Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but...
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Author: Calvino, ItaloSummary:Genre: Classic fiction
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Author: Klune, TJSummary:
Three years ago, Bear McKenna’s mother took off for parts unknown with her new boyfriend, leaving Bear to raise his six-year-old brother Tyson, aka the Kid. Somehow they’ve muddled through, but...
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Author: Kawabata, YasunariSummary:
"The Dancing Girl of Izu" tells of the story between a young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula and a family of traveling dancers he meets there, including their youngest girl...
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Author: Conkling, WinifredSummary:
The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb. In 1934, IrEne Curie, working with her husband...
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Author: Barton, JohnSummary:
Nominated for Gay Poetry (2009 Lambda Literary Awards). A journey in search of love through the contemporary homoerotic male body. Improvising on a variety of poetic forms and traversing disparate...
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Author: Morgan-Cole, Trudy J.Summary:
In 1610, John Guy established a small colony in Cupids, Newfoundland, on the very edge of a world unknown to Europeans. Two years later, he brought a shipment of supplies to his all-male...
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Author: Prioleau, BetsySummary:
The first major biography of the glamorous and scandalous Miriam Leslie, titan of publishing and an unsung hero of women's suffrage Among the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age—Carnegie,...
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Author: UnknownSummary:
Quattro brevi racconti di autori Italiani sul tema dell'amore, seduzione, passione e tradimento. Quattro diversissimi profili femminili. Quattro storie di vita nell'Italia di fine...
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Author: Dolan, NaoiseSummary:
“This debut novel about an Irish expat millennial teaching English and finding romance in Hong Kong is half Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy Crazy Rich Asians high living—and guaranteed to...
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Author: Playdon, ZoëSummary:
The life story of an aristocratic Scottish trans man-whose secret 1968 legal case had a profound impact on trans rights for decades. Ewan Forbes was born to a wealthy, landowning family, holders...
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Author: MELVILLE, HermanSummary:
Supremo capolavora di questo autore Americano che viene riconosciuto come un gigante fra tutti i letterati USA. L'atteggliamento di Batleby, chiuso nel suo dignitoso silenzio, induce a...
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Author: Brown, MarciaSummary:
When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and all the town enjoys a feast.
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Author: Provensen, AliceSummary:
A biography of the man whose fascination with flying machines produced the Bleriot XI, which in 1909 became the first heavier-than-air machine to fly the English Channel.
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Author: Robinson, PeterSummary:
Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has reached a turning point. With his wife now living with another man in London and his career in the doldrums thanks to Chief Inspector Riddle, it is time to...
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Author: McBain, Ed.Summary:
Prudence Ann Markham era una persona molto meticolsa specialmente nel suo lavora di film editor, La sera, prima di uscire dal sui studio, era solita ripoore le pellicole in lavorazione,...
Genre: Domestic fiction