Harry Potter grows up in his uncles' house, the Dursley, who hide his true family history from him; when Harry is 11 years old, letters from unknown sender begin to reach him, which are increasing in number as his uncles do not let him open them. They bring the news that the child has been admitted to the Hogwarts College of Magic and Hechiceria, since, like his parents, he has magical powers.
Kay Scarpetta travels to Dublin to offer lectures at the Trinity College School of Medicine, but the real purpose of the coroner is to investigate a series of homicides in Ireland ten years ago.
Once again in Rome after his dangerous mission to Hispania, Marco Didio Falco tries to give a new impetus to his professional life by partnering with his old friend Petronio, while dealing with his endemic family problems. But a macabre and spectacular case will come to alter all your plans: A serial killer who is afraid of all Roman girls is sowing from human hands the water channelling systems of the capital of the Empire. No one like Falco to solve a
The third novel of the trilogy of the Vatidic. King Artimañas has died at the hands of his son, Regio, just like I did. Or at least that's what his friends and adversaries think. But with the help of his allies and the magic of the beasts he emerges from the grave, deeply wounded in body and soul.
Alatriste helps friends of Francisco de Quevedo, Christians of Jewish descent and therefore not sufficiently clean of blood, to rescue a daughter from the convent where she has been held.
Penultimate volume of saga that has convulsed the fantasy. Ciri, turned into a bandit, faces the relentless killer sent after her by the Emperor of Nilfgaard. The little witch is getting more and more deadly and ruthless... but maybe not enough. Meanwhile, Geralt's company is in the south, and Yennefer tracks the ocean in search of the hiding place of the traitor wizard Vilgefortz, which may be related to the death of Ciri's parents.
A beautiful young woman, a wife of a Boloña doctor, appears dead in her villa under construction. His jewels have disappeared and all suspicions focus on an unbalanced relative who has disappeared the same night of the crime.
Don Rigoberto fills notebooks with notes, comments, diatribs and fantasies to defend himself from banality. Also to bear the nostalgia he feels for his wife, Lucrecia, of whom he has been separated for a few months for something that happened between her and Don Rigoberto's son. Don Rigoberto's notebooks are much more than an erotic novel. It is also a novel about reality and desire, about how the life of imagination can compensate the narrow gestures of real life.
Isabel Allende brings her magical powers as a storyteller to a very personal level and with a special charm to the intertwined and sensual arts of food and love. By mixing personal memories with the folklore of the world, historical legends, and memorable moments of erotic literature and other types, Allende enriches his narrative with similar portions of humor and insight. Combining a banquet of fascinating facts about the aphrodisiac powers of food and drink, Allende serves them with convincing admiration and due irreverence. She offers suggestions, both old and modern, to attract a lover, light the sexual burning, prolong the sexual act, reactivate the decadent virility. In the caldero of history, she informs us about the lascivious appetites of all, from Emperor Nero to Catherine the Great to the notorious Madame du Barry of France.
What would you do if, on a flight, 33,000 feet high, you heard a voice inside you that identified itself as God? An old and half-deaf God, who speaks half-in-joke, half-in-earnest and, between games of words and metaphors, makes some interesting revelations...
It's a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke. It's the fourth and last book in the space Odyssey series.
The life of the Lingord, a liberal marriage in South Africa, is overturned when his son Duncan kills one of his roommates. The young man has confessed his authorship, but not the motive of the crime. To face the process, the Lingord resort to a newly returned black lawyer from exile, a risky choice in a country where racial discrimination has only been formally put to an end.
At first sight, Margrave seems one of those peaceful peoples where nothing ever happens. Jack Reacher, a former military man turned into trotamonds, just got there and it takes less than an hour to check that appearances are being misled.
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