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Lessons in chemistry / Bonnie Garmus
London : Penguin books, 2023
It starts with us : a novel / Colleen Hoover
London [etc.] : Simon & Schuster, 2022
Abstract: Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favourite Atlas' side of the story and shares what comes next in this long anticipated sequel to the #1 Sunday Times bestseller It Ends with Us
Villa of second chances / Jennifer Bohnet
Great Britain : Boldwood, 2022
Abstract: Everyone deserves a second chance...right?Escape to the Villa in the South of France with Top 10 international bestseller Jennifer Bohnet, for an uplifting story of family, love and second chances. Run by sisters Rebecca and Delphine, Villa Sesame is a popular venue for small intimate weddings on the sparkling French Riviera. Beautiful terraces and a horizon pool overlook the Mediterranean, a setting where dreams come true. When recently widowed Delphine unexpectedly announces her desire to retire and live a different life, Rebecca feels her own life could be slipping into free fall. How can she possibly carry on with the business without her sister at her side? Could this be the beginning of the end for Villa Sesame and Rebecca's life as she knows it? As the guests gather for the June wedding of Freya and Marcus, Freya's two childhood friends bring their own problems to the villa and cousin Verity has her own agenda. But it's the arrival of a certain guest who throws Rebecca's whole world into turmoil and she finds herself asking the question, where do I go from here?
The last letter from your lover / Jojo Moyes
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2021
Abstract: Spanning forty years, two women's stories of love, loss and betrayal are intertwined. A perfect reading group novel from the bestselling author of Me Before You.
A slow fire burning / Paula Hawkins
London : Doubleday, [2021]
Abstract: Years ago someone lit a match... Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She's seen as hot-tempered, troubled, a loner. Some even call her dangerous. Miriam knows that just because Laura is witnessed leaving the scene of a horrific murder with blood on her clothes doesn't mean Laura is a killer. Bitter experience has taught her how easy it is to get caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. Carla is reeling from the brutal murder of her nephew. She trusts no one and no thing: good people are capable of terrible deeds. But how far will she go to find peace? Innocent or guilty, everyone is carrying damage. Some are damaged enough to kill. Look what you started.
The Spanish love deception / Elena Armas
London [etc.] : Simon & Schuster, 2021
Abstract: Catalina Martin desperately needs a date to her sister's wedding. Especially since her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. Now everyone she knows--including her ex and his fiancée--will be there and eager to meet him. She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her deception. New York to Spain is no short flight and her raucous family won't be easy to fool. Enter Aaron Blackford--her tall, handsome, condescending colleague--who surprisingly offers to step in. She'd rather refuse; never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling, and insufferable man. But Catalina is desperate, and as the wedding draws nearer, Aaron looks like her best opion. And she begins to realize he might not be as terrible in the real world as he is at the office
London : Penguin, 2020
Abstract: Fear no more the heat of the sun.' Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to give an evening party, while the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith hears the birds in Regent's Park chattering in Greek. There seems to be nothing, except perhaps London, to link Clarissa and Septimus. She is middle-aged and prosperous, with a sheltered happy life behind her; Smith isyoung, poor, and driven to hatred of himself and the whole human race. Yet bo.
The giver of stars / Jojo Moyes
[London] : Penguin Books, 2020
Abstract: 1937. Quando Alice Wright decide impulsivamente di sposare il giovane americano Bennett Van Cleve, lasciandosi alle spalle la sua famiglia e una vita opprimente in Inghilterra, è convinta di iniziare una nuova esistenza piena di promesse e avventure nel lontano Kentucky. Presto però le sue rosee aspettative e i suoi sogni di ragazza si scontrano con una realtà molto diversa. Costretta a vivere sotto lo stesso tetto con un suocero invadente, il dispotico proprietario della miniera di carbone locale, Alice non riesce a instaurare un vero rapporto con il marito e le sue giornate diventano sempre più tristi e vuote. Così, quando scopre che in città si sta costituendo un piccolo gruppo di donne volontarie il cui compito è diffondere la lettura tra le persone disagiate che abitano nelle valli più lontane, lei decide con entusiasmo di farne parte. La leader di questa biblioteca ambulante a cavallo è Margery O'Hare, una donna volitiva, libera da pregiudizi, figlia di un noto fuorilegge, una donna autonoma e fiera che non ha mai chiesto niente a nessuno, tantomeno all'uomo che ama. Alice trova in lei una formidabile alleata, un'amica su cui può davvero contare, specie quando il suo matrimonio con Bennett inizia inevitabilmente a sgretolarsi. Altre donne si uniranno a loro e diventeranno note in tutta la contea come le bibliotecarie della WPA Packhorse Library. Leali e coraggiose, cavalcheranno libere sotto grandi cieli aperti e attraverso foreste selvagge, affrontando pericoli di ogni genere e la disapprovazione dei loro concittadini per portare i libri a persone che non ne hanno mai visto uno, allargando i loro orizzonti e cambiando la loro vita per sempre. Ispirato a una storia vera, questo romanzo è una dichiarazione d'amore per la lettura e i libri.
London : Faber & Faber, 2020
Abstract: A young woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child of her own, in a world which seems entirely consumed by madness. As she navigates a landscape of terrors and trials, can she find a place of safety within a society blinkered by mistrust and denial?
The invisible life of Addie LaRue / V. E. Schwab
London : Titan Books, 2020
Abstract: When Addie LaRue makes a pact with the devil, she trades her soul for immortality. But there's always a price the devil takes away her place in the world, cursing her to be forgotten by everyone. Addie flees her tiny hometown in 18th century France, beginning a journey that takes her across the world, learning to live a life where no one remembers her and everything she owns is lost and broken. Existing only as a muse for artists throughout history, she learns to fall in love anew every single day. Her only companion on this journey is her dark devil with hypnotic green eyes, who visits her each year on the anniversary of their deal. Alone in the world, Addie has no choice but to confront him, to understand him, maybe to beat him. Until one day, in a second hand bookshop in Manhattan, Addie meets someone who remembers her. Suddenly thrust back into a real, normal life, Addie realises she can't escape her fate forever.
Girl, woman, other / Bernardine Evaristo
London : Penguin Books, 2020
Abstract: This is Britain as you've never read it. This is Britain as it has never been told. From the top of the country to the bottom, across more than a century of change and growth and struggle and life, Girl, Woman, Other follows twelve very different characters on an entwined journey of discovery. It is future, it is past. It is fiction, it is history. It is a novel about who we are now.
The Overstory : a novel / Richard Powers
[S.l.] : Ww Norton & Co, 2019
London : Penguin books, 2019
Abstract: For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged. To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. Its use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives, gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.
Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen ; [abridgement by Linda Jennings]
London : Puffin, 2018
Abstract: Il romanzo ha come temi principali l'orgoglio di classe del signor Darcy e il pregiudizio di Elizabeth Bennet nei confronti di quest'ultimo. La trama si concentra sulle vicende della famiglia Bennet, composta dai signori Bennet e dalle loro cinque figlie: Jane, Elizabeth (per gli amici Lizzy), Mary, Catherine (detta anche Kitty) e Lydia. L'obiettivo rimasto alla signora Bennet, vista la mancanza di un figlio maschio che possa ereditare la loro tenuta di Longbourn nell'Hertfordshire, è quello di vedere sposata almeno una delle sue figlie prima possibile
The seven sisters . [1]: Maia's storya / Lucinda Riley
London : Pan Books, 2018
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine / Gail Honeyman
London : HarperCollins, 2018
Abstract: Mi chiamo Eleanor Oliphant e sto bene, anzi: benissimo. Non bado agli altri. So che spesso mi fissano, sussurrano, girano la testa quando passo. Forse è perché dico sempre quello che penso. Ma io sorrido, perché sto bene così. Ho quasi trent'anni e da nove lavoro nello stesso ufficio. In pausa pranzo faccio le parole crociate, la mia passione. Poi torno a casa e mi prendo cura di Polly, la mia piantina: lei ha bisogno di me, e io non ho bisogno di nient'altro. Perché da sola sto bene. Solo il mercoledì mi inquieta, perché è il giorno in cui arriva la telefonata dalla prigione. Da mia madre. Dopo, quando chiudo la chiamata, mi accorgo di sfiorare la cicatrice che ho sul volto e ogni cosa mi sembra diversa. Ma non dura molto, perché io non lo permetto. E se me lo chiedete, infatti, io sto bene. Anzi, benissimo. O così credevo, fino a oggi. Perché oggi è successa una cosa nuova. Qualcuno mi ha rivolto un gesto gentile. Il primo della mia vita. E questo ha cambiato ogni cosa. D'improvviso, ho scoperto che il mondo segue delle regole che non conosco. Che gli altri non hanno le mie stesse paure, e non cercano a ogni istante di dimenticare il passato. Forse il «tutto» che credevo di avere è precisamente tutto ciò che mi manca. E forse è ora di imparare davvero a stare bene. Anzi: benissimo.
Everything but the truth / Gillian McAllister
London] : Penguin Books, 2017
Shipyard girls at war / Nancy Revell
London : Arrow books, 2017
Abstract: Sunderland, 1940, and the women go to the shipyards to do their bit for the war effort. Polly never dreamed she would be able to work in the shipyards like the men in her family but times are tough and her new job ends up giving her more than she ever expected when she meets enigmatic dock diver Tommy Watts.
London : Picador, 2016
Nobody is ever missing / Catherine Lacey
New York : Farrar ; Straus and Giroux, 2014
Abstract: The story of a young woman who takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable but unfulfilling life in Manhattan, hurtling herself into the unknown, testing fate by hitchhiking, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers and sleeping in fields, forests or public parks