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Carol ha sufrido una gran pérdida, y lleva el día a día como puede con la ayuda de sus amigos: María, Lucas, Félix y Luis, quienes también tienen sus propios problemas. Sin embargo, todo toma un giro inesperado cuando aparece en escena Juan, un amigo de la infancia de Carol que dejó el...

When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr Byrne, her best friend James helps her devise a plan to seduce him. But what begins as a harmless crush soon pushes their friendship to its limits. Over the course of a year they will find their lives ever more entwined with the Byrnes' and be faced with impossible choices and a lie that can't be taken back...

I'm a 64-year-old retired lawyer and former Assistant Attorney General with an unusual story to tell. Every word of it is true. It happened in a state park known as Devil's Den. For fear of losing my job and damaging my reputation in the legal community, I never spoke about the incident. If it hadn't happened to me, I'd be skeptical too. In 1977, I was an active duty NCO in the USAF. A friend and I planned a two-night camping trip to explore the wilderness. We drove deep into the forest until we came to a high plateau. There on the horizon sat a perfect triangle of three very bright stars....

'The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears' house. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out...

On the International Space Station, an unthinkable disaster occurs. Was it an accident? ESA astronaut Thomas Ehrmann and NASA astronaut Patricia Michaels escape in a Soyuz capsule. The Russian authorities in Kazakhstan have questions and want to know what happened to the third member of the crew, Oleg Rashkin. They both refuse to talk. What are they hiding? Amina Young is a psychologist with the ESA. In her mid-thirties, she specialized in and advanced the field of psychological analysis of astronauts. If anyone can get to the facts about the incidents that happened on the mission, it's her.

Special Agent Sam Jameson is having a bad week. People are trying to kill her. That would be business as usual in the counterespionage world, except that it’s the good guys who have her in the crosshairs. Will a ruthless mercenary, a hapless American traitor, and a dead man’s cryptic clue hold the key to Sam’s survival? As the noose tightens around her neck, Sam must uncover a brutal and deadly conspiracy before she becomes its next victim.

In this much-anticipated second installment of Neve Maslakovic’s time-travel series, St. Sunniva University’s Julia Olsen and Nate Kirkland find themselves hot on the trail of a 14th-century artifact, a missing runic specialist, and an all-too-familiar kidnapper who has used the time travel lab’s STEWie (SpaceTimE Warper) for a joyride deep into America’s past. Armed with nothing more than a hunch and a keen understanding of History’s rules, can Julia, Nate, and their teammates track down the kidnapper and the missing researcher before the inevitable - and perilous - clash with history?

Thanks to the time travel lab at St. Sunniva University, history is no longer a mystery. But when the beloved co-inventor of the university’s time machine is inexplicably smeared across time, academic exploration and the future of St. Sunniva is thrown into doubt. As assistant to the dean of science, Julia Olsen is tasked with helping Campus Security Chief Nate Kirkland quietly examine this rare mishap…then, just as quietly, make it go away.

Artemis Fowl è davvero un genio criminale? Sì, visto che a dodici anni è riuscito a impadronirsi dell'oro custodito dal Popolo delle creature fatate e a beffarsi della magia grazie al proprio stupefacente Q.I. Cinico, senza scrupoli e provvisto di una schiacciante superiorità intellettuale, Artemis ha tuttavia un punto debole: l'amore per la madre, che pretende di mandarlo a scuola come un moccioso qualunque, e per il padre, misteriosamente scomparso fra i ghiacci dell'Artico.

In Vichy, France, in 1942, nine men are detained under a shadowy pretext. As the tension builds, the men are questioned—are they the sort of people whom the new Nazi regime considers "inferior?"

A mind-blind scholar outwits the mages who disdain him. A gold mage must secure a bank vault from a monster capable of obliterating entire cities. An aging basketweaver wakes up one morning to find a brand new river in front of her house. A palace-sized octopus seeks to defend his city from a living fortress of bone—if he can get his arms to cooperate. In these twenty-four short stories set in the world of Mage Errant, John Bierce explores the murky depths of history, forgotten corners of Ithos and beyond, and the strangest reaches of magic itself.

Su protagonista, Christopher Boone, es uno de los más originales que han surgido en el panorama de la narrativa internacional en los últimos años, y está destinado a convertirse en un héroe literario universal de la talla de Oliver Twist y Holden Caulfield. A sus quince años, Christopher conoce las capitales de todos los países del mundo, puede explicar la teoría de la relatividad y recitar los números primos hasta el 7.507, pero le cuesta relacionarse con otros seres humanos.

A quarant’anni dal processo che li ha visti uno nei panni del pentito che rivela i nomi, l’altro in quelli dell’accusato, due uomini si incrociano su un sentiero di montagna poco battuto. Il primo è vittima di un incidente, mentre il secondo chiama i soccorsi, ma non c’è più nulla da fare. E ora se ne sta di fronte al magistrato che è convinto che quella caduta dalla Cengia del Bandiaracc sia un regolamento di conti, il duello fra due vecchi compagni di lotta e amici di gioventù, ritrovatisi poi l’uno contro l’altro.

Pulitzer Prize-nominee and USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton pens stories that follow in the sacred code of the Old West. In Incident at Gunn Point, horse trader Will Summers dons a sheriff’s badge after the town lawman is grievously injured during a shootout. But when the band of cutthroats rides back into town, guns blazing, Will knows that he needs to outshoot - and outwit - these vicious adversaries or the next place he goes will be the Great Beyond.

Avere come vicina una maestra in pensione dalla personalità esplosiva e invadente può rivelarsi un'esperienza estrema, soprattutto se si viene da un periodo nero nel quale la vita sentimentale è andata a rotoli, insieme a quella lavorativa. Questo direbbe Carolina Bassani, cardiologa, dirimpettaia dell'arzilla Eufemia. Due anni prima, una terribile disgrazia ha distrutto la carriera lavorativa sua e di un collega, Ascanio Sangiorgi, chirurgo plastico.

Quando la figlia muore in quello che la polizia definisce un semplice incidente, secondo l'agente speciale e profiler dell'FBI Pierce Quincy rimangono troppe domande senza risposta. È convinto che qualcuno abbia ucciso sua figlia ed è disposto a rischiare tutto per scoprire cosa sia davvero successo. C'è solo una persona disposta ad aiutarlo: la sua amica ed ex agente di polizia Rainie Connor. Ma la persona che cercano è diversa da qualsiasi altro killer che i due esperti professionisti abbiano mai incontrato prima.

Former federal agent Alexis Parker is tired of death, destruction, and mayhem. She wants to forget her past and focus on the present. She has a new gig guarding a priceless piece of art and a promising future with James Martin, but when she runs into an old friend while working in Paris, her new life comes crashing to an end. Armed thugs, stolen art, and a bag of cash are just the tip of the iceberg. The painting is a fake, and the insurance firm blames Alex for the theft. But the real thief is out there.

Cattle baron Rupart MacDavis wants to bury the ranchers of Horse Creek, Montana. With the local law in his pocket, MacDavis brutalizes the town - until Herschel Baker begins showing the people how to fight back.

Jonathon Kurten was, by all appearances, a healthy-looking man in his mid-30s. Black hair, with just a subtle stripe of gray running down his right side, neatly tied off into a ponytail. He was of noble decent and held about him an air of attention - attention that always seemed to be getting him in trouble.

The Modronovich, a cargo ship testing a prototype Newtonian drive, loses contact on its shakedown cruise. It was briefly seen, overdue and far off course, and then never heard from again. Two-hundred fifty years later, Penelope Middleton walks into Spaulding Recovery Services with a copy of a garbled transmission recorded by her grandfather, a communications technician serving aboard Capella Station during the Modronovich’s voyage. Haunted by childhood memories of him and the enigmatic partial transmission, she hires Spaulding’s pilot and wreck diver to unravel the mystery.