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Introducing your new crime thriller Bristol detective DS George Cross, champion of the outsider, the voiceless and the dispossessed.

Bristol detective DS George Cross investigates the suspicious death of a homeless man, and discovers a link to a cold case murder from years before. DS George Cross can be rude, difficult, and awkward with people. But his unfailing logic and dogged pursuit of the truth means his conviction rate is the best on the force. So when his police colleagues dismiss the death of a man as a squabble among Bristol's homeless community, Detective Sergeant George Cross is not convinced. Who was the unknown man whose weather-beaten body is discovered on Clifton Downs? Did the tragedy that led to a life on the streets also lead to his death? As he delves into the dead man's past, Cross becomes convinced that to catch this killer, he needs to solve a cold case murder from years before. A murder that someone has got away with for fifteen years...

تزوجت "نجية" منذ خمسة عشر عاما ثم لم تر زوجها سوى ليلة الزفاف. ولكن هذا ليس موضوعنا الآن، فعند قدميها جثة يجب التخلص منها سريعا، وتاجر الأعضاء لا يبدي التعاون المعتاد.

في هذه الرواية، تلتقي بامرأة حائرة أمام جثة متحللة، ثم لا تلبث أن تظهر جثة ثانية، ثم ثالثة.. ونتساءل نحن، أهو مجرم طليق؟ أم هي محاولات امرأة يائسة للتشبث بالحياة؟

ما بين أوراق "نجية" وذكرياتها المشوشة، وبين التقرير الصحفي الذي تعده عنها صحفية شديدة الهشاشة، وبين التحقيق الجنائي
الذي يقوده ضابط المباحث الغاضب دائما، وبين أياد الشر المتوارية
خلف الستار، تدور هذه الرواية.

 

«ومع أنه كان يُعاقِر الخمر كلَّ ليلة إلى إفراطٍ في الشرب حتى السُّكْر، إلا أنه لم يكن ليُقرِّر العودةَ إلى بيته حتى تُزايِله سَوْرةُ الخمر، ويستعيدَ سيطرتَه على نفسه؛ حرصًا منه على وقاره، والمظهرِ الذي يجب أن يبدوَ به في بيته.»

«بين القصرين» هو الجزء الأول من ثُلاثيَّة «نجيب محفوظ»، التي جمع فيها بين التأريخَين السياسي والاجتماعي، من خلال سردِ حياةِ أسرةٍ مصرية متوسطة؛ هي أسرة «السيد أحمد عبد الجواد»، بدايةً من نهايات العقد الثاني من القرن العشرين حتَّى منتصف أربعينياته، وراح يُبرِز فيها الأبعادَ النفسية والاجتماعية لكل شخصيةٍ بإتقانٍ فريد. وتدور أحداثُ الثلاثية في حي الجمالية، الذي سُمِّي هذا الجزء على اسم أحد شوارعه، وهو شارع «بين القصرين». وفي هذا الجزء يَسرُد «محفوظ» الحياةَ اليومية للأسرة، والتناقُضات المتناغِمة التي شكَّلتها الظروف الاجتماعية وغذَّتها التركيبة النفسية، والدورَ الذي تلعبه كلُّ شخصية، وخاصَّة شخصيةَ «السيد أحمد عبد الجواد» العَصِية على التصنيف؛ لكثرةِ ما تَتضمَّنه من تناقُضات. وتبدأ أحداث الرواية بإيقاعٍ هادئٍ يرتفع تدريجيًّا حتى يصل إلى مَداه مع أحداثِ ثورة ١٩١٩م، واستشهادِ «فهمي» الابنِ الثاني للأسرة.

Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah has to spend the remainder of her summer on a peninsula in Texas with a father she barely knows. Beyah's plan is to keep her head down and let the summer slip by seamlessly, but her new neighbor Samson throws a wrench in that plan. Samson and Beyah have nothing in common on the surface. She comes from a life of poverty and neglect; he comes from a family of wealth and privilege. But one thing they do have in common is that they're both drawn to sad things. Which means they're drawn to each other. With an almost immediate connection too intense for them to continue denying, Beyah and Samson agree to stay in the shallow end of a summer fling. What Beyah doesn't realize is that a rip current is coming, and it's about to drag her heart out to sea.

As Ellie and Blake go back to school, keeping their ability to understand animals a secret is the last of their worries. The local park is about to be destroyed and turned into a leisure centre! Then Harish the heroic badger and his troop arrive to stop the development. While Harish draws up a plan to fight back against the bulldozers, Ellie and Blake struggle to find a safer way to save the park. Maybe it’s finally time to tell Ellie’s mum about their big secret …

A new threat rises in the third book in the Throne of Glass series

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever. It's the day he learned about the Archipelago, a cluster of unmapped islands where magical creatures of every kind have thrived for thousands of years—until now. And it's the day he met Mal, a girl on the run who desperately needs his help. Mal and Christopher embark on a wild adventure, racing from island to island, searching for someone who can explain why the magic is fading and why magical creatures are suddenly dying. They consult sphinxes, battle kraken, and negotiate with dragons. But the closer they get to the dark truth of what's happening, the clearer it becomes: no one else can fix this. If the Archipelago is to be saved, Mal and Christopher will have to do it themselves.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, comes a breath taking novel about modern marriage, the depth of family ties, and the year that one remarkable heroine spends exploring both. When Lauren and Ryan's marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes. Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren's ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to When you can have romance without

Emma and Alice were born on the same day and have been devoted best friends ever since. Despite Gemma’s larger-than-life personality and Alice’s quieter, calmer character, the two are inseparable – until Alice has to move house, all the way to Scotland.