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Hannah Shah is an Imam's daughter. She lived the life of a devout Muslim in a family of Pakistani Muslims in England, but behind the front door, she was a caged butterfly. For many years, her father abused her in the cellar of their home. At sixteen, she discovered a plan to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage, and she gathered the courage to run away. Relentlessly hunted by her angry father and brothers, who were intent on executing an "honor" killing, she moved from house to house in perpetual fear to escape them. Over time, she converted to Christianity and was able to live and marry as she wished. Hannah found the courage to live her life free from shame, free from religious intolerance, and free from the abuse that haunted her childhood. This is a remarkable true story of how a young girl escaped a life of torture ... a story you won't forget.

In questo libro commovente, Danielle Steel, narratrice amata da milioni di lettori in tutto il mondo, racconta dell'adorato figlio perduto e della lezione appresa durante la difficile lotta contro la sua malattia. Nick, secondogenito dei nove figli della famosa scrittrice, è sempre stato un po' "speciale": dotato di qualità straordinarie, aveva però già da bambino manifestato una certa instabilità di carattere, che durante l'adolescenza era sfociata in gravi episodi fino alla terribile diagnosi: sindrome maniaco-depressiva. La terapia, avviata forse tardivamente, non aveva potuto evitare la tragedia: a soli diciannove anni Nick è morto suicida. Tributo d'amore e struggente rievocazione di una giovane esistenza vissuta intensamente e con troppa frenesia, quest'opera - corredata di un toccante inserto illustrato - vuol essere, negli intenti dell'autrice, anche un aiuto perché chi si trovi in situazioni analoghe alla sua non perda mai la fiducia e la speranza.

Moeder Teresa maakt ons deelgenoot van haar kennis, wijsheid en levenservaring. Zij leert ons daarmee hoe wij een volwaardiger liefde voor elkaar kunnen bereiken en hoe wij de minder bedeelden daadwerkelijk kunnen helpen. Ze bespreekt fundamentele en universele zaken als geluk, angst, barmhartigheid, familie, opoffering en de dood -thema's van direct belang voor een ieder die de diepere betekenis van het leven wil doorgronden.De weg van eenvoud is een unieke spirituele gids, zowel voor gelovigen als niet-gelovigen: vol wijsheid en hoop, van de vrouw die in onze tijd het grootste voorbeeld is van liefde door daden. Het levensverhaal van een uitzonderlijke vrouw.

Pickpocket John Jacob Turnstile is on his way to be detained at His Majesty's Pleasure when he is offered a lifeline, what seems like a freedom of sorts - the job of personal valet to a departing naval captain.

Warrenton, Virgina: un incendio distrugge le scuderie di una villa, uccidendo una donna e i suoi venti purosangue di formidabile valore. Questo è il primo di molti incendi che costringono l'ufficio di medicina legale di Richmond a un frenetico e macabro lavoro: interminabili e sofisticati esami sono condotti sui cadaveri che puntualmente vengono ritrovati. Un incubo di proporzioni inimmaginabili si materializza nel corso delle indagini e le identiche modalità degli omicidi disegnano una trappola mortale intorno a Kay Scarpetta e ai suoi collaboratori. Soltanto una mente contorta può concepire un progetto così orrendo. E nella mente di Kay un nome si sta formando, un nome che non avrebbe mai più voluto pronunciare.

Une enquête policière menée dans l'Egypte de Ramsès II par un juge de province qui va découvrir un véritable complot visant à renverser le pouvoir central.

Prima puntata della saga di Ramses, l'avvenimento letterario dell'anno, una serie che ha venduto oltre tre milioni di copie. La storia del grandissimo faraone, il "figlio della luce", che portò all'apogeo la gloria del suo paese e ne diffuse la sapienza. Christian Jacq, esperto di egittologia, trasferisce nelle storie costruite attorno a personaggi realmente vissuti, le scoperte venute alla luce con gli studi più recenti.

Firenze, 1482. L'affascinante cortigiana Luciana Vetra è furiosa: ha fatto da modella per il grande pittore Sandro Botticelli, ma lui, dopo essersi rifiutato di pagarla, l'ha addirittura cacciata dal suo studio. Determinata a vendicarsi, la giovane allora ruba uno dei disegni preparatori del dipinto , una grande tavola che avrà come titolo "La primavera" e cerca di rivenderlo. Tuttavia non le ci vuole molto a capire di aver commesso un tragico errore: sembra infatti che alcuni uomini senza scrupoli siano disposti a tutto - anche a ucciderla - pur di recuperare quel disegno. Disperata, Luciana chiede asilo presso la basilica di Santa Croce e viene accolta da Guido, un novizio che, incantato dalla sua bellezza, decide di aiutarla. Consapevoli che soltanto svelando il mistero del quadro avranno salva la vita, i due intraprendono allora un viaggio che li porterà da Napoli a Pisa, da Roma a Venezia, tra nobili e assassini, pericoli e agguati, complotti e tradimenti. E scopriranno che, nell'allegoria, della Primavera, si nasconde un messaggio in codice per un gruppo di cospiratori che vogliono cambiare il futuro dell'Italia .

Ellie Cavanaugh ha sette anni quando sua sorella Andrea viene brutalmente uccisa. La polizia ferma tre sospettati: Rob Westerfield, rampollo di ottima famiglia, di cui la vittima era segretamente innamorata; Paul Stroebel, un suo compagno di scuola, e Will Nebels, un quarantenne le cui attenzioni non sono gradite alle ragazze. La testimonianza di Ellie fa condannare la persona da lei ritenuta responsabile. Ventidue anni dopo il detenuto viene rilasciato sulla parola, ed è deciso a provare la propria estraneità al delitto. Ellie, ora affermata giornalista investigativa, torna a ripensare alla tragedia che ha distrutto i genitori, annientati dalla morte della figlia prediletta, e inaridito la sua stessa vita, schiacciata dalla colpa di non aver rivelato tutto ciò che sapeva sugli strani appuntamenti di Andrea. Vorrebbe provare in modo definitivo la colpevolezza del condannato, ma nel corso delle ricerche nuovi fatti vengono alla luce, facendola dubitare di aver puntato il dito sull'uomo giusto, e soprattutto avvicinandola pericolosamente a un assassino ormai disperato.

On the shores of Lake Geneva in 1915, the Jewish beauty Beata Wittgenstein falls in love with a Catholic French officer and marries him despite the wishes of her family, but when Hitler's terror arrives, Beata has to undertake a harrowing journey of survival and reconsiders her roots. 900,000 first printing.

Born in 1951 to a distinguished Arab-American family, Lisa Najeeb Halaby became the fourth wife of King Hussein at age 27. With her husband being not only Jordan's monarch but the spiritual leader of all Muslims, Lisa was unsure what her role would be. This moving memoir provides a timely look at one woman's story against a backdrop of 30 turbulent years: the displacement of over 1 million Palestinians by the creation of Israel, King Hussein's frustrated efforts for peace, and the effect of Saddam Hussein and the Gulf War on Jordan and the royal family. Queen Noor offers intimate new glimpses of King Hussein, Saddam Hussein, Queen Elizabeth, Arafat, and many other world leaders.

Abbandonato il suo lavoro di patologa forense a Charleston, in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta viene convocata dal dipartimento di polizia di New York per esaminare un paziente dell'ospedale psichiatrico di Bellevue accusato di omicidio, il quale ha espressamente fatto il suo nome e non intende parlare con nessun altro. Così, assieme allo psicologo forense Benton, da poco suo marito, e Lucy, la nipote anch'essa trasferitasi a New York, Kay comincia un'indagine che attraversa le strade della città e le pieghe più buie di Internet, per scoprire che l'omicida potrebbe essere in realtà molto più vicino di quanto creda. Patricia Cornwell ritorna con una nuova indagine che scava nelle più profonde oscurità umane

It has been ten years since twenty-one-year-old Charles MacKenzie Jr. (Mac) went missing. A Columbia University senior, about to graduate and already enrolled in Duke University Law School, he walked out of his room and has never been seen again. However, he does ritually call his mother every year: on her birthday, on his birthday, and on Mother's Day. Each time, he assures her he is fine, refuses to answer her frantic questions, then hangs up. Even the death of his father, a corporate lawyer, on 9/11 does not bring him home, or break the pattern of his calls. Mac's sister Carolyn, now twenty-six, has endured two family tragedies - her brother's inexplicable disappearance, an the loss of her father. Realizing that neither she nor her mother will ever be able to have closure and get on with their lives until they find her brother, she sets out to discover what happened to Mac, and why he has found it necessary to hide from them. Her journey into the world of people who willingly disappear from their own lives leads her to learn about others who may or may not still be alive, and ultimately to a deadly confrontation with someone close to her who suddenly becomes an enemy - and cannot allow her to disclose his secret...

It all starts with a shiny, red, sit-on lawnmower. When Nancy spies her Christmas present from her husband sitting on the lawn, she realises the jewellery she thought was for her must be sitting on someone else. Her best friend Carmen isn't surprised (she never liked Jonathan) and persuades Nancy to leave Edinburgh and come and stay in her luxury London flat - far too vast for Carmen since her husband, millionaire rock star Spike Todd, died. Soon Nancy's met gorgeous Connor O'Shea, who lives next door, and his daughter Mia is matchmaking - not least because she'd like to see the back of Connor's current pushy girlfriend. Meanwhile Carmen, who's always been certain she doesn't want another man in her life, feels a spark when a handsome charity worker called Joe calls round. But Joe's not quite all he seems...

A powerful and searing novel of three lives fractured by a civil war For ten years, Norma has been the voice of consolation for a people broken by violence. She hosts Lost City Radio, the most popular program in their nameless South American country, gripped in the aftermath of war. Every week, the Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barrios listen as she reads the names of those who have gone missing, those whom the furiously expanding city has swallowed. Loved ones are reunited and the lost are found. Each week, she returns to the airwaves while hiding her own personal loss: her husband disappeared at the end of the war. But the life she has become accustomed to is forever changed when a young boy arrives from the jungle and provides a clue to the fate of her long-missing husband. Stunning, timely, and absolutely mesmerizing, Lost City Radio probes the deepest questions of war and its meaning: from its devastating impact on a society transformed by violence to the emotional scarring each participant, observer, and survivor carries for years after. This tender debut marks Alarcón's emergence as a major new voice in American fiction.

Provata dall’ultimo terribile caso che l’ha vista protagonista in Florida, Kay Scarpetta decide che è arrivato il momento di imprimere una svolta, sia professionale sia personale, alla sua vita. Decide così di trasferirsi nella pittoresca Charleston, nella Carolina del Sud e lì aprire uno studio privato di pedagogia forense. Con lei sono anche la nipote Lucy e il fidato Pete Marino. Sembra l’avvio di una nuova esistenza, almeno fino a quando una serie di incidenti non costringe Kay a pensare che qualcuno stia cercando di cacciarla da quella tranquilla cittadina. E quando agli atti di sabotaggio si affiancheranno il misterioso suicidio di un giovane miliardario, l’omicidio rituale di una donna e il cadavere di un adolescente recante tracce di sevizie, Kay Scarpetta capisce che non si può sfuggire al proprio passato né al proprio destino…

Voor Charlotte Kramer, de eerste vrouwelijke president van Amerika, is het moment van de waarheid aangebroken: de verkiezingen staan voor de deur. Ze zet alles op alles om herkozen te worden, maar uitgerekend nu komt uit dat haar man een affaire heeft. Melanie Kingston is chef-staf van het Witte Huis en Charlottes vertrouwelinge. Wanneer de herverkiezingscampagne dreigt te mislukken en de meedogenloze pers bloed ruikt, bezwijkt ze bijna onder de werkdruk. Dale Smith weet als Witte Huis-journaliste meer over de president dan iedereen, maar als zou uitkomen dat ze een geheime relatie heeft, zou haar carrière in één klap vernietigd zijn. Alle drie de vrouwen bevinden zich op het hoogtepunt van hun carrière, maar hun harde werken en ambities worden bedreigd door ontrouw, bedrog en één tragische fout. Zullen zij hun levens weer op de rails krijgen, maar vooral: lukt het Charlotte Kramer haar kiezers terug te winnen?

When Scarpetta examines a young man's body, she discovers stunning indications that he may have been alive when he was zipped inside a pouch and locked inside the cooler of her new Cambridge Forensic Center in Massachusetts. Various 3-D radiology scans reveal more shocking details about internal injuries unlike any Scarpetta has ever seen. These suggest the possibility of a conspiracy to cause mass casualties, and she races against time to discover who and why before more people die.

Kate Brennan was altijd al een beetje terughoudend in de liefde, uit angst om afgewezen te worden. Dus als ze Paul ontmoet, een rijke, charismatische zakenman met veel vrije tijd, is ze aanvankelijk op haar hoede. Na verloop van tijd weet hij haar toch voor zich te winnen, en ze geeft zich steeds meer aan hem over. Maar dan ontdekt ze dat hij haar stelselmatig ontrouw is. Wat haar betreft is de relatie meteen voorbij, maar Paul laat zich niet zo makkelijk aan de kant zetten. Hij breekt in in haar huis, luistert haar telefoon af en duikt regelmatig plotseling op, op plaatsen waar hij niets te zoeken heeft. Hij heeft genoeg geld en connecties om haar voortdurend in de gaten te houden, en haar leven compleet te beheersen... In Mijn ex, mijn stalker laat Kate Brennan zien hoe een doodgewone vrouw ten prooi kan vallen aan een angstaanjagende stalker.

Ik ging in de eerste plaats naar Kenia om een woord te onderzoeken die ruim vier miljoen jaar geleden al dan niet heeft plaatsgevonden. Mijn beroep is paleontoloog, jager op fossiele mensen. In het uiterst noorden van Kenia, diep in de rotsachtige, rode Chalbi-woestijn, graaft kathryn Widd naar de resten van hominiden. Ze probeert in deze menselijke fossielen uit het verleden verklaringen te vinden voor de misdaden in ons heden. Onder de expeditieleden bevindt zich Daniel Tregallion, tot wie Kathryn zich aangetrokken voelt. Tregallion is een zwijgzame man die dagenlang alleen door de uitgestrekte lavawoestijn zwerft. Kathryn vergelijkt haar gevoelens voor Tregallion met de tragische liefdesgeschiedenis van John Patterson en Janey Blyth, die in 1908 op safari in Kenia gingen. Maar hoezeer heden en verleden worden verbonden door jaloezie en geweld, zal de toekomst uitwijzen... Avond over Afrika is de boeiende zoektocht van een paleontologe naar zichzelf en naar het verleden tegen het decor van de mysterieuze Keniase wildernis.

Inspired by Eric Rohmer's film "Autumn Tale," Jane Juska, a lively divorcee, feels she's been celibate too long and places a personal ad. The overwhelming response leads her to take a sabbatical from teaching to meet some of the interested men.

Een vrouw, die als kind per ongeluk met weeskinderen naar Australië is verscheept, keert terug naar Yorkshire, waar ze op zoek gaat naar haar moeder.

Literatuur > Roman

Een jonge vrouw die nog slechts enkele maanden te leven heeft wil een aantal wensen in vervulling laten gaan, zoals het oplaten van valken.

Leaving her forensic pathology practice in Charleston, Kay Scarpetta takes an assignment in New York City to examine Oscar Bane, an injured patient on Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric prison ward. Handcuffed and chained, Bane specifically requests Scarpetta, and when she examines him, he begins to recount a bizarre story about his injuries, claiming they were sustained during a murder he did not commit. Scarpetta is left questioning whether Bane is a criminally insane stalker fixated on her or if his paranoid narrative holds truth—could he be the target of an actual killer? One certainty looms: a woman has been brutally murdered, and more deaths are imminent. An unsettling truth unfolds: the perpetrator seems to know the victims' every move. Scarpetta, along with her forensic psychologist husband Benton Wesley and her niece Lucy, who runs a forensic computer investigation firm, embarks on a harrowing journey through cyberspace and the streets of New York. This odyssey leads them to unexpected places and dangerously close to home. Cornwell masterfully weaves shocking twists and cutting-edge technology into the narrative, showcasing her exceptional ability to entertain and enthrall.

Na de dood van haar zoontje wordt een vrouw geconfronteerd met de ontvoering van haar andere zoon.

Enjoying her ideal life as a wife and mother, Karen Billingsley becomes increasingly alarmed when she learns that her beloved son, Chad, has done something horrible that will force Karen to choose between motherly love and morality.

De geschiedenis -vanaf 1698- van een familie van grootgrondbezitters en slavenhouders en hun slaven in het zuiden van de Verenigde Staten.