Paola Bertante Book order (chronological)

Non esistono braccia più sicure delle proprie per proteggere i figli, ma a volte è necessario affidarsi a qualcuno di cui ci si possa fidare. Melissa e suo marito cercano una babysitter per le loro due bambine, ma nessuna sembra all'altezza. Finché non incontrano Jade, che sembra perfetta: le bambine la adorano e lei le ama come se fossero sue. Melissa, felice, le affida la gestione della famiglia per tornare al lavoro. Tuttavia, iniziano a verificarsi eventi strani in casa e Melissa ha sensazioni inquietanti. Anche se non ha prove concrete, percepisce che qualcosa non va. Quando ne parla con il marito, lui non le crede, attribuendo le sue preoccupazioni alla stanchezza o a possibili depressioni. Jade diventa l'unica persona che la sostiene e, giorno dopo giorno, Melissa si convince di aver fatto la scelta giusta. Ma la perfezione di Jade nasconde un lato oscuro. Melissa scoprirà che ogni persona, anche la più gentile, ha un passato e che la protezione dei propri cari, anche dei figli, non può durare per sempre.

With quirky charm, rising science star Giulia Enders explains the gut's magic, answering questions like: Why does acid reflux happen? What's really up with gluten and lactose intolerance? How does the gut affect obesity and mood? Enders's beguiling manifesto will make you finally listen to those butterflies in your stomach: they're trying to tell you something important.

Lottie is tired of long-term boyfriends who don't want to commit to marriage. When her old boyfriend Ben reappears and reminds her of their pact to get married if they were both still single at thirty, she jumps at the chance. There will be no dates and no engagement - just a straight wedding march to the altar.

When Charlie Parker was still a boy, his father, an NYPD cop, killed a young couple, a boy and a girl barely older than his son, then took his own life. There was no explanation for his actions. Stripped of his private investigator's license, and watched by the police, Parker is working in a Portland bar, holding down a job and staying out of trouble. But in the background, he is working on his most personal case yet, an investigation into his own origins and the circumstances surrounding the death of his father, Will. It is an investigation that will reveal a life haunted by lies, by his mother's loss and his father's betrayal, by secrets kept and loyalties compromised. And by two figures in the shadows, a man and a woman, with only one purpose: to bring an end to Charlie Parker's existence . . .

It was an accident. He didn't mean to kill the security guard with his skateboard - it was self-defense. But there's no one to back up his story. No one even knows he was at Paranoid Park. Should he confess, or can he get away with it? It's an ethical question no one should have to answer. Writing more intensely than ever before, Blake Nelson delivers a film noir in book form, complete with interior monologue and dark, psychological drama. This is a riveting look at one boy's fall into a world of crime, guilt, and fear - and his desperate attempt to get out again.

The first victim had her lungs ripped out. When another woman is found murdered in the same horrific and ritualistic way, it is clear that a serial killer is terrorising the city. But there is no evidence to link the two cases, except for a taunting email that threatens yet more killings.

A group of parents, trapped in middle-class stability, deal with marriage, kids and their suburban life in very different ways. Now a box-office smash, 'Little Children' is a unique mix of the comical and the compassionate.

The twin jet plane en route to Denver from Hong Kong is merely a green radar blip half an hour off the California coast when the call comes through to air traffic control:'Socal Approach, this is TransPacific 545. We have an emergency.' The pilot requests priority clearance to land - then comes the bombshell - he needs forty ambulances on the runway.But nothing prepares the rescue workers for the carnage they witness when they enter the plane.Ninety-four passengers are injured. Three dead. The interior cabin virtually destroyed.What happened on board Flight TPA 545?