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Patrick e un insegnante e un pittore con l''ossessione per la perfezione.In una mattina di giugno entra per l''ultima lezione nella sua aula dell''Accademia di Belle Arti. E pronto a lasciare Roma per ripartire da zero a Venezia, citta fatta d''acqua e d''incanto. Torna a casa e prima di partire decide di andare in soffitta per dare un ultimo sguardo al quadro che ritrae la donna che ha molto amato, la donna il cui ricordo porta sempre con se.Ma, quando scopre la tela, la vede vuota: la donna sembra avere abbandonato il quadro. Sgomento, Patrick copre nuovamente il dipinto. In fretta e furia abbandona la soffitta e Roma, e corre all''aeroporto. Durante il volo, pero, batte la testa e all''arrivo si ritrova confuso, non riesce a ricordare bene il motivo per cui e partito. Ma in tasca ha un biglietto con un indirizzo e un nome: "Residenza Punto Feliz".Si rechera la e trovera una nuova e strana famiglia pronta ad accoglierlo. Miguel, il proprietario della pensione, uno spagnolo saggio cui e facile affidarsi; Vince, gondoliere con il cuore spezzato da un amore andato male; e il piccolo Enrique, curioso ed entusiasta come solo i bambini sanno essere.La nuova vita di Patrick scorre tra amnesie e scoperte, finche a una festa incontra Raquel e non ha dubbi: e lei, la donna che e fuggita dal suo quadro. Un libro sul perdersi e il ritrovarsi, sulla memoria e l''accettazione di se stessi, sull''importanza di restare fedeli al precetto piu vero e necessario: "mai controcuore".

Due cavalieri, uno bianco e uno nero, partono alla ricerca dell''ultimo discendente di Federico II. In un paese dilaniato dalle guerre tra fazioni e piegato dalla carestia, il modenese Giovanni Vezzani e il saraceno Yusuf Ibn Gwasi vogliono rilanciare l''utopia del grande imperatore svevo. Inseguono l''esile filo d''una leggenda: perche prima di salire al patibolo, il giovane Corradino di Svevia, nipote di Federico, avrebbe sposato una vergine napoletana che gli avrebbe dato un figlio...Inizia cosi un susseguirsi di imprevedibili avventure, da Lucera, splendida citta-giardino araba, alle brumose campagne padane, dalla rocca di Castel del Monte nelle Murge alla Toscana. Al centro del romanzo c''e la Napoli medievale, con la struggente bellezza dei suoi luoghi e della sua gente che Pederiali dipinge con tinte vivacissime, e un periodo storico di forti contrasti: certo segnato da violenze e carestie, ma anche ravvivato da profonde passioni e da grandi ideali.

Literatura Hiztegi Tekniko Laburra idatzi du Karlos Linazasorok. Idazlan jantzi eta akademikoa, urteetako lanaren emaitza, literatura genero nagusien berri xehea ematen duena, ordena alfabetikoan, Adagiotik Zientzi Fikziora, berezitasun guztiz partikular batekin: definizio bakoitzaren ondoren, egileak berak sortutako adibideak datoz beti, apaingarri baino gehiago, obraren benetako mamia eskainiz.Idazle oparo, trebe eta malgu baten orain arteko lan gorentzat jo dezakegu hau: Linazasororen gustuko gaiak eta obsesioak aurkituko ditu irakurleak bertan, umore fin batzuetan ironiko besteetan absurdoa, argumentuetarako asmamen izugarria, amodiorako isuri diskretua, munduan arrotz sentitzearen kontzientzia, errealitatea azpikoz gora jartzeko joera eta sormena salbazio-oholtzat aldarrikatzea, guztiok itoko gaituen naufragioaren zain.

NOVELA HISTORICA EN FRANCÉS

Chi e stata la madre di Tito? Una poco di buono, come dicono certe voci cattive? O una signora di buona famiglia costretta a "sparire", come ha sempre detto il padre Gaspare? Tito e alla guida di un pastificio, fonte non solo di ricchezza ma anche di conflitti, tensioni e invidie in seno a una famiglia allo sbando. È soltanto la sua autorita a tenerla insieme, a volerla unita, con il sostegno forte della mite presenza di una vecchia zia: zia Rachele ha vegliato su Tito e poi sui figli di lui e non ha perso la capacita di intuire anche quello che le si vorrebbe tener nascosto, ma nel suo sguardo cominciano ad affiorare a poco a poco ricordi confusi e brandelli di segreti custoditi tenacemente per piu di mezzo secolo. A smuovere ulteriormente le acque torbide, insieme alla bellissima Irina, spregiudicata e intraprendente, arriva all'improvviso Dante, figlio di una ex compagna di collegio della zia. E c'e chi sospetta oscuri moventi. Quanto piu la storia si apre a inattesi sviluppi nel presente, tanto piu il passato viene folgorato da una nuova luce e il mistero che nascondeva si dischiude lentamente con la forza di una grande storia d'amore.

Unha “novela de feitura bizarra onde se mestura o real e o fantástico, entre os séculos XIX e XXI. Preséntasenos unha fábula vampírica que conxuga fíos de feminismo, tecnoloxía e

The #1 New York Times bestselling series finale and sequel to A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night Fans of the All Souls Trilogy sent this highly anticipated finale straight to #1 on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list. Bringing the series magic and suspense to a deeply satisfying conclusion, The Book of Life is poised to become an even bigger phenomenon in paperback. Diana and Matthew time-travel back from Elizabethan London to make a dramatic return to the presentfacing new crises and old enemies. At Matthews ancestral home, Sept-Tours, they reunite with the beloved cast of characters from A Discovery of Witcheswith one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency.

My name is Amber Fraser. I've just moved in at Number 40, Lime Park Road. You'll come to think of me as a loving wife, a thoughtful neighbour and a trusted friend. This is a lie. When Christy and Joe Davenport are handed the keys to Number 40 on picture-perfect Lime Park Road, Christy knows it should be a dream come true. How strange though that the house was on the market for such a low price. That the previous owners, the Frasers, had renovated the entire property yet moved out within a year. That none of the neighbours will talk to Christy. As her curiosity begins to give way to obsession, Christy finds herself drawn deeper into the mystery of the house's previous occupants - and the dark and shocking secret that tore the street apart...Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty and Jane Shemilt, The Sudden Departure of the Frasers is a Rear Window for modern times. Praise for Louise Candlish: "A master of her craft." (Rosamund Lupton). "Louise Candlish's stories don't shy away from life's more painful and emotional moments." (Glamour). "I loved this book. Full of complicated yet sympathetic characters and riven with the kind of dilemmas that characterise real lives. I honestly didn't see the twist coming. Perfect." (Jojo Moyes on The Day You Saved my Life). "Tense, twisty and completely addictive, will keep you guessing right until the end..." (Good Housekeeping). "Absorbing, perceptive and gripping." (Daily Mail). Louise Candlish studied English at University College London and worked as an editor in art publishing and as a copywriter before writing fiction. Though her stories are about people facing dramatic dilemmas, she tries to live an uncomplicated life in London with her husband and daughter.

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All That is Solid Melts into Air by Darragh McKeon is an exceptionally moving novel of interwoven lives, set amidst one of the most iconic disasters in living memory. "Daring, ambitious, epic, moving". (Colm Toibin). Coloured sheets of paper fall from the sky. This is their first indication that something serious has happened. Each sheet bears a message: you have three hours to evacuate, bring only one suitcase. From their balconies they can see a dark column of smoke rising above the nuclear plant. For the people of Pripyat, these are the last moments they will spend in their homes. For a child piano prodigy, a dissident factory worker, a broken-hearted surgeon and unknowing others, this disaster will change their lives forever..."Shocking, vivid...sweeps with epic confidence across lives". (Sunday Independent). "Astonishing...A page-turner". (Irish Times). "A stunning debut. The reader cannot help but root for a boy genius who, coming from a line of damaged men is now the only hope his mother and aunt have to sustain them." (Guardian). Darragh McKeon was born in 1979 and grew up in the midlands of Ireland. He has worked as a theatre director, and lives in New York. This is his first novel.

"How much of yourself are you willing to sell?" Brian DeLeeuw hits that sweet spot between literary and commercial suspense with his brilliantly adept, ingeniously plotted novel--a chilling, fast-paced drama that urges readers to question the meaning of atonement and whether revenge might sometimes be the only way we can liberate ourselves from our past.Twenty-five-year-old med school dropout Simon Worth is an organ broker, buying kidneys and livers from cash-strapped donors and selling them to recipients whose time on the waitlist is running out. When a seemingly straightforward liver transplant has an unexpectedly dangerous outcome, Simon finds himself on the run. In order to survive, he must put aside his better moral judgment and place his trust in a stranger who has a shocking secret.

É um dos mais extraordinários contos de fadas de sempre, onde a imaginação reina como senhora absoluta, o absurdo e o nonsense delirante dominam e onde tudo é possível. O Coelho Branco, o Gato de Che

Eine unerzahlte Geschichte. Ein bis heute wahrendes Tabu.Am 30. April 1945 schoss sich Adolf Hitler in Berlin eine Kugel in den Kopf. Zur selben Zeit stromten im Stadtchen Demmin beim Einmarsch der Roten Armee hunderte Menschen in Flusse und Walder, um sich dort umzubringen. Ganze Familien wurden ausgeloscht, Eltern toteten ihre Kinder. Demmin ist nur ein Beispiel unter vielen: Eine Selbstmordepidemie ergriff tausende Menschen im ganzen Land. Basierend auf Tagebuchern, Briefen, Berichten und Erinnerungen erzahlt dieses Buch erstmals vom Untergang der kleinen Leute. Die Massenselbstmorde von 1945 sind ein bis heute verdrangtes Kapitel der Zeitgeschichte, fur die seelischen Wunden, die Uberlebende und Angehorige davontrugen, interessierte sich jahrzehntelang niemand. Beidem, der Selbstmordwelle wie dem Schweigen, Verdrangen und Vergessen, lag dasselbe Motiv zugrunde, die Flucht vor dem Unertraglichen. Die tieferen Ursachen aber verbargen sich in der Innenwelt der Deutschen, die zwolf Jahre lang im emotionalen Ausnahmezustand gelebt hatten. Florian Huber entwickelt die Geschichte der Gemuts- und Gedankenwelt der Menschen im Dritten Reich im Wechsel von historischer Reportage und Mentalitatsstudie ein fesselnder Blick auf die Gefuhle der kleinen Leute, die in ihren Untergang marschierten.

Hermann se disponer a regresar a Paris después de las vacaciones en familia cuando su mujer y su hijo desaparecen.Una novela que perturba y flirtea con lo fantástico.

XXVII Premi Guillem Colom i Ferrà de poesia Vall de Sóller 2014Què voleu que us digui?, que em dic Josep i vaig néixer a Súria?, que vaig treballar 40 anys volent ser mestre o que m’he retrobat en un

Ce ne sont encore que des enfants : Patrocle est aussi chétif et maladroit qu'Achille est solaire, puissant, promis à la gloire des immortels. Mais, grandissant côte à côte, un lien se tisse entre ce

Nur noch zwanzig Tage, dann soll sein neues Leben beginnen. Aber was haben der REGLER und seine Vertrauten getan, dass man ihnen die LEICHENTEILE einer FRAU schickt?Gabriel Tretjak ist der REGLER. Fur die, die es sich leisten konnen, regelt er Karriere, Liebe, Geld. Da wird in sein Berliner Apartment ein Paket geliefert. Zwei eingeschweite Frauenbeine, abgetrennt an der Hufte. Mit einem Tattoo, das nur einer so gut kennt wie der REGLER selbst: sein Bruder.Zur gleichen Zeit findet in Niederbayern ein Pfarrer einen abgeschnittenen Frauenkopf vor dem Altar. Und in Sudfrankreich wartet eine Frau in einem Cape unter einem Kirchturm. Jede Nacht. Seit Jahren

Una joya contemporania de la lengua catalana. Llena de sentimientos y escrita con gran delicadeza, la autora habla del amor, el dolor,que tiene como escenario París

Kate PerryIt's down to the wire and Carrie Woods is leaving China without the proof she needs for her thesis: Wei Lin's journal. While on a final tour of the monastery, Carrie finally locates the scrolls and attempts to photograph the documents. Caught in a sticky situation, Carrie takes the scrolls, only to notice a mysterious monk watching herthe same monk that she's seen each time she's taken a tour. Unable to return the scrolls, she travels back to California and isn't too thrilled when she notices the monk at the airport. Maximillian Prescott first came to the monastery as an orphaned teenager when he inherited the Book of Metal from a distant uncle he hardly knew. After spotting a woman stealing from the monastery, he follows her to get back the documents he knows she's stolen. Max is further intrigued when he finds out that the chatty woman is friends with his archrival, Rhys Llewellyn, and he will stop at nothing to get back everything he's lost.

Jacinto Lucas Pires“Trata-se de um livro que conta a história de um homem, José, e de uma mulher, Maria, que não se conhecem. Conta o seu encontro e aonde este os leva. Para mim, mais importante do q

Jacinto Lucas Pires

Lucy Ellis moved to the Big Apple to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a fashion designer, but the native Midwesterner has just about had it with the city. A mousy, self-conscious girl trapped in a job at a designer sweatshop, Lucy has been mistreated, road blocked, and otherwise insulted since her arrival. Overwhelmed by city life, Lucy is about to pack it all in and return home to Minnesota. Then she meets Wyatt.

In her sexy and suspenseful new novel, Cynthia Eden introduces readers to a seductive world where powerful night creatures ignite dark, dangerous hungers. . . Dr. Emily Drake''s patients tend to be a little unusual. Instead of the typical therapist''s caseload of midlife crises and mother fixations, Emily treats vampires with blood phobias and sex-demons looking for meaningful relationships. But her gift for recognizing and healing the Other--those creatures of the night that most humans don''t even know exist--requires a few house rules. First: Never trust a shifter. Especially not one like Detective Colin Gyth, whose gold-flecked eyes and predatory air make Emily realize how much she''s been longing to lose control. . . Colin can''t believe the doctor he''s been assigned to work with on the Night Butcher murder investigation is the one person who could expose his true identity as a wolf shifter. Smart, sexy, and stubborn as hell, Emily brings out the alpha male in Colin, unleashing a wild, heady desire that takes them both over the edge. But in the shadows, the Night Butcher waits. . .eager to spill Emily''s blood and taste her terror. And he''ll use any means to destroy her, including the one person she has grown to trust. . .

Far from home and her noble relatives, Miss Caroline Huntington has been injured in a fall from her horse. Called to her side, Alex Trentham knows he must assist her, though he has not practiced as a physician for a long while. Just to see so lovely a woman in a state of undress is a hard test of his self-control. Caroline is all that is warm and feminine, beautiful and pure. Brave to a fault, she does not flinch under his hands, and soon she is on the mend. To hide his feelings becomes impossible and Alex cannot. Her radiant innocence is dangerous to a worldly man...and she seems achingly eager to experience all the pleasure he could show her...

Peut-on échapper à son destin ? A celui qu''on choisit pour vous ? se demande Esther Vital. Juive marocaine née à Strasbourg, écrasée par le poids de la tradition et de la famille, mais aussi déchiré

Na «Luzada», a cafetaría de Patricia, conflúen cada mañá os camiños que transitan os personaxes d’ As de bolboreta, a novela de Rosa Aneiros gañadora do Premio Fundación Caixa Galicia de literatura x

In these hauntingly beautiful stories of abandonment and vengeance, extreme situations lead to disturbing conclusions. A missionary is sent to a place so distant he finds his God has no power there; a husband abandons his wife as they honeymoon in the South American jungle; a splash of water triggers an explosion of violence; and a boy's drug-induced transformation leads to cruelty enjoyed and suffered. Masterfully written, these are chilling tales from sun-drenched and brutal climes.

A perfectly paced, atmospheric mystery, Glasgow Kiss gets to the beating heart of this Scottish city and features the most dynamic Scottish detective since Rebus.

When Mahmoud Abd El Zahir is sent to govern the remote Egyptian oasis of Siwa in the late 1890s, he knows the danger he faces - two of his predecessors were murdered. But having been accused of disloyalty to the current regime and its British overlords, he has little choice. Rather than stay behind in Cairo, his Irish wife Catherine insists on going too, hoping to reinvigorate their relationship. Once at Siwa, Mahmoud finds himself not only fiercely resented but caught between two warring factions, while Catherine, with her Western ways and seemingly avaricious interest in the local archaeological sites, succeeds in alienating the entire community - all except for a beautiful young woman, herself an outcast, whose attempt at friendship spells disaster. In this fascinating novel, Bahaa Taher weaves together several voices to capture a society at war with itself and a marriage in trouble. At once a complex tale of love and an exploration of power, occupation and rebellion, SUNSET OASIS tells of people struggling to free themselves from the grip of the past. Highly pertinent to modern concerns, it is a striking, haunting work.

The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. Adam One, the kindly leader of the Gods Gardeners a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, the preservation of all species, the tending of the Earth, and the cultivation of bees and organic crops on flat rooftops has long predicted the Waterless Flood. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have avoided it: the young trapeze-dancer, Ren, locked into the high-end sex club, Scales and Tails; and former SecretBurgers meat-slinger turned Gardener, Toby, barricaded into the luxurious AnooYoo Spa, where many of the treatments are edible. Have others survived? Rens bioartist friend Amanda, or the MaddAddam eco-fighters? Rens one-time teenage lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the CorpSeCorps, the shadowy and corrupt policing force of the ruling powers Meanwhile, in the natural world, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mohair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through a ruined world, singing their devotional hymns and faithful to their creed and to their Saints Saint Francis Assisi, Saint Rachel Carson, and Saint Al Gore among them what odds for Ren and Toby, and for the human race? By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most effective.

Zachary LazarOn February 21st, l975, Edward Lazar was shot dead in a Phoenix, Arizona parking garage. Lazar's son, Zachary, was seven years oldtoo young to know his loving, mild-mannered father very well. Evening's Empire is his attempt to reconstruct the sequence of events that led to Ed Lazar's murder, as well as a personal investigation of the man, his time and place, and his motivations. Why did Ed Lazar, a superficially fun-loving but basically quiet, intense, and precise accountant, take illicit risks in his business dealings? Why would he endanger his livelihood, reputation, and family's future? His son has written what he calls a "conjuration" of his father to answer those questions. On the summer night of the first moon landing, l969, Ed Lazar announced to his wife that he had "grabbed the brass ring."he had gotten his real estate licence and would be going into the land business with his former boss and new partner, Ned Warren. That night Walter Cronkite was shouting "Go, baby, go" at liftoff; six years later, also on the CBS Evening News, Cronkite would be reporting the "gangland-style murder" of Edward Lazar. Ned Warren had become widely known in Arizona as "the Godfather of land fraud," and his former partner, Ed Lazar, was killed the day before he was scheduled to testify against him. Only the hit men were prosecutedfined but not jailed. Based on extensive archival research and interviews with Ed Lazar's friends, business associates, and family members, and clarified by scenes imagined in the context of this evidence, Zachary Lazar has written a piercing and singular story of the consequences of careless ambition.

Nous sommes dans un lointain futur, le cinquième millénaire. Mais nos successeurs ont gardé deux de nos coutumes : voyager et parler. Une intelligence artificielle se déplace sur un vaisseau à vent s

Brant''s fiction debut is a wonderfully imaginative novel with a sly twist, asone woman finds love--and finds herself--with a little help from Jane Austen.352 pp.

Gail CarrigerAlexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire -- and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate. With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart? SOULLESS is a comedy of manners set in Victorian London: full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking.

DELIOSe cadaquén usa a praza de garaxe para deixar nela o que lle saia dos... complementos directos, xa me dirás. Empezamos por aí e por onde acabamos, eh? Por onde acabamos? Pensa un pouco Nito.En 1998, no edificio en que vivia daquela, suscitouse unha viva polemica sobre se un propietario podia ter unha piragua na sua praza de garaxe.En 2007 o C.D.G. encomendoume escribir-dirixir unha peza. Aproveitei para dar saida por fin a unha vella teima: botar man daquela anecdota (real ainda que pareza ficcion) e utilizala como metafora sobre a inadaptabilidade aos cambios sociais. Con esa idea e a partir dese arranque argumental, propio dunha comedia, queria que o publico fose descubrindo que nunha das familias da comunidade de propietarios latexaba unha traxedia (ficticia ainda que ben real): a da violencia de xenero.

Una veïna que roba el son a una altra veïna, un peix que es perd entre música de jazz, una parella d'adolescents abocats sobre un penya-segat a mitja tarda... Els protagonistes d'aquestes històries p