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Bondone, estremo lembo del Trentino, terra di boschi e di case addossate alla montagna. Qui, nel 1961, il confine è una ferita ancora aperta, nella lingua, nei cognomi della gente, e il lavoro del carbone scandisce una vita fatta di silenzi pieni di voci e ricordi di guerra che sono brace sotto la cenere. Così, quando Adele arriva all'Osteria della Rina, scarmigliata e con lo sguardo di chi fugge, il paese trattiene il fiato. È forestiera, e in un luogo dove ci si conosce tutti da generazioni, quella ragazza rappresenta un mistero e forse una minaccia.

One year after surviving the mystery that made them local legends, the Sanera gang has gone their separate ways. When Sanera's Halloween festival reunites the group for a celebratory hometown event, nostalgia quickly turns to terror. As the festival spirals into chaos, a new killer emerges, using Sanera's local legends as inspiration for a string of gruesome murders. Each crime mirrors myths the gang once debunked, making it clear: someone is obsessed with their history and is rewriting it in blood.

Not every love story begins in the light...Sometimes, the prince isn't charming. The damsel causes more distress than she's in. Sometimes, the danger doesn't come from a magic spell. It comes from each other. Welcome to dark romance.

Décadas después de que una rebelión arrasara la isla de Sídhe, Fia Riftborne ha aprendido tres lecciones esenciales para sobrevivir: mantener la cabeza baja, no llamar la atención y evitar a toda costa a la Guardia de Sídhe. Pero eso no es tan fácil: Fia esconde un poder secreto que, si se descubriera, la pondría en peligro. Y cuando un simple recado sale mal y lo desata, Fia sabe que ya no puede seguir ocultándose.

Sebbene a malincuore, Benedetta Allegri ha abbandonato il giornalismo per fare la copywriter nella scintillante Milano, e si è ripetuta che era meglio per tutti se se lo fosse lasciato alle spalle per sempre. Ma non appena la giovanissima Caterina le chiede aiuto per scoprire la verità sulla morte di sua madre, rinvenuta nelle acque di un laghetto di montagna, Benedetta sente irrefrenabilmente il richiamo della vecchia passione per i misteri e per la verità. Accettare di aiutare Caterina significa per Benny ritrovare se stessa, ma anche rischiare di giocarsi tutto quello che ha.

Finalmente Benedetta Allegri ha ottenuto il tanto sospirato contratto di assunzione. Lavora in una radio e ogni mattina conduce un programma dedicato alla cronaca. Ed è proprio durante una delle sue dirette che riceve uno strano messaggio. Da Michele, un misterioso ascoltatore che chiede di sentire un brano del 1993. Anno nel quale sostiene di essere morto.

When I met Donovan Kincaid, I knew he was rich. I didn’t know he was filthy. Truth be told, I was only trying to get his best friend to notice me. I knew poor scholarship girls like me didn't stand a chance against guys like Weston King and Donovan Kincaid, but I was in love with his world, their world, of parties and sex and power. I knew what I wanted - I knew who I wanted - until one night, their world tried to bite me back and Donovan saved me. He saved me, and then Weston finally noticed me, and I finally learned what it was to be in their world.

One powerful family holds a city, a faith, and a woman in its grasp—from the national bestselling author of Daughters of Rome and Mistress of Rome. Rome, 1492. The Holy City is drenched with blood and teeming with secrets. A pope lies dying and the throne of God is left vacant, a prize awarded...

On my 18th birthday, my father, the senator, gives me the gift he thinks every little girl dreams of. The man of my dreams, and the wedding to match. Stefan Zoric is heir to an elite worldwide modeling agency. Practically a prince. My arrangement is simple, as far as sham marriages go. I give him my virginity, behave as the perfect wife, and he'll pay for the college degree my father found irrelevant. But I don't want to be the perfect wife. I want him to want me the way I want him.

Discover 14 clean and fun best-selling cozy mysteries by Amber Crewes to enjoy! This is a light cozy mystery series with an amateur female sleuth, mouth-watering culinary desserts, and 14 gripping murder mysteries.

Life is busier than ever for Innkeeper, Dina DeMille and Sean Evans. But it’s about to get even more chaotic when Sean's werewolf mentor is kidnapped. To find him, they must host an intergalactic spouse-search for one of the most powerful rulers in the Galaxy. Dina is never one to back down from a challenge. That is, if she can manage her temperamental Red Cleaver chef; the consequences of her favorite Galactic ex-tyrant's dark history; the tangled politics of an interstellar nation, and oh, yes, keep the wedding candidates from a dozen alien species from killing each other. 

Brought to you by Penguin. The compulsive new thriller from multimillion-copy bestselling author Jennifer Niven. Eight students walk into an exclusive writers’ retreat, but only one will walk out with a life-changing opportunity to realize their creative dreams. Effy is piecing together a...

As a bookseller, Nia saved up for years for her dream vacation—drinking champagne on a beach with her favorite books. But her dream turns into a nightmare when she's kidnapped by a muscular, tattooed jerk of a fey named Raphael. Yes, kidnapped. It turns out Nia has a magic power, and Raphael demands that she train at Camelot's elite academy for spies.

Weston King knows how to play. But wild nights and owning an extensive collection of women's panties don't carry the thrill they once did, so when his business partner, Donovan, suggests an outrageous plan to allow them to take over their competition, Wes takes him up on the offer. The crazy idea? Marry the competitor.

We are told God will punish the wicked; that sinful men will reap what they sow. We are told to scourge our souls with prayer and pain to become clean once again. Well, here I am. Wicked and sinful. Desperate to become clean - even though it feels so good to be dirty. But even I never expected what came next. Even I never expected my punishment to come so soon.

We were supposed to run away after high school. When she didn’t show up at our meeting place, I gathered my courage and went after her. It was a mistake. I left bloodied and bruised. My heart didn’t fare half as well. I had no choice but to walk away. Years passed. A decade. More. I traveled, settled halfway around the world, and made myself a name and enough money that I didn’t have to look back. But I never got over her.

An epic comedy about love, spirit, and the quest for transcendence in an anything-but-transcendent America, from the author of the perennial cult bestsellers The River Why and The Brothers K. A random bolt from a DC-8 falls from the sky, killing a child and throwing the faith of a young Jesuit...

I did it. I married a billionaire. My reasons are my own, but the last thing I expected was to feel owned. I may have taken vows, but I'm still determined to be me. Now his rules are taking over my world, but I'm not the kind of girl to just obey. There's only one problem: I might actually be falling for him.... I have no idea how this marriage is going to go, but holding on to a piece of myself while succumbing to his dirty pleasures is shaping up to be the ride of a lifetime.

It has a dark past—one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks.

My twin sister, Kiana, is the future alpha… destined to rule our pack. Me? Little ol’ Elyse? Nope… I’m second born... the spare. Doomed to a life of service. To ensure power, Kiana is betrothed to the alpha heir who’s next in line to rule the throne of the most dominant, rival pack. But when he arrives to claim her, he rejects my sister and chooses me, throwing the Five Thrones of our territory into chaos. What the hell? Right?