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The attractive and cunning genius Ryan Kroll is known throughout the private sector as a man who can obtain information by any means necessary — often using creative and violent tactics to get what he wants. In the past, his targets were obvious and his end result was clear.

Daniel Youngblood is a world-weary oil and gas investment banker who’s ready to hit the beach, when he’s hired by a Saudi Prince for an OPEC deal where he can net himself $25 million as a swan song. At the same time, he meets and falls in love with Lydia, an exotic European fashion photographer, who he later discovers is really a CIA trained spy with a shocking history with the Saudi Prince. She convinces Daniel to enlist in what becomes a race for the lovers to stop a Muslim terrorist internet plot to bring down the Saudi royal family and cripple the world’s oil capacity, all before they wind up dead.

The past has a way of catching up with folks in Stone Creek, Arizona. Schoolmarm Lark Morgan and Marshal Rowdy Rhodes are determined to hide their secrets - and deny their instant attraction. That shouldn't be too hard, since each suspects the other of living a lie. But Rowdy and Lark have one truth in common: the very real dangers they face. Like the gang of robbers wreaking havoc on the railroad heading toward Stone Creek - the men Ranger Sam O'Ballivan expects Rowdy to nab.

Hope Dunne has carved out a name for herself as a top photographer, known the joys of marriage and motherhood and the heartbreak of loss. In her chic SoHo loft, Hope is content with her life, finding serenity and beauty through the lens of her camera. She isn't looking for a man or excitement. But these things find her when she accepts a last-minute assignment to fly to London at Christmas and photograph one of the world's most celebrated writers - an Irish-American author known for novels of thrilling literary darkness.

That's the question Elliott Goodman hears in the OR as he's about to have emergency surgery following a heart attack. But it isn't Elliott's surgeon who's asking. It's God. As in the Almighty. And God has a wager for Elliott. He challenges him to an eighteen-hole golf match. If Elliott wins, he is saved; if he loses...So begins this witty, insightful, and very funny novel about golf and life and the lessons learned from both.

Quando Lirnesso viene conquistata dai Greci, Briseide, sopravvissuta al massacro della sua famiglia, viene portata via dalla città come un trofeo e consegnata ad Achille. A diciannove anni diventa concubina, schiava, infermiera, assecondando qualunque necessità dell'eroe splendente. Ma non è sola. Insieme a lei innumerevoli donne vengono strappate dalle loro case e consegnate ai guerrieri nemici. Ed è così che confinate nell'accampamento - e nella tenda di Achille - Briseide e le sue compagne assistono alla guerra di Troia e raccontano ciò che vedono.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) fu un drammaturgo, romanziere, saggista e poeta irlandese, autore de "Il ritratto di Dorian Gray" e "L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto", per nominare solo un paio delle sue opere più conosciute. Si pensava che fosse omosessuale e fu molto osteggiato in vita. Morì a Parigi all'età di 46 anni. Si dice che Oscar Wilde abbia affermato che queste favole non erano "destinate né al bambino britannico né al pubblico britannico".

Una giovane coppia conduce una vita tranquilla e silenziosa in una casa piena di animali domestici molto amati. Il protagonista è particolarmente legato a Pluto, un gatto nero che lo segue ovunque. Tuttavia, col passare del tempo, il giovane inizia a bere sempre di più, e il suo comportamento cambia: diventa irato, scontroso e violento, arrivando a maltrattare sia la moglie che gli animali. La caduta nella decadenza e nel sadismo lo portano a commettere crimini atroci. Lo tormentano fino a farlo impazzire e l'esito non può che essere terribile.

In una colonia della Nuova Inghilterra del 17esimo secolo, una folla si raduna per le strade. Tutti gli occhi sono puntati sulla giovane Hester Prynne. I paesani puritani sono qui per assistere alla sua punizione. Ma questa cupa scena di umiliazione pubblica è solo l’inizio del percorso di espiazione di Hester. "La lettera scarlatta" parla di come un singolo atto di passione proibita possa cambiare per sempre le vite di tre persone. Considerato il primo romanzo psicologico d'America, il capolavoro di Nathaniel Hawthorne è una stupefacente riflessione sul peccato, la colpa, la vergogna.

El cronógrafo del Dr. Cohen representa la vida de una búlgara joven y moderna. Las dificultades, altibajos y metamorfosis por las que tiene que pasar la protagonista para llegar a la catarsis. Esta novela trata el tema del amor en todos sus aspectos. En la historia íntima presentada se combinan la poética visual y el humor tosco, la nostalgia por una identidad vulnerable, los amores no compartidos y la manera en la que estos son vividos y perdidos para siempre.

Eine wahrhaft unglaubliche Geschichte weiß der Bayer Franz Xaver Wanninger zu erzählen. Eine Geschichte, die den viktorianischen Meisterdetektiv und seinen treuen Begleiter Dr. Watson ins Königreich Bayern verschlägt. Gemeinsam folgen sie den Spuren des Märchenkönigs. Und begeben sich damit in Lebensgefahr.

Matthias Hegel è un fonetico forense e il miglior audio-profiler in Germania. È in grado di creare un profilo psicologico e ottico di una persona attraverso suoni, rumori, dialetti e colore della voce. Grazie a lui alcuni dei criminali più pericolosi sono ora dietro le sbarre. Ricattatori, sequestratori di ostaggi, assassini, dei quali gli investigatori avevano solo brevi estratti audio. Hegel è affascinante, carismatico, difficile da decifrare. Ed è in isolamento. Un anno fa ha brutalmente ucciso una senzatetto. Le prove sono state schiaccianti.

Grandi viaggi in Vespa, buona musica e un amore che dura dai tempi dell'università. È questo che unisce Giulia e Mario. Lei, di famiglia altoborghese, intelligente, affettuosa e sempre pronta a soprassedere alle continue indecisioni di lui. Lui, eterno fanciullo che sogna di lavorare per tutta la vita alla radio, rimandando le decisioni importanti e rispondendo a ogni domanda "non so". A scompaginare un equilibrio tutto sommato tranquillo arriva inatteso un figlio, Leonardo, che rivoluzionerà in modo irreversibile il loro modo di stare insieme e affrontare la vita.

The wave of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who swept into New York in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by way of Ellis Island were not welcomed by the Jews who had arrived decades before. These refugees from czarist Russia and the Polish shtetls who came to America to escape pogroms and persecution were considered barbaric, uneducated, and too steeped in the traditions of the "old country" to be accepted by the more refined and already well-established German-Jewish community. But the new arrivals were tough, passionate, and determined.

One cold November night, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, fifteen-year-old Richard Jahnke Jr., ROTC leader and former Boy Scout, waited for his parents to return from celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the night they met. When his father got out of the car, the boy blasted him through the heart with a twelve-gauge pump-action shotgun. Richard's seventeen-year-old sister, Deborah, was sitting on the living room couch with a high-powered rifle - just in case her brother missed.

In 1654, 23 Jewish families arrived in New Amsterdam (now New York) aboard a French privateer. They were the Sephardim, members of a proud orthodox sect that had served as royal advisors and honored professionals under Moorish rule in Spain and Portugal but were then exiled by intolerant monarchs. A small, closed, and intensely private community, the Sephardim soon established themselves as businessmen and financiers. They became powerful forces in society, with some, like banker Haym Salomon, even providing financial support to George Washington's army during the American Revolution.

They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and amassed spectacular fortunes. But despite possessing breathtaking wealth that rivaled the Astors and Rockefellers, they were barred by the gentile establishment from the lofty realm of "the 400," a register of New York's most elite, because of their religion and humble backgrounds.

American economic policy ranks as something between bad and disgraceful. As leading economist Alan S. Blinder argues, a crucial cultural divide separates economic and political civilizations. Economists and politicians often talk - and act - at cross purposes: politicians typically seek economists' "advice" only to support preconceived notions, not to learn what economists actually know or believe. Politicians naturally worry about keeping constituents happy and winning elections. Some are devoted to an ideology.

The End of the Beginning is a remarkable history of cancer treatment and the evolution of our understanding of its dynamic interplay with the immune system. Through Michael Kinch’s personal experience as a cancer researcher at Washington University and the head of the oncology program at a leading biotechnology company, we witness the incredible accumulation of breakthrough science and its rapid translation into life-saving technologies that have begun to dramatically increase the quality and quantity of life for cancer patients.

Julia Curtis is a busy mother of three, with a husband often away for work, an ever-present mother-in-law, a career, and a house that needs doing up. Her 14-year-old daughter, Milla, has fallen in love for the first time, and her youngest, Ruby, is a nine-year-old fashionista who can out-negotiate anyone. But Julia’s 11-year-old son, Jackson, is different. Different to his sisters. Different to his classmates. In fact, Jackson is different from everyone. And bringing up a child who is different isn’t always easy.