Exposes the national stories which turn out to be pseudo events manufactured by the PR industry, and the global news stories which prove to be fiction generated by a machinery of international propaganda. This book shows the impact of this on a world where consumers believe a mass of stories which are as false as the idea that the Earth is flat.
The true story of one family, caught between America’s two biggest policy disasters: the war on terror and the response to Hurricane Katrina. Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun run a house-painting business in New Orleans. In August of 2005, as Hurricane Katrina approaches, Kathy evacuates with their four young children, leaving Zeitoun to watch over the business. In the days following the storm he travels the city by canoe, feeding abandoned animals and helping elderly neighbors. Then, on September 6th, police officers armed with M-16s arrest Zeitoun in his home. Told with eloquence and compassion, Zeitoun is a riveting account of one family’s unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water.
A goose-bump inducing story about three South Yorkshire ladies whose own unexpected bumps empower their lives in unforeseen ways.
Hanno picchiato a sangue e violentato sua figlia. Carl Lee Hailey è nero ed è un eroe del Vietnam; loro sono due bianchi, ubriachi e razzisti. Li uccide, in preda ad una furia selvaggia, davanti a numerosi testimoni. Si tratta di brutale omicidio o esecuzione esemplare? Vendetta o giustizia? Il caso infiamma gli Stati Uniti. Per dieci giorni in un tribunale del profondo Sud americano si discute la colpevolezza di un uomo senza mai poter ignorare il colore della sua pelle.
Recounting the early life of arguably the most evil person who ever lived, Norman Mailer's account of Adolf Hitler's upbringing is appropriately narrated by someone who was there at his conception - one of Satan's devils.
Carcassonne, Francia, 1942. Nei brulli paesaggi dei Pirenei, un gruppo di donne lotta per la libertà e organizza una resistenza armata al femminile. Nome in codice della loro unità: Citadel. A guidare il gruppo è Sandrine, giovane orfana, in contatto con un altro manipolo di partigiani, quello di Raoul Pelletier. Quando quest'ultimo le chiede aiuto per stanare delle spie naziste infiltrate nel suo gruppo, Sandrine comincia a lavorare per lui. E a innamorarsene. Ma, soprattutto, scoprirà che non è solo la lotta ai nazisti che sta a cuore a Raoul e ai suoi. C'è in ballo molto di più: i nazisti hanno in mano una mappa, che rivela il nascondiglio di un antichissimo codice eretico. Un codice contenente dei segreti in grado di cambiare per sempre le sorti della guerra. E il destino dell'umanità stessa. In una corsa contro il tempo, Sandrine e Raoul dovranno mettersi in gioco come non hanno mai fatto prima. Il nuovo capitolo della trilogia iniziata con "I codici del labirinto" e "L'ottavo arcano".
Joining the newly formed NYPD in 1845, Timothy reluctantly assumes his duties near the notorious Five Points slum, where in the middle of the night he hears a little girl's claim that dozens of bodies have been buried in a local forest.
Het CSI-team in Miami krijgt melding van de vondst van het lichaam van een jonge vrouw die is aangespoed op een eilandje voor de kust van Florida. Het is inspecteur Horatio Caine al snel duidelijk wat het moordwapen is: een voor haaien bedoelde pijl die de marin gebruikt bij een experimenteel project voor het doden van vijandelijke duikers. Maar als het lijk op de autopsietafel van Alexx Woods ligt, blijkt de doodsoorzaak verdrinking. De pij is na de dood pas afgevuurd... CSI: Miami: Onderstroom is een superspannende thriller van Donn Cortez, gebaseerd op de in Amerika met vele prijzen bekroonde televisieserie.
Uomini d'affari muoiono come mosche per overdose di cocaina. Laurie Engler, una giovane e avvenente dottoressa, non ci vede chiaro; spalleggiata da Lou Soldano, un poliziotto cinico ma dal cuore d'oro, la ragazza arriva al cuore del mistero, affrontando medici senza scrupoli, politicanti corrotti e una gang di mafiosi implicata nel traffico illegale di organi.
Ver weg van de bewoonde wereld. Vredig. Pittoresk. Dat zijn de termen waarmee het Mumford Mountain Hotel zichzelf aanprijst. En meestal klopt dit ook wel… Maar dit jaar vindt er in het hotel een prestigieuze conferentie plaats over de forensische wetenschap, waarvoor hoofd CSI Gil Grissom een uitnodiging heeft ontvangen die hij niet kan weigeren. Samen met collega Sara Sidle vertrekt hij naar de conferentie en laat de afdeling achter in de capabele handen van Catherine Willows. Maar al snel zien hij en Sara zich geconfronteerd met al te bekende zaken en ook in Las Vegas hebben de achterblijvers zo de nodige problemen…
From the New York Times bestselling author of I’d Give Anything and I’ll Be Your Blue Sky comes a “bewitching, warmhearted grown-up fairy tale about old movies, charming princes, and finding happily ever after in the place where you’d least expect it” (Jennifer Weiner).When Martin Grace enters the hip Philadelphia coffee shop Cornelia Brown manages, her life changes forever. But little does she know that her newfound love is only the harbinger of greater changes to come. Meanwhile, across town, Clare Hobbs—eleven years old and abandoned by her erratic mother—goes looking for her lost father. She crosses paths with Cornelia while meeting with him at the café, and the two women form an improbable friendship that carries them through the unpredictable currents of love and life.
It's 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York's Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young for what they're about to hear, sneak out to learn their fortunes. Over the years that follow, the siblings must choose how to live with the prophecies the fortune-teller gave them that day. Will they accept, ignore, cheat or defy them? Golden-boy Simon escapes to San Francisco, searching for love; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician; eldest son Daniel tries to control fate as an army doctor after 9/11; and bookish Varya looks to science for the answers she craves.
Als een crimineel in Miami wordt vermoord, lijkt het om een bendeoorlog te gaan.
De leden van het forensisch onderzoeksteam zijn de onbekende helden van het politiekorps van Las Vegas. Onder leiding van veteraan Gil Grissom combineren Catherine Willows, Warrick Brown, Nick Stokes en Sara Sidle de nieuwste wetenschappelijke onderzoeksmethoden met het aloude, degelijke speurwerk in hun zoektocht naar bewijsmateriaal op de plaatsen delict. Een man wordt in zijn eigen huis gevonden, gewurgd en vastgebonden. Detective Jim Brass herkent de modus operandi als die van een seriemoordenaar van vijftien jaar geleden die nooit is gepakt. Maar er zijn nog talloze andere verdachten en motieven, waardoor het CSI-team al zijn expertise nodig heeft om de geesten uit het verleden eindelijk het zwijgen op te leggen…
Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction A Times, Evening Standard and Financial Times Book of the Year I was a girl once, but not any more . . . A young woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child of her own, in a world which seems entirely consumed by madness. As she navigates a landscape of terrors and trials, can she find a place of safety within a society blinkered by mistrust and denial? 'Astonishing.' New Statesman 'Raw and transfixing.' Observer 'Miraculous . . . Extraordinary.' Mail on Sunday 'A masterpiece.' Irish Independent 'Mesmerising.' Sunday Times 'Devastating and moving.' Daily Telegraph
'This is a series for the ages, it's so spectacular. Really, really just amazing' Gillian Flynn: From the author of the highly acclaimed GODS OF GOTHAM comes another vivid, gritty, historical novel set around mid-nineteenth century New York's notorious Five Points
Santa Rita, California. È una mattina perfetta. Una mattina di sole e di vecchie canzoni suonate alla radio, quella in cui Janice per un attimo tocca la felicità con un dito. La notizia è su tutti i telegiornali: suo marito Paul è diventato milionario grazie al balzo in borsa della sua azienda. Finalmente Janice avrà tutto ciò che vuole. Ma la perfezione dura un istante. Perché Paul ha deciso di dire addio a lei e alle sue figlie: di colpo Janice perde tutto. Amore, soldi, felicità. In mano ha solo rabbia e sensi di colpa, delusione e frustrazioni. E due figlie, Lizzie e Margaret, che non riesce più a capire. Dovranno imparare a parlare tra di loro invece di combattersi, costruire una nuova esistenza per ritrovare forza e dignità e dimostrare chi sono veramente. Ed emergere dalle ceneri dei loro sogni. Una storia di abbandono e di rivalsa, di menzogna e di rinascita; la vita di tre donne imperfette in cui ognuno può ritrovare un parte di sé.
