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The powerful story of an unlikely friendship and a doctor’s re-education on the battlefields of the Vietnam War. Fresh out of medical school and planning to enter academia, David pragmatically applies to serve in the US Army, thinking he would rather work in a stateside military hospital than get drafted. But when he gets reassigned to Southeast Asia, he suddenly finds himself on a base in Vietnam. He joins a civilian aid mission on a supposedly secure plateau, and spends his days dispensing pills to villagers.

Deux meurtres. Deux macabres mises en scène. Un seul tueur ? Région de Boston, pendant les fêtes de fin d'année. Une productrice de films d'horreur est retrouvée morte dans son appartement, les yeux arrachés et posés dans sa paume. Quelques jours plus tard, un corps, la poitrine percée de trois flèches, est découvert sur une jetée.

Die drei Hebammen müssen sich in den schwierigen Kriegszeiten behaupten und versuchen, so gut es geht, Menschlichkeit in dieser unmenschlichen Zeit zu bewahren.

An unforgettable voyage of the imagination from the bestselling author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes. In parched Port-la-Nouvelle in central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail as constant warfare between a ragged band of guerrillas and the local chief of police causes the tribal residents to flee. In this drought-plagued and poverty-ridden country he dreams of discovering a third Nile tributary to make the Sahara bloom.

A young blind woman receives the world's first and miraculous binocular eye transplant, but questions surround the operation. Why was she selected? And why is a major charity so keen to put up the huge amount of collateral to make the operation happen? Enter Niall Burnet, unemployed and visually impaired journalist, who believes all is not as it appears and searches for answers.

London 1936. Die Abschlussprüfungen am Nightingale Hospital stehen unmittelbar bevor, doch Helen, Millie und Dora plagen ganz andere Sorgen. Während Helen hin- und hergerissen ist zwischen den Erwartungen ihrer Mutter und ihrer Liebe zu Charlie, steckt Millie bis über beide Ohren in den Vorbereitungen für ihre Hochzeit, bis ein Ereignis sie plötzlich an ihrer Entscheidung zweifeln lässt. Derweil muss Dora mit ansehen, wie ihr geliebter Nick ihre beste Freundin Ruby heiratet. Doch Ruby hütet ein Geheimnis.

Una "comitiva di sopravvissuti": a dieci anni esatti dal suo trapianto di fegato, Francesco viene invitato a una rimpatriata cui interverranno cento trapiantati assieme alle rispettive famiglie. È titubante, non sa se partecipare, ma alla fine, trascinato per un orecchio dalla Mamma, sale con lei sul torpedone. Acciacchi, fobie, farmaci indispensabili e piccole miserie: i protagonisti di questa gita somigliano ciascuno a una maschera della commedia, dal timido al giullare, dallo sbruffone al pauroso. In comune hanno il fatto di essere nati due volte.

The scene is the children's ward of a great hospital, and the story of a profoundly moving account of a young doctor's involvement in the life of Mary Berquam, an enchanting 11 year old girl affected with leukemia. He learns how to be a better, more compassionate doctor from this child.

Le paludi pontine sono terra di città nuove, "trionfali" e desolate, che nessun turista visitava fino a ieri. Sono un alveare di contadini, gente che parla in romanesco e ricorda in veneto, spediti lì dal Duce - quello "buono", quello che mieteva il grano - a bonificare stagni e pantani. Che poi, mica la voleva, lui, Littoria. Lui si accontentava di qualche borgo rurale, perché gli italiani sono un popolo di agricoltori. Ma alla fine ci si è affezionato, e anche ora che si chiama Latina il suo fantasma ci si aggira sempre, di notte, a bordo d'un rumorosissimo Guzzi 500-Falcone sport. Controlla che tutto vada bene e che la gente del posto non combini troppi casini. Perché "di là" vogliono caricarlo pure dei peccati loro. In fondo è a causa sua che abitano quel brandello di Lazio. Perfino il sindaco è un uomo suo.

Martha Beale, now the guardian of seven-year-old Ella and five-year-old Cai, has just returned to Philadelphia after summering in the country. The children have to begin school, and Martha looks forward to a reunion with Thomas Kelman, even though she isn't sure where their relationship stands. But a string of robberies is plaguing the city and the nineteen-year-old daughter of one of Philadelphia's wealthiest families has vanished.

Diagnosed as severely autistic at the age of three, Tito, nearly nonverbal, was brought up by his loving mother Soma, who taught him to read English and challenged him to write his own stories. The initial result was The Mind Tree, published in 2003, which Tito wrote between the ages of eight and 11. The Gold of the Sunbeams is an equally impressive, beautiful collection of stories, each prefaced by a charming note from Tito explaining how the story came into being.

London, 1917. Anna ist überglücklich, als ihr geliebter Edward von der Front zurückkehrt. Während die beiden eifrig Hochzeitspläne schmieden, muss ihre Freundin Grace sich gegen ihre Eltern behaupten. Die Pflege verwundeter Soldaten ist nicht das, was diese sich als Zukunft für ihre Tochter wünschen. Dulcie indessen scheint ihr Glück gefunden zu haben, als eine unverhoffte Begegnung sie erkennen lässt: Manchmal begegnet einem die Liebe genau da, wo man sie am wenigstens erwartet.

London, 1914. Als drei junge Frauen ihre Ausbildung am Londoner Nightingale Hospital beginnen, geht für jede von ihnen ein Traum in Erfüllung. Doch für ihr persönliches Glück müssen sie Opfer bringen. Während die aus einfachsten Verhältnissen stammende Sadie alles daransetzt, ihre Herkunft zu verbergen, erfährt Sonnenschein Anna zum ersten Mal, was es heißt, nicht dazuzugehören. Und Kate, die wie ihre Brüder Medizin studieren will, muss gegen den erbitterten Widerstand ihres Vaters kämpfen.

London, 1937. Die Schwesternschülerinnen Dora und Lucy sind Rivalinnen seit ihrem ersten Jahr am Nightingale Hospital. Als ihre Abschlussprüfung näher rückt, müssen sie feststellen, dass sie eine gemeinsame Sorge verbindet: Beide hüten sie ein Geheimnis, das sie ihre berufliche Zukunft kosten kann. Auch das neue Dienstmädchen Jess sehnt sich nach einem Neubeginn. Sie kommt aus schwierigen Verhältnissen und will ihre Vergangenheit endlich hinter sich lassen. Doch es gibt Menschen, die das mit aller Macht zu verhindern suchen.

London, 1934. Das berühmte Nightingale Hospital sucht neue Krankenschwestern. Unter den Kandidatinnen sind drei junge Frauen, die unterschiedlicher kaum sein könnten: Während Dora aus ärmlichen Verhältnissen stammt, ist Millie eine waschechte Aristokratin, die lieber etwas Sinnvolles tut, als sich einen Ehemann zu suchen. Helen dagegen leidet unter ihrer dominanten Mutter, vor der sie ein Geheimnis verbirgt. Doch welche von ihnen hat das Zeug dazu, eine echte Nightingale-Schwester zu werden?

Lui è Luigi, un quarantenne equilibrato, sentimentale, sereno e innamorato della moglie incinta. La casualità di un banale esame medico lo pone di fronte a una tremenda rivelazione: ha un tumore al rene e bisogna intervenire con urgenza. Così, con il ricovero, la vita di Luigi cambia drasticamente e si reduce a un'unica semplice realtà: l'ospedale, il reparto, i compagni di stanza, infermiere e caposala, i medici e, fra questi, su tutti, la mitica presenza del professor Zamagna, genio della chirurgia urologica, che vive solo per operare e che a Luigi appare un salvatore.

Die junge Archäologin Nora Kelly ergreift bei ihrem Gang durch die verfallenen Räume eines halb zerstörten Ranchgebäudes eine merkwürdige Unruhe, nicht ohne Grund, denn urplötzlich wird sie von einem grässlichen Wesen angegriffen, halb Mensch, halb Tier, das von ihr die Herausgabe eines ominösen Briefes verlangt...

DI Mark Tartaglia spends a night in a west London hotel with a woman he has just met. When he is called out to the same hotel the next morning to investigate a murder, he realises it must have taken place while he was there. If things weren't already complicated enough, the investigation takes a new and horrifying turn when he recognises the young female victim.

The fascinating, and largely autobiographical, sequel to J. G. Ballard’s prize-winning Empire of the Sun, that follows Jim to post-war England. The Kindness of Women continues the story of the boy whose life in Japanese-occupied Shaghai was described so memorably in Empire of the Sun, it sets those traumatic events within the context of a lifetime as we follow the narrator, Jim, to England and suburban Shepperton after the war.

His crimes - unforgivable. His death - inevitable. His suffering - just beginning. Obadiah Stark, aka The Tally Man, is executed at ADX Absolom, his death sentence watched by the world's media, victims' relatives and one investigative reporter, Joe O'Connell. Penning an account of Stark's personal history and subsequent crimes in the hope of determining what elements make the sociopathic mind tick, Joe discovers clues and inconsistencies which cause him to investigate Stark's execution.