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1. Sărutul de Danielle Steel  

este o poveste emoționantă despre fragilitatea vieții, despre puterea iubirii care vindecă, eliberă și transformă doi oameni al căror destin se află la derivă.

Isabelle Forester, o femeie foarte frumoasă, măritată cu un cunoscut bancher parizian, trăiește drama soției care nu mai reprezintă nimic în ochii soțului.

 Același eșec în căsnicie îl marchează și pe Bill Robinson, un broker de renume din Washington. 

Pentru cei doi, aflați la mare depărtare, o prietenie întreținută prin telefon reprezintă o rază de speranță. 

Într-o zi, ei hotărăsc să se vadă la Londra unde, din păcate, cad pradă unui grav accident.

Vor reuși cei doi să găsească puterea de a lupta pentru însănătoșire, dar și pentru a da piept cu ceea ce au lăsat în urmă?

The Kiss is at once a moving testament to the fragility of life and a breathtaking story about the power of love to heal, to free, to transform, and to make broken spirits whole.

On a warm June evening, a red double-decker bus, full of passengers, speeds down a London street. A few blocks away, a man and a woman climb into a limousine, reveling in a magical evening of dancing and champagne.

As their driver pulls into an intersection, the couple shares their first, searching kiss. For a moment, etched in time, all stands still – until, in a flash of metal and glass, their limousine is struck at full speed, crushed under the bus’s tremendous weight. And a long journey begins – toward healing, toward hope, toward dreams of an infinite future….

Isabelle Forrester is the wife of a prominent Parisian banker who has long since shut her out of his heart. For lonely years, Isabelle has lived a life of isolation, pouring her passions into caring for her desperately ill son, Teddy, and into making their Paris home as happy as possible for her teenage daughter, Sophie.

Isabelle allows herself one secret pleasure: a long-distance friendship by telephone with an American man, a Washington power broker who travels in the highest circles of politics and who, like Isabelle, is trapped in an empty marriage.

To Bill Robinson, Isabelle is a godsend, a woman of extraordinary beauty and intellectual curiosity – a kindred spirit who touches him across the miles with her warmth and gentle empathy. Their relationship is a gift, a lifeline that sustains them both through the heartache of marriages they cannot leave and will not betray.

Agreeing to meet for a few precious, innocent days in London, Isabelle and Bill find their friendship changing. Then, amid the sudden crash of steel against steel, they are thrust onto a new path, a path fraught with pain but also with possibility.

Now, inside the cool, sterile wards of a London hospital, Isabelle and Bill cling to life, their bodies shattered almost beyond repair. In the days and weeks that follow, they slowly, painfully traverse a road to recovery littered with challenges of the body, spirit, and heart.

Together, they must find the strength not only to embrace life again but to face what they have left behind. For Isabelle, a loveless marriage turns into a brutal power struggle. For Bill, a time of healing exposes wounds that cut deeper than steel and realities that will test him to his core. For both, a tangle of changing relationships and the tragedy of another loss conspire to separate them once again. And this time they could lose each other forever.

In a novel that is as compelling as it is compassionate, Danielle Steel weaves a story of courage in the face of unimaginable loss. With the grace of a master storyteller, she explores the strength it takes to conquer our greatest fears, showing us how the toughest choices can yield the most unexpected rewards … and how the longest, most winding journeys can begin with a single kiss.

2. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants 

What if everything we thought about power was wrong?

 What if, in the ancient story of the shepherd boy who topples a giant, David actually had the advantage? 

This thought sets Malcolm Gladwell on an extraordinary journey that takes him from art to basketball, the brain to revolutions, along the way weaving unforgettable stories of misfits, outsiders, tricksters and underdogs who have faced outsized challenges and won. 

With his trademark warmth, humour and gift for showing us the world through new eyes, Gladwell lets us see why the powerful aren't always what we think they are - and that some of us have more strength and purpose than we could ever imagine.

Numele uriașului este Goliat, iar numele păstorului este David.
Motivul pentru care povestea a obsedat scriitorul a fost că tot ceea ce credea că știa despre această poveste s-a dovedit a fi greșit.

 David și Goliat a intrat în limbajul nostru ca o metaforă pentru victorii neverosimile, obținute de o parte inferioară asupra unuia mult mai puternic.

David era un copil, un băiețandru, iar Goliat era un uriaș puternic.

 Goliat era un războinic cu experiență, pe când David era un simplu păstor. 

Goliat era cel care era dotat cu arme moderne, era îmbrăcat într-o armură strălucitoare, avea o sabie, o suliță și un harpon, iar tot ceea ce avea David era o praștie.

Israeliții de pe creasta muntelui care îl priveau l-au crezut un inamic extraordinar de puternic. 

Ceea ce n-au înțeles ei a fost că sursa puterii sale aparente era și sursa celei mai mari slăbiciuni.

3.Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene

A morally complex and mature work from a modern master
In this later novel by Graham Greene—featuring a new introduction—the author continues to explore moral and theological dilemmas through psychologically astute character studies and exciting drama on an international stage. The title character of Monsignor Quixote is a village priest, elevated to the rank of monsignor through a clerical error, who travels to Madrid accompanied by his best friend, Sancho, the Communist ex-mayor of the village, in Greene's lighthearted variation on Cervantes.

4. The Counterfeit Crank by Edward Marston

Alexander Marwood, the cantankerous landlord of the Queen's Head is away, leaving the Westfield's Men theatre troupe free to play.
 Marwood's replacement, Adam Crowmere, is a welcome change and Westfield's Men being to dread their landlord's return. 

But strange occurrences begin to take place within the company and book holder Nicholas Bracewell fears something sinister is afoot. 

Then the company's costumes are stolen from a locked cabinet and they are forced to perform without them. 

Nick delves deeper into the mysterious events happening around London because for Westfield's Men, the show must go on.