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    Jij bent van mij
    Cinque giorni a Parigi
    Before I Say Good-Bye
    Dangerous to know
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    Messaggio dal Vietnam
    • Messaggio dal Vietnam

      • 435pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experience Vietnam firsthand. We follow her from high school in Savannah to college in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon. For the soldiers she knew and met there, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways they could never have imagined. For the men in her life, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways hey could not escape or deny. Peter Wilson, fresh from law school, was a new recruit who would confont his fate in Da Nang. Ralph Johnson, a seasoned AP correspondent, had been in Saigon since the beginning. He knew Vietnam and the war inside out. Bill Quinn, captain of the Cu Chi tunnel rats, was on his fourth tour of duty and it seemed nothing could touch him. Sergeant Tony Campobello had come to Vietnam from the streets of New York to vent a rage that had followed him all the way to Saigon. For seven years Paxton Andrews would write an acclaimed newspaper column from the front before finally returning to the States and then attending the Paris peace talks. But for her and the men who fought in Viet Nam, life would never be the same again.

      Messaggio dal Vietnam
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    • Ci incontreremo ancora

      • 323pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      La dolce e raffinata Molly Carpenter, di ottima famiglia e sposata a un medico di successo, viene accusata di avere atrocemente assassinato il marito. La giovane non ricorda nulla, ma tutti sono convinti della sua colpevolezza e per lei, nonostante il patteggiamento della pena, si spalancano le porte del carcere. Quando ne esce, cinque anni più tardi, è risoluta a dimostrare la propria innocenza. Al suo fianco, Fran Simmons, una tenace giornalista televisiva, che l'aiuterà in un'indagine dai risvolti a dir poco scioccanti.

      Ci incontreremo ancora
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    • Dangerous to know

      • 416pagine
      • 15 ore di lettura

      The bestselling author of A Woman of Substance and Everything to Gain now offers a riveting, suspenseful story of family loyalty and betrayal. When the 56-year-old patriarch of the Sebastian clan is found dead under mysterious circumstances, the police are baffled. Who would want to murder the world's greatest philanthropist? Could such a man have enemies?

      Dangerous to know
      3,8
    • Before I Say Good-Bye

      • 371pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      A young woman probing into the mysterious circumstances of her husband's death receives a message from a medium claiming to be his channel in Mary Higgins Clark's #1 bestselling thriller, Before I Say Goodbye. When Nell MacDermott learns that her husband, architect Adam Cauliff, and three of his business associates have died in an explosion of his new cabin cruiser, she is not only devastated but wracked with guilt. The last time she saw Adam, they had a bitter quarrel over her plan to run for the congressional seat long held by her grandfather; she had told him not to come home. As the investigation into the boat's explosion proceeds, Nell learns that it was not an accident but a bomb. Despite her skepticism, Nell is swayed by her great-aunt Gert, a believer in psychic powers, to see a medium claiming to be Adam's channel. While trying to unravel the threads of Adam's past and his violent end, Nell consults the medium, who transmits messages to her with instructions from Adam. The story reaches a powerful climax in Nell's final encounter with the medium, in which she learns the truth about the explosion—truth she can't be allowed to live and tell.

      Before I Say Good-Bye
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    • Peter ha tutto ciò che un uomo può desiderare: potere, successo e una famiglia adorabile. Olivia è la moglie di un senatore alla cui ambizione politica ha sacrificato la propria felicità. I due s'incontrano per caso a Parigi e, complice l'atmosfera magica della città, precipitano nel vortice di una passione inebriante. Sono cinque giorni indimenticabili; ben presto, però, giunge il momento di separarsi per tornare alla consueta esistenza. Ma quei momenti meravigliosi hanno mutato profondamente i loro destini...

      Cinque giorni a Parigi
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    • Wanneer een psychologe in een radioprogramma een boek bespreekt over vrouwen die tijdens een cruise zijn verdwenen, herkent ze een van de namen en gaat op onderzoek uit.

      Jij bent van mij
    • Ik bel je nog wel

      Liefdesrituelen van de jaren negentig

      • 139pagine
      • 5 ore di lettura

      Scherpe observaties en pittige uitspraken over het subtiele spel dat mannen en vrouwen spelen, als ze elkaar proberen te versieren en trachten zo aantrekkelijk mogelijk over te komen.

      Ik bel je nog wel
    • (On) mogelijk: Sasha de Suvery heeft een goedlopende Galerie in Parijs, maar is niet gelukkig . Dan ontmoet ze de jonge, veelbelovende schilder Liam en er ontvlamt een gepassioneerde relatie tussen hen. Maar er liggen problemen op de loer… Het wonder: Quinn Thompson en zijn buurvrouw Maggie zijn bijde eenzaam en ongelukkig. Langzaam bloeit er een voorzichtige, maar intenser romance op tussen hen. Tot Quinn op een wereldreis vertrekt: Zullen Maggie en hij elkaar ooit nog terugzien? Het debuut: Olympia Crawford is gelukkig en succesvol. Maar wanneer haar twee dochters worden uitgenodigd voor New York's meest exclusieve debutantenbal, ontstaat er een crisis in haar leven.

      (On)mogelijk. Het Wonder. Het Debut