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Ainz performs divine retribution over Slane Theocracy in Nazarick style. Non-canonical volume 10.<

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Amir and Effi collected relatives. With Holocaust survivors for parents and few other 'real' relatives alive, relationships operated under a "Law of Compression" in which tenuous connections turned friends into uncles, cousins and grandparents. Life was framed by Grandpa Lolek, the parsimonious and eccentric old rogue who put his tea bags through Selektion, and Grandpa Yosef, the neighborhood saint, who knew everything about everything, but refused to talk of his own past. Amir and Effi also collected information about what happened Over There. This was more difficult than collecting relatives; nobody would tell them any details because they weren't yet Old Enough. The intrepid pair won't let this stop them, and their quest for knowledge results in adventures both funny and alarming, as they try to unearth their neighbors' stories. As Amir grows up, his obsession with understanding the Holocaust remains with him, and finally Old Enough to know, the unforgettable cast of characters that populate his world open their hearts, souls, and pasts to him… Translated by Jessica Cohen from the Hebrew Shoah Shelanu.<

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"Goldbach's touch is light and his narrative momentum is fierce." —

Robert James, a private detective more interested in chronicling his cases than solving them, gets a midnight call from a young woman whose older husband has been found with a knife in his chest. Murder, corruption, and betrayal ensue as he's drawn into the dark underworld of his client, but hapless Robert and his sidekick, a flower-delivery guy, can't stop drinking, smoking, and philosophizing long enough to keep up. Imagine via Fernando Pessoa, with a side of Buster Keaton.

Questo libro riunisce le testimonianze autobiografiche, raccolte in interviste registrate, di dodici donne partigiane piemontesi: Nelia Benissone, Lucia Canova, Albina Caviglione, Anna Cinanni, Teresa Cirio, Tersilla Fenoglio, Lidia Fontana, Rita Martini, Elsa Oliva, Rosanna Rolando, Maria Rovano e Maria Rustichelli. Chiamate dalla storia a combattere in un mondo in sfacelo, queste donne agirono per risolvere i problemi di tutti. Non fecero carriera, non ottennero posizioni di comando, eppure si esposero senza esitare a tutti i rischi della guerra partigiana. Nella massima parte non vollero imbracciare le armi, questo simbolo di prepotere maschilista. Indipendentemente dai mezzi usati nella lotta, si distinsero dagli uomini per i modi e la qualità della loro partecipazione. I valori e i caratteri del mondo femminile, sviluppatisi durante la millenaria soggezione e in risposta a questa, diedero anche alla nostra Resistenza una ricchezza e una completezza che non avrebbe altrimenti raggiunto. Fra questi caratteri, come si potrà notare leggendo le vite delle intervistate, risaltano la spontaneità, il rifiuto del calcolo, il senso di giustizia, la capacità appassionata di amare e di soffrire, il rispetto della verità dei fatti e dei sentimenti («avevamo paura», dichiarano alcune candidamente), la generosità comunicativa, la modestia. Quanto quella degli uomini è una resistenza gridata fino al limite della retorica, quella delle donne è sofferta e taciuta.<

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A Wall Street investment banker is shot dead while jogging in Central Park. Later that night, one of the savviest hedge-fund managers in the city is gunned down outside a fancy Upper West Side restaurant. Are these killings part of a coordinated terrorist attack, or just coincidence? Investigative journalist Ellen Dorsey has a hunch that it's neither. Days later, when an attempt is made on the life of another CEO, the story blows wide open…

Racing to stay ahead of the curve, Ellen encounters Frank Bishop, a recession-hit architect, whose daughter has gone missing. The search for Lizzie and her boyfriend takes Frank and Ellen from a quiet campus to the blazing spotlight of a national media storm – and into the devastating crucible of a personal and a public tragedy.

Meanwhile, lurking in the shadows once again is James Vaughn, legendary CEO of private equity firm the Oberon Capital Group. Despite his failing health, Vaughan is refusing to give up control easily, and we soon see just how far-reaching and pervasive his influence really is.

Set deep in the place where corrupt global business and radical politics clash, Alan Glynn's Gravelandis an explosive and hugely topical thriller.

A helicopter crash off the coast of Ireland sends unexpected ripples through the international community in this intricate new thriller from the author of Winterland and Limitless (now a major motion picture).

Susie Monaghan was on the cusp of stardom when her life was cut short by a tragic helicopter crash. After a full investigation, her death was ruled an accident: case closed. But a hungry young journalist named Jimmy Gilroy isn't buying the official story. Before dying, Susie's path had crossed with an unlikely gallery of powerful men: an ex-Prime minister with a carefully guarded secret; the businessman brother of a U.S. Senator angling for the Oval Office; and a billionaire investor with his eye on an extremely rare commodity. Might there also be a link between Susie's death and a deranged security contractor operating in Congo? Piece by piece, Jimmy uncovers a bizarre nexus of coincidence among these disparate people and events, revealing a conspiracy of frightening reach and consequence-one that could cost him his life.

Set against a vividly drawn world of corporate and political intrigue, Alan Glynn's Bloodland is a riveting paranoid thriller of uncommon depth and page-turning suspense.

Once in a while on Vernon Street, that blind alley of tired sin and lost hopes, someone reaches for the moon.

Like Kerrigan, the stevedore, the old-young man with the strength of three and the secret dreams of a life away from the hell of Vernon Street.

He met Loretta Channing, the slummer, the girl who drove an MG down Kerrigan's street. They fell in love and they would have been all right, except for Vernon Street.

It stood between them, this crooked length of scarred, cracked asphalt — an abyss that held them worlds apart.

A mysterious murder on a flying express train, a wily Italian, a charming woman caught in the meshes of circumstantial evidence, a chivalrous Englishman, and a police force with a keen nose for the wrong clue, are the ingredients from which Major Griffiths has concocted a clever, up-to-date detective story.<

Was it an accident? Or suicide? Or murder?

When 12-year-old David is found blindfolded and dead at the bottom of a ship's hold while on a school outing, the headmaster claims the tragedy was due to an accident. But the boy's father begins his own investigation and very quickly he uncovers a tawdry and messy web of secrecy, jealousy and cover-up.