Maria Teresa Marenco Books

"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING." --People It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived. . . . "ACTION-PACKED." --New York Daily News "FAST AND GRIPPING." --The Washington Post Book World "A VERY SCARY READ." --Entertainment Weekly "AN EDGE-OF-THE-SEAT TALE." --St. Petersburg Times

Alla fine degli anni Ottanta, Gerald Durrell intraprende una spedizione in Madagascar per catturare alcuni aye-aye, un lemure unico della zona, per garantirne la riproduzione. Durrell considera inaccettabile l'estinzione di una creatura così straordinaria, paragonandola a bruciare un Rembrandt. Giunto sull'isola, che gli appare come un'omelette mal rivoltata, inizia la sua ricerca. Dopo una visita al mercato locale, dove polli simili a piumini sono appesi sotto ombrelloni bianchi, riesce a salvare il primo esemplare, destinato a essere cucinato da una massaia indigena. Con il suo caratteristico umorismo, Durrell trasforma l'indagine scientifica in un'avventura avvincente, anche nello studio del linguaggio dei lemuri, che include suoni come "pop", miagolii e ringhi. Gli animali sono i veri protagonisti, osservati con ironia e ammirazione: oche egiziane in completo di tweed, pappagalli sfavillanti e felini che sembrano la versione malgascia della Pantera Rosa. Anche gli umani sono descritti con uno sguardo divertito, impegnati in un compulsivo shopping natalizio tra bancarelle di scimmie e maialini colorati. Il libro è stato pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1992.

"...visit John Hammond's theme park and come face-to-face with living, breathing dinosaurs for the first time in 64 million years." --web site.

A terrifying novel of love and slaughter set in London and New Orleans. To serial killer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from a life sentence in prison, he makes his way to America with the intention of bringing his art to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, he inadvertently joins forces with Jay, a dissolute playboy. They set their sights on a young Vietnamese-American runaway, who they deem to be the perfect victim. Moving from the grimy streets of London's Piccadilly Circus to the decadences of New Orleans' French Quarter, Poppy Z. Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites us into the mind of a serial killer in this riveting, unforgettable masterpiece of horror.

Sanders a computer tech at a computer company finds himself caught in a nightmarish web of deceit in which he is branded the villian.

In Derry, Maine, four young boys once stood together and did a brave thing. Something that changed them in ways they hardly understand. A quarter of a century later, the boys are men who have gone their separate ways. Though they still get together once a year, to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time is different. This time a man comes stumbling into their camp, lost, disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky. Before long, these old friends will be plunged into the most remarkable events of their lives as they struggle with a terrible creature from another world. Their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past - and in the Dreamcatcher.

"Crichton has an extraordinary capacity to seize upon, then make real and personal, the new and the complex, the intriguing and the frighening." THE NATION In this incisive, detailed survey of five patients, famous thriller author and doctor Michael Crichton explores the dramatic workings of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston's oldest and most prestigious. This readable account covers not only the history of the hospital's place in society, but also the actual minute-to-minute functions of Mass General, where health professionals wage their daily battle against disease and death. Crichton's insightful look at the changes in medicine and surgery caused by technological strides of recent years makes for amazing reading.