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Tre ricchi rampolli annoiati che scelgono il furto d’appartamento per dare un guizzo d’adrenalina alle loro giornate vuote. Un professore raffinato e burbero, un farmacista latin lover, un capitano in pensione e un vispo pescatore decisi a portare a termine la loro impresa in barba all’età. Una badante peruviana che non sa più quale sia la sua casa. Un giovane medico del pronto soccorso impegnato nella soluzione di un inquietante mistero. Una mamma single alle prese con ex marito fedifrago, suocera complice, zia anziana, nuovi amori, figlia adolescente e due gemellini terribili.

Beautifully written and bitingly funny, Charlotte Mendelson's prize-winning Daughters of Jerusalem is a gripping novel of hidden love and hate, of the desire to belong, and the need for escape.

Amidst the crumbling yellow stone of Oxford and its prestigious university, secrets are stirring within the Lux family home . . .

Jean, the constrained and guilt-ridden wife of an academic, is waiting for excitement – and it will come from an unexpected source.

Bicicletta, cuffie con la musica e via, verso la prossima consegna. Napoletano ventitreenne trapiantato a Milano, Gennaro Di Nola, detto Genny, di professione rider, ha l’abitudine di fare un gioco: indovinare il tipo di persona che gli aprirà la porta in base al cibo che ha ordinato. Quei pochi secondi in cui sbircia nella vita degli altri, fermo sulla soglia della loro casa, sono per lui una tentazione irresistibile, ed è difficile che sbagli a tracciare un profilo.

A lot can happen in one hundred years, as Jane Smiley shows to dazzling effect in her Last Hundred Years trilogy. But as Golden Age, its final installment, opens in 1987, the next generation of Langdons face economic, social, political—and personal—challenges unlike anything their ancestors have encountered before.

Arthur MacDonald, 85, is having an end-of-life crisis. His beloved, dying wife of over 60 years no longer knows who he is. His older brother still has all his hair and a wife almost half his age. The man his middle-aged daughter is dating has a ponytail. His teenaged grandson wants to cook desserts for a living. And his daughter wants him to move into Silvermine retirement home. Then Arthur meets the gorgeous, radical, 80-something-year-old Robbie and learns that nobody is ever too old to fall in love all over again.

In A Measure of Mercy by acclaimed author Lauraine Snelling, 18-year-old Astrid Bjorklund’s opportunity for formal medical study in Chicago doesn’t arrive until shortly after her heartthrob Joshua Landseer returns to Blessing, North Dakota. They agree to exchange letters while she’s in Chicago. And, for a time, love blossoms—until the letters from Joshua stop coming. Convinced he no longer loves her, Astrid makes an impetuous and heart-wrenching decision.

Die Erzählfigur in "Blutbuch" identifiziert sich weder als Mann noch als Frau. Aufgewachsen in einem Schweizer Vorort, lebt sie nun in Zürich, ist den engen Strukturen der Herkunft entkommen und fühlt sich im nonbinären Körper und in der eigenen Sexualität wohl. Doch dann erkrankt die Großmutter an Demenz, und das Ich beginnt, sich mit der Vergangenheit auseinanderzusetzen.

Brooklyn Melody James has finally gotten the punishment she deserves after leaving a web of lies, heartache, and betrayal behind her. As her life slips away, Brooklyn remembers the events that shaped her into the cold, calculating creature she became.

In the wake of his wife's murder, agent Grady Shields turned his back on the FBI - and everything else-to retreat into the vast solitude of Montana, grieve for his lost love, and forget the world. But after years in seclusion, his sister's wedding draws him to St. Dennis, a peaceful town on the Chesapeake Bay. Though he swears he isn't interested in finding love again, Grady can't ignore the mutual sparks that fly when he meets Vanessa Keaton.

A farmhouse is being reproduced a dozen times, with slight variations, throughout a valley. Three small graves have been dug in the front garden, the middle one lying empty. A woman in a wheelchair sorts through boxes while her husband clambers around the old demolished buildings, wondering where the animals have gone. A young woman – called ‘the barren one’ behind her back – dreams of love, while an ageing headmaster contemplates the end of his life.

The rhythms of this novel are the rhythms of the land. A Place on Earth resonates with variations played on themes of change; looping transitions from war into peace, winter into spring, browning flood destruction into greening fields, absence into presence, lost into found.

ぜんやに転がりこんできたお転婆姫──只次郎の姪のお栄は大奥に仕えていたのだが、将軍からお手つきとなるのを嫌い、暇を貰って只次郎の許へと逃げていた。家に戻ってもどこぞの武家に嫁がされるに決まっている、と町人となって己の才覚で生きていくことを望むが……。

大ヒット『あの花が咲く丘で、君とまた出会えたら。』待望の続編！ 「もし、生まれかわれるなら－－今度こそ、君の側にいよう」白昼夢－佐久間彰 「あなたと出会ったことで、私は変わった。あなたの想いが、私を変えたんだ」水鉄砲－加納百合 「千代ちゃん、どうか幸せになってくれ。

真面目でしっかり者の沙也加は、丁寧な暮らしで生活を彩り、健康的な手料理で夫を支えていたある日、突然夫から離婚を切り出される。理由を隠す夫の浮気を疑い、頻繁に夫が立ち寄る定食屋「雑」を偵察することに。

In Morgen und Abend erzählt Jon Fosse von einem großen Thema, dem Tod. Die Geschichte, in deren Mittelpunkt ein einfacher norwegischer Fischer steht, dessen Leben hart und erfüllt war, öffnet den Blick auf das, wovon heute kaum noch jemand spricht. Eine kunstvoll rhythmisierte, ganz schlichte Erzählung des Nobelpreisträgers, die bezaubert und berührt.

" J'ai souvent touché le fond, sauf qu'à chaque tasse bue, je remonte plus vite qu'une torpille. Renié par ma mère pour anormalité physique, je me réinvente au gré de mes joies. J'aime rire, déconner, me faire mousser et rêver de sacres improbables. J'ai appris une chose dans la vie - pour se dépasser, il faut savoir prendre son pied là où l'on traîne l'autre. Même avec des béquilles ou avec des prothèses, je continuerai de marcher dans les pas du temps en randonneur subjugué. Je ne lâche rien. "

La Remei té més de quaranta anys, està casada i té un fill, treballa moltes hores a l’hospital i està absorbida per la vida domèstica i professional. La seva germana Marga, una mica més jove, és tot el contrari: soltera i sense cap projecte vital ni professional que la lligui, té la sensació que li ha passat la joventut sense adonar-se’n i encara busca el seu lloc al món. I la mare de totes dues, l’Erne, ja fa més de quinze anys que va instal·lar-se a Itàlia i ha construït una vida nova allà, deixant enrere la vida al poble i les seves dues filles, que no l’hi perdonen.

Dokko vive nella stazione centrale di Seoul. Non ricorda se un tempo avesse un lavoro, una casa, una famiglia. Non sa più niente di sé, sa solo che berrebbe volentieri un bicchierino di soju. Quando trova per terra una pochette rosa contenente dei documenti e un portafogli, non può immaginare che la sua vita sta per cambiare direzione. Probabilmente la signora Yeom, un’insegnante di storia in pensione, ha perso la sua borsetta quando si è addormentata in attesa del treno.

Told through the eyes of Tish, a 19-year-old girl in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and is imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions - affection, despair, and hope.

Sie ist reizbar, rätselhaft und viel älter als er...und sie wird seine erste Leidenschaft. Sie hütet verzweifelt ein Geheimnis. Eines Tages ist sie spurlos verschwunden. Erst Jahre später sieht er sie wieder. Die fast kriminalistische Erforschung einer sonderbaren Liebe und bedrängenden Vergangenheit.