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I bambini delle fogne di Bucarest

Mon, 6 May 2013 0:16:58 PST

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Il centenario che saltò dalla finestra e scomparve

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 22:51:57 PST

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Allan Karlsson compie cento anni e per l'occasione la casa di riposo dove vive intende festeggiare la ricorrenza in pompa magna, con tutte le autorità. Allan, però, è di un'altra idea. Così decide, di punto in bianco, di darsela a gambe. Con le pantofole ai piedi scavalca la finestra e si dirige nell'unico luogo dove la megera direttrice dell'istituto non può riacciuffarlo, alla stazione degli au ...

The Planets

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:36:10 PST

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In the last 40 years the planets have been revealed in their full glory, unmasked by a fleet of satellites and interplanetary probes. And the closer we look, the more astonishing they are: Mars' deserts were once home to rivers and oceans; on Jupiter wind speeds reach 10,000 kph (6,000 mph) and storms rage for centuries; Saturn is surrounded by a swarm of 34 moons; and diamonds are believed to ra ...

Gomorra

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:16:54 PST

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Un libro che racconta il potere della camorra, la sua affermazione economica e finanziaria, e la sua potenza militare, la sua metamorfosi in comitato d'affari. Una scrittura in prima persona fatta dal luogo degli agguati, nei negozi e nelle fabbriche dei clan, raccogliendo testimonianze e leggende. La storia parte dalla guerra di Secondigliano, dall'ascesa del gruppo Di Lauro al conflitto interno ...

La bellezza e l'inferno

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:53:00 PST

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Una emozionante serie di ritratti di uomini, luoghi e guerre che testimoniano di un presente terribile e feroce, che aprono uno squarcio su quella parte di realtà che troppi fino a oggi non hanno avuto il coraggio di guardare in faccia. Dalle infelici terre inquinate dal crimine alle luminose praterie della letteratura, Saviano ci racconta quello che vede, quello che ha visto, ci racconta le mill ...

Duma Key

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:51:38 PST

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On Duma Key, a man who should be dead finds healing in the solitude of painting... but Edgar Freemantle is far from alone. After a terrible construction site accident severed his right arm, scrambled his mind, and imploded his marriage, the wealthy Minnesota builder faces the ordeal of the rehabilitation alone and enraged. Renting a house on a stunningly beautiful and eerily undeveloped splinter ...

Il grande Gatsby

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 3:23:45 PST

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Leoni

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 5:37:49 PST

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L'uomo che credeva di non avere più tempo

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 5:22:37 PST

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"Prima di andar via" ci restano cose da fare e da risolvere e sapere di avere poco tempo per farlo ci spinge a rendere più intensa la nostra "banale" vita, riuscendo a vedere cose che per troppo tempo ci sono sfuggite... l'amore per esempio, quel sentimento che si è relegato in un angolo del nostro vivere sempre di corsa e sempre più materiale, egoista, duro e superficiale. Finalmente sembra ch ...

The Eyes of the Dragon

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:55:22 PST

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A tale of archetypal heroes and sweeping adventures, of dragons and princes and evil wizards, this is epic fantasy as only Stephen King could envision it.

'Salem's Lot

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:54:56 PST

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Stephen King's second novel,'Salem's Lot, is the story of a mundane town under siege from the forces of darkness. Considered one of the most terrifying vampire novels ever written, it cunningly probes the shadows of the human heart -- and the insular evils of small-town America.

Pet Sematary

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:54:29 PST

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AN ADAPTION BY BBC RADIO BASED ON STEPHEN KING'S PET SEMATARY A Fully-Dramatized Multi-Voice Presentation Dr. Louis Creed and his wife Rachel chose rural Maine to settle his family and bring up their children. It was a better place than smog-covered Chicago -- or so he thought. But that was before he became acquainted with the old pet burial ground located in the backwoods of the quiet communi ...

Christine

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:53:51 PST

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She purrs like a kitten...but watch out when she roars.

Misery

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:53:01 PST

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If Misery loves company, it's found a friend in Academy Award nominee Lindsay Crouse (The Verdict, Places in the Heart). King's ghoulish tale of psychotic "number one fan" Annie Wilkes holding her favorite author, Paul Sheldon, prisoner, unfolds in perfect pitch. Crouse switches from Sheldon to Wilkes (think Kathy Bates) to narrator with smooth, flawless transitions, making the unabridged, 12-hou ...

Gerald's Game

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:52:34 PST

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Stephen King cranks up the suspense in a different kind of bedtime story. A game of seduction between a husband and wife goes horribly awry when the husband suddenly dies. But the wife's nightmare has just begun.

The Green Mile

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:51:55 PST

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

Dreamcatcher

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:50:15 PST

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Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand.DreamcatcherTwenty-five years after saving a Down's-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy -- now men with separate lives and separate problems -- reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting tri ...

The Dark Tower, Book 3

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:42:06 PST

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Desperation

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:51:07 PST

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An apocalyptic drama of good and evil, madness and revelation, this is a novel of modern horror and suspense.

The Dark Tower, Book 1

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:49:47 PST

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The Talisman

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:49:24 PST

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Both a horror story and a journey through a strange world.

Blaze

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:49:08 PST

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Clay Blaisdell is one big mother, but his capers are strictly small-time until his mentor introduces him to the one big score that every small-timer dreams of: kidnap. But now the brains of the operation has died - or has he? - and Blaze is alone with a baby as hostage. The Crime of the Century just turned into a race against time in the white hell of the Maine woods.

Needful Things

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:48:22 PST

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Four Past Midnight

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:44:59 PST

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Featuring: The Langoliers Secret Window, Secret Garden The Library Policeman The Sun Dog

From a Buick 8

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:43:41 PST

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The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was...wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vani ...

Lisey's Story

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:43:10 PST

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Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark. Lisey knew it when she first fell for Scott. And now he's dead, she knows it for sure. Lisey was the light to Scott Landon's dark for twenty-five years. As his wife, only she saw the truth behind the public face of the famous author - that he was a haunted man whose bestselling novels were based on a terrifying reality. Now Scott has gone, Li ...

The Regulators

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:42:41 PST

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Poplar Street is just an ordinary street in an ordinary town, except there's something strange about Audrey Wyler's nephew. When the strange-looking vans arrive, a surreal nightmare begins, which threatens to turn the familiar street into a wasteland of devastation and desperation.

Thinner

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:42:18 PST

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Six weeks after an old gypsy man curses Billy Halleck for sideswiping his daughter, he's ninety-three pounds lighter. Now Billy is terrified-and desperate enough for one last gamble that will lead him to a nightmare showdown with the forces of evil that are melting his flesh away.

Bag of Bones

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 1:37:16 PST

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When Mike Noonan's wife dies, he suffers from writer's block, until he goes to his retreat, Sara Laughs. It's a community run by tyrannical Devore, who is hell-bent to obtain custody of his grandchild, Kyra. Her mother turns to Mike for help. But there are others determined to prevent his success.

Dolores Claiborne

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 1:36:56 PST

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Suspected of murdering the crippled widow for whom she worked as a housekeeper and companion, Dolores Claiborne has a story to tell. But it isn't the one the police are expecting to hear. It's a little darker, a little stranger - and a lot more horrifying.

Cujo

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 1:36:37 PST

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Cujo, a huge St Bernard, is bitten by a rabid bat and turns from a lovable pet into a ferocious man-eating monster. He slaughters his garage-owning master and, as madness eats at his brain, focuses his deranged attention on Donna Trenton and her five-year-old son, who are trapped in their car.

Firestarter

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 1:36:03 PST

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The Dead Zone

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 1:35:52 PST

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If any of King's novels exemplifies his skill at portraying the concerns of his generation, it's The Dead Zone. Although it contains a horrific subplot about a serial killer, it isn't strictly a horror novel. It's the story of an unassuming high school teacher, an Everyman, who suffers a gap in time--like a Rip Van Winkle who blacks out during the years 1970-75--and thus becomes acutely consciou ...

The Tommyknockers

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 1:35:33 PST

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Bobbi Anderson and the other good folks of Haven, Maine have sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of Hell.

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 1:35:22 PST

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'The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. Trying not to be terrified. Trying not to think that sometimes when people got lost in the woods they got seriously hurt. Sometimes they died.' In Trisha's panic to get back on the track, she takes turnings which lead her deeper and deeper into the woods. With on ...

Le vie consolari. Itinerari nella campagna romana

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 3:32:50 PST

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1974

Tue, 8 Jan 2013 5:20:40 PST

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Inverno 1974. Ed Dunford ha ottenuto il lavoro che ha sempre sognato: corrispondente di cronaca nera per lo Yorkshire Post. La piccola Clare Kemplay è scomparsa a Morley; qualche tempo dopo viene ritrovato il suo corpo, con evidenti segni di violenza. Per Dunford il caso diventa un'ossessione e così comincia a indagare il legame con altri due casi simili di bambine scomparse.Davanti ai suoi occhi ...

Pet Sematary

Thu, 3 Jan 2013 6:02:23 PST

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In una limpida giornata di fine estate, la famiglia Creed si trasferisce in un tranquillo sobborgo residenziale di una cittadina del Maine. Non lontano dalla loro casa, al centro di una radura, sorge Pet Sematary, il cimitero dei cuccioli, un luogo dove i ragazzi del circondariato, secondo un'antica consuetudine, usano seppellire i propri animaletti. Ma ben presto la serena esistenza dei Creed vi ...

Dal big bang ai buchi neri

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:30:44 PST

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Il commissario Bordelli

Tue, 4 Dec 2012 16:48:47 PST

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Firenze, estate 1963. La città è deserta per le vacanze e assediata dal caldo e dalle zanzare. Il commissario Bordelli passa la notte a rigirarsi nelle lenzuola, dopo giornate di banale routine estiva sbrigata da quei pochi rimasti, come il poliziotto Mugnais e il nuovo arrivato, Piras. Quand'ecco che una telefonata gli annuncia una morte misteriosa: una ricca signora viene trovata morta, accanto ...

Everything Forbidden

Sun, 2 Dec 2012 18:11:18 PST

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For summers Miranda Albright has watched—aghast, yet shamefully titillated—as her wicked neighbor Ethan Hamon, the notorious Earl of Rothschild, "entertained" a succession of lovers on the grounds of his estate. Now that her father has passed on, leaving behind a mountain of debt, Miranda must do the unthinkable. For Ethan has promised to sponsor her younger sisters, financially and socially, at ...

The Dante Club

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:30:13 PST

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Boston. 1865. A small group of elite scholars prepares to introduce Dante's vision of hell to America. But so does a murderer. The literary geniuses of the Dante Club - poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and publisher J. T. Fields - are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy. The powerful old guard of Harvard ...

Hubble's Universe

Fri, 9 Nov 2012 22:56:21 PST

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The Hubble Space Telescope. No other telescope combines instant name recognition with the production of consistently spectacular images. Yet few people outside the astronomy community realize that Hubble is now at the apex of its imaging capabilities. A collection of stunningly detailed pictures, made possible by the new Wide Field Camera 3, has yet to be incorporated into a popular-level book. U ...

GEM italiano-inglese, inglese-italiano

Wed, 7 Nov 2012 23:48:49 PST

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Hubble

Wed, 7 Nov 2012 23:32:07 PST

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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been taking stunning images of space for 20 years. It is one of the largest and most versatile space telescopes and its orbit outside the distortion of Earth's atmosphere allows it to take extremely sharp images with almost no background light. As an observatory in space, Hubble is one of the most successful scientific projects of all time, both in terms of s ...

Visions of Heaven

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:48:49 PST

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The Hubble Space Telescope's spectacular pictures of nearby planets, remote stars, and distant galaxies captured the public imagination in a way not seen since the heady days of the Apollo Space Program. In Visions of Heaven, we see their full range, from the stellar nurseries where young stars are hatched out of immense clouds of gas and dust, to the magnificent remains, glowing across billions ...

Pretty Little Things

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:45:33 PST

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A terrifying new standalone psycholgical thriller from the bestselling writer of 'Retribution' Special Agent Bobby Dees knows what grief feels like. He understands the pain of losing a child. And he'll do whatever he can to prevent it from happening again. The phone call that comes on a Sunday morning will take him away from his insular world of grief and sleepless nights -- and into a far dark ...

Room

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:50:40 PST

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It's Jack's birthday, and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside ...Told in Jack's vo ...

Between Shades of Gray. Ruta Sepetys

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:50:26 PST

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11/22/63

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:50:06 PST

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WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11/22/63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless... King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvi ...

Catch-22

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:49:43 PST

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At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indicement of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is a tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive.

Il signore delle mosche

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 3:18:24 PST

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Un guppo di bambini inglesi, sopravvisti a un incidente aereo, resta abbandonato a se stessso su un'isola deserta. All'inizio tutto ha il sapore di una piacevole vacanza: l'isola è ricca di alberi da frutto, di piccoli cinghiali, c'é perfino un fiume che forma in prossimità del mare una piscina di acqua dolce. I ragazzi si sentono gli eroi di una straordinaria avventura, si costituiscono in una p ...

The Curse of the Pharaohs

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 1:37:35 PST

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Crocodile on the Sandbank

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 1:37:24 PST

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Amelia Peabody, that indomitable product of the Victorian age, embarks on her first Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course, a sturdy umbrella.On her way, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who has been "ruined" and abandoned on the streets of Rome by her rascally lover. With a typical disregard for convention, Amelia prom ...

I predatori di bambini sono intorno a noi

Tue, 9 Oct 2012 18:41:05 PST

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Paura e disgusto a Las Vegas

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 1:33:14 PST

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Nell'America degli anni '70 un giornalista e un avvocato partono per LasVegas, incaricati di effettuare un reportage sul "sogno americano" durante unafamosa gara di motociclette nel deserto. I due anti-eroi, che portano su di séil retaggio di una cultura perdente (quella della pace, dell'opposizione alsistema) e sono vittime a loro volta della droga, si ritrovano nella capitalede ...

The Birthday Boys

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 1:32:57 PST

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The four men who accompanied Captain Scott on his doomed expedition each tell their own story in this fictional reconstruction of the attempt to reach the South Pole.

Bastard out of Carolina

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 1:28:02 PST

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Greenville County, South Carolina, a wild, lush place, is home to the Boatwright family -- rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as "Bone, " a South Carolina bastard with an annotated birth certificate to tell the tale. Observing eve ...

The Wrath of Angels

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:47:33 PST

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In the depths of the Maine woods, the wreckage of an aeroplane is discovered. There are no bodies, and no such plane has ever been reported missing, but men both good and evil have been seeking it for a long, long time. What the wreckage conceals is more important than money: it is power. Hidden in the plane is a list of names, a record of those who have struck a deal with the Devil. Now a battle ...

Too Many Clients

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 2:42:14 PST

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A bidding war for his services interrupts Nero Wolfe's attempts to solve the case of the businessman who died in his love nest--a case in which the police seem oddly uninterested. Reissue.

Gambit

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 2:40:35 PST

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After the Funeral

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 2:39:14 PST

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When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richard's funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richard's will, Cora was clearly heard to say: 'It's been hushed up very nicely, hasn't itBut he was murdered, wasn't he?' In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the myster ...

The Regatta Mystery

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 2:38:14 PST

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A collection of classic stories featuring multiple victims, multiple mysteries, multiple suspects, and a multitude of talent to solve it all: Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple, and Mr. Parker Pyne.

The Secret History

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 2:33:31 PST

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Truly deserving of the accolade "Modern Classic", Donna Tartt's novel "The Secret History" is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their co ...

Forsyte Saga

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 2:32:33 PST

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The Forsyte Saga is John Galsworthy's monumental chronicle of the lives of the moneyed Forsytes, a family whose values are constantly at war with its passions. The story of Soames Forsyte's marriage to the beautiful and rebellious Irene, and its effects upon the whole Forsyte clan, The Forsyte Saga is a brilliant social satire of the acquisitive sensibilities of a comfort-bound class in its final ...

Fry

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:49:34 PST

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Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry's autobiography of his earlyyears, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller.

Moab is My Washpot

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:43:35 PST

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A humorous autobiography that covers the author's time at public school, acting and writing career and the ups and downs of his personal life.

The Gun Seller

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:38:17 PST

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If you're selling vacuum cleaners, then your job is easy. But when you have a prototype military helicopter, capable of 500 miles an hour and 1000 corpses a minute to sell, the job calls for a penniless, achingly single, 35-year-old ex-army officer with little self-respect.

Primary Colors

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:37:00 PST

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2 cassettes / 3 hours Read by Blair Underwood Primary Colors - the #1 national bestseller with all the dramatic power, humor, psychological acuity, and insider knowledge of modern American electoral politics - is now a major motion picture from Universal. Primary Colors portrays a convincing world of its own, peopled by smart cookies, nut cases, and wheeler-dealers, whose public and private ...

F.I.S.T.

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:36:42 PST

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Typescript of the screenplay "F.I.S.T." with handwritten corrections. The screenplay was written by Eszterhas and Sylvester Stallone.

Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a piazza Vittorio

Sat, 4 Aug 2012 0:14:45 PST

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Piazza Vittorio è il simbolo della nuova Roma (e della nuova Italia) multietnica, così come le liti condominiali attorno all'ascensore sono da anni l'emblema della difficile convivenza con i propri vicini di casa. Attorno a questi due momenti emblematici, l'autore, algerino romano d'adozione, ha costruito questo romanzo giallo.

44 Scotland Street

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 0:47:15 PST

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The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. Immediately recognisable are the Edinburgh chartered surveyor, stalwart of the Conservative Association, who dreams of membership of Scotland's most exclusive golf club. We have the pushy Stockbridge mother, and her prodigiously talented five-year-old son, who is making ...

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 0:46:25 PST

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Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of 'traditional build', is now married to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. The Agency is busy, but Mma Ramotswe cannot ignore the plea which is made by a woman who comes to her with a tale of particular misfortune. Unfortunately, her attempts to help are interrupted by a close encounter between her tiny white van an ...

The Full Cupboard of Life

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 0:44:49 PST

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Mma Ramotswe, who became engaged to Mr J.L.B. Matekoni at the end of the first book, is still engaged. She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named, but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiance. For indeed he has other things on his mind - notably a frightening request made of him by Mma Potokwani, pushy matron of the Orphan Farm. Mma Ramotswe herself has weighty ma ...

Morality for Beautiful Girls

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 0:43:26 PST

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THE NO.1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY published in 1998, introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe, the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE took us further into this world, and now, continuing the adventures of Mma Ramotswe, MORALITY FOR BEAUTIFUL GIRLS, finds her expanding her business to take in the world of car repair and a beauty pag ...

The Kalahari Typing School for Men

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 0:42:38 PST

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Ex-CID. Ex-New York. Ex-cellent' reads the sign outside the Satisfaction Guarantee Detective Agency. Cephas Buthelezi certainly talks the talk, Precious discovers, but would he have the wherewithal to deal with her current case - a man who has been attacked by ostrich rustlers, and is eager to reassess his life? Meanwhile, there are difficulties at the Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, where one of th ...

Furore

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 0:39:22 PST

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Pubblicato nel 1939, "Furore" è subito divenuto il romanzo simbolo della Grande Depressione americana.

Cronaca di una morte annunciata

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 0:38:27 PST

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Santiago Nasar morirà. I gemelli Vicario hanno già affilato i loro coltelli nel negozio di Faustino Santos. A Manaure, "villaggio bruciato dal sale dei Caraibi", lo sanno tutti: presto i fratelli della bella quanto svanita Angela vendicheranno l'onore di quella verginità rubatale in modo misterioso dall'aitante Santiago, ricco rampollo della locale colonia araba. Tutti lo sanno, ma nessuno fa alc ...

Una vita all'improvvisa

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 3:20:29 PST

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All’apertura del sipario appaiono due ampi schermi sui quali sono proiettati un manifesto e una scenografia della commedia dell’arte. Entra in scena Franca. Comincia così – e come, dove, se non in un teatro e con un libero gioco teatrale? – la storia della vita di Franca Rame: una vita stracolma di esperienze che suo marito Dario, il figlio Jacopo, gli amici l’avevano ripetutamente invitata a rac ...

Il senso di Smilla per la neve

Tue, 3 Jul 2012 23:15:52 PST

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Il libro inizia con il funerale di Esajas, un bambino apparentemente morto per un caduta accidentale da un tetto. Da questo fatto si sviluppa tutta la narrazione, infatti Smilla, vicina di casa del bambino non è convinta che la morte sia dovuta ad un incidente, perchè essendo originaria della Groenlandia, conosce molto bene la neve e capisce dalle orme lasciate sul tetto che c'è molto da scoprire ...

La gang del pensiero

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 4:31:48 PST

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Eddie Coffin, il protagonista del libro, è uno dei criminali più incredibili, geniali e divertenti della storia. Calvo e grassottello, di professione filosofo (per la precisione "ricercatore a Cambridge"), incline all'alcol, ex bancario fuori da ogni norma, sospetto di irriferibili reati sessuali e pericolosamente incline a farsi arrestare in costume adamitico, un bel giorno Eddie Coffin si trova ...

Wednesday's Child

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 0:34:30 PST

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La croce e la mezzaluna

Tue, 5 Jun 2012 0:32:06 PST

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Reparto n. 6

Tue, 15 May 2012 20:29:09 PST

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La guerra civile fredda

Thu, 10 May 2012 5:30:56 PST

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Daniele Luttazzi, dopo aver introdotto nel dibattito pubblico il concetto di "golpe al rallentatore" -con cui già nel 2002 illustrava le analogie fra il piano piduista di Gelli e il programma berlusconiano -.aggiorna spregiudicatamente il quadro con l'esame satirico della tappa successiva: la Guerra civile fredda. La Guerra civile fredda è il risultato del progetto organico, reazionario, creatore ...

Sesso con Luttazzi

Fri, 4 May 2012 0:38:21 PST

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The Cabinet of Curiosities

Fri, 4 May 2012 0:37:31 PST

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When an underground charnel house is discovered in Manhattan, it contains the remains of dozens of victims of a crazed serial killer from the 1880s. Now, as FBI agent Pendergrast investigates the old crimes, a new series of horrifyingly similar killings begins. [예스24 제공]

M.A.S.H.

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 1:04:17 PST

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The doctors and nurses who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained, dedicated, and pushed to the brink. And they were young - too young to be doing what they had to do. As Richard Hooker writes in the Foreword, 'A few flipped their lids, but most of them just raised hell, in a variety of ways and degrees.' Meet the true-life heroes and lunatic ...

La biblioteca dell'arte - 5

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 4:31:28 PST

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Fancisco Goya y Lucientes è il maestro indiscusso della pittura spagnola tra Sette e Ottocento. Pittore di corte del re, diviene celebre come autore di vivaci scene di ispirazione popolare e come ritrattista dell'aristocrazia (celeberrime la "Famiglia di Carlo IV", la "Maja desnuda" e la "Maja vestida"). Col tempo, divenuto quasi sordo in seguito a una grave malattia, accentua i toni cupi della s ...

Satyricon

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 2:40:17 PST

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La fabbrica di cioccolato

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 3:07:46 PST

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Storie di un gatto che amava la luna

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 3:06:55 PST

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E se la luna fosse una gatta, una splendida gatta della notte, che sonnecchia sorniona nel suo paniere di stelle? Invischiati nelle nostre contraddizioni,chiusi nei nostri pregiudizi, noi umani abbiamo stravolto le favole, snaturato i sogni e cancellato la magia. E spetta a un gatto, innamorato della luna,l'arduo compito di riaccendere la fantasia, di far rivivere miti e leggende:la regina delle ...

Il disagio della libertà

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 0:10:56 PST

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In novant'anni di storia, dal 1922 al 2011, abbiamo avuto il Ventennio fascista e il quasi-ventennio berlusconiano: per poco meno di metà della nostra vicenda nazionale abbiamo scelto di farci governare da uomini con una evidente, e dichiarata, vocazione autoritaria. Perché? Una risposta possibile è che siamo un popolo incline all'arbitrio, ma nemico della libertà. Vantiamo record di evasione fis ...

Bosch

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 1:41:09 PST

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Il pittore Jeroen Anthoniszoon van Aken, meglio noto come Hieronymus Bosch, non è solo uno dei più grandi maestri della pittura fiamminga, anzi universale: è soprattutto un enigma rimasto insoluto nei secoli. Dalle sue opere superstiti, tecnicamente di avanguardia fra la fine del Quattrocento e l’inizio del Cinquecento, si irradia un messaggio, un insegnamento, un’affermazione di cui si è perduta ...

La scatola a forma di cuore

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 3:51:32 PST

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Il protagonista, mito invecchiato del rock death-metal, è un collezionista del macabro: un ricettario per cannibali, un cappio da boia di seconda mano, un film snuff. Ma niente può competere con quell'oggetto in vendita su Internet: "Vendesi il fantasma del mio patrigno al miglior offerente..." dice l'annuncio. E l'uomo ha già la carta di credito in mano. Per mille dollari diventa l'unico proprie ...

The Wrong Man

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 1:51:40 PST

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Scott Freeman is a man of reason–a college professor grounded in the rational and practical. But he becomes uneasy after finding an anonymous love letter hidden in his daughter’s room: “No one could ever love you like I do. No one ever will. We will be together forever. One way or another.” But the reality of Ashley’s plight far exceeds Scott’s worst suspicions. One drink too many had led Ashle ...

Heartsick

Wed, 8 Feb 2012 1:15:52 PST

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He thinks he sees a flash of emotion in her eyes. Sympathy? Then it's gone. 'Whatever you think this is going to be like,' she whispers, 'it's going to be worse.' When beautiful serial killer Gretchen Lowell captured her last victim -- the man in charge of hunting her down -- she quickly established who was really in control of the investigation. So why, after ten days of horrifying physical and ...

Northanger Abbey

Wed, 1 Feb 2012 1:24:03 PST

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The Book of Bunny Suicides

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 4:43:27 PST

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This is dark humour at its best - a collection of hilarious and outrageous cartoons which will appeal to anyone in touch with their evil side.