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It’s 1989, and college freshman Michael Greco is ready to leave his dreary small town—and the grief of his father’s death—behind. He has everything he needs for a great year: a starting spot on the football team, new friends, and a promising flirtation with a beautiful grad student. But just as Greco settles in to campus life, his uncle shows up demanding that he take care of his father’s unfinished business with a powerful Chicago gangster.

Masterfully told and as suspenseful as it is haunting, The Green Mile is Stephen King’s classic #1 New York Times bestselling dramatic serial novel and inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film starring Tom Hanks. Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block...

Regina is a socially awkward loner who is content to live a life withdrawn from everyone except her cherished pet bunny. But after seven years of silence, Regina's brother, Ricky, shows up unannounced on her doorstep, along with his daughter, Jez—a peculiar six-year-old with an unnerving vicious streak—upending Regina's quiet life. It's clear to Regina that something terrible has happened, though the truth won't come to the surface easily. After all, Regina and Ricky lived a childhood fraught with secrets buried as deep as the fossils in the desolate landscape around them.

A mysterious virus has infiltrated the good people of Lake Wobegon, transmitted via unpasteurized cheese made by a Norwegian bachelor farmer, the effect of which is episodic loss of social inhibition. Mayor Alice, Father Wilmer, Pastor Liz, the Bunsens and Krebsbachs, formerly taciturn elders, burst into political rants, inappropriate confessions, and rhapsodic proclamations, while their teenagers watch in amazement. Meanwhile, a wealthy outsider is buying up farmland for a Keep America Truckin' motorway and amusement park.

Il romanzo narra la storia di una famiglia di pescatori che vive e lavora ad Aci Trezza, un piccolo paese siciliano nei pressi di Catania...

L'architetto Fabbretto non ha mai progettato né costruito nulla, ma si è creato una carriera nella politica locale come amministratore del comune di Pordenone. Proprio nella veste di assessore alle politiche sociali viene avvicinato da due volontari dell'associazione Vitaviva per avviare un progetto all'avanguardia per il riciclo dei rifiuti, affidato all'ex detenuto Achille Orante, detto Lama per la sua pericolosità.

Un anziano "cachichinero"* svela a un amico speciale la visione della vita di un intero popolo, fatta di leggende, frutta sacra, speranze e premonizioni. Attraverso i vissuti di tre personaggi, tratteggia il sapore del Messico, che invade l'anima come la nostalgia della terra natia quando richiama il passato.

Vincitore del premio internazionale "Egi Volterrani". Il romanzo si svolge nel 1922, nella bassa padana, e segue una linea narrativa semplice: l'uccisione della bellissima e scandalosa figlia del signorotto locale. Colpevole è il fattore, mosso da invidia sessuale e sociale (quindi, si tratta a tutti gli effetti di un femminicidio ante litteram), ma dell'assassinio viene incolpato lo "scemo del villaggio”. Ragagnin dà voce alla nebbia, al fiume, al ponte, al cadavere della ragazza, a una ghiandaia, a una blatta.

Il romanzo è l'ultima opera pubblicata quando Pavese era ancora in vita. Ampiamente autobiografico il racconto si snoda tra presente e passato, nelle colline della sua giovinezza. La cornice musicale è di Charlie Parker, Cool Blues.

"Vita di Nullo" è il romanzo della provincia italiana, una ballata intensa cantata da eroi troppo grandi per le piazze in cui abitano. Il palcoscenico è un bar che ha la sacralità di una chiesa e un sacerdote indiscusso, Nullo, che regna su un popolo di rivoluzionari, come Belaghega l'inventore di parole, Patecia il collezionista di tristezze e Scandul, barrelliere per mestiere e pescatore per vocazione. Da quando Nullo è sparito nessuno più sorride al bar, perché lui era l'anima dell'intero paese.

“Deftly written, gripping and informative. Empire of Wild is a rip-roaring read!”—Margaret Atwood, From Instagram “Empire of Wild is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsive—all the while telling a story that needs...

После бури – заключительная часть трилогии о жителях двух соперничающих хоккейных городов, которой предшествуют книги "Медвежий угол" и "Мы против вас". Прошло два года после событий, о которых все стремятся забыть, чтобы двигаться дальше. Мая Андерсон и Беньи Ович возвращаются домой и воссоединяются с близкими друзьями. Они чувствуют в Бьорнстаде атмосферу оптимизма и целеустремленности, воплощением которой стал построенный на берегу озера впечатляющий ледовый дворец.

C'è un distretto produttivo, tra Brescia, Chiari e Rovato, fatto solo di fabbriche e capannoni. È il personale inferno di Dante, che di mestiere fa la guardia giurata e gira, notte dopo notte, per verificare che tutto vada per il meglio. Vive insieme a sua madre, una donna che da quando è rimasta sola sembra rinata. Ma rinata male, perché passa il tempo tra creme e sesso trovato via internet. Nella stessa zona vive anche Samira, una giovane musulmana. Ha un padre violento, reso ancora più violento dal fatto di vivere in un posto che sente straniero e ostile: l'Italia.

Das Knistern zwischen Ria und Drew Martin hatte ihre Ehe immer zusammengehalten – bis es plötzlich erlosch. Die alleinerziehende Hotelmanagerin Ria ist ratlos, als eine ihrer Töchter im Teenageralter in einen Teufelskreis gerät. In ihrer Panik bittet sie ihren entfremdeten Ex-Mann um Unterstützung, aber sie ist nicht auf den Mann vorbereitet, zu dem er geworden ist – oder auf die unbewältigten Emotionen, die noch immer zwischen ihnen bestehen.

Sworn off romance, instead the love of Blue's life is the beautiful Isle of Siskin. Her home from birth, her community and now her job with the wildly successful podcast Only on Siskin. When the peace on Siskin is threatened with being destroyed forever, Blue knows she has to act. There are secrets from the past that may be able to save the future of the island, and only Blue can get to the bottom of them.

Willa Maren has a bookstore café, two meddling sisters, a witchy mother who swears by candle spells… and a big problem: Tate Holloway is back in town. Her first love. Her heartbreak. The boy next door, who left, is now back, looking entirely too hot in flannel. The whole town is matchmaking, her sisters are firmly on Team Tate, and even their mother, Lilith Maren, seems to stir up a love spell or two. But this time, Willa's determined to protect her heart, even if it takes every ounce of magic she's got.

Helen Walsh has never stopped searching for the daughter who ran away from home when she was just fifteen. Now Tia has found her. Helen longs for her daughter's forgiveness. Will a Coorah Creek wedding help heal their rift? Ed Collins has walked Helen's path, and he knows that she needs more than her daughter's forgiveness. Ed feels compelled to help her, as he is increasingly drawn to her kind and loving heart.

In January, 1965, the growing town of Ballycrea has four new residents. The O’Leary siblings arrive in their new village under suspicious circumstances. Desperate to make a new start and leave their troubled life behind, the O’Learys offer few, contradicting details about their past. As they slowly settle in to town, the siblings are taken under the wing of Betty and Bill Nevan, a wealthy couple in their forties who have always wanted children. However, as one O’Leary sister grows close to Betty, lines are crossed and their intense relationship becomes difficult to define.

Angie Mangiamele runs a film company in Hoboken, New Jersey—a long way (in more ways than one) from Ogilvie, Georgia. But a new project has brought her to this small Southern town, where she stands out like a fire truck in a flower garden. She’s been invited to Ogilvie by Miss Zula Bragg, the intensely private literary legend who’s agreed to appear in a documentary made by Angie’s highly unconventional crew. And there’s someone else in own Angie looks forward to seeing: John Grant, a descendant of Ogilvie’s founders with whom she had a long-ago summer romance.

It's never too late for second chances... For the first time in her life, Lydia is taking a great big leap of faith. She's moving to a small town on the West Coast of Ireland to overhaul a large, long-abandoned residence named Chance House with her new husband. Then tragedy strikes, and Lydia is...