Novità: le ultime uscite

O mundo moderno é ansioso por natureza. A perfeição inatingível vendida nas redes sociais, as pressões profissionais, as ameaças à nossa saúde, a violência urbana, entre outras questões são uma fonte inesgotável de apreensão. Diante disso, será que é possível termos uma nova perspectiva a respeito da ansiedade? Em O poder dos ansiosos, David Rosmarin, professor da Faculdade de Medicina de Harvard e um dos maiores especialistas mundiais em ansiedade...

Meet Suzie Callaghan: French teacher, newly single, newly heartbroken. After an awful break-up, she heads to Mallorca for a much-needed holiday with her cousins, expecting sun, sangria, and siestas. She isn’t expecting to fall in love–especially not with the handsome Spaniard who rescues her when she gets separated from her group during an ill-judged midnight skinny dip. But what starts as a steamy holiday romance built on white lies and mistaken identities turns into something more complicated when “Carlos” shows up at the school she works at.

Was kann an einer Schule der Erleuchtung in Zone Null schon schiefgehen, wenn alle mächtigen Feinde besiegt sind und zwei Suchende mit vereinten Kräften nicht nur allen Gegnern ihrer eigenen Aufstiegsstufe gewachsen sind, sondern sogar etlichen stärkeren? Leider so einiges, wie sich herausstellt - besonders, wenn die Clans darum wetteifern, wer im nächsten Jahrzehnt Zugang zur Ur-Seele bekommen soll. Die Suchenden sehen sich gezwungen, die Lehrbücher beiseitezulegen und sich ihrer eigentlichen Aufgabe zu widmen - das Unmögliche möglich zu machen.

Aiden Valentine a un secret : il n'aime plus l'amour. Et en tant qu'animateur de la hotline romance de Baltimore, c'est un peu un problème. Mais lorsqu'une jeune femme appelle la station pour demander des conseils de drague pour sa mère, leur discussion devient virale...

Manche Begegnungen verändern dein Leben. Andere zerstören es. Alix Summer ist Podcasterin – erfolgreich, selbstbewusst, mitten im Leben. An ihrem 45. Geburtstag begegnet sie in einem Londoner Pub einer Frau, die auf den ersten Blick kaum auffällt: Josie Fair. Auch sie wird an diesem Tag 45 – und wurde im selben Krankenhaus geboren. Ein Zufall? Oder der Beginn von etwas Unheimlichem? Kurz darauf taucht Josie erneut auf. Sie bittet Alix, ihre Geschichte zu erzählen – sie stehe an einem Wendepunkt in ihrem Leben.

Privatdetektiv Georg Dengler, früher Zielfahnder beim BKA, ist einem Fall auf der Spur, der fast zu gefährlich für ihn wird und zurückführt in die Zeit der Wende und der großen Gier ... Georg Dengler ist im Unfrieden beim Bundeskriminalamt BKA ausgeschieden. Sein erster Fall als Privatdetektiv verspricht leicht verdientes Geld zu werden. »Es geht um meine Freundin«, sagt der Anrufer. »Ihr Vater kam vor zwölf Jahren bei einem Flugzeugabsturz ums Leben. Merkwürdig ist nur, er rief sie vorher an und sagte, er habe die Maschine verpasst.

The peaceful village of Willowbrook seems to be the ideal place for a new lease of life – at least according to Nell’s husband, Barney. With an empty nest and coming towards retirement, he’s persuaded her to try country living. Their cottage even has an annexe that’s perfect for Barney’s widowed father, Frank.

Paris, 1940. Ever since the Nazi Party began burning books, German writers exiled for their opinions or heritage have been taking up residence in Paris. There they opened a library meant to celebrate the freedom of ideas and gathered every book on the banned list . . . and even incognito versions of the forbidden books that were smuggled back into Germany. For the last six years, Corinne Bastien has been reading those books and making that library a second home. But when the German army takes possession of Paris, she loses access to the library and all the secrets she’d hidden there.

Irlanda 1973, un bambino viene trovato sulla spiaggia di un villaggio di pescatori. Il pescatore Ambros Bonnar si offre di accoglierlo nella propria famiglia, che comprende la moglie Christine, il figlio Declan, la sorella e l'anziano padre di Christine. Le fortune della famiglia vanno e vengono nel corso degli anni, mentre la vorace economia globale e la pesca commerciale modernizzata devastano il loro stile di vita.

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It's been fourteen years since Lavinia de Grande was evicted from her childhood home after her father lost his fortune. On entering her first Season courtesy of a cousin's charity, Lavinia vows to wreak vengeance on Earl Walton, the villain who orchestrated their ruination. Not even an alluring viscount—whose masterful touch and fiery kisses set her senses ablaze—will distract her from her plan to retrieve the family heirlooms lost at Walton's hands, by fair means or foul.

During the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese state sought to eradicate religious life throughout the country. But by 1978, two years after the death of Mao Zedong, the Communist Party under Deng Xiaoping cautiously embraced the revival of religion. At the same time, the newly elected Pope John Paul II made a point of renewing outreach to China. Paul P. Mariani tracks the fate of Chinese Catholicism in the wake of these transformative leadership changes, focusing on the influential Catholic community in Shanghai.

When she was told that her life expectancy may be as low as twenty-five if she did not stop drinking, Lauren felt absolutely nothing – then the sparks of despair. How was she here? Surely, sobriety was for middle-aged divorcées who’d lost everything, not young, struggling singers who didn’t have anything to lose in the first place? Besides, when alcohol is the only medicine that makes the world feel bearable, how can you possibly stop taking it? Six years later, Lauren has found her way to an intricate answer.

The colorful story of Condé Nast at its zenith and the profound way it influenced how Americans aspired to look, eat, decorate, date, marry, and even think, has never been examined deeply. Empire of the Elite is the first book-length history of an empire whose publications refashioned American notions of prestige, whose editors became celebrities themselves, and whose diminution offers a cautionary tale of class, hubris, and technological change, even as its aesthetic and ethos remain influential to this day.

¿La atracción puede con todo, o hay diferencias irreconciliables? Tras la enésima mudanza por culpa de su madre, una artista incapaz de quedarse demasiado tiempo en el mismo sitio, June White llega a Laguna Beach, California, y tiene que volver a empezar de cero. Para ella, que en las fiestas prefiere quedarse encerrada en una habitación viendo documentales de true crime en Netflix, hacer amigos no es fácil… y da por hecho que esto va a volver a sucederle ahora que es la chica nueva en el último curso del instituto.

El pasado no perdona...y ha llegado la hora de la venganza. Cuando la detective Kim Stone llega a la escena del crimen, no hay un cadáver esperándola, sino que se encuentra con los sanitarios luchando desesperadamente por salvarle la vida. Por desgracia, muere de camino al hospital, y deja a Kim con un escenario donde todas las pruebas han sido destruidas. A simple vista, la víctima, Eric Gould, parece una persona normal y corriente, hasta que el equipo empieza a investigar su pasado.

Estranged from her family, grappling with pressures at work, and trapped in the suffocating grip of depression as a result of childhood trauma, magazine executive Mia Hill tries to claw her way out of despair. But her life unravels when she stumbles across a note hidden inside a painting gifted to her by her late mother.

Je ne crois pas que les engagements de long terme du type mariage fonctionnent, mais je crois à l'amour. Il peut être fugace et peu fiable, rarement durable, mais je crois sincèrement qu'il existe. Je sais que ma mère a été amoureuse de nombre de ses maris, mais le mariage était le moyen le plus sûr de tuer ses sentiments dans l'œuf. J'ai un jour été amoureuse, et cela n'a pas duré non plus. Avec une mère qui s'est mariée plus de fois qu'elle ne peut le compter sur ses doigts, Ama Torres a décidé que le mariage n'était pas son truc. En revanche, gérer celui des autres ? Ça, c'est génial.

Prague, 1939. Les troupes du Reich entrent dans la ville. De sa fenêtre, Herbert Levin aimerait les faire disparaître comme, sur scène, un illusionniste escamote ses colombes. Lui-même magicien sous le nom du " Grand Nivelli ", l'homme espère trouver chez les SS, ces grands mystiques amateurs d'occulte, un public trop naïf pour percer son secret. Car Levin est juif, comme toute sa famille... Croire ou ne pas croire... C'est toute la tragédie de ces années barbares, où nul ne veut croire au mal absolu. Levin y sera bientôt confronté, là-bas, dans la boue de la Pologne, au cœur gris de l'enfer..

Any youth may apply to Eshtem University and gain the chance to join an elite Order of dragon-riding, magic-wielding peacekeepers. Jadon, a privileged and reckless prince, looks forward only to the brief escape from his father's political machinations that his studies offer. Christina, a princess from a rival House, believes the Order is the greatest force for good the world knows and can imagine no higher honor.