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Per quanto meraviglioso e sbalorditivo il nostro pianeta sia, resta un impercettibile pigmento sul volto lentigginoso del cosmoMentre Covid-19, razzismo e inquinamento imprimono il loro marchio su questo 2020, un adolescente obeso tenta limpresa di dimagrire.Un auspicio che da secoli accomuna le genti in tutto il pianeta e che presto le cose cambino. Guardando pero il bicchiere mezzo vuoto viene da pensare che, se questo desiderio di cambiamento e ancora cosi intenso, i tentativi passati sono falliti. Eppure si continua per la strada che ci ha condotti sin qui, fiduciosi e concentrati sullidea che il bicchiere e mezzo pieno.La follia sta nel fare la stessa cosa aspettandosi risultati diversi.Almeno cosi diceva Einstein.Un libro che inizia come racconto, ma che poi prende una strada diversa.

E se tutto fosse mosso dal destino? E se la vita mandasse dei segnali per farci trovare la strada?Liliana e positiva, ironica, sognatrice e indipendente. Crede fermamente nellamore nonostante a quasi quarantanni non lo abbia trovato. Non e cosi che aveva immaginato la sua vita.Ma esistono degli incontri magici che stravolgono improvvisamente lesistenza e conducono verso il proprio destino ognuno di noi. Romantico, divertente, avvincente, reale. Un romanzo che ti fara sognare, ridere, sperare, pensare e sorprendere. Perche la vita stupisce sempre e, dalla giusta prospettiva, e qualcosa di magico.

Si rinnova per il sesto anno consecutivo il tremendo rito dellebook natalizio di Antecritica non adatto a un pubblico impressionabile e fiducioso nellumanita. Orrore e disgusto sono i nostri abeti addobbati e i nostri presepi decadenti. Gli autori di Racconti di Natale VI faranno della Santa Notte la vostra fossa. Copertina di Giuseppe Balestra.

Vi siete mai chiesti che cosa e successo quella notte sulla spiaggia fra Eloise Stone e Maverick Prince?Ora potrete scoprirlo...*Questa novella e il prequel della serie Wicked Bay, ma per non compromettere la lettura va letta dopo "Linizio della mia fine" e "Alla fine... Noi"

Its 1929, and Ticky Maltravers is the toast of London high society, adored by everyoneor so it seems, until somebody poisons him over dinner. Now it turns out that numerous people with secrets to hide had every reason to wish him dead. But which of them murdered him? For Freddy Pilkington-Soames, newspaper reporter and man-about-town, the question hits a little too close to home, thanks to an unfortunate drunken encounter with Tickys corpse which hed much rather the police didnt find out aboutand thanks also to his exasperating mother Cynthias seeming determination to get herself arrested by tampering with the evidence. But a pretty girl with big blue eyes is demanding his help in solving the mystery, so what can he do but agree? Now all he has to do is hide the wrong clues, find the right ones, and unmask the murderer before the police discover whats really been going on. That ought to be easy enough. If only people didnt keep getting killed...

On his return from South Africa, Charles Knox is invited to spend the weekend at the country home of Sir Neville Strickland, whose beautiful wife Rosamund was once Knoxs fiancée. But in the dead of night Sir Neville is murdered. Who did it? As suspicion falls on each of the house guests in turn, Knox finds himself faced with deception and betrayal on all sides, and only the enigmatic Angela Marchmont seems to offer a solution to the mystery. This 1920s whodunit will delight all fans of traditional country house murder stories.

Its a marriage of convenience for three months. But will it turn into something more?Rachel Parker is a problem solver for Bixby International. There is no problem that is too big or too small that she cant solve. Unfortunately, she cant seem to tackle the problems in her own personal life. Or lack of one. But when a unique problem lands on her desk, she quickly comes up with a solution that will make everyone happy. Or so she thinks.Thomas Yates, the 12th Earl of Glenbourne, needs a wife in less than a week. If he isnt married by his next birthday, he will lose the trust fund that runs his massive estate in Ireland. As a last resort, he hires an international problem solver. But when Rachel puts her own name forward, he cant help but wonder what her agenda is. But its her conditions that have him rolling his eyes.Its only when she arrives in Ireland, that Rachel turns the Earls life upside down. She starts solving problems he didnt even know he had. The biggest problem is theyre starting to fall for one another. But its a business arrangement and shes going home in three months.Different backgrounds. Different personalities. Different ideas about how thing should be done. Opposites attract, but can they find common ground?Each book in the Escape to Ireland series is a standalone novel and can be read in any order.

Have you ever wanted to press the escape button on your life?Ruth Davenport writes about romance and happily ever after. But not from experience. After a heartbreaking rejection, she decides a change of scenery is needed. On a whim, she thinks Ireland is the place to go to write her next book. But when she arrives, everything that can go wrong, does. In the middle of the night, she lands on the doorstep of an Irish pub in the middle of nowhere belonging to an enigmatic Irishman.Sean Hughes needs a woman under his roof like he needs a hole in the head. His policy is to steer clear of all women in general. Besides, hes too busy running a pub and getting his dream business up off the ground. He has no time to be helping pretty tourists. But he needs some quick cash and she needs accommodation.A deal is struck that suits them both. As they spend more time together, they begin to see the other in a different light. Can they overcome their fears and take a chance on happiness? Read the rest of the books in the Escape to Ireland series.Her Fake Irish HusbandHer Irish InheritanceA Match for the Matchmaker

Il Libro:Puo nascere una storia damore tra una giovane ricca ereditiera e la sua guardia del corpo?Lei e una donna a capo di un impero plurimiliardario, ma non e propriamente felice. La perdita prematura di entrambi i genitori, dalla quale non si e mai ripresa realmente e un carattere introverso, le hanno reso difficile rapportarsi con le altre persone e costruirsi una seria e duratura relazione sentimentale.Lui e un militare appartenente alle Forze Speciali dellEsercito, momentaneamente in aspettativa, in quanto logorato dalle ultime missioni compiute in Afghanistan. Per guadagnarsi da vivere lavora presso unagenzia di sicurezza come guardia del corpo. E un uomo solitario, che appena ha potuto, ha abbandonato la famiglia per diventare un incursore del Col Moschin. La dura vita militare e le continue missioni, gli hanno completamente negato la possibilita di crearsi una propria esistenza privata.Il destino ha deciso di farli incontrare e questo incontro segnera per sempre le loro vite.Altri libri scritti dallautore:Il segreto di GiuliaDuplice vendettaLincubo del babau - Una storia di stalkingThriller TrilogyNessuna identita - Frammenti di memoriaPantaclo - La ProfeziaPantaclo II - La ProfeziaPantaclo III - La ProfeziaPantacloCrimeIn gabbiaPantaclo (II Edizione)Crime (II Edizione)In gabbia (II Edizione)Chi sei, Kate?Storia di unamicizia

Inseguire un sogno, in un mondo antico, lontano. Difficile, a volte impossibile realizzare sogni e ideali, contro nemici e disavventure, oggi come in passato. La vittoria, lestasi finale del protagonista potrebbero essere eventi mai verificabili per il comune mortale che non sa cose un sogno. Il protagonista, perduti i genitori in un assedio contro il suo piccolo casale da parte di pirati Saraceni, nutre un odio inestinguibile verso detti nemici. Suo zio, falegname, ex geniere dellesercito bizantino, si prende cura del fanciullo, insegnandogli a costruire macchine e strumenti utili. Il ragazzo trascorre ladolescenza studiando presso la scuola di unimportante cattedrale, ove linsegnante di Logica scopre le sue doti di meccanico. Fuggira infine e trovera ad Amalfi una ragazza che gli raccontera una strana leggenda

First published in 1762, Sarah Scotts "A Description of Millenium Hall and the Country Adjacent" is a novel that describes an ideal society set up by a group of gentry-class women. The anonymous narrator is a gentleman travelling with a younger, rakish companion named Lamont; when their carriage breaks down, they seek assistance in a nearby hospitable mansion that the narrator subsequently dubs Millenium Hall in allusion to its status as an earthly paradise, saying that he avoid[s] giving the real name, fearing to offend that modesty which has induced [the inhabitants] to conceal their virtues in retirement. Millenium Hall is an all-female, utopian sanctuary. The ladies who reside there are pious paragons, "A Description of Millenium Hall and the Country Adjacent" was Scotts most significant novel. It was popular enough to go to four editions by 1778, and interest in it has revived in the 21st century among feminist literary scholars.

Prima parte, in regalo.Napoli, Marrakech e Citta del Messico.Un viaggio tra Europa, Africa e America Latina, per cercare di sconfiggere Moloch, il dio del conformismo e del potere che da secoli, sotto varie forme, opprime lumanita."Come se i libri, fino a quel momento, non gli avessero gia creato abbastanza problemi. Effettivamente ne aveva letti un po troppi, e questa cosa era vista male dalla societa. A dire la verita, pero, piu che la lettura in se, quello che gli avevano sempre rimproverato era il fatto di confondere i libri con la realta.Fin dai tempi della scuola, infatti, anche altri suoi amici leggevano. Solo che, una volta chiuso il libro, tutto per loro terminava li, come con un semplice e sano divertimento. Luca, invece, cercava sempre di collegare quello che aveva letto con il mondo che lo circondava, con le sue esperienze, con le persone che conosceva.Eppure gli insegnanti, i consiglieri e tutte le autorita gli avevano spiegato piu di una volta quanto quel comportamento fosse sbagliato e pericoloso..."

Following a nuclear holocaust, Nathan Taylor and his family face grim choices in order to stay alive. Fleeing deadly radiation, plague and desperate men, Nathan, an army officer, leads his wife and their two teenage sons away from chaos and madness toward his ancestral home in Kentucky.Horrors lie in their path. From the prison struggling to maintain control of its inmates, to the desperadoes who enslave anyone who comes their way, even survival may cost Nathan his humanity...or that of his sons, Joshua and David. Nathan struggles to keep his family intact, but it requires making brutal choices. He wants to protect his sons, but knows they now must be deadly and cold at times.Nathans home has been spared from the worst of the destruction, but a larger conflict over scarce resources erupts. For the survivors to have any chance they will have to fight and the desperate journey has transformed young Joshua and David into men called upon to lead and sacrifice. Torn between harsh realities, and wanting to hold onto fleeting childhoods, they are often conflicted and angry about the roles thrust upon them. Much will depend on how Nathan and his sons respond to a madman and his military regime seeking to conquer the fledgling community they are helping to build.GLIMMER OF HOPE is an epic tale of one familys endurance and triumph after tomorrows apocalypse.

A poco piu di duecento anni dalla pubblicazione di Frankenstein, il romanzo che lha resa celebre, questa raccolta di racconti ci mostra luniverso piu intimo di Mary Shelley. Quasi una pioniera del genere, Mary Shelley pubblica i suoi racconti tra il 1823 e il 1839 negli Annuals, libri-regalo che uscivano in occasione del Natale e che contenevano prose brevi e poesie accompagnate da belle incisioni. Il lettore verra trasportato in epoche lontane, nelle guerre dei comuni in Italia, tra i castelli del Nord Europa e ci saranno trasformazioni magiche e scenari degni della piu alta tradizione romantica. Ma al cuore di questi scritti la Shelley mette sempre relazioni umane, soprattutto familiari, difficili e tormentate, che la scrittrice sceglie di indagare e dove emerge, a tratti, la sua ironia.Le versioni in lingua originale dei racconti sono tratte dalledizione curata da Charles E. Robinson del 1976.Un ebook dei Dragomanni (www.idragomanni.it).

First published in 1751, Amelia is a sentimental novel, the fourth and final novel written by Henry Fielding.Amelia follows a young woman who marries a man against her familys wishes. The couple moves to another city to start a new life togetherRaising questions about married life, gender equality, and justice, Ameliais one of Fieldings most popular novels. It also contains many interesting allusions to classical literature.Fielding, an 18th-century novelist who wrote literary fiction and romance, is remembered for his satire, humor, and sharp, insightful writing. Before writing novels, Fielding worked as a magistrate and helped to form Londons first police force, the Bow Street Runners.

First published in Belgravia Magazine in 1878, "The Haunted Hotel" (complete title: "The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice") is a sort of gothic ghost story-come-mystery."The Haunted Hotel" opens in England, where a wild-eyed Countess Narona visits Doctor Wybrow in a state of distress, convinced that she is going mad. Her husband-to-be, Lord Montbarry has jilted his kind-hearted fiance, Agnes for her. The Countess is convinced that Agnes will somehow bring about her downfall. After the marriage, the Countess and Lord Montbarry move to Venice where they stay in a decaying palace. The plot thickens when Lord Montbarry dies, leaving 10,000 insurance money which is claimed by his widow, and simultaneously the wife of Montbarrys close servant, a courier named Ferrari, receives an anonymous note containing 1,000. The courier has also mysteriously disappeared. The plot then moves inexorably towards how Agnes, the Countess and various members of the Montbarry end up in the palace in Venice that has been turned into a fashionable (but haunted) hotel where ghostly goings on occur in room number 13A..."The Haunted Hotel" is full of gothic elements: a missing servant, a veiled mourner and a body found in a fireplace. Somehow Collins manages to make it all believable and, as usual, the romance in the book has a realistic touch to it.

Avec "La pierre de lune", Wilkie Collins a sans doute inventé le roman policier moderne. Contemporain et ami de Dickens, avec lequel il écrivit plusieurs nouvelles, cet écrivain prolifique et généreux est aussi un maitre des atmospheres mysterieuses. Coincidences tragiques, pressentiments et premonitions jouent souvent un role primordial dans les intrigues tortueuses de ses romans.Publie pour la premiere fois en 1879, "Lhotel hante" est un modele du genre. La comtesse Narona, heroine a la fois malefique et pitoyable une combinaison familiere a Collins, createur des personnages de mechants les plus complexes de la litterature victorienne epouse en des circonstances douteuses un lord anglais. "Lhotel hante" raconte, avec lironie et le brio habituels de lauteur, le mysterieux destin de ce mariage contre nature, depuis un cabinet medical de Harley jusquaux chambres trop hativement renovees dun hotel de Venise... Apparitions, alchimies malefiques, fievre et folie habitent jusqua son tragique denouement ce roman.

First published in 1748, "The Adventures of Roderick Random" is Scottish author and poet Tobias Smolletts debut picaresque novel and it is loosely based on Smolletts experiences in the British Navy.Set in the 1730s and 1740s, the narrative follows the life of the main protagonist and narrator, Roderick Rory Random, from childhood to adulthood as Roderick journeys through England, France, the Caribbean, Africa, and Latin America. The Adventures of Roderick Randoms synopsis details the book as one of the first truly global novels [that] casts light on nearly every aspect of its timeimperialism, gender relations, slavery, urban life, colonial warfare, commerce, politics, the professions, high society, and the Hogarthian underworld.(Source: supersummary.com)

First published in 1912, "The Lost World" is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals still survive."The Lost World" explored the idea that prehistoric life might still exist in unexplored areas of the globe. Part science fiction, part adventure story, the novel marks a significant shift in Doyles writing, as he temporarily put aside the famous Sherlock Holmes to introduce professor Challenger, a physical, rude, bear-like man who would feature in several subsequent works.The novel opens with Edward Malone ("Ned") finding his declarations of love rejected by Gladys, for she can only love a heroic man. Malone, a newspaper reporter, has been assigned to write an article on professor Challenger who has returned from South America with unbelievable stories of prehistoric life in a remote location in the Amazon. The scientific community in London thinks Challenger is a fraud, so the professor plans a new excursion to bring back concrete evidence of his claims. He asks for volunteers to join him, and Malone steps forward in hopes the trip will prove his heroic nature to Gladys. They will also be joined by the wealthy adventurer Lord John Roxton and the skeptical professor Summerlee, who hopes to prove Challenger truly is a fraud.After a dangerous journey up the rivers and through the forests of the Amazon, the four adventurers arrive at the massive plateau where they soon encounter a pterodactyl, forcing Summerlee to admit that Challenger had been telling the truth... "The Lost World" has had a significant influence on science fiction, inspiring works including Michael Crichtons The Lost World, the related Jurassic Park movies, and The Lost World television series.

"Songs of Kabir" is a 1915 book consisting of 100 poems of Kabir, the 15th-century Indian poet and mystic, translated to English by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.A weaver by trade and a mystic by nature, the 15-century poet Kabir created timeless works of enlightenment that combine the philosophies of Sufism, Hinduism, and the Kabbala. Expressed in imagery drawn from common life and the universal experience, Kabirs poems possess an appealing simplicity. This collection of 100 songs reflects nearly every aspect of the mystics thought and emotions: ecstasy and despair, tranquil beatitude and fervid illumination, and moments of intimate love. A fluid, luminous setting of a beloved prayer by Kabir, offering praise to a holy presence both universal and intimate, both of and beyond this world.The Indian poet Kabir (1440-1518) grew up amidst Hinduism and Islam, and was deeply influenced by both. He had little use for the rites and trappings of any religion, and openly despised the pious quoting of scriptures from any religion. His poetry invoked the divine using both Hindu and Muslim names Allah and Brahma but in all cases Kabir engaged with the divine in a way that was deep and immediate. Today Kabir is revered by Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs alike, and his songs are loved by people of all faiths.