Fourteen Days: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

PRESTON, Douglas

ATWOOD,MARGARET

Authors Guild, The

United States

Harper Large Print

Blasphemy

In Douglas Preston's Blasphemy, the world’s biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to unlock the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself. The Torus is the most expensive machine ever created by humankind, run by the world’s most powerful supercomputer. It is the brainchild of Nobel Laureate William North Hazelius. Will the Torus divulge the mysteries of the creation of the universe? Or will it, as some predict, suck the earth into a mini black hole? Or is the Torus a Satanic attempt, as a powerful televangelist decries, to challenge God Almighty on the very throne of heaven?  Twelve scientists under the leadership of a famed Nobel Laureate are sent to the remote mountain to turn it on...And what they discover must be hidden from the world at all costs. Wyman Ford, ex-monk and CIA operative, is tapped to wrest from the team their secret, a secret that will either destroy the world—or save it. The countdown begins...

Macmillan

Maxwell Broadbent ha sido un personaje difícil toda su vida. Inició su fortuna saqueando tumbas y ha acabado poseyendo una de las colecciones particulares de obras de arte más exquisitas (y caras) del mundo. Ahora le han diagnosticado un cáncer irreversible, y pide a sus tres hijos que vayan a verle. Cuando Tom, Vernon y Philip llegan a la mansión de su padre en Nuevo México, se encuentran con la casa vacía y la colección desaparecida. Solo queda una cinta de vídeo. Con el último desafío del anciano. Ha decidido ir a morir y ser enterrado en una tumba, cuyo paradero solo conoce él. Y se ha llevado consigo lo que más amaba: su colección de arte, valorada en quinientos millones de dólares, que sus hijos esperaban con tanta ansia heredar… para repartírsela y venderla. Maxwell les lanza un reto: si la quieren, tendrán que ir a buscarla. Se la quedará quien encuentre la tumba. Pero les advierte: será complicado, y peligroso, y solo lo conseguirán si colaboran entre ellos. Los tres hermanos no pueden ser más diferentes: Philip, el mayor, es un intelectual. Vernon se ha pasado la vida metido en sectas buscando la luz. Tom, el menor y el más juicioso de los tres, se hizo veterinario y se alejó de la familia. Y aunque al principio solo Philip parece interesado en buscar la tumba (tiene una pista: las ruinas de una ciudad maya en la selva de Honduras), pronto le seguirán en el viaje Vernon (acompañado del codicioso Maestro de la secta de turno) y Tom, empujado por una antropóloga que quiere recuperar una de las piezas más valiosas de la colección: un códice maya, un tratado medicinal cuya traducción pondría al alcance de la humanidad todo el saber perdido de aquella cultura antigua. Obviamente, no lo van a tener fácil: además de los mil y un peligros de la selva, el interés de los directivos de una multinacional farmacéutica por conseguir a cualquier precio el códice maya pondrá en peligro sus vidas.

EL Códice Maya (Spanish Edition)

World Literature

Plaza y Janés.

Discovering that the tragic death of his wife, Helen, while they were big game hunting in Africa twelve years earlier was not an accident, Special Agent Pendergast investigates Helen's past to discover who might have wanted her dead.

Pantano de sangre (Serie Pendergast) (Spanish Edition)

CHILD, LINCOLN

Wyman Ford and a team of scientists must figure out how to destroy an alien doomsday weapon aimed at Earth, and the only tools at their disposal are a handful of weaponless machines--the Mars Orbiter, a lander, and a few satellites.

Impacto (Spanish Edition)

Contemporary

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns,&nbsp;Fourteen Days&nbsp;is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice--from Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng. One&nbsp;week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan&nbsp;have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants--some of whom have barely spoken to each other--become real neighbors. In this&nbsp;Decameron-like serial novel,&nbsp;general editor&nbsp;Margaret Atwood, Authors Guild president&nbsp;Douglas Preston, and a star-studded list of contributors create a beautiful ode to the people&nbsp;who&nbsp;couldn't&nbsp;escape when the pandemic hit. A&nbsp;dazzling, heartwarming, and ultimately surprising narrative,&nbsp;Fourteen Days&nbsp;reveals how&nbsp;beneath the horrible loss and suffering, some communities managed to become stronger. Includes writing from: Charlie Jane Anders, Margaret Atwood, Jennine Capó Crucet, Joseph Cassara, Angie Cruz, Pat Cummings, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Maria Hinojosa, Mira Jacob, Erica Jong, CJ Lyons, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Mary Pope Osborne, Douglas Preston, Alice Randall, Ishmael Reed, Roxana Robinson, Nelly Rosario, James Shapiro, Hampton Sides, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Monique Truong, Scott Turow, Luis Alberto Urrea, Rachel Vail, Weike Wang, Caroline Randall Williams, De'Shawn Charles Winslow, and Meg Wolitzer!

Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel

Harper

The Monster of Florence

In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt ("Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil") and Erik Larson ("The Devil in the White City"), New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence, Italy. In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century farmhouse had been the scene of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history, committed by a serial killer known as the Monster of Florence. Preston, intrigued, meets Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to learn more. This is the true story of their search for--and identification of--the man they believe committed the crimes, and their chilling interview with him. And then, in a strange twist of fate, Preston and Spezi themselves become targets of the police investigation. Preston has his phone tapped, is interrogated, and told to leave the country. Spezi fares worse: he is thrown into Italy's grim Capanne prison, accused of being the Monster of Florence himself. Like one of Preston's thrillers, The Monster Of Florence, tells a remarkable and harrowing story involving murder, mutilation, and suicide-and at the center of it, Preston and Spezi, caught in a bizarre prosecutorial vendetta.

History

Grand Central Publishing

Pendergast--the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent--returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult. William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange, sinister neighbor--a man who, by all reports, was already dead and buried weeks earlier. While Captain Laura Hayward leads the official investigation, Pendergast and Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta undertake their own private--and decidedly unorthodox--quest for the truth. Their serpentine journey takes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined could exist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and vodou which no outsiders have ever survived.

Cemetery Dance

IN 1695, a notorious English pirate buried his bounty in a maze of booby-trapped tunnels on an island off the coast of Maine. In three hundred years, no one has breached this cursed and rocky fortress. Now a treasure hunter and his high-tech, million-dollar recovery team embark on the perfect operation to unlock the labyrinth's mysteries. First the computers fail. The then crewmen begin to die. The island has guarded its secrets for centuries, and it isn't letting them go--without a fight.

Riptide

In the desolate regions of Chile, a remarkable discovery has been made. It is a massive meteorite whose existence will change science and mankind forever. An expedition sets out to recover it, but what should be a simple undertaking becomes dangerous, and the bizzare artifact may not be what it seems. When a raging storm drives the tanker beyond the dangerous Antarctic latitude known as the Ice Limit, superstition, egos, and the unknown clash in a stunning finale that will risk the lives of everyone on board.

The Ice Limit

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