Broken Soup

No matter how you come into this world, you come out broken... In six intense, haunting short novels, Don Winslow returns to the themes that are the hallmarks of his acclaimed body of work - crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt, and redemption - to explore the savagery and nobility that drive and define the human condition. In Broken, Winslow creates a world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops and jaded private detectives, dope dealers and government agents, bounty hunters and fugitives. Diverse and richly drawn, these characters - some familiar, others new - are lost souls driving without headlights on the dark highway of modern America. Set in New Orleans and Hawaii, Southern California and south Texas, each story in this collection is distinctively Winslow, shaped by his trademark blend of insight, humanity, humor, drama, and consummate literary craftsmanship.

No matter how you come into this world, you come out broken... In six intense, haunting short novels, Don Winslow returns to the themes that are the hallmarks of his acclaimed body of work - crime, corruption, vengeance, justice, loss, betrayal, guilt, and redemption - to explore the savagery and nobility that drive and define the human condition. In Broken, Winslow creates a world of high-level thieves and low-life crooks, obsessed cops and jaded private detectives, dope dealers and government agents, bounty hunters and fugitives. Diverse and richly drawn, these characters - some familiar, others new - are lost souls driving without headlights on the dark highway of modern America. Set in New Orleans and Hawaii, Southern California and south Texas, each story in this collection is distinctively Winslow, shaped by his trademark blend of insight, humanity, humor, drama, and consummate literary craftsmanship.

Why Now?Rose Forrester was too old to be lying on her car's front seat spying on her first love. She even had a husband and a teenage daughter waiting for her at home. But Rob MacIntyre's return had just turned her world upside down. Seventeen years ago he'd been the town's golden boy and she'd been amazed that he'd even noticed her. Well, he'd done a lot more than notice….Now she has to tell her husband some hard truths. As she copes with the unfolding drama, Rose discovers she's not the only one in her family hiding things. Even the family dog has prior baggage. And Rose realizes that she, too, must let go of her secret so she can finally test her wings….

Why Now?Rose Forrester was too old to be lying on her car's front seat spying on her first love. She even had a husband and a teenage daughter waiting for her at home. But Rob MacIntyre's return had just turned her world upside down. Seventeen years ago he'd been the town's golden boy and she'd been amazed that he'd even noticed her. Well, he'd done a lot more than notice….Now she has to tell her husband some hard truths. As she copes with the unfolding drama, Rose discovers she's not the only one in her family hiding things. Even the family dog has prior baggage. And Rose realizes that she, too, must let go of her secret so she can finally test her wings….

You thought your neighbours were bad? Wait till you meet the Oswalds. They're crass, cruel and seemingly untouchable. Until, that is, they go one step too far – and the results begin to tear an entire community apart.Skunk Cunningham is an eleven-year-old girl in a coma. She has a loving dad, an absent mother and a brother who plays more XBox than is good for him. She also has the neighbours from hell: the five Oswald girls and their thuggish dad Bob are vicious bullies whose reign of terror extends unchallenged over the otherwise quiet suburban square in which the two families live.And yet, terrifying though they are, the cider-swilling, dope-smoking Oswald girls are also happy to put it about – so when Saskia asks shy, virginal Rick Buckley for a ride in his new car, he can’t believe his luck. Too bad, then, that Saskia can’t keep her big mouth shut. When, after a disastrous fumble, she broadcasts Rick’s sexual deficiencies to anyone who’ll listen, it puts an idea into her younger sister’s head – an idea that sees Rick arrested for a crime he never committed.From her hospital bed, Skunk tries to make sense of the events that follow, as Saskia’s small act of cruelty spreads through the neighbourhood in a web of increasing violence. As we inch closer to the mystery behind her coma, Skunk’s innocence becomes a beacon by which we navigate a world as comic as it is tragic, and as effortlessly engaging as it is ultimately uplifting, in this brilliant and utterly original debut novel.

After seven years of agony, Linc Reece was certain he'd found his dead wife– alive and living in a tiny Tennessee town. He was sure Mia Grant was Lori, the wife he'd lost in an undercover case gone bad. Now the operative for the elite team of Equalizers had to prove it…even if he had to kidnap her.Mia Grant saw the hope in Linc's eyes… but just because she liked vanilla, blues and old houses didn't make her his long-lost wife. Nothing about him was familiar, except the sizzle she felt when they touched. But when they discovered Lori's records destroyed and her photos stolen, even Mia knew someone had gone to great lengths to make her forget. And he'd do anything to ensure she never remembered….

This month my name is Mary. My name is different every month—Brandy, Honey, Amy… sometimes Joe doesn’t even bother to ask—but he never fails to arouse me with his body, his mouth, his touch, no matter what I’m called or where he picks me up.The sex is always amazing, always leaves me itching for more in those long weeks until I see him again. My real name is Sadie, and once a month over lunch Joe tells me about his latest conquest. But what Joe doesn’t know is that in my mind, I’m the star of every X-rated one-night stand he has revealed to me, or that I’m practically obsessed with our imaginary sex life.I know it’s wrong. I know my husband wouldn’t understand. But I can’t stop. Not yet.“This is not a traditional romance but the story of a real and complex woman caught in a difficult situation with no easy answers…compelling, absorbing and enticing. ” —Library Journal

Poradnik do gry Broken Age zawiera szczeg?łowy opis wszystkich zadań, kt?re czekają gracza. W solucji znajdziesz dokładne instrukcje dotyczące zagadek oraz rozmieszczenia wszystkich przedmiot?w, wraz z dołączonymi, szczeg?łowymi screenami z gry. W związku z tym, że w grze występują dwie grywalne postacie, poradnik został podzielony na dwie części. Dla każdego bohatera, wszystkie rozdziały opisane są osobno, aby uzyskać jak największą przejrzystość. Każdy rozdział został podzielony na mniejsze podrozdziały, aby nawigacja po poradniku była łatwiejsza. W solucji znajdziesz także og?lne porady dotyczące rozgrywki takie jak sterowanie oraz przełączanie się pomiędzy postaciami a także instrukcję, dzięki kt?rej uruchomisz ukrytą opcję, przygotowaną przez pan?w z Double Fine dla najbardziej oldschoolowych graczy. Broken Age jest to typowa przygod?wka point'n'click, stworzona przez znanego wszystkim fanom gatunku Tima Schafera wraz ze studiem Double Fine. Produkcja została w całości sfinansowana przez graczy w serwisie Kickstarter. Gra opowiada historię dw?jki nastolatk?w, kt?rzy przeciwstawiają się og?lnie przyjętym normom w ich rzeczywistości. Nie można się dziwić Velli za takie postępowanie, ponieważ wraz z czterema innymi koleżankami została wytypowana, jako ofiara dla Mog Chothry, czyli potwora, kt?ry jeśli nie dostanie swojej ofiary zniszczy całą wioskę. Shay natomiast pragnie wydostać się z nadopiekuńczego statku-matki, kt?ry kontroluje go na każdym kroku. Marzy o wielkich przygodach i odrobinie samodzielności, na kt?rą aktualnie nie może sobie pozwolić. Poradnik do gry Broken Age zawiera: – dokładny opis przejścia gry – dokładny opis rozwiązania wszystkich zagadek – umiejscowienie wszystkich przedmiot?w do zebrania – porady og?lne dotyczące sterowania oraz przełączanie się pomiędzy postaciami Poradnik do gry Broken Age stanowi szczeg?łową, bogato ilustrowaną solucję tej gry. Dla każdego bohatera wszystkie rozdziały opisane zostały osobno, ze szczeg?lnym uwzględnieniem rozwiązań wszystkich zagadek. Poradnik zawiera r?wnież liczne porady. Broken Age – poradnik do gry zawiera poszukiwane przez graczy tematy i lokacje jak m.in. Eksploracja statku (Rozdział 1 – Shay) Przyjęcie (Rozdział 1 – Vella) Dolny pokład (Rozdział 1 – Shay) Walka z Mog Chothrą (Rozdział 1 – Vella) Wioska (Rozdział 1 – Vella) Gniazdo (Rozdział 1 – Vella) Maiden's Feasts (Rozdział 1 – Vella) Pierwsze misje (Rozdział 1 – Shay) Porady og?lne Zakończenie

Growing up in a mob family had scarred Mary Graham.She'd thought running away would ensure her son didn't face the same horrors. But after three years on the lam, the single mom couldn't live that way anymore. So she'd come back home to Broken Bones, Arizona–and found herself at the center of a baby brokering scandal.To prove her innocence and help a grieving mother, Mary had to turn to her family's nemesis–a cop. And not just any cop…a cop named Mitch Williams. He'd been after her family for years, so could she trust him to have her best interests at heart?

In the city that’s become a symbol for the death of the American dream, a nightmare killer is unravelling reality. The new thriller from Lauren Beukes, author of The Shining Girls.Detective Gabi Versado has hunted down many monsters during her eight years in Homicide. She’s seen stupidity, corruption and just plain badness. But she’s never seen anything like this.Clayton Broom is a failed artist, and a broken man. Life destroyed his plans, so he’s found new dreams – of flesh and bone made disturbingly, beautifully real.Detroit is the decaying corpse of the American Dream. Motor-city. Murder-city. And home to a killer opening doors into the dark heart of humanity.A killer who wants to make you whole again…