Questa è una storia d'amore. Una storia d'amore vero, puro e disinteressato, quello che per diciassette anni ha unito Caleb Carr e Masha, una gatta delle foreste siberiane. Fin da bambino l'autore, figlio di due giornalisti alcolizzati parte della Beat Generation, ha trovato nella compagnia dei gatti una via di fuga dal caos e dalla violenza che regnava in casa. Da sempre i suoi compagni più fedeli non erano umani, ma felini, adottati o salvati dalla strada. Crescendo le cose non sono cambiate molto e Carr ha condiviso lunghi tratti di vita con gatti che sono stati per lui amici onesti e leali, motivo di gioia e riflessione, ispiratori e complici. Ma anche causa di paure e dolore, come quando la sua amata e anziana Soki scompare nel bosco che circonda la grande e solitaria casa che l'autore si è fatto costruire alle pendici dei monti Taconic, al confine tra lo stato di New York e il Vermont. Ed è proprio in un rifugio per gatti del Vermont che Caleb incontra Masha, una splendida e giovane gatta delle foreste siberiane, dal carattere forte e di spiccata intelligenza e sensibilità. Masha era stata crudelmente abbandonata, e già da mesi era ospite del rifugio dove aveva respinto tutti i potenziali nuovi padroni ed era diventata il cruccio e il terrore delle operatrici. Con Caleb, però, nasce subito una sintonia e Masha lo sceglie, perché: 'la verità è che non siamo noi a scegliere loro, sono loro che scelgono noi.' Per i diciassette anni successivi i due sono stati inseparabili, uniti da un legame che con il tempo si è fatto sempre più forte e saldo. Masha aveva reso la casa e

Massimiliano Colombo 'Centurio': 80 a.C. Caio Emilio Rufo è una giovane recluta nelle coorti di Silla, durante la guerra civile contro le legioni di Quinto Sertorio, parente e fedele generale di Caio Mario. Nell'assolata Spagna romana, affronta le prove che quell'odiosa guerra gli impone. Schiacciato dalla sorte avversa, attraversa il mare fino ai deserti della Mauritania; lì incontra il nemico che era stato addestrato a uccidere. Il destino gli prospetta ancora un nuovo viaggio, che lo condurrà tra le file degli immortali... Caleb Carr 'L'alienista': New York 1896. Il reporter John Schuyler Moore riceve la chiamata inaspettata di Laszlo Kreizler, un suo vecchio amico. Il dottore lo prega di raggiungerlo al più presto per assistere al ritrovamento di un cadavere. La vista di quel macabro spettacolo fa nascere un proposito ambizioso: è possibile creare il profilo psicologico di un assassino basandosi sui dettagli dei suoi delitti? Il giornalista e il dottore scopriranno che cercare di infilarsi nella mente di un assassino può significare trovarsi di fronte all'orrore. A.G. Riddle 'Genesi': Trent'anni fa, il dottor Paul Kraus aveva fatto una scoperta sconvolgente: confrontando i campioni di antenati umani con i nostri aveva trovato un codice. Ma per proteggere quel segreto aveva nascosto i risultati del suo lavoro. Adesso la dottoressa Peyton Shaw è in possesso di parte di quei frammenti e intende venire a capo del mistero. È convinta che il suo lavoro sia la chiave per fermare una cospirazione globale, prossima a scatenare un evento tale da sconvolgere il destino del mondo.

New York 1896. Il reporter John Schuyler Moore riceve la chiamata inaspettata di Laszlo Kreizler - psicologo e 'alienista' -, un suo amico di vecchio corso. Il dottore lo prega di raggiungerlo al più presto per assistere al ritrovamento di un cadavere. Il corpo è stato orrendamente mutilato e poi abbandonato nelle vicinanze di un ponte ancora in costruzione. La vista di quel macabro spettacolo fa nascere nei due amici un proposito ambizioso: è possibile creare il profilo psicologico di un assassino basandosi sui dettagli dei suoi delitti? In un'epoca in cui la società considera i criminali geneticamente predisposti, il giornalista e il dottore dovranno fare i conti con poliziotti corrotti, gangster senza scrupoli é varia umanità. Scopriranno, a loro spese, che cercare di infilarsi nella mente contorta di un assassino può significare trovarsi di fronte all'orrore di un passato mai cancellato. Un passato pronto a tornare a galla di nuovo, per uccidere ancora.

Eventi inspiegabili, colpi di scena e adrenalina... Qualcosa di insolito è pronto a sconvolgere le vite dei protagonisti che si ritroveranno trascinati in avventure fuori dall'ordinario. 'L'alienista' di Caleb Carr. New York, 1896. Il reporter John Schuyler Moore riceve la chiamata inaspettata di Laszlo Kreizler - psicologo e 'alienista' -, un suo amico di vecchio corso. Il dottore lo prega di raggiungerlo al più presto per assistere al ritrovamento di un cadavere. Il corpo è stato orrendamente mutilato e poi abbandonato nelle vicinanze di un ponte ancora in costruzione. La vista di quel macabro spettacolo fa nascere nei due amici un proposito ambizioso: è possibile creare il profilo psicologico di un assassino basandosi sui dettagli dei suoi delitti? In un'epoca in cui la società considera i criminali geneticamente predisposti, il giornalista e il dottore dovranno fare i conti con poliziotti corrotti, gangster senza scrupoli e varia umanità. Scopriranno, a loro spese, che cercare di infilarsi nella mente contorta di un assassino può significare trovarsi di fronte all'orrore di un passato mai cancellato. Un passato pronto a tornare a galla di nuovo, per uccidere ancora. 'Artemis' di Andy Weir. Jazz Bashara è una criminale. O qualcosa di molto simile. La vita su Artemis - la prima città costruita sulla Luna - può essere davvero difficile a meno di non essere molto ricchi. Ma Jazz non ha un sostanzioso conto in banca e si deve barcamenare tra piccole truffe e affari di contrabbando, visto che con il suo stipendio ufficiale riesce a malapena a pagare l'affitto. Per di più, ha

What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called “Quirks” at age four? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless?

Getting into U.A. High School was difficult enough, but it was only the beginning of Izuku’s long road toward becoming a superhero. The new students all have some amazing powers, and although Izuku has inherited All Might’s abilities, he can barely control them. Then the first-year students are told they will have to compete just to avoid being expelled!

“A sprawling fantasy saga . . . Caleb Carr boldly goes where he’s never gone before.”—USA Today

Legend meets history in this mesmerizing novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Caleb Carr. Demonstrating the rich storytelling, skillful plotting, and depth of research he showcased in The Alienist, Carr has written a wildly imaginative, genre-bending saga that redefines the boundaries of literature.

Some years ago, a remarkable manuscript long rumored to exist was discovered: The Legend of Broken. It tells of a prosperous fortress city where order reigns at the point of a sword—even as scheming factions secretly vie for control of the surrounding kingdom. Meanwhile, outside the city’s granite walls, an industrious tribe of exiles known as the Bane forages for sustenance in the wilds of Davon Wood.

At every turn, the lives of Broken’s defenders and its would-be destroyers intertwine: Sixt Arnem, the widely respected and honorable head of the kingdom’s powerful army, grapples with his conscience and newfound responsibilities amid rumors of impending war. Lord Baster-kin, master of the Merchants’ Council, struggles to maintain the magnificence of his kingdom even as he pursues vainglorious dreams of power. And Keera, a gifted female tracker of the Bane tribe, embarks on a perilous journey to save her people, enlisting the aid of the notorious and brilliant philosopher Caliphestros. Together, they hope to exact a ruinous revenge on Broken, ushering in a day of reckoning when the mighty walls will be breached forever in a triumph of science over superstition.

Breathtakingly profound and compulsively readable, Caleb Carr’s long-awaited new book is an action-packed, multicharacter epic of a medieval clash of cultures—in which new gods collide with old, science defies all expectation, and virtue comes in many guises. Brimming with adventure and narrative invention, The Legend of Broken is an exhilarating and enthralling masterwork.

Praise for The Legend of Broken

“An excellent and old-fashioned entertainment . . . The Legend of Broken seamlessly blends epic adventure with serious research and asks questions that men and women grappled with in the Dark Ages and still do today.”—The Washington Post

“[A] colossal effort . . . a fantasy epic . . . meant as an allegory, a cautionary tale for our precarious times. To make his points, Carr has summoned a dream team of soldiers, wizards, and tiny forest folk.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Carr keeps the action hurtling along with a steady diet of gruesome murders and political betrayals. And he clearly wants modern readers to see something of their own world in the political corruption and greed that ultimately doom Broken.”—The Boston Globe


From the Hardcover edition.

Legend meets history in this mesmerizing novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Caleb Carr. Demonstrating the rich storytelling, skillful plotting, and depth of research he showcased in The Alienist, Carr has written a wildly imaginative, genre-bending saga that redefines the boundaries of literature.

Some years ago, a remarkable manuscript long rumored to exist was discovered: The Legend of Broken. It tells of a prosperous fortress city where order reigns at the point of a sword—even as scheming factions secretly vie for control of the surrounding kingdom. Meanwhile, outside the city’s granite walls, an industrious tribe of exiles known as the Bane forages for sustenance in the wilds of Davon Wood.

At every turn, the lives of Broken’s defenders and its would-be destroyers intertwine: Sixt Arnem, the widely respected and honorable head of the kingdom’s powerful army, grapples with his conscience and newfound responsibilities amid rumors of impending war. Lord Baster-kin, master of the Merchants’ Council, struggles to maintain the magnificence of his kingdom even as he pursues vainglorious dreams of power. And Keera, a gifted female tracker of the Bane tribe, embarks on a perilous journey to save her people, enlisting the aid of the notorious and brilliant philosopher Caliphestros. Together, they hope to exact a ruinous revenge on Broken, ushering in a day of reckoning when the mighty walls will be breached forever in a triumph of science over superstition.

Breathtakingly profound and compulsively readable, Caleb Carr’s long-awaited new book is an action-packed, multicharacter epic of a medieval clash of cultures—in which new gods collide with old, science defies all expectation, and virtue comes in many guises. Brimming with adventure and narrative invention, The Legend of Broken is an exhilarating and enthralling masterwork.

Praise for Caleb Carr’s monumental New York Times bestseller The Alienist

“A high-spirited, charged-up and unfailingly smart thriller.”—Los Angeles Times

“A first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages.”—Entertainment Weekly

“Gripping, atmospheric . . . intelligent and entertaining.”—USA Today

“You can smell the fear in the air.”—The New York Times

“Keeps readers turning pages well past their bedtime.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Engrossing.”—Newsweek

“A breathtaking, finely crafted mystery . . . The reader is taken on a whirlwind tour of the Gilded Age. . . . Remarkable.”—Richmond-Times Dispatch

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The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or 'alienist.' On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent boy, a prostitute from one of Manhattan's infamous brothels.

        The newly appointed police commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt, in a highly unorthodox move, enlists the two men in the murder investigation, counting on the reserved Kreizler's intellect and Moore's knowledge of New York's vast criminal underworld. They are joined by Sara Howard, a brave and determined woman who works as a secretary in the police department. Laboring in secret (for alienists, and the emerging discipline of psychology, are viewed by the public with skepticism at best), the unlikely team embarks on what is a revolutionary effort in criminology-- amassing a psychological profile of the man they're looking for based on the details of his crimes. Their dangerous quest takes them into the tortured past and twisted mind of a murderer who has killed before. and will kill again before the hunt is over.

        Fast-paced and gripping, infused with a historian's exactitude, The Alienist conjures up the Gilded Age and its untarnished underside: verminous tenements and opulent mansions, corrupt cops and flamboyant gangsters, shining opera houses and seamy gin mills. Here is a New York during an age when questioning society's belief that all killers are born, not made, could have unexpected and mortal consequences.


From the Paperback edition.

Caleb Carr's newest tale (commissioned by the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) begins when Sherlock Holmes reveals to Dr. Watson an encrypted telegram he has received from his brother Mycroft; the famous detective has been summoned to the aid of Queen Victoria in Scotland. Rushed northward on a royal train - and nearly murdered themselves en route - Holmes and Watson are soon joined by Mycroft, and learn of the brutal killings of a renowned architect and his foreman, both of whom had been preparing to renovate a wing of the famous and forbidding Royal Palace of Holyrood, in Edinburgh.
Mycroft has enlisted his brother to help solve the murders that may be key elements of a much more elaborate and pernicious plot on the Queen's life. But the circumstances of the two victims' deaths also call to Holmes's mind the terrible murder - in the palace of Holyrood - of 'The Italian Secretary,' David Rizzio. The only difficulty? Rizzio, a music teacher and confidante of Mary, Queen of Scots, was butchered before Mary's very eyes three centuries earlier by supporters of England's Queen Elizabeth (and perhaps with the approval of that uncompromising ruler herself) in an attempt to break the spirit of the very independent young Scottish Queen.
Holmes proceeds to alarm Watson with the suggestion that the Italian Secretary's vengeful spirit may have taken the lives of the two men as punishment for disturbing the scene of his assassination. Will these two new deaths turn out to be mere coincidence? Have old political rivalries reared their poisonous heads once again? Or has the Italian Secretary indeed exacted his own terrible revenge?

Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here is the enthralling tale of five men and a dog who land in a balloon on a faraway, fantastic island of bewildering goings-on and their struggle to survive as they uncover the island's secret.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Military historian Caleb Carr's groundbreaking work anticipated America's current debates on preemptive military action against terrorist sponsor states, reorganization of the American intelligence system, and the treatment of terrorists as soldiers in supranational armies rather than as criminals. Carr's authoritative exploration demonstrates that the practice of terrorism, employed by national armies as well as extremists since the days of ancient Rome, is ultimately self-defeating. Far from prompting submission, it stiffens enemy resolve and never leads to long-lasting success.

Controversial on its initial publication in 2002, The Lessons of Terror has been repeatedly validated by subsequent events. Carr's analysis of individual terrorist acts, and particularly of the history of the Middle East conflict, is fundamental to a deep understanding of the roots of terrorism as well as the steps and reforms that must be taken if the continuing threat of terrorist behavior is to be met effectively today and, finally, eradicated tomorrow.

Per molti il terrorismo è un fenomeno relativamente moderno. Caleb Carr ci ricorda che la pratica di uccidere sistematicamente i civili, come metodo di ‘persuasione’, è una costante della storia militare, dunque è antichissima e diffusa ovunque nel mondo. Nell’antichità classica, gli eserciti distruggono le città conquistate, massacrandone gli abitanti, al solo scopo di ‘terrorizzare’ il nemico; nel Medioevo, cristiani e musulmani passano regolarmente a fil di spada intere popolazioni inermi; in epoca moderna, monarchi come Luigi XIV teorizzano l’uso politico della eliminazione fisica dei ‘non-combattenti’. In un ampio studio che giunge fino ai giorni nostri, per la precisione all’11 settembre 2001, Carr sottolinea il carattere fallimentare della tecnica del terrore. A lungo termine, il terrorismo non ottiene mai il crollo psicologico del nemico ma, al contrario, ne mobilita tutte le risorse di resistenza.

Published when Theodore Roosevelt was only twenty-three years old, The Naval War of 1812 was immediately hailed as a literary and scholarly triumph, and it is still considered the definitive book on the subject. It caused considerable controversy for its bold refutation of earlier accounts of the war, but its brilliant analysis and balanced tone left critics floundering, changed the course of U.S. military history by renewing interest in our obsolete forces, and set the young author and political hopeful on a path to greatness. Roosevelt's inimitable style and robust narrative make The Naval War of 1812 enthralling, illuminating, and utterly essential to every armchair historian.
    
The books in the Modern Library War series have been chosen by series editor Caleb Carr according to the significance of their subject matter, their contribution to the field of military history, and their literary merit.

In the sequel to the best-selling period thriller, The Alienist, a turn-of-the-century New York doctor confronts a cunning murderer defended by the great Clarence Darrow in a riveting trial. Reprint.

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A courageous leader who became the first American mandarin, Frederick Townsend Ward won crucial victories for the Emperor of China during the Taiping Rebellion, history's bloodiest civil war. Carr's skills as historian and storyteller come to the fore in this thrilling account of the kind of adventurer the world no longer sees.