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At its peak, the wealthy Carthaginian Empire dominated the Mediterranean against the likes of Greece and Rome. Through clever use of force projection, by paying allies with gold, and by recruiting mercenary armies to fight for them, Carthage was able to go from a minor Phoenician settlement to one of the most powerful trading empires of antiquity. However, the Carthaginians' foreign policy had a fatal flaw; they had a knack for picking the worst enemies they could possibly enter into conflict with.

Three well-off young men - former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno - brutally tortured, raped, and murdered two young women in 1975. The event, which came to be known as the Circeo massacre, shocked and captivated the country, exposing the violence and dark underbelly of the upper middle class at a moment when the traditional structures of family and religion were seen as under threat. It is this environment, the halls of San Leone Magno in the late 1960s and the 1970s, that Edoardo Albinati takes as his subject.

For the ancient Greeks, there were few divine beings more important, and more generous, to humanity than the goddess Athena. She was also called "Pallas", "Pallas Athena", and (to the Romans) "Minerva". The daughter of Zeus, Athena was famous as a virgin warrior woman who was born from her father's skull bearing a helmet, shield, and spear. Yet she was far more than simply a warrior goddess.

Italian students regularly have to go through the toughest experiences to find proper material that isn’t too tough or too tedious for them - as language teachers, we know this. This is why we’ve created Italian Short Stories for Beginners: Volume 2 to ensure that young and old students at the entry level of learning can have yet another chance to polish their Italian tongue and survive to tell the tale!

There are many reasons behind the decision to learn Italian: from having Italian relatives to wanting to travel to one of the most beautiful countries in the world. However, there is no need to make hypotheses — if you are listening to this description, you have been led here by your desire to learn this language.

Monte Sole--Mountain of the Sun--had the bad luck to lie on the main route of withdrawal of the retreating German armies in autumn 1944. As the Allied advance stormed up Italy to the very shadow of Monte Sole, Axis frustration over their retreat and the harassing Italian partisans reached its peak. With full authorization of Field Marshall Albert Kesselring, and with an infusion of dread SS reinforcements, the Germans determined to neutralize Monte Sole.

In Grido d'Onore (Libro 4 in L'Anello dello Stregone), Thor è tornato dal Cento ed è ora un guerriero più forte. Adesso deve imparare cosa significhi combattere per la propria madrepatria, battersi per la vita o la morte. I McCloud si sono addentrati di molto nel territorio dei MacGil, andando oltre quanto fossero mai arrivati nella storia dell'Anello, e quando Thor incappa in un'imboscata starà a lui respingere il loro attacco e salvare la Corte del Re.

Max Hilton è la nemesi di Mia dai tempi del liceo, e ora è diventato l’uomo più ricco di New York. Come dire, il re del mondo. E a Mia tocca consegnargli il pranzo ogni giorno... vestita da gattina. Sicuramente Max farà uno di quei suoi sorrisi smaglianti, dall’alto della sua torre scintillante, il sorriso del playboy più famoso della grande mela. Eppure, quando Mia è sul punto di considerare un prematuro licenziamento, la sua coinquilina le lancia l'ancora della salvezza.

ui è un potente CEO miliardario che ha trasformato l’azienda di famiglia in un impero. La società è la sua vita. Poi però quell’eccentrica di sua madre lascia tutto in eredità al proprio cagnolino, Smuckers. Lei è Vicky, mentalista canina. Beh, non proprio, ma è ciò che dice sempre la sua anziana stalker che vive nei dintorni… All’improvviso Vicky, fashion designer al verde e dog sitter part-time che fugge da un losco passato, si trova in un’elegante sala riunioni a Wall Street con Smuckers in grembo.

Quando a Lizzie viene assegnato il compito di trovare un servizio sveglia per Theo, il suo scontroso CEO, pensa: be’, sarà tanto difficile? Risposta: praticamente impossibile! A quanto pare, nessuna compagnia al mondo vuole fornirgli un servizio sveglia. Ne hanno tutti fin sopra i capelli di lui. Ma Lizzie non vuole perdere il lavoro, quindi inizia lei stessa a chiamarlo – ogni santissimo giorno, alle 4:30.

DESTINO DI DRAGHI (LIBRO #3 in L'ANELLO DELLO STREGONE) ci porta più a fondo lungo il viaggio epico che Thor compie per diventare un guerriero, attraverso il Mare di Fuoco fino all'Isola della Nebbia nella terra dei draghi. Un luogo impietoso, abitato dai migliori guerrieri del mondo, in cui Thor si allena affinando sempre di più i suoi poteri e le sue abilità. Anche le sue amicizie si fanno più salde: lui e i compagni affrontano insieme avversità lontane da ogni immaginazione.

The Thirteenth Disciple: America After the Deal is a must-listen, a gripping thriller rooted not only in fantasy but in contemporary American and international events. The audiobook's fast-paced action and bold conspiracies span the globe, but unlike most military and political suspense novels, its epicenter is not Washington, Moscow, or London. Rather, it is a small town in middle America, a town with a long, colorful history that has become a refuge of the rich and famous: Aspen, Colorado.

Dopo essere fuggito dalle segrete, Thor è sconvolto dal sentire di un altro tentativo di assassinio contro Re MacGil. Quando MacGil muore, il regno è in pieno subbiglio. Mentre tutti competono per ottenere il trono, la Corte del Re è più occupata che mai con i suoi drammi familiari, lotte di potere, ambizioni, gelosia, violenza e tradimento. È necessario che un erede venga scelto tra i figli, e l’antica Spada della Dinastia, la fonte di tutto il loro potere, avrà un’altra occasione di essere sollevata da un nuovo pretendente. Ma tutto viene ribaltato.

If you want to learn Italian in less time while also having fun, then pay attention...The experience of listening to a story allows us to escape our lives for a moment, and so this is a perfect way to start learning a language. Listening to a story activates your brain and imagination, thus increasing the chance to learn easily and not quit.

A husband, obsessed with his wife's psychological unfaithfulness, craves honesty and disclosure. Their confrontations broil without resolution as external stately events intervene to worsen their long-lasting, irrepressible wrangles. Conspiracy, crime, and corruption that penetrate the highest levels of the Mafia, the military police, Roman Catholicism, and Stregheria, a secret society, intrude to thrust the couple's previous mundane life into a vortex of murderous, self-interested forces seeking control of the Papacy and the Vatican bank.

A husband obsessed with his wife's psychological unfaithfulness craves honesty and disclosure. Their confrontations broil without resolution as external stately events intervene to worsen their long-lasting, irrepressible wrangles. Conspiracy, crime, and corruption that penetrate the highest levels of the Mafia, the military police, Roman Catholicism, and Stregheria, a secret society, intrude to thrust the couple's previous mundane life into a vortex of murderous, self-interested forces seeking control of the Papacy and the Vatican bank.

A husband obsessed with his wife's psychological unfaithfulness craves honesty and disclosure. Their confrontations broil without resolution as external stately events intervene to worsen their long-lasting, irrepressible wrangles. Conspiracy, crime, and corruption that penetrate the highest levels of the Mafia, the military police, Roman Catholicism and Stregheria, a secret society, intrude to thrust the couple's previous mundane life into a vortex of murderous, self-interested forces seeking control of the Papacy and the Vatican bank. The husband's wounded past and fated present thwarts his heartfelt longing for simple happiness. His desire for connection and closure with his wife leaps into a whirlwind of incredible involvements that forever change their destiny with repercussions that unsettle the entire nation.

Un marito ossessionato dall'infedeltà mentale di sua moglie e che desidera ardentemente onestà ed ammissione. I loro scontri si infiammano senza soluzione alcuna, mentre rilevanti eventi esterni entrano in gioco, ad esasperare i loro infiniti e inarrestabili alterchi. Cospirazione, crimine e corruzione, insinuatisi nei ranghi più alti della mafia, delle forze dell'ordine, del cattolicesimo romano e della Stregheria, società segreta, irrompono nella banale quotidianeità della coppia, trascinandola in un vortice di omicidi.

Nicholas rose to power from the gritty backstreets of Buenos Aires. He controlled everything around him. But the universe had something completely different in mind for Nicholas. Something shattering. Where the Green Star Falls is a visceral tale of survival with the soul of a love story. From the Parisian mecca of South America, Buenos Aires, you'll be transported to the mysterious river-lands of Argentina amid the towering Andes Mountains and emerald green waters, where Nicholas will meet his fate head on. He must become the man he was born to be.

The mysterious deaths of an international expedition of ice climbers on the remote face of the Spitsbergen glacier triggers what may be the first pre-emptive U.S. nuclear strike against the Soviet Union. The chain of events that follow moves swiftly and brilliantly from cosmopolitan, placid Oslo to the war-game rooms of the Pentagon and reaches a terrifying climax on the icy wastes of Spitsbergen, above the northern coast of Norway-and the Svalbard Passage.