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La nascita del purgatorio

Fri, 17 May 2013 6:36:50 PST

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Nel '500 la discussione sul Purgatorio ha opposto in dura polemica la Chiesadi Roma ai seguaci della Riforma protestante. Ma è sin dal 1100 che si affermala credenza di un luogo intermedio dell'aldilà: un evento che va oltre lastoria della religione e della spiritualità, e che Le Goff ricollega allenuove strutture sociali e politiche del feudalesimo, e alle conquiste economiche, agricole e mercan ...

Lo sterco del diavolo

Fri, 17 May 2013 6:36:32 PST

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Il denaro nel senso in cui lo intendiamo oggi è un prodotto della modernità. Non è un protagonista di primo piano del Medioevo, né dal punto di vista economico e politico né da quello psicologico ed etico; è meno importante e meno presente di quanto non lo fosse nell'Impero romano, e soprattutto assai meno centrale di quanto non diventerà nei secoli successivi. Dai pulpiti medievali risuona la co ...

Le città del Medioevo

Fri, 17 May 2013 6:36:25 PST

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Il percorso della città in Europa dalla tarda romanità fino al XII secolo. Con la sua caratteristica capacità di cogliere la vita pulsante delle comunità storiche, uno dei più grandi storici del Medioevo mostra l'evoluzione del commercio nel Mediterraneo fino alla fine dell'VIII secolo, la sua decadenza nel IX secolo e la rinascita poi dei centri urbani che si accompagnò alla formazione di un nuo ...

Train Dreams

Fri, 17 May 2013 6:34:14 PST

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Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams is an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fictions.

The Yellow Birds

Fri, 17 May 2013 6:34:12 PST

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Aprire il fuoco

Fri, 17 May 2013 6:33:28 PST

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Non leggete i libri, fateveli raccontare

Fri, 17 May 2013 6:33:24 PST

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Ci sono due modi di leggere questo libro: considerarlo un vero e proprio manuale ad uso di chi voglia aggirarsi nel mondo della cultura e almeno salvaguardare la sua sicurezza personale, oppure leggerlo godendosi la prosa rotonda di Luciano Bianciardi, la sua cultura, il suo sarcasmo, la sua irriverenza, la sua tristezza travestita da ironia.

The Family Fang

Fri, 17 May 2013 6:33:19 PST

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Filled with Kevin Wilson's endless creativity, vibrant prose, sharp humor, and keen sense of the complex performances that unfold in the relationships of people ...

The Alpha List

Fri, 17 May 2013 5:08:11 PST

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When Detective Inspector Bob Palmer of Scotland Yard investigates a professional blackmailing ring, he sets off a chain of events which ends with a killer's hands round the neck of his young American wife.

The Red House

Thu, 16 May 2013 3:37:11 PST

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Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. After his mother's death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estranged sister, inviting Angela and her family for a week in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children, a single family and all of them strangers. Seven days of ...

Pollo alle prugne

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:29:06 PST

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Un romanzo sotto forma di fumetto, ambientato in Iran negli anni Cinquanta,racconta gli ultimi giorni di un famoso musicista che si lascia morire perdispetto, dopo che la moglie ha rotto il suo prezioso strumento. Unariflessione sul piacere, un libro sulla scomparsa dello stesso e sulla morteche ne deriva. E dietro l'agonia del musicista si intravede una storia d'amorefinita male e, soprattutto, ...

Persepolis

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:26:38 PST

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Cabal

Fri, 10 May 2013 5:05:48 PST

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In Cabal, master crime writer Michael Dibdin plunges us into a murky world of church spies, secret societies, cover-ups, and mistaken identities. An apparent suicide in the Vatican may in fact have been a muder conducted by a centuries-old cabal within The Knights of Columbus. A discovery among the medieval manuscripts of the Vatican Library leads to a second death, Zen travels to Milan, where ...

La vita agra

Fri, 10 May 2013 4:56:15 PST

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Sussi e Biribissi

Sun, 5 May 2013 6:30:21 PST

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Venezialtrove

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:44:26 PST

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La città degli Asburgo e quella dei Dogi. L'almanacco del 2009 è dedicato ai rapporti tra la Serenissima e Vienna. Contiene saggi dal titolo: Venezia-Vienna andata e ritorno: per chi suona la campana? Tra ambasciatori, spie e artisti, tanti secoli di rapporti in cagnesco. Il 1787, l'anno dei die "Don Giovanni". Un'acquisto dopo l'altro: nasce la maggior pinacoteca veneta all'estero. Per i l ...

Falling Star

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 7:45:44 PST

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It seemed an easy enough scene for Bob Meakin to play. The handsome but aging star was to jam the eyeglasses on his nose as he rushed down the subway stairs, then look around wildly for his girl. The producer of Northburn Films thought they might be able to shoot it in one take. But with the crew in position and the camera rolling, Meakin tripped on the stairs, and fell directly beneath the wheel ...

The Porkchoppers

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 5:59:17 PST

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The Porkchoppers is a brilliant study of corruption in high places. Donal Cubbin, the overworked, alchoolic president of one of the largest American unions, knows that his fight for re-election is going to be though. He knows that his wife is sleeping with his right-hand man, that his chief opponent is insane, and that elections will probably be rigged. What he doesn't know is that someone has pu ...

Princess Merle

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 2:45:33 PST

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Always, Lana

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 1:53:09 PST

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From her legendary discovery in a Sunset Boulevard mall shop to the shockwaves of a lover murdered in her home, Lana Turner has been a headliner, one of Hollywood's most enchanting, enduring, embattled stars. In this unauthorized biography, Taylor Pero, Lana's secretary for ten years as well as live-in mamager and lover, reveals the Lana he knew so well.

No word from Winifred

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 0:03:42 PST

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Winifred Ashby leaves the seclusion of a New England farm for London to meet Charles Lucas, whom she has approved as official biographer of her honorary aunt. But, after one meeting with Charlie, Winifred vanishes. Kate Fansler is called in to investigate the disappearance.

C'era questo c'era quello

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 0:03:13 PST

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Episodi brillanti e scandalosi, amori, risse,casi strani agitano la vita dei divi del cinema e la rendono tanto più vivace e interessante deIa nostra. Dietro questi avvenimenti vi è spesso un segreto regista, che li provoca, li sfrutta, li divulga: il press-agent Enrico Lucherini e Matteo Spinola hanno inventato questo mestiere per l'Italia, e per più di vent'anni hanno fomentato l'indiscrezione ...

La morte di Virgilio

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 0:02:33 PST

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Le ultime ore di vita impegnano Virgilio, ormai anziano e di ritorno in Italia, in filosofiche meditazioni. Attraverso strade rumorose e affollate il poeta va dalla nave al palazzo dell'imperatore Augusto a Brindisi, e qui decide che l'Eneide va distrutta. Ma Ottaviano lo convince a salvare l'opera e Virgilio va incontro alla morte.

Asta's Book

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:58:48 PST

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"Asta's Book" is a classic double-detective story by crime master Barbara Vine. For a good, absorbing, well-told story, you could hardly better the unveiling of Asta's secret' "Sunday Times". It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diar ...

Freedom at Midnight

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:50:44 PST

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A detailed narrative of the thirteen months leading to the independence of the Indian subcontinent in February 1948, centering on major and minor figures and on the social and personal upheavals attendant on independence and partition

Glancing Light

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:50:22 PST

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When a priceless stolen masterpiece is discovered among a shipment of reproductions to a Seattle art musuem, the mild mannered, law-abiding curator, Chris Norgren, reluctantly agrees to find out how the painting got there. All too soon, what should have been a pleasant interlude in Italy turns into a bizarre odyssey into shady art world doings and deadly secrets.... "A remarkable storyteller.... ...

La psicologia della scrittura

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:42:56 PST

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La scrittura, con la sua ricchezza e varietà, è lo specchio più fedele deisentimenti, delle attitudini, delle contraddizioni dell'essere umano; in unaparola, del carattere nella sua complessità. Soltanto da pochi decenni glistudi sulla scrittura hanno portato ad acquisizioni accertate e definitive, lacui validità è stata comprovata dalla sempre più ...

Laidlaw

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:49:37 PST

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An extraordinary debut by a Scottish mystery writer, this cult classic of crime fiction presents Detective Jack Laidlaw, a policeman as complex and self-critical as you'll ever meet. Laidlaw follows the trail of murder investigation deep inot the underbelly of Glasgow, a world he knows the way Phillip Marlowe knew Los Angeles.

The Turquoise Lament

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:48:23 PST

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"One of the most enduring and unusual heroes in detective fiction." THE BALTIMORE SUN Now that Linda "Pidge" Lewellen is grown up, she tells Travis McGee, once her girlhood idol, that either she's going crazy or Howie, her affable ex-jock of a husband is trying to kill her. McGee checks things out, and gives Pidge the all clear. But when Pidge and Howie sail away to kiss and make up, McGee ha ...

Audrey Hepburn's Neck

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:45:33 PST

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'Extraordinarily evocative of the mishmash of cultures and mores which is modern Japan ...Alan Brown captures, with great sympathy, the isolation of a man whose best friend is a wealthy, gay American, whose girlfriends are always American, but whose parents do not speak to one another, nor to him, and who have offered him no hint of his own history ...a lovely book. It made me laugh, it made me ...

Morire è un po' partire

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:33:22 PST

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Triple

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:17:01 PST

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The Summons

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:15:06 PST

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Ray Atlee, a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, is forty-three and newly single. His father, a very sick old man who lives the life of a recluse in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi, was once a beloved and powerful official who towered over local law and politics for many years. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton, to discuss ...

A Woman in the House

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:31:49 PST

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A collection of short stories, which the author himself helped select, presents Caldwell at his most varied and effective. Each facet of his writing is represented, and he emerges as one of America's best. The collection includes A Woman in the House, August Afternoon, Mama's Little Girl, Honeymoon, The First Autumn, The Walnut Hunt, Indian Summer, Slow Death, Wild Flowers, Return to Lavinia, Af ...

The Skull Beneath the Skin

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 8:19:52 PST

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Private detective Cordelia Gray is invited to the sunlit island of Courcy to protect the vainly beautiful actress Clarissa Lisle from veiled threats on her life. Within the rose red walls of a fairy-tale castle, she finds the stage is set for death. "Richly intricate and literate," James's second Cordelia Gray mystery "shows James at the height of her storytelling powers" (San Francisco Chronic ...

The Moneychangers

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 7:52:48 PST

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Dead Lagoon

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 7:49:49 PST

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An Aurelio Zen mystery. Zen returns to his native Venice to investigate the disappearance of a wealthy American resident, but soon learns that, amid the hazy light and shifting waters of the lagoon, nothing is what it seems.

The Bernini Bust

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 7:48:43 PST

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Diario di guerra

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 7:47:31 PST

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Una vecchia agenda in tela nera rimasta gelosamente celata per 65 anni tra le carte di Bruno Trentin. Talmente ben nascosta che neppure i familiari e gli amici più stretti ne sospettavano l'esistenza. Ora, inaspetttata, quell'agenda torna alla luce e si mostra in tutta la sua forza: un documento destinato a segnare il dibattito storico e la discussione sulla guerra di Liberazione. Quando Bruno Tr ...

Nella Resistenza

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 7:46:27 PST

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Sessant'anni dopo, dieci protagonisti della Resistenza veneziana raccontano per la prima volta la loro giovanile esperienza durante il 1943-1945. Si passa dal vissuto partigiano nella Brigata garibaldina "Biancotto" al ricordo del movimento di liberazione francese e italiano, dai flash della missione militare alleata "Margot Hollis" in territorio veneto alle vicende della Brig ...

I ponti di Venezia

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 7:39:05 PST

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Viaggiare e raccontare

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 7:31:45 PST

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Venezia

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 7:31:22 PST

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Un uomo del nostro tempo torna a Venezia dopo aver girato a lungo per il mondo: crede di ritrovare la città che conosce da sempre ma si accorge di avere ancora molto da scoprire. Si addentra incuriosito e affascinato tra luoghi inconsueti, seguendo itinerari ignoti e dimenticati. Ben presto la città diversa lo avvince a tal punto da costringerlo a una vera "indagine d'amore&quo ...

La famiglia Moskat

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:18:30 PST

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La famiglia del vecchio patriarca Meshulam Moskat attraversa gli anni che dall'inizio del Novecento scendono fino alla seconda guerra mondiale e alla"soluzione finale" messa in atto dal regime nazista. Ma il vero protagonista di questo possente romanzo è l'Ostjudentum, la società ebraico-orientale — in particolare quella di Varsavia — con la sua complessa e densa cultura. Nel racconto di Singer l ...

The Land of Decoration

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:15:37 PST

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With its intensely taut storytelling and crystalline prose, "The Land of Decoration" is a gripping, psychologically complex story of good and evil, belonging and isolation, which casts new and startling light on how far we'll go to protect ...

Million Little Pieces

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:15:33 PST

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“The most lacerating tale of drug addiction since William S. Burroughs’ Junky.” —The Boston Globe “Again and again, the book delivers recollections that leave the reader winded and unsteady. James Frey’s staggering recovery memoir could well be seen as the final word on the topic.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A brutal, beautifully written memoir.”—The Denver Post “Gripping . . . A great story ...

I fratelli Ashkenazi

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:15:29 PST

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The Burgess Boys

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:15:27 PST

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Kitteridge is a compelling life force, a red-blooded original. When she’s not onstage, we look forward to her return. The book is a page-turner because of her.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Deeply human . . .

Midnight in Peking

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:15:23 PST

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Chronicles the efforts of two detectives--one British and one Chinese--as they raced to find an Englishwoman's killer in 1937 before the Japanese invaded Peking.

Lungo la via incantata

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:21:12 PST

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Non è strano che Patrick Leigh Fermor dicesse di tenere questo libro "vicinissimo al cuore". All'inizio degli anni Trenta Leigh Fermor aveva infatti attraversato, diretto a Costantinopoli, la Transilvania, ricavandone la materia forse più calda per il suo grande libro di viaggi, Tra i boschi e l'acqua. Per William Blacker, tuttavia, quella stessa regione dell'attuale Romania sembra essere non la ...

Il ruolo della memoria nell'apprendimento delle lingue

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 6:34:56 PST

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Nell'apprendimento delle lingue, la memoria svolge un ruolo di primaria importanza. Lo sviluppo delle abilità linguistiche e l'acquisizione degli aspetti morfologici, sintattici e lessicali non potrebbero realizzarsi senza coinvolgere complessi processi mnestici. Inoltre, le ricerche in campo neurobiologico e psicologico hanno dimostrato come la memoria non sia una facoltà unitaria, bensì un insi ...

Il giorno prima della felicità

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 6:21:47 PST

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Don Gaetano è uomo tuttofare in un grande caseggiato della Napoli popolosa e selvaggia degli anni cinquanta: elettricista, muratore, portiere dei quotidiani inferni del vivere. Da lui impara il giovane chiamato "Smilzo", un orfano formicolante di passioni silenziose. Don Gaetano sa leggere nel pensiero della gente e lo Smilzo lo sa, sa che nel buio o nel fuoco dei suoi sentimenti ci sono idee ed ...

Flatland

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 6:14:48 PST

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Flatland was published in 1880 and imagines a two-dimensional world inhabited by sentient geometric shapes who think their planar world is all there is. But one Flatlander, a Square, discovers the existence of a third dimension and the limits of his world's assumptions about reality and comes to understand the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on societ ...

The Disappearing Spoon

Sun, 7 Apr 2013 14:26:11 PST

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In an engaging text centered around the periodic table, the explores intriguing tales about every element of the table as they play out their parts in human ...

Se vuoi fare il figo usa lo scalogno

Sun, 7 Apr 2013 14:24:17 PST

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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Sun, 7 Apr 2013 14:23:56 PST

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Dracula

Fri, 5 Apr 2013 4:36:13 PST

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Collezione: Il laccio nero n.2

The Trouble with Nigeria

Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:26:09 PST

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"The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership," concludes internationally acclaimed writer Chinua Achebe. In this book Achebe broke his silence about the 1983 Nigerian elections. The style and wit in part cover his deep despair over the direction of change in his home country.

In a Free State and Other Stories

Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:21:28 PST

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This grouping of two short stories, a short novel within a prologue and an epilogue from Naipaul's travel journals, is held together by Naipaul's pervading concern with the themes of exile, freedom and prejudice.

Anthills of the Savannah

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 1:35:02 PST

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Using the conflict between the city and tribal villages, the ravages of the great African drought, and Third World politics as a compelling backdrop, Achebe weaves a potent drama of modern Africa.

No More Lies about Africa

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 1:25:51 PST

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Easily the most provocative book ever written about Africa by an African. For the first time an African confronts the myth, the lies and the propaganda employed by the enemies of Africa in the attempt to ridicule the continent and her peoples.

Pomp and Circumstance

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 6:36:51 PST

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The author's only novel, telling of a tropical colony ruled over by a British Governor General.

La leggenda di Redenta Tiria

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:22:24 PST

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Ad Abacrasta di vecchiaia non muore mai nessuno. Tutti gli uomini, arrivati a una certa età, si impiccano con una cinghia. Le donne usano la fune. Al bambino che chiede il perché la nonna risponde che quando la Voce chiama tu non puoi fare altro che ubbidire. Un giorno, però, in paese è arrivata, non si sa da dove, una donna cieca, con i capelli lucidi come ali di corvo e i piedi scalzi. Ha detto ...

Il pane di Abele

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:22:13 PST

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«Vrades pro sempere!», fratelli per sempre: questo si giurano Zosimo e Nemesio il giorno in cui quest’ultimo lascia il paesino di Crapiles per andare a iscriversi all’università di Noroddile. Zosimo, che a Crapiles ci è nato, rimarrà a fare il pastore: come suo padre, come il padre di suo padre. Sebbene così diversi, i due ragazzi sono stati amici dal giorno in cui la famiglia di Nemesio è arriva ...

Il boia è solo - Giorni d'angoscia - Uomini con la maschera

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:59:11 PST

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Il delitto che diverte - Il sangue nel vicolo - La statua che urla

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:57:41 PST

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Follia profonda

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:01:28 PST

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Ferito a morte

Thu, 7 Mar 2013 5:25:05 PST

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Premio Strega 1961.

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness

Mon, 4 Mar 2013 23:53:27 PST

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Disturbing the Peace

Mon, 4 Mar 2013 23:52:49 PST

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Galapagos

Sun, 3 Mar 2013 8:01:27 PST

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“Beautiful…provocative, arresting reading.”–USA Today KURT VONNEGUT is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as “a true artist”* with Cat’s Cradle in 1963. He is, as Graham Greene has declared, “one of the best living American writers.” Ga ...

Bluebeard

Sun, 3 Mar 2013 6:52:21 PST

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An old man recounts his past to a voluptuous widow, revealing man's compulsion to create and destroy what he loves.

Deadeye Dick

Sun, 3 Mar 2013 6:52:17 PST

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Deadeye Dick is Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors–a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb–Rudy Waltz, a.k.a. Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany search for absolution and happiness. Here is a tale of crime and punishment that makes us rethink what w ...

GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER

Sun, 3 Mar 2013 6:52:11 PST

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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is a comic masterpice. Eliot Rosewater, drunk, volunteer fireman, and president of the fabulously rich Rosewater foundation, is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature... with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. The result is Vonnegut's funniest satire, an etched-in-acid portrayal of the greed, hypocrisy, and follies of the flesh we are all heir t ...

Happy Birthday, Wanda June

Sun, 3 Mar 2013 6:52:08 PST

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In his first published play, Kurt Vonnegut finds a powerful vehicle for his tragicomicalimagination.

Jailbird

Sun, 3 Mar 2013 6:52:06 PST

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Jailbird takes us into a fractured and comic, pure Vonnegut world of high crimes and misdemeanors in government...and in the heart. This wry tale follows bumbling bureaucrat Walter F. Starbuck from Harvard to the Nixon White House to the penitentary as Watergate's least known co-conspirator. But the humor turns dark when Vonnegut shines his spotlight on the cold hearts and calculated greed of t ...

Long walk to forever

Sun, 3 Mar 2013 6:52:05 PST

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This dramatization of Long Walk to Forever was first performed at the Russell Theatre on the campus of Gon- zaga University in Spokane, Washington on July 6 ...

Mother Night

Sun, 3 Mar 2013 6:52:02 PST

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The Petrified Ants

Sun, 3 Mar 2013 6:52:02 PST

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Two Soviet researchers stumble upon an amazing discovery only to learn that natural history is also written by the hand that wields the power.

Sirens of Titan

Sun, 3 Mar 2013 6:52:00 PST

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In Vonnegut's tale of the near future, a cold and malevolent universe is all that humanity can ever know.

Stone Arabia

Sat, 2 Mar 2013 23:07:15 PST

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By the National Book Award-nominated author of Eat the Document.

Commissario Rebaudengo

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 7:13:57 PST

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In questo giallo l'omicidio di una giovane donna sconvolge la tranquilla cittadina di Alassio...

Under the Glacier

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 6:07:01 PST

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Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Sn?fells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this der ...

Iceland's Bell

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:53:55 PST

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Sometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, Iceland’s Bell by Nobel Laureate Halldór Laxness is at once an updating of the traditional Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire. At the close of the 17th century, Iceland is an oppressed Danish colony, suffering under extreme poverty, famine, and plague. A farmer and accused cord-thief named Jon Hreggvidsson makes a bawdy joke ab ...

Independent People

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:53:50 PST

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Il veneto

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:42:01 PST

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Dalla prefazione degli autori: Questo libro sussidiario per la cultura regionale e le nozioni varie contiene, oltre al calendario storico nazionale, un cenno delle feste, delle fiere, dei mercati della regione, con intercalati cenni di geografia economica regionale, descrizione di piccoli viaggi, racconti tolti dalla tradizione locale, poesie dialettali, biografie di uomini illustri della region ...

Dipinti nelle chiese e negli oratori vicentini

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 5:39:07 PST

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Dal Pasubio al Grappa: luoghi e paesi della guerra 1915-1918

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 5:36:31 PST

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Descrizione delle architetture, pitture e scolture di Vicenza (rist. anast. 1779)

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 2:50:26 PST

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Olimpico vivo. Catalogo della mostra (Vicenza, Basilica Palladiana, 10 settembre-6 novembre 1977)

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:38:28 PST

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Neri Pozza Editore

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:35:26 PST

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La Biblioteca Civica Bertoliana con il presente Catalogo ha voluto celebrare il 40° anniversario della casa editrice "Neri Pozza Editore".

Restituzioni 2000

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:32:42 PST

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Exhibition catalogue, Vicenza, Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, 2000; Milan,Pinacoteca di Brera, 2000-2001.

Cara vecchia Vicenza

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:29:05 PST

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Obiettivo Vicenza

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:28:40 PST

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Vicenza

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:25:40 PST

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