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Interesting books today and wanted to tell you three of the four very interesting books which come out of very little in all libraries.
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Title: The Bride and the Revenge
Author: Jacqueline Carey
Price: € 18.60 Publisher: North
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Plot
From the day of his arrival on the island of Alba, Prince de la Courcel Imriel has struggled to gain the respect of local people and to overcome the distrust of the court nobles. But the toughest challenge was to bear the distance from Sidon, his great lost love, which gave up to marry Dorelei Breidaia mab. However, when his wife announces she is pregnant, her heart was filled with joy and hope: an arranged marriage may also give flashes of happiness. Fate, however, the test has another heartbreaking. Berlik, the sorcerer of the mysterious people of Maghuin Dhonn, is convinced that one day this child will destroy the kingdom of Alba, in an act of extreme ferocity, killing Dorelei and the son she bore in her womb. Shocked and in despair, for Imriel revenge becomes the only reason for living, and soon learns that the wizard has escaped from the island, gather a handful of Albanian fighters and launches his pursuit. Although the trip soon turns out to be long and exhausting, the prince has no intention of giving up, even when she discovers that Berlik Vralia hiding in a wilderness and dangerous, where winter never ends and the woods dark hidden pitfalls ...
Title: The Altar of Eden
Author: James Rollins
Price: € 19.60
Publisher: North
Release Date: February 24, 2011
Plot
Iraq, April 2003. Baghdad has just been conquered by the U.S. Army: the city is lawless, and while the soldiers try to stem looting and robberies, some men raided the zoo, open the cages and release all the animals. No one can imagine that this act, in reality, it is a diversion to sneak in the basement of the zoo, home to a secret laboratory to develop biological weapons. And where is a revolutionary experiment in progress ...
New Orleans today. A fishing vessel foundered off the coast of Louisiana, the crew members died, and in hold a load of illegal exotic animals: this is the scenario that is presented to the veterinary Lorna Polk, called by the authorities to provide initial care to the precious animals. Intrigued by their strange and unusual physical characteristics, and above all by their amazing intelligence, Lorna suspected of being the guinea pigs of bold experiments and decides to investigate the genetic origin of the mysterious cargo. However, while an animal escapes from the swamps of Mississippi, wreaking havoc, you will be forced to face a shocking truth, and you will find a step away from revealing a secret that dates back to the very origin of the human race ...
Title: Winter
Author: Asia Greenhorn
Price: € 17.00 Publisher: Mondadori
Date of 'Out: February 2011
Plot
Winter has just moved from London to Cae Mefus, a small town in North Wales, following the mysterious accident that forced her grandmother to the hospital . Welcomes a new home. And a new family, the Ghiplin, whose eldest son, Gareth, do not take my eyes off him, for reasons she can only partly imagine. Rhys Winter meets the new school, a boy from the mysterious beauty, from which Gareth tries to warn her. Her eyes are bright. The look hides a deep distant past. The attraction will sweep them away like a wave, energy is inexplicable and dangerous. As strange assaults occur in the county, Winter itself is attacked in the woods. The truth begins to emerge. Winter must discover a new world, where ancient traditions are passed down from generation to generation, where a secret pact protects the lives of millions of people. Must discover the truth behind the death of his parents, and their unique heritage: a crystal pendant that protects it. Now you have to choose. Among Rhys, the boy she loves, and his own life, as he has always known. Title: The Cemetery of Prague
Author: Umberto Eco
Price: € 19.50 Publisher: Bompiani
Release Date: 2010
Plot
Along the nineteenth century, between Turin, Palermo and Paris, we find a Satanist hysteria, an abbot who died twice, some bodies in a sewer in Paris, a partisan named Ippolito Nievo, who disappeared at sea near Stromboli, the false bordereau of Dreyfus to the German Embassy, \u200b\u200bthe gradual growth of the counterfeit known as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which inspired Hitler to the death camps, the Jesuit plot against the Masons, Freemasons, Carbonari and Mazzini strangling priests with their own intestines, a bow-legged arthritic Garibaldi, plans Secret Service Piedmont, French, Prussian and Russian, the massacres of the Commune in Paris where you can eat mice, daggers, hideous and criminal puteolenti to find that among the fumes of absinthe planning explosions and riots in the streets, false beards, fake notaries, false wills, fraternities and diabolical black mass. Excellent material for a novel appendage of nineteenth-century style, among other things shows how the serials of that time. Here's the worst that satisfy the readers. Except one thing. Except the hero, all the other characters in this novel are really existed and did what they did. And the main character does things that were really made, except that it does a lot, which probably had different authors. But who knows, when moving between secret services, double agents, officers and felons ecclesiastical sinners, it can happen everything. That the only fictional character in this story is as true of everyone, and looks like a lot to others who are still with us. the next
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