Novedades

Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live in: the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to eke out a subsistence, the books of nineteenth-century philosophy that her father gives her to read in lieu of going to school. Her father is elusive about their pasts, giving Jane little beyond the facts that they once lived in the Bay Area and that her mother died in a car accident, the crash propelling him to move Jane off the grid to raise her in a Waldenesque utopia.

The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a powerful standalone parable from The Brothers Karamazov that explores the tension between freedom and authority, faith and reason, love and control.

Выйдя замуж за Нико, Мэгги обрела не только любящего мужа для себя и доброго отчима для своего десятилетнего сына, но и целую толпу новых родственников из клана Фаринелли: высокомерную и властную свекровь Анну, шумного, пылкого деверя Массимо с бесцветной женой Ларой и пугливым сыном Сандро, а также падчерицу Франческу, дочь Нико от сгоревшей из-за рака первой жены. Сколько ни бьется Мэгги, девочка-подросток не желает принимать мачеху, да еще между ними стоит стена семейной тайны... Но Мэгги с ее светлой душой и спокойным оптимизмом не собирается сдаваться!

Lost in the haze between the conscious and the unconscious is the tree of knowledge, science, good and evil. An inexorable iron curtain stretches every time sleep ends, and we enter the conscious with the dawn of each day.Knowledge, skills, and ideas. Everything is lost every morning when we cross the threshold. How many times has it happened to us? We have a dream in which we feel that we receive important answers. And then it all fades away, as the inexorable veil of consciousness falls."Dreamcatcher" is a brief collection of stories from the other side of the threshold, caught while ...

Franklin B Goodman wants to spread love wherever he goes. But love is an emotion he doesn’t understand. In Franklin’s dangerously warped mind, a damaged relationship is like a sick animal. He is willing to take extreme measures to nurse it back to health. And if that doesn’t work… …the only option is to put it out of its misery. On the other side of the River Mersey, murder detectives Nathan Cody and Megan Webley have their hands full with a manhunt to locate the killer of a beautiful and wealthy woman.

« L'innocence volée de ma tendre enfance plane sur mon être depuis le début de ma vie, l'innocence violée et mes années de souffrance, lorsqu'un un père a volé ma fraîcheur et mes envies ! » De rendez-vous à l'hôpital en interrogatoires de police, Astrid fut bientôt prise en charge par la direction des affaires sanitaires et sociales qui a organisé son placement en famille d'accueil le temps de trouver une institution. Alors elle se revoit placée chez la voisine du dessus, chez des amis ou de simples relations, chez des oncles ou des tantes.

In the chilling silence of a remote Vermont house, Iris wakes to find herself chained in a sterile basement, a prisoner of the enigmatic Elias. As she navigates his unsettling kindness and cryptic promises of safety, Iris uncovers a notebook listing other women—Emily, Clara, Sophie—whose fates mirror her own. Haunted by her sister’s death and a secret she’s buried, Iris manipulates Elias’s grief to unravel his motives, only to discover their shared darkness binds them in a twisted dance of guilt and redemption.

Grace and goodness light the way in this inspirational, contemporary story of dreams and new beginnings. Abby's dream of a loving family and meaningful job seem to be slipping from her grasp. Her marriage to Mark has fallen into the routine of his long hours of work and her erratic schedule as a nurse in a busy hospital. Their failed attempt to have a child puts further strain on their relationship. Unhappy in her current job, she needs a break. Abby travels to her parents' farm for a vacation, where she hopes to come to a decision about the future. What does she really want out of life? ...

In a world where hope feels like a distant memory and survival is a daily battle, eighteen-year-old Grace Whithorn is just trying to make it through another day. Haunted by the scars of her past—both visible and invisible—Grace has learned to navigate life with a sharp tongue, a cynical outlook, and a heart that’s been shattered too many times to count. But when a desperate late-night call to a suicide hotline connects her with Ethan Ford, a mysterious and brooding temporary headmaster with his own demons, Grace’s life takes an unexpected turn. Ethan isn’t like anyone Grace has ever met.

What will that last day of your life be like? Will there be any constant that precedes that moment? Would there be any way to predict it? Will it be a different time to all the days lived before? Find out in the thesis that Jesus, lover of psychology, performs to graduate from the career. Jesus is a lover of psychology and his greatest desire is to graduate as soon as possible from that career to be able to immediately practice the profession that he loves since child. A tragic event in his family borders him to make his thesis about the behavior on the last day of life of people who die ...

When single mum Lola Martinez's son, Luca, starts school, she feels that she'll never fit in with the yummy mummies in the playground. Confident, married to wealthy men, with ample free time, they are everything she isn't. However, Lola is invited into the inner circle, surrounded by seemingly friendly people, even if Lola's silence about her child's father puzzles them. Despite herself, Lola quickly becomes involved in playground politics, making as many enemies as friends. But then Lola is brutally murdered, her death rocking the close-knit community.

Ben Nichols learns of the tragic death of his parents while they are on holiday. Devastated by the news, he must learn to carry on living, knowing he’ll never see them again, but realizing he didn’t know them well at all. While he and his wife Sally are away checking on the house he has inherited, her friend Elaine helps his two children cope with their loss by investigating their family tree. She inadvertently disturbs a hornet’s nest of trouble which Sally then has to keep to herself.

Mara è una giovane di Monteguidi, piccolo paese della Val d'Elsa, che all'indomani della Liberazione conosce il partigiano Bube, eroe della Resistenza, e se ne innamora. Con questo romanzo - pubblicato nel 1960 e seguito nel 1963 da una celebre versione cinematografica interpretata da Claudia Cardinale - Cassola si aggiudica il premio Strega e raggiunge il successo anche internazionale.

A novel exploring a woman's escape from an abusive relationship to find herself. A lot of people get pushed around and take it – it’s safer than confrontation. But Teale was finding too much was being taken away from her – her once seemingly secure life was a sham – and it was all beginning to cost her dearly… something had to be done – but the answers were hidden in a veil of lies… She began searching, in hidden places, for someone she’d lost, a long time ago… “Susan Crossman is a breakthrough writer who probes deep into the psyche of her readers, taking them on a ...

Fire flickers in the endless darkness, a beacon for wayward souls. Symbols of renewal and rebirth. Many flock towards the dancing blaze seeking out protection, hoping to recover from battles we all face, At first only one appears, a spark upon the unlit wood. Wisps of smoke turn into a roaring inferno. Showing us, that people take many forms from heroes and mortals, demigods, gods, monsters; everyone seeks out a light. This technicolor of emotion makes one thing clear, no matter what you face in life, no matter what amount of anger, sadness, or fear, nothing will extinguish your eternal ...

"Loved it! Philosophy and psychology are very prominent in this book about love, life, trauma, and death." --Amanda Melton, Reviewer, Reedsy Discovery "Gary Morse’s attention to psychological depth and detail creates a riveting story" --Diane Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review Discover an Epic Tale of Love, Loss, and Resilience Trauma can shatter our lives in an instant. Recovering joy can take a lifetime. Meet John, a thoughtful eight-year-old boy caught between his grieving parents. His overprotective mother and reckless father each cope with loss in their own ways. Defying ...

The replacement of humans has begun. It starts with the voices ... It is war-ravaged China in the 1930’s. John Powers and his fellow group of pilgrims are trying to evade Nationalist forces, communist rebels and the invading Japanese army, all while carrying a strange golden statue and searching for a mysterious woman known as Her. At the same time, John begins hearing voices insisting that he conceive a son with another of the travelers. Who is Her? Why do the voices want John to have a son? Are the voices evidence that John has schizophrenia, as he fears? Or are they something else ...

The Pigeon is a contemplative and subtly humorous exploration of the human condition, set against the backdrop of everyday life. The story follows Sam, a web designer, who becomes inexplicably fixated on a pigeon he sees perched on a ledge outside his window. As he grapples with the bird’s sudden disappearance, Sam begins to question the fleeting nature of existence and his place in the world. His partner, Emily, initially amused by his obsession, grows concerned as his thoughts deepen into an existential reflection.

Bonnie Hunter is done with creeps who treat their families like possessions. Sidelined and angry after a domestic violence call-out went horribly wrong, the detective finds herself seconded to a team tasked with finding a missing young woman. According to her husband, Juliet Keller went to the grocery store and never returned. The husband demands action, but his violent outbursts and controlling behaviour have Bonnie’s family-violence radar on high alert. Convinced he’s responsible for Juliet’s disappearance, Bonnie is single-minded in her mission to disprove his story.

Il romanzo di Isabel Allende racconta la storia di Maya Vidal, un'adolescente che cade nel circuito dell'alcol e della droga a Las Vegas. In fuga da spacciatori e agenti dell'FBI, Maya approda nell'arcipelago di Chiloé, nel Sud del Cile. In queste isole remote, Maya impara a conoscersi e a scoprire verità nascoste sulla sua terra d'origine, trovando infine l'amore. Il romanzo alterna il racconto della difficile storia precedente di Maya, fatta di marginalità e degrado, con la sua rinascita in un'atmosfera di vita semplice e valori solidi.