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Il mio bambino non mi mangia

Fri, 7 Sep 2012 21:34:09 PST

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La madre si prepara a dare da mangiare a suo figlio mentre lo distrae con un giocattolo. Lei prende un cucchiaio e lui, subito, predispone il suo piano strategico contro l'eccesso di cibo: la prima linea di difesa consiste nel chiudere la bocca e girare la testa. La madre preoccupata insiste con il cucchiaio. Il bambino si ritira allora nella seconda trincea: apre la bocca e lascia che gli mettan ...

Cigni selvatici

Thu, 2 Aug 2012 17:40:45 PST

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La storia vera di "Tre figlie della Cina": l'autrice, sua madre, sua nonna, le cui vite e le cui sorti rispecchiano un tumultuoso secolo di storia cinese, un'epoca di rivoluzioni, di tragedie e di speranze. Dal 1909, quando nasce la nonna di Jung Chang e la Cina è ancora una società feudale, al 1932, che vede, sotto l'occupazione giapponese, la nascita della madre, fino agli anni '60 quando tocca ...

Remarkable Creatures

Thu, 2 Aug 2012 17:36:04 PST

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A stunning novel of female friendship, forbidden love and evolution from the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring. In the early nineteenth century, a windswept beach along the English coast brims with fossils for those with the eye...From the moment she's struck by lightning as a baby, it is clear Mary Anning is different. Her discovery of strange fossilized creatures in the cliffs of ...

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:16:45 PST

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“Look, for people who’re going to be dead soon, we’re not doing too badly.” “The novel of the year” is what La Presse called this extraordinary book, a love story that takes place in the days leading up to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. A first work of fiction by one of French Canada’s most admired journalists, Gil Courtemanche, it was first published in Quebec in 2000, spent more than a year on ...

Guns, Germs and Steel

Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:16:44 PST

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Life isn't fair--here's why: Since 1500, Europeans have, for better and worse, called the tune that the world has danced to. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond explains the reasons why things worked out that way. It is an elemental question, and Diamond is certainly not the first to ask it. However, he performs a singular service by relying on scientific fact rather than specious theori ...

The Full Cupboard of Life

Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:16:44 PST

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Mma Ramotswe, who became engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at the end of the first book, is still engaged. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiance. For indeed he has other things on his mind - notably a frightening request made of him by Mma Potokwani, pushy matron of the Orphan Farm. Mma Ramotswe herself has weighty ma ...

Possession

Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:16:44 PST

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Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time.

The Piano Tuner

Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:16:44 PST

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Il cortile dei girasoli parlanti

Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:10:50 PST

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La bambina che giocava con il soldatino ussaro; il prete che andava a dir messa in un eremo di monaci bizantini; Zia Anja e zia Nini, le migliori sferruzzatrici del paese; Gabriel Attarian, l'armeno che voleva imparare l'italiano... I personaggi di questo magico viaggio narrativo palpitano di vitalità e di splendore. Si rimane intrappolati nelle loro storie sospese tra due mondi: quello onirico, ...

The Help. Movie Tie-In

Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:37:32 PST

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:41:02 PST

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Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth, safety and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or ...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:15:49 PST

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince brings us Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as Lord Voldemort becomes ever more powerful with his followers increasing day by day in this continuing battle between good and evil.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Fri, 9 Dec 2011 15:17:32 PST

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Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. His best friends Ron and Hermione have been very secretive all summer and he is desperate to get back to school and find out what has been going on. However, what Harry discovers is far more devastating than he could ever have expected… Suspense, secrets and thrilling action form the pen of J.K. Rowling en ...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Fri, 9 Dec 2011 15:14:47 PST

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It is the summer holidays and soon Harry Potter will be starting his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is counting the days: there are new spells to be learnt, more Quidditch to be played, and Hogwarts castle to continue exploring. But Harry needs to be careful – there are unexpected dangers lurking… J.K. Rowling continues to surprise and delight with the power of ...

Consolation

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:24:57 PST

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An international bestseller and French publishing sensation "Consolation" is a dazzling, heartbreaking tale of one man, two remarkable women and an unforgettable transvestite. Charles Balanda is forty-seven; a successful architect, he is constantly on the move. But from the moment he hears about the death of the woman he once loved - Anouk, the tragically big-hearted mother of a childhood friend ...

River of Smoke

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:05:37 PST

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The Ibis, loaded to its gunwales with a cargo of indentured servants, is in the grip of a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal; among the dozens flailing for survival are Neel, the pampered raja who has been convicted of embezzlement; Paulette, the French orphan masquerading as a deck-hand; and Deeti, the widowed poppy grower fleeing her homeland with her lover, Kalua. The storm also threatens the clippe ...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:03:38 PST

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Harry Potter, along with his best friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can’t wait to get back to school after the summer holidays. (Who wouldn’t if they lived with the horrible Dursleys?) But when Harry gets Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There’s an escaped mass murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of ...

Cuba libre

Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:55:13 PST

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Premiada y leída en todo el mundo, en solo tres años Yoani Sánchez se convirtió a través de su blog Generación Y en la voz de los jóvenes que nacieron en Cuba en los años setenta y ochenta y se encuentran encerrados en una utopía que no les pertenece. Creado en 2007, el blog fue censurado en Cuba desde 2008 pero logró sobrevivir y seguir creciendo, y hoy está traducido a diecisiete lenguas y tien ...

The Wasted Vigil

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:16:53 PST

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'This land and its killing epochs'. Nadeem Aslam's dazzling new novel takes place in modern-day Afghanistan. A Russian woman named Lara arrives at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in an old perfume factory in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. It is possible that Marcus' daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area ...

The Children's Book

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:41:42 PST

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Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. For each of them she writes a separate private book, bound in different colours and placed on a shelf. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh they play in a story-book world - but their lives, and those of their rich cousins, children of a city stockbroker, and their friends, the son and daughter of a curato ...

A un cerbiatto somiglia il mio amore

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:52:01 PST

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Salam, maman

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:03:48 PST

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La cucina siciliana

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:02:29 PST

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Il cimitero di Praga

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:21:09 PST

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Trent'anni dopo Il nome della rosa, il nuovo attesissimo romanzo di Umberto Eco. La storia si svolge lungo il XIX secolo, tra Torino, Palermo e Parigi, si muove tra servizi segreti, agenti doppi, ufficiali felloni ed ecclesiastici peccatori. Può accadere di tutto, anche che l'unico personaggio inventato di questa storia sia il più vero di tutti, e assomigli moltissimo ad altri che sono ancora tra ...

Osterie d'Italia 2011

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 21:34:43 PST

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Storia di Tönle - L'anno della vittoria

Mon, 5 Sep 2011 14:27:09 PST

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Middlesex

Mon, 5 Sep 2011 14:25:19 PST

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'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974.' So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, before they move out ...

L'inattesa piega degli eventi

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:21:31 PST

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L'Italia fascista ha rotto in tempo l'alleanza con Hitler e anzi ne ha contrastato le mire, guadagnandosi nel 1945 un posto al tavolo dei vincitori. Dal conflitto, destinato a entrare nella memoria degli italiani come la Nostra guerra, il Duce esce trionfatore; anche Casa Savoia è eliminata dalla scena politica, e la nuova costituzione "laica e littoria" priva la Chiesa del suo ruolo sociale. Pe ...

La nostra guerra

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:37:55 PST

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In deiner Hand

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:25:24 PST

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Kriminalroman.

Canale Mussolini

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:33:26 PST

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Canale Mussolini è l'asse portante su cui si regge la bonifica delle Paludi Pontine. Su questa terra nuova di zecca, bonificata dai progetti ambiziosi del Duce, vengono fatte insediare migliaia di persone arrivate dal Nord. Tra di loro ci sono i Peruzzi, gli eroi di questa saga straordinaria. A farli scendere dalle pianure padane sono il carisma e il coraggio di zio Pericle. Con lui si trasferisc ...

Il giudice meschino

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:15:17 PST

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Lezioni di tenebra

Tue, 9 Aug 2011 14:15:01 PST

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The Rough Guide to Sicily

Fri, 5 Aug 2011 14:17:50 PST

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"The Rough Guide to Sicily" is the ultimate guide to this fascinating island. From flamboyant Arabo-Norman cathedrals to stunning galleries and the best collection of Greek temples outside Greece, all Sicily's attractions are thoroughly covered. Sicily's natural beauties are also taken care of; including the ascent of Europe's greatest volcano, Etna, hiking trails in the Monti Madonie and the mos ...

The Long Song

Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:26:50 PST

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize, THE LONG SONG is breathtaking, hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that ...

Il club degli incorreggibili ottimisti

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:34:24 PST

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Michel ha undici anni e per evitare i litigi in famiglia va spesso a giocare a calcio balilla al “Balto”, un bistrot del suo quartiere. Al “Balto” fa conoscenza di un gruppo di frequentatori davvero speciali: si chiamano Tibor, Imre, Leonid, Igor, Pavel, Sasha. Sono tutti esuli, fuggiti o cacciati dai paesi dell’Est, e si dividono fra quelli che credono ancora nel comunismo e quelli che non ci cr ...

Morality for Beautiful Girls

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:15:06 PST

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THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY published in 1998, introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe, the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE took us further into this world, and now, continuing the adventures of Mma Ramotswe, MORALITY FOR BEAUTIFUL GIRLS, finds her expanding her business to take in the world of car repair and a beauty pag ...

Le Beatrici

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:13:26 PST

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Otto monologhi al femminile. Una suora assatanata, una donna ansiosa e una donna in carriera, una vecchia bisbetica e una vecchia sognante, una giovane irrequieta, un'adolescente crudele e una donna-lupo. Un continuum di irose contumelie, invettive, spasmi amorosi, bamboleggiamenti, sproloqui, pomposo sentenziare, ammiccanti confidenze, vaneggiamenti sessuali, sussurri sognanti, impettite deliber ...

Die Sehnsucht der Schwalbe

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 14:46:54 PST

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The Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:03:00 PST

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An utterly entrancing new collection of essays, as controversial, inspirational and passionate as anything Arundhati Roy has yet written. In this collection of speeches and essays, gathered together here for the first time, Arundhati Roy writes, with passion, clarity and urgency, about the subjects dearest to her heart, subjects which must be of the utmost importance to any of us interested in d ...

Red Harvest

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:59:30 PST

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The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also called a shirt a shoit, he didn't think anything of it. Until he went there and his client, the only honest man in Poisonville, was murdered. Then the Op decided to stay to punish the guilty. And that meant taking on the entire town...

An Atlas of Impossible Longing

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:58:34 PST

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“Der” Biogarten

Fri, 27 May 2011 16:46:34 PST

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My Uncle Napoleon

Fri, 27 May 2011 16:44:48 PST

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The most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century. Howlingly funny. Our narrator’s life is spent in a large extended Iranian family lorded over by the blustering, paranoid patriarch, Dear Uncle Napoleon. The obsessions of Dear Uncle Napoleon, as Pezeshkzad's eponymous Iranian patriarch is nicknamed, furnish this epic, episodic farce with a multitude of mock heroic elements: the "centurie ...

One Hundred Shades of White

Mon, 23 May 2011 14:33:34 PST

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A magical mixture of East meets West, and mothers in conflict with daughters - for anyone who enjoyed 'Bend it like Beckham' but prefers food to football...There's East. There's West. And then there's Maya...Maya, her mother Nalini, and her brother Satchin have left a carefree life in India to come to England. But when Maya's father disappears, leaving only deceit and debt behind, they are left t ...

Gomorra

Tue, 10 May 2011 14:31:01 PST

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Un libro che racconta il potere della camorra, la sua affermazione economica e finanziaria, e la sua potenza militare, la sua metamorfosi in comitato d'affari. Una scrittura in prima persona fatta dal luogo degli agguati, nei negozi e nelle fabbriche dei clan, raccogliendo testimonianze e leggende. La storia parte dalla guerra di Secondigliano, dall'ascesa del gruppo Di Lauro al conflitto interno ...

Un altro giro di giostra

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:37:30 PST

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Viaggiare è sempre stato per Tiziano Terzani un modo di vivere e così, quando gli viene annunciato che la sua vita è ora in pericolo, mettersi in viaggio alla ricerca di una soluzione è la sua risposta istintiva. Solo che questo è un viaggio diverso da tutti gli altri, e anche il più difficile perché ogni passo, ogni scelta - a volte fra ragione e follia, fra scienza e magia - ha a che fare con l ...

Half a life

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 14:14:31 PST

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Half a Life finds the veteran Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul on familiar territory, blending autobiography and fiction in an exploration of the "half lives" of individuals brought up in the English colonies and educated in metropolitan cities.

Sea of Poppies

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:23:12 PST

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At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical ...

The Road

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:35:26 PST

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A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged, nuclear landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is grey. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that s ...

A Case of Exploding Mangoes

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:23:55 PST

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There is an ancient saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. "A Case of Exploding Mangoes" is the story of one such plane. Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest plane, carrying Pakistan's military dictator General Zia ul Haq, go down on 17 August, 1988? Was it because of: mechanical failure; human error; the CIA's impatience; a blind woman's curse; generals not happy with the ...

84 Charing Cross Road

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:30:47 PST

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84, Charing Cross Road is a charming record of bibliophilia, cultural difference, and imaginative sympathy. For 20 years, an outspoken New York writer and a rather more restrained London bookseller carried on an increasingly touching correspondence. In her first letter to Marks & Co., Helene Hanff encloses a wish list, but warns, "The phrase 'antiquarian booksellers' scares me somewhat, as I equa ...

Burnt Shadows

Tue, 8 Mar 2011 15:12:31 PST

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In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantánamo Bay.How did it come to this?he wonders August 9 th ...

Mango, curry e souvenirs

Mon, 7 Mar 2011 19:22:44 PST

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Questa è la meravigliosa storia di una famiglia indiana che, tra mille migrazioni, conflitti e turbamenti, ha un solo modo per ricordare le proprie radici: prendere una pentola e dare una festa che sappia e profumi di casa. Gli Alibhai lasciano l'India nel XIX secolo. Attraversano i mari fino alla costa orientale dell'Africa. Vanno a costruire ferrovie, attratti dalla possibile prosperità sotto i ...

The Sunday Philosophy Club

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:34:29 PST

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Amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie is a philosopher who also uses her training to solve unusual mysteries. Isabel is Editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - which addresses such questions as 'Truth telling in sexual relationships' - and she also hosts The Sunday Philosophy Club at her house in Edinburgh. Behind the city's Georgian facades its moral compasses are spinning with greed, dishonesty and ...

Half Life

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:31:03 PST

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'It's time to stop fighting, and go home'. These are the words that persuade Aruna to walk out of her East London flat in the middle of breakfast, and keep on walking. Leaving behind her marriage to Patrick, her adoring husband, she gets on a plane to Singapore, running back home to the city she had run away from in the first place. And there she finds her childhood friend and former lover, Jazz, ...

Las venas abiertas de América Latina

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:31:36 PST

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Las venas abiertas de América Latina ha sido traducida a dieciocho lenguas y ha tenido una vasta difusión en el mundo de habla hispana desde que en 1971 se publicó la primera edición. Galeano recibió el premio Casa de las Américas en dos oportunidades (por sus obras Días y noches de amor y guerra y La canción de nosotros ). La trilogía Memoria del fuego recibió el premio del Ministerio de Cultura ...

Quinteto de Buenos Aires

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:29:04 PST

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XY

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:19:55 PST

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Una storia che scuote le coscienze e rompe gli schemi del genere. Sandro Veronesi ci accompagna in un viaggio eroico e salvifico dove il mistero del massacro assurge a naturale metafora di ciò che sta accadendo al mondo. Un albero ghiacciato, di un rosso vivo, pulsante, intriso di sangue. È la prima immagine che appare a don Ermete, Zeno e Sauro. Una strage indicibile si è consumata ai piedi di ...

A Mosca, a Mosca!

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:10:45 PST

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È il 1967 quando Serena Vitale, all'ultimo anno di università, arriva nella Mosca brezhneviana, in piena Guerra fredda, con una borsa di studio e un incondizionato amore per la cultura russa. Capisce subito che prima di occuparsi di letteratura dovrà imparare a non cadere nelle trappole dell'assurdo quotidiano, a farsi accogliere come amica da chi, morto Stalin da ormai quindici anni, ancora riti ...

Saigon e così sia

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:11:21 PST

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"Saigon e cosi sia", dal titolo di un famoso articolo di Oriana Fallaci pubblicato da "L'Europeo" nel maggio 1975, raccoglie per la prima volta in volume i reportage dal Vietnam del Nord e dalla Cambogia (1969-1970), alcune celebri interviste ai protagonisti di quel conflitto e lo straordinario resoconto della caduta di Saigon. Come scrive Ferruccio de Bortoli nella Prefazione, "è l'ideale contin ...

Io e te

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:09:52 PST

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Barricato in cantina per trascorrere di nascosto da tutti la sua settimana bianca, Lorenzo, un quattordicenne introverso e un po' nevrotico, si prepara a vivere il suo sogno solipsistico di felicità: niente conflitti, niente fastidiosi compagni di scuola, niente commedie e finzioni. Il mondo con le sue regole incomprensibili fuori della porta e lui stravaccato su un divano, circondato di Coca-Col ...

Tears of the Giraffe

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:23:02 PST

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Precious Ramotswe is the eminently sensible and cunning proprietor of the only ladies’ detective agency in Botswana. In Tears of the Giraffe she tracks a wayward wife, uncovers an unscrupulous maid, and searches for an American man who disappeared into the plains many years ago. In the midst of resolving uncertainties, pondering her impending marriage to a good, kind man, Mr. J. L. B. Matekoni, a ...

Accabadora

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:13:47 PST

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Maria e Tzia Bonaria vivono come madre e figlia, ma la loro intesa ha il valore speciale delle cose che si sono scelte. La vecchia sarta ha visto Maria rubacchiare in un negozio, e siccome nessuno la guardava ha pensato di prenderla con sé, perché «le colpe, come le persone, iniziano a esistere se qualcuno se ne accorge». E adesso avrà molto da insegnare a quella bambina cocciuta e sola: come cuc ...

La misteriosa morte della compagna Guan

Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:46:38 PST

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Shanghai 1990. Il corpo senza vita di una giovane donna viene trovato in un canale fuori città. La vittima, Guan Hongying, è una famosa Lavoratrice Modello della Nazione, figura esemplare della propaganda di Partito. L'incarico delle indagini viene affidato all'ispettore capo Chen Cao, poeta, traduttore, curioso gourmet, capo della squadra casi speciali del Dipartimento di polizia di Shanghai. Be ...

The Rough Guide to Andalucía

Mon, 3 Jan 2011 0:34:13 PST

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"The Rough Guide to Andalucia" is the definitive travel guide to the best attractions Andalucia has to offer. Whether you wish to explore the vibrant regions of Andalucia, taste the flavours of Andalucia's cuisine or discover the enchanting Alhambra palace and the White Town of Ronda; the "Rough Guide to Andalucia" has expert advice on what to see and do in Andalucia.Full-colour features explore ...

Lonely Planet Canary Islands

Sun, 2 Jan 2011 22:52:33 PST

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Make the great escape! With volcanic landscapes and subtropical forests, sun-drenched beaches and soaring peaks, the Canary Islands are Spain's paradise isles. Whether you want to sip sangria in the heat, make the most of the fiesta atmosphere or roam the islands' rugged terrain, our definitive guide gives you in-depth regional coverage for the perfect getaway. * UNCOVER ISLAND SECRETS - detai ...

Wallpaper City Guide

Sun, 2 Jan 2011 22:42:50 PST

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Wallpaper* City Guides not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he or she has a week or just 24 hours in the city. The guides feature up-and-coming areas, landmark buildings in an `Architour', design centers, and a selection of the best shops to buy items unique to the particular city. Wallpaper* City Guides pr ...

La bambinaia francese

Sun, 2 Jan 2011 22:38:56 PST

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Parigi, 1832. In una sera d'inverno Sophie, nove anni, bussa alla porta della 'étoile' dell'Opéra Céline Varens per consegnarle alcune camicie confezionate dalla madre nella poverissima soffitta di Montmartre. E' l'inizio di una grande amicizia tra la ballerina e l'orfana, che col passare degli anni diventa l'allieva prediletta di un vecchio aristocratico illuminista sopravvissuto alla Rivoluzion ...

L'arca parte alle otto

Sun, 2 Jan 2011 22:13:26 PST

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Tre pinguini sulla banchisa, amici da sempre. Uno di loro, il più piccolo, minaccia di schiacciare una farfalla, e ci si siede sopra, cattivo come un bambino, cattivo. Gli altri due insorgono: Dio ha detto "non uccidere". Ma chi è Dio? Comincia qui una conversazione apparentemente surreale, in realtà molto precisa e lucida, su Dio e sul mondo, fatta di domande che tutti si pongono e risposte che ...

Her Fearful Symmetry

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:13:11 PST

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Le voci di Marrakech

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 4:27:46 PST

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Elias Canetti soggiornò per un certo periodo a Marrakech, nel 1954. Il grande lavoro su "Massa e potere" era giunto a un momento di stasi e lo scrittore sentiva il bisogno di nuove voci, di voci incomprensibili, come quelle che lo avvolsero nella splendida città marocchina. Vagando per i suk, per le strettevie, per i mercati e le piazze, fra cammelli, mendicanti, donne velate, cantastorie, farabu ...

L'Italia in seconda classe

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:51:20 PST

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Il treno, non l'aereo, ha fatto l'Italia. "Per una volta, ladies and gentlemen, non allacciatevi le cinture. Si parte in treno, la Cenerentola dei trasporti. Si fa l'Italia in seconda classe, per linee dimenticate. Questo è un viaggio hard, fatto di scambi, pulegge, turbo-compressori e carbone. E noi lo faremo. Siamo in ballo. Il viaggio comincia."

La leggenda dei monti naviganti

Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:03:28 PST

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Un viaggio di settemila chilometri che cavalca la gobba montuosa dellabalena-Italia lungo Alpi e Appennini, dal Golfo del Quarnaro (Fiume) a CapoSud (punto più meridionale della Penisola). Parte dal mare, arriva sul mare,naviga come un transatlantico con due murate affacciate sulle onde ed evocametafore marine, come di chi veleggia in un immenso arcipelago emerso. Trovivalli dove non esist ...

My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:17:49 PST

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A wide-ranging and eclectic collection of short stories on the theme of love in its various forms: romantic, erotic, impossible, undying and exhausted. No other aspect of the human experience regularly inspires such an outpouring of poetry, prose and philosophy as love. From passionate declarations to clinical analysis, writers of every age have been fascinated, tormented and inspired by love. Th ...

La suma de los días

Mon, 8 Nov 2010 15:41:59 PST

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Isabel Allende narra a su hija Paula todo lo que ha sucedido con la familia desde el momento en que ella murió. El lector vive, junto con la autora, la superación personal de una mujer con una fuerza inspiradora, rodeada siempre de amigos y familiares. Su historia es emotiva, pero también está repleta de humor, personajes pintorescos y anécdotas caóticas y divertidas sobre la complicidad, el amor ...

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Fri, 5 Nov 2010 2:51:38 PST

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Holly Golightly, glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a delight, a drifter, a tease. She hasn't got a past.She doesn't want to belong to anything or anyone. Not to 'Rusty' Trawler, the blue-chinned, cuff-shooting millionaire man about women about town. Not to S ...

Maria Montessori

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:11:49 PST

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"Durante tutta la mia vita ho proclamato la necessità della libertà di scelta, dell'indipendenza di pensiero e della dignità umana. Tuttavia ritengo che la vera libertà, quella interiore, non possa essere donata. Non può nemmeno essere conquistata. Può solamente essere costruita dentro di sé, come parte della personalità e, se questo avviene, non potrà più essere perduta..." Il libro, scritto dal ...

Un indovino mi disse

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:19:04 PST

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Nel 1976 un indovino cinese avverte Tiziano Terzani, corrispondente dello "Spiegel" dall'Asia: "Attento. Nel 1993 corri un gran rischio di morire. In quell'anno non volare mai". Nel 1992 Terzani si sente stanco, dubbioso sul senso del suo lavoro. Gli torna in mente quella profezia e la vede come un'occasione per guardare il mondo con occhi nuovi. Decide di non prendere aerei per un anno, senza ri ...

The Inheritance of Loss

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:11:01 PST

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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:32:52 PST

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Robert Olen Butler's lyrical and poignant collection of stories about the aftermath of the Vietnam War and its impact on the Vietnamese was acclaimed by critics across the nation and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Now Grove Press is proud to reissue this contemporary classic by one of America's most important living writers, in a new edition of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain that includes ...

Un bel morir

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:09:35 PST

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«Un bel morir tutta la vita onora», dice el verso de Petrarca que Mutis hace suyo para titular esta tercera novela dedicada a la figura de Maqroll. El singular aventurero de tierra caliente, contrabandista y filósofo, amante y marino, no morirá en esta ocasión. Anclado primero en un puerto fluvial, alojado en una extraña habitación suspendida sobre las aguas del gran río, dentro de una singular p ...

Easter Parade

Fri, 8 Oct 2010 14:48:54 PST

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In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are still the children of divorced parents. We observe the sisters over four decades, watching them grow into two very different women. Sarah is stable and stalwart, settling into an unhappy marriage. Emily is precocious and independent, struggling with one unsatisfactory love affair after another. Ric ...

Chicago

Mon, 4 Oct 2010 18:56:43 PST

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The author of the highly acclaimed The Yacoubian Building returns with a story of love, sex, friendship, hatred, and ambition set in Chicago, with a cast of American and Arab ...

Le perfezioni provvisorie

Fri, 1 Oct 2010 22:47:56 PST

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Le giornate di Guido Guerrieri trascorrono in equilibrio instabile fra il suo lavoro di avvocato – un nuovo elegante studio, nuovi collaboratori, una carriera di successo – e la solitudine venata di malinconia delle sue ore private. Antidoti a questa malinconia: il consueto senso dell’umorismo, la musica, i libri e le surreali conversazioni con il sacco da boxe, nel soggiorno di casa. Tutto inizi ...

The Perfect Scoop

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:47:01 PST

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Ripe seasonal fruits. Fragrant vanilla, toasted nuts, and spices. Heavy cream and bright liqueurs. Chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate.

Zeitoun

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 9:43:23 PST

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A riveting account of Hurricane Katrina and a shocking tale of wrongful arrest and racism, Zeitoun is the true story of one Syrian-American, plucked from his home and accused of terrorism, written by one of America's most high-profile literary writers, now available for the first time in paperback from Vintage Canada. When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous ...

Perdas de fogu

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:24:14 PST

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Sardegna 2008. Pierre Nazzari è un disertore ricattato e costretto a fare il lavoro sporco in operazioni segrete o illegali. Finisce nelle mani di una struttura parallela al servizio di un comitato d'affari locale e viene obbligato a spiare Nina, una giovane ricercatrice veterinaria che studia gli effetti dell'inquinamento bellico sugli animali nella zona del poligono di Salto di Quirra. Mentre l ...

Honeymoon in Tehran

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:19:40 PST

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The author of Lipstick Jihad describes her return to Iran as a reporter for Time magazine in the wake of the election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, her ...

Sardinia

Fri, 3 Sep 2010 7:56:20 PST

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The Rough Guide to Sardinia is the ultimate travel guide to this astonishing and varied Italian island. Discover Sardinia's highlights from the exceptional seafood restaurants of Alghero to the remarkable prehistoric Carthaginian and Roman monuments and authentic fishing villages inspired by dozens of photos. Rely on up-to-date descriptions of the best hotels, campsites, bars, clubs, shops, resta ...

Shanghai

Fri, 3 Sep 2010 7:56:01 PST

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The engine of China's future, Shanghai dazzles with its metamorphosing cityscape and inexhaustible verve, beckoning millions with promises of opportunity, glamour and reinvention. What better time to dive headlong into the throng?

Another Quiet American

Fri, 3 Sep 2010 7:24:26 PST

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Brett Dakin spent two years working in Laos and returned to the States a changed man. In Another Quiet American, he takes you through the corridors of power and the living rooms of the poor in Laos. You'll meet his boss, a wealthy general whose power and reputation scares his countrymen; a prince with connections to the French colonial past; an American pilot who left home for Indochina during ...

'Tis

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:33:00 PST

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'Tis a blessing that the author narrates his own work. McCourt follows up his Audie Award-winning performance in Angela's Ashes with another brilliant reading as he chronicles his return to post-World War II New York. Like all good storytellers, McCourt has good stories to tell; 'Tis pulses with grim adversity and quiet triumphs--character-shaping moments that gain the listener's empathy. What ma ...

Il colore del sole

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:52:03 PST

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Andrea Camilleri è a Siracusa quando qualcuno gli infila in tasca un biglietto con un numero a cui telefonare, ma da una cabina pubblica. Finisce in un casale sperso nella campagna, dove gli verrà mostrato un documento incredibile, scritto di pugno da un artista di quattro secoli prima. Un artista grandissimo e maledetto: Michelangelo Merisi, il Caravaggio. Le note brevi, secche, disarticolate e ...

La sombra de lo que fuimos

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:51:41 PST

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Midnight's Children

Thu, 3 Jun 2010 14:39:07 PST

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Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, at the precise moment of India’s independence, the infant Saleem Sinai is celebrated in the press and welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru himself. But this coincidence of birth has consequences Saleem is not prepared for: telepathic powers that connect him with 1,000 other “midnight’s children” – all born in the initial hour of India’s independence ...

Il professore va al congresso

Mon, 31 May 2010 14:27:14 PST

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Q and A

Mon, 31 May 2010 14:25:11 PST

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Eighteen-year-old Ram Mohammed Thomas is in prison after answering twelve questions correctly on a TV quiz show to win one billion rupees. The producers have arrested him, convinced that he has cheated his way to victory. Twelve extraordinary events in street-kid Ram's life - how he was found in a dustbin by a priest; came to have three names; fooled a professional hitman; even fell in love - giv ...

La pista di sabbia

Mon, 31 May 2010 14:22:54 PST

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Un mondo nuovo sorprende e spiazza il commissario Montalbano. Una società che strepita a vuoto, su quella linea logora che a stento separa un vestibolo di ignavi, di smidollati e di viziosi (aristocratici alcuni, ma per lo più imprenditori e uomini d’affari), dall’«inferno» della vecchia e della nuova mafia. Un «suon di man» echeggia, in questo vestibolo, come in quello dell’Inferno dantesco. Ma ...

La solitudine dei numeri primi

Fri, 28 May 2010 14:12:09 PST

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Alice è una bambina obbligata dal padre a frequentare la scuola di sci. È una mattina di nebbia fitta, lei non ha voglia, il latte della colazione le pesa sullo stomaco. Persa nella nebbia, staccata dai compagni, se la fa addosso. Umiliata, cerca di scendere, ma finisce fuori pista spezzandosi una gamba. Resta sola, incapace di muoversi, al fondo di un canale innevato, a domandarsi se i lupi ci s ...