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Adria Tissoni

    First Person Plural
    Jane Rizzoli e Maura Isles: Madame X
    The Enemy
    La faute à pas de chance
    The Hard Way
    The Power of Meow. Die Katze des Dalai Lama und der Zauber des Augenblicks, englische Ausgabe
    • Take a peek inside the mind of a delightfully imperfect creature on the path to enlightenment. In the latest instalment of the Dalai Lama's Cat series, readers escape to the enchanting and exotic world of the Dalai Lama's monastery in the Himalayas. His Holiness's Cat (HHC) is on a mission: to think less, to experience more, to live in the moment. She soon learns the proper phrase for this: being mindful, or, a concept better known to her as the power of meow. What ensues is a journey to discover her own true nature, to gain a deeper understanding of her mind and to experience life's greatest joy - the here and now. By accompanying HHC on her journey, you will learn new ways to relate to your own mind: slowing down, finding peace and abiding in the boundless radiance and benevolence that is your own true nature.

      The Power of Meow. Die Katze des Dalai Lama und der Zauber des Augenblicks, englische Ausgabe
      4,5
    • The Hard Way

      • 512pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      In Lee Child’s astonishing new thriller, ex–military cop Reacher sees more than most people would...and because of that, he’s thrust into an explosive situation that’s about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth—and save two innocent lives—is to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way….Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money. And Edward Lane, the man who paid it, will pay even more to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any amount of money and any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And then he’ll turn Jack Reacher loose with a vengeance—because Reacher is the best man hunter in the world.On the trail of a vicious kidnapper, Reacher is learning the chilling secrets of his employer’s past…and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He’s beginning to realize that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: he’s already in way too deep to stop now.From the Hardcover edition.

      The Hard Way
      4,2
    • Jack Reacher, ancien membre d'une unité d'élite de la police militaire américaine, reçoit un message de Frances Neagley l'appelant à la rejoindre à Hollywood. Là, il découvre que leur coéquipier Calvin Franz a été assassiné.

      La faute à pas de chance
      4,2
    • The Enemy

      • 389pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Son.New Year s Day, 1990. The Berlin Wall is coming down. The Cold War is ending. Soon, America won t have any enemies left. A soldier is found dead in a sleazy motel bed. Jack Reacher is

      The Enemy
      4,2
    • Jane Rizzoli e Maura Isles: Madame X

      Un caso per Jane Rizzoli e Maura Isles

      • 332pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      Questa non sarà un’autopsia di routine. L’anatomopatologa Maura Isles ne è certa. Ad attenderla, all’ospedale, c’è una ressa di giornalisti. E, soprattutto, c’è lei: Madame X, coperta interamente da bende di lino impregnate di resina, che risalgono a duemila anni prima. I suoi organi interni sono stati asportati, solo il cuore è rimasto al suo posto, perché è lì che gli antichi egizi credevano risiedesse l’intelligenza. Madame X infatti è una mummia, ritrovata per caso negli scantinati di un museo. Quando, scansione dopo scansione, la TAC arriva alle gambe, Maura scorge qualcosa di impossibile. Un piccolo dettaglio che trasformerà definitivamente quell'autopsia a scopo archeologico in qualcosa di molto più sinistro e inquietante…

      Jane Rizzoli e Maura Isles: Madame X
      3,8
    • First Person Plural

      • 354pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      The story of one man's struggle with Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder) & the 24 personalities that live within him. In this book readers accompany Cameron West on a roller coaster ride as he desperately tries to hang on to his family, his life & the thin red thread of reality that connects him to the world. The book chronicles his hunt for evidence to help him cope with & understand why his alter personalities are using his voice & body to retell & relive childhood sexual abuse.

      First Person Plural
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    • The Visitor

      • 509pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      "Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook have a lot in common. They're both army career women, they're both victims of sexual harrassment by their superiors, they're both forced to resign from the service. And now they're both dead. Only Jack Reacher can discover their killer."--Publisher's description.

      The Visitor
      4,1
    • Persuader

      • 542pages
      • 19 heures de lecture

      Never forgive, never forget. That s Jack Reacher s standard operating procedure. And Quinn was the worst guy he had ever met. Truly unforgivable. So Reacher was glad to know he was dead. Until the day he saw him again in Boston. Alive and well . . . Nev

      Persuader
      4,1
    • Mission Confidentielle

      • 576pages
      • 21 heures de lecture

      En mars 1997, quand une femme de militaire est assassinee derriere un bar dans une petite ville du Mississippi, Jack Reacher fait encore partie de l armee. Infiltre, il enquete au sein de l unite suspectee dans la base toute proche. Mais il derange, a tel point qu il finit par douter du bien-fonde de sa mission et de l integrite des hommes qui l entourent. Certains seraient-ils prets a tout pour etouffer l affaire ? Doit-il obeir a la hierarchie ou jouer la carte de la verite ? Un dilemme de taille. Livre fondateur de la serie, Mission confidentielle revele pourquoi Reacher est devenu ce qu il est, ce loup solitaire sans attaches. Un precieux prequel suintant la testosterone et puant la cordite. Un thriller jouissif. Philippe Blanchet, RollingStone . Dote d un vrai sens du rythme et de l action, un page-turner avec le petit supplement d ame qui fait les bons romans. Hubert Prolongeau, Marianne ."

      Mission Confidentielle
      4,1
    • Tripwire

      • 544pages
      • 20 heures de lecture

      "Digging swimming pools by hand in Key West, Florid, Jack Reacher is as tanned and as fit as he's ever been. A local girly says he looks like a condom filled with walnuts. Being invisible has become a habit. He doesn't want to be found. So when a private detective comes nosing around and asking questions, Reacher is not pleased. Especially when he later finds the guy dead, with his fingertips sliced off. Why was he so determined to find him? What does the vicious Wall Street honcho Hook Hobie have to do with it? And what about the reappearance of a woman from Reacher's own troubled past?" -- back cover.

      Tripwire
      4,1
    • "For the second time in his short life, fourteen-year-old Teddy Clock has survived a massacre. Orphaned once more when his foster family is murdered, the traumatized teenager has nowhere to turn - until the Boston PD puts detective Jane Rizzoli on the case. Jane spirits Teddy to the exclusive Evensong boarding school, a sanctuary where young victims of violent crime learn vital skills of survival. But even behind locked gates, Jane fears that Evensong's benefactors aren't the only ones watching. and when she learns of two other students whose pasts bear a shocking resemblance to Teddy's, it beocmes chillingly clear that a circling predator has more than one victim in mind. Joining forces with medical examiner Maura Isles, Jane races to stop an obsessed killer's twisted quest - before an unspeakable secret dooms the children's fate." -- from back cover

      Last to Die (with Bonus Short Story John Doe)
      4,1
    • 'The most bone-chilling story featuring on-going characters Rizzoli and Isles.' Daily Mail HE WATCHES Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. The people who lived in them appear to have vanished, seemingly into thin air. HE WAITS Maura Isles is driving through the area with a group of friends when they find themselves trapped in a snowstorm. They stumble into the abandoned village to take shelter. But their nightmare has only just begun. THEY DISAPPEAR Days later, Jane Rizzoli flies to Wyoming to search for her missing friend. A crashed vehicle has been found with four badly burned bodies still inside. Can one of the corpses be Maura's? Jane's hunt for the truth leads her to Kingdom Come. Where the person who was watching Maura now lies waiting for her ...

      The Killing Place
      4,1
    • A Boston, de nos jours. Des jeunes femmes sont retrouvées à leur domicile, après avoir été torturées et tuées. Même modus operandi que ceux d'un serial killer qui avait sévi en Géorgie trois ans auparavant. Mais pour la brillante Jane Rizzoli et son équipier Thomas Moore, inspecteurs de la brigade criminelle, cette nouvelle enquête s'annonce plus déroutante que Jamais: le tueur en question a trouvé la mort, de la main même de sa dernière victime, des années auparavant. Ayant miraculeusement survécue, cette dernière, aujourd'hui médecin reconnue, a refait sa vie à Boston, justement. Coïncidence? Rizzoli et le très intègre " Saint Thomas " vont tout faire pour éviter que le " Chirurgien " n'opère de nouveau...

      Le Chirurgien
      4,1
    • Jack Reacher: Colpo secco

      romanzo

      • 480pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      Jack Reacher è un duro. Ex maggiore della polizia militare, giunto nell'assolato sudovest americano, in uno scenario affascinante, vorrebbe solo farsi un bicchiere in un bar. Ma la sfortuna è in agguato e Jack è costretto, ancora una volta, a battersi, cosa che sa fare molto bene. L'energumeno che l'ha assalito finisce con qualche osso rotto. La mattina successiva Jack vede arrivare al suo motel una macchina della polizia e, guarda caso, uno degli agenti a bordo è proprio il tipo che ha malmenato la sera prima. Jack fugge sperando di trovare qualcuno che gli offra un passaggio verso la salvezza. E, in realtà, una vecchia Cadillac si ferma. Al volante c'è Carmen Greer, un'affascinante messicana che non esita a farlo salire. E cominciano i guai. Carmen è disperata. Sloop, il marito violento che l'ha picchiata per anni, sta tornando a casa. In galera ce l'ha spedito lei, denunciandolo per frode fiscale. Ma l'uomo ha deciso di patteggiare denunciando a sua volta i soci nella frode e, una volta a casa, potrebbe picchiare di nuovo la moglie, forse anche ucciderla, se scoprisse la verità...

      Jack Reacher: Colpo secco
      3,9
    • Jack Reacher Six Foot Five And Dangerous.Adrift In The Hellish Heat Of Texas.Moving Like A Shark In The Water.Looking For A Lift Through The Vast Empty Landscape.A Cadillac Stops.A Ride, But With A Hitch.A Pretty Young Woman, Alone.Her Husband S In Jail.When He Comes Out, He S Going To Kill Her.Her Family S Hostile, She Can T Trust The Cops, And Lawyers Won T Help.Reacher Is Her Last Option.Will This Be The First Time He Says No - To A Lady In Distress?

      Echo Burning
      4,0
    • Make me

      • 496pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote railroad stop on the prairie with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover. He expects to find a lonely pioneer tombstone in a sea of nearly-ripe wheat ... but instead there is a woman waiting for a missing colleague, a…

      Make me
      4,0
    • Personal

      • 480pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he's a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president. Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him. This new heartstopping, nailbiting book in Lee Child's number-one bestselling series takes Reacher across the Atlantic to Paris - and then to London. The stakes have never been higher - because this time, it's personal.

      Personal
      3,9
    • The Haunting of Sunshine Girl

      • 320pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      The Haunting of Sunshine Girl- in active development for television by The Weinstein Company- a hit paranomal YA series based on the wildly popular YouTube channel about an adorkable teenager living in a haunted house.

      The Haunting of Sunshine Girl
      3,9
    • Beautiful - 1: Beautiful Disaster

      • 441pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      Travis Maddox est sexy, bâti comme un dieu et couvert de tatouages. Il participe à des combats clandestins la nuit, et drague tout ce qui bouge le reste du temps. Exactement le genre de mec qu'Abby doit éviter si elle veut reprendre sa vie en main. Mais Travis insiste et lui propose un pari.Si elle gagne, il renonce au sexe pendant un mois. Si elle perd, elle s'installe chez lui pour la même durée. Ce que Travis ignore c'est qu'il a affaire à bien plus joueur que lui ... Une fois toutes les cartes abattues, seront-ils vraiment prêts à suivre les règles établies ?

      Beautiful - 1: Beautiful Disaster
      3,9
    • Night School

      • 496pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      "It's 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he's off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind. Two other men are in the classroom--an FBI agent and a CIA analyst. Each is a first-rate operator, each is fresh off a big win, and each is wondering what the hell they are doing there. Then they find out: A Jihadist sleeper cell in Hamburg, Germany, has received an unexpected visitor--a Saudi courier, seeking safe haven while waiting to rendezvous with persons unknown. A CIA asset, undercover inside the cell, has overheard the courier whisper a chilling message: 'The American wants a hundred million dollars.' For what? And who from? Reacher and his two new friends are told to find the American. Reacher recruits the best soldier he has ever worked with: Sergeant Frances Neagley. Their mission heats up in more ways than one, while always keeping their eyes on the prize: if they don't get their man, the world will suffer an epic act of terrorism. From Langley to Hamburg, Jalalabad to Kiev, Night School moves like a bullet through a treacherous landscape of double crosses, faked identities, and new and terrible enemies, as Reacher maneuvers inside the game and outside the law."-- Provided by publisher

      Night School
      3,9
    • From Here to You (Forever Special Release)

      • 369pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      #1 New York Times bestseller Jamie McGuire delivers a deliciously intense, emotionally gripping contemporary romance featuring characters from her genre- defining Beautiful series, which has sold nearly 3 million copies to date.

      From Here to You (Forever Special Release)
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    • In order to fulfill his dream of being a sorcerer-king, Tithian, the new ruler of Tyr, journeys into the Athasian desert to search for an ancient oracle. Original.

      The Obsidian Oracle
      3,7
    • Kniha Prečo muži klamú a ženy plačú je pokračovaním úspešného bestselleru Prečo muži nepočúvajú a ženy sa nevyznajú v mape. Autori Barbara a Allan Peasovci opäť nenapodobiteľne skombinovali vedecké poznatky, pozorovanie medziľudskej komunikácie a neodolateľný humor. Nájdete v nej praktické a ľahko stráviteľné rady, ktoré vám pomôžu skvalitniť osobné i pracovné vzťahy. Kniha vám okrem iného prezradí, prečo sa muži vyhýbajú záväzkom, prečo ženy plačú a citovo vydierajú mužov, prečo muži klamú a majú pocit, že im ženy neustále niečo vyčítajú! ALLAN PEASE je autorom bestselleru Reč tela, z ktorého sa predalo viac ako štyri milióny výtlačkov. Napísal aj ďalšie štyri bestsellery. BARBARA PEASOVÁ je výkonnou riaditeľkou inštitúcie Pease International, ktorá vydáva videonahrávky a organizuje kurzy a semináre pre obchodné a vládne kruhy po celom svete. Sú medzinárodne uznávanými odborníkmi v oblasti ľudských vzťahov a komunikácie. Spolu napísali ďalšie dva bestsellery: Prečo muži nepočúvajú a ženy sa nevyznajú v mape a Prečo muži nemôžu robiť viac vecí súčasne a ženy rady rozprávajú.

      Pourquoi les hommes mentent et les femmes pleurent
      3,8
    • Identità sconosciuta

      • 96pages
      • 4 heures de lecture

      Cinque minuti: tanti sono bastati al direttore del personale della fabbrica dove James Penney ha lavorato per diciassette anni a licenziarlo. Diciassette anni di vita contro cinque minuti, e ora Penney è un uomo senza lavoro e senza speranza. Gli restano solo sei settimane di paga e la sua amata Firebird rossa. E allora l’unica soluzione che gli sembra possibile è dar fuoco alla casa e scappare sulle strade d’America con l’auto. Via dalla fabbrica che l’ha tradito, via dalla banca, dai debiti, da una vita senza soddisfazioni. Un gesto di protesta, l’unico in una vita di sopportazione e obbedienza. Quello con cui Penney però non ha fatto i conti è il caldo del deserto del Mojave, che in poco tempo spinge le fiamme a bruciare anche le case dei vicini. E ora Penney è ricercato dalla polizia per incendio doloso. Lui e la sua Firebird rossa, in fuga sulla California Highway Patrol. Ma la strada di Penney è destinata a incrociarsi con quella di un uomo pericoloso, un giovane capitano della polizia militare alto e muscoloso il cui nome è destinato a diventare leggenda: Jack Reacher. Un incontro che potrebbe essere la salvezza o la rovina di Penney...

      Identità sconosciuta
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    • Teadue: La corporazione dei maghi

      Romanzo

      • 395pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      A Imardin è il giorno dell'Epurazione, l'appuntamento annuale durante il quale, su ordine del re, la Corporazione dei maghi scaccia dalla città vagabondi, mendicanti e tutti coloro che sono sospettati di vivere da fuorilegge. E, come ogni anno, gli abitanti dei quartieri poveri si radunano nella piazza del Nord, per protestare, urlando la propria rabbia e lanciando sassi contro i maghi, i quali, però, essendo protetti da una barriera magica, ignorano altezzosamente quella rivolta. Tutto sembra svolgersi secondo un triste ma collaudato copione; poi, d'un tratto, una pietra manda in frantumi la protezione e ferisce un mago. Tra l'esultanza della folla e lo sgomento dei maghi, viene subito individuata la responsabile dell'incredibile gesto: è Sonea, una giovane orfana, che subito dopo fugge via, spaventata dalle conseguenze della sua azione. Ma la Corporazione dei maghi non può permettere che qualcuno dotato di un simile potere sfugga al loro controllo e vuole trovare la ragazzina per convincerla a unirsi a loro e a sottoporsi al necessario addestramento. Tuttavia, all'interno della Corporazione, c'è anche chi trama per sfruttare Sonea e raggiungere così i suoi scopi malvagi...

      Teadue: La corporazione dei maghi
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    • The Amber Enchantress

      • 342pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      The Lure of Dark Sorcery. . . Borys: The Dragon of Athas, born of magic and sustained by the agony of the doomed. For a thousand years, he has terrorized the desert wastes of Athas, roaming from city to city in pursuit of his gruesome levy - the lives of thousands of slaves.The winsome enchantress Sadira now stands ready to challenge him.To do so, she must reach the Pristine Tower, the forgotten citadel still smoldering with the incredible magic that spawned the Dragon. Only one man can help her: Faenaeyon, her elven father, the man who abandoned her into slavery. Before the journey ends, Sadira must forgive his betrayal - or give herself to the dark forces that still dwell within the Pristine Tower.

      The Amber Enchantress
      3,7
    • Something Beautiful

      • 112pages
      • 4 heures de lecture

      A novella about America and Shepley from the bestselling novel, Beautiful Disaster. America Mason, a sassy undergrad at Eastern State University, is in love with a Maddox-- Shepley Maddox. Unlike his cousins, Shepley is more lover than fighter, but a road trip to her parents' home in Wichita, Kansas could mean the next step, or the end of everything

      Something Beautiful
      3,6
    • Les chroniques des Ravens - 1: AubeMort

      • 625pages
      • 22 heures de lecture

      Un monde dominé par la magie... Un groupe de mercenaires, les Ravens, liés par l'honneur, l'amitié et le combat... Un mage sinistre et maléfique qui leur impose une mission périlleuse retrouver AubeMort, un sortilège de fin du monde qui menace le royaume de Balaia... La quête commence, impitoyable, sanglante et terrifiante. Premier volume de la trilogie des Chroniques des Ravens, AubeMort est un récit d'aventures, d'action et de magie mené tambour battant. Véritable phénomène en Angleterre, James Barclay est l'un des auteurs de fantasy le plus lu du moment, dépassant même les frontières du genre !

      Les chroniques des Ravens - 1: AubeMort
      3,5