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The Justice Machine
By Dick Bauch. 2015
Chas Robertson is driven to steal to survive through a severe drought. His crime is witnessed by a police Aboriginal…
tracker and he is charged. Suddenly he is accused of attempting to murder the same witness. If Chas cannot convince the jury of his innocence he faces time in Darlinghurst Gaol. Or worse! Based on a true story, The Justice Machine examines the motivations of the players in the law game. The Magistrate, the Policeman, the Prosecutor, the Barrister and the Judge all have their own reasons for being there. Hardly any of them are to do with justice. The law and justice are different things it seems. The year is 1882 but this could be any time. Injustice is timeless.Henry Wood – Detective Privato
By Brian Meeks. 2018
1 gennaio 1955 Henry Wood uscito malconcio dai bagordi della notte di capodanno del…
1954 Nel suo mondo le cose finora sono state bianche o nere giuste o sbagliate ma la sua vita sta per cambiare e d ora in poi ci saranno sempre sfumature di grigio Tutto sommato non niente male come detective Tifoso sfegatato dei Brooklyn Dodgers Henry sta per essere ingaggiato da una bella ragazza affinch le ritrovi il padre e il libro contabile di cui questi si stava occupando Il caso appare alquanto semplice ma quando un seconda donna richiede i suoi servizi per ritrovare lo stesso libro contabile Henry comincia sospettare che dietro alla sparizione dell uomo ci sia qualcosa di grosso di molto pi grande di lui E ha ragione Ritrovare l uomo e il suo libro contabile diventer ben presto l ultimo dei suoi problemi perch anche il capo della mafia locale Tommy il Coltello mira a quel libro contabile e finch non riuscir a entrarne in possesso il boss sa di essere vulnerabile facile preda degli altri capi famiglia Ma di chi si pu fidare Henry C un misterioso quanto sconosciuto benefattore che sembra avere a cuore solo il suo bene Henry accetter l aiuto che gli verr offerto Ma soprattutto ha altra sceltaWalrus With A Gold Tooth: Crime in Anchorage, Alaska—the Pioneer Way—Unorganized!
By Steven Levi. 2014
In the two decades between the Second World War and the Great Alaska Earthquake, Anchorage grew by a factor of…
10. Money was, quite literally, washing down the street. The economic boom was so great that all you needed to make a million dollars was a cash register. At the same time Anchorage was one of the few cities in America where organized crime never got a firm foothold. Uptown, downtown, out of town, the locals were clever enough to keep the East Coast families out. Walrus With A Gold Tooth is a fictionalized version of crime in Anchorage over these two decades and a step-by-step history of how the local squeezed out the mob before it ever made it in. And if you know your Anchorage history, you just might be able to determine which characters are actual people whose names have been changed to protect the guilty.The Cat Who Had 14 Tales
By Lilian Jackson Braun. 1988
The Cat Who Had 14 Tales A courageous Siamese bags a cunning cat burglar...a country kitty proves a stumbling block…
in a violent murder...and an intuitive feline's premonition helps solve the case of the missing antiques dealer.El Buque
By Gillian E Hamer, Debra Jansen. 2015
Thriller policíaco, desarrollado en Gales del Norte, con un toque sobrenatural. Sarah Morton espera que descubrir la verdad acerca del…
naufragio del Royal Charter en 1859, silencie los demonios de su pasado. Pero, atormentada por visiones y atentados contra su vida, Sarah teme que el buque pueda reclamarla como su víctima final. Desarrollada sobre la dramática y peligrosa costa de Anglesey, El Buque es una historia de codicia y perdón - de cuando los tesoros del pasado evocan los crímenes de hoy.El Sello De Salomón
By Steven Savile, Rodolfo Laiz Ledesma. 2014
¡EL ESPERADÍSIMO REGRESO DEL EQUIPO OGMIOS!"Es perfecto para aquellos fans del Código DaVinci que busquen otra lectura apasionante que combina…
la historia bíblica con un Armagedón actual." Douglas Presston, autor de betsellers del NYT como IMPACTO y Blasfemia.Tras el descubrimiento del tanto tiempo buscado SELLO DE SALOMÓN Konstantin Khavan y Orla Nyren se ven embueltos en una lucha mortal en Jerusalén y Palestina, con enemigos en todos los bandos. No saben en quien pueden confiar. No saben cuál será su siguiente camino. Lo único que saben es que tienen que encontrar el Sello mientras evitan la explosión de una bomba sucia en uno de los lugares más sagrados de Jerusalén.Lo que no esta mal, pero Orla ya ha estado aquí antes, durante los peores dias de su vida cuando era una prisionera en Jenin, un campamento de refugiados junto a la frontera. Fue brutalmente violentada por un sádico al que recuerda como la Bestia, un hombre al que creía haber matado durante su fuga.Pero no está muerto.Es el hombre que tiene el Sello.Y Orla tendrá que enfrentarse a la Bestia sola.The Amputated Memory
By Marjolijn De Jager, Michelle Mielly, Werewere Liking. 2007
"....An expansive, eclectic, and innovative novel."--Women's Review of BooksA modern-day Things Fall Apart, The Amputated Memory explores the ways in…
which an African woman's memory preserves, and strategically forgets, moments in her tumultuous past as well as the cultural past of her country, in the hopes of making a healthier future possible.Pinned between the political ambitions of her philandering father, the colonial and global influences of encroaching and exploitative governments, and the traditions of her Cameroon village, Halla Njokè recalls childhood traumas and reconstructs forgotten experiences to reclaim her sense of self. Winner of the Noma Award--previous honorees include Mamphela Ramphele, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Ken Saro-Wiwa--The Amputated Memory was called by the Noma jury "a truly remarkable achievement . . . a deeply felt presentation of the female condition in Africa; and a celebration of women as the country's memory."Since 1978, Cameroon-born artiste extraordinaireWerewere Liking has been living in the Ivory Coast, where she established the Village Ki-Yi, a self-supporting center for the performing and fine arts. A singer, dancer, actor, playwright, songwriter, and author of two titles previously published in the United States, Liking has been honored across the globe for her writing and theater work; she has performed at such venues as The Kennedy Center.Marjolijn de Jager teaches French, Dutch, and literary translation at New York University and works as an independent literary translator, most recently on Assia Djebar's Children of the New World.Michelle Mielly received her PhD from Harvard University and is now teaching in the Department of Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University.The Present Moment
By Valerie Kibera, Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye. 1987
Published in conjunction with the award-winning Coming to Birth, this novel is the first U.S. release of a major force…
in East African literature. Of her ability to both empathize with her characters and capture their complex levels, the Weekly Review said, "Macgoye's major virtue as a writer and social critic is the inclusiveness of her vision. Nothing human is alien to her. She refuses to bestow virtue or villainy along ideological or gender lines."The Present Moment tells the story of seven unforgettable Kenyan women as it traces more than sixty years of turbulent national history. Like their country, these women are divided by ethnicity, language, class, and religion. But around the charcoal fire at the Refuge, the old-age home they share, they uncover the hidden personal histories that connect them as women: stories of their struggles for self-determination; of conflict, violence, and loss, but also of survival. As they reflect upon their tragedies, they also become aware of the community they have formed--a community of collective history, strength, humor, and affection. A chronology by Jean Hay provides U.S. readers with context on Kenyan history."Marjorie Macgoye paints a group portrait colored by deep respect, compassion, and admiration."--Commonwealth Today (Great Britain)"With the vividly specific economy of the best poetry . . . [Macgoye] confers a stature and significance on humble lives; or, rather, shows that behind the most unpromising human façades lurk lives of extraordinary courage, enterprise, and resilience."--Sunday Nation (Kenya)Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye is the award-winning author of Coming to Birth, as well as many other novels and volumes of poetry. The first African woman writer to receive the Sinclair Prize in 1986, she lives in Nairobi, Kenya.Valerie Kibera has taught European and African literature at Kenyatta University, Nairobi. She is editor of An Anthology of East African Short Stories.Jean Hay teaches history at the African Studies Center of Boston University.Il Sigillo di Salomone
By Steven Savile, Valeria Malacasa. 2015
Con la scoperta del Sigillo di Salomone, un artefatto da tempo perduto, Konstantin Khavin e Orla Nyrén si ritrovano a…
Gerusalemme e in Palestina a lottare per la propria vita, circondati dai nemici. Non sanno di chi possono fidarsi. Non sanno da che parte voltarsi. Tutto ciò che sanno è che devono ritrovare il Sigillo e, al tempo stesso, disinnescare una bomba radiologica che potrebbe esplodere in uno dei luoghi più sacri di Gerusalemme. Fin qui, tutto bene. Ma Orla è già stata qui, durante i giorni peggiori della sua vita, quando venne sequestrata a Jenin, un campo profughi sul confine. Fu abusata brutalmente da un sadico che chiama "la bestia" e che è impresso nella sua memoria, un uomo che credeva di aver ucciso scappando da quel luogo, tanto tempo fa. Ma lui non è morto. Lui ha il Sigillo. E Orla dovrà affrontare la bestia da sola.Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto
By Abraham Cahan. 1970
Yekl (1896), the first novel upon which the much acclaimed film Hester Street was based, was probably the first novel…
in English that had a New York East Side immigrant as its hero. Reviewing it, William Dean Howells hailed Cahan as "a new star of realism."Doghouse
By L. A. Kornetsky. 2014
In the third novel in the "entertaining" (Library Journal) Gin & Tonic mystery series, the stakes are raised when Ginny…
Mallard and Teddy Tonica stumble on an underground dog fighting ring with bloody consequences.Even though she's unlicensed as an investigator, the infamously nosy Ginny Mallard has begun to make a name for herself as an unofficial champion of the tongue-tied. When a mysterious stranger comes to her with landlord trouble, she convinces her bartender friend Teddy Tonica to help her once more. Soon, they realize they might have got themselves tied up in an underground dogfighting ring. With the help of Ginny's pet shar-pei puppy and Tonica's tabby cat, they have to figure out what's going on before someone else gets hurt. Will twelve legs really be better than four?A Nose for Justice
By Rita Mae Brown. 2010
Explosive sabotage and the startling unearthing of a hundred-year-old skeleton on a Nevada ranch thrillingly start off this debut novel…
in a tail-wagging new series from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown. With the ruins of her high-powered Wall Street job now far in the rearview mirror of her rented silver Camaro, thirty-two-year-old Mags Rogers arrives at her great-aunt Jeep's sprawling Wings Ranch to reassemble her life. In the passenger seat, with his suspicious nose to a cracked window, is Mags's beloved wirehaired dachshund, the urbane Baxter. Mags was named for her great-aunt, Magdalena--though everyone calls the spry octogenarian rancher Jeep. From piloting planes in World War II to discovering one of America's largest gold deposits, Jeep has enjoyed a lifetime jam-packed with love and adventure, and she's not done yet. At her side--to Baxter's low-down distress--is Jeep's loyal German Shepherd mix, King. The growlings are mutual: King sniffs that Baxter is a "fuzzy sausage."Meanwhile, someone pipe-bombs Red Rock Valley's pumping station, endangering the water supply near and far. Deputy Pete Meadows links the sabotage to a string of local murders, but he doesn't yet know if it's a corporate plot or twisted eco-terrorism. He's also called out to Wings Ranch when human bones are dug up in Jeep's barn; the dead man's ring identifies him as an elite Russian military officer from the late 1800s, apparently knifed to death. In her search to find out whodunit, Mags uncovers fascinating history about Jeep's ranch, including an intriguing connection to Buffalo Bill. Mags and Pete have mysteries to solve, among them why they are so drawn to each other. Baxter and King team up when it comes time to protect their humans. And all the while, Jeep Reed, the sassiest wit in the West, has a bold plan for Red Rock Valley in which they all will play a part. From the Hardcover edition.The Cat Who Came to Breakfast (Cat Who... #16)
By Lilian Jackson Braun. 1994
Qwilleran and the cats are visiting an island known by many names. Qwill has always called it Breakfast Island, but…
to the taciturn natives, it's Providence Island. To the rich summer residents it's Grand Island--and to the developers and tourists who are turning this once-peaceful place upside down, it's Pear Island. But when some odd "accidents" occur, including a fatal boat explosion, Qwill suspects sabotage and sets out to investigate--because murder by any other name is just as deadly. . . .The Cat Who Moved a Mountain
By Lilian Jackson Braun. 1992
Qwill's on top of the world when he rents a house on Big Potato Mountain. The owner, J.J. Hawkinfield, brought…
real estate development to the once-peaceful Potatoes. But Hawkinfield paid a steep price for his enterprise: He was pushed off a cliff by an angry mountain dweller. Qwilleran, however, suspects the man is innocent--and Koko's antics have him convinced something's wrong. He may be making a mountain out of a molehill...but he's determined to find the truth. Even if it means jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire!Bees in the City
By Andrea Cheng, Sarah McMenemy. 2017
2018 Green Earth Book Award Finalist Lionel lives in a Paris apartment building but loves keeping bees with his Aunt…
Celine at her farm outside the city. But when her bees start dying, how can he help? The solution, he realizes, is in the rooftop gardens and window boxes of his apartment neighbors, representing a varied and continuously blooming array of flowers that the bees will love. Aunt Celine must bring her bees to Paris! But first he and his friends Alice and Samir must convince their skeptical neighbors and landlord, Mr. Dubi, that this is a good idea. Adorned with Parisian skylines, Bees in the City is a love letter to the City of Light and a celebration of the can-do spirit of kids. Sarah McMenemy’s illustrations recall the Parisian magic of Madeleine. The book’s backmatter explores urban beekeeping and rooftop gardening in greater depth. Fountas & Pinnell Level PBees in the City
By Andrea Cheng, Sarah McMenemy. 2017
2018 Green Earth Book Award Finalist Lionel lives in a Paris apartment building but loves keeping bees with his Aunt…
Celine at her farm outside the city. But when her bees start dying, how can he help? The solution, he realizes, is in the rooftop gardens and window boxes of his apartment neighbors, representing a varied and continuously blooming array of flowers that the bees will love. Aunt Celine must bring her bees to Paris! But first he and his friends Alice and Samir must convince their skeptical neighbors and landlord, Mr. Dubi, that this is a good idea. Adorned with Parisian skylines, Bees in the City is a love letter to the City of Light and a celebration of the can-do spirit of kids. Sarah McMenemy’s illustrations recall the Parisian magic of Madeleine. The book’s backmatter explores urban beekeeping and rooftop gardening in greater depth. Fountas & Pinnell Level PHenry Wood – Detective Privato
By Marina Albamonte, Brian D. Meeks. 2018
1° gennaio 1955. Henry Wood è uscito malconcio dai bagordi della notte di capodanno del 1954. Nel suo mondo le…
cose finora sono state bianche o nere, giuste o sbagliate, ma la sua vita sta per cambiare e d’ora in poi ci saranno sempre sfumature di grigio. Tutto sommato non è niente male come detective. Tifoso sfegatato dei Brooklyn Dodgers, Henry sta per essere ingaggiato da una bella ragazza affinché le ritrovi il padre e il libro contabile di cui questi si stava occupando. Il caso appare alquanto semplice, ma quando un seconda donna richiede i suoi servizi per ritrovare lo stesso libro contabile, Henry comincia sospettare che dietro alla sparizione dell’uomo ci sia qualcosa di grosso, di molto più grande di lui. E ha ragione. Ritrovare l’uomo e il suo libro contabile diventerà ben presto l’ultimo dei suoi problemi perché anche il capo della mafia locale, Tommy “il Coltello” mira a quel libro contabile e, finché non riuscirà a entrarne in possesso, il boss sa di essere vulnerabile, facile preda degli altri capi famiglia. Ma di chi si può fidare Henry? C’è un misterioso quanto sconosciuto benefattore che sembra avere a cuore solo il suo bene. Henry accetterà l’aiuto che gli verrà offerto? Ma soprattutto, ha altra scelta?The Cat Who Tailed a Thief (Cat Who... #19)
By Lilian Jackson Braun. 1997
The delightful New York Times bestselling mystery series continues with "another winner!" (Austin American-Statesman) In this latest installment, prizewinning reporter…
Jim Qwilleran--along with his lovable Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum--solve a mystery that arises when a local banker dies under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind a flashy young widow, an unfinished house-restoration project, and a trail of clues as elusive as a cat burglar in the night . . .Sweet Money
By Katherine Silver, Ernesto Mallo. 2007
Praise for Ernesto Mallo's Needle in a Haystack: "A vivid and compelling picture of a society riven by corruption, social…
breakdown, and casual brutality. A pacy, intense, and thought-provoking read."--Guardian "Martin Cruz Smith and Philip Kerr fans will be rewarded."--Publishers Weekly "A gritty, painful portrait of a dystopian culture spinning further and further out of control. A compelling, blood-stained document of tyranny and brutality told with skill and passion."--Crime Time In the second book in the Superintendent Lascano series, Lascano is drawn into a war between the Buenos Aires chief of police and the Apostles, drug-dealing cops who want to control the city. When the chief of police is murdered, Lascano becomes the Apostles' next target. His only way out of the country is to retrieve the loot from a bungled bank robbery. Ernesto Mallo paints a scathing portrait of Argentina, where the Junta's generals are paraded in court in civilian clothes and treated like mere petty thieves. Corruption and violence continue to rule, but at the center of the novel lies a touching portrayal of two broken men, a cop and a robber, whose humanity is sorely tested by the troubles racking their beloved country. Born in 1948, Ernesto Mallo is a published essayist, newspaper columnist, and playwright. He is a former militant, pursued by the dictatorship as a member of the guerilla movement.Havana Fever
By Peter Bush, Leonardo Padura. 2005