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È il 1939, sono trascorsi cinque anni da quando l’esistenza di Ricciardi è stata improvvisamente sconvolta. Fra i cespugli di un boschetto vengono ritrovati i cadaveri di due giovani, stavano facendo l’amore e qualcuno li ha brutalmente uccisi. Le ragioni dell’omicidio appaiono subito oscure; dietro il crimine si affaccia il fantasma della politica.

From the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, a "brilliant...enchanting novel" (New York Times Book Review) of romance, deceit, religion, and magic set in 18th-century Portugal at the height of the Inquisition.

For more than 30 years, Nikki Giovanni's poetry has inspired, enlightened, and dazzled readers and listeners. As sharp and outspoken as ever, this artist long hailed as a healer and a sage returns with this profound book of poetry in which she continues to call attention to injustice and give listeners an unfiltered look into the most private parts of herself. In Make Me Rain, she celebrates her loved ones and unapologetically declares her pride in her Black heritage, while exploring the enduring impact of the twin sins of racism and white nationalism.

A brilliant skeptic, Jose Saramago envisions the life of Jesus Christ and the story of his Passion as things of this earth: A child crying, the caress of a woman half asleep, the bleat of a goat, a prayer uttered in the grayish morning light. His idea of the Holy Family reflects the real complexities of any family, and, as only Saramago can, he imagines them with tinges of vision, dream, and omen.

In Europa la guerra è cominciata, eppure da noi qualcuno si illude ancora che sia possibile tenerla fuori della porta. E poi sta arrivando la piú bella delle feste, quella dove si mangia, si beve, ci si abbraccia, quella in cui ci si scambiano doni con le persone care. Erminia Cascetta era diversa, a modo suo. Aveva troppa voglia di vivere, perciò l’hanno uccisa. In questo tempo che accelera verso l’abisso, spetta al commissario Ricciardi e al brigadiere Maione scoprire chi è stato. La chiave di tutto, però, è sempre la solitudine.

You know you need to start investing because you won’t be able to work your whole life. You don’t want to be the old employee working as a door greeter at your big chain department store. It will also be frustrating and very depressing if you are not financially aware of your future. Time seems to go faster the older you get, and it’s never too late to get started.

Ricciardi has visions. He sees and hears the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths. It is both a gift and a curse. It has helped him become one of the most acute and successful homicide detectives in the Naples police force. But all that horror and suffering has hollowed him out emotionally: He drinks and doesn't sleep. Other than his loyal partner, Brigadier Maione, he has no friends.

Doing for Syria what Imperial Life in the Emerald City did for the war in Iraq, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience covering Syria for Vanity Fair, Newsweek, and the front pages of the New York Times, award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni gives us a tour de force of war reportage, all told through the perspective of ordinary people.

Leonida Brancato era stato un penalista imbattibile. Da anni non si sapeva piú nulla di lui, e ora qualcuno lo ha ucciso e ha infierito sul suo cadavere. Un omicidio che mette di nuovo alla prova i Bastardi. Sotto un diluvio che non concede tregua, circondati da nemici e nonostante dolorosi problemi personali, i formidabili poliziotti del commissariato di Pizzofalcone si districheranno fra segreti, ipocrisie, rancori. Arrivando a scoprire una verità quanto mai inaspettata.

L'aria è dolce a Napoli nel mese di maggio, ma non c'è da fidarsi. La squadra dei Bastardi del commissariato più chiacchierato della città è alle prese con un crimine odioso, il rapimento di un bambino di dieci anni, nipote di un ricco imprenditore. Tra furti apparentemente banali e fantomatici serial killer, le indagini procedono lentamente fino a quando i Bastardi non troveranno la forza di scandagliare il buio delle miserie umane.

Naples, 1932. A week before Easter, springtime offers fragrant temptations to the men and women of Naples - but evil also lurks in the sweet-smelling spring air. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead after being suffocated with a pillow. Her last client swears that he left her alive and well. But when her next client arrived, he found her dead. Who killed her and why?

Una Muerte Mental de Giovanni Papini explora la crisis existencial de un hombre que cuestiona la realidad y la identidad. A través de la introspección y reflexiones filosóficas, la narrativa profundiza en las complejidades de la mente humana y la búsqueda de significado a la existencia.

El protagonista va con el doctor para que lo examine. El doctor no encuentra nada malo con el protagonista. El protagonista sigue insistiendo que esta enfermo y que se esta volviendo loco como los otros maquinistas En el cuento, El conductor del rápido, el protagonista habla de sus experiencias como un conductor de tren. Según el narrador, de 1905 hasta 1925, 108 maquinistas han ingresado al Hospicio de las Mercedes por ser atacados de alienación mental. El protagonista va a la hospital psiquiátrico insistiendo que él también esta enfermo.

Everyone says to just say “I forgive you.” But sometimes that’s just not enough. They also never teach you exactly HOW to forgive right? This book teaches you how. It helps you discover the profound art of forgiveness. It transcends words, healing not just relationships but your very soul. Yearning for inner peace? Ready for lasting harmony and emotional freedom? This book is your guide.

Giovanni Boccaccio può essere considerato insieme con Dante e Petrarca, il più importante scrittore del XIV secolo sia in Italia che in tutta Europa...

Commissario Ricciardi is the undisputed wizard of Neapolitan crime scenes. He solves every crime with an uncanny swiftness that leaves his colleagues dumbfounded. Indeed, there are those who think his abilities are the work of the devil, an unnatural and ungodly gift to be exorcised. And maybe they're right. Ricciardi sees the dead; he sees and hears the final moments in the lives of those who have suffered violent deaths. It may be a talent, or it may be a curse, but it is nonetheless a kind of black magic.

Un grupo de nobles italianos tienen que refugiarse la peste negra en una casa para pasar el rato, se cuentan el uno al otro historias. La serie de cien cuentos que se narran son divertidos por que se mofan de todas las que se supone sean buenas costumbres.

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In the middle of a summer heat wave, as Naples prepares for one of its most important holy days, a renowned surgeon falls to his death from the window of his office. For Commissario Ricciardi and Brigadier Maione, it is the beginning of an investigation that will bring them into contact with the most torrid, conflicting, and enduring of human passions.

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery, Alabama city bus and refused to give up her seat to a white man, an act that ignited a movement that changed modern history.