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From the award-winning author of Chemistry comes a sharp and poignant short story that follows a young medical student working in clinical research and grappling with the realities of a future in her chosen field. 

Paul Celan (1920-70) is one of the best-known German poets of the Holocaust; many of his poems, admired for their spare, precise diction, deal directly with its stark themes. Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of post-World War II German literature’s most important novelists, poets, and playwrights. Collected here for the first time in English are their letters, written between 1948 and 1961. Their correspondence forms a moving testimony of the discourse of love in the age after Auschwitz.

Genevieve, a single mother, flies from New York to Port-au-Prince with her teenage son, Miles. The trip is meant to be an education for fifteen-year-old Miles—a chance to learn about his family’s roots while coming to terms with his father’s departure—but it’s also an excuse for Genevieve to escape the city, where her life is dominated by her failed marriage and the daily pressures of raising Black children in America.

Ante el inminente cierre del viejo hospital psiquiátrico de Cauldstone, en Edimburgo, las autoridades comunican a Iris que debe hacerse cargo de su tía abuela Esme Lennox, quien será puesta en libertad tras sesenta y un años de internamiento. El desconcierto inicial de la joven, que desconocía la existencia de la anciana, se verá pronto superado por una genuina curiosidad. ¿Qué motivo llevó a la reclusión de Esme cuando tenía solo dieciséis años? ¿Por qué se ocultó su historia al resto de la familia durante décadas?

This Italian audio course is designed for complete beginners, with a structure that unfolds over five engaging sessions. Each session enriches the learner's understanding and ability to communicate in Italian, emphasizing practical usage and comprehension. The course uniquely combines clear explanations with real-life conversations, offering a rich auditory experience that promotes language acquisition in a natural and intuitive manner.

Allison Lopez is not your everyday Psychic Hotline operator. She's a real psychic with real abilities that seem to grow daily, thanks to her close association with an immortal friend. Now, as her abilities continue to grow, Allison meets a very strange woman who reveals a starling secret to her. Life, for Allison Lopez, is about to get even stranger... and more fantastic.

La biografia dell'esorcista più famoso al mondo, padre Gabriele Amorth: trent'anni di battaglie dedicate a combattere il diavolo. Attraverso una serie di conversazioni con padre Gabriele Amorth, trascritte con estrema fedeltà di pensiero e di linguaggio, Elisabetta Fezzi ci restituisce in questo libro un vero e proprio testamento spirituale dell'esorcista più famoso al mondo. Apprendiamo così particolari curiosi della sua vita, della sua vocazione e della sua lunga attività esorcistica. Gabriele Amorth (1925-2016) è stato il più importante esorcista italiano e un grande mariologo.

Noi diversamente performanti esistiamo davvero, non solo nei giudizi delle nostre madri e nella nostra psiche. Noi, che non ci collochiamo né qui né lì, o meglio, a volte qui, a volte lì, tiriamo avanti per la nostra strada con una sola costante: ci sentiamo sempre come se stessimo perdendo qualcosa, in colpa, in difetto. “Le donne hanno risorse infinite”, “come lo fa la mamma non lo fa nessuno”, “i figli sono delle madri”, “le donne sono multitasking”. Quante volte abbiamo sentito queste frasi? Belle eh, ma non ci vivremmo.

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline and her daughter Francesca Serritella are the best of friends—99.9% of the time. They're number one on each other's speed dial and they tell each other everything—well, almost everything. They share shoes and clothes—except one very special green jacket, which almost caused a catfight. In other words, they're just like every mother and daughter in the world. Best friends, and occasional enemies. Now they're dishing about it all—their lives, their relationship, and their carb count.

The Propagandists' Playbook peels back the layers of the right-wing media manipulation machine to reveal why its strategies are so effective and pervasive, while also humanizing the people whose worldviews and media practices conservatism embodies.

Fierce and ambitious, Aina Solís as sharp as her blade and as mysterious as the blood magic she protects. After the murder of her parents, Aina takes a job as an assassin to survive and finds a new family in those like her: the unwanted and forgotten. Her boss is brutal and cold, with a questionable sense of morality, but he provides a place for people with nowhere else to go. And makes sure they stay there.

In Meet Me at the Emotional Baggage Claim, the mother-daughter duo of Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella continue the conversation with more hilarious and honest tales of life inside an ordinary, extraordinary family. These stories will make you laugh, cry, and call your mother, daughter, and all your girlfriends.

Critics, readers, and listeners loved Lisa Scottoline's first collection of true-life stories, which only encouraged her—now she's back with these all-new, exciting adventures. She's farther down the road now, and the scenery has changed—ex-husbands Thing One and Thing Two are in her rear-view mirror, daughter Francesca has moved into an apartment, and Lisa's finding the silver lining in her empty nest, which has lots more room for her shoes. And some things have stayed the same.

Princess Cleo lives in a lovely kingdom far away and spends her days feeding the royal ducks in the royal pond, riding the royal horses across the royal meadows, and baking princess cake in the royal kitchen. One day a wizard, disguised as a black raven, puts a spell on her and after that she just can’t stop farting! The entire kingdom suffers from the green, smelly gas, and Princess Cleo is forced to move to the edge of the kingdom, where her only friend is a skunk named Jeremy. Together they have to figure out how to break the spell of the Farting Princess!

The Bermuda Triangle. The Devil’s Triangle. Call it what you will but this area off the coast of the southwestern United States has stirred peoples’ imaginations for hundreds of years. You won’t find it on any official maps, which hasn’t actually stopped would-be cartographers from adding it in anyway. As far as the U. S. Board of Geographic Names is concerned, it doesn’t even exist. However, as fans of the unexplained will insist, the Bermuda Triangle is very real.

"Le più belle fiabe e favole per bambini": Il gatto con gli stivali, Il baule volante, Pollicino, Raperonzola, Enrichetto dal ciuffo, Cappuccetto Rosso, Mignolino.

Be careful what you wish for! An eight-hour orgasm? What should be divine becomes an exquisitely agonizing ordeal for Tessia, who makes the ultimate quivering sacrifice to the god called the Blesser; but for Avia, who takes Tessia' s place when she's unable to live up to her commitment to the god, it's a revelation as well as an act of devotion.

Il testo integrale dell'enciclica di Papa Francesco su cambiamento climatico e disuguaglianza.

Internationally renowned actor Geraint Wyn Davies performs Dylan Thomas’ best-known and most beloved poems: “Fern Hill,” “Death Shall Have No Dominion,” and the eternal, “Do Not Go Gentle.” Also included are complete (and abridged) performances of the best selling "A Child’s Christmas in Wales" and "A Visit to Grandpa’s."

When my best friend Jenny invited me on a trip to South Korea, the last thing I expected was to fall for someone. I’ve never left the small town I grew up in–an adventure this huge feels like more than I can handle. But freshly graduated from high school, I figure this is my last chance to dive into something totally carefree before my adult life begins.