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The Line of Beauty

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:46:07 PST

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Alan Hollinghurst's book takes up where his previous acclaimed work, "The Swimming-Pool Library" ends. "The Line of Beauty" traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. In the summer of 1983, 20-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens as the Thatcher boom-years unfold.

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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:39:15 PST

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L'educazione delle fanciulle

Thu, 4 Apr 2013 21:56:47 PST

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Ci sono libri – quasi tutti – che si leggono in silenzio, prestando alle parole dell’autore, in mente, il suono della propria voce. Ce ne sono altri con cui invece non si può fare a meno di stare ad ascoltare il loro, di suono. Non semplicemente quello della scrittura, il ritmo della frase, ma proprio un suono vero, corporeo, con un timbro un tono e una cadenza. Sono libri che parlano, che hanno ...

The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate

Thu, 4 Apr 2013 21:52:25 PST

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Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the infamous Mitford sisters. Nancy Mitford's most famous novels, The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate, satirize British aristocracy in the twenties and thirties through the amorous adventures of the Radletts, an exuberantly unconventional family closely modelled on Mitford's own. The Radlett ...

Bonjour Tristesse

Thu, 4 Apr 2013 21:45:41 PST

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'Late into the night we talked of love, of its complications. In my father's eyes they were imaginary...This conception of rapid, violent and passing love affairs appealed to my imagination. I was not at the age when fidelity is attractive. I knew very little about love'. The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. And none are more beautiful than Cecile, a precocious seventeen-year-old, an ...

The Master Bedroom

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 3:08:28 PST

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Kate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate's forty-three and has given up her university career in London to come home and look after her mother in Firenze, their big house by a lake in Cardiff. When Kate meets David Roberts, a friend from the old days, she begins to obsess about him: she knows it's because she's bored and hasn't got ...

Educazione siberiana

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:53:59 PST

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La vita di un ragazzo siberiano educato da un'intera comunità criminale a diventare una contraddizione vivente, e cioè un «criminale onesto». Le avventure di strada, le giornate al fiume, gli scontri tra adolescenti guerrieri. E soprattutto il sapere dei vecchi, che portano l'esistenza tatuata sulla pelle e trasmettono con pazienza e rigore il loro modo di capire il mondo. La Transnistria, terra ...

Gold

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 4:31:59 PST

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Vanity Fair

Mon, 4 Feb 2013 23:10:25 PST

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"Vanity Fair", Thackeray's panoramic, satirical saga of corruption at all levels of English society, was published in 1847 but set during the Napoleonic Wars. It chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian he ...

Hanno tutti ragione

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 18:42:52 PST

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Tony Pagoda è un cantante melodico con tanto passato alle spalle. La sue è stata la scena di un'Italia florida e sgangheratamente felice, all'insegna del successo. Ha avuto il talento, i soldi, le donne. E inoltre ha incontrato personaggi straordinari e miserabili, maestri e compagni di strada. Da tutti ha saputo imparare e ora è come se una sfrenata, esuberante saggezza si sprigionasse da lui se ...

Cloud Atlas

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:49:00 PST

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By the author of THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET, David Mitchell's bestselling and Booker Prize-shortlisted novel was one of Richard & Judy's 100 Books of the Decade and has now been made into a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Jim Broadbent and Hugh Grant A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited compose ...

Care of Wooden Floors

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:41:58 PST

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A bold and brilliant debut from a darkly funny new voice. Oskar is a minimalist composer best known for a piece called Variations on Tram Timetables. He is married to a Californian art dealer named Laura and he lives with two cats, named after Russian composers, in an Eastern European city. But this book isn't really about Oskar. Oskar is in Los Angeles, having his marriage dismantled by lawyers. ...

Le ho mai raccontato del vento del Nord

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:44:26 PST

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Un'email all'indirizzo sbagliato e tra due perfetti sconosciuti scatta la scintilla. Come in una favola moderna, dopo aver superato l'impaccio iniziale, tra Emmi Rothner - 34 anni, sposa e madre irreprensibile dei due figli del marito - e Leo Leike - psicolinguista reduce dall'ennesimo fallimento sentimentale - si instaura un'amicizia giocosa, segnata dalla complicità e da stoccate di ironia reci ...

A Week in December

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:21:35 PST

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Structured like a thriller, A Week in December takes place over the course of a single week at the end of 2008. Set in London, it brings together an intriguing cast of characters whose lives apparently run on parallel lines but - as gradually becomes clear - are intricately related. The central anti-hero, John Veals, is a shadily successful and boundlessly ambitious Dickensian character who is tr ...

Moranthology

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:08:54 PST

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Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling "How To Be A Woman" was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman. "Moranthology" is proof that Caitlin can actually be 'quite chatty' about many other things, including cultural, social and political issues which are usually the province of learned professors, or hot-shot wonks - and not a woman who once ...

Non avevo capito niente

Mon, 3 Sep 2012 2:07:18 PST

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Vincenzo Malinconico è un avvocato napoletano che finge di lavorare per riempire le sue giornate. Divide con altri finti-occupati come lui uno studio arredato con mobili Ikea, chiamati affettuosamente per nome, come fossero persone di famiglia. È stato appena lasciato dalla moglie, ma cerca con ogni mezzo di mantenere un legame con lei e i due figli adolescenti. Un giorno viene improvvisamente no ...

How to be a Woman

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 18:45:01 PST

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It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain...Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should we use Botox? Do men secretly hate us? And why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby? Part memoir, part rant, Caitlin answers the questions that every modern woman is asking.

Rumour Has It

Sun, 5 Aug 2012 23:30:03 PST

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When newly single Tilly Cole impulsively quits her London job for a fresh start in the small town of Roxborough she finds she's arrived in a hotbed of gossip, intrigue and rampant rivalry for the most desirable men. Tilly has no intention of joining in - she's just happy with her new Girl Friday job. Then she meets Jack Lucas. Jack is irresistible. and he's got his eye on Tilly. But there are sho ...

The Sea

Fri, 3 Aug 2012 3:46:08 PST

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Max Morden has reached a crossroads in his life, and is trying hard to deal with several disturbing things. A recent loss is still taking its toll on him, and a trauma in his past is similarly proving hard to deal with. He decides that he will return to a town on the coast at which he spent a memorable holiday when a boy. His memory of that time devolves on the charismatic Grace family, particula ...

The Jane Austen Book Club

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:21:52 PST

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Six people five women and a man meet once a month in California's Central Valley to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but each of them is wounded in different ways, they are all mixed up about their lives and relationships. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable under the guidi ...

The Sense of an Ending

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:34:12 PST

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011. Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is in middle a ...

When You are Engulfed in Flames

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:36:04 PST

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David Sedaris's remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new book of stories. Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life - the etiquette of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger or how to soundproof your windows with LP c ...

When God Was A Rabbit

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:31:02 PST

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This is a book about a brother and a sister. It's a book about childhood and growing up, friendships and families, triumph and tragedy and everything in between. More than anything, it's a book about love in all its forms.

The Hand That First Held Mine

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:48:31 PST

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A gorgeously written story of love and motherhood, this is a tour de force from one of our most acclaimed and best loved novelists. When the bohemian, sophisticated Innes Kent turns up by chance on her doorstep, Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait any longer for her life to begin, and leaves for London. There, at the heart of the 1950s Soho art scene, she carves out a new life for herself, w ...

The London Train

Tue, 5 Jun 2012 4:47:20 PST

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The London Train is a novel in two parts, separate but wound together around a single moment, examining in vivid detail two lives stretched between two cities. Paul lives in the Welsh countryside with his wife Elise, and their two young children. The day after his mother dies he learns that his eldest daughter Pia, who was living with his ex-wife in London, has moved out from home and gone missi ...

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

Tue, 22 May 2012 22:35:28 PST

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It’s time for eighteen-year-old James Sveck to begin his freshman year at Brown. Instead, he’s surfing the real estate listings, searching for a sanctuary—a nice farmhouse in Kansas, perhaps. Although James lives in twenty-first-century Manhattan, he’s more at home in the faraway worlds of Eric Rohmer or Anthony Trollope—or his favorite writer, the obscure and tragic Denton Welch. James’s sense o ...

Me Before You

Sun, 20 May 2012 3:30:00 PST

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Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He k ...

I've Got Your Number

Mon, 7 May 2012 20:46:20 PST

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I've lost it. The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It's been in Magnus's family for three generations. And now, the very same day his parents are coming, I've lost it. The very same day. Do not hyperventilate Poppy. Stay positive!!Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry the ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her 'happy ever after ...

Vaclav & Lena

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:17:48 PST

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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:07:12 PST

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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER David Mitchell's novels have captivated critics and readers alike, as his Man Booker shortlistings and Richard & Judy Book of the Year award attest. Now he has written a masterpiece. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is the kind of book that comes along once in a decade - enthralling in its storytelling, imagination and scope. Set at a turning point in history on a t ...

The Help

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:50:07 PST

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"The Help" is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett. Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking i ...

Olive Kitteridge

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:35:44 PST

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In a voice more powerful and compassionate than ever before, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout binds together thirteen rich, luminous narratives into a book with the heft of a novel, through the presence of one larger-than-life, unforgettable character: Olive Kitteridge. At the edge of the continent, Crosby, Maine, may seem like nowhere, but seen through this brilliant writer’s ...

The Summer Without Men

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:32:00 PST

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'Some time after he said the word pause, I went mad and landed in thehospital.

The History of a Pleasure Seeker

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:24:04 PST

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'The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely attractive to most women and to many men. He was old enough to be pragmatic about this advantage...' It is 1907. The belle epoque is in full swing. Piet Barol has escaped the drabness of the provinces for the grandest mansion in Amsterdam. As tutor to the son of Europe's wealthiest hotelier, he learns the intimate secret ...

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:44:28 PST

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On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents' attention, bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother - her cheerful, can-do mother - tastes of despair and despe ...

Starter for Ten

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:41:38 PST

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The year is 1985 and Brian has just started his first term at university, armed with the obligatory CND membership and a complete set of Kate Bush albums. But he also has a dark secret - a long-held, burning ambition to appear on University Challenge and now, finally, it seems the dream is about to become reality. He's made the team, they've successfully completed the qualifying rounds and are li ...

11/22/63

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:37:28 PST

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On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de force. Following his massively successful novel Under the Dome, King sweeps readers back in time to another moment— ...

The Marriage Plot

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 5:32:07 PST

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"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel." Anthony Trollope It's the early 1980s. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. As ...

The Language of Flowers

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 2:20:44 PST

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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying. [Herrick] "The Language of Flowers" - the biggest book of the year. The most talked-about debut acquisition of 2010 will be the publishing event of 2011. The Victorian language of flowers was used to express emotions: honeysuckle for devotion, azaleas for passion, and red ...

De smaak van chloor

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 5:05:43 PST

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Revolutionary Road

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:18:19 PST

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Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, "Revolutionary Road" is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just round the corner. With heartbreaking compassion and clarity, Richard Yates shows how Frank and April mortgage their hopes and ideals, betraying in ...

Brick Lane.

Tue, 9 Aug 2011 4:11:41 PST

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With its gritty Tower Hamlets setting, this sharply observed contemporary novel about the life of an Asian immigrant girl deals cogently with issues of love, cultural difference and the human spirit. The pre-publicity hype about Brick Lane was precisely the kind to set alarm bells ringing (we've heard it so often before), but, for once, the excitement is fully justified: Monica Ali's debut novel ...

La vita accanto

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:01:26 PST

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Premio Calvino 2010. Rebecca è nata irreparabilmente brutta. Sua madre l’ha rifiutata dopo il parto, suo padre è un inetto. A prendersi cura di lei, la zia Erminia, il cui affetto però nasconde qualcosa di terribile, e la tata Maddalena, affettuosa e piangente. Ma Rebecca ha mani bellissime e talento per il piano. Grazie all’anziana signora De Lellis, Rebecca recupera un rapporto con la comples ...

Tinkers

Fri, 20 May 2011 4:39:37 PST

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One Day

Wed, 4 May 2011 3:53:29 PST

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15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows?

Il cavaliere inesistente

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:37:38 PST

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Questo romanzo di Calvino viene ad affiancarsi a 'Il visconte dimezzato' e a 'Il barone rampante', compiendo una trilogia di emblematiche figure, quasi un albero genealogico di antenati dell'uomo contemporaneo. Stavolta Calvino si è spinto più a ritroso nei secoli e il suo romanzo si svolge tra i paladini di Carlomagno, in quel Medioevo fuori d'ogni verosimiglianza storica e geografica che è prop ...

Le ragazze nello studio di Munari

Fri, 8 Apr 2011 21:45:34 PST

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Questa storia inizia con la fine di una storia. Anzi tre. Tre relazioni con tre ragazze diverse finite contemporaneamente. Succede tutto a Fabio, libraio e collezionista di libri usati e antichi, e grande appassionato di Bruno Munari. Un groviglio di emozioni e disincanto lo spinge a raccontare, tornando indietro nel tempo, al punto dove è iniziato tutto: i primi amori, la letteratura, il cinem ...

Gli Indifferenti

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:01:04 PST

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"Gl'indifferenti! Potrebbe essere un titolo storico. Dopo i crepuscolari, i frammentisti, i calligrafi, potremmo avere il gruppo degl'indifferenti. E sarebbero i giovani di vent'anni..." Così scriveva nel 1929 sul Corriere della Sera l'illustre critico Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, recensendo il romanzo di un esordiente: Alberto Moravia. Quando Moravia aveva cominciato a scrivere il suo capolavoro gi ...

Great House

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 0:21:41 PST

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For twenty-five years, a solitary American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet's secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poet's daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer's life reeling. Across the ocean, in the leafy suburbs of London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers, among her papers, a lock ...

Capire il potere

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:22:31 PST

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Gli interventi raccolti in questo volume spaziano dalla politica estera statunitense alla crisi dello stato sociale con l'amministrazione Clinton. Tracciano una mappa delle connessioni tra la spinta imperialista verso il resto del mondo e le ripercussioni negative sulla società americana. Toccano i temi dell'attivismo politico e del ruolo dei media. Si tramutano in proposte d'intervento concreto ...

Room

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:20:58 PST

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This is the story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world. Jack is five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. He's looking forward to telling his friends it's his birthday, too. But although Jack is a normal child in many ways - loving, funny, bright, full of energy and questions - his upbringing is far from ordinary: Jack's entire life has been ...

Super Sad True Love Story

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:19:43 PST

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The Fortress of Solitude

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 0:04:02 PST

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From the funked-up, messed up Brooklyn of the 1970s to the present day, this novel spans 30 years in the life of two best friends, Dylan and Mingus, their families and an entire neighbourhood. From their stories come the history of soul music, graffiti art, comic books and experimental film.

Mini Shopaholic

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 0:04:02 PST

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The much-anticipated new Shopaholic novel. Becky Bloomwood is back - with a minishopaholic!

Cecità

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:04:57 PST

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In un tempo e un luogo non precisati, all'improvviso l'intera popolazione diventa cieca per un'inspiegabile epidemia. Chi è colpito da questo male si trova come avvolto in una nube lattiginosa e non ci vede più. Le reazioni psicologiche degli anonimi protagonisti sono devastanti, con un'esplosione di terrore e violenza, e gli effetti di questa misteriosa patologia sulla convivenza sociale risulte ...

Il deserto dei Tartari

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 4:03:55 PST

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The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:44:20 PST

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Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to communicate with his only daughter, he realizes that while he may have seventy-four friends on Facebook, there is nobody in the world with whom he can actually share his problems. Then a business proposition comes his way - a strange exercise in corporate PR that will require him to spend a week drivin ...

Freedom

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:42:35 PST

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In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's characters as they struggle to ...

Camilla e i suoi amici

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:01:20 PST

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Uno spettacolo da preparare, feste, flirt, falò sulla spiaggia, lunghe scorribande in macchina: le acanze di Camilla e del suo gruppo di amici sembrano promettere davvero bene. Nessuno di loro, però, sa che li aspetta una stagione dolorosa, drammatica e difficile: difficile per Camilla, che si innamorerà per la prima olta e per la prima volta errà delusa; dolorosa per Maura, che dovrà rinunciare ...

Romanzi

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:11:19 PST

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Il fu Mattia Pascal

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:39:25 PST

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Solar

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 0:51:53 PST

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Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions and half-heartedly heads a government-backed initiative tackling global warming. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: she is having ...

The Road

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 0:50:28 PST

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Manuale di nonna Papera

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 2:59:52 PST

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Her Fearful Symmetry

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 2:16:32 PST

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The drowning people

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 4:09:42 PST

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Den gudsbenådede unge violinist James Farrell's forelskelse efter et tilfældigtmøde i den uimodståelige Ella fører til bedrageri, forræderi og slutteligt ...

Una ragazza fuori moda

Thu, 5 Aug 2010 18:50:05 PST

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The Lighted Rooms

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 2:10:26 PST

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Joan, once-passionate and creative, is now trapped in an expensive care home, seeking comfort in the richer worlds of the past and her own mind. Eloise, her daughter, is a relentlessly disciplined businesswoman, torn between guilt and filial responsibility, who has gambled everything on a chance remark made by her old lover. Moving between 19th-century England and South Africa, war-time Paris and ...

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 2:08:00 PST

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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Tue, 6 Jul 2010 3:41:40 PST

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David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveller. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his new book David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity t ...

Pastorale americana

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:40:13 PST

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Seymour Levov è alto, biondo, atletico: al liceo lo chiamano «lo Svedese». Ebreo benestante e integrato, ciò che pare attenderlo negli anni Cinquanta è una vita di successi professionali e di gioie familiari. Finché le contraddizioni del conflitto in Vietnam, esplose negli Stati Uniti, non coinvolgono anche lui, e nel modo piú devastante: attraverso l'adorata figlia Merry, decisa a «portare la ...

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:49:37 PST

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When Clarissa Iverton was fourteen years old, her mother disappeared and Clarissa was raised by her father. Upon his death, Clarissa, now twenty-eight, discovers he wasn't her father at all. This revelation forces her to confront the truth about her mother's past and her own identity. Abandoning her fiance, Clarissa travels from New York to Helsinki, and then north of the Arctic Circle - to Lapla ...

Incendiary

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:49:00 PST

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A massive terrorist attack on Arsenal's new stadium - a woman grieving for her husband and son - a unique, twisted powerhouse of a novel. Angry, funny, heart-rending and subversive, few first novels are as compelling as this one. From the first sentence of her open letter to Osama Bin Laden, Incendiary's unforgettable narrator won't let you go, and her cry of raw outrage at the murder of her fami ...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 3:12:36 PST

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The Other Hand

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 3:01:49 PST

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Naked

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:06:30 PST

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A riotous collection of memoirs which explores the absurd hilarity of modern life and creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behaviour in 'A Plague of Tics' to the title story, where he is finally forced to face his naked self in the company of lunatics. At this soulful and moving moment, he brushes cigarette as ...

Eva Luna

Wed, 9 Jun 2010 16:42:56 PST

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Las aventuras picarescas de una Sherezade latinoamericana, relatando su nacimiento ilegÍtimo, su orfandad, su adolescencia sin rumbo, sus actividades contra el gobierno, y su romance con un problemÁtico director de pelÍculas documentales. Por medio de su don narrativo, Eva Luna inventa una realidad personal determinada por la magia y el destino.