terça-feira, março 28, 2006

13. Depois de Tu Partires, Maggie O'Farrell

329 páginas

"Alice Raikes dirige-se à estação de King’s Cross onde irá apanhar o comboio que a levará até à Escócia para visitar a sua família. Horas mais tarde encontra-se em coma no hospital de Londres, após um acidente que se suspeita ter sido uma tentativa de suicídio. A partir daqui, Alice começa a reconstituir o passado que lhe trará respostas para o sucedido."

quarta-feira, março 22, 2006

12. The Other Side of the Story, Marian Keyes

647 páginas

"What goes around, comes around--just ask the trio of unforgettable women in Marian Keyes' enchanting new novel The Other Side of the Story.
Energetic, ambitious, and sexy, literary agent Jojo Harvey combines Jessica Rabbit's body with a mind like a steel trap. As if watching her back while on the corporate ladder and making million-dollar deals wasn't difficult enough, Jojo's having a relationship with her boss. Her married boss.
Tall, slender, and blonde, bestselling author Lily Wright, one of Jojo's clients, worries about bad karma and the second novel she can't seem to write but must deliver--she's already spent the advance. Anton, the Love of Her Life, persuaded her to buy their dream house.
Events organiser extraordinaire Gemma Hogan was best friends with Lily--until the willowy blonde stole Anton, aka the Love of Her Life. Juggling the demands of her newly separated (and desperately needy) mum, Gemma's social life is flatlining--a mortifying situation that makes for hilarious e-mails to a friend. Tales so funny, they come to the attention of top literary agent Jojo Harvey, who takes Gemma on as a client.
Written in the charming and chatty voice that has become Marian Keyes's signature style, this hilarious and heartwarming new novel proves there are three sides to every story... especially in the world of publishing."

segunda-feira, março 13, 2006

11. Fatal Voyage, Kathy Reichs

434 páginas

"Tempe Brennan, Kathy Reichs' forensic anthropologist heroine, often finds herself in physical jeopardy. In Fatal Voyage, her fourth outing, someone is trying to kill her and also to destroy her professional reputation with trumped-up charges of unethical behaviour.
Tempe is called in when a plane full of college athletes goes down in the remoter parts of the forests of North Carolina. She finds herself investigating a spare foot she rescued from coyotes, a foot which is significantly more decomposed than the crash victims and which has symptoms of gout, a disease most of the dead young people had no time to contract. There is a locked house and walled courtyard out in the woods that do not appear on any maps and it seems almost as if her simple knowledge of their being there has offended the powerful of the world."

10. The 5th Horseman, James Patterson

339 páginas

"Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friend Yuki Castellano are out shopping with Yuki's mother Keiko when Keiko drops in the middle of the busy street. It looks like she's had a stroke and Yuki starts to panic. She is rushed to the San Francisco Medical Center and admitted to the ICU. Over drinks that evening at Susie's, with her friends in the Women's Murder Club, Lindsay learns of a huge malpractice suit against the San Francisco Medical Center. In the last few years, dozens of patients who were admitted to the emergency room seemed to recover and then died suspicious deaths. Is Yuki's mother safe? In a place where the lives of patients are quite literally in others hands, will Lindsay and her friends be able to establish who they can trust?"

9. O Rapaz da Porta do Lado, Meg Cabot

422 páginas

"Uma história cheia de humor e de "suspense" contada através de "emails" que não conseguimos parar de ler! O que pode uma mulher solteira fazer em Nova Iorque? Melissa Fuller assina uma coluna de mexericos e vive na cidade que nunca dorme, o sítio mais emocionante do planeta, mas aborrece-se... Já não lhe bastam a obsessão com a Winona Ryder, os encontros amorosos com os homens errados e o hábito de chegar sempre atrasada ao trabalho. As coisas só começam a ficar interessantes quando a sua idosa vizinha do lado é quase assassinada. Mel oferece-se para tomar conta dos inúmeros animais de estimação da senhora Friedlander até o sobrinho desta, Max, um famoso fotógrafo de moda, chegar. Os colegas de trabalho avisam-na em relação a Max, um célebre quebra-corações, mas quando o conhece Mel desfaz-se em simpatias: Max é directo, franco e amável. Não é preciso muito tempo para se apaixonar perdidamente até ao dia em que um "email" misterioso estraga o ambiente... O que se passa de facto com o rapaz da porta ao lado? Terá Mel descoberto o amor da sua vida... ou o assassino?"

quarta-feira, março 01, 2006

8. Odd Thomas, Dean Koontz

388 páginas

"The new paperback of the bestselling thriller from Dean Koontz, one of the most acclaimed and popular authors of modern times. In Odd Thomas he has created a character whose unique voice will live for generations to come. Odd Thomas takes pride in his work as a fry cook. His fame has spread, bringing strangers to the restaurant in Pico Mundo. Odd cannot say what it is that disturbs him about this particular stranger, but his sixth sense is alert ...This is a man with an appetite for operatic terror. The violence he craves is of the most extreme variety: multiple untimely deaths spiced with protracted horror. Tomorrow. Odd's fears are first for Stormy Llewellyn, his one true love. Stormy believes that our passage through this world is intended to toughen us for the next life -- that the many terrors we know here are an inoculation against worse in the world to come. But Odd Thomas knows more than Stormy about this world. Many people in Pico Mundo think he is some sort of psychic, perhaps a clairvoyant, a seer, something. None but a handful know that he sees the restless dead, those with unfinished business and, sometimes, plenty of postmortem rage. Tomorrow. The day begins as uncannily still as dawn on Judgment Day one breath before the sky cracks open. At once chilling and deeply moving, Odd Thomas is a brilliantly observed chronicle of good and evil in our time, of illusion and everlasting truth."