei, să am viața ei, hainele scumpe, brațele soțului ei în jurul meu.

Ce nu ar fi trebuit să ignor însă este faptul că ușa dormitorului meu se încuie doar din exterior.

Nu-i nimic, soții Winchester nu știu cu adevărat cine sunt. Nu au nicio idee de ce sunt în stare.]]> 384 Freida McFadden 6303050476 ConstantinF 5 4.43 2022 Menajera (The Housemaid, #1)
author: Freida McFadden
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average rating: 4.43
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]]> <![CDATA[Secretul menajerei (Menajera, #2)]]> 197451114

� Să nu intri în dormitorul de oaspeți.


O umbră cade pe chipul lui Douglas Garrick, în timp ce cu vârful degetelor atinge ușa.

� Soţia mea... este foarte bolnavă.


În timp ce el continuă să-mi arate apartamentul de lux, mă cuprinde un sentiment îngrozitor. Ce se întâmplă cu femeia din spatele acelei uși închise? Nu, nu trebuie să-mi vâr nasul în treburi care nu mă privesc. Nu dacă vreau să-mi păstrez cel mai întunecat secret în siguranță. Și slujba...


Este greu să găsesc un angajator care să nu pună prea multe întrebări despre trecutul meu. Așa că zâmbesc mulțumită știind că familia Garrick mi-a oferit în mod miraculos o slujbă. Trebuie doar să curăț acest penthouse cu priveliște uimitoare asupra orașului, să pregătesc mese delicioase în bucătăria lor strălucitoare și să mă prefac că... nu văd nimic din ce se întâmplă. Nu e greu, pot să stau aici o vreme, până găsesc altceva mai bun.


Da, este aproape perfect! Dar încă nu am întâlnit-o pe doamna Garrick, deși sunt sigură că am auzit-o plângând. Uneori, observ pete de sânge în jurul gâtului cămășilor ei de noapte, atunci când trebuie să le spăl. Iar într-o zi, nu m-am mai putut abține și am bătut la ușă. Când ușa s-a deschis, totul s-a schimbat...


Atunci mi-am facut o promisiune: o voi proteja pe doamna Garrick. Vinovatul trebuie să plătească, iar eu trebuie să decid cât de departe voi merge pentru a-i provoca suferință.


Recenzii


Un thriller-psihologic pe care îl citești dintr-o răsuflare


„Știi acel moment în care vizionezi la un thriller, cu inima cât un purice, și nici măcar nu realizezi că ai terminat popcornul? Ei bine, așa este și cu această carte. Îți vei simți inima în gât, în timp ce vei da, complet hipnotizat, pagină după pagină.� - Jess


Un deznodământ care te va marca


„Freida McFadden a reușit de minune să creeze un personaj aflat în permanență pe muchie de cuțit, la propriu. Ce trăiește Millie pare a fi un coșmar în care te afunzi și tu, pagină după pagină. Poate că deznodământul te va trezi la realitate� sau nu.� - Kelly


Ce întorsături de situație! Ce personaje!


„Personajele sunt foarte bine conturate și mi-a plăcut că am avut acces la gândurile lor, astfel încât am putut să înțeleg perfect motivațiile din spatele acțiunilor lor. La final nici măcar nu am putut să-mi dau seama cine este, de fapt, personajul rău, și care este cel bun. Fascinant!� - Joan


Parcă am avut în permanență cartea lipită de mâini


„Citeam și parcă aveam cartea lipită de mâini. Am fost atât de absorbită de tot ce se întâmplă în casa în care ajunge Millie, încât nu am putut să o închid până nu am terminat-o. Aș spune că prin acest al doilea volum, Freida ne-a oferit un cadou minunat nouă, celor care am fost complet fascinați de povestea menajerei Millie.� - Mary]]> 354 Freida McFadden 6303051308 ConstantinF 4 4.36 2023 Secretul menajerei (Menajera, #2)
author: Freida McFadden
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average rating: 4.36
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]]> Casa spiritelor 12752050 Casa spiritelor este o scrisoare de dragoste trimisa de Isabel Allende, peste timp si peste lumi, bunicului ei. Astfel s-a nascut saga familiei Trueba, unde ritmurile violente ale unui pamant mitic, ravasit de cutremure si uragane, devin o a doua natura a personajelor. Impletind mistica si politica, splendoarea si decadenta unei lumi ce devine istorie, Casa spiritelor este una dintre cele mai seducatoare povesti nascute la granita secolului XXI.
„Pe 8 ianuarie 1981, pe când mă aflam în Venezuela, am primit un telefon care mă anunţa că bunicul meu iubit era pe moarte. Am început să-i scriu o scrisoare, iar acea scrisoare s-a preschimbat în primul meu roman, Casa spiritelor, apărut în 1982�, avea să declare Isabel Allende două decenii mai târziu.

Distins cu numeroase premii literare, romanul Casa spiritelor a fost adaptat pentru marele ecran în 1993, în regia lui Billie August, cu o distribuţie de excepţie: Meryl Streep, Winona Ryder, Jeremy Irons, Vanessa Redgrave, Glenn Close şi Antonio Banderas.]]> 444 Isabel Allende 9735012693 ConstantinF 3 4.42 1982 Casa spiritelor
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average rating: 4.42
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)]]> 58957615
Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot.

While Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun), Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim chase down the clues with help from old friends and new. But can the gang solve the mystery and save Elizabeth before the murderer strikes again?

From an upmarket spa to a prison cell complete with espresso machine to a luxury penthouse high in the sky, this third adventure of the Thursday Murder Club is full of the cleverness, intrigue, and irresistible charm that readers have come to expect from Richard Osman's bestselling series.]]> 413 Richard Osman 0241512425 ConstantinF 4 4.32 2022 The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)
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average rating: 4.32
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]]> <![CDATA[Repetiție pentru o lume mai bună]]> 61925568


Faptul că este nevoit să-l ia acasă pe bătrânul diagnosticat cu demență nu este decât o altă provocare dintr-un lung șir: divorțul de Mădălina, pierderea mamei, legătura stranie cu fiica sa plecată în străinătate, relația paradoxală cu fosta lui soție, care îl roagă să-i recupereze cățelul ținut ostatic de iubitul pe care chiar ea l-a trădat. Peste toate acestea, odată cu moartea tatălui său, Paul dezvăluie un secret din trecut care a tulburat viețile tuturor. Protagonistul încearcă din răsputeri să facă față tuturor acestor provocări, reușind în final să evadeze din capcana propriei moralități. Un roman sinuos, ce urmărește complexitățile interioare ale omului care își simte viața trecând pe lângă el, cu efecte profunde asupra cititorului.]]> 200 Mihai Radu 9734690590 ConstantinF 3 3.79 Repetiție pentru o lume mai bună
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]]> <![CDATA[The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)]]> 55457493
Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat to his life.

As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn't that be a bonus?

But this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn't bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians. Can The Thursday Murder Club find the killer (and the diamonds) before the killer finds them?]]> 422 Richard Osman ConstantinF 5 4.36 2021 The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)
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]]> The Hotel Nantucket 59227941
Filled with the emotional tension and multiple points of view that characterize Elin's books (The Blue Bistro, Golden Girl) as well as an added touch of historical reality, Hotel Nantucket offers something for everyone in this summer drama for the ages.]]> 416 Elin Hilderbrand 0316258679 ConstantinF 5 4.01 2022 The Hotel Nantucket
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)]]> 62226126
An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing.

As the gang springs into action they encounter art forgers, online fraudsters and drug dealers, as well as heartache close to home.

With the body count rising, the package still missing and trouble firmly on their tail, has their luck finally run out? And who will be the last devil to die?]]> 421 Richard Osman 0241512441 ConstantinF 5 4.44 2023 The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)
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]]> Endless Night 16366
The title Endless Night was taken from William Blake’s Auguries of Innocence and describes Christie’s favourite theme in the novel: a “twisted� character, who always chooses evil over good.

Christie finished Endless Night in six weeks, as opposed to the three-four months that most of her other novels took. Despite being in her seventies while writing it, she told an interviewer that being Michael, the twenty-something narrator, “wasn’t difficult. After all, you hear people like him talking all the time.�

The book is dedicated to Christie's relative "Nora Prichard from whom I first heard the legend of Gipsy's Acre." Gipsy's Acre was a field on the Welsh moors.]]> 303 Agatha Christie 0007151675 ConstantinF 4 3.82 1967 Endless Night
author: Agatha Christie
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average rating: 3.82
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]]> <![CDATA[A Court of Thorns and Roses (The Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)]]> 55388579
Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre's presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.]]> 1 Sarah J. Maas 1664434453 ConstantinF 4 4.07 2015 A Court of Thorns and Roses (The Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
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average rating: 4.07
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]]> Acest tărâm al blândeții 59479462
1932, Minnesota � Școala Lincoln e un loc ostil unde sute de copii amerindieni, orfani sau separați abuziv de familiile lor, sunt trimiși să fie educați. Printre ei se află Odie O’Banion, un băiat orfan, cu mintea ageră, ale cărui isprăvi atrag mânia directoarei.
În urma unui incident, Odie și fratele său, Albert, singurii copii albi din școală, sunt siliți să fugă, luându-i cu ei și pe Mose, un băiat mut din tribul Sioux, precum și pe Emmy, o fetiță rămasă fără mamă. Împreună, pornesc cu canoea pe râul Gilead, în căutarea unui cămin, întâlnind în drumul lor alți oameni în derivă, de la truditori ai pământului și tămăduitori prin rugăciuni la familii dezrădăcinate și suflete pierdute.

„Amplu, profund și nespus de captivant � cititorii vor savura fiecare pagină." - New York Journal of Books

„Dacă vrei să citești o saga americană de amplă respirație, cu o atmosferă nostalgică, atunci romanul lui Krueger e alegerea perfectă." - Entertainment Weekly

„O odisee impresionantă, o căutare a identității și a unui cămin." � Booklist

„Minunat scris și dând viață unor personaje memorabile, Acest tărâm al blândeții va învinge timpul." - Denver Post

William Kent Krueger este un faimos scriitor american, cunoscut mai ales pentru seria de romane polițiste plasate în Minnesota și avându-l drept protagonist pe Cork O’Connor. Și-a dorit să devină scriitor încă din copilărie, când a scris prima sa povestire. A primit nenumărate distincții, printre care Anthony Award, Minnesota Book Award, Loft-McKnight Fiction Award. Primul său roman de sine stătător, Ordinary Grace (2013), a fost recompensat cu Edgar Award.]]> 576 William Kent Krueger ConstantinF 5 4.48 2019 Acest tărâm al blândeții
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]]> <![CDATA[A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)]]> 50659472 The epic third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas.

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit. One slip could bring doom not only for Feyre, but for everything-and everyone-she holds dear.

As war bears down upon them all, Feyre endeavors to take her place amongst the High Fae of the land, balancing her struggle to master her powers-both magical and political-and her love for her court and family. Amidst these struggles, Feyre and Rhysand must decide whom to trust amongst the cunning and lethal High Lords, and hunt for allies in unexpected places.

In this thrilling third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Sarah J. Maas, the fate of Feyre's world is at stake as armies grapple for power over the one thing that could destroy it.]]> 699 Sarah J. Maas 1635575605 ConstantinF 4 4.47 2017 A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[A ​Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)]]> 53138095 Global phenomenon Sarah J. Maas’s sexy, richly imagined #1 bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses series continues with the journey of Feyre’s fiery sister, Nesta.

Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she’s struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can’t seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it.

The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose position in Rhysand and Feyre’s Night Court keeps him constantly in Nesta’s orbit. But her temper isn’t the only thing Cassian ignites. The fire between them is undeniable, and only burns hotter as they are forced into close quarters with each other.

Meanwhile, the treacherous human queens who returned to the Continent during the last war have forged a dangerous new alliance, threatening the fragile peace that has settled over the realms. And the key to halting them might very well rely on Cassian and Nesta facing their haunting pasts.

Against the sweeping backdrop of a world seared by war and plagued with uncertainty, Nesta and Cassian battle monsters from within and without as they search for acceptance—and healing—in each other’s arms.]]> 757 Sarah J. Maas 168119628X ConstantinF 3 4.44 2021 A ​Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)
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]]> Povestitorul 44145128 Totul se schimba insa in ziua in care Josef ii marturiseste un secret de mult ingropat, pe care nimeni altcineva din oras nu l-ar fi suspectat, si ii cere lui Sage o favoare extraordinara. Daca accepta, ea se va confrunta nu doar cu repercusiuni morale, ci si cu unele legale. Cu propria identitate pusa sub semnul intrebarii, Sage incepe sa se indoiasca de viata sa si a familiei sale. Cand alegerea morala devine imperativ moral? si care este granita dintre pedeapsa si dreptate, iertare si mila?
In acest roman emotionant, Jodi Picoult exploreaza cu eleganta alegerile pe care le facem pentru a ne proteja familia si pentru a impiedica trecutul sa ne dicteze viitorul.]]> 474 Jodi Picoult 6063334653 ConstantinF 5 4.58 2013 Povestitorul
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]]> If We Were Villains 30319086
As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingenue, extra. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the plays spill dangerously over into life, and one of them is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless.]]> 354 M.L. Rio 125009528X ConstantinF 4 4.11 2017 If We Were Villains
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average rating: 4.11
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]]> <![CDATA[The Burning Wire (Lincoln Rhyme, #9)]]> 7099389 Lincoln Rhyme is back, on the trail of a killer whose weapon of choice cripples New York City with fear.

The weapon is invisible and omnipresent. Without it, modern society grinds to a halt. It is electricity. The killer harnesses and steers huge arc flashes with voltage so high and heat so searing that steel melts and his victims are set afire.

When the first explosion occurs in broad daylight, reducing a city bus to a pile of molten, shrapnel-riddled metal, officials fear terrorism. Rhyme, a world-class forensic criminologist known for his successful apprehension of the most devious criminals, is immediately tapped for the investigation. Long a quadriplegic, he assembles NYPD detective Amelia Sachs and officer Ron Pulaski as his eyes, ears and legs on crime sites, and FBI agent Fred Dellray as his undercover man on the street. As the attacks continue across the city at a sickening pace, and terrifying demand letters begin appearing, the team works desperately against time and with maddeningly little forensic evidence to try to find the killer. Or is it killers...?

Meanwhile, Rhyme is consulting on another high-profile investigation in Mexico with a most coveted quarry in his crosshairs: the hired killer known as the Watchmaker, one of the few criminals to have eluded Rhyme's net.

Juggling two massive investigations against a cruel ticking clock takes a toll on Rhyme's health. Soon Rhyme is fighting on yet another front - and his determination to work despite his physical limitations threatens to drive away his closest allies when he needs them most...]]> 414 Jeffery Deaver 1439156336 ConstantinF 4 4.04 2010 The Burning Wire (Lincoln Rhyme, #9)
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> Printre tonuri cenușii 22920772
In aceasta miscatoare si tragica poveste, Lina se lupta cu disperare pentru viata ei si a celor apropiati, cu singura arma de care dispune: iubirea. Dar oare iubirea este de ajuns ca s-o tina in viata?]]> 320 Ruta Sepetys 6069356543 ConstantinF 4 4.62 2011 Printre tonuri cenușii
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average rating: 4.62
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]]> Love, Theoretically 61326735
Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and broody older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And that same Jack who now sits on the hiring committee at MIT, right between Elsie and her dream job.

Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but…those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she’s with him? Will falling into an experimentalist’s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?]]> 389 Ali Hazelwood 1408725797 ConstantinF 4 4.07 2023 Love, Theoretically
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average rating: 4.07
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]]> Book Lovers 58690308 One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming....

Nora Stephens� life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.

Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters� trip away—with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute.

If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.]]> 377 Emily Henry 0593334833 ConstantinF 4 4.09 2022 Book Lovers
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]]> <![CDATA[How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older]]> 59808041 Uncover the evidence-based science to slowing the effects of aging, from the New York Times bestselling author of the How Not to Die series

When Dr. Michael Greger, dove into the top peer-reviewed anti-aging medical research, he realized that diet could regulate every one of the most promising strategies for combating the effects of aging. We don’t need Big Pharma to keep us feeling young—we already have the tools. In How Not to Age , the internationally renowned physician and nutritionist breaks down the science of aging and chronic illness and explains how to help avoid the diseases most commonly encountered in our journeys through life.

Physicians have long treated aging as a malady, but getting older does not have to mean getting sicker. There are eleven pathways for aging in our bodies� cells and we can disrupt each of them. Processes like autophagy, the upcycling of unusable junk, can be boosted with spermidine, a compound found in tempeh, mushrooms, and wheat germ. Senescent “zombie� cells that spew inflammation and are linked to many age-related diseases may be cleared in part with quercetin-rich foods like onions, apples, and kale. And we can combat effects of aging without breaking the bank. Why spend a small fortune on vitamin C and nicotinamide facial serums when you can make your own for up to 2,000 times cheaper?

Inspired by the dietary and lifestyle patterns of centenarians and residents of “blue zone� regions where people live the longest, Dr. Greger presents simple, accessible, and evidence-based methods to preserve the body functions that keep you feeling youthful, both physically and mentally. Brimming with expertise and actionable takeaways, How Not to Age lays out practical strategies for achieving ultimate longevity.]]> 640 Michael Greger 1250796334 ConstantinF 4 4.22 2023 How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older
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]]> Memoriile unui motan călător 52672363 256 Hiro Arikawa 6067796406 ConstantinF 5 4.38 2012 Memoriile unui motan călător
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]]> Every Summer After 58014893
Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without.

For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.

When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.

Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic look at love and the people and choices that mark us forever.

Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.]]> 320 Carley Fortune 0593438531 ConstantinF 4 4.17 2022 Every Summer After
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]]> In the Likely Event 127152907
Then she spots her seatmate, who is anything but ordinary. Nate Phelan sports dark hair, blue eyes, and a deliciously rugged charm that Izzy can’t resist. Their connection is undeniable. Izzy never believed in destiny before, but she does now.

Just ninety seconds after takeoff, their plane goes down in the Missouri River.

Their lives change. They change. Nate goes on to a career in the military while Izzy finds her way into politics. Despite a few chance encounters over the years, the timing never feels right.

Then comes a high-stakes reunion in Afghanistan, where Nate is tasked with protecting Izzy’s life.

He’ll do anything to keep her safe. And everything to win her heart.]]> 348 Rebecca Yarros 1662511566 ConstantinF 3 4.22 2023 In the Likely Event
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average rating: 4.22
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rating: 3
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]]> Happy Place 61718053
They broke up six months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends.

Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most.

Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. They can’t stand to break their friends� hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. It’s a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week� in front of those who know you best?

A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.]]> 400 Emily Henry 0593441273 ConstantinF 3 3.95 2023 Happy Place
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]]> The Seven Year Slip 62926938 An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics.

Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it.

So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. Mostly. The love part is hard because she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone—she isn’t sure her heart can take it.

And then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The kind of man that, before it all, she would’ve fallen head-over-heels for. And she might again.

Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future.

Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time, a place where moments blended together like watercolors. And Clementine knows that if she lets her heart fall, she’ll be doomed.

After all, love is never a matter of time—but a matter of timing.]]> 336 Ashley Poston ConstantinF 4 4.17 2023 The Seven Year Slip
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]]> Every Last Secret 52347808 Welcome to the neighborhood. Watch your husband, watch your friends, and watch your back.

Cat Winthorpe has worked hard to get what she has: a gorgeous home; social standing; and William, her successful, handsome husband. Then a friendly new couple moves into the estate next door. While cautious, a good neighbor like Cat greets them with open arms and warm hospitality.

Neena Ryder isn’t a fellow lady of leisure. A life coach with off-the-rack dresses, personal issues, and a husband who hasn’t delivered, she’s anxious to move up in the world. This beautiful new town is a step in the right direction. It’s also making Neena aware of what she doesn’t have. Namely, William. When Neena’s infatuation escalates into obsession, it’s just a matter of eliminating a few obstacles to get the life she wants. The life next door.

As Neena’s secret fixation grows, so does her friendship with Cat. But beneath their cordial interactions is a wealth of temptations, secrets, and toxic jealousy. For both women, the desire for a perfect life can turn perfectly dangerous.]]> 291 A.R. Torre 1542020182 ConstantinF 4 3.95 2020 Every Last Secret
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]]> The Wish 56625098
By 2019, Maggie is a renowned travel photographer. She splits her time between running a successful gallery in New York and photographing remote locations around the world. But this year she is unexpectedly grounded over Christmas, struggling to come to terms with a sobering medical diagnosis. Increasingly dependent on a young assistant, she finds herself becoming close to him.

As they count down the last days of the season together, she begins to tell him the story of another Christmas, decades earlier—and the love that set her on a course she never could have imagined.]]> 387 Nicholas Sparks 1538728621 ConstantinF 5 4.25 2021 The Wish
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]]> <![CDATA[The Five-Star Weekend (Sommer in Nantucket, #1)]]> 62873996
Hollis Shaw’s life seems picture-perfect. She’s the creator of the popular food blog Hungry with Hollis and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, he leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis’s perfect life—her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline—grow deeper.

So when Hollis hears about something called a “Five-Star Weekend”—one woman organizes a trip for her best friend from each phase of her life: her teenage years, her twenties, her thirties, and midlife—she decides to host her own Five-Star Weekend on Nantucket. But the weekend doesn’t turn out to be a joyful Hallmark movie.

The husband of Hollis’s childhood friend Tatum arranges for Hollis’s first love, Jack Finigan, to spend time with them, stirring up old feelings. Meanwhile, Tatum is forced to play nice with abrasive and elitist Dru-Ann, Hollis’s best friend from UNC Chapel Hill. Dru-Ann’s career as a prominent Chicago sports agent is on the line after her comments about a client’s mental health issues are misconstrued online. Brooke, Hollis’s friend from their thirties, has just discovered that her husband is having an inappropriate relationship with a woman at work. Again! And then there’s Gigi, a stranger to everyone (including Hollis) who reached out to Hollis through her blog. Gigi embodies an unusual grace and, as it hap- pens, has many secrets.

The Five-Star Weekend is a surprising and captivating story about friendship, love, and self-discovery set on Nantucket. It will be a weekend like no other.]]> 384 Elin Hilderbrand 0316258776 ConstantinF 4 3.95 2023 The Five-Star Weekend (Sommer in Nantucket, #1)
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]]> The Guncle (The Guncle, #1) 54508798
So when tragedy strikes and Maisie and Grant lose their mother and Patrick’s brother has a health crisis of his own, Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian. Despite having a set of “Guncle Rules� ready to go, Patrick has no idea what to expect, having spent years barely holding on after the loss of his great love, a somewhat-stalled career, and a lifestyle not-so-suited to a six- and a nine-year-old. Quickly realizing that parenting—even if temporary—isn’t solved with treats and jokes, Patrick’s eyes are opened to a new sense of responsibility, and the realization that, sometimes, even being larger than life means you’re unfailingly human.]]> 326 Steven Rowley 0525542280 ConstantinF 5 4.09 2021 The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)
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]]> The Good Sister 53137974 An alternate cover edition of ASIN B08BYCWK6T can be found here.

Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters in The Good Sister.

There's only been one time that Rose couldn't stop me from doing the wrong thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life.

Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week. And she avoids crowds, bright lights and loud noises as much as possible. Fern has a carefully structured life and disrupting her routine can be...dangerous.

When Rose discovers that she cannot get pregnant, Fern sees her chance to pay her sister back for everything Rose has done for her. Fern can have a baby for Rose. She just needs to find a father. Simple.

Fern's mission will shake the foundations of the life she has carefully built for herself and stir up dark secrets from the past, in this quirky, rich and shocking story of what families keep hidden.]]> 309 Sally Hepworth 1250120950 ConstantinF 4 4.11 2020 The Good Sister
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]]> <![CDATA[The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)]]> 197511201 Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Italy.

Patrick O’Hara is back. It’s been five years since his summer as his niece Maisie and nephew Grant’s caretaker after their mother’s passing. The kids are back in Connecticut with their dad, and Patrick has relocated to New York to remain close by and relaunch his dormant acting career. After the run of his second successful sit-com comes to a close, Patrick feels on top of the world . . . professionally. But some things have had to take a back seat. Looking down both barrels at fifty, Patrick is single again after breaking things off with Emory. But at least he has a family to lean on. Until that family needs to again lean on him.

When Patrick's brother, Greg, announces he’s getting remarried in Italy, Maisie and Grant are not thrilled. Patrick feels drawn to take the two back under his wing. As they travel through Europe on their way to the wedding, Patrick tries his best to help them understand love, much as he once helped them comprehend grief. But when they arrive in Italy, Patrick is overextended managing a groom with cold feet; his sister, Clara, flirting with guests left and right; a growing rivalry with the kids� charming soon-to-be-launt (lesbian aunt), and two moody young teens trying to adjust to a new normal, all culminating in a disastrous rehearsal dinner.

Can Patrick save the day? Will teaching the kids about love help him repair his own love life? Can the change of scenery help Patrick come to terms with finally growing up?

Gracing the work with his signature blend of humor and heart, Steven Rowley charms with a beloved story about the complicated bonds of family, love, and what it takes to rediscover yourself, even at the ripe age of fifty.]]> 320 Steven Rowley 0593540468 ConstantinF 4 3.90 2024 The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)
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]]> Maame 60784605 Shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards in the Book of the Year, 2023 and the ŷ Debut and Fiction Book of the Year, 2023.

It’s fair to say that Maddie’s life in London is far from rewarding. With a mother who spends most of her time in Ghana (yet still somehow manages to be overbearing), Maddie is the primary caretaker for her father, who suffers from advanced stage Parkinson’s. At work, her boss is a nightmare and Maddie is tired of always being the only Black person in every meeting.

When her mum returns from her latest trip to Ghana, Maddie leaps at the chance to get out of the family home and finally start living. A self-acknowledged late bloomer, she’s ready to experience some important “firsts�: She finds a flat share, says yes to after-work drinks, pushes for more recognition in her career, and throws herself into the bewildering world of internet dating. But it's not long before tragedy strikes, forcing Maddie to face the true nature of her unconventional family, and the perils—and rewards—of putting her life on the line.

Smart, funny, and deeply affecting, Jessica George's Maame deals with the themes of our time with humor and poignancy: from familial duty and racism, to female pleasure, the complexity of love, and the life-saving power of friendship. Most important, it explores what it feels like to be torn between two homes and cultures―and it celebrates finally being able to find where you belong.]]> 320 Jessica George ConstantinF 4 4.03 2023 Maame
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]]> Wrong Place Wrong Time 59947696
It is midnight on the morning of Halloween, and Jen anxiously waits up for her 18-year-old son, Todd, to return home. But worries about his broken curfew transform into something much more dangerous when Todd finally emerges from the darkness. As Jen watches through the window, she sees her funny, seemingly happy teenage son stab a total stranger.

She doesn’t know who the victim is, or why Todd has committed such a devastating act of violence. All she knows is that her life, and Todd’s, have been shattered.

After her son is taken into custody, Jen falls asleep in despair. But when she wakes up� it is yesterday. The murder has not happened yet—and there may be a chance to stop it. Each morning, when Jen wakes, she is further back in the past, first weeks, then years, before the murder. And Jen realizes that somewhere in the past lies the trigger for Todd’s terrible crime…and it is her mission to find it, and prevent it from taking place.]]> 416 Gillian McAllister 0063252341 ConstantinF 3 3.94 2022 Wrong Place Wrong Time
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average rating: 3.94
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]]> <![CDATA[The Murder of Roger Akroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)]]> 60082808
However, the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information, but before he could finish reading the letter, he was stabbed to death. Luckily one of Roger’s friends and the newest resident to retire to this normally quiet village takes over—none other than Monsieur Hercule Poirot . . .]]> 247 Agatha Christie ConstantinF 4 4.20 1926 The Murder of Roger Akroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
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average rating: 4.20
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rating: 4
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]]> Mad Honey 59912428 A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind.

Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business.

Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start.

And for just a short while, these new beginnings are exactly what Olivia and Lily need. Their paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can’t help but fall for him, too. With Ash, she feels happy for the first time. Yet at times, she wonders if she can she trust him completely . . .

Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent. But she would be lying if she didn’t acknowledge the flashes of his father’s temper in him, and as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he’s hidden more than he’s shared with her.

Mad Honey is a riveting novel of suspense, an unforgettable love story, and a moving and powerful exploration of the secrets we keep and the risks we take in order to become ourselves.]]> 464 Jodi Picoult 1984818384 ConstantinF 4 4.05 2022 Mad Honey
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]]> <![CDATA[Remarcabile făpturi inteligente]]> 194585102
Amazon's #1 Best Book of 2022

După ce soțul ei a murit, Tova Sullivan a început să lucreze în schimbul de noapte la Acvariul din Sowell Bay, spălând podelele și făcând curat. Și-a găsit un refugiu în munca asta, ca să nu se simtă copleșită de singurătate și ca să mai uite întrucâtva că Erik, fiul său în vârstă de 18 ani, a dispărut misterios în noaptea în care a ieșit în larg cu o barcă, în urmă cu 30 de ani.
Tova ajunge să-l cunoască tot mai bine pe Marcellus, o caracatiță gigantică de Pacific, care trăiește într-unul dintre bazinele de la acvariu, iar între cei doi se înfiripă o minunată prietenie.
Gata oricând să facă pe detectivul, Marcellus știe ce s-a întâmplat în noaptea în care fiul Tovei a dispărut. Iar acum trebuie să se folosească de orice truc, ca să-i dezvăluie prietenei sale adevărul înainte să fie prea târziu.
Romanul de debut al lui Shelby Van Pelt ne reamintește cu blândețe că uneori să medităm la trecut ne poate ajuta să descoperim un viitor care cândva părea imposibil.

„Un debut memorabil, plin de tandrețe." � Washington Post

„Povestea unei femei care se împrietenește cu o caracatiță este înduioșătoare și va topi multe inimi." � Kirkus Reviews

„O carte unică, luminoasă." � Booklist

„Cel mai potrivit roman care să risipească întunericul pe care îl aduce pierderea. Remarcabile făpturi inteligente ne oferă un masterclass care ne învață cum să ne regăsim speranța." � Marie Claire

„O meditație asupra durerii și asupra legăturilor sufletești care ne fac să mergem mai departe." � Elle

Shelby Van Pelt s-a născut și a crescut în Pacific Northwest. În prezent trăiește la Chicago, împreună cu familia sa și duce dorul munților. Remarcabile făpturi inteligente este romanul ei de debut.

„Totul a început de la un videoclip de pe internet! Cu câțiva ani în urmă, am văzut un clip cu o caracatiță care era hotărâtă să evadeze din cușca în care era închisă și m-am gândit� iată un posibil personaj. Ceva mai târziu, la un atelier de scriere creativă, am avut ca temă să scriem ceva dintr-o perspectivă inedită, așa că mintea mi-a fugit imediat la caracatița aia. Exasperată și frustrată de oamenii care încercau s-o țină captivă. Scena pe care am scris-o atunci s-a transformat în cele din urmă în primele pagini ale acestui roman." � Shelby Van Pelt]]> 464 Shelby Van Pelt 6064016671 ConstantinF 3 4.15 2022 Remarcabile făpturi inteligente
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]]> <![CDATA[Viața invizibilă a lui Addie LaRue]]> 57430992 Pe măsură ce își dă seama de limitele pactului său faustian � abilitatea de a trăi veșnic și de a fi uitată de toți cei pe care îi întâlnește � Addie alege să fugă din micul ei sat, atunci când tot ceea ce a iubit odată este distrus.
Dar încă are visuri și o viață de trăit și este hotărâtă să găsească entuziasmul și satisfacția în lumea largă � chiar dacă este condamnată să fie singură pentru totdeauna.
Sau nu chiar atât de singură, căci, în fiecare an, de ziua ei, seducătorul Luc vine în vizită pentru a verifica dacă este pregătită să renunțe la sufletul ei. Jocul lor palpitant și întunecat se desfășoară de-a lungul veacurilor, Addie fiind martora momentelor istorice în timp ce acestea au loc, luptându-se să se recapete pe sine însăși, în timp ce traversează oceanele și încearcă să își construiască vieți diferite.
Vor trece trei sute de ani înainte ca ea să descopere o librărie ascunsă și pe cineva care își amintește numele său � și brusc, totul se schimbă din nou.]]> 512 Victoria E. Schwab 6069700422 ConstantinF 5 4.26 2020 Viața invizibilă a lui Addie LaRue
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average rating: 4.26
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]]> Hello Beautiful 61771675
But then darkness from William’s past surfaces, jeopardizing not only Julia’s carefully orchestrated plans for their future, but the sisters� unshakeable devotion to one another. The result is a catastrophic family rift that changes their lives for generations. Will the loyalty that once rooted them be strong enough to draw them back together when it matters most?]]> 416 Ann Napolitano ConstantinF 4 4.14 2023 Hello Beautiful
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rating: 4
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]]> The Song of Achilles 13623848 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062060624.

Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is strong, swift, and beautiful, irresistible to all who meet him. Patroclus is an awkward young prince, exiled from his homeland after an act of shocking violence. Brought together by chance, they forge an inseparable bond, despite risking the gods' wrath.

They are trained by the centaur Chiron in the arts of war and medicine, but when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, all the heroes of Greece are called upon to lay siege to Troy in her name. Seduced by the promise of a glorious destiny, Achilles joins their cause, and torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus follows. Little do they know that the cruel Fates will test them both as never before and demand a terrible sacrifice.]]> 408 Madeline Miller ConstantinF 4 4.30 2011 The Song of Achilles
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]]> City of Girls 42135029
Now ninety-five years old and telling her story at last, Vivian recalls how the events of those years altered the course of her life - and the gusto and autonomy with which she approached it.

Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. Written with a powerful wisdom about human desire and connection, City of Girls is a love story like no other.]]> 470 Elizabeth Gilbert 1594634734 ConstantinF 4 4.00 2019 City of Girls
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]]> Other Birds 59807954 An enchanting tale filled with magical realism and moments of pure love that won’t let you go.

Between the real and the imaginary, there are stories that take flight in the most extraordinary ways.

Right off the coast of South Carolina, on Mallow Island, The Dellawisp sits—a stunning old cobblestone building shaped like a horseshoe, and named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside its human tenants, inhabit an air of magical secrecy.

When Zoey comes to claim her deceased mother’s apartment at the Dellawisp she meets her quirky and secretive neighbors, including a young woman with a past, two estranged middle-aged sisters, and a lonely chef, and three ghosts. The sudden death of one of Zoey's new neighbors sets off a search that leads to the island's famous author and to a long-estranged relative of the sisters.
Each of them has a story, and each story has an ending which hasn't yet been written.]]> 290 Sarah Addison Allen 1250019869 ConstantinF 3 4.00 2022 Other Birds
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]]> None of This Is True 62334530
A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.

Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home.

But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family’s lives under mortal threat.

Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?]]> 390 Lisa Jewell 1982179007 ConstantinF 3 4.08 2023 None of This Is True
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]]> <![CDATA[În tăcerea nopții (Popova & Popescu, #1)]]> 195715221
Însă toate acestea nu se văd din cluburile de noapte și birturile boeme ale Bucureștiului. Milionari, muncitori și cuțitari petrec la aceeași masă. După anii grei de război și epidemie vremurile bune par să se fi așternut pentru vecie.

Asasinatul sângeros al unui ofițer militar riscă însă să tulbure atât pacea Bucureștilor cât și a întregii Europe. Subcomisar Milia Popova, prima femeie angajată la brigada Omoruri din Strada Sevastopol și superiorul său, șugubățul comisar Popescu sunt singurii care pot să rezolve un caz pe care nimeni nu pare că-l vrea. De la mafioți evrei la traficanți de arme australieni, cei doi sticleți de Sevastopol trebuie să navigheze prin pestrița viață nocturnă a capitalei și să oprească forțele malefice care vor să afunde din nou Europa în măcel.]]> 308 Dragoș C. Costache 6067496895 ConstantinF 4 4.46 2023 În tăcerea nopții (Popova & Popescu, #1)
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average rating: 4.46
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rating: 4
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]]> Mystic River 21671
Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -- demons that urge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy's daughter is found murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood.

A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faith and family, in which people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on a collision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves.]]> 416 Dennis Lehane 0060584750 ConstantinF 3 4.17 2001 Mystic River
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average rating: 4.17
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]]> The Night Circus 9361589
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.

True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.

Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart.]]> 506 Erin Morgenstern ConstantinF 4 4.00 2011 The Night Circus
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]]> Flori pentru Algernon 18050379
Supuşi împreună experimentului, şoarecele Algernon şi omul Charlie vor trăi, fiecare în felul său, excepţionalul situaţiei de a vedea lumea printr-un alt coeficient de inteligenţă, suportând consecinţele nebănuite ale noii stări de fapt. O carte provocatoare şi emoţionantă, care pledează pentru supremaţia sufletului în faţa minţii, oricât de remarcabilă ar fi aceasta din urmă.

Inteligența remarcabilă vine uneori la pachet cu un surplus de suferință. Mergi alături de Charlie și de Algernon în călătoria lor neamaipomenită dincolo de obișnuit și neobișnuit, descoperind adevăratele posibilități ale unei minți deosebite, dar mai ales faptul că, în viață, contează în primul rând bunătatea, dragostea și relațiile cu cei din jurul nostru.]]> 312 Daniel Keyes 9731248927 ConstantinF 0 to-read 4.53 1966 Flori pentru Algernon
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]]> My Dark Vanessa 44890081
2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher.

2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past. But how can Vanessa reject her first love, the man who fundamentally transformed her and has been a persistent presence in her life? Is it possible that the man she loved as a teenager—and who professed to worship only her—may be far different from what she has always believed?

Alternating between Vanessa’s present and her past, My Dark Vanessa juxtaposes memory and trauma with the breathless excitement of a teenage girl discovering the power her own body can wield. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood. Written with the haunting intimacy of The Girls and the creeping intensity of Room, My Dark Vanessa is an era-defining novel that brilliantly captures and reflects the shifting cultural mores transforming our relationships and society itself.]]> 373 Kate Elizabeth Russell 006294150X ConstantinF 0 to-read 4.09 2020 My Dark Vanessa
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]]> <![CDATA[Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time]]> 49436 349 Greg Mortenson 0143038257 ConstantinF 0 to-read 3.66 2006 Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
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]]> <![CDATA[Amintirile Vraciului (Cronicile Wardstone, #0.5)]]> 13633615
În cartea de faţă, povesteşte că în tinereţea sa a trecut printr-o întâmplare primejdioasă, împrejurare în care l-a cunoscut pe Vraciul de la acea vreme.
Nu peste foarte mult timp, destinul lui avea să se schimbe...
Cineva trebuie să înfrunte întunericul!

„Deodată, în faţa mea s-a ivit ceea ce mi se părea a fi o căsuţă dărăpănată. Una dintre ferestre era bătută în scânduri, alta avea geamul spart, iar uşa din faţă atârna în balamale, deschisă. Părea un adăpost tocmai bun pentru cât avea să dureze vremea rea. Dar abia am păşit înăuntru, că mi-am şi dat seama că făcusem o greşeală fatală!
În jur erau semne că cineva fusese acolo de curând. Cenuşa focului încă fumega în vatra aflată în odăiţa din faţă şi, pe pervazul ferestrei, am observat un muc de lumânare groasă, din ceară neagră.

Văzând înfricoşat toate acestea, inima a început să-mi bubuie de spaimă. Se spunea că vrăjitoarele foloseau astfel de lumânări a căror culoare neagră provenea de la faptul că, în ceara topită, era amestecat sânge! Cocioaba se dovedea a fi cotlonul unei vrăjitoare!”]]> 80 Joseph Delaney 9731283684 ConstantinF 5 4.37 2011 Amintirile Vraciului (Cronicile Wardstone, #0.5)
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]]> The Push 52476830 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

A tense, page-turning psychological drama about the making and breaking of a family–and a woman whose experience of motherhood is nothing at all what she hoped for–and everything she feared.

Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had.

But in the thick of motherhood’s exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter–she doesn’t behave like most children do.

Or is it all in Blythe’s head? Her husband, Fox, says she’s imagining things. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well.

Then their son Sam is born–and with him, Blythe has the blissful connection she’d always imagined with her child. Even Violet seems to love her little brother. But when life as they know it is changed in an instant, the devastating fall-out forces Blythe to face the truth.

The Push is a tour de force you will read in a sitting, an utterly immersive novel that will challenge everything you think you know about motherhood, about what we owe our children, and what it feels like when women are not believed.]]> 307 Ashley Audrain 1984881663 ConstantinF 0 to-read 4.03 2021 The Push
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]]> Un veac de singurătate 25415157 stare de spirit"]]> 480 Gabriel García Márquez 6066098403 ConstantinF 0 to-read 4.19 1967 Un veac de singurătate
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]]> Big Little Lies 33516773 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.

From the author of Truly Madly Guilty and The Husband s Secret comes a novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.

A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead.

Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgives no one. Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare but she is paying a price for the illusion of perfection. New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for a nanny. She comes with a mysterious past and a sadness beyond her years. These three women are at different crossroads, but they will all wind up in the same shocking place.

Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the little lies that can turn lethal.]]> 460 Liane Moriarty 0399587195 ConstantinF 5 4.40 2014 Big Little Lies
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]]> <![CDATA[A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)]]> 50659468
Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she's now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people.

As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre's hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two different one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, and one who lives out her life in the Spring Court with Tamlin. While Feyre navigates a dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms. She might just be the key to stopping it, but only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future-and the future of a world in turmoil.

Bestselling author Sarah J. Maas's masterful storytelling brings this second book in her dazzling, sexy, action-packed series to new heights.]]> 626 Sarah J. Maas 1635575583 ConstantinF 5 4.65 2016 A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
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]]> Sharp Objects 18045891
Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition - ISBN 10: 0307341550 (ISBN 13: 9780307341556)]]> 254 Gillian Flynn 0297851535 ConstantinF 0 to-read 4.05 2006 Sharp Objects
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]]> To Kill a Mockingbird 2657 "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."

A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

"To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film.]]> 323 Harper Lee 0060935464 ConstantinF 0 to-read 4.25 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird
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]]> <![CDATA[Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #1)]]> 42899 The only purebred vampire left on the planet and the leader of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who killed his parents centuries ago.

But when his most trusted fighter is killed -- orphaning a half-breed daughter unaware of her heritage or her fate -- Wrath must put down his dagger and usher the beautiful female into another world.

Racked by a restlessness in her body that wasn’t there before, Beth Randall is helpless against the dangerously sexy man who comes to her at night with shadows in his eyes. His tales of the Brotherhood and blood frighten her. Yet his touch ignites a dawning new hunger one that threatens to consume them both…]]> 393 J.R. Ward 0451216954 ConstantinF 0 to-read 4.16 2005 Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #1)
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]]> Piranesi 50202953
There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.]]> 272 Susanna Clarke 163557563X ConstantinF 4 4.22 2020 Piranesi
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]]> Rebecca 17899948 Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...

The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives--presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.

First published in 1938, this classic gothic novel is such a compelling read that it won the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century.]]> 449 Daphne du Maurier 0316323705 ConstantinF 4 4.28 1938 Rebecca
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]]> The Tale of Two Cities 18167916 A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author’s novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes—imprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal.]]> 504 Charles Dickens ConstantinF 2 3.81 1859 The Tale of Two Cities
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]]> Adio, New Orleans 51161851 400 Ruta Sepetys ConstantinF 5 4.07 2013 Adio, New Orleans
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]]> <![CDATA[Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)]]> 33396914
But Fitz will not wait. Driven by loss and bitter memories, he undertakes a quest: to kill Regal. The journey casts him into deep waters, as he discovers wild currents of magic within him--currents that will either drown him or make him something more than he was.]]> 757 Robin Hobb ConstantinF 3 4.21 1997 Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)]]> 25300956
Renewing their vicious attacks on the coast, the Red-Ship Raiders leave burned-out villages and demented victims in their wake. The kingdom is also under assault from within, as treachery threatens the throne of the ailing king. In this time of great danger, the fate of the kingdom may rest in Fitz’s hands—and his role in its salvation may require the ultimate sacrifice.]]> 675 Robin Hobb ConstantinF 4 4.31 1996 Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Ucenicul asasinului (Farseer Trilogy, #1)]]> 12768824


Un roman finalist al premiilor LOCUS & BRITISH FANTASY, scris de către câștigătoarea WORLD FANTASY AWARD pentru întreaga carieră.

În cele Șase Ducate stă să izbucnească un război civil, când iese la iveală un secret: moștenitorul coroanei are un fiu ilegitim, Fitz. Crescut pe ascuns în grajdurile din castelul prințului Verity, acesta descoperă că are puteri magice și că poate comunica telepatic.

Atunci când Fitz este adoptat de familia regală, el trebuie să învețe cum să-și cizeleze manierele, dar și cum să asasineze oameni la porunca regelui său. Viața îi e pusă în pericol, dar trebuie să supraviețuiască, mai ales că s-ar putea să-i revină lui misiunea de a salva regatul.


„Cu siguranță, Robin Hobb a stabilit standardul pentru romanul fantasy contemporan.�
Orson Scott Card

„Pe piața romanelor fantasy, atât de aglomerată astăzi, cărțile lui Robin Hobb sunt ca niște diamante într-o mare de zirconiu.�
George R.R. Martin

„Îmi place totul la Robin Hobb. Stilul rafinat, forța imaginației, cu care reușește să mute granițele realității, migala cu care construiește personaje atât de convingătoare, încât uiți cu totul că te-ai mutat într-o lume fantastică. Dacă literatura fantasy modernă ar fi o casă, trilogia FARSEER ar face parte din structura ei de rezistență.�
Marian Coman, redactor-șef Armada]]> 448 Robin Hobb 6068073777 ConstantinF 4 4.36 1995 Ucenicul asasinului (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
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]]> The End of Men 53717123 Set in a world where a virus stalks our male population, The End of Men is an electrifying and unforgettable debut from a remarkable new talent that what would life truly look like without men?Only men are affected by the virus; only women have the power to save us all. The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland--a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. The virus becomes a global pandemic--and a political one. The victims are all men. The world becomes alien--a women's world.What follows is the immersive account of the women who have been left to deal with the virus's consequences, told through first-person narratives. Dr. MacLean; Catherine, a social historian determined to document the human stories behind the "male plague;" intelligence analyst Dawn, tasked with helping the government forge a new society; and Elizabeth, one of many scientists desperately working to develop a vaccine. Through these women and others, we see the uncountable ways the absence of men has changed society, from the personal--the loss of husbands and sons--to the political--the changes in the workforce, fertility and the meaning of family.In The End of Men, Christina Sweeney-Baird creates an unforgettable tale of loss, resilience and hope.]]> 416 Christina Sweeney-Baird 0385696639 ConstantinF 2 3.74 2021 The End of Men
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]]> Naked in Death (In Death, #1) 479309 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780425148297

Here is the novel that started it all- the first book in J.D. Robb's number-one New York Times-bestselling In Death series, featuring New York homicide detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke.

It is the year 2058, and technology now completely rules the world. But New York City Detective Eve Dallas knows that the irresistible impulses of the human heart are still ruled by just one thing: passion.

When a senator's daughter is killed, the secret life of prostitution she'd been leading is revealed. The high-profile case takes Lieutenant Eve Dallas into the rarefied circles of Washington politics and society. Further complicating matters is Eve's growing attraction to Roarke, who is one of the wealthiest and most influential men on the planet, devilishly handsome... and the leading suspect in the investigation.]]> 306 J.D. Robb ConstantinF 2 4.11 1995 Naked in Death (In Death, #1)
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]]> The Fault in Our Stars 11870085
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.]]> 313 John Green ConstantinF 0 to-read 4.13 2012 The Fault in Our Stars
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]]> Anna Karenina 15823480 Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in all of literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions.

Throughout, Tolstoy points no moral, merely inviting us not to judge but to watch. As Rosemary Edmonds comments, 'He leaves the shifting patterns of the kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.]]> 964 Leo Tolstoy 0345803922 ConstantinF 0 to-read 4.11 1878 Anna Karenina
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]]> <![CDATA[Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)]]> 7171637 New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series.

The year is 1878. Tessa Gray descends into London’s dark supernatural underworld in search of her missing brother. She soon discovers that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters—including Will and Jem, the mysterious boys she is attracted to. Soon they find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans. Equipped with a magical army of unstoppable clockwork creatures, the Club is out to rule the British Empire, and only Tessa and her allies can stop them...]]> 479 Cassandra Clare 1416975861 ConstantinF 0 to-read 4.31 2010 Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Girl Who Played With Fire (Millennium #2)]]> 5060378 Millenium publisher Mikael Blomkvist has made his reputation exposing corrupt establishment figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking, Blomkvist cannot resist waging war on the powerful figures who control this lucrative industry.

The Murder
When a young couple is found dead in their Stockholm apartment, it's a straightforward job for Inspector Bublanski and his team. The killer left the weapon at the scene - and the fingerprints on the gun point in only one direction.

The Girl Who Played with Fire
Ex-security analyst Lisbeth Salander is wanted for murder. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her. The only way Salander can be reached is by computer. But she can break into almost any network she chooses...]]> 503 Stieg Larsson 0307269981 ConstantinF 0 to-read 4.25 2006 The Girl Who Played With Fire (Millennium #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)]]> 1232 487 Carlos Ruiz Zafón ConstantinF 0 to-read 4.26 2001 The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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]]> And Then There Were None 16299
"Ten little boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine. Nine little boys sat up very late; One overslept himself and then there were eight. Eight little boys traveling in Devon; One said he'd stay there then there were seven. Seven little boys chopping up sticks; One chopped himself in half and then there were six. Six little boys playing with a hive; A bumblebee stung one and then there were five. Five little boys going in for law; One got in Chancery and then there were four. Four little boys going out to sea; A red herring swallowed one and then there were three. Three little boys walking in the zoo; A big bear hugged one and then there were two. Two little boys sitting in the sun; One got frizzled up and then there was one. One little boy left all alone; He went out and hanged himself and then there were none."

When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale? Only the dead are above suspicion.]]> 264 Agatha Christie 0312330871 ConstantinF 5 4.28 1939 And Then There Were None
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]]> <![CDATA[Little Women (Little Women, #1)]]> 1934 This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451529305.

Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War.

It is no secret that Alcott based Little Women on her own early life. While her father, the freethinking reformer and abolitionist Bronson Alcott, hobnobbed with such eminent male authors as Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne, Louisa supported herself and her sisters with "woman’s work,� including sewing, doing laundry, and acting as a domestic servant. But she soon discovered she could make more money writing. Little Women brought her lasting fame and fortune, and far from being the "girl’s book� her publisher requested, it explores such timeless themes as love and death, war and peace, the conflict between personal ambition and family responsibilities, and the clash of cultures between Europe and America.

]]> 449 Louisa May Alcott ConstantinF 0 to-read 4.16 1868 Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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]]> Dracula 17245 You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here.

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival.

In Dracula, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.

This Norton Critical Edition includes a rich selection of background and source materials in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works of James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard. Also included are a discussion of Stoker's working notes for the novel and "Dracula's Guest," the original opening chapter to Dracula. Reviews and Reactions reprints five early reviews of the novel. "Dramatic and Film Variations" focuses on theater and film adaptations of Dracula, two indications of the novel's unwavering appeal. David J. Skal, Gregory A. Waller, and Nina Auerbach offer their varied perspectives. Checklists of both dramatic and film adaptations are included.

Criticism collects seven theoretical interpretations of Dracula by Phyllis A. Roth, Carol A. Senf, Franco Moretti, Christopher Craft, Bram Dijkstra, Stephen D. Arata, and Talia Schaffer.

A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.]]> 488 Bram Stoker 0393970124 ConstantinF 0 to-read 4.02 1897 Dracula
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]]> <![CDATA[Dacă pisicile ar dispărea din lume]]> 75547101 Dacă pisicile ar dispărea din lume este o mică bijuterie de umanitate, plină de umor, deopotrivă luminoasă și melancolică.

Când Diavolul și un motan se întâlnesc în literatură urmează aproape sigur un târg și o lecție de viață. Motanul, pe nume Varză, este al unui tânăr poștaș care află că mai are foarte puțin de trăit, poate o zi, poate o săptămână. O ocazie pentru Diavol să intre în scenă, fluturându-i pe la nas un târg de nerefuzat: câte o zi de viață în plus, pentru câte un lucru care să dispară din lume. Cu fiecare dispariție, poștașul își rememorează momente din trecut și, redându-le în mici fragmente, redescoperă de fapt lucrurile importante pe care oamenii ajung cu greu să le recunoască și să și le asume. Dacă pisicile ar dispărea din lume este o scrisoare de dragoste adresată vieții și lucrurilor care contează cu adevărat.]]> 192 Genki Kawamura 6060971512 ConstantinF 5 3.99 2012 Dacă pisicile ar dispărea din lume
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]]> Scrisoare de dragoste 6961368
O poveste de dragoste în care goana după bani şi carierismul fac ravagii, cu spectaculoase răsturnări de situaţie, suspans, melodramă, vervă, ironie şi dialoguri vii � reţeta celui mai bine vândut prozator român nu dă greş. Scrisoare de dragoste a fost reeditată de zeci de ori de la apariţia sa şi a cucerit publicul de toate vârstele.
„Receptată cu bucurie şi interes de către publicul tânăr, opera lui Mihail Drumeş aduce în literatura noastră candoarea poveştilor de dragoste trăite cu frenezie până la capăt, tensiunea înaltă a sentimentelor, gustul unic al adolescenţei � o lume încărcată de sens şi de aspiraţie.
Romanele sale devin pledoarii aprige pentru echilibru şi armonie, demonstraţii de artă narativă şi psihologică, punctate de o replică alertă, sclipitoare uneori, care întreţine conflictele, impunând un ritm viu, cuceritor, cultivând curiozitatea pentru firul epic, suscitând interes pentru metamorfozele psihologice ale eroilor.�

Florea Firan]]> 333 Mihail Drumeş 9737678583 ConstantinF 5 4.30 1938 Scrisoare de dragoste
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]]> Maitreyi 817199 Set in 1930s Calcutta, this is a roman á clef of remarkable intimacy. Originally published in Romanian in 1933, this semiautobiographical novel by the world renowned scholar Mircea Eliade details the passionate awakenings of Alain, an ambitious young French engineer flush with colonial pride and prejudice and full of a European fascination with the mysterious subcontinent.

Offered the hospitality of a senior Indian colleague, Alain grasps at the chance to discover the authentic India firsthand. He soon finds himself enchanted by his host's daughter, the lovely and inscrutable Maitreyi, a precocious young poet and former student of Tagore. What follows is a charming, tentative flirtation that soon, against all the proprieties and precepts of Indian society, blossoms into a love affair both impossible and ultimately tragic. This erotic passion plays itself out in Alain's thoughts long after its bitter conclusion. In hindsight he sets down the story, quoting from the diaries of his disordered days, and trying to make sense of the sad affair.

A vibrantly poetic love story, Bengal Nights is also a cruel account of the wreckage left in the wake of a young man's self discovery. At once horrifying and deeply moving, Eliade's story repeats the patterns of European engagement with India even as it exposes and condemns them. Invaluable for the insight it offers into Eliade's life and thought, it is a work of great intellectual and emotional power.

"Bengal Nights is forceful and harshly poignant, written with a great love of India informed by clear-eyed understanding. But do not open it if you prefer to remain unmoved by your reading matter.It is enough to make stones weep." � Literary Review

Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) was the Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor in the Divinity School and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Many of his scholarly works, as well as his two-volume autobiography and four-volume journal, are published by the University of Chicago Press. Translated into French in 1950, Bengal Nights was an immediate critical success. The film, Les Nuits Bengali, appeared in 1987.

]]> 200 Mircea Eliade 9735004100 ConstantinF 4 3.81 1933 Maitreyi
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]]> Pride and Prejudice 1885 Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679783268]]> 279 Jane Austen 1441341706 ConstantinF 5 4.28 1813 Pride and Prejudice
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]]> <![CDATA[Northanger Abbey: With 16 Illustrations and a Free Audio Link.]]> 33810403
The humorous Northanger Abbey pokes fun at the 18th-century gothic novel genre.

Highlights of this edition are:

� 16 illustrations and photos.
� A free web link to the full-length audio recording of the book � to either listen to online, or download.
� It is formatted for ease of use and enjoyment on your kindle reader.
� An active (easy to use) Table of Contents listing every chapter accessible from the kindle “go to� feature.
� Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with kindle’s Text-to-Speech features.
� Plus, about the Author section.
� 380 pages (in the kindle format) for a very low price.

This book is unabridged and appears as it was first intended. First published in 1817.]]> 228 Jane Austen ConstantinF 3 3.85 1817 Northanger Abbey: With 16 Illustrations and a Free Audio Link.
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]]> Sufletul împăratului 25575145 160 Brandon Sanderson 6068673014 ConstantinF 5 4.12 2012 Sufletul împăratului
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]]> Night Road 21469157 432 Kristin Hannah 1250059879 ConstantinF 5 4.22 2011 Night Road
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]]> Povestea slujitoarei 27858750 Povestea Slujitoarei este o distopie sumbră și un roman răscolitor, considerat de mulți capodopera scriitoarei canadiene.]]> 402 Margaret Atwood ConstantinF 4 4.02 1985 Povestea slujitoarei
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]]> Maestrul și Margareta 16133490 464 Mikhail Bulgakov 6065397792 ConstantinF 3 4.22 1967 Maestrul și Margareta
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]]> <![CDATA[The Twelfth Card (Lincoln Rhyme #6)]]> 50415153 576 Jeffery Deaver ConstantinF 4 4.46 2005 The Twelfth Card (Lincoln Rhyme #6)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Vanished Man (Lincoln Rhyme, #5)]]> 28568
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation and to ferret out a master illusionist they've dubbed "the conjurer." As the fatalities rise and the minutes tick down, Rhyme and Sachs must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all.]]> 560 Jeffery Deaver 0743437810 ConstantinF 5 4.09 2003 The Vanished Man (Lincoln Rhyme, #5)
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]]> Fiul 40861726
"Un roman perfect construit, care explorează teme profunde: păcatul, izbăvirea, dragostea, răul și condiția umană. Una dintre cărțile cele mai bune, mai adevărate și mai complexe ale lui Jo Nesbø." - Kirkus Reviews

SONNY SE AFLĂ ÎNTR-O CURSĂ PE VIAȚĂ ȘI PE MOARTE.
Sonny Lofthus și-a petrecut aproape jumătate din viață la închisoare, ispășind pedepse pentru o serie de crime pe care nu le-a comis. În schimb, i se furnizează constant heroină, iar prin celula lui se perindă întruna prizonieri care-l roagă să-i absolve de păcate. Dar mărturisirea unui deținut schimbă totul. Știe ceva despre tatăl lui Sonny, un polițist acuzat de corupție, despre care se crede că s-a sinucis. Sonny înțelege că a fost mințit toată viața.
ACUM VREA SĂ SE RĂZBUNE.
Concepe un plan strălucit de evadare și începe să-i vâneze pe vinovați. Îi va face să plătească pentru crimele lor.
CU ORICE PREȚ!

"Norvegia se laudă cu trei nume care au marcat definitiv cultura lumii: Henrik Ibsen, Edvard Munch și Jo Nesbø, maestrul genului crime." - New York Times

"Polițiști și escroci brutali, tulburați și dornici de izbăvire, într-un univers extravagant în care aștepți să întrezărești o lumină. O galerie de personaje demnă de romanele lui Dickens. Un Oslo sumbru, ce reflect suferințele locuitorilor lui." - New York Times Book Review

"Simbolismul religios oferă o aura profundă acestui roman pasionant; personajele aflate în criză existențială te emoționează, iar talentul cu care e spusă povestea te face să nu te poți opri din citit." - Wall Street Journal

"Nesbø nu dă greș niciodată când vrea să spună o poveste puternică�, iar Fiul este una dintre cele mai mari reușite ale sale." - Mail on Sunday]]> 560 Jo Nesbø ConstantinF 4 4.32 2014 Fiul
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]]> Torente vol. I 18723137 537 Marie-Anne Desmarest ConstantinF 4 4.25 1938 Torente vol. I
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)]]> 136251
In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited.]]> 759 J.K. Rowling ConstantinF 5 4.61 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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