“Daniel Reichel, Alfredo De Girolamo ed Enrico Catassi tratteggiano in
rapida successione le più recenti vicende della fenomenale ascesa e
riuscita di Netanyahu. Ma nel fare la cronaca della costruzione politica
abilmente creata da Netanyahu, gli autori svelano anche le crepe che
potrebbero prefigurare un suo crollo finale.” (Sergio Della Pergola)
Clementine Phillis, a cinquantotto anni, sente più che mai l’età
avanzare verso un inesorabile declino. Invecchiare per lei è una vera e
propria fobia, alla quale tenta di opporsi con ogni mezzo, in una lotta
titanica che però, lo sa, è destinata al fallimento. Eppure Clementine è
una donna di successo: con volontà, fatica e intelligenza ha saputo
raggiungere gli obiettivi più alti della sua carriera. Ma la
gratificazione del lavoro non basta a colmare un vuoto dentro di lei, un
vuoto che si è aperto con la morte del padre e si è approfondito
trent’anni prima, con la perdita di suo figlio a soli quattro anni. Da
allora, Clementine ha cercato inutilmente di riempire quella voragine
con una lunga serie di relazioni, dal suo primo amore, al marito, agli
amanti, fino all’approdo tra le braccia di Max, che finalmente sembra
quello giusto. Grazie a lui, Clementine imparerà ad accettarsi e si
aprirà a qualcosa che non avrebbe mai immaginato: una nuova maternità.
A #1 New York Times Bestseller
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Daphne Bridgerton, in the first of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix.
In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince—while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable…but not too amiable.
Daphne Bridgerton has always failed at the latter. The fourth of eight siblings in her close-knit family, she has formed friendships with the most eligible young men in London. Everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. But no one truly desires her. She is simply too deuced honest for that, too unwilling to play the romantic games that captivate gentlemen.
Amiability is not a characteristic shared by Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings. Recently returned to England from abroad, he intends to shun both marriage and society—just as his callous father shunned Simon throughout his painful childhood. Yet an encounter with his best friend’s sister offers another option. If Daphne agrees to a fake courtship, Simon can deter the mamas who parade their daughters before him. Daphne, meanwhile, will see her prospects and her reputation soar.
The plan works like a charm—at first. But amid the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London’s elite, there is only one certainty: love ignores every rule...
This novel includes the 2nd epilogue, a peek at the story after the story.
“Vibrant…an ideal starting point for further learning.” —School Library Journal
“A lively portrayal of Douglas as a remarkable individual and a significant environmental activist.” —Booklist
From
acclaimed children’s book biographer Sandra Neil Wallace comes the
inspiring and little-known story of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the
remarkable journalist who saved the Florida Everglades from development
and ruin.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas didn’t intend to write
about the Everglades but when she returned to Florida from World War I,
she hardly recognized the place that was her home. The Florida that
Marjory knew was rapidly disappearing—the rare orchids, magnificent
birds, and massive trees disappearing with it.
Marjory couldn’t sit back and watch her home be destroyed—she had to
do something. Thanks to Marjory, a part of the Everglades became a
national park and the first park not created for sightseeing, but for
the benefit of animals and plants. Without Marjory, the part of her home
that she loved so much would have been destroyed instead of the
protected wildlife reserve it has become today.
"A well-thought-out presentation of an important environmental message." —Kirkus
When the kids in Room 5 write to Earth asking what they can do to help save our planet, they are delighted to get a letter back. This beautiful picture book is a celebration of every child’s ability to connect with the environment and make a positive impact .
A monthly exchange of ideas between the kids and Earth becomes a lasting friendship in this affectionate story about how to be an Earth Hero, lyrically written by Erin Dealey and gorgeously illustrated by Dilys Evans Founder Award-winning illustrator Luisa Uribe.
Young readers will learn about environmental conservation, along with simple things they can do to help care for the planet—like recycling and reducing energy consumption. There is even a reversible jacket cover that features a poster printed on the inside with twelve months of Earth Hero activities. These fun and interactive activities will encourage children to help protect our planet year-round.
Dear Room 5,
Your letter arrived on the wind.
A whisper of hope in the night.
I’m thankful for helpers who care for their planet…
An inspiring look at young climate change activists who are changing the world
The world is facing a climate crisis like we’ve never seen before. And
kids around the world are stepping up to raise awareness and try to save
the planet. As people saw in the youth climate strike in September
2019, kids will not stay silent about this subject—they’re going to make
a change. Meet 12 young activists from around the world who are
speaking out and taking action against climate change. Learn about the
work they do and the challenges they face, and discover how the future
of our planet starts with each and every one of us.
Meet three inspirational Earth Heroes whose love of the natural world
inspires them to make a difference: Jane Goodall, Greta Thunberg, and
David Attenborough! This boxed gift set of three hardback books from the
internationally best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series
introduces little dreamers to the lives of these incredible people who
work to understand and protect this amazing planet.
Mutts Go Green is a special kids' collection of the popular comic strip MUTTS, featuring themes of ecology, environmental friendliness, and animal education.
This special collection of MUTTS
comics for kids includes eco-friendly lessons on how to keep the
environment clean and ways to help create a greener future for our furry
friends and future generations. Mutts Go Green draws on Patrick
McDonnell's 25-year career of writing and illustrating heartwarming
comics starring Earl the dog, Mooch the cat, and a host of other
adorable animal friends.
A one-of-a-kind eco project book that practices what it preaches. It is completely reusable and recyclable!
Most
books are just meant to be read. But this is no ordinary book. This
book turns itself into dozens of eco-projects to inspire you to think
more about our planet.
This book doesn’t just want you to read
about reducing, reusing, and recycling. The Extraordinary Book that Eats
Itself asks you to DO something about it, too.
You can cut up,
fold, tear, and reuse every single page— even the cover—to make all
sorts of great projects, from planters and seed writing papers to
eco-badges. There are eco-quizzes and nature games, growing projects,
and organic recipes, bug hotels, and plastic-free diaries.
All
the activities can help you to change the way you think about the
natural world, and how you can make a real difference. And don’t worry
if what you do seems small. If everyone joins in, together we can make a
BIG difference!
Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters in The Good Sister.
There's
only been one time that Rose couldn't stop me from doing the wrong
thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life.
Fern
Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister
Rose three nights a week. And she avoids crowds, bright lights and loud
noises as much as possible. Fern has a carefully structured life and
disrupting her routine can be...dangerous.
When Rose discovers
that she cannot get pregnant, Fern sees her chance to pay her sister
back for everything Rose has done for her. Fern can have a baby for
Rose. She just needs to find a father. Simple.
Fern's mission
will shake the foundations of the life she has carefully built for
herself and stir up dark secrets from the past, in this quirky, rich and
shocking story of what families keep hidden.
This "heart-thumping backwoods adventure" (New York Times Book Review) from bestselling author Michael Koryta will soon be a major motion picture starring Angelina Jolie and Nicholas Hoult.
When fourteen-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he's
plunged into a new life, issued a false identity and hidden in a
wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace
off the grid while police find the two killers.
The result is
the start of a nightmare. The killers, known as the Blackwell Brothers,
are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a methodical quest to
reach him. Now all that remains between them and the boy are Ethan and
Allison Serbin, who run the wilderness survival program; Hannah Faber,
who occupies a lonely fire lookout tower; and endless miles of desolate
Montana mountains. The clock is ticking, the mountains are burning, and
those who wish Jace Wilson dead are no longer far behind.
The time of our civilisation, which is only one of the possible civilisations, can be transcribed synthetically through the categories of thought that specified axiologically its structure and continually remodelled it. Passages never clearly marked, if anything connoted, by that “barbarian residue” which, due to a certain instinctual pertinacity, were painstakingly exceeded. The border between reality and appearance is always very subtle, we find it so, even today in the persistence of certain scientifically anachronistic expressions; let us say, for example, that the sun rises and sets, instead of referring to the horizon. We need some time to get used to something that differs from the perception that we had of the world that is, we need time to change.This, for what it’s worth, is what we believe. In fact, however, it is only the persistences that weaken our conscious presence, which, in turn, manifests itself in a wealth of forms commensurate with the capacity we have to intuit them. Every achievement is as if a new mental being is produced, almost incapable of empathy with the past self. Ultimately, the shift over time determines a change of perspective, by regressing in the memory, we lose the sharpness of the state of mind that led to the choice or for which we risked that move. We simply change our mind and this has the effect of no longer permitting us to be that which we once were. It’s as if they slowly vanish, all the humours or moods that we have experienced converge here - there is no other time and if every shift creates a different vision of the world, everything can be changed in a single instant.
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Huckleberry Finn è diventato grande; ha abbandonato da tempo la vita
civile vissuta da ragazzo e insieme a Tom Sawyer si è avventurato nel
Far West, dove le regole non esistono. Insieme, cavalcano sulle rotte
del Pony Express, mentre attorno a loro divampa la Guerra di secessione.
Ma ben presto Tom capisce di non voler fuggire dalla civiltà: sposa la
sua antica fidanzata Becky Thatcher e torna a Est per inseguire potere e
successo. Huck rimane solo: doma cavalli selvaggi, guida carovane di
fanatici religiosi, diventa amico dell’indiano Eeteh che gli racconta le
storie dei Grandi Spiriti. Sotto i suoi occhi, l’America moderna nasce e
si impone con la violenza e con l’inganno, pagando il progresso con il
sangue dei nativi e dei neri, non più schiavi ma non ancora liberi.
Robert Coover si confronta con una figura chiave della letteratura
mondiale: Huck è disincantato ma ancora innocente, affronta la vita
senza pregiudizi e senza filtri. Al contrario di Tom, che conosce il
potere e ne ha imparato ogni astuzia, vede la verità oltre le parole e
porta alla luce le profonde contraddizioni del sogno americano. Denso di
poesia, esilarante e a tratti crudele, "Huck Finn nel West" è un
romanzo d’avventura e insieme la storia stessa dell’America
contemporanea; e parla a quella parte di noi che si nutre di miti, che
li inventa continuamente, e attraverso la narrazione riscopre e plasma
la propria vita.
La lingua madre della Città Eterna è il latino, ma davvero gli antichi romani parlavano solo quello? E come siamo passati dal latino al romanesco? Si può dire che Roma non abbia un vero dialetto ma una parlata? Luca Serianni risponde a queste domande partendo dai primi insediamenti etruschi e latini per arrivare alle lingue contemporanee della capitale, passando per la fase cruciale dei Papi medicei del Cinquecento, la cui corte è principale artefice della “toscanizzazione” del volgare parlato a Roma. Ma sono tante le incursioni linguistiche che hanno modificato il romanesco arcaico. “Le mille lingue di Roma” è una mappa che segue le sorti alterne di una lingua forgiata da dinamiche costanti di integrazione e che ha per risultato l’essenziale e originario plurilinguismo della nostra capitale.
Il Pennello, il Grifo, Lele e Puddu sono quattro diciottenni come tanti,
alla ricerca della sopravvivenza scolastica con il minimo sforzo, del
divertimento senza pensieri e, nonostante i modesti risultati, del
successo con le ragazze. Ma l'ultimo anno di liceo non è come tutti gli
altri e tra occupazioni, feste, gite, sbronze, amicizie e litigi, amori e
delusioni, i ragazzi iniziano a costruire i percorsi sentimentali ed
esistenziali che, un giorno, li porteranno a capire chi sono e cosa
vogliono. La musica, la moda e lo slang di una Roma di fine anni '80
fanno da sfondo al racconto di una comunità còlta in quella particolare
fase della vita in cui tutto è ancora come prima, ma tutto sta per
cambiare.
Should Christians study eschatology--the part of theology concerned with
death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind?
What does the Bible say about End Times and how can laypeople learn
about it without having to scale "Mount Prophecy" to get there? Biblical
prophecy is the topic of countless books, many that are long and use
theological language that often escapes the average, faithful member of a
Bible-believing church. The Future in a Nutshell covers in simple
language the basic tenets of Biblical eschatology, providing a useful
overview about what the Bible teaches about the future.
There is a saying that all true love ends with tragedy, but it was not that way for Dan and Gabby.
Gabby and Dan’s short-lived affair cannot be forgotten, not even after Dan’s
death in the trenches at Gallipoli.
He
chooses to become Gabby’s guardian angel to be close to her. After more
than ten years, the Fates who rule Heaven have other plans for him.
They assign him a task to befriend Gabby’s husband, Doctor Tom
Harrington, and encourage his work on a new vaccine.
Dan is
thrown into a chaotic life which tests more than his soul. His
battle-damaged body is one hurdle that Tom helps him to overcome, but no
one, not in Heaven or on earth, can stop him from loving Gabby.
Beyond Dear Teddy Scars to Bear follows the boy into the world beyond
Dear Teddy. Child abuse doesn't end when the child is out of the
environment. Everything that has happened is a shadow that follows
through life. Dealing with the trials of being a young father, and the
trauma of his own childhood, little Jamie shows you his world once more.
Whenever a woman has her menstrual period, she will be ceremonially
unclean for seven days. Anyone who touches her during that time will be
unclean until evening. Anything on which the woman lay or sit during the
time of her period will be unclean. If any person touches her bed, you
must wash your clothes and bathe yourself in water, and you will remain
unclean until evening… and much more.
As Rowan’s Ascension Day draws closer, the dreams she’s been having of a
handsome, mysterious man she met long ago become more vivid. However,
finding out that her mate is a vampire is more than she can cope with
and new fears arise as she contemplates the unknown.Demetri has been
linked to her since she was a child and has been watching over her from
afar, unable to get closer until she draws near her ascension. Once he
realizes the danger she and her family are in from the past, wild horses
couldn’t drag him away and he finds himself drawn into the preparations
to protect not only the chosen ones, but also the rest of the coven,
against what is coming.Will they manage to forge an unbreakable bond
despite their differences? Or will the past rush in and destroy what
should be?This story picks up where book 1; Rise of the Raven leaves
off. You may be confused about the plots and story line if you do not
read the first. Highly recommend you start at the beginning.
In this story of love and sacrifice, where Japan meets Kolkata and cherry blossom meets krishnachura, our protagonist will seek to find a home away from home and the answer to — Do we love someone because it is the right thing to do, or do we love them just because we do?
Kiyoshi Higa had grown to disbelieve the notions of love and happily-ever-afters. He never saw these working out in the end, not for him at least. But when his quest to seek a place to belong drove him south, from idyllic Okinawa to the City of Joy, he caught a glimpse of the home he never had in Agnimitra Sen a.k.a. Agni.
Agni was a steady flame and Kiyoshi embodied a turbulent ocean. She was the woman he could never end up with, and he was the scarred man no one would fall in love with. Yet, his eyes chased the cloud-shaped bird...what if...despite knowing how hope is the killer of reality, he loved and he hoped.
Is there a dark secret that Mireya’s family had been hiding from her?
Is her father alive or dead and can she unlock the mystery of her troubled past and find out the truth?
When
Mireya’s adopted parents die in a car crash, she inherits a hacienda in
Spain and finds some letters that suggest her real birth parents could
be alive and her father, who had been in prison, was possibly a
murderer. Grieving with unsettling dreams and unable to motivate
herself her best friend Gemma comes to stay and pushes Mireya to set out
to Spain on holiday to claim her inheritance and find some answers to
why she was adopted.
Thinking that her parents would
be at the hacienda they find the property empty. That’s when the
attractive Sandro walks into her life and she immediately feels tingling
going along her spine like she has been plugged into an electric
socket. Mireya loves the sunshine, eats tapas, drinks wine and with
Gemma, she begins to laugh again. However, she becomes plagued with
strange feelings about the past that escalates when she meets with her
feuding Spanish relatives.
As Mireya’s memories start to
increase, she experiences a ghostly vision of her father each day and
realizes that her dreams can mislead as well as bring back hidden
emotions and thinks he has probably died. As secrets past, start to
unravel she wonders whom she can trust. Can she trust Sandro? Is it
love or hot sex? Will her passion and romance with him override her
common sense. Will there be a conflict between them as she is determined
to find the true reason of the mystery that led her to be adopted?
Within her mind, she is at war and silently screaming…..
Local kids have always told stories about the eerie wood on the
outskirts of the village, and Wendy knows for sure that some of them are
true. Now the school holidays have started and she's going to the wood
again with Anna and Sam, but they soon become convinced that someone is
trying to frighten them off.
When a terrible event rocks the
coastal community, the young friends can't help thinking there must be a
connection between the incident, the tales they've heard, and the
strange happenings they've begun to witness. As glimpses of a darker
world threaten their carefree existence, they feel compelled to search
out the underlying truth.
FROM BESTSELLING THRILLER AUTHOR, JK ELLEM - A mystery and suspense
adult stand-alone crime thriller“Totally engrossed in this read,
fantastic, brilliant what more can I say. This book was so intense I
couldn't put it down, full of twists and turns and secrets, a must read
for this who enjoy these sorts of books."It’s not what you hide, it’s
who you hide from…For two years, Annie Haywood has lived in the small
picturesque town of Erin’s Bay on Long Island, thinking she was safe.
Until now…Abigail Brenner is also hiding her own secrets, the
whereabouts of her missing father, Edward Brenner, is not one of them.
He disappeared three years ago, took his sailing boat out one day on the
calm blue waters of Erin’s Bay, and was never seen again. Without the
influence of her father, some say Abigail Brenner has turned in to a
wild, uncontrollable little rich girl who’s just biding her time until
she can access her trust fund and the family fortune. Others in the town
just want her dead.But someone is lurking amongst the wind-swept dunes
at night, watching and waiting. And there are strange lights in the
night sky above the lighthouse on Moors Island, a desolate, uninhabited
rock that holds dark secrets of its own. Then there is Ben Shaw, a
stranger in town. He started out from the boardwalk on Coney Island, and
kept heading east until Abigail Brenner offered him a ride. Hidden
under the surface of this seemingly idyllic community of wealth and
privilege lies an undercurrent of jealousy, greed, and burning
revenge.There is no justice in this town. But justice is coming…Hidden
Justice is the latest adult thriller from best-selling author JK Ellem.
In the 3rd Pecos Quinn Western, I tip my hat to Zane Grey, with deep
respect. He showed us that even amid the savagery of the buffalo hunts
on the Great Plains, romance could be found. And when Pecos and Andy set
out to rescue Doctor Burns, who'd been treating the Comanche, they find
a mother and daughter desperately in need of help, thus adding spice to
a dangerous task.
È una Natura trasfigurata, appunto, in simboli ed archetipi che emergono da quella dimensione profonda che appartiene a ciascun essere umano, l’inconscio collettivo junghiano. (dalla prefazione di Laura Garavaglia)
La poesia di Dmytro Chystiak non è romantica, non può esserlo perché il Nostro nasconde tra i versi qualcosa di iniziatico ed estatico insieme (dalla postfazione di Stefano Donno)
Dmytro Chystiak è un poeta di lingua ucraina e francofona, scrittore di racconti, storico dell'arte e della spiritualità, critico letterario e traduttore. È professore alla National Taras Shevchenko Kyiv University e al centro Europeo di traduzione letteraria di Bruxelles, responsabile delle raccolte letterarie delle case editrici ucraina "Summit-Knyga" e francese "L'Harmattan". Ha pubblicato 65 libri, alcuni dei quali tradotti in Albania, Azerbaigian, Belgio, Bulgaria, Francia, Ungheria, Giappone, Macedonia, Moldova, Romania e Serbia, vincendo premi internazionali. Ha tradotto molti scrittori internazionali in ucraino e in francese. È il segretario internazionale per le lettere dell'Accademia Europea di Scienze, Arti e Lettere di Parigi. È stato nominato Comandante dell'Ordine delle Arti Ucraino e Cavaliere dell'Ordine Francese delle Palme Accademiche.
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Poema inusuale e imprevedibile, questo Pardes (Paradiso): nel nome dell’autrice c’è il suo destino letterario. Leggere il dettato biblico della Genesi sulla propria misura di poeta, che interpreta, ma soprattutto intuisce. La meta: tradurre i pensieri del testo sacro in una leggibilità contemporanea. Un’ispirazione di umanità lontana dalla storia, nell’annullamento dello spazio-tempo, per respirare l’illuminazione del racconto eterno della Creazione. Il coraggio sfiora l’ardimento di capovolgere il senso della visione e suggerire l’umiltà di conoscere l’esperienza umana attraverso il rigore letterario del proprio nome, invertendo la prospettiva storica dell’esistenza: non più il passare del tempo, ma il sentire dell’essere. (Ottavio Rossani)
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