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Cleveland Noir joins Columbus Noir as the Akashic Noir series continues its tour of Ohio and navigates the dregs of the North Shore.

He took her to keep his father alive. Now he won’t let her go! Emilio isn’t supposed to be a part of the family business, but an attempt on his father's life pulls him in. He's determined to exact revenge and keep his father safe. He cons the noble doctor Cherish Raphael to care for his father in hiding, convincing her to come with him willingly. He needs her expertise, but he wants her body more and more as time passes. All Cherish’s caregiver instinct kick in when Emilio asks her to go into hiding with his father and take care of the old man. She can’t say no and lets the sexy ...

Can a Black journalist chasing the story of a lifetime afford to fall for the man who is Rome's biggest secret? Alessandro 'Sandro' Moretti is a name whispered with awe, a billionaire whose empire is as vast as his Vatican connections are deep. His desires are instantly fulfilled, until Kiana Morris, a fiery and intelligent Black American journalist, crashes into his world, threatening his legendary control. She arrived in Rome to conquer the Papal Conclave story, her ambition her armor after a painful past. There’s only one problem. Sandro, utterly captivated, decides Kiana must be his. ...

Hot Mr. Scrooge is my neighbor. Hope The man loathes Christmas. What person doesn’t warm up to the best holiday of the year? The cabin I purchased mentioned it needed light work, not a gut renovation. Looks nothing like the picture. The brooding beast next door said he’d help spruce up the place if it will get me to leave him alone. Deal. Because who wants to be around the Grinch longer than they have to? Even if he’s tall. Has a gorgeous face you can stare at all day. And a body you’d love to mount on your sleigh repeatedly. Then I wondered could I help Mr. Non-Christmas fall in ...

There will be death. My name is Nicco Bregoli the don. Behind my back they call me Dominicco dead eyes. My late father was Dominicco Bregoli the head of the Bregoli Mafioso Family. I ascended to the throne and I’m now THE BOSS. Something is rotten in my organization. I can’t trust anybody not even my own family. Lordes Donovan is the only man I can trust. If you have the balls to go up against me you have the courage to catch a bullet. They say if you mess with the bull you get the horns. I say if you mess with a Bregoli, you get a dance with death. PLEASE READ: CORRECT COPY OF NICCO IS...

There will be betrayal. My name is Labria Harris. I didn’t ask for this life. The man a love is knee deep in it. I stood by Lordes but there is only so much I can deal with. He wants to be a Bregoli and there is nothing I can do to stop him. With that name comes rules that I don’t think I can live by. I want to fight for us but I can’t be the only one going into battle. This isn’t the life I dreamt of when I met the man I fall in love with. Author's Note: This is a dark romance novel with mature themes that might make some readers uncomfortable. There may be triggers that affect ...

In her first memoir, the Academy Award–winning actress Sophia Loren tells her incredible life story from the struggles of her childhood in war-torn Naples to her life as a screen legend, icon of elegance, and devoted mother. In her acting career spanning more than six decades, Sophia Loren...

There will be pain. My name is Cenzo. I’m the consigliere. I was born Vincenzo Bregoli. On the streets I’m known as 50 Cenzo. I’ve been shot, stabbed, strangled and drowned but nothing has taken me out. Losing a family member is nothing new to me, but this one was too close to home. Now I will rain the ultimate pain on my enemies. I will avenge the death of my blood, my one and only. With the help of my brothers Nicco, Lordes and Frankie, we will murder anyone that dares to war with the Bregoli Mafioso Family. No doubt about it, I will get my revenge or die trying. B.M.F. for life. ...

Quando l’autore si è imbattuto in una vecchia fabbrica di dischi in vinile abbandonata a Harare, in Zimbabwe, non ha visto ruggine e rovina. Ha visto potenziale. Un potenziale folle. Di quello che ti tiene sveglio la notte a chiederti: E se riuscissi a farla girare di nuovo? Quella che era iniziata come un’idea strampalata si è presto trasformata in un’avventura internazionale che coinvolge ingegneri eccentrici, un tenace uomo d’affari polacco, tubi dell’olio esplosivi, nervi a fior di pelle e innumerevoli tazze di tè tiepido. Dalla polvere e dal caos dell’Africa all’ordine...

In questo breve racconto, l'autore rivela i fili che tessono la controversa eredità del leader militare Egiziano e del capo di stato Anwar Al-Sadat, nelle sue motivazioni che lo hanno portato alla guerra contro Israele e che lo ha visto poco dopo diventare un capo iconico per la pace in Medio Oriente, spingendo il suo paese su un percorso che non solo ha iniziato la trasformazione dell'Egitto in uno stato moderno, ma che ha egualmente alienato l'Egitto dal resto del mondo Arabo.La natura inequivocabile del racconto di Janvier T. Chando getta una luce unica sull'eredità di uno dei leader ...

The Italians were defeated at Adwa in 1898. But by 1935, they were playing for keeps. Learn more about the devastating Italian invasion of Ethiopia. Although the Ethiopians had beaten the Italians at their own game in the 1898 Battle of Adwa, when Italian armored divisions began pouring out of Italian-controlled Eritrea in 1935, the situation seemed almost impossible to overcome.

La seconda indagine del maggiore Morosini nell'Africa coloniale italiana. Un viaggio nel tempo suggestivo e avvincente.1935: l'Italia e il regime fascista cercano d'imporsi fra le grandi potenze internazionali per trovare «un posto al sole». La guerra con l'Abissinia è ormai imminente. Ma in Somalia, dove il generale Rodolfo Graziani sta per lanciare l'offensiva dal fronte sud, alcune morti misteriose fanno serpeggiare l'inquietudine nella popolazione e mettono a rischio l'avanzata delle truppe italiane.

During World War II Alan Caillou was on a British Intelligence deep penetration patrol in the Western Desert of Africa when he was captured by the Italians in February 1943. This is the story of his capture and subsequent escape after being sentenced for execution for being a spy; brilliantly told as to his experiences during that time. It can be considered not only as an escape book but as a prison book as well. For fans of such prison war films as The Great Escape, Stalag 17, and King Rat. "Something very much out of the ordinary run." - Times Literary Supplement "This book is a record ...

A nation sits at the brink of war, a city if fraught with conspiracy. It's 1935 in East Africa. In Cairo, at the Cataract Café, they gather: professional hunter Anton Rider, his estranged wife and her Italian lover, the pampered American twins Bernadette and Harriet Mills, an English lord down on his luck, a German freebooter who has stolen a fortune in silver from the Italian army. Under the knowing eye of the Goan dwarf and café proprietor Olivio Alevado, they lay plots and toast alliances.

In this action-romance short story, dashing Greek gladiator Leonidas promises his true love he’ll buy her freedom if he wins his own in the Colosseum of Ancient Rome. First he must defeat an opponent he knows he cannot kill. The year is 83AD and it’s nine years since Roman soldiers killed a young Leonidas’s family in their farmhouse outside Athens and consigned him to the life of a gladiator at Ludus Magnus, one of the biggest and best ludi gladiatori, or gladiator schools, in Rome. Since then, he remains undefeated after twenty-five fights and has risen to the top of the gladiator ...

Il primo capitolo delle indagini del maggiore Morosini nell'Africa coloniale italiana. Un viaggio nel tempo suggestivo e avvincente. Eritrea, 1935. L'Italia mussoliniana prepara la guerra d'Abissinia. Massaua - perla del Mar Rosso e fiore all'occhiello della prima colonia italiana - è scossa da due brutali omicidi: un noto imprenditore cittadino e un impiegato di banca vengono trovati decapitati. I sospetti si concentrano sugli agenti del Negus etiopico Hailé Selassié, coinvolti nelle settimane precedenti in sanguinosi scontri di frontiera con le truppe italiane.

In 1884, Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war. This event—known as the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885—galvanized a phenomenon that came to be known as the Scramble for Africa.

Il partenariato tra l'esercito francese e l'opposizione in Costa d'Avorio che ha portato alla rimozione di Laurent Gbagbo dal potere durante i conflitti civili post-elettorali è stato uno sforzo per ripristinare la democrazia o l'ultimo tassello di un piano per rimuovere una minaccia al famigerato "Patto coloniale" che la Francia ha imposto alle sue colonie in Africa prima di concedere loro l'indipendenza negli anni '60? La rimozione di Laurent Gbagbo e l'ascesa al potere di Alassane Ouattara fu uno sforzo per mantenere l'anacronistico sistema autocratico imposto dalla Francia in Costa ...

In questo magico racconto, Janvier T. Chando stabilisce brillantemente i fili che hanno reso il giovane Thomas Sankara uno dei leader iconici dell'Africa nel ventesimo secolo, e i cambiamenti rivoluzionari che ha apportato al Burkina Faso, che ha trasformato il paese nel più autosufficiente entità geopolitica nell'Africa sub-Sahariana. L'autore conduce il lettore mano nella mano sul percorso del sentiero del giovane Sankara dalla sua catapulta alla ribalta della politica del Burkina Faso, i suoi travagli, la sua ascesa al potere come capo di stato e la sua lucida nozione della sua ...

Questo racconto di Muammar Gheddafi ci porta alla sua ascesa al potere, ai momenti in cui era sotto i riflettori, e poi ai suoi travagli e alla sua rapida eliminazione dagli sviluppi geopolitici in Libia in una processione che fece precipitare il paese in un tumulto da cui deve ancora riprendersi Con intuizione, lucidità, imparzialità, ampiezza e diligenza, Janvier T, Chando riesce a delineare gli intricati fili che intrecciano il controverso personaggio di Muammar Gheddafi. Non solo trova la verità dai racconti disparati sull'uomo forte libico, ma gli fa luce in un modo unico che rende ...