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A farm in Norfolk in the 1970s. A Japanese girl comes to visit her English lover in the house where he was born. She arrives on a day of perfect summer, stands with his mother in a garden filled with roses, watches as his brother walks fields of ripening wheat. But between the two brothers lies the shadow of their father’s violent death almost 20 years before, the unresolved narrative of their childhood - a story that has gone untold, a story that began in the last war. In the presence of the girl, the old trauma begins to surface as the work of the harvest begins.

Charlie’s experiences at the Battle of Kohima and the months he spent lost in the remote jungles of Nagaland during the Second World War are now history. Home and settled on a farm in Norfolk and newly married to Claire, he is one of the lucky survivors. Starting a family and working the land seem the best things a man can be doing. But a chasm exists between them. Memories flood Charlie’s mind; at night, on rain-slicked roads and misty mornings in the fields, the past can feel more real than the present.

Edith e Andrea, una giovane un po' trasgressiva e un capitano molto rigoroso, si incontrano per caso su un traghetto in direzione Grecia. Da quel momento, le loro vite cambiano per sempre. I due andranno ad abitare su un'isola e lì costruiranno la loro vita insieme. Una storia d'amore semplice eppure deflagrante, che ci pone domande fondamentali: sui legami che forgiamo tra persone, sugli ostacoli che la vita ci mette davanti e sul destino che unisce e separa.

Chegando em Fernando de Noronha para o casamento, Yasmin se depara com um homem do seu passado, só que completamente mudado. E sua amiga a coloca no meio de um contrato de casamento, para que fiquem com todo o dinheiro do bilionário.

Copeland Cane V, the child who fell outta Colored People Time and into America, is a fugitive. He is also just a regular teenager coming up in a terrifying world. A slightly eccentric, flip-phone loving kid with analog tendencies and a sideline hustling sneakers, the boundaries of Copeland’s life are demarcated from the jump by urban toxicity, an educational apparatus with confounding intentions, and a police state that has merged with media conglomerates - the highly rated Insurgency Alert Desk that surveils and harasses his neighborhood in the name of anti-terrorism.

In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk’s marriage of 10 years came to an end. Candid and revelatory, Aftermath chronicles the perilous journey as the author redefines herself and creates a new version of family life for her daughters. She discovers previously unknown strengths and freedoms, but also finds herself suddenly vulnerable to outsiders, unwelcome advice, social displacement, and the absence of a clear authority. The pressure to reconstruct a “normal” life for her daughters competes with the sense that nothing feels normal at all.

Existen algunos elementos que llaman la atención a una persona que observe detenidamente el diario vivir y la manifestación de la Vida en el Multiverso.

Deva Landry is relieved to be rescued from the MC princess life. But now the angel who saved her is back to collect payment.The cost? Deva is assigned to babysit bad-boy cage fighter Aleksei Voronov, forcing her back into the murky underworld of Chicago. Prepared for the worst, she’s shocked to uncover a kindred spirit, a wounded soul like hers. Chaos strikes, and the two are thrown together on an impromptu mission to stop a city-wide massacre.

La familia de un joven juez se encuentra amenazada. ¿Por qué los Young tienen que elegir entre la vida o la muerte? Tucson, Arizona, 2015, Día de Acción de Gracias. Rex y Sarah Young reúnen a toda su familia en su nueva casa. Los Young acaban de mudarse a la ciudad para que Rex se incorpore como juez. El día del desfile de Acción de Gracias Salma, la hija de catorce años de la pareja desaparece durante veinticuatro horas. Tras una búsqueda angustiosa por toda la zona, encuentran a la chica que tiene una nota para su padre.

Ci sono molti modi per immergerti completamente nel spagnolo: prendere lezioni di spagnolo, guardare film o serie TV coi sottotitoli spagnolo, seguire corsi online, unirsi a una comunità in cui si parla spagnola viaggiare in un paese di lingua spagnola, leggere libri. Questo libro ti propone un modo semplice ma efficace per imparare il spagnolo attraverso storie per principianti.

Men are disappearing from Toronto's gay village. They're the marginalized, the vulnerable. One by one, stalked and vanished, they leave behind small circles of baffled friends. Against the shifting backdrop of homophobia throughout the decades, from the HIV/AIDS crisis and riots against raids to gentrification and police brutality, the survivors face inaction from the law and disinterest from society at large. But as the missing grow in number, those left behind begin to realize that whoever or whatever is taking these men has been doing so for longer than is humanly possible.

Nei primi anni ottanta, nella severa Ashdown vive un gruppo di studenti: Gregory, che studia medicina e ha la mania di spiare il sonno altrui; Veronica, una lesbica volitiva, ultrapoliticizzata e appassionata di teatro; Terry, che dorme quattordici ore al giorno e da sveglio sogna di girare un film che richiederà cinquant'anni di riprese; Robert, romantico studente di lettere, che scrive poesie d'amore per Sarah; e Sarah, appunto, intorno alla quale girano le vicende di tutti gli altri. Dodici anni dopo, Ashdown è diventata una clinica dove si cura la narcolessia.

All'istituto Santa Sofia, Jacopo è il solo maschio della classe, e a otto anni il suo rapporto con le donne è già complicato. A partire da quello con la madre, che gli fa imparare a memoria versi di Majakovskij, spegne i mozziconi di sigaretta nei piatti ed è divorata dalla voglia di vivere.

For Lani, her dream of becoming a renowned contemporary painter is worth more than anything else until reality hits back and forces her to review her priorities. After all, she needs to eat and pay the rent. On the verge of collapse, a phone call offers her an amazing opportunity. Her estranged uncle has died and named her in his will.

Dawn, mist clearing over rice fields, a burning Vietnamese village and a young photographer takes the shot that might make his career. The image, of a staring soldier in the midst of mayhem, will become one of the great photographs of the war. But what Jonathan has seen in that village is more than he can bear. He flees to Japan, to lose himself in the vastness of Tokyo and to take different kinds of pictures: of streets and crowds and cherry blossom - and of a girl with whom he is no longer lost. Yet even here his history will catch up with him

Quando la giovane Virginia si presenta al cospetto del barone Vito Giordani, annunciandogli di essere incinta di suo figlio, il barone la crede una cacciatrice di dote. D'altro canto, non ricorda di aver mai incontrato la ragazza, tantomeno carnalmente. Tuttavia Virginia non aspira affatto ai soldi del barone: orfana di madre e cresciuta da un padre violento, la giovane desidera solo un posto tranquillo dove dare alla luce il proprio figlio. Respinta con freddezza dal barone, Virginia sparisce.

Even without a memory, the world is a dark and damned place. There are things around us that regular people don’t know about.... I know those things. I’ve done those things. It’s the way of this world when you’re on the throne. This temple is rightfully mine. I am the crown. This isn’t just my life. It’s my soul. My empire. My fortress. And her. She’s too sweet, so innocent, so naïve to the world around her and I want to immerse myself in it. But there is an ill twist hanging in the air.

River - der Fluss - ist in diesem Roman die Elbe bei Hamburg-Blankenese, ein mächtiger Strom mit Containerschiffen und Sportbooten, mit Stimmungen und Farbwechseln. Und er ist der Fluss des Geldes, gigantischer Geldsummen, die den Globus von Konto zu Konto umrunden, weit schneller als die Schiffe, die die dazugehörigen Waren transportieren. Schließlich ist es der Fluss der Zeit, des Werdens und des Vergehens, der Toten und der Lebenden.

No era un príncipe, ni un líder, ni un prelado, no tenía ningún título oficial... y sin embargo hablar con él era como conferir directamente con el Santo Padre, se movía con facilidad en el complejo tablero político de aquel período pero nunca dejaba rastro alguno, escribía la historia todos los días pero nunca aparecía en ninguna de sus páginas... estaba en todas partes y sin embargo era como si no existiera.

Obra que cifra su actualidad en el análisis de un periodo histórico determinante en la conformación del Estado mexicano moderno. El libro de Carlos Martínez Assad examina las revueltas que se suscitaron durante el gobierno cardenista en San Luis Potosí; en apariencia se trata de un tema tan específico de historia regional que bien podría pasar inadvertido entre los numerosos ensayos que sobre la gestión de Cárdenas hay escritos, mas no es así.