"A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor-including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother-and how she retook control of her life"--
Le jeune Patrocle est envoyé dans le royaume de Phthie. Il y rencontre Achille qui est tout ce qu’il n’est pas : un jeune prince brillant, aimé et admiré. Patrocle devient son écuyer. Rien ne devrait les rapprocher et, pourtant, les deux jeunes hommes nouent des liens d’amitiés très forts qui évoluent en passion amoureuse. Achille sait qu’il est appelé à vivre un destin exceptionnel. Il s’engage donc immédiatement pour faire le siège de Troie. Patrocle, beaucoup moins héroïque, suit son ami à contre cœur. La guerre de Troie éprouvera les deux hommes. Elle ébranlera leur histoire d’amour et remettra également en question leurs convictions les plus profondes. Contre toute attente, c’est Patrocle qui trouvera une mort héroïque, vaincu par la colère des dieux. Achille, dévasté, rongé par le chagrin et la culpabilité, mourra à son tour.
'I can make good bad and bad badder, and most fun of all, really bad seem good.' Jeffery Deaver And that is exactly what he does in this superb collection. In 'Beautiful' former supermodel Kari's stalker has followed her through retirement to her new small town home. The police can do nothing. The only thing that will end the nightmare is the stalker's death or her own. In the Edgar-nominated 'Triangle' Pete finds a true crime book - and uses the lessons contained therein to kill Mo's lover. The award-winning 'Without Jonathan' introduces us to Marissa, about to go on the first date of her life since she married Jonathan, with a man she met through the personals. As she wonders whether she will ever truly fall in love again, the man she is about to meet is killing a housewife in another part of town... And in the brand-new 'The Christmas Present', we see a side of Lincoln Rhyme we've never met before.
The page-turning New York Times bestseller from Jeffery Deaver’s “simply outstanding” (San Jose Mercury News) Lincoln Rhyme series! The FBI has recruited forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme and his protégée, Amelia Sachs, to capture “the Ghost,” a homicidal immigrant smuggler. But when they corner him aboard a cargo ship, the bust goes disastrously wrong and the Ghost escapes. Now the killer must eliminate two families who witnessed his flight before they jumped ship and vanished. . . . Searching New York City’s Chinatown, can Rhyme and Sachs find the Ghost’s targets before he does?
Cornwall, 1790. Ross Poldark faces the darkest hour of his life. Accused of wrecking two ships, he is to stand trial at the Bodmin Assizes. Despite their stormy married life, Demelza has tried to rally support for her husband. But there are enemies in plenty who would be happy to see Ross convicted, not least George Warleggan, the powerful banker, whose personal rivalry with Ross grows ever more intense.
In this full-bore detective tale of scandal and mayhem in the Big Apple, Colin Harrison whips up noir for the 90s, complete with a jaded newspaperman protagonist, a mysterious femme fatale, exhaustive travelogues of the meat-grinder labyrinth of Manhattan, and an elusive jade figurine. Harrison weds a literary sensibility to this tangled tale, but the pleasures of the novel come mainly from the conventional elements of all detective fiction: the assembling of apparently disconnected pieces into a coherent puzzle.
Sono pupe, pallottole e colpi in canna. Sono gli occhi neri e i nasi rotti dei gialli con protagonista Mike Hammer, veri hard-boiled, massicci e politicamente scorretti. Mickey Spillane, sceneggiatore di fumetti, ha creato un originale che ha ispirato troppi imitatori. Si diceva usasse la macchina da scrivere come una mitraglietta, producendo una cartella ogni cinque minuti, con spogliarelliste come pin-up per le sue copertine. In una nuova traduzione, la prima edizione integrale mai pubblicata in Italia, risorgono tre romanzi: Ti ucciderò (I, the Jury), La vendetta è mia (Vengeance is Mine!) e Una ragazza e una pistola (My Gun is Quick). Questa infausta trinità dimostra che uno è troppo poco e un quarto ucciderebbe. Quentin Tarantino li esalta, James Ellroy ne è entusiasta e Charles Bukowski li considerava esempi di sanguigna letteratura da strada. Negli anni Cinquanta scandalizzarono, ma oggi sono qui per farsi (ri)scoprire come classici della letteratura popolare. Mickey Spillane è tornato e non si leverà di torno facilmente.
A killer flees the scene of a homicide at a prestigious Manhattan music school and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. Then a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot. The police break down the door. The room is empty. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to help with the high-profile investigation. For the ambitious Sachs, solving the case could earn her a promotion. For the quadriplegic Rhyme, it means relying on his prot�g�e to ferret out a master illusionist they've dubbed 'the conjurer', who baits them with gruesome murders that become more diabolical with each fresh crime. As the fatalities rise and the minutes tick down, Rhyme and Sachs must move beyond the smoke and mirrors to prevent a terrifying act of vengeance that could become the greatest vanishing act of all.
A reissue of the first book in the legendary Poldark series, to tie in with the new BBC series
En Californie, dans la Silicon Valley, royaume des nouvelles technologies, un jeu mortel a commencé. Peu avant les crimes, l'ordinateur des victimes subit un soft access : un inconnu s'y introduit via internet. Puis, grâce aux détails intimes stockés sur le disque dur, il tend son piège. Plus le meurtre est difficile à commettre, plus l'assassin semble se régaler. La police, en faisant appel à Wyatt Gillette, un hacker surdoué, se lance dans une partie de cache-cache avec le tueur en série. Une traque effrénée entre réalité et cybermonde qui les entraînera dans les profondeurs de l'internet, cet " Ailleurs Bleu " où chacun avance masqué.
Paul Schumann is a contract hitman for the mob in 1936. But with Prohibition over and the gang wars associated with it coming to an end, Schumann is finding less and less work. Then he is contracted for a hit. But this time, he's caught - and finds that he's been set up. He's taken to meet an official in Army Intelligence and given a choice: he can spend the rest of his life in jail, or he can help his country. He is to pose as a member of the 1936 Olympic team, travel to Berlin, and kill a high-ranking Nazi close to Hitler. Schumann has been picked because he's a second generation German-American and can speak the language fluently. Or at least that's what they lead him to believe
"Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't easy to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. . . . Francis is unhappy. Francis was human once, but that was then. Now he's an eight-foot-tall locust and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . John Finney is locked in a basement that's stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. In the cellar with him is an antique telephone, long since disconnected, but which rings at night with calls from the dead. . . ."-- Provided by publisher
Two great dynasties dominate modern America; the Geary family and the Barbarossa family. In this thriller, a young woman marries into the Geary clan, and discovers the profound, dark enigma that lies at its heart.
Cornovaglia, 1788-1790. Le nozze tra Ross, gentiluomo dal carattere forte, avverso alle convenzioni sociali, e Demelza, bella, brillante, ma figlia di un povero minatore, hanno scandalizzato l’alta società locale, che non approva il matrimonio di un nobile con una plebea. E così Demelza, pur facendo il possibile per assumere le maniere di una signora raffinata, fatica a conciliare il mondo da cui proviene con quello cui ora appartiene, e si sente umiliata dai modi altezzosi di chi la circonda. Questo non le impedisce però di stare al fianco di Ross, che si trova ad affrontare la grave crisi economica in cui versa il distretto: l’industria del rame è infatti sull’orlo del collasso a causa di banchieri senza scrupoli, come lo spietato George Warleggan. Mentre dalla Francia soffiano i venti della rivoluzione e il malcontento dei minatori, ridotti alla fame, sembra pronto a esplodere, Ross decide di sfidare i potenti nel tentativo di riportare giustizia e prosperità nella terra che ama, nonostante il rischio di perdere tutto ciò che ha costruito. Tra sfarzosi eventi mondani, passioni maledette e amori ritrovati, tempeste di feroce bellezza e naufragi che sembrano benedizioni per la povera gente, Ross e Demelza tornano con il secondo episodio della saga di Poldark, vero e proprio classico tra i romanzi storici.
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