In her second novel, the author of Hank & Chloe sets two wisened yet desirous lovers against the ruggedly beautiful backdrop of rural New Mexico and the losses of their pasts.
Rebellion is the story of Great War veteran Andreas Pum, who loses a leg and gains a medal. He marries, plays a barrel organ and is happy. But hen he is imprisoned after a fight, life seems unbearably altered. A chance encounter with an old comrade who has made his fortune introduces Pum to a world where he has a transfiguring experience of justice.
A deaf woman must stop a serial killer obsessed with targeting everyone she loves in this intense psychological thriller. Annie Black, who is profoundly deaf, has always looked out for her friend’s deaf son Toby. Now she’s looking for him as part of a search party. And when the fifteen-year-old turns up murdered, it’s only the beginning of Annie’s nightmare. Someone is targeting people close to her—someone merciless and very smart. Teaming up with the lead Detective, Annie attempts to un...
An unconventional, transatlantic love story by the acclaimed author of Eva Moves the Furniture Deftly plotted and filled with unexpected twists, Banishing Verona marks the arrival of another lyrical and wise novel from a writer whose work 'radiates with compassion and intelligence and always, deliciously, mystery' Alice Sebold. Zeke is twenty-nine, a man who looks like a Raphael angel and who earns his living as a painter and carpenter in London. He reads the world a little differently from most...
As a child-so tiny and delicate that her father calls her fairy-Morgan has a special relationship with nature, for she can hear the Silence, the harmonising force that creates and sustains all things. The humming of the Silence is her secret, even from her beloved father, as is the day that she walks along a cobweb. But with adolescence comes a loss of childhood innocence and the intrusion into her perfect world of an unwanted stepmother and baby sister. These loud and chaotic presences, toget...
Il capitano che affrontò i mari dell'alzheimer e del parkinson
by Benjamin Gancitano