Títulos em Ficção Literária

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The Great War may be over, but brilliant scientist Billie McKennan continues the fight to be taken seriously. When a deliberate omission wins her a marine biologist position aboard an expedition funded by a wealthy eccentric, she quickly discovers she’s not the only one keeping secrets. The opulent Eurybia sets sail for the Gulf of California with a handful of well-to-do passengers and talented scientists on board. To Billie’s surprise, her ex-husband counts among them.

NOTA: I proventi eventualmente ed effettivamente percepiti dalla distribuzione di questo audiolibro, sono interamente devoluti per scopi benefici a Enti e Associazioni del Terzo Settore e, in particolare:

Chacun des personnages mis en scène dans ce très beau texte par Béatrice Hammer voit l'amour faire balancer son destin. À la croisée des chemins, comment fait-on pour choisir l'espoir ?

In the brutal, concrete landscape of Diston Town, teenage Des Pepperdine is doing his best to stay invisible—reading poetry, avoiding trouble, and nursing a dangerous secret. But his guardian, Lionel Asbo, is a ferocious presence: a pit bull-breeding, tabloid-devouring career criminal with a...

In the heat-soaked summer of 1970, twenty-year-old Keith Nearing, a literature-obsessed student, navigates the confusing new freedoms of love and lust during a holiday in an Italian castle. Surrounded by beautiful women, political awakenings, and shifting gender roles, Keith becomes both...

Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolaño is a forthcoming title from Farrar, Straus and Giroux...

Thomas Hardy offers a quiet meditation on fate, character, and the subtle turns of the human heart. This story reflects Hardy's enduring concern with moral struggle and the slow, often silent shifts within the self.

Nico ed Elsa si sono conosciuti durante gli anni dell'università, a Roma. Mentre il paese era paralizzato dalla crisi economica e i loro coetanei andavano all'estero per cercare lavoro o per trovare se stessi, si sono innamorati sfacciatamente, e a quell'amore si sono aggrappati come a una scialuppa durante una tempesta. Dopo qualche anno di appartamenti condivisi e lavori precari, sono stati assunti da pANGEA, una multinazionale che si occupa di sviluppo sostenibile e transizione ecologica: in pratica, di aiutare i brand ad apparire più etici e green.

Um sich von der Trennung von ihrem Freund abzulenken, krempelt Amber ihr Leben völlig um: Sie stürzt sich gemeinsam mit ihren Pflegegeschwistern in die Renovierung des alten Hotels und sucht sich dazu noch einen weiteren Job. Dort läuft sie bereits an ihrem ersten Tag ausgerechnet Brian in die Arme.

Den Großteil seines Lebens verbrachte der Bruder mit Träumen und Hoffen: auf eine erfolgreiche Karriere als Handwerker, auf Wohlstand, auf die Liebe des Vaters. Doch die Realität sah anders aus, Glücksspiel und Alkohol beherrschten sein Leben. Der Roman ist die Geschichte seines Zusammenbruchs, und zugleich ein zärtliches Porträt über den Bruder, der in bewegenden Szenen immer wieder versucht, dem jüngeren Édouard einen anderen Weg ins Leben zu weisen als den eigenen.

«Tutto ha inizio con due gemelli che una madre disperata è costretta ad affidare alla nonna, lontano da una grande città dove cadono le bombe e manca il cibo. La nonna è una "vecchia strega" sporca, avara e senza cuore e i due gemelli, indivisibili e intercambiabili quasi avessero un'anima sola, sono due piccoli maghi dalla prodigiosa intelligenza.

When Frida Slattery and John Reddan meet in a Dublin pub in 2006, neither can imagine how they will come to shape and define each other’s lives. Frida is struggling to launch her acting career, while John is already gaining a name for himself as a director. From the first, they see in each other potential and the chance to create work that matters, though the lines between collaboration and exploitation, friendship and desire will prove dangerously slippery.

Quirky, charming and suffused with the footloose spirit of the sixties, this is the irresistible story of an English woman who decides on a whim to move herself and her two young daughters to Morocco. The ensuing adventure takes them through richly perfumed markets, dilapidated hotels and mystical Sufi retreats, via friendships and feuds, romances with nomadic street performers, hitchhiking, and nights camping by the coast—all seen through the eyes of a precocious five-year-old girl.

Recently divorced postal worker Ilmari Nieminen has promised his daughter a piano for Christmas, but with six days to go – and no money – he's desperate. A last-minute job offers a solution: transport a valuable antique sofa to Kilpisjärvi, the northernmost town in Finland. With the sofa secured in the back of his van, Ilmari stops at a gas station, and an old friend turns up, offering to fix his faulty steering wheel, on the condition that he tags along. Soon after, a persistent Saab 96 appears in the rearview mirror. And then a bright-yellow Lada.

When the fate of Áróra's missing sister, Isafold, is discovered, Áróra is relieved that she can halt a search that has taken over her life, even if the mystery remains unsolved. But when Isafold's boyfriend – chief suspect in her disappearance – is found dead in the same place that Isafold's body was found, Áróra begins to lose her grip on reality. To distract herself, she dives headfirst into a money-laundering case that her friend Daníel is investigating.

Soldier hat ihr erstes Kind bekommen. Ihr Mann geht zur Arbeit, trainiert in der Garage seine Muskeln und steht ihr mit guten Ratschlägen zur Seite. Während Soldier ihren einsamen Überlebenskampf am Rande des Wahnsinns führt, rettet sie die Begegnung mit einem alten Freund, der selbst Vater von drei Kindern ist.

A crime committed in desperation is brought to light generations later, in this emotional saga of family love, loyalty, and lies . . . When Honey McCarthy is given a box containing trinkets left to her by her beloved great-aunty Beryl, she has no idea that hidden inside is a confession to a terrible crime dating back to a cold December night in 1940, when German bombs rained down on Manchester. Beryl has been the guardian of this dark secret for twenty years. Now it is Honey's responsibility, and she has a difficult choice to make.

Thomas, a young German musician, is dying. His older boyfriend, a renowned Italian writer named Leo, finds it impossible to watch the slow and inevitable demise of his lover. So, he condemns himself to wandering the earth instead, moving cities every few weeks in the hope of finding the dividing line between the living and the dead.

In A Quitter’s Paradise, the darkly humorous debut by bold, new voice Elysha Chang, a young woman does everything she can to ignore her mother’s death, even as unearthed family secrets become increasingly inextricable from her own.