James Patterson’s blockbuster Alex Cross series has sold over 100 million copies, and now he’s bringing those thrills to a new generation! Alex’s son Ali is eager to follow in his father’s footsteps as a detective, but when his best friend goes missing, what price will he have to pay to solve the mystery?

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON

Alex Cross
The brilliant DC detective who never gives up on a case.

Ali Cross
The tenacious kid who’s determined to follow in his father’s footsteps.

The case that finally gives him a chance
Ali knows Gabe Qualls better than anyone, so when his friend goes missing, Ali jumps right into action. Being Alex Cross’s son has taught him the skills he needs to solve the mystery: intelligence, persistence, and logic. One thing he didn’t inherit? Patience.

Nick Stone is back in an up-to-the-minute thriller – ripped fresh from the headlines.

Stone has returned to London.

Both the UK and the US are in a state of unrest and ever more extreme politicians are looking to take advantage of an unstable world.

Their motives are unclear. But their threat is real.

Who are they really working for?

After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son, Jake, heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town. Featherbank. But the town has a dark past.

Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered five residents. Until Frank Carter was finally caught, he was nicknamed “The Whisper Man”, for he would lure his victims out by whispering at their windows at night.

Just as Tom and Jake settle into their new home, a young boy vanishes. His disappearance bears an unnerving resemblance to Frank Carter’s crimes, reigniting old rumors that he preyed with an accomplice. Now, detectives Amanda Beck and Pete Willis must find the boy before it is too late, even if that means Pete has to revisit his great foe in prison: The Whisper Man.

And then Jake begins acting strangely. He hears a whispering at his window….

The stunning story of a young woman, an international crisis, and the triumph of the human spirit.

Adrift in a frigid sea, no land in sight―just debris from the ship’s wreckage and floating corpses all around―nineteen-year-old Doaa Al Zamel floats with a small inflatable water ring around her waist and clutches two children, barely toddlers, to her body. The children had been thrust into Doaa’s arms by their drowning relatives, all refugees who boarded a dangerously overcrowded ship bound for Sweden and a new life. For days, Doaa floats, prays, and sings to the babies in her arms. She must stay alive for these children. She must not lose hope.

Doaa Al Zamel was once an average Syrian girl growing up in a crowded house in a bustling city near the Jordanian border. But in 2011, her life was upended. Inspired by the events of the Arab Spring, Syrians began to stand up against their own oppressive regime. When the army was sent to take control of Doaa’s hometown, strict curfews, power outages, water shortages, air raids, and violence disrupted everyday life. After Doaa’s father’s barbershop was destroyed and rumors of women being abducted spread through the community, her family decided to leave Syria for Egypt, where they hoped to stay in peace until they could return home. Only months after their arrival, the Egyptian government was overthrown and the environment turned hostile for refugees.

In the midst of this chaos, Doaa falls in love with a young opposition fighter who proposes marriage and convinces her to flee to the promise of safety and a better future in Europe. Terrified and unable to swim, Doaa and her young fiance hand their life savings to smugglers and board a dilapidated fishing vessel with five hundred other refugees, including a hundred children. After four horrifying days at sea, another ship, filled with angry men shouting insults, rams into Doaa’s boat, sinking it and leaving the passengers to drown.

That is where Doaa’s struggle for survival really begins.

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea is an emotionally charged, eye-opening true story that represents the millions of unheard voices of refugees who risk everything in a desperate search for the promise of a safe future. Melissa Fleming sheds light on the most pressing humanitarian crisis of our time and paints a vivid, unforgettable portrait of the triumph of the human spirit.

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.

In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven’t seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.

A globe-spanning history of sewing, embroidery, and the people who have used a needle and thread to make their voices heard 

From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances.

Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, protest, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. Clare Hunter, master of the craft, threads her own narrative as she takes us over centuries and across continents—from medieval France to contemporary Mexico and the United States, and from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland—to celebrate the age-old, universal, and underexplored beauty and power of sewing. Threads of Life is an evocative and moving book about the need we have to tell our story.

A hauntingly powerful novel about how the choices we make can stay with us forever, by the award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K.
South Africa in the 1880s. A young and naive English doctor by the name of William Abbey witnesses the lynching of a local boy by the white colonists. As the child dies, his mother curses William.
William begins to understand what the curse means when the shadow of the dead boy starts following him across the world. It never stops, never rests. It can cross oceans and mountains. And if it catches him, the person he loves most in the world will die.
Gripping, moving, and thought-provoking, The Pursuit of William Abbey proves once again that Claire North is one of the most innovative voices in modern fiction.

الحب أسمى مشاعر عرفها الإنسان منذ بدء الخليقة، به تزهو القلوب وتسمو الأنفس، ومنه ينبع العطاء ويزهر الوفاء وينتعش الإخلاص، ولكن..

هل يمكن للحب أن يكون دافعا للقتل أو سببا في ازهاق روح بريئة؟

الأمنيات تجيبنا باستحالة ذلك، لكن الواقع المرير يؤكد أن ذلك وارد..وبشدة!

في هذا الكتاب، مجموعة من قصص الجرائم الحقيقية المؤلمة التي جرت أحداثها في عالمنا العربي، تشترك فيها الآلام بما ضاع من الأحلام، وتختلط فيها المشاعر بالدماء، وتذرف فيها الدموع ندما تارة..وحزنا تارة أخرى.

هنا حكايات طعن وغدر، سطرتها أحرف باكية، وحملتها أوراق مستغربة!

بقلم أبوطلال (فيصل) الحمراني

د ما يمنع تكرارها!

هنا ٩٩ جريمة حقيقية من أرجاء العالم العربي اهتز لها الوجدان وغاب عنها الضمير، جرائم لم يكن العقل السوي قادر على تصورها، لكن عقلية مرتكبيها المريضة جعلتها واقعا استيقظ الناس مذهولين منه، وخائفين من تكراره!

العامل المشترك بين هذه القصص الدامية هو محاولة المجرمين إخفاء معالمها والإفلات من العقاب، لكن الإرادة الإلهية كانت دائما أقوى، فيتم اكتشافها ولو بعد سنين طويلة!

ننصح أصحاب القلوب الضعيفة بترك هذا الكتاب على الرف لأنه لا يناسبهم، أما من يرى في قلبه القدرة على التحمل ويود معرفة هذه الجرائم والقضايا فعليه بالاطلاع..والاعتبار!

بقلم أبوطلال (فيصل) الحمراني

صدر للمؤلف أيضا كتاب الذين قتلهم الحب

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يروي هذا الكتاب قصة الخليقة من وجهة نظر العلم حصراً، وهو ضروري جداً كمقدمة لمعرفة تاريخ الحضارات التي أنشأها الإنسان لأنه سيجعلنا نفهم مغزى التطور البطيء والمعقد لهذا التاريخ، وسيدفعنا لتصور واضح أيضا هذه الحضارات، فهي آخر سلسلة في تطور الوجود الحالي الذي ما زال يتطور ويتغير كل يوم، وهي نتاج كائن ما زال ملتبساً يسكنه الجهل، والنزعات التعصبية الضيقة، الغرائز المنفلتة، وما يزال غير قادر على التعايش مع بعضه الآخر، رغم كل هذا الشوط الكبير الذي قطعه تاريخ الحضارات.

ينتاب من يقرأ هذا الكتاب شعور بالراحة وربما التطهر من جهة، لأنه سيغسل عن عقله وروحه كل الأفكار الوهمية الموروثة عن نشأة الكون والأرض والحياة والإنسان، وشعورٌ بالتواضع من جهة أخرى، لأنه سيعرف أن الإنسان كائن عاديّ في سلسلة طويلة من الكائنات التي ما يزال بعضها يعيش معه وميزته أنه يمتلك نعمة العقل، وأن الأرض ليست مركز الكون بل هي حبّة رمل مهملة في ذراع بعيد من أذرع إحدى المجرات، أن الكون، هو الآخر، فقاعةٌ عملاقة مازالت تنتفخ وستخمد وتنكمش وتختفي ذات زمان.

منشورات تكوين . د.خزعل الماجدي