Barker: 1020 books

Could you share your child with someone else? Zoe wanted a baby more than anything. But her dreams will come at a price… After years of struggling to conceive, Zoe and her husband face the prospect of never having a family. When Zoe’s stepsister, Nadia, offers to be a surrogate it presents...

This clear and accurate exposition of Greek political thought offers a comprehensive exploration of the works of Plato and Aristotle. Students of political science and the history of Western philosophy will appreciate its insights into the sources of state power, the nature of political organization,...

Denise has spent the last five years dedicated to uncovering the truth behind her sister Michelle's disappearance. Haunted by loose ends, she begins seeing visions of Michelle, who gradually guides her in the right direction. As Denise's marriage and sanity crumble around her, she remains committed...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

A serial killer stalks prostitutes with profound and unexpected consequences in this riveting novel from the Booker Prize-wining author of Ghost Road A city and its people are in the grip of a killer who is roaming the northern city, singling out prostitutes. The face of his latest victim stares...

Aaron Boone lleva un tiempo sufriendo espantosas pesadillas, en las que se ve cometiendo los crímenes más atroces. Su psicólogo, el doctor Decker, termina de convencerlo de que esos asesinatos han ocurrido realmente. Ahora Boone sabe que en el mundo no hay lugar para él, y deja que el infierno...

A VECES, LOS SUEÑOS NO SON COMO UNO ESPERA Chickentown es el lugar más aburrido de Estados Unidos, y allí vive Candy Quackenbush, que se pregunta qué será de su futuro. Alberga en su corazón la esperanza de irse lejos de allí y vivir aventuras emocionantes, pero cuando su deseo se cumple no...

John Furia Zacharias, Judith Odell y Pai'oh'Pah prosiguen su viaje por dimensiones desconocidas, en busca de la verdad que se oculta en algún lugar de la misteriosa Imajica. Un universo poliédrico y oscuro, regido por leyes más allá de nuestro conocimiento; lejano pero, a la vez, a nuestro alcance. Una historia donde el erotismo y la pasión se entrelazan con el terror y la ambición.

La vida de Marty Strauss siempre ha estado gobernada por el azar. Ahora, por fin, la suerte se pone de su parte. Puesto en libertad condicional, se convierte en el guardaespaldas de Joseph Whitehead, uno de los hombres más ricos de Europa. Pero Whitehead también ha jugado con el azar; un juego antiquísimo...

John Furia Zacharias, alias «Cortés», experto falsificador cuya vida se ha convertido en una sarta de mentiras; Judith Odell, cuyo poder para dominar a los hombres es mayor de lo que ella misma cree; y Pai'oh'Pah, un misterioso asesino procedente de otra dimensión, se ven envueltos en una compleja...

"La casualidad lleva a Randolph Jaffe a hacer el más asombroso de los descubrimientos: la existencia de Quididad, el mar de los sueños, el conducto hacia el espectáculo secreto de nuestros sueños, y de una sustancia llamada el nuncio, que multiplica por mil la velocidad del proceso evolutivo....

Will Rabjohns, perhaps the most famous wildlife photographer in the world, has made his reputation chronicling the fates of endangered species. But after a terrible accident, Will is left in a coma. And in its depths, he revisits the wildernesses of his youth and relives his life with a mysterious...

Venetia Summers appears to lead a fairy-tale rural existence with her husband and two sons in her tumbledown Norfolk cottage. But when her husband leaves her for his masseuse, not even the arrival of a splendid baby daughter can make up for the sense of loss she feels for her newly lopsided family....

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...