Washoe County Library System

On a beautiful spring morning on the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, a small fishing boat moored at the docks suddenly explodes. When it becomes clear that the fire was deliberately set and the boat's owners brutally murdered, Commissario Brunetti tries to dip up information from Pellestrina's close-knit -- and closemouthed - citizenry. But it is with mixed feelings that he accepts Signorina Elettra's offer to visit...

Un hombre regresa al pueblo donde ocurrió un asesinato desconcertante 27 años atrás, con la determinación de descubrir la verdad.

The job was to drive a herd of bullocks across Texas to New Mexico. For Dan Killoe, it is an opportunity to prove himself to his father. Dan is joined by Tap Henry, a top gunman. As the tale evolves Dan and Tap enter into a serious drama of guns, betrayal and honour.

It's been thirteen years since Lucy Sheridan was in Summer River. The last time she visited her aunt Sara there, as a teenager, she'd been sent home suddenly after being dragged out of a wild party -- by the guy she had a crush on, just to make it more embarrassing. Obviously Mason Fletcher -- only a few years older but somehow a lot more of a grown-up -- was the overprotective type who thought he had to come to her rescue. Now, returning after her...

El nuevo best seller de suspense romántico de una autora legendaria. Una novela adictiva llena de misterio, peligro y un amor por el que merece la pena jugarse el cuello. Harry Booth es un ladrón. Lleva una vida tranquila y llena de cautela, sin ataduras, hasta que se cruza en su camino Miranda Emerson, hija del profesor de Literatura especializado en Shakespeare de la Universidad de Carolina del Norte. Aunque intenta mantenerse alejado de la inteligente...

Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer, he left Chicago-but kept up his nightwork. Wandering from the Outer Banks to Savannah to New Orleans, he dons new identities and stays careful, observant, distant. He can't afford to attract attention-or get attached. Still, he can't...

Presented by Hemingway's grandson Seán Hemingway, with a personal foreword by the authors son Patrick Hemingway, this new enhanced Library Edition of Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece about an American in the Spanish Civil War features early drafts and supplementary material, including three previously uncollected short stories on war by one of the greatest writers on the subject in history. In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil...