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Eighteen years ago, the desperate and heavily pregnant noblewoman Rhonda fled as a stowaway aboard a ship bound for America. Now she returns to England a wealthy woman, determined to introduce her illegitimate daughter, Amber, into Victorian society.But when Rhonda is blackmailed, threatened, and forced to confront the ghosts of her past, she suffers a devastating emotional collapse.Amber finds refuge with her great-aunt, the Duchess of Mullgrove, where she discovers not only a strange new world but also love. Meanwhile, the Duchess pieces together the loose threads of Rhondas past, seeking to reconcile her with her familyand free her heart for true love.The key to it all: a long-lost medallion.

Ivan, nos momentos mais marcantes de sua vida, orava a Prece de Cáritas. Por meio dela, obteve incentivo, consolo e encontrou orientações seguras no seu caminho.Ele, por duas vezes, escutou a frase:

In this bold and intimate semi-autobiographical novel, La Maison, Emma Becker transports the reader behind the closed doors of a Berlin brothel, where she worked for two years not only to earn a living, but to immerse herself in a world she wanted to understand and to write about with unflinching honesty. What emerges is a deeply personal, unsentimental, and often surprising account of life inside the brothel, where Becker explores not just the physical aspects of sex work, but the emotional, psychological, and social complexities that shape it.With frankness and literary insight, she recounts her encounters with clients, her growing self-awareness, and, most poignantly, the friendships and solidarity she finds among the other women who work there. Far from reducing sex work to cliche or voyeurism, Becker gives space to the quiet routines, shared laughter, private pain, and hard-won dignity of a profession often misunderstood and rarely written about from the inside.Part memoir, part sociological study, and wholly literary, La Maison challenges preconceptions about sex, agency, and femininity, offering a provocative and compassionate exploration of what it means to inhabit multiple identitiesas worker, writer, woman, and witness.

In the bookshops and cafes of present-day Paris, ex-psychologist Gabe Figaret is trying to put his shattered life back together. When another doctor, Reynard, asks him to help with a delusional female patient, Gabe is reluctant - until he meets her. At first Gabe thinks the woman, Angelina, is merely terrified of Reynard, but he quickly discovers she is not quite what she seems.When Angelina tells Gabe he must kill her and flee to a place she calls Morgravia, he is horrified. But then Angelina shows him that the cathedral he has dreamt about since childhood is real and exists in Morgravia.Soon, Gabes world will be turned upside down, and he will learn shocking truths about who he is . . . and who he can - or cannot - trust.The Scriveners Tale is an action-packed fantasy adventure filled with twists that will keep you guessing until the last page.

Part sequel, part reimagining, and wholly delightful Jodi PicoultAn absolute delight. Funny, moving and filled with heart Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious ThingsIt is a truism, frequently invoked by the members of the Meryton Womens Guild, that one is only ever as happy as ones unhappiest child. So, with five daughters and four grandchildren, it was a miracle Mrs Hester Bennet ever raised a smile. At best, she was only ever tentatively pleased, and even then understood that her contentment rested on the edge of a gaping precipice into which she would inevitably tumble the second Kitty or Lydia (it was almost always those two) messaged in the clutches of yet another existential crisisLydia, home from Paris on New Years Day in a welter of hangover and humiliation, finds herself swearing off drink, drugs and sex for the next 12 months. Through her unfamiliar sobriety, shell see a landmark year for all the Bennet sisters, including a disruptive 40th birthday, an engagement and a funeral: and, maybe, coming to terms with the results of a run-of-the-mill run-in with a jackknifed lorry on a wet stretch of the M1A sharply funny and unexpectedly tender modern sequel to Pride & Prejudice, this is a story of sisterhood, survival, and second chances. For fans of Marian Keyes, Dolly Alderton, and anyone whos ever wondered what the Bennet sisters would be like in the age of therapy, WhatsApp, and wellness trends gone rogue.

Hes searching the city. Shes dangling in plain sight.In the Old City of Québec, Kay Harper falls in love with a puppet in the window of the Quatre Mains, a toy shop that is never open. She is spending her summer working as an acrobat with the cirque while her husband, Theo, is translating a biography of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Late one night, Kay fears someone is following her home. Surprised to see that the lights of the toy shop are on and the door is open, she takes shelter inside.The next morning Theo wakes up to discover his wife is missing. Under police suspicion and frantic at her disappearance, he obsessively searches the streets of the Old City. Meanwhile, Kay has been transformed into a puppet, and is now a prisoner of the back room of the Quatre Mains, trapped with an odd assemblage of puppets from all over the world who can only come alive between the hours of midnight and dawn. The only way she can return to the human world is if Theo can find her and recognize her in her new form. So begins a dual odyssey: of a husband determined to find his wife, and of a woman trapped in a magical world where her life is not her own.

Bruno e un infermiere, un maratoneta dilettante e un lettore. Convive con un malessere carsico che sfocia spesso in momenti di rabbia violenti e pericolosi che, tuttavia, riesce a reprimere e controllare. Trovera un parziale ancoraggio nel ritrovamento di Lilith, come la ribattezzera. Nel corso del romanzo affrontera stereotipi, luoghi comuni, burocrazia e arroganza, da cui trarra una rabbia sempre piu acuta. Ne sara cosciente e provera a superarla sia con un supporto psicologico, sia allenandosi. Sullo sfondo le avvisaglie della epidemia di Covid 19. A causa di un incidente si risveglia in ospedale, durante la convalescenza scoprira di essere diventato meno aggressivo e rancoroso. Sulla base di un ricordo decide di trasferirsi a Boario dove credera di potere tirare il fiato, ma e cambiato soltanto il cielo sulla sua testa e ritrovera, amplificato, tutto il proprio disagio. E quando, come una pentola a pressione dimenticata sul fuoco, cedera alla rabbia, scoprira come la sua vita, e quella di noi tutti, sia assolutamente irredimibile.

Nel periodo entusiasmante di Firenze Capitale, Sabatino e Silvia rifiutano di sposarsi come vorrebbero le loro famiglie e decidono di rimanere amici, ma il ragazzo forse ha fatto un grave errore. In questo romanzo ricco di avventura e intrigo, Sabatino Arturi dovra destreggiarsi tra ufficiali affascinanti, criminali che propongono interessanti affari, le ombre della Cina e delloppio che si affacciano su Firenze e una bellissima fanciulla in pericolo.Leonardo Gori:un romanzo di tensione che immerge il lettorenella vita quotidiana della Firenze Capitale.Averne, di storie come questa In una Firenze pulsante di vita, ricchezza e miseria, capitale dItalia in fermento, Sabatino Arturi e entusiasta: lunificazione del paese sembra vicina, nuove tecnologie promettono sviluppo e benessere. Ma mentre la citta si trasforma, anche il cuore di Sabatino e in tumulto. Lui e Silvia sfidano le aspettative delle loro famiglie, rifiutando un matrimonio concordato e decidendo di essere soltanto amici. Sara una scelta giusta o per lennesima volta il giovane si sara comportato da bischero, come spesso gli accade? Le avventure in cui Sabatino si imbatte non gli lasciano tempo di ponderare questi dubbi, mettendo alla prova il suo coraggio, la lealta verso Silvia, la capacita di superare i ricordi della tremenda campagna contro i briganti del Sud e della sciagurata battaglia di Custoza. Per evitare la rovina economica e salvare il suo amore, il ragazzo dovra destreggiarsi tra ufficiali affascinanti, venditori di lampredotto esperti in panini e negoziazioni, stupende fanciulle in pericolo, criminali che propongono interessanti affari, collane scomparse, cadaveri ingombranti. E mentre le ombre inquietanti della Cina e delloppio si affacciano su Firenze, Sabatino si rende conto che non puo eludere i nodi del cuore. In questa avventura, sara chiamato ad affrontare la piu ardua delle sfide: riconoscere il vero amore prima che il tempo gli sfugga dalle mani.

I feel like, soon, the day after tomorrow, some other people are going to come, a strong, bold race, and sweep us off the face of the earth like litter.Its a hot, beautiful summer in 1905, and Russias elite retreats to the countryside to swim, sip champagne and start affairs. When youre having this much fun, why care about anything else? But Vavara cant shake the feeling that theyre living on stolen time. How long can they go on ignoring the storm thats gathering on the horizon?A razor-sharp portrait of class, privilege and denial, Summerfolk was written by Maxim Gorky in 1904. This adaptation by Nina Raine and Moses Raine premiered at the National Theatre, London, in 2026, directed by Robert Hastie.

La scuola italiana vive un profondo momento di crisi. Al suo interno coesistono il modello aziendalista e quello trasmissivo, lesaltazione del saper fare e la persistenza dellapprendimento nozionistico. A complicare il quadro contribuiscono le logiche polarizzanti dei social, che ostacolano una riflessione pacata e critica. Per fare chiarezza nelle ambiguita normative e arginare le polemiche sterili, questo saggio propone di ripensare le coordinate valoriali del nostro sistema educativo: unoperazione in cui la filosofia puo e deve giocare un ruolo centrale.

Una semplice storia tra altre storie semplici, minuscole, quotidiane. Un piccolo paese, un bar frequentato ogni mattina, incontri casuali tra persone comuni, come ordinari sono i loro discorsi. A questa normalita guardano e partecipano Marco e Pino che il caso ha fatto incontrare dando forma a unamicizia matura, in una trama fatta di dialoghi, ricordi e riflessioni. Dietro a una storia, a storie apparentemente semplici, si nasconde uno sguardo disincantato sulla vita e sullumanita spicciola. Sulle vicende quotidiane e le tragedie planetarie, alle quali i due amici assistono angosciati e impotenti. Tali si presentano anche le loro vicende, quelle della vita: sconfitte e rinascite fanno da sfondo al romanzo, in un caleidoscopio di personaggi, di amori e sentimenti fusi nellesistenza reale di ogni giorno.

A friendship is a filiation we choose. It holds love and laughter; it can extend our sense of the possible. Moved to honour a form of relation often subordinated to romantic and familial ties, and to explore a part of her own history, Helene Giannecchini pieces together an alternative genealogy of queer ancestors. In searching and sensitive prose, she sifts the past to bring existences deemed marginal into communion with each other, traces of which may remain only in memory and archival fragments. Roving from Casa Susanna, a space of freedom from persecution in McCarthyite North America, to the diary of a man living with HIV in France, and to the life and work of pioneering lesbian photographer Donna Gottschalk, each narrative counters oblivion through loving acts of witness. A slantwise gathering of queer life and activism in the twentieth century, interspersed with images encountered by chance, An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail establishes friendship as a vital political force and offers a moving testament to its liberatory power.

What does it mean to lose yourself and is that something you should be aiming for? A young woman with little interest in games takes up a job in Frankfurt at a famous gaming company, naively set on reinvention. On her morning commute, in the familiar clutches of tedium and self-loathing, she encounters a nice-eyed stranger who returns her forgotten umbrella and finds herself catapulted into a dizzying, year-long whirlwind of obsession not just with this endlessly attractive spectre, but also with the feverish karaoke trips from which she draws the ultimate solace. With astonishing existential acuity, Polly Bartons formidable debut novel renders the paradoxes of modern life in all its complexity, in deliriously self-conscious prose that is at once propulsive, titillating and bitingly funny. Echoing with the sounds of Whitney Houston and The Cure, reaching for the sublime in dark, sweaty boxes, What Am I, A Deer? is an exhilarating exploration of authenticity, fantasy, romance and intoxication.

Spenser may have uncovered an explosive secret that threatens the career of a controversial figure, in this latest installment of Robert B. Parkers beloved series.Vic Hale isnt anyones idea of a father figure. He is one of the biggest and loudest podcasters in the nation and got there by spewing overheated rhetoric thats reviled by some but loved by even more. His particular brand of entertainment is so successful, hes about to sign the biggest contract in the history of online broadcasting. Vics riding high... until he gets a visit from Spenser, who specialises in bringing guys like Hale back down to Earth.Spenser is there on behalf of Daniel Lopez, a young man who believes Hale may be his father. Its a potentially explosive revelation for a man in the podcasters position and it might even be enough to blow up his massive new deal. That could explain the bodies that start popping up bodies connected in one way or another with the mystery surrounding Daniels birth. There are a lot of questions remaining, and Spensers going to have to find the answers before someone shuts Hale or Daniel up for good.

Take a Hike is a delicious second-chance romance, with miles of chemistry, yearning that feels real, and addictively relatable charactersEmma Lucy, author of Riding the LineWalking boots? Check. Raincoat? Check. Emotional baggage? Check, check, check.Lydia Williams is used to putting on a smile and saying yes. So, when her friends beg her to join them on a cross-country hiking trip she agrees, even if shed rather be crying into a pint of ice cream post-breakup. And post-job loss. Yeah, its been a week.Shes barely got her boots laced when Ren Hunter rocks up, her ex-best friend shes been desperately avoiding since he broke her heart.Ren knows he made the biggest mistake of his life. Hes ready to grovel, but Lydias walls are higher than any peak theyre about to climb. So after his brother-slash-business partner shoots down his dream, he jumps at the chance for a break and a chance to maybe, finally, win her back.Lydia is determined to keep her heart zipped up tight. But with days spent walking side by side and nights spent just inches apart, old feelings come creeping back, and in the middle of nowhere, they might just find their way back to each other.

Even in this predominantly secular age, Britains cathedrals remain potent symbols of religious continuity. Their purpose was to reveal Gods majesty, to declare the supremacy of the Church and the devotion of the men who built them. They were intended, literally, to be awesome. Similarly, our medieval abbeys, most of them sad remnants of a glorious past, serve to remind us of the dedication of those who aspired to the monastic ideal. No two cathedrals or abbeys are alike in their conception, location, construction or history, and it is this that gives them their limitless appeal.Informative, knowledgeable and wide-ranging, Stephen Friars study contains over 1,450 entries and explores the features of these places, as well as associated subjects, such as architecture, monuments and church music. Entries on the Anglo-Saxon Church, monasticism, the Reformation, the restoration of the Roman Catholic dioceses and more assist in revealing a wider historical context.Richly illustrated in both colour and black and white, The Companion to Cathedrals and Abbeys is essential reading to new and more seasoned researchers alike.

La fantascienza che caratterizza lopera cyberpunk di William Gibson e in realta il telescopio attraverso cui leggere chi comanda e chi subisce nel futuro prossimo, diventato ormai presente storico. Un ordinamento contemporaneamente secolare e tribale, che non governa piu la fine del mondo, ma la sua piu piena effettivita come sistema irrimediabilmente precario. Tra emergenza, dominio e transizione.

Il capitale si e fatto linguaggio (da qui nasce il termine semiocapitale) con cui ci scambiamo comunicazioni funzionali al ciclo di produzione e consumo; non e un caso se siamo sommersi non solo dalle merci ma anche dalle informazioni. Lo spazio digitale dove i contenuti saturano la nostra attenzione, comprimendo la nostra facolta di elaborazione critica ben si presta a veicolare il linguaggio del capitale. La combinazione di semiocapitale e spazio digitale ha permesso al capitalismo di colonizzare il nostro immaginario e ha prodotto una frattura tra estetica ed etica tale per cui noi possiamo percepire lAltro ma non anche agire insieme allAltro; in definitiva, ha reso sempre piu urgente il bisogno di rifondare una dimensione comunitaria nelle nostre esistenze.

I flagellatori delloceano e un grande classico dellavventura marinaresca firmato da Luigi Motta, maestro del romanzo dazione. Nelle giungle misteriose di Ceylon e tra le rotte insidiose dellOceano Indiano si nasconde una minaccia senza precedenti: i Flagellatori dellOceano, una potente confraternita di pirati guidata dallenigmatico e spietato DArris. Quando il capitano Billy-Bones e il suo fidato ufficiale Twain si imbattono nei primi segni della loro presenza, scoprono subito che non si tratta di semplici predoni. Navi corazzate, armi elettriche e tecnologie sconosciute trasformano questi uomini in una forza devastante, capace di dominare i mari e seminare il terrore.Luigi Motta (18811955) e stato uno dei piu prolifici autori italiani di romanzi davventura della prima meta del Novecento. Nato a Bussolengo, in provincia di Verona, si impose giovanissimo nel panorama editoriale grazie al successo del suo primo romanzo, I flagellatori delloceano, premiato nel 1900 e introdotto da Emilio Salgari, di cui fu tra i piu noti continuatori. Seguendo la scia del maestro, Motta costrui una lunga carriera letteraria, pubblicando oltre cento opere tra romanzi davventura, racconti fantastici e testi di ispirazione scientifica. Il suo intento era quello di rinnovare il genere, conferendogli un taglio piu moderno e scientifico, a meta strada tra la narrativa dazione e la speculazione immaginifica, avvicinandosi per certi aspetti a modelli come Verne e Poe.

In a near-future where pain is optional, Clean Slate Corp offers the ultimate luxury: the total extraction of your worst memories. For a price, they can weave their Glass Wires through your mind and silence your loudest regrets forever.Detective Elias Thorne is the perfect success story. He is Cleanefficient, cold, and utterly devoid of the trauma that once defined him. But when a high-profile executive vanishes from the heart of the corporation, Elias is called to investigate a crime that shouldnt exist.The deeper he digs, the more the silence starts to scream.After finding a mysterious hand-knitted bird in his sterile apartment, Eliass surgical peace begins to fracture. Aided by Maya Sato, a rogue systems architect with a vengeance, he discovers a terrifying truth: Regrets are never truly erased. They are harvested, bottled, and sold on a black market of human agony to those who can no longer feel.As his own suppressed memories begin to bleed back into his mind, Elias must choose: remain a perfect, hollow shell or embrace the crushing, beautiful weight of being whole again.The Archive of Erased Regrets is a high-octane techno-noir thriller that explores the dark intersection of memory, corporate greed, and what it truly means to be human.Fans of Blade Runner, Recursion by Blake Crouch, and Inception will be gripped by this psychological race against time.