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Robert Muchamore
The general
Riots, robbery & the biggest ever training exercise. The world’s largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas. Forty British commandos are being hunted by an entire American batallion. But their commander has an ace up his sleeve: he plans to smuggle in ten CHERUB agents and fight the best war game ever.
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En anglais – L.A. : silver-screen glamour, eternal summer, Left Coast follies and a real melting pot. Embrace the behemoth with a local author who knows the bold, beautiful and bizarre. Stroll legendary Hollywood Blvd, cruise Sunset in a convertible or hang with the hipsters on Vermont Ave.
Codice a zero
En italien – 29 gennaio 1958, Cape Canaveral: inizia il conto alla rovescia per il lancio del primo satellite americano, fervono attesa e i preparativi ma per qualche motivo l'evento verrà rimandato di due giorni. Come mai qualcuno cerca di ostacolare la riuscita di questa storica impresa? 29 gennaio 1958, Union Station, Washington: alba un uomo si sveglia in una toilette maschile vestito come un barbone; è intontito come se soffrisse per i postumi di una sbornia ed è privo di memoria. Come è finito lì? E chi è veramente ? ambiguo mondo delle spie, in piena guerra fredda, Follett ambienta una storia di suspence che ha come protagonista uno scienziato spaziale che tenta di ricostruire il puzzle della sua esistenza.
Adam Runaway
En Anglais – « It is 1721 and young Adam Hanaway, devastated by his father’s sudden death, leaves England to seek his fortune in Lisbon, where his uncle is a successful merchant. But almost nothing turns out as Adam planned. His family’s welcome is cool, and Adam’s rise to the top is thwarted by Bartolomeu Gomes, his uncle’s treacherous clerk. » « As Adam attempts to overcome these obstacles he is handicapped by a certain personal trait. Not, he insists, that he is a coward exactly, but he is inclined to boldly put himself in dangerous situations and then at the last minute run away from them – hence the nickname given to him by friends who had observed this failing once too often. » « While Adam’s mother and sisters wait in England for him to rescue them from poverty, Adam is preoccupied with more compelling women: the beautiful, older half-Portuguese lady Maria Beatriz Hutchinson; the spoiled, rich Gabriella Lowther; and his charming young cousin Nancy. But Adam commits a social faux pas so severe he forever ruins his chances for making a good match – yet no one dares tell him what he has done wrong! » « Adam certainly has a lot to learn. …
Toujours Provence
En Anglais – Taking up where his beloved A Year in Provence leaves off, Peter Mayle offers us another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocative book about life in Provence. With tales only one who lives there could know—of finding gold coins while digging in the garden, of indulging in sumptuous feasts at truck stops—and with characters introduced with great affection and wit—the gendarme fallen from grace, the summer visitors ever trying the patience of even the most genial Provençaux, the straightforward dog « Boy »—Toujours Provence is a heart-warming portrait of a place where, if you can't quite « get away from it all, » you can surely have a very good time trying.