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It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City. Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty-five-year-old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar boom is ripe with opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and Lucia becomes an apprentice to an...

Qui parle ? Une certaine Carlotta Berlumi. Le nom de cette mystérieuse vieille dame n’évoque rien à personne, pourtant elle soutient mordicus qu’elle connut son heure de gloire à la Scala et fut la plus grande rivale de Maria Callas. À l’entendre, la cantatrice grecque parvint, à force de manœuvres et de combines, à la jeter aux oubliettes, mais elle lui rendit la monnaie de sa pièce en précipitant sa chute. Carlotta prend-elle ses désirs pour des réalités ? A-t-elle trouvé en Callas le bouc émissaire de ses échecs, l’explication magique de ses déboires et de ses frustrations ?

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the tale of three brothers and of their rivalry that created the mysterious Stonehenge. One summer’s day, a dying stranger carrying great wealth in gold comes to the settlement of Ratharryn. The three sons of Ratharryn’s chief each...

Valiéndose de las características propias de la novela gótica, la crónica medieval y la novela policíaca, El nombre de la rosa narra las actividades detectivescas de Guillermo de Baskerville para esclarecer los crímenes cometidos en una abadía benedictina en el año 1327.

Leipzig, März 1920: Der Kapp-Putsch bricht aus. Frustrierte Reichswehrsoldaten haben die Regierung in Berlin für abgesetzt erklärt. In Leipzig, wie in vielen deutschen Städten, kommt es zu blutigen Kämpfen zwischen Regierungstruppen und Putschisten. Die bürgerkriegsähnlichen Zustände halten Kriminalinspektor Stainer in Atem - auch innerhalb der "Wächterburg", da die völkisch-nationalen unter Stainers Kollegen die Weimarer Republik zur Hölle und die Putschisten an die Macht wünschen.

Året er 1286, og Skotland er ramt af en af de hårdeste vintre i mands minde. Alligevel rider kongen en sen aften ud i det isnende mørke, fordi hans dronning har sendt bud efter ham. Han ved ikke, at det i virkeligheden er et baghold, og på vejen bliver han myrdet af en af sine egne mænd. Kongens død efterlader Skotland uden tronarving, og stridighederne ulmer mellem forskellige skotske familier, som alle mener at have et krav på tronen. Samtidig har den engelske konge ambitioner om at inddrage landet under England, og snart bryder borgerkrigen ud i lys lue.

Countess Ellen Olenska, separated from her European husband, returns to old New York society. She bears with her an independence and an awareness of life which stirs the educated sensitivity of the charming Newland Archer, engaged to be married to her cousin, May Welland. Though he accepts the society's standards and rules he is acutely aware of their limitations. He knows May will assure him a conventional future but Ellen, scandalously separated from her husband, forces Archer to question his values and beliefs.

Der erste Roman über Selma Lagerlöf widmet sich den eher unbekannten Seiten der berühmten schwedischen Schriftstellerin. Selma Lagerlöf erhält als erste Frau den Literaturnobelpreis und einen Sitz in der Schwedischen Akademie. Ihr Werk Die wunderbare Reise des kleinen Nils Holgersson mit den Wildgänsen zählt noch heute zur Weltliteratur. In ihrem großen Roman zeigt Charlotte von Feyerabend jedoch auch die unbekannten Seiten der berühmten Autorin und macht sie mit all ihren Zweifeln und schillernden Träumen greifbar.

Madeleine Thien's new novel is breathtaking in scope and ambition, even as it is hauntingly intimate. With the ease and skill of a master storyteller, Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations - those who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution in the mid-20th century; and the children of the survivors, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square in 1989, in one of the most important political moments of the past century.

Lady Charlotte Carpenter's brother-in-law has put an infamous brothel owner out of business - yet it is Charlotte who suffers the consequences. Abducted by thugs and held at an inn, she is plotting her escape when she's suddenly rescued by a dashing gentleman. Only afterward does she realize she's seen him before - with two courtesans! Unwilling to tarry with such a man, Charlotte makes her second escape. But it is too late to repair her reputation....

To the average citizen, the Lion of Salvador was a national hero, a military general of such renown that his accolades spanned two continents. To those in the know, however, the man was the cruelest of drug lords, a savage despot building an unstoppable empire that ranged from the Central American jungle to the bustling streets of New York.

The Strange Visitation at Wolffe Hall: The year is 1841 and Grayson Sherbrooke, a popular author of gothic paranormal mysteries, lives on the coast of Northern England with his 4-year-old-son, Pip. The Resident Evil at Blackthorn Manor: In Grayson Sherbrooke’s second Otherworldly Adventure, he goes to Scotland to Vere Castle, the home of his aunt and uncle. The Ancient Spirits of Sedgwick House: When Grayson Sherbrooke takes his son Pip to the home of Lord Lyle for a month of fun and relaxation, little does he know what awaits him.

Dalton, North Dakota. It’s September 1951: years since George and Margaret Blackledge lost their son James when he was thrown from a horse; months since his widow Lorna took off with their only grandson and married Donnie Weboy. Margaret is steadfast, resolved to find and retrieve her grandson Jimmy - the one person in this world keeping James’s memory alive - while George, a retired sheriff, is none too eager to stir up trouble. Unable to sway his wife from her mission, George takes to the road with Margaret by his side, traveling through the Dakota badlands to Gladstone, Montana.

This tale weaves faith, horror, fantasy, and historical detail into the sodden marshes of Mirebridge, where seven women have died in seven weeks beneath the chapel altar—hands consumed by inner fire, eyes turned milky white—while the bells ring day and night untouched by mortal hands. Lord Stephern, a massive knight of a Crusader House bound by oath to the Church, and Sir Bessian, his keen-eyed and articulate companion, arrive at Father Berengar’s summons to conduct a deliberate investigation.

Burgos, 1200. La visita de la legendaria Leonor de Aquitania coincide con el hallazgo de un cadáver en el monasterio de Santa María la Real, un bastión de poder inexpugnable. Doña Elvira, la maquiavélica abadesa, intenta averiguar quién se oculta tras el macabro descubrimiento antes de que sus enemigos utilicen esa información en su contra, quedando atrapada en una peligrosa red de conspiraciones. Mientras tanto, una misteriosa doctora siciliana avanza hacia la ciudad, portando la más insospechada y poderosa de las armas: el conocimiento.

Following the death of her controlling husband, Margaret Routledge is no longer the downtrodden church mouse she once was. Now she’s the talk of the Close, frequenting seedy pubs and clubs where men gather to pick up good-time girls. It seems Margaret is past redemption until she sees neighbour Jenny Crawford’s headstrong 16-year-old daughter Gloria on the arm of a man of ill repute, and her motherly instincts return. By contrast, Jenny's eldest, land girl Tilly, has a heart of gold, but trouble brews when she helps a vulnerable mother and child with a dangerous past...

Wanting to do her part in the war effort, Clara McBride goes to work in the cartridge room at the Washington Arsenal, the city's main site for production and storing of munitions. All seems to be going well, especially when one of the supervisors shows interest in her. Lieutenant Joseph Brady is an injured army officer who, no longer able to lead troops into battle, has been assigned to a supervisory position at the Washington Arsenal. Suspicions rise after multiple shipments of Washington Arsenal cartridges fail to fire and everyone is suspect for sabotage.

Best-selling author Judith Miller sets this compelling novel in 1917 Iowa. With the Great War fueling anti-German hysteria, agents of President Wilson’s Council of National Defense threaten to disfigure Jutta Schmidt, torch her family’s bakery, and butcher her parents unless she returns to the Amana colonies as their spy. Back in South Amana, she’s befriended by Ilsa Redlich and her family. But if she overhears antiwar remarks, how can she betray these kind people?

Il fumo della pipa che se ne va lontano aiuta l'io narrante (l'autore vive e lavora ormai da molti anni a Rio de Janeiro) ad invocare lo spirito di Pai Joaquim, vecchio nero angolano che lo protegge e lo aiuta a concentrarsi.

"La ragazza oltre le mura" vi farà immergere nell'ascolto entrando in scena con l'immaginazione e con coinvolgimento sensoriale ed emotivo. Il contesto spazio temporale, gli oggetti, le persone, lo sfondo, le emozioni, le sensazioni dei personaggi, le azioni, gli eventi, tutto in una successione armonica avvincente, da ascoltare tutto d'un fiato. Un noir con dei tratti introspettivi e psicologici da cui ognuno può trarre spunti per la propria vita. Inverno 1889. Una bambina viene abbandonata davanti al portone di un piccolo convento francescano, nel viterbese.