Adria Tissoni Books

Take a peek inside the mind of a delightfully imperfect creature on the path to enlightenment. In the latest instalment of the Dalai Lama's Cat series, readers escape to the enchanting and exotic world of the Dalai Lama's monastery in the Himalayas. His Holiness's Cat (HHC) is on a mission: to think less, to experience more, to live in the moment. She soon learns the proper phrase for this: being mindful, or, a concept better known to her as the power of meow. What ensues is a journey to discover her own true nature, to gain a deeper understanding of her mind and to experience life's greatest joy - the here and now. By accompanying HHC on her journey, you will learn new ways to relate to your own mind: slowing down, finding peace and abiding in the boundless radiance and benevolence that is your own true nature.

In Lee Child’s astonishing new thriller, ex–military cop Reacher sees more than most people would...and because of that, he’s thrust into an explosive situation that’s about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth—and save two innocent lives—is to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way….Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money. And Edward Lane, the man who paid it, will pay even more to get his family back. Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any amount of money and any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And then he’ll turn Jack Reacher loose with a vengeance—because Reacher is the best man hunter in the world.On the trail of a vicious kidnapper, Reacher is learning the chilling secrets of his employer’s past…and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He’s beginning to realize that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: he’s already in way too deep to stop now.From the Hardcover edition.

It is a boiling hot summer in Boston. adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized--a sadistic demand that ends in death. The MO seems to point to Warren Hoyt, recently jailed.

When a man is killed by being thrown from a helicopter high over the California desert, Jack Reacher discovers that someone is targeting his old friends and teammates and he launches a personal campaign to end the conspiracy.

Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JACK REACHER SERIES • “A thriller that gallops at a breakneck pace.”—Chicago Sun-Times Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier’s son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army’s brightest stars. But in every cop’s life there is one case that changes everything. For Jack Reacher, this is that case. New Year’s Day, 1990. In a North Carolina motel, a two-star general is found dead. His briefcase is missing. Nobody knows what was in it. Within minutes Reacher has his orders: Control the situation. Within hours the general’s wife is murdered. Then the dominoes really start to fall. Somewhere inside the vast worldwide fortress that is the U.S. Army, Reacher is being set up as a fall guy with the worst enemies a man can have. But Reacher won’t quit. He’s fighting a new kind of war—against an enemy he didn’t know he had. And against a conspiracy more chilling, ingenious, and treacherous than anyone could have guessed. The Enemy, like most of the books in the Jack Reacher series, can be read as a standalone thriller.

Questa non sarà un’autopsia di routine. L’anatomopatologa Maura Isles ne è certa. Ad attenderla, all’ospedale, c’è una ressa di giornalisti. E, soprattutto, c’è lei: Madame X, coperta interamente da bende di lino impregnate di resina, che risalgono a duemila anni prima. I suoi organi interni sono stati asportati, solo il cuore è rimasto al suo posto, perché è lì che gli antichi egizi credevano risiedesse l’intelligenza. Madame X infatti è una mummia, ritrovata per caso negli scantinati di un museo. Quando, scansione dopo scansione, la TAC arriva alle gambe, Maura scorge qualcosa di impossibile. Un piccolo dettaglio che trasformerà definitivamente quell'autopsia a scopo archeologico in qualcosa di molto più sinistro e inquietante…

The story of one man's struggle with Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder) & the 24 personalities that live within him. In this book readers accompany Cameron West on a roller coaster ride as he desperately tries to hang on to his family, his life & the thin red thread of reality that connects him to the world. The book chronicles his hunt for evidence to help him cope with & understand why his alter personalities are using his voice & body to retell & relive childhood sexual abuse.

"Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook have a lot in common. They're both army career women, they're both victims of sexual harrassment by their superiors, they're both forced to resign from the service. And now they're both dead. Only Jack Reacher can discover their killer."--Publisher's description.

Never forgive, never forget. That s Jack Reacher s standard operating procedure. And Quinn was the worst guy he had ever met. Truly unforgivable. So Reacher was glad to know he was dead. Until the day he saw him again in Boston. Alive and well . . . Nev

A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Elite military cop Jack Reacher is ordered undercover to get the truth.

"Digging swimming pools by hand in Key West, Florid, Jack Reacher is as tanned and as fit as he's ever been. A local girly says he looks like a condom filled with walnuts. Being invisible has become a habit. He doesn't want to be found. So when a private detective comes nosing around and asking questions, Reacher is not pleased. Especially when he later finds the guy dead, with his fingertips sliced off. Why was he so determined to find him? What does the vicious Wall Street honcho Hook Hobie have to do with it? And what about the reappearance of a woman from Reacher's own troubled past?" -- back cover.

Visiting sixteen-year-old "Rat" Perkins at the isolated Evensong boarding school for emotionally traumatized children, Maura Isles is astonished to learn that all of his classmates, survivors of violence, are being instructed in scientific detective skills, a discovery that coincides with Jane Rizzoli's investigation into the murder of a boy's foster family.

New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won’t see coming A mysterious kidnapping On a hot summer night, a scientist from the Centers for Disease Control is grabbed by unknown assailants in a shopping center parking lot. Vanished into thin air, the authorities are desperate to save the doctor. A devastating explosion One month later, the serenity of a sunny Sunday afternoon is shattered by the boom of a ground-shaking blast—followed by another seconds later. One of Atlanta’s busiest and most important neighborhood’s has been bombed—the location of Emory University, two major hospitals, the FBI headquarters, and the CDC. A diabolical enemy Medical examiner Sara Linton and her partner Will Trent, an investigator with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, rush to the scene—and into the heart of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to destroy thousands of innocent lives. When the assailants abduct Sara, Will goes undercover to save her and prevent a massacre—putting his own life on the line for the woman and the country he loves.

'The most bone-chilling story featuring on-going characters Rizzoli and Isles.' Daily Mail HE WATCHES Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. The people who lived in them appear to have vanished, seemingly into thin air. HE WAITS Maura Isles is driving through the area with a group of friends when they find themselves trapped in a snowstorm. They stumble into the abandoned village to take shelter. But their nightmare has only just begun. THEY DISAPPEAR Days later, Jane Rizzoli flies to Wyoming to search for her missing friend. A crashed vehicle has been found with four badly burned bodies still inside. Can one of the corpses be Maura's? Jane's hunt for the truth leads her to Kingdom Come. Where the person who was watching Maura now lies waiting for her ...

Dr. Catherine Cordell, recovering from a brutal attack and hiding her fear behind a mask of professionalism, is the only one who can stop a psychotic killer known as "The Surgeon," due to his horrific methods of murder, before he kills again. Reissue.

Jack Reacher è un duro. Ex maggiore della polizia militare, giunto nell'assolato sudovest americano, in uno scenario affascinante, vorrebbe solo farsi un bicchiere in un bar. Ma la sfortuna è in agguato e Jack è costretto, ancora una volta, a battersi, cosa che sa fare molto bene. L'energumeno che l'ha assalito finisce con qualche osso rotto. La mattina successiva Jack vede arrivare al suo motel una macchina della polizia e, guarda caso, uno degli agenti a bordo è proprio il tipo che ha malmenato la sera prima. Jack fugge sperando di trovare qualcuno che gli offra un passaggio verso la salvezza. E, in realtà, una vecchia Cadillac si ferma. Al volante c'è Carmen Greer, un'affascinante messicana che non esita a farlo salire. E cominciano i guai. Carmen è disperata. Sloop, il marito violento che l'ha picchiata per anni, sta tornando a casa. In galera ce l'ha spedito lei, denunciandolo per frode fiscale. Ma l'uomo ha deciso di patteggiare denunciando a sua volta i soci nella frode e, una volta a casa, potrebbe picchiare di nuovo la moglie, forse anche ucciderla, se scoprisse la verità...

Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas and getting desperate for a ride. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up. She's called Carmen. She's a good-looking young woman, she has a beautiful little girl . . .and she has married into the wrong family. They're called the Greers. They're a bitter and miserly clan, and they've made her life a living hell. Worse, her monster of a husband is soon due out of prison. So she needs protection, and she needs it now. Lawyers can't help. Cops can't be trusted. So Reacher goes home with her to the lonely ranch where nothing is as it seems, and where evil swirls around them like dust in a storm. Within days, Carmen's husband is dead - and simmering secrets send Echo, Texas, up in flames.

Jack Reacher has no place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, so a remote railroad stop on the prairie with the curious name of Mother's Rest seems perfect for an aimless one-day stopover. He expects to find a lonely pioneer tombstone in a sea of nearly-ripe wheat ... but instead there is a woman waiting for a missing colleague, a cryptic note about two hundred deaths, and a small town full of silent, watchful people. Reacher's one-day stopover turns into an open-ended quest leading to the most hidden reaches of the internet, and right into the nightmare heart of darkness. 'Child's best for some time...with detective-story and romcom elements (even sly humour) on top of the psychological duels and set-piece violence' Sunday Times

Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now heâe(tm)s a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president. Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him. This new heartstopping, nailbiting book in Lee Childâe(tm)s number-one bestselling series takes Reacher across the Atlantic to Paris âe" and then to London. The stakes have never been higher - because this time, itâe(tm)s personal.

The Haunting of Sunshine Girl- in active development for television by The Weinstein Company- a hit paranomal YA series based on the wildly popular YouTube channel about an adorkable teenager living in a haunted house.

Good girl Abby Abernathy is resistant to the charms of college Lothario, Travis Maddox, so he tricks her into his life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain celibate for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis' apartment for the same amount of time.

In the morning, they gave Reacher a medal. And in the afternoon, they sent him back to school. Night School takes Reacher back to his army days, but this time he's not in uniform. With trusted sergeant Frances Neagley at his side, he must carry the fate of the world on his shoulders, in a wired, fiendishly clever new adventure that will make the cold sweat trickle down your spine.

#1 New York Times bestseller Jamie McGuire delivers a deliciously intense, emotionally gripping contemporary romance featuring characters from her genre- defining Beautiful series, which has sold nearly 3 million copies to date.

In order to fulfill his dream of being a sorcerer-king, Tithian, the new ruler of Tyr, journeys into the Athasian desert to search for an ancient oracle. Original.

DI Jack Caffery, the hero of Mo Hayder’s bestselling novelsBirdmanandThe Treatment, is back. Seconded from London to Bristol, Caffery is trying to leave his personal life behind, but he cannot escape the memories of his younger brother’s murder and the suspect who went free. When police diver Sergeant Phoebe “Flea” Marley discovers a freshly severed human hand in Bristol’s harbour and its mate buried under a restaurant’s doorstep, Caffery is there to lead the investigation. But rather than find answers, or a body to match those hands, Caffery and Flea discover a terrifying underworld of drug addiction, ritual mutilation and muti, African medicine magic. Tormented by his personal demons, Caffery seeks out the company of the infamous Walking Man, a recently released convict from a high-security prison, who sleeps rough and walks the country roads as he relives the memories of a terrifying crime. Flea Marley has her own ghosts to confront—the cave-diving death of her parents in a cold, water-filled hole in South Africa—and a frightening personal association with the crime she and Caffery are investigating. Britain’s “Queen of Fear” has once again proven herself a master of her craft. Ritual is a gripping psychological thriller, a chilling story seen through the eyes of complex characters and told with masterful voice and style.

Do you know the top seven things men do that drive women nuts? Or the real reason women cry more than men do? What are men really looking for in a woman - both at first sight and for the long-term? These are only the starting points for Barbara and Allan Pease as they discuss the very real - and often very funny - differences between the sexes.html?

Cinque minuti: tanti sono bastati al direttore del personale della fabbrica dove James Penney ha lavorato per diciassette anni a licenziarlo. Diciassette anni di vita contro cinque minuti, e ora Penney è un uomo senza lavoro e senza speranza. Gli restano solo sei settimane di paga e la sua amata Firebird rossa. E allora l’unica soluzione che gli sembra possibile è dar fuoco alla casa e scappare sulle strade d’America con l’auto. Via dalla fabbrica che l’ha tradito, via dalla banca, dai debiti, da una vita senza soddisfazioni. Un gesto di protesta, l’unico in una vita di sopportazione e obbedienza. Quello con cui Penney però non ha fatto i conti è il caldo del deserto del Mojave, che in poco tempo spinge le fiamme a bruciare anche le case dei vicini. E ora Penney è ricercato dalla polizia per incendio doloso. Lui e la sua Firebird rossa, in fuga sulla California Highway Patrol. Ma la strada di Penney è destinata a incrociarsi con quella di un uomo pericoloso, un giovane capitano della polizia militare alto e muscoloso il cui nome è destinato a diventare leggenda: Jack Reacher. Un incontro che potrebbe essere la salvezza o la rovina di Penney...

A Imardin è il giorno dell'Epurazione, l'appuntamento annuale durante il quale, su ordine del re, la Corporazione dei maghi scaccia dalla città vagabondi, mendicanti e tutti coloro che sono sospettati di vivere da fuorilegge. E, come ogni anno, gli abitanti dei quartieri poveri si radunano nella piazza del Nord, per protestare, urlando la propria rabbia e lanciando sassi contro i maghi, i quali, però, essendo protetti da una barriera magica, ignorano altezzosamente quella rivolta. Tutto sembra svolgersi secondo un triste ma collaudato copione; poi, d'un tratto, una pietra manda in frantumi la protezione e ferisce un mago. Tra l'esultanza della folla e lo sgomento dei maghi, viene subito individuata la responsabile dell'incredibile gesto: è Sonea, una giovane orfana, che subito dopo fugge via, spaventata dalle conseguenze della sua azione. Ma la Corporazione dei maghi non può permettere che qualcuno dotato di un simile potere sfugga al loro controllo e vuole trovare la ragazzina per convincerla a unirsi a loro e a sottoporsi al necessario addestramento. Tuttavia, all'interno della Corporazione, c'è anche chi trama per sfruttare Sonea e raggiungere così i suoi scopi malvagi...

The Lure of Dark Sorcery. . . Borys: The Dragon of Athas, born of magic and sustained by the agony of the doomed. For a thousand years, he has terrorized the desert wastes of Athas, roaming from city to city in pursuit of his gruesome levy - the lives of thousands of slaves.The winsome enchantress Sadira now stands ready to challenge him.To do so, she must reach the Pristine Tower, the forgotten citadel still smoldering with the incredible magic that spawned the Dragon. Only one man can help her: Faenaeyon, her elven father, the man who abandoned her into slavery. Before the journey ends, Sadira must forgive his betrayal - or give herself to the dark forces that still dwell within the Pristine Tower.

A novella about America and Shepley from the bestselling novel, Beautiful Disaster. America Mason, a sassy undergrad at Eastern State University, is in love with a Maddox-- Shepley Maddox. Unlike his cousins, Shepley is more lover than fighter, but a road trip to her parents' home in Wichita, Kansas could mean the next step, or the end of everything

The Raven: six men and an elf, sword for hire in the wars that have torn apart Balaia. For years their loyalty has been only to themselves and their code. But, that time is over. The Wytch Lords have escaped and The Raven find themselves fighting for the Dark College of magic, searching for the location of Dawnthief. It is a spell created to end the world, and it must be cast if any of them are to survive. Dawnthief is a fast paced epic about a band of all-too-human heroes.