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Joe has witnessed things that cannot be erased. A former FBI agent and Marine, his abusive childhood has left him damaged beyond repair. He has completely withdrawn from the world and earns his living rescuing girls who have been kidnapped into the sex trade. When he's hired to save the daughter of a corrupt New York senator held captive at a Manhattan brothel, he stumbles into a dangerous web of conspiracy, and he pays the price. As Joe's small web of associates are picked off one by one, he realizes that he has no choice but to take the fight to the men who want him dead.

Meet Louis Ives: well-groomed, romantic, and as captivating as an F. Scott Fitzgerald hero. Only this hero has a penchant for ladies clothes, and he's lost his teaching post at Princeton's Pretty Brook Day School after an unfortunate incident involving a colleague's brassiere.

Alan Blair, the hero of Wake Up, Sir!, is a young, loony writer with numerous problems of the mental, emotional, sexual, spiritual, and physical variety. He's very good at problems. But luckily for Alan, he has a personal valet named Jeeves, who does his best to sort things out for his troubled master. And Alan does find trouble wherever he goes.

Perhaps all of Jonathan Ames' problems, and the genesis of this hilarious audiobook, can be traced back to the late onset of his puberty. After all, it can't be easy to be 16 with a hairless penis "undistinguishable from that of a five-year-old's".

"Bored to Death" is a Raymond Chandleresque tale of a struggling Brooklyn writer curiously named Jonathan Ames who, in a moment of odd whimsy and boredom, becomes a private detective after spontaneously posting an ad on Craigslist. This Ames alter ego quickly becomes embroiled in the search for a missing NYU coed. He moves from one scrape to the next, all while trying to escape a life of periodic alcoholism, dead-end relationships, writer's block, and hours of Internet backgammon.

In his latest collection, I Love You More Than You Know, Ames proves once again his immense talent for turning his own adventures, neuroses, joys, heartaches, and insights into profound and hilarious tales. Alive with love and tenderness for his son, his parents, his great-aunt, and even strangers in bars late at night, in I Love You More Than You Know Ames looks beneath the surface of our world to find the beauty in the perverse, the sweetness in loneliness, and the humor in pain.

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber tells the hilarious and improbable true story of Attila Ambrus, the Robin Hood of Eastern Europe. He's the onetime pelt smugger, goaltender (possibly the worst in the history of pro hockey), pen salesman, Zamboni driver, gravedigger, church painter, roulette addict, building superintendent, whiskey drinker, and native of Transylvania who's decided that the best thing to do with his time is to rob as many banks as possible.

Qu'il y-a-t-il de plus fascinant que les services secrets ? Avec notre collection espionnage, levez le voile sur les grandes affaires d'espionnage et découvrez la vraie histoire et les plus sombres secrets des plus célèbres espions.

Joe è un ex marine e un ex agente dell'FBI che ha visto troppe scene del crimine e conosciuto troppi traumi, e non solo nella sua vita professionale. Solitario e tormentato, ha scelto di essere invisibile: non ha amici o amanti e passa la sua vita a salvare giovani ragazze finite nelle grinfie mortali del sesso a pagamento.

Questo libro è uno scontro epocale tra le due personalità del suo autore: il romanziere che ha scritto "Sveglia, Sir!" e "lo e Henry" sfida il giornalista e saggista di "Cosa (non) amare". Meglio quindi "Annoiato a morte", il racconto da cui è stata tratta la sceneggiatura della serie televisiva "Bored to death - Investigatore per noia", oppure i reportage dagli U.S. Open e da un festival di musica gotica e le bizzarre interviste con Marilyn Manson e Lenny Kravitz?

Dopo il ritratto di Alan Blair in "Sveglia, Sir!" e quello autobiografico di "Veloce come la notte", Ames si mette a nudo senza pudore. Insicuro nei rapporti con le donne, angosciato dalla depressione, ossessionato dalla calvizie e dall'impotenza, si rivela una sorta di antieroe in cerca di un'identità, ma soprattutto in lotta con se stesso per non farsi tentare dal Prozac e dal Viagra. Le sue bizzarre manie diventano il filo rosso di un esilarante viaggio, dall'adolescenza alla "immaturità", nei suoi problemi con il sesso, dovuti all'incapacità di accettare il proprio corpo.

Louis Ives è un giovane professore di belle speranze, romantico, colto e desideroso di somigliare ai personaggi di Fitzgerald e Maugham. Peccato che, a causa della sua fissazione per il travestitismo, venga sorpreso con indosso il reggiseno di una collega e licenziato dalla scuola di provincia dove insegna. Giunto a Manhattan, scopre che la prima sfida sarà quella di trovare un appartamento dall'affitto contenuto e il coinquilino giusto con cui dividerlo. Finisce così in uno squallido buco dell'Upper East Side con lo stralunato Henry Harrison, ex attore e commediografo fallito.

Quando Alexander Vine alla fine della giornata abbandona la divisa da doorman dell'esclusivo ristorante del FourSeasons di New York, la sua tranquilla routine si sgretola e un'improvvisa accelerazione lo proietta in una notte di pericoli e possibilità infinite, di eccitazione e reinvenzione di sé nel sensuale mondo sommerso della metropoli, sempre in equilibrio tra un frenetico desiderio sessuale e la corsa all'autodistruzione.

In The World According to Narnia, Jonathan Rogers takes you further into the imaginative world of C. S. Lewis, helping you to view our world in the way that Narnia invites you to view it. Rogers shows how the storylines and characters from Narnia sing with biblical truth.

When a young Israeli walks into an American embassy and offers to betray his country for money and power, he has no idea that the CIA agent interviewing him is a Russian mole. Years later, the Israeli has risen in the ranks to become a trusted advisor to Israel's prime minister, and throughout his career, he's been forced to share everything with the Kremlin. Now, however, a hint that there may be a traitor in the highest realms of power has slipped out....