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Его зовут Чезаре Аннунциата, ему семьдесят семь лет, и семьдесят два года и сто одиннадцать дней жизни он пустил коту под хвост. Но теперь пришло время жить на полную катушку! Наслаждаясь жизнью, он с удовольствием болтает все подряд – о себе, жене и любовницах, о чокнутых соседях и взрослых детях. Однако когда появляется загадочная соседка Эмма, Чезаре сразу хочется ей помочь. Может быть, потому, что она замужем за сомнительным человеком. А может быть, все дело в том, что она напоминает ему о самой большой тайне его жизни.

Usaron su influencia y poder para ayudar a los nazis, ahora tendrán que pagar el precio. Mientras Europa se prepara para la inminente guerra contra los alemanes, en Inglaterra las fascinantes hermanas Mitford dominan la escena política, literaria y social. Aunque en el pasado han enfrentado escándalos por su comportamiento libertino, todo se sale definitivamente de control cuando Diana se divorcia de su acaudalado esposo —el heredero de la tradicional cervecería Guinness— para casarse con un líder fascista.

I was a sixteen-year-old runaway when I worked my way to the edge of the Jackson River Bridge and peered at the moonlit water swirling below. To be fair, I wasn't an ordinary sixteen-year-old. I had an affliction akin to autism that left me with fragmented memories of my childhood, memories that inspired nightmares filled with demons that tormented me while I slept and awoke me screaming in the dark void of my room. Even I understood that I had few choices, and all were bad.

In the throes of crisis, Rome braces for change. Caesar, Rome’s greatest general and conqueror of Gaul, now faces being stripped of his command and dragged back to Italy for prosecution by his enemies. His former ally, Pompey, has sided with his opponents in the Senate and frustrates all efforts to find peace. With no alternatives, Caesar crosses the Rubicon and spearheads an invasion of Rome with Mark Antony at his side, throwing the empire into civil war. Will Antony rise to the heights of power or be executed as a traitor?

The family of Lord Francis Seaforth lives under the shadow of a dark prophecy. Over a century ago, Coinneach Odhar, known as the Brahan Seer, foresaw the demise of the Seaforth line. There is little doubt among Scottish Highlanders that the end of the dynasty is drawing near. Mary Mackenzie, eldest daughter of Lord and Lady Seaforth, is determined to enjoy the privileged life which seems her birthright. But after her father accepts the British governorship of Barbados, Mary experiences an awakening of conscience.

Delve into the tumultuous life of Morgan Conner, whose serene existence is shattered when scandal strikes her picture-perfect world. As the devoted wife of a respected figure in both social and religious circles, Morgan navigates the delicate balance of public image and private reality. However, one fateful morning, her tranquil facade is violently disrupted when the accusatory words, cheating wife, are spray-painted on her property, thrusting her into a maelstrom of judgment and scrutiny.

A freak auto accident on a rainy night in Hawaii leaves a young man dead. The year? 1980. The young man? Mark David Chapman. Eighteen years later, Paul McCartney decides to honor his wife Linda’s passing with a benefit concert. Twenty eight years after the break-up, Paul calls his three oldest friends. “Hey lads, let’s put on a show…”The world has been waiting a lifetime for a Beatles reunion and now it’s here. Or is it?

Kane Metclaf loves playing pool and had dreams of an NBA career before life got in the way! But the old man he encounters in the dank pool room in NYC may give him the chance he never thought he would have. What he doesn’t realize though, is that for every up there is a down and for every dream there is a sacrifice. How will he choose between his family’s very existence and his own mobility in exchange for all his dreams to come true? How would YOU choose?

Einmal durch die Hölle und zurück. Ein Jahr, dominiert von wummernden Beats, ekstatischen Abenteuern, Alkohol und Drogen. Ein Jahr, das mich mehr über das Leben gelehrt hat, als all die Zeit davor und danach. Ein Jahr, das dich mitreißen wird wie eine Achterbahn, aus der es kein Entkommen gibt. Ein Jahr, das ich beinahe nicht überlebt hätte.

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L'incredibile storia vera dei Catalano, gli immigrati siciliani che incantarono l'America con la loro musica. La Sicilia di inizio Novecento è una terra bellissima e crudele, che non fa sconti. Rosario Catalano lì non ha futuro; la sua passione per la musica e l'amore incondizionato per Rosa non bastano. Così, i due innamorati decidono di partire in cerca di fortuna nella scintillante New York. In poco tempo, il quartetto siciliano di Rosario conquista i cuori degli americani portandogli fama e ricchezza, ma anche tradimenti e gelosia.

In the wake of a major operation, a twenty-eight-year-old woman with chronic illness has twelve weeks to heal, or rather, to acclimate to her new body and prepare herself to leave the routines, comforts, and interiority of her convalescence. In the hydrotherapy pool, she meets Frida, a young woman who looks strikingly similar to her and is also in a state of recovery. But Frida sees her chronic illness as something to overcome and her body as something to control. She adores the pool and pushes the herself toward an active life, relentlessly pursuing the prevailing narrative of illness.

Ronny Allard has held down several jobs, but one stands out more than the others. His role as an undertaker exposed him to a world of death, rotting flesh and sadness. The Undertaker Down Under is a collection of short stories written from the undertaker's perspective. In each story, Ronny describes the scene and imagines the life lost and lived.

Sam Carlson is a projectionist in small-town Minnesota, where fantasies unspool in glorious black and white—for him and for his sweetheart, college-bound math whiz Sarah Haber. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Sam is sent to the Philippines and captured as a POW. Brutalized but unbroken by the Bataan Death March and POW camps, Sam is one of eighteen hundred starved and weakened prisoners herded into the cargo hold of a barbaric hell ship called the Arisan Maru, his survival doubtful.

In the rugged and beautiful mountains of Oregon, Ron Spears, a war veteran seeking peace and purpose, builds a life as a gold miner. For thirty years, he lives a solitary existence on his claim, wrestling with the ghosts of his past and the relentless pursuit of gold. His isolation is broken by the return of his sons, Ryan and Mitchell, who find him and bring him back to Winona, Missouri, where he reunites with his daughters, Mary and Colleen, and spends his final days surrounded by family.

Blood Pudding renders vividly, at times violently, the raw struggles of the colorful Malinowski family, immigrants from Poland. Gritty, patient, always loving, their son Tad runs a gauntlet of painful and humiliating boyhood cruelties. Above Tad's clear voice, we hear the cold constant heartbeat of a growing industrial city, whose restless yet noble soul surely resides in the lives of these very immigrants.

Jane Seymour has risen to become a lady in waiting to Queen Katherine, wife of King Henry VIII, but Jane has joined the household of the true Queen at a time most dangerous, as the King seeks to end his marriage to Katherine, and take Anne Boleyn as his Queen. Through years of struggle, Jane will watch as the England she knows, and the faith she honours are torn apart by the King's wish to take a new wife, and to break from the power of Rome. Devoted to her beloved mistress, Queen Katherine, Jane makes an oath to do all she can, to save England and its King.

“In queste pagine unisco,” chiarisce De Luca nell’Introduzione, “storie estreme di genitori e figli.” La narrazione si rinsalda nelle radici della storia tramandata: si inizia da Isacco, naturalmente, dalla mancanza di legittima difesa contro il padre – la legatura di Isacco, in ebraico così ci si riferisce a quello che noi di solito chiamiamo “il sacrificio”, perché quel nodo stretto fra lui e Abramo è irreparabile. Nodo che sembra potersi sciogliere solamente diventando a propria volta genitori, “passaggio che fa scordare e slega dallo stato di figlio”.

From international bestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood, Katharine, the Wright Sister is an unforgettable novel that shines a spotlight on one of the most important and overlooked women in history, and the sacrifices she made so that others might fly.

At the onset of the first World War, E.G. Lewis wielded his outsized charm and entrepreneurial spirit to attract legions of women to move across the country to build a new American dream in Atascadero, California. His new city, envisioned to rival Los Angeles and San Francisco, targeted the millions of subscribers to his national women's magazines who longed for a utopia designed for progressive women and their families.