Roberta: 744 books

A vicious newspaperman is murdered, and every scribe in the office is a suspect It is winter in London, and the coal is running short. The chill on Fleet Street is so severe that the men who run the presses for *Youth’s Companion *are too cold to work. Despite the freeze, their editor—the...

At Oxford, a rash of crime puts Dodgson under suspicion of murder The world of academia is hardly a hotbed of crime. And although scholars at the University of Oxford may debate the assassination of Caesar or the execution of Socrates, a modern criminal has no place within the school’s walls....

Life doesn't stop being complicated just because you're dead. In the old days, vampires were sexy, ruthless, and evil. They could, and would, compel the living to do whatever they wanted. They owned the night. Unfortunately, being undead in modern times has unexpected and disturbing challenges. Now...

The end is in sight. Or not. As the fall Feria comes to a close, Halvar is ready to snatch Leon di Vicenza from the fratery and head back to Al-Andalus. No such luck. An Afrikan merchant dies of poisoning, and there are enough suspects to populate half of Manatas. Then a Bretain...

If people would only stop trying to kill him, Halvar the Dane might finally manage to do what he was sent to the island of Manatas to do—get the fugitive Leon di Vicenza on a boat back to Al-Andalus. And he didn't intend to kill two people before breakfast in the process. However,...

A dead boy, a cougar, and peanuts… There's no time for celebrating the holidays when a young messenger boy's corpse is discovered just outside Manatas. Snake had ambitions of bettering himself, but as Halvar, Selim, and the Town Guard seek for the lad's killer, they discover signs of a plot...

This holiday is no vacation… Ned Cooper had made plenty of enemies with his loud vocal attacks on every religion that wasn’t his, but it didn’t seem to Halvar that was enough to justify a knife in the back. Nevertheless, there he is—dead as one of his own barrels. Then Guardsman Zoltan...

Who killed the captain? It's not bad enough that Halvar is stuck in Manatas while Don Felipe is off exploring the New World. Now he's got a dead ship captain on his hands, a nobleman and his virago wife complaining about their living accommodations, and an enemy from his past who claims to...

Un evento drammatico senza precedenti scuote la provincia piemontese, innescando un conto alla rovescia irreversibile. Un thriller perfetto si consuma nei corridoi e nelle stanze della Procura, imperfetta, di Ardese. La Procura di Ardese è in pausa caffè quando squilla il telefono del sostituto...

Once vital to fire prevention and detection, most of the Black Hills National Forest historic lookout towers now serve primarily as hiking destinations. The first crude lookout structures were built at Custer Peak and Harney Peak in 1911. Since that time, more than 20 towers have been constructed in...

E se la felicità fosse eretta quale forma di governo? Se l'impero dell'uomo bandisse una crociata contro Dio? Una piccola comunità gioviana riuscirà a respingere un'invasione di spettri? Chi è l'algido divoratore di anime post umane? E se Dio risorgesse nel grembo di una giovane aliena? Quattro...

Europe’s most precious capital is its citizens. Thousands of volunteers all over Europe contribute everyday to create social cohesion and rights of citizenship while improving their skills. Europeans, for example (Euforex) is a European project funded under the Lifelong Learning Program, Grundtvig...

Providing accurate and objective information to help make the right decisions during a divorce in New Mexico, this guide provides answers to 360 queries such as What is the mediation process in New Mexico and is it required? How quickly can one get a divorce? Who decides who gets the cars, the pets,...

At one time or another, everyone has had to deal with relatives and in-laws who are irate, rude, impatient or aggressive. This book outlines useful techniques that will help anyone "keep cool under fire" when faced with annoying siblings, relatives, seniors, parents and in-laws including...