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Prima carte a lui George Orwell, Fara un sfant prin Paris si prin Londra este o relatare emotionanta si foarte detaliata a celor citiva ani de saracie autoimpusa prin care a trecut scriitorul dupa ce s-a intors din Birmania. Aflat in cautarea propriei voci narative, Orwell repudiaza societatea...

Finalul exploziv al trilogiei începute cu volumul Ucide-l pe Tată Un atentat sângeros comis la Veneția o lasă pe Colomba Caselli mai mult moartă decât vie. În timpul masacrului, Dante Torre, genialul anchetator care a fost ținut prizonier toată copilăria î...

Il primo martedì di gennaio il dottor Hans Kuperus lascia Sneek, il paesino della Frisia in cui vive, e si reca ad Amsterdam. Compra una rivoltella...

Ernestina Micou in Jussiaume, detta la Stangona, da lei arrestata diciassette anni fa in rue de la Lune, e che per mandarla in bestia si spogliò, sollecita l'onore di parlarle al più presto di una questione della massima importanza"; questo c'è scritto sull'apposito modulo che in una torrida giornata d'estate il vecchio usciere consegna al commissario Maigret. Il nome non gli dice niente, e neanche il soprannome, ma la scena Maigret se la ricorda: allorché il commissario alle prime armi aveva cercato di arrestarla, quella ragazzona lunga lunga si era stesa sul letto completamente nuda.

Das Märchen ist auch als die Lichtprinzessin bekannt, obwohl die schwerelose Prinzessin eine bessere Übersetzung ist. Ein Königspaar bekommt nach langer Wartezeit endlich eine kleine Prinzessin. Bei der Taufe des Mädchens, zu der alle Verwandtschaft eingeladen wurde, war die Tante nicht dabei.

In Truth Matters, Cornel West and Robert P. George address a range of social issues on which Americans today are bitterly divided. Their book models robust intellectual engagement and civil discourse as they explore vital questions surrounding the idea of truth and its foundational role in our lives.

This witty romance follows Robert Hervey Randolph and his adventures through the glitter and drama of early 20th-century New York City as a gentleman of leisure turned taxi driver for love.

Never Kiss With Your Eyes Closed presents a well-rounded assortment of situationships while offering a nuanced exploration of the male psyche and the complexities of connection, love, and understanding. Through his writing, Darian invites readers into the unknown world of Small-town, USA, before taking them on an international journey that bridges cultures and experiences with insight and honesty.

When cougar-shifter Lily Mason moves to Moonrise, Missouri, she wishes for only three things . . . to find a job, to find a place to live, and to live as a human. Lily gets more than she bargains for when a rescue pit bull named Smooshie rescues her from an oncoming car. Lily's new life as an integrator is threatened when Smooshie finds Katherine Kapersky, the local church choir leader and head of the town council, dead in the field behind the rescue center.

We experience longing in every season of life, whether we ache for a spouse or a child, for healing in brokenness, or for clearer direction in our calling. As Rebecca George reminds us in this highly relevant message, we can fall into resentment about what we lack—or we can see our unmet desires as an invitation to draw closer to a trustworthy God.

No longer is the climate emergency purely an external threat to our wellbeing: this profoundly political circumstance is deeply personal. The summer after giving birth, Sarah Marie Wiebe and her baby endured the 2021 heat dome in British Columbia, with temperatures over 20 degrees above normal, creating all-time heat records across the province. It was the deadliest weather event in Canadian history. The extreme heat landed Wiebe in the hospital, dehydrated and separated from her nursing baby from dawn until dusk. So began a year of mothering through heat, fires and floods.

George Egg is the comedian that cooks. Melding together his love for both worlds, George is renowned for his playful, nostalgia-infused snack hacks that are a heady cocktail of the contemporary and the classic. In this audiobook, George opens the larder door to a world of culinary memories and heart-warming stories that continue to inspire him to this day.

No cabe duda de que la sociedad se rige por normas con frecuencia caprichosas que poco tienen que ver con las leyes naturales. Sólo así se explicaba el matemático David Hilbert la condescendencia con la que sus compañeros de la prestigiosa Universidad de Gotinga trataban a la brillante Emmy Noether, madre del álgebra abstracta, por el hecho de ser mujer.

In 1943, three years into World War II, Orwell wrote "Looking Back on the Spanish Civil War," a long meditation on his memories. Orwell reminisces about his experiences in the Spanish Civil War. He remembers the foul living conditions, the overflowing latrines, and the poor quality of the meager food. It is often necessary to fight wars to preserve one's life or the freedom of the nation, and war is necessarily evil and vile. Atrocities are perpetrated by all sides in nearly all wars - the Spanish Civil War was no exception.

Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. Its target audience was the middle and upper class members of society—those who were more likely to be well educated—and exposes the poverty existing in two prosperous cities: Paris and London. The first part is an account of living in near-destitution in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens.

Award-winning author James W. George transports his readers to Puritan New England once again in this short novella inspired by the Book of Job. Sometimes solemn, often zany, but always sincere, this quick listen explores the powers of good and evil influencing our lives in unimaginable ways, as well as the importance of thankfulness and praise.

This is a story about two boys who, at birth, were inexplicably switched, a switch that would dramatically change the author’s life in every aspect—religion, ethnicity, economics, and culture. Time and time again, the two boys’ paths cross with one another’s before ultimately discovering, decades later, that they aren’t who they spent their whole lives believing they were.

Bitches Brew is still one of the most astonishing albums ever made in either jazz or rock. Seeming to fuse the two, it actually does something entirely more revolutionary and open-ended: blending the most avant-garde aspects of Western music with deep grooves, the album rejects both jazz and rock for an entirely different idea of how music can be made.

Chloe still can't believe the magic carpet ride her life has become. From a career-and-romantic crash-and-burn as a Parisian pastry chef, she turned things around by starting the Baked by Chloe cannabis café in her seaside hometown of Azalea Bay, California. Now one of the town's hottest spots, the café has earned a coveted booth in the Bay's famous summer ice cream festival and Chloe is excited to introduce her cannabis-infused flavors. Plus, a rave review by influential podcaster and food critic Calista Bryant is sending Chloe's sales into orbit—with no bad vibes in sight.

In Green Data Dominion, ambition, innovation, and ethics collide. Liam West, a visionary from Halifax, discovers a groundbreaking solution: clean, solar-powered, decentralized servers. Partnering with billionaire disruptor Nathaniel Ashcroft, he takes on the tech giants who’ve hidden their dirty “green” practices behind a façade of sustainability.