Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Urban & Street Lit

Janice Morrison has a special gift, even if it sometimes feels more like a punishment. She has prophetic visions, an ability that makes her very valuable to certain people.

Just how valuable becomes clear when a terrorist cell kidnaps Janice on her way to her daughter's daycare. The leader of the cell-a suave, dangerous man Janice nicknames English-believes he can use Janice's ability to time successful terrorist attacks. To coerce the frightened but defiant woman, English threatens to harm Janice's friends and family.

What follows is a tense game of wits between captive and...

New York Times Bestselling Author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport

It's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned, and Lady, whom Fin hasn't seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin is uprooted from a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut, landing in Greenwich Village in the middle of the Swinging Sixties. He soon learns that Lady-giddy, impulsive, and pursued by an ardent and dogged set of suitors-is as much his responsibility as he is hers.

From a...

Agrigento, dziś niewielkie miasto na południu Sycylii, to niegdyś potężne starożytne Akragas, miejsce bogate w wielowiekową historię najeźdźców, osadników, filozofów i tyranów. Splatają się w nim losy doktora Anchite – lekarza i zaangażowanego badacza lokalnej historii – i jego rodziny. Wyborom dokonywanym przez bohaterów, poszukujących prawdziwego szczęścia i samopoznania, towarzyszą niezmiennie słowa Empedoklesa, starożytnego filozofa urodzonego w Akragas.

Atmosfera współczesnej Sycylii, jej...

Right or wrong, a series of fragile relationships collides through chance, coincidence, or fate.

Twelve years ago, Kirk made an innocent but terrible mistake. As he faces down another night of tormented dreams, he struggles to shake the scars he still bears. After sixty years as man and wife, Ira and Betsy's love is as vibrant as it was the day their eyes made contact across a dusty country parking lot. Now, disease and willful destruction tear away at everything they've built together.

Just sixteen, Megan is at war with the world-and especially her mother, who flounders in a failing...