Roberta Rambelli Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Marty McFly è un ragazzo come tanti: vive in una cittadina di provincia, frequenta svogliatamente la scuola, ama il rock degli anni Ottanta, ha ovviamente un paio di genitori, anche se non della miglior specie. Se non ci fosse la tenerezza di Jennifer, la bella e spigliata compagna di scuola, e soprattutto la complice amicizia con "Doc" Brown, un eccentrico scienziato, per Marty la vita sarebbe qualcosa da cui sfuggire. La fuga, ma un'incredibile fuga all'indietro, avverrà comunque, grazie a un ardito esperimento dell'amico scienziato e a una ruggente DeLorean a propulsione nucleare che funge da "macchina del tempo". Marty si ritrova così scaraventato nel 1955, addirittura prima della sua nascita, nella sua cittadina com'era una volta. Non penserebbe che a "ritornare al futuro", se non ci fosse l'occasionale incontro con due coetanei destinati a diventare i suoi genitori.

En 1954, el vuelo Vixen 03 y su mortífero cargamento, un arma ultrasecreta, no llegan a su misterioso destino. La investigación oficial dictamina que el avión ha caído en el océano. En 1988, Dirk Pitt descubre restos del Vixen 03 en las heladas aguas de un río de Colorado. Parte de su cargamento ha sido sustraído por un grupo terrorista africano con intenciones de provocar una catástrofe en Washington. Pero ni siquiera los terroristas conocen las terribles consecuencias que podrían provocar con su actitud, porque muy pocas personas saben la verdad sobre el cargamento del Vixen 03.

Taita es un astuto y valiente eunuco que vive un periodo de grandes cambios en el reino faraónico. Amigo y confidente de la hija de su amo, la joven Lostris, es testigo del creciente amor entre ella y el noble oficial Tanus. A pesar de todas sus influencias, no puede evitar que el codicioso y despótico padre de Lostris, dec ida casar a su hija con el faraón Mamosis. Lejos de ese amor no deseado, la joven descubrirá que existe otro destino posible para ella.A medida que se consolida el poder de sus enemigos, Lostris deberá emprender una dolorosa huida siguiendo el curso del sagrado Nilo. En nombre del pueblo de Egipto, conseguirá reagrupar a todas sus tropas en el altiplano etiópe con la esperanza de que un nuevo y legendario ejército recupere el esplendor de la tierra de los faraones.

Before The Firm and The Pelican Brief made him a superstar, John Grisham wrote this riveting story of retribution and justice. In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence...as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town...Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle and takes matters into his hands. For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life...and then his own.

La riqueza de los Pilaster se basaba en el banco de la familia, una de las más sólidas y respetables instituciones financieras del Londres victoriano. En torno al consejo de administración, que preside el anciano Seth Pilaster, giran las ambiciones de la familia, sobre todo las de Augusta, su maliciosa nuera, y las de Hugh, nieto de Seth. Augusta, junto a su falta de escrúpulos, cuenta con la alianza de Miguel Miranda, vástago de una brutal familia de caciques sudamericanos que desea contar con el apoyo del banco para sus proyectos de dominio. La lucha entre la perfidia de Augusta y la tradicicón de honradez de Hugh marcará durante treinta años los destinos del banco

Walter Tevis is the acclaimed author of The Hustler, The Man Who Fell to Earth and The Queen's Gambit.'A moral tale that has elements of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, Superman and Star Wars' LA TIMES

Based on the story by George Lucas and the screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan The adventures of Luke Skywalker did not end with the destruction of the Death Star. Though the Rebel Alliance won a significant battle, the war against the Empire has only just begun. Several months have passed, and the Rebels have established a hidden outpost on the frozen wasteland of Hoth. But even on that icy backwater planet, they cannot escape the evil Darth Vader’s notice for long. Soon Luke, Han, Princess Leia, and their faithful companions will be forced to flee, scattering in all directions—with the Dark Lord’s minions in fevered pursuit.

The law-student author recounts the workload, conflicts, pressures, anxieties, relationships, and educational content of the critical and difficult first year at Harvard's prestigious and demanding law school

Maris of Amberly, a fisherman's daughter, wants to be a silver-winged flyer, crossing oceans, braving shiftng winds, to bring news, gossip, songs, and stories to a waiting populace. But when she challenges tradition, a revolution is sparked that threatens to destroy the world she fought to join.

Des livres au contenu prodigieux ont été systématiquement détruits tout au long de l'Histoire, d'autres ont été rendus inaccessibles au public grâce à des méthodes de chiffrage. C'est le casdu livre de Thoth, des stances de Dzyan, du manuscrit Voynich et d'Excalibur, le livre qui rend fou. Ils sont successivement étudiés par Jacques Bergier, dans cet ouvrage inédit, qui examine également le pourquoi des destructions massives d'ouvrages ésotériques, commece fut le cas dans l'incendie de la Bibliothèque d'Alexandrie. Une conclusion s'impose: il existe une conspiration contre un certain type de savoir, faussement appelé occulte, une conspiration qui couvre tous les pays et se rencontre à toutes les époques. Qui donc brûle les livres maudits ?

A Miriam, splendida e inquieta adolescente sfuggita alla miseria di un ghetto in Germania e sbarcato nella scintillante New Orleans, il futuro sembra schiudere mille promesse di felicità. Ma quando il suo ambizioso matrimonio fallisce e la guerra civile diventa una minaccia sempre più reale e vicina, il destino dell'intera famiglia e di tutto ciò che ha di più caro è nelle sue mani.

En Nueva York, 1891, Hennie, una joven judía de clase alta en declive, pasea con su sobrino Paul. Su familia enfrenta dificultades: su padre no tiene éxito en los negocios y su madre añora el Sur antes de la Guerra Civil. Su hermana mayor, Florence, está casada con un próspero hombre de negocios alemán, y Hennie también tiene un hermano menor, Alfie, cariñoso y alegre. Durante su paseo, un incendio estalla en un edificio cercano, y un joven llamado Daniel Roth, de 24 años, se lanza a las llamas para salvar a una mujer mayor. Daniel, un profesor con ideas radicales, amante de la música y la electricidad, impacta a Hennie, quien siempre se ha sentido fuera de lugar en su entorno. A pesar de sus diferencias, Hennie y Daniel se enamoran, lo que transforma su vida. La historia abarca casi 30 años, ambientada en una época de grandes cambios sociales y políticos, desde finales del siglo XIX hasta principios del XX, incluyendo la Gran Guerra y el movimiento sufragista. A través de las vidas de Hennie, Daniel y su familia, la novela explora diversas personalidades y perspectivas, enriqueciendo nuestra comprensión del pasado y la historia.

El gran maestro de la narrativa de acción y suspense nos transporta a la Edad Media, a un fascinante mundo de reyes, damas, caballeros, pugnas feudales, castillos y ciudades amuralladas. El amor y la muerte se entrecruzan vibrantemente en este magistral tapiz cuyo centro es la construcción de una catedral gótica. La historia se inicia con el ahorcamiento público de un inocente y finaliza con la humillación de un rey. Los pilares de la Tierra es la obra maestra de Ken Follet y constituye una excepcional evocación de una época de violentas pasiones.

Evocatively written as Henry VIII's private journals, Margaret George tells the former king's life, using her now trademark mix of history and imagination to tell the story as he might have told it.

Sconcertante, misterioso, imprevedibile, Il Santo Graal è un giallo storico che prende avvio da alcuni incredibili indizi ritrovati a Carcassone, centro della Francia meridionale. Il quadro che ne emerge è quanto mai sconvolgente: Gesù non morì sulla croce, sposò Maria Maddalena - da cui ebbe alcuni figli - e, con la famiglia, si rifugiò in Francia presso una comunità ebraica. I suoi discendenti regnarono con il nome di Merovingi, creando successivamente il Sacro Romano Impero, maestoso disegno di un'Europa finalmente unita. Fallito sul piano politico questo progetto si sarebbe invece alimentato grazie a sette religioso-esoteriche come i Templari e a società segrete come il "Priorato di Sion".

Jean M. Auel’s enthralling Earth’s Children series has become a literary phenomenon, beloved by readers around the world. In a brilliant novel as vividly authentic and entertaining as those that came before, Jean M. Auel returns us to the earliest days of humankind and to the captivating adventures of the courageous woman called Ayla. With her companion, Jondalar, Ayla sets out on her most dangerous and daring journey—away from the welcoming hearths of the Mammoth Hunters and into the unknown. Their odyssey spans a beautiful but sparsely populated and treacherous continent, the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe, casting the pair among strangers. Some will be intrigued by Ayla and Jondalar, with their many innovative skills, including the taming of wild horses and a wolf; others will avoid them, threatened by what they cannot understand; and some will threaten them. But Ayla, with no memory of her own people, and Jondalar, with a hunger to return to his, are impelled by their own deep drives to continue their trek across the spectacular heart of an unmapped world to find that place they can both call home. Fourth in the acclaimed Earth’s Children® series

Robert and Lynn Ferguson are a picture-perfect couple with two beautiful daughters and a lovely home in an exclusive Connecticut community. Robert is on the fast track of a major corporation. Lynn is devoted to her family and good works. But in the Ferguson's closed doors hide a painful secret Lynn must keep from the world-and her children-at any cost... Not even the Fergusons's best friends, Josie and Bruce Lehman, know of Lynn's shame. Social worker Josie sees her bruises distrusts the too-ambitious, too perfect Robert, and suspects the real cause of the children's increasingly disturbed behavior. But not even Josie can pierce Lynn's wall of silence, a wall that will not crumble until Lynn is forced to face herself-and the truth-at last. Belva Plain's searing novel of a family's heartbreak, a woman's courage, and a subject too often talked about only in whispers.

An art historian's devious plans regarding secretly stored artwork become derailed when his new girlfriend opens a new gallery and he ponders the mystery surrounding the year-old murder of an artist.

A metà del Settencento i gemelli Colin e Bea lasciano la Svizzera per intraprendere un lungo viaggio che li condurrà in Cina: lui è dotato di un eccezionale talento di orologiaio e l'imperatore ha bisogno della sua abilità; lei ha avuto in dono una bellezza ammaliante. Ma è solo quando raggiungono la favolosa città di Ayuthia, con le sue mille cupole dorate, che i due fratelli incontrano il loro destino: Colin s'innamora di una donna che il sovrano vuole invece tutta per sé, mentre Bea si lascia trascinare da una passione che la condurrà al tradimento...

In John T. Lescroart's brilliant new novel, The 13th Juror, Dismas Hardy, lawyer/investigator, undertakes the defense of Jennifer Witt, accused of murdering her husband and their eight-year-old son as well as her first husband, who had died nine years earlier from an apparent drug overdose. While preparing his case, Hardy learns that both of Jennifer's husbands had physically abused her. But Jennifer refuses to allow a defense that presumes her guilt. She is not guilty, she claims. Hardy is now driven to seek an alternative truth a jury can believe. As the trial progresses, the complex truth itself begins to change, to bend, to fade in and out of focus as the clock keeps ticking on Jennifer's fate, until there seems only one person left to convince, and she is "the 13th juror"—the judge. The 13th Juror is a stunning and suspenseful novel of moral ambiguity, of good intentions, bad judgements and the tortuous path to ultimate justice.

Un mondo in transizione dal paganesimo al cristianesimo. Territori popolati da creature misteriose e arcane. Dame che possono penetrare nel magico regno di Avalon e influire sulle vite degli eroi. Un capolavoro dal respiro epico nella grande tradizione ispirata alla leggenda di Artù.

La segunda entrega de las Crónicas vampíricas tiene como protagonista a Lestat, un ser fascinante que, tras su primera aparición como estrella del rock, nos descubre su tormentoso pasado y su compleja personalidad. De su mano nos sumergimos en París dieciochesco y en su calidoscopio social, escenario donde se desarrolla su transformación en vampiro y en el que llega a adquirir un gran prestigio entre los pobladores del mundo sobrenatural. Sus ansias de saber y experimentar le empujarán a un extenso periplo a través del espacio y del tiempo magistralmente engarzado por las magníficas dotes narradoras de la autora, que combina a la perfección escenas vertiginosas con pasajes dedicados a mostrar la inquietante hondura psicológica de sus criaturas.

This story describes the dramatic lives of Prince Dmitri Korolev and his family caught up in the upheavals of European revolution and war. They flee Russia in 1919, escape to Switzerland and then Paris, but, with the Second World War, they come under further pressure from the Communist police. The author worked for many years in Paris as a foreign correspondent and wrote several novels including "Tanamera", "A Farewell to France", "A Woman of Cairo" and "The Other Side of Paradise".

Un senador ha muerto, y Mark Sway, un chico de once años, es el único que sabe dónde está escondido el cadáver. En el FBI quieren que revele el paradero a toda costa, sea cual sea el perjuicio para Mark y su familia. Y el asesino quiere que mantenga la boca cerrada para siempre. Reggie Love lleva menos de cinco años ejerciendo la abogacía. Solo ella puede salvar a Mark de dos amenazas aterradoramente simétricas. Juntos deberán enfrentarse al poder del aparato estatal y a las tretas de un asesino sin piedad. «Grisham es un maestro de tomo y lomo.» The Washington Post

The Forest House, home to the virgin priestess of the Great Goddess, was built by the Druids to keep the women safe from the power of Rome. Yet the seeds of conflict and destruction lie at its very heart, for secret rebellion is rising.

Un sádico homicida que asesina mujeres. Un psiquiatra demente que conoce los secretos más sórdidos de la mente criminal. Una bella agente del FBI en una desesperada carrera contra el tiempo... Una novela escalofriante y terrorífica: el género policiaco llevado a sus límites, donde lo humano se confunde con lo monstruoso.

Dirk Pitt vuelve para enfrentarse a su aventura más espectacular e impactante. La trama gira en torno a la búsqueda de un antiguo tesoro, los secretos de una civilización perdida y las actividades de una organización criminal. En 1578, el legendario sir Francis Drake captura un galeón español con un cargamento de oro y plata de origen inca y descubre un tesoro de incalculable valor. El galeón de Drake zozobra y sólo un hombre logra sobrevivir. Cuatro siglos más tarde, Dirk Pitt salva la vida a unos arqueólogos que investigan en los andes peruanos. A raíz de ello, se ve arrastrado a un torbellino de peripecias espeluznantes y a un mundo críptico rodeado de oscuridad y muerte.

"New York Times" bestselling author Wilbur Smith captures the agony, beauty, and hope of men and women who have given their lives to a land in this breathtaking third novel in his Ballantyne series--an epic set in the former African nation of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

Una de las obras más destacadas del maestro de los thrillers legales. En el pueblo de Greenville, Mississippi, en 1967, dos miembros del Ku-Klux-Klan colocan una bomba en la oficina de un abogado de origen judío, resultando en la muerte de dos niños de cinco años. Uno de los perpetradores, Sam Cayhall, es rápidamente capturado y acusado de doble homicidio. A pesar de las pruebas contundentes de su culpabilidad, dos juicios anteriores terminan en la anulación del proceso debido a la incapacidad del jurado para llegar a un veredicto. Años después, Sam Cayhall vuelve a ser juzgado y es condenado a muerte. Tras una larga batalla legal de nueve años, su apelación fracasa y queda a solo dos semanas de la ejecución en la cámara de gas, habiendo renunciado a su defensa. Sin embargo, un joven abogado de Chicago decide intervenir para salvarlo, motivado no solo por su oposición a la pena de muerte, sino por razones más profundas. Una novela que hipnotiza y provoca reflexión.

The magical saga of the women behind King Arthur's throne. “A monumental reimagining of the Arthurian legends . . . reading it is a deeply moving and at times uncanny experience. . . . An impressive achievement.”—The New York Times Book Review In Marion Zimmer Bradley's masterpiece, we see the tumult and adventures of Camelot's court through the eyes of the women who bolstered the king's rise and schemed for his fall. From their childhoods through the ultimate fulfillment of their destinies, we follow these women and the diverse cast of characters that surrounds them as the great Arthurian epic unfolds stunningly before us. As Morgaine and Gwenhwyfar struggle for control over the fate of Arthur's kingdom, as the Knights of the Round Table take on their infamous quest, as Merlin and Viviane wield their magics for the future of Old Britain, the Isle of Avalon slips further into the impenetrable mists of memory, until the fissure between old and new worlds' and old and new religions' claims its most famous victim.

Rebecca was Daphne du Maurier's most famous and best-loved novel. Countless readers wondered: what happened next? Out of fire-wracked ruins of Manderley, would love and renewal rise phoenix-like from the ashes of the embittered past? Married to the sophisticated, wordly-wise Maxim, the second Mrs de Winter's life should be happy and fulfilled. But the vengeful ghost of Rebecca, Maxim's first wife, continues to cast its long shadow over them. Back in England after an absence of over ten years, it seems as if happiness will at last be theirs. But the de Winters still have to reckon with two hate-consumed figures they once knew - both of whom have very long memories...

En el año 1964, un Tercer Reich victorioso se dispone a celebrar el 75 cumpleaños de Adolf Hitler. Es entonces cuando aparece flotando en un lago el cadáver desnudo de un ex alto cargo del Partido. En una Europa sometida al colonialismo alemán, el investigador de la Kriminalpolizei Xavier March emprende una carrera contra la Gestapo en pos de la verdad. Harris crea una trama que no permite al lector abandonar la lectura hasta descubrir el desenlace.

Dos jueces del Tribunal Supremo aparecen muertos. Solo una persona ha conectado ambos crímenes, y lo ha hecho por escrito en un informe judicial. En Nueva Orleans, la brillante, bella y ambiciosa estudiante de derecho Darby Shaw intuye que lo especulado en su informe ha llegado a oídos de los más altos poderes de Washington y causará un oleaje difícil de controlar. Un oleaje que reducirá a partículas al novio de Darcy tras la explosión de una bomba, un oleaje que enviará a asesinos a sueldo a por su cabeza, un oleaje que la perseguirá por todo el país mientras ella intenta dar con el reportero de investigación Gray Grantham, el único hombre que está tan cerca de la verdad como ella.

The psychiatrist's couch holds many secrets. Can it also hold the key to a series of brutal murders? The thrilling first novel from the internationally bestselling Master of Suspense. Two murders, one victim murdered in the street in a gruesome but apparently arbitrary attack. The other brutally tortured and left to die in agony. Now it's the turn of psychoanalyst Dr Judd Stevens... In a chilling game of cat and mouse, Judd must become the hunter rather than the hunted if he wants to stay alive. Working with the mindset of a detective, he must analyse his patients, searching for a motive, clues, reasons. Could it be Teri Washburn, Hollywood starlet, thrown out of tinsel town in scandal and now addicted to sex? Could it be Harrison Burke, top business man and disturbed paranoiac? Or could it be Alexander Fallon, a crazed evangelist, convinced that God has chosen him to avenge all sin in the world? In this deadly game, there can only be one winner...If Judd is to survive he must play the game to win. This is Sidney Sheldon's first novel - a gripping, intense thriller that brought him fame as a bestselling novelist.

Movie producer Sy Spencer -- one of the premier summer residents of the Hamptons, Long Island's oh-so-fashionable beach resort for everyone who is anyone -- has hosted his last power clambake, thanks to whoever shot him dead beside his oceanfront pool. Heading the investigation is Hamptons native Steve Brady. His prime suspect is Sy's ex-wife Bonnie, a strangely appealing and energetic woman both in and out of bed. As the case against Bonnie builds, so does Brady's obsession with her. Before long, he's laying the case and his career on the line for her, ignoring all the rules, all the evidence, and all common sense

Twenty-four-year-old Alexa Walden secretly married 64-year-old millionaire Arthur Bannerman. And after his death, Alexa finds herself tainted with scandal and pitted against the powerful and privileged world of the New York rich, where she must fight the entire Bannerman dynasty for control of The Fortune.

Foreign correspondent Stephanie Ryder falls in love with the dedicated surgeon, Dr. Jen Yong, and struggles to find happiness amid the turmoil of the Communist revolution in China

Después del gran éxito mundial de su novela El negociador, Forsyth ofrece una apasionante recreación de los servicios británicos de inteligencia en la década de 1980 a través de cuatro importantes casos protagonizados por uno de sus personajes más memorables: Sam McCready, el Manipulador. McCready es uno de los agentes secretos británicos más valiosos, una leyenda viviente tras siete años al frente del Departamento de Desinformación y Operaciones Psicológicas

Presumed Innocent was the fiction debut of the decade--a magnetic work of suspense that earned Turow acclaim for his unparalleled storytelling gifts. Now, in a brilliant follow-up, Scott Turow stakes his claim as an American master, in a mesmerizing novel of law, family and deceit. Alejandro "Sandy" Stern--the brilliant defense lawyer from Presumed Innocent --comes home to discover that his wife of 30 years has committed suicide, leaving behind a web of mystery, money and guilt. While Stern hunts for answers, he is caught up in the threatened Federal prosecution of his most powerful and troublesome client--his own brother-in-law. Now, after a life of success, Sandy Stern is a man in desperate need of many truths--about his family, his uncertain future and the troubled legacy his wife left behind.

Todas las intrigas y corrupciones del mundo del arte, con sus notables implicaciones económicas, desfilan por estas páginas escritas con la habitual maestría de Ken Follett. Dee, una joven historiadora del arte, descubre la posible existencia de un raro cuadro de Amedeo Modigliani, uno de los más célebres pintores de la contemporaneidad. Sus sospechas la llevan a pensar que la obra puede hallarse en un pequeño pueblo italiano. Ante la perspectiva de un descubrimiento extraordinario, Dee informa a su tío Charles, un galerista londinense. Pero la investigadora no es la única interesada en encontrar ese cuadro: Cardwell, un acaudalado coleccionista, pone en marcha una operación para apoderarse del Modigliani… Cueste lo que cueste.

Benazir Bhutto is the daughter of Pakistan's former President Bhutto, who was executed by General Zia in 1979. At his death, she inherited the leadership of the Pakistan People's Party, the largest and most powerful mass-based group in the country.

The kidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is but the first brutal step in a ruthless plan to force the President of the United States out of office. If it succeeds, he will be psychologically and emotionally destroyed. Only one man can stop it - Quinn, the world's foremost Negotiator, who must bargain for the life of an innocent man, unaware that ransom was never the kidnapper's real objective . . .

The story revolves around two twin sisters, each envious of the other's life. One enjoys a glamorous lifestyle filled with parties and suitors, while the other is settled in a stable family life. Their decision to switch places as a playful escape spirals into a web of deception, leading to unforeseen complications and challenges. As they navigate their swapped lives, both sisters confront their desires and the realities of their choices, revealing the complexities of identity and fulfillment.

Blending archaeological fact and legend, the myths of the gods and the feats of heroes, Marion Zimmer Bradley breathes new life into the classic tale of the Trojan War-reinventing larger-than-life figures as living people engaged in a desperate struggle that dooms both the victors and the vanquished, their fate seen through the eyes of Kassandra-priestess, princess, and passionate woman with the spirit of a warrior.

"Ho scritto questo libro con il desiderio di rivolgermi direttamente ai popoli dell'URSS, degli Stati Uniti e di ogni paese del mondo..." Perestrojka (in russo: 'ricostruzione') è il termine introdotto da Mikhail Gorbaciov per indicare il 'nuovo corso' della vita in Russia. Un radicale rinnovamento economico e culturale, di cui l'autore offre in queste pagine un quadro chiaro e completo. Attraverso un linguaggio semplice e scorrevole, più simile a un colloquio personale che a un discorso pubblico, il segretario del PCUS affronta qui a uno a uno i grandi 'nodi' della politica russa: la libertà, l'indipendenza delle imprese, la proprietà privata, la collaborazione internazionale, il disarmo, la politica europea, Chernobyl. Ma accanto ai temi centrali del dibattito mondiale e alle soluzioni fino a oggi impensabili, in queste pagine troviamo anche le autocritiche, le riflessioni, i pensieri, la personalità del capo di una delle due massime Superpotenze: un uomo nelle cui mani poggia il destino del mondo... Pubblicato in occasione del settantesimo anniversario del socialismo in URSS, Perestrojka è diventato in tutto il mondo il 'caso' dell'anno: un caso editoriale senza precedenti, ma anche un avvenimento di straordinaria importanza che ha mutato il corso della storia contemporanea.

A #1 New York Times bestseller--and an American classic--now in trade paperback... A groundbreaking bestseller with two and a half million copies in print, " ...And Ladies of the Club " centers on the members of a book club and their struggles to understand themselves, each other, and the tumultuous world they live in. A true classic, it is sure to enchant, enthrall, and intrigue readers for years to come.

Rusty Sabich, viceprocuratore capo della contea di Kindle, viene incaricato di svolgere le indagini sullo stupro e l'omicidio di una sua collega, Carolyn Polhemus, una donna energica, affascinante e ambiziosa. La sua morte crea imbarazzo per il procuratore distrettuale Raymond Horgan, che affida le indagini a Rusty nella speranza di risolvere rapidamente il caso per salvare la sua situazione politica. Tuttavia, Horgan ignora che Carolyn e Rusty erano amanti fino a pochi mesi prima del delitto. Le indagini si complicano e, inaspettatamente, Rusty viene accusato dell'omicidio. Il processo rivela risvolti imprevedibili e nuovi inquietanti retroscena. La contea di Kindle è un mondo di sfumature morali e conflitti, dove la verità è nebulosa e nessuno è del tutto innocente. Questo mondo continuerà a ossessionare il lettore anche dopo la sorprendente soluzione del mistero.

Una novela que recorre cuarenta años de la historia de amor entre una estrella de Hollywood y un rico heredero. La famosa actriz Faye Price y el rico heredero Ward Thayer se conocieron cuando el prestaba servicio en el ejercito americano durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el Sur del Pacífico, lugar al que ella acudió para animar a las tropas. Pero solo años más tarde, en su segundo encuentro en Hollywood, saltaría la chispa que se transformaría en amor y en matrimonio. Esta es la historia de este matrimonio y de la familia que crearán juntos. Y de cómo Faye, a medida que su familia va superando dificultades y desavenencias, irá descubriendo que los finales felices no son un regalo del cielo.

A title first published in 1984, in which MI5 investigator John Preston works against an urgent deadline in an operation to prevent an act of destruction aimed at casting Britain into revolution.

Tracy Whitney es joven, hermosa, inteligente y está comprometida con un hombre de buena familia. Sin embargo, víctima de su propia ingenuidad, cae en una trampa del crimen organizado y es encarcelada por un supuesto robo de obras de arte. La prisión de máxima seguridad se convierte en una brutal escuela de vida para ella, y al salir meses después, es una mujer transformada: desilusionada y consumida por el deseo de venganza. Con sus únicas armas, la inteligencia y la belleza, se dedica a destruir a sus enemigos. Pero el precio de su venganza es alto, ya que la sociedad le niega el regreso a una vida normal. A pesar de ello, Tracy se defiende a su manera, convirtiéndose en una superdelincuente que despoja a los ricos de sus fortunas. Nadie puede detenerla, ni Interpol, que la persigue por Europa, ni el astuto detective de seguros Daniel Cooper. Solo uno es su igual: Jeff Stevens, una figura tan intrigante como ella misma.