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Vividamente teso e inquietante, questo potente romanzo cattura l'essenza del suspense. Sull'isolata isola scozzese di Eris, tagliata fuori dal continente per dodici ore al giorno, l'unica casa apparteneva a Vanessa, il cui marito infedele è scomparso due decenni fa. Ora deceduta, l'amica di Vanessa, Grace, ha preso residenza, soddisfatta nella sua solitudine mentre custodisce i segreti dell'isola. Tuttavia, a Londra, uno sconosciuto scopre un osso umano, minacciando l'isolamento prezioso di Grace. Come reagirà? Può essere fidata? I segreti sepolti dell'isola di Eris sono pronti a riemergere, rendendo la solitudine uno stato pericoloso. I lettori sono catturati da questa storia avvincente, con molti che esprimono il desiderio di rileggerla immediatamente per la sua natura inquietante. Gli elogi si riversano, evidenziando la narrazione immersiva e la conclusione agghiacciante, consolidandola come una lettura imperdibile. I critici la descrivono come un thriller insidioso e un capolavoro, confermando che è estremamente difficile da mettere giù.

The breathtaking new novel from Ann Patchett - a Sunday Times and No. 1 New York Times bestseller'Filled with the moments I live for in a story'BONNIE GARMUS, author of Lessons in Chemistry'[Tom Lake] has it all ... Young love, sibling rivalry and deep mother-daughter relationships'REESE WITHERSPOON'One of the most beloved authors of her generation'SUNDAY TIMESThere's more to every love story than what we choose to tell...It's spring and Lara's three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they've always longed to hear - of the film star with whom she shared a stage, and a romance, years before.Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents lead before their children are born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.'One of our greatest living chroniclers of love and marriage ... Expect wonder; Patchett always delivers' ELLE* SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 ** A REESE WITHERSPOON AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK ** A 2023 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES *

William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him—so when he meets the spirited and ambitious Julia Padavano in his freshman year of college, it’s as if the world has lit up around him. With Julia comes her family, as she and her threesisters are inseparable: Sylvie, the family’s dreamer, is happiest with her nose in a book; Cecelia is a free-spirited artist; and Emeline patiently takes care of them all. With the Padavanos, William experiences a newfound contentment; every moment in their house is filled with loving chaos. But then darkness from William’s past surfaces, jeopardizing not only Julia’s carefully orchestrated plans for their future, but the sisters’ unshakeable devotion to one another. The result is a catastrophic family rift that changes their lives for generations. Will the loyalty that once rooted them be strong enough to draw them back together when it matters most? An exquisite homage to Louisa May Alcott’s timeless classic, Little Women, Hello Beautiful is a profoundly moving portrait of what is possible when we choose to love someone not in spite of who they are, but because of it.

At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another. It is this unshakable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts their futures. Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives, they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage. But when at last they’re forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally tested.

New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction World Fantasy Awards Finalist The instant New York Times bestselling novel from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic book set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house-a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known. For readers of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane and fans of Madeline Miller's Circe, Piranesi introduces an astonishing new world, an infinite labyrinth, full of startling images and surreal beauty, haunted by the tides and the clouds.

Il ponte d'argilla è la storia appassionante di cinque fratelli costretti a vivere soli, e a definire da soli le regole della propria esistenza. E mentre i fratelli Dunbar amano, soffrono e lottano per imparare a fare i conti con il mondo degli adulti, scopriranno il segreto, tenero e straziante a un tempo, che si cela dietro la scomparsa del loro padre. Al centro della famiglia Dunbar, c'è Clay, l'unico dei fratelli che accetterà di riavvicinarsi al padre, per costruire con lui un ponte, concreto e metaforico nello stesso tempo: lo farà per la sua famiglia, per il loro passato, per il loro futuro, per espiare le colpe e dimenticare il dolore. Lo farà perché crede nel miracolo dell'animo umano. Ma fino a che punto Clay riuscirà a spingersi in questo percorso interiore? Quanti degli ostacoli che la vita gli ha posto davanti riuscirà a superare?

Now an Apple TV series starring Claire Danes and Tom HiddlestonThe Sunday Times number one bestsellerOverall Book of the Year and Fiction Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2017 (Nibbies)Longlisted for the 2017 Women's Prize for FictionThe Waterstones Book of the Year 2016Shortlisted for the 2016 Costa Novel AwardLondon, 1893. When Cora Seaborne's controlling husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness. Along with her son Francis - a curious, obsessive boy - she leaves town for Essex, in the hope that fresh air and open space will provide refuge.On arrival, they hear rumours that the mythical Essex Serpent, once said to roam the marshes claiming lives, has returned to the coastal parish of Aldwinter. Cora, a keen amateur naturalist, is enthralled, convinced that what the locals think is a magical beast may be a yet-undiscovered species. As she sets out on its trail, she is introduced to William Ransome, Aldwinter's vicar, who is also deeply suspicious of the rumours, but thinks they are a distraction from true faith.As he tries to calm his parishioners, Will and Cora strike up an intense relationship, and although they agree on absolutely nothing, they find themselves at once drawn together and torn apart, affecting each other in ways that surprise them both.

Evie ha quattordici anni e un disperato bisogno che qualcuno al mondo si accorga di lei. Quando un giorno, al parco, vede un gruppo di ragazze farsi strada tra la gente come squali che tagliano l'acqua, non riesce a distogliere lo sguardo. È incantata dai vestiti alternativi, dalle mani coperte di anelli, dal senso di sicurezza e assoluta libertà che loro trasmettono. È l'inizio di un'ossessione. Evie, solitaria, insicura, sviluppa per loro una sorta di venerazione, in particolare per Suzanne, la più grande, e spasima per sentirsi accettata nel gruppo. Così. quando viene invitata nella comune hippy in cui le ragazze vivono tutte insieme con un carismatico guru, neanche lontanamente riesce a intuire quanto si stia avvicinando al cuore del male. Era l'estate del '69.

19-year-old Paige is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people's minds. It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped. She is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy. But if Paige wants to regain her freedom she must allow herself to be nurtured in this prison where she is meant to die.

In your hands is a place like no other: a tiny, man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki, for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan and the West. Here, in the dying days of the 18th century, a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune. Instead he loses his heart. Step onto the streets of Dejima and mingle with scheming traders, spies, interpreters, servants and concubines as two cultures converge. In a tale of integrity and corruption, passion and power, the key is control - of riches and minds, and over death itself.

Ireland . . . America . . . Family secrets . . . Laughter . . . Tragedy . . . Swimming . . . Dogs . . . Big beaches . . . Loneliness . . . A story of unexpected, life-changing love

I sei protagonisti vivono in momenti e luoghi diversi, ma sono legati da un filo sottile di casualità. Le loro anime si muovono come nuvole, attraversando le vite di un notaio americano dell'Ottocento, un giovane musicista che si infiltra nella vita di un compositore belga tra le due guerre, un'intrepida giornalista che indaga su un omicidio durante la Guerra Fredda, un editore in fuga dai creditori nella Londra degli anni Ottanta, e un clone schiavizzato nella Corea del futuro. Infine, si giunge all'alba di un nuovo mondo, dopo l'Apocalisse, con il suo abitante primitivo. Questi personaggi vivono incredibili avventure in un viaggio affascinante attraverso la Storia, dalle grandi esplorazioni ai confini del futuro, esplorando l'anima umana. Il romanzo è un'apoteosi di sapori, colori e atmosfere che emozionano e stordiscono, chiudendo il cerchio dove tutto era iniziato. È un'epica storia dell'umanità, in cui le azioni e le conseguenze delle nostre vite si intrecciano attraverso passato, presente e futuro, mentre le anime mutano, cambiando per sempre il destino.

Who was Adolf Hitler? It's a question writers have been trying to answer for more than sixty years. But after thousands of biographies, histories, novels, and films, many fundamental questions remain: How do we explain Hitler's hatred? Where did it come from? Could it happen again? Norman Mailer sets out to respond to these and other crucial aspects of Hitler's personality in his compulsively readable new novel. Spanning three generations, and a hundred years of history, the book brings to life the Hitlers - grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, and, ultimately, young Adolf - in an energetic and wildly entertaining family saga. Mailer recounts the marriages, incestuous couplings, estrangements, afflictions, and deaths that lead to the birth of young Adolf in 1889. Told in the voice of a mysterious (and unreliable) narrator, this playful yet profound novel blends fact and fiction in a stirring family tale that will cause the reader to re-examine his preconceived ideas about Hitler and the nature of his evil.