Paola Bonini Knihy

Aelius Spartianus, dějepisec císaře Diokleciána, se jednoho dne doví o podivném křesťanském knězi, známém jako "vyvolávač ohně", který prý oživil mrtvého. Aelius se rozhodne přijít zázraku na kloub, a tak se pustí do hledání tajemného kněze a jeho pomocnice, diákonky Casty. Jenže ještě dřív, než stačí cokoli zjistit, je znovuvzkříšený muž zavražděn. Císařové bažící po moci, záhadní kejklíři, milenci, konkubíny i náboženští fanatici - ti všichni v tomto napínavém historickém příběhu hrají svou roli. Tajemství života i smrti jsou nakonec odhalena a to vše nenávratně změní životy všech, kdo s tím měli co do činění. Čtenáři Ben Pastor, kteří znají jejího Zloděje vody, jistě nejnovější román této autorky uvítají a ocení její vypravěčské mistrovství.

Memoirs of Montparnasse is a delicious book about being young, restless, reckless, and without a care in the world. It is also the best and liveliest of the many chronicles of 1920s Paris and the exploits of the lost generation. In 1928, nineteen-year-old John Glassco escaped Montreal and his overbearing father for the wilder shores of Montparnasse. He remained there until his money ran out and his health collapsed, and he enjoyed every minute of his stay. Remarkable for their candor and humor, Glassco’s memoirs have the daft logic of a wild but utterly absorbing adventure, a tale of desire set free that is only faintly shadowed by sadness at the inevitable passage of time.

Nazi occupied Poland. A German army officer investigates the murder of an abbess amid the horrors of brutal occupation.

Can there truly be love after death? Drifting in the dark waters of a mysterious river, the only thing Amelia knows for sure is that she's dead. With no memories of her past life, she's trapped alone in a nightmarish existence. But everything changes when she tries to rescue a boy from drowning in the river. Because even though she can't do anything to help, Amelia somehow wills him to survive. And when he wakes up, Joshua can see her. Together, Joshua and Amelia begin to uncover the strange circumstances of her death, and the secrets of the dark river that has held her captive. But even as they grow ever closer, there are those in both worlds—the living and the dead—determined to tear them apart. . . .