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This story involves adoption, searching for roots, passing for white, white supremacy, effects of prejudice on people of color. But it is, above all, a love story—love overcoming every obstacle. In 1932, during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl eras, an infant girl is abandoned by her mother, an unmarried teenager on the way to California with her destitute Oklahoma family. At the Clark Place Dairy near Mackenzie, Texas, she leaves a note giving the infant's name as "Susanna" and asking Mrs. Lupe Clark to raise her.

La lunga lettera-diario di Olga alla nipote ribelle e molto amata, l'ultima occasione per raccontarle le verità nascoste della sua vita e incitarla a seguire sempre la voce del cuore. Dal bestseller di Susanna Tamaro, la regista Cristina Comencini ha tratto il film omonimo con Margherita Buy e Virna Lisi.

Bloomsbury presents Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, read by Richard Armitage with Neil Gaiman and an introduction by V E Schwab. The 20th anniversary edition of the fantasy classic. ‘The book I wish I'd written’ R F Kuang ‘Susanna Clarke writes with an intelligence and...

Miss Jane Quayle excels at invention. How else could the sheltered daughter of an English gentleman create lurid Gothic novels so infamous someone wants their author silenced forever? Fortunately, Jane has taken steps to protect herself: first, by assuming a pen name, and second, by taking up residence at remote Dunnock Castle, surrounded by rugged scenery that might have been ripped from the pages of one of her books. Her true identity remains a secret...until one dark and stormy night.

At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England-until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers, and becomes a...

Die Winde des Schicksals drehen sich. Und es scheint, als würden sie sich endlich zu unseren Gunsten bewegen. Auf der Flucht und aus der Gesellschaft ausgestoßen, waren wir gezwungen, uns vor dem Verrückten zu verstecken, der unseren Thron gestohlen hat. Aber es kommen immer mehr Geheimnisse ans Licht, und meine Schwester und ich arbeiten härter als je zuvor daran, unser Potenzial auszuschöpfen und unser Geburtsrecht einzufordern. Das Ende rückt näher.

"Richard Armitage...steps in and sweeps us away on his deep, velvety voice, one much worth the marathon listening time. Listeners will know they are in for a treat immediately as they hear his voice change between reading the front matter and the first moments of the novel...this new edition...

Shows how to awaken the womb chakra’s kundalini energy to reclaim personal agency, heal inherited patterns, and restore balance Provides practical exercises for each chakra, including body acceptance, ancestral healing, yoni steaming, and Ho‘oponopono Guides women on a complete...

Et si un grand bain d'eau glacée avait le pouvoir de nous rendre plus serein, moins fatigué, plus motivé, en meilleure santé ? On imagine souvent que la nage en eau froide est l'apanage de quelques "givrés" et autres habitués d'Europe du Nord. Pourtant, cette activité sportive simple et naturelle est pratiquée dans le monde entier. Mieux : selon les dernières nouvelles de la science, elle serait à l'origine d'un cercle extrêmement vertueux, pour le corps comme pour l'esprit.

The shadows are in my blood. I can feel them crawling through me, slithering under my skin and taking me hostage. But the darkness within me isn't nearly as bad as the darkness that lives around me. The four Celestial Heirs will stop at nothing to destroy the lives of me and my sister. But they haven't figured out yet, that we're the strongest creatures they've ever known. And when that secret comes out, we need to be ready to face them as well as any other cruel Fae who rises against us. It’s us or them. And it damn well won’t be us.

Nach VERHÄNGNISVOLLE WEIHNACHTEN legt die britische Bestsellerautorin Kathryn Croft einen neuen packenden Thriller vor, in dem eine Familienurlaub zum Alptraum wird. Auch im Paradies sollte man nicht zu sehr vertrauen. Für Erin ist der Last-Minute-Urlaub in einer Villa an der malerischen Amalfiküste Italiens die perfekte Gelegenheit für eine dringend nötige Auszeit mit ihrer Familie. Gleich nach ihrer Ankunft lernen sie Tristan und Bea kennen, ein attraktives Geschwisterpaar, das in der Villa nebenan Urlaub macht.

Matthew Bartholomew, unorthodox but effective physician to Michaelhouse college in medieval Cambridge, is as worried as anyone about the pestilence that is ravaging Europe and seems to be approaching England. But he is distracted by the sudden and inexplicable death of the Master of Michaelhouse - a death the University authorities do not want investigated.

Fifty-six million years ago, the earliest equid walked the earth-and beginning with the first-known horse-keepers of the Copper Age, the horse has played an integral part in human history. Combining fascinating anthropological detail and incisive personal anecdotes, Susanna Forrest draws from an immense range of archival documents as well as literature and art to illustrate how our evolution has coincided with that of horses.

Die beliebten Hörbücher und Lieder der kleinen Eule endlich in einer Sammelausgabe. Diese Sammelausgabe enthält die Geschichte von Sophie, die krank das Bett hüten muss und lauscht, wie Mama ihr zu jedem ihrer Kuscheltiere eine Geschichte erzählt. Außerdem enthalten sind die Abenteuer der kleinen Eule auf ihrem Weg zu den Sternen, wie sie einen Freund findet und versucht einzuschlafen. Mit dabei sind alle beliebten Hits vom Hummer, dem Fuchs, dem Bär, der Maus, dem Bieber und dem Einhorn.

In Inghilterra, secondo Philip Larkin, "i rapporti sessuali incominciarono nel millenovecentosessantatre", "tra la fine del bando a "Lady Chatterley" e il primo ellepi dei Beatles". La giovane coppia protagonista del nuovo romanzo di lan McEwan patisce invece gli ultimi fuochi di un clima diffuso di repressione sessuale. La prima notte di nozze, e prima esperienza sessuale per entrambi, scocca infatti alla vigilia di quell'"annus mirabilis". Tutto avviene in appena due ore, in un antiquato hotel vicino alla celebre spiaggia di ciottoli di Chesil Beach.

The Harlequin boys are more than just a memory now. More than a daydream of our youth and an idea to cling onto. They’re my greatest weakness and my biggest regret, but I’ve started to realize that coming back to Sunset Cove was always my fate. My heart beats to the turn of the tide here. My skin only warms beneath this sun. And my soul will only ever be home on these streets and with the men who grew out of my memories. But nothing is the same as I remember, and the time for childish games is coming to an end.

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From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an enchanting and haunting short story full of medieval magic 1110 A.D. The fairy host sweeps across the North of England and the city of Durham is under siege. Wearily the Bishop of...

A tale of love, life, and finding your way home...At age nine, as Susanna sat on a horse for the first time, an unbreakable bond was forged. It set the stage for a lifelong odyssey for this determined girl and her devotion to her equine companions.

Un giovane venticinquenne decide di intraprendere un viaggio a Illmitz, città al confine tra Austria e Ungheria, in cui viveva la sua famiglia prima che i genitori si trasferissero sul Carso. È un viaggio decisivo, che il protagonista, ora residente a Roma, ha deciso di compiere per fare i conti con se stesso, con la propria inquietudine, la propria fragilità, e per dare un senso a uno strisciante senso di inadeguatezza, al mondo e alle persone che lo circondano.