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Napoleon has been defeated at Waterloo, and the ensuing peace brings with it both the desertion of nearly half of Captain Aubrey's crew and the sudden dimming of Aubrey's career prospects in a peacetime navy. When the Surprise is nearly sunk on her way to South America-where Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are to help Chile assert her independence from Spain-the delay occasioned by repairs reaps a harvest of strange consequences. The South American...

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El capitán Jack Aubrey y a su fiel compañero el doctor Stephen Maturin están en Francia en el momento en que Napoleón declara la guerra a los británicos. Tras conseguir atravesar la frontera con España, Aubrey se hará con el mando de un nuevo tipo de embarcación que debería garantizar la supremacía naval de Inglaterra, mientras que Maturin se revelará como un sagaz espía, capaz de poner en jaque a los servicios de inteligencia napoleónicos.

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During his last day as a detective on the sheriff's department, Jeff Lancaster works the gruesome homicide of a town elder in Southern Indiana. Despite opening his own business, thanks to a lottery win, Lancaster agrees to consult with his former department to see the case through. It doesn't take long before another murder of a statesman occurs, and Lancaster's new theme park appears to have an eerie connection to the murders, and the town'...

Hoping for a return to normal life, Paul Clouse hatches a plan to forever hide the cursed objects he possesses. When his plan backfires, and two of his closest allies are killed, he must regroup and discover the identity of the person or group threatening all of his friends and family. He enlists the help of a psychic and hires a morally upstanding federal agent to help him track down the evildoers responsible for murder. From the Bering Sea...

A serial killer remains free in Buffalo, New York after a task force comprised of state and local authorities fails to apprehend him and the wrong man is imprisoned. No one is more frustrated than Terry Levine, the state police investigator who headed up the team. Ordered to leave the case alone by his superiors, but unable to let a killer continue his murderous ways, Levine reaches out for some help to continue the investigation in a differen...

A serial killer chooses victims across the state of New York from all walks of life, prompting state police investigator Terry Levine to head up a task force devoted to finding the man responsible for stabbing or shooting seemingly innocent people. Teaming with a detective from Buffalo, he quickly discovers the man dubbed the Sin Killer by the local media is intelligent and crafty, leaving no traces of evidence at the crime scenes. Levine qu...

Never previously published in this country, A Book of Voyages presents writings by various travelers, annotated and introduced by Patrick O'Brian. Most are taken from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, O'Brian felt that, unlike Elizabethan or Victorian accounts, these writings were relatively unknown in our time. On her journey through the Crimea, Lady Craven witnesses barbaric entertainments in the court of the Tartar Khan. John Bell ...

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Earphones Awards winner Simon Vance juggles multiple characters, accents, and dramatic and comedic scenes with aplomb....Vance's warm, welcoming voice captures colorful characters, entertaining relationships....Readers in search of a handful of excellent companions with whom to spend many enjoyable hours will be hail and well met.

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La fortuna del comandante Aubrey e del dottor Maturin sembra essersi esaurita. Dopo la missione nei mari del Sud, Jack Aubrey fa sosta presso le Antille e insegue senza esito una nave corsara nei paraggi delle Azzorre. Poi sbarca in Inghilterra, dove l'armata Surprise dev'essere venduta alla marina per essere smantellata. Ma qui Jack, raggirato da un individuo apparentemente insospettabile, investe alla Borsa di Londra buona parte dei suoi gua...

Earphones Awards winner Simon Vance juggles multiple characters, accents, and dramatic and comedic scenes with aplomb....Vance's warm, welcoming voice captures colorful characters, entertaining relationships....Readers in search of a handful of excellent companions with whom to spend many enjoyable hours will be hail and well met.

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In seguito a un repentino cambio di piani, Sir Joseph Blaine, capo dei servizi segreti inglesi, decide di affidare a Jack Aubrey e a Stephen Maturin un'importante missione nel mar della Cina, per impedire un'alleanza tra i francesi e i principi malesi. Così Jack viene riammesso nella Royal Navy con il grado e l'anzianità precedenti, e, nominato comandante della Diane, fa rotta verso le Indie Orientali per accompagnare Edward Fox, l'inviato ple...