Titoli in Saghe

Brought to you by Penguin. An immersive, kaleidoscopic debut for fans of Homegoing and Pachinko: one family's search for a better life through four continents, four generations and a century of change At the turn of the twentieth century Pirbhai, a teenage boy, is taken from his village in India...

Ein kleines Dorf. Eine epochale Entdeckung. Eine große Liebe. Borgo San Michele, ein Alpendorf umgeben vom Panorama majestätischer Berge. Dort verbinden sich die Schicksale von Daniele, einem jungen Mann, der mit einer besonderen Gabe zur Welt kam, und Susanna, die unter dramatischen Umständen geboren wurde. Es ist das Jahr 1633, und die Inquisition verfolgt gnadenlos jeden, der ihre Lehre anzweifelt.

Tras pasarse nueve meses destrozando sus Clarks, pues se niega a calzarse unas botas de montaña apropiadas para la región, Schiavone acoge con escepticismo la llegada de una teórica primavera al valle de Aosta. Al conocerse el accidente de una furgoneta en el que mueren el conductor y su acompañante, Rocco reacciona con su habitual irritación e intenta desentenderse del asunto. Sin embargo, pocos días después, la desaparición de una joven perteneciente a una rica familia de constructores de la zona despierta su instinto de sabueso...

An 18-part serialisation of John Masters' chronicles of the Savage family, spanning the years 1825-1946 and set against the backdrop of British rule in India. Based on the hugely popular novels of John Masters, this landmark BBC Radio adaptation charts the history of the British in India through the perspective of one family over several generations. Ranging over more than 120 years, these thrilling tales of love, murder and espionage take us from the expansion of the East India Company to the last days of the Raj and the approach of Independence.

First broadcast in 1990, this monumental adaptation of John Galsworthy's Nobel Prize-winning novel series was a radio event. It was the most expensive drama serial ever produced, featured one of the biggest, most star-studded casts and dominated the Radio 4 schedules for more than five months, attracting more than a million listeners each week. Comprising all nine books in Galsworthy's Forsyte Chronicles, it spans 50 years - from 1886 to 1936 - and tells the irresistible story of an upper-class dynasty torn apart by a terrible feud.

A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisión de un mecanismo de relojería, Jane Austen perfila una galería de personajes que conforman un perfecto y sutil retrato de la época: las peripecias de una dama empeñada en casar a sus hijas con el mejor partido de la región, los vaivenes sentimentales de las hermanas, el oportunismo de un clérigo adulador...

En esta entrega, Mortimer es un joven soñador y despistado a quien le toca en suerte una inesperada tarea: convertirse en aprendiz de la Muerte y aplicarse en liberar almas de su envoltura carnal. A decir verdad, Mort no está demasiado capacitado para ello, y en una de sus primeras misiones, liberar el alma de una atractiva princesa que está a punto de ser asesinada, decide en su lugar «liberar» el alma del asesino, interfiriendo así en los designios del Destino y provocando el consiguiente desaguisado.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick The New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful exploration of the love that binds a family across the generations in “one of the most beautiful books of...

1928, Paris. Um menino é encontrado à beira da morte e acolhido por uma bondosa família. Gentil, precoce e talentoso, ele se adapta muito bem ao novo lar, e a família lhe proporciona uma vida com a qual ele jamais havia sonhado. Entretanto, ele se recusa a dizer uma única palavra sobre sua verdadeira identidade. Ao se tornar um rapaz, descobrindo o amor e estudando no prestigiado Conservatório de Paris, ele quase consegue esquecer os horrores de seu passado e a promessa que fez. Mas, na Europa da década de 1930, um mal vem crescendo e se alastrando, e ninguém mais está a salvo.

Unos días después de haber liberado a Chiara Berguet, el subjefe Rocco Schiavone se encuentra muy afectado por un hecho que no le desearía a nadie: la muerte, en su propia casa, de la compañera de un amigo de Roma, acribillada con balas que iban destinadas a él. Pero cuando la depresión amenaza una vez más con doblegarlo, Rocco echa mano del mejor recurso que conoce para combatirla: expresar su ira contra todo el mundo, transmutada en una ironía capaz de herir más hondo que una navaja.

Amy Collins está locamente enamorada de su jefe, del señor cara de póquer, su italiano sexy. Se entregó completamente a él en cuerpo y alma. Brandon Barbieri entregó su corazón por primera vez pero no entregó sus miedos como lo hizo Amy.

Elena Watkins is used to getting what she wants. She grew up the daughter of one of the most powerful mafia bosses on the west coast, an indulged, rich girl who got away with everything. Except the love of her life. Archer was the king of their high school. His charming grin swept her off her feet. Days after graduation, they ran away together and eloped. Elated to spend the rest of their lives together, Archer and Elena were on cloud nine. Until Elena’s father discovered what they’d done.

In the city of Mardin, near Turkey’s border with Syria, the orphaned Avdo finds purpose when an old mason takes him on as an apprentice. From Master Josef, he learns the importance of their art, which looks after the dead and bears witness to their lives. Avdo then travels the country and meets a woman he loves wholeheartedly, only to lose her through a tragic crime. Resigned to a lonely existence, he retreats from the world into his cemetery workshop, but even there, life, with all its sorrows, joys, injustices, and gifts, draws him in unexpected directions.

Året är 1901 och den finländska befolkningen skakas av att den ryska kejsaren skärper politiken ytterligare. När den nya värnpliktslagen stiftas hamnar den lilla människan i kläm och folkets söner hotas av en svår framtid. De som vågar engagerar sig i protester och många flyr undan armétjänstgöringen som skulle tvinga ut dem i de karga ryska skogarna. Familjen Montelius lever sitt priviligierade liv i handelsstaden Wasa efter att de lämnat Sverige under nedtystade omständigheter. Familjens äldste son Albert går ut lyceet och en tuff framtid i den ryska armén hänger som ett åskmoln över hans framtid.

Here is the dazzling saga of two women: the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults; many of life's great discoveries have been made, its vagaries and losses have been suffered. Through it all, the women's friendship has remained the gravitational center of their lives. Both women once fought to escape the neighborhood in which they grew up - a prison of conformity, violence, and inviolable taboos.

Cerca de la mansión familiar de Luella y Effie Tildon se cierne la Casa de la Misericordia, una institución para mujeres caídas en desgracia, mujeres consideradas indignas de vivir en sociedad. Bajo esa sombra amenazadora, las hermanas crecen sabiendo que, incluso para jóvenes acomodadas como ellas, la libertad tiene límites muy estrictos.

Hannah is a fusion scientist working alone at a remote cottage off the coast of Scotland when she sees a figure making his way from the sea. It is a young man from a human settlement on Mars, traveling backwards through time to try to make a crucial intervention in the fate of our dying planet, and he needs Hannah's help. Hannah and the stranger are on the path towards a breakthrough—and then things go terribly wrong.

Born on the Isle of Skye, Darcy is a beautiful woman of many gifts. Fortune-telling is her forte, and she remains the only Druid who could unlock the secrets - and desires - of a dragon king. His name is Warrick. And now that Darcy's seen into his dragon heart, nothing will ever be the same.

Evelyn and Muriel Axon, mother and daughter, lead a haunted existence. Objects of horror to their neighbours, they evade or terrorise any social worker who crosses their path. Inside their house, they pursue a covert persecution of each other, shrinking from the unseen occupants of their spare room. But change is in the air… Every Day is Mother's Day is a merciless comedy of colliding lives: of sex, death, madness, adultery and the social services.

As empires rose and fell and mighty kings jostled for power, its glittering radiance never dimmed. It is the "Mountain of Light" - the Kohinoor diamond - and its facets reflect a sweeping story of love, adventure, conquest, and betrayal. Its origins are the stuff of myth, but for centuries this spectacular gem changes hands from one ruler to another in India, Persia, and Afghanistan.