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As a widowed mother of three, new love seems impossible for Freya - until she meets Duncan, and suddenly she feels alive again. While Freya’s older children are less than welcoming, six-year-old Sophie helps Duncan find his place in the family - but even Sophie harbours fears that threaten to overshadow any chance of a new start. The past is hard to leave behind when pictures of Freya’s idolised late husband hang in every room, and the more Duncan tries to find the source of Sophie’s anxiety, the more he is convinced that Reuben was not the perfect husband and father Freya remembers.

PRIX RENAUDOT 2020. Le fils, c'est André. La mère, c'est Gabrielle. Le père est inconnu. André est élevé par Hélène, la sœur de Gabrielle, et son mari. Il grandit au milieu de ses cousines. Chaque été, il retrouve Gabrielle qui vient passer ses vacances en famille. Entre Figeac, dans le Lot, Chanterelle ou Aurillac, dans le Cantal, et Paris, Histoire du fils sonde le cœur d'une famille, ses bonheurs ordinaires et ses vertiges les plus profonds, ceux qui creusent des galeries dans les vies, sous les silences.

The Book-Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. This is a story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error.

È mattina, e Fie non vede l’ora di ricevere il suo messaggio quotidiano. Poche righe che contengono un compito da svolgere per tornare a vivere davvero e rompere la monotonia di giornate sempre uguali. Da qualche settimana, infatti, segue un calendario dell’Avvento in cui a ogni casella corrispondono un consiglio, un obiettivo o una motivazione. Non è certa di farcela, ma non ha nulla da perdere, e decide di accettare la sfida: solo così, in fondo, può mettersi in gioco davvero. A inventare questo stratagemma è stata sua sorella.

Орхан Памук — известный турецкий писатель, обладатель многочисленных национальных и международных премий, в числе которых Нобелевская премия по литературе за «поиск души своего меланхолического города». Новый роман Памука «Мои странные мысли», над которым он работал последние шесть лет, возможно, самый стамбульский из всех. Его действие охватывает более сорока лет — с 1969 по 2012 год. Главный герой Мевлют работает на улицах Стамбула, наблюдая, как улицы наполняются новыми людьми, город обретает и теряет новые и старые здания, из Анатолии приезжают на заработки бедняки.

When Gina Bianchi returns to the beautiful Italian resort of Portofino to attend her father’s funeral, she is beset by vivid memories of World War 2, when she joined the Resistance, alongside her identical twin sister, Adele. In her childhood bedroom, Gina reads Adele’s diary, left behind during the war. As Gina learns the shocking truth about her sister, she’s compelled to face the harsh realities of her own past.

In this slim memoir, Theodor Kallifatides explores the interplay of meaningful living and meaningful work, and the timeless question of how to reconcile oneself to aging. But he also comments on worrying trends in contemporary Europe - from religious intolerance and prejudice against immigrants to housing crises and gentrification - and his sadness at the battered state of his beloved Greece. Kallifatides offers an eloquent, thought-provoking meditation on the writing life, and an author’s place in a changing world.

La vie n'est pas une comédie musicale. Une femme et deux enfants, un emploi, une maison dans un lotissement où s'organisent des barbecues sympas comme tout et des amis qui vous emmènent faire du paddle à Biarritz... Axel pourrait être heureux, mais fait le constat, à 46 ans, que rien ne ressemble jamais à ce qu'on avait espéré. Quand il reçoit un courrier suspect de l'Assurance maladie, le désenchantement tourne à l'angoisse. Et s'il était temps pour lui de tout quitter ? De vivre enfin dans une comédie musicale de Broadway ?

Scritto in risposta alla frase pronunciata dal ministro Depretis "bisogna sventrare Napoli!", il romanzo, scritto nel 1884, è molto più di un'inchiesta giornalistica. "Il ventre di Napoli" è un grido accorato di denuncia che conduce il lettore negli splendori e nelle miserie di Napoli, con le sue usanze e le sue tradizioni, laddove il degrado, la miseria e lo scempio non possono che generare rabbia e pietà.

The opening story in this collection follows Vinny, Kevin, and a mourning family from Liverpool on a journey to Wales. What should be a simple trip turns into something much darker. A cross between Roddy Doyle and Ken Follett, this political storytelling meets you wherever you are on life’s journey, and stays with you.

In old Bari, everyone knows Maria De Santis as “Malacarne,” the bad seed. Nicknamed for her dark features, volcanic temperament, and resistance to rules, the headstrong girl can only imagine the possibilities that lie outside her poverty-stricken neighborhood. Growing up with her mother, two brothers, and a tyrannical father, Maria must abide. She does - amid the squalid life to which she was born, the cruelties of her small-minded neighbors, and violence in a constant threat of eruption.

It starts in the sixties and roars into the seventies. Across the western world, a generation strangled by their parent’s outdated values and political hypocrisy, reject the postwar affluence and take to the highways. In search of freedom and truth, the hippie generation is on the move. Disillusioned by Vietnam, Ken leaves the Army and takes to the highways, the seas, and the lure of international travel. Starting in Turkey, he explores Greece, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and Morocco, indulging in all that life has to offer. Where Wild Olives Grow is a five-year experiment—a smorgasbord ...

Muhammad Asad (1900-1992), the Jewish convert to Islam who rose to fame with his autobiographical work, The Road to Mecca, and Alija Izerbegovic (1925-2003), the Bosnian leader during the Balkan wars, were men imbued in Islam's spiritualising and moralising force that translated into political activism. Their intellectual journeys will inspire a younger generation of concerned Muslims, who look to religion not just as a private affair or cultural phenomenon, but as a paradigm with its own norms and notions, including the project of an Islamic state.

Los caídos narra la descomposición moral y el distanciamiento radical entre los miembros de una familia cubana que aún comparte el mismo hogar. La corrupción espiritual de un país inmerso en el hambre y la privación actúa como detonante, aquello que lleva al padre comunista, a la madre gravemente enferma, a la hija resignada y al hijo resentido a convertirse en enemigos irreconocibles, aunque ninguno de ellos entienda realmente cómo y por qué todo aquello ha sucedido.

Ils se sont aimés, à l'âge des possibles, puis quittés, sans réelle explication. Dix-huit ans plus tard, ils se croisent, presque par hasard, à Montréal. Qui sont-ils devenus ? Qu'ont-ils fait de leur jeunesse et de leurs promesses ? Sont-ils heureux, aujourd'hui, avec la personne qui partage désormais leur vie ? Le temps d'un dîner de retrouvailles - à quatre - chaque mot, chaque regard, chaque geste est scruté, pesé, interprété. Tout remonte à la surface : les non-dits, les regrets, la course du temps, mais aussi l'espérance et les fantômes du désir.

Nanà a Milano di Cletto Arrighi è un ritratto vivace e spietato della borghesia milanese dell’Ottocento. Con ironia tagliente e una prosa incisiva, il romanzo ci porta nel cuore di una città in fermento, tra salotti eleganti e tensioni sociali, dove il progresso incontra il conformismo. Arrighi, con sguardo acuto, svela ipocrisie e contraddizioni di un’epoca che somiglia fin troppo alla nostra. Un’opera imprescindibile per chi ama la letteratura che racconta, provoca e lascia il segno.

Emiliano, un joven sin perspectivas de futuro estancado en Miami, recibe una tentadora oferta económica por parte de un reality show alemán. El único detalle es que su padre, el poeta Alfonso Dubuc, debe acompañarlo. El anciano está convencido de ser el mejor escritor de América Latina y jura tener el vigor sexual de un adolescente. Para él, la próxima invitación debería venir de Suecia y anunciar un premio Nobel. En medio hay una madrastra que todo lo resuelve con unas pastillas anaranjadas. En el pasado, un momento fundacional del mito, y un lugar: La Habana de principios de los ochenta.

Editorial Audio Libro CD, tiene el placer de presentarle la mejor colección de audiolibros en castellano, con acento español. Presentados en formato MP3, están grabados por profesionales del doblaje y la locución, con una calidad excepcional. Estas grandes obras íntegras, contienen fondos musicales creados especialmente para cada una de ellas por músicos profesionales.

It's 1978. Ponte, a small community in Northern Italy: peaceful woods, discarded rubbish, a closed-down factory. An unbearably hot summer like many others, wilted flowers and trips to the waterfalls. Elia Furenti is 16, living in a secluded house with his parents, a life so unremarkable that even its moderate unhappiness has been accepted as normal. That is until the day the beautiful, damaged Anna returns to Ponte and firmly propels Elia to the edge of adulthood. But then everything starts to unravel.

Ricreando attraverso la scrittura i meccanismi della memoria, dove il tempo si dilata e si contrae sovrapponendo immagini, pensieri, sentimenti e luoghi, Jón Kalman Stefánsson intreccia i destini di quattro generazioni di donne e uomini, vite effimere come le nuvole nei cieli d’Islanda, la cui incessante ricerca di un senso – nella vita, nel bisogno di radici, nell’inesorabilità della morte e del desiderio, è assoluta ed eterna.