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The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads even wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring. The devastating conclusion of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic tale of adventure, begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.

Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family's past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe.

An enticing historical mystery that follows a crime-solving female reporter in the glamorous world of 1920s Manhattan, from the author of The Deep End. “Sex and the City, circa 1920.” —Kirkus Reviews This writer just found her next scoop … and it’s deadly. New York, 1925: Freddie...

"Daisy Miller", scritto nel 1878, è considerato uno dei capolavori dello scrittore americano Henry James. Ritratto intenso di una giovane americana che, nella buona società europea (la trama si dipana dalla Svizzera alla stupenda e decadente Roma dei papi), viene giudicata troppo libera (se ne va a passeggio per Roma dopo il tramonto, sola con un giovanotto che non è nemmeno il suo fidanzato...) e quindi imperdonabilmente poco seria, e messa al bando; solo dopo la sua morte improvvisa sapremo, insieme al protagonista narratore, che Daisy era assolutamente innocente, non una civetta o peggio, ma semplicemente una ragazza libera, indipendente, spontanea e disinteressata, amante del passeggiare e vagabondare, oppressa dai lacci delle convenzioni sociali che imprigionavano le donne.

Having been married for over 40 years, 69-year-old Arthur Pepper is mourning the loss of his wife. He finally musters the courage to go through her possessions and happens upon a charm bracelet that he has never seen before. What follows is a surprising adventure that takes Arthur on an epic...

È un mercenario delle Highland. Lei è la nobile donna che ha abbandonato. Il figlio di cui non era a conoscenza e la donna che non ha mai dimenticato potranno salvarlo da un oscuro destino questo Natale? Le Highlands scozzesi, 1308. L'infame mercenario Hamish Dunn ha tradito un potente capo clan ed è ora inseguito da assassini quasi altrettanto spietati di lui. Dopo un duello mortale, una fata delle Highland lo convince a recarsi a Carlisle per un incarico che gli fornirà abbastanza oro per fuggire e vivere in pace. Deidre Maxwell ha un segreto pericoloso.

Italia è una giovane cubana con il bel Paese nel destino e nel grembo. Quando il frutto della passione con un avventuriero italico conosciuto mesi prima viene improvvisamente alla luce, anche i suoi piani di raggiungere la terra promessa finiscono per stravolgersi completamente. Italia è un viaggio di uno strano trio formatosi casualmente nella hall di un fatiscente ostello dell'Avana e che prende corpo passo dopo passo in un labirinto di gioie, frustrazioni, demoni provati, colori sgargianti, sapori speziati verso una destinazione ignonta che appare via via sempre più irrilevante.

What would you do if you witnessed the murder of your ex-best friend's ex-husband? Seychelle didn't see the sniper who picked Nick off at the helm of his yacht, but she knows that there are plenty of people in South Florida who wanted to see the gambling-boat tycoon dead. But it's Molly whom the cops zero in on. Since kindergarten, Seychelle and Molly, had been as close as sisters. But it all ended suddenly when Nick Pontus, a slick, older, up-and-coming entrepreneur, came along.

A salvaged wreck. A human bone. Can Seychelle resist the call? Amazon #1 bestselling author Christine Kling returns to the waters of Florida and the Bahamas! Deep in the waters of a Florida swamp, a more mature Seychelle is working aboard her salvage tug Gorda with her five-year-old son, Nestor. When she and B.J. adopted the boy, she promised herself that she would stop the reckless chasing after justice for those she loved.

A mysterious shipwreck. A windsurfing accident. Is a modern-day sea monster stalking the waves? Before Key West was the party capital of the Florida Keys, it was built by wrecking skippers who in feats of derring-do raced to shipwrecks to save their cargos from the ocean depths. But when her dear friend Nestor Frias runs a billionaire's luxury power yacht on up on a reef on its maiden voyage, Seychelle begins to suspect a chilling scenario: that modern-day wreckers are causing yachts to crash onto the reefs-and killing off whoever gets in the way.

She never expected to tow anything other than broken-down boats back from the sea. But when Fort Lauderdale salvage tug captain Seychelle Sullivan spots a barely-awash wooden dory in the Gulf Stream with a young Haitian girl clinging to it, Seychelle's salvage job becomes a race against time to save a life. Solange. Ten years old. Haitian. Half-starved, her small white dress stained rust-brown. Clinging to a bow post next to the bloated body of a woman who didn't make it.

A $5M superyacht adrift. A trail of blood. A blonde with a knife in her back. Florida salvage captain Seychelle Sullivan and her black lab Abaco find their routine day turns into a nightmare when they respond to a frantic distress call and discover a drifting super yacht, her decks soaked in blood. To make matters worse, the missing skipper is Neal Garrett, Seychelle’s ex-lover. After docking the yacht at the Coast Guard station, Seychelle gets hit with a barrage of questions from a suspicious detective.

When criminal art dealer Jacques Mornnais vanishes, he may hold the key to uncovering FBI Agent Eugene Spector’s birth parents. But Eugene isn’t the only one searching for Jacques. As the killer Bruno Edremal —determined to punish those who wronged him —sets out on a path of retribution, Eugene must find Jacques before Bruno does. The French Deception Series Pulsing with an exquisite, authentic eye for the richly-textured world its characters inhabit, the French Deception series features compelling characters, surprising plot twists, and continental romance for its kick-ass female heroine.

After enduring a century of perpetual night, can Aurora save the kingdom from the Prince of Darkness? The King of Darkness is dead, his violent reign of tyranny is over, and the first rays of light mark the beginning of a deadly ritual to choose the next monarch - The Coronation.

An idyllic island. A dark past. A chance to make things right. Nora Sommer's path from her native Norway to the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service has been littered with tragedy and pain. Now, with a new purpose and a badge, she'll turn the tables. Gripping suspense set in the beautiful Cayman Islands from the best-selling author of the AJ Bailey Adventure series. Box set includes the prequel novella as well as books one through three.

Ellie Dwyer, 61, is convinced bad luck comes in threes, and not just garden-variety, oh-well bad luck. How many people have to flee not one, but two natural disasters? And in between the wildfire and the hurricane, her husband of nearly 40 years suddenly up and left her for no reason she could fathom, disappearing from her life without a clue to his whereabouts. Determined to reinvent her life, Ellie sets out on a journey across the country. Along the way to nowhere in particular, she buys a camper, becomes friends with a remarkable octogenarian, and starts to believe that good luck might also come in threes. Or does it?

A legendary lost treasure. A dangerous race across borders. And a mystery that may cost Maggie everything she holds dear. When a tantalizing lead surfaces about the Amber Room—the priceless, long-lost masterpiece vanished during World War II—Maggie Edwards can’t ignore it. The discovery pulls her and her trusted team into a high-stakes hunt spanning hidden trains, buried secrets, and shadowy forces determined to keep the truth buried forever. But this time, the danger is closer to home.

Betrayal. Murder. Justice. A grandmother's death unlocks secrets three generations kept buried in the Georgia soil. Secrets that whisper through prophetic dreams and abandoned houses where the dead refuse to stay silent.

Entre las ruinas de Londres, el verdadero heroísmo se escribía en cartas. Noviembre de 1941, Londres. La Segunda Guerra Mundial arrecia, pero para Emmeline Lake, el futuro brilla con una nueva esperanza: se ha convertido en columnista de consejos de la revista Woman's Friend. Su relación con Charles florece, y su mejor amiga, Bunty, mira con valentía hacia un futuro incierto, aún recuperándose de las secuelas de los bombardeos alemanes. Pero la guerra no da tregua, y un nuevo frente se abre para Emmy.

From the author of BETWEEN THE STOPS and TOKSVIG'S ALMANAC 'Teasing out untold stories of the battlefield . . . follows the footsteps of the likes of Sarah Waters and Pat Barker' Independent London, 1897. A young girl, Valentine Grey, arrives in England. She's been brought up in the remote and...