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Private detective Isaac Bell returns in Clive Cussler's <i>The Wrecker.</i> <b>1907: train wrecks, fires, and explosions sabotage the Southern Pacific Railroad's new express line . . .</b> The desperate railroad hires the fabled Van Dorn Detective Agency, who send their best man, Isaac Bell. He quickly discovers that a saboteur calling himself the Wrecker is attacking the Southern Pacific with accomplices recruited from down-and-outs - who are killed afterward. The Wrecker strikes wherever he pleases, causing untold damage and loss of human life. Who is he? What does he want? Is he an anarchist? A revolutionary? A criminal mastermind? Whoever he is, whatever his motives, the Wrecker knows how to create havoc. And Bell is convinced he is building up to a grand act unlike anything he has committed before. If the Wrecker isn't stopped in time, more than a railroad is at risk - the future of the entire country is on the line . . . Bestseller Clive Cussler - author of the Dirk Pitt novels <i>Black Wind</i> and <i>Trojan Odyssey</i> - and co-author Justin Scott pit legendary detective Isaac Bell against a mysterious murderer and railroad saboteur in the second novel of historical thriller series The Isaac Bell Adventures, <i>The Wrecker</i>. <b>Praise for Clive Cussler: </b> 'The guy I read' Tom Clancy 'Cussler is hard to beat' <i>Daily Mail</i>

April 1950: The rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the deep waters of a Montana lake. Inside is all that remains of three men who died forty-four years before. But it is not the engine nor its grisly contents that interest the people watching nearby. It is what is about to come next.

TICK... A KILLER'S COUNTDOWN BEGINS. A rash of horrifying crimes tears through New York City, throwing it into complete chaos. TICK... CAN MICHAEL BENNETT CATCH HIM? The city calls on Detective Michael Bennett, pulling him away from a seaside retreat with his ten adopted children, his grandfather, and their beloved nanny, Mary Catherine. Bennett enlists the help of a former colleague, FBI Agent Emily Parker. But as his affection for Emily grows into something stronger, his relationship with Mary Catherine takes an unexpected turn. TOCK... BEFORE HIS TIME IS UP? All too soon, another appalling crime leads Bennett to a shocking discovery that exposes the killer's pattern and the earth-shattering enormity of his plan.

With the Allies preparing for the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe, Felicity "Flick" Clariet, a British special operations agent, must take on the job of destroying German lines of communication with the aid of an all-woman team.

Emma is like every girl in the world. She has a few little secrets. I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom to Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben Hur. I'm a size twelve. Not a size eight, like Connor thinks. I've always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken. When Artemis really annoys me, I feed her plant orange juice. (Which is pretty much every day). It was me who jammed the copier that time. In fart, all the times. My G string is hurting me. I faked my Maths GCSE grade on my CV. I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is... ... until she spills them all to a stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger...

Set in the heart of Europe, 'Inferno' follows renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon as he becomes drawn into a harrowing world centred around one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces: Dante's Inferno.

For Rebecca Bloomwood, life is peachy. She has a job on morning TV, telling people how to manage their money - a subject on which she is an expert. Her bank manager is actually being nice to her, despite being just a tad overdrawn. And the icing on the brioche is that her boyfriend is moving to New York ...and has asked her to go with him.New York! The Museum of Modern Art! The Guggenheim! The Metropolitan Opera House! And Becky does mean to go to all these. Honestly. It's just that it seems silly not to check out a few other places first. Like Bloomingdales. And Saks. And that amusing little place she's been told about where you can sometimes get a Prada dress for $10. Or was it $100? Anyway, it's full of fantastic bargains.Shopaholic Abroad - because there just aren't enough shops in Britain.

From the bestselling author comes a thriller that deals with one of the most ruthlessly contested arenas of the Cold War, where each second brings destruction closer...

Katie, vivace trentenne londinese, è alla disperata ricerca di un lavoro e, in mancanza d'altro, accetta temporaneamente di fare la donna della pulizie di Rebecca, una nota agente letteraria. Le due donne, seppur coetanee, non potrebbero essere più diverse: simpatica e alla mano la prima, sofisticata e arrogante la seconda. Ma in breve tempo scatta qualcosa che le renderà complici. Katie si accorge che Rebecca è estremamente fragile e infelice, vittima di uomini che la usano e la lasciano. Katie, che al contrario ha un fidanzato che la ama e non sa resistere davanti a un cuore infranto, inizia a darle dei consigli dettati dal buon senso ispirandosi a un vecchio manuale di addestramento per cani. I risultati non tardano ad arrivare e così Katie, <i>love trainer</i> per caso, diventa la vera esperta in fatto di cuore, non solo di Rebecca, ma di tutte le sue amiche. Scoprirà però in fretta che non ci si può occupare a tempo pieno della felicità altrui senza mettere a repentaglio la propria....

Becky è una giornalista carina e determinata, con una irrefrenabile passione: lo shopping. Irrefrenabile al punto da diventare una mania, che la spinge a comprare tutto: abiti, casalinghi, dolciumi, un paio di scarpe al posto di un litro di latte. In un susseguirsi di situazioni paradossali ma per nulla improbabili, <i>I love shopping</i> propone sorta di vademecum delle piccole manie del nostro tempo.