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    The Silent Sea
    Children of blood and bone
    I Maestri dell'avventura: Missione Odessa
    La paciente silenciosa
    Crescent Dawn
    Virals: Il codice
    • Virals: Il codice

      Un romanzo della serie Virals

      • 521 páginas
      • 19 horas de lectura

      I Virals, quattro amici che hanno sensi amplificati dopo aver contratto un virus di un lupo, si ritrovano coinvolti in una strana caccia al tesoro. Tutto ha inizio come un innocuo passatempo intrapreso per il puro gusto della sfida: i ragazzi devono localizzare con un GPS alcuni oggetti nascosti da un Game master. Ma la caccia prende una svolta oscura quando trovano una scatoletta decorata che nasconde un messaggio cifrato. Uno di loro, Shelton, decodifica il messaggio e all'improvviso quello che sembrava un gioco si trasforma in una realtà molto pericolosa. I Virals sono caduti nella tela di uno squilibrato che li conosce molto bene e sa come ricattarli per ottenere ciò che vuole...

      Virals: Il codice
      4,6
    • Crescent Dawn

      • 548 páginas
      • 20 horas de lectura

      An ancient cargo long thought lost is found. With terrible consequences . . . . Dirk Pitt is surveying in the Middle East when a stroke of luck reveals an Ottoman wreck with a very curious cargo. While investigating the find, he foils a night raid on Istanbul's Topkapi Palace Museum. This puts Pitt at the centre of a race to acquire a series of legendary artefacts. Meanwhile, the region is being pushed to the brink of war by a series of explosions across Turkey and Egypt. Finding that his search for the artefacts is linked to the attacks, Pitt must prevent a deranged brother and sister's fanatical plans from succeeding . . . Packed with breathtaking suspense and fired by an extraordinary imagination, Crescent Dawnis a barnstorming read for all fans of action, suspense and intrigue. 'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 'The guy I read' Tom Clancy

      Crescent Dawn
      4,4
    • La paciente silenciosa

      • 400 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Alicia Berenson, una pintora de éxito, dispara cinco tiros en la cabeza de su marido, y no vuelve a hablar nunca más. Su negativa a emitir palabra alguna convierte una tragedia doméstica en un misterio que atrapa la imaginación de toda Inglaterra. Theo Faber, un ambicioso psicoterapeuta forense obsesionado con el caso, está empeñado en desentrañar el misterio de lo que ocurrió aquella noche fatal y consigue una plaza en The Grove, la unidad de seguridad en el norte de Londres a la que Alicia fue enviada hace seis años y en la que sigue obstinada en su silencio. Pronto descubre que el mutismo de la paciente está mucho más enraizado de lo que pensaba. Pero, si al final hablara, ¿estaría dispuesto a escuchar la verdad?..

      La paciente silenciosa
      4,3
    • Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut Children of Blood and Bone.They killed my mother.They took our magic.They tried to bury us. Now we rise. Zélie remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. When different clans ruled - Burners igniting flames, Tiders beckoning waves, and Zélie's Reaper mother summoning forth souls.But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, anyone with powers was targeted and killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Only a few people remain with the power to use magic, and they must remain hidden. Zélie is one such person. Now she has a chance to bring back magic to her people and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must learn to harness her powers and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good. Danger lurks in Orïsha, where strange creatures prowl, and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Zélie herself as she struggles to come to terms with the strength of her magic - and her growing feelings for an enemy.The movie of Children of Blood and Bone is in development at Fox 2000/Temple Hill Productions with the incredible Karen Rosenfelt and Wyck Godfrey (Twilight, Maze Runner, The Fault In Our Stars) producing it.

      Children of blood and bone
      4,1
    • December, 1941. Four brothers investigate the secrets of a treasure pit on a small island in the Pacific. But a sudden death and the coming war allow its secrets to lie forgotten . . . Present day. Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon team have been sent to locate the remains of a crashed NASA satellite in the Argentine jungle. Coming under attack, they make a mysterious discovery which sends them to a small Pacific island. There, they will discover the deadly secrets of an ancient Chinese expedition - by the lost ship The Silent Sea. Now Cabrillo and his team are in a race against time to find the remains of The Silent Sea. Because there will be terrible consequences if someone else finds it first . . . The Silent Sea is a gripping, white- knuckle ride of a novel, and is Clive Cussler at his brilliant best. 'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail 'The guy I read' Tom Clancy Visit www.clivecussler.com.au for more Sign up to the Cussler Down Under e-newsletter

      The Silent Sea
      4,1
    • Plague Ship

      • 581 páginas
      • 21 horas de lectura

      In this thrilling installment of Cussler's Oregon Files series, Chairman Juan Cabrillo and his crew confront a dangerous activist group planning a viral attack. After a secret mission in the Persian Gulf, they discover a ghost ship filled with bodies, leading to a perilous mystery and a race against time to thwart a cult's deadly scheme.

      Plague Ship
      4,1
    • «Llega la hora» comienza con la lectura de una nota de suicidio que impacta profundamente a Harry y Emma Clifton, así como a Giles Barrington y Lady Virginia. Giles debe decidir si dejar la política para rescatar a Karin, esposa de su ama, atrapada tras el Telón de Acero. Sin embargo, se cuestiona si Karin realmente lo ama o si es una espía. Lady Virginia enfrenta la bancarrota hasta que conoce a Cyrus T. Grant III, quien llega a Inglaterra para participar en una carrera en el Hipódromo Royal Ascot. Por su parte, Sebastian Clifton, ahora director ejecutivo del Banco Farthings, se obsesiona con su trabajo mientras se enamora de Priya, una joven india cuyo matrimonio ya ha sido arreglado por sus padres. Al mismo tiempo, Adrian Sloane y Desmond Mellor, rivales de Sebastian, planean apoderarse del banco y destituirlo junto a su jefe, Hakim Bishara. Harry Clifton continúa decidido a liberar a Anatoly Babakov de un gulag en Siberia, tras el éxito de su libro «Tío Joe». Sin embargo, un acontecimiento inesperado cambia el rumbo de todos. Este es el penúltimo libro de las Crónicas Clifton, que ha alcanzado el primer lugar en las listas de bestsellers, incluyendo el New York Times y el Sunday Times.

      Llega la hora
      4,0
    • The Numa Files: Medusa

      • 454 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      For seven books, Clive Cussler has dazzled readers with the "spine-tingling adventures" (Chicago Tribune) of Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team, but in Medusa the NUMA team faces what may be its most perilous mission of all.In the Micronesian Islands, a top secret, U.S. government– sponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish known as the Blue Medusa suddenly . . . disappears. At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless a half mile below the surface, its passengers—including Zavala—left to die. Only Kurt Austin’s heroic measures save them from a watery grave, but, suspecting a connection, Austin puts the NUMA team on the case. He has no idea what he’s just gotten them all into. A hideous series of medical experiments . . . an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization . . . a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic. Austin and Zavala have been in tight spots before, but this time it’s not just their own skins they’re trying to save—it’s the lives of millions.Filled with the high-stakes suspense and boundless invention unique to Cussler, Medusa is the most thrilling novel yet from the grand master of adventure.

      The Numa Files: Medusa
      4,0
    • El Reino

      • 432 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      La pasión e intuición por encontrar tesoros olvidados ha llevado al matrimonio formado por Sam y Remi Fargo a descubrimientos extraordinarios y peligrosos viajes. Pero, en su siguiente aventura, tropezarán con algo que está más allá de lo que nunca hubieran imaginado. Sam y Remi Fargo son los mejores en su trabajo: descubrir tesoros ocultos y extraordinarios alrededor del mundo. Pero en esta ocasión la misión a la que se enfrentan es muy diferente. Esta vez tienen que encontrar a dos personas desaparecidas. Así se lo ha explicado su nuevo cliente, un poderoso magnate de Texas que desconoce el paradero de la persona a la que contrató para que diera con su padre. Los dos han desaparecido de la faz de la tierra sin dejar rastro. Incapaces de rechazar el reto, el audaz matrimonio se embarcará en una trepidante investigación que les llevará hasta el antiguo reino tibetano de Mustang pasando por Nepal, Bulgaria, la India y China. En el peligroso recorrido habrán de lidiar con traficantes de fósiles, un vetusto y misterioso cofre, un dirigible centenario  y un esqueleto que podría cambiar para siempre las teorías sobre la evolución de la humanidad.

      El Reino
      3,7