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Napoli, anni Cinquanta. Una città tanto piena di luce da sembrare quasi fatata. Ma anche devastata dalla guerra e dimenticata dalla storia. Da lì, all'improvviso, una ragazzina viene portata via, lasciando per sempre il padre nell'ombra di una casa elegante e fatiscente. Lei crede di dimenticarlo ma, molti decenni dopo, la morte di un amico e maestro amato, lo scrittore napoletano Raffaele La Capria, fa riemergere dal fondo della memoria l'immagine di lui. Della stessa generazione, i due uomini hanno avuto un diverso destino: l'uno realizzato nei suoi libri, l'altro murato nella sua solitudine.

A murder has taken place in a tony Mumbai neighbourhood. A prime suspect, Prashanth, keeps his silence in the interrogation room as Inspector Khan plays the tapes of his therapy sessions. The explosive tapes, surreptitiously recorded by therapist Shaily Gupta, slowly reveal shocking information about Prashanth, about his relationship with his girlfriend Sonya, about the therapist and about the gruesome murder in question.

A mű középpontjában a barátság, hűség és árulás nagy kérdései állnak. De nem pusztán egyes emberi sorsokról van itt szó, hanem egy másik, talán még nagyobb tragédiáról, arról, hogy a régi rend, társadalom széthullása a hagyományos erkölcsi értékek megrendülését is jelenti. Nagy indulatoktól feszülő, szuggesztív erejű regény ez, Márai stílusművészetének remeke.

Un valioso Greco del que no se tenía noticia sale a subasta en Nueva York. Carolina Valdés, sofisticada marchante de arte, recibe en su hotel la visita de Philip, un rudo taxista de Brooklyn, quien la embarca en una peligrosa aventura destinada a demostrar que el cuadro, robado por los nazis a su familia, le pertenece.

Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie – the first step towards social acceptance by high school colleagues. But events will take a decidedly macabre turn on that horrifying and endless night as she is forced to exercise her terrible gift on the town that mocks and loathes her...

"La tregua" è il racconto del ritorno di Primo Levi, il seguito di "Se questo è un uomo", che racconta le esperienze dell'autore durante il lungo viaggio attraverso Russia e Europa dell'Est per tornare alla sua Torino. Un viaggio assurdo, fatto di incontri con persone di civiltà e lingue diverse ma tutte vittime della stessa guerra. "Ci sono voluti anni per capire che quello che veniva etichettato come un testimone era uno dei più grandi scrittori del Novecento non soltanto italiano: cioè che era il migliore dei testimoni proprio perché grande scrittore."

Lexie Gallagher is starting to think she’s better off alone. Her family fell apart years ago. Her relationships all end in disaster. Is she the common denominator who causes everyone to leave - everyone but her best friend, Gabe, who whisks her away from the scene of the latest breakup? As a human resources VP, Gabe North understands people, and how to meet their needs. What Lexie’s always needed is a true-blue friend, doubly so when she’s left at the altar. Of course, he’ll be her shoulder to cry on - even though he’s wanted to be more than friends for years.

読めばハマる有吉佐和子。幻の名作長篇。無名の陶芸家が生んだ青磁の壺が売られ贈られ盗まれ、十余年後に作者と再会した時——。人生の数奇な断面を描き出す名作！

脳波を調べ、食べたい料理を作る自動調理機、眠っている間に会社に着く人間用コンテナなど、未来社会をのぞくショートショート集。

大好きなおばあちゃんは本物の魔女。生きる力も本物だった――。中学に進んでまもなく、どうしても学校へ足が向かなくなった少女まいは、季節が初夏へと移り変るひと月あまりを、西の魔女のもとで過した。

For Johnson and his colleague, brilliant and beautiful assistant professor Abbey Summers, it becomes the adventure of a lifetime in Mongolia and The Golden Eagle, a new mystery thriller from author Bradford G. Wheler. Cyber security threats, high-tech spying, and Chinese agents mix in this ingenious and thrilling plot of full of twists and turns. Somewhere in spectacular snowcapped Altai Mountains of western Mongolia there is a mysterious object that people are willing to kill for. Listeners will meet fascinating characters they'll never forget.

「はじめて」は、いつも痛くて、少し優しい。日本エンターテインメントの最前線&最高峰!

Chloé, 28 ans et parisienne jusqu'au bout des ongles, enchaîne les histoires d'amour catastrophiques. Un jour, elle conclut un pacte avec son amie Constance. Chloé devra s'exiler en pleine campagne avec l'interdiction d’approcher un homme pendant six mois et réaliser son rêve de toujours : écrire un roman. Constance, incorrigible romantique, s'engagera à coucher le premier soir avec un parfait inconnu.

¿Cuál es el logo de la felicidad? De repente, un viaje inesperado. Edda Leveroni recibe un regalo singular el día que cumple los veintiuno: una estancia de un año en la agencia de publicidad de Bianca B. Miller en Nueva York. En 1989, Edda deberá abrirse camino en Manhattan, en un despacho donde solo trabajan mujeres y en un universo de creatividad y de anuncios que prometen una vida mejor. Sin embargo, no sospecha en qué mundo está a punto de adentrarse.

It was all too frighteningly familiar. For the second time in his life, Alex Penn wakes up in an alcoholic daze in a cheap hotel room off Times Square and finds himself lying next to the savagely mutilated body of a young woman. After the first death, he was convicted of murder and imprisoned, then released on a technicality. But this time he has to find out what happened during the blackout and why, before the police do.

A worldwide best seller since its publication, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, struggling writer and illegitimate son of Jenny Fields - an unlikely feminist heroine ahead of her time. Beautifully written, The World According to Garp is a powerfully compelling and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation.

Esta versión moderna de los hechos de la reconstrucción del drama de Adán y Eva en el paraíso terrenal juega con la parábola de la historia de la humanidad. La narración nos induce al interior de Adán, viviendo en unmundomágico, sin conflictos, bello por esencia, y la aparición de Eva, que desde el principio es seducida por la serpiente que le informa de la existencia del árbol del conocimiento y esto es lo que más le atrae a Eva.

Another summer is in full swing on the island of Roone, and preparations are underway for a big birthday party at the local hotel. But beneath the air of celebration, many of the islanders have their own struggles to contend with. Imelda, isolated by her recent heartbreak, has no memory of accepting a month-long bed and breakfast booking, but when a stranger turns up on her doorstep looking forward to his stay, she has little choice but to take him in.

"Ein Debüt mit durchschlagendem Erfolg" The Wall Street Journal Die Geschichte einer eigenwilligen Außenseiterin - einfühlsam und packend gelesen von Luise Helm. In den 1960er-Jahren schwirren viele Gerüchte über Kya Clark durch die ruhige Küstenstadt Barkley Cove. Isoliert lebt sie im Marschland mit seinen Salzwiesen, Sandbänken, Buchten. Sie kennt jeden Stein und Seevogel, jede Muschel und Pflanze. Zwei junge Männer werden auf die wilde Schöne aufmerksam, und Kya öffnet sich einem neuen Leben - mit dramatischen Folgen.

Two orphan girls are taken from their jobs in a pants factory in North Korea, spirited across the Demilitarized Zone to be sex workers in the South, and eventually shipped to the United States. What propels the story is Gi, the heroine: a tender-hearted genius who loses everything yet refuses to be destroyed. All Woman and Springtime reveals with chilling accuracy the facts of life behind North Korea's iron curtain, the horrific underworld of the sex trade, and the resilience of a spirit in the midst of unspeakable oppression.