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A newlywed couple steps into the sauna in their deluxe honeymoon suite - and never steps out again. When another couple is killed while boarding their honeymoon flight to Rome, it becomes clear that someone is targeting honeymooners, and it's anyone's guess which happy couple is next on the list. FBI Agent John O'Hara is deep into the case, trying to figure out who this deranged killer is. At the same time, Special Agent Sarah Brubaker is hunting another ingenious serial killer, whose victims all have one chilling thing in common. As wedding hysteria rises to a frightening new level, John and Sarah work ever more closely together in a frantic attempt to decipher the logic behind two rampages.

From one of the bestselling memoirists of all time, a stunning and heartbreaking novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult worlda triumph of imagination and storytelling. In The Silver Star, Jeannette Walls has written a heartbreaking and redemptive novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult worlda triumph of imagination and storytelling. IT IS 1970 in a small town in California. Bean Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their artistic mother, Charlotte, a woman who found something wrong with every place she ever lived, takes off to find herself, leaving her girls enough money to last a month or two. When Bean returns from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz decide to take the bus to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion thats been in Charlottes family for generations. An impetuous optimist, Bean soon discovers who her father was, and hears many stories about why their mother left Virginia in the first place. Because money is tight, Liz and Bean start babysitting and doing office work for Jerry Maddox, foreman of the mill in towna big man who bullies his workers, his tenants, his children, and his wife. Bean adores her whip-smart older sisterinventor of word games, reader of Edgar Allan Poe, nonconformist. But when school starts in the fall, its Bean who easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz who becomes increasingly withdrawn. And then something happens to Liz. Jeannette Walls, supremely alert to abuse of adult power, has written a deeply moving novel about triumph over adversity and about people who find a way to love each other and the world, despite its flaws and injustices.

American Youth is a controlled, essential, and powerful tale of a teenager in southern New England who is confronted by a terrible moral dilemma following a firearms accident in his home. This tragedy earns him the admiration of a sinister gang of boys at his school and a girl associated with them. Set in a town riven by social and ideological tensions an old rural culture in conflict with newcomers this is a classic portrait of a young man struggling with the idea of identity and responsibility in an America ill at ease with itself.

When Mary sees her grandmother accused of witchcraft and hanged for the crime, she is silently hurried to safety by an unknown woman. The woman gives her tools to keep the record of her days - paper and ink. Mary is taken to a boat in Plymouth and from there sails to the New World where she hopes to make a new life among the pilgrims. But old superstitions die hard and soon Mary finds that she, like her grandmother, is the victim of ignorance and stupidity, and once more she faces important choices to ensure her survival. With a vividly evoked environment and characters skilfully and patiently drawn, this is a powerful literary achievement by Celia Rees that is utterly engrossing from start to finish.

Callum is a nought - a second-class citizen in a world run by the ruling Crosses... Sephy is a Cross, daughter of one of the most powerful men in the country... In their world, noughts and Crosses simply don't mix. And as hostility turns to violence, can Callum and Sephy possibly find a way to be together? They are determined to try. And then the bomb explodes... A gripping, stimulating and totally absorbing novel set in a world where black and white are right and wrong. This special new edition includes An Eye for An Eye, a stunning novella that continues the tale told in Noughts & Crosses.

Die unbeschwerte Kindheit der 12-Jährigen Reeve LeClaire fand ein jähes Ende an dem Tag, an dem sie ein perfider Triebtäter entführte und misshandelte. Erst nach Jahren der Gefangenschaft konnte Reeve fliehen und ihr Peiniger gefasst werden. Doch Jahre nach ihrer Flucht werden in Kalifornien erneut drei Mädchen entführt, von denen schließlich eins entkommen kann: Tilly. Sie ist das jüngste Opfer, schwer traumatisiert und verweigert jegliche Aussage. Schließlich bitten die Eltern des Mädchens Reeve um Hilfe. Immer tiefer gerät Reeve in die aktuellen Ermittlungen und ins Visier des brutalen Killers, der sie keine Sekunde unbeobachtet lässt

Trent'anni dopo "Il nome della rosa" Umberto Eco torna in libreria con un nuovo romanzo di ambientazione storica. Lungo il XIX secolo, tra Torino, Palermo e Parigi, troviamo una satanista isterica, un abate che muore due volte, alcuni cadaveri in una fogna parigina, un garibaldino che si chiamava Ippolito Nievo, il falso bordereau di Dreyfus per l'ambasciata tedesca, la crescita di quella falsificazione nota come "I protocolli dei Savi Anziani di Sion", che ispirerà a Hitler i campi di sterminio, gesuiti che tramano contro i massoni, massoni, carbonari e mazziniani che strangolano i preti con le loro stesse budella, un Garibaldi artritico dalle gambe storte, i piani dei servizi segreti piemontesi, francesi, prussiani e russi, le stragi nella Parigi della Comune, orrendi ritrovi per criminali che tra i fumi dell'assenzio pianificano esplosioni e rivolte di piazza, falsi notai, testamenti mendaci, confraternite diaboliche e messe nere. Ottimo materiale per un romanzo d'appendice di stile ottocentesco, tra l'altro illustrato come i feuilletons di quel tempo. Un particolare: eccetto il protagonista, tutti i personaggi di questo romanzo sono realmente esistiti e hanno fatto quello che hanno fatto. E anche il protagonista fa cose che sono state veramente fatte, tranne che ne fa molte, che probabilmente hanno avuto autori diversi. Accade però che, tra servizi segreti, agenti doppi, ufficiali felloni ed ecclesiastici peccatori, l'unico personaggio inventato di questa storia sia il più vero di tutti.