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The year is 1907 and Maurice Ravel is one of the most admired but also most controversial composers in France. An aloof, dandyish figure, he is at the centre of a group of rebellious artists who call themselves the Apaches. It is considered a scandal that he has never won the Prix de Rome...

Egle Worth, una donna in carriera, dopo anni di meditazioni si rende conto che questa forma di raccoglimento è utile esclusivamente a lei. Comprende che, per essere veramente un atto evolutivo, la meditazione deve diventare preghiera e servire non a lei ma a un altro da lei. Deve essere perciò un atto d'altruismo. Solo allora la meditazione diventa "magia bianca".

When 16th-century printers Henri and Bertrand Dubois find a stack of letters among their grandmother's memorabilia, they realize their lives are about to change, for in those missives is incontrovertible proof that the legend of the lost chronicles of King Alfred is no legend at all. Publishing those chronicles would be the coup of a lifetime, elevating not only the brothers' prestige among publishers in two kingdoms but also their position in society. But first, they have to find them.

Thomas Wolfe’s first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, is at once a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story and a dark novel depicting a cynical post-war world view. The book follows the life of Eugene Gant, a young man driven by passion, intellect, and a search for something greater than himself. His earliest years in rural North Carolina include a wonderful education in poetry and literature against the backdrop of a loving, but tumultuous family life.

'A gorgeous, wildly seductive novel, shimmering with intelligence, humour and joy' - Sarah Waters Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize In 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her children travel to a monastery in Mallorca. They are there to create and to convalesce, to live a simple life...

La storia d’amore di una francese quindicenne con un giovane miliardario cinese, sullo sfondo di un ritratto di famiglia, nell’Indocina degli anni Trenta. Strade brulicanti di vita, il jazz, l’odore della pioggia e dei gelsomini. Racconti rivelazione di una lucidità struggente, di terribile e dolce bellezza, L’amante è l’opera che ha dato a Duras la consacrazione di un’immensa popolarità.

On the evening of July 27th, 1890, Vincent van Gogh, aiming for his heart, shot himself with a revolver. He missed. Today, Vincent van Gogh is considered one of history's most brilliant artists, revered by millions the world over. However, he sold only one painting in his lifetime, spent years in insane asylums, and died penniless in a garret. Haunted by his failures, riddled with addiction, and debilitated by mental illness, van Gogh eventually took his own life.

Brought to you by Penguin. Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics...

"En somme, je vais parler de ceux que j'aimais ", écrit Albert Camus dans une note pour "Le premier homme ". Le projet de ce roman auquel il travaillait au moment de sa mort était ambitieux. Il avait dit un jour que les écrivains "gardent l'espoir de retrouver les secrets d'un art universel qui, à force d'humilité et de maîtrise, ressusciterait enfin les personnages dans leur chair et dans leur durée ".

Il 27 marzo 1995 Maurizio Gucci, erede della favolosa dinastia dell'alta moda, mentre sta per raggiungere il suo ufficio di Milano viene assassinato a colpi di pistola da uno sconosciuto. Nel 1998, l'ex moglie Patrizia Reggiani Martinelli - soprannominata la "Vedova nera" dalla stampa - viene condannata a 29 anni di prigione come mandante dell'omicidio.

أدركت (نفرتيتي) أثناء صلاتها أن أمامها وأمام زوجها قرارات مصيرية، وأن مستقبلها كملكة ومستقبل البلاد سيأخذ منعطفا اخر، منعطفا خيراً جداً، قد يجازف الزوجان...

Panicked by his own mortality, despondent over his many failings as a writer and a man, Dunne leaves his wife and their three-year old child for the solitude of a crummy apartment off the Vegas Strip. There he plans to write an account of the city as he finds it; the book he ends up writing is "a fiction which recalls time both real and imagined."

Set in postwar Scotland, A Far Cry is a quietly powerful novel about childhood displacement, memory, and endurance. The story follows seven-year-old Andy–renamed “Meikle” upon arrival–after he is sent away to a remote boarding school governed by rigid routines, unspoken hierarchies, and sudden acts of discipline. Far from home, he must learn how to survive a world that feels both bewildering and absolute, where fear and tenderness exist side by side.

Llega a su fin la monumental saga literaria sobre el fascismo, con los últimos seiscientos días de Mussolini hasta su ejecución en abril de 1945, cuando su cadáver se colgó boca abajo en la Plaza Loreto, en Milán. En este último volumen, Scurati narra los meses más oscuros de la República italiana, la hora de la peor violencia de una guerra civil que sembró el terror en las calles mientras los aliados bombardeaban el país.

En este audiolibro se intenta dar noticia de la última jornada del tenor Hannes Rassiem, que, a los treinta y cinco años, era el mejor «Tristán» de Europa y de América, que perdió la voz a los cuarenta y cinco años, y que desapareció a los cincuenta.

MOUNTAINS IN US is a family saga set outside of Asheville, North Carolina, where the Moyers' two most exciting weekly events are church and ten-year-old Colm's little league baseball games. Otherwise, Colm and his little brother spend their time playing in the woods behind their house with their next-door cousins, his older sister is always figuring out what to do next, his dad devours books, and his mom keeps everyone together. As Colm grows older, his idyllic childhood and the people who made it that way take on a different light.

A recounting of a lost gem of Utah pioneer history and a novel to rival those of Gerald Lund with the added wit of a Mark Twain adventure. In 1855, as the young Utah Territory teeters under outside pressure and internal strain, a call goes out to settle the untamed frontier and teach neighboring tribes the gospel of Jesus Christ. William Sterrett—a recent convert, tailor, and devoted husband—has already survived one mission that nearly cost him everything.

Marcio, Sohn einer brasilianischen Prostituierten, haut aus dem Waisenhaus ab und unterwirft sich den brutalen Gesetzen der Straße. Er beschließt, weder zu stehlen noch Drogen zu nehmen und wagt damit das Unmögliche. Im Clinch zwischen kriminellen Banden und der Polizei baut er sich eine Existenz auf. Bis eines Tages alles zusammenbricht… Eine True-Life-Story aus São Paulo.

Von Sigrid Nunez, Bestseller-Autorin von »Der Freund«, kommt dieser faszinierende, autobiographische Roman über ihre Jugend in New York City. Eine junge Frau blickt zurück auf ihre Anfänge: den chinesisch-panamaischen Vater und die deutsche Mutter, die sich im Nachkriegsdeutschland begegnen und zusammen nach New York City gehen. In den fünfziger und sechziger Jahren dort aufwachsend, flüchtet sie sich in Träume, die von den Geschichten ihrer Eltern inspiriert sind, und dann in die Welt des Balletts.

Nadie sale ileso de una madre. "Mamá miró hacia un lado y hacia otro hasta encontrarme y empezó a olfatearme. —Andás con ganas de cobrar, vos, me parece. —No —le dije yo, con cara de vos andás con ganas de pegar, me parece. No necesitó más, ni una discusión ni un grito. Avanzó...