Maya Denneman Libri

Maggio 1939. Sono 937 gli ebrei a bordo del transatlantico St. Louis, 937 innocenti in fuga dalla violenza della Germania nazista. Tra loro, ci sono Hannah Rosenthal e Leo Martin. Sebbene siano solo due ragazzini, durante la traversata Hannah e Leo decidono di voler passare il resto della vita insieme. Ma è un sogno destinato a non avverarsi: quando la St. Louis arriva in porto, Hannah è tra i pochissimi fortunati a ottenere il permesso di sbarcare. Tutti gli altri passeggeri sono costretti a tornare in dietro, in Germania. Compreso Leo... New York, 2014. Anna Rosen riceve uno strano regalo per il suo dodicesimo compleanno: la lettera di una certa Hannah Rosenthal, che sostiene di essere la sua prozia paterna. Per Anna è un'occasione da cogliere al volo: Hannah è l'unica che conosca la verità su suo padre, scomparso prima che lei nascesse. E quindi decide d'incontrarla, scoprendo così la storia di una donna che ha lottato per farsi strada in un Paese straniero, una donna che ha dovuto di re addio al suo amore, senza mai perdere la speranza di poterlo riabbracciare. E, grazie ad Anna, Hannah riuscirà finalmente a riconciliarsi col proprio passato e a capire che per essere felici non basta sopravvivere, ma bisogna essere pronti ad affrontare sino in fondo tutte le sfide che il futuro ha da offrire.

At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law, Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello, the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman. He's charmed - perhaps too charmed, suggests his wife Paola - by her love of Virgil and Cicero, but shocked by her appearance.A few days later, Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera. As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region, Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company who was found murdered in his office. He believes the man's death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse - and more sinister material - in his company's trucks. No stranger to mutual suspicion and competition between rival Italian police departments, Brunetti is nevertheless puzzled by the younger man's paranoid behaviour.Eventually Guarino agrees to email a photo of his suspect, but by the time the photograph arrives, he himself is dead. Was he killed because he got too close? And why is it that Franca Marinello has often been seen in company of the suspect, a vulgar man with Mafia connections and a violent past?Donna Leon's new novel is as subtle, gripping and topical as ever, bringing the sights, sounds and smells of Venice flooding to life.

Jo Edwards never planned to live on a barge. She's not even sure she likes boats. But when her husband trades her in for a younger model, she finds her options alarmingly limited. Dora Hamilton never planned to run out on her own wedding. But as The Big Day approaches, her cold feet show no signs of warming up - and accepting Jo's offer of refuge aboard The Three Sisters seems the only alternative. As Jo and Dora embark on reorganising their muddled lives, they realise they both need a practical way to keep themselves afloat. But, despite their certainty that they've sworn off men for good, they haven't bargained for the persistent intervention of attractive but enigmatic Marcus, and laid-back, charming Tom, who both seem determined to help them whether they like it or not ...

Een jonge journaliste komt tijdens een begrafenis op het spoor van een mysterieuze brief met compromitterende onthullingen over hooggeplaatste personen.