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World without End

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:46:07 PST

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On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. One boy will travel the world but ...

The Handmaid's Tale

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:44:16 PST

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The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of twenty-first century America giv ...

Runaway

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:42:03 PST

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The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this dazzling new collection. At its centre are three stories connected into one marvellously rich narrative about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance a ...

A Gathering Light

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 4:19:59 PST

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When mattie Gokey is given a bundle of letters to burn she fully intends to execute the wishes of the giver, Grace Brown. When Grace Brown is found drowned the next day in Big Moose Lake, Mattie finds that it is not as easy to burn those letters as she had thought. And, as she reads, a riveting story emerges - not only Grace Brown's story but also Mattie's hopes and ambitions for the future and h ...

L'altra Eszter

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 4:19:39 PST

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In un lungo, straziante monologo, Eszter, una famosa attrice teatrale, si rivolge all'uomo che ama per ricapitolare le ragioni del loro rapporto e passare in rassegna la propria esistenza. Dal costante alternarsi fra i due livelli temporali si delinea il ritratto di una donna dilaniata fra l'odio e l'amore.

Postmortem

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 4:19:13 PST

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A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond. Three women have died, brutalized and strangled in their own bedrooms. Kay Scarpetta, investigating the case, knows she must find some forensic evidence before the next killing. The author was previously an award-winning crime reporter.

La danza del gabbiano

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 4:16:33 PST

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Prima di morire i gabbiani agitano freneticamente le ali in una sorta di danza macabra. Montalbano si lascia incantare dal gabbiano morente dalla finestra della sua casa di Marinella, ma fa presto a dimenticarlo. Sta infatti per andare in vacanza con Livia che è già giunta a Vigàta. Solo un salto al commissariato per lasciare tutto in ordine e poi finalmente partire. Giunto in ufficio Montalbano ...

Charming Man

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 4:04:20 PST

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Gould's Book of Fish

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:10:45 PST

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With a title such as Gould's Book of Fish, Richard Flanagan's Commonwealth Prize-winning third novel, expect something wonderfully slippery and self-conscious from one of the finest talents to have emerged from Australia since Peter Carey. Like Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang, Flanagan has written a history of a lost colonial voice--that of William Buelow Gould, a "pathetick forger, this d ...

The White Tiger

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:09:57 PST

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Winning the Man Booker prize is something that most authors dream of, although -- ironically -- the reputation of the prize itself was under siege a few years ago. Books that won the award were acquiring a reputation of being difficult and inaccessible, but those days appear to be over -- and unarguable proof may be found in the 2008 winner, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. Apart from its consid ...

Homecoming

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:09:32 PST

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As a child raised by his mother in post-war Germany, Peter Debauer becomes fascinated by a story he discovers in the proof pages of a novel edited by his grandparents. It is the tale of a German prisoner of war who escapes from a Russian camp and braves countless dangers to return home to a wife who believes him to be dead. But the novel is incomplete and Peter becomes obsessed by the question of ...

Death at LA Fenice

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:07:41 PST

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Beautiful and serene Venice is a city almost devoid of crime. But that is little comfort to Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned conductor whose intermission refreshment comes one night with a little something extra in it-cyanide. For Guido Brunetti, vice-commissario of police and detective genius, finding a suspect isn't a problem; narrowing the large and unconventional group of enemies do ...

Down Under

Tue, 19 May 2009 22:06:54 PST

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After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. It has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way that anywhere else. Yet when Bill Bryson travelled to ...

La solitudine dei numeri primi

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:36:56 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 ...

The Tenderness of Wolves

Mon, 8 Dec 2008 5:13:31 PST

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1867, Canada: as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man's cabin head north towards the forest and the tundra beyond. In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the township - journalists, Hudson's Bay Company men, trappers, traders - but do they want to solve the crime or ex ...

The Blind Assassin

Tue, 2 Dec 2008 3:15:44 PST

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Winner of the Booker Prize 2000, The Blind Assassin is a spellbinding novel that spans the decades between the First World War and the present, offering the sweep of an epic and the intimate focus of a family drama. For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality and imagination. In The Blind Assassin, she stretches the limits of her accomplishments as ...

Notes From a Small Island

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 6:18:17 PST

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Bill Bryson is an unabashed Anglophile who, through a mistake of history, happened to be born and bred in Iowa. Righting that error, he spent 20 years in England before deciding to repatriate: "I had recently read that 3.7 million Americans according to a Gallup poll, believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, so it was clear that my people needed me." That com ...

Changing Places

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 0:01:09 PST

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When Phillip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme, the Fates play a hand, and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic. Nobody is immune to the exchange: students, colleagues, even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control. And soon both sun-drenched Euphoric Stat ...

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:57:27 PST

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Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as she calls herself) arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain.

Life of Pi

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:38:26 PST

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Some books defy categorisation: Life of Pi, the second novel from Canadian writer Yann Martel, is a case in point: just about the only thing you can say for certain about it is that it is fiercely and admirably unique. The plot, if that's the right word, concerns the oceanic wanderings of a lost boy, the young and eager Piscine Patel of the title (Pi). After a colourful and loving upbringing in g ...

L'altra faccia dell'amore

Fri, 5 Sep 2008 0:57:49 PST

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L'ombra del vento

Fri, 5 Sep 2008 0:56:31 PST

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A Barcellona una mattina d'estate del 1945 il proprietario di un negozio di libri usati conduce il figlio undicenne, Daniel, al Cimitero dei Libri Dimenticati, un luogo segreto dove vengono sottratti all'oblio migliaia di volumi di cui il tempo ha cancellato il ricordo. E qui Daniel entra in possesso di un libro "maledetto" che cambierà il corso della sua vita, introducendolo in un mondo di miste ...

The Accidental Woman

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 20:37:15 PST

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"The Accidental Woman" is a wickedly funny novel from bestseller Jonathan Coe. For Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Untouched by friendship, unimpressed by devoted Ronny and his endless marriage proposals, she lives in a world of her own, but not of her own making. Even as she stumbled on through university, work, marriage and motherhood, Maria finds it hard to see wha ...

The Rotters' Club

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:01:35 PST

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"The Rotters' Club" - Jonathan Coe's iconic 1970s coming-of-age novel Winner of the Everyman Wodehouse prize, "The Rotters' Club" follows Benjamin Trotter - bestselling author Jonathan Coe's most iconic character - through the hilarious and, at times, touching trials and tribulations of growing up in 1970s Britain. Unforgettably funny and painfully honest, Jonathan Coe's tale of Benjamin Trotter ...

The Dwarves of Death

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:59:11 PST

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"The Dwarves of Death" is a hilarious black comedy by Jonathan Coe. William has a lot on his mind. Firstly, there's The Alaska Factory, the band he plays in. They're no good, and they make his songs sound about as groovy as an unimpressed record. In fact they're so bad he's seriously thinking of leaving to join a group called The Unfortunates. Secondly, there's Madeline, his high-maintenance girl ...

What a Carve Up!

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:58:51 PST

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"What a Carve Up!" - a hilarious 1980s political satire by Jonathan Coe. It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year: Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's turning hospitals into car parks; Roddy's selling art in return for sex; down on the farm Dorothy's squeezing every last pound from her livestock; Thomas is makin ...

The Closed Circle

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:58:01 PST

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"The Closed Circle" is Jonathan Coe's hilarious sequel to "The Rotters' Club". It's the end of the century and Benjamin Trotter and friends are all grown up. Life is a ceaseless whirl of jobs, marriages, kids - and self-inflicted angst. Despite the shiny optimism of Blair's Britain, youthful hopes and dreams feel betrayed. Is the Government (and by extension Benjamin's MP brother Paul) to blame? ...

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:57:30 PST

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First published in 1938, it was reissued in the United Kingdom in 2000, complete with thirty-five original illustrations, and has sold over 22,000 copies. Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children.When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia ...

In the Woods

Mon, 12 May 2008 18:34:55 PST

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When he was twelve years old, Adam Ryan went playing in the woods one day with his two best friends. He never saw them again. Their bodies were never found, and Adam himself was discovered with his back pressed against an oak tree and his shoes filled with blood. He had no memory of what had happened. Twenty years on, Rob Ryan - the child who came back - is a detective in the Dublin police force. ...

The Eyre Affair

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:48:45 PST

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Meet Thursday Next, literary detective without equal, fear or boyfriend. There is another 1985, where London criminal gangs have moved into the lucrative literary market, and Thursday Next is on the trail of the new crime wave’s Mr Big. Acheron Hades has been kidnapping characters from work of fiction and holding them to ransom. Jane Eyre is gone. Missing. Thursday sets out to find a way into ...

Good in Bed

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 6:55:19 PST

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Jennifer Weiner's Good in Bed is the story of a year in the life of a late-twentysomething American woman: Cannie, a journalist on the Philadelphia Examiner, who has recently broken up with her boyfriend of three years (cue endless similarities with countless other books aimed at young Western women). Fortunately, Weiner's book has enough originality to break out from the mould, with an overweigh ...

Die with Me

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 6:53:11 PST

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Slowly she opened her eyes and he rewarded her with one of his softest smiles, brushing her wet, sticky hair off her face, using the edge of her coat sleeve to wipe away the slime around her nose and lips. 'I don't want to,' she whispered, trembling as she gazed at him. 'I don't want to...' She couldn't finish the sentence. Die. Die with me. Be with me forever. That's what he'd said. You could ...

A Spot of Bother

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 6:52:25 PST

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At fifty-seven, George is settling down to a comfortable retirement, building a shed in his garden, reading historical novels, listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie, his tempestuous daughter, announces that she is getting remarried, to Ray. Her family is not pleased - as her brother Jamie observes, Ray has 'strangler's hands'. Katie can't decide if she loves Ray, or loves the way he cares ...

La porta

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 1:53:04 PST

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Due donne che tutto separa, due vite diverse che si scontrano. Magda Szabòdescrive la strana relazione che per vent'anni è intercorsa tra lei e la suadonna di servizio. Una donna ruvida, senza età, con i suoi principi ebizzarrie, riservata, e con dei segreti nascosti gelosamente dietro la "porta"eternamente chiusa. Se tra il marito di Magda e la donna c'è subito simpatia,viceversa tra le due donn ...

The Red Dahlia

Tue, 5 Feb 2008 0:34:37 PST

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!"FOR THOSE WHO LOVE MYSTERIES BUT WISH THAT PATRICIA CORNWELL HAD A DIRTIER MIND,"* the author of Above Suspicion and the acclaimed Prime Suspect series returns with a new mystery.When the body of a young girl is found dumped on the banks of the Thames, even the police are shocked by the brutality of her murder: horrifically mutilated, severed in half, and drained of ...

Libera nos a Malo

Tue, 5 Feb 2008 0:32:26 PST

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"Liber nos a Malo" è la presentazione della vita e della cultura di Malo, un paese della provincia vicentina, negli anni Venti e Trenta, ricreata, con un misto di nostalgia affettuosa, di distacco ironico, e di rigorosa intelligenza, dall'autore ormai adulto. Attraverso il microcosmo di Malo viene fissata e trasmessa compiutamente al futuro la vicenda di tutta la nostra società, nel breve periodo ...

Actarus

Tue, 5 Feb 2008 0:32:01 PST

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Tokio, 2076. Anche se sei un pilota di robot di fama internazionale, la routine lavorativa alla lunga pesa. E Actarus, dopo anni che deve battersi contro i mostri di Vega, di certe cose comincia un po' a stufarsi. In Istituto, i colleghi ormai passano più tempo in chat che a preoccuparsi della guerra intergalattica. Il Dottore non perde occasione per sparagli le sue interminabili tirate sul futur ...

Overlook

Tue, 5 Feb 2008 0:31:33 PST

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Shopaholic and Baby

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 7:35:33 PST

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Becky's life is blooming! She's working at London's newest fashion store The Look, house-hunting with husband Luke (her secret wish is a Shoe Room)...and she's pregnant! She couldn't be more overjoyed - especially since discovering that shopping cures morning sickness. Everything has got to be perfect for her baby: from the designer nursery...to the latest, coolest pram...to the celebrity, must-h ...

L'eleganza del riccio

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 7:34:12 PST

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Siamo a Parigi in un elegante palazzo abitato da famiglie dell’alta borghesia. Ci vivono ministri, burocrati, maîtres à penser della cultura culinaria. Dalla sua guardiola assiste allo scorrere di questa vita di lussuosa vacuità la portinaia Renée, che appare in tutto e per tutto conforme all’idea stessa della portinaia: grassa, sciatta, scorbutica e teledipendente. Niente di strano, dunque. Tran ...

The Time Traveler's Wife

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 4:50:13 PST

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A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Ni ...

Slam

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:44:41 PST

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Whoever invented skateboarding is a genius. There's only one skater, and his name's Tony Hawk. It doesn't matter if you don't know who he is, just trust me. Not only is Hawk the world's best skater, he's also good to talk to. So I talk to Tony Hawk, and Tony Hawk talks back. Because just when it seemed like everything had come together for me, I had to go and screw it all up. It only took two sec ...

The Remains of the Day

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:39:26 PST

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A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Wed, 5 Dec 2007 23:44:56 PST

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Summer 2005 finally sees the release of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie from Touchstone Pictures". Stars include Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent, Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox, Bill Nighy as Slartibartfast, supercool hip-hop artist Mos Def as Ford Prefect and the gorgeous Zooey Deschanel as Trillian. Completely new characters were developed specially for the film by Douglas Adams be ...

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Tue, 4 Dec 2007 6:51:13 PST

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"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is Jonathan Safran Foer's heartrending New York novel. In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key...The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - acro ...

Nemico, amico, amante

Tue, 4 Dec 2007 6:49:42 PST

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Nove racconti perfetti: la musica del quotidiano, il gioco smorzato dei sentimenti e delle allusioni. Da Flannery O'Connor a Henry James, da Chechov a Tolstoj, non c'è un autore di racconti al quale Alice Munro non sia stata paragonata. Ma la sua capacità di dipanare in un lampo l'irriducibile complessità della natura umana è incomparabile. Questi racconti possiedono la straordinaria capacità di ...

Me and Mr. Darcy

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:17:42 PST

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He's every woman's fantasy. After a string of nightmare relationships, Emily Albright has decided she's had it with modern-day men. Shed rather pour herself a glass of wine, curl up with Pride and Prejudice and step into a time where men were dashing, devoted and honourable, strode across fields in breeches, their damp shirts clinging to their chests...So when her best friend invites her to Mexic ...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Tue, 2 Oct 2007 5:22:52 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 ...

The House of Sleep

Tue, 2 Oct 2007 5:17:49 PST

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Winner of the Writers' Guild Best Fiction Award in England and the Prix Médicis in France Like a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill, Jonathan Coe's new novel follows four students who knew each other in college in the eighties. Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events. Robert has his life changed forever by the misunderstandings that ...

Second Foundation

Tue, 2 Oct 2007 5:10:05 PST

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So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she...?

Robots and Empire

Tue, 2 Oct 2007 5:08:55 PST

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Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on a plan to destroy planet Earth. But even after his death, Baley's vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, who had the wisdom of a great man behind him and an indestructable will to win....

La morte della Pizia

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 2:31:18 PST

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"Stizzita per la scemenza dei suoi stessi oracoli e per l'ingenua crudeltà dei Greci, la sacerdotessa di Delfi Pannychis XI, lunga e secca come quasi tutte le Pizie che l'avevano preceduta, ascoltò le domande del giovane Edipo, un altro che voleva sapere se i suoi genitori erano davvero i suoi genitori, come se fosse facile stabilire una cosa del genere nei circoli aristocratici, dove, senza sche ...

La promessa

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 2:31:13 PST

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Un investigatore infallibile, i suoi colleghi ottusi e altezzosi, un delitto raccapricciante la cui vittima è un bambino di sette anni e, infine, la rivelazione dell'assassino.

Il sospetto

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 2:31:09 PST

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"Il sospetto" fa parte di quei romanzi di Durrenmatt in cui una maliziosa e maligna impalcatura "gialla" finisce per negare se stessa e per mettere piuttosto a nudo le orrende magagne e falsità di cui è fatto l'animale uomo. Questo romanzo "dagli allucinanti specchietti filosofici" (come lo ha definito Italo Alighiero Chiusano) ha come protagonista l'ispettore della polizia di Berna, Hans Baerlac ...

L'altra faccia della spirale

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 2:27:24 PST

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Il lettore che si fosse lasciato sfuggire il primo e il secondo romazo della famosa trilogia di Asimov Cronache della Galassia e Il crollo della Galassia centrale, troverà in questo volume conclusivo, che si legge anche come un'opera a sé stante, tutti i dati per seguire fino allo scioglimento finale le drammatiche vicende dell'Impero Galattico...

L'orlo della Fondazione

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 2:27:22 PST

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Il tiranno dei mondi

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 2:27:07 PST

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Il rampollo di un'aristoratica famiglia sta terminando gli studi sulla Terra, quando è costretto a fuggire sul pianeta Rhodia per evitare la cattura da parte dei Tirannici che dominano tutti i sistemi intorno alla nebulosa "Testa di Cavallo" e che hanno giustiziato il padre, governatore di Widemos, accusandolo di ribellione. Si innanamora della figlia del governatore di Rhodia, l'imbelle Hinrik, ...

Il sole nudo

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 2:27:06 PST

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Prima edizione 1986. Pubblicata senza codice ISBN, con doppia numeraizone Oscar / Oscar Fantascienza. ----------------------------------- Sull'ultimo pianeta colonizzato dagli spaziali, Solaria, viene ucciso un uomo e prima indiziata è la moglie Gladia. Come può essere avvenuto il delitto in un pianeta dove i contatti personali sono ripugnanti, anche fra i coniugi? I solariani incaricano dell ...

Il crollo della galassia centrale

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 2:26:41 PST

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L'immenso impero galattico è scosso dai sussulti dell'agonia, dilaniato da sanguinose lotte intestine, e le autorità centrali non sono più in grado di tenere a freno le rivolte che scoppiano da ogni parte.

I robot e l'impero

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 2:26:25 PST

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Addio, amico Elijah, e ricordati che anche se la gente applica questa definizione ad Aurora, d'ora in poi sarà la Terra il vero Mondo dell'alba." Con queste parole di Giskard Reventlov, il robot telepatico ispiratore del concetto di psicostoria, si concludeva I robot dell'Alba (Urania n. 1009). Era un addio, poiché Elijah Baley era destinato davvero a uscire dalla scena della grandiosa Storia Fut ...

I robot dell'alba

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 2:26:24 PST

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Cronache della galassia

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 2:25:48 PST

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Cronache della Galassia è il primo romanzo di una trilogia di amplissimo respiro, che narra le vicende di uno sterminato Impero Galattico, lungo un arco di quasi un millennio: la decadenza e lo sbriciolamento dell'immensa organizzazione, il colpo di stato del geniale Mari Seldon che tenta di arginare la « crisi », e la costituzione delle due misteriose Fondazioni, destinate in un lontano futuro a ...

Fondazione e Terra

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 2:25:44 PST

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Dopo la caduta del Primo Impero Galattico, lo scontro fra le due Fondazioni volute da Hari Seldon ai lati opposti della Galassia e descritto in "L'orlo della Fondazione" si è risolto per il momento senza vincitori. La responsabilità di compiere una scelta, di decidere se la Galassia avrà un nuovo Impero seguendo il piano di Seldon, o se invece dovrà avviarsi a diventare un cosmico organismo fonda ...

Abissi d'acciaio

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 2:23:20 PST

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New York è irriconoscibile: niente più torri e grattacieli, ma un'immensa metropoli "coperta" che non viene mai a contatto con l'aria, dove decine di milionidi uomini e donne brulicano come formiche sulle strade mobili. Dove il lusso di un bagno privato è inammissibile. Dove, soprattutto, i robot stanno soffiando i posti di lavoro agli uomini ad un ritmo sempre più preoccupante. E alle porte di N ...

1984

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 2:22:15 PST

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L'azione si svolge in un futuro prossimo del mondo (l'anno 1984) in cui il potere si concentra in tre immensi superstati: Oceania, Eurasia ed Estasia. Al vertice del potere politico in Oceania c'è il Grande Fratello, onnisciente e infallibile, che nessuno ha visto di persona ma di cui ovunque sono visibili grandi manifesti. Il Ministero della Verità, nel quale lavora il personaggio principale, Sm ...

Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 2:18:17 PST

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Un viaggiatore, una piccola stazione, una valigia da consegnare a una misteriosa persona... Da questa premessa si possono snodare innumerevoli vicende, ma sono dieci quelle che l'autore propone in questo sorprendente e godibilissimo romanzo. "È un romanzo sul piacere di leggere romanzi: protagonista è il lettore, che per dieci volte comincia a leggere un libro che per vicissitudini estranee alla ...

L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 2:13:47 PST

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Considerato unanimemente il capolavoro di Milan Kundera, L'insostenibile leggerezza dell'essere riprende da grandi modelli, come ad esempio Le affinità elettive di Goethe, la forma e la struttura del romanzo-saggio, calandola in un contesto del tutto particolare (la Praga degli anni Sessanta, negli anni più bui del regime comunista cecoslovacco), e quindi rifondendola al fuoco di un pathos tutto ...

Preludio alla fondazione

Sun, 2 Sep 2007 2:07:27 PST

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"Preludio alla Fondazione" è il libro che racconta l'origine della straordinaria epopea della Fondazione, il più celebre ciclo narrativo della fantascienza moderna.Nell'anno 12020 dell'Era Galattica Hari Seldon, un oscuro matematico originario di Helicon, giunge sul pianeta Trantor per presentare le teorie sperimentali di una nuova scienza, la psicostoria, in grado di prevedere il futuro. L'ipote ...

Never Let Me Go

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 3:16:13 PST

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In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, "Never Let Me Go" hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her cl ...

La cattedrale del mare

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 5:32:32 PST

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Barcellona, XIV secolo. Nel cuore dell’umile quartiere della Ribera gli occhi curiosi del piccolo Arnau sono catturati dalle maestose mura di una chiesa in costruzione. Un incontro decisivo poiché la storia di Santa Maria del Mar sarà il cardine delle tormentate vicende della sua esistenza. Figlio di un servo fuggiasco, nella capitale catalana Arnau trova rifugio e quella sospirata libertà che a ...

The Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:56:44 PST

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One woman's struggle to fit back into her old self. Amy Crane is in crisis. Six months after the birth of her baby, Amy still looks pregnant and can't remember the last time she had a wax, or an orgasm. Motherhood is stirring up disturbing questions about her own childhood. And she suspects her boyfriend is cheating. Enter Alice, yummy mummy superior, on a mission to transform Amy's body, and lov ...

La pista di sabbia

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:53:34 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 ...

A Dangerous Fortune

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:04:34 PST

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In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious accident involving a small circle of boys. The drowning and its aftermath initiates a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many loves... From the exclusive men's club and brothels that cater to every dark desire of London's upper classes to the dazzling ball ...

The Key to Rebecca

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:03:22 PST

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The #1 National Bestseller by the author of The Hammer of Eden His code name: "The Sphinx." His mission: to send Rommel's advancing army the secrets that would unlock the doors to Cairo...and the ultimate Nazi triumph in the war. And in all of Cairo, only two people could stop this brilliant and ruthless Nazi master agent. One was a down-on-his-luck English officer no one would listen to. ...

The Man from St. Petersburg

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:02:55 PST

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The bestselling author's classic spy thriller...

Lie Down with Lions

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:02:27 PST

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Jane, a brave and sensual Englishwoman, is caught in a deadly romantic triangle between rival spies Ellis and Jean-Pierre. Love, hatred and deception sweep them from terrorist conspiracies in Paris to full-tilt guerilla warfare in Afghanistan. Jean-Pierre and Jane marry and go to work as doctors in the Valley of the Five Lions to help the rebels fighting for their freedom against the Russians. Tr ...

Triple

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:01:29 PST

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Triple is the riveting story of the most successful espionage coup - and best-kept secret - of this century. It is 1968. Israeli intelligence has learned that Egypt, with Soviet help, will develop atomic bombs within months - an untimely end for the young nation unless a source of uranium for Israeli bombs can be had in complete secrecy. Impossible, of course, unless someone as improbable as the ...

The Hammer of Eden

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:00:52 PST

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The one thing Californians fear most is a full-scale earthquake. The thing Priest fears most is the destruction of his commune in the Sierra Nevada foothills – the one place he can hide from his mobster past. He has to make the Governor of California listen to him. And now he has a way. He knows how to create an earthquake. And if his demands aren't met, the next quake is just 48 hours away...

Night over Water

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:00:15 PST

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1939. The world's most luxurious airliner is heading straight into a storm of international intrigue, violence, war, and betrayal...

Code to Zero

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:59:47 PST

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January, 1958: America's best hope in the space race-the Explorer I satellite-sits on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral. And when a man wakes that morning only to discover his memory erased and his life in danger, the only way he can reclaim his own identity-and find those responsible-is to remember the terrible secret that they forced him to forget. A secret that could destroy the Explorer I-and ...