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"SHantaram" - eto byla prelomlennaya v hudozhestvennoj forme ispoved' cheloveka, kotoryj sumel vybrat'sya iz bezdny i ucelet', razoshedshayasya po miru tirazhom chetyre milliona ekzemplyarov (iz nih polmilliona - v Rossii) i zasluzhivshaya vostorzhennye sravneniya s proizvedeniyami luchshih pisatelej novogo vremeni, ot Melvilla do Hemingueya. Mastityj Dzhonatan Kerroll pisal: "CHelovek, kotorogo "SHantaram" ne tronet do glubiny dushi, libo ne imeet serdca, libo mertv... "SHantaram" - "Tysyacha i odna noch'" nashego veka. Eto bescennyj podarok dlya vsekh, kto lyubit chitat'".

Une maison d'un étage, à la façade de lierre, dans un village des environs de Paris où le narrateur, que l'on appelait plus facilement "Patoche" à l'époque, a grandi avec son petit frère car leur mère était partie jouer une pièce en tournée. Une maison où ne vivaient que des femmes, une époque où tant de questions se bousculaient : qu'est-ce qu'une tête brûlée ? et une "série noire" ? Eliot Salter, marquis de Caussade, reviendrait-il dans son château comme l'avait promis le père des enfants lors d'un déjeuner ?

When Donaldina Cameron arrives at the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in 1895, she intends to teach sewing skills to young Chinese women immigrants, but, within days, she discovers that the job is much more complicated than perfect stitches and even hems. San Francisco has a dark side, one where a powerful underground organization - the criminal tong - brings Chinese young women to America to sell them as slaves. With the help of Chinese interpreters and the Chinatown police squad, Donaldina becomes a tireless social reformer to stop the abominable slave and prostitution trade.

Daughter of a god, wife of a king, prize of antiquity's bloodiest war, Helen of Troy has inspired artists for millennia. Now Margaret George, the highly acclaimed best-selling historical novelist, has turned her intelligent, perceptive eye to the myth that is Helen of Troy.

Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed 20 Slam titles. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach. But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan. At 37 years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement in an attempt to reclaim her record.

An “extraordinary” (New York Review of Books) novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and factory director Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally, author of The Book of Science and Antiquities and The Daughter of Mars, uses the actual testimony of the Schindlerjuden — Schindler’s Jews — to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil.

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of 20 years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

In 1917 Siegfried Sasson, noted poet and decorated war hero, publicly refused to continue serving as a British officer in World War I. His reason: the war was a senseless slaughter. He was officially classified "mentally unsound" and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital. There a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. William Rivers, set about restoring Sassoon's "sanity" and sending him back to the trenches.

Raised in New York's Gilded Age, pampered heiress Sara Wiborg dreams of a more creative life than the rigid future prescribed for her.

Crispus Attucks was the major figure in the early struggle for American independence. A sailor who rallied Bostonians to walk into certain death from an assembled firing squad of British Regulars. His ethnic background was half African American and half Native American. He was born into slavery in 1723 and escaped his enslavement to become a dockyard worker, a whaler and a contract farmer.

Bob addressed the team. "I’m open to suggestions, but here is my action plan. We land on the Island together and see if we can find a hiding spot for the rest of the night. We’ll use our standard sentry protocol in case anyone wants to try sleeping. As soon as we can make out where we’re going, even though it won’t be light enough for filming, we move out to the target area."

In the Appalachian highlands of Tennessee, Ezekiel Gouge builds a whiskey empire from grit, grain, and sheer determination. A self-taught distiller and fiercely devoted father, he rises from humble beginnings to command one of the South's most successful operations, just as the tide of Prohibition and the weight of family challenges threaten to destroy it all. As legal battles mount and federal agents close in, Ezekiel must navigate the shifting lines between honor and survival. When his beloved son dies under mysterious circumstances in Panama, the legacy he fought for hangs in the balance.

In una Seoul rovente e febbrile, una donna cerca di recuperare la parola che ha perso in seguito a una serie di traumi. Nell'aula semideserta di un'accademia privata incontra lo sguardo dell'insegnante di greco, che sta perdendo la vista. Tra di loro nasce un'intimità intessuta di penombra e di perdita, grazie alla quale la donna riuscirà forse a ritornare in contatto con il mondo.

Angels Without Wings

Faussone, detto Tino, il protagonista di questa «opera prima» di Primo Levi, ovvero del suo primo romanzo d'invenzione, è un operaio specializzato che si lascia alle spalle la dura esperienza della catena di montaggio alla Lancia e gira per il mondo a montare gru, ponti sospesi, strutture metalliche, impianti petroliferi.

L’opera al nero è la storia di un personaggio immaginario, Zenone, medico, alchimista, filosofo, dalla nascita illegittima a Bruges nei primi anni...

March, 1366. Amid the chaos of a war-torn Spain, Geoffrey Chaucer—page to King Edward III and the son of a wine merchant—finds himself thrust into the heart of a boiling conflict between two brothers: King Pedro the Cruel of Castile and his half-brother, Enrique Trastámara. But Chaucer’s task is far from simple. Sent as a reluctant spy by the king, he must locate the elusive mercenary Sir Hugh Calveley and persuade him to change sides in a war that could alter the fate of kingdoms.

Nineteen-year-old Anne of Denmark, Queen of Scotland, is thrilled and triumphant at the birth of a healthy baby boy, destined to reign as King of Scotland and, possibly, England. But Anne's enjoyment of maternal glory quickly fades as her husband King James, fearing his son will be politically manipulated against him as he was against his mother, the deceased Mary Queen of Scots, removes the child permanently from her care. Outraged, Anne tries to regain control of her son, initiating a bitter marital struggle which sours what had been a loving and harmonious marriage.

Digter Antjie Krog keer terug na die landskap van haar kindertyd. Die Vrystaatse vlaktes bekoor haar – dit is haar tuiste; ook die tuiste van haar ma, die skrywer Dot Serfontein. Dot is by die negentig. Sy is verswak en moet voltyds versorg word, maar haar intellek en humorsin is vlymskerp en haar skrywerskap vergelykbaar met die van haar dogter. In Binnerym van bloed breek Antjie Krog die grense tussen genres af en skryf sy oor hierdie verhouding wat haar bly fassineer en kasty.

Paris, 1911: Die junge, lebenshungrige Eva Gouel kommt aus der Provinz in die schillernde Metropole. Sie wird Kostümschneiderin im legendären Moulin Rouge und taucht schnell in die Bohème-Kreise am Montmartre ein. Eva und Picasso verfallen einander leidenschaftlich. Nach einer turbulenten Zeit des gegenseitigen Umwerbens wird sie seine Muse, seine Ratgeberin und seine große Liebe. Eine Liebe, die ein tragisches Ende nimmt.