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The Emperor’s Tomb, Roth’s last novel, it is a novel of mothers and marriages, and tells the story of another young Trotta, first seen as a man about town, frequenting cafés and prostitutes, who is called up, and returns to the chaos and disintegration of Vienna between the wars and the coming of the Nazis. Franz Ferdinand Trotta, is in …

TO YOU > To you who you are the only in the world, the only reason to go through with my every breath, when I look at you, after a day full of words, without you to tell me anything, everything becomes clear. In you I’ve found all ‘corner, with clenched fists, with my back against the wall, ready to …

GEORGES BRAQUE 1/4 – A creative that is born in a spring day, a child who attended evening classes at the School of Fine Arts in Le Havre, the guy that is formed at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, the artist who loves Matisse, Picasso and Cezanne. Objects that you observe in his paintings are not copies of reality, …

Stephanie Plum, pursues a fraternity member arrested for beating up a college dean and investigates a murder. Ken Globovic, hailed as the The Supreme Exalted Zoo Keeper of the animal house known as Zeta fraternity, has been arrested for beating up the dean of students at Kiltman College. Things just aren’t adding up, and Stephanie can’t shake the feeling that …

In the mid-1950s, a grown-up Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb and realizes that her adored father is a racist. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch returns home from New York City, to visit her aging father, Atticus. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. http://www.amazon.com/Go-Set-Watchman-A-Novel/dp/0062409859

Abandoned by his crew, an astronaut embarks on a dogged quest to stay alive. Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. As he overcomes one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next, Mark begins to let himself believe he might make …

While attending the Black Dagger Brotherhood’s rigorous training program, Paradise falls for a commoner. The schooling is unfathomably difficult, the other recruits feel more like enemies than allies. Her strategy? Join the Black Dagger Brotherhood’s training center program and learn to fight for herself. And that’s before she falls in love with a fellow classmate. http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Kiss-Black-Dagger-Legacy/dp/0451475321

The government hit man Will Robie investigates murder charges against his estranged father in their Mississippi hometown. He infiltrates the most hostile countries in the world, defeats our enemies’ advanced security measures, and eliminates threats before they ever reach our shores. To recover what he has lost, Robie must confront what he has tried to forget for over twenty years: …

The attorney Sebastian Rudd is a lone gunman who hates injustice and the system, and defends unpopular clients. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse apartment, and his primary piece of furniture is a vintage pool table. He drinks small-batch bourbon and carries a gun. Because he believes everyone is entitled to a fair trial, even if …

Harry Bosch reluctantly helps his half brother, a defense attorney, and his investigations lead him inside the L.A.P.D. The murder rap against his client seems ironclad, but Mickey is sure it’s a setup. With the secret help of his former L.A.P.D. partner Lucia Soto, he turns the investigation inside the police department. http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Crossing-Michael-Connelly/dp/1409145905

Detective Alex Cross returns home, for the first time in 35 years, to help a cousin who has been accused of murder. As Cross steps into his family home, the horrors of his childhood flood back, and he learns that they’re not really over. A brutal killer, the truth about his own past, and justice for his cousin. Any one …

President Jack Ryan detects a pattern in outbreaks of violence around the world that point to the Russian president, but he must unite the Western allies before he can take action. A floating natural gas facility in Lithuania is blown up. A Venezuelan prosecutor is assassinated. A devastating attack on a Russian troop train kills dozens. A chaotic world is …