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Marguerite Demers is 24 when she leaves Paris for the sleepy southern village of Saint-Sulpice, to take up a job as a live-in nurse. Her charge is Jerome Lanvier, once one of the most powerful men in the village, and now dying alone in his large and secluded house, surrounded by rambling gardens. Manipulative and tyrannical, Jerome has scared away all his previous nurses.

Jim Florentine tells Dom his very first joke, and shares his memories of shows he's done with Dom over the years. Then, Al Del Bene promotes dating among audience members and explains why his wife can't cook. New Jersey native Mike Marino explains why he doesn't use his turn signals and why you should make the LAPD work for it when they give you a speeding ticket. Finally, Gary Gulman says he's not ready for Germans to be funny and that Jews are behind the greatest inventions and comedy.

Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner’s beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English colonel, is still away in the war in the East as she begins to learn how to be Mrs Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman.

Thomas Ferrer n'est pas un truand. Pas vraiment. Les petits trafics lui permettent de sortir la tête de l'eau, même si la vie n'a pas été tendre avec lui. De petits larcins en détournements de ferraille, le voilà face à face avec un truand, un vrai cette fois. Celui-ci, laissé pour mort par Ferrer, embarque deux frères assoiffés de vengeance à la poursuite de son agresseur. La traque sera sans pitié, alors qu'une puissante tempête s'abat sur la région. Une histoire envoûtante où les éléments se déchaînent en même temps que les passions, au service d'une profonde humanité.

Jake es el mejor representante de Nueva York. Es frío, despiadado y jamás se deja dominar por ningún sentimiento. Por algo lo llaman el Depredador. Sin embargo, es feliz con todo lo que ha conseguido. Le ha costado mucho, y más teniendo en cuenta sus orígenes. Liz es una periodista ingenua y dulce que se mudó de un pequeño pueblo de Wisconsin a la Gran Manzana, haciendo realidad su sueño. Por eso no puede consentir que Jake lo haga todo pedazos. Pero poco a poco se dará cuenta de que él tiene mucho más poder en esa ciudad de lo que ella creía.

Gemma, la donna di cui Dante non scrisse mai. Che tempra deve aver avuto, questa fiorentina che nessuno ricorda? Sposa, per amore, un uomo sconsigliabile: non ricco, privo di potere politico e per di più poeta. Non si lascia sgomentare quando lui si trova sul fronte sbagliato, in una Firenze in cui la lotta aspra tra fazioni distrugge vite e patrimoni.

Un manuscrit ancien traverse le temps, unissant le passé, le présent et l’avenir de l’humanité. Véritable déclaration d’amour aux livres, aux lecteurs et aux bibliothèques, La Cité des nuages et des oiseaux a été nommé Grand prix de la littérature américaine en 2022.

Your GPS to Happiness guides you to arrive at a place of inner joy, perfect happiness, and self-confidence so that you become who you are meant to be. By following this road map, you can achieve great health, wealth, and success, and of course deep, fulfilling relationships with yourself and others. Stop pursuing happiness—start being happy now.

Bald feiert der Roman "Die Stadt ohne Juden" seinen 100. Geburtstag. Als leichte, unterhaltende Satire gedacht, erscheint uns, der Leserschaft von heute, die die Folgen des Holocaust immer mit sich trägt, die darin beschriebene Geschichte alles andere als lustig. Zu dem feierlich vorausgesagten Triumph der Freude und Vernunft, wo "alle vertriebenen Juden heil und glücklich wieder zu Hause sind und alles wird wieder gut", war es in richtigem Leben nie gekommen.

Cecilia Carboni ha venticinque anni e per buona parte della vita si è ritrovata a seguire, suo malgrado, i diktat imposti dal padre Alberto, uno dei più quotati avvocati milanesi. Proprio per volere suo, si è laureata in Giurisprudenza e ha iniziato il praticantato nello studio legale di famiglia. Il suo futuro sembra già delineato, quando un giorno le viene rivolta una proposta allettante: lavorare nel prestigioso showroom di Franco Sartori, uno degli stilisti più celebri al mondo.

In a set of essays entitled "Doubles" author, critic, curator, and traveller, Marina Vaizey explores pairings of artists drawn from the canonical cycle of Western art. She considers themes of engagement such as the portrait or figure, treated as stories of wider implication for society, that draw on the artist’s perception of the seen, combined with personal visions of dreams and imagination.

Я сбила человека, и теперь мне грозит срок за непреднамеренное убийство. Но что-то пошло не так....

Cinquante notions pour connaître le bouddhisme ! Le bouddhisme est la quatrième "religion" de France, ces adeptes ont 350 lieux de culte à leur disposition et peuvent compter sur le soutien de 5.000.000 de sympathisants déclarés. Malgré ces chiffres éloquents, nous connaissons peu ou mal le bouddhisme.

Irene, giovane illustratrice di talento, vive da anni ostaggio del marito Gianluigi, manager geloso e violento, convinta, come tante altre vittime di violenza domestica, di meritarsi la semi-segregazione a cui lui la costringe a forza di minacce e lividi.

Marina Vaizey and Anne Blood consider the historical impact of photography on the fine and interpretive arts, from pioneers such as Hill and Adamson, Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre to Edward Steichen and Man Ray. The documentary power and graphic clarity of the medium challenged and persuaded artists such as Degas, Sickert, Warhol, and innumerable creative voices. In their essays Marina and Anne explore the conjunctions and variations where document and dream intermingle.

Juggling motherhood and work, whether you run a business or work in a demanding job, can seem nothing short of exhausting, overwhelming and lonely as you rush around tending to your obligations without any time to spare for you.

Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years, but deeply attached. When their stern father dies, Thea returns to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister, so Kay too embarks on a life-changing voyage to the other side of the world.

In a moment of self-absorption, Clara Purdy's life takes a sharp left turn when she crashes into a beat-up car carrying an itinerant family of six. The Gage family had been travelling to a new life in Fort McMurray, but bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer rather than remnants of the accident. Recognizing their need as her responsibility, Clara tries to do the right thing and moves the children, husband, and horrible grandmother into her own house - then has to cope with the consequences of practical goodness.

Ciudad Princesa es un relato en primera persona en el que se cuentan una serie de vivencias políticas entre octubre de 1996 y octubre de 2017, desde el desalojo del Cine Princesa en Barcelona hasta el referéndum del 1 de octubre. El hilo del relato es: ¿qué hemos aprendido?

The story of a girl whose strange life in a mysterious lighthouse is turned upside down when her mother's murder leads her to a hidden door - and a mission into an alternate world. Hannah Silver has a secret. She can sense things that other people can't, like the cotton-candy smell of a bad sign, or the weightless touch of an approaching storm. Or the warm, smooth voices of people who aren't really there. In the Cliff House, secrets of all kinds float through the air and bounce off the walls.