Bella Donna By Margrett Dawson Sequel to SECRET SERVICES Lady Emma Houndsdale has sworn off men, casual sex and a free-wheeling lifestyle in 1930's England. But when her cruise ship sinks off the coast of Mussolini's Italy and she is mistaken for her dead maid, she finds herself the prisoner of a dashing and dangerous rogue with secrets all his own. Marco Antonioni whisks her from her life of sheltered privilege into a world of risk, lust, and betrayal, where every move is a test of loyalty. He opens her eyes to sensuous delights and forces her to reevaluate all she has known about men and life. Together they dance through passion and danger in a land rife with volatile politics.

Does the beer buyer at the liquor store ask your advice? Do you understand the difference between a turbid and a single infusion mash? Do you travel with a tulip glass handy? Have you even eaten ramen just to afford a vintage Cantillon gueuze? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you may be a Beer Geek and in need of this hilarious guide. Patrick Dawson provides everything you need to fully live a life ruled by beer, from the Ten Beer Geek Commandments and the Beer Geek Hall of Fame to guidance on what to drink, how and where to drink it, how to gracefully correct an uninformed bartender, where to buy “geek goods,” how to flawlessly execute a beer tasting, how to plan the ultimate beer-centric vacation, and much more. Includes quizzes to help you determine your level of geekery, as well as witty illustrations by Greg Kletsel.

Texas, 1899. Logan Grey… Malgré elle, Caroline ne peut réprimer un frisson en pensant à celui qu’elle s’apprête à retrouver après quinze ans de silence. Quinze longues années qui n’ont pourtant pas suffi à effacer le souvenir de leur nuit de noces passionnée, au lendemain de laquelle Logan a disparu sans un mot d’explication. Mais aujourd’hui, pour retrouver son père disparu, Caroline se sent tous les courages, même celui de se tourner vers l’homme auquel elle n’a jamais pu pardonner de l’avoir abandonnée. Car qui mieux que lui pourrait l’aider ? Partout où il va, Logan n’est-il pas précédé par ses exploits de justicier ? Seulement, à peine arrivée à Fort Worth, où Logan savoure ses succès, Caroline doit faire face à la pire des surprises : son époux lui affirme qu’il n’a jamais été marié

The year is 1988.

Eighteen-year-old Thomas Green, weed smoker and would-be artist, has been plucked from his comfortable, suburban existence in apartheid South Africa and thrown onto the frontline of his country’s war against what it sees as terrorism.

As a conscript in the South African Defence Force, it’s Thomas’s job to watch the hot, sandy border for signs of the mysterious ‘red menace’.

There are no bars nearby, no art galleries, no cinemas and no air-conditioned shopping malls. Worst of all, there are no lithe young ladies willing to pose nude for an eager painter-in-training. What Thomas has found in plentiful supply are sand dunes, barbwire fences and landmines. He may as well have landed in hell.

When a man approaches on foot from Angola, the place where the terrorists are said to come from, Thomas discovers that life can still get a whole lot worse.

Please be advised that the novel contains violence, hard-biting humour and sensitive subject matter that some readers may find disturbing.

This is a full-length novel, which in paperback form would be about two hundred and fifty pages.

Fifty years after World War III, the residents of New Orleans struggle daily just to survive. Despite being surrounded by the waters of the Mississippi, latent radiation and pollution have made clean drinking water hard to come by. So Rue has reason to worry when their water purifier breaks down and her husband’s depression keeps him from fixing it. She reluctantly accepts the aid of her neighbor’s son Joseph, who had taken to practicing the dark arts at the Circle of Magi.

But as her husband’s increased hostility makes her more dependent on Joseph just to survive, Rue has to make a decision that will impact not just her own life, but the lives of everyone in Bywater.

When people think of the Holocaust, they think of Auschwitz, Dachau; and when they think of justice for this terrible chapter in history, they think of Nuremberg. Not of Russia or the Ukraine, and certainly not a town called Kharkov. But in reality, the first war-crimes trial against the Nazis was in this idyllic, peaceful Ukrainian city, which is fitting, because it is also where the Holocaust actually began.

Revealing a lost chapter in Holocaust historiography, tells the story of Dawson’s journey to this place, to the scene of the crime, and the discovery of the trial which began the tortuous process of avenging the murder of his grandparents, great-grandparents, and tens of thousands of fellow Ukrainians consumed at the dawn of the Shoah, a moment and crime now largely cloaked in darkness.

Eighteen months before the end of World War II—two full years before the opening statement by the prosecution at Nuremberg—three Nazi officers and a Ukrainian collaborator were tried and convicted of war crimes and hung in Kharkov’s public square. The trial is symbolic of the larger omission of Ukraine from the popular history of the Holocaust—another deep irony as most of the first of the six million perished in Ukraine long before Hitler and his lieutenants even decided on the formalities of the Final Solution.

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Bad boy knife-thrower Marco Taresque is the hottest and most dangerous performer in the caravan. He keeps to himself until a pesky female journalist arrives, anxious to interview him about his checkered past—his last assistant disappeared under mysterious and bloody circumstances, earning him the nickname “The Deadly Daggerman.”

Unsinkable journalist and adventurer Jacinda Harville doesn’t take no for an answer, and she’s determined to wear down Marco no matter how threatening—or incredibly desirable—he might appear. He agrees to an interview—but only if she’ll let him strap her to a spinning table and throw knives at her body. How can she say no? And how can she resist him when he leans close for a kiss that strikes her more sharply than any blade? It’s the first time she’s let a man get the better of her, and she’s determined it will be the last…

Just when she thinks she can’t take any more of his games, Jacinda receives a note from Marco saying he’s finally ready to tell her the truth about what happened to his missing assistant. She sets out for an address miles away, but what she finds there turns the tables on everything she thought she knew about the tender lover who wears a smile as sharp as his knives.

As secrets are unraveled and passions take hold, Jacinda realizes her hard heart has melted. But will it be too late to save Marco—and herself—from the daggerman’s dangerous past?

Life as a contortionist in Criminy’s Clockwork Caravan should be the height of exotic adventure, but for Demi Ward, it’s total dullsville. Until her best friend, Cherie, is stolen by slavers outside of Paris, and Demi is determined to find her.

On the run from his own past, Vale Hildebrand, a dashing rogue of a highwayman, hides Demi from the slavers…but why? He pledges to help her explore the glittering cabarets of Paris to find her friend, but much to Vale’s frustration, Demi soon attracts a host of wealthy admirers. The pleasures of music, blood, and absinthe could turn anyone’s head, and it would be all too easy to accept Cherie’s disappearance as inevitable—but with Vale’s ferocious will and Demi’s drive to find her friend, they soon have a lead on a depraved society of Parisian notables with a taste for beautiful lost girls. Can Demi wind her way through the seedy underbelly of Paris and save her best friend before she, too, is lost?

The thirteenth unputdownable thriller in the million selling John Milton series When a Russian defector is assassinated in a sleepy English seaside town, Group Fifteen agents John Milton and Michael Pope find themselves in a rush to uncover the culprits and bring them to justice. Their investigation leads them to Moscow and a confrontation with Directorate S, the agency responsible for seeding Russian sleeper agents around the world. When lies and double crossing mean that no-one is what they seem, the two agents – alone and without backup – struggle to achieve their goals under the most dangerous of circumstances. Set one week before the opening of The Cleaner, this compulsive thriller turns back the clock to Milton as a barely functioning alcoholic, still tormented by the ghosts of the men and women he has killed in the service of his country. Milton must fight his own demons as well as the Russian assassin sent to eliminate him. Will he be able to complete his mission and escape with his life?

Lis London decide empezar una nueva vida y se muda a casa de su hermana, que vive en Hollow Pike. Sin embargo, no todo allí es nuevo para ella: la floresta de este pequeño y misterioso pueblo, que esconde una historia inquietante, es la misma que aparece en sus escalofriantes sueños de las últimas noches: sueños cruentos en los que alguien trata de asesinarla. Ella quiere escapar de sus peores pesadillas, teme que puedan hacerse realidad…No creía en las leyendas locales sobre brujería y pensó que se encontraría a salvo…, pero en el bosque tenebroso de Hollow Pike, el mal nunca descansa.

Aproximadamente 28 años después de la batalla de Yavin. Viaja rumbo a Star Wars: El despertar de la Fuerza con esta exclusiva historia corta con una perspicaz mercenaria que corre grandes riesgos para conseguir las más grandes recompensas... y ahora se enfrenta al reto que la llevará hasta el borde. Hay un montón de mercenarios, espías, y pistoleros a sueldo en la galaxia. Pero probablemente ninguno es tan peligroso y determinado como Bazine Netal. Una maestra del disfraz —y letal con una cuchilla, una pistola, o las manos desnudas—, ella aprendió de los mejores. Ahora es su turno de ser la maestra... aunque enseñar los trucos de su oficio a un recluta ansioso e inexperto es lo último que quiere hacer. Pero es la única manera de conseguir la nave que necesita para lograr su último trabajo. Un cliente anónimo ha contratado a Bazine para localizar a un ex-soldado de asalto y recuperar el misterioso paquete que está salvaguardando. El pago por la misión promete ser astronómico, pero los obstáculos que enfrentan a Bazine demostrarán ser formidables. Y aunque su nuevo ayudante ansioso tiene habilidades cibernéticas cruciales para la misión, sólo el afilado talento de Bazine significará la diferencia entre el éxito o el fracaso... y la vida o la muerte.

En algún momento antes de Star Wars Episodio VII: El despertar de la Fuerza. Descubre el intrigante origen de la formidable Capitán Phasma. Una de las más astutas y despiadadas oficiales de la Primera Orden, la Capitán Phasma, cuenta con la simpatía de sus superiores, el respeto de sus colegas y el terror de sus enemigos. Pero, a pesar de todo su renombre, ella sigue siendo tan misteriosa como la impasible expresión de su brillante casco cromado. Ahora un adversario está decidido a desenterrar sus orígenes para exponer un secreto que ella guarda tan celosamente como sirve a sus superiores. En las profundidades del crucero de batalla Absolution, una espía capturada de la Resistencia es sometida a un interrogatorio brutal a manos de Cardinal, un stormtrooper con una armadura color rojo brillante. Sin embargo, la información que él desea no tiene nada que ver con la Resistencia ni con sus operaciones encubiertas contra la Primera Orden. Lo que el stormtrooper quiere es el pasado de Phasma: cualquier escándalo, traición o demonio que pueda esgrimir contra la odiada rival, quien amenaza su poder y sus privilegios en las filas de la Primera Orden. Aunque su prisionera tiene lo que Cardinal busca con desesperación, esta no se rendirá con facilidad. Mientras sostiene una guerra de voluntades con su captor, regateando por su vida a cambio de cada preciosa revelación, la crónica de la inescrutable Phasma se desenvuelve. Pero este conocimiento puede resultar más que peligroso una vez que Cardinal lo posea… y una vez que su adversaria desencadene toda su furia.

Antes de los eventos de Bloodline. Greer Sonnel es una estrella en ascenso que participa en el Pasillo, una difícil y peligrosa carrera de cazas estelares, en la que se eligen los pilotos que formarán parte de los equipos de los Cinco Sables.

Serres, Francia, 1132. Deve fare presto. Un manipolo di cavalieri gli sta dando la caccia e lui ha un incarico da portare a termine. Con gesti rapidi e decisi, solleva una lastra di marmo dall'altare della chiesa e vi depone le tavole che gli sono state affidate. Sono al sicuro, adesso, e con loro anche il mistero che custodiscono…
Los Angeles, oggi. Un biglietto strappato, su cui è vergata una misteriosa frase in latino: è questo l’unico indizio che il detective Nick Lambert ha a disposizione per risalire all’identità del cadavere trovato in un vicolo di Los Angeles. La vittima infatti non ha né documenti né vestiti addosso, e persino le impronte digitali sono state asportate dall’assassino. C’è però un nome scarabocchiato sul retro di quel pezzo di carta: Tina Fiddes. Lambert va subito a interrogare la donna, che in principio non sembra essere di grande aiuto. Tina infatti è autistica e per di più muta. Eppure, a poco a poco, Lambert si rende conto che quella ragazza possiede straordinarie doti deduttive ed è la sola in grado di risolvere una serie di enigmi e codici che qualcuno ha disseminato per lui. Qualcuno convinto che, grazie all’aiuto di Tina, Lambert abbia la possibilità di portare alla luce una cospirazione che ha attraversato la Storia e svelare un segreto millenario che cambierà per sempre il destino dell’umanità…