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Adria Tissoni

    Jane Rizzoli e Maura Isles: Madame X
    The Enemy
    Bad Luck and trouble
    The Apprentice
    The Hard Way
    The Power of Meow. Die Katze des Dalai Lama und der Zauber des Augenblicks, englische Ausgabe
    • Take a peek inside the mind of a delightfully imperfect creature on the path to enlightenment. In the latest instalment of the Dalai Lama's Cat series, readers escape to the enchanting and exotic world of the Dalai Lama's monastery in the Himalayas. His Holiness's Cat (HHC) is on a mission: to think less, to experience more, to live in the moment. She soon learns the proper phrase for this: being mindful, or, a concept better known to her as the power of meow. What ensues is a journey to discover her own true nature, to gain a deeper understanding of her mind and to experience life's greatest joy - the here and now. By accompanying HHC on her journey, you will learn new ways to relate to your own mind: slowing down, finding peace and abiding in the boundless radiance and benevolence that is your own true nature.

      The Power of Meow. Die Katze des Dalai Lama und der Zauber des Augenblicks, englische Ausgabe
      4,5
    • The Hard Way

      • 528 páginas
      • 19 horas de lectura

      Late At Night, A New York Café. Jack Reacher Orders Coffee In A Cup Made Of Foam, Not China. So He Can Move On At A Moment S Notice. He Owns Nothing, Carries Less. He Has Never Met A Woman Who Said No. Or A Case He Couldn T Solve.But Now Reacher Faces A New Case So Disturbing That The Truth Eludes Him. He Has To Sweat The Details And Work The Clues. Doing It The Hard Way. Until What Started On A Busy New York Street Explodes Three Thousand Miles Away, In The Sleepy English Countryside. With Reacher Striding Alone In The Shadows. Armed And Dangerous.

      The Hard Way
      4,2
    • It is a boiling hot summer in Boston. adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized--a sadistic demand that ends in death. The MO seems to point to Warren Hoyt, recently jailed.

      The Apprentice
      4,2
    • Bad Luck and trouble

      • 560 páginas
      • 20 horas de lectura

      From the first shocking scenes in Child's explosive new novel, Jack Reacher is plunged into the heart of a conspiracy that is killing old friends and is on its way to becoming something even worse.

      Bad Luck and trouble
      4,2
    • The Enemy

      • 464 páginas
      • 17 horas de lectura

      Former army cop Jack Reacher finds himself questioning the instincts that made him an elite soldier when his latest case forces him to choose between obeying the law and becoming a renegade.

      The Enemy
      4,2
    • Jane Rizzoli e Maura Isles: Madame X

      Un caso per Jane Rizzoli e Maura Isles

      • 332 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Questa non sarà un’autopsia di routine. L’anatomopatologa Maura Isles ne è certa. Ad attenderla, all’ospedale, c’è una ressa di giornalisti. E, soprattutto, c’è lei: Madame X, coperta interamente da bende di lino impregnate di resina, che risalgono a duemila anni prima. I suoi organi interni sono stati asportati, solo il cuore è rimasto al suo posto, perché è lì che gli antichi egizi credevano risiedesse l’intelligenza. Madame X infatti è una mummia, ritrovata per caso negli scantinati di un museo. Quando, scansione dopo scansione, la TAC arriva alle gambe, Maura scorge qualcosa di impossibile. Un piccolo dettaglio che trasformerà definitivamente quell'autopsia a scopo archeologico in qualcosa di molto più sinistro e inquietante…

      Jane Rizzoli e Maura Isles: Madame X
      3,8
    • First Person Plural

      • 354 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      The story of one man's struggle with Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder) & the 24 personalities that live within him. In this book readers accompany Cameron West on a roller coaster ride as he desperately tries to hang on to his family, his life & the thin red thread of reality that connects him to the world. The book chronicles his hunt for evidence to help him cope with & understand why his alter personalities are using his voice & body to retell & relive childhood sexual abuse.

      First Person Plural
      4,1
    • The Visitor

      • 509 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      "Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook have a lot in common. They're both army career women, they're both victims of sexual harrassment by their superiors, they're both forced to resign from the service. And now they're both dead. Only Jack Reacher can discover their killer."--Publisher's description.

      The Visitor
      4,1
    • Persuader

      • 389 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Never forgive, never forget is Jack Reacher's standard operating procedure. Quinn was the worst guy he had ever met, truly unforgivable. So Reacher was glad to know he was dead. Until the day he saw him again in Boston, alive and well.

      Persuader
      4,1
    • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • THE BLOCKBUSTER JACK REACHER SERIES THAT INSPIRED TWO MAJOR MOTION PICTURES AND THE STREAMING SERIES REACHER “A veritable tour de force . . . brilliantly executed and deliciously plotted.”—The Washington Times Everything starts somewhere. For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. Reacher is ordered undercover to investigate the murder of a young woman. Evidence points to a U.S. soldier with powerful friends. Once in Carter Crossing, Reacher meets local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux, who has a thirst for justice and an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust each other, they reluctantly join forces. Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission— and turn him into a man to be feared.

      The Affair
      4,1
    • Trampa Mortal

      • 544 páginas
      • 20 horas de lectura

      El expolicía militar Jack Reacher está disfrutando de su anonimato en Florida cuando un desconocido con muchas preguntas empieza a husmear a su alrededor. Reacher también tiene muchas preguntas, especialmente desde que el tipo aparece muerto. Las respuestas le conducen hasta Nueva York, hasta una seductora mujer y hasta los rincones oscuros de su propio pasado.

      Trampa Mortal
      4,1
    • Last to die

      • 336 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Visiting sixteen-year-old "Rat" Perkins at the isolated Evensong boarding school for emotionally traumatized children, Maura Isles is astonished to learn that all of his classmates, survivors of violence, are being instructed in scientific detective skills, a discovery that coincides with Jane Rizzoli's investigation into the murder of a boy's foster family.

      Last to die
      4,1
    • The Last Widow

      • 464 páginas
      • 17 horas de lectura

      New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won’t see coming A mysterious kidnapping On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. Vanished into thin air, the authorities are desperate to save the doctor. A devastating explosion One month later, the serenity of a sunny Sunday afternoon is shattered by the boom of a ground-shaking blast—followed by another seconds later. One of Atlanta’s busiest and most important neighborhood’s has been bombed—the location of Emory University, two major hospitals, the FBI headquarters, and the CDC. A diabolical enemy Medical examiner Sara Linton and her partner Will Trent, an investigator with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, rush to the scene—and into the heart of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to destroy thousands of innocent lives. When the assailants abduct Sara, Will goes undercover to save her and prevent a massacre—putting his own life on the line for the woman and the country he loves.

      The Last Widow
      4,1
    • 'The most bone-chilling story featuring on-going characters Rizzoli and Isles.' Daily Mail HE WATCHES Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. The people who lived in them appear to have vanished, seemingly into thin air. HE WAITS Maura Isles is driving through the area with a group of friends when they find themselves trapped in a snowstorm. They stumble into the abandoned village to take shelter. But their nightmare has only just begun. THEY DISAPPEAR Days later, Jane Rizzoli flies to Wyoming to search for her missing friend. A crashed vehicle has been found with four badly burned bodies still inside. Can one of the corpses be Maura's? Jane's hunt for the truth leads her to Kingdom Come. Where the person who was watching Maura now lies waiting for her ...

      The Killing Place
      4,1
    • The Surgeon

      • 368 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      Dr. Catherine Cordell, recovering from a brutal attack and hiding her fear behind a mask of professionalism, is the only one who can stop a psychotic killer known as "The Surgeon," due to his horrific methods of murder, before he kills again. Reissue.

      The Surgeon
      4,1
    • Jack Reacher: Brandpunt

      • 384 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transport. In temperatures of over a hundred degrees, you’re lucky if a driver will open the door of his air-conditioned car long enough to let you slide in. That’s Jack Reacher’s conclusion. He’s adrift in the fearsome heat of a Texas summer, and he needs to keep moving through the wide open vastness, like a shark in the water. The last thing he’s worried about is exactly who picks him up. He never expected it to be somebody like Carmen. She’s alone, driving a Cadillac. She’s beautiful, young and rich. She has a little girl who is being watched by unseen observers. And a husband who is in jail. Who will beat her senseless when he comes out. If he doesn’t kill her first. Reacher is no stranger to trouble. And at Carmen’s remote ranch in Echo County there is plenty of it: lies and prejudice, hatred and murder. Reacher can never resist a lady in distress. Her family is hostile. The cops can’t be trusted. The lawyers won’t help. If Reacher can’t set things straight, who can?

      Jack Reacher: Brandpunt
      3,9
    • Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas and getting desperate for a ride. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up. She's called Carmen. She's a good-looking young woman, she has a beautiful little girl . . .and she has married into the wrong family. They're called the Greers. They're a bitter and miserly clan, and they've made her life a living hell. Worse, her monster of a husband is soon due out of prison. So she needs protection, and she needs it now. Lawyers can't help. Cops can't be trusted. So Reacher goes home with her to the lonely ranch where nothing is as it seems, and where evil swirls around them like dust in a storm. Within days, Carmen's husband is dead - and simmering secrets send Echo, Texas, up in flames.

      Echo Burning
      4,0
    • Make Me

      • 528 páginas
      • 19 horas de lectura

      Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote railroad stop on the prairie with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover. He expects to find a lonely pioneer tombstone in a sea of nearly-ripe wheat ... but instead there is a woman waiting for a missing colleague, a cryptic note about two hundred deaths, and a small town full of silent, watchful people. Reacher's one-day stopover turns into an open-ended quest leading to the most hidden reaches of the internet, and right into the nightmare heart of darkness. 'Child's best for some time...with detective-story and romcom elements (even sly humour) on top of the psychological duels and set-piece violence' Sunday Times

      Make Me
      4,0
    • Personal

      • 480 páginas
      • 17 horas de lectura

      Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he's a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president. Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him. This new heartstopping, nailbiting book in Lee Child's number-one bestselling series takes Reacher across the Atlantic to Paris - and then to London. The stakes have never been higher - because this time, it's personal.

      Personal
      3,9
    • The Haunting of Sunshine Girl

      • 320 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      The Haunting of Sunshine Girl- in active development for television by The Weinstein Company- a hit paranomal YA series based on the wildly popular YouTube channel about an adorkable teenager living in a haunted house.

      The Haunting of Sunshine Girl
      3,9
    • Maravilloso desastre

      • 448 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      Camicetta immacolata e coda di cavallo. Abby Abernathy sembra la classica ragazza timida e studiosa, ma in realtà è una ragazza in fuga dal suo passato e dalla sua famiglia. Arrivata alla Eastern University per il primo anno di università, ha tutta l'intenzione di dimenticare la sua vecchia vita e ricominciare da capo. Travis Maddox, di notte, guida troppo veloce sulla sua moto e ha una compagna diversa per ogni festa. Abby capisce subito che lui rappresenta tutto ciò da cui ha giurato di stare lontana. Lei sa che non ci cadrà come tutte le altre, ma quando, a causa di una scommessa, i due si ritrovano a dover condividere lo stesso tetto per trenta giorni, Travis dimostra un'inaspettata mistura di dolcezza e passionalità. Solo lui riesce a leggere nell'anima tormentata di Abby e a capire cosa si nasconde dietro i suoi silenzi. Ma Abby ha troppa paura di affidargli la chiave per il suo ultimo e più profondo segreto.

      Maravilloso desastre
      3,9
    • Night School

      • 480 páginas
      • 17 horas de lectura

      In the morning, they gave Reacher a medal. And in the afternoon, they sent him back to school. Night School takes Reacher back to his army days, but this time he's not in uniform. With trusted sergeant Frances Neagley at his side, he must carry the fate of the world on his shoulders, in a wired, fiendishly clever new adventure that will make the cold sweat trickle down your spine.

      Night School
      3,9
    • From Here to You (Forever Special Release)

      • 369 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      #1 New York Times bestseller Jamie McGuire delivers a deliciously intense, emotionally gripping contemporary romance featuring characters from her genre- defining Beautiful series, which has sold nearly 3 million copies to date.

      From Here to You (Forever Special Release)
      3,8
    • In order to fulfill his dream of being a sorcerer-king, Tithian, the new ruler of Tyr, journeys into the Athasian desert to search for an ancient oracle. Original.

      The Obsidian Oracle
      3,7
    • Ritual

      • 415 páginas
      • 15 horas de lectura

      DI Jack Caffery, the hero of Mo Hayder’s bestselling novelsBirdmanandThe Treatment, is back. Seconded from London to Bristol, Caffery is trying to leave his personal life behind, but he cannot escape the memories of his younger brother’s murder and the suspect who went free. When police diver Sergeant Phoebe “Flea” Marley discovers a freshly severed human hand in Bristol’s harbour and its mate buried under a restaurant’s doorstep, Caffery is there to lead the investigation. But rather than find answers, or a body to match those hands, Caffery and Flea discover a terrifying underworld of drug addiction, ritual mutilation and muti, African medicine magic. Tormented by his personal demons, Caffery seeks out the company of the infamous Walking Man, a recently released convict from a high-security prison, who sleeps rough and walks the country roads as he relives the memories of a terrifying crime. Flea Marley has her own ghosts to confront—the cave-diving death of her parents in a cold, water-filled hole in South Africa—and a frightening personal association with the crime she and Caffery are investigating. Britain’s “Queen of Fear” has once again proven herself a master of her craft. Ritual is a gripping psychological thriller, a chilling story seen through the eyes of complex characters and told with masterful voice and style.

      Ritual
      3,8
    • Basado en su primer bestseller, los autores nos brindan ahora este minilibro de humor, recurriendo a las ultimas investigaciones cerebrales, estudios sociologicos, estudios sobre biologia evolutiva y psicologia. En el destacan las diferencias entre los hombres y las mujeres en su forma de pensar y actuar. Cada pagina refleja un retazo de sabiduria que, ademas, hara desternillarse de risa incluso a la persona mas cinica.

      Por qué los hombres no se enteran y las mujeres siempre necesitan más zapatos
      3,8
    • Identità sconosciuta

      • 96 páginas
      • 4 horas de lectura

      Cinque minuti: tanti sono bastati al direttore del personale della fabbrica dove James Penney ha lavorato per diciassette anni a licenziarlo. Diciassette anni di vita contro cinque minuti, e ora Penney è un uomo senza lavoro e senza speranza. Gli restano solo sei settimane di paga e la sua amata Firebird rossa. E allora l’unica soluzione che gli sembra possibile è dar fuoco alla casa e scappare sulle strade d’America con l’auto. Via dalla fabbrica che l’ha tradito, via dalla banca, dai debiti, da una vita senza soddisfazioni. Un gesto di protesta, l’unico in una vita di sopportazione e obbedienza. Quello con cui Penney però non ha fatto i conti è il caldo del deserto del Mojave, che in poco tempo spinge le fiamme a bruciare anche le case dei vicini. E ora Penney è ricercato dalla polizia per incendio doloso. Lui e la sua Firebird rossa, in fuga sulla California Highway Patrol. Ma la strada di Penney è destinata a incrociarsi con quella di un uomo pericoloso, un giovane capitano della polizia militare alto e muscoloso il cui nome è destinato a diventare leggenda: Jack Reacher. Un incontro che potrebbe essere la salvezza o la rovina di Penney...

      Identità sconosciuta
      2,6
    • Teadue: La corporazione dei maghi

      Romanzo

      • 395 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      A Imardin è il giorno dell'Epurazione, l'appuntamento annuale durante il quale, su ordine del re, la Corporazione dei maghi scaccia dalla città vagabondi, mendicanti e tutti coloro che sono sospettati di vivere da fuorilegge. E, come ogni anno, gli abitanti dei quartieri poveri si radunano nella piazza del Nord, per protestare, urlando la propria rabbia e lanciando sassi contro i maghi, i quali, però, essendo protetti da una barriera magica, ignorano altezzosamente quella rivolta. Tutto sembra svolgersi secondo un triste ma collaudato copione; poi, d'un tratto, una pietra manda in frantumi la protezione e ferisce un mago. Tra l'esultanza della folla e lo sgomento dei maghi, viene subito individuata la responsabile dell'incredibile gesto: è Sonea, una giovane orfana, che subito dopo fugge via, spaventata dalle conseguenze della sua azione. Ma la Corporazione dei maghi non può permettere che qualcuno dotato di un simile potere sfugga al loro controllo e vuole trovare la ragazzina per convincerla a unirsi a loro e a sottoporsi al necessario addestramento. Tuttavia, all'interno della Corporazione, c'è anche chi trama per sfruttare Sonea e raggiungere così i suoi scopi malvagi...

      Teadue: La corporazione dei maghi
      3,6
    • The Amber Enchantress

      • 342 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      The Lure of Dark Sorcery. . . Borys: The Dragon of Athas, born of magic and sustained by the agony of the doomed. For a thousand years, he has terrorized the desert wastes of Athas, roaming from city to city in pursuit of his gruesome levy - the lives of thousands of slaves.The winsome enchantress Sadira now stands ready to challenge him.To do so, she must reach the Pristine Tower, the forgotten citadel still smoldering with the incredible magic that spawned the Dragon. Only one man can help her: Faenaeyon, her elven father, the man who abandoned her into slavery. Before the journey ends, Sadira must forgive his betrayal - or give herself to the dark forces that still dwell within the Pristine Tower.

      The Amber Enchantress
      3,7
    • Something Beautiful

      • 112 páginas
      • 4 horas de lectura

      A novella about America and Shepley from the bestselling novel, Beautiful Disaster. America Mason, a sassy undergrad at Eastern State University, is in love with a Maddox-- Shepley Maddox. Unlike his cousins, Shepley is more lover than fighter, but a road trip to her parents' home in Wichita, Kansas could mean the next step, or the end of everything

      Something Beautiful
      3,6
    • Dawnthief

      • 403 páginas
      • 15 horas de lectura

      The Raven: six men and an elf, sword for hire in the wars that have torn apart Balaia. For years their loyalty has been only to themselves and their code. But, that time is over. The Wytch Lords have escaped and The Raven find themselves fighting for the Dark College of magic, searching for the location of Dawnthief. It is a spell created to end the world, and it must be cast if any of them are to survive. Dawnthief is a fast paced epic about a band of all-too-human heroes.

      Dawnthief
      3,5