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Ci inseguirà per tutto il tempo del romanzo. È la voce di un poeta latino del primo secolo avanti Cristo. È la voce di un condannato all'amore di una donna che l'ha straziato e continua a straziarlo rinnovando la smagliante ossessione di un desiderio inesausto. A quella voce sembrano rispondere le vicende di un giovane professore consumato dalla vita coniugale infelice, dalla vita accademica disertata dagli studenti, ma costantemente acceso dalla passione dello studio e, un giorno, dalla lama di luce che riverbera, a sorpresa, negli occhi di una studentessa.

Alif baru saja tamat dari Pondok Madani. Dia bahkan sudah bisa bermimpi dalam bahasa Arab dan Inggris. Impiannya? Tinggi betul. Ingin belajar teknologi tinggi di Bandung seperti Habibie, lalu merantau sampai ke Amerika. Dengan semangat menggelegak dia pulang ke Maninjau dan tak sabar ingin segera kuliah. Namun kawan karibnya, Randai, meragukan dia mampu lulus UMPTN. Lalu dia sadar, ada satu hal penting yang dia tidak punya. Ijazah SMA. Bagaimana mungkin mengejar semua cita-cita tinggi tadi tanpa ijazah?

In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine hill inn, where the eccentric Avrum Feldman became his unlikely friend. A rural Southerner on his exciting first journey north, Bobo learned from Avrum that each life is marked by one grand, undeniable moment of change that never stops mattering. It came for Bobo in his first meeting with Amy Lourie, the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.

As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she’d have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local junior college, even though she can’t imagine how she’ll ever make a living. She’s still figuring things out and never planned to have an affair with her English professor—and while the affair is brief, it isn’t brief enough to keep her from getting pregnant. Despite everyone’s advice, she decides to keep the baby, mostly out of naiveté and a yearning for something bigger.

Sofia Bennet has always imagined a bright future ahead of her. But sometimes, life has other plans, and suddenly, you’re walking a different path.

It has been months since the Spyder's invasion of the child's world, and the young boy has done everything he can to survive. But one fateful day when the child's curiosity gets the best of him, he is swept away into an alien world so dark and so dangerous that he longs for the days he slept alone in the fallout of his war-ravaged planet. His new master, an alien named Tryllcian, has a dark purpose. He saves the child's life and becomes his most loved protector...and his most feared enemy.

Uno dei primi romanzi della scrittrice, scritto nel 1895, a 24 anni, che incontrò già l'approvazione degli ambienti letterari. Un romanzo familiare che si svolge nella cornice sarda tanto cara all'autrice, in cui l'umiltà, la bontà, l'onestà sono protagoniste insieme alla dolcezza del paesaggio.

Michelle “Shelley” Farley was homeless on the streets of San Francisco for a decade before finally getting help to get off the streets. With no family and no place to go, she learned how to fend for herself and make a life out of navigating the rough San Francisco streets among her fellow homeless. Now, she must navigate trying to live life as a sheltered citizen of society, but after being on the streets for so long, can she learn how to live a normal life, or will she be pulled back in to the life she had before?

For fans of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, this a witty, elegant fairytale of New York, set in 1938. In a New York City jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew and things she will have learnt by the end of the year.

In 1960s Glasgow, anti-nuclear activists Judith and Jimmy fall in love. But their future hopes are dashed when their protestors’ squat is raided and many, including Jimmy, are sent to prison. Pregnant and with no word from Jimmy, Judith is forced to enter an unmarried mothers’ home, give up their baby and learn to live with her grief.

Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of 14. But as of this morning...they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love...every memory has vanished. Now Charlie and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why. But the more they learn about the couple they used to be...the more they question why they were ever together to begin with. Forgetting is terrifying, but remembering may be worse.

It's Christmas and Jenny Checkland is beset with problems. The Vicar, who really should know better, has asked to borrow Marilyn the donkey for the nativity play thereby unleashing chaos on the already chaos-laden Frogmorton Farm.

January 1942. With female conscription now in place, the spitfire production line at the Bell Works Factory is busier than ever. When sisters Val and Kay arrive, singers who bring glamour as well as talent, they are soon entertaining their co-workers after long shifts on the factory floor. Audrey is delighted to have caught the eye of a new male supervisor. But is he all that he seems? With romance, heartbreak, painful goodbyes as well as joyful reconciliations all around, one thing is for sure – the women pull together to keep the spirits up of one and all and do their bit for the war.

In a Yorkshire Dales village in the 1970s, best mates Michael, a boy with a strong sense of tradition and family loyalty, and Jack, a boy drawn to new horizons, are there for each other through traumatic childhoods.

פרגוס מקרידי, נער רגיש ובודד בן שבע-עשרה חובב ספרים ותלמיד שקדן, הוא היפוכו הגמור של אביו אליסטר, קולונל בדימוס ואלמן זה שתים-עשרה שנה. הקולונל, גבר משולהב ומשתלהב, רואה בפרגוס את בבואתה של אמו המתה. אליסטר נושא אישה שנייה ובה בעת מחליט שעל פרגוס ללכת בעקבותיו ובעקבות המסורת המשפחתית, ללמוד באקדמיה צבאית ולאחריה לשרת בצבא, ולשם כך עליו גם להיות בכושר צבאי כיאה לייעודו. כשהקולונל יוצא לירח דבש ממושך עם רעייתו הצעירה, הוא מבקש מהנהג שלו, פרד קרינגטון, חייל לשעבר וגבר בנוי לתלפיות, לחשל את פרגוס באימוני כושר ואגרוף.

الآنَ أصبحَ الطفلُ واحدًا من أبناءِ ذئابِ الجبلِ، ولم تكنْ الرحلةُ بالهينةِ، فقدْ أضحَى الصغيرُ بعيدًا عنْ قَريتِهِ مسافةَ أربعِ ساعاتٍ ونصفَ ساعةٍ، يَقطَعُهَا خمسةَ أيامٍ كُلَّ أسبوعٍ، يخرجُ في التاسعةِ صباحًا ليصلَ إلى النادي الثانيةَ ظهرًا، لخوضِ التدريبِ في تمامِ الثالثةِ والنصفِ أو الرابعةِ، يستَمِرُ الصغيرُ في مِرَانِهِ لمُدَةِ ساعتين أو ساعتينِ ونصفٍ يُداعِبُ فيها حُلُمَهُ، يَربِتُ على محبوبَتِهِ، يُقبِلُهَا بِقدَمِهِ قبلَ أنْ يُرسِلَهَا إلى الشباكِ.

Young widow Julia Nance has found happiness again running her beloved Guesthouse, Fairlight, but with the arrival of war, even her last bookings are being cancelled. Step-daughter Elowen immediately offers to find work with arch rival Alma Jennings, but Julia prefers to keep her close, and searches desperately for alternatives. Offering up her beloved home to be requisitioned, looking for any opportunity for work herself, she finds herself thwarted at every turn, and unwilling to accept the help of unscrupulous brother-in-law Pasco.

The Austen Family descends upon a fashionable Georgian seaside resort in Devonshire for a six-week holiday. Jane's brother, Frank, is on leave from the Royal Navy, and dearly wishes to unite his sister with his friend Captain Peter Parker. But another holidaymaker, a handsome stranger, catches sight of Jane and is determined to make her acquaintance. This rival to Captain Parker is Samuel Rose: a lawyer, literary man and abolitionist. As the weeks pass, Jane's relationship with both men brings about unexpected surprises.

Dead Men Tell No Tales by E.W. Hornung is a gripping tale of high-seas adventure, treachery, and mystery. The novel follows a young man, Duncan, who finds himself entangled in a perilous voyage aboard a doomed ship. When disaster strikes and the vessel is wrecked, Duncan becomes the sole survivor, only to discover that escaping the sea is just the beginning of his troubles. A sinister conspiracy, hidden enemies, and a dangerous quest for truth unfold as he struggles to clear his name and uncover the dark secrets that threaten his life.

A romance about a storm that separates a family.