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Maria Barbara Piccioli

    Dead Ringer
    Il sale sulle labbra
    Schwesterlein, komm tanz mit mir
    Sul filo del terrore
    Along came a spider
    Il macedone
    • Pretty Baby

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      "Thrilling and illuminating… [Pretty Baby] raises the ante on the genre and announces the welcome second coming of a talent well worth watching." -LA Times A chance encounter sparks an unrelenting web of lies in this stunning new psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl , Mary Kubica She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head… Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal—or worse. But despite her family's objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to take refuge in their home. Heidi spends the next few days helping Willow get back on her feet, but as clues into Willow's past begin to surface, Heidi is forced to decide how far she's willing to go to help a stranger. What starts as an act of kindness quickly spirals into a story far more twisted than anyone could have anticipated. Don't miss this chilling follow-up to The Good Girl by master of suspense, Mary Kubica. And look for Mary's next great thriller, Don't You Cry . Order your copy today!

      Pretty Baby2015
      3.8
    • From the “Queen of Suspense,” Mary Higgins Clark, and bestselling author Carol Higgins Clark—the acclaimed mother/daughter duo—comes this holiday treat, a heartwarming tale of redemption and love. Sterling Brooks has been cooling his heels in the Celestial Waiting Room for forty-six years, waiting for admission to heaven. Finally, just days before Christmas, he’s summoned before the Heavenly Council and found unworthy; throughout his life he had been hopelessly self-absorbed. To redeem himself, he is given the chance to go back to Earth and find someone to help. At New York’s Rockefeller Center skating rink, Sterling encounters Marissa, a heartbroken seven-year-old whose father and grandmother have been forced into the Witness Protection Program; they had overheard two gangsters hatch a sinister plot to collect money from a debtor. Able to travel through time and space, Sterling devises a master plan to reunite little Marissa with her family in time for Christmas. Along the way, he discovers within himself what it takes to earn his wings.

      He Sees You When You're Sleeping2008
      3.9
    • Caio Giulio Cesare

      Le porte di Roma­ - Il soldato di Roma

      • 695 pages
      • 25 hours of reading

      Il suo fato era scritto nelle stelle. Quel giovane dal carattere forte edeciso, coraggioso fino all'incoscienza, non poteva che essere destinato aqualcosa di grande. Lo sapeva bene il feroce Renio, l'ex gladiatore cui erastato affidato il compito di farne un vero guerriero. Nel futuro di CaioGiulio Cesare c'è Roma, la città eterna che si accinge a estendere il suodominio su tutto il Mediterraneo, ma cova in seno molte serpi velenose. Onorie ricchezze attendono l'uomo che, destreggiandosi tra intrighi politici esanguinarie guerre intestine, saprà rimanere fedele a se stesso e ai propriideali. Ma dure prove si profilano all'orizzonte, dalla guerra contro i piratiche flagellano le coste italiche al conflitto con Mitridate, ambizioso re delPonto, prima che Cesare possa intraprendere il suo cammino verso la gloria el'immortalità.

      Caio Giulio Cesare2006
      3.3
    • In this novel, ace lawyer Bennie Rosato is duelling evil in the form of her own twin sister, ex-convict Alice Connolly, who has returned to Philadelphia to exact her revenge and ruin Bennie. A mysterious stranger appears just in time to help Bennie in a fight that turns out to be for her life.

      Dead Ringer2006
      3.9
    • 1400 miglia nell'Outback australiano, a piedi nudi, cibandosi di quanto la natura offre, vermi compresi, sotto un sole implacabile. Ma, privata anche del più piccolo agio cui la civiltà ci ha abituati, condividendo la vita quotidiana degli aborigeni, imparando i loro segreti per sopravvivere, Marlo Morgan scopre un altro mondo e un altro modo di essere, in completa armonia con se stessa e con gli altri, e comprende il vero significato della parola esistere.

      Libri Oro - 3: ...E venne chiamata Due Cuori2005
      3.7
    • The historian: A novel

      • 720 pages
      • 26 hours of reading

      Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressed ominously to 'My dear and unfortunate successor'. Her discovery plunges her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an evil hidden in the depths of history. In those few quiet moments, she unwittingly assumes a quest she will discover is her birthright - a hunt for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the Dracula myth. Deciphering obscure signs and hidden texts, reading codes worked into the fabric of medieval monastic traditions, and evading terrifying adversaries, one woman comes ever closer to the secret of her own past and a confrontation with the very definition of evil. Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel is an adventure of monumental proportions - a captivating tale that blends fact and fantasy, history and the present with an assurance that is almost unbearably suspenseful - and utterly unforgettable.

      The historian: A novel2005
      3.8
    • Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      A guide to understanding the man in your life taken from the original multi-million selling publishing phenomenon. Essential one-liners to help you understand the man in your life. Includes: * How men communicate and how to communicate with them * Coping with Mr Fix-it and the man who never asks for directions * The language men speak * Scoring points with men * Avoiding arguments * How men are like rubber bands * Keeping the magic of love alive Men are from Mars is an invaluable tool for developing a deeper and more satisfying relationship.

      Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus2005
      3.6
    • On the street where you live

      • 387 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      In the gripping new novel from the Queen of Suspense, a woman is haunted by two grisly murders separated by more than a century, yet somehow inextricably linked... Following a nasty divorce and the trauma of being stalked, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham leaves Albany to work in Manhattan. Craving roots, she buys her ancestral home, a Victorian house in the seaside resort town of Spring Lake, New Jersey. Her family sold the house in 1892, after one of Emily's forebears, Madeline Shapley, then a young girl, disappeared. As the house is renovated and a pool dug, a skeleton is found and identified as Martha Lawrence, a young Spring Lake woman who vanished several years ago. Within her hand is the finger bone of another woman, with a ring—a Shapley family heirloom—still on it. Determined to find the connection between the two murders, Emily becomes a threat to a seductive killer...who chooses her as the next victim.

      On the street where you live2004
      3.9
    • The Reluctant Suitor

      • 580 pages
      • 21 hours of reading

      For as long as she can remember, Lady Adriana Sutton has adored Colton Wyndham, to whom she has been promised by an agreement of courtship and betrothal since childhood.

      The Reluctant Suitor2003
      3.7