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Nella primavera 1944 Anna Banti ha quasi ultimato il suo racconto biografico dedicato all'artista seicentesca Artemisia Gentileschi, ma in agosto il manoscritto va distrutto nei bombardamenti tedeschi su Firenze. Con "ostinazione accorata" la scrittrice torna allora al suo personaggio, "pittrice valentissima" ma soprattutto "una delle prime donne che sostennero colle parole e colle opere il diritto al lavoro congeniale e a una parità di spirito fra i due sessi".

Late spring, 1936. As Kitty Underhay steps onto the sun-drenched station platform in Nice, on orders from Whitehall to track down a missing man, she hopes there will still be time to lie by the pool, preferably with a cocktail in hand. But when she and her husband Matt take a brief evening stroll, instead of finding a perfect croissant, they stumble across a body. Kitty and Matt quickly realise it is Fred Bennett, the man from Whitehall they were hoping to find. Had he simply drunk too much fabulous French wine, or is something fishy going on in this seaside city?

There's a new man in charge at Bow Street Magistrates' Court and all is not well. His ambition is to split up Lavender and Woods—and to add to Lavender's woes, someone is leaking exaggerated stories about his investigations to The Times. Lavender is tasked with solving the theft of an aristocrat's precious jewels, while Woods is instructed to track down a libeler. But after a series of vicious murders and surprising coincidences, they discover that these apparently unconnected crimes have more in common than they could ever have imagined.

September, 1356. Poitiers. The greatest knights of the age were ready to give battle. On the English side, Edward, the Black Prince, who'd earned his spurs at Crecy. On the French side, the King and his son, the Dauphin. With 12,000 knights. And then there is William Gold. A cook's boy - the lowest of the low - who had once been branded as a thief. William dreams of being a knight, but in this savage new world of intrigue, betrayal and greed, first he must learn to survive.

The Watsons of Tethertown follows the life of Joel Watson and his family in a small Missouri town from 1886 to 1919. Fun, sensual, and historically accurate, this novel is a window into the texture of everyday life more than 120 years ago. Joel’s adult life begins on the night he flees his family farm and finds refuge with a neighbor who saves him from almost certain hanging. He meets and woos the love of his life Belle and eventually finds his way back to the family farm.

Founded in the late 1800s by the son of Frederick Douglass, Highland Beach along the Chesapeake Bay is the oldest Black resort community in America. Inside this proud and secluded beach community of about 100 private homes is Olivia Jones’s legacy. But Oliva’s legacy comes with thorns—intertwined are secrets of her aunt’s death; a controlling grandmother who is determined to crush anyone or anything that will interfere with her son’s political career; and a father who wants to rebuild the family he rejected decades ago.

Born from young King Henry’s first marriage, his elder daughter, Princess Mary, is raised to be queen once it becomes clear that her mother, Katherine of Aragon, will bear no more children. However, Henry’s passion for Anne Boleyn has a devastating influence on the young princess’s future when, determined to sire a male heir, he marries Anne, has his marriage to Katherine declared unlawful, brands Mary illegitimate, and banishes them both from the royal court.

The story told in Vasily Grossman's Stalingrad unfolds across the length and breadth of Russia and Europe. At the heart of the novel is the Shaposhnikov family. Even as the Germans advance, the matriarch, Alexandra Vladimirovna, refuses to leave Stalingrad. Far from the front, her eldest daughter, Ludmila, is unhappily married to the Jewish physicist Viktor Shtrum. Viktor's research may be of crucial military importance, but he is distracted by thoughts of his mother in the Ukraine, lost behind German lines.

It's the middle the 19th Century and Africa is begging to be explored. David Livingstone, Herbert Stanley, and Cecil John Rhodes push the British Empire into as many parts of it as they can. Someone suggests there are Rubies to found in West Africa—Queen Victoria dispatches her envoy to find the ruby seam and stake a claim on behalf of Her Britannic Majesty.

Wanted: Male, forty to fifty years of age. Must be free to travel with no family obligations for a one-year contract. Sense of adventure, ability to do field research required. Call Beth for an interview at: 888-555-6363. Would you answer this classified ad? Alex did, and it changed his life forever when he became A Man Called Friday. Join Alex, as Friday, as he travels around the country helping strangers at crossroads in their lives; in the process, he discovers how, by helping others, he helped himself.

Arrêté en octobre 1943 comme résistant, Sylvain Vergara, âgé de 18 ans, est emprisonné à Fresne, torturé puis déporté Nacht und Nebel en février 1944. Il est l’un des plus jeunes internés non-juifs de Buchenwald dont il devait être libéré le 11 avril 1945. Marqué à vie par cette épreuve, il n’a rien écrit d’autre que ce témoignage, rédigé au tout début des années 1960 alors qu’il désespérait de faire entendre sa voix.

UNA NOVELA EVOCADORA, QUE DESTILA EMOCIÓN Y CONQUISTA EL CORAZÓN DEL LECTOR. Madrid, 1935. Cati es una joven cuya vida transcurre entre fiestas y tertulias en los cafés, hasta que la tragedia la golpea. Mientras busca su lugar en el mundo, el encuentro con una amiga de la infancia y con Manuel Bartolomé Cossío marcará su destino.

Richard Garnett C.B. was born on the 27th February 1835. Educated in Bloomsbury he then joined the nearby British Museum as an assistant librarian in 1851, shortly after his father’s death. As an author he wrote several volumes of verse, a book of short stories and several biographies and history books.

Flucht aus dem Iran und der Kampf um Identität und Anerkennung. Seit 1979, mit dem Sturz des Schahs, sind die Töchter der hochgestellten iranischen Familie Valiat im amerikanischen Exil. Nur ihre Mutter, die noch immer Heimat, Tradition und Stolz verkörpert, blieb damals in Iran. Als bei dem alljährlichen Familientreffen in Aspen die Dinge aus dem Ruder laufen und die exaltierte Shirin erst gegen Kaution wieder aus der Arrestzelle entlassen wird, verändert sich etwas in den Frauen, jede muss sich schmerzlichen Fragen stellen.

"Questo miraggio delle partite o delle vite senza sbagli: no, Miša si teneva volentieri il fallimento. Si teneva la vulnerabilità e lo scompiglio. Tanto valeva ubriacarsi o combinare pasticci, ma rispettare sempre la dignità del singolo essere umano. Meglio giocare, giocare per la pura festa di giocare, fino a che giorno e notte non perdano di senso: giocare con la devozione e la letizia dei ragazzini che strillano e non vogliono tornare a casa a fare i compiti o lavarsi - le stupide incombenze del mondo reale".

Dalla Simmetria dei desideri fino a Tre piani, Eshkol Nevo ha narrato delle infinite forme del desiderio. Forme che, di volta in volta gioiose o perturbanti, torbide o pure, alimentano o infrangono le magnifiche storie d’amore, familiari e d’amicizia da lui raccontate. Il desiderio, nella sua inaccessibile oscurità, è insomma ciò che fa sì che la narrativa di Nevo assolva il compito proprio della scrittura capace di avvincere il lettore: “parlare”, come indica Sebald, “in maniera chiara di cose oscure”.

Eccoci all’ultimo atto della saga dei molinari Scacerni. Molto è cambiato dal 1812. Realizzata quasi per intero l’unità del paese e presa anche Roma, l’esigenza di dare alla neonata Italia una qualche interna coesione e di modernizzarne il sistema economico spinge le istituzioni dello stato e la lotta politica fino agli strati più emarginati e incolti, trascinandoli a forza in un universo fin lì estraneo e ignoto. La resistenza è durissima, tuttavia. Conduttrice del San Michele e del Paneperso insieme ai figli, Cecilia Scacerni si oppone riottosa alla natura pubblica di questo nuovo universo fino all’ultimo dei suoi giorni.

La figlia di due ricchi proprietari terrieri sta per unirsi in matrimonio con un giovane di buona famiglia, innamorato e fedele. Il loro amore è così puro, solido, intoccabile da sembrare quasi surreale. In realtà, fin dall’inizio della vicenda l’autrice inserisce qua e là alcuni indizi sulle loro vite che un po’ alla volta svelano elementi dissonanti, perfino allarmanti. Il romanzo, ambientato nelle campagne francesi del dopoguerra, indaga nelle emozioni dell’animo umano.

Die Fortsetzung der erfolgreichen Tom Wagner Serie! Das größte Geheimnis der Welt. Falsche Freunde. Übermächtige Gegner. Die Chronik der Tafelrunde ist gefunden und auf Tom Wagner, Hellen de Mey und François Clourtard wartet ihre bisher größte Herausforderung. Die Suche nach dem heiligen Gral. Nur führt sie ihr Abenteuer nicht in die Zeit der Templer und Kreuzzüge, sondern noch viel weiter zurück in die Geschichte der Menschheit. Und die Jagd in die Vergangenheit, ist eine Reise ohne Wiederkehr.

The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf, by Louis Joseph Vance, was first published in 1918, and is the second of what eventually became an 8-book series. The main character, known as The Lone Wolf, is a reformed jewel thief who in this story, is a British spy, who uses several names including Michael Lanyard.