«Educated»: A monumental memoir that should be required reading for all. Tara Westover tells her story straight in her own words.
Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her […]
«I sette peccati di Hollywood». Un libro di facile e accattivante lettura per chi vuole conoscere il ‘dietro le quinte’ degli attori famosi di Hollywood.
È il 9 gennaio 1956 quando Oriana Fallaci, inviata de «L’Europeo», giunge per la prima volta a Hollywood per comprenderne i meccanismi nascosti. E raccontare senza filtri il mondo del cinema […]
«Tools and Weapons»: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age. With a foreword by Bill Gates.
From Microsoft’s President and one of the tech industry’s wisest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates.
Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simple core […]
«Boussole»: Un roman hanté par les crispations indentitaires et la tragédie humaine qui ravage la Syrie. Un auteur hors norme.
Insomniaque. Sous le choc d’un diagnostic médical alarmant. Franz Ritter, musicologue viennois, fuit sa longue nuit solitaire dans les souvenirs d’une vie de voyages, d’étude et d’émerveillements. Inventaire amoureux de l’incroyable apport de l’Orient à la […]
«The Cockroach»: Brilliant. In the era of Trump, Johnson and Brexit, McEwan’s latest book is a little satirical parody for our times.
That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.
Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or […]
«Hippie»: Uma viagem ao passado que alimenta o espírito, onde a revolução cultural hippie, é o telão de fundo para a história.
Paulo é um jovem que quer ser escritor. Deixa crescer o cabelo e parte numa viagem pelo mundo em busca da liberdade. E do significado mais profundo da existência. Uma jornada que vai desde a prisão […]
«Postscript»: Sensitive, pensive, and emotionally heart wrenching. The second part of «P.S. I love you» by Cecelia Ahern.
It’s been seven years since Holly Kennedy’s husband died. Six since she read his final letter, urging Holly to find the courage to forge a new life.
She’s proud of all the ways in which she has grown and evolved. […]
«Knife»: The phenomenal twelfth instalment in Jo Nesbo’s internationally bestselling crime fiction series.
HARRY HOLE IS ABOUT TO FACE HIS DARKEST CASE YET.
Harry is in a bad place. Rakel has left him, he’s working cold cases and notorious rapist and murderer Svein Finne is back on the streets.
THE FIRST KILLER HARRY PUT BEHIND BARS IS OUT TO […]
«L’humanité en péril»: En lanceuse d’alerte engagée, Fred Vargas traite de l’urgence climatique dans un style on ne peut plus direct.
« Mais bon sang, comment vais-je me sortir de cette tâche insensée ? De cette idée de m’entretenir avec vous de l’avenir du monde vivant ? Alors que je sais très bien que vous auriez préféré […]
«Frankissstein»: what happens when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest bein on the planet? Intelligent, inventive and…very funny!
In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein. A celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI.
Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living […]
