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Odabrana djela Cronin 1-8

1. Citadela 2. Tri ljubavi 3. Španjolski vrtlar 4. Gran Kanaria 5. Šeširdžijin zamak 6. Sjeverno svjetlo 7. Ključevi kraljevstva 8. Shannonov put

Crne ruže (anatomija ženske bande)

Oštar, bolno izravan i odvažan roman kanadske spisateljice Ashley Little kroz svoje glavne likove iznosi priču o bandi tinejdžerica u Vancouveru, “noćnoj mori cijeloga grada“. One su Crne ruže, pet djevojaka kojima se ne želite zamjeriti: Mac, samoproglasena vođa i mastermind bande, Mercy, njezina desna ruka s izrazitim darom za provale i pljačke, Kayos, crvenokosa otpadnica koja je napustila skolu i rodila kćer s trinaest, Foxy, koja je pobjegla iz rodnog rezervata u potrazi za boljim životom, da bi ogrezla u ovisnost, i Z, 16-godisnja crtačica grafita. Ispripovijedan tvrdim, silovitim stilom, Crne ruže – anatomija ženske bande literarni je udarac ravno u glavu: nasilna priča o izgubljenim djevojkama u grčevitoj borbi za moć, za vlastiti glas, za nadu.

Mračna svitanja

Charlotte Mills, cijenjena pulmologinja, poznata kao radoholičarka, posljednjih je deset godina života posvetila karijeri liječnice. Radeći od jutra do mraka, zapostavila je svoj privatni život, uključujući i mogućnost pronalaska ljubavi. Odluka da vodi takav isprazan život posljedica je traume koju je proživjela kada joj je u parku otet šestomjesečni sin, zbog čega se godinama bori s tamom, gušeći se u tuzi i krivnji. Od trenutka kada Charlotte upozna Portera Reesea, između njih se razvija privlačnost koja nadilazi sve njihove sumnje i oklijevanja, a uskoro će i tama, u kojoj oboje žive, postati zajedničko utočište gdje će pomagati jedno drugome, suočavajući se s vlastitim strahovima iz prošlosti.

MIND MGMT, Volume One: The Manager

Matt Kindt, the most original voice in genre comics, outdoes himself in this bold new espionage series! Reporting on a commercial flight where everyone aboard lost their memories, a young journalist stumbles onto a much bigger story – the top-secret Mind Management program. Her ensuing journey involves weaponized psychics, hypnotic advertising, talking dolphins, and seemingly immortal pursuers, as she attempts to find the flight’s missing passenger, the man who was MIND MGMT’s greatest success – and its most devastating failure. But in a world where people can rewrite reality itself, can she trust anything she sees?

Hatter M, Volume 1: The Looking Glass Wars

Put to rest any delusions or disinformation you have of the tea guzzling madman of faux literary history and prepare to expand your consciousness as the saga of Hatter Madigan and his relentless search for the lost Princess of Wonderland unfolds on these pages. In Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars, Royal Bodyguard Hatter Madigan was ordered by Queen Genevieve to take Princess Alyss and leave Wonderland after a bloody palace coup staged by the murderous Redd. But while escaping through the Pool of Tears (the portal connecting Wonderland to our world), crushing centrifugal force pulled them apart, and Alyss was lost. In this geographic parallel adventure, Hatter finds himself in Paris, France in the year 1859 shockingly separated from the child he had been sworn to protect. Unbeknownst to Hatter, Alyss had exited a puddle in London, England. Lost and alone, she was befriended by an aspiring author to whom she told the surreal, violent, heartbreaking story of her young life only to see it published as the nonsensical children’s fairytale Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. But Carrol had got it all wrong.He even misspelled her name! Alyss had trusted Lewis Carrol to tell the truth so that Hatter would find her and bring her home. Instead, Hatter must endure a non-stop quest, crisscrossing the globe for 13 years in search of the lost Princess. While formidable with blades, a moment must be taken to introduce his signature weapon, the Hat. Woven and blocked from a material not available in any realm except the origins of wonder, the Hat, when hurled by his expert hand, instantly unfolds into a circle of blades to attack or defend. The mad odyssey begins here…

Hatter M, Volume 2: Mad With Wonder

It’s a mad, mad, mad world as Royal Bodyguard Hatter Madigan’s maniacal quest to find Alyss continues! In Volume 2, Mad With Wonder, Hatter follows the Glow from London to the battlefields of America’s Civil War in search of the Princess who must some day be Queen. The America that Hatter encounters is a sprawling, wounded, boiling landscape of innocence and energy run amok. The war is tearing the country apart, yet Hatter must maintain his sanity in this maelstrom of holy rollers, child healers, prophetic snake handlers, deranged outlaws, and passionate southern belles. As Hatter searches he learns he is not the only Wonderland presence that has found its way to the Promised Land. Queen Redd’s black imagination is fueling the Civil War and threatening our world with her evil!

Ubij se, ljubavi

U neimenovanom zabačenom selu jedna se žena bori sa svojim demonima – osjeća se zarobljenom, a čezne za slobodom, prihvaća svoju ulogu autsajdera dok žudi za pripadanjem, želi biti dobra majka i žena, a istodobno ima poriv upotrijebiti pištolj ili nož. Visokoobrazovana, načitana i navikla na grad, sada je zapela na selu gdje vrijede drugi zakoni koji se neminovno odnose i na nju. Prestravljena je banalnošću svakodnevice i stiješnjena u okvire obiteljskog života, a sva njena nastojanja da ispuni svoje bračne i majčinske uloge padaju u vodu pod teretom njezinih mračnih, maničnih, na mahove stravičnih misli. Ubij se, ljubavi uistinu je nesvakidašnja i intenzivna knjiga. Ova bolno iskrena ispovjedna proza propituje ljubav, majčinstvo, usamljenost, a ponajviše postporođajnu depresiju i sve mučne, suicidalne i sadističke misli koja ona sa sobom nosi. Ispisan britkim i inteligentnim jezikom, ovaj je roman prepun filmičnih scena, a čitatelj je uronjen u psihu protagonistice koja je neprestano na rubu ludila i titra na ivici stvarnosti. Ubij se, ljubavi djelo je iznimnog stila, istodobno brutalno i poetično. Riječ je o vividnom i snažnom štivu koje je ne samo tematski i stilski zanimljivo, već i važno jer progovara o nerado spominjanim temama o kojima je nužno razgovarati i detabuizirati ih.

The Dark Tower: Treachery #2

With the battle between the evil John Farson’s Big Coffin Hunters and Steven Deschain and his gunslingers finally over, the true death toll is revealed. Will Roland’s father be among the dead?

Ljubav za Isadoru Duncan

Autor prvi put u nas obrađuje problem narkomanije, tu konkretnu i duhovnu adolescenciju jednog dijela omladine. Razloge mladih otpadnika kojima se unaprijed brane i napadaju tobožnjeg krivca – svijet odraslih, pisac razotkriva pokazujući da poznaje žarište sukoba pa upozorava na argumente obje strane: i izgubljenost mladih ljudi i surovost okoštalog svijeta i njegovih zakona.