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"The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders" es una novela publicada en 1722 por Daniel Defoe. Considerada como novela picaresca, Moll Flanders es un personaje de clase baja que se mueve por distintas esferas sociales intentando salir adelante mediante su ingenio. La protagonista sufre todos sus males por un unico defecto: querer ser rica sin poder serlo; lo que la lleva a cometer adulterio, prostitucion, abandono infantil, incesto y robo. Asimismo es la historia de los crimenes de una mujer sin fe, con una voluntad pecaminosa, a la que la prosperidad solo le llega cuando acepta la confesion y la sumision a los designios divinos. "Moll Flanders" tambien ofrece valiosa informacion acerca de la vida, los habitos y los castigos en el mundo de la delincuencia del siglo XVIII, asi como una de las mejores descripciones de la vida en el barrio londinense de The Mint y de la prision de Newgate.

Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father''s wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard the Lion Heart on a crusade in the Holy Land. On his return, his passionate desire is to be reunited with the beautiful but forbidden lady Rowena, but he soon finds himself playing a more dangerous game as he is drawn into a bitter power struggle between the noble King Richard and his evil and scheming brother John. The first of Scott''s novels to address a purely English subject, Ivanhoe is set in a highly romanticized medieval world of tournaments and sieges, chivalry and adventure where dispossessed Saxons are pitted against their Norman overlords, and where the historical and fictional seamlessly merge.

It is late summer 2008 and forty-year-old Salinger Nash, who has been plagued since adolescence by a mercurial depression, leaves the north-west London house he shares with girlfriend for his older brother Carson's home in New Orleans. It is Carson who has persuaded Salinger that they should visit their estranged father on his deathbed in Las Cruces, and use it as an opportunity to heal old wounds. However it is with a sense of foreboding that Salinger sets off with his brother on a road trip from New Orleans in Carson's prized brand new Lexus, as their relationship is far from amicable. Tender, funny, unflinching, this is a road trip story in the great American literary tradition and an exploration of sibling rivalry that harks back to Cain and Abel. It is a vivid glimpse of a country through the eyes of an outsider, a profound exploration of brotherhood and a gripping journey of the soul.

Une éminente paléontologue disparaît d’un site de fouilles renfermant des ossements de dinosaures au fin fond du Canada. Un message macabre parvient à Kay Scarpetta, lui laissant la détestable impres

Die erfahrene Gerichtsmedizinerin Lucy Trask ist einiges gewöhnt. Doch der Anblick dieser verstümmelten Leiche schockiert selbst sie nachhaltig. Zunge und Herz wurden dem Toten fachmännisch entfernt. Nur wenige Tage später erhält Lucy ein grauenvolles Paket. Darin: ein blutendes Herz. Detective JD Fitzpatrick vermutet einen persönlich motivierten Rachefeldzug. Doch wer könnte solchen Hass auf die attraktive Gerichtsmedizinerin haben? Als die Polizei auf eine weitere brutal zugerichtete Leiche stößt, drehen sich Lucys Gedanken nur noch um folgende Fragen: Gibt es tatsächlich eine Verbindung zwischen ihr und dem Killer? Und wer weiß von ihrem gefährlichen Doppelleben?

Ein Roman wie ein Tag am Meer Emily Wilsons perfektes Leben zerbricht, als ihr Mann Joel sie nach sechs Jahren fur eine andere Frau verlasst. In der Hoffnung, dass das Meer ihren Schmerz fortspulen wird, reist sie zu ihrer Grotante Bee nach Bainbridge Island, um dort auf der malerischen Insel vor Seattle einen Neuanfang zu wagen. Als sie in der Strandvilla ein altes Tagebuch aus dem Jahr 1943 findet, ahnt sie noch nicht, dass dieser Fund ihr Leben von Grund auf verandern soll ...

Heiliger Käsekuchen, das war doch sonderbar!Ständig sollte ich Dinge gesagt oder getan haben, an die ich mich gar nicht erinnern konnte. Wurde ich langsam verrückt? War mir das Käsestückchen endgültig vom Zahnstocher gefallen? Nein, schon bald sollte ich die Wahrheit herausfinden: Ein Doppelgänger trieb sein Unwesen und gab vor, ich zu sein! Und was noch schlimmer war: Er wollte die "Neuen Nager-Nachrichten" übernehmen! Ich musste dringend etwas unternehmen, um seine gierigen Pfoten von meiner Zeitung zu vertreiben - aber was?

Heiliger Kasekuchen! Eine geheimnisvolle Ratte versuchte, mir die Neuen Nager-Nachrichten unter den Pfoten wegzumausen! Und auch meine Bucher wollte plotzlich keiner mehr kaufen! Doch mein Manager Willibald B. Seller hatte eine Idee: Er buchte mich fur die beruchtigte Fernseh-Quizshow Achtung, Falle!. Wenn ich gewann, war mein Verlag gerettet. Aber wenn ich verlor QUIEK!- , wurden mir diese grasslichen Fernsehratten den Schwanz abschneiden!

The third novel in Jeffrey Archer''s compelling saga, the Clifton Chronicles 1945. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellors deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma goes in search of the little girl who was found abandoned in her fathers office on the night he was killed. When the General Election is called, Giles Barrington has to defend his seat in the House of Commons and is horrified to discover who the Conservatives select to stand against him. But it is Sebastian Clifton, Harry and Emmas son, who ultimately influences his uncles fate. In 1957, Sebastian wins a scholarship to Cambridge, and a new generation of the Clifton family march onto the page. After Sebastian is expelled from school, he unwittingly becomes caught up in an international art fraud involving a Rodin statue that is worth far more than the sum it raises at auction. Does he become a millionaire? Does he go to Cambridge? Is his life in danger? Best Kept Secret will answer all these questions, but once again, pose so many more.

How do you do the right thing when there are only bad choices to be made? A neutral capital straddling Europe and Asia, Istanbul survived WW2 as a magnet for refugees and spies, trafficking in secrets and lies rather than soldiers. Expatriate American businessman Leon Bauer was drawn into this shadow world, doing undercover odd jobs and courier runs in support of the Allied war effort. Now as the espionage community begins to pack up and an apprehensive city prepares for the grim realities of postwar life, Leon is given one last routine assignment. But when the job goes fatally wrong - an exchange of gunfire, a body left in the street, and a potential war criminal in his hands - Leon is plunged into a nightmarish tangle of intrigue, shifting loyalties and moral uncertainty. Rich with atmosphere and period detail, Istanbul Passage is the story of a man swept up in the dawn of the Cold War, of an unexpected love affair, and of a city as deceptive as the calm surface waters of the Bosphorus that divides it.

A spellbinding literary thriller about terror, war, greed, and the darkest secrets of the human soul, by the author of the million-copy bestseller, The Interpretation of Murder. September 16, 1920. Under a clear blue September sky, a quarter ton of explosives is detonated in a deadly attack on Wall Street. Fear comes to the streets of New York. Witnessing the blast are war veteran Stratham Younger, his friend James Littlemore of the NY Police Department, and beautiful French radiochemist Colette Rousseau. A series of inexplicable attacks on Colette, a secret buried in her past, and a mysterious trail of evidence lead Younger, Littlemore, and Rousseau on a thrilling international and psychological journey - from Paris to Prague, from the Vienna home of Freud to the corridors of power in Washington, DC, and ultimately to the hidden depths of our most savage instincts. As the seemingly disjointed pieces of Younger and Littlemore''s investigations come together, the two uncover the shocking truth about the bombing - a truth that threatens to shake their world to its foundations.

Cinque famiglie legate l'una all'altra il cui destino si compie durante la metà del ventesimo secolo, in un mondo funestato dalle dittature e dalla guerra. Berlino nel 1933 è in subbuglio. L'undicenne Carla von Ulrich, figlia di Lady Maud Fitzherbert, cerca con tutte le forze di comprendere le tensioni che stanno lacerando la sua famiglia, nei giorni in cui Hitler inizia l'inesorabile ascesa al potere. In questi tempi tumultuosi fanno la loro comparsa sulla scena Ethel Leckwith, la formidabile amica di Lady Maud ed ex membro del parlamento inglese, e suo figlio Lloyd, che presto sperimenterà sulla propria pelle la brutalità nazista. Lloyd entra in contatto con un gruppo di tedeschi decisi a opporsi a Hitler, ma avranno davvero il coraggio di tradire il loro paese? A Berlino Carla s'innamora perdutamente di Werner Franck, erede di una ricca famiglia, anche lui con un suo segreto. Ma il destino lì metterà a dura prova, così come le vite e le speranze di tanti altri verranno annientate dalla più grande e crudele guerra nella storia dell'umanità, che si scatenerà con violenza da Londra a Berlino, dalla Spagna a Mosca, da Pearl Harbor a Hiroshima, dalle residenze private alla polvere e al sangue delle battaglie che hanno segnato l'intero secolo. "L'inverno del mondo", secondo romanzo della trilogia "The Century", prende le mosse da dove si era chiuso il primo libro, ritrovando i personaggi de "La caduta dei giganti", ma soprattutto i loro figli. - See more at: http://www.italianbookshop.co.uk/italianbooks/9788866210566#sthash.30k6BeEK.dpuf

Longues jambes, torse svelte, cheveux couleur de jais, par un matin froid de mars 1705, un gamin de quatorze ans, son baluchon sur l’épaule, approche des trois tours noires du château de Bazoches. S

Napier, 1930: Mutterseelenallein kommt die junge Deutsche Eva Schindler zu entfernten Verwandten nach Neuseeland. Dort wird sie wenig freundlich aufgenommen. Doch bald verliert sie ihr Herz an den attraktiven Adrian und gewinnt das Vertrauen seiner Großmutter Lucie, einer alten Maori. Nach Jahrzehnten des Schweigens vertraut Lucie der jungen Eva ihre Lebensgeschichte an - eine Geschichte über Mord, Entführung, Liebe und Verrat, die Eva immer mehr in ihren Bann zieht -

Der Schock trifft Pendergast ohne jede Vorbereitung: Seine Frau Helen, deren mysteriosen Tod er aufzuklaren versucht, lebt! Aber wer liegt dann in ihrem Grab, und warum will ihr Bruder ihn ausschalten? Pendergast ermittelt unter Hochdruck. Dabei kommt er einer skrupellosen Gruppe auf die Spur, die ihre dunklen Machenschaften seit langer Zeit erfolgreich verbirgt. Um Pendergast in die Knie zu zwingen, ist ihr jedes Mittel recht - und zum ersten Mal droht der sonst stets kuhl kalkulierende Ermittler, die Kontrolle zu verlieren. In der direkten Fortsetzung von "Fever" muss Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast seinen bisher schwersten und personlichsten Fall bestehen. Hochspannung vom Feinsten!

La Cristina és una noia que deixa el seu poble per anar a treballar a Barcelona. El succés que li narra un dia la seva mare la colpeix molt profundament i aquesta és la causa per la qual retorna al seu poble natal quan la vida se li esdeve solitaria a la ciutat enmig de tanta gent.

Oh là là! Durante os seus vinte e cinco anos de vida, Charlotte Hudson aprendera muito bem a ser uma pessoa séria e profissional. Porém, de repente viu-se imersa na filmagem de uma longa-metragem de Hollywood, encurralada numa milenária mansão da Provença com Alec Montcalm, um playboy francês de duvidosa reputação. Enquanto os seus parentes da Hudson Pictures filmavam em Château Montcalm, um verdadeiro romance tinha lugar debaixo de lençóis de seda e atrás de legendárias portas de madeira.