Donatella Cerutti Pini Livres

In a clash of heroes, the kingdom is born. At the end of the ninth century, with King Alfred of Wessex in ill health and his heir still an untested youth, it falls to Alfred's reluctant warlord Uhtred to outwit and outbattle the invading enemy Danes, led by the sword of savage warrior Harald Bloodhair. But the sweetness of Uhtred's victory is soured by tragedy, forcing him to break with the Saxon king. Joining the Vikings, allied with his old friend Ragnar--and his old foe Haesten--Uhtred devises a strategy to invade and conquer Wessex itself. But fate has very different plans. Bernard Cornwell's The Burning Land is an irresistible new chapter in his epic story of the birth of England and the legendary king who made it possible.

Sous la forme des mémoires d'une célèbre geisha de Kyoto, ce roman d'Arthur Golden a conquis un large public. Avec la sortie du film inspiré de l'œuvre, l'histoire captivante d'une jeune japonaise au destin exceptionnel attire de nouveaux lecteurs. L'intrigue débute avec une petite fille de neuf ans, aux yeux gris-bleu, vendue par son père, un modeste pêcheur, à une maison de geishas. Ainsi commence le parcours de Sayuri dans le Japon des années trente. À travers son regard d'enfant malheureuse, le lecteur découvre Gion, le quartier du plaisir à Kyoto, avec ses temples éclatants, ses théâtres raffinés et ses ruelles sombres. L'initiation de Sayuri à l'art de la geisha révèle les rites de la danse et de la musique, ainsi que les cérémonies d'habillage, de coiffure et de thé. On apprend comment servir le saké avec grâce et attirer l'attention des hommes tout en déjouant la jalousie des rivales. Née sous le signe de l'eau et guidée par son almanach, Sayuri surmonte de nombreuses épreuves et nous entraîne dans le tourbillon de la vie, entre frivolité et tragédie, notamment avec l'impact de la Seconde Guerre mondiale sur Gion. Amoureuse d'un homme de qualité, elle partage sa quête inlassable de liberté, toujours avec une voix limpide et inoubliable.

Comment en est-elle arrivée là ? En dix ans, Eve Dallas a toujours réussi à séparer sa carrière de sa vie privée. Ce qui n'était pas très compliqué auparavant, étant donné le néant de sa vie amoureuse, est devenu en l'espace de quelques mois une véritable gageure. D'abord, Connors. Il a tout chamboulé avec ses sourires, ses baisers, ses caresses. Il est même parvenu à fixer la date de leur mariage. Son mariage ! Comme si cela ne suffisait pas, voilà sa meilleure amie accusée d'un meurtre odieux. Et, pour couronner le tout, le passé qu'elle s'est longtemps efforcée d'oublier lui explose au visage comme une véritable bombe à retardement. Amour, culpabilité, suspicion... Et si c'était elle la coupable ? Mais Eve a promis. Elle a promis d'être fidèle à son insigne. Epouser l'un, sauver l'autre... Aujourd'hui, elle doit faire face. Au prix de son intégrité ? Peut-être...

Lieutenant Eve Dallas never wavers in her search for justice. But in this gripping novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series, she’ll learn that matters of the heart are never black and white. The first victim was found lying on a sidewalk in the rain. The second was murdered in her own apartment building. Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas had no problem finding connections between the two crimes. Both victims were beautiful and highly successful women. Their glamorous lives and loves were the talk of the city. And their intimate relations with men of great power and wealth provided Eve with a long list of suspects—including her own lover, Roarke. As a woman, Eve was compelled to trust the man who shared her bed. But as a cop, it was her job to follow every lead...to investigate every scandalous rumor...to explore every secret passion, no matter how dark. Or how dangerous.

Both books in the Grail Quest series these books Chronicle the adventures of young Thomas of Hookton, "a big, bony, black-haired country boy". Thomas rejects the church in favour of the life of an archer in France after his village is brutally sacked by the French.

Captain Richard Sharpe, along with his company of redcoats and riflemen, must save Portugal from the invading French in this action-packed, rip-roaring entry in Cornwell's "New York Times" bestselling adventure series.

"For Dr. Abby DiMatteo, the long road to Boston's Bayside Hospital has been anything but easy. Now, immersed in the grinding fatigue of her second year as a surgical resident, she's elated when the hospital's elite cardiac transplant team taps her as a potential recruit. But Abby soon makes an anguished, crucial decision that jeopardizes her entire career. A car crash victim's healthy heart is ready to be harvested; it is immediately cross-matched to a wealthy private patient, Nina Voss. Abby hatches a bold plan to make sure that the transplant goes instead to a dying seventeen-year-old boy who is also a perfect match. The repercussions are powerful and swift and Abby is shaken but unrepentant-- until she meets the frail, tormented Nina. Then a new heart for Nina Voss suddenly appears, her transplant is completed, and Abby makes a terrible discovery: Nina's heart has not come through the proper channels. Defying Bayside Hospital?s demands for silence, Abby plunges into an investigation that reveals an intricate, and murderous, chain of deceptions. Every move Abby makes spawns a vicious backlash and, in a ship anchored in the stagnant waters of Boston Harbor, a final, grisly discovery lies waiting" -- From Amazon.com

The eighteenth novel in this bestselling series takes Sharpe to battle in Copenhagen.

The sixth novel in the Alex Cross detective seriesA series of meticulously planned bank robberies ends in murder, and detective Alex Cross must pit his wits against the bizarre and sadistic mastermind behind the crimes.

Fresh from his heroic adventures in India (in "Sharpe's Fortress"), Richard Sharpe faces a new enemy when the ship carrying him home is attacked by a formidable French warship. With the help of a Royal Navy captain, Sharpe learns the French ship carries a treaty that could ignite renewed hostilities against the British in India.

In the high-stakes, high-pressure world of presidential politics, where predators carry microphones and one misstep can savage a lifetime of achievement, Kerry Kilcannon is the rarest player of all. Kilcannon believes he can make the system work. And he just may die trying. Driven by the violent nightmare of his childhood, fueled by forces that few could understand, and burdened by secrets no one must know, Kilcannon is running for President--and entering the crucial battleground of California with seven days to go. But for Kilcannon, there are hurdles that his courage, charisma, and compassion may not overcome: the network correspondent he still loves; the reporter bent on their exposure; the rival who'll do anything to win; and the fanatic who believes that he must murder Kilcannon to protect the right to life.

Someone's planning to raid an ancient monastery in Rome. But why? And when? Enter art expert Jonathan Argyll...

English art scholar Jonathan Argyll was amazed to find himself arrested for vagrancy-while searching for a long-lost Raphael in a tiny Roman church. Although General Bottando of the Italian National Art Theft Squad has little confidence in Jonathan's theories, Bottando's lovely assistant, Flavia di Stefano, is intrigued by the idea of a lost classic, and by Jonathan himself. But in the midst of the painting's discovery and the resultant worldwide publicity, a new chain of events is set into action. First vandalism, then murder, surround the painting. And as new facts about its true nature emerge, Bottando sends Flavia and Jonathan to investigate--little knowing that the pair will be on the run for the truth... and for their very lives.

At a young age in the Maine woods, at the side of her father and great-uncle, a Micmac puoin, Diana Jackman learned to move freely in the wilderness, to sense a world invisible to most. A natural tracker from a long line of shamans, healers and hunters - an environmental software writer, estranged wife and mother - she has been taught by betrayal and loss to guard her feelings behind a wall of half-truths and silence. It has cost her many things: her family, her happiness, her peace. And it has brought her to a beautiful, frozen place of magic...and death. Eight hunters have gathered on a vast, isolated estate in northern British Columbia, to track record book white tail deer at the snow-covered confluence of the Sticks and the Dream rivers. Diana Jackman is among them - drawn by the hunt and the ancient Power of her father's people. But someone else is watching the hunting party - an insane and violent force of nature, hiding in the blinding whiteness of the Canadian winter. And now the hunters themselves have become the game. One by one, they are being stalked, slaughtered and gutted like the animals they, themselves, are stalking. The killer is quick, relentless, frighteningly efficient. For the first time in her life, Diana Jackman will know what it is to be prey - but she must fight the instinct to flee. To survive, she will have to rely on her father's teachings, and set out alone to hunt the hunter."

Nora Roberts, kraljica ljubavnih romana, spisateljska superzvijezda i autorica dvjestotinjak bestselera New York Timesa tiskanih u petsto milijuna primjeraka, 1995. postavila si je novi spisateljski izazov. Pod pseudonimom J. D. Robb objavila je roman Goli u smrti, futuristički ljubavni krimi-triler, koji je prvotno bio zamišljen kao početni dio trilogije U smrti, no s godinama je prerastao u seriju čiji će pedeseti naslov biti objavljen 2020. Romani su doživjeli senzacionalan uspjeh i javnost se šest godina pitala tko se krije iza pseudonima, sve dok 2001. to napokon nije otkriveno. Goli u smrti vodi nas u 2058. godinu kada tehnologija vlada svijetom. New Yorkom hara okrutni ubojica žena kojem je za petama Eve Dallas, iskusna policijska poručnica mračne prošlosti, koja živi osamljeničkim životom i potpuno je posvećena svojoj službi. Tijekom istrage Eve će upoznati markantnog i karizmatičnog irskog milijardera i bivšeg kriminalca Roarkea, jednog od osumnjičenika. Eve će se naći na dotad nepoznatom terenu premreženom političkim intrigama i obiteljskim tajnama i unatoč oprezu i upozorenjima, spoznati da strast i zavođenje imaju vlastita pravila...