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The Crime Novel
Although rarely distinguished from the detective story, the crime novel offers readers a quite different experience. In the detective novel, a sympathetic detective figure uses reason and intuition to solve the puzzle, restore order, and reassure readers that "right" will always prevail. In the crime novel, by contrast, the "hero" is either the killer, the victim, a guilty bystander, or someone falsely accused, and the crime may never be satisfactorily solved. These and other fundamental differences are set out by Tony Hilfer in The Crime Novel, the first book that completely defines and explores this popular genre. Hilfer offers convincing evidence that the crime novel should be regarded as...
The Crime Novel
Although rarely distinguished from the detective story, the crime novel offers readers a quite different experience. In the detective novel, a sympathetic detective figure uses reason and intuition to solve the puzzle, restore order, and reassure readers that "right" will always prevail. In the crime novel, by contrast, the "hero" is either the killer, the victim, a guilty bystander, or someone falsely accused, and the crime may never be satisfactorily solved. These and other fundamental differences are set out by Tony Hilfer in The Crime Novel, the first book that completely defines and explores this popular genre. Hilfer offers convincing evidence that the crime novel should be regarded as...
The Seven
Chosen for their unique DNA profiles and taken from their homes as children, seven teenagers have endured a decade of experimentation, surgeries, and gene-splicing as part of the world-changing project of a geneticist bent on creating the next evolution of man. As a result of the experiments, each of the seven is imbued with the potential for a different superhuman ability. As they near adulthood, the experiment finally begins to show results, but the effects are worse than any of them could have predicted. When an attempt to escape the lab goes horribly awry, the seven are forced to face down the paramilitary army of the syndicate that founded the experiment that created them, or lose the only family they have left: Each other.
Sarah
They called her the Divine Sarah. The glorious symbol of a decadent and sensual age. Ambitious, flamboyant, scandalous but above all adored."A wrenching portrait of a great actress."-Washington Post Book World
Perguntem a Sarah Gross
Finalista do prémio LeYa em 2014 Fora ali que Sarah Gross aprendera a ser feliz. Mas eles chegaram e mudaram tudo. Até o nome da cidade. Auschwitz? Que raio era Auschwitz? Em 1968, Kimberly Parker, uma jovem professora de Literatura, atravessa os Estados Unidos para ir ensinar no colégio mais elitista da Nova Inglaterra, dirigido por uma mulher carismática e misteriosa chamada Sarah Gross. Foge de um segredo terrível e procura em St. Oswald’s a paz possível com a companhia da exuberante Miranda, o encanto e a sensibilidade de Clement e sobretudo a cumplicidade de Sarah. Mas a verdade persegue Kimberly até ali e, no dia em que toma a decisão que a poderia salvar, uma tragédia abala...
Bitter Reckoning
Digging into newly declassified archives, Dan Porat unearths the story of Jews prosecuted by the State of Israel for Nazi collaboration. Over time courts and the public came to see Jewish ghetto administrators or kapos as tragic figures. Rigorous yet humane, Porat invites us to rethink ideas about victimhood, justice, and collective memory.
