The Last Nightingale
(Nightingale Detective Series Book 1)
“…Dickens meets Hannibal Lecter.
Brace yourself.” — Booklist
It’s 1906, and people from across the country are flocking to San Francisco, a growing center of industry and culture. But to some, the city is a place of unspeakable sin, and the Great Earthquake is seen as a day of reckoning for the immoral masses.
In the quake’s aftermath, another type of disaster strikes twelve-year old Shane Nightingale. Hiding in a closet for two days, he witnesses the violent deaths of his adoptive family at the hands of a twisted serial killer.
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The Hidden Man
(Nightingale Detective Series Book 2)
A determined detective must stop a murderous fanatic at the 1915 San Francisco World’s Fair in this riveting second installment of the Nightingale Detective series.
Nine years after San Francisco’s great earthquake and fires, the city is on the brink of a new era. The World’s Fair is opening to herald the completion of the Panama Canal and display the wonders of the new technological age.
But danger lurks behind the glittering façade, as a murderous fanatic stalks one of the fair’s main attractions: the brilliant mesmerist J.D. Duncan. When J.D. receives a threatening note from his stalker, homicide detective Randall Blackburn and his adopted son must combine their intuitive profiling skills to solve a murder that hasn’t happened yet.
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Gold in Peace, Iron in War
(Nightingale Detective Series Book 4)
A talented detective duo must unmask a sinister child smuggling ring and expose the corruption in a world rocked by war.
Four and a half years after the terrorist bombing plot of 1916, expert detective Randall Blackburn is ready to face his toughest case yet. When a San Francisco mayor recruits him and his adopted daughter Vignette Nightingale to bust a horrifying child smuggling ring, Randall plunges into a sinister investigation with roots far deeper than he could have ever imagined.
As they begin to peel back the layers of mystery behind the so-called “Orphan Trains,” Randall and Vignette piece together the shocking truth behind an underground railroad with ties across the Atlantic. Determined to stop the ruthless practice and bring down the culprits, the detective duo must use all of their wits to expose the corruption that lurks in the shadows.
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Vengeance For All Things
(Nightingale Detective Series Book 3)
An unlikely detective duo fights to stop an anarchist plot to bomb the 1916 Preparedness Day Parade in San Francisco.
A year after the 1915 San Francisco World’s Fair, detective Randall Blackburn is still in shock from his own personal tragedy.
His mourning, however, is cut short by a plea for help from City Hall. With the Preparedness Day Parade planned to celebrate America’s coming entry into the Great War, a group of anti-American anarchists are planning to take advantage of the clogged streets to set off a series of bombs that will throw the city into chaos.
While Blackburn tackles the case with traditional methods, Vignette prefers an unconventional approach as an expert lock picker who lives by her own rules. Together, they work to identify the masterminds behind the operation. What they discover will take you through a retelling of history that will keep you guessing until the very end.
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Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six
New York Times Bestseller.
In 2006, twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Buchanan stepped off a plane in Nairobi, Kenya, with a teaching degree and long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married a native Swede named Erik Landemalm, who worked to coordinate humanitarian aid with authorities in Africa. Together the two moved from Nairobi to Somalia, and with hopes of starting a family, their future couldn’t have been brighter. . . .
But on October 25, 2011, Jessica and a colleague were kidnapped at gunpoint and held for ransom by a band of Somali pirates. For the next three months, Jessica was terrorized by more than two dozen gangsters, held outdoors in filthy conditions, and kept on a starvation diet while her health steadily deteriorated.
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Tiny Dancer: The Incredible True Story of a Young Burn Victim's Journey from Afghanistan
International Bestseller.
Tiny Dancer is the amazing true story of Zubaida Hasan, a nine-year-old girl from the remote deserts of Afghanistan, who, in the summer of 2001, accidentally fell into a kerosene fire while heating water for a bath. Though she was horribly mutilated, her father refused to give up and exhaustively sought help to save his child.
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La danzatrice bambina
(Bestseller Vol. 36) (Italian Edition)
Questo non è il racconto dell'onda furiosa della Grande Storia sul destino di un popolo. È una storia piccola, che ha il volto di una bambina. Zubaida vive nel deserto dell'Afghanistan, in un villaggio che la guerra non ha ancora travolto. Ha nove anni. Non sa niente del mondo oltre il suo villaggio, dei cingolati dell'Armata Rossa, della lotta dei mujaheddin, del regime dei talebani che ha proibito anche gli aquiloni, degli elicotteri con la bandiera a stelle e strisce. Cammina danzando, al ritmo di una musica che le suona dentro. Ma non dopo quel giorno.
Non da quando un terribile incidente le ha ustionato le mani, il viso, il corpo. Da allora, la musica si è spenta. In un paese privo della più elementare assistenza medica, e in cui la vita di una figlia femmina vale ben poco, non sembra una fortuna che Zubaida sia sopravvissuta.
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In the Matter of Nikola Tesla:
A Romance of the Mind
A fictionalized story of a true-life genius that "reads . . . like one of John le Carr[é]'s espionage novels" (New York Journal of Books).
This account of the inner life of Nikola Tesla—arguably the most influential inventor in history—is a work of speculative fiction that reveals a genius whose greatest desire was to share his inventions with the world. It offers a compelling portrait of his passionate side, especially his secret love for his muse Karina, a woman no one else can see who brings him life-altering inspirations.
Tesla's love and obsession with Karina are the forces driving his work and motivating him in the face of a doubting world. Tesla maintains a loner's life while working alongside some of the greatest financial and scientific powerhouses of the age, and faces constant temptation to stray from Karina and his life's work. This portrait of a larger-than-life genius brings to light his very human side.
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L'ultimo segreto di Tesla
(True) (Italian Edition)
New Jersey, 1895. Un uomo scruta nella notte, in cerca dei bagliori di un incendio di cui ha avuto notizia. L’uomo è Thomas Alva Edison, il celeberrimo inventore, un nome che è quasi sinonimo di elettricità. Ma c’è un altro uomo che ha in questo campo enormi meriti, superiori a quelli di Edison, e di molti altri. Quello che sta bruciando è il suo laboratorio. E certo non è un caso…
In un avvincente romanzo-verità, Anthony Flacco ricostruisce vita e vicissitudini di Nikola Tesla, geniale e poliedrico inventore, scopritore di principi fondamentali e rivoluzionari nel campo dell’elettricità, affascinante catalizzatore di mille misteri, divenuto prima ricco e celebre e quindi povero e dimenticato.
Solitario e tormentato, oggetto di invidie e persecuzioni, quando, dopo aver rifiutato nientemeno che il premio Nobel, Tesla morì, agenti del governo che sorvegliavano l’albergo in cui dimorava irruppero e sequestrarono tutte le sue carte. Solo un prezioso incartamento riuscì a sfuggire alla razzia: il piano per il sistema di energia universale. Produrre elettricità gratuita: per tutti, ovunque, per sempre. La più grande delle scoperte che la sua Musa gli aveva ispirato. Un progetto che molti avrebbero avuto interesse a distruggere.
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The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders
“And you wonder: How the hell did this guy go on to be a loving father and grandfather? How did he bury all that crap? That is a story in itself.” – Clint Eastwood.
From 1926 to 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott committed at least twenty murders on a chicken ranch outside of Los Angeles. He held his nephew, Sanford Clark, captive there from the age of thirteen to fifteen.
Sanford would be Northcott's sole surviving victim. Forced by Northcott to take part in the murders, he carried tremendous guilt all his life. Yet despite his youth and the trauma he endured, Sanford helped gain justice for the dead and their families by testifying at the trial that led to Northcott's execution.
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Lunga è la notte
Sanford Clark ha tredici anni e vive in Canada nei primi anni '20. È un bravo ragazzino senza troppi grilli per la testa e francamente non capisce per quale motivo sua madre Winnie insista perché si trasferisca in California con il fratello di lei, lo zio Stewart, intenzionato ad avviare un'attività di allevamento di polli. Sanford parte a testa bassa, con le parole di sua madre che ancora gli frullano nella mente: "Vedrai sarà un'avventura, andrai a scuola, ti divertirai...". Ma la California non sarà la terra promessa, solo un luogo solitario e ostile, dove il vero volto dello zio Stewart, attraente come un divo di Hollywood, rivelerà la sua natura deviata.
Sanford diventa uno schiavo costretto a lavorare senza sosta. Maltrattato, sottoposto a ogni sorta di sofferenze e umiliazioni, si dovrà confrontare con il cuore nero e violento dello zio. Un essere dall'animo guasto e degenerato che lo rende complice di brutali atti di ferocia. Il ranch diventa per Sanford una prigione fisica e mentale, dove senso di colpa, abbrutimento e sopraffazione non gli danno tregua. Scampato fortunosamente a un destino segnato, Sanford dopo anni di lotta per sconfiggere i demoni riuscirà ad affrancarsi dal passato. Dimostrando che un'anima può mantenersi candida anche attraversando le fiamme dell'inferno.
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A Checklist for Murder: The True Story of Robert John Peernock
Robert Peernock appeared to have the ideal life. Working as a pyrotechnics engineer and computer expert and coming home to his wife and daughter, he projected the American dream.
His troubles began when he discovered deep seated corruption in California’s Water District and began trying to expose it. Mysterious vandal attacks began on his car, his house and at his workplace.
His attempts to save the California taxpayers many millions in stolen tax money were met with ridicule from the police and the state court system even though he had piles of evidence.
Paranoia slowly overcame him. His wife and daughter bore the brunt of it and died in a fiery crash which Peernock cried out was caused by the corrupt state to silence him and protect their provable corruption.