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L'enigma Claus Von Bulow, uomo affascinante ed ambiguo accusato di aver ridotto a un vegetale sua moglie, gli inganni mortali di H.H. Holmes che nel suo hotel labirinto a Chicago uccise più di 27 persone, la follia del dottor Carl von Cosel che visse con il cadavere trafugato di una sua giovane paziente per otto anni, le oscure sorelle Wardlaw finite in cella per aver ridotto alla fame e e poi lasciato morire la loro figlia e nipote, sono alcune delle storie vere, avvenute tra la fine dell'Ottocento e il Novecento negli Stati Uniti.

Il banchiere francese Édouard Stern, il miliardario Michael Rockefeller, il proprietario del marchio Birra Coors, l'architetto che progettò il Madison Square Garden, il marchese Camillo Casati di Soncino, l'editrice multimilionaria Ida Wood, il pari d'Inghilterra Lord Lucan... persone influenti, privilegiate e ricchissime, sono state vittime o carnefici al centro di gravissimi fatti di cronaca che sconvolsero l'opinione pubblica. Protagonisti di misteri mai del tutto chiariti, raccontano la loro versione nella serie "Delitti di Lusso".

I diavoli sono gli uomini dell'alta finanza che decidono i destini del pianeta, manipolano la realtà, condizionano le vite di milioni di esseri umani. Invisibili custodi della supremazia dell'Occidente, combattono una battaglia segreta per la difesa dell'ordine costituito, che giudicano il male minore davanti all'imprevedibile insorgere del caos. I diavoli è anche il bestseller che Guido Maria Brera ha dedicato all'universo delle grandi banche d'affari, trasposto nell'omonima fiction internazionale con Alessandro Borghi e Patrick Dempsey.

Conocí a mi alma gemela cuando yo tenía ocho años y él, seis. Cuando cumplí doce me pidió que me casara con él. Cuando celebré mi decimosexto cumpleaños me regaló un anillo hecho con margaritas. Al marcharme a la universidad, a los dieciocho, lloró. Y a los veinticuatro me rompió el corazón. Lo destrozó en mil pedazos. Sin embargo, este no es el final de la historia. Una década después nos hemos visto obligados a reencontrarnos, y mi futuro vuelve a estar en sus manos. Solo que esta vez tengo más años y más experiencia. Finge ser inocente, pero yo sé la verdad.

The Iremongers are a mean and cruel family, robust and hardworking, living in the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items. A storm is brewing over Heap House. The Iremongers are growing restless and the whispers are getting louder. When Clod meets Lucy, a girl newly arrived from the city, everything changes. The secrets that bind Heap House together begin to unravel to reveal a dark truth that threatens to destroy Clod's world.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Founder of Keto Kamp and health expert reveals the main reason why 93 percent of Americans are metabolically unhealthy, and provides a 30-day reset to restore their metabolism for good. Metabolic Freedom is for those who are fed up with the failed diet dogma of fad...

Quando Iola Anne Poole, un'anziana signora dell'isola di Hatteras, muore nel letto della sua abitazione, Tandi Jo Reese viene incaricata di risistemare la casa della defunta che è anche proprietaria del cottage in cui lei abita. In fuga da un matrimonio oppressivo e da un passato tormentato che continua a perseguitare anche il suo presente, Tandi è scappata insieme ai suoi due bambini e ora vive di fronte alla splendida e sontuosa villa vittoriana della signora Poole. Anche se le due donne non si sono mai conosciute, è stata proprio Tandi a ritrovarla, ormai morta, nel suo letto.

A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis. Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett...

Acclaimed performance poet and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah's honest, wry and poignant story of a young refugee left in London is of even more power and pertinence today than when it was first published. Life is not safe for Alem. His father is Ethopian, his mother Eritrean. Their countries are at war, and Alem is welcome in neither place. So Alem is excited to spend a holiday in London with his father - until he wakes up to find him gone. What seems like a betrayal is in fact an act of love, but now Alem is alone in a strange country and he must forge his own path....

Dickens wrote into life some of the most beloved and well-known characters in the history of English literature, introducing us to Pip, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Little Nell, Scrooge, Nicholas Nickleby, Miss Haversham, and many more who have lived in the imagination of generations of readers and listeners. In this definitive and beautifully curated collection, you discover not only Dickens’s most loved classics, but also hear a short introduction to his life and body of work from Dr Pete Orford.

Alice Law siempre ha tenido una única meta: convertirse en una de las mentes más brillantes en el campo de la magia. Lo ha sacrificado todo para tratar de conseguirlo: su orgullo, su salud, su vida amorosa y, por supuesto, su cordura. Todo para trabajar con el profesor Jacob Grimes en Cambridge, el mago más grande del mundo. Hasta que el profesor muere en un accidente mágico que podría haber sido culpa de Alice.

Fourth graders George Beard and Harold Hutchins are a couple of class clowns. The only thing they enjoy more than playing practical jokes is creating their own comic books. And together they’ve created the greatest superhero in the history of their elementary school: Captain Underpants! His true identity is SO secret, even HE doesn’t know who he is!

Stoner knew. The fiery object hurtling toward the Earth was an alien spacecraft. But the world might never know. He was trapped in an iron cordon of secrecy, for the discovery had shattered the world power balance, setting off a brutal struggle for supremacy that raged from the sacred halls of the Vatican to the corridors of the Kremlin and the Pentagon. The forces of fear and treachery would use any weapon at their command, from mind war to sabotage, to keep the world in darkness.

Era de suponer que las autoras June Hayward y Athena Liu iban a alcanzar juntas el estrellato: ambas se graduaron a la vez en Yale y publicaron su primer libro el mismo año. Pero, pasado el tiempo, Athena ha triunfado en varios géneros literarios y June no ha conocido aún las mieles del éxito. Así que cuando June es testigo de la muerte de Athena en un horrible accidente, actúa de forma impulsiva: roba la obra maestra que Athena acababa de terminar, una novela sobre las contribuciones de los trabajadores chinos tanto en Gran Bretaña como en Francia durante la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Jede Adlige würde lügen, betrügen oder stehlen, um eine Chance zu haben, als Partnerin aller vier mächtigen, magiebegabten Prinzen des Reiches auserwählt zu werden. Weder Ablehnung oder (schlimmer noch!) ein Platz auf der Never List – einer königlichen Einberufung mit einem fast sicheren Todesurteil – können sie aufhalten. Einmal jährlich veranstalten die Prinzen, die Legenden des Chaos, daher ein rauschendes Fest: einen Maskenball voller Magie und Geheimnisse, auf dem sie jene Eine suchen, die stark genug ist, ihre vereinten Kräfte zu bändigen.

Author and adventurer Bruce Chatwin was one of the 20th Century’s most charismatic writers. His first book, In Patagonia, changed the face of travel writing and made him a literary sensation. Collected here are dramatisations and readings of some of his best-known work, as well as a bonus programme shedding light on his relationships and writing.

A collection of articles, based on modern science, using force-free and fear-free methods. It includes solutions to common issues from pre-puppy to adulthood. The book is a compilation of articles written by these professionals on various aspects of puppy and dog ownership, care, training, and managing and treating behavior problems.

Perhaps the most brilliantly successful ghost story ever written, The Turn of the Screw creates a terrifyingly believable impression of innocent children so corrupted by evil that they remain deceptive pictures of innocent beauty. Their governess must struggle alone to confront and exorcise the demons that she believes possess their souls....

Celebrated crypto and Bitcoin expert Ben Armstrong delivers an exciting and fresh new exploration of Bitcoin and digital currencies. He explains what Bitcoin is, how it works, and how and why we're all transitioning to a digital economy as we speak. He discusses the deficiencies of traditional fiat currency, how it's commonly manipulated, and how we can all benefit from the adoption of new digital assets.

Foulsham has been destroyed. Darkness lies heavily over the city; the sun has not come up for days. Inside the houses throughout the capital, ordinary objects have begun to move. There are rumours of a terrible contagion. From the richest mansion to the poorest slum, people have disappeared. The police have been instructed to carry arms. Someone has stolen a certain plug. Someone is lighting a certain box of matches. All will come tumbling down. The Iremongers have come to London.