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The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house has seen thirteen children grown and gone—and some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit’s East Side, and the loss of a father. The house still stands despite abandoned lots, an embattled city, and the inevitable shift outward to the suburbs. But now, as ailing matriarch Viola finds herself forced to leave her home and move in with her eldest son, the family discovers that the house is worth just a tenth of its mortgage. The Turner children are called home to decide its fate and to reckon with how each of their pasts haunts—and shapes—their family’s future.

Praised by Ayana Mathis as “utterly moving” and “un-putdownable,” brings us a colorful, complicated brood full of love and pride, sacrifice and unlikely inheritances. It’s a striking examination of the price we pay for our dreams and futures, and the ways in which our families bring us home.

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Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother-her only family-is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has always concealed her own real name, or how she can ever have a normal life.

Enter the Germans. A glancing encounter with a German peace activist leads Pip to an internship in South America with The Sunlight Project, an organization that traffics in all the secrets of the world-including, Pip hopes, the secret of her origins. TSP is the brainchild of Andreas Wolf, a charismatic provocateur who rose to fame in the chaos following the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now on the lam in Bolivia, Andreas is drawn to Pip for reasons she doesn't understand, and the intensity of her response to him upends her conventional ideas of right and wrong.

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Voici un « San-Antonio » comme vous n'en avez encore jamais vu ! Une parodie débridée de l'érotisme qui, de nos jours, submerge le monde de la littérature et du spectacle. Que vous soyez virils ou impuissants, la lecture de ce livre vous passionera. Jamais San-Antonio n'est allé aussi loin dans la caricature, dans la bouffonnerie, dans la farce, dans « l'hénorme ».

« La Sexualité » est grouillante de personnages démesurés qui appartiennent désormais à la littérature.

Jefferson Hinkley is back.

Operating as an undercover investigator for the British Horseracing Authority, Jeff is approached by the multiple-champion jockey, Dave Swinton, to discuss the delicate matter of his losing races on purpose. Little does Jeff realise that his visit to Swinton’s house will result in a brutal attempt on his life.

Shortly after Jeff narrowly escapes a certain and grisly death, the charred body Dave Swinton is found in his burnt out car at a deserted beauty spot in Oxfordshire. The police seem think it's a suicide but Jeff is not so sure. He starts to investigate those races that Swinton could have intentionally lost, but soon discovers instead that there are those who would prevent him from doing so, at any cost.

Here is the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults; life’s great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women’s friendship has remained the gravitational center of their lives.

Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up — a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos. Elena married, moved to Florence, started a family, and published several well-received books. In this final book, she has returned to Naples. Lila, on the other hand, never succeeded in freeing herself from the city of her birth. She has become a successful entrepreneur, but her success draws her into closer proximity with the nepotism, chauvinism, and criminal violence that infect her neighborhood. Proximity to the world she has always rejected only brings her role as its unacknowledged leader into relief. For Lila is unstoppable, unmanageable, unforgettable!

Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, the story of a lifelong friendship is told with unmatched honesty and brilliance. The four volumes in this series constitute a long remarkable story that readers will return to again and again, and every return will bring with it new revelations.

NINE YEARS

It is almost a decade since Duluth said goodbye to its innocence. The city creeps ever closer to the tenth anniversary of the year in which it found itself both gripped by murder and united in terror; and during which the pillar of its community, DS Jonathan Stride, had his home and heart torn to ribbons by the claws of cancer.

NINE LIVES

Cat Mateo, an orphan with a knack of landing on her feet, has bid farewell to a life on the streets. This once-stray teenager owes her rescue to Detective Stride, the father figure she holds close to her heart. But Cat holds something else to her chest — a secret: the sheer power of which she could not possibly comprehend.

A secret that, once out of the bag, will not just viciously scratch at Duluth’s still-healing wounds, but will make DS Jonathan Stride wave goodbye to his convictions about the events nine years before, and say hello to his darkest fears.

In his stunning twenty-eighth novel, Dick Francis again proves he has no equal.

As Derek Franklin, an injured steeplechase jockey, nears the end of his career, he is thrust into trouble and mayhem by the accidental death of his older brother, Greville: “I inherited my brother’s desk, his business, his gadgets, his enemies, his horses and his mistress,” Derek says. “I inherited my brother’s life, and it nearly killed me.”

With danger besetting him from unknown directions, Derek discovers that honesty can be a deadly virtue and courage the provocation of escalating evil. His only hope of survival is to identify the enemy, but Greville, whose life had as many facets as the gemstones he imported, has left behind more philosophizing than useful clues. “The had scorn the good,” Greville wrote, “and the crooked despise the straight.”

On British racecourses the homestretch is called the finishing straight — the straight run to the winning post — and it is here that a race is finally won or lost. Derek Franklin must call on all his stamina and endurance just to complete the final furlong.

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“He’d just learnt to walk,” she said. “He was sitting playing on his blanket, then all of a sudden he was gone.”

A 16-month-old boy is found drowned in a pond right by his home. Chief Inspector Sejer is called to the scene as there is something troubling about the mother’s story. As even her own family turns against her, Sejer is determined to get to the truth.

Le indagini di Mamerco Mamilio, un investigatore nell’antica Roma
Giochi di potere, antichi misteri e omicidi. Nelle ville dei signori di Roma antica, qualcuno cospira; nei bassifondi della città, qualcuno uccide.

Roma, primo secolo avanti Cristo. Catilina è appena morto e Pompeo si trova in oriente a combattere il re Mitridate. Nell’Urbe, il console Cicerone e il pontefice massimo Giulio Cesare ingaggiano una sotterranea lotta per il potere. Mamerco Mamilio non vorrebbe andarci di mezzo, ma è un uomo facilmente ricattabile: factotum, a volte faccendiere, altre volte inquirente, ha un passato torbido di collusioni con il potente di turno, e Cesare e Cicerone vorrebbero ognuno portarlo dalla propria parte…
Mentre Mamerco lotta per non sacrificare la sua mordacità e il suo spirito d’indipendenza, due donne vengono brutalmente uccise e alcune scritte vergate con il sangue annunciano l’imminente fine dell’Urbe peccatrice. L’investigatore di Roma antica sarà quindi costretto, suo malgrado, a sporcarsi le mani.<

Le indagini di Mamerco Mamilio, un investigatore nell'antica Roma
Giochi di potere, antichi misteri e omicidi. Nelle ville dei signori di Roma antica, qualcuno cospira; nei bassifondi della città, qualcuno uccide

L’esistenza dell’Urbe peccatrice, sacrilega e corrotta è ancora a rischio e la scia di sangue, da quanto sono state uccise due prostitute in circostanze misteriose, sembra non arrestarsi.
Il Pontefice massimo, Caio Giulio Cesare, pretende dei risultati da Mamerco Mamilio, l’uomo che ha scelto per risolvere il difficile caso: un torbido intreccio in cui assassini, esponenti di sette segrete e cospiratori politici agiscono nell’ombra seminando il terrore. È questa la Roma sotterranea del primo secolo avanti Cristo. Una città spaccata dalla lotta per il potere tra Cesare e Cicerone, dove sono in troppi ad avere l’interesse di occultare la verità.
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GHOST MOTH will transport you to two hot summers, 20 years apart.

Northern Ireland, 1949. Katherine must choose between George Bedford — solid, reliable, devoted George — and Tom McKinley, who makes her feel alive.

The reverberations of that summer — of the passions that were spilled, the lies that were told and the bargains that were made — still clamour to be heard in 1969. Northern Ireland has become a tinderbox but tragedy also lurks closer to home. As Katherine and George struggle to save their marriage and silence the ghosts of the past, their family and city stand on the brink of collapse…