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Abstract/Sommario: In Lansquenet, a quiet village in the center of France, life flows peacefully. A little too placid: it is a closed community, where mainly elderly farmers and artisans remain, dominated with rude benevolence by the young curate Francis Reynaud. It's Shrove Tuesday - a pagan tradition opposed by the church - when Vianne Rocher and her young daughter Anouk arrive in the village. The woman is very nice and original, sexy and mysterious, perhaps she is the remissary of superior (or perhaps ...; [Leggi tutto...] In Lansquenet, a quiet village in the center of France, life flows peacefully. A little too placid: it is a closed community, where mainly elderly farmers and artisans remain, dominated with rude benevolence by the young curate Francis Reynaud. It's Shrove Tuesday - a pagan tradition opposed by the church - when Vianne Rocher and her young daughter Anouk arrive in the village. The woman is very nice and original, sexy and mysterious, perhaps she is the remissary of superior (or perhaps inferior) powers. Vianne takes over an old pastry shop, renamed La Celeste Praline, which soon becomes - in the eyes of the curate - an element of disorder. Also because Vianne does not attend church but begins to help those in difficulty in her own way: the solitary retired teacher Guillaume, the rebellious teenager Jeannot, the kleptomaniac Josephine, the eccentric Armande. Soon the quiet village becomes more disorderly, rebellious and above all happy. And the clash between Benthinkers and Gourmands, between the earthly delights offered by Vianne and the heavenly ones promised by Father Reynaud, between Carnival and Lent, becomes inevitable.

Abstract/Sommario: What do you do when the man in your life lets you down? Show him the door? Chuck his clothes out of the window? Cut the crotch from his trousers? If only it was that easy - especially when you've got an eight-year-old daughter to think about and a part-time job that barely pays the milk bill. Nessa Riley, who believes that with her husband, her little girl, and the home she loves, she has it all, is suddenly faced with the hardest decision of her life. Can she ignore what Adam seems to ...; [Leggi tutto...] What do you do when the man in your life lets you down? Show him the door? Chuck his clothes out of the window? Cut the crotch from his trousers? If only it was that easy - especially when you've got an eight-year-old daughter to think about and a part-time job that barely pays the milk bill. Nessa Riley, who believes that with her husband, her little girl, and the home she loves, she has it all, is suddenly faced with the hardest decision of her life. Can she ignore what Adam seems to be up to and hang on to the happiness they've enjoyed for the past ten years? Can they wipe the slate clean and start again? Or, as her sisters appear to think, has he really got to go?

Abstract/Sommario: After backpacking her way around India, 21-year-old Sarah Macdonald decided that she hated this land of chaos and contradiction with a passion, and when an airport beggar read her palm and insisted she would come back one day - and for love - she vowed never to return.

But twelve years later the prophecy comes true when her partner, ABC's South Asia correspondent, is posted to New Delhi, the most polluted city on earth. Having given up a blossoming radio career in Sydney to follow her ...; [Leggi tutto...] After backpacking her way around India, 21-year-old Sarah Macdonald decided that she hated this land of chaos and contradiction with a passion, and when an airport beggar read her palm and insisted she would come back one day - and for love - she vowed never to return.

But twelve years later the prophecy comes true when her partner, ABC's South Asia correspondent, is posted to New Delhi, the most polluted city on earth. Having given up a blossoming radio career in Sydney to follow her new boyfriend to India, it seems like the ultimate sacrifice and it almost kills Sarah - literally. After being cursed by a sadhu smeared in human ashes, she nearly dies from double pneumonia. It's enough to send a rapidly balding atheist on a wild rollercoaster ride through India's many religions in search of the meaning of life and death.

Abstract/Sommario: When peace is torn apart by bloody Danish steel, Uhtred must fight to save a king who distrusts him. Skeptical of a treaty between the Vikings and Wessex, Uhtred takes his talent for mayhem to Cornwall, gaining treasure and a mysterious woman on the way. But when he is accused of massacring Christians, he finds lies can be as deadly as steel. Still, when pious King Alfred flees to a watery refuge, it is the pagan warrior he relies on. Now Uhtred must fight a battle which will shape his ...; [Leggi tutto...] When peace is torn apart by bloody Danish steel, Uhtred must fight to save a king who distrusts him. Skeptical of a treaty between the Vikings and Wessex, Uhtred takes his talent for mayhem to Cornwall, gaining treasure and a mysterious woman on the way. But when he is accused of massacring Christians, he finds lies can be as deadly as steel. Still, when pious King Alfred flees to a watery refuge, it is the pagan warrior he relies on. Now Uhtred must fight a battle which will shape history – and confront the Viking with the banner of the white horse … Uhtred of Bebbanburg’s mind is as sharp as his sword. A thorn in the side of the priests and nobles who shape his fate, this Saxon raised by Vikings is torn between the life he loves and those he has sworn to serve.

Abstract/Sommario: Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.

Abstract/Sommario: Growing up is the journey of a lifetime, and Dolly Alderton's has been a whirlwind roller coaster ride. Departure station, a dull London suburb where Dolly, in the early years of the new millennium, is a teenager who spends her days on Messenger, dematerialized in a parallel space of simulated relationships, or fantasizing about boys and parties and above all escapes with her best friend Farly. The first, electrifying leap forward arrives at the time of moving to Exeter for university ...; [Leggi tutto...] Growing up is the journey of a lifetime, and Dolly Alderton's has been a whirlwind roller coaster ride. Departure station, a dull London suburb where Dolly, in the early years of the new millennium, is a teenager who spends her days on Messenger, dematerialized in a parallel space of simulated relationships, or fantasizing about boys and parties and above all escapes with her best friend Farly. The first, electrifying leap forward arrives at the time of moving to Exeter for university and giving vent to all dreams of freedom, in what will be years of eccentric wildness, deadly hangovers, one-night stands and encounters destined to last. Then, driven by the dream, this time, of becoming a journalist, she will dive into the beating heart of London, a disheveled, pleasure-loving city, like her tending towards self-destruction, a severe queen who will change her way of seeing the world. Dolly Alderton's National Book Award-winning memoir is a beautiful place to be. Inside there are normal things like friendship, disappointments, the surprises of sex, the loves that save or destroy you, the swamp of the family environment - but above all there is her, a ferociously funny girl who knows how to tell how one becomes woman, and what are the many forms of love.

Abstract/Sommario: Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what reall ...; [Leggi tutto...] Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?

Abstract/Sommario: Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program. Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as ‘Human Computers’, calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts, these ‘colored computers’ used pe ...; [Leggi tutto...] Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program. Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as ‘Human Computers’, calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts, these ‘colored computers’ used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Moving from World War II through NASA’s golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women’s rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a rich history of mankind’s greatest adventure with the intimate stories of five courageous women whose work forever changed the world.

Abstract/Sommario: A prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one; it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia also move on their own axes, alone with their personal tragedies. As a child Alice's overbearing father drove her first to a terrible skiing accident, and then to anorexia. When she meets Mattia she recognises a kindred spirit, and Mattia reveals to Alice his terrible secret: that as a boy he abandoned his mentally-disabled twin sister in a park ...; [Leggi tutto...] A prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one; it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia also move on their own axes, alone with their personal tragedies. As a child Alice's overbearing father drove her first to a terrible skiing accident, and then to anorexia. When she meets Mattia she recognises a kindred spirit, and Mattia reveals to Alice his terrible secret: that as a boy he abandoned his mentally-disabled twin sister in a park to go to a party, and when he returned, she was nowhere to be found. These two irreversible episodes mark Alice and Mattia's lives for ever, and as they grow into adulthood their destinies seem irrevocably intertwined. But then a chance sighting of a woman who could be Mattia's sister forces a lifetime of secret emotion to the surface. A meditation on loneliness and love, The Solitude of Prime Numbers asks, can we ever truly be whole when we're in love with another?

Abstract/Sommario: L'affascinante mondo dei cantieri prende vita grazie a questo libro sonoro illustrato che riproduce il fragore di una escavatrice, il clacson di un autocarro e tanti altri suoni. Arricchito da fori e percorsi tattili, è perfetto per scoprire i diversi compiti svolti all'interno di un cantiere.