Luigi Schenoni Knihy

The doctors call it Munchausen by proxy, the terrifying disease that causes parents to induce illness in their own children. Now, in his most frightening case, Dr. Alex Delaware may have to prove that a child's own mother or father is making her sick. Twenty-one-month-old Cassie Jones is bright, energetic, the picture of health. Yet her parents rush her to the emergency room night after night with medical symptoms no doctor can explain. Cassie's parents seem sympathetic and deeply concerned. Her favorite nurse is a model of devotion. Yet when child psychologist Alex Delaware is called in to investigate, instinct tells him that one of them may be a monster. Then a physician at the hospital is brutally murdered. A shadowy death is revealed. And Alex and his friend LAPD detective Milo Sturgis have only hours to uncover the link between these shocking events and the fate of an innocent child. From the Paperback edition.

Co svět světem stojí, vždycky se rodili a budou rodit šarmantní, prohnaní a chytří podvodníci. Ale falešný hráč typu Beana Batese se objeví snad jednou za sto let. Jeho výkony jsou natolik fascinující, že si ve světě hráčů a podvodníků vysloužil přezdívku Král hráčů. Veselý a rozpustilý příběh o velkolepém podvodu.

The affair is a military wedding. Whast will begin, however, with the solemnity of marriage vows will end in the echoing screams of the damned - an ungodly spectacle of spilled blood and sobbing, throat-aching terror. There is a curse that grips the Baldwins from generation to generation, from horror to bloody horror, and that climaxes in a spine-chilling nightmare of black occultism and blood vengeance.

In Breathing Lessons, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1989, we meet the harum-scarum Maggie, married for 28 years to competent, infallible Ira. On a hot summer day they are driving to Deer Lick, Pennsylvania, 90 miles from their home in Baltimore, to the funeral of a friend. During the course of that journey, with its several unexpected detours, Anne Tyler shows us all there is to know about a marriage: the expectations and disappointments; the way children can create storms in a family; and the way that a wife and husband can fall in love all over again.

Děj románu je zasazen do současné Panamy. Harry Pendel je majitelem krejčovské firmy, jejímiž dveřmi procházejí všichni, kteří ve Střední Americe něco znamenají. Záhadný a požitkářský Andrew Osnard je špion pocházející z Etonu. Jeho tajná mise má dva hlavní cíle – pozorně sledovat politická jednání ohledně převzetí panamského kanálu Američany a zároveň získat pro sebe pohádkové jmění. A Osnard ví o Pendelovi víc než Pendel sám o sobě…

Beautiful heiress Blaize Ellington seeks revenge against the Minotaur, a deadly, savage assassin for whom killing in an orgiastic pleasure, for the brutal murder of her brothers and finds herself the target of the killer.