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Anna Karenina

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 1:25:06 PST

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Oliver Twist

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 1:24:20 PST

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An adaptation of Dickens's story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.

The Clocks

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 1:23:46 PST

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A typist finds her new employer dead, and surrounded by five clocks each set at a different time. Before Hercule Poirot arrives on the scene, four clocks have vanished--leaving the baffled detective to solve one of the most curious cases of his career.

Lisey's Story

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 1:23:00 PST

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Dreamcatcher

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 1:21:46 PST

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Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry (site of the classics It and Insomnia), four boys stood together and did a brave thing. Certainly a good thing, perhaps even a great thing. Something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand.Twenty-five years later, the boys are now men with separate lives and separate troubles. But the ties endure. Each hunting season the fours ...

The Green Mile

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 1:20:08 PST

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Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of ...

Insomnia

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 1:18:49 PST

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Ralph's insomnia gets worse when Ed Deepneau gets out of control. Ed is obsessed with the notion that Derry is becoming the new Armageddon and that time is ticking away for the residents. An evil of imaginable proportions has begun and Ralph has one chance to beat it.

Opere complete

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 1:17:26 PST

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Brother Odd

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 1:15:50 PST

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Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature Through two New Yo ...

Spe salvi

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 1:13:34 PST

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Deus caritas est

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 1:12:38 PST

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La prima enciclica di papa Benedetto XVI è dedicata al tema dell'amore comematrice fondamentale che definisce l'essere umano e il creato, oltre checontenuto stesso della salvezza di ogni uomo resosi visibile nella persona diGesù di Nazareth.

Seize the Night

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 1:10:57 PST

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Fear Nothing

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 1:09:10 PST

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Christopher Snow is the best-known resident of 12,000-strong Moonlight Bay, California. This is because 28-year-old Chris has xeroderma pigmentosum (XP)--a light-sensitivity so severe that he cannot leave his house in daylight, cannot enter a normally-lit room, cannot sit at a computer. Chris's natural element is the night, and his parents, both academics, chose to live in Moonlight Bay because i ...

On the Street Where You Live

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 1:07:49 PST

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In the gripping new novel from the Queen of Suspense, a woman is haunted by two grisly murders separated by more than a century, yet somehow, inextricably linked... ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE Following a nasty divorce and the trauma of being stalked, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham leaves Albany to work in Manhattan. Craving roots, she buys her ancestral home, a Victorian house in the ...

Das Schloß

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 1:06:21 PST

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Forever Odd

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 2:10:30 PST

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Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the final page is turned. For such a character, one book is not enough—readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontz returns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz t ...

La Divina Commedia

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 2:08:41 PST

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Il volume propone il classico dantesco nel testo critico della SocietàDantesca Italiana, riveduto, col commento scartizziniano rifatto da GiuseppeVandelli, cui è stato aggiunto il Rimario perfezionato di L. Polacco el'indice dei nomi propri e di cose notabili.

Orlando furioso

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 2:07:12 PST

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Opere

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 2:04:17 PST

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Light on Life

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 1:32:03 PST

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'As human beings, we all seek to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon the earth while striving for something more permanent and profound. So many seek this greater Truth in the heavens, but it lies much closer than the clouds. It is within us and can be found by anyone on the Inward Journey.' B.K.S. Iyengar, whose teachings on yoga are followed throughout the world, reflects upon his ...

O alquimista

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 0:18:29 PST

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Odd Thomas

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 0:17:06 PST

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“The dead don't talk. I don't know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe it’s a cur ...

Demian

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 0:14:43 PST

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Scritto neI 1917 e pubblicato nel 1919, "Demian" è la storia di un ragazzo combattuto fra due mondi, quello bello e pulito del bene e quello terribile, enigmatico eppur allettante del male. Protagonista è il giovane EmiI Sinclair, caduto sotto l'influsso di un cattivo compagno di scuola, Franz Kromer, che lo spinge a ingannare i genitori, rubare e discendere la china del peccato. Sarà un altro co ...

L'idiota

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 0:13:45 PST

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Ne "L'idiota", per ammissione dello stesso Dostoevskij, c'è tutto quel che nel suo animo premeva. Sulla vita del grande romanziere russo si stanno addensandole ombre del dolore e della tragedia e il suo genio sta formando i panorami più vasti e terribili della sua opera. È al culmine del suo travaglio creativo. Scrive, nella storia delicata e drammatica del principe Myskin, un romanzo che si inte ...

Der Proceß

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 0:12:23 PST

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Jemand mußte Josef K. verleumdet haben, denn ohne daß er etwas Böses getan hätte, wurde er eines Morgens verhaftet. Die Köchin der Frau Grubach, seiner Zimmervermieterin, die ihm jeden Tag gegen acht Uhr früh das Frühstück brachte, kam diesmal nicht. Das war noch niemals geschehn. K. wartete noch ein Weilchen, sah von seinem Kopfkissen aus die alte Frau die ihm gegenüber wohnte und die ihn mit ei ...

Les Misérables II

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 0:11:06 PST

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Les Misérables I

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 0:10:01 PST

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The Stand

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 0:08:08 PST

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Storia dei greci

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 0:06:16 PST

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Semplicemente stupendo. Pur essendo un libro storico, si legge che è un piacere ed è tutto merito dell'autore che è riuscito a narrare la storia dei greci in modo semplice e conciso, e addiritura divertente a tratti. Del resto è Montanelli.

Anime morte

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 0:05:00 PST

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"Tutto, nelle "Anime morte", è sotto il segno di questa degradante e ormaidiabolica trivialità, ma il vero seppure più segreto campione ne è Cicikov, ilsignore di mezza tacca le cui maniere sono così anonime nella loro squisitaaffabilità, le parole così attente a non esprimere nessuna opinione, lesembianze così accuratamente l ...

False Memory

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 0:03:33 PST

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It's a fear more paralyzing than falling. More terrifying than absolute darkness. More horrifying than anything you can imagine. It's the one fear you cannot escape, no ...

Pet Sematary

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 0:00:30 PST

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"Sometimes dead is better...."When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son -- and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all...right down to the friendly cat.But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth -- more terrifying than death itself...and hideou ...

Tutti i racconti (1931-1936)

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:53:48 PST

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Da Robert Bolch a Fritz Leiber, Henry Kittner e, indirettamente, Ray Bradbury, Lovecraft ha esercitato un influsso determinante su gran parte della narrativa fantastica del dopoguerra. Nei racconti Lovecraft rivela l'invidiabile capacità di gettare un ponte tra il mondo dei sogni e quello della veglia, finché a poco a poco l'uno trascolora nell'altro in un amalgama originalissimo. Abissi senza fo ...

Le lacrime del drago

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:52:12 PST

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Connie Gulliver e Harry Lyon sono una coppia ben assortita di poliziotti californiani. Dopo una sparatoria in un ristorante si ritrovano alle prese con un serial killer dagli sconfinati poteri paranormali: può fermare il tempo e riesce a creare dalla sabbia golem assassini. A peggiorare la situazione da incubo, uno stranissimo, mostruoso essere chiamato Ticktock ha predetto che Harry ha solo sedi ...

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:48:25 PST

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'Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged...I was suddenly struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.' Stevenson's short novel, published in 1886, became an instant classic. It was a Gothic horror that originated in a feverish nightmare, whose hallucinatory setting in the murky back streets of London gripped a nation mesmerized by crime and violence. The respectable doctor's m ...

Dracula

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:46:29 PST

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Faust

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:44:16 PST

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Creando il personaggio dello scienziato che, tentato da Mefistofele, vende lapropria anima in cambio di giovinezza, sapienza e potere, Goethe ha dato formaa un simbolo dell'umanità, divisa tra bene e male, sete di conoscenza econsapevolezza del limite, dannazione e redenzione. Il volume offre questoclassico nella traduzione di Manacorda, che alterna prosa e poesia, e contieneun saggio di Thomas M ...

Trilogia

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:41:37 PST

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Uscita tra il 1951 e il 1953, e scritta in francese, la Trilogia ha impostoBeckett sulla scena europea. I suoi personaggi, misteriosamente infermi,isolati nei loro disperati monologhi, incarnano emblematicamente la solitudinedell'uomo contemporaneo, ma anche la sua paradossale resistenza passiva aldestino di annientamento che lo minaccia, sotto cieli vuoti non più abitati daalcuna divinit& ...

I fratelli Karamazov

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:40:00 PST

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Al centro della narrazione le vicende della famiglia Karamazov, padre e quattro figli, di cui uno illegittimo, e tre di loro nati da madri diverse, tutte precocemente scomparse. I fratelli Karamazov crescono dunque lontani uno dall'altro, ciascuno affidato alle cure e alla tutela di altre famiglie, e incontreranno il padre solo in un secondo momento e in circostanze differenti. Aleksej, Dmitrij, ...

Mastering Arabic

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:37:37 PST

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This is a new edition of a hugely popular title. "Mastering Arabic" is the most accessible, carefully-paced and lively introductory Arabic course on the market using an effective tried and tested methodology which works across a wide range of learner backgrounds. A long-standing best-seller, this new edition boasts an even more attractive, modern page layout with hundreds of cartoons and exercise ...

Duma Key

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:35:25 PST

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No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through...A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he ha ...

Bleak House

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:31:16 PST

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With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, University of Kent at CanterburyBleak House is one of Dicken's finest achievements, establishing his reputation as a serious and mature novelist, as well as a brilliant comic writer. It is at once a complex mystery story that fully engages the reader in the work of detection, and an unforgettable indictment of an indifferent society. Its repres ...

David Copperfield

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:27:51 PST

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Introduction and Notes by Dr Adrienne Gavin, Canterbury Christ Church University College.Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like this the best'. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for this greatly loved classic, possibly because of its autobiographical form.Following the life of David through ma ...

Guerra e pace

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:19:21 PST

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Catechismo della Chiesa cattolica

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:17:19 PST

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Catechismo della Chiesa cattolica

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:16:34 PST

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In formato tascabile, il libro-sintesi della fede cattolica, voluto da Giovanni Paolo II e realizzato da Benedetto XVI che firma la divulgazione del Compendio sul retro di copertina. I contenuti della fede cristiana per le donne e gli uomini di oggi, esposti in modo chiaro e semplice. Il testo ufficiale della Chiesa Cattolica offre una chiara esposizione del messaggio cristiano nella sua integrit ...

Odd Hours

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:15:03 PST

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The Shining

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:12:40 PST

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The Overlook Hotel is more than just a home-away-from-home for the Torrance family. For Jack, Wendy, and their young son, Danny, it is a place where past horrors come to life. And where those gifted with the shining do battle with the darkest evils. Stephen King's classic thriller is one of the most powerfully imagined novels of our time. The Shining

Der Zauberberg

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:08:38 PST

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Das Glasperlenspiel

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:07:53 PST

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