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Mattia Cattaneo, rampollo di una famiglia per bene, sparisce dalla sua villa di Alassio e viene ritrovato due giorni dopo con un proiettile in testa. Sequestro di persona finito male? Jacopo Bignone, giornalista della Ponente Press, non lo crede e segue una pista che porta in Spagna. A Valencia, proprio il giorno del rapimento, c'è stato un eccidio di narcos. Unico indizio, l'identikit di un italiano visto aggirarsi in zona: Luca Dolmetta, un agente immobiliare che, come Mattia, frequentava il più esclusivo night club di Alassio, l'Iguana Club.

Nel Ponente Ligure c'è una collina che domina la città di Albenga e degrada a terrazze verso il mare. Qui nel II secolo d.C. ha trovato la morte un martire cristiano, San Calocero. Vicino alla basilica del Santo, recenti scavi archeologici hanno riportato alla luce una tomba, contente il corpo, a testa in giù, di una ragazzina di tredici anni. Gli studiosi l'hanno chiamata Martina. Ed è di un'altra Martina, studentessa liceale, il cadavere che Jacopo Bignone e Consuelo Salini, - giunti lì per un servizio giornalistico - trovano in fondo a quella tomba.

Devon Burges is in the throes of a high-risk birth when she learns of her dear friend’s murder. The police quickly name another friend as the chief suspect, but Devon doesn’t buy it - and despite her difficult recovery, she decides to investigate. Haunted by postpartum problems that manifest as a cruel voice in her head, Devon is barely getting by. Yet her instincts are still sharp, and she’s bent on proving her friend’s innocence.

1790s London. Julia Richmond is not the typical society wife. She is a witch in hiding from her husband, her family, and the church. She is called to shed her reclusive life and practice her magic, risking everything she loves to save the family that rejected her before a demon destroys them all. Faced with this choice, Julia travels from the glittering halls of London society to the tropical heat of a sugar cane field. Along the way, she evades pirates, fights demons, escapes religious zealots and confronts black witches.

Arthur and his sister Violet are selling all their old toys in a Tag Sale. Even Arthur's Honey Bear! But Arthur finds there's more than one way to say good-bye to an old friend...

Violet's camping out too, but her friends don't want Arthur around. So Arthur decidesto collect slimy things he knows Violet wouldn't like. But he doesn't count on slippery rocks and swooping bats, or hunger pangs. Then he smells hot dogs roasting over a warm fire...

Un ami, un collègue ou un conjoint vous a-t-il déjà donné l'impression que vous n'étiez jamais à la hauteur et que tout ce que vous entrepreniez courait à la catastrophe ? Avez-vous été continuellement critiqué par l'un de vos parents ou par un proche ? Vous sentez-vous parfois humilié ou déprécié par un client ou un voisin ?

A Chekhovian comedy from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lillian Hellman about the sad and funny frailties of human existence. As the summer of 1949 draws to a close, a group of middle-aged friends are gathering for their annual retreat at a genteel Southern resort. An acquaintance from the past thrusts himself into the yearly gathering, forcing them to re-examine their mundane yet seemingly idyllic existence, the opportunities they’ve lost, and the lives that have passed them by.

A scathing examination of a wealthy Southern family and the greed that tears them apart. Regina’s brothers have inherited their father’s wealth, while after years of neglect, her dying husband is determined to see she gets nothing. It will take every ounce of her ruthless guile to outwit her relations and assure herself a gilded future.

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) that was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. This special edition celebrating the 150th year since publication includes excerpts from "Louisa May Alcott, Her Life, Letters, and Journals" and "Little Women" part one and two.

He was supposed to watch over her, protect her. But one taste leads to a bite, and his uncontrollable desires consume them both. He’s already taken her virginity, but now he wants to claim her for his own. There’s only one problem. She’s his best friend’s daughter.

Crystal Fire is a tale of the human factors in technology; the pride and jealousies coupled with scientific and economic aspiration that led to the creation of modern microelectronics and ignited the greatest technological explosion in history.

On December 16, 1947, two physicists at Bell Laboratories, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, jabbed two electrodes into a sliver of germanium half an inch long. The electrical power coming out of that piece of germanium was 100 times stronger than what went in. In that moment, the transistor was invented and the information age began. Crystal Fire recounts the story of the transistor team at Bell Labs, led by William Shockley, who shared the Nobel Prize with Bardeen and Brattain.

A story of love, war, and life as a Jewish immigrant in the squalid factories and lively dance halls of New York’s Garment District in the 1930s, My Mother’s Wars is the memoir Lillian Faderman's mother was never able to write. The daughter delves into her mother's past to tell the story of a Latvian girl who left her village for America with dreams of a life on the stage and encountered the realities of her new world: the battles she was forced to fight as a woman, an immigrant worker, and a Jew with family left behind in Hitler’s deadly path.

Along with historical narrative, hear rare recordings of some of the most iconic people in history, including James J. Corbett, Sarah Bernhardt, Lillian Russell, Emperor Franz Joseph, Gen. John J. Pershing, Edward H. Sothern, Rudolph Valentino, President Coolidge with Charles Lindbergh, Billy Sunday, and Rudyard Kipling. Recording obtained and published by Rick Sheridan.

Carole knows there can be no tie between her autistic daughter and the strange events in Port Massasauga. It's not logical. It's not possible. The Ceiling Man has picked up other watchers in his travels, but they all dismissed him as a nightmare. The girl is different. She knows he's real. Teenage Abby is an innocent. The stranger only she sees and hears introduces her to evil. When Carole falls under the stranger's sway, Abby must solve the puzzle of the Ceiling Man and save them both.

When Jules Worthington-Smith's wallet is found next to a dead man, she becomes the prime suspect in his murder. After struggling for years to build the perfect family and career, she's dangerously close to losing everything. Sure of her innocence, Jules is desperate to clear her name. But there's one big problem: she was blackout drunk when the murder took place and can't remember what happened. Unsatisfied with the police's handling of the case, Jules embarks on her own gin-fueled murder investigation.

For the first time ever, Eastern and Western Bird Song audio guides from the famed team of Donald and Lillian Stokes will be available in one comprehensive box set with new premium packaging. An incredible 923 species from all of North America are included in this marvelous audio companion to...

For the first time ever, Eastern and Western Bird Song audio guides from the famed team of Donald and Lillian Stokes will be available in one comprehensive box set with new premium packaging. An incredible 923 species from all of North America are included in this marvelous audio companion to...

The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family’s controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay.