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La vicenda di un eccidio di neri, di «negri», durante la Guerra di Secessione. A raccontarla in modo fluviale, trascinante, inarrestabile, l'unico testimone sopravvissuto, Dick Stanton, soldato dell'esercito del Sud, stanato e pungolato in fin di vita da una giovane studentessa che vuole ricostruire la verità. Verità storica e romanzesca, perché Barbero inventa una voce indimenticabile, comica e inaffidabile, logorroica e irritante, dolente e angosciosa, che trascina il lettore in quegli abissi che ancora una volta si sono riaperti.

The call comes at dawn. Three words. Come to Pompeii.Marcus Russo has spent his career excavating the past. He has never been afraid of what he might find—until now.The chamber shouldn't exist. Neither should what's painted on its walls. The seven-petaled rose. The geometric cross. The...

**Book 1 in a completed trilogy with 1,000+ 5-Star ratings on Goodreads** His orders were simple: bring the children home. He failed 200 of them. Brother Foulques de Villaret has devoted his life to God and the protection of the innocent. When the Knights Hospitaller send him to the Alps to...

ಐತಿಹಾಸಿಕ ರೋಚಕ ಘಟನೆಗಳ ಸುತ್ತ ಹೆಣೆಯಲಾದ ಅದ್ಭುತ ಥ್ರಿಲ್ಲರ್ ಕಾದಂಬರಿ ಡಾ.ಕೆ.ಎನ್.ಗಣೇಶಯ್ಯನವರ "ಚಿತಾದಂತ - ಶಾಂತಿದೂತನ ದಂತಯಾನ

BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick! Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who is charged with the brutal murder of her former master. Inspired by a true story, Burial Rites is perfect for fans of Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood and The...

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified—but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot...

Code to Zero is a fast-paced thriller about the satellite space race in the Cold War, from the master of suspense and author of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett. A Man with No Memory A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station, his mind stripped bare of all...

'ஹொய்சாளர்களாலும் அதற்குப்பின் டெல்லி சுல்தான்கள் படையெடுப்பின் காரணமாகவும் ஸ்ரீரங்க ரங்கநாதன் ஒரு...

Read by Richard Armitage (The Hobbit, Missing You) The Man From St Petersburg is a dark tale of family secrets and political consequences. Ken Follett's masterful storytelling brings to life the danger of a world on the brink of war. A Secret Negotiation 1914. Tensions are rising as Europe finds...

From Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park, comes a thrilling adventure set in the Wild West that will keep you on the edge of your seat from the first page to the last! If you thought Jurassic Park was an adventure, you should try the Wild West! 1876. In...

When Conrad Browning's wife disappears in the untamed frontier, Conrad finds himself assuming the identity of his famous gunslinging father, Frank Morgan, to find her. But his hopes of rescuing Rebel are swiftly shattered - and now he's burning for vengeance, the old-fashioned way. So he fakes his own death and starts calling himself The Loner, becoming the deadliest gunfighter this side of his own father - ready to settle the score in blood and bullets....

Brought to you by Penguin. The September pick for Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book Club ______________ TWO FEMALE SPIES. A BANNED MASTERPIECE. A BOOK THAT CHANGED HISTORY. 1956. A celebrated Russian author is writing a book, Doctor Zhivago, which could spark dissent in the Soviet Union...

From terrorist conspiracies in Paris to guerrilla warfare in Afghanistan, Lie Down With Lions is the thrilling tale of suspense and deceit from master of the spy story, Ken Follett. A Dangerous Romance In Paris, rival spies Ellis and Jean-Pierre both fall in love with Jane, and all three become...

'A page turner from beginning to end ... A damn fine read' Ben Kane. Four Emperors. Two Friends. One Destiny. As twilight descends on the 3rd century AD, the Roman Empire is but a shadow of its former self. Decades of usurping emperors, splinter kingdoms and savage wars have left the people...

Set in the town of Travnik, Bosnian Chronicle presents the struggle for supremacy in a region that stubbornly refuses to submit to any outsider. The era is Napoleonic and the novel, both in its historical scope and psychological subtlety, Tolstoyan. In its portrayal of conflict and fierce ethnic loyalties, the story is also eerily relevant. Ottoman viziers, French consuls, and Austrian plenipotentiaries are consumed by an endless game of diplomacy and double-dealing.

1774: Rob Courtney is growing up in Fort Auspice, Nativity Bay, a trading outpost on the east coast of Africa, and has always dreamed of going to sea. When his grandfather Jim Courtney dies and the mysterious Captain Marston calls into the fort, Rob's passion is ignited, and he stows away on Marston's ship as it sails to England. Arriving in London, Rob is seduced by its charms and makes friends with a group of fast-living men and ends up in terrible debt.

This lush and haunting novel tells of a city steeped in decadent pleasures and of a man, proud and defiant, caught in a web of murder and betrayal. It is 1833. In the midst of Mardi Gras, Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher, is playing piano at the Salle d'Orleans when the evening's festivities are interrupted - by murder. The ravishing Angelique Crozat, a notorious octoroon who travels in the city's finest company, has been strangled to death. 

IN THE HUNT FOR A SPY, HE EXPOSED A CONSPIRACY 'Seriously riveting . . . a testament to Robert Harris's storytelling power' The Times 'Taut and exciting' Guardian Paris, 1895: an army officer, Georges Picquart, watches a convicted spy, Alfred Dreyfus, being publicly humiliated in front of a...

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now a senior captain, commanding a line-of-battle ship sent out to reinforce the squadron blockading Toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing frigate action of his early days.... A sudden turn of events takes him and Stephen off on a hazardous mission to the Greek islands. All his old skills of seamanship - and luck when fighting against odds - come triumphantly into their own as the story concludes with some fierce and thrilling action.

Middle-aged Lucas Corso is a tired and cynical book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers, Corso is...