Showing results for "Levi" in Genre Fiction

"La tregua" è il racconto del ritorno di Primo Levi, il seguito di "Se questo è un uomo", che racconta le esperienze dell'autore durante il lungo viaggio attraverso Russia e Europa dell'Est per tornare alla sua Torino. Un viaggio assurdo, fatto di incontri con persone di civiltà e lingue diverse ma tutte vittime della stessa guerra. "Ci sono voluti anni per capire che quello che veniva etichettato come un testimone era uno dei più grandi scrittori del Novecento non soltanto italiano: cioè che era il migliore dei testimoni proprio perché grande scrittore."

Two millennia ago, a thief named Levi finds himself crucified alongside his companion and a holy man. As he endures the agonizing crucifixion, he resigns himself to the imminent embrace of death. Yet, the unknown realm beyond life remains a mystery he’s unprepared for.

The boy grows up in a small village in south China listening to stories about the Colonel: some say he was a legendary army doctor during the war, some say he was a traitor to the Party, still others say he is a wicked sex machine. The stories are bawdy and mesmerizing, always larger than life. Yet in reality, the Colonel is just a middle-aged man who loves his cat. And why on earth does everyone call him 'the Eunuch'? From these disparate sources, the boy tries to piece together who the Colonel really is, just as he himself grows up in a rapidly changing China.

Acclaimed inspirational author W. Dale Cramer pens the tale of an Amish prodigal's struggle for faith and forgiveness. As Will returns to bury his dad, his mind flashes back 42 years to when he fled his Amish heritage, abandoning his unborn child's mother and inflicting pain only a parent can fathom. Now he understands that pain. And he thinks of all those years of silence, all those words never spoken. But as his father lies cold and still, is all hope for healing gone?

Elisa Levi's That's All I Know explores the toll of caring for those who cannot care for themselves, the fear of the unknown that anchors people to unfulfilling lives, and the bravery it takes to stop deceiving oneself, to give in to longing.

He can barely remember her, but she'll never forget him! Levi Taylor spent seven years behind bars for tax evasion, turned in by his traitorous brother, Judas. Now released, he has nowhere else to go but back to his hometown of Sweetwater, Michigan. With no money or job, he crashes at his brother Thomas' place, never expecting to be elected as the town's new mayor. And just when his life is looking up, his past comes back to haunt him.

Lawbreaker Webb Cousins is headed for a short trial and a long stretch in jail. A bounty hunter has him cuffed and covered, with no chance of escape. But when the prisoner and his captor ride into the town of Wagon Mound, death rides with them. In a flash of rifle fire and a spray of blood, Cousins finds himself shackled to a dead man—and unwittingly caught up in a murderous range war he wants nothing to do with. To ride away a free man will take more than breaking his bonds. He'll have to wage a one-man battle against two bitter enemies locked in a vicious cycle of vengeance and cruelty.

In post-Cultural Revolution China, in the fading village of Freshwind, the fates of two households are shifting. The Bais, once the most powerful family in the region, have fallen from status. Their beautiful daughter, Snow Bai, an embodiment of tradition, pursues a career in a vanishing art form. The Xias, enthusiastic members of the Party, are on the rise. Their favorite son, Wind Xia, is a citified politician whose marriage to Snow Bai could unite the two families. But in a village casting about for a new road to prosperity, fortunes can change.

Le "Storie naturali" di Primo Levi uscirono nel 1966 con lo pseudonimo di Damiano Malabaila. Fu la casa editrice a suggerire all'autore una qualche presa di distanza da questi racconti fantascientifici apparentemente così lontani dai due libri di Levi pubblicati in precedenza: "Se questo è un uomo" e "La tregua". Oggi che finalmente sappiamo distinguere il testimone dallo scrittore, i racconti delle "Storie naturali", come già quelli del "Sistema periodico", sono destinati a crescere nella considerazione dei critici e dei lettori.

Eliya thinks that she’s finally found true love and passion with her charismatic and demanding husband, an aspiring novelist—until he ends their relationship in a Paris café, spurring her suicide attempt. Seeking to heal herself, Eliya is compelled to piece together the jagged shards of her life and history. Eliya’s heart-wrenching journey leads her to a profound and unexpected love, renewed family ties, and a reconciliation with her orphaned mother, Lily.

Une malédiction semble avoir atteint la famille Ermoza: aucun des hommes ne se marie avec la femme qu'il aime. Même David, le mari de Luna, la "Belle de Jérusalem" que toute la ville courtise, ne peut en réalité oublier son amour perdu. Quand la tragédie frappe, Gabriela, la fille de Luna, découvre les secrets et mensonges qui lient les femmes de sa famille depuis plusieurs générations.

In 1946, a young Ruth begins building a new life in Palestine, haunted by the death of her family in Europe and driven by youthful ideals in a land hostile to her presence. Her sister, Shoshana, survives in the Displaced Persons camps of Germany and joins her in Palestine, but dreams of escaping to distant America. Her lovers, Dov and Israel, die in war, and her children try to serve the land Ruth bled for, only to find their own tragic ends or means of escape.

Denis se ha suicidado y ahora Ada está sola. Sola entre sus hermanas y su madre y su padre y los chistes sin gracia de su entorno, sola en la habitación que comparte con su pareja y frente al lexatín que nunca falta en la cartera. Sola en Japón, donde ha tenido que viajar como única albacea de quien fuera su mejor amigo.

Working for America’s hottest rock band should be a dream come true for Phoebe Halstead. And it would be, if it wasn’t for lead singer Levi Hunter. Tortured... Brooding... Broken. He’s everything she should stay away from. Unfortunately for Phoebe, she’s exactly the kind of girl Levi needs. The light to his dark. The calm to his storm. He wants to be worthy of her; she knows he’ll never change. Everyone knows the greatest love stories end one of two ways...with a happily-ever-after or in heartache and ruin.

It’s five years since psychiatrist Olivia Hofmann’s husband and daughter vanished without trace, and five years since the body of troubled teenager Lisa Manz was found murdered in a quarry outside Vienna. While the trail of Lisa’s killer has gone cold, Olivia receives an anonymous postcard each year on the anniversary of her family’s disappearance. Who is sending the messages, and why are they sorry? When one of her patients claims he has seen Lisa alive, Olivia joins forces with detective Levi Kant, who was taken off the murder case when he was close to finding answers.

Una grande saga famigliare dagli anni Venti ai nostri giorni. Un padre una madre e due figlie che si troveranno a impersonare due diversi destini, quello dell'impegno politico antifascista l'una, quello della docilità e della sconfitta l'altra. E una miriade di altri personaggi a comporre il vasto tessuto: un'attrice protetta dal Regime e che diventerà delatrice, una sarta fascista, una sprovveduta servetta di campagna, un genero di un'altra classe sociale, zii, cugini...

This is a crime and science fiction novel. It's back to the flatlands for Reggie! It appears that a multi-planet mining company is manipulating the universe gold market. Once again, if the price of gold goes down too far, Cerberus will go ghost. And once again, like in book one, Reggie must find the new source of gold and to see if it exists or is just a scam.

The Best Boots I Ever Ate is a 70,000 word, literary, historically accurate saga of the Alaska Gold Rush novel of three years in the life of an Alaska Gold Rush boomtown, from formation to demise, 1903 to 1906. The drama is told via 31 interconnected short stories focusing on the unique characters and events of the Alaska Gold Rush.

It is 2171, one hundred years later, and the major cities of the world are still in isolation after the large scale warfare of the 21st Century. A scientist attempts to contact the outside world and seeks an important missing manuscript, while a beautiful and ruthless young woman unwittingly gives an evil recluse a powerful secret. A love triangle is exploited by this unscrupulous man, who steals the secret for himself.

The book begins with the murder of the narrator. The bandits believe him to be dead so the largest mining company on the planet uses his apparent death as a cover to turn him into a secret agent. The planet, Cerberus, makes it money mining gold, and there is an unusual amount of high quality gold that is just appearing on the planetary market. That is driving the price of gold down, which is bad news for a planet.