Chi meglio di un romanziere può raccontare la propria vita, soprattutto se si tratta di una vita fuori del comune, quasi straordinaria? Sidney Sheldon, tra gli scrittori più celebri e letti del mondo, scomparso nel 2007, ripercorre in quest'ultimo libro la sua esistenza, paragonandola a un ascensore che ha toccato le vette del successo ma è anche sprofondato nel vuoto della depressione che lo ha afflitto fin da giovane. Dall'infanzia senza radici ai mille lavoretti in cui sognava di sfondare, dall'esordio fortuito a Hollywood come sceneggiatore ai successi di Broadway, dalle memorabili serie televisive come 'Strega per amore' fino alla scoperta della vocazione di narratore, Sheldon parla di sé ma anche degli innumerevoli, famosi personaggi che hanno incrociato il suo cammino.

Now appearing for the first time together, three of Sidney Sheldon's number one bestselling novels—The Other Side of Midnight, Rage of Angels, and Bloodline—are featured in this celebratory collection.

The Other Side of Midnight is Sidney Sheldon at his best. This page-turner is full of tortured romantic entanglements, reverses of fortune, thrilling suspense, and ultimate justice. In Paris, Washington, and a fabulous villa in Greece, an innocent American becomes a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal. She is Catherine Douglas, a woman caught in a web of four lives intertwined by passion as her handsome husband pursues an incredibly beautiful film star . . . and as Constantin Demeris, a legendary Greek tycoon, tightens the strands that control them all.

Rage of Angels features the memorable, mesmerizing heroine Jennifer Parker, a razor-sharp but beautiful attorney on her way up the New York political ladder until the Mafia's schemes win her the hatred of an implacable enemy—and a love more destructive than hate. She journeys into the dangerous, dramatic, and dark world of organized crime and flashbulb-lit courtrooms, where ambitious and ruthless prosecutors begin their climb to power, and she travels to her own personal hell and back again.

Bloodline is one of the best of Sheldon's blockbuster thrillers. Roffe and Sons is a family firm, an international empire filled with desperate, cash-hungry family members. At its head was one of the wealthiest men in the world—a man who has just died in a mysterious accident and left his daughter, Elizabeth, in control of the company. Now as this intelligent, tough, and gorgeous woman dares to save—not sell—Roffe and Sons, she will have to outwit those who secretly want her power . . . and the unknown assassin who wants her life. Bloodline is a sweeping novel of high financial intrigue on three continents, love, murder, danger, and suspense.

A candid memoir by the best-selling author and Oscar Award-winning screenwriter discusses such life experiences as his Depression-era childhood in Chicago, his World War II Air Force service, and his relationships with a wide range of celebrities. Reprint.

I detective Greenburg e Praegitzer indagano sul suicidio di Richard Stevens, scienziato di una multinazionale impegnata in avanzatissimi progetti di ricerca tecnologica. Quando altri scienziati della stessa multinazionale vengono trovati morti e i loro familiari restano vittime di tentativi di omicidio, le indagini si fanno più serrate. Spionaggio, mafia, terrorismo industriale? Forse il magnate, nonché Presidente del Comitato nazionale per la ricerca scientifica, Tanner Kingsley può fornire una spiegazione...

Taut with suspense and vivid characterisation, and with an unnervingly realistic premise that could alter our lives, Sidney Sheldon's eighteenth novel is sure to become a bestseller like his others.

In four cities across the world, four people die violently and mysteriously. The dead share a single crucial link: each was connected to an all-powerful environmental think tank. Two of the victims' widows-accomplished artist Diane Stevens and international supermodel Kelly Harris-may hold the key to their husbands' demise. Terrified for their lives, suspicious of each other, and armed only with their own wits and guile, they must join forces in a nightmare cycle of hunt-and-kill. At stake is the shattering truth about the tragedies that robbed them of the men they loved...and about an awesome conspiracy whose ultimate target is as big as the earth and as close as the air we breathe.

All around the globe, people are being reported dead or missing. At first these seem to be random incidents, but the police soon discover that all four of the victims are connected to Kingsley International Group, the largest think tank in the world.

Now someone is intent on murdering Kelly Harris and Diane Stevens, young widows of two of the victims. Forced together for protection, the two women embark on a terrifying game of cat and mouse against the unknown forces out to destroy them.

Taut with suspense and vivid characterization, the long-awaited Are You Afraid of the Dark? is Sidney Sheldon at the top of his game.

Viktor Shklovsky's A Sentimental Journey, which borrows its title from Laurence Sterne, describes the travels of a bewildered intellectual through Russia, Persia, the Ukraine, and the Caucasus during the period of the Russian Revolution. Valuable as a historical document for its first-hand account of the events during the period of 1917-1922, A Sentimental Journey is also an important experimental literary work—a memoir in the form of a novel.

At times lyrical, disturbing, ironic, and erudite, A Sentimental Journey is a singular book from one of the most recognizable and influential voices of twentieth-century Russian literature.

If America had a royal family, the Taylor Winthrops would wear the crown. The popular, charismatic Winthrops have captured the imagination of the world with their public service, their enormous charity, and their glamorous lives. But in the period of one year, all five members of the family are killed in a series of accidents. Beautiful young anchor woman Dana Evans begins an investigation and starts unraveling compelling evidence that she can hardly believe.

In her determined pursuit of the truth, Dana never anticipated the cat and mouse chase that leads her through half a dozen countries in search of a remorseless killer. As she closes in on her suspect, the shocking secrets she uncovers place Dana and her young son in dire jeopardy. Can Dana outwit her pursuers and expose the truth that will astound the world?

A dynamite thriller filled with all the elements that have made his previous works phenomenal bestsellers, The Sky Is Falling is Sidney Sheldon at his sizzling best.

Sopravvissuta a un attentato, Catherine Douglas si nasconde in un remoto convento della Grecia, con la speranza di costruirsi una nuova esistenza. Il ricchissimo armatore Costantin Demiris vive invece dominato da un unico sentimento, la vendetta e sta concentrandosi sull'ultimo atto del proprio diabolico piano.

Vittime della feroce vendetta di uno spietato colonnello in lotta contro gli indipendentisti baschi, quattro suore di clausura sono costrette a lasciare le mura protettive del convento. Ognuna di loro ha una storia, un segreto da nascondere, un pericolo da affrontare. In fuga attraverso la Spagna, terra di sangue e passione, scopriranno il prezzo dell'innocenza e della speranza. Impareranno a sopravvivere in un mondo ostile, fino a quando ciascuna di loro troverà il proprio destino. E scoprirà la propria verità.

The Winthrops are America's royal family, and its Prince Charming is the sexy, charismatic Gary Winthrop. Now the man on his way to becoming the Senate's brightest new star is found murdered in his home-the latest in a series of incidents that have killed five members of the family in a single year. One of the last people to see Gary Winthrop alive is Washington anchorwoman Dana Evans. She makes it her mission to investigate these seemingly random tragedies, little realizing that her search will sweep her across several continents, place her and her young son in grave danger, and lead her to a truth that will astound the world.

Perché la bella e intelligente Ashley Patterson, che ha sempre condotto una vita irreprensibile, viene coinvolta in una serie di agghiaccianti delitti a sfondo sessuale, insieme con altre due affascinanti donne? Che cosa si nasconde dietro quegli uomini trovati uccisi ed evirati, senza un movente plausibile? La giustizia procede a tentoni finché le indagini sfociano in un processo dove la difesa viene impostata su un sorprendente fatto medico.

Computer whiz Ashley Patterson is convinced she is being stalked. Coworker Toni Prescott has a penchant for Internet dating and little time for anyone else. And Alette Peters prefers quiet weekends in the arms of a beefcake artist. They know virtually nothing about each other--until the three women are linked by a murder investigation that will lead to one of the most bizarre trials of the century.

Based on actual events, a heart-stopping suspense thriller from the internationally bestselling author. }Tell Me Your Dreams{ begins dramatically, with a young woman terrorised by a stalker, and continues with a series of brutal murders and the

He wanted power. Oliver Russell is fated to rise to the pinnacle of power, the office of President of the United States. She wanted revenge. Leslie Stewart is his betrayed fiancee, a woman dedicated to a single purpose-the downfall of Oliver Russell. Amassing her own media empire, marshaling all her forces against him, she stands poised to destroy Russell on the eve of his most dazzling triumph. From Sidney Sheldon, the unchallenged master of bestselling fiction, comes a story of blazing ambitions and thwarted love that enthralls and surprises with every page...

WHO IS KATE BLACKWELL?

She is the symbol of success, the beautiful woman who parlayed her inheritance into an international conglomerate. Winner of a unique position among the wealthy and world-renowned. And she's a survivor, indomitable as her father, the man who returned from the edge of death to wrench a fortune in diamonds from the bleak South African earth. Now, celebrating her ninetieth birthday, Kate surveys the family she has manipulated, dominated, and loved: the fair and the grotesque, the mad and the mild, the good and the evil -- her winnings in life. Is she the...

MASTER OF THE GAME?