William Olivier Desmond Libri

In una ridente e sonnolenta cittadina americana, un gruppo di ragazzini, esplorando per gioco le fogne, risveglia da un sonno primordiale una creatura informe e mostruosa: It. E quando, molti anni dopo, It ricomincia a chiedere il suo tributo di sangue, gli stessi ragazzini, ormai adulti, abbandonano famiglia e lavoro per tornare a combatterla. E l'incubo ricomincia...

Darkness has fallen on the city of Portland, Oregon. One by one, the wives of affluent and respected men are vanishing from their homes. The only clues to their disappearance are a single black rose and a note that reads, "Gone, But Not Forgotten." It is the rebirth of a horror that has already devastated a community at the opposite end of the country—and, as it did then, terror and death will follow. Defense attorney Betsy Tannenbaum is trapped in a nightmare as the shadows of a killer darken her world. And she will soon be risking everything she has and everyone she loves to defend a cold, powerful, and manipulating client who may be a victim . . . or a monster.

Quale evento turba questa volta la pace della tranquilla cittadina americana di Castle Rock? E' l'arrivo di Leland Gaunt, un forestiero strano e sfuggente. Quest'individuo ambiguo apre un negozio, Cose Preziose, dove è possibile acquistare pezzi rari, curiosità, autentiche gioie per piccoli collezionisti. Gaunt sembra catturare i desideri più nascosti di ogni cliente, riuscendo a trovare per chiunque ciò che cercava o segretamente sognava da anni...

This collection of short works is comprised of pieces that previously appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Playboy, and McSweeney's, in a volume that includes such tales as " The Gingerbread Girl " and " N."

When one of his wife's Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it, beyond being intrigued and attracted by the girl's intelligence and moral seriousness. But when the girl is found dead, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo suddenly becomes Brunetti's case, no longer Paola's student. Claudia seems to have no discernible living family - her only familial relationship is with an elderly Austrian woman, who was the lover of her grandfather, but was not herself Claudia's grandmother. Brunetti is both intrigued and stunned by the extraordinary art collection the old woman keeps in her small, unprepossessing flat, and when she in turn is found dead, the case seems to have be about to open up long buried secrets of collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews during the war, secrets few in Italy are happy to explore...

No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's unforgettable novella - first included in his 1990, award-winning collection Four Past Midnight and made into a highly acclaimed miniseries - about a terrifying plane ride into a most unfriendly sky is now available as a stand-alone publication. The flight attendants were gone; almost all the passengers were gone; Brian Engle was willing to bet the 767's two-man cockpit crew was also gone. He believed Flight 29 was heading east on automatic pilot. On a red-eye flight from L. A. to Boston, ten passengers wake up to discover everyone else has disappeared. Brian Engle, a trained pilot, remembers something about a strange aurora borealis and turbulence reports over the desert. Now he has to try to land the plane. But the safe haven of Bangor airport is not what it seems. It's eerily empty. The clocks have stopped. The food and drink is tasteless. The fuel doesn't burn. And the sound, like 'radio static', is getting closer. Craig Toomy, an investment banker, believes he knows what's coming. The Langoliers. Which means time is, quite literally, running out . . . A spine-tingling, propulsive novella, The Langoliers is a brilliant read from the masterful Stephen King.

Tempo fa, a Derry, la città del terrore di It e Insomnia, quattro ragazzini coraggiosi compirono una buona azione. Che li trasformò per sempre. Da grandi,Henry, Jonesy, Beav e Pete hanno preso strade diverse, ma due cose hanno mantenuto un richiamo irresistibile: una è il legame con il bambino molto,molto particolare che aiutarono quel giorno lontano e l'altra è la fantastica battuta di caccia al cervo che ogni anno li riunisce nel Maine, là nella baita dove ondeggia quel curioso oggetto indiano chiamato acchiappasogni. Però stavolta li aspetta una brutta avventura: il cielo promette ben peggio di una forte nevicata e nel folto si aggira qualcuno, qualcosa, che amerebbe tanto abitare sulla Terra.

Rose fugge. Fugge da quattordici anni di soprusi, da un marito violento e da una vita che non promette più nulla. Ricominciare da capo è l'unica via d'uscita. Una città sconosciuta, una nuova occupazione e un nuovo compagno: finalmente tutto sembra girare per il verso giusto. La donna si imbatte anche in uno strano dipinto. Una crosta senza valore, o molto, molto di più? Il legame tra il quadro e Rose si fa sempre più stretto, quasi morboso, e quando il suo sadico marito si farà rivedere non troverà più la debole e indifesa mogliettina di un tempo, ma qualcuno o qualcosa che stenterà a riconoscere.

Meet Will Kelly. English teacher. Film fan. King of sandwich construction. Still in love with The One, desperately searching for An-Other One. In his decrepit flat, Will's lifeline is the telephone. There's Alice (who remembers his birthday), Simon (who doesn't), Martina (the one-night stand), Kate (the previous tenant of his rented Archway fleapit) and of course Aggi - the inimitable Aggi. His Legendary Girlfriend. Or is she? Two men, three women and a donkey called Sandy...basically it's your classic love hexagon.

Le commissaire Brunetti, après l'enterrement de sa mère, est sollicité par un missionnaire pour enquêter sur une secte à Venise. Son hésitation est interrompue par la découverte du corps d'une fillette dans un canal.