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A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law—a prosecutor and a madam—who team up to bring down notorious Mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1930s New York, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the million-copy bestseller The Personal Librarian. Eunice Carter...

Read by the author, “Good Morning” is rooted in the author’s sunrise walks in a beautiful little place called Peaceful Valley. Told in the third person, the old man, named “Good Morning”, and a Canada Goose which he named Godfrey, become closer and closer friends over four years of experiences; learning and sharing Life with each other.

The Comandante's Shadow: A Revolutionary's Fall. From Revolutionary Hero to Ruthless Dictator—The Tragic Transformation of a Nation's Dreams. In 1979, Daniel Ortega stood on the palace balcony in Managua, promising democracy and justice to a nation finally free from dictatorship. Forty-six years later, that same palace has become the center of a regime that eliminates opponents, silences critics, and rules through fear—all in the name of protecting the revolution.

She longed for freedom and adventure... but was she truly ready? Twenty-year old Jacqueline Bouvier is anxious to leave her overbearing family for the chance to study in Paris. Aching for freedom from difficult family relationships--and the constant pressure to find a husband--she wants to submerge herself in academics, the arts, and all Paris has to offer. As she sets sail, she has no interest in falling in love. However, her striking beauty catches the eyes of Paris' most elite bachelors--and a mysterious rogue.

Mariam knew she would marry Yeshua and was aware of the work expected of them. They both needed education to be able to fulfill their mission. Through her initiations at the university surrounding the Library of Alexandria and at Ephesus, she becomes a powerful and dangerous priestess. What has been chosen to be revealed, and what has been masterfully hidden, has made the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene even more alluring. Veiled in mystery and obscurity, this fascination has been amplified as more historical facts have come to light.

Debutto nella narrativa dello sceneggiatore di molte commedie cinematografiche di successo, Quei giorni in Provenza si ispira ai diari della moglie scomparsa per coniugare nostalgia e leggerezza. È un road movie della memoria, un viaggio di padre, madre e figlio verso la Provenza: un percorso dei ricordi in cui i luoghi, gli episodi, i dettagli non sono semplicemente "cose vissute", ma "cose che restano", attimi condensati, piccole aguzze pietre miliari nella vita di una coppia e di una famiglia, che sussistono solo se si è uniti dall'amore.

They all crossed paths with Stick Elliott, the best race car driver you never knew. A force to be reckoned with, he drives for money, women, pride, and glory. But he lives for speed. And he’s damn good at it. Stick can make a getaway with a trunk full of moonshine across the Carolina backroads faster than any man around. Now with the homemade liquor business running dry, Stick just needs to catch as many checkered flags as he can on the track, and maybe even the heart of the most beautiful woman he has ever seen.

Este livro, publicado originalmente em 2009, é o testemunho de uma tragédia de proporções impensadas: hospedado em um resort de luxo no Sri Lanka com sua então esposa e seus respectivos filhos, Emmanuel Carrère vê os efeitos devastadores do tsunami que varre a região no final de 2004. Mas este não é um livro sobre a devastação e a ruína. Pelo contrário, pois as pessoas deste relato, pessoas de carne e osso, com suas pequenas e grandes lutas, recusam-se a permanecer no abismo.

Elizabeth Tudor learned resilience young. Declared illegitimate after the execution of her mother Anne Boleyn, she bore her precarious position with unshakable grace. But upon the death of her father, King Henry VIII, the vulnerable fourteen-year-old must learn to navigate a world of shifting loyalties, power plays, and betrayal.

Brought to you by Penguin. Winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger in France and the Premio de la Critica in Spain Conversation-starting and prize-winning international fiction: an extraordinary meditation on violence, conspiracy and the many complex afterlives of the Holocaust Eduardo and his...

En concret, adapta de forma lliure els dos viatges d'Ubach per terres bíbliques, d'Egipte a l'Iraq, plens de riscos físics, que el monjo va emprendre per contrastar les sagrades escriptures amb els seus escenaris reals i aconseguir peces arqueològiques representatives. Alhora, hi afegeix una subtrama que recorre tota l'obra, al voltant de les túniques de la sagrada família de Jesús, la qual accentua el caràcter novel·lesc de la historia.

"Du hast eine Freundin gefunden." Diese Worte markieren die erste Begegnung von Leonard und Virginia Woolf mit dem Pinseläffchen Mitz im Sommer 1934. Unter Leonards liebevoller Fürsorge erholt sich das kränkelnde Äffchen, wird bald zum untrennbaren Teil der Familie Woolf und sorgt in der legendären Bloomsbury Group für Heiterkeit. Briefe und Tagebuchaufzeichnungen inspirierten Sigrid Nunez zu diesem intimen Porträt des Künstlerehepaars - eine berührende Geschichte über die heilsame Kraft der Verbindung zwischen Mensch und Tier.

There is no doubt that Josephus was a traitor, the question is: Why? As governor of Galilee, Josephus defeated the Romans at Beth Horon, northwest of Jerusalem, in 66 A.D., led the people of Jotapata in a heroic resistance against soon-to-be-emperor Vespasian in 68 A.D., then capitulated. Josephus took Vespasian’s family name, Flavius, and fought with the Romans in the siege of Jerusalem. Ultimately, Josephus immigrated to Rome where he wrote: “The Jewish Wars” and “Antiquities of the Jews.” Both are classics of the period.

Todo mundo conhece Daisy Jones & The Six. Nos anos setenta, dominavam as paradas de sucesso, faziam shows para plateias lotadas e conquistavam milhões de fãs. Eram a voz de uma geração, e Daisy, a inspiração de toda garota descolada. Mas no dia 12 de julho de 1979, no último show da turnê Aurora, eles se separaram. E ninguém nunca soube por quê. Até agora. Esta é história de uma menina de Los Angeles que sonhava em ser uma estrela do rock e de uma banda que também almejava seu lugar ao sol.

Michelangelo. Saint Helena. A Catalan politician. A dying Irish banker, an aboriginal tribesman. A Benedictine Oblate nun, a homeless beggar, French soldiers, Mark Antony, Capuchin monks, Dominican friars... and a nondescript 21st century man. Lost in a feedback loop of life, he travels the world searching for something more than he was being told. At various places from Sydney to Dublin, Paris to Rome, and points in between, the world has something to show him. His imagination fills in the blanks.

La Realidad è il nome di un villaggio sulle montagne del Chiapas, in Messico, patria dei popoli indigeni che guidarono la rivolta zapatista. È un luogo in cui ho cercato di andare con la mia amica Maga, ma non ci sono riuscita. Ci sono andata vicina, o almeno così credevo. Ancora oggi, a tanti anni da quel viaggio, non riesco a raccontare esattamente cosa vidi. Ho la sensazione – una strana sensazione perché non riesco a spiegarla appieno – che fosse qualcosa di importante.

Un'aggressione violenta a Granada, e Luz in una notte perde tutto. Unico, misterioso lascito della madre: una scatola bianca con un logo a forma di labirinto, una lettera di presentazione fasulla e un biglietto per Venezia. È così che la ragazza, sedici anni e muta per scelta, si ritrova a lavorare per Mariano Fortuny, l'alchimista delle stoffe. Nel suo palazzo di campo San Beneto, già si stampano con tecniche segrete gli scialli knossos, ambiti dalla buona società di tutta Europa, ma il suo genio instancabile è ossessionato dalla creazione di un abito senza tempo.

Raised in New York's Gilded Age, pampered heiress Sara Wiborg dreams of a more creative life than the rigid future prescribed for her.

Crispus Attucks was the major figure in the early struggle for American independence. A sailor who rallied Bostonians to walk into certain death from an assembled firing squad of British Regulars. His ethnic background was half African American and half Native American. He was born into slavery in 1723 and escaped his enslavement to become a dockyard worker, a whaler and a contract farmer.

March, 1366. Amid the chaos of a war-torn Spain, Geoffrey Chaucer—page to King Edward III and the son of a wine merchant—finds himself thrust into the heart of a boiling conflict between two brothers: King Pedro the Cruel of Castile and his half-brother, Enrique Trastámara. But Chaucer’s task is far from simple. Sent as a reluctant spy by the king, he must locate the elusive mercenary Sir Hugh Calveley and persuade him to change sides in a war that could alter the fate of kingdoms.