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È il 1996. La guerra fredda dovrebbe essere finita da un pezzo, ma c'è un nuovo e altrettanto pericoloso nemico sullo scenario internazionale. Jack Reacher ha trentacinque anni e non ha ancora abbandonato l'esercito. È appena rientrato da una missione che ha portato a termine con successo e viene insignito quella stessa mattina di una medaglia al merito. Ma, poco dopo la cerimonia, Reacher riceve nuovi ordini: dovrà seguire un corso di studio serale.

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Carter Crossing, Mississippi, marzo 1997. La ragazza è bellissima, vestita di bianco e con la gola tagliata. La cittadina è piccola e non conterebbe nulla se nelle vicinanze non sorgesse Fort Kelham, un'importante base dell'esercito, in cui sono di stanza due compagnie di Ranger, una delle quali è comandata dal capitano Riley, figlio del senatore che presiede la Commissione sui servizi armati.

Step into the magical world of Child's Play fairy tales.... Traditional tales are a well-established part of all cultures. Retold from the originals, these lively stories will captivate listeners.

New York Times best seller Lincoln Child returns with a riveting new thriller featuring the charismatic and quirky Professor Jeremy Logan, renowned investigator of the strange and the inexplicable, as he uncovers a long-lost secret experiment only rumored to have existed.

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Jack Reacher non si è mai guardato indietro. Fino a ora. Anche Jack Reacher va in vacanza. Ma le sue ferie sono diverse da quelle di tutti gli altri e, soprattutto, sono molto più pericolose. Partito per un tranquillo viaggio in auto dal Maine alla California, sulle orme dei grandi avventurieri americani, Reacher si ferma dopo pochi giorni. Il cartello che segnala la città in cui nacque suo padre accende la sua curiosità e lui decide di fare una deviazione.

When Bridger Cole sings, the women of America think he's singing to them. No one needs to know every lyric is inspired by his best friend's little sister, the woman who annoys him and makes him want to grow old in matching rocking chairs at the same time. But when the press catches wind of a new woman in his life, Bridger's management is quick to use the opportunity to repair his wicked rock star reputation with the public. Use his lifelong frenemy in a good-girl changes the bad-boy ploy? Easy. Watch her sing in his kitchen each morning and become besties with his dog? Harder.

Home to Her takes us on a journey, personal and collective, through time and place, to remember and reconnect with the lost and stolen wisdom of the Sacred Feminine, an ancient Divine force known intimately by ancestral peoples around the world. While in some cultures She remains a vibrant, living force, in the West Her wisdom and traditions have been lost or buried by patriarchal religions and traditions.

In one of NPR's 100 Best Thrillers Ever, FBI agent Pendergast discovers thirty-six murdered bodies in a New York City charnel house...and now, more than a century later, a killer strikes again.

Jack Reacher reunites with the survivors of his old Army investigative team, scrambling to raise the living, bury the dead, and connect the dots in a mystery that is growing darker by the day. In a world of bad luck and trouble, when someone targets Jack Reacher and his team, they'd better be ready for what comes right back at them.

FBI Agent Pendergast has taken Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour. They head to Tibet, where Pendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritual studies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare and dangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations has been stolen. Pendergast agrees to take up the search. The trail leads him and Constance to the maiden voyage of the Queen Victoria passenger liner - and to an Atlantic crossing fraught with terror.

Winter in South Dakota. Der Bus, in dem Jack Reacher unterwegs ist, gerät auf einer Brücke ins Schleudern und landet im Straßengraben. In der Kleinstadt Bolton schlüpft Reacher bei einem Cop unter - und erfährt, dass die Polizei eine Seniorin zu schützen versucht, die Zeugin eines Drogendeals wurde. Reachers Alarmglocken schrillen, als kurz vor der Gerichtsverhandlung eine Gefängnisrevolte ausbricht und ein stillgelegtes Army-Flugfeld vor den Toren der Stadt von Schnee und Eis befreit wird.

In einer Bar irgendwo in Nebraska. Jack Reacher bekommt zufällig mit, dass der Dorfarzt einen Notruf entgegennimmt und sich weigert, der Anruferin zu helfen. Kurzerhand zwingt Reacher ihn dazu - und lernt eine Frau kennen, die nicht zum ersten Mal von ihrem Mann verprügelt wurde. Er stellt den Schläger im örtlichen Steakhouse und löst damit eine Lawine aus. Denn der Schläger ist einer der Duncans. Diese Familie ist berüchtigt für ihr erpresserisches und rücksichtsloses Verhalten - und geht über Leichen.

New York City, zwei Uhr nachts. Jack Reacher sitzt in der U-Bahn. Neben ihm befinden sich noch fünf weitere Personen im Abteil. Eine Frau erregt Reachers Aufmerksamkeit. Minutenlang beobachtet er sie genau - und ist sich sicher, eine Selbstmordattentäterin vor sich zu haben. Doch dann geschieht etwas Unerwartetes, und Reacher selbst gerät ins Kreuzfeuer.

Nome: Jack Reacher, ex agente della polizia militare, un vero duro, onesto, coraggioso, praticamente una leggenda vivente. Luogo: Margrave, una tranquilla cittadina della Georgia rurale, dove non succede niente, dove è difficile immaginare che qualcosa possa succedere. Ora, quasi per caso, sull'onda di un vago ricordo, Jack arriva a Margrave, proprio nel momento in cui viene scoperto un efferato delitto. Mezz'ora dopo viene arrestato per omicidio. Ma Jack non ha ucciso nessuno, perlomeno non a Margrave.

A seemingly straightforward private case turns out to be much more complicated - and sinister - than Special Agent A. X. L. Pendergast ever could have anticipated. Pendergast, together with his ward, Constance Greene, travels to the quaint seaside village of Exmouth, Massachusetts, to investigate the theft of a priceless wine collection. But inside the wine cellar, they find something considerably more disturbing: a bricked-up niche that once held a crumbling skeleton.

Wochenlang auf Platz 1 der New-York-Times-Bestsellerliste, jetzt endlich auf Deutsch: der 24. Fall für "Jack Reacher". Jack Reacher reist ziellos in einem Greyhound-Bus durch die USA. Da beobachtet der ehemalige Militärpolizist, wie ein alter Mann, der gerade aus dem Bus gestiegen ist, überfallen wird. Reacher wäre nicht Reacher, wenn er tatenlos zusähe – er greift ein. Das Opfer ist verletzt, will ihn aber auf keinen Fall in diese Angelegenheit hineinziehen. Doch Reacher konnte noch nie wegsehen, wenn Schwächere Hilfe brauchten.

A TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCE After a harrowing, otherworldly confrontation on the shores of Exmouth, Massachussetts, Special Agent A.X.L. Pendergast is missing, presumed dead. A SHOCKING RETURN Sick with grief, Pendergast's ward, Constance, retreats to her chambers beneath the family mansion at 891...

Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. And with a burning desire to right wrongs - and rewrite his own agonizing past. DEA Susan Duffy is living for the future, knowing that she has made a terrible mistake by putting one of her own female agents into a death trap within a heavily guarded Maine mansion. Staging a brilliant ruse, Reacher hurtles into the dark heart of a vast criminal enterprise.