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La mitologia greca ci ha lasciato un'eredità infinita di storie, un enorme immaginario collettivo che ha letteralmente plasmato la cultura occidentale. Storie da riscoprire e che a distanza di millenni sono ancora attualissime. In questo audiolibro Gaetano Marino ci racconta la vicenda di Cassandra, figlia di Ecuba e del re di Troia Priamo. Sacerdotessa del tempio di Apollo, Cassandra ricevette in dono dal dio del Sole un terribile dono: prevedere il futuro senza però essere mai creduta.

Princess of Troy, sister of Hector and Paris, Priestess of Apollo. Blessed by the Sun God with the gift of prophecy, and then - for rejecting his advances - cursed by him to never be believed. Diomenes, the enemy Achaean with the healing hands, and Cassandra become puppets of the gods. Their passions are thwarted, their gifts rendered useless for the sake of a wager between two immortals. And now doomed, magnificent Troy is burning. If Cassandra and Diomenes find each other, can their love survive the games of malicious gods, victorious warriors and hated kings?

Everything has a price . . . Railway magnate Tom Severin is wealthy and powerful enough to satisfy any desire as soon as it arises. Anything—or anyone—is his for the asking. It should be simple to find the perfect wife—and from his first glimpse of Lady Cassandra Ravenel, he’s determined...

Many years have passed since the dramatic events of Pride and Prejudice. In The Cousins of Pemberley series we follow a new generation of heroines - cousins with lives as different and interesting as those enjoyed by their mothers. Cassandra Wickham, daughter of a flirt and a scoundrel, an innocent abroad in a world where money can buy you anything, even a bride. When danger threatens and the man she thought she could rely on fails her, there is only one place she can turn to for help...Pemberley.

Cassandra attende davanti alla porta della fortezza di Micene che si compia il suo destino. Agamennone, che l'ha portata con sé come bottino di guerra, varca la soglia oltre la quale lo attende sua moglie Clitennestra per ucciderlo. Nel tempo che le resta, Cassandra ricorda gli eventi che hanno portato alla rovina di Troia, la sua città.

Bloomsbury presents The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, read by Frazer Douglas. **OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD** WINNER OF THE ORANGE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION THE INTERNATIONAL SENSATION A SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Captivating' DONNA TARTT 'I loved it' J K ROWLING...

In Barbara Quick's luminous novel, 18th-century Venice comes to life in all its splendor and decadence. The Grand Inquisitor's spies lurk everywhere, and yet the city's inhabitants abandon themselves to the revelry and masques of Carnival for half the year. This is the world as seen beyond the barred windows of her cloister by 14-year-old Anna Maria dal Violin, one of the orphan musicians of the Ospedale della Pietà, where Antonio Vivaldi is resident priest and composer.

Brought to you by Penguin. Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver... There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny...

Candidato al Premio Strega 2023, "Cassandra a Mogadiscio" è uno struggente memoir dove affiorano e si intrecciano insieme la travagliata storia del popolo somalo e la storia familiare e autobiografica dell'autrice. Il risultato è un vero e proprio racconto intergenerazionale che parla di identità e colonialismo; dell'Italia e della Somalia e di un possibile, per quanto difficile, perdono.

Den magtfulde og velhavende jernbanemagnat Tom Severin har alt, hvad hjertet kan begære - undtagen en hustru. Så hvorfor er det så svært for ham at finde den rette? Da Tom fanger det første glimt af den smukke og begavede lady Cassandra Ravenel, ved han, at han har fundet den perfekte kvinde - men selv om Cassandra drages mod den charmerende, men også skruppelløse Tom, vil hun aldrig kunne blive hans. Hun længes efter at gifte sig af kærlighed, dén ene ting han tilsyneladende aldrig vil kunne give hende.

The New York Times bestselling author of Promise Not to Tell returns with a simmering literary thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters . . . sometimes too unbreakable. West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange...

Inghilterra, 1833. Cassandra Pomfret ha molti pregi e qualche difetto. Il peggiore dei quali, secondo l'augusto genitore, è la lingua tagliente che si ritrova. Dopo l'ennesima opinione scandalosa, la giovane riceve un ultimatum: dovrà trovare un marito che la tenga a bada, oppure l'adorata sorellina rimarrà zitella. Lucius Beckingham, Duca di Ashmont, è uno scapestrato con molti difetti e qualche pregio.

Tom Severin, o magnata das ferrovias, tem dinheiro e poder suficientes para realizar todos os seus desejos. Por isso, quando resolve que está na hora de se casar, acha que deve ser fácil encontrar a esposa perfeita. Assim que ele pousa os olhos em lady Cassandra Ravenel pela primeira vez, decide que ela é essa mulher. O problema é que a bela e perspicaz Cassandra é tão determinada quanto ele, e faz questão de se casar por amor—a única coisa que Tom não pode oferecer. Além disso, ela não tem o menor interesse em viver no mundo frenético de alguém que só joga para vencer.

Les origines du monde des chasseurs d'ombres, en pleine révolution industrielle... Tessa débarque à Londres pour rejoindre son frère. Mais à peine arrivée, elle tombe dans un piège : enlevée par les horribles sœurs soires, elle développe des pouvoirs qu'elle ignorait posséder. Jusqu'au jour où Will, un chasseur d'ombres, la libère et lui apprend qu'elle est une créature obscure. Un nouveau destin attend Tessa dans un monde mystérieux où vampires, sorciers et autres créatures de l'ombre règnent en maîtres.

When Helen Honeycutt falls in love with Emmet Justice, a charismatic television journalist who has recently lost his wife in a tragic accident, their sudden marriage creates a rift between her new husband and his oldest friends, who resent Helen's intrusion into their tightly knit circle. Hoping to mend fences, the newlyweds join the group for a summer at his late wife's family home in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Martha Hall Kelly’s million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced readers to Caroline Ferriday. Now, in Sunflower Sisters, Kelly tells the story of Ferriday’s ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse during the Civil War whose calling leads her to cross...

What if the blood spilled along the Rio Grande was never about bandits, border raids, or revolution… —but about a secret powerful men were willing to bury beneath history itself? From 1914 to 1919, as the world burned in the fires of the First World War, the American Southwest became the...

**The spellbinding new retelling of the story of Troy drawn from the perspective of the fearless women at the heart of it all.** 'The story and its characters swept me up and engulfed me, I could not put this one down' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ REAL READER REVIEW 'I was glued to it from beginning to...

When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be - until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father’s past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will reaffirm the listener’s belief in the power of love to move mountains.

From the critically acclaimed author of The Baker’s Secret and The Curiosity comes a novel of conscience, love, and redemption—a fascinating fictionalized account of the life of Charlie Fisk, a gifted mathematician who was drafted into Manhattan Project and ordered against his morals to...