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After John Howard Griffin's escape from Nazi-occupied France, he was shipped to the South Pacific, where he was stationed as an isolated observer in the Solomon Islands. That experience led to his second novel, Nuni (1956). As in his first novel, The Devil Rides Outside, an American professor is confronted by an alien reality. In Nuni, that reality is a "primitive," almost Neolithic society. Yet, the professor's intellectual accomplishments are useless here, his place in both family and civilized society meaningless. He learns to cope, not so much in terms of survival as in finding a new...

Dos mil años sin sentir nada son demasiados, incluso para un inmortal como Cahal McCloud. En elpasado, los dioses Vanir lo castigaron por violar las leyes y lo relegaron a una eternidad sin emociones, convirtiéndolo en un crisol vacío, hasta que encontrara a su pareja de vida y esta le devolviese todo lo perdido. Pero nunca imaginó que su cáraid estaría de parte de Loki y sus jotuns, que lo secuestraría y lo torturaría durante interminables y agónicos días. Ahora, por fin, las tornas se han cambiado, y es la científica quién está a su merced. Su sangre le dará un enorme poder,...

Ortensia spettrale e nerovestita, Anemone raggiante e coloratissima, una introversa, l'altra estroversa, una infelice, l'altra piena di gioia di vivere, il positivo e il negativo: due gemelle che incarnano gli opposti archetipi della femminilità.

Morgan Drake witnesses a murder in an alleyway. He is the only person who can give evidence in prosecuting the cop responsible for the crime. When the FBI safe house where he’s being held is compromised, he follows the instructions of his agent in charge and runs. Nik Valentinov works for Sanctuary, a foundation that offers witness protection when FBI security is questionable. When Morgan's handler sends him to Nik for safety, neither Morgan nor Nik could imagine that two weeks alone in a cabin in the woods could start something more. Something way more than just trying to keep Morgan...