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Giugno 1940. I nazisti occupano Parigi e gli abitanti fuggono verso le campagne. Irène Némirovsky era tra loro e in questo romanzo incompiuto ha saputo raccontare la gioia nascosta sotto la tragedia della vita: le famiglie Pèricand e Michaud, Lucile Angellier e Bruno von Falk, sono alcuni dei memorabili personaggi di una delle più belle sinfonie che la letteratura abbia composto.

Eine der größten literarischen Wiederentdeckungen der letzten Jahre. Sommer 1940: Die deutsche Armee steht vor Paris. Voller Panik packen die Menschen ihre letzten Habseligkeiten zusammen und fliehen. Angesichts der existentiellen Bedrohung zeigen sie ihren wahren Charakter.

Un'auto di lusso sfreccia nella notte lungo l'autostrada che collega Roma a Milano. A bordo c'è il conte Lamberto Rissotto, che possiede un'importante industria metallurgica e la dirige con sapienza, nonostante le difficoltà legate alla crisi economica del Paese. L'uomo ha fretta di rincasare per chiudere immediatamente ogni rapporto con la bellissima moglie Armanda, perché ha appena scoperto la sua ultima imbarazzante follia.

Growing up in Brooklyn, Samantha Bonti knew the writer's life she was meant to live waited across the bridge in Manhattan. Summoning the courage to break free from an abusive mobster boyfriend, Sam finally leaves Bensonhurst and begins her new life, working as a temp in a Wall Street brokerage firm. Quickly, she's swept off her feet by Wall Street player Alec DeMarco, a man of boundless energy, appetites, desires, and the wealth to indulge it all.

As she gears up for her sister’s destination wedding in Hawaii, the countdown is on for Gigi to find a date. Just someone to prove to her friends and family that she's ok, and to stop the pitying looks would be great! Of course she can’t wait to be bridesmaid for her sister, but it’s just not ideal that the best man is also her ex… especially when he is bringing his hot new reality star girlfriend! But when Gigi arrives at the hotel in Hawaii to find there has been a mix-up with her room, and she’s been upgraded to a suite, things start to look up.

This fabulous, far-reaching book breathtakingly captures the tumult, ambition, hardship and serenity that mark modern India. Theroux's characters risk venturing far beyond its well-worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A holidaying middle-aged couple veer heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned-up Boston lawyer finds relief in Mumbai's reeking slums. A young woman befriends an elephant in Bangalore.

Au pays d'Oz, le jeune adolescent, Liir, a été vu pour la dernière fois dissimulé dans un recoin poussiéreux de Kiamo Ko, le fameux jour où Dorothy a éliminé la Sorcière. Quelques années plus tard, meurtri et plongé dans le coma, il est soigné au Cloître de Sainte-Glinda par une novice prénommée Candèle qui use de ses talents musicaux pour le faire voyager dans ses souvenirs. Alors que le pays d'Oz, après le départ du Magicien, traverse une période d'instabilité politique ouvrant la voie à toutes sortes d'ambitions, Liir parviendra-t-il à survivre assez longtemps pour devenir adulte ?

Bottom feeders beware: the Sunshine State’s favorite psychotic killer and lovable Floridaphile Serge Storms has found a new calling, legal eagle, and he’s going to make a killing as a crusading attorney—and star as a dashing lawyer on the big screen—in this madcap escapade from the...

"Reading The Suite Spot is like wearing bunny slippers and drinking cocoa in a blanket fort (with a really hot guy)--the ultimate comfort read to escape into when you need a break from the world." - Roni Loren, New York Times bestselling author of What If You & Me We stand there on the brink of...

Obra literária obrigatória para o vestibular Unicentro (PR) 2025. Romance que consolida um dos nomes mais importantes da literatura brasileira contemporânea. É uma manhã qualquer quando Maju atravessa a praça ao lado de Cora. Puxando a garota pelo braço, ela passa sorrateiramente pelo exército branco, sobe a avenida, pega um ônibus e desaparece. Exército branco foi o nome que Fernanda, mãe de Cora, deu às babás que todos os dias lotam a praça daquele bairro de classe alta com as crianças de seus patrões.

The veil between the living and the dead is obscured, chaos becomes panacea, and characters take drastic measures into their own hands. Survivors of all kinds seek strategy and solace: a group of homeless people organize an occupation of vacant condos, a new resident to a disturbing neighbourhood tries to make sense of madness, a dog investigates the sudden disappearance of his owner. The five intertwined vignettes in the title story are set in a Caribbean country where the spectre of the sugar plantation haunts everyone.

With her besties in the Big Easy, Nydia Santiago is second-guessing staying behind in New York City. So when Jasmine Washington calls with the exciting news that she's getting married, Nydia happily rushes to New Orleans to be her maid of honor. Once she visits the lovely Garden District estate her friends are transforming into a luxury inn, she's wistful to join them in their venture. Then she meets the sexy engineer in charge of the renovation. With his seductive Southern drawl, Lamar Pierce could make her believe in love again.

Den (ehemaligen) Bänker Reinhard Cebulla und den Cellisten Martin Rummel verbindet seit 1996 eine Freundschaft durch die von Cebulla betriebene "Kunstwerkstatt am Hellweg", wo Rummel als einer der ersten Musiker*innen nach deren Gründung auftrat. Neben der Leidenschaft für die Musik teilen die beiden auch eine Leidenschaft für Literatur, und so entstand 2002 – mehr aus einer Laune heraus als aus ernsthafter schriftstellerischer Absicht – in einer Art "Email-Pingpong" ihr erster gemeinsamer Roman "Suite Opus Eins".

Dernier volet de la vengeance de Lagardère. Parviendra-t-il à tenir son serment ?

Hugo Pratt, con “Una ballata del mare salato” realizzò nel 1967 un fumetto estremamente innovativo. In quest’indimenticabile avventura corale compare per la prima volta il suo ironico antieroe, Corto Maltese.

Tony®- and three-time Emmy®-nominated Producer Mia Moravis brings to you stellar performers from Broadway, Off-Broadway, London's West End, the Bristol Old Vic, and stages across the country, narrating eleven of Oscar Wilde's most engaging, poignant, and mirthful short stories! "The Oscar Wilde Story Suite" is narrated by Annabel Capper, Philip Hernández, Laura Rocklyn, Gail Shalan, Justin Spencer, and Mia Moravis.

Lagardère doute. Arrivé trop tard sur les lieux, il ne peut que constater la tour effondrée. Aurore est-elle toujours vivante ?

Si tu ne vas pas à Lagardère, Lagardère ira à toi ! Les aventures d'un légendaire bossu, justicier du duc de Nevers et de sa fille la belle Aurore. Le fils de Paul Féval a donné au "Bossu" une suite aux rebondissements multiples. Pour cela, il a modifié le dernier chapitre du "Bossu". Philippe de Gonzague enlève Aurore et se dirige vers l'Espagne.

Visitors try to retrieve lost daughters, remember drunken nights, deal with denial in a big way best friends coming unraveled. Just like Simon’s Plaza Suite (also available from L.A. Theatre Works), we have four couples who separately inhabit the same Beverly Hills hotel suite, bringing along their problems, anxieties, and comical marital dilemmas.

Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successively occupying a suite at the Plaza Hotel. A suburban couple takes a suite while their house is being painted, a Hollywood producer calls a childhood sweetheart for a little sexual diversion, and a mother and father fight about the best way to get their daughter, the bride, out of the bathroom and back to the wedding.