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I Brancata sono una delle tante famiglie di origine siciliana che in Tunisia hanno cercato l'America, e non sempre l'hanno trovata. In questa cornice cosmopolita, Maria - una bella trentottenne fiera e determinata - vede le sue tre figlie adolescenti diventare grandi. Tutto intorno, una città vivace in cui i nostri protagonisti si muovono in un tempo sospeso tra malinconia e incertezza: con l'indipendenza della Tunisia per molti si avvicina la stagione degli addii.

Il 19 giugno 2022 Massimo Bochicchio - definito dalla stampa "il broker del vip" - si schianta con la sua BMW K75 contro un muro perimetrale dell'aeroporto dell'Urbe. Il corpo è carbonizzato al punto che per accertarne l'identità bisogna ricorrere all'esame genetico. Il giorno dopo, Bochicchio sarebbe dovuto comparire in tribunale per la terza udienza nel processo a suo carico. Le accuse: riciclaggio, abusiva attività finanziaria, truffa. A denunciarlo erano stati trentasette clienti, tra cui l'ex CT della Nazionale di calcio Antonio Conte e altri personaggi di spicco dello sport italiano.

Per Appanah una data, il 1º agosto 1872, segna il punto di partenza di un viaggio nel tempo alla ricerca delle radici. Per i suoi antenati quel giorno rappresenta invece un punto d'arrivo: sono appena approdati a Port Louis, capitale di Mauritius, dopo una traversata di molte settimane. Padre, madre e figlio undicenne hanno lasciato il loro villaggio dell'Andhra Pradesh, in India. Il padre è stato reclutato per coltivare i campi di canna da zucchero dell'Impero britannico.

1850: Dorettas Familie hat schon in Deutschland Klaviere gebaut. Jetzt wagt sie den Sprung nach New York. Trotz harter Arbeit ist der Anfang schwer in den Mietskasernen des deutschen Viertels, aber Doretta findet als Klavierlehrerin Eingang in die Prachthäuser der Reichen. Instrumente von Steinway & Sons werden zum »Must-have« der New Yorker Gesellschaft. 1925: Dorettas Urenkelin Florence begibt sich auf die Suche nach den deutschen Wurzeln ihrer Familie und stößt dabei auf Schweigen und Geheimnisse, die sie sich nicht erklären kann.

Brought to you by Penguin. An electrifying novel about the Nazi who reinvented himself, Albert Speer ‘Which is the most seductive, truth or fiction?’ This is the story of Albert Speer: The protégé. The ‘good Nazi’. The star. The mythmaker. In 1969 Speer, Hitler’s favourite architect...

England, 1605 Anne of Denmark, Queen of England, gives birth to her daughter, her first child since coming to England in 1603 when her husband James succeeded to the English throne. Although they would have preferred a son, both parents are pleased, and their courtiers are thrilled with the...

Charles Dickens' classic novel David Copperfield is loosely based on the life of the author. It tells the story of David Copperfield’s life from childhood to adulthood with all of the hardships, changes, and good fortune that David encounters on his life journey. It focuses on the relationships he develops with a huge cast of characters who he meets as he travels from rags to riches and back again.

Книгу "Прощание с иллюзиями" Владимир Познер написал двадцать один год тому назад. Написал по-английски. В США она двенадцать недель держалась в списке бестселлеров газеты "Нью-Йорк Таймс". Познер полагал, что сразу переведет свою книгу на русский, но, как он говорил: "Уж слишком трудно она далась мне, чуть подожду".

Brought to you by Penguin. 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a shilling a time...

Here are the excruciatingly funny adventures of Suzanne Vale — a young film star and drug addict — who survives a rehab clinic only to rejoin the equally harrowing world of Hollywood. Out there on the edge, despair flips into hilarity, and we're left laughing as Suzanne struggles to come to terms with her various fantasylands.

Brought to you by Penguin. Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 'King of the Beats', needs peace, quiet and sobriety: surrounded and outnumbered he has to 'get away to...

Tadeusz Borowski’s concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion, and prisoners eat, work, and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; where the difference between human beings is reduced to a second bowl of soup, an extra blanket, or the luxury of a pair of shoes with thick soles; and where the line between normality and abnormality vanishes.

My Bondage and My Freedom is Frederick Douglass’s second autobiography, published 10 years after Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Written during his career as a newspaper editor and orator, the book placed Douglass in the international spotlight as a spokesman for American blacks. Examining the meaning of race, slavery and freedom, the book extends the story of his life by providing more detail on his childhood and including his experiences as a traveling lecturer in the United States and Europe.

A sweeping novel about the extraordinary woman who captured Napoleon’s heart, created a dynasty, and changed the course of history—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Traitor's Wife, The Accidental Empress, and Sisi “I absolutely loved The Queen’s Fortune, the fascinating...

Der neue Jostein Gaarder: tiefgründig, philosophisch, eine Einladung zum Innehalten. Albert hat von seiner Ärztin und ehemaligen Geliebten eine schreckliche Diagnose erhalten. Er fährt in die einsam gelegene Hütte der Familie, die an einem Waldsee liegt. Soll er sein Leben selbst beenden, bevor es die tödliche Krankheit tut? Um mit sich selbst ins Reine zu kommen, schreibt er in das Hüttenbuch. Er erzählt, wie er seine Frau Eirin kennenlernte und wie sie als junges Paar in das Märchenhaus einbrachen, das sie später gekauft haben.

It is the turn of the 18th century in Frankfurt, Germany, and young Gutle and Meir Amschel Rothschild struggle to establish themselves in the cramped, restricted Judengasse. But when Meir’s talents as a novice banker catch the attention of a German prince, Meir is afforded entrée into the European world of finance and nobility, and the Rothschilds’ lives are changed forever. As proud as Gutle is of her husband’s success, she is also cautious - very much aware of the fact that her husband’s rise is tied to his patrons’ willingness to “see past” his Jewishness.

This is A Madman's Diary, and Other Stories by Lu Xun, a renowned writer of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun was a novelist, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet who wrote both in Vernacular Chinese and Classical Chinese. He became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai in the 1930s.

A family torn apart. A king with an iron fist. Will their faith be strong enough to survive persecution and reunite? Jeanne is the wife of a wealthy merchant, but now she risks losing everything. Louis XIV's soldiers will stop at nothing to forcibly convert the country's Protestants to the "true" faith. The men ransack Jeanne's belongings and threaten her children. If Jeanne and Jacob can't find a way to evade the soldiers' clutches, their family will face a fate far worse than poverty and imprisonment. They may never see each other again....

In the cold spring of 1936, Arthor Crandle, down-on-his luck and desperate for work, accepts a position in Providence, Rhode Island, as a live-in assistant for an unnamed shut-in. He arrives at the gloomy colonial-style house to discover that his strange employer is an author of disturbing, bizarre fiction. Health issues have confined him to his bedroom, where he is never to be disturbed. But the writer, who Crandle knows only as "Ech-Pi", refuses to meet him, communicating only by letters left on a table outside his room.

It is 1556 and the queen's astrologer, the prophet Nostradamus has uncovered a secret that could destroy the kingdom of France. The queen, Catherine de Medicis, a dabbler in black magic, has decided to get rid of the king's mistress by seeking out the legendary Undying Head of Menander the Magus, known as the Master of All Desires. But she does not know that evil befalls all those who wish upon this accursed object. And the head, in its coffer, has fallen into the possession of a charming, wryly perceptive but stubborn young woman: Sybille Artaud de la Roche.