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Pompei, 32 d.C. L'ex gladiatore in disarmo Burbo Marcellino, che per le sue gesta passate è noto come il Magnifico, ha ricevuto dal patrono Tincilio Asiatico l'incarico di pedinare la sua mantenuta, Merope, poiché sospettava che venisse meno all'accordo di riservarsi solo al suo protettore. Dopo aver pedinato la giovane ragazza per tutto il giorno, si reca in una locanda per mangiare qualcosa e riposare ed è proprio qui che entra d'improvviso un gruppo di guardie che, senza fornirgli una spiegazione, lo porta in caserma.

Everybody forgets things sometimes - from your keys to your lunch date to the name of an acquaintance. According to Dr. Gary Small, the director of the UCLA Center on Aging, much of this forgetfulness can be eliminated easily through his innovative memory exercises and brain fitness program - now available for the first time in a book. Using Small's recent scientific discoveries, The Memory Bible can immediately improve your mental performance.

It all started with a midnight email. I was drunk, overtired, and pretty certain I was about to lose my TA position with my professor. So, what did I do? Sent an angry message on the campus email system, of course, berating him for being a sexist, chauvinist pig - except, I selected the wrong name on the department list. Suddenly, I’ve been reassigned, and my new advisor is none other than Professor Reed Baron himself. The accidental recipient of my fiery email.

He hates me...how can he be my fated mate? I know I screwed up. I want to make it up to the people that I hurt, but the best way to do that might be to stay far away and forget about them. So why can’t I stop thinking about Jury? The young dragon hates me. I heard the things he said. And yet as soon as he finds me again, I can’t keep away. I’m not about to let another man use me, no matter how much he makes my heart flutter. Jury only needs me because his inner dragon is being difficult and refusing to shift. He doesn’t really want me.

It’s funny how one little pill can change your entire life. Or, more accurately, the forgetting of one tiny pill. Just when everything was going right, fate threw a major "f--k you" my way in the form of a bun in the oven. So, what did I do? Ran. Ran from the two men I adored, because they didn’t want kids. There was no place for them in their world. They’d told me that a dozen times. I had no intention of ever coming back, but desperation makes a woman do crazy things.

Nelle "Avventure di Tom Sawyer" (apparso nel 1876) l'autore dà voce ai sentimenti, alle storie e alle superstizioni che la sua generazione ancora condivideva nel periodo appena antecedente la Guerra di secessione, dove l'insicurezza e i problemi razziali dipingevano lo scenario emotivo della società americana del Sud.

L'investigatore privato Bacci Pagano non sa dire di no alla richiesta di Mara, una delle donne della sua vita: dovrà tenere a bada le inquietudini del dottor Nicolò Ingroia, detto il Gigante, lo psicoanalista che vive sulle alture che sovrastano Genova Nervi. In realtà avrebbe più di un motivo per rifiutare l'incarico: non è il suo mestiere occuparsi di un alcolizzato che ha tentato il suicidio; e poi il Gigante l'aveva già incontrato vent'anni prima, quando indagava sulla morte di un suo giovane paziente misteriosamente ucciso in Thailandia.

La guerra ha lasciato la piccola città sulla collina, il frastuono è passato e anche se le notizie dal fronte ormai lontano ne portano ancora l'eco, l'insopprimibile soffio della vita riemerge dalla terra, torna a percorrere con le sue antiche superstizioni e leggende i borghi, le chiese, le grandi stanze in penombra delle vecchie ville. Nascono nuovi amori, tornano rancori mai dimenticati.

New York Times best-selling author Stephen Hunter is back with another breakneck thriller, in which ex-Marine sniper, Ray Kruz, must outwit a group of murderous Somali terrorists who’ve laid siege to the Mall of America. Recently retired marine sergeant Ray Kruz has been talked into a mall trip by his fiancé, the beautiful Molly Chan. For Ray, Molly represents a way to reconnect with normal life, something his 20 years in the service and five tours in two combat zones have prevented.

Edipo e Narciso sono due personaggi centrali del teatro freudiano. Il figlio-Edipo è quello che conosce il conflitto con il padre. Il figlio-Narciso resta invece fissato sterilmente alla sua immagine. Abbiamo visto cosa significa l'egemonia del figlio-Narciso: dopo il tramonto dell'autorità simbolica del Nome del Padre, il mito dell'espansione fine a se stessa ha prodotto la tremenda crisi economica ed etica che attraversa l'Occidente. Le nuove generazioni appaiono sperdute tanto quanto i loro genitori.

Ventuno sono le edizioni della Coppa del Mondo. Quarantaquattro i passi di Maradona prima di segnare il leggendario gol contro l'Inghilterra. Tre i minuti che separano quel gol dalla piroetta diabolica della "Mano de Dios". Ancora tre sono i minuti - i più belli della storia - in cui il Brasile di Garrincha e Pelé segna e colpisce due pali contro l'Unione Sovietica. Duemilatrecentosettantanove sono le reti segnate dal 1930 al 2014. Zero le foto che immortalano la prima, segnata da Lucien Laurent il 13 luglio del 1930.

In Footsteps of the Hawk Burke himself is in danger of becoming a victim. Two rogue cops are stalking him. The coolly seductive Belinda Roberts wants him to free a man charged with a grisly string of rape-murders. The brutal and half-crazy Detective Jorge Morales may be trying to frame Burke for the same crimes.

C'è un paradigma fondamentale del figlio nella cultura occidentale: Edipo e la sua tragedia, che indica nel conflitto generazionale, nel contrasto con l'autorità paterna, nel desiderio di prendere il posto del padre accanto alla madre il nodo più profondo dell'essere figli. Ma questo paradigma è ancora così valido, in un'epoca come la nostra che ha visto evaporare l'autorità del Padre e non considera più la Madre solo una genitrice, ma anche una donna?

The Children of Fire - four mortals touched by the power of Chaos - each embody one aspect of a banished and fallen immortal champion: Keegan, the wizard; Scythe, the warrior; Cassandra, the prophet; Vaaler, the king. Now grown to adulthood, the Children are in search of the ancient Talismans that can stop the return of Daemron the Slayer, ancient enemy of the Old Gods. But in acquiring Daemron’s Ring, they’ve left in their wake death, destruction, and a queen bent on revenge.

Once Humans had a magical alliance with Dragons. Now they and the other races have been enslaved by the Rhonas Empire – the elves – and can’t even remember the world the way it used to be. But thanks to the intervention of one determined dwarf and the human slave warrior known as Drakis, all of that is about to change.

Peter and Evangeline have learned of an early, annotated draft of the Constitution that could forever change America's history - and its future. When word gets out about it, it launches a frenzied search, as both sides of the partisan machine. While battling politicians from both sides of the debate, Peter and Evangeline must get to the document first, because they know that if the wrong people find it, they will burn it, stripping the nation of its constitutional moorings.

Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness. Readily accessible by children, they present lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity that appeal to mature listeners as well. This collection of 18 tales includes "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Princess and the Pea", and "The Snow Queen".

New York Times best-selling author Stephen Hunter is back with another breakneck thriller, in which ex-Marine sniper, Ray Kruz, must outwit a group of murderous Somali terrorists who’ve laid siege to the Mall of America. Recently retired marine sergeant Ray Kruz has been talked into a mall trip by his fiancé, the beautiful Molly Chan. For Ray, Molly represents a way to reconnect with normal life, something his 20 years in the service and five tours in two combat zones have prevented.

MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years.

Originally published in a 1905 edition of The New York Sunday World, "The Gift of the Magi" tells the story of a young couple at Christmas when money is tight, offering important insight into the nature of gift giving. A well-known example of comic irony, it has been widely adapted as everything from an off-Broadway show to television episodes. This recording of "The Gift of the Magi" was recorded as part of Dreamscape's Classic Christmas Stories: A Collection of Timeless Holiday Tales.