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Jeffery Deaver

Il collezionista di ossa

Rhyme, criminologo forense divenuto tetraplegico in seguito a un incidente legato a un'indagine, viene incaricato di scovare il serial killer che rapisce persone appena arrivata a New York e poi le uccide asportandone dei pezzi. Il killer lascia indizi criptici che, se decifrati in tempo, possono portare alla vittima successiva. Affiancato da Amelia, la poliziotta che sostituisce le sue braccia e le sue gambe inerti, Rhyme lavora per deduzioni logiche e capisce che l'assassino è convinto di essere il Collezionista di ossa, uno psicopatico degli inizi del secolo. Nella caccia all'uomo in lotta contro il tempo per salvare le vittime designate, Rhyme capisce che il killer in realtà vuole colpire proprio lui.<

Carlos Fuentes

A Change of Skin

Four people, each in search of some real value in life, drive from Mexico City to Veracruz for Semana Santa — Holy Week.<

Carlos Fuentes

The Campaign

In this witty and enthralling saga of revolutionary South America, Carlos Fuentes explores the period of profound upheaval he calls" the romantic time." His hero, Baltasar Bustos, the son of a wealthy landowner, kidnaps the baby of a prominent judge, replacing it with the black baby of a prostitute. When he catches sight of the baby's mother, though, he falls instatnly in love with her and sets off on an anguished journey to repent his act and win her love.<

Jeffery Deaver

Il filo che brucia

<div><p>Manhattan. Una violenta scarica elettrica colpisce un autobus di linea, uccide un passeggero e genera uno spaventoso incendio.<br> Non ci sono dubbi: è un attentato. Le autorità sospettano una matrice terrorista e il caso finisce tra le mani di Lincoln Rhyme. Mentre il criminologo e la sua squadra scavano negli ambienti dell’ecoterrorismo, l’attentatore si fa vivo con una richiesta impossibile: una riduzione dei consumi elettrici che condannerebbe New York alla paralisi. Blackout e incidenti letali si moltiplicano, e la città precipita nel caos. Intanto a Città del Messico è in azione un pericoloso serial killer: l’Orologiaio, il solo criminale che sia sfuggito a Rhyme, mette a segno una serie di attentati esplosivi. La polizia, coordinata a distanza dal criminologo americano, non riesce a fermarlo.<br> Una doppia sfida per Lincoln Rhyme, che dovrà affrontare i fantasmi più nascosti della propria coscienza e del proprio passato. Senza lasciarci la pelle.</p> <p>**</p><h3>Sinossi</h3> <p>Manhattan. Una violenta scarica elettrica colpisce un autobus di linea, uccide un passeggero e genera uno spaventoso incendio.<br> Non ci sono dubbi: è un attentato. Le autorità sospettano una matrice terrorista e il caso finisce tra le mani di Lincoln Rhyme. Mentre il criminologo e la sua squadra scavano negli ambienti dell’ecoterrorismo, l’attentatore si fa vivo con una richiesta impossibile: una riduzione dei consumi elettrici che condannerebbe New York alla paralisi. Blackout e incidenti letali si moltiplicano, e la città precipita nel caos. Intanto a Città del Messico è in azione un pericoloso serial killer: l’Orologiaio, il solo criminale che sia sfuggito a Rhyme, mette a segno una serie di attentati esplosivi. La polizia, coordinata a distanza dal criminologo americano, non riesce a fermarlo.<br> Una doppia sfida per Lincoln Rhyme, che dovrà affrontare i fantasmi più nascosti della propria coscienza e del proprio passato. Senza lasciarci la pelle. </p></div><

Jonathan Franzen

Die Korrekturen

<p>Nach fast fünfzig Ehejahren hat Enid Lambert nur ein Ziel: ihre Familie zu einem letzten Weihnachtsfest um sich zu scharen. Alles könnte so schön sein, gemütlich, harmonisch. Doch Parkinson hat ihren Mann Alfred immer fester im Griff, und die drei erwachsenen Kinder durchleben eigene tragikomischen Malaisen. Gary steckt in einer Ehekrise. Chip versucht sich als Autor. Und Denise ist zwar eine Meisterköchin, hat aber in der Liebe kein Glück…</p><p>Franzen verbindet einzigartig Familien- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte.</p><

Jeffery Deaver

Il Giardino delle Belve

Jeffery Deaver

Il gioco del mai

Jonathan Franzen

The Discomfort Zone

Jeffery Deaver

Il Silenzio Dei Rapiti

Kansas. Uno scuola-bus viene bloccato da tre evasi che non hanno più niente da perdere e otto bambine sordomute con le loro insegnanti vengono prese in ostaggio e tracinate in un vicino mattatoio. Il capo degli evasi, un sadico pluriomicida, minaccia di uccidere una persona ogni ora e l'agente mandato dall'FBI ha solo dodici ore per convincerlo a rilasciare gli ostaggi. Dodici ore per trovare la giusta linea di trattativa e imparare a ragionare con la testa dell'assassino..<

Jonathan Franzen

Farther Away : Essays

<p>Jonathan Franzen’s was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century. In , Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it “a masterpiece of American fiction” and lauded its illumination, “through the steady radiance of its author’s profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we thought we knew.”</p><p>In , which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen’s implicit promise to conceal nothing. On a trip to China to see first-hand the environmental devastation there, he doesn’t omit mention of his excitement and awe at the pace of China’s economic development; the trip becomes a journey out of his own prejudice and moral condemnation. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day. is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.</p><p>Praise for :</p><p>“[Franzen’s] new collection takes the reader on a closely guided tour of his private concerns… the miscorrelation between merit and fame, the breakdown of a marriage, birds, the waning relevance of the novel in popular culture… Franzen rewards the reader with extended meditations on common phenomena we might otherwise consider unremarkable… the observations [he] makes regarding subjects like cell phone etiquette, the ever-evolving face of modern love and technology are trenchant… With , Mr. Franzen demonstrates his ability to dissect the kinds of quotidian concerns that so often evade scrutiny… It may be eight years before he releases his next shimmering novel; in the meantime Mr. Franzen seems intent on keeping the conversation going. at least achieves that.”</p><p>—Alex Fankuchen, </p><p>“Throughout the book, Franzen suggests that storytelling is a way to interpret and relieve our collective suffering — a vehicle for social connection — and that apathy can be challenged with Molotov cocktails of ‘bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are’… Combining personal history with cultural events and the minutiae of daily life, Franzen evokes Joan Didion’s tone of rigorous self-examination, and [David Foster] Wallace’s wit and philosophical prowess. Whether he is writing about technologies’ assault on sincerity or analyzing Alice Munro’s short stories, what emerges are works of literary theory and cultural critique that are ambitious, brooding and charmingly funny… The essays in are rigorous, artful devotions navigating morally complex topics. At the heart of this collection are the ways ‘engagement with something you love compels you to face up to who you really are.’ Collectively, they are a source of authenticity and refuge — a way out of loneliness.”</p><p>—Kathryn Savage, </p><p>“Together, the short pieces take a deep, often tangled look at the relationship between writing and self… [Franzen’s] persistent questioning rings genuine and honest… Part of the joy in reading these essays is in their variety: Franzen has thrown together a buffet of essays, speeches, lectures, bits of memoir and journalism, and a few oddballs, like an extended fictional interview with New York State and her entourage (publicist, attorney, historian, geologist)… Each finds a home in the collection because, in the end, each informs Franzen’s capabilities as a writer… The material all fits together as an eclectic mix of Franzen’s fiction-style prose — that plain language rendered rich by its novel construction and telling detail — and a candid, earnest investigation of what makes for great writing. It’s inspiring on two levels: the quality of the writing, and the content about the quality of writing… a collection of thought-provoking, potent essays that rouse a renewed desire to read good books in a culture that is, as Franzen says, marked by its ‘saturation in entertainment.’ The texts are both a testament to and an illustration of what attracts people to books — a delicate play between writer, text, character, and reader that prompts excellent questions and provides surprising answers.”</p><p>—Emily Withrow, </p><p>“ is, from beginning to end, a celebration of love: what provokes it and what endangers it, what joys it brings and what terrors it produces… takes its title from the New Yorker essay in which Franzen first discussed the suicide of his friend the novelist David Foster Wallace… art elegy, part literary criticism, part travelogue… “Farther Away” is one of the strangest, most powerful documents of mourning that I’ve ever read. reveals a kinder Franzen, a writer who has no truck with sentimentality but is a clear-eyed defender of sentiment. At one point, Franzen lists the many things that he is against: ‘weak narrative, overly lyrical prose, solipsism, self-indulgence…’ The list goes on. But is such a wonderful collection because of the things Franzen is for — the ennobling effects of love and imaginative experience, our need to escape from the isolated self and journey farther away, toward other places and other people. Like the best fiction, charts a way out of loneliness.”</p><p>—Anthony Domestico, </p><p>“Franzen captivates readers whether ranting about such everyday concerns as bad cellphone manners or lamenting the diminishing relevance of the novel or examining the talented, troubled life and suicide of his close friend and literary brother, David Foster Wallace… At his best, Franzen exposes himself. He does so often and unapologetically, with understated humor, level-headed alienation and rare insight, typically at the nexus of self-analysis and self-indulgence.”</p><p>—Don Oldenburg, </p><p>“[Franzen’s] essays are riddled with aphorisms (‘One half of a passion is obsession, the other half is love’) and, surprisingly, humour (theory and sex prove incompatible bedfellows when his wife-to-be declares: ‘You can’t deconstruct and undress at the same time’). A multifaceted and revealing collection, actually brings the reader closer to the author.”</p><p>—</p><p>“[Franzen is] after something more elusive: identity, we might call it, which he understands to be not fixed but fluid, a set of reactions or impressions in evolution, a constant variation on the self. ‘[W]hat this means, in practice,’ he notes in the text of a lecture called ‘On Autobiographical Fiction,’ ‘is that you have to become a different person to write the next book. The person you already are already wrote the best book you could. There’s no way to move forward without changing yourself. Without, in other words, working on the story of your own life. Which is to say: your autobiography.’</p><p>This is an essential point, the heart of everything, made all the more so because Franzen’s fiction is not autobiographical in any overt way. And yet, what else could it be when literature is, must be, the result of ‘a personal struggle, a direct and total engagement with the author's story of his or her own life’? Such an intention runs throughout these essays, whether critical (takes on Paula Fox, Christina Snead, Donald Antrim, Dostoevsky) or experiential (an account of bird preservation efforts in the Mediterranean, a tirade about the effect of cellphones on urban life)… On the surface, these pieces have nothing to do with each other, yet what is either one about if not authenticity? Again and again, that's the question Franzen raises in this collection… What Franzen is getting at is the concept of being ‘islanded,’ the notion that — no matter what — we are on our own, all the time… In that sense, all of it — from the kid in that car to the teenager wandering New York to the birder on Robinson Crusoe's island — is of a piece with David Foster Wallace and even Neil Armstrong: isolated dots of consciousness in a capricious universe, trying to find a point of real connection before time runs out.”</p><p>—David Ulin, </p><p>“This book of essays by Jonathan Franzen covers various subjects but the unifying theme is truthfulness. He stands for lucidity of expression, which is not the same thing as ease. The lesson of Franzen is that honesty and excellence come from blood, sweat and tears… This is Franzen at his finest… Narcissism must never be confused with love. This is Franzen’s distilled wisdom… He is unflinching about the price of empathy… This is a book for those interested in how to live as well as how to write.”</p><p>—Sarah Sands, </p><p>“, Jonathan Franzen’s recent collection of essays, proves to be a deeply personal portrait of a contemporary writer at work… Many of ’s features explore creativity and craftsmanship: their tensions and intersections and how those forces can be used together to create a beautiful object… The book, while full of intellect, is also full of puns, anecdotes, and self-effacing jokes about being a cranky, old-fashioned Luddite. In other words, Jonathan Franzen knows what some people think about him, and he couldn’t care less, an attitude in keeping with his public personality. Because, despite the fiery exchanges that can erupt around him, Franzen usually appears untouched by the conflagration, reacting with detached humor or insightful observation… The most personal moments in come in the essays about Franzen’s passions… These essays have sentiment but also clear-eyed pragmatism. Franzen relates the situations he encounters with the objective eye of a scientist, even though you can clearly feel his emotion just under the surface… With , Jonathan Franzen has proved once again why his intelligence, empathy, and humor have earned him widespread acclaim — and also why, whether you love him or hate him, we need his voice as a catalyst for literary conversations in the 21st century.”</p><p>—Ben Pfeiffer, </p><p>“Ultimately, is a meditation on the obscure other half of a world right in front of our faces — the private horror of a public figure struggling with depression, the unspoken loneliness of an individual living in a world of people perpetually turned off because their devices are turned on, the perils of a bird i…</p><

Jeffery Deaver

Il taglio di dio

Jonathan Franzen

Freiheit

<p>Patty und Walter Berglund — Vorzeigeeltern und Umweltpioniere — geben ihren Nachbarn plotzlich Ratsel auf: Ihr halbwuchsiger Sobn zieht zur proletenbaften Familie nebenan, Walter lasst sich zum Schutz einer raren Vogelart auf einen zwielichtigen Pakt mit der Kohleindustrie ein, und Patty, Exsportlerin und Eins-a-Haus-frau, entpuppt sich als wahrlich sonderbar. Hat Walters bester Freund, der Rockmusiker Richard, damit zu tun? Auf einmal fiihrt Patty ein Leben ohne Selbstbetrug — und ohne Rucksicht auf Verluste.</p><p>In diesem grossen Roman einer Familie erzahlt Jonathan Franzen von Freiheit — dem Lebensnerv der westlichen Kulturen — und auch von deren Gegenteil.</p><

Jeffery Deaver

L'addestratore

Jonathan Franzen

How He Came to Be Somewhere : An Interview and Three Early Stories

Jeffery Deaver

L'ultimo copione di John Pellam

Jonathan Franzen

How to Be Alone : Essays

<p>Passionate, strong-minded nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of The CorrectionsJonathan Franzen’s The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as “The Harper’s Essay,” Franzen’s controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time in How to be Alone, along with the personal essays and the dead-on reportage that earned Franzen a wide readership before the success of The Corrections. Although his subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with familiar themes of Franzen’s writing: the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Recent pieces include a moving essay on his father’s stuggle with Alzheimer’s disease (which has already been reprinted around the world) and a rueful account of Franzen’s brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author.</p><p>As a collection, these essays record what Franzen calls “a movement away from an angry and frightened isolation toward an acceptance — even a celebration — of being a reader and a writer.” At the same time they show the wry distrust of the claims of technology and psychology, the love-hate relationship with consumerism, and the subversive belief in the tragic shape of the individual life that help make Franzen one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics.</p><

Jeffery Deaver

L'uomo del sole

Jonathan Franzen

Strong Motion : A Novel

<p>Jonathan Franzen is the author of three novels: The Corrections, The Twenty-Seventh City, and Strong Motion. He has been named one of the Granta 20 Best Novelists under 40 and is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and Harper’s. In Strong Motion, Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first earthquake kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes’ cause complicate everything.</p><p>“Bold, layered. Mr. Franzen lavishes vigorous, expansive prose not only on the big moments of sexual and emotional upheaval, but also on various sideshows and subthemes. An affirmation of Franzen’s fierce imagination and distinctive seriocomic voice. his will be a career to watch.”</p><p>— Josh Rubins, </p><p>"Ingenious. Strong Motion is more than a novel with a compelling plot and a genuine romance (complete with hghly charged love scenes); Franzen also writes a fluid prose that registers the observations of his wickedly sharp eye.”</p><p>— Douglas Seibold,</p><p>“Complicated and absorbing with a fair mix of intrigue, social commentary and humor laced with a tinge of malice.”</p><p>— Anne Gowen, </p><p>“Strong Motion is a roller coaster thriller. Franzen captures with unnerving exactness what it feels like to be young, disaffected and outside mainstream America. There is an uncannily perceptive emotional truth to this book, and it strikes with the flinty anger of an early-sixties protest song.”</p><p>— Will Dana, </p><p>“Franzen is one of the most extraordinary writers around. Strong Motion shows all the brilliance of The Twenty-Seventh City.”</p><p>— Laura Shapiro, </p><p>“Lyrical, dramatic and, above all, fearless. Reading Strong Motion, one is not in the hands of a writer as a fine jeweler or a simple storyteller. Rather, we’re in the presence of a great American moralist in the tradition of Dreiser, Twain or Sinclair Lewis.”</p><p>— Ephraim Paul, </p><p>“With this work, Franzen confidently assumes a position as one of the brightest lights of American letters. Part thriller, part comedy of manners, Strong Motion is full of suspense.”</p><p>— Alicia Metcalf Miller,</p><p>“Wry, meticulously realistic, and good.”</p><p>— </p><p>“Franzen’s dark vision of an ailing society has the same power as Don DeLillo’s, but less of the numbing pessimism.”</p><p>— </p><p>“Base and startling as a right to the jaw. [Franzen] is a writer of almost frightening talent and promise.”</p><p>— Margaria Fichtner, </p><

Jonathan Franzen

The Twenty-Seventh City : A Novel

<p>Highly gifted first novelist Franzen has devised for himself an arduous proving ground in this ambitious, grand-scale thriller. Literate, sophisticated, funny, fast-paced, it’s a virtuoso performance that does not quite succeed, but it will keep readers engrossed nonetheless. Bombay police commissioner S. Jammu, a member of a revolutionary cell of hazy but violent persuasion, contrives to become police chief of St. Louis. In a matter of months, she is the most powerful political force in the metropolis. Her ostensible agenda is the revival of St. Louis (once the nation’s fourth-ranked city and now its 27th) through the reunification of its depressed inner city and affluent suburban country. But this is merely a front for a scheme to make a killing in real estate on behalf of her millionaire mother, a Bombay slumlord. Jammu identifies 12 influential men whose compliance is vital to achieving her ends and concentrates all the means at her disposal toward securing their cooperation. Eventually, the force of Jammu’s will focuses on Martin Probst, one of St. Louis’s most prominent citizens, and their fates become intertwined. Franzen is an accomplished stylist whose flexible, muscular, often sardonic prose seems spot-on in its rendition of dialogue, internal monologue and observation of the everyday minutiae of American manners. His imagination is prodigious, his scope sweeping; but in the end, he loses control of his material. Introducing an initially confusing superabundance of characters, he then allows some of them to fade out completely and others to become flat. The result is that, despite deft intercutting and some surprising twists at the end, the reader is not wholly satisfied. Any potential for greater resonance is left undeveloped, and this densely written work ends up as merely a bravura exercise. 40,000 copy first printing; $50,000 ad/promo; BOMC and QPBC selections.</p><p>Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.</p><p>In the late 1980s, the city of St. Louis appoints as police chief an enigmatic young Indian woman named Jammu. Unbeknownst to her supporters, she is a dedicated terrorist. Standing alone against her is Martin Probst, builder of the famous Golden Arch of St. Louis. Jammu attempts first to isolate him, then seduce him to her side. This is a quirky novel, composed of wildly disparate elements. Franzen weaves graceful, affecting descriptions of the daily lives of the Probsts around a grotesque melodrama. The descriptive portions are almost lyrical, narrated in a minimalist prose, which contrasts well with the grand style of the melodramatic sections. The blend ultimately palls, however, and the murky plot grows murkier. Franzen takes many risks in his first novel; many, not all, work. Recommended. David Keymer, SUNY Coll. of Technology, Utica</p><p>Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.</p><

Jeffery Deaver

L'Uomo Scomparso

Tutto comincia in una scuola di musica di New York. Un killer, compiuto un omicidio, si chiude dentro una classe. In pochi minuti la stanza è circondata dalla polizia. Improvvisamente dall'interno arriva un urlo, seguito da un colpo di arma da fuoco. Sfondata la porta, gli agenti si trovano di fronte a un mistero: nell'aula non c'è nessuno. Una nuova sfida per Lincoln Rhyme e la bella Amelia Sachs: per lei la risoluzione del caso potrebbe significare una promozione, mentre per Lincoln è solo l'ennesimo duello con un criminale che stavolta è anche un maestro dell'illusionismo, "il Negromante", che li provoca con delitti raccapriccianti e sparizioni sempre più diaboliche. Una Release di Satanika.<

Jonathan Franzen

Weiter weg

Jeffery Deaver

La bambola che dorme

<div><p>California, 1999. Daniel Raymond Pell per i media è il "figlio di Manson": affascinante e sinistramente carismatico, al pari del suo predecessore ha incantato, sedotto e plagiato i giovani adepti della sua setta. E con la complicità di uno di essi ha sterminato un'intera famiglia. Nessuno dei due però si è accorto che la notte del massacro, confusa in mezzo alle bambole, una bambina dormiva tranquilla nel suo lettino. Otto anni dopo Pell sta scontando la condanna a vita in un carcere di massima sicurezza per l'efferata carneficina e deve essere processato di nuovo perché vari indizi lo collegano a un altro delitto del passato rimasto irrisolto. Condotto in tribunale, è interrogato dall'agente del California Bureau of Investigation Kathryn Dance, esperta in cinesica. Kathryn è uno dei pochi poliziotti in grado di interpretare il linguaggio non verbale e di capire se testimoni e sospetti dicono la verità. E non sbaglia mai. Questa volta, però, il suo compito è davvero arduo, perché deve confrontarsi con un osso duro, un killer dall'intelligenza quasi sovrumana, un abile manipolatore della volontà altrui. E quando, dopo un sottile gioco di parole, sguardi, gesti, Kathryn scalfisce l'assoluta compostezza di Pell e intuisce un diabolico trucco, è troppo tardi: il "figlio di Manson" è evaso dal tribunale. Comincia la caccia.</p><p> </p><p>**</p></div><

Jeffery Deaver

La dodicesima carta

<div><p>Harlem, biblioteca del Museo afroamericano. La sedicenne Geneva Settle sta cercando notizie di un suo antenato vissuto nella metà dell'Ottocento che, ex schiavo, si era battuto per i diritti civili della gente di colore per poi finire misteriosamente in carcere. Mentre la ragazza è concentrata nella ricerca, un uomo si avventa alle sue spalle e tenta di violentarla. Nonostante sembri un tentativo di stupro, Lincoln Rhyme inizia a indagare con l'aiuto di Amelia Sachs. In effetti, l'uomo ha un obiettivo più impegnativo: uccidere la povera Geneve. E per far questo non esita a uccidere il bibliotecario che forse ha visto qualcosa. Il primo indizio che Rhyme ha a disposizione? La dodicesima carta dei tarocchi, l'Impiccato.</p><p class="description"> </p><p>**</p></div><

Michael F Flynn

Up Jim River

Spiral Arm

<p>The Hound Bridget ban has vanished and the Kennel (the mysterious superspy agency) has given up looking for her. But her daughter, the harper Mearana, has not, and she has convinced the scarred man, Donovan, to aid in her search.</p><p>But Donovan’s mind has been shattered by Those of Name, the rulers of the Confederacy, and no fewer than seven quarreling personalities now inhabit his skull. How can he hope to see Mearana safely through her quest?</p><p>Together, they follow Bridget ban’s trail to the raw worlds of the frontier, edging ever closer to the de-civilized and barbarian planets of the Wild. Along the way, they encounter evidence that they too are being followed—by a deadly agent of Those of Name.From BooklistOn the harper Mearana’s home planet, up Jim River is a saying indicating a journey ever further into danger and the unknown. Mearana’s mother, Bridget ban, has disappeared on mysterious business. Even the Kennel, her employer and one of the galaxy’s two sources of secret agents, didn’t know what she was looking for or where she went. Mearana is determined, though, to discover her mother’s fate. She manages to convince the scarred man, the Fudir, who was once Donovan but became six or seven personalities after a botched experiment by Those of Name, to join her out of a sense of nostalgia. The worlds inhabited by these people are sufficient reason to read the novel. The extrapolations of linguistic drift and remnants of ancient history that Flynn conjures constitute a fascinating story in themselves. Adding to them a tense and thrilling search from the bar on Jehovah to the very Wild itself, through strange cultures and dangerous ports, just makes the book all the more engaging.</p><

Jeffery Deaver

La finestra rotta

Uno spietato serial killer che non si limita a uccidere, ma pare conoscere ogni cosa - indirizzi e movimenti, numeri e codici delle carte di credito, dati personali, sanitari, lavorativi - delle sue vittime e degli innocenti che incastra con prove suffi cienti per farli arrestare come assassini: ecco il diabolico avversario contro cui deve battersi Lincoln Rhyme, il criminologo tetraplegico portato sullo schermo da Denzel Washington. Per la sua ottava inchiesta, Rhyme è affi ancato ancora una volta dalla compagna di vita e di indagini Amelia Sachs e dal detective della polizia Lou Sellitto oltre che dal giovane sergente Ron Pulaski. Su tutti incombe la minaccia del killer senza nome e identifi cato con un numero, 522, a causa della data dell'ultimo delitto, il 22 maggio. E la minaccia è la stessa che sovrasta tutti noi, vittime potenziali dell'uso fraudolento e della manipolazione dei dati personali. Il nuovo thriller di Jeffery Deaver inserisce un tema di scottante attualità in un meccanismo perfettamente oliato fatto di personaggi ben caratterizzati, fi nezza analitica e, naturalmente, colpi di scena che tengono sulla corda fi no all'ultimo gli affezionati lettori.<

Petri Fermat

Observationes Domini Petri de Fermat

<p>Observationes Domini Petri de Fermat. Tolosæ,1670.</p><p>Комментарии Ферма к „Арифметике“ Диофанта. Тексты посвящения, предисловия и комментариев (I-XLVIII) на языке оригинала по изданию Diophanti Alexandrini Arithmeticorum et de numeris multangulus, Cum commentariis C. G. Bacheti V. C. et observationibus D. P. de Fermat Senatoris Tolosani. Tolosæ, 1670. (первая публикация). Перевод комментариев (II-XLV) на русский язык выполнен И. Н. Веселовским с критического издания Diophanti Alexandrini Opera omnia cum græcis commerntariis, Editit et latine interpretatus est Paulus Tannery, Lipsae 1893-1895, 1-2 vol. (из книги Диофант Александрийский. Арифметика и книга о многоугольных числах. М.: „Наука“, 1974.) Формулировки задач, примечания и перевод комментариев I, XLVI-XLVIII на французский язык по изданию Œuvres de Fermat. Tome I. Paris, 1891. </p><

Jeffery Deaver

La Luna Fredda

In una gelida notte di dicembre, con una luna piena che si staglia nel cielo nero di New York e la paura diffusa tra la gente di un nuovo 11 settembre, un killer spietato colpisce due volte a poche ore di distanza. Sulle scene dei delitti lascia il suo "biglietto da visita", un costoso orologio con le fasi lunari sul quadrante e un messaggio firmato "L'orologiaio". Tutto lascia supporre che i due omicidi non siano destinati a rimanere gli unici. Il criminalista Lincoln Rhyme e i suoi collaboratori hanno a disposizione solo poche ore per fermare quel killer geniale e meticoloso ossessionato dal tempo, che pianifica i suoi delitti con precisione cronometrica. E Amelia Sachs fatica a conciliare la caccia all'Orologiaio con la sua prima indagine autonoma, il caso di un apparente suicidio che la porterà a scoprire inquietanti rivelazioni sul proprio passato che potrebbero minare alle basi il particolarissimo rapporto con Lincoln. Fortunatamente compare sulla scena dell'inchiesta un'inattesa quanto provvidenziale alleata per Rhyme: l'agente speciale del Bureau of Investigation della California Kathryn Dance, esperta nella lettura del linguaggio non verbale negli interrogatori. Nonostante Rhyme si mostri scettico sull'attendibilità delle testimonianze e Kathryn nutra poca fiducia sulle prove fornite dai rilievi effettuati, la loro bizzarra collaborazione riesce a smontare quello che via via si configura come un meccanismo a scatole cinesi fatto di inganni e doppi giochi<

Jeffery Deaver

La Scimmia Di Pietra

Carlos Fuentes

Distant Relations

During a long, lingering lunch at the Automobile Club de France, the elderly Comte de Branly tells a story to a friend, unnamed until the closing pages, who is in fact the first-person narrator of the novel. Branly's story is of a family named Heredia: Hugo, a noted Mexican archaeologist, and his young son, Victor, whom Branly met in Cuernavaca and who became his house guest in Paris. There they are gradually drawn into a mysterious connection with the French Victor Heredia and his son, known as Andre. There is a hard-edged emphasis on the theme of relations between the Old World and the New, as Branly's twilit, Proustian existence is invaded and overcome by the hot, chaotic, and baroque proliferation of the Caribbean jungle.<

Jeffery Deaver

La scimmia di pietra: La quarta indagine di Lincoln Rhyme #4

<p>Kwan Ang, noto come “lo Spettro” nel mondo del crimine organizzato cinese, è uno spietato trafficante di uomini, braccato dalla polizia di New York, dall’FBI e dall’Ufficio Immigrazione. Ora si sta avvicinando a Long Island per sbarcare un carico di clandestini. Grazie a una brillante intuizione di Lincoln Rhyme, la Guardia Costiera riesce a localizzare per tempo la nave, ma il malvivente non esita a farla esplodere, con tutti i suoi disperati passeggeri a bordo. Qualcuno però è scampato al naufragio e potrebbe testimoniare contro di lui. Kwan Ang deve assolutamente eliminare i superstiti. Sulla sua strada ci sono Lincoln e Amelia, decisi a raggiungere prima di lui le potenziali vittime, affiancati da un enigmatico collega giunto dall’Estremo Oriente. Una partita di astuzia e logica che dura quarantotto ore, prima del drammatico confronto finale.</p><

Amanda Filipacchi

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty

<p>In the heart of New York City, a group of artistic friends struggles with society’s standards of beauty. At the center are Barb and Lily, two women at opposite ends of the beauty spectrum, but with the same problem: each fears she will never find a love that can overcome her looks. Barb, a stunningly beautiful costume designer, makes herself ugly in hopes of finding true love. Meanwhile, her friend Lily, a brilliantly talented but plain-looking musician, goes to fantastic lengths to attract the man who has rejected her — with results that are as touching as they are transformative.</p><p>To complicate matters, Barb and Lily discover that they may have a murderer in their midst, that Barb’s calm disposition is more dangerously provocative than her beauty ever was, and that Lily’s musical talents are more powerful than anyone could have imagined. Part literary whodunit, part surrealist farce, serves as a smart, modern-day fairy tale. With biting wit and offbeat charm, Amanda Filipacchi illuminates the labyrinthine relationship between beauty, desire, and identity, asking at every turn: what does it truly mean to allow oneself to be seen?</p><

Jeffery Deaver

La Sedia Vuota

Quadriplegico da anni, Rhyme vuole recuperare almeno in parte la sua mobilità. Con Amelia si reca perciò nel North Carolina per sottoporsi all'operazione. Ma appena arrivati le autorità chiedono il loro aiuto in un'indagine: nell'arco di ventiquattr'ore nella cittadina di Tanner's Corner ci sono stati un omicidio e il rapimento di due giovani donne. Il principale sospetto è uno strano adolescente di nome Insetto. Rhyme e Amelia riusciranno ad inchiodare il giovane, ma nemmeno Rhyme potrebbe mai sospettare che Amelia non sarà d'accordo con lui e fuggirà nella palude insieme al ragazzo che lui considera uno spietato assassino. E così Rhyme si trova ad affrontare la sfida più difficile: quella con la donna cui ha insegnato tutto ciò che sa.<

Ben Fountain

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

<p>Ben Fountain’s remarkable debut novel follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders.</p><

Robert Fabbri

Rome's lost son

Vespasian

Jeffery Deaver

La stanza della morte

<p>Robert Moreno, cittadino americano, viene ucciso alle Bahamas da un cecchino in grado di colpire il cuore delle sue vittime a oltre un chilometro di distanza. La responsabilità dell'attentato ricade sul governo degli Stati Uniti: la sparatoria parrebbe infatti essere la risposta all'attacco terroristico che l'uomo stava apparentemente ordendo ai danni di una compagnia petrolifera americana. Ma le prime indagini portano alla luce oscuri retroscena, tra i quali il macabro omicidio a sangue freddo di un innocente. <br>Sarà Lincoln Rhyme a presentarsi sulla scena del crimine a Nassau, mentre la collega Amelia Sachs continua le indagini a New York. Ma qualcuno sta facendo sparire ogni prova. <br>In contemporanea con la pubblicazione USA, il decimo romanzo della serie di Lincoln Rhyme.</p><

William Faulkner

Mosquitoes

<p>Over the course of a four-day yacht trip, an assortment of guests goes through the motions of socializing with their wealthy host while pursuing their own disparate goals. As the guests are separated into artists and non-artists, youth and widows, males and females, explores gender and societal roles, sexual tension, and unrequited love as Faulkner delves into what it means to be an artist.</p><p>Faulkner’s second novel, was first published in 1927, but did not receive any critical response until his literary reputation was well-established.</p><

Jeffery Deaver

La Strada Delle Croci

<p class="description">Kathryn Dance, l'agente del California Bureau of Investigation specializzata nella lettura del linguaggio corporeo, deve fermare un potenziale assassino che annuncia i suoi delitti piantando croci con la data del giorno seguente lungo una strada della penisola di Monterey. Ben presto i sospetti si appuntano sul giovane Travis Brigham, oggetto di attacchi feroci su un blog, The Chilton Report, dove è accusato di essere il responsabile di un incidente stradale in cui sono morte due sue amiche. E tutte le vittime sembra vengano scelte proprio a causa dei loro interventi sul blog. Ma Travis scompare, e Kathryn, insieme allo sceriffo Michael O'Neil e al consulente informatico John Boling, deve impegnarsi in una frenetica lotta contro il tempo per scoprire la verità.<br>(source: bol_it.com)<br></p><

Jeffery Deaver

Lo Scheletro Che Balla

Ex detective dalla mente raffinatissima ma costretto su una sedia a rotelle, Lincoln Rhyme sta inseguendo un ingegnoso serial killer capace di trasformarsi con abilità camaleontica a mano a mano che uccide le sue vittime. Una sola di esse è vissuta abbastanza a lungo per offrire un indizio agli inquirenti: il tatuaggio dipinto sul braccio dell'assassino, che mostra uno scheletro nell'atto di ballare con una donna di fronte a una bara. Rhyme ha soltanto quarantott'ore prima che il diabolico criminale colpisca di nuovo, ma almeno può contare ancora sulla bella Amelia, l'instancabile poliziotta che sostituisce le sue braccia e le sue gambe inferme.<

Philip José Farmer

The Gates of Creation

The World of Tiers

The Tiers series chronicles the adventures of both Robert Wolff, a man from our world transported through space-time to a cosmos with dimensions and laws different from our own, and Kickaha the Trickster (a.k.a. Paul J. Finnegan, also from our contemporary world). Separately and together, the two heroes contend against the Lords who rule the separate universes, of which the marvelous many-leveled World of Tiers is the center. Mythological and legendary creatures and characters abound: centaurs and harpies, mermaids and Indians, aliens and beautiful women.<

Philip José Farmer

The Maker of Universes

The World of Tiers

The Tiers series chronicles the adventures of both Robert Wolff, a man from our world transported through space-time to a cosmos with dimensions and laws different from our own, and Kickaha the Trickster (a.k.a. Paul J. Finnegan, also from our contemporary world). Separately and together, the two heroes contend against the Lords who rule the separate universes, of which the marvelous many-leveled World of Tiers is the center. Mythological and legendary creatures and characters abound: centaurs and harpies, mermaids and Indians, aliens and beautiful women.<

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