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Le premier volet d'une nouvelle série policière (650 000 exemplaires vendus en Italie), dont l'adaptation TV est en cours, par les producteurs de la série Commissaire Montalbano, d'après les romans d'Andrea Camilleri. Le corps momifié d'une femme est retrouvé dans une villa sur les pentes de l'Etna, alors que le volcan répand une pluie de cendres noires sur toute la région. L'enquête est confiée à la commissaire Vanina Guarrasi qui, après trois années passées à Milan, est revenue dans sa Sicile natale diriger la brigade criminelle de Catane.

Mar de historias es una antología de algunos de los mejores relatos que Cristina Pacheco publicó durante más de treinta años en La Jornada Dramática, conmovedora y no exenta de sentido del humor. La vida es un alud de anécdotas y lo cotidiano, el escenario de lo insólito. Una abuela...

Se fin da adolescente senti che le condizioni da cui parti e le aspettative degli altri hanno già deciso chi diventerai, continuare a sognare è il primo passo per porti obiettivi fuori dagli schemi e avvicinarti a realizzare chi sei. In un contesto in cui per i giovani, le donne, le persone che non nascono con le spalle coperte è sempre più difficile arrivare a posizioni apicali, quale percorso ha permesso a Cristina Scocchia di diventare amministratore delegato a quarant'anni e di ricoprire poi questo ruolo per ben tre volte?

The Classics Slacker reads the classics so you don't have to! The Classics Slacker had always intended to read the classics of world literature but never quite got around to it. You didn’t, either? Not to worry. The Classics Slacker has stopped slacking and started summarizing them for you in The Classics Slacker series—blatantly irreverent takes on the “Great Books.” Whoooooosh!!! It’s always windy over the moors in England where lovers Heathcliff and Catherine run around, day and night, climbing crags, counting birds, and defying everyone who would keep them apart.

Hooray! "The Classics Slacker Reads" series (Reading the classics so you don't have to) is back with its second volume. This time Classics Slacker readers (Slackies) don't have to read "Madame Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert. This grim French portrait of a sad woman married to a boring doctor often appears near the top of “Greatest Books of All Time” lists.

Existe una verdad sencilla y poderosa: tus palabras crean tu realidad. Si tienes fe, intuición y confianza, lo tienes todo para alcanzar la abundancia que Dios ha dispuesto para ti. Por primera vez, descubre los dos grandes clásicos de Florence Scovel Shinn, El juego de la vida y cómo jugarlo y El portal secreto del éxito, reunidos en una edición exclusiva.

Persi Bene | Viaggi trasformativi è un podcast scritto e condotto da Cristina Del Re e Simone Stenti. In ogni puntata incontriamo una persona che racconta un viaggio che le ha cambiato qualcosa dentro. Può essere un cammino, un’avventura lontana, un progetto folle o una deviazione della vita. A Persi Bene si parla di momenti in cui il piano salta, ci si perde un po’, e proprio lì succede qualcosa di interessante. Storie vere di viaggi fisici, virtuali, interiori, scelte, incontri e cambi di prospettiva. Perché a volte per andare avanti bisogna prima perdersi bene.

Hayate et ses fidèles Chapirates se réveillent sur le Volovent lorsque la boussole d'Hayate retentit. C'est Mélodine la reine des sirènes qui a besoin d'aide. Elle a été attaquée par la terrible Médusa : les coraux et le chant des sirènes sont en danger. Vite, Hayate et les Chapirates partent au secours de la rivière Opéra.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer, a dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence. “Deeply rewarding . . . a dreamscape with a powerful undertow . . . [a] harrowing and labyrinthine...

Because Yumi Ruíz-Hirsch has grandparents from Japan, Cuba, and Brooklyn, her mother calls her a poster child for the twenty-first century. Yumi would laugh if only her life wasn’t getting as complicated as her heritage. All of a sudden she’s starting eighth grade with a girl who collects...

A USA Today Bestseller "Immersive, satisfying, tense--and timely: This is probably happening for real right now."--Lee Child "First-rate...Slick, heart-hammering entertainment."--The New York Times Book Review On an early morning in November, a couple boards a private plane bound for Geneva...

From Florence to Paris, a scent like no other can take you unexpected places . . . Ten-year-old Elena lives in Florence with her cold and distant perfumier grandmother. Only when enveloped in aromas does Elena feel at home, and she has nurtured a unique gift: the ability to decipher the...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller From the New York Times bestselling author of The Banker's Wife, worlds collide when an FBI agent investigates a string of grisly murders on Long Island that raises the impossible question: What happens when the primary suspect is your father? FBI Agent Nell...

National Book Award finalist Cristina García delivers a powerful and gorgeous novel about the intertwining lives of the denizens of a luxurious hotel in an unnamed Central American capital in the midst of political turmoil The lives of six men and women converge over the course of one week...

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK Aventurile prin care trec Tobi, Bob sau Duit, precum și toate celelalte personaje ale cărții, vă vor dezvălui tainele prieteniei - cum se construiește ea, cum se consolidează și cum se păstrează. Dar, mai mult decât atât, veți descoperi și cât de important este să aveți prieteni pe care să vă bazați și care să nu vă lase niciodată să vă simțiți singuri. Prietenia este unul dintre cele mai de preț lucruri de pe pământ; citind această carte, veți descoperi și voi cum să deveniți bogați, construind prietenii trainice.

A vivid, enchanting novel, spanning over sixty years, chronicling the lives, loves, and secrets of three generations of women in 20th-century Barcelona—a rediscovered classic by “the shining light of Catalan literature” (Colm Tóibín), with an introduction from Catherine Lacey “That...

MacArthur “Genius” Cristina Jiménez writes and narrates her inspiring story from undocumented newcomer to leader in a powerful immigrant youth movement. Dreaming of Home is a coming-of-age story for both a young woman finding her true self and a social movement of immigrant youth...

From the acclaimed author of Dreaming in Cuban, a follow-up novel that tracks four generations of the del Pino family against the tumultuous backdrops of Cuba, the U.S., Germany, and Russia in the new millennium "A beautiful novel: hilarious one moment, haunting the next.” —Chris Bohjalian...

EL BESTSELLER NACIONAL “Impresionante . . . Su historia se trata de tres generaciones de mujeres cubanas y sus reacciones por separado a la revolución. Su hazaña particular es la de contaria en un estilo tan caluroso y dulce como los ‘aromas continuos de la vainilla y la almendra,’...

Empresarios con Cicatrices es un podcast de María Cristina Rojas que te lleva, en 30 minutos semanales, a descubrir el lado más real del emprendimiento. Aquí escucharás historias auténticas de empresarios y empresarias —grandes y pequeños— que se han equivocado, han tocado fondo y han enfrentado momentos donde han pensado en abandonar. Relatos honestos, sin filtros, que revelan las vivencias retadoras y los caminos que pocos cuentan, pero que muchos recorren en silencio. Este podcast es para ti, si estás pensando en emprender o si ya estás construyendo tu negocio. Encontrarás ...