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L’idea di raccontare questa storia mi è venuta per la prima volta mentre riavvolgevo la mia vita. Si dice che scrivere sia terapeutico, ma mi sento di aggiungere che lo è anche il leggere, il rileggere e il soffermarsi su alcuni punti particolari, adattandoli nel cuore prima ancora che nella forma, per ricomporre il difficile puzzle della nostra esistenza, cercando di capire se la figura che stiamo formando sia vera o solo frutto della nostra speranza e fantasia.

The Murderer’s Maid interweaves the stories of two women, the 19th-century servant of infamous Lizzie Borden and the other a 21st-century modern-day barista fleeing from an attempt on her life. Irish maid Bridget Sullivan, trapped by servitude and afraid for her own safety, finds herself an unwilling witness to the tensions in the volatile Borden household. In 2016, Brooke, the illegitimate daughter of an immigrant maid, is unknowingly connected to the legendary 19th-century crime. Brooke struggles to conceal her identity and stay a jump ahead of the men who want to kill her.

In the tradition of Schindler's List comes a thrilling novel based on the heroic true story of Fritz Kolbe, a widowed civil servant in Adolf Hitler's foreign ministry. Recognizing that millions of lives are at stake, Kolbe uses his position to pass information to the Americans - risking himself and the people he holds most dear - and embarks on a dangerous double life as the Allies' most important spy.

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, the first novel Nabokov wrote in English, is a tantalizing literary mystery in which a writer’s half brother searches to unravel the enigma of the life of the famous author of Albinos in Black, The Back of the Moon, and Doubtful Asphodel. A characteristically cunning play on identity and deception, the novel concludes “ I am Sebastian, or Sebastian is I, or perhaps we both are someone whom neither of us knows.”

Роман Александра Гефтера «Секретный курьер» во многом автобиографичен и повествует о полной опасностей работе белых подпольщиков в годы Гражданской войны. Роман посвящен памяти погибших секретных курьеров, «безвестных, как и их могилы». Это проникновенный рассказ об опасных похождениях моряка Балтфлота Келлера, сбежавшего из Петербурга во время революции. Его вербует британская разведка, и Келлер становится секретным курьером, осуществлявшим связь между Северной и Северо-Западной армиями Белых и белогвардейцами в Петербурге и Кронштадте.

De la mà de l'aclamat escriptor de Brooklyn, arriba una saga familiar èpica travessada per l'amor no correspost, la guerra i l'exili. Any 1933. Thomas Mann i la seva dona abandonen Alemanya anticipant l'horror del nazisme. Ell és l'escriptor més famós del seu temps, però quins secrets oculta la seva ànima turmentada? El Mag explica la història d'un home imperfecte i ambivalent. L'home que amb l'esclat de la Primera Guerra Mundial va situar-se al costat fosc de la història. El pare de sis fills que va amagar la seva homosexualitat.

In the midst of the first Gulf War, a young Iraqi girl huddles with her neighbours in an air raid shelter. There, she meets Nadia. The two girls quickly become best friends and together they imagine a world not torn apart by civil war, sharing their dreams, their hopes and their desires, and their first loves. But as they grow older and the bombs continue to fall, the international sanctions bite and friends begin to flee the country, the girls must face the fact that their lives will never be the same again.

Protagonista d'eccezione è Orson Welles, giunto in Italia nel 1947 per girare "Cagliostro", capostipite delle produzioni americane a Cinecittà che avrebbero inaugurato la Dolce Vita. Dopo il divorzio da Rita Hayworth, Welles si ritrova coinvolto come testimone nella morte di una comparsa e decide di assumere un investigatore italiano per svelare la verità. Frattanto, si innamora di Lea Padovani e intorno a lui l'Italia del dopoguerra si prepara alle elezioni del 18 aprile 1948, tra scandali e manifestazioni di piazza.

December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she's frustrated by the gender inequality in academia and is looking for a new challenge. She never suspects it will be sleuthing . . .

The Bronx, 1958. The Policewoman's Bureau doesn’t officially exist, and yet it handles those cases only a woman's touch could solve. Marie Cirile, a young officer with the 44th Precinct, has joined the few women stepping away from the select matronly duties available to female officers to take up serious cases. With courage and a stiff upper lip when undercover, Marie is dispatched in often grim and scary circumstances, using her air of innocence and others' prejudice against her to take down degenerates and sex offenders.

Northern New England, summer, 1688. Perched on the brink of disaster, Resolve Hammond and her mother, Deliverance, struggle to survive in their isolated coastal village. They're known as healers taught by the local tribes—and suspected of witchcraft by the local villagers. Their precarious existence becomes even more chaotic when summoned to tend to a poisoned woman. As they uncover a web of dark secrets, rumors of war engulf the village, forcing the Hammonds to choose between loyalty to their native friends or the increasingly terrified settler community.

It’s 1927. Letty Hart’s father is long gone, but his old winery provides a meager wage and a legal livelihood for selling sacramental wine. But when that contract goes bust, Letty stumbles upon a desperate option: her father’s hidden cellar—and enough liquor to tempt Letty to bootleg the secret stash. In an underworld dominated by merciless men, Letty is building an empire.

England, 1065: The Saxon kingdom is under threat of invasion at both ends. From the north comes Harald Hardrada of Norway intent on pillage, while across the Channel, Duke William of Normandy is about to enforce his claim to the throne. Between the two lie the villages and townships defended only by part-time armies maintained by the Earls of Wessex, Mercia and Northumbria, barely united under King Harold Godwineson. It falls to brave and determined young men like Will Riveracre and Selwyn Astenmede to stand firm against whichever marauding invader reaches them first.

1977 : Martin Radford, jeune historien londonien dont la carrière universitaire a été brisée par un scandale, arrive sur l'île de Madère. Il y rencontre Leo Sellick, un millionnaire sud-américain, qui habite une superbe villa, naguère propriété du mystérieux Edwin Strafford, mort en 1951. Homme politique de premier ordre, promis à un brillant avenir, Edwin Strafford a été en 1908, à l'âge de 32 ans, ministre de l'intérieur du cabinet Asquith, aux côtés de Lloyd George et de Churchill, avant de démissionner brutalement en 1910 et de quitter la vie politique sans explication aucune pour disparaître dans l'anonymat.

The Macedonian is based on the early life of Philip II, King of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great and perhaps the greatest military genius of the ancient world. Born a minor prince of the royal house, he survives the intrigues of a family in which treachery and murder are almost a tradition. A brilliant commander while still in his teens, he becomes king when his brother, King Perdikkas, and half the Macedonian army are massacred and his country is on the brink of ruin.

Set in Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Bombay, India, Mr. Monroe's journey into authenticity results in a series of failed relationships that reveal the dark, enigmatic recesses of his complex personality and eventually land him in a hellhole prison in Bombay. His tragedy unfolds into an ending that no one, especially Monroe, could have possibly predicted or imagined.

This imagined retelling of Jho Low’s story, based on real events, gives listeners an insider’s view of the glitzy, glamorous world of wealth and privilege, as well as a close-up look at this enigmatic protagonist’s high-stakes fall from grace. The narrator is quirky yet eloquent, at times thoughtful and other times brash, as he leads readers through the corridors of power, where the line between friend and foe blurs. As secrets unravel and fortunes teeter on the edge, readers get a front-row seat to the dark underbelly of high finance and the price of unchecked ambition and greed.

In 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy makes a historic run for the White House. Despite concerns about his Catholicism, Kennedy’s outward charm is winning the country over, but his inner demons are putting his candidacy in danger and risk destroying his political career. That same year, Caitlin Russo, a former cop turned reporter, is devoting her skills to finding her husband’s killer. His job as a CIA operative posed its fair share of risks, but when Caitlin discovers his notes about the case that led to his death, she knows there’s more to the story than simple tragedy.

In July 1933, a gangster staged the kidnapping-for-ransom of an Oklahoma oilman. He would live to regret it. What started clean soon turns messy as two of “Machine Gun” Kelly’s partners cut themselves into the action, a determined former Texas Ranger makes tracking Kelly his mission, and his wife, ever alert to her own self-interest, starts playing both sides. Set in the first days of the modern FBI, Infamous is a blend of historical novel and crime story featuring an unexpected hero, some of the most colorful supporting characters in recent crime fiction, and femme fatale Kathryn Kelly.

HISTORIA JOSEFA MENGELEGO, OSŁAWIONEGO ANIOŁA ŚMIERCI Z AUSCHWITZ. Wydarzenia w tej książce są oparte na faktach. Prawda bywa bardziej przerażająca od najwymyślniejszej fikcji. Josef Mengele był nie tylko zbrodniarzem, ale również opętanym szaleństwem pseudonaukowcem, który więźniów obozów koncentracyjnych wykorzystywał jako żywy materiał do swych chorych badań. Umyślne zarażanie wirusami, zszywanie tułowi kilku osób, operacje bez znieczulenia i wyrywanie płodów. To nie upiorne science-fiction, a prawdziwa historia. Do tego jedynie jej niewielka część. Ta książka opisuje znacznie więcej. Będziecie przerażeni tym, do czego zdolny jest człowiek.