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The Light in the Piazza takes place in Italy in the summer of 1953. Margaret Johnson and her beautiful, twenty-six-year-old daughter, Clara, are touring the Tuscan countryside. While sightseeing, Clara meets a good-looking young Italian man, Fabrizio, and quickly embarks on a whirlwind romance with him, despite her mother's stern disapproval.

Mark Twain's marvelous short work relating how to tell a story - an American story that is humorous, not comic as the British or witty as the French. The work also includes four marvelous but little-known essays: "The Wounded Soldier", "The Golden Arm", "Mental Telegraphy", and "The Invalid's Story". Canadian listeners will particularly enjoy "Mental Telegraphy", set in Quebec.

All of the contributors to this book were friends and family of author Ellen Gray Massey, and all of them considered her a model of a strong woman. There was a consensus among contributors that their proceeds from the sale of this book be donated to charities that helped women. The charities chosen are: New Life Project, Lebanon, Missouri, and Tostan, Dignity for All.

On December 17, 1980, at 9:47 a.m., two men shot the Turkish consul-general to Sydney and his bodyguard near the consul’s home in Vaucluse. The assassins aimed, fired, and vanished. A young, idealistic Armenian sets out to discover if his brother was involved in the crime - and how he can take part in the next one. From Australia to the streets of 1920s Berlin and the horrors of the Armenian genocide of World War I, this story blends historical facts with compelling crime fiction.

In una notte di tempesta, una balena si arena sulle rive della tenuta di Chilcombe nel Dorset. Per legge, tutti i relitti appartengono al re, ma la dodicenne Cristabel Seagrave ha altri piani. È determinata a rivendicarla come sua e a utilizzare le ossa del cetaceo per costruire un teatro sulla spiaggia. Un palcoscenico per tutti i libri che ha letto negli anni, di nascosto, nella polverosa biblioteca di famiglia; libri che non hanno mai per protagoniste ragazze come lei. Ora però è arrivato il momento che le cose cambino.

La sera del 29 gennaio 1996 un incendio illumina il cielo di Venezia: il teatro La Fenice brucia. L'incendio è stato appiccato dal titolare di una piccola ditta in ritardo sulla fine dei lavori per il restauro del teatro. Giorgio Falco ha scritto un libro che come un incendio illumina e divora il suo oggetto: ricostruzione di una storia vera e sua decostruzione; romanzo di un'ossessione; indagine sul desiderio e sul potere del denaro di trasformare le cose e i corpi; ritratto in maschera degli ultimi quarant'anni di storia italiana, autobiografia di tutti.

In March 1986, while living in Brooklyn, Chris Bohjalian and his wife were cab-napped on a Saturday night and taken on a forty-five-minute joy ride in which the driver ignored all traffic lights and stop signs. Around midnight he deposited the young couple on a near-deserted street, where police officers were about to storm a crack house. Bohjalian and his wife were told to hit the ground for their own protection. While lying on the pavement, Bohjalian's wife suggested that perhaps it was time to move to New England.

Toward the end of the Hundred Years War between France and England, as Merlin predicted, a great warrior emerged, uniting a beleaguered nation and leading it to improbable victories. It was said this warrior was a messenger of God. And it may have been, for a country was saved and a kingdom restored. This great leader of men, this messenger who united a nation, was a 17-year-old maiden named Joan.

In ihrer autobiographischen Erzählung gibt die Autorin Einblicke in das Leben im Kreise der Familie, der Verwandtschaft und der Dorfgemeinschaft in Neunkirchen (Kreis Daun) in der Eifel. Sie berichtet aus dem Schulalltag, erzählt von Pastor und Kirche, vom Zusammenleben mit den Tieren und den alltäglichen anfallenden Arbeiten auf dem Bauernhof. Ausgangspunkt ist dabei die Kindheit und dann die Jugend der "Tinnes Martha" in ihrem Eifeldorf in den 40-er bis 60-er Jahren. Anschaulich erzählt Roos vom frühen Tod der Mutter, und davon, dass der Vater nun sieben Kinder allein ernähren musste.

Es la última frase del diario escrito por un hombre que murió abandonado en el corazón de la salvación amazónica colombiana. A partir de allí, el autor rastreo la historia durante cuatro años y, tras hallar a los personajes que la protagonizaron, recogió sus versiones, exploro los lugares donde ocurrieron los hechos y apoyándose en los documentos oficiales derivados de la investigación que suscitó el hecho.

Eine der bedeutendsten literarischen Stimmen unserer Zeit. Es ist eine ungewöhnliche Nacht, die Leïla Slimani im Museo Punta Della Dogana in Venedig verbringt. Im einstigen Zollgebäude der Serenissima, einem Ort, an dem sich seit jeher Orient und Okzident begegnen. Für die französisch-marokkanische Schriftstellerin wird er zum Symbol ihrer eigenen Geschichte. Allein im Museum, in den dunklen Stunden zwischen Sonnenuntergang und Tagesanbruch, taucht Slimani in Erinnerungen ein.

Leslie Jamison erkundet die Tiefe von Verlangen, Intimität und Obsession und testet dabei auch die Grenzen ihrer eigenen Offenheit und ihres Mitgefühls für andere aus. Wie kann man empathisch über menschliche Erfahrung schreiben, ohne die kritische Distanz zu verlieren? Wie das Beteiligtsein verarbeiten, ohne der Selbstbezogenheit zu erliegen?