Lidia Perria Book order (chronological)

NB There is another edition with the same ISBN & coverIt is July 2003. In the middle of its maiden voyage, the luxury cruise ship Emerald Dolphin suddenly catches fire and sinks. What caused it? Why didn't the alarms go off? What was its connection to the revolutionary new engines powering the ship? NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt races to rescue the passengers and investigate the disaster, but he has no idea of the bizarre events that are about to engulf him.Before the next few weeks are over, Pitt will find himself confronted by an extraordinary series of monsters, both human and mechanical, modern and ancient. He will tread upon territory previously known only to legend. And, at the end of it all, though many lives will be lost, and many saved, it is Pitt's own life that will be changed forever. . . .Filled with dazzling suspense and breathtaking action, Valhalla Rising is Cussler at the height of his storytelling powers.

This is the third book in the "House of Niccolo" series. Set in 15th-century Cyprus, this novel continues the saga of Nicholas van der Poel, international mercenary who started out as a dyer's apprentice, as he plays for the highest stakes with the greatest super-powers in Europe.

Ayla and Jondalar have reached home: the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as south-west France. Ayla has much to learn from the Zelandonii as well as much to teach them. Jondalar's family are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back, with her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses. She is delighted when she meets Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of her people, a fellow healer with whom she can share her medicinal skills. After the rigours and dangers that have characterised her extraordinary life, Ayla yearns for peace and tranquillity; to be Jondalar's mate and to have children. But her unique spiritual gifts cannot be ignored, and even as she gives birth to their eagerly-awaited child, she is coming to accept that she has a greater role to play in the destiny of the Zelandonii.

From global bestseller Wilbur Smith, an immersive adventure in the brilliant Courtney Series

Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his newspaper’s weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he doesn’t take much notice when his seventeen-year-old niece dies suddenly – until a chance conversation reveals that another healthy teenager died at exactly the same time, in chillingly similar circumstances. Sensing a story, Asakawa begins to investigate, and soon discovers that this strange simultaneous sudden-death syndrome also affected another two teenagers. Exactly one week before their mysterious deaths the four teenagers all spent the night at a leisure resort in the same log cabin. When Asakawa visits the resort, the mystery only deepens. A comment made in the guest book by one of the teenagers leads him to a particular vidoetape with a portentous message at the end: Those who have viewed these images are fated to die at this exact hour one week from now. Asakawa finds himself in a race against time – he has only seven days to find the cause of the teenagers’ deaths before it finds him. The hunt puts him on the trail of an apocalytpic power that will force Asakawa to choose between saving his family and saving civilization.

While the major fighting of the Revolutionary War moves to the South in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the fogbound coast of New England. In response, Massachusetts sends a fleet of more than forty vessels and some one thousand infantrymen to "captivate, kill or destroy" the foreign invaders. But ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeat--and have stunning repercussions for two men on oppositesides: an untested young Scottish lieutenant named John Mooreand a Boston silversmith and patriot named Paul Revere. Inimitably told in Cornwell's thrilling narrative style, The Fortis the extraordinary novel of this fascinating clash between asuperpower and a nation in the making.

Wyjazd na Boże Narodzenie do Yorkshire, krainy wyżynnych torfowisk w p�łnocnej Anglii, miał być prezentem urodzinowym i ostatnią pr�bą uratowania rozpadającego się małżeństwa. Jednak od początku Barbarze i Ralphowi Ambergom nic się nie układa. Już od pierwszej nocy wynajęta przez nich posiadłość Westhill House zostaje odcięta od świata z powodu śnieżycy. Barbara, myszkując po domu, natrafia niespodziewanie na zapiski byłej właścicielki posiadłości, Frances Gray. Ich lektura ożywia niezwykłą historię sprzed pięćdziesięciu lat. Zagłębiając się w aurę miłości, nienawiści, pogardy i tęsknoty za wolnością, Barbara zaczyna poznawać własną duszę i dojrzewa do najważniejszej decyzji. Decyzji, kt�ra nie tylko zmieni jej życie, ale będzie zarazem dopełnieniem losu Frances Gray.� Wyrafinowana i dramatyczna aż do ostatniej strony; wspaniała książka, kt�ra miesiącami nie schodzi z list bestseller�w! Barwna, wielowątkowa powieść, kt�ra łączy w sobie historię namiętnego romansu z sagą rodzinną.

In preda a una profonda crisi personale e professionale, la giovane insegnante berlinese Franca Palmer si rifugia sull'isola di Guernsey, nel Canale della Manica, alla ricerca di serenità e chiarezza. Qui trova alloggio nella villa di Beatrice Shaye, un'anziana signora inglese che trascorre le sue giornate nello splendido roseto che circonda la casa. Con lei abita Helene, una tedesca trasferitosi sull'isola, assieme al marito ufficiale, ai tempi della seconda guerra mondiale. Il rapporto tra Beatrice e Helene è molto strano, e cela a stento odi, tensioni e rivalità: il passato che le unisce è una ferita che sanguina ancora... Ma perché le due donne continuano a vivere insieme? Dietro quella scelta inspiegabile si nasconde un segreto che Franca riuscirà a svelare solo scavando nei lati più bui della vita e dell'anima delle due donne. Abilissima nel tratteggiare la psicologia dei suoi personaggi e nel restituire lo spirito di un luogo e di un'epoca, Charlotte Link ci regala un romanzo ricco di suspense che avvince e seduce come l'inebriante profumo dei fiori che sprigiona dalle sue pagine.

“A book you won’t be able to put down. A Bangladeshi immigrant in London is torn between the kind, tedious older husband with whom she has an arranged marriage (and children) and the fiery political activist she lusts after. A novel that’s multi-continental, richly detailed and elegantly crafted.” —Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Sisterland After an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man twenty years older, Nazneen is taken to London, leaving her home and heart in the Bangladeshi village where she was born. Her new world is full of mysteries. How can she cross the road without being hit by a car (an operation akin to dodging raindrops in the monsoon)? What is the secret of her bullying neighbor Mrs. Islam? What is a Hell's Angel? And how must she comfort the naïve and disillusioned Chanu? As a good Muslim girl, Nazneen struggles to not question why things happen. She submits, as she must, to Fate and devotes herself to her husband and daughters. Yet to her amazement, she begins an affair with a handsome young radical, and her erotic awakening throws her old certainties into chaos. Monica Ali’s splendid novel is about journeys both external and internal, where the marvelous and the terrifying spiral together.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Adventure Clive Cussler comes a breathtaking thriller from the Numa Files series about a primitive Brazilian tribe whose secrets could save the world from the billionaire tycoon set on destroying it. An investigation into the sudden deaths of a pod of gray whales leads National Underwater & Marine Agency leader Kurt Austin to the Mexican coast, where someone tries to put him and his mini-sub permanently out of commission. Meanwhile, in South America’s lush hills, a specially assigned NUMA® team discovers a murdered body—a member of a mysterious local tribe, who live like ghosts beyond a five-part waterfall the locals call the Hand of God, and are rumored to be led by a mythical white goddess. Now they are in danger from a vicious cadre of bio-pirates intent on stealing medicinal discoveries worth millions. Soon, Austin and his crew realize that they’re working opposite ends of the same grand scheme and must race against time to save the world’s freshwater supply from a twisted eco-extortionist. But every step toward salvation takes them deeper into a dense jungle of treachery, blackmail, and death.

Both books in the Grail Quest series these books Chronicle the adventures of young Thomas of Hookton, "a big, bony, black-haired country boy". Thomas rejects the church in favour of the life of an archer in France after his village is brutally sacked by the French.

Whilst German tanks surround Leningrad during September 1941, two families struggle to stay alive. As winter grips the city first the furniture is burnt, then the books, but some may not live to see another day

In 1861, after centuries of isolation, Japan finally has opened its doors to the West, and Lord Genji, a young nobleman with a gift for prophecy, joins forces with a group of Christian missionaries, a mysterious geisha, and a legendary swordsman to embark on a harrowing odyssey toward an ultimate battle. A first novel. Reprint.

When Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater & Marine Agency exploration team, rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco, he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon. A madman bent on carving a new nation out of the southwestern United States and Mexico, Halcon's scheme hinges on Nina's recent discovery involving Christopher Columbus, and a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity buried in the battered remains of the sunken Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria. Only Kurt Austin and his crack NUMA team stand between Halcon and the Andrea Doria's silent steel hull - and if their deadly mission fails, Halcon will ride to power on a wave of death and destruction.

Unearthly Disclosure is a story of alien bases, alien contacts and abductions, genetic mutants, animal mutilations, and government paranoia. schovat popis

The classic Number One bestseller from award-winning author Vikram Seth.

Il cadavere di un bambino viene trovato nella brughiera. Ha i piedi bruciati e presenta i segni di orribili violenze. Nessuno ne ha denunciato la scomparsa. Gli investigatori della polizia di York sono sconvolti: questo non è un caso come gli altri. Qualcosa di ambiguo, di segreto, di tremendo è nell'aria. Un testimone è in grado di fornire qualche indizio su chi ha abbandonato il corpo. Un'indagine parallela condotta dai servizi sociali, sul caso di alcuni bambini vittime di abusi sessuali, sembra in qualche modo essere collegata. Nel frattempo, altri personaggi fanno rivelazioni inaspettate. Una presunta schizofrenica, un uomo incarcerato per traffico di pornografia infantile, un proprietario terriero locale, un gruppo di famiglie nuove della zona: tutti appaiono coinvolti, ma in cosa esattamente? Donne e uomini della polizia e dei servizi sociali, ognuno profondamente turbato da quel che va scoprendo, riescono a strappare singoli frammenti di verità. E il quadro complessivo che si comporrà ai loro occhi, lasciandosi appena intravedere come un'ombra beffarda, sarà agghiacciante. Un cancro mostruoso con mille diramazioni, talmente grave da sembrare impossibile.

Bernard Cornwell's new novel, following the enormous success of his Arthurian trilogy (The Winter King, Enemy of God and Excalibur) is the tale of three brothers and of their rivalry that creates the great temple.

An immediate bestseller when first published in France, The Parrot's Theorem charmingly combines a straightforward history of mathematics and a first-rate murder mystery. Mr. Ruche, a Parisian bookseller, receives a bequest from a long lost friend in the Amazon of a vast library of math books, which propels him into a great exploration of the story of mathematics. Meanwhile Max, whose family lives with Mr. Ruche, takes in a voluble parrot who will discuss math with anyone. When Mr. Ruche learns of his friend's mysterious death in a Brazilian rainforest, he decides that with the parrot's help he will use these books to teach Max and his brother and sister the mysteries of Euclid's Elements, Pythagoras's Theorem and the countless other mathematical wonders. But soon it becomes clear that Mr. Ruche has inherited the library for reasons other than enlightenment, and before he knows it the household is racing to prevent the parrot and vital, new theorems from falling into the wrong hands.

Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family – the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother and the daughter herself – Jung Chang reveals the epic history of China's twentieth century. Breathtaking in its scope, unforgettable in its descriptions, this is a masterpiece which is extraordinary in every way.

Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, the eighth Earl of Asherton, and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, encounter what seems to be a perfect crime as they investigate a fatal fire at a fifteenth-century cottage. Reissue. (A PBS Mystery! presentation, airing August 2004, starring Nathaniel Parker & Sharon Small) (Mystery)

It is 1667 and the mighty naval war between the Dutch and the English still rages. Sir Francis Courtney and his son Hal, in their fighting caravel, are on patrol off southern Africa, lying in wait for a galleon of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient laden with spices, timber and gold... 'The scope is magnificent and the epic scale breathtaking ... Wilbur Smith is one of thos benchmarks agains whom others are compared' - The Times 'Meticulous research supports constant excitement in a fast-moving tale' - Washington Post

In Italy, the Cardinal Vicar of Rome is assassinated during a papal celebration. In Los Angeles, entertainment lawyer Harry Addison receives a desperate message from his long-estranged brother, Father Daniel Addison, a Vatican priest. Hours later a tour bus with Father Daniel aboard explodes on the road to Assisi. When Harry arrives in Italy to claim his brother's body, he discovers that not only may Father Daniel still be alive, but he is the prime suspect in the murder of the Cardinal Vicar. In a sudden turn, Harry finds himself framed for the murder of an Italian policeman. Now on the run and on his brother's trail, Harry is thrust into a terrifying world of horror and deception where an international terrorist hunts Father Daniel as relentlessly as the authorities...and where a monstrous conspiracy arises from the very heart of the Vatican.

Does for spirituality what Sophie's World did for philosophy.

A fabulously wealthy Chinese businessman is making a fortune smuggling Chinese immigrants. Dirk Pitt becomes suspicious and begins to track him. The trail leads him from Washington to Louisiana where the villain is building a huge shipping port - apparently in the middle of nowhere. Pitt's continuing investigation reveals that his instincts were right - he is on the tail of a master villain and not only lives are at stake. Dirk Pitt must stop him at all costs.

Journalist Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for this epic account of the May 1996 disaster. Unabridged.

The present world will end on 22nd December 2012, so prophesized the Maya 5000 years ago in their inscriptions deep within the Central American rainforests. Who were the Maya? Where did they come from and why did they suddenly disappear? Will we suffer floods, volcanic eruptions and choas in 2012?

Siamo a Brahmpur, nell'India settentrionale; è il 1951. La signora Rupa Mehra ha appena benedetto il matrimonio della figlia Savita e già sta pensando all'altra figlia, Lata, e al "buon partito" che sicuramente troverà anche per lei. Ma Lata ha deciso di opporsi all'usanza dei matrimoni concordati: vuole scegliere da sé l'uomo con cui dividere l'esistenza... Da qui, pagina dopo pagina, il quadro si allarga e accoglie un'intera genealogia di personaggi, uomini e donne che vivono, lavorano, si scontrano, si amano, intrecciando le loro avventure e i loro sentimenti agli avvenimenti storici e politici del loro Paese sontuosamente magico e drammaticamente povero, saggio e dissennato, antichissimo e bambino.

A millionaire is murdered and Inspector Felse, after sifting through the few shreds of evidence, finally arrests Kitty Norris, his teenaged son Dominic's first love. A young man's infatuation soon becomes something far more dangerous, though, as Dominic takes on Kitty's cause--in direct opposition to his father's investigation.

Based on thirty years of living with dogs, wolves, and dingoes and of the ways their lives intertwined with her own, the novelist and anthropologist presents an ethological poem of the lives of dozens of dogs

Set amid the exotic world of deep-sea diving in the tropics, The Eye of the Tiger is a tale of adventure and romance told with rare humour and excitement. `I was looking down, watching the shark come. It seemed to swell up in size as it rushed towards me. Every detail was burned into my mind in those frantic seconds. I saw the hog`s snout with the two slotted nostrils, the golden eyes with the black pupils like arrowheads, the broad blue back from which stood the tall executioner`s blade of the dorsal fin.` Harry Fletcher, a man with a chequered past, has reformed and is making an honest living as a charter skipper fishing for big game in the seductive waters of the Indian Ocean. Suddenly men from the world of violence Harry has put behind him overturn his good intentions, involving him in a hectic race to recover a fabulous treasure from an ancient wreck.

The second volume in the wonderful Magic Kingdom of Landover series.

Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century.

Chiunque abbia suscitato il dispiacere di un gatto conosce bene le differenze tra il felino intuitivo e il cane medio. In questo suo ultimo saggio sugli animali, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ha concentrato il suo sguardo esperto sulla variegata famiglia dei gatti. Con rispetto per l'individualità e l'occhio di un antropologo per i modelli culturali, offre una comprensione della personalità felina ridotta al suo elemento fondamentale: la caccia.

The third enchanting instalment of the Magic Kingdom of Landover series.