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The year is 1964, and Carl Gordon is an ill-prepared New York assistant US attorney who has lied his way into a transfer to Stockville, Alabama, where he is supposed to monitor and enforce the Civil Rights Act. In a matter of days, the Ku Klux Klan takes aim at him, the outside agitator. Carl has agreed to represent Oleatha Geary, a black family matriarch who has inherited a mansion in an all-white, race-restricted neighborhood. Carl and Oleatha are engulfed in litigation that turns deadly. Meanwhile, Carl and Oleatha's daughter, Lenore, find themselves in a blossoming romance opposed by everyone.

Al di là di tutti i confini, al di là dei mari, dei fiumi e delle montagne, esiste una città magnifica. Le sue strade sono lastricate d'oro, i suoi palazzi sono splendenti e le sue torri si specchiano nelle acque cristalline del lago Smisurato. Non c'è al mondo luogo più felice della Città d'Oro, e non ci sono al mondo persone più felici dei suoi abitanti. Sì, perché i Lucenti sono dotati di straordinari poteri magici. All'età di tredici anni, vedono i capelli tingersi d'oro e i piedi staccarsi dal suolo in un volo gentile.

The members of the Murder by the Yard book club are spending a pleasant afternoon hiking in Palo Duro Canyon, when one of the Megan Clark’s dogs slips his leash and digs up a human skeleton. Megan’s background in anthropology places her in a position to help police unearth the remains and to find another body: a mummy clothed in Comanche garments. Autopsies reveal that foul play caused both deaths, one less than five years earlier, and the other more than a century ago. Now, Megan must connect the two murders, before she finds herself six feet under.

Mara Altman's volatile and apprehensive relationship with her body has led her to wonder about a lot of stuff over the years. Like, who decided that women shouldn't have body hair? And how sweaty is too sweaty? Also, why is breast cleavage sexy but camel toe revolting? Isn't it all just cleavage? These questions and others like them have led to the comforting and sometimes smelly revelations that constitute Gross Anatomy, an essay collection about what it's like to operate the bags of meat we call our bodies.

The Murder by the Yard book group has been going strong for six months, and Megan Clark is eager to celebrate - and increase membership. For fun and publicity, she volunteers her friend, Dr. Ryan Stevens, to lead tours of famous Amarillo murder sites. One of the sites witnessed the strangling of a young bride and the subsequent suicide of her husband. The case was never solved - but one of the Gormans wants to know what really happened, and urges the group to reopen the investigation. Megan dives into the research with her usual enthusiasm. But it's soon clear that the killer doesn't take kindly to amateur sleuths....

Blue mages learn skills from beasts. This is the story of one fortunate enough to be taken in by dragons.

La prima volta in cui Rosa Sauer entra nella stanza in cui dovrà consumare i suoi prossimi pasti è affamata. "Da anni avevamo fame e paura," dice. Siamo nell'autunno del 1943, a Gross-Partsch, un villaggio molto vicino alla Tana del Lupo, il nascondiglio di Hitler. Ha ventisei anni, Rosa, ed è arrivata da Berlino una settimana prima, ospite dei genitori di suo marito Gregor, che combatte sul fronte russo.

Inverno 1974. Marlene ha sposato Herr Wegener, l'uomo piú temuto del Sud Tirolo, per sottrarsi a una vita di miseria. Ora, però, qualcosa è cambiato. Sa che il marito non le perdonerà mai il tradimento, ma decide lo stesso di scappare da lui, dopo averlo derubato di un tesoro il cui valore va ben oltre quello del denaro. Uscita di strada con la macchina, la giovane viene salvata e curata da Simon Keller, un Bau'r, un contadino di montagna che abita in un maso sperduto.

Infertile and unable to convince her relatives to accept the man she married, Katie Callahan regrets giving away the daughter from her secret teenage pregnancy. A twist of fate brings a second chance at motherhood until a devastating motorcycle accident rips the decision out of her hands. With her body trapped in a coma, Katie finds herself in the dreamlike space between Earth and the afterlife. Guided by spiritual forces and the soul of her beloved dog, she learns the life-changing power of intention and self-transformation.

Reference librarian Megan Clark has a passion for fictional crime - but when she and her fellow book group members go from reading mysteries to solving them, they discover that real-life crime is more complex than the most puzzling whodunit.

Dolores is the youngest of six daughters. Growing up in the 1960s in Cardiff's poverty stricken Tiger Bay, her life is cursed from the start when, on the day of her birth, her father gambles and loses everything on a bet that Dolores will be a boy. As Dolores grows older, we see this strange underworld through her eyes: Tiger Bay is a place of gaming rooms and cafes, of crumbling houses and burning secrets, and for Dolores and her sisters, their home is a dangerous place, filled equally by fear and love.

A legendary sword is left behind by his master, the Godking. Trapped for millennia, the sword's spirit awaits the day he'll be set free. Will his new master be worthy of inheriting the Godking's legacy? 

Mara Altman, author of the best-selling Kindle Single Sparkle, returns to top comic form to address the problem every woman faces but no woman wants to acknowledge: facial and body hair. Her brave, witty memoir gives readers a rare, honest glimpse into the hidden world of lasers and razors. It begins in childhood, when Altman discovers that hair sometimes grows in unexpected places - and that it's best to remove it immediately, or risk ridicule from 8th-grade girls. It continues into early adulthood, when romantically inclined men make offhand remarks about her fine coating of fur.

Twenty-six-year-old Mara Altman wanted to know what all the screaming was about. She'd lost her virginity at seventeen; grown up in southern California with sexually free parents; had lovers in India, Burma, and Peru; and spent a year in Bangkok observing all manner of depravity. And yet she was an attractive, successful, single woman in New York who'd never had an orgasm. And so she embarked on a wildly funny, emotionally resonant odyssey - a journey both inside and outside herself - only to discover that, for Mara, orgasm was connected to a part of her that no vibrator could reach.

Last fall, newly-engaged author Mara Altman rejected the showy sparkle of a multi-carat diamond ring, and chose instead a simple, three-figure bauble. But why? There began her reportorial journey to find the true connection of diamonds to marriage - and to love.

The hirsute heroine of last year's hit Kindle Single Bearded Lady has found herself on the precipice of failure. A rejected novel has sent newly-married Mara Altman into a tailspin of questioning and self-doubt. Should she stop racing forward, and settle down to start a family? Or should she give her quest for success another shot? With a gimlet eye trained directly on herself, Altman recounts her wild experience of becoming a standup comedian. By turns comic and cosmic, the 31-year-old Altman's search for a new path — and fresh answers — yields a joke-filled journey towards an unexpected and life-affirming finish line.

Anna Monforti ha vent'anni, studia architettura, gioca a pallavolo e passa il tempo libero con la sua migliore amica, Emanuela, che lei chiama Nunù. Andrea Preziosi è un uomo sui quaranta, imprenditore di successo e playboy incallito. Si accontenta di relazioni di una notte, prive di coinvolgimento, che lo fanno stare bene senza creargli problemi. Non si lascia mai andare ai sentimenti, che gli procurano, secondo lui, solo guai.

Valentina Harrison lavora a Milano, in un'agenzia pubblicitaria internazionale. È intelligente e precisa, ma poco appariscente, per questo passa spesso inosservata. Non ha alcuna passione per i bei vestiti, i tacchi, le borse, lo shopping in generale e, pur amando la città, preferisce vivere in un tranquillo paesino di provincia. James Spencer, affascinante e snob, vive negli Stati Uniti. Quando un problema mette in crisi l'agenzia e lui viene convocato a Milano per risolverlo, i due, opposti in tutto, si conoscono.

Immaginate una terra meravigliosa, incontaminata, in cui la natura si mostri in tutto il suo splendore e una magia senza tempo si nasconda ovunque. Ecco le Valli di Tridentum, dove prendono vita favole che guidano i più giovani alla scoperta di se stessi e dell'ambiente che li circonda, un mondo verde e pulito in cui può capitare che anche una ranocchia, una volpe o una cornacchia abbiano qualcosa da insegnarci.

Il giovane Victor Frankenstein, dopo aver acquisito conoscenze mediche e dopo aver studiato i fenomeni che riguardano il corpo umano post-mortem, realizza il suo sogno, regalando vita a una creatura dall’aspetto deforme e con una forza immane, formata unendo parti di corpi morti. Dopo diverse vicissitudini, il mostro lo supplica di toglierlo da un’insopportabile solitudine e di creare per lui una compagna. Il rifiuto da parte del suo creatore suscita l’ira incontenibile della creatura.