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After a bizarre and disturbing incident at the funeral of matriarch Marian Savage, the McCray and Savage families look forward to a restful and relaxing summer at Beldame, on Alabama's Gulf Coast, where three Victorian houses loom over the shimmering beach. Two of the houses are habitable, while the third is slowly and mysteriously being buried beneath an enormous dune of blindingly white sand. But though long uninhabited, the third house is not empty.

It is a time of tranquility for the New Republic. The remnants of the Empire now lie in complete disarray, and the reemergence of the Jedi Knights has brought power and prestige to the fledgling government on Coruscant. But the peace is short-lived. A restless Luke must journey to his mother's...

Welcome to Babylon, a typical sleepy Alabama small town, where years earlier the Larkin family suffered a terrible tragedy. Now they are about to endure another: 14-year-old Margaret Larkin will be robbed of her innocence and her life by a killer who is beyond the reach of the law. But something strange is happening in Babylon: traffic lights flash an eerie blue, a ghostly hand slithers from the drain of a kitchen sink, graves erupt from the local cemetery in an implacable march of terror.

As Leia must deal with a new threat to the fragile alliance that binds the New Republic, Lando becomes a prisoner aboard a runaway spacecraft of unknown origin. The ship is following an unstoppable path to its homeworld, destroyed by Imperial forces. Luke continues his quest to...

In the wake of a shattered alliance, the New Republic fights a relentless new enemy in an all-new adventure in the bestselling Star Wars saga... Faced with an alarming image of Han as a battered hostage of the Yevetha, Chewbacca takes on an urgent mission. Meanwhile, Leia calls upon the Senate...

When her daddy is tortured and murdered by two women with no discernible motivation, Calley and her mother find themselves caught up in inexplicable events that exile them to Pensacola Beach. There, another woman awaits their presence, a woman who knows what Calley is and who seeks to control her. For Calley is no ordinary little girl.

When a rifle range accident leaves Dean Howell disfigured and in a vegetative state, his wife Sarah finds her dreary life in Pine Cone, Alabama made even worse. After long and tedious days on the assembly line, she returns home to care for her corpselike husband while enduring her loathsome and hateful mother-in-law, Jo. Jo blames the entire town for her son’s mishap, and when she gives a strange piece of jewelry to the man she believes most responsible, a series of gruesome deaths is set in motion.

When Philo Drax receives a letter from her wealthy grandfather saying he fears for his life at the hands of the vicious Slape family, she rushes to the rescue. But too late! Katie Slape, a monstrous girl with psychic powers and a penchant for smashing skulls with her hammer, has already finished him off and gotten hold of his cash.

Benvenuti a Babylon, una tipica e sonnolenta cittadina del sud, dove anni prima la famiglia Larkin ha subito una terribile tragedia. Ora stanno per subirne un'altra: la quattordicenne Margaret Larkin verrà derubata della sua innocenza e della sua vita da un assassino al di là della legge. Ma a Babylon sta accadendo qualcosa di strano: i semafori lampeggiano di un blu inquietante, una mano spettrale scivola fuori dallo scarico di un lavello da cucina, le tombe eruttano dal cimitero locale... E sotto la superficie torbida del fiume, un'entità mutevole, quasi umana, prende lentamente forma.

1958. Gli anni passano, tra ricevimenti fastosi, unioni insolite e rivelazioni travolgenti, ma non portano quiete per i membri della famiglia Caskey. Dopo l’età dell’oro, ritornano giorni foschi. Qualcosa di terribile incombe su Perdido, i suoi abitanti e i suoi fiumi. Il tempo delle profezie è ormai giunto. Sesto e ultimo episodio della saga bestseller dell’autore amato da Stephen King.

1946. Come un organismo vivente, la famiglia Caskey si sviluppa e si trasforma, tra riavvicinamenti inattesi, rancori sordi e separazioni inevitabili le relazioni si evolvono. Ormai a capo della segheria e punto di riferimento del clan, Miriam lavora instancabilmente per rendere i Caskey sempre più ricchi. Una scoperta sorprendente e miracolosa distribuirà la ricchezza anche in città. Ma sarà sufficiente questa improvvisa fortuna, ora che la natura reclama il suo debito? Quinto episodio della saga bestseller dell'autore amato da Stephen King.

La determinazione di Elinor finalmente dà i suoi frutti. I nemici di ieri diverranno gli amici di domani e i mutamenti giungeranno da luoghi inaspettati. Anche per il mondo si apre una nuova èra, portatrice però di pericolo e distruzione: il conflitto in Europa farà affluire sangue nuovo a Perdido. Nella proprietà dei Caskey, gli uomini vanno e vengono. Come marionette che non sanno di essere appese a un filo. Quarto episodio della saga bestseller dell’autore amato da Stephen King.

1928, Perdido. Il clan Caskey è tormentato dalla diatriba tra Mary-Love ed Elinor. Ma all'orizzonte arrivano altre ombre: sui legami, sui patrimoni, sulle anime. E le ripercussioni varcheranno i confini dell'immaginazione. Da quando Elinor ha preso possesso della casa più bella di Perdido, negli angoli bui della magione si annidano ricordi spaventosi che, come ragni instancabili, tessono tele mortali.

Nel 1919 le acque nere del fiume sommergono la cittadina di Perdido in Alabama. I ricchissimi Caskey, proprietari di boschi e segherie, devono fronteggiare il disastro provocato dalla furia dell’acqua. Ma il clan, capeggiato dalla potente matriarca Mary-Love e dal figlio devoto Oscar, dovrà anche fare i conti con un’apparizione sconvolgente. Dalla città sommersa compare Elinor, una donna dai capelli rossi e un passato misterioso che sembra volersi insinuarsi nel cuore dei Caskey. Primo episodio della saga bestseller dell’autore amato da Stephen King.

1922. Mentre Perdido si sta riprendendo dalla devastazione, la costruzione di una diga è l'unica difesa possibile contro la furia dell'acqua. Ma il cantiere riversa sulla cittadina ancora precaria, un ulteriore carico di imprevisti: la rivolta degli operai, il capriccio delle correnti, il mistero di alcune sparizioni. La matriarca Mary-Love si scontra con Elinor, ora parte della famiglia Caskey. Macchinazioni, alleanze amene, sacrifici: a Perdido i mutamenti saranno profondi, le conseguenze irreversibili. La lotta è appena cominciata.

India is a country divided, torn by religious strife and hounded by potential invaders on all sides. The world’s most powerful governments believe that whoever controls India holds the strategic advantage for global domination. As the chaos spins out of control, a name resurfaces after centuries of obscurity: Akbar.

They were the most elite team of interservice fighters America’s government had ever formed. As war raged in Vietnam, the Black Berets took on the most secret—and most heinous—of covert operations. Now they’re back, and they have a new mission. Eight years after their bloody exploits across the battlefields of Asia, the five-man team is reunited at the behest of their scheming CIA handler, a man none of them trusts after a dirty war of lies and betrayals. However, word has it one of their own, thought long-dead, is alive and being held prisoner in Laos.

Key Isabella might be small, but it has become a hub for the drug trade into the United States. For the Black Berets—the world’s fiercest mercenaries—the issue of a billion-dollar heroin smuggling operation hits a sore spot they can’t ignore. Arriving in the West Indies, the five-man team of American heroes is tasked with overthrowing Key Isabella’s evil dictator without anyone finding out they’re involved. To make matters more difficult, they soon bump into the additional problem of a police force just as violent and corrupt as the nation’s tyrannical leader.

The Black Palm called themselves a nation, though their own people had cast them out. They called themselves an army, but made war on unarmed men, women and children. And in their fanatical crusade, they might strike anywhere. Even in the tiny Caribbean republic of New Neuzen. The only thing that stood between New Neuzen and a terrorist bloodbath were five American tourists.

Someone wanted to overthrow the government of San Sebastian, a country whose tiny army, nonaligned status, and location on the deadly curve of Central America made it ripe for subversion. The first try was an attempted hit on its president on a crowded street in Washington. The second was an invasion from the sea. Both times the Black Berets were there to keep the worst from happening. But how long could five men and one boy hold out against an army of the world’s most skilled assassins? An army with limitless resources—and the patience to keep on killing?