Five ​Quarters of the Orange

Joanne Harris - Runelight
Two ​girls. With new runes. And the End of the World is coming. Again. Six hundred miles apart, two girls each bear on their skin a runemark: a symbol of the Old Days when the known Worlds were ruled by the gods from their sky citadel, Asgard. Now Asgard lies in ruins, and the power of the gods has long since been destroyed. Or so everyone thinks. But nothing is lost for ever, and the gods haven't given up yet (nor stopped squabbling!) and they want the power of the runes borne by Maddy and Maggie - these new runes, which carry huge potential, their runelight shining out as a portent to the future. Soon both girls are swept into a maelstrom of cataclysmic events that are to draw them closer and closer to each other, and nearer and nearer to a horrific struggle where each must prove where their loyalty lies . . . Filled with inventive and humorous detail, trickery and treachery, carnage and lunacy, Runelight is the second title - following Runemarks - in a series of gloriously imaginative and dramatic tales about the Norse gods.

Joanne Harris - Peaches ​for Monsieur le Curé
It ​isn't often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the village in which eight years ago, she opened up a chocolate shop. But returning to her old home, Vianne is completely unprepared for what she is to find there. Women veiled in black, the scent of spices and peppermint tea - and there, on the bank of the river Tannes, facing the church, a minaret.

Joanne Harris - Holy ​Fools
Joanne ​Harris, bestselling author of Chocolat, presents her most accomplished novel yet — an intoxicating concoction that blends theology and reason, deception and masquerade, with a dash of whimsical humor and a soupçon of sensuality. Britanny, 1610. Juliette, a one-time actress and rope dancer, is forced to seek refuge among the sisters of the abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-mer. Reinventing herself as Soeur Auguste,Juliette makes a new life for herself and her young daughter, Fleur. But when the kindly abbess dies, Juliette's comfortable existence begins to unravel. The abbey's new leader is the daughter of a corrupt noble family, and she arrives with a ghost from Juliette's past — Guy LeMerle, a man she has every reason to fear and hate.

J. K. Rowling - The ​Casual Vacancy
When ​Barry Fairbrother dies unexpectedly in his early 40s, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils... Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?

Joanne Harris - Csokoládés ​barack
A ​Csokoládé és a Csokoládécipő után a trilógia várva várt harmadik kötete! Vianne Rocher-t egy másvilágról érkezett levél Lansquenet-be, a dél-franciaországi kisvárosba vezeti, ahol nyolc éve csokoládéboltot nyitott. Minden képzeletet felülmúl, amit ott talál: fekete fátylas nők, fűszerek illata, borsmenta tea és a Saint-Jerôme templom karcsú, csontszínű tornya – egy ezüst félholddal a tetején…Nem csak az észak-afrikai bevándorlók hoztak nagy változásokat a kis közösség életébe. Reynaud atya, Vianne hajdani riválisa kegyvesztett lett és veszélyben az élete. Lehet, hogy csak Vianne képes megmenteni? „Joanne Harris illatokban és ízekben gazdag, lebilincselő szerelmi története egy elragadó világba kalauzolja az olvasót.” – Sunday Times „A Csokoládéhoz hasonlóan, ez a könyv is igazi csemege. Minden oldalát átitatják az illatok, színek és ízek anélkül, hogy túlcsordulna. A szavak elragadóak, a varázslat természetes és magától értetődő, hiszen a varázslat vagy a vallás nem más, mint az emberi lélek megértésének képessége. A Csokoládé és fátyol Harris csodálatos visszatérése.” – Literary Review

Joanne Harris - Runemarks
Maddy ​did not stir. Only her left hand moved, her fingers curling into the familiar shape that was Bjarkán, the rune of revelation. If it was a rat, Bjarkán would show it. It was not a rat. A wisp - just a wisp - of FaErie gold gleamed in the circle of her finger and thumb. Maddy pounced. Her strike was well timed. At once the creature began to struggle, and although Maddy couldn't see it, she could certainly feel it between her hands, kicking and twisting and trying to bite her. Then as she continued to hold it fast, the creature finally went limp; the shadow dropped away from it, and see saw it clearly. It - he - was not much bigger than a dog fox, with small, clever hands and wicked little teeth. Most of his body was covered in armour - pieces of plate, leather straps, half a mailshirt cut clumsily down to fit - and out of his brown, long-whiskered face, his eyes shone a bright, inhuman gold. He blinked at her twice. Then, without any warning, he shot away between her legs... Maddy touched the final rune. She spoke the cantrip. The Hill opened... Maddy Smith has always been an outsider. Born with a rusty-coloured rune on her hand - what the villagers call a ruinmark - she is scarred by this symbol of the old gods, a sign of magic. And everyone knows that magic is dangerous. Except for Maddy, who actually thinks it's rather fun. Until now. For suddenly her friend One-Eye, a rascally Outlander, wants her to open Red Horse Hill and descend into World Below - a world filled with goblins and far worse - to retrieve a relic of the old gods... Full of trickery, magic and the enchantment of the Norse myths, Runemarks is an epic fantasy adventure - richly inventive and superbly imaginative.

Joanne Harris - Rúnajelek
Hétfő ​reggel, hét óra, ötszáz évvel a Világvége után, és megint koboldok fosztogattak a pincében… Az örök álmodozó Maddy Smith születése óta a Káosz jelét viseli a kezén. A vörös rúna hordozója különleges erők birtokosa, de a tizennégy éves lány még maga sem tudja, mire képes. A rossz ómen félelmet kelt a babonás falusiakban, Maddyt kiközösítik, így a szintén számkivetett Félszeművel barátkozik, aki sokat tud a mágiáról, és egy nap félelmetes és káprázatos világba vezeti a kislányt… A Rend fanatikus szolgái végleg le akarnak számolni a Káosszal: felesküsznek, hogy kiirtják a babonákat, a varázslatokat, a meséket és az álmokat. A tündék, törpök, boszorkányok és koboldok ideje lejárt, számukra is beköszönt a világvége, hacsak Maddy nem lopja el az ősi istenek titkát, amivel hatástalaníthatja a Rend titkos fegyverét. Háború van: a Rend végleg elpusztíthatja a világot… most minden egy kislányon múlik. Joanne Harris, a világszerte népszerű Csokoládé, Szederbor, Ötnegyed narancs és számos más bestseller írónője babonákkal és mágiával teli fantasztikus világába vezeti olvasóit. Az ősi skandináv mitológia elevenedik meg ebben a vad, veszélyes, fantasztikus és fordulatos regényben. A Rúnajelek, akár a Végtelen történet vagy A Gyűrűk Ura, igazi mestermű.

Joanne Harris - Ötnegyed ​narancs
Les ​Laveuses apró falu a Loire mentén. Ide tér vissza Framboise, hogy élete végét szülőfalujában élje le. Nevét, kilétét gondosan titkolja, kemény munkával rendbe hozza a régi házat és a gazdaságot, kis vendéglőt is nyit, amely hamarosan közkedveltté válik. Visszatérése azonban felkavarja benne a faluval kapcsolatos gyermekkori emlékeit. A múltbéli szál a német megszállás ideje. A lázadó természetű, akkor kilencéves Framboise özvegyen maradt anyja kemény kézzel vezeti a gazdaságot, neveli gyermekeit, akik újságokért, ritka élelmiszerekért, rúzsokért apró kis füleseket, megfigyeléseket szállítanak a németeknek. Sőt, egyikükbe, a fiatal Tomas Leibnizbe Framboise lassan bele is szeret. Háború idején a falu mindezt nem nézi jó szemmel, s a család körül lassan lincshangulat alakul ki… A titkolt múltra a jelen drámai eseményei közepette fény derül, mígnem Framboise kénytelen leleplezni önmagát, és vállalni a múltat. A Csokoládé és a Szederbor szerzője, Joanne Harris e kötetében is bámulatos drámai erővel juttatja el a történet két szálát a csúcsponthoz. Ételek, italok, az érzékekre ható világ költői leírásában itt sincs hiány, de a hangsúly ebben a regényben nem a csodán van, hanem a szenvedélyen, a szenvedéssel teli út végén váró megbékélésen.

Joanne Harris - Blueeyedboy
...dark ​psychological thriller set in the world of the internet, where no-one is quite what they seem to be, and every taste is catered for, even the ones to which we dare not confess.

Joanne Harris - The ​Lollipop Shoes
(In ​the U.S.A. published as The Girl with no Shadow) For all those who loved Chocolat - Vianne is back. Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Vianne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop. Nothing unusual marks them out; no red sachets hang by the door. The wind has stopped - at least for a while. Then into their lives blows Zozie de l'Alba, the lady with the lollipop shoes, and everything begins to change... But this new friendship is not what it seems. Ruthless, devious and seductive, Zozie de l'Alba has plans of her own - plans that will shake their world to pieces. And with everything she loves at stake, Vianne must face a difficult choice; to flee, as she has done so many times before, or to confront her most dangerous enemy ... Herself.

Julie Powell - Julie ​& Julia (angol)
Powell, ​a 30-year-old secretary, began keeping her blog in the summer of 2002 as she embarked on trying out all 524 recipes from Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in 365 days in the kitchen of her Queens apartment. The book turns to poetry everything from shopping for the perfect piece of liver to extracting marrow from the bone. Julie & Julia has sold nearly 100,000 copies and became the nonfiction winner of the first annual Lulu Blooker Prize, celebrating books spawned by blogs.

Joanne Harris - Jigs ​& Reels
Take ​your partners, please. Suburban witches, defiant old ladies, ageing monsters, suicidal Lottery winners, wolf men, dolphin women and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear: in these twenty-two short stories from the author of Holy Fools and Five Quarters of the Orange, the miraculous goes hand-in-hand with the mundane, the sour with the sweet, and the beautiful, the grotesque, the seductive and the disturbing are never more than one step away. Jigs & Reels is Joanne Harris’s first collection of short stories. As she says in her foreword, a good short story can startle, ignite, and illuminate…giving you vivid, anarchic glimpses into different worlds, different people. Here, she proves she is as good as her word by creating an eclectic selection of tales for our times that will delight, surprise, entertain and horrify in equal measure. Sly, funny, sometimes provocative but always personal, Jigs & Reels shows a side to Joanne Harris you have never seen before. So go on, be tempted. After all, it's only dancing.

J. K. Rowling - Harry ​Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry ​has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth, safety and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or hesitation the inexorable path laid out for him… In this final, seventh instalment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectacular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited. The spellbinding, richly woven narrative, which plunges, twists and turns at a breathtaking pace, confirms the author as a mistress of storytelling, whose books will be read, reread and read again.

J. K. Rowling - Harry ​Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry ​Potter receives an ominous warning from a house-elf at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: if he returns to the school at the end of the summer, terrible things will happen. But return Harry must. His second year begins with a new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Quidditch training and the intensification of old rivalries. Then the warning starts to ring true, as mysterious words are daubed on a wall, students are attacked and Ron's sister, Ginny, disappears. And so the search for Salazar Slytherin's heir begins, with the mystery pointing Harry to a clandestine chamber and a deadly creature at its heart...

J. K. Rowling - Harry ​Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Read ​by Jim Dale Running time: 20 hrs., 30 mins. 17 CDs. Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts for his fourth year of magical adventures in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. This year Harry turns 14 and becomes interested in girls -- one in particular. And with Dark Magic comes danger, as someone close to Harry dies. You'll have to listen to learn more! The audio is available on July 8th.

Agatha Christie - One, ​Two, Buckle My Shoe
Even ​the great Poirot harbours a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it is with trepidation that he arrives at the celebrated Dr Morley’s surgery for an examination. Yet even Poirot couldn’t have guessed that only hours later he would be examining the dentist, dead in his surgery – an apparent suicide. Why would a successful dentist choose to kill himself on such a busy day? Poirot turns to the other patients for answers – but only finds other, darker questions. ‘A swift course of unflagging suspense leads to complete surprise.’ New York Times

J. K. Rowling - Harry ​Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
A ​special new edition in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, with a stunning new cover illustration by Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick. The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet... As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate - and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straightforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary help from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince. So it's the home front that takes center stage in the multilayered sixth installment of the story of Harry Potter. Here at Hogwarts, Harry will search for the full and complex story of the boy who became Lord Voldemort - and thereby find what may be his only vulnerability. This gorgeous new edition in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone features a newly designed cover illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick, as well as the beloved original interior decorations by Mary GrandPre.

Joanne Harris - Coastliners
Mado ​has been adrift for too long. After ten years in Paris, she returns to the small island of Le Devin, the home that has haunted her since she left. Le Devin is shaped somewhat like a sleeping woman. At her head is the village of Les Salants, while its more prosperous rival, La Houssinière, lies at her feet. Yet even though you can walk from one to the other in an hour, they are worlds apart. And now Mado is back in Les Salants hoping to reconcile with her estranged father. But what she doesn't realize is that it is not only her father whose trust she must regain

J. K. Rowling - Harry ​Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Harry ​Potter is an ordinary boy who lives in a cupboard under the stairs at his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon’s house, which he thinks is normal for someone like him who’s parents have been killed in a ‘car crash’. He is bullied by them and his fat, spoilt cousin Dudley, and lives a very unremarkable life with only the odd hiccup (like his hair growing back overnight!) to cause him much to think about. That is until an owl turns up with a letter addressed to Harry and all hell breaks loose! He is literally rescued by a world where nothing is as it seems and magic lessons are the order of the day. Read and find out how Harry discovers his true heritage at Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, the reason behind his parents mysterious death, who is out to kill him, and how he uncovers the most amazing secret of all time, the fabled Philosopher’s Stone! All this and muggles too. Now, what are they?? The Author: This is Jo’s first book and she has already written seven outlines for Harry’s further adventures at Hogwarts. She lives in Edinburgh.

Audrey Niffenegger - The ​Time Traveler's Wife
A ​dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant. An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler's Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come.