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Tre cani enormi (e qualche umano)
Markus Zusak ci apre le porte di casa per raccontare di come la sua famiglia abbia avuto la brillante - o forse folle - idea di adottare tre cani abbandonati. Reuben, che sembra più lupo che cane; Archer, che mordicchia fino a distruggere il tappeto buono e poi ti guarda con aria innocente, come a dire: 'Be', è colpa tua'. E Frosty? Demolisce casa e poi si accuccia accanto a te, tenero e tranquillo, mentre chiami il falegname per chiedere un preventivo. Il risultato? Caos totale. Tra risate, imprevisti e danni permanenti al giardino, la catastrofe sembra inevitabile. Eppure, proprio in mezzo a quella confusione, accade qualcosa. I fallimenti diventano lezioni, il disordine si trasforma in un terreno fertile per crescere e, sopra ogni cosa, esplode un amore così intenso da rendere impensabile tornare indietro. Tre cani enormi (e qualche umano) è un memoir ironico e spietato, che racconta lo scompiglio, i legami che ti cambiano e quella bellezza disordinata che solo un animale può portare nella tua vita. Una lettera d'amore agli errori più belli e a chi ci aiuta a commetterli.
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Storia di una ladra di libri
È il 1939 nella Germania nazista. Tutto il Paese è col fiato sospeso. La Morte non ha mai avuto tanto da fare, ed è solo l'inizio. Il giorno del funerale del suo fratellino, Liesel Meminger raccoglie un oggetto seminascosto nella neve, qualcosa di sconosciuto e confortante al tempo stesso, un libriccino abbandonato lì, forse, o dimenticato dai custodi del minuscolo cimitero. Liesel non ci pensa due volte, le pare un segno, la prova tangibile di un ricordo per il futuro: lo ruba e lo porta con sé. Così comincia la storia di una piccola ladra, la storia d'amore di Liesel con i libri e con le parole, che per lei diventano un talismano contro l'orrore che la circonda. Grazie al padre adottivo impara a leggere e ben presto si fa più esperta e temeraria: prima strappa i libri ai roghi nazisti perché 'ai tedeschi piaceva bruciare cose. Negozi, sinagoghe, case e libri', poi li sottrae dalla biblioteca della moglie del sindaco, e interviene tutte le volte che ce n'è uno in pericolo. Lei li salva, come farebbe con qualsiasi creatura. Ma i tempi si fanno sempre più difficili. Quando la famiglia putativa di Liesel nasconde un ebreo in cantina, il mondo della ragazzina all'improvviso diventa più piccolo. E, al contempo, più vasto. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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Il ponte d'argilla
'C'era una volta, nella marea del passato dei Dunbar, una donna che aveva molti nomi.' C'erano stati anche un nonno con la passione per i miti greci, una nonna e la sua macchina da scrivere, un pianoforte consegnato nel posto sbagliato, una ragazza con le lentiggini che amava le corse dei cavalli, e un padre che, dopo la morte della moglie, aveva abbandonato i suoi cinque figli: Matthew, Rory, Henry, Clay e Tommy. I fratelli Dunbar. Costretti a vivere soli, e a definire da soli le regole della propria esistenza. E quando il padre tornerà sarà Clay l'unico dei fratelli che accetterà di aiutarlo e costruire con lui un ponte, concreto e metaforico nello stesso tempo: lo farà per la sua famiglia, per il loro passato, per il loro futuro, per espiare le colpe, per affrontare il dolore. Lo farà perché lui è l'unico che conosce tutta la storia, e per questo è obbligato a sperare. Ma fino a che punto Clay potrà portare avanti la più difficile di tutte le sue corse? Quanti degli ostacoli che la vita gli ha posto davanti riuscirà a superare? Quanta sofferenza può sopportare un ragazzo?
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De bruggenbouwer
In de perfecte chaos van een huis zonder volwassenen, voeden vijf broers elkaar op volgens hun eigen regels. Hun moeder is gestorven, hun vader is gevlucht. Terwijl de Dunbar jongens met elkaar vechten, samen lachen en samen hun verdriet verwerken, probeert Matthew als oudste de rol van zijn ouders over te nemen in het ontwrichte gezin. Tot Michael, hun vader, op een dag plotseling weer binnenstapt met een verrassend verzoek. Slechts één van hen accepteert en besluit mee te gaan. Het is Clay, de vierde zoon, getormenteerd door een lang begraven geheim.
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Basic Bech
Basic Bech combines two classic titles -- Bech: A Book and Bech is Back -- from one of John Updike's most beloved characters.Henry Bech the celebrated author of Travel Light has been scrutinized canonized and vilified by reviewers academics critics and readers across the world. Suffering from temporary impotence and not-so-temporary writer's block Bech finds renewed fame when he returns to his native America and Think Big his all-time blockbuster hits the shops . . . In these classic novels by John Updike we return to a character as compelling and timeless as Rabbit Angstrom: the inimitable Henry Bech. Famous for his writer's block Bech is a Jew adrift in a world of Gentiles. As he roams from one adventure to the next he views life with a blend of wonder and cynicism that will make you laugh with delight and wince in recognition.Praise for John Updike:'Our time's greatest man of letters - as brilliant a literary critic and essayist as he was a novelist and short-story writer. His death constitutes a loss to our literature that is immeasurable' Philip Roth'Alert funny sensuous. Here is a writer who can do more or less as he likes' Martin Amis'One of the most protean of American writers . . . For a writer whose prose can be so lush and hyper-charged he has always been in contact with the material detritus of everyday life' The Times'He was the ideal son of a platonic union between John Cheever and J.D. Salinger with Nabokov attending the christening as fairy godfather' James WoodJohn Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. His novels stories and nonfiction collections have won numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize the National Book Award the National Book Critics Circle Award the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in January 2009.
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Io sono il messaggero
L'esistenza di Ed Kennedy scorre tranquilla: ha diciannove anni, una passione sfrenata per i libri, un lavoro da tassista piuttosto precario che gli permette di vivacchiare, e nessuna prospettiva per il futuro. Tutto sembra così tremendamente immutabile: finché il caso mette un rapinatore sulla sua strada, e Ed diventa l'eroe del giorno. Da quel momento, comincia a ricevere strani messaggi scritti su carte da gioco, ognuno dei quali lo guida verso nuove memorabili imprese. E mentre Ed diventa sempre più popolare, inizia a domandarsi: da dove arrivano i messaggi? Chi è il messaggero?. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
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Miss Nightingales Nurses
Kate Eastham trained as a nurse and midwife on the Nightingale wards of Preston Royal Infirmary. She has well over thirty years of experience working in hospital, residential and hospice care. Born and bred in Lancashire, she is married with three grown-up children and one grandchild. Always reading, she went on to gain a degree in English Literature and was inspired to write after researching the history of nursing and her own family history, with its roots in Liverpool, northern mill towns and rural Lancashire.
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Fraud
'Oh she'll turn up all right. Somewhere or other. Trouble is we won't know where to look.'Slowly almost imperceptibly Anna Durrant's acquaintances realize that Anna has gone missing. Normally so reliable so helpful she has neglected what duties remain to her after the death of her mother and taken flight. Lawrence Halliday the family doctor trapped in a trying marriage to the predatory Vickie is the first to notice Anna's disappearance. Mrs Marsh a critical friend of Anna's mother had hoped that her arrogant son Nick might take an interest in Anna but he is seeking greater sophistication and worldliness. And as for Anna herself she has not so much disappeared as ceased to exist as the woman they all thought they knew.
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Blood-Drenched Beard
Blood-Drenched Beard is Daniel Galera's gripping visceral fast and atmospheric English-language debut. His father shoots himself and all he's left with is the old cattle dog and a vague desire for explanation. He loves swimming so he travels to Garopaba a quiet little town on the Brazilian coast where his grandfather disappeared in mysterious possibly brutal circumstances decades before. There in the midst of romantic flings and occasional trips he comes to discover more than he could ever have imagined - not just about his grandfather but also about himself. 'Coolly seductive . . . a tensely atmospheric novel whose glassy surface conceals a dangerous undertow' Guardian 'Make sure you buy this book before the summer is over. A page turner which pulls it punches in all the right places it is witty modern and deceptively emotional - with lots of flirting and swimming to add to the mix' Deborah Levy 'Succeeds in creating an unsettling contrast between the beauty of this sleepy paradise and its sinister underbelly . . . an honest disturbing portrait of a town that is we discover a predatory place at its heart' Financial Times Daniel Galera was born in Sao Paulo in 1979. He co-founded the influential publishing house Livros do Mal and has translated David Foster Wallace Zadie Smith and Irvine Welsh into Brazilian Portuguese. He has published a collection of short stories and three novels as well as an acclaimed graphic novel (with Rafael Coutinho). Alison Entrekin's translations include City of God by Paulo Lins; The Eternal Son by Cristov o Tezza and Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector.
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Gretel and the Dark
Gretel and the Dark is Eliza Granville's dazzling novel of darkness evil - and hope.For fans of Markus Zusak's The Book Thief and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth.Vienna 1899. Josef Breuer - celebrated psychoanalyst - is about to encounter his strangest case yet. Found by the lunatic asylum thin head shaved she claims to have no name no feelings - to be in fact not even human. Intrigued Breuer determines to fathom the roots of her disturbance.Years later in Germany we meet Krysta. Krysta's Papa is busy working in the infirmary with the 'animal people' so little Krysta plays alone lost in the stories of Hansel and Gretel the Pied Piper and more. And when everything changes and the real world around her becomes as frightening as any fairy tale Krysta finds that her imagination holds powers beyond what she could have ever guessed . . .'A powerful terrifying story. It is impossible not to find yourself racing through the pages. Heartbreaking and heart-racing.' The Times'Dark and intriguing . . . a highly clever original book' Daily MailEliza Granville was born in Worcestershire and now lives in the Welsh Marches. She has had a life-long fascination with the enduring quality of fairytales and their symbolism and the idea for Gretel and the Dark was sparked when she became interested in the emphasis placed on these stories during the Third Reich.
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Ashenden
Elizabeth Wilhide's debut novel Ashenden traces the history of an English house across two and a half centuries.When Charlie and Ros inherit Ashenden from their aunt Reggie a decision must be made. The beautiful eighteenth-century house set in acres of English countryside is in need of serious repair. Do they try to keep it in the family or will they have to sell?Moving back in time in an interwoven narrative spanning two and a half centuries we witness the house from its beginnings through to the present day. Along the way we meet those who have built the house lived in it and loved it; those who have worked in it and those who would subvert it to their own ends including Mrs Trimble housekeeper to the rackety spendthrift Mores; the wealthy Henderson family in their Victorian heyday; six-year-old Pudge; Walter Beckmann prisoner in its grounds.A novel about people architecture and living history Ashenden is an evocative and allusive reflection on England and its past.'Lively interlinked historical vignettes display distinct post-Downton commercial savvy . . . a pleasurably subtle web of connections . . . a beguilingly effortless read' Daily Mail'An engrossing debut . . . a sparkling jewel: full of fascinating detail high drama and sly wit' Amanda Foreman'I adored this book; I saw it as a sort of love letter to a vanished way of life and a slice of English history at the same time tracing as it does the lives of all the people who lived in Ashenden a beautiful English country house for over two hundred years. It's very touching and very compelling' Penny VincenziElizabeth Wilhide is the author of over 20 books on interior design decoration and architecture and a co-author and contributing editor to some 30 other titles collaborating with authors such as David Linley Terence Conran and Tricia Guild. Born in the United States she has lived in Britain since 1967. She lives with her husband an architect and their two children in the East End of London.
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Die Bücherdiebin
"Die Bücherdiebin" ist ein modernern Klassiker und Weltbestseller und wurde 2014 erfolgreich verfilmt.Molching bei München. Hans und Rosa Hubermann nehmen die kleine Liesel Meminger bei sich auf - für eine bescheidene Beihilfe, die ihnen die ersten Kriegsjahre kaum erträglicher macht. Für Liesel jedoch bricht eine Zeit voller Hoffnung, voll schieren Glücks an - in dem Augenblick, als sie zu stehlen beginnt. Anfangs ist es nur ein Buch, das im Schnee liegen geblieben ist. Dann eines, das sie aus dem Feuer rettet. Dann Äpfel, Kartoffeln und Zwiebeln. Das Herz von Rudi. Die Herzen von Hans und Rosa Hubermann. Das Herz von Max. Und das des Todes. Denn selbst der Tod hat ein Herz. Eine unvergessliche Geschichte vom dunkelsten und doch brillantesten aller Erzähler: dem Tod. Tragisch und witzige, zugleich wütend und zutiefst lebensbejahend - ein Meisterwerk.
€ 20,00