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Il bell'Antonio di Vitaliano Brancati (Pachino, 24 luglio 1907 - Torino, 25 settembre 1954) è un romanzo che, dietro il velo di una vicenda personale e intima, svela il volto ipocrita e maschilista della società siciliana degli anni Trenta. Antonio Magnano, definito “il più bello dei siciliani,” è il simbolo perfetto di una virilità ostentata e celebrata in un contesto dove l’apparenza è tutto. Tuttavia, questa bellezza straordinaria nasconde un segreto che finirà per travolgere non solo lui, ma anche la sua famiglia e la sua comunità: Antonio è impotente.

Ten years ago Lukio fled Kiryat-Yearim, where he'd been adopted by the Levite family who guarded the Ark of the Covenant. Feeling betrayed by everyone, he returned to his birthplace in Philistia to become a famous fighter. Now the champion of Ashdod, Lukio has achieved every goal with the help of his ruthless cousin. But just as he is set to claim the biggest prize of all, the daughter of the king, his past collides with his present in the form of Shoshana.  

Puglia 1927. Nasce un bambino, frutto dell'amore tra Baldovino, figlio del barone Benci, e l'incantevole Nennella, figlia del mezzadro del suo podere. Un amore innocente e travolgente come possono esserlo quelli giovanili, ma contrastato dalla nobile famiglia. Nennella è così costretta a nascondere il figlio della relazione nel tronco di un ulivo secolare che nella notte è sradicato furtivamente e imbarcato alla volta dell'America.

1930. Il protagonista è il bellissimo giovane Antonio Magnano, che vive a Catania in pieno periodo fascista. Ha la fama di seduttore e per questo è invidiato dagli uomini e ambito dalle donne. Ma sarà proprio questa fama a rovinarlo.

Legendary author Loren D. Estleman has built a distinguished career in both the Western and mystery genres. His historical Westerns are instant classics, and The Branch and the Scaffold is another triumph. Brutally efficient judge Isaac C. Parker is determined to rid Arkansas and the Indian Territory of all manner of criminals. But his quest for justice and liberal use of the gallows earn him just as many friends as enemies and take a toll on every aspect of his life.

Ambientada nas melancólicas "noites brancas" de São Petersburgo, esta é a história de um Sonhador, um jovem solitário cuja vida é consumida por fantasias. Sua rotina muda quando ele conhece Nástienka, uma jovem que também se sente sozinha e que está esperando o retorno de seu amado, que prometeu se casar com ela. Ao longo de quatro noites intensas, o Sonhador se apaixona por Nástienka e se torna seu confidente. No entanto, quando o antigo amor dela reaparece, Nástienka o abandona instantaneamente.

Valient pensou ter tido uma visão, quando num minuto, visualizou uma linda mulher de branco, passear ao fundo da galeria. Dizem que existia uma Dama de Branco, vagueando pelos corredores da mansão de lorde Gerard, à procura do amado assassinado. Valient, o Conde de Trevarnon, seu convidado de honra, estremeceu quando percebeu que a podia ter visto, numa visão muito rápida, no fundo da galeria, mas num instante, ela desapareceu, deixando um perfume no ar de madressilvas. Será que existiam fantasmas naquela mansão?

1115, Germany. Young Hildegard is sent to the Abbey of St. Disibod in the Rhineland as her parents' gift to the Church in accordance with a custom known as the tithe. Hildegard has a deep love of nature and a knowledge of herbal healing, and she hopes to purse medical studies at St. Disibod. But no sooner does she settle into her new life than she finds out that as a girl she will not be allowed to attend the monastic school or have access to the abbey's library; instead, she must stay at the women's convent.

The Pyrénées, France, 1939. Twenty-year-old Sylvie Laget has found the one she wants to be with forever. With war looming, she pledges her heart to a young man on a neighboring farm and rebels against her religious upbringing by consummating their relationship. But when her lover leaves to fight the Nazis, her joy is shattered by heartache. Burying her pain by posing as a nun to work with the resistance (the Maquis) and help Allied forces, Sylvie is devastated by news of her beloved’s death.

Russia, 1907. Vladimir Durov has a prized pig he has trained for the circus. Dorov loves to make people laugh at his pig’s crazy antics. But he finds that when his pig performs for the recently widowed circus owner, Natasha, the most he can get is a smile. Desperate to capture her heart, the rough-hewn trainer comes up with a dangerous scheme to impress the woman he has come to love. As the circus travels to Germany in pursuit of more paying customers, Durov decides to dress his prized pig as the war-mongering Kaiser himself.

Lady Virginia Macon, the recently widowed baroness of Heatherton, has an impossible decision to make. Her late husband's unscrupulous brother demands guardianship of her sons. The courts are on his side, unless she marries someone willing to stand in her late husband's place. Locking her heart away and devoting herself to her children is the only way Virginia can countenance such a decision. Wearied by the world, Lucas Calvert, wealthy earl of Annesbury, is tired of being alone. When he learns of Virginia's plight, he knows he can save her and her sons.    

Banished from home by her angry father, Julia Devon travels to Bath to fulfill her role as family spinster by assisting her cousin, Lady Macon, in caring for her dying husband. Nathaniel Hastings's life runs in a predictable pattern, until a routine visit to one of his ailing patients brings him face to face with Julia, the woman who broke his heart five years before in London. Julia and Nathaniel find themselves unlikely allies as they work together to tend to the family's needs, fend off Lady Macon's scheming brother-in-law, and avoid confronting the pain of their shared past. 

Sullo sfondo degli splendidi paesaggi della Transilvania del tardo sedicesimo secolo, in un alternarsi di realtà storica e fantasia si svolge, tra avventure, amori tormentati, battaglie, congiure e misteri, la catarsi morale di Olivér Abafi, giovane cavaliere di nobile famiglia. La determinazione, la gratitudine e il sacrificio sono le colonne portanti di quest'opera senza tempo, primo esempio di romanzo storico della letteratura ungherese. "Una volta mi imbattei in una novella intitolata Il Figlio Di Aba, una traduzione serba dell'opera di Josika, un famosissimo scrittore ungherese.

He vows to never risk his heart again. She hides her love to avoid rejection. A marriage of convenience is not what either of them wished for. Overlooked by society and underappreciated in her family, Ellen Bringhurst has resigned herself to spinsterhood and a life of reading. Until her match-making friends contrive to reintroduce Ellen to the man she has secretly loved since their shared childhood. As the younger son to an earl, Marcus Calvert must wed in order to inherit his estate. Still nursing a broken heart, he prefers a practical approach to matrimony rather than romantic love.

After years of escaping etiquette lessons in favor of the stables, Christine Devon's grand debut in London is only weeks away, though her deportment lacks the sophisticated polish she needs to achieve her goals of a lofty marriage. Desperate to take her place in society, she needs someone to instruct her in proper behavior. Thomas Gilbert, newly returned from Italy, is ready to begin his dream of founding a horse farm. But during his time away, the estate's finances have dwindled to almost nothing. A chance meeting between them may solve both their problems.

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