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Part I of HEART OF WISDOM is an historical family saga featuring the immigrant Demsky family during the years 1920 through 1946 as they face the challenges of surviving life, love and loss in Newark, New Jersey. ¿Part II is mainly Sora's story, youngest daughter of the family, and develops as a mystery in which her husband is accused of murder. Sora, with the help of a local lawyer, is determined to prove Eli innocent. Members of her family...

Ci sono storie che finiscono per essere dimenticate, ma ne esistono altre destinate a divenire immortali. Se sentiamo dire "Tallone d'Achille", ci viene naturale pensare al punto debole di una persona, se invece viene nominata "Medusa", immagineremo subito il mostro coi capelli fatti di serpi e capace di pietrificare con uno sguardo, tutto ciò fa capire quanto siano stati influenti nella storia questi miti e leggende! Gesta epiche di antich...

Odino, Thor, Loki, quante volte li hai sentiti nominare? Nonostante siano passati millenni, questi personaggi hanno lasciato un solco indelebile nella storia dell'umanità, ma ti sei mai chiesto cosa ci sia oltre a loro? Chi sono gli altri protagonisti della millenaria mitologia norrena? Le tradizioni norrene da sempre affascinano la cultura occidentale, seppur rimangano per molti un vero e proprio mistero: guerrieri invincibili, commercianti...

Modernlesme ve uluslasma tarihimizin klasiklesmis bir metni olarak milliyetcilik külliyatinin parildayan tacdari Türkcülügün Esaslari, Ankaradaki Matbuat ve Istihbarat Matbaasinda Türk Ocaklilara armagan olmak üzere nesredildigi günden bu yana, özgün eski yazili metninin tipkibasimini ve onun Latin harflerine aktarilmis bakisimli cevirisini iceren bez ciltli ve mtena bir baskiyla ilk defa okurun karsisina cikiyor. Kitap, hem bir koleksiyon özn...

Shane Cleary is living a comfortable life. He has money. He has a girl. But a visit from a friend shakes up his status quo. Chess may be the metaphor, but the case is one that lifts the lid on problems nobody in Boston wants to talk about. Murder. Race. Class. It's all Hush Hush. Neither the crime nor the verdict is simple, and yet it is Black and White. Shane will need more than a suit of armor if he wants to play knight. Can Justice be found...

In 1962, Dot Morgan was told the best thing she could do besides being a nurse or teacher was to learn to type. While attending secretarial school, she decides to rub elbows with an elite ladies' club to help her father with a struggling campaign for city council. Instead of getting the help she sought, Dot is thrown into a world of adultery, deceit, and murder when one of the town's sons is found dead. Time to put that 45 on the record player...

Osmanli Devleti, tarihteki cihan devletlerinden biri, hatta birincisidir. Alti asirlik ömrünün dört asrinda dünyanin birinci devleti olma hüviyetini tasimistir.Hicbir zaman kaba kuvvet devleti olmamistir.Öyle olsaydi bugün Balkan milletlerinin ismi bile bilinmezdi. Insan eksenli bir idare tarzi ortaya koymustur Osmanli.Yaptigi gönül akinlari, savas icin yaptigi akinlardan cok cok fazladir.Insanlik, Osmanli Devletini bir rüya olarak görmüstür. ...

In the summer of 1925, ambitious and beautiful New York jazz performer Lizzie Crane and her troupe land a plum job that could give them their big career break: a week-long engagement celebration for the daughter of a wealthy (and shady) industrialist to a Russian count. But Lizzie barely has time to enjoy her good luck--which includes the amorous attentions of the heir to her employer's vast fortune--before the group's saxophonist is stabbed t...

On a winter day in 1898, hundreds of spectators gather at a Brooklyn courthouse, scrambling for a view of the woman they label a murderess. Martha Place has been charged with throwing acid in her stepdaughter's face, hitting her with an axe, suffocating her with a pillow, then trying to kill her husband with the same axe. The crowd will not know for another year that the alleged murderess becomes the first woman in the world to be executed in ...

After ten years gone, Katelyn Took returns home in 1974 to find the grandmother who raised her has been killed in the farm meadow. Gram's will leaves Katelyn ownership of the now dilapidated farm, but includes a stipulation regarding seventeen cats. Then there's the confused old woman still living in the farmhouse. Katelyn doesn't want to stay, but the longer she does, the more drawn into finding Gram's killer she becomes.

Death is just a close shave away. It is February 1918. Somewhere in the bayside suburbs of Melbourne, the Death Mask Murderer is lurking, engaged in a ritualistic killing spree: shaving the heads of young women, strangling them and creating a gruesome memento of each in the form of a death mask. As a wild storm batters Brighton, Emma Hart, an aspiring artist, and Max Rushforth, a shell-shocked ex-soldier, take refuge in the cellar of a derelic...

Widowed Lady Rosamund spends the first months of her mourning in the Lake District, where it's safe and peaceful, and murders are exceedingly rare. Luckily, she is rescued from this tedium by a house party comprised of playwrights, poets, and actors-an immoral set of persons with whom no respectable lady should associate. Even so, she hardly expected to wake in the wee hours to find one of the guests lying dead.As if that wasn't troublesome en...

Recently widowed, Rebecca Parcell is too busy¿struggling to maintain her farm in Morristown to give a fig who wins the War¿for Independence. But rumors are spreading in the winter of 1780 that she's a Loyalist sympathizer¿who betrayed¿her husband to the British-quite a tidy way to end her disastrous¿marriage, the village gossips whisper. Everyone knows that her husband was a Patriot, a hero who died aboard a British¿prison ship moored in New Y...

It's December 1942 and Betty Ahern is enjoying her fledgling career as a private detective, investigating everything from missing jewelry to wandering boyfriends. But when Bell Airplane co-worker Emilia Brewka, whose grandmother recently died, wants Betty to prove the death was murder and not natural causes, Betty thinks Emilia's grief has her seeing things that aren't there. After a member of the visiting Polish government in exile is murdere...

Oklahoma City, 1935. Lou Nayland is a former Minor League Baseball player who now earns a living as a private investigator who only works when his cash runs out. He prefers to spend his days at Holland Field watching the Indians play ball. When a woman brings Lou a case of blackmail and murder, Lou is forced from the ballpark into the explosive world of jazz in Deep Deuce.

Charlotte¿Frayne's boss, Mr. Gilmore, ¿travels to Europe in the fall of 1936¿on a mysterious trip, leaving¿her¿in charge of the detective agency.¿The redoubtable¿Mrs. Jessop hires¿Charlotte¿to¿investigate¿the untimely death of her son, a¿disfigured and injured¿veteran¿of the¿Great War. The police ruled it a suicide, but Mrs. Jessop doesn't agree and wants Charlotte to find out what really happened. On the same day, ¿Charlotte is hired to infil...

As America staggers through the Great Depression, death stalks the pioneer blues musicians. In the depths of the Great Depression, father and son musicologists John and Alan Lomax make several eye-opening-at times menacing-journeys through the Jim Crow South. Assigned to record pioneer blues artists for the Library of Congress, they visit plantations and penitentiaries, rural crossroads and bustling cities. During their travels, they encounter...

Against his better judgment, Hollywood-hating private investigator Nate Ross takes on a Tinseltown case in the spring of 1938. It sounds like a milk run: find an alcoholic screenwriter whose absence is stalling production on Republic Pictures' latest Western.But when the missing rummy turns up dead, and Nate learns that somebody's going to lethal lengths to keep Stardust Trail from being made, his simple case becomes far more complex, and dead...

November, 1942. Betty Ahern is doing her part for the war, working at Bell Aircraft while her older brother and fiancé are fighting overseas, but she really wants to be a private detective like her movie idol Sam Spade. When sabotage comes to the plant, and a suspected co-worker hires her to clear her name, Betty sees it as her big chance.As her questions take her into Buffalo's German neighborhood, Kaisertown, Betty finds herself digging into...

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