The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern...
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Auteur: Hesse, HermannSommaire:Genre: Literary fiction, Classic fiction
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Auteur: Preston, Douglas J.Sommaire:
Archeologists in the Amazon Basin are savagely massacred and all that survives is a solitary box of relics. This same box begins a circuitous journey from boat to boat, from port to port and ends...
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Auteur: Berne, EricSommaire:
Dr. Eric Berne's classic study of the games underlying all our social interactions, from power games at the office to competitive games with friends.
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Auteur: Leon, DonnaSommaire:
When Brunetti investigates the murder of two local fishermen on the island of Pellestrina, the small community closes ranks, forcing him to accept Signorina Elettra's offer to visit her relatives...
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Auteur: Leon, DonnaSommaire:
Commissario Guido Brunetti must contend with ingenious corruption, bureaucratic intransigence, and the stifling heat of a Venetian summer. As he plans a trip to the mountains with his family, he...
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Auteur: Perry, AnneSommaire:
A string of gruesome, ritualistic murders of Hungarian immigrants has the Thames River Police Commander stuck on solving the pattern in the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling...
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Auteur: Levi, PrimoSommaire:
These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986, demonstrate Levi's extraordinary range, taking the reader from the primal resistance of a captured partisan fighter to a...
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Auteur: Leon, DonnaSommaire:
When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing-person report, and no...
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Auteur: Leon, DonnaSommaire:
On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The dead man had been working as a vu cumpra, one of the many African immigrants...
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Auteur: Leon, DonnaSommaire:
Donna Leon' s critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti series has attracted readers the world over with the beauty of its setting, the humanity of its...
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Auteur: Leon, DonnaSommaire:
When Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate a presumed suicide in Venice's elite military academy, his inquiries are immediately met with a wall of silence. The...