The ​Passage

Justin Cronin - A ​szabadulás
Rákbeteg ​felesége halála után dr. Lear, az özvegy tudós elkezdi kutatni a hosszú élet titkát, a betegségek és az öregedés ellenszerét. A hamarosan a hadsereg felügyelete alá kerülő kísérletsorozat eredményeként azonban a 12 kísérleti alany – minden emberi vonását elvesztve – félelmetes, gyilkos lénnyé alakul át. A kutatás utolsó fázisában a tudósnak szüksége van egy hatéves kislányra is, akit szintén beoltanak a kiszámíthatatlan hatású vírussal. Annak ellenére, hogy a Colorado-hegységbeli kísérleti telepet kommandósok őrzik, a kísérleti alanyok, azaz „fertőzöttek” kiszabadulnak. Senki és semmi nem állíthatja meg őket, a fertőzés egyre terjed, s mind több ember válik hozzájuk hasonló vérszomjas szörnyeteggé. Egyedül Amy, a hatéves kislány szervezete reagál másképpen a vírusra. A különös, világító lényekké átalakuló fertőzöttek az Egyesült Államok egész területét ellepik: már csak egy emberi közösség marad valahol Kaliforniában, melynek tagjai jól kiépített erődjük és harcosaik segítségével majd’ száz éven át megakadályozzák a fertőzöttek bejutását. A Kolónia lakói elszigetelten élnek a kaliforniai hegyekben, a régi, vírus előtti világot az idősek beszámolóiból vagy a Hosszú Portyákon látott romokból ismerik. Egy nap fura lány jelenik meg a Kolónia kapujában – Amy. Felbukkanása gyökeres változást hoz a Kolónia életében… Justin Cronin A szabadulás című poszt-apokaliptikus látomása egy ezer évet átfogó trilógia első része. A páratlan reklámkapánnyal beharangozott kötet megjelenését óriási várakozás előzte meg az USA-ban. Ennek megfelelően már a boltokba kerülésének hetében felkerült a New York Times bestsellerlistájára, ahol egészen a negyedik helyig jutott. A regény már megjelenése előtt bő másfél évvel nagy port kavart, ugyanis még kéziratban volt, amikor a megfilmesítés jogát példátlanul magas összegért megvásárolta a Fox 2000 filmstúdió. A feldolgozást a számos óriási sikerű filmet (Gladiátor, Amerikai gengszter, Szárnyas fejvadász, A nyolcadik utas a Halál stb.) jegyző Ridley Scott fogja rendezni.

Stephen Chbosky - The ​Perks of Being a Wallflower
Standing ​on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion marks the stunning debut of a provocative new voice in contemporary fiction: The Perks of Being a Wallflower. This is the story of what it's like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie's letters are singular and unique, hilarious and devastating. We may not know where he lives. We may not know to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it puts him on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting coming-of-age story, a powerful novel that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller coaster days known as growing up.

Neil Gaiman - Terry Pratchett - Good ​Omens
There ​is a distinct hint of Armageddon in the air. According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, the Four Bikers of the Apocalypse are revving up their mighty hogs and hitting the road, and the world's last two remaining witch-finders are getting ready to fight the good fight, armed with awkwardly antiquated instructions and stick pins. Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. . . . Right. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon -- each of whom has lived among Earth's mortals for many millennia and has grown rather fond of the lifestyle -- are not particularly looking forward to the coming Rapture. If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they've got to find and kill the Antichrist (which is a shame, as he's a really nice kid). There's just one glitch: someone seems to have misplaced him. . . . First published in 1990, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's brilliantly dark and screamingly funny take on humankind's final judgment is back -- and just in time -- in a new hardcover edition (which includes an introduction by the authors, comments by each about the other, and answers to some still-burning questions about their wildly popular collaborative effort) that the devout and the damned alike will surely cherish until the end of all things.

S. J. Watson - Before ​I Go To Sleep
S. ​J. Watson makes his powerful debut with this compelling, fast-paced psychological thriller, reminiscent of Shutter Island and Memento, in which an amnesiac who, following a mysterious accident, cannot remember her past or form new memories, desperately tries to uncover the truth about who she is—and who she can trust.

Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
The ​greatly anticipated final book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Format: 9 CDs, Unabridged Narrator: Carolyn McCormick The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss Everdeen. The final book in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins will have hearts racing, pages turning, and everyone talking about one of the biggest and most talked-about books and authors in recent publishing history!!!!

Dan Brown - The ​Da Vinci Code
Harvard ​professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci - and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vault of history. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, a stunning historical truth will be lost forever...

David Mitchell - Felhőatlasz
MINDEN ​ÖSSZEFÜGG Egy zaklatott életű ifjú zeneszerző az ihlet pillanatában ráérez az örökkévalóságra. Sorsszerű viszonyok, cinikus érzelmek és látnoki szerelmek motívumaiból hat történet rajzolódik ki, melyek mindegyike túlmutat önmagán – egy leírhatatlan harmónia felé. Ez az átkozottul tökéletes összhang szólal meg a Felhőatlasz olvasóiban. David Mitchell bravúros felépítésű, virtuóz nyelvezetű művében az összefonódó életek minden időbeli és térbeli határt átlépve hatnak egymásra. A lelkek korokon és kontinenseken át vándorolnak, akár az égbolton átvonuló felhők. De ki irányítja sorsunkat: mi magunk vagy valamilyen külső erő? Képesek vagyunk-e tanulni a múltból, az előző életekből, vagy az emberiség újra és újra elköveti ugyanazokat a hibákat? A regényből a Mátrix-trilógia és A parfüm rendezői forgattak vibrálóan szellemes filmet. „Az eddigi legmerészebb vállalkozás… egyedi teljesítmény egy rendkívül tehetséges és nagyratörő író tollából.” – Matt Thorne, Independent on Sunday „David Mitchell egy hullámvasútra csábítja olvasóit, akik először vonakodva szállnak fel, de miután belevágtak a kalandba, nem akarják, hogy véget érjen az út. Velem legalábbis ez történt.” – A.S. Byatt, Guardian „A jövőbe látás, az elmélkedés és a szórakoztatás ragyogó, elégikus egyvelege.” – Neel Mukherjee, The Times „A mód, ahogy Mitchell a Felhőatlasz történetét elmeséli, valósággal rabul ejtett.” – Lawrence Norfolk,

Dan Brown - Inferno ​(angol)
Dan ​Brown's new novel, Inferno, features renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and is set in the heart of Europe, where Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centred around one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces. As Dan Brown comments: "Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante's work on the modern world. With this new novel, I am excited to take readers on a journey deep into this mysterious realm.a landscape of codes, symbols, and more than a few secret passageways."

Dan Wells - I ​Am Not a Serial Killer
John ​Wayne Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. Obsessed with serial killers, he never wants to be one. Yet terrible impulses constantly tempt him. Having grown up helping his mom at the family mortuary, dead bodies are no big deal to John. He likes them, actually. They don’t ask for the empathy he’s unable to offer. Perhaps that’s what gives him the clarity to recognize that something is frighteningly different about the freshest body on the slab. For the first time, John must confront a danger outside his own mind, a threat he cannot control, a menace to everything and everyone he would love, if only he could.

Suzanne Collins - Catching ​Fire
This ​is the second book in the ground-breaking "Hunger Games" trilogy. After winning the brutal Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta return to their district, hoping for a peaceful future. But their victory has caused rebellion to break out ...and the Capitol has decided that someone must pay. As Katniss and Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitol's Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. Unless they can convince the world that they are still lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying. Then comes the cruelest twist: the contestants for the next Hunger Games are announced, and Katniss and Peeta are forced into the arena once more.

Jodi Picoult - Picture ​Perfect
Cassie ​Barrett, an anthropologist, marries handsome, talented, and rich movie star Alex Rivers. They enter upon a picture-perfect life until Alex get a bit reckless. He becomes a Mr. Hyde in all his ugliness and directs his rage toward Cassie with fist and foot. Typical of abusive husbands, he apologizes profusely afterward. Cassie soon finds that she is pregnant-against her husband's wishes-and realizes that she must find a way to protect the unborn child. One of her rescuers is William Flying Horse, a policeman from South Dakota with demons of his own.

Karin Slaughter - Broken
When ​Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own. Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him, and while her role in the death of the county’s popular police chief is unclear, that man’s widow, Dr. Sara Linton, desperately needs Trent’s help to crack the case of a prisoner’s death. While the police force investigates the murder of a young woman pulled from a frigid lake, Trent investigates the police force. Caught between two complicated and determined women, trying to understand the facts surrounding Chief Tolliver’s death, Trent will uncover explosive secrets—and confront a thin blue line that could be murderous if crossed.

Jodi Picoult - Handle ​with Care
Charlotte ​and Sean O'Keefe's daughter, Willow, was born with brittle bone disease, a condition that requires Charlotte to act as full-time caregiver and has strained their emotional and financial limits. Willow's teenaged half-sister, Amelia, suffers as well, overshadowed by Willow's needs and lost in her own adolescent turmoil. When Charlotte decides to sue for wrongful birth in order to obtain a settlement to ensure Willow's future, the already strained family begins to implode. Not only is the defendant Charlotte's longtime friend, but the case requires Charlotte and Sean to claim that had they known of Willow's condition, they would have terminated the pregnancy, a statement that strikes at the core of their faith and family.

Jodi Picoult - The ​Tenth Circle
Trixie ​Stone is an imaginative, perceptive 14 year old whose life begins to unravel when Jason Underhill, Bethel High's star hockey player, breaks up with her, leaving a void that can only be filled by the blood spilled during shameful self-mutilations in the girls' bathroom. While Trixie's dad Daniel notices his daughter's recent change in demeanor, he turns a blind eye, just as he does to the obvious affair his wife Laura, a college professor, is barely trying to conceal. When Trixie gets raped at a friend's party, Daniel and Laura are forced to deal not only with the consequences of their daughter's physical and emotional trauma, but with their own transgressions as well. For Daniel, that means reflecting on a childhood spent as the only white kid in a native Alaskan village, where isolation and loneliness turned him into a recluse, only to be born again after falling in love with his wife. Laura, who blames her family's unraveling on her selfish affair, must decide how to reconcile her personal desires with her loved ones' needs.

Jeff Lindsay - Dexter ​in the Dark
Dexter ​Morgan is busy planning his wedding to Rita to complete his nice-guy disguise. But when a student is found burnt, molested and headless - seemingly sacrificed to an ancient god - and Dex is brought in as forensic analyst to help investigate, he realises he could be dealing with someone a whole lot more sinister than he is. Soon it seems the dark passenger in Dexter's head has gone into hiding. And when something creeps out your friendly neighbourhood serial killer, you know it's serious... As Halpern and Dexter are stalked by death, it looks like it's getting personal - especially as Dex now has a family to protect. Gradually, Dexter realises his stepchildren might share his extracurricular interest in death. Could he help them target their bloodlust, just as he steers his own? But to do that, Dex must cope with a certain mutilated sergeant from his past, and more importantly... stay alive ...

Jodi Picoult - Keeping ​Faith
When ​seven-year-old Faith White and her mother, Mariah, swing by the house on the way to ballet class, they find that Daddy is home and he's brought a playmate. This is not the first time he's been caught cheating. After the fuss and feathers have settled and Dad has moved out, Faith begins talking to an imaginary friend who, it seems, is God. And God is not male but female. Faith is able to effect miraculous cures and is also occasionally afflicted with stigmata. When the media gets wind of this, the circus begins. The local rabbi takes an interest (Faith and Mariah are technically Jewish), and the local Catholic priest pays several inquiring visits. There is also a gaggle of psychologists. Throw in a professional atheist for the romance angle and a vicious custody fight with an egomaniacal lawyer, and you have a riveting read.

Jodi Picoult - Tizenkilenc ​perc
Tizenkilenc ​perc alatt lenyírhatod a ház előtt a füvet. Befestheted a hajad. Megnézheted egy hokimeccs első harmadát... Tizenkilenc perc alatt meg tudod állítani a világot, és akár le is szállhatsz róla.

Jodi Picoult - Second ​Glance
Ghosts ​and ghost hunters collide in this compelling tale of the paranormal set in Vermont's green mountains. When the patriarch of the Abenaki Indian tribe that was nearly eradicated by that state's eugenics project in the 1930s encounters Ross Wakeman, the miraculous survivor of several attempted suicides who wants nothing more than to be reunited with the woman he loved and lost, they set in motion a chain of events that will unravel an ancient murder and lead to a second chance at life and love for the victim's descendants

Thomas Harris - Red ​Dragon
A ​psychopath is at large; a monster in the grip of some unimaginable delusion compounded of sexual hunger, demonic violence and sinister logic; a boastful killer who sends the police teasing notes signed...the Red Dragon. So they call in special agent Will Graham; the one man with the gift to get into the monster's mind; the one man who can anticipate his next act. Red Dragon is quite probably the most suspenseful, terrifying and utterly compelling thriller ever written.

Alice Hoffman - A ​tizenharmadik boszorkány
A ​Sparrow család asszonyai nemzedékek óta rendkívüli tulajdonságokkal rendelkeznek. Valamennyien március havában születtek, és mire betöltötték tizenharmadik életévüket, különleges képességük mágikus erővel tört rájuk. Elinor, a nagymama szó szerint megérzi a hazugságot. Jenny, a lánya ismeri mások álmait, Stella, az unokája - aki éppen a tizenharmadik születésnapját ünnepli - döbbenten ismeri fel, hogy előre látja mások halálát. Miközben Stella újonnan megismert képességével igyekszik megbirkózni, csaknem végzetes félreértés történik: látomása gyilkosság vádjával börtönbe juttatja az apját... A nemzedékek titkait, emlékeit, talizmánjait őrző családi mese igazi irodalmi csemege. "Hoffman javíthatatlan optimista, pedig a derűlátás manapság mintha kiment volna a divatból. Lenyűgöző története a rendkívüli nőkről valójában anyák és lányok bonyolult kapcsolatának érzékeny, leheletfinom lenyomata, boszorkányosan megírva." Jenny a születésnapja reggelén olyan álomból ébredt, amelyben egy fekete angyal szerepelt, valamint egy asszony, aki nem félt a víztől, és egy férfi, aki úgy szorított a markába egy méhet, hogy nem érezte a csípését. Olyan különös és kellemes álom volt, hogy Jenny egyszerre szeretett volna sírni és hangosan kacagni, de amint kinyitotta a szemét, tudta, hogy ez nem az ő álma volt. Valaki más varázsolta elő a nőt és a méhet, a nyugodt vizet és az angyalt. Mindez valaki másé volt. És ez a más - akárki volt is - nagyon érdekelte Jennyt. Egyben azt is megértette, hogy a mások álmának látása az a képesség, amelyet kapott. Nem olyan hasznos, mint az időjóslás vagy a hazugság felismerése. Nem is érdemleges, mint a fájdalomtűrés, a sötétben látás vagy a sebes futás. Végtére is mi értelme egy álomnak, főként annak, ami a másé? A Magyarországon sem ismeretlen Alice Hoffman író, forgatókönyvíró a mágikus realizmus képviselője. Különleges mondatszerkesztése, lenyűgöző írói fantáziája, kitűnő karakterteremtő ereje és lírai látásmódja méltán emeli a műfaj legjobbjai közé.