Poznań, grudzień 1930 roku. Samanta i Łukasz zaręczają się. Planują ślub, ale na drodze do szczęścia pojawiają się przeszkody. Z pomocą spieszy Rafał Gajda, dobry znajomy komisarza Darskiego. Młoda para otrzymuje od niego zaproszenie do spędzenia lata we wsi Białogrądy, posiadłości rodziny Grabowskich. Klasyczny szlachecki dworek i urokliwa okolica budzą zachwyt państwa Darskich. Jednak wkrótce radość z pierwszych wspólnych wakacji mąci tragiczne wydarzenie. W dodatku zaczynają krążyć pogłoski o wilkołaku... Alicja Minicka - z wykształcenia ekonomistka, z zamiłowania kryminalistka. Na co dzień zajmuje się publicystyką. Jest autorką powieści retro "Morderstwo w Miłowie", lubi też pisać opowiadania. Jej "Strach" został opublikowany w antologii "Kryminalna 13", gdzie swoje opowiadania zamieścili również Katarzyna Bonda, Anna Klejzerowicz czy Marta Guzowska. Zapraszamy na stronę autorki: www.alicjaminicka.blogspot.com.

'This is the weapon he has been seeking so assiduously since his return: the knowledge of how to destroy you' Albus Dumbledore Harry Potter is furious that he has been abandoned at the Dursleys' house for the summer, for he suspects that Voldemort is gathering an army, that he himself could be attacked, and that his so-called friends are keeping him in the dark. Finally rescued by wizard bodyguards, he discovers that Dumbledore is regrouping the Order of the Phoenix – a secret society first formed years ago to fight Voldemort. But the Ministry of Magic is against the Order, lies are being spread by the wizards' tabloid, the Daily Prophet, and Harry fears that he may have to take on this epic battle against evil alone. These adult editions have been stylishly redesigned to showcase Andrew Davidson's beautiful woodcut cover artwork.

„Nić równowagi” to zbiór opowiadań z życia wziętych, czasem wzruszających, czasem prześmiewczych, ale nader ciekawych. Czytając każde z nich, mamy wrażenie zasiadania z bohaterami za wspólnym stołem, dzielenia się ich troskami i radościami jak dobrym chlebem. Malownicza narracja Jerzego R. Szulca jest zaś ucztą dla oka i umysłu. Mało kto dziś potrafi tak opowiadać.

Dalsze losy Karoliny Ciesielskiej, bohaterki Obłędu, której zdolności jasnowidzenia pomogły ująć psychopatycznego mordercę. Młoda kobieta wraca z Tybetu, dokąd wyjechała, żeby odzyskać wewnętrzny spokój po ciężkich przeżyciach. Karolina pragnie rozwiązać zagadkę śmierci swojej praprababki – Dobromiły, jednak jej powrót nakłada się z kolejną falą morderstw. Czy zdolności Karoliny pomogą znów w ustaleniu sprawcy? Czy znajdzie siły, żeby walczyć z nienawiścią, która ją otacza? Czy uda się jej oszukać fatum, na które jest skazana?

Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of an astonishing scientific breakthrough. The evening’s host is billionaire Edmond Kirsch, a futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. But Langdon and several hundred guests are left reeling when the meticulously orchestrated evening is suddenly blown apart. There is a real danger that Kirsch’s precious discovery may be lost in the ensuing chaos. With his life under threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape Bilbao, taking with him the museum’s director, Ambra Vidal. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch’s secret. To evade a devious enemy who is one step ahead of them at every turn, Langdon and Vidal must navigate the labyrinthine passageways of extreme religion and hidden history. On a trail marked only by enigmatic symbols and elusive modern art, Langdon and Vidal will come face-to-face with a breathtaking truth that has remained buried – until now.

Surprise Me is Sophie Kinsella's emotionally charged, witty new standalone novel about love and long-term relationship survival - and how those we think we know best can sometimes surprise us the most . . . After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly, they finish each other's sentences. They have a happy marriage and believe they know everything there is to know about each other. Until it's casually mentioned to them that they could be together for another sixty-eight years... and panic sets in. They quickly decide to create little surprises for each other, to keep their relationship fresh and fun. But in their pursuit of Project Surprise Me - anything from unexpected gifts to restaurant dates to photo shoots - mishaps arise with disastrous and comical results. Gradually, the surprises turn to shocking discoveries. And when a scandal from the past is uncovered, they begin to wonder if they ever really knew each other after all…

Jack Reacher is having a bad day. It would be a dumb idea to make it worse. Reacher sees a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window. It’s tiny. It's a woman cadet’s graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up? Reacher was a West Pointer too, and he knows what she went through to get it. All he wants is to find the woman. He’ll have to go through bikers, cops, crooks, and low-life muscle. If she’s ok, he’ll walk away. If she’s not … he’ll stop at nothing. Best advice: stay out of his way. Although the Jack Reacher novels can be read in any order, The Midnight Line follows on directly from the end of Make Me.

Detective Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law. Until now. Charged with murdering followers of his old nemesis Gary Soneji, Alex Cross becomes the poster child for trigger-happy cops. He knows it was self-defence. Will the jury agree? Suspended from the police and fighting for his freedom, even Cross’s own family begin to doubt his innocence as shocking evidence mounts. With everything on the line, Cross must go it alone. He’s the only one who knows that there’s a real murderer watching from the shadows, one Cross must stop – even if it means he can’t save himself…

A beautiful new Vintage Classics edition to celebrate the 15th anniversary, and 10 million copies sold worldwide, of this wise, blackly funny, radically imaginative novel ‘A superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy’ Ian McEwan It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears’ house. Its eyes were closed. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead. This is Christopher’s story, and through this radically imaginative and generous novel, his world is revealed, full of terror, love, strangeness and surprise.

A stunning bespoke gift package featuring an iconic design from the prize-winning artist, Noma Bar, eye-catching sprayed edges and ribbon. The perfect present for those who like their beauty with a bit of bite. The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America gives full rein to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception.

In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now…

In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune – and control of the OASIS itself. Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize. The race is on – and the only way to survive is to win.

The beautiful and haunting novel that launched David Almond as one of the best children's writers of today When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain. Then, one Sunday afternoon, he stumbles into the old, ramshackle garage of his new home, and finds something magical. A strange creature - part owl, part angel, a being who needs Michael's help if he is to survive. With his new friend Mina, Michael nourishes Skellig back to health, while his baby sister languishes in the hospital. But Skellig is far more than he at first appears, and as he helps Michael breathe life into his tiny sister, Michael's world changes for ever . . . Skellig won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book Award and is now a major Sky1 feature film, starring Tim Roth and John Simm. David Almond is also winner of the 2010 Hans Christian Andersen award.

Kiedy Khafiyah, najmłodsza z rodzeństwa, otrzymuje propozycję wyjścia za mąż za syna milionera w zamian za pomoc finansową rodzicom, postanawia ją przyjąć i wyjeżdża z Pakistanu do Zjednoczonych Emiratów Arabskich. W Abu Dhabi bardzo szybko staje się znienawidzoną żoną i kulą u nogi. Pewnego dnia jednak do Emiratów przybywa niespodziewany gość, który wywraca życie wszystkich do góry nogami.

Olbrzymia dawka humoru, szczyty urzędniczych absurdów opisanych w mistrzowskim stylu. Zbiór wszystkich opowiadań Sławomira Mrożka, których głównym bohaterem jest Prezes, a towarzyszą mu różni skromni współpracownicy jak Referent, Księgowy, Magazynier, Kasjer, Radca. Przeczytamy o Kanceliście, który w akcie rozpaczy po tym, jak rzuciła go narzeczona, decyduje się na wyprawę w celu Uporządkowania Spraw Niezałatwionych, o próbie nawiązania kontaktu ze zmarłym Kancelistą, z którego śmiercią zniknęły wszystkie pieniądze, o zatrudnieniu emeryta, żeby udawał na cokole pomnik Mickiewicza, o tym, czy Prezes był już w Starożytności i nazywał się Prezus... Wspaniałe przykłady efektywnego współdziałania ludzi szanujących autorytet (Prezesa) i starających się rozwiązywać skutecznie problemy (Prezesa).

Katharina went missing twenty-four years ago. Each year on the anniversary of her disappearance Chief Inspector William Wisting visits her husband, the man he could never help. He re-reads her files, searching for the answer he could never find. The code he could never solve. Until now. This year is going to be different. Another woman is missing. And so is Katharina's husband. Wisting has to find him, but is he rescuing a dear friend, or playing a deadly game? SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES FROM THE PRODUCERS BEHIND WALLANDER AND THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO. Set between the icy streets and dark forests of Norway, The Katharina Code is a heart-stopping story of one man's obsession with his coldest case. Atmospheric, gripping and suspenseful; this is Nordic Noir at its very best. 'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers' Marcel Berlin, The Times* Jorn Lier Horst is one of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today' The Sunday Times

The final novel from the bestselling author of the Inspector Wallander mysteries Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago, where he lives alone on an island. He swims in the sea every day, cutting a hole in the ice if necessary. He lives a quiet life. Until he wakes up one night to find his house on fire. Fredrik escapes just in time, wearing two left-footed wellies, as neighbouring islanders arrive to help douse the flames. All that remains in the morning is a stinking ruin and evidence of arson. The house that has been in his family for generations and all his worldly belongings are gone. He cannot think who would do such a thing, or why. Without a suspect, the police begin to think he started the fire himself.

The twisting new thriller from international sensation Ruth Ware, author of Sunday Times bestsellers In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10 ‘Another heart-stopping belter of a thriller from an epic talent’ Heat The text message arrives in the small hours of the morning: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her.

A woman is strangled six hours after organising her own funeral. Did she know she was going to die? Did she recognise her killer? Daniel Hawthorne, a recalcitrant detective with secrets of his own, is on the case, together with his reluctant side-kick – a man completely unaccustomed to the world of crime. But even Hawthorne isn't prepared for the twists and turns in store – as unexpected as they are bloody...

Poruszająca opowieść o tym, że miłość macierzyńska niejedno ma imię.Mówi się, że nie ma miłości silniejszej i piękniejszej niż macierzyńska. Że tylko ona może nadać prawdziwy sens życiu. Ale co zrobić, gdy upragniony moment, w którym dwoje kochających się ludzi zostaje rodzicami, nie nadchodzi, a każdy kolejny dzień jest pełen ogromnej tęsknoty i przypomina o tym, że wkrótce może być za późno?Bohaterka „Innego początku” próbuje oswoić się z bolesną myślą, że nigdy nie będzie jej dane urodzić dziecka. I wtedy pojawia się słowo „adopcja”, a wraz z nim cała masa pytań. Czy to naprawdę jedyne rozwiązanie? Czy się uda? A co, jeśli nie?... To jedno słowo staje się początkiem długiej, niezwykle trudnej drogi. Drogi, podczas której co chwilę pojawiać się będą strach, niemoc i niepewność. A jednak na jej końcu czeka coś, o co warto zawalczyć... Nieopisana radość i spełnienie, jakie daje pojawienie się w życiu tego upragnionego Małego Człowieka, który jest dopełnieniem wszystkiego i swojego rodzaju ratunkiem. Poczucie, że daje się szczęście dziecku, które w swojej biologicznej rodzinie tego szczęścia zaznać nie mogło. I pewność, że to była ta właściwa droga. Każda Rodzina ma swój standardowy początek: dwoje ludzi, ciąża, narodziny… Ty Synku urodziłeś się 30 sierpnia 2007 roku, a my niecały rok później, nie wiedząc o Tobie i o Twoim istnieniu, wiedzieliśmy w jakiś niewytłumaczalny sposób, że „Nasz początek” będzie trochę „inny” i że kiedyś będzie nam dane zostać Rodzicami. Twoimi Rodzicami.