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Sbucciando Arance
by James Lawless Martina DivisoliSbucciando arance racconta di come Derek Foley, esaminando i diari del defunto padre e le lettere inviate dalla madre a un membro dell'IRA, scopre che Patrick Foley, diplomatico nella Spagna di Franco, non è il suo vero padre. La madre di Derek, malata, non vuole parlare del passato, e il figlio si vede dunque costretto a intraprendere una ricerca che lo riporterà alle origini della diplomazia irlandese, e lo condurrà in Spagna e nell'Irlanda del Nord, fino alla scoperta del suo vero padre... con tragiche conseguenze. Sbucciando arance è un romanzo che alterna vicende politiche e vicende personali, carico di ideologia, in cui s'intrecciano gli avvenimenti storici di due nazioni emergenti, Irlanda e Spagna. È inoltre una bellissima storia d'amore dai toni lirici che vede coinvolti sin dalla loro infanzia due personaggi all'opposto: Derek, apolitico, e Sinéad Ní Shúilleabháin, nazionalista convinta.
Scales Of Justice
by Daniel HoodA wizard was found dead with a smile fixed firm across his face so wide, so hideous--it could only be the work of magic! Liam Rhenford and his faithful dragon familiar have been called to root out the source of the spell. But there's more to this case than meets the eye...
Scales of Justice (Roderick Alleyn #18)
by Ngaio MarshJust as Rose Cartarette and Dr. Lacklander decide to become engaged, Sir Harold Lacklander dies. He turns his revised memoirs over to Col. Cartarette on his deathbed. The Lacklander family is frantic to stop Col. Cartarette from publishing them, which he maintains he is honor- and duty-bound to do. He is stopped when he is found murdered. Chief Inspector Alleyn of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate. Suspects include George Lacklander, new head of the family, Octavius Danberry-Phinn, owner of many cats, who has had differences with the colonel over fishing rights leased from the Lacklander family, with whom Phinn also is not at ease, a retired Naval commander who gets drunk and indulges in archery, Kitty Cartarette, the wife of the colonel, and Lady Lacklander, whose shooting stick and rag with blood on it are found near the scene.
Scales Of Justice (Inspector Alleyn #42)
by Ngaio MarshThe lives of the inhabitants of Swevenings are disrupted only by a fierce competition to catch the Old Un, a monster trout known to dwell in a beautiful stream which winds past their homes. Then one of their small community is found brutally murdered; beside him is the freshly killed trout. Both died by violence - but Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn's murder investigation seems to be much more interested in the fish...Scales of Justice was first published in 1955
Scales of Justice (Roderick Alleyn #18)
by Ngaio MarshAn aristocrat dies under fishy circumstances in this tale by &“the finest writer in the English language of the pure, classical puzzle whodunnit&” (The Sun). In an almost unspeakably charming little English village, one of the local aristocrats turns up dead next to the local trout-stream with, in fact, a trout at his side. Everyone is dreadfully upset, of course, but really, just a tad irritated as well—murder is so awfully messy. Inspector Alleyn doesn&’t quite fit in among the inbred gentry, but they&’ll allow him to do his work and clear the matter up—though they do wish he didn&’t feel compelled to ask quite so many questions . . . &“The brilliant Ngaio Marsh ranks with Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.&” —Times Literary Supplement &“A peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery.&” —Kirkus Reviews &“Any Ngaio Marsh story is certain to be Grade A.&” —The New York Times
Scales of Retribution: A Mystery of Medieval Ireland (Burren Mysteries #6)
by Cora HarrisonJune, 1510: the Burren, west coast of Ireland. Upon going unexpectedly into an early labour, Mara is alerted to the disappearance of Malachy, the local physician. Mystery follows birth, as shortly after the entrance of her son into the world the body of Malachy is discovered. But who stands to profit from this death and who therefore are Mara's lead suspects? For starters there is Malachy's new wife and her two sons, not to mention the very daughter who helped to deliver Mara's child. But soon we discover that the list of people bearing Malachy a grudge is even longer than Mara could have anticipated.
The Scam: A Fox and O'Hare Novel
by Janet Evanovich Lee GoldbergNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNicolas Fox is a charming con man and master thief on the run. Kate O'Hare is the FBI agent who is hot on his trail. At least that's what everyone thinks. In reality, Fox and O'Hare are secretly working together to bring down super-criminals the law can't touch. Criminals like brutal casino magnate Evan Trace. Evan Trace is running a money-laundering operation through his casino in Macau. Some of his best customers are mobsters, dictators, and global terrorists. Nick and Kate will have to go deep undercover as high-stakes gamblers, wagering millions of dollars--and their lives--in an attempt to topple Trace's empire. It's a scam that will take Fox and O'Hare from the Las Vegas strip, to the sun-soaked beaches of Oahu's North Shore, and into the dark back alleys of Macau. Their only backup--a self-absorbed actor, a Somali pirate, and Kate's father, an ex-soldier who believes a rocket launcher is the best way to solve every problem. What could possibly go wrong?
The Scam: (Fox & O'Hare) (Fox & O'Hare #4)
by Janet Evanovich Lee GoldbergJanet Evanovich's novels are: 'Pithy, witty and fast-paced' (The Sunday Times); 'Non-stop laughs with plenty of high jinks' (USA Today); 'Razor-sharp' (Sunday Express) He's on the run. She's an FBI agent. But putting Nick Fox in gaol is the last thing on Kate O'Hare's mind...Nicolas Fox is a charming con man and master thief. Kate O'Hare is the FBI agent on his trail. At least that's what everyone thinks. In reality, they're secretly working together to bring down super-criminals. Criminals like brutal casino magnate Evan Trace.Evan Trace is running a money-laundering operation through his casino. Some of his best customers are mobsters, dictators, and global terrorists. Nick and Kate are going deep undercover as high-stakes gamblers, wagering millions of dollars - and their lives - in an attempt to topple Trace's empire.The scam will take Fox and O'Hare from the Las Vegas strip, to the sun-soaked beaches of Hawaii, and into the dark back alleys of Macau. Their only backup - a self-absorbed actor, a Somali pirate, and an ex-soldier who believes a rocket launcher is the best way to solve every problem. What could possibly go wrong?
The Scam: (Fox & O'Hare) (Fox & O'Hare #4)
by Janet Evanovich Lee GoldbergJanet Evanovich's novels are: 'Pithy, witty and fast-paced' (The Sunday Times); 'Non-stop laughs with plenty of high jinks' (USA Today); 'Razor-sharp' (Sunday Express) He's on the run. She's an FBI agent. But putting Nick Fox in gaol is the last thing on Kate O'Hare's mind...Nicolas Fox is a charming con man and master thief. Kate O'Hare is the FBI agent on his trail. At least that's what everyone thinks. In reality, they're secretly working together to bring down super-criminals. Criminals like brutal casino magnate Evan Trace.Evan Trace is running a money-laundering operation through his casino. Some of his best customers are mobsters, dictators, and global terrorists. Nick and Kate are going deep undercover as high-stakes gamblers, wagering millions of dollars - and their lives - in an attempt to topple Trace's empire.The scam will take Fox and O'Hare from the Las Vegas strip, to the sun-soaked beaches of Hawaii, and into the dark back alleys of Macau. Their only backup - a self-absorbed actor, a Somali pirate, and an ex-soldier who believes a rocket launcher is the best way to solve every problem. What could possibly go wrong?
Scam Chowder (A Five-Ingredient Mystery #2)
by Maya CorriganVal Deniston loves the historic Chesapeake Bay town where she lives with her grandfather, the Codger Cook. Running the fitness club's Cool Down Café--and salvaging the five-ingredient dishes Granddad messes up--keeps her busy. She's used to his catastrophes in the kitchen, but not in the dining room...Especially when one of his dinner party guests winds up face down in the chowder. The demised diner apparently scammed Granddad's best buddy, and since the other dinner guests have suddenly clammed up, the police have all the ingredients to cook up a conviction for Granddad. With his freedom--and Val's café job--on the line, Val is in a sweat trying to avert a catastrophe. But dredging up old secrets might just be a recipe for murder...Includes 6 five-ingredient recipes!
The Scam of the Screwball Wizards (Bloodhounds, Inc. #10)
by Bill MyersMadcap MYSTERIES With a MESSAGE! What's going on in the abandoned theater on the outskirts of Midvale? Have monsters really invaded Mrs. Tubbs' home? Is Slobs, the trusted bloodhound, next? Likeable, easy-going Bear isn't really one for reading (except for the back of cereal boxes), so when he starts plowing through a popular new book series, everyone is pretty impressed and a little shocked. But now he's calling himself "The Phangmaster" and no longer cares about his oíd friends--and thinks he can cast spells on anyone who gets in his way. It's up to Bloodhounds, Inc., to find out what's going on as Sean, Melissa, and trusted sidekick Jeremiah get to the bottom of the new craze of fantasy books sweeping their town.
Scam on the Cam: Book 3 (Sesame Seade Mysteries #3)
by Clementine BeauvaisSesame Seade is suspicious. There's something fishy going on by the river: a case for a number one supersleuth!Sesame's parents insist that there are no pirates in Cambridge, but she's determined to prove them wrong ...Illustrated throughout with hilarious artwork by Sarah Horne, this series features a smart and sassy heroine with a unique take on life. Also in the series: SLEUTH ON SKATES and GARGOYLES GONE AWOL.
Scam on the Cam: Book 3
by Clementine BeauvaisSesame Seade is suspicious. There's something fishy going on by the river: a case for a number one supersleuth!Sesame's parents insist that there are no pirates in Cambridge, but she's determined to prove them wrong ...Illustrated throughout with hilarious artwork by Sarah Horne, this series features a smart and sassy heroine with a unique take on life. Also in the series: SLEUTH ON SKATES and GARGOYLES GONE AWOL.
Scam on the Cam: A Sesame Seade Mystery #3 (A Sesame Seade Mystery)
by Clementine Beauvais Sarah Horne11-year-old Sesame Seade, Cambridge’s number-one supersleuth, knows that mysteries turn up in unexpected places. But in her third adventure, even unflappable Sesame is surprised to discover a locked treasure chest nestled along the bank of the River Cam. She’s certain it belongs to pirates, but before she can investigate, another mystery floats her way: several Cambridge University rowing team members are coming down with a terrible stomach bug—and with the world-famous Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge looming, Sesame suspects foul play. Could the treasure chest have something to do with their illness? It’s going to take a kidnapping and a high-speed motorboat chase for Sesame to save the day again!
Scambio d'identità: Morte sulla funivia
by James J. CudneyUn astuto ladro con un sinistro biglietto da visita ha invaso il campus Braxton. Nel frattempo, una serie di furti di gioielli, straordinariamente simile a un caso irrisolto di otto anni fa, si sta insinuando in città. Quando un corpo viene scoperto nel campus, Kellan viene chiamato per indagare. E se l'ultimo omicidio non fosse ancora abbastanza, Kellan dovrà collaborare con April per porre fine alla faida tra la famiglia Castigliano e la famiglia Vargas. Mentre il caldo estivo inizia a soffocare la contea di Wharton, quali altre sorprese ci saranno in serbo?
Scammed (Vale Hall #2)
by Kristen SimmonsThe series that began with The Deceivers continues in this second twist-filled installment from Kristen Simmons, author of Article 5 and The Glass Arrow.The stakes are higher. The cons are riskier. And nothing is what you think it is.Brynn Hilder is living a life she never dreamed possible: She lives in a mansion, getting a top-rate education at Vale Hall. She has friends and an almost-boyfriend. Anything she wants, she can have.The only catch? To stay in this life, she has to help the director of Vale Hall take down the bad guys of Sikawa City by collecting secrets and running cons.Getting everything she wants and fighting evil doesn’t seem like such a bad deal. The thing is, she’s not so convinced anymore that Dr. Odin is really going after bad people after all. And the friends and almost-boyfriend that have made her life so different are all liars and con artists—so can she trust that any of it is real?At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Scammers: An Illuminati Novel (Scammers #1)
by SLMNDream big. Score bigger. That&’s their credo. Jordan is caught up in a world she doesn't understand; a world of people who are all on the make, looking for the scam that will make them rich. Dream big. Score bigger. That&’s their credo. The trouble is, she doesn't even know who she is and finding out might just be the death of her...
The Scamp: A Novel
by Jennifer PashleyMysterious, chilling, and told a breakneck pace, The Scamp will thrill readers of Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone and Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State. Rayelle Reed can’t escape in her small town, where everyone knows everything and not enough: All the guys she slept with, but not the ones she loved. The baby she had out of wedlock with the pastor’s son, and how the baby died, but not the grief and guilt that consume her. At a motel bar, Rayelle meets Couper Gale, a freelance detective on a mission to investigate a rash of missing girls, and she tags along as an excuse to cross the state line. But when Couper’s investigation leads them to the mystery surrounding Rayelle’s runaway cousin Khaki, she finds she is heading straight back into everything she was hoping to leave behind. As fates become entwined, Rayelle must follow a haunted and twisted path—leading her toward a collision where loyalties will be betrayed, memories uncovered, and family bonds shattered. Unflinchingly dark and compelling, THE SCAMP confronts head-on the issues of family origins and the bonds between mothers, daughters, and sisters. It delves deep into the cycle of abuse and poverty, questioning, in the end, the value of any one life, child or adult. In Pashley’s hands, the lost girls of rural and industrial America, trapped in the unforgiving systems of government assistance and single parenthood, are portrayed with depth and nuance. She exposes the ingrained poverty and atmosphere of disillusionment that damns them before they have a chance and she gives them a ray of hope for a better life ahead.
Scandal: A Private Novel
by Kate BrianAfter her harrowing kidnapping, Reed returns to Easton to find the worst thing she can think of—Billings has been torn down. Finally, after years of controversy, the school’s wealthiest female alumni have been overruled, and the historical dorm is gone from Easton Academy. How will Reed and the rest of the Billings Girls handle it? Will they still be as powerful, as popular, and as wicked—with literally no ground to stand on?
Scandal (The Harwood Novels #1)
by Heather CullmanWhen a man searching for his brother uncovers a secret that could destroy a powerful nobleman's life, he is offered the man's daughter in exchange for his silence--but could their marriage of convenience turn into a love more powerful than the secrets keeping them apart? When Gideon Harwood returns to his home in Regency-era England after a trip to India makes him an immensely rich man, he is driven by two unrelenting quests: to raise his station in life for the sake of his young sisters and to find his missing brother. What he uncovers is a damning secret about Lord Stanwell, one of London's most powerful noblemen. Desperate to avoid a ruinous scandal, Lord Stanwell buys Gideon's silence by offering the one thing that will guarantee Gideon's entry into the beau monde's inner sanctum: his daughter, Julia. Now in her third insufferable social season, beautiful Lady Julia Barham has yet to meet a man deserving of her devotion. Rumors swirl about the towering, immensely wealthy Gideon Harwood, but he is a commoner, beneath her consideration--and yet, as she learns, he is to be her husband. Julia comes to find that Gideon awakens passion in her that she didn't know she had. But dangerous secrets lie between them. Can they overcome the sins of the past and surrender to a once-in-a-lifetime love?
The Scandal (Stone and Oliver #3)
by Mari Hannah'Brand new series. Same top-notch writing.' Eva DolanWhen an young man is found stabbed to death in a side street in Newcastle city centre in the run up to Christmas, it looks like a botched robbery to DCI David Stone. But when DS Frankie Oliver arrives at the crime scene, she gets more than she bargained for. She IDs the victim as Herald court reporter, thirty-two-year old Chris Adams she's known since they were kids. With no eyewitnesses, the MIT are stumped. They discover that when Adams went out, never to return, he was working on a scoop that would make his name. But what was the story he was investigating? And who was trying to cover it up?As detectives battle to solve the case, they uncover a link to a missing woman that turns the investigation on its head. The exposé has put more than Adams' life in danger. And it's not over yet.
The Scandal
by Mari Hannah'Brand new series. Same top-notch writing.' Eva DolanWhen an young man is found stabbed to death in a side street in Newcastle city centre in the run up to Christmas, it looks like a botched robbery to DCI David Stone. But when DS Frankie Oliver arrives at the crime scene, she gets more than she bargained for. She IDs the victim as Herald court reporter, thirty-two-year old Chris Adams she's known since they were kids. With no eyewitnesses, the MIT are stumped. They discover that when Adams went out, never to return, he was working on a scoop that would make his name. But what was the story he was investigating? And who was trying to cover it up?As detectives battle to solve the case, they uncover a link to a missing woman that turns the investigation on its head. The exposé has put more than Adams' life in danger. And it's not over yet.
The Scandal (Stone and Oliver #3)
by Mari Hannah'Brand new series. Same top-notch writing.' Eva DolanWhen an young man is found stabbed to death in a side street in Newcastle city centre in the run up to Christmas, it looks like a botched robbery to DCI David Stone. But when DS Frankie Oliver arrives at the crime scene, she gets more than she bargained for. She IDs the victim as Herald court reporter, thirty-two-year old Chris Adams she's known since they were kids. With no eyewitnesses, the MIT are stumped. They discover that when Adams went out, never to return, he was working on a scoop that would make his name. But what was the story he was investigating? And who was trying to cover it up?As detectives battle to solve the case, they uncover a link to a missing woman that turns the investigation on its head. The exposé has put more than Adams' life in danger. And it's not over yet.
Scandal Above Stairs (A Below Stairs Mystery #2)
by Jennifer AshleyFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Death Below StairsA mystery of stolen antiquities has Kat Holloway setting aside her apron once again for the intrigues of the upper echelons of Victorian LondonPriceless artwork has gone missing from the home of a wealthy baronet, and his wife stands to take the blame. When Kat's employer asks for help in clearing her friend's name, Kat trades her kitchen for the homes of Mayfair's wealthiest families. Soon antiques are disappearing not only from the extravagant households of connoisseurs and collectors, but from the illustrious British Museum.As the thefts increase in frequency, Kat calls upon her friend Daniel McAdam, who has already set himself up in a pawnshop on the Strand as a seedy receiver of stolen goods. When a man is murdered in the shop, Kat must use all of her wits to see that the thieves are caught and justice is done.
Scandal and Miss Markham: An Innocent Maid For The Duke Courting Danger With Mr. Dyer Scandal And Miss Markham (The Beauchamp Betrothals #2)
by Janice PrestonA scandalous journey…Glassmaker’s daughter Thea Markham is devastated when her brother Daniel goes missing. Then a mysterious lord turns up asking questions about Daniel and offers to find him. Unsure she can trust the handsome peer, Thea dresses up as a boy and follows him!Lord Vernon Beauchamp feels his life lacks direction. Meeting Thea gives him a renewed purpose. And when they are thrown together on their scandalous adventure, friendship soon gives way to desire…The Beauchamp BetrothalsDiamond rings for the dynasty…