Fiction Genres

“ولماذا كل تلك النواهي؟

أوَلمْ تكن أغلب وصايا الرب العشر لكليمه موسى نواهي؟ ثماني تحديدا. أوَلمْ يفعلها مع آدم وحواء في شجرته المباركة؟ النهي أسبق دائمًا من الأمر وأشد أهمية، ففي فعْله يحدث الجرم أو الخلل أو المعصية، أما الأمر المنسي ففي عدم فعله ضرر أقل، وذنب يجوز تكفيره أو تداركه”.

في إحدى ليالى ديسمبر الثلجية، يتم استدعاء المصور الثلاثيني «بهى» المرتبط بتاريخ طويل مع دير سانت كاترين للتحقيق في وفاة غامضة للراهب اليوناني «بافلوس» المسئول عن مكتبة الدير ومخطوطاتها النادرة، ليكتشف «بهى» بمساعدة البدوى أبى عمران ووثائق الدير النادرة العديدَ من الأسرار الخطيرة.

"المريض الإنجليزي" أربع حيوات تلتقي في منزل مهجور فوق تلّة إيطاليّة مقصوفة، أواخر الحرب: هانا، الممرّضة التي أنهك روحها الموت، ترعى بطريقة مُدهشة مريضها الأخير على قيد الحياة؛ كارافاجيو، اللصّ، يحاول أن يُعيد التفكير في هُويّته، الآن وقد باتت يداه اللتان نزل عليهما العقاب، دون فائدة له؛ الهنديّ كيب، الباحث دوماً عن الألغام المخفيّة في كلّ أرضٍ ورُكن، لا يأمَن أحداً سوى نفسه - ينشغل كلّ واحدٍ منهم، بطريقة مختلفة، بلُغز الرّجل الذي يعرفونه فقط بإسم المريض الإنجليزيّ: ضحيّة مُحترقة لا اسمّ لها، تستلقي في ضماداتها طوال الوقت في غرفة من المنزل.

إنها أحاديث هذا الرّجل المتّقدة عن ذكرياته في بحر الرّمال العظيم وصحاري مصر وليبيا، في كهف السبّاحين والجلف الكبير، عن البدو وواحاتهم وسحرهم، وحُبّه المحرّم، وغضْبَته الشّرسة - تلك الذّكريات تُشعل القصّة وتكشف عن غوامضَ تنتقل في موجات صادمة إلى أوالئك الهاربين من الحرب والموت حوله في المنزل، فتتغيّر حيواتهم إلى الأبد.

Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations--a search for the truth that threatens to consume him.... Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia's refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations--a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

In Joe and Kate Keller's family garden, an apple tree a memorial to their son Larry, lost in the Second World War has been torn down by a storm. But his loss is not the only part of the family's past they can't put behind them. Not everybody's forgotten the court case that put Joe's partner in jail, or the cracked engine heads his factory produced which caused it and dropped twentyone pilots out of the sky!

When the letters first arrived from her beloved grandfather—the shaking, green-inked letters, full of bewildered anger at the loss of his ancestral home and the priceless jewels within it—Vita and her mother took the next boat to New York. And now that she’s here

Besieged on all sides, Lirael, Sameth and the Disreputable Dog are in for the fight of their lives. Chlorr of the Mask, under the control of the enormously powerful Necromancer Hedge, is determined to free Orannis the Destroyer - the greatest and most powerful Free Magic creature in the history of the Old Kingdom. Only Lirael, newly come into her inheritance as the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, and only just beginning to understand her powers as a Remembrancer, has any chance of stopping the Destroyer - although she has no idea how. To make matters worse, Sameth's best friend, Nick, seems to be helping the Destroyer, and there has been no word from the Abhorsen Sabriel or King Touchstone for days. With only a vision from the Clayr to guide her, and the rather mixed help of her companions, Lirael must search in both Life and Death for some means to defeat the Destroyer. The Old Kingdom - and the world - is depending on her...

To save her mother’s life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters — never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and her best friend, Simon, has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunters, who are deeply suspicious of a vampire who can withstand sunlight.

The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She’s training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love of her life. Downworlders and Shadowhunters are at peace at last. And—most importantly of all—she can finally call Jace her boyfriend.

Jace is now a servant of evil, bound for all eternity to Sebastian. Only a small band of Shadowhunters believe he can be saved. To do this they must defy the Clave. And they must act without Clary. For Clary is playing a dangerous game utterly alone. The price of losing is not just her own life, but Jace's soul. Clary is willing to do anything for Jace, but can she still trust him? Or is he truly lost? What price is too high to pay, even for love?

Darkness returns to the Shadowhunter world. As their society falls apart around them, Clary, Jace, Simon, and their friends must band together to fight the greatest evil the Nephilim have ever faced: Clary’s own brother. Nothing in the world can defeat him—must they journey to another world to find the chance? Lives will be lost, love sacrificed, and the whole world change in the sixth and last installment of the Mortal Instruments series!