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I fratelli Venerando e Gualtiero Scaccola sono titolari dell’omonima forneria a Bellano. Tirati su a pedate dal padre panettiere, conoscono solo il piccolo mondo del forno e dell’abitazione al piano di sopra. Si alternano in negozio con un sincronismo perfetto, che però inizia a cedere la mattina del 7 aprile 1930.

Germany is at war. The Nazis have absolute power. Evil men carry out their crimes without fear, knowing that the police dare not defy the regime. But Criminal Inspector Schenke - a good man living in terrible times - believes in justice. Whatever the personal cost.

Once every 1,000 years, a great adventure comes along. This is the blockbuster historical thriller from bestselling author James Patterson.Freedom - in eleventh-century France, it is a luxury enjoyed by only the King and nobility. For the serf, it is surely worth fighting for. But is it worth dying for? Arriving home disillusioned from the Crusades, Hugh DeLuc discovers his village has been ransacked and his wife abducted.

In 1919, Kathryn Wombacher finds a lonely-hearts ad placed by one Walter Andrew: "Would be pleased to correspond with a refined young lady or widow. Object, matrimony.” Kathryn and Walter fall in love and marry within weeks. What Kathryn doesn’t know...is that her new husband is really James “Bluebeard” Watson, a notorious West Coast serial killer who catfished and married 22 women, murdering 10.

1940: Weeks after the evacuation of Dunkirk, Germany is poised to invade a near-defenseless Britain. To safeguard the Crown Jewels from the Nazis, Winston Churchill devises a daring gamble to have them shipped overseas. The priceless artifacts will be secretly removed from the Tower of London and driven north to Scotland by two operatives posing as a young married couple, to be taken from there to Canada.

AD 64: Roman centurion Marcus Domitus leads an expedition to find the mythical treasure hidden deep inside Queen Dido's temple. 1945: Two Nazis disappear amidst the chaos of a burning Berlin—and so does a precious object. 2009: Two brutal murders in London and Boston linked by a single name and a shared history. When art recovery expert Jamie Saintclair is asked to help investigate, he finds himself delving deep into the occult and uncovering dark secrets, tales of lust and greed and a curse linked to ancient Egypt. . .

Apprentice Sarah Fisher is helping to fund Dr Will Raven's emerging medical practice in exchange for being secretly trained as a medic, should the rules barring women ever change. Sarah needs no instruction in the inequalities that beset her gender, but even she has her eyes opened to a darker reality when a relative seeks her help in searching for her missing daughter. Annabel Banks was promised a situation in a prestigious household, but there has been no word from her since she left home, and the agency that arranged her position says she never appeared.

En creusant pour faire une piscine en Dordogne, un entrepreneur découvre une grotte aux parois couvertes d'empreintes de mains de femmes, beaucoup amputées de deux ou trois doigts, et deux squelettes dont la position fait penser à une scène de crime... Une paléontologue brillante et opportuniste va mener l'enquête sur ce crime commis il y a 35 000 ans et mettre au jour un monde passionnant, surprenant et pourtant si familier.

A letter from a sea captain, signed only with cryptic initials, directs an experienced sailor to built and outfit a ship, and to assemble a crew to sail on a dangerous adventure. The voyage starts towards a northerly destination with, as far as anyone knows, no captain aboard. After some time at sea, the captain finally appears and announces his identity, and his plan to sail to the North Pole. The crew faces dangers and hardship as they fight their way through the icy seas, while the captain drives them with single-minded focus to find a passage ever farther north.

The novel "Fantaisie" takes place in 1946 post-war Europe, following Jan Orlinski, a former Polish RAF pilot, and his lover Sophie Gordon. Jan takes a job flying cargo missions from Paris to the Belgian Congo for a mysterious employer named Gerston, transporting what he believes is cobalt ore.

In the midst of World War II, Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing creates a machine named Nautilus that can send a message back into the recent past. When it successfully averts disaster for the Allied forces on D-Day its power and potential danger become terrifyingly clear, and Turing realizes he can entrust his creation to one person only: Joan, the mother of his secret child. Over the next seventy-five years, the Nautilus machine is passed down through Turing's descendants, who must each decide for themselves if and when to use this powerful invention.

It’s Los Angeles, 1986, and metal rules the world. For aspiring drummer Rikki Thunder, life is good—even if he is sleeping in a condemned paint store and playing with a band that’s going nowhere. But when he gets a shot to join L.A.’s hottest up-and-coming band, Whyte Python, Rikki’s young life turns up to 11. But good fortune can be deceiving. With the Cold War breathing its last gasps and American music blasting through the Iron Curtain, a youth revolution is taking hold—and a hair band is unknowingly playing host to the final battle for the hearts and minds of the Eastern Bloc.

En el Madrid de 1576, flamante capital del Imperio de Felipe II, abundan las muertes y los duelos, pero cuando el alguacil Diego de Paz, veterano de los Tercios, se hace cargo del hallazgo de un cuerpo cruelmente torturado, sabe que se encuentra ante un crimen poco habitual. Se trata de un boticario con fama de alquimista, y conforme avance en sus investigaciones se encontrará con una peligrosa trama que apunta a altas instancias del poder.

The year is 1940, and Great Britain's forces struggle against the Nazi war machine. France has fallen to Adolf Hitler's army, and England is next. A British secret agent pays the ultimate price to deliver early warning to harness the power of the occult to conquer Great Britain by launching a supernatural assault that no defending military force could possibly deflect.

Fulvia is the daughter of a wealthy but unimportant Roman family. Raised in the countryside, she longs for a life of intrigue and influence. When her father dies and her inheritance is threatened, Fulvia makes her way to the city of Rome to secure her future. There she marries a young aristocrat named Clodius, who is more interested in partying with his hedonistic friends than politics. Fulvia is drawn into their world of debauchery, and learns just how precarious the balance of power in the Republic is.

The French capital is at war with itself. Informers, gangsters, collaborators and Resistance factions are as ready to slit each other's throats as they are the Germans'. The occupiers are no better: the Gestapo and Abwehr – military intelligence – are locked in their own lethal battle for dominance. Mitchell knows the risks but he has a reason to put his life on the line: his family are still in Paris and have fallen into the hands of the Gestapo. With disaster afflicting his mission from the outset, it will take all his ingenuity to even get into the capital...

पन्हाळ्यात अडकुन पडलेले शिवाजी महाराज भर पावसात निसटतात. पावनखिंडीचे बाजी प्रभुचे झुंझार रणनाट्य घडते. शिवाजी महाराज सुखरुप विशाळगडावर पोहोचतात.

In this exciting sequel to the award-winning "The Hunt for the Peggy C," Capt. Jake Rogers returns to the North Atlantic as commander of a U.S. Liberty ship with some of his crew from the sunken "Peggy C." But disaster strikes, and they end up shipwrecked in Ireland. There, Rogers learns from Dutch sailors that the Nazis have arrested the father of Miriam Maduro, the love of his life, and are about to deport him to a concentration camp. Rogers and crew sneak back into Holland aboard a gun-running ship from neutral Ireland and make contact with a resistance group to help them.

On the remote Roman border, Marius Livonius commands a detachment of seasoned soldiers. Stationed near the Danube River and living near violent Germanic tribes, his life is often occupied with the potential of violence from formidable barbarians. But something else is threatening his command and people.

Vacationing in a five-star resort in the Rocky Mountains, film mogul Kenneth Edward Westland and his new, young wife, Delilah, find themselves trapped in the hotel after he becomes ill during a raging snowstorm. The resort, now abandoned for the winter, proves to be the last piece of the puzzle in a plot for Delilah to murder her husband and gain his fortune.