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Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining of the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis . . . Concentrating on the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald, some rogue former...

Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining of the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis . . . Concentrating on the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald, some rogue former...

In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald’s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When “history” presents itself in the form...

Benvenute a Libra. Parleremo di libri, storie scritte da donne e le loro protagoniste.Donne reali e di inchiostro con cui vorremmo parlare e sorseggiare una tazza piena di stelle. Storie profonde, non sempre confortevoli o rassicuranti ma che non lasciano mai indifferenti. Libra è fatto di libri, una golosa merenda e parole condivise tra amiche.Mettetevi comode.Realizzato da Volta La Carta e TaleaMusiche di Matteo Bevilacqua @ Glimmer Workbox

1943. Alice Fafard, vingt ans, étudie à l’École normale pour devenir enseignante. Elle suit avec un mélange de résignation et de désenchantement une voie déjà toute tracée. Son Brevet obtenu, elle cherche un poste dans une école de la région, en attendant de trouver un prétendant en cette époque où les hommes de son âge se font rares. Pourtant, derrière ses airs tranquilles se cache une grande passionnée de mathématiques, un domaine dans lequel elle excelle. Plus que tout, Alice veut vivre pleinement, goûter à la liberté au-delà des limites imposées aux femmes.

Janine, jeune veuve de guerre, dirige une filière d'évasion à travers les Pyrénées. Robert, tout juste vingt ans, a fui ses montagnes de Kabylie pour rejoindre la Résistance. Mike, pilote américain engagé dans la RAF, a miraculeusement survécu aux tirs allemands. De l'Algérie à Londres en passant par les réseaux clandestins de Toulouse et du Pays basque, dans le feu des passions et du combat, ils font face à l'ennemi.

During the summer of 1997, a series of bombings terrorize Havana hotels. The targets are tourists, and the terrorists are exiles seeking to cripple Cuban tourism and kill the revolution. After Mano finds himself helpless to save one of the victims, his nemesis Colonel Emilio Perez of the National Revolutionary Police recruits him into Havana's top-secret Wasp Network of spies for a job that only he can perform - but for reasons he never would have believed or expected.

Les Plumes Libres, ce sont des auteurs indépendants qui s'unissent et se soutiennent dans l'objectif de faire connaitre leurs oeuvres. Découvrez ici leurs univers en écoutant des extraits de leurs romans ou des nouvelles inédites. Bonne écoute !

“Have you ever felt different from everyone else?” “Do people gravitate toward you but you don't know why?” “Do you feel like you have special abilities?” “Ever have a dream of the future?” “Do you ever think you can hear thoughts?” The popular and cool but still reserved Hassan Gardner feels all this. When he was born, his late father told him he would change the world. On his 15th birthday, Hassan realizes he must be different after discovering he has the ability to read minds.

Paperback mystery/adventure novelist Jonathan Tyler Springer is starting to settle into his new life and writing habits on the island of Key West when the opportunity to do a short trip to Mexico knocks on his door. Invited by the local seaplane pilot to tag along on a charter flight, Jon must decide between only writing about adventure, or actually living it.

When a beautiful showgirl married to Cuba’s most famous baseball player escapes to the sea, only a boy and a boat and a belief in the “American Dream” keep her afloat. Planning to rendezvous with her husband after an exhibition game in El Norte, the showgirl risks everything only to discover that crossing the straits might be easier than spanning allegiances. Set against the backdrop of actual games played between the Cuba National Team and the Baltimore Orioles, Habana Libre is the story of people caught between home and hope.

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"FILOS E LIBRAS" propõe uma nova perspectiva para a literatura, traduzindo obras para a Língua Brasileira de Sinais (LIBRAS). Imagine seu livro alcançando a comunidade surda, numa edição especial em LIBRAS. Uma iniciativa inclusiva que amplia fronteiras e enriquece a diversidade cultural.

Poetic impressions and natural photography that soothe and explore a forested, flowery land in Beaver Creek, Oregon.

Sur son lit de mort, le roi Sanche de Tolosà demande à Briann de veiller à ce que Raymon, son fils cadet, mais surtout Ysabel, la veuve d’Henri, son fils aîné récemment assassiné, puissent lui succéder sans heurts. En réalité, s’il craint que Manuel Gutiérrez, duc de la puissante Barcelona, conteste cette passation de pouvoir, ce sont avant tout les mystérieux estrahñats, indétectables et invulnérables à la magie, qui l’inquiètent, car il sent les royaumes christiens du Nord prêts à lancer leur nouvelle Croisade contre la Géminie tout entière.

True love lives on. A sheriff in a small town on the Indian Territories suddenly finds the man he’s looking for in a circuit judge - but then their lives separate drastically when the Packards come to town.

"Disfrutaba del increíble poder que tenía entre sus piernas y, cuando aceleró, el rugido del motor golpeó la fachada de la iglesia y resonó por toda la larga avenida arbolada que había enfrente. "Ahora quiero una polla", pensó. "Quiero una cerveza fría y una polla dura"". No es un día fácil para Julia, pero alguien con su determinación no se deja amilanar fácilmente. Sabe lo que quiere y por eso decide visitar a Mattias. Juntos vivirán una ardiente noche de sexo que no solo desencadenará toda su pasión, sino que también la liberará de sus propias ataduras.

A sudden, violent snowstorm and an arranged marriage gone wrong sends Nicol careening into the arms of a grumpy, violent ex-convict hiding from his past deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Zedekiah "Zed" Strangeway hasn’t touched a woman in years. He can't allow himself another life-ruining entanglement. He prefers life on his own in the deep woods and the deep winter. Most women can’t handle Zed's presence.