Exposes the national stories which turn out to be pseudo events manufactured by the PR industry, and the global news stories which prove to be fiction generated by a machinery of international propaganda. This book shows the impact of this on a world where consumers believe a mass of stories which are as false as the idea that the Earth is flat.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents Kathy & Abdulrahman are cast into unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind & water. Abdulrahman has stayed on in the city, traversing its deeply flooded streets by canoe, feeding trapped dogs & rescuing survivors. But nothing could prepare him for the nightmare that followed.
In The Last Juror, John Grisham summons his readers bak to Ford County, Mississippi. Here is the story that introduced readers to this unforgettable place and the people who live there, in one of his most beloved novels... The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle--and takes justice into his own outraged hands. For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life...and then his own... --back cover
Recounting the early life of arguably the most evil person who ever lived, Norman Mailer's account of Adolf Hitler's upbringing is appropriately narrated by someone who was there at his conception - one of Satan's devils.
An epic wartime novel from the No.1 bestselling author of LABYRINTH and THE MISTLETOE BRIDE. 1942, Nazi-occupied France. Sandrine, a spirited and courageous nineteen-year-old, finds herself drawn into a Resistance group in Carcassonne - codenamed 'Citadel' - made up of ordinary women who are prepared to risk everything for what is right. And when she meets Raoul, they discover a shared passion for the cause, for their homeland, and for each other. But in a world where the enemy now lies in every shadow - where neighbour informs on neighbour; where friends disappear without warning and often without trace - love can demand the highest price of all.
Joining the newly formed NYPD in 1845, Timothy reluctantly assumes his duties near the notorious Five Points slum, where in the middle of the night he hears a little girl's claim that dozens of bodies have been buried in a local forest.
Het CSI-team in Miami krijgt melding van de vondst van het lichaam van een jonge vrouw die is aangespoed op een eilandje voor de kust van Florida. Het is inspecteur Horatio Caine al snel duidelijk wat het moordwapen is: een voor haaien bedoelde pijl die de marin gebruikt bij een experimenteel project voor het doden van vijandelijke duikers. Maar als het lijk op de autopsietafel van Alexx Woods ligt, blijkt de doodsoorzaak verdrinking. De pij is na de dood pas afgevuurd... CSI: Miami: Onderstroom is een superspannende thriller van Donn Cortez, gebaseerd op de in Amerika met vele prijzen bekroonde televisieserie.
A City Forensic pathologist Dr. Laurie Montomery has a battle to foil a plot of unimaginable evil in Manhattan.
Ver weg van de bewoonde wereld. Vredig. Pittoresk. Dat zijn de termen waarmee het Mumford Mountain Hotel zichzelf aanprijst. En meestal klopt dit ook wel… Maar dit jaar vindt er in het hotel een prestigieuze conferentie plaats over de forensische wetenschap, waarvoor hoofd CSI Gil Grissom een uitnodiging heeft ontvangen die hij niet kan weigeren. Samen met collega Sara Sidle vertrekt hij naar de conferentie en laat de afdeling achter in de capabele handen van Catherine Willows. Maar al snel zien hij en Sara zich geconfronteerd met al te bekende zaken en ook in Las Vegas hebben de achterblijvers zo de nodige problemen…
From the New York Times bestselling author of I’d Give Anything and I’ll Be Your Blue Sky comes a “bewitching, warmhearted grown-up fairy tale about old movies, charming princes, and finding happily ever after in the place where you’d least expect it” (Jennifer Weiner).When Martin Grace enters the hip Philadelphia coffee shop Cornelia Brown manages, her life changes forever. But little does she know that her newfound love is only the harbinger of greater changes to come. Meanwhile, across town, Clare Hobbs—eleven years old and abandoned by her erratic mother—goes looking for her lost father. She crosses paths with Cornelia while meeting with him at the café, and the two women form an improbable friendship that carries them through the unpredictable currents of love and life.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post • NPR • Entertainment Weekly • Real Simple • Marie Claire • New York Public Library • LibraryReads • The Skimm • Lit Hub • Lit Reactor AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A captivating family saga.”—The New York Times Book Review “This literary family saga is perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Donna Tartt.”—People Magazine (Book of the Week) If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children—four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness—sneak out to hear their fortunes. The prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality. A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.
Als een crimineel in Miami wordt vermoord, lijkt het om een bendeoorlog te gaan.
De leden van het forensisch onderzoeksteam zijn de onbekende helden van het politiekorps van Las Vegas. Onder leiding van veteraan Gil Grissom combineren Catherine Willows, Warrick Brown, Nick Stokes en Sara Sidle de nieuwste wetenschappelijke onderzoeksmethoden met het aloude, degelijke speurwerk in hun zoektocht naar bewijsmateriaal op de plaatsen delict. Een man wordt in zijn eigen huis gevonden, gewurgd en vastgebonden. Detective Jim Brass herkent de modus operandi als die van een seriemoordenaar van vijftien jaar geleden die nooit is gepakt. Maar er zijn nog talloze andere verdachten en motieven, waardoor het CSI-team al zijn expertise nodig heeft om de geesten uit het verleden eindelijk het zwijgen op te leggen…
Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction A Times, Evening Standard and Financial Times Book of the Year I was a girl once, but not any more . . . A young woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child of her own, in a world which seems entirely consumed by madness. As she navigates a landscape of terrors and trials, can she find a place of safety within a society blinkered by mistrust and denial? 'Astonishing.' New Statesman 'Raw and transfixing.' Observer 'Miraculous . . . Extraordinary.' Mail on Sunday 'A masterpiece.' Irish Independent 'Mesmerising.' Sunday Times 'Devastating and moving.' Daily Telegraph
'This is a series for the ages, it's so spectacular. Really, really just amazing' Gillian Flynn: From the author of the highly acclaimed GODS OF GOTHAM comes another vivid, gritty, historical novel set around mid-nineteenth century New York's notorious Five Points
Janice Miller knows this: she loves her husband, her two spirited daughters and the beautiful home in which she has raised her family. It is only once the damage has been done that she finally realises how distant her daughters have become - and that schoolgirl Lizzie and 28-year-old Margaret now have dark secrets of their own.
