En el corazón de Italia, el catedrático de Simbología de Harvard Robert Langdon se ve arrastrado a un mundo terrorífico centrado en una de las obras maestras de la Literatura más imperecederas y misteriosas de la Historia: el Infierno de Dante. Con este telón de fondo, Langdon se enfrenta a un adversario escalofriante y lidia con un acertijo ingenioso en un escenario de arte clásico, pasadizos secretos y ciencia futurista. Apoyándose en el oscuro poema épico de Dante, Langdon, en una carrera contrarreloj, busca respuestas y personas de confianza antes de que el mundo cambie irrevocablemente.
En el año 1933, Berlín es un foco de agitación política y social. Lady Maud, ahora la esposa de Walter von Ulrich y madre de dos hijos, publica artículos en una revista semanal que ridiculizan al partido nazi mientras su marido manifiesta su oposición en el gobierno. Sin embargo, parece que nada podrá frenar el poder ascendente del canciller Adolf Hitler. Cuando Maud recibe la visita de Ethel Williams y su hijo Lloyd, todos serán testigos de la tiranía y la represión de la nueva Alemania.El reino del Tercer Reich se extenderá hasta Francia y más allá de la frontera rusa. Mientras, en Inglaterra, Lloyd Williams, activista político como su madre, luchará en el ejército británico para intentar frenar dicho avance, antes de alistarse en las brigadas internacionales de la guerra civil española, donde participará en la ofensiva de Zaragoza y la batalla de Belchite.Ty Gwyn, la mansión familiar de los Fitzherbert en País de Gales, se convertirá en acantonamiento para oficiales, y durante su estancia, Lloyd se sentirá atraído por la mujer de Boy Fitzherbert, la rica heredera americana Daisy Peshkov.En esta magnífica novela épica, Ken Follett transportará al lector a través de una Europa en ruinas, quebrada de nuevo por las guerras y los conflictos ideológicos. Los hijos de las cinco familias, protagonistas de La caída de los gigantes, forjarán su destino en los años turbulentos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la guerra civil española, el bombardeo de Pearl Harbor y la era de las bombas atómicas americanas y soviéticas.
Un hombre inocente, Donté Drumm, está a punto de ser ejecutado por un crimen que no cometió. El verdadero culpable, Travis Boyette, un asesino con un tumor cerebral, decide confesar su crimen. Sin embargo, convencer a las autoridades de la inocencia de Donté no será fácil.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball… “Grisham knocks it out of the park.”—The Washington Post It’s the summer of 1973, and Joe Castle is the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie anyone has ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas, dazzles Chicago Cubs fans as he hits home run after home run, politely tipping his hat to the crowd as he shatters all rookie records. Calico Joe quickly becomes the idol of every baseball fan in America, including Paul Tracey, the young son of a hard-partying and hard-throwing New York Mets pitcher. On the day that Warren Tracey finally faces Calico Joe, Paul is in the stands, rooting for his idol but also for his dad. Then Warren throws a fastball that will change their lives forever.
If you like Sophie Kinsella, you'll love Cocktails for Three. Madeleine Wickham, who writes the internationally bestselling Shopaholic series as Sophie Kinsella, has penned an irresistibly dishy and entertaining novel about three savvy young women and the secrets they share over monthly drinks. At the first of every month, when the office has reached its pinnacle of hysteria, Maggie, Roxanne, and Candice meet at London's swankiest bar for an evening of cocktails and gossip. Here, they chat about what's new at The Londoner, the glossy fashion magazine where they all work, and everything else that's going on in their lives. Or almost everything. Beneath the girl talk and the laughter, each of the three has a secret. And when a chance encounter at the cocktail bar sets in motion an extraordinary chain of events, each one will find their biggest secret revealed...
Fleur Daxeny is beautiful, unscrupulous, and has a large wardrobe of black designer suits. With the help of the obituaries, she gatecrashes the funerals and memorial services of the wealthy, preying on rich and newly vulnerable men. Charming her way into their lives, their beds, and their bank accounts, she takes what she can and moves swiftly on
Two Secret Service agents sworn to guard their protectees lost them in a single moment...and in this #1 New York Times bestseller, they're about to learn that the violence has just begun. Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight for the briefest moment and the man whose safety was her responsibility vanished into thin air. Sean King knows how the younger agent feels. Eight years earlier, the hard-charging Secret Service agent allowed his attention to be diverted for a split second. And the candidate he was protecting was gunned down before his eyes. Now Michelle and Sean are about to see their destinies converge. Drawn into a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, the two discredited agents uncover a shocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a long time in the making--and are a long way from over
The divorced ex-cop, Kinsey Millhone, turns 33, is hired to bring a mother back from the desert, and makes a top slot on Tyrone Patty's hit list, all on the same day.
Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Sylvia Strange is enlisted to learn the identity of a murderous bomber launching a campaign of terror in Los Angeles. The prime suspect is John Dantes, a brilliant madman already serving a life sentence for another bombing. Sylvia, a genius at accessing the most tortured psychiatric cases, is the only person who can unlock Dantes' secret from his twisted mind--but it could cost her her own sanity.
