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THE NIGHTINGALE In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When France is …

ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. A blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. When she is six, Marie-Laure …

A love story, one that fly from San Francisco to Poland, to the story of the concentration camps where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during the Second World War. Reading this novel you will know a woman (Alma, cultured and wealthy), who decides to make the last part of her life in San Francisco, in a residence for seniors. Normality of …

“The flock of men afraid. I know this because I am a dog, sniffing the smell of fear. ” The narrative voice is that of a German shepherd dog, raised by the Mapuches, people living in the south of Chile, in a region called Araucania. Over there invites the author of this novel, to know the tale of this dog …

Issues New Age? Also, but this novel is something more, like a mysterious path, the one that takes you – almost like a parable without words – through the pages of an ancient manuscript. Discover the existence of nine keys, you will discover the duality of religious power and time, you’ll discover a history teacher who swims in a stream …

Imagine you’re in Pavia, back in the year 1525. Imagine seeing a king of France won and humiliated. Imagine the outcome of that battle are the result of technological innovation. Fine. Reading this novel, you will not need imagination, because you will know many things of the distant month of February, well described. Lanzichenecchi and purveyor, two monarchies that are …

TANTO GENTILE E TANTO ONESTA PARE > Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare la donna mia quand’ella altrui saluta, ch’ogne lingua deven tremando muta, e li occhi no l’ardiscon di guardare. Ella si va, sentendosi laudare, benignamente d’umiltà vestuta; e par che sia una cosa venuta da cielo in terra a miracol mostrare. Mostrasi sì piacente a chi la mira, …

To learn about countries and nations, it is necessary to know their cultural latitudes. A perfectly proportioned man (created by Leonardo da Vinci), correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside Meeting Benches way: the Vitruvian approach to life. According to Indian tradition, a divorced woman …

The Emperor’s Tomb, Roth’s last novel, it is a novel of mothers and marriages, and tells the story of another young Trotta, first seen as a man about town, frequenting cafés and prostitutes, who is called up, and returns to the chaos and disintegration of Vienna between the wars and the coming of the Nazis. Franz Ferdinand Trotta, is in …

Stephanie Plum, pursues a fraternity member arrested for beating up a college dean and investigates a murder. Ken Globovic, hailed as the The Supreme Exalted Zoo Keeper of the animal house known as Zeta fraternity, has been arrested for beating up the dean of students at Kiltman College. Things just aren’t adding up, and Stephanie can’t shake the feeling that …