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Christina L Farley

Gilded

Gilded

<p> Sixteen-year-old Jae Hwa Lee is a Korean-American girl with a black belt, a deadly proclivity with steel-tipped arrows, and a chip on her shoulder the size of Korea itself. When her widowed dad uproots her to Seoul from her home in L.A., Jae thinks her biggest challenges will be fitting in to a new school and dealing with her dismissive Korean grandfather. Then she discovers that a Korean demi-god, Haemosu, has been stealing the soul of the oldest daughter of each generation in her family for centuries. And she's next.</p><p>But that’s not Jae’s only problem.</p><p>There's also Marc. Irresistible and charming, Marc threatens to break the barriers around Jae's heart. As the two grow closer, Jae must decide if she can trust him. But Marc has a secret of his own—one that could help Jae overturn the curse on her family for good. It turns out that Jae's been wrong about a lot of things: her grandfather is her greatest ally, even the tough girl can fall in love, and Korea might just be the home she's always been looking for.</p><

Enrico Deaglio

Il vile agguato

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Carlos Fuentes

The Crystal Frontier

The nine stories comprising this brilliant new work of fiction from Carlos Fuentes all concern people who in one way or another have had something to do with, or still are part of, the family of one Leonardo Barroso, a powerful oligarch of northern Mexico with manifold connections to the United States. Each story concerns an encounter — sometimes hilarious, often tragic, frequently ambivalent, inevitably poignant — that in its own dramatic way epitomizes some striking contrast along the invisible, reflective, dangerous frontier that divides the North American world.Yet beyond the emblematic power of Fuentes's fiction to make us think about the political and cultural themes defining that world, there is the sheer human diversity of life on the "crystal frontier": these extraordinary stories pulse with vivid experience — of love in its many guises, of loneliness, of youth and old age, of heartbreak and redemption. Like many of the greatest Spanish-language novels, this exuberant fiction contains and alludes to journalism, politics, economics, famous tall tales, and picaresque adventures, all united by the "vitality, variety, and narrative force that Fuentes always gives his work" (La Jornada).<

Enrico Deaglio

L'ultima moglie di J.D. Salinger

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Carlos Fuentes

Adam in Eden

<p>In this comic novel of political intrigue, Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden. But there are snakes in this Garden too, and in order to save his relationship, his marriage, his life, and the soul of his country, he may have to call upon the wrath of the angels to expel all these serpents from his Mexican Eden.</p><p>In this comic novel of political intrigue, Adam Gorozpe, a respected businessman in Mexico, has a life so perfect that he might as well be his namesake in the Garden of Eden — but there are snakes in this Eden too. For one thing, Adam’s wife Priscila has fallen in love with the brash director of national security — also named Adam — who uses violence against token victims to hide the fact that he’s letting drug runners, murderers, and kidnappers go free. Another unlikely snake is the little Boy-God who’s started preaching in the street wearing a white tunic and stick-on wings, inspiring Adam’s brother-in-law to give up his job writing soap operas to follow this junior deity and implore Adam to do the same. Even Elle, Adam’s mistress, thinks the boy is important to their salvation — especially now that it seems the other Adam has put out a contract on Adam Gorozpe. To save his relationship, his marriage, his life, and the soul of his country, perhaps Adam will indeed have to call upon the wrath of the angels to expel all these snakes from his Mexican Eden.</p><

Carlos Fuentes

This I Believe: An A to Z of a Life

<p>In this masterly, deeply personal, and provocative book, the internationally renowned Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, whose work has been called “a combination of Poe, Baudelaire, and Isak Dinesen” (), steps back to survey the wellsprings of art and ideology, the events that have shaped our time, and his extraordinary life and fiercest passions.</p><p>Arranged alphabetically from “Amore” to “Zurich,” takes us on a marvelous inner journey with a great writer. Fuentes ranges wide, from contradictions inherent in Latin American culture and politics to his long friendship with director Luis Buñuel.</p><p>Along the way, we find reflection on the mixed curse and blessing of globalization; memories of a sexual initiation in Zurich; a fond tracing of a family tree heavy with poets, dreamers, and diplomats; evocations of the streets, cafés, and bedrooms of Washington, Paris, Santiago de Chile, Cambridge, Oaxaca, and New York; and a celebration of literary heroes including Balzac, Cervantes, Faulkner, Kafka, and Shakespeare. Throughout, Fuentes captivates with the power of his intellect and his prose.</p><p>Here, too, are vivid, often heartbreaking glimpses into his personal life. “Silvia” is a powerful love letter to his beloved wife. In “Children,” Fuentes recalls the births of his daughters and the tragic death of his son; in “Cinema” he relives the magic of films such as and . Further extending his reach, he examines the collision between history and contemporary life in “Civil Society,” “Left,” and “Revolution.”</p><p>And he poignantly addresses the experiences we all hold in common as he grapples with beauty, death, freedom, God, and sex. By turns provocative and intimate, partisan and universal, this book is a brilliant summation of an international literary career. Revisiting the influences, commitments, readings, and insights of a lifetime, Fuentes has fashioned a magnificently coherent statement of his view of the world, reminding us once again why reading Fuentes is “like standing beneath the dome of the Sistine Chapel. . The breadth and enormity of this accomplishment is breathtaking” ().</p><

Enrico Deregibus

Francesco De Gregori. I testi. La storia delle canzoni

Fabio Delizzos

La Città Dei Veleni

<div><p>Il secondo episodio del romanzo a puntate di Fabio Delizzos<br></p><p>Le indagini di Bellerofonte Castaldi, investigatore veneziano al servizio del papa<br></p><p>Una Roma subdola e sordida, regno di sicari e avvelenatori<br></p><p>Roma, febbraio 1756. La città di san Pietro è funestata da crimini inquietanti, mentre fervono i preparativi per l'ultima settimana di carnevale: un bambino castrato è stato ritrovato morto, dissanguato con un pesante salasso; i sospetti ricadono sugli ebrei, accusati da secoli di cibarsi del sangue di bambini cristiani. Ma non è finita. Il rettore del Collegio dei gesuiti, una delle scuole più prestigiose ed esclusive del mondo, è stato ucciso con un potente veleno, ma il più probabile autore dell'omicidio, lo speziale del Collegio, è deceduto alcune settimane prima di lui. C'è un nesso tra l'assassinio del bambino e questo nuovo crimine? E perché il Santo Uffizio sta indagando sui casi? Toccherà a Bellerofonte scoprirlo... <br>Dai bui laboratori degli speziali alle scuole di canto per bambini castrati, la ricerca della verità si fa sempre più difficile e pericolosa. Perché ora, insieme al sangue, comincia a scorrere anche il veleno.<br></p><p>Fabio Delizzos<br>È nato a Torino nel 1969 e vive a Roma. Laureato in filosofia, copywriter freelance, per la Newton Compton ha già pubblicato con grande successo i romanzi La setta degli alchimisti, La cattedrale dell’Anticristo e La loggia nera dei veggenti.</p></div><

Lizzy Ford

Cursed

Voodoo Nights

<p>The Red Man is coming ...</p><p>Five years after her sister disappeared, seventeen-year-old Adrienne finds the strength to return to her father’s home in New Orleans. But soon after she arrives, the mark of a curse appears on her, leaving her worried. Will she be the next victim of a four-hundred-year old family curse ... the next to be claimed by a serial killer roaming the back alleys of the city?</p><p>The day before his senior year begins, Jayden is given a skeleton key passed down through his family for generations -- a gruesome reminder of how his ancestors betrayed their own people and sold them into slavery. He doesn’t believe in the curse the key allegedly bears and puts it away with the intention of forgetting about its message. Until he meets Adrienne, a girl he’s compelled to for more reasons than her beauty.</p><p>He’s not the only one who notices her. A man in a skeleton mask and a voodoo gang member are also drawn to Adrienne. One is determined to protect her. The other intends to mislead her. Haunted by the mythical Red Man, all are connected to the ancient curse.</p><p>Can they overcome their misgivings about one another and prevent the dark prophecy looming over them? Or will they be lured away from each other by evil’s siren song?</p><

Jen Frederick

Unraveled

Woodlands

<p>Twenty-five-year-old Sgt. Gray Phillips is at a crossroads in his life: stay in the Marine Corps or get out and learn to be a civilian? He’s got forty-five days of leave to make up his mind but the people in his life aren’t making the decision any easier. His dad wants him to get out; his grandfather wants him to stay in. And his growing feelings for Sam Anderson are wreaking havoc with his heart…and his mind. He believes relationships get ruined when a Marine goes on deployment. So now he’s got an even harder decision to make: take a chance on Sam or leave love behind and give his all to the Marines.</p><p>Twenty-two year old Samantha Anderson lost her husband to an IED in Afghanistan just two months after their vows. Two years later, Sam is full of regrets—that she didn’t move with her husband to Alaska; that she allowed her friends to drift away; that she hasn’t taken many chances in life. Now, she’s met Gray and taking a risk on this Marine could be her one opportunity to feel alive and in love again. But how can she risk her heart on another military man who could share the same tragic fate as her husband?</p><

Fabio Delizzos

Il Quinto Comandamento

<div><p>Il terzo episodio del romanzo a puntate di Fabio Delizzos </p><p>Le indagini di Bellerofonte Castaldi, investigatore veneziano al servizio del papa </p><p>Roma, febbraio 1756. La città del papa non ha pace. Nelle sue vie millenarie continuano a scorrere sangue e veleno. I bambini vengono castrati da barbieri senza scrupoli, sfruttati per denaro da loschi insegnanti di canto e acquistati da potenti personaggi, che vogliono bearsi delle loro voci angeliche e del loro prezioso sangue. Finché a un certo punto il Santo Uffizio comincia ad arrestare comuni cittadini, a quanto pare colpevoli di tanto orrore. Il boia della Città eterna ha eretto il suo tetro patibolo a Campo dei Fiori, e nelle segrete dell’Inquisizione la camera delle torture sta lavorando a pieno ritmo. Forse qualcuno, dall'alto, ha interesse a ottenere confessioni, perché quelle macabre storie vengano dimenticate. Ma Bellerofonte Castaldi continua le sue indagini. Lui sa bene che nella Roma in cui vive niente è più ingiusto della presunta giustizia… </p><p>Fabio Delizzos<br>È nato a Torino nel 1969 e vive a Roma. Laureato in filosofia, copywriter freelance, per la Newton Compton ha già pubblicato con grande successo i romanzi La setta degli alchimisti, La cattedrale dell’Anticristo e La loggia nera dei veggenti.</p></div><

Fabio Delizzos

Il cacciatore di libri proibiti

Eric Flint

1636: The Viennese Waltz

Ring of Fire

Chelsea Fine

Perfect Kind Of Trouble

Finding Fate

<p>Twenty-one-year-old Kayla Turner has lost everything. After spending most of her life taking care of her ailing mother, she just wants to spot a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. So when her late father-a man she barely knew-leaves her an inheritance, she finally breathes a sigh of relief . . . until she learns the inheritance comes with strings. Strings in the form of handsome playboy Daren Ackwood, her father's protégé. To see any of her inheritance, she's forced to team up with him. From his expensive car to those sexy dimples, Kayla's seen his type before. But Daren isn't who he seems to be . . .</p><p>Struggling to make amends for his family's mistakes, Daren has a life more Oliver Twist than Richie Rich these days. He's beyond grateful that James Turner included him in his will, but working with Turner's princess of a daughter to fulfill his cryptic last wish is making Daren wonder if being broke is really so bad. Still, she's just as beautiful as she is stubborn, and the more time he spends with Kayla, the less it feels right being without her. Soon Daren and Kayla begin to wonder if maybe the best gift Kayla's dad could have left them . . . was each other.ebook,336 pagesPublished June 17th 2014 by Forever</p><

Fabio Delizzos

Il collezionista di quadri perduti

<p class="description">Roma, primavera del 1555. Mentre si attende con ansia che il conclave elegga un nuovo pontefice, la Città Eterna è teatro di inquietanti omicidi, apparentemente legati al mondo dell'arte. Il collezionista Raphael Dardo, insieme ad Ariel Colorni, alchimista e geniale inventore, è alla ricerca di quadri considerati eretici dall'Inquisizione, per salvarli dal rogo. È interessato, in particolare, a un pittore noto come "l'Anonimo", i cui dipinti, che si distinguono per un realismo mai visto prima, si dice siano opera del diavolo. Raphael si troverà pericolosamente sulla stessa strada dell'implacabile inquisitore del Santo Uffizio, Girolamo Arquez, da tempo sulle tracce del pittore maledetto. Bellissime modelle, artisti folli, collezionisti stravaganti, eretici satanisti: quella di Raphael sarà una ricerca molto più rischiosa del previsto, che lo condurrà fra monasteri e bordelli, osterie e labirinti sotterranei, fino alla scoperta di una verità sconvolgente...</p><

Gayle Forman

Just One Night

Just One Day

After spending one life-changing day in Paris with laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter, sheltered American good girl Allyson “Lulu” Healey discovered her new lover had disappeared without a trace. Just One Day followed Allyson’s quest to reunite with Willem; Just One Year chronicled the pair’s year apart from Willem’s perspective. Now, back together at last, this delectable e-novella reveals the couple’s final chapter.<

Fabio Delizzos

Il collezionista di quadri perduti - Il cacciatore di libri proibiti - La cattedrale dei vangeli perduti

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Nuruddin Farah

Knots

Past Imperfect

<p>From the internationally revered author of Links comes "a beautiful, hopeful novel about one woman's return to war-ravaged Mogadishu" ()</p><p>Called "one of the most sophisticated voices in modern fiction" (), Nuruddin Farah is widely recognized as a literary genius. He proves it yet again with , the story of a woman who returns to her roots and discovers much more than herself. Born in Somalia but raised in North America, Cambara flees a failed marriage by traveling to Mogadishu. And there, amid the devastation and brutality, she finds that her most unlikely ambitions begin to seem possible. Conjuring the unforgettable extremes of a fractured Muslim culture and the wayward Somali state through the eyes of a strong, compelling heroine, is another Farah masterwork.</p><

Fabio Delizzos

Il libro segreto del Graal

Nuruddin Farah

Links

Past Imperfect

Gripping, provocative, and revelatory, is a novel that will stand as a classic of modern world literature. Jeebleh is returning to Mogadiscio, Somalia, for the first time in twenty years. But this is not a nostalgia trip — his last residence there was a jail cell. And who could feel nostalgic for a city like this? U.S. troops have come and gone, and the decimated city is ruled by clan warlords and patrolled by qaat-chewing gangs who shoot civilians to relieve their adolescent boredom. Diverted in his pilgrimage to visit his mother’s grave, Jeebleh is asked to investigate the abduction of the young daughter of one of his closest friend’s family. But he learns quickly that any act in this city, particularly an act of justice, is much more complicated than he might have imagined.<

Fabio Delizzos

La cattedrale dei vangeli perduti

Nuruddin Farah

Crossbones

Past Imperfect

<p>A gripping new novel from today's "most important African novelist". ()</p><p>A dozen years after his last visit, Jeebleh returns to his beloved Mogadiscio to see old friends. He is accompanied by his son-in-law, Malik, a journalist intent on covering the region's ongoing turmoil. What greets them at first is not the chaos Jeebleh remembers, however, but an eerie calm enforced by ubiquitous white-robed figures bearing whips.</p><p>Meanwhile, Malik's brother, Ahl, has arrived in Puntland, the region notorious as a pirates' base. Ahl is searching for his stepson, Taxliil, who has vanished from Minneapolis, apparently recruited by an imam allied to Somalia's rising religious insurgency. The brothers' efforts draw them closer to Taxliil and deeper into the fabric of the country, even as Somalis brace themselves for an Ethiopian invasion. Jeebleh leaves Mogadiscio only a few hours before the borders are breached and raids descend from land and sea. As the uneasy quiet shatters and the city turns into a battle zone, the brothers experience firsthand the derailments of war.</p><p>Completing the trilogy that began with and is a fascinating look at individuals caught in the maw of zealotry, profiteering, and political conflict, by one of our most highly acclaimed international writers.</p><

Fabio Delizzos

La cattedrale dell'Anticristo

Torino, Natale 1888. L&apos;assassinio di un cardinale, il ritrovamento del cadavere di due neonati con un serpente marchiato a fuoco sotto l&apos;orecchio, il furto di un prezioso reperto archeologico dal Museo egizio: cosa si nasconde dietro questi inspiegabili eventi? I pochi indizi sembrano puntare verso una tradizione occulta sotterranea e potente. A condurre un&apos;indagine complessa e pericolosa, tra massoni, sette sataniche e intrighi internazionali, è chiamato il colonnello dei carabinieri reali Giorgio Pural, la cui vita privata, da quando è al comando della DIO (Divisione Indagini sull&apos;Occulto), è andata in frantumi. Grazie alla consulenza del grande filosofo tedesco Friedrich Nietzsche, che proprio a Torino sta scrivendo &quot;L&apos;Anticristo&quot;, il colonnello Pural scoprirà che i casi sono tutti collegati a un&apos;unica verità sconvolgente, che riguarda lo stesso Nietzsche e che potrebbe annientare la Chiesa e deviare il corso della Storia. La verità sulla Sacra Sindone, sul corpo di Cristo.<

Nuruddin Farah

Maps

Blood in the Sun

This first novel in Nuruddin Farah's trilogy tells the story of Askar, a man coming of age in the turmoil of modern Africa. With his father a victim of the bloody Ethiopian civil war and his mother dying the day of his birth, Askar is taken in and raised by a woman named Misra amid the scandal, gossip, and ritual of a small African village. As an adolescent, Askar goes to live in Somalia's capital, where he strives to find himself just as Somalia struggles for national identity.<

Pessoa- Fernando

Das Buch der Unruhe

Fabio Delizzos

La loggia nera dei veggenti - 2013

<p class="description">Qual è la missione dell'esercito segreto del Terzo Reich? Dopo il successo di La cattedrale dell'Anticristo Il nuovo grande thriller di Fabio Delizzos È l'esercito segreto del Terzo Reich La sua missione è cambiare il futuro Mentre nel pieno della seconda guerra mondiale le nazioni sono impegnate a combattere su tutti i fronti, alcuni agenti segreti specializzati nello spionaggio psichico si danno la caccia senza tregua. Una cellula misteriosa, il Panopticon, ha una missione ai limiti dell’impossibile: scoprire se la Wunderwaffe, l’“arma meravigliosa” dei nazisti, esiste davvero, e impossessarsene. Nel frattempo a Roma, uno scrittore costretto a guadagnarsi da vivere come sensitivo si trova suo malgrado coinvolto in questa pericolosa guerra di spie. Si chiama Lio Rol, e a causa dell’esplosione di una mina ha dimenticato molte, troppe cose. Persino di avere una sorella. Ma chi è davvero Lio Rol? Cosa lega sua sorella Sibylla all’Ordine delle SS? Cosa c’entrano i giganti della Bibbia con la bomba atomica, gli dèi sumeri con Atlantide, un romanzo ottocentesco inglese con la loggia nera che opera segretamente nel Terzo Reich? Lio dovrà mettere da parte la macchina da scrivere e cercare una risposta a tutte queste domande. E dovrà trovarla in fretta, se vorrà salvare non solo la propria vita, ma il mondo intero. Una cellula spionistica sta per introdursi nel cuore del Terzo Reich Il mondo non sarà più lo stesso Fabio Delizzos È nato a Torino nel 1969 e vive a Roma. Per la Newton Compton ha già pubblicato con grande successo i romanzi La setta degli alchimisti e La cattedrale dell’Anticristo.</p><

Julia Fierro

Cutting Teeth

<p>"Fierro’s first novel captures the complexity of forging new friendships and redefining lives as contemporary parents. Her characters are meticulously drawn, the situations emotionally charged.</p><p>Readers, especially young parents, won’t be able to look away." — BOOKLIST</p><p>One of the most anticipated debut novels of 2014, takes place one late-summer weekend as a group of thirty-something couples gather at a shabby beach house on Long Island, their young children in tow.</p><p>They include Nicole, the neurotic hostess terrified by internet rumors that something big and bad is going to happen in New York City that week; stay-at-home dad Rip, grappling with the reality that his careerist wife will likely deny him a second child, forcing him to disrupt the life he loves; Allie, one half of a two-mom family, and an ambitious artist, facing her ambivalence toward family life; Tiffany, comfortable with her amazing body but not so comfortable in the upper-middle class world the other characters were born into; and Leigh, a blue blood secretly facing financial ruin and dependent on Tenzin, the magical Tibetan nanny everyone else covets. These tensions build, burn, and collide over the course of the weekend, culminating in a scene in which the ultimate rule of the group is broken.</p><p>All this is packed into a page-turning, character-driven novel that crackles with life and unexpected twists and turns that will keep readers glued as they cringe and laugh with compassion, incredulousness, and, most of all, self-recognition. is a warm, whip-smart and unpretentious literary novel, perfect for readers of Tom Perrotta and Meg Wolitzer.</p><

Fabio Delizzos

La profezia perduta del faraone nero

Federico Baccomo Duchesne”

Studio illegale. Il meglio del blog

Ella Frank

Take

Temptation (Ella Frank)

<p>TAKE – verb: to reach for and hold in one’s hands or get into one’s possession, power or control. </p><p>Logan Mitchell is a man who’s always been more than happy to take what he wants. It’s a philosophy that’s proven lucrative in both his business and personal life, and never was it more apparent than the night he laid eyes on Tate Morrison. After pulling out all the stops and convincing the sexy bartender to give him a try—he’s hooked. </p><p>Now, Logan finds himself in a predicament that demands more from him than a smart-ass answer and his innate ability to walk away when things get too deep. </p><p>He has a choice to make, and it’ll force him to do something he’s never done before—take a chance.</p><p>Tate Morrison knows all about taking a chance. He took the biggest one of his life the night he showed up at Logan’s apartment to explore his unexpected reaction to the man. </p><p>Ever since then, he’s thought about little else.</p><p>At first he was convinced his attraction was based solely on his body’s curiosity. But the more time he spends with the silver-tongued lawyer, the more Tate realizes that their physical chemistry is only the beginning. </p><p>He’s starting to catch a glimpse of what life with Logan would be like, and it’s one full of excitement and satisfaction—a far cry from what he had in the past with his soon to be ex-wife.</p><p>Each man will face their fears as they begin to understand the true meaning of give and take. Their feelings for one another will be tested, as will their very beliefs. But now that they’ve found love where they least expected it, will they be brave enough to reach out and take it?</p><

Fedor Dostoevskij

I capolavori

<p class="description">In qualunque storia del romanzo moderno, a prescindere dal metodo e dal gusto di chi la scrive, Fëdor Dostoevskij (1821-81) è destinato inevitabilmente a occupare uno dei capitoli centrali. Nella sua opera si espandono e giungono a piena maturazione i caratteri maggiormente significativi della grande narrativa dell'Ottocento: il senso del drammatico dei conflitti sociali, la riflessione individuale, le passioni più pure e quelle più torbide, l'introspezione e l'analisi minuziosa e profonda dell'animo umano. La raccolta comprende i romanzi: Delitto e castigo, I demoni, I fratelli Karamazov, Il giocatore, L'idiota, Il sosia, Umiliati e offesi; e i racconti: Il signor Procharcin, La padrona, Le notti bianche, Uno spiacevole episodio, Bobòk, La mansueta, Il sogno di un uomo ridicolo.<br>(source: Anobii.com)<br></p><

Dan Fesperman

Unmanned

<p>From the widely acclaimed author of The Prisoner of Guantánamo and The Double Game, an electrifying, timely, psychologically gripping descent into the hidden, expanding world of drone warfare.</p><p>Not very long ago, Darwin Cole was an F-16 fighter pilot. He was a family man. He was on top of the world. Now? He’s a washout drunk with a dishonorable discharge from the U.S. Air Force, living alone in the Nevada desert and haunted by an image beamed from one of his last missions as a “pilot” of a Predator drone—a harrowing shot of an Afghan child running for her life.</p><p>When Cole is approached by three journalists trying to uncover the identity of the possibly rogue intelligence operative who called the shots in Cole’s ill-fated mission, Cole reluctantly agrees to team up with them.</p><p>But in our surveillance culture, even the well intentioned are liable to find themselves under scrutiny, running for their lives, especially when the trail they’re following leads to the very heart of that culture—in intelligence, in the military, and among the unchecked private contractors who stand to profit richly from the advancing technology… not merely for use “over there,” but for right here, right now.</p><

Fëdor Dostoevskij

La mite

Robert Fabbri

Masters of Rome

Vespasian

Jasper Fforde

The Woman Who Died a Lot

Thursday Next

The BookWorld's leading enforcement officer Thursday Next is four months into an enforced semi-retirement following an assassination attempt. She returns home to Swindon for what you'd expect to be a time of recuperation. If only life were that simple. Thursday is faced with an array of family problems - son Friday's lack of focus since his career in the Chronoguard was relegated to a might-have-been, daughter Tuesday's difficulty perfecting the Anti-Smote shield needed to thwart an angry Deity's promise to wipe Swindon off the face of the earth, and Jenny, who doesn't exist. And that's not all. With Goliath attempting to replace Thursday at every opportunity with synthetic Thursdays, the prediction that Friday's Destiny-Aware colleagues will die in mysterious circumstances, and a looming meteorite that could destroy all human life on earth, Thursday's retirement is going to be anything but easy.<

Fëdor Michajlovič Dostoevskij

Povera gente

Opera prima di Dostoevskij, Povera gente è un breve romanzo epistolare che lo scrittore russo iniziò nel 1844, all'età 23 anni, e pubblicò nel 1846, dopo numerose riscritture. Makar, oscuro impiegato statale di quasi cinquant'anni, e Varvara, una giovane orfana che a stento si guadagna da vivere con modesti lavori di cucito, pur abitando nello stesso caseggiato – le finestre delle loro stanze danno sullo stesso cortile interno e ognuno può vedere quella dell'altro – intrattengono un'amichevole corrispondenza che durerà alcuni mesi, fino al giorno in cui la povertà e una salute sempre più cagionevole inducono Varvara ad accettare la proposta di matrimonio di un ricco possidente. La partenza di Varvara getta Makar nella disperazione. Già in questo suo primo romanzo, Dostoevskij dà vita al suo "piccolo uomo", uno dei temi conduttori nella letteratura russa del XIX secolo. Makar Devuškin si colloca infatti accanto a Samson Vyrin, del Mastro di posta puškiniano, o ad Akakij Akakievič, protagonista del Cappotto di Gogol, i suoi due illustri predecessori. È l'uomo di umili origini, che occupa i gradi inferiori della scala sociale. Un "uomo senza qualità", mite e di buon cuore. Antieroe che si contrappone all'eroe della letteratura romantica.<

Filippo Domaneschi

Insultare gli altri

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Michelle Falkoff

Playlist for the Dead

<p>A teenage boy tries to understand his best friend’s suicide by listening to the playlist of songs he left behind in this smart, voice-driven debut novel.</p><p>Here’s what Sam knows: There was a party. There was a fight. The next morning, his best friend, Hayden, was dead. And all he left Sam was a playlist of songs, and a suicide note: For Sam—listen and you’ll understand.</p><p>As he listens to song after song, Sam tries to face up to what happened the night Hayden killed himself. But it’s only by taking out his earbuds and opening his eyes to the people around him that he will finally be able to piece together his best friend’s story. And maybe have a chance to change his own.</p><p>Part mystery, part love story, and part coming-of-age tale in the vein of Stephen Chbosky’s and Tim Tharp’s , is an honest and gut-wrenching first novel about loss, rage, what it feels like to outgrow a friendship that’s always defined you—and the struggle to redefine yourself. But above all, it’s about finding hope when hope seems like the hardest thing to find.</p><

Shana Festa

Induction

Time of Death

<p>When no one or nowhere is safe, where do you go to escape the monsters?</p><p>In a few short days, 37 year old Emma Rossi’s hard work will finally pay off. She will don her cap and gown and graduate with a degree in nursing, but not before she loses her first patient and is confronted with a new reality. In Cape Coral, Florida, a storm approaches. The dead are coming back to life.</p><p>And they’re hungry.</p><p>Infection ravages the Eastern Seaboard with alarming speed while attempts to contain the spread of infection fail. Within days, a small pocket of panicked survivors are all that remain of civilization. Fighting to survive the zombie apocalypse alongside her husband Jake and their dog Daphne, Emma comes face-to-face with her worst nightmare.</p><

Fiona Davis

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