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Andrea Fazioli

Uno splendido inganno

Santiago Gamboa

Necropolis

<p>Upon recovering from a prolonged illness, an author is invited to a literary gathering in Jerusalem that turns out to be a most unusual affair. In the conference rooms of a luxury hotel, as bombs fall outside, at times too close for comfort, he listens to a series of extraordinary life stories: the saga of a chess-playing duo, the tale of an Italian porn star with a socialist agenda, the drama of a Colombian industrialist who has been waging a longstanding battle with local paramilitaries, and many more. But it is José Maturana — evangelical pastor, recovering drug addict, ex-con — with his story of redemption at the hands of a charismatic tattooed messiah from Miami, Florida, who fascinates the author more than any other. Maturana’s language is potent and vital, and his story captivating.</p><p>Hours after his stirring presentation to a rapt audience, however, Maturana is found dead in his hotel room. At first it seems likely that Maturana has taken his own life and everybody seems willing to accept this version of the story. But there are a few loose ends that don’t support the suicide hypothesis, and the author-invitee, moved by Maturana’s life story to discover the truth about his death, will lead an investigation that turns the entire plot of this chimerical novel on its end.</p><p>In Necropolis, Santiago Gamboa displays the talent and inventiveness that have earned him a reputation as one of the leading figures in his generation of Latin American authors.</p><

Andrea Ferrari

L'agente segreto

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Andrea Frediani

I tre cavalieri di Roma

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Layce Gardner

More Than a Kiss

Manuel Gonzales

The Regional Office Is Under Attack!

<p>At its helm, the mysterious Oyemi and her oracles seek out new recruits and root out evil plots. Then a prophecy suggests that someone from inside might bring about its downfall. And now, the Regional Office is under attack.</p><p>Recruited by a defector from within, Rose is a young assassin leading the attack, eager to stretch into her powers and prove herself on her first mission. Defending the Regional Office is Sarah — who may or may not have a mechanical arm — fiercely devoted to the organization that took her in as a young woman in the wake of her mother’s sudden disappearance. On the day that the Regional Office is attacked, Rose’s and Sarah’s stories will overlap, their lives will collide, and the world as they know it just might end.</p><p>Weaving in a brilliantly conceived mythology, fantastical magical powers, teenage crushes, and kinetic fight scenes, is a seismically entertaining debut novel about revenge and allegiance and love.</p><

Andrea Frediani

Il cospiratore. La congiura di Catilina

John Grisham

Partners

<p>In this standalone prequel to his number-one best seller Rogue Lawyer, John Grisham tells the story of how Sebastian Rudd finally found someone he could trust to be his driver, bodyguard, law clerk, and partner.</p><p>Sebastian Rudd, rogue lawyer, defends people other lawyers won't go near. It's controversial and dangerous work, which is why Sebastian needs his bodyguard/assistant/sidekick, Partner. So if Sebastian is just about the most unpopular lawyer in town, why is Partner so loyal to him? How did they meet? And what's the real story of this man of few words who's as good with a gun as he is with the law? The surprising answers are all in Partners.</p><

Andrea Frediani

Il Sacco di Roma

Andrea Frediani

L'enigma del gesuita

Andrea Frediani

La guerra infinita - Missione impossibile - Un eroe per l'impero romano

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Anna Foa

La famiglia F.

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Ainz Ooal Gown

Light's Downfall

Overlord

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

Anna Foa

Portico d'Ottavia No.13

Anna Folli

La casa dalle finestre sempre accese

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Amir Gutfreund

Our Holocaust

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.<

Anna Folli

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John Goldbach

The Devil and the Detective

<p>"Goldbach's touch is light and his narrative momentum is fierce." — </p><p>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.</p><

Allan Guthrie

Call Me, I'm Dying

Anna Maria Bruzzone E Rachele Farina

La Resistenza taciuta

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.<

Anna Oliverio Ferraris

Famiglia

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Alan Glynn

Graveland

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

Alan Glynn

Bloodland

<p>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).</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><

Annamaria Fassio

Biglietto di sola andata

David Goodis

The Moon in the Gutter

<p>Once in a while on Vernon Street, that blind alley of tired sin and lost hopes, someone reaches for the moon.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>It stood between them, this crooked length of scarred, cracked asphalt — an abyss that held them worlds apart.</p><

Annamaria Fassio

I giorni del Minotauro

Anne Fine

Lo diciamo a Liddy?

Arthur Griffiths

The Rome Express

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.<

Anne Frank

Diario

B M Gill

Death Drop

<p>Was it an accident? Or suicide? Or murder?</p><p>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.</p><

Antonella Frontani

Dopo la solitudine

Diana Gabaldon

Outlander aka Cross Stitch

Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another… In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon – when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach – an "outlander" – in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord… 1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire’s destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life… and shatter her heart. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire… and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.<

Antonio Fusco

Il metodo della fenice: La terza indagine del commissario Casabona.

Seth Grahame-Smith

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins , an expanded edition of the beloved novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton - and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers - and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Can she vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you'd actually want to read.<

Antonio Fusco

La pietà dell'acqua: Una nuova indagine del commissario Casabona

Daryl Gregory

Second Person, Present Tense

Antonio Fusco

La stagione del fango

Sue Grafton

J de Juicio

Cuando encontraron el yate de Wendell Jaffe a la deriva, todo indicaba que se había tirado por la borda. No sólo lo confirmaba la nota que él había dejado, sino también su desastrosa situación financiera. Aun así, poco antes, había suscrito con la compañía para la que trabaja Kinsey Millhone un seguro de vida de quinientos mil dólares a nombre de Dana, su mujer, quien, sin embargo, al haber desaparecido el cadáver de su marido, tuvo que esperar cinco años hasta que fuera dado oficialmente por muerto. Pero quiso el azar que un día un agente de la compañía de seguros descubriera a Jaffe en la barra de un bar miserable de la costa mexicana, justo dos meses después de que Dana cobrara el seguro de su marido. Por supuesto, la compañía quiere deshacer en entuerto y contrata a Kinsey para investigar el caso. Pero cuanto más se adentra ella en el misterio que rodea al supuesto suicidio de Wendell Jaffe, más hondo excava también en su propio pasado…<

Antonio Fusco

Ogni giorno ha il suo male

<p>La sonnacchiosa provincia toscana di Valdenza è improvvisamente scossa dall’omicidio di una donna che viene ritrovata in casa, in una posizione innaturale e con una fascetta stringicavo attorno al collo. Si pensa subito al movente passionale, ma all’occhio esperto di Casabona, il commissario incaricato del caso, qualcosa fin da subito non quadra: troppi elementi diversi sulla scena del crimine, troppi particolari contrastanti. Schivo, ma con una forte carica umana, reso cinico da troppi anni di mestiere alle spalle, Casabona capisce ben presto che l’omicidio è solo l’inizio di un vortice di morte: un gioco molto pericoloso in cui le regole sono quelle stringenti e folli di un serial killer. E Casabona non può che accettare la sfida. «Chiediti perché e troverai il movente e se troverai il movente sarai vicino all’assassino»: seguendo questa frase come un mantra e con l’aiuto dell’affascinante collega Cristina Belisario, Casabona cercherà di venirne a capo e per farlo sarà obbligato anche a una profonda riflessione sull’impotenza dell’essere umano rispetto alle conseguenze delle proprie azioni.<br>Un romanzo da non perdere. Un commissario che non si dimentica.</p><

Sue Grafton

I de Inocente

<p>Una bala a través de la mirilla de la puerta acabó con la vida de Isabelle. En el juicio por el asesinato, el acusado David Berney, esposo de la victima, fue absuelto por falta de pruebas. Seis años despúes, uno de los ex maridos de Isabelle decide interponer una demanda por lo civil contra Barney.</p><p>El investigador que llevaba el caso ha fallecido recientemente y Kinsey Millhone lo sustituye en el que es su primer trabajo para el bufete de abogados Kingman e Ives. Uno de los principales escollos que Kinsey deberá afrontar es la caótica acumulación de datos. Algunos de sus archivos están vacios, otros contienen información relativa a entrevistas que al parecer nunca mantuvo, y toda la acusación se basa en las declaraciones de un ex convicto cuya credibilidad es más que cuestionable.</p><p>Resuelta a recomponer esta embrollada historia, Kinsey se pierde en un mar de dudas e incongruencias. Hay tantos cabos sueltos, tantas preguntas sin respuesta que ni siquiera la probada pericia de la detective parece suficiente para desvelas el venenoso secreto del asesino.</p><

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