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«Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. But her uncle, Henrik, is convinced that she was murdered by someone in her own family – the deeply dysfunctional Vanger clan. Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomqvist is hired to investigate, but when he links Harriet’s disappearance to a string of gruesome murders from forty years ago, he needs a competent assistant (…)
Ruby Jordan is a successful married woman who owns a lingerie business, with two grown sons and a marriage of twenty years, she sees her life fall apart the day her husband says he’s leaving her. They still love each other, there’s no other woman, but their relationship just isn’t working, she spends more time dealing with her career than she does with him and enough is enough. After seeing Jack walk out from her life, Ruby feels overwhelmed and sitting down at his desk, she closes her eyes and starts listening to one of his self motivational tapes, the ones she always made fun of. (…)
England, 1985. Thursday Next, our heroine, lives in a world similar to ours, it’s more or less a parallel reality where history seems to have shifted a bit, though some things do remain the same. The Crimean War has been going on for more than a hundred and thirty years, peace doesn’t seem possible and England is intent on eradicating the Russians with a new plasma gun; cloning has become a normal procedure and through it, scientists have been able to bring back the dodo, which has become the pet of choice, meaning that extinction is a word of the past (…)
England, Victorian Era. Amelia Peabody, a middle aged spinster and somewhat of a scholar, just inherited a considerable amount of money from her deceased father, seeing this as her opportunity for freedom, she decides to travel to Egypt and explore all the places she’s been reading about in books. Armed with her parasol and a unique personality, Amelia ventures into a world of men, who don’t take lightly to being ordered about by a woman, especially one as eccentric as her. (…)
Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier’s newest novel, tells the story of Mary Anning, a British fossil collector, from the nineteenth century, who became famous for finding the first complete ichthyosaur skeleton, and her friend Elizabeth Philpot, a middle-aged spinster who moved to Lyme Regis with her sisters and took an interest in fossil hunting. Different backgrounds but similar interests bring them together, in a friendship that no one else understands, and they both tell us their story, alternating chapters throughout the book, with truly distinctive voices. (…)
England, Victorian Era. Lady Emily Ashton, newly wed, has just lost her husband to a raging fever while he was on an African safari with a couple of friends. Having married him to escape her mother’s rule, she’s not as grief stricken as she should be, Philip was a stranger to her and she almost feels relief at his departure. But oddly, after a while, through his friends and acquaintances, the books he liked to read and the antiquities he collected, Emily perceives a side of her husband she didn’t know existed and as shocking as it is, he seemed to actually be in love with her. (…)
