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Asylum

Mon, 1 Apr 2013 5:44:33 PST

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As a psychiatrist in a top-security mental hospital in the 1950s, Peter Cleave has made a study of what he calls 'the catastrophic love affair characterized by sexual obsession.' His experience is extensive, and he is never surprised. Until, that is, he comes reluctantly to accept that the wife of one of his colleagues has embarked on such an affair...

1Q84

Mon, 1 Apr 2013 5:43:44 PST

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I, Lucifer

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 7:38:21 PST

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The end is nigh and the Prince of Darkness has just been offered one hell of a deal: reentry into Heaven for eternityif he can live out a well-behaved life in a human body on earth. It’s the ultimate case of trying without buying and, despite the limitations of the human body in question (previous owner one suicidally unsuccessful writer, Deelan Gunn), Luce seizes the opportunity to run riot thr ...

The Sense of an Ending

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 7:37:05 PST

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

Me Talk Pretty One Day

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 5:45:05 PST

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Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a new collection from him is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious new pieces, including 'Me Talk Pretty One Day', about his attempts to learn French from a sadistic teacher who declares that 'every day spent with you is like having ...

Il corpo umano

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 5:43:50 PST

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È un plotone di giovani ragazzi quello comandato dal maresciallo Antonio René. L’ultimo arrivato, il caporalmaggiore Roberto Ietri, ha appena vent’anni e si sente inesperto in tutto. Per lui, come per molti altri, la missione in Afghanistan è la prima grande prova della vita. Al momento di partire, i protagonisti non sanno ancora che il luogo a cui verranno destinati è uno dei più pericolosi di t ...

Before I Go to Sleep

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:48:04 PST

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Wuthering Heights

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 5:57:09 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Wed, 8 Aug 2012 3:50:38 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Pride and Prejudice

Wed, 8 Aug 2012 3:50:38 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Wed, 8 Aug 2012 3:50:38 PST

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Copyright free ebook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Zorba il greco

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 6:04:37 PST

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Un cuore forte come la montagna, calze color melanzana, un vecchio arcangelo ribelle, un clefta, brigante profeta dai riccioli grigi che raschia l'osso dell'agnello alla brace per leggere il domani, che puntella la sua baracca e se la ride della tormenta del nord. Perché un uomo vero sta a fronte alta davanti alla necessità, e perfino a Dio: tutto questo è, e sempre sarà, Zorba il greco, mani e g ...

Music for Torching

Mon, 14 May 2012 5:08:59 PST

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As A.M. Homes's incendiary novel unfolds, the Kodacolor hues of the good life become nearly hallucinogenic.Laying bare th foundations of a marriage, flash frozen in the anxious entropy of a suburban subdivision, Paul and Elaine spin the quit terors of family life into a fantastical frenzy that careens out of control. From a strange and hilarious encounter with a Stepford Wife neighbor to an ill-c ...

Mr Gwyn

Tue, 1 May 2012 0:10:12 PST

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Jasper Gwyn è uno scrittore. Vive a Londra e verosimilmente è un uomo che ama la vita. Tutt'a un tratto ha voglia di smettere. Forse di smettere di scrivere, ma la sua non è la crisi che affligge gli scrittori senza ispirazione. Jasper Gwyn sembra voler cambiare prospettiva, arrivare al nocciolo di una magia. Gli fa da spalla, da complice, da assistente una ragazza che raccoglie, con rabbiosa dev ...

The Snowman

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 6:23:38 PST

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SOON THE FIRST SNOW WILL COME. A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Their house is empty but outside in the garden he sees his mother's favourite scarf - wrapped around the neck of a snowman. AND THEN HE WILL APPEAR AGAIN. As Harry Hole and his team begin their investigation they discover that an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years. AND WHEN THE SNOW IS ...

The History of a Pleasure Seeker

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 20:34:55 PST

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

The Marriage Plot

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 4:43:09 PST

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

By Nightfall

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 5:42:58 PST

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Like his legendary, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Hours, Michael Cunningham'smasterly new novel is a heart-breaking look at the way we live now.

L'arte di ascoltare i battiti del cuore

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 5:52:51 PST

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A Kalaw, una tranquilla città annidata tra le montagne birmane, vi è una piccola casa da tè dall'aspetto modesto, che un ricco viaggiatore occidentale non esiterebbe a giudicare miserabile. Il caldo poi è soffocante, così come gli sguardi degli avventori che scrutano ogni volto a loro poco familiare con fare indagatorio. Julia Win, giovane newyorchese appena sbarcata a Kalaw, se ne tornerebbe vol ...

Opere

Sun, 9 Oct 2011 21:54:16 PST

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Il volume contiene: . Introduzione dell'autrice . Cronologia . Opere: - Alexis o Il Trattato della lotta vana - Il colpo di grazia - Moneta del sogno - Memorie di Adriano - L'opera al nero - Anna, Soror... - Un uomo oscuro - Una bella mattina - Fuochi - Novelle orientali . Bibliografia

Prestiti scaduti

Sun, 9 Oct 2011 21:53:41 PST

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Sono passati pochi mesi dal matrimonio dell'amata figlia, quando Charitos si trova di fronte a uno strano caso, un omicidio inusuale. L'ex direttore di una grossa banca viene trovato morto nel suo giardino: decapitato in modo netto, probabilmente con una spada. Qualche giorno dopo un altro direttore di banca, stavolta un inglese, va incontro alla stessa sorte: decapitato con un colpo netto. Il fa ...

Chiamami col tuo nome

Sun, 9 Oct 2011 21:32:34 PST

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"Chiamami col tuo nome" è il racconto dell'attrazione improvvisa e travolgente che sboccia tra due ragazzi, il diciassettenne Elio, figlio di un professore universitario, in vacanza con la famiglia nella loro villa in Riviera e un giovane ospite, invitato per l'estate, il ventiquattrenne Oliver, che sta lavorando alla sua tesi postdottorato. Quell'estate della metà degli anni Ottanta viene rievoc ...

The Kite Runner

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 0:24:00 PST

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Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting toumament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him? for he always helps Amir? but this is 1970s Afghanistan and Hassan is merely a low-caste servant who is jeered at in the street, although Amir still feels jealous of his natural courage a ...

The Hours

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:55:34 PST

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Catcher in the Rye

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:54:12 PST

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1951年に『ライ麦畑でつかまえて』で登場してからというもの、ホールデン・コールフィールドは「反抗的な若者」の代名詞となってきた。ホールデン少年の物語は、彼が16歳のときにプレップ・スクールを放校された直後の生活を描き出したものだが、そのスラングに満ちた語り口は今日でも鋭い切れ味をもっており、ゆえにこの小説が今なお禁書リストに名を連ねることにもつながっている。物語は次の一節で語りだされる。 ――もし君が本当に僕の話を聞きたいんだったら、おそらく君が最初に知りたいのは、僕がどこで生まれただとか、しみったれた幼年時代がどんなものだったかとか、僕が生まれる前に両親はどんな仕事をしていたかなんていう「デビッド・カッパーフィルド」調のやつなんだろうけど、僕はそんなこと話す気になんてなれないんだな。第1、そんなの僕自身退屈なだけだし、第2に、もし僕が両親についてひどく私的なことでも話したとしたら、2 ...

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:43:00 PST

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One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop. The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, an expert in the ways of snow and ice, suspects murder. She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow. 21 years after its first UK publication, "Vintage" are reissuing ...

The Night Listener

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:23:51 PST

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Few storytellers in America write with such unerring insight and honesty as Armistead Maupin. Now he has given us his most ambitious and daringly imaginative work, The Night Listener, a novel as spoken-word serial, including an original musical score. Gabriel Noone is a fabulist, a writer whose late-night radio tales have brought him into the homes of millions. In the midst of a painful, unwante ...

Flesh and Blood

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:34:18 PST

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Constantine and Mary Stassos strive to embody the American dream. Bringing up a family in 1950s New Jersey, their hopes are channelled through Billy, Susan and Zoe. But as the children grow, move away and affirm their sexual identities, the repercussions of family life permeate their relationships.

The Shadow of the Wind

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 6:19:08 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 ...

Castelli di rabbia

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:25:21 PST

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Il primo libro di narrativa di Baricco: il romanzo è ambientato nell'Ottocento, in una cittadina immaginaria, Quinnipak; è generoso nel presentare storie e personaggi, ciascuno con i suoi sogni e caratteri. E tra questi ci sono il signore e la signora Rail, che si amano di un amore tutto loro, e il bambino Penth con il suo amico Pekisch, e due bande che partono dagli estremi del paese per incontr ...

Il paese sotto la pelle

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:24:02 PST

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In questo libro, Gioconda Belli racconta la propria vita, intensa eappassionata. Per combattere la dittatura sostenuta dagli Stati Uniti,partecipa alla guerriglia del Fronte sandinista, affrontando rischi enormi evivendo la perdita di tanti compagni e la tristezza dell'esilio. Ma Gioconda èanche, e soprattutto, una donna, assolutamente consapevole della propriaidentità femminile. Ra ...

Sofía dei presagi

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:23:45 PST

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La donna abitata

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:22:57 PST

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This Book Will Save Your Life

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:21:20 PST

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This Book Will Save Your Life is an uplifting story about one man's efforts to bring himself back to life. Richard is a modern-day everyman, a middle-aged divorcee trading stocks out of his home in Los Angeles who needs no one. His life has slowed almost to a standstill until two incidents conspire to hurl him back into the world. One day he wakes up with a knotty cramp in his back, which rapidly ...

Jack

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:20:56 PST

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Death of an Ordinary Man

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:17:37 PST

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Nathan's gravestone offers a short and hopeful summary: At rest. But Nathan is not at rest, and knows he won't be until he can find out how and why he died. A spectral spectator throughout the day of the wake, he listens to his wife, son, daughter, father and best friend, getting to know them like he has never known them before. But there are two things he can't understand: a strange young couple ...

One Day

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:16:24 PST

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La solitudine dei numeri primi

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:09:17 PST

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L'agenzia dei desideri

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:08:13 PST

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Delphine sa che le persone hanno bisogno di illusioni, perfino di bugie, purché rendano la vita migliore. Lo ha capito quando ha incontrato l'anziana signora Derovitski che, dando da leggere alla giovane e povera ma già scaltra Delphine avvincenti romanzi rosa, la educa alla difficile arte della finzione. Così, quando madame Derovitski muore, lasciandole una cospicua eredità, Delphine, trentacinq ...

Al limite della notte

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:08:07 PST

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Peter e Rebecca Harris: due quarantenni, nati e cresciuti a New York, al culmine delle loro carriere: gallerista lui, editor lei. Ricchi, con una figlia universitaria a Boston, pieni di amici, sono ammirati e invidiati da tutti: sembrano felici. Un giorno, però, va a trovarli il fratello di Rebecca, molto più giovane di lei: Ethan (detto in famiglia Mizzy, “l’errore”). Il ragazzo è un bellissimo ...

Silence of the Grave

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:08:00 PST

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Building work in an expanding Reykjavik uncovers a shallow grave. Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and Erlendur and his team hope this is a typical Icelandic missing person scenario; perhaps someone once lost in the snow, who has lain peacefully buried for decades. Things are never that simple. Whilst Erlendur struggles to hold together the crumbling fragments of his own fa ...

Fakirs

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:07:51 PST

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You Don't Love Me Yet

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:07:47 PST

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Lucinda works in an art installation called The Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. And one day, she falls desperately in love with a regular caller. She also plays bass in a struggling band whose lyricist, Bedwin, is suffering from writer's block, and whose lead singer, Matthew, has kidnapped a kangaroo from the local zoo to save it from ennui. When Lucind ...

A Home at the End of the World

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:07:43 PST

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Here are two decades of American life told through four people: Bobby and gay Jonathan, growing up together in a small town in the 1970s; Jonathan's mother Alice; and unconventional Clare, with whom the two grown-up men form a family ...

Motherless Brooklyn

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:07:35 PST

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Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. the Human Freakshow, is a victim of Tourette's syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach and stroke people. Local tough guy hires Lionel and other boys and grooms them to become the Minna Men, a detective-agency-cum-limo service.

The Bell Jar

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:07:28 PST

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Sylvia Plath's only novel is an account of a young woman's breakdown - her attempted suicide, hospitalization and recovery.

Veronika Decides to Die

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:07:22 PST

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The new novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho -- a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. Veronika has everything she could wish for. She is young and pretty, has plenty of boyfriends, a steady job, a loving family. Yet she is not happy; something is lacking in her life, and o ...

The Girl Who Played with Fire

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:07:17 PST

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Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. Two Millennium journalists about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered, and Salander's prints are on the weapon. Her history of unpredictable and vengeful behaviour makes her an official danger to society - but no-one can find her anywhere. Meanwhile, Mikael Blomkvist, editor-in-chief of Millennium, will not believe what he hea ...

By Nightfall

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:07:13 PST

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Il gioco dell'angelo

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:07:06 PST

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Nella tumultuosa Barcellona degli anni Venti, il giovane David Martin cova un sogno, inconfessabile quanto universale: diventare uno scrittore. Quando la sorte inaspettatamente gli offre l'occasione di pubblicare un suo racconto, il successo comincia infine ad arridergli. È proprio da quel momento tuttavia che la sua vita inizierà a porgli interrogativi ai quali non ha immediata risposta, esponen ...

La lunga estate calda del commissario Charitos

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:06:56 PST

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Quando un gruppo di nazionalisti greci si impossessa di un traghetto contrecento passeggeri a bordo, il commissario Charitos capisce subito che nonsarà un caso come gli altri: su quella nave c'è sua figlia Katrina. Iniziacosì un'indagine che metterà con le spalle al muro il poliziotto che ama diredi sé "non sono un Rambo, ma un greco complessato", ma q ...

I labirinti di Atene

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:06:50 PST

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Otto storie, una serie di episodi oscuri legati all'immigrazione e alle dure condizioni di vita in cui si trovano gli immigrati irregolari. Due extracomunitari lottano, fino alle coltellate, per riuscire a lavorare in un mercato ortofrutticolo. Un greco-russo, che ha fatto fortuna in Grecia con un ristorante, si trova vittima della mafia russa, che incendia il suo locale e fa sparire sua figlia. ...

Come Dio comanda

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:06:44 PST

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In una landa ai margini di tutto vivono un padre e un figlio, Rino e Cristiano Zena, uniti da un amore viscerale che si nutre di sopraffazione e violenza. Tirano avanti un'esistenza orgogliosa insieme a un paio di balordi. Un giorno decidono che è arrivato il momento di dare una svolta alle loro vite. Il piano è semplice: scassinare un Bancomat. I protagonisti di questa fiaba apocalittica si ritr ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:06:33 PST

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Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Saland ...

La bambina silenziosa

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:06:28 PST

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Kasper Krone, 42 anni, è il discendente di un'antica famiglia circensetedesca, della quale ha replicato i fasti. Silenzioso e schivo, ha pochepassioni: il poker, i suoi allievi della scuola di circo e la musica di Bach.E proprio per la musica Kasper ha un orecchio incredibile, dono di cui dasempre fa segreto tesoro per ascoltare non solo la sua amatissima musica maanche, all'insaputa degli ...

Middlesex

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:06:22 PST

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In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls school, Grosse Pointe, MI, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between themalong with Callies failure to developleads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs takes us out of subur ...

The Cellist of Sarajevo

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 5:06:15 PST

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Snipers in the hills overlook the shattered streets of Sarajevo. Knowing that the next bullet could strike at any moment, the ordinary men and women below strive to go about their daily lives as best they can. Kenan faces the agonizing dilemma of crossing the city to get water for his family. Dragan, gripped by fear, does not know who among his friends he can trust. And Arrow, a young woman count ...

The Virgin Suicides

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 4:49:11 PST

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This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter’s spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates “the year of the suicides.”

The lighted rooms

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:20:10 PST

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The drowning people

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:19:51 PST

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

Noi

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:19:47 PST

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Anime alla deriva

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:09:18 PST

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Il sole sta tramontando su un mare in tempesta, e James Farrell lo osserva da una finestra di Seton Castle, la residenza in Cornovaglia che, per più di quarant'anni, ha condiviso con sua moglie Sarah. Ma Sarah è morta, ed è stato James ad ucciderla, appena ventiquattr'ore prima. Perché? Perché un uomo pacifico ha ucciso la sua compagna, dopo mezzo secolo di felice convivenza? Le risposte non sono ...

The Lovely Bones

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 0:20:53 PST

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My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer. This is Susie Salmon. Watching from heaven, Susie sees her happy, suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to ...

The Road

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 0:20:07 PST

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By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2007, this is the story of a father and son walking alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. It has been hailed as 'the first great masterpiece of the globally warmed generation. Here is an American classic which, at a stroke, makes McCarthy a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature ...An absolutely w ...

Un luogo incerto

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 0:17:24 PST

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Adamsberg, con l'impagabile Danglard, si trova, un po' annoiato, in Inghilterra per una riunione della Grande Europa poliziesca: si tratta nientemeno che di "armonizzare i flussi migratori" con i colleghi di ventitré Paesi. Ma dove c'è Adamsberg tutto può accadere. E il ritrovamento delle diciassette scarpe - o come dice il preciso Danglard, "diciassette piedi, otto paia e un piede singolo" - spi ...

Specimen Days

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 0:14:13 PST

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One of the most anticipated novels of 2005 from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours. Specimen Days is three linked visionary narratives about the relationship between man and machine. The first narrative, a ghost story set at the height of the Industrial Revolution, tells the story of man-eating machines. An ecstatic boy, barely embodied in the physical world, speaks in the voice of t ...