Deb Ralston, Polizistin und Adoptivmutter, erwartet ihr erstes Kind und navigiert zwischen brutalen Verbrechen in Fort Worth, Texas, und ihrem komplizierten Privatleben. In drei Kriminalromanen (Mörderisches Dreieck, Tödlicher Ausflug, Keine Milch für Cameron) erleben wir ihre Herausforderungen bis zur Geburt ihres Sohnes.
Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans, the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with - of all things - her mind. True chemistry results. Like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later, Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show, Supper at Six. Elizabeth's unusual approach to cooking ('combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride') proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. She's daring them to change the status quo.
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"Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls’ no-nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town—riding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car and fly a plane. And, with her husband, Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one of whom is Jeannette’s memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle. Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds—against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn’t fit the mold. Rosemary Smith Walls always told Jeannette that she was like her grandmother, and in this true-life novel, Jeannette Walls channels that kindred spirit.
This critically acclaimed blockbuster from internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic saga of the CIA--known as "the Company" to insiders. Racing across a landscape spanning the legendary Berlin Base of the '50s, the Soviet invasion of Hungary, the Bay of Pigs, Afghanistan, and the Gorbachev putsch, The Company tells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in double lives, fighting an amoral, elusive, formidable enemy--and each other--in an internecine battle within the Company itself. A brilliant, stunningly conceived epic thriller, The Company confirms Littell's place among the genre's elite. View The Company TV tie-in page feature here.
Inspector Fenwicks gefährlichster Fall: Die Polizistin Louise Nightingale wird als Lockvogel für einen Vergewaltiger eingesetzt. Nachdem der Täter gefasst wird, erhält sie bedrohliche Mails von "Pandora" und findet ein Bild ihrer eigenen Leiche. Spannung und Nervenkitzel sind garantiert.
Cuore di questo romanzo è un edificio abbarbicato in cima a uno scoglio a picco sull'oceano: la "casa del sonno" del titolo. Nei primi anni Ottanta è un alloggio per studenti universitari. È qui che si incontrano, si sfiorano o s'ignorano i destini dei personaggi.
Auf einer abgelegenen Insel vor Cornwall geschieht ein bizarrer Mord unter Urlaubsgästen. Commander Adam Dalgliesh übernimmt den Fall. Ein spannendes Meisterwerk von der britischen "Queen of Crime", P. D. James, die ihre Meisterschaft unter Beweis stellt.
1665. La Giamaica, remoto avamposto della corona britannica nel cuore dei Caraibi, è circondata dalle potenti colonie spagnole. I vicoli della sua capitale, Port Royal, sono popolati da avventurieri, tagliole e donne di malaffare, in cerca di fortuna fra le taverne e il molo. L'oro che gli spagnoli mandano dal Nuovo al Vecchio Mondo è una tentazione irresistibile per tutti, ma soprattutto per lo spregiudicato Capitano Charles Hunter. Del resto, la legge inglese protegge i corsari che riescono a farla franca... L'isola di Matanceros - dov'è ancorato il galeone El Trinidad - è protetta da un forte inespugnabile, ma ciò non basta a fermare l'ambizioso Hunter, che per impadronirsi del vascello spagnolo architetta un piano diabolico. L'isola dei pirati è stato ritrovato nel computer di Michael Crichton dopo la sua scomparsa. Uno degli scrittori più amati di tutti i tempi ci ha lasciato un'avventura mirabolante, ambientata in un'epoca feroce e imprevedibile, tra azione e atmosfera, tradimenti, velieri e tesori.
