Showing results for "Dominoes" in Genre Fiction

Discovered after more than 40 years, a vintage action-adventure novel set on Domino Island – a Caribbean paradise toppling under murder, corruption and organised crime… ‘Like a dream come true – an undiscovered Desmond Bagley novel … and it’s a great one!’ LEE CHILD Bill Kemp, an...

Esther Harding, a leading risk analyst at one of the country's largest banking institutions, is becoming more and more convinced that she has uncovered a ticking bomb with the potential to overshadow 2008's market crash. And as her own employer pursues "investment" strategies with ever-increasing levels of risk, she becomes convinced she must do something. Yet what can one person really do? The markets are edging closer to a tipping point.

Ci sono uomini abituati a esprimersi solo attraverso il denaro. Uomini che non vanno liquidati con facili parole: lo sa bene Romolo Bugaro, che - oltre a essere uno scrittore ipnotizzato dal mondo - è un avvocato che conosce da vicino, per lavoro, le traiettorie di ascese e fallimenti. Ritrarli con verità, nel bene e nel male di cui sono capaci, è la scommessa di questo suo romanzo. Perché la verità non indebolisce il giudizio etico, anzi lo rafforza proprio nella misura in cui lo complica.

Dominika i Amanda, dwie przyjaciółki, nieumyślnie doprowadzają do śmierci swojego kolegi. Wyrzuty sumienia obu dziewczyn nie pozostają bez wpływu na ich relacje, a splot nieszczęśliwych wypadków sprawia, że życie traci również Amanda. Dominika czuje, że wszystko zaczyna się rozsypywać jak domek z kart. Wydaje jej się, że jest obserwowana i na każdym kroku towarzyszy jej strach przed tym, że skrywane tajemnice wyjdą na jaw.

"La vie reprend. Étrangement identique. Le même quotidien, la même routine familière, rassurante. Avec un supplément de sérénité. Et le sentiment extraordinaire que la vie est belle et qu'elle le sait plus que les autres." Amélie, architecte d'intérieur mariée à son amour de lycée et heureuse maman d'un petit garçon, vient de remporter une épreuve médicale. Elle est guérie. Après le soulagement et la joie, vient le temps des questionnements. Animée par un formidable appétit de vivre, Amélie trouve soudain son existence fade.

In this collection, Kaie Kellough’s characters navigate race, history, and coming-of-age by way of their confessions and dreams. Through the eyes of jazz musicians, hitchhikers, quiet suburbanites, student radicals, secret agents, historians, and their fugitive slave ancestors, Kellough guides us from the cobblestones of Montreal’s Old Port to the foliage of a South American rainforest, from a basement in wartime Paris to an underground antique shop in Montréal during the October Crisis, allowing the force of imagination to tip the balance of time like a line of dominoes.