terça-feira, fevereiro 27, 2007

10. The Vision, Dean Koontz

270 páginas

Mary Bergen is a clairvoyant, able to foresee murders that will happen in the near future, but unable to prevent them from taking place. But, now she is up against a power stronger than her own, a power that is taking over her and trying to kill her before she can identify it.

sexta-feira, fevereiro 23, 2007

9. Lifeguard, James Patterson

311 páginas

Everything is going right for lifeguard Ned Kelley. He is involved with Tess, the most beautiful woman he has ever seen and what's more, a million dollars is within touching distance; his share of the score for the robbery of some world-class art. All he has to do is trigger alarms to throw the cops off the scent. But when Tess is brutally murdered and the others involved in the robbery are massacred, Ned is the prime suspect. He has been set up…

segunda-feira, fevereiro 19, 2007

8. Neverwhere - Na Terra do Nada

293 páginas

A ideia que deu origem a este romance é basicamente simples, como todas as ideias geniais. Gaiman representa Londres não como uma cidade mas como duas, a Londres-de-Cima e a Londres-de-Baixo. O protagonista, Richard Mayhew é um rapaz cândido que vem da província para trabalhar em Londres. Quando se cruzar com Door, uma fugitiva que acolherá em sua casa, por humana compaixão, quebra o compromisso com a noiva Jessica. Desde então descobre que ninguém o vê, como se nunca tivesse existido. Resta-lhe acompanhar Door na descida para as profundezas da cidade subterrânea, o mundo da escuridão, dos túneis, dos esgotos, dos edifícios abandonados. Esta fantasia urbana é o aclamado romance de estreia de Gaiman, brilhante, cheio de humor e graça, mesmo quando é assustador.

quinta-feira, fevereiro 15, 2007

7. The Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult

371 páginas

How far would you go to protect the ones you love? Worldwide publication of Jodi Picoult's brand new hardback will be a major event. When Daniel Stone was a child, he was the only white boy in a native Eskimo village where his mother taught, and he was teased mercilessly because he was different. He fought back, the baddest of the bad kids: stealing, drinking, robbing and cheating his way out of the Alaskan bush - where he honed his artistic talent, fell in love with a girl and got her pregnant. To become part of a family, he reinvented himself - jettisoning all that anger to become a docile, devoted husband and father. Fifteen years later, when we meet Daniel again, he is a comic book artist. His wife teaches Dante's Inferno at a local college; his daughter, Trixie, is the light of his life - and a girl who only knows her father as the even-tempered, mild-mannered man he has been her whole life. Until, that is, she is date raped...and Daniel finds himself struggling, again, with a powerlessness and a rage that may not just swallow him whole, but destroy his family and his future.

segunda-feira, fevereiro 05, 2007

6. Jemima J, Jane Green

373 páginas

Jemima Jones is overweight - about seven stone overweight. Treated like a slave by her thin and bitchy flatmates, lorded over at the "Kilburn Herald" by the beautiful Geraldine, her only consolation is food. That and a passion for her charming, sexy colleague Ben. Her life needs to change and soon.