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Notes from a Small IslandAfter nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to move his wife and kids back to his homeland of the United States. But not before taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. The...

Tutta n'ata storia è il racconto onesto e leggero di luoghi, fatti e personaggi della storia moderna napoletana. È un manuale per studenti che vogliono solo imparare. È un libro per curiosi che si vogliono acculturare. È una guida per un'insolita visita di Napoli. È, soprattutto, un libro di Storia.

In Viaggio nelle Puglie, Raffaello Mastrolonardo invita il lettore a riscoprire una terra che la modernità ha semplificato, ma che nella sua storia resta profondamente plurale. Attraverso un moderno Grand Tour, l'autore attraversa la Capitanata, la Terra di Bari e la Terra d'Otranto, intrecciando memorie personali e ricerca storica. Il racconto si muove sulle tracce di Federico II, lo Stupor Mundi, la cui eredità vive nei castelli e nelle cattedrali romaniche che punteggiano il territorio.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. You have wanted this trip for years, and now you are staring at a map of two hundred islands, wondering whether Santorini is worth it, whether Mykonos is your kind of night, and how anyone gets from Athens to a Cycladic village without losing two days...

An unexpected and devastating decision by a large Swedish company hits the owner of a major Munichbased supplier like a bombshell. In sheer desperation he hires a man with a criminal record to pressure the Swedish CEO into reversing the disastrous decision. Two months later a spectacular...

Découvrir Bordeaux tout en philosophant, le pari fou et plein d'humour d'Yves Cusset. « J'aimerais redéployer ce plaisir philosophique et méditatif rare de la promenade, et m'amuser à faire pour cela de Bordeaux un ensemble de méandres où perdre sa pensée… pour mieux y retrouver des bribes de questionnement sur nous-mêmes et le monde qui nous entoure. » Imaginé comme un guide, « Promenades philosophiques dans Bordeaux » est un prétexte à la philosophie en marchant.

Det är hösten 1995. En fredagseftermiddag får kriminalinspektör Stig Alm besök av Örjan Högbom, vice ordförande i Centerdemokraterna och en av kandidaterna till posten som ny partiledare. Högbom är övertygad om att han kommer att bli mördad på söndag. Han berättar om ett...

En skuldsatt man hittas död på rälsen vid Neglinge station. Det ser ut som ett solklart självmord ända tills rättsläkaren konstaterar att mannen redan var död när tåget körde över honom. Kommissarie Arvidsson är övertygad om att en ökänd penningutlåneare ligger bakom mordet...

Trace a contested Viking Age stronghold's rise into a vibrant Nordic capital in this sweeping European history. Perfect for an engaging daily commute or while planning your Scandinavian travel itinerary, this vivid narrative transforms Baltic waterways into epic battlegrounds of trade and empire...

Three women destined to find each other and forge a new path to happiness. Mellissa Knight thought she had a happy life in Devon—until Geoff, her husband of twenty-five years announces he’s off to take the gap year he never had. Within days, he’s gone. Reeling, Mel seizes an unexpected...

Von Ale bis Pils, Weizen, Stout und alkoholfrei Bier ist nicht nur ein Getränk. Bier ist ein Kulturgut, das uns seit Jahrhunderten verbindet. Der Bestsellerautor Jaroslav Rudiš, der aus dem Bierparadies Böhmen stammt und in dessen Geburtsstadt sogar ein Bier nach ihm benannt ist, setzt dem...

Professor Hans Rekke and Micaela Vargas have earned a reputation for solving the unsolvable. But they've never been confronted by a serial killer. That changes when Rekke receives a visit from Spanish chief inspector Rafael Corales, who is unable to forget the unsolved murder of a young woman in...

“A lyrical and moving exploration of the ways in which the heart governs even the pursuit of a life of the mind, this is a book for anyone who has ever loved Rome, as well as anyone who shares the experience of having found, in an unfamiliar history, their own unexpected home.” —Rebecca...

The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school in Paris—a true story of triumphing over French naysayers and falling in love with a city along the way “An engaging, multilayered story of a woman navigating innumerable cultural differences to...

AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A vivid and enthralling account of the historical and cultural events that defined Budapest, a unique city in the heart of Europe, on the fault line between East and West—from the critically acclaimed author of Lenin “A compelling portrait of one of...

“Riveting—a delicious odyssey full of history, humor, and jaw-dropping stories. If you want to understand the making of modern Russia, read this book.” —Daniel Stone, bestselling author of The Food Explorer A high-spirited, eye-opening, appetite-whetting culinary travel adventure by an...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home. “Personal, warm, and lovely . . . a charming read. The book feels like a warm conversation with your...

“You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in...

In this evocative work of what the author in his afterword calls “a kindof novelistic memoir,” Jay Parini takes us back fifty years, when he fled the United States for Scotland—in flight from the Vietnam War and desperately in search of his adult life. There, through unlikely circumstances...

A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we...