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The Forgotten Garden

Thu, 16 May 2013 2:30:13 PST

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Before I Go to Sleep

Wed, 8 May 2013 4:05:23 PST

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Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love - all forgotten overnight. And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to Christine's life.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Thu, 2 May 2013 20:47:03 PST

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Don't panic! You're not timetripping! It's the tenth anniversary of the publication of Douglas Adams's zany, best-selling novel, and to celebrate Harmony is reissuing a special edition of this cult classic! By now the story is legendary. Arthur Dent, mild-mannered, out-to-lunch earth-ling, is plucked from his planet by his friend Ford Prefect just seconds before it was demolished to make way fo ...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:18:37 PST

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So there I was roysh, life focked, reputation focked, finances focked - everything completely focked, roysh, and we're talking big time. And it's all Fionn's fault, basically. He's the four-eyed focker who told me that, like, the first time you do it, roysh, you're firing blanks. Like an unloaded Uzi - seriously impressive, hard as fock and totally ready for action, but the safety's, like, on, yo ...

Dura madre

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 3:54:42 PST

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... in cui l'opera è stata pubblicata e le condizioni incluse alla presente dovranno essere imposte anche al fruitore successivo. www.einaudi.it Ebook ISBN 9788858403242 Dura madre Tutto questo mondo barbaro non esisteva soltanto nel.

World Without End

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 6:40:39 PST

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Saturday

Wed, 6 Mar 2013 4:51:18 PST

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"In Saturday he remains at the top of his game — assured, accomplished and ambitious... [Saturday] offers something transcendent, impossible to dissect." —Lewis Jones, Telegraph "operating at the height of his formidable powers...Artistically, morally and politically, he excels" —Ruth Scurr, Times "Where the literary careers of some of his contemporaries now look like gaudy wreckage, he has ...

Il prezzo del riscatto

Sat, 2 Mar 2013 21:17:09 PST

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The Dark Tower, Book 1

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 4:58:17 PST

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"An impressive work of mythic magnitude. May turn out to be Stephen King's greatest literary achievement." (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) "Brilliant, fresh, and compelling...will leave you panting for more." (Booklist)

Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, PS, I scored the bridesmaids

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 4:59:53 PST

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So there I was, roysh, twenty-three years of age, still, like, gorgeous and rich, living off my legend as a schools rugby player, scoring the birds, being the man, when all of a sudden, roysh, life becomes a total mare. I don't have a Betty Blue what's wrong, but I can't eat, can't sleep, I don't even want to do the old beast with two backs, which means a major problem, and we're talking big time ...

Innocent Blood

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 7:40:53 PST

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The Hunger Games

Wed, 6 Feb 2013 7:21:29 PST

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A Confederacy of Dunces

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:32:54 PST

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'This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs, alcoholics, sodomites, drug addicts, fetishists, onanists, pornographers, frauds, jades, litterbugs, and lesbians ...don't make the mistake of bothering me'. Ignatius J. Reilly: fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by ...

Fight Club

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 7:53:47 PST

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An underground classic since its first publication in 1996, Fight Club is now recognized as one of the most original and provocative novels published in this decade. Chuck Palahniuk's darkly funny first novel tells the story of a godforsaken young man who discovers that his rage at living in a world filled with failure and lies cannot be pacified by an empty consumer culture. Relief for him and h ...

The Orange Mocha-Chip Frappuccino Years

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 7:13:54 PST

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One Shot

Thu, 3 Jan 2013 18:14:28 PST

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Six shots. Five dead. One heartland city thrown into a state of terror. But within hours the cops have it solved: a slam-dunk case. Except for one thing. The accused man says: You got the wrong guy. Then he says: Get Reacher for me. And sure enough, ex—military investigator Jack Reacher is coming. He knows this shooter–a trained military sniper who never should have missed a shot. Reacher is c ...

In Chancery

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 7:12:56 PST

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1920. English novelist and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, Galsworthy became known for his portrayal of the British upper middle class and for his social satire. The second book in Galsworthy's famous The Forsyte Saga. The novel begins: The possessive instinct never stands still. Through florescence and feud, frosts and fires, it followed the laws of progression even ...

The Blind Assassin

Thu, 6 Dec 2012 6:44:07 PST

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Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. 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 never before, creating a nov ...

Tuesdays With Morrie

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 5:46:12 PST

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This true story about the love between a spiritual mentor and his pupil has soared to the bestseller list for many reasons. For starters, it reminds us of the affection and gratitude that many of us still feel for the significant mentors of our past. It also plays out a fantasy many of us have entertained: what would it be like to look those people up again, tell them how much they meant to u ...

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 2:43:58 PST

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Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century—1951—in the middle of the United States—Des Moines, Iowa—in the middle of the largest generation in American history—the baby boomers. As one of the best and funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his memories of a totally all-American childhood for 24-carat memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Br ...

Winter in Madrid

Sat, 3 Nov 2012 21:16:02 PST

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1940: The Spanish Civil War is over, and Madrid lies ruined, its people starving, while the Germans continue their relentless march through Europe. Britain now stands alone while General Franco considers whether to abandon neutrality and enter the war. Into this uncertain world comes Harry Brett: a traumatised veteran of Dunkirk turned reluctant spy for the British Secret Service. Sent to gain th ...

Le due torri

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 6:24:29 PST

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In questo secondo romanzo della trilogia di Tolkien, gli amici della Compagniadell'Anello lottano separati. Merry e Pipino sono fatti prigionieri dalleforze del Male, ma riescono a fuggire e trovano soccorso in uno strano mondodi esseri giganteschi, mezzo vegetali e mezzo umani. Aragorn, un enigmaticopersonaggio che si era unito alla Compagnia all'inizio dell'impresa, stringealleanza con i guerri ...

Just Kids

Tue, 25 Sep 2012 3:55:00 PST

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'It was the summer that Coltrane died. The summer Jimi Hendrix set his guitar in flames and China exploded the H-bomb. There were riots in Newark and marches against the war in Vietnam. The world was on the brink of change. It was the summer of love. And the summer of a chance encounter that would change the course of my life. It was the summer I met Robert.' Just Kids is the story of two innocen ...

The Handmaid's Tale

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 2:59:28 PST

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A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women ...

While My Pretty One Sleeps

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 1:05:08 PST

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THE DEAD WOMAN WORE RED... Gossip columnist Ethel Lambston knew everything about everybody who was somebody---so there were more than enough suspects in her murder. But for Neeve Kearny, owner of an expensive Madison Avenue boutique, the killing of one of her best customers had eerie echoes of another death that occurred many years earlier---the murder of her own mother. Suddenly, Neeve is plun ...

The World's Greatest Mystery, Intrigue and Suspense

Fri, 7 Sep 2012 6:56:05 PST

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Beach Bar

Mon, 3 Sep 2012 5:55:16 PST

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Undici

Sat, 1 Sep 2012 20:16:19 PST

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4 giugno 2006: una barca di sei metri, senza nome e senza bandiera, è ritrovata da un pescatore a largo dei Caraibi. A bordo, i corpi quasi mummificati di undici uomini neri. È tutto ciò che resta di un convoglio di 47 persone partite dalle coste dell'Africa nel giorno di Natale. La scrittrice si prende il carico di dar voce agli undici senza nome, trasfondendo le loro storie in una prosa che si ...

In my mind's eye

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 2:37:27 PST

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Il caso Sofri

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 1:04:10 PST

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Sophie's Choice

Wed, 1 Aug 2012 2:38:50 PST

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Set in Brooklyn in 1947, this is the story of Sophie, a Polish Catholic immigrant who is haunted by her memories of the concentration camp in wartime Europe, and the terrible choice she was forced to make.

Snow Falling on Cedars

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 21:26:56 PST

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Australian director Scott Hicks's follow-up to his widely beloved Shine comes as a small shock. Based on David Guterson's bestselling novel, Snow Falling on Cedars is far removed from the character-driven, pure storytelling of Shine and a comparative plunge into moody atmospherics. Action insinuates itself through the director's determined eye for watercolor composition and free-floating per ...

Il peso della farfalla

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 4:26:10 PST

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Il re dei camosci è un animale ormai stanco. Solitario e orgoglioso, da anni ha imposto al branco la sua supremazia. Forse è giunto il tempo che le sue corna si arrendano a quelle di un figlio più deciso. È novembre, tempo di duelli: è il tempo delle femmine. Dalla valle sale l’odore dell’uomo, dell’assassino di sua madre. Anche l’uomo, quell’uomo, era in là negli anni, e gran parte della sua vi ...

The Secret Scripture

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:35:22 PST

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Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr. Grene, and their relationship intensifies and complicates. Told through their respective journals, the story that emerg ...

È nata una star?

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:56:36 PST

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Tra le tante cose che una mamma non vorrebbe scoprire sul proprio figlio adolescente ce n'è una un po' imbarazzante... a dire il vero molto imbarazzante. E non aiuta il fatto di venirla a sapere dalla vicina di casa pettegola, che una mattina ti fa trovare nela buca delle lettere un video accompagnato da un biglietto. Lynn non riesce a crederci: è suo figlio Mark quello in copertina. Il film ha u ...

Il giardino non esiste

Sun, 8 Jul 2012 22:35:30 PST

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L a piccola Carmen vive un'infanzia felice con Romeo - padre premuroso e facoltoso commerciante - la matrigna Flora, i suoi fratellini e le tante domestiche che animano la casa.Tutto procede bene fino al giorno in cui la bambina non mostra i segni di un male innominabile: l'epilessia. Da quel momento ogni cosa cambia e il mondo sembra ritorcersi contro di lei. Unica consolazione è un angolo di gi ...

A Dangerous Fortune

Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:19:47 PST

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By the 1860s, the Pilasters are one of the world's greatest banking families, with connections that reach from the City of London to far-afield colonies. However, as the family grow ever richer in the shadow of oppression and tragedy, their very future is threatened - by the self-same ambition and greed that first earned them their fortune. 'A full-blooded melodrama, complete with moustache-twirl ...

Caino

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:16:01 PST

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The Dancers Dancing

Thu, 7 Jun 2012 2:16:49 PST

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It is 1972: a group of teenagers are spending a month in a Donegal Gaeltacht, learning Irish language and culture from their teachers and the local community. Liberated for the first time from the restricting reins of parental control, they respond to the untamed landscape of river, hill and sea, finding in it unnerving echoes of their own submerged - and now emerging - wildnesses. In this richly ...

Il contrario di uno

Wed, 30 May 2012 15:57:22 PST

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Il due è il contrario di uno. "Questa notizia, che," dice Erri De Luca, "contrasta con l'aritmetica, è l'esperienza di questi racconti. Da un cordone di madre ai due nodi in vita di una cordata in montagna si svolge l'avventura di un solitario che si imbatte nella forma del due. È una rivelazione, non sacra e neppure profana." Queste storie sono emergenze che contraddicono la solitudine, imbrogli ...

Dublin made me

Wed, 23 May 2012 1:57:20 PST

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Il giorno di Moro

Wed, 23 May 2012 1:56:28 PST

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The Salesman

Wed, 9 May 2012 2:02:33 PST

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It's Dublin, June 1995, the hottest summer since records began. But Billy Sweeney, a middle-aged salesman with a failed marriage, a faltering career and a tumbledown house, has more than weather on his mind. His youngest daughter lies in a coma in hospital following a mysterious attack on the petrol station where she worked. Devastated by the unfolding consequences of that hot, violent night, fru ...

The Historian

Sun, 1 Apr 2012 0:25:52 PST

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In this riveting debut novel, a young girl discovers her father's darkest secret and embarks on a harrowing journey across Europe to complete the quest he never could--the quest to find history's most legendary fiend: Dracula. A brilliant literary novel as well as a breathtaking page-turner, THE HISTORIAN has already created an international frenzy. Set for publication in over 15 languages, th ...

Killing Bono

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 23:40:14 PST

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"Squirm-inducing, excruciatingly honest and painfully funny". ( Joseph O'Connor). We all went to school with friends who've turned out more successful than ourselves. But they don't all phone from improbably glamorous places and drive us mad by telling us about it. And they're not all Bono. Neil McCormick always dreamed of life as a rock star. Instead, he had to watch while his friend became one ...

A Dangerous Method

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 1:23:27 PST

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"In 1907, Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest friendship of each man's life. Six years later they were bitter antagonists, locked in a savage struggle. In between them stood a young woman named Sabina Speilrein: a patient and lover to Jung, a colleague and confidante to Freud, and one of the greatest minds in modern psychiatr ...

The Pillars of the Earth

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 0:55:50 PST

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Ken Follett had long been a staple of the bestseller lists for his novels of intrigue and espionage. Then came The Pillars of the Earth, a grand novel of epic storytelling that readers and critics quickly hailed as his crowning achievement. Now, The Pillars of the Earth is available for the first time to a new audience of readers, in this attractive new trade paperback edition. In 12th-century ...

Il giorno prima della felicità

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 1:49:58 PST

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Angels and Demons

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 4:12:21 PST

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It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of anti-matter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. ...

Il Vangelo secondo Gesù Cristo

Sat, 4 Feb 2012 19:25:33 PST

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A differenza dei vangeli che conosciamo, quello di Saramago svela sentimenti e intimità del personaggio, in una dimensione umana e a noi vicina. Gesù nasce da donna e dunque reca in sé debolezza, amore, sensualità. Gesù è un bambino scapestrato, un fanciullo della sua età, e un adolescente insicuro come tutti gli altri. Tuttavia, egli è anche creatura divina, generata da Dio, e in quanto tale sub ...

Killing Yourself to Live

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 2:52:13 PST

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For 6,557 miles, from New York to Mississippi to Seattle, Chuck Klosterman decided to chase rock 'n' roll and death across a continent. 21 days later, after three relationships, an encounter with various cottonmouth snakes, and a night spent snorting cocaine in a graveyard, Klosterman started to order his thoughts on American culture and the meaning of celebrity. Uproariously funny, smart and hip ...

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 8:21:39 PST

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La Compagnia dell'Anello

Mon, 9 Jan 2012 6:02:28 PST

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La prima parte della celebre trilogia, nuova mitologia di un Omero moderno: la storia dello Hobbit Frodo e dell'Anello magico simboleggia l'epica lotta tra il Bene e il Male in una terra senza tempo. * * * Edizione scolastica a cura di Antonio Lugli.

La paura è una sega mentale

Fri, 6 Jan 2012 2:18:55 PST

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"Gli animali, non avendo il pensiero, non si fanno le seghe mentali. Noi invece con il pensiero ci creiamo un'autoimmagine mentale di noi stessi indipendente dalla realtà. Ed è proprio quell'autoimmagine che ci genera la paura." La paura è il vero grande nemico della nostra vita. Anzi, la paura immaginaria, quella che scatta quando ciò che ci spaventa non è fisicamente presente. Questa paura ci c ...

Secret World of the Irish Male

Wed, 4 Jan 2012 1:22:24 PST

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A Spot of Bother

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 7:47:55 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 ...

The Man of Property

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 2:24:59 PST

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A cut-glass chandelier filled with lighted candles hung like a giant stalactite aboveits centre, radiating over large gilt-framed mirrors, slabs of marble on...

American Wife

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 8:54:56 PST

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A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she willone day end up in the White House, married to the president.

Il quinto passo è l'addio

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 8:12:16 PST

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Sulla nave che lo porta in continente, il giovane sardo Ruggero Gunale ripensala sua breve vita: la scoperta del sesso passione, dell'amour fou per una innominata donna sposata che incinta, probabilmente di lui, abortisce e lo lascia; le esperienze giornalistiche in una radio locale; la musica e soprattutto la droga. Ma tutto questo senza perdere il senso di una storia collettivache risale al tem ...

Labyrinth

Sun, 6 Nov 2011 22:06:28 PST

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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 3:55:25 PST

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On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein 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. All at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilous. Anything can be revealed at any meal. Rose's gift forces her to confro ...

Let the great world spin

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 5:26:10 PST

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The Teenage Dirtbag Years

Sat, 8 Oct 2011 21:56:39 PST

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L'intermittenza

Sat, 1 Oct 2011 3:39:06 PST

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Astuzia, simulazione e alleanze strategiche sono da sempre le armi più affilate di Mauro De Blasi, direttore generale di una delle più importanti aziende italiane. Da qualche tempo però la sua lucidità è messa a rischio da improvvisi black-out, angoscianti "intermittenze" che lo scollegano per qualche istante dal mondo esterno. Un problema, in un momento in cui la stabilità dell'azienda è messa i ...

The "Beatles"

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 6:45:22 PST

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There's only one book that ever truly got inside the Beatles and this is it. The landmark, worldwide bestseller that has grown with the Beatles ever since. During 1967 and 1968, Hunter Davies spent eighteen months with the Beatles at the peak of their powers as they defined a generation and rewrote popular music. As their only ever authorised biographer he had unparalleled access - not just to Jo ...

Al diavolo piace dolce

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 7:10:37 PST

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Bette Robinson, ventisettenne newyorchese, ex impiegata di banca che sogna ditrovare il principe azzurro, non crede alla sua fortuna quando viene assuntadalla più famosa agenzia di pubbliche relazioni di Manhattan con il compito diorganizzare i party più esclusivi. In equilibrio sui tacchi a spillo, Bettediventa una delle migliori del suo campo. Ma una mattina, dopo una festa, sirit ...

One hundred years of solitude

Thu, 8 Sep 2011 0:20:28 PST

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Stand by Me

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:45:54 PST

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When her husband vanishes, Dominique Delahaye could crumble - or she could start to enjoy a whole new life...An unputdownable read from No. 1 bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan. Dominique ('Domino') lives a charmed existence as wife to one of Ireland's most successful businesssmen, Brendan Delahaye - until the day Brendan disappears, leaving his company in disarray and Domino and their daughter ...

The butterfly murderer

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:41:49 PST

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Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 5:14:28 PST

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder!doesn't it? What happens when two people decide to take a year off!from each other? Annie and Dan were the perfect couple. But now the not-so-newly weds are feeling more like flatmates than soul mates and wondering where all the fun and fireworks went ! When Annie lands her big break in a smash-hit show!that's heading for the bright lights of Broadway she's ...

The Miseducation Years--Ross O'Carroll-Kelly

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 5:12:42 PST

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The Reason Why

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 5:06:55 PST

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I sogni della città bianca

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 6:01:43 PST

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Il libro è una raccolta di ventisette racconti inediti scritti da SergioAtzeni negli anni che precedono la pubblicazione, nel 1986, del suo primoromanzo, l'"Apologo del giudice bandito". A dieci anni dalla prematurascomparsa dello scrittore, nel settembre del 1995, la raccolta rappresentaun'occasione per ripercorrerne i primi passi nel campo della narrazioneletteraria. I racconti ...

The Little Prince

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 1:17:57 PST

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The World According to Clarkson

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 6:41:26 PST

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Jeremy Clarkson finds the world a perplexing place. It's just the idiots, meddlers and do-gooders who spoil it for the rest of us. Laugh-out-loud funny and as straight-talking as ever, Clarkson bursts their pointless little bubble, while celebrating special things that we should hold dear. Sit back and enjoy as Jeremy puts the world to rights.

Death at Intervals

Sat, 9 Jul 2011 1:26:56 PST

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On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. This understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders - if there's no death, there can be no resurrection and therefore no reason for religion - and what will be the effect on pensions, the social services, hospitals? Funeral directors are reduced to arranging funerals for dogs, cats, hamsters and parrots. Life insurance policies b ...

Creaturine

Mon, 4 Jul 2011 0:22:47 PST

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Agli inizi del Novecento, Rosario e Nicola, due adolescenti ospiti di unorfanotrofio, sono uniti da un saldo vincolo d'amicizia. Ma il destino hadeciso di dividerli: Rosario trova infatti una sorta di bizzarra ma affettuosafamiglia adottiva, studia, diventa medico, si sposa; Nicola, al contrario, siallontana definitivamente dal consorzio civile per condurre un'esistenza insimbiosi col mondo natur ...

A Star Called Henry

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:48:32 PST

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Born in the Dublin slums of 1901, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing and begging, often cold and always hungry, but a prince of the streets. By Easter Monday, 1916, he's fourteen years old and already six-foot-two, a soldier in the Irish Citizen Army. A year later he's ready to die for Ireland ...

Notes from a Big Country

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 3:21:58 PST

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After nearly two decades in England, Bill Bryson returned to the country of his birth. Gathered here are 18 months' worth of his "Mail on Sunday" columns about that strange phenomena, the American way of life, in which he brings his bemused wit to bear on one of the world's craziest countries.

Irlandese al 57%

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 1:50:27 PST

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In una divertente parodia tutta irlandese di "Indovina chi viene a cena", un padre di ampie vedute entra in crisi quando scopre che la figlia frequenta un ragazzo di colore. E, peggio ancora, l'ha invitato a cena. Jimmy Rabbitte, già protagonista dei "Commitments", ha messo su famiglia, ha qualche etto in più sulla pancia e non ha perso gli ideali giovanili. Decide di fondare una nuova band, ma s ...

The Book Thief

Mon, 6 Jun 2011 7:59:03 PST

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'It's just a small story, really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, a Jewish fist fighter, and quite a lot of thievery ...' This work is narrated in the all-knowing matter-of-fact voice of Death, witnessing the story of the citizens of Himmel Street: When nine-year-old Liesel arrives outside the boxlike house of her new foster parents, she refuses to get out of the ca ...

The Shadow of the Wind

Sat, 28 May 2011 4:29:39 PST

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The international literary sensation-a runaway bestseller in Spain, rights sold in more than 20 countries-about a boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget. Barcelona, 1945-just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes ...

Silas Marner

Sat, 21 May 2011 0:48:09 PST

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Il cerchio celtico !! SCHEDA DOPPIA !!

Sun, 8 May 2011 7:41:36 PST

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Scheda DOPPIA, da non aggiungere in libreria Le schede corrette delle edizioni Iperborea, dotate di codice ISBN, si trovano qui: http://www.anobii.com/books/0132905ea66edf0a5b/ http://www.anobii.com/books/01fc5a36494b51dea0/

Short History of the Troubles

Thu, 5 May 2011 6:40:24 PST

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For thirty-eight long years, from 1968 until the St Andrew's Agreement and IRA decommissioning in 2006, Northern Ireland was wracked by inter-communal violence. It became notorious as one of the world's most intractable quarrels whose effects were felt not only in Northern Ireland but in the Republic of Ireland, the rest of the United Kingdom, the European Union and the United States. The Trouble ...

Felicità in questo mondo

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 5:54:11 PST

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Love All the People

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 5:51:29 PST

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In 1993, network executives abruptly cut the final appearance of comedian Bill Hicks - a scathing tirade of digs on the Pope and the pro-life movement - from an episode of The Late Show with David Letterman. His banning from the show, along with a profile in The New Yorker by veteran writer John Lahr, catapulted Hicks to national prominence. Just months later, at age 32, he died of pancreatic can ...

Cecità

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 5:47:44 PST

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Our Man in Hibernia

Sat, 2 Apr 2011 5:19:42 PST

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If you think you know Ireland, this book will make you think again.

COCKTAILS FOR THREE

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:50:41 PST

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At the first of every month, when the office has reached its pinnacle of hysteria, Maggie, Roxanne, and Candice meet at London's swankiest bar for an evening of cocktails and gossip. Here, they chat about what's new in their lives and what's new at The Londoner, the glossy fashion magazine where they all work. But beneath the girl talk and the laughter, each of the three has something to hide: Hi ...

The Gentle Spirit

Sat, 5 Mar 2011 23:06:10 PST

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The Golden Notebook

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 3:12:32 PST

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A feminist landmark, this big, ambitious novel tells the story of writer Anna Wulf and the crises she faces in her personal, political and professional life. Confounded by writer's block, the ferociously independent Wulf explores her situation in four notebooks, one for each of the strands in her life; the golden one is the one in which, struggling to retain her sanity, she brings these strands t ...

Alchemist

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 3:16:52 PST

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Banditi di Sardegna

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 2:17:37 PST

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La vite e leggende dei più famosi banditi vissuti in Sardegna tra la metà dell'ottocento e gli anni trenta del novecento vengono raccontate da Franco Fresi in queste pagine dense e appassionanti.

Becoming Scarlett

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 2:36:37 PST

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Now, Scarlett is back in her childhood home with her plan in tatters and a baby on the way, while John Smith -- actuary, proper grown-up and Scarlett's boyfriend -- has left her to join an archaeological dig in a tiny village somewhere in Brazil. But that's not the worst bit. The worst bit is she can't be sure who the father of the baby is ...even though she's slept with exactly four-and-a-half m ...

Signs from Above

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 0:09:58 PST

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In this fascinating book, Doreen Virtue and her son Charles teach you how to understand the signs that are always around you.

The White Tiger

Wed, 5 Jan 2011 5:51:59 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 ...

"King Henry VI": Pt. 1

Tue, 28 Dec 2010 7:53:38 PST

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In their lively and engaging edition of this sometimes neglected early play, Cox and Rasmussen make a strong claim for it as a remarkable work, revealing a confidence and sureness that very few earlier plays can rival. They show how the young Shakespeare, working closely from his chronicle sources, nevertheless freely shaped his complex material to make it both theatrically effective and poetica ...

Leonardo

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 8:20:00 PST

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Inside the mind of a Renaissance genius - unravel the mystery This fascinating exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique and explains the phenomenon of the world's most celebrated genius who, 500 years on, still grips and inspires us. Martin Kemp offer us exceptional insights into what it was that made this Renaissance man so special, and the ...