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Da fanciulla indigente a diamante della Stagione, Miss Daphne Honeycote nel giro di pochi mesi viene proiettata nel dorato mondo dell’alta società inglese, grazie alle nozze della sorella Anabelle con il Duca di Huntford. Per Daphne si schiudono le porte del ton e si delinea la prospettiva di un buon matrimonio, magari con il giovane Lord Biltmore, che sembra così preso da lei. Ma il passato non è cosa da potersi cancellare cambiando abiti e pettinatura, e Daphne si trova a dover fare i conti con lo scandaloso segreto che ha finora custodito gelosamente: l’aver posato come modella per due dipinti compromettenti. Uno di questi ora è entrato in possesso dell’ombroso Lord Benjamin Foxburn che, come tutore del giovane Biltmore, non desidera certo che lui sposi qualcuno dal passato tanto discutibile. Ciò che Benjamin non ha il coraggio di confessare neppure a se stesso, però, è la fortissima attrazione che prova per Daphne... Ogni gentildonna ha i suoi segreti.
Chi sono stati nella vita di tutti i giorni gli “eroi” della Grande Guerra? Come andarono al fronte, che cosa scrivevano, che cosa hanno lasciato dietro di sé i protagonisti più conosciuti della prima guerra mondiale? Gli “eroi” raccontati da Brogi passano dall’interventismo estremo del bersagliere-ciclista Enrico Toti, all’irredentismo di Cesare Battisti, Fabio Filzi, Damiano Chiesa, ai letterati prestati al fronte come Enrico Serra e Scipio Slataper, per arrivare ai giovanissimi come Roberto Sarfatti figlio di Margherita, nota come la prima amante di Mussolini. E ancora ecco Alberto Cadlolo, Giacomo Venezian, il Milite Ignoto. Ma anche gli Arditi e poi gli Arditi del Popolo con Guido Picelli. Ci sono pure le medaglie d’oro al valore militare, da Francesco Baracca agli altri “assi” della nascente aviazione italiana come Pier Ruggero Piccio, Fulco Ruffo di Calabria, Silvio Scaroni, all’umbro Venanzio Gabriotti che si guadagnò quattro medaglie d’argento e bronzo e che quella d’oro l’ha infine aggiunta nel 1944 facendosi fucilare dai nazifascisti come membro della Resistenza. Le figure più conosciute e quelle meno note, compresi gli esempi di eroismo dalla parte austriaca, come Sepp Innerkofler, sono qui rivisitati con gli strumenti critici dell’oggi. La guerra, però, non produsse solo eroi ma anche folli e l’ultima parte di questo lavoro racchiude una ricca rassegna sui soldati usciti di senno nella Grande Guerra e rinchiusi nei manicomi d’Italia, un esercito di matti composto da 40 mila reclute provenienti dagli orrori del fronte, attraverso una ricerca su documenti inediti come le cartelle cliniche rintracciate nell’archivio dell’ospedale psichiatrico di Cogoleto a Genova. Paolo Brogi, giornalista, ha lavorato a «Reporter», «L’Europeo» e al «Corriere della Sera». Ha pubblicato, per Aliberti editore, La lunga notte dei Mille grande successo di critica e di pubblico. Gli “eroi” della Grande Guerra. Francesco Baracca e gli altri “assi” della nascente aviazione italiana – Fulco Ruffo, Pier Ruggero Piccio, Silvio Scaroni –, i letterati Renato Serra e Scipio Slataper, Enrico Toti, Giacomo Venezian, Roberto Sarfatti, gli irredentisti Damiano Chiesa, Cesare Battisti e Fabio Filzi, il romano Alberto Cadlolo, l’umbro Venanzio Gabriotti e, dall’altra parte, l’austriaco di Sesto Sepp Innerkofler. Ma anche gli Arditi e poi gli Arditi del Popolo con Guido Picelli. Una rivisitazione critica, accompagnata dalle storie dei soldati che a migliaia finirono negli ospedali psichiatrici e che furono chiamati “scemi di guerra”.
Once upon a time, two girls from opposite corners of the globe collide in a deceptively sleepy town in the deep south. Their unlikely friendship becomes the catalyst that unravels Havenwood's most closely guarded secrets, and will change their lives forever.
Jul Graham doesn't know what to expect when she's sent to live with her grandmother after her father's abrupt disappearance, but it certainly isn't a private school full of foreign students and a magic mirror in her backyard. Her new best friend is a blonde girl who speaks Japanese, and all of the adults - including her grandmother - treat Jul like she's some sort of time bomb. On top of that, she's a subject of interest to her new classmates, who don't seem entirely normal themselves. What is Havenwood hiding?
Bliss Russo thought nothing exciting ever happened in her life. Until her building caught on fire, and she had to be carried out of the flames in the arms of a gorgeous fireman. Sure, her apartment is now in shambles, and she'll have to start her huge work project completely from scratch. But at least her love life is finally looking up…if only she can find her red-hot rescuer again.
Dragon shapeshifter Drake Cameron is the last of his clan, and the loneliness is starting to claw at him. He's met only one woman who might be able to stand the shock of his true nature. After all, she barely batted an eyelash when her home burned down. And feeling her curves against him was just as hot as the inferno. Just when he thinks he'll never track her down, she walks into his firehouse—with no idea what she's about to get herself into…
For ambitious engineer Simon Darcy, winning Queen Victoria’s competition to recover lost inventions of historical significance is a matter of pride—and redemption. After all, it was Simon’s failed monorail project that left his family destitute, and winning the tournament would surely restore the Darcys’ reputation.
Simon sets his sights high, targeting no less than the infamous time-travel device that forever changed the world by transporting scientists, engineers, and artists from the twentieth century. The Mod technology was banned and supposedly destroyed, but Simon is sure he can re-create it.
His daring plan draws the attention of Willie G., the Clockwork Canary, London’s sensationalist reporter. Simon soon discovers that Willie is a male guise for Wilhemina Goodenough, the love of his youth, who left him jilted and bitter. He questions her motives even as he falls prey to her unique charm. As the attraction between the two reignites, Simon realizes that this vixen from his past has secrets that could be the key to his future…as long as he can put their history behind him.
When you’re new to magic, one spell can be the difference between getting what you want...and ruining the lives of everyone you love.
Sixteen-year-old Madison has just embraced her magical powers. The trick now is learning how to control them. She and her boyfriend -and fellow witch- can’t even enjoy a simple kiss without getting shocked when their powers collide. Instead of mastering her new skills, though, Madison is stuck watching her kid brother and doing chores.
But being a witch does have its benefits. With a simple spell, Madison instantly conjures the help she needs around the house. Or so she thinks. Her idea of “help” invites trouble of its own as a pair of dangerous yet enticing beings enter her life. When a classmate disappears soon afterwards, Madison discovers she's the next victim of a threat she's powerless to resist...and there’s nothing it won’t kill to make her surrender.
Caught in the crossfire between two dashing but deadly creatures, Madison must figure out which one to trust and how to rid her world of the other—before one of them destroys her and everyone she cares about.
Before he makes his appearance in The Girl with the Iron Touch, Jack Dandy had an adventure of his very own. Learn how his actions set the plot in motion in The Dark Discovery of Jack Dandy, a short teaser story from author Kady Cross’s Steampunk Chronicles.
Jack Dandy didn’t become prince of the London underworld at barely twenty-one by being softhearted, even if a certain girl in a steel corset has wormed her way into his affections of late. He knows how to manipulate, charm and rob people blind.
And if his criminal activities embarrass his aristocratic father, so much the better. So when a friend of Jack’s father hires him for an underhanded job, Jack is happy to oblige—for an outrageous fee, of course. Delivering a mysterious crate seems like an easy task—until Jack realizes just what is inside...
A Dr Gideon Fell mystery and classic of the locked-room genre Outside the little French city of Chartres, industrialist Howard Brookes is found dying on the parapet of an old stone tower. Evidence shows that it was impossible for anyone to have entered at the time of the murder, however someone must have, for the victim was discovered stabbed in the back. Who could have done it? And where did they go? When no one is convicted, the mystery remains unsolved for years until a series of coincidences brings things to a head in post-war England, where amateur sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell is on the scene to work out what really happened.
Six months after she arrived in Six Ashes, half the men were in love with beautiful Lesley Grant--and one of them was going to marry her--until Sir Harvey Gilman, London murder expert told him: "That lovely young girl is forty-one years old. She poisoned two husbands and one lover. And no one knows how." A few hours later Sir Harvey was dead--poisoned--in a sealed room.
There was a streak of madness in the ancient and honorable Devereux family. No one, not even the family doctor, could tell when, or in whom, it might make its ugly appearance.
Their own grandmother said of the two beautiful Devereux girls: "One of my granddaughters is all right But I've been worried about the other since she was a little child."
Now one of the girls was dead, murdered. And no one knew which of the sisters—the dead Margot, or the lovely, living Celia— was a cunning, sexually deranged, exceedingly dangerous madwoman.
♦THE SLEEPING SPHINX-JOHN DICKSON CARR AT HIS BEST!"
As a light-talent, Alice North has the rare ability to make things disappear, including herself—a gift that comes in handy during her magic act with her dust bunny Houdini.
Business mogul Drake Sebastian is day-blind, since his sight was nearly destroyed in a lab accident. But he’s the one man who can see Alice when she disappears—and he needs her.
On Rainshadow Island, two dangerous Old World crystals are missing, igniting a paranormal storm. Drake thinks Alice is the key to finding them, and proposes they head there, but only after a Marriage of Convenience.
Alice’s honeymoon on Rainshadow is guaranteed to be memorable, as the island—and the passion between her and Drake—is about to explode...
My rival, a collector of bounties like myself, has murdered one of my own. In consequence, I have been removed from my house, my staff, and all who would support me. I have nowhere else to turn, so I beg asylum within the Midnight Menagerie, London’s decadent pleasure garden.
Micajah Hawke’s dominance there will not tolerate my presence for long. I am fixated on revenge, but I walk a razor’s edge under his scrutiny His wicked power is not easily ignored, and I must not allow myself to submit—no matter how sweet the sacrifice.
Challenging my rival to a race is the only way to end this, no small task when the quarry is the murderous Jack the Ripper. As my enemies close in, I fear the consequences of this hunt. I am trapped between two killers, and what doesn’t kill me may leave its scars forever.
In this pulse-pounding Immortals After Dark tale, #1 bestselling author Kresley Cole delves into the darkest mysteries and deepest passions of Clan MacRieve. . .
Uilleam MacRieve believed he’d laid to rest the ghosts of his boyhood. But when a brutal torture revives those ancient agonies and destroys his Lykae instinct, the proud Scot craves the oblivion of death. Until he finds her—a young human so full of spirit and courage that she pulls him back from the brink.
Seized for the auction block, Chloe Todd is forced to enter a terrifying new world of monsters and lore as a bound slave. When offered up to creatures of the dark, she fears she won’t last the night. Until she’s claimed by him—a tormented immortal with heartbreaking eyes, whose touch sets her blood on fire.
With enemies circling, MacRieve spirits Chloe away to the isolated Highland keep of his youth. But once he takes her to his bed, his sensual mate becomes something more than human, evoking his savage past and testing his sanity. On the cusp of the full moon, can he conquer his worst nightmare to save Chloe . . . from himself?
True love and destiny collide in the conclusion to the Haven trilogy, which Booklist called “a blend of the Gemma Doyle trilogy, the Twilight saga, and Lois Duncan’s thrillers.”
Forced to endure the violent punishment of the Tribunal for murders he has no recollection of committing, Aidan is slowly rotting away in a Paris dungeon. Violet is all but an unreachable dream to him now.
But unlike Aidan, Violet has not given up hope as she works tirelessly with Matthew, her guardian and protector, to prove Aidan’s innocence and unravel the haunting vision that plagues her thoughts—the death of someone closest to her.
Determined to set Aidan free, Violet discovers that a dangerous vampire war is brewing—and that Aidan may be at the center of it all. It’s only when the war reaches the doors of Winterhaven and tragedy strikes the school that Violet has to finally accept her fate. But that could mean losing Aidan—forever.
With no other option, Violet must choose between true love and fulfilling her destiny…unless she can find a way to have them both.
I didn’t want to cry. For once in my life, tears evaded me. Perhaps because I refused to grieve this loss, because it wasn’t a loss in my eyes, in my heart. It was a call for war, yes. But not a loss. I wouldn’t allow it.
Besides, I was too mad to cry, even in my exhaustion, and anger would get me much further.
As I curled my body around Sasha’s, though, I realized the anger within me had changed. I no longer felt irrational and blinding fury that dulled all other emotions. But that was okay. I really didn’t want to be Psycho Alexis. This, what I now felt in every cell of my body down to the core, was better. My anger had condensed and solidified into a cold, hard stone settling within me. Something I could control and hold onto for the long term to keep me going and focused on the goal.
Wrath.
That’s what I felt. And there was nothing worse than the wrath of a pissed-off mother.
Wrath, the fifth volume in the bestselling, award-winning Soul Savers Series, will have you on the edge-of-your-seat-ravenously-devouring-junk-food as you experience the mysteries, magic, betrayals, and passion that you’ve come to expect from Kristie Cook’s writing.
There’s a Spanish proverb that says, “From the thorn and the pain, a flower is born.” Naomi Duran never really understood what that meant until she became an archangel.
Finally reunited with the love of her life, Naomi thought she had everlasting love and happiness in Heaven. Even with the rebellious Lash by her side, she learns that life as an archangel isn’t easy.
When secrets of the past are finally revealed, tempers flare, brother is pitted against brother, and Naomi and Lash face the greatest threat to their relationship: choosing among love, family, or duty.
In the end, can this family of broken angels forgive past mistakes, or will they carry the thorn in their hearts forever, ripping their family apart?
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