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Last night, eight-year-old Daisy Mason disappeared from a family party. No one in the quiet suburban street saw anything - or at least that's what they're saying. DI Adam Fawley is trying to keep an open mind. But he knows the nine times out of ten, it's someone the victim knew. That means someone is lying ... And that Daisy's time is running out.

'Where Rainbows End' is a bittersweet tale of childhood friends Rosie and Alex whose relationship must survive many trials and tribulations, not least the discovery of their true feelings for one another.

In this charming love story--with just a touch of magic--internationally bestselling author Ahern ("P.S. I Love You") shows that sometimes "not" seeing is believing.

<div><b>Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction</b> <b>Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award</b> <b>An American Library Association Notable Book</b> Jonathan Franzen's third novel, <i>The Corrections</i>, is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of greed and globalism. Franzen brings an old-time America of freight trains and civic duty, of Cub Scouts and Christmas cookies and sexual inhibitions, into brilliant collision with the modern absurdities of brain science, home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and the anti-gravity New Economy. With <i>The Corrections</i>, Franzen emerges as one of our premier interpreters of American society and the American soul. Enid Lambert is terribly, terribly anxious. Although she would never admit it to her neighbors or her three grown children, her husband, Alfred, is losing his grip on reality. Maybe it's the medication that Alfred takes for his Parkinson's disease, or maybe it's his negative attitude, but he spends his days brooding in the basement and committing shadowy, unspeakable acts. More and more often, he doesn't seem to understand a word Enid says. Trouble is also brewing in the lives of Enid's children. Her older son, Gary, a banker in Philadelphia, has turned cruel and materialistic and is trying to force his parents out of their old house and into a tiny apartment. The middle child, Chip, has suddenly and for no good reason quit his exciting job as a professor at D------ College and moved to New York City, where he seems to be pursuing a "transgressive" lifestyle and writing some sort of screenplay. Meanwhile the baby of the family, Denise, has escaped her disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man--or so Gary hints. Enid, who loves to have fun, can still look forward to a final family Christmas and to the ten-day Nordic Pleasurelines Luxury Fall Color Cruise that she and Alfred are about to embark on. But even these few remaining joys are threatened by her husband's growing confusion and unsteadiness. As Alfred enters his final decline, the Lamberts must face the failures, secrets, and long-buried hurts that haunt them as a family if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs. </div>

Since Sandy Shortt's childhood classmate disappeared twenty years ago, Sandy has been obsessed with missing things. Finding what is lost becomes her single-minded goal and her life's work becomes finding people who have vanished from their loved ones. Sandy's family is baffled and concerned by her increasing preoccupation, and she pushes them away further by losing herself in her work. She gives up her life in order to offer a flick of hope to devasted families ... and escape the disappointments of her own. Jack Ruttle is one of those devastated people. It's been a year since his brother Donal vaished into thin air, and he has enlisted Sandy Shortt to find him. But before she is able to offer Jack the information he so desperately needs, Sandy goes missing too ... and Jack now finds himself searching for his brother, and the one woman who understood his pain. One minute Sandy is jogging through the park, the next, she can't figure out where she is. In a clearing she discovers the impossible: she has inadvertently stumbled upon the place--and people -- she's been looking for all her life. A land where all the missing people go. A world away from her loved ones and the home she ran from so long, Sandy soon resorts to her old habit again, searching. Though this time, she is desperately trying to find her way home ..

A compelling and perceptive tale of intimacy, memory and relationships from the bestselling author

Thriller psychologiczny o idealnym życiu. I perfekcyjnych kłamstwach. Jak daleko się posuniesz, by chronić swoje idealne życie? Życie Marianne jest idealne. Jest żoną przystojnego chirurga, matką trojga wspaniałych dzieci, ma piękny dom w najlepszej dzielnicy. Kobieta nie musi nic robić. Ma tylko opiekować się swoją rodziną. Jej perfekcyjne życie dla innych jest spełnieniem marzeń. Nie zawsze tak było. Czasem trudna przeszłość Marianne daje o sobie znać, ale zawsze wtedy u jej boku jest jej kochający mąż. Pewnego dnia na idealnym życiu Marianne pojawia się rysa o wdzięcznym imieniu Caroline. Dotąd Marianne sądziła, że doskonale rozumie swoje małżeństwo, ale prawda ma wiele twarzy. Im bardziej Marianne interesuje się Caroline, zaczyna sobie zadawać pytanie nie tylko o to, czy powinna być zazdrosna, ale też o to, czy powinna się bać. Małżeństwo nie ma prostych instrukcji i nie wszystko jest czarne lub białe. Może ci się nie spodobać to, co zobaczysz.