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Lucia Corradini Caspani

    House rules
    Nineteen Minutes
    The storyteller
    The Heart of the Soul
    Around the world in 80 trees
    The Choice
    • The Choice

      • 320pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      "At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger, a trained ballet dancer and gymnast, was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, the 'Angel of Death, ' Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement--and her survival. He rewarded her with a loaf of bread that she shared with her fellow prisoners--an act of generosity that would later save her life. Edie and her sister survived multiple death camps and the Death March. When the American troops liberated the camps in 1945 they found Edie barely alive in a pile of corpses. Edie spent decades struggling with flashbacks and survivor's guilt, determined to stay silent and hide from the past ... Today, at ninety years old, Edie is a renowned psychologist and speaker who specializes in treating patients suffering from traumatic stress disorders. She ... weaves her remarkable personal account of surviving the Holocaust and overcoming its ghosts of anger, shame, and guilt with the moving stories of those she has helped heal. She explores how we can be imprisoned in our own minds and shows us how to find the key to freedom ..."--Jacket

      The Choice
      4,6
    • Around the world in 80 trees

      • 240pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      Trees are one of humanity’s most constant and most varied companions. From India’s sacred banyan tree to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon, they offer us sanctuary and inspiration – not to mention the raw materials for everything from aspirin to maple syrup. In Around the World in 80 Trees, expert Jonathan Drori uses plant science to illuminate how trees play a role in every part of human life, from the romantic to the regrettable. Stops on the trip include the lime trees of Berlin’s Unter den Linden boulevard, which intoxicate amorous Germans and hungry bees alike, the swankiest streets in nineteenth-century London, which were paved with Australian eucalyptus wood, and the redwood forests of California, where the secret to the trees’ soaring heights can be found in the properties of the tiniest drops of water. Each of these strange and true tales – populated by self-mummifying monks, tree-climbing goats and ever-so-slightly radioactive nuts – is illustrated by Lucille Clerc, taking the reader on a journey that is as informative as it is beautiful.

      Around the world in 80 trees
      4,6
    • The Heart of the Soul

      • 256pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      In this insightful work, Gary Zukav expands on his previous concepts, illustrating how the growth of human perception beyond the five senses leads to a deeper understanding of 'authentic power'. Alongside his coauthor, Linda Francis, he emphasizes the importance of applying these vital concepts to our daily lives. Zukav highlights how true emotional awareness can profoundly transform our experiences. While the journey may be challenging due to the need to confront suppressed pain, it offers immense rewards. A commitment to exploring all aspects of consciousness is essential, replacing the urge to hide painful emotions. This emotional awareness can liberate us from compulsions, fixations, obsessions, and addictions—such as anger, workaholism, and substance abuse—that hinder our spiritual growth. By embracing our emotions, we can create a fulfilling and meaningful life. This work serves as a powerful tool for readers, enabling them to cultivate greater emotional awareness and harness their emotions to achieve authentic power. It is a transformative read, one that invites multiple readings for its life-changing insights.

      The Heart of the Soul
      4,5
    • THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'An emotional and compelling tale' Sun After a tragic accident which left her deeply scarred, Sage Singer retreated into herself, allowing her guilt to govern her life. When she befriends kindly retired teacher Josef, it seems that life has finally offered her a chance of healing. But the gentle man Sage thinks she knows is in fact hiding a terrible secret. Josef was an SS officer during the Holocaust and now he wishes to die - and he wants Sage to help him. As Joseph begins to reveal his past to her, Sage is horrified. Does this past give her the right to kill him?A compelling tale about the line between justice and mercy from the internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult. Jodi's brand new novel, A SPARK OF LIGHT is publishing soon and is now available to pre-order!

      The storyteller
      4,3
    • Nineteen Minutes

      • 608pages
      • 22 heures de lecture

      Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing every happens - until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts shooting, changing the lives of everyone inside and out. Previous novels by the author include 'My Sister's Keeper' and 'Vanishing Acts'.

      Nineteen Minutes
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    • House rules

      • 603pages
      • 22 heures de lecture

      Jacob Hunt is a teenager. And Jacob has Asperger's. When his tutor is found dead, all the hallmark behaviours of Jacob's syndrome - not looking someone in the eye, and odd movements - start looking a lot like guilt to the police. And Jacob's mother must ask herself the hardest question in the world: is her child capable of murder?

      House rules
      4,1
    • Handle with Care

      A Novel

      • 648pages
      • 23 heures de lecture

      Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, if they'd given the choice. Instead they are consumed by sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of "luckier" parents, and worst of all, the what-ifs. What if five-year-old Willow had been born healthy? But it's all worth it because she is smart as a whip, pretty as her mother, kind, brave and an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom. Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and Sean to confront the most serious what-ids of all. What if Charlotte should have known earlier of Willow's illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more. What constitutes a valuable life?

      Handle with Care
      4,0
    • La fille secrète

      • 464pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      « Lorsque Kavita, pauvre paysanne indienne, enfante pour la deuxième fois une fille, c'est une catastrophe pour son mari et sa famille. Et, la mort dans l'âme, la jeune mère se résout à confier son nourrisson à un orphelinat. De l'autre côté de la terre, aux États-Unis, Somer et Krishnan, médecins tous les deux, elle américaine, lui indien, ne peuvent pas avoir d'enfant. Ils recueillent la fille de Kavita, la nomment Asha, lui offrent amour, éducation et avenir. Un jour, celle-ci, devenue grande, veut connaître ses origines. Sa quête ne sera pas facile et mettra en péril l'équilibre précaire de sa famille. »-- Quatrième de couverture

      La fille secrète
      4,0
    • Keeper of Genesis

      A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind

      • 396pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      For thousands of years the Great Sphinx of Egypt has gazed towards the east, reading a message in the stars that mankind has long forgotten. This work considers geological and archaeo-astronomical evidence that suggests that the Sphinx may be a great deal older than Egyptologists believe. It has also become clear that the three enormous pyramids of the Giza plateau, half a mile to the west of the Sphinx, are not the tombs of megalomaniac Pharaohs but a precise map of the stars of Orion's Belt.

      Keeper of Genesis
      3,9
    • Zelte auf dem Dach der Welt

      Die erste Frauen-Expedition in den Himalaya

      • 293pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      Im Frühjahr 1955 brachen drei schottische Bergsteigerinnen in bislang unerforschte Gebiete des Himalaya auf. Doch nicht um berühmt zu werden, ließen sie Job und Familie hinter sich. Vielmehr wollten sie die wildeste Natur und ihre eigenen Grenzen erforschen. Zwei dieser weiblichen Pioniere schrieben bereits 1956 den Bericht ihrer abenteuerlichen Reise. Eine fesselnde Story über drei Frauen, die mutig Konventionen sprengten und in der harschen Bergwelt zu sich selbst fanden.

      Zelte auf dem Dach der Welt
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    • Base terra

      • 573pages
      • 21 heures de lecture

      Timothy Good in questo saggio, frutto di quarant'anni di studi e ricerche, analizza fenomeni e casi registrati in ogni parte del pianeta. Dal primo episodio segnalato, quello dell'incontro del canadese Albert Coe con un alieno in un bosco dell'Ontario nel 1920, al famoso 'UFO-crash' di Roswell (New Mexico) nel 1947, sino agli avvistamenti più recenti avvenuti in Brasile e Portorico nel 1996 e nel 1997.

      Base terra
      3,5
    • From the Number One bestselling author of MY SISTER'S KEEPER and NINETEEN MINUTES, Jodi Picoult 'She is a master of her craft . . . and humanity is what she does best' Telegraph Zoe Baxter has lost everything. Struggling to rebuild her life, the last thing she expects is to fall in love. It changes her world. Until she discovers there are those who will do anything to stop her from living her life the way that she believes.

      Sing You Home
      3,8
    • The Memory Garden

      • 432pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      From the Sunday Timesbestselling author, a story of two women, a lost garden in magical Cornwall and a love story from long ago...

      The Memory Garden
      3,8
    • June's first husband was killed in a car crash eighteen years ago. Against all the odds, her daughter was uninjured - and, in another miracle, June found love again with the policeman who rescued them. Six years later they were a happy family, June pregnant with their own child. Now June's second daughter is twelve, and dying without the new heart she so urgently needs. And her first daughter, along with her husband, is dead, killed by Shay Bourne, an itinerant workman they welcomed into their home. The crime was so heinous that Shay has been given the death penalty - for the first time in 69 years in New Hampshire. Shay is going to die, and he is looking for redemption. He wants to give June's daughter his heart . . .

      Change of Heart
      3,7
    • La forêt de tournesols

      • 408pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      " Tu ne te rends pas compte de la chance que tu as, Lesley ! Ta famille est unie, vous vous aimez tous comme des fous ! " De la chance, Lesley ? Elle n'en est pas vraiment convaincue. Bien sûr, son père et sa mère s'adorent. Qui n'aimerait pas Mara, d'ailleurs ? Mara qui commence une phrase en anglais, la continue en allemand et la termine en hongrois, sa langue natale. Mais au-delà du folklore apparent de cette famille farfelue, toujours entre deux déménagements qui la mènent aux quatre coins de l'Amérique, il y a ce malaise, cette fissure qui ne cesse de s'agrandir. On a beau s'aimer, cela ne protège pas de tout. Et un jour, c'est le drame : Mara replonge dans l'horreur qui n'a cessé de la hanter. Comment aurait-elle pu oublier Ravensbrück et les tortures des camps de la mort ?

      La forêt de tournesols
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    • Un viaggio atraverso i meandri più oscuri e misteriosi della storia, sulle tracce archeologiche di una religione segreta che ha modellato i destini dell'umanità. Da Eliopoli a Luxor, da Alessandria d'Egitto a Firenze, da Roma a Londra, in un incalzare di avvenimenti che giungono alla situazione creatasi dopo l'11 settembre. Fra sacerdoti egizi e astronomi, fra gnostici cristiani e saggi ermetici, arabi ed ebrei, gli autori guidano alla scoperta di una Nuova Città del Sole, che esiste nelle planimetrie delle maggiori capitali d'Occidente.

      Talismano. Le città sacre e la Fede segreta
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    • The Book of Two Ways

      • 432pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when she is told to prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there is her husband, Brian, their beloved daughter, and her work as a death doula. But somewhere in Egypt is Wyatt Armstrong, who works as an archaeologist unearthing ancient burial sites, a career Dawn once studied for but was forced to abandon. The airline ensures that the survivors are seen by a doctor, then offers offers transportation to wherever they want to go. The obvious destination is to fly home, but she could take another path: return to the archaeological site she left years before, reconnect with Wyatt and their unresolved history. As the story unfolds, Dawn's two possible futures unspool side by side, as do the secrets and doubts long buried with them. Dawn must confront the questions she's never truly asked: What does a life well-lived look like? When we leave this earth, what do we leave behind? Do we make choices...or do our choices make us? And who would you be, if you hadn't turned out to be the person you are right now? --Adapted from publisher description

      The Book of Two Ways
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