Josephine Ruitenberg Ordine dei libri

A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain Acclaimed as one of the best books of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Time, and Amazon, and named a Top 10 Book of the Year by the Washington Post, Young Mungo is a brilliantly constructed and deeply moving story of queer love and working-class families by the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain. Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--and they should be sworn enemies. Yet against all odds, they fall in love as they find sanctuary and dream of escape in the pigeon dovecote that James has built for his prize racing birds. But when Mungo's mother sends him on a fishing trip to a remote loch with two strange men, he will need all his strength and courage to find his way back to a place where he and James might still have a future.

The lives of four generations in one family of wealthy German Jews, through both World War I and World War II.

Een Zuster van de Duisternis neemt Richard Cypher gevangen en voert hem diep de Oude Wereld in, naar het hart van de Imperiale Orde. Zijn geliefde Kahlan blijft achter. Zij is vrij omdat Richard zich in zijn wanhoop heeft opgeofferd, maar ze legt zich er niet bij neer. Ze ontkracht de profetie en verbreekt haar laatste gelofte aan Richard door een leger op de been te brengen dat de oprukkende strijdmacht van de Imperiale Orde tot staan zal moeten brengen. Lukt dat niet, dan is het met de vrijheid van de mens voorgoed gedaan.

Un meteorite, sepolto sotto i ghiacci del circolo polare artico, è stato localizzato dalla Nasa e sembra contenga fossili di insetti che proverebbero una volta per tutte l&'esistenza di vite extraterrestri. Prima di divulgare la notizia, il presidente degli Stati Uniti vuole essere sicuro dell&'autenticità della scoperta, anche per non compromettere la sua futura (ma già incerta) rielezione. La giovane Rachel Sexton e il professor Michael Tolland sono inviati sul posto insieme ad altri studiosi ma presto si rendono conto che si tratta di una truffa colossale, orchestrata ad arte. Ma da chi? E chi ha assoldato la banda di killer che li ha presi di mira, costringendoli a scappare e a rifugiarsi tra i banchi galleggianti di ghiaccio?

At thirty-five, Mary Frazier Armstrong, called "Frazier" by friends and enemies alike, is a sophisticated woman with a thriving art gallery, a healthy bank balance, and an enviable social position. In fact, she has everything to live for, but she's lying in a hospital bed with a morphine drip in her arm and a life expectancy measured in hours. "Don't die a stranger," her assistant says on her last hospital visit. "Tell the people you love who you are." And so, as her last act on earth, Frazier writes letters to her closest family and friends, telling them exactly what she thinks of them and, since she will be dead by the time they receive the letters, the truth about herself: she's gay. The letters are sent. Then the manure hits the fan in Charlottesville, Virginia, because the funny thing is, Frazier Armstrong isn't going to die after all.