ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
2790 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
6990 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
4950 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
2350 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
4990 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
The lobster fishery was not what it once was. Back then, hard-working, professional lobstermen trapped the black crustaceans. Now, summertime visitors spent a week fishing for lobsters purely for their own enjoyment. And they didn't obey the regulations either. He had seen plenty of it over the...
The Legend of Jusef Sardu"g ^Wnce upon a time," said Abraham Setrakian's grand-I I mother, "there was a giant."V^^^X Young Abraham's eyes brightened, and immediately the cabbage borscht in the wooden bowl got tastier, or at least less garlicky. He was a pale boy, underweight and sickly. His...
CHAPTER 1Ryan Perry did not know that something in him was broken.At thirty-four, he appeared to be more physically fit than he had been at twenty-tour. His home gym was well equipped. A personal trainer came to his house three times a week.On that Wednesday morning in September, in his bedroom,...
OK.I think I better take some notes, cuz something super strange is happening to me, and I don't know1.my name2.anyone else's name3.where I am4.how I got here5.where I live6.how old I am (am I a kid or just short?)7.an3^hing I've done since I was born8.whether I'm a cat person or a dog...
A piece of advice: If you ever follow someone in my neighborhood, don't wear pink.The first day Angie and I picked up the little round guy on our tail, he wore a pink shirt under a gray suit and a black topcoat. The suit was double-breasted, Italian, and too nice for my part of town by several...
Prologue'Washington has gone crazy.'I am standing at the foot of Joe's bed in the Worldlink Hospital. Six days have passed since the attacks of 11 June. There are plastic tubes running from valves on his wrists, a cardiac monitor attached by pads to the spaces between the bruises and cuts on his...
PrologueTwo minutes it says to wait, two minutes and bam! Your life changed forever. Imagine that. No God, on second thoughts, let's not. Let's just calm down, breathe deeply and concentrate. I take off my watch. It's one of those underwater sports ones. Great for boiling eggs and ideal for timing...
1A man begins dying at the moment of his birth.Most people live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.Eventually, Mitchell Rafferty would be able to cite the minute that he began to recognize the inevitability of...
August 1958Later, when it was over, he cast his thoughts back to that sun-struck May day in Cambridge - where it had all begun - and asked himself whether he would have done anything differently, knowing what he now did.It was not a question easily answered.He barely recognized himself in the...
THE GRAVE TATTOOVal McDermid grew up in a Scottish miningcommunity then read English at Oxford. She wasa journalist for sixteen years, spending the lastthree years as Northern Bureau Chief of a nationalSunday tabloid. Now a full-time writer, she dividesher time between Cheshire and...
GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING Tracy Chevalier grew up in Washington, DC. She moved to England in 1984, and worked for several years as a reference book editor. In 1994 she graduated from the MA course in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Her first növel, The Virgin Blue, was chosen by...
Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature. And while I occasionally step over the line and into the world of the melodramatic, it is what I must do in order to communicate clearly and effectively. In order to make my point understood without question. I have no words I...
Prologue
In the lights of the police cruisers, her face was a strobing image of pain and fear. But she was still, to the child in her arms, a haven. She ran as fast as her violated body would allow, pressing his head to her cheek, his hair soaking up their sweat, blood, spit, tears. A terrible,...
PROLOGUE
GATE FANTE WAS THE GUEST OF HONOR AT this celebration, which was drawing to a liquefied close. She raised a final snifter of cognac, joining the judges toasting her appointment to the district court. Tomorrow would be a slow day on the bench. The wheels of justice weren't lubricated by...
In my dream I smelted the dark sulphurous stink of a passing witch and I pulled up the coarse blanket over my head and whispered 'Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for usto shield me from my nightmare of terror. Then I heard shouting and the terrifying crackle of hungry flames and I came awake in a...
Prologue
Star Bluestone had talked to bees all her life. She talked to her flowers too, murmuring to the rare yellow poppies she'd nurtured from seeds gathered in the old Italianate garden thirty miles away across the Wickiow hills. She and the young Kiwi gardener there had such great chats, he...
VAa
Oh no, not another ritual! Not another invocation intended to make the invisible forces manifest in the visible world! What has that got to do with the world we live in today? Graduates leave university and can't find a job. Old people reach retirement and have almost nothing to live on....
ONE
At ten minutes before eleven in the morning, the sky exploded into a carnival of white confetti that instantly blanketed the city. The soft snow turned the already frozen streets of Manhattan to grey slush and the icy December wind herded the Christmas shoppers towards the comfort of their...
Sut
I wanted tattoos for our thirteenth birthday. Chloe didn't. Chloe
refused. I told her I did not know what I would do if she kept saying no.
"Tattoos are dirty," Chloe said.
Chloe was four minutes older. She was an eighth of an inch taUer. She was smarter. She was prettier. We were...
Author's Note
Thank you to early readers of The Next Queen of Heaven—Betty Levin, Andy Newman, William Reiss, and Maggie Stern Terris.
Special thanks are due to the heavenly beings behind Concord Free Press, a nonprofit publishing venture founded by Ann and Stona Fitch. (Check it out at...
The large ballroom was crowded with familiar ghosts come to help celebrate her birthday. Kate Blackwell watched them mingle with the flesh-and-blood people, and in her mind, the scene was a dreamlike fantasy as the visitors from another time and place glided around the dance floor with the...
1
PIANA, CORSICA
They came for her in late August, on the island of Corsica. The precise time would never be determined—some point between sunset and noon the following day was the best any of her housemates could do. Sunset was when they saw her for the last time, streaking down the drive of...
ntroduction
Russia has two generals whom she con trust-General January and General Februory.
—Czar Nicholos I
^ ^ or years Russia has been home to a secret weapon, more ^ ^ powerful than the nuclear warheads that made it a world I superpower. When all hope seems lost and the casualties of...
PROLOGUE
On the one hand, you might have said my day wasn't going terribly well.
But on the other, I had told Amy that I wanted to make big changes in my life and there weren't many lifestyle changes more significant than swapping a luxury Italian palazzo for a prison cell.
And my second...
NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
In my book The Alchemist, the central thesis lies in a phrase that King Melchizedek says to the shepherd boy Santiago: "When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
I believe this with all my heart. However, the act of living one's own...
PROLOGUE
They had come a long way, those gypsies encamped for their evening meal on the dusty greensward by the winding mountain road in Provence. From Transylvania they had come, from the pustas of Hungary, from the High Tatra of Czechoslovakia, from the Iron Gate, even from as far away as the...