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The complete finale of the hit BBC Radio 4 sitcom- 2 episodes. Cabin Pressure is set in the wing and prayer world of a tiny, one-plane airline, staffed by two pilots, one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. In this, the finale of the whole series, we discover that for MJN Air, whether it's choosing an ice-cream flavour, putting a princess in a van or remembering your grandmother's name, no job is too small, but, many, many jobs are too difficult.

When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband.... In 1960, Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident with no memory. And then, when she returns home, she uncovers a hidden letter, and begins to remember the lover she was willing to risk everything for.

From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible. Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité - known as Tété - is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage.

Sage Singer has a past that makes her want to hide from the world. But when she strikes up an unlikely friendship with Josef Weber, a quiet old man and respected pillar of the community, she feels that finally, she may have found someone she can open up to. Until Josef tells her the evil secret he's kept for sixty years…

In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, now a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train upends Sami's visit and changes his life forever. Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic. Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the nuances of emotion that are the substance of passion.

The Silent Country is a vast and beautiful wilderness, a place which holds secrets and stories that are rarely spoken. TV producer Veronica Anderson travels to the Northern Territory to retrace the journey of an expedition that had set out 50 years earlier to film the outback, but which mysteriously ended in tragedy. Of the group, led by the eccentric Maxim Topov, few are still alive and they are reluctant to talk about the intriguing events.

It’s the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be.Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come. He knows this because, for him, that century is already history.Somehow he must change that history. He must prevent the war.

In Paris, in Washington, and in Greece in a fabulous villa, an innocent American becomes a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal. She is Catherine Douglas, a woman caught in a web of four lives intertwined by passion as her handsome husband pursues an incredibly beautiful film star...and as Constantin Demeris, a legendary Greek tycoon, tightens the strands that control them all.

Now a major film written and directed by the Coen Brothers. There is no knowing what lies in a man's heart. On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is killed by Torn Chancy, who shoots him down for a horse, $150 cash, and two gold pieces. Ross's single-minded teenage daughter, Mattie, travels to claim his body... Then she meets Rooster - a man with grit - and persuades him to join her on a deadly quest to avenge her father's murder.

The stunning new novel from Costa-Novel-Award-winning novelist Maggie O'Farrell: a portrait of an Irish family in crisis in the legendary heatwave of 1976.

Nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds, Thrush Green is normally a peaceful place. But as autumn turns to winter, feelings are running high in the village. Miss Fogerty, a respected teacher at the village school for over thirty years, is troubled by the methods of the new young teacher. Dotty Harmer takes up driving, much to the concern of others, and it isn’t long before she is involved in an accident and a threatening court case.

Continuing the history of the Irish Darcys begun in Missus and continued in The Harp in the South, this third novel of the trilogy re-acquaints listeners with the vicissitudes of slum life in a Sydney suburb. An unforgettable family and a cast of unforgettable characters enliven a story that is sometimes tragic, but often humourous, in a time of poverty and destitution, hope and promise.

Whether discovering that being dyslexic means delivering your lines to camera back to front in the midst of filming a TV series, or starting a new business and travelling the world, or dealing with life's more sober moments like the birth of a son or the loss of a father, Paul Carter is still the funniest man in the bar and the nicest alpha male you'll ever meet as he risks all for the sake of a good story.

The Bay is a beautiful and peaceful town on the Australian east coast; a melting pot of city escapees, alternative lifestylers, feral dropouts, lost souls, backpackers, and men and women in search of love and a new sense of identity. When Sydney corporate wife Holly Jamieson turns 45 she shocks her husband by buying an old house in The Bay with plans to transform it into a charming B & B. What began as a gesture of independence changes her life.

На самом излете эпохи главный герой попадает в элитную школу, где впервые сталкивается с жестким соперничеством за лидерство, предательством и интригами, переживает поражения и победы, встречает первую любовь… Но самые тяжелые испытания его ждут впереди –Афганская война... Испытания, навсегда меняющие человека. Суждено ли ему вернуться живым? Эта книга— пронзительное наследие Алексея, талантливого писателя, который, как и его герой, шагнул в огонь, чтобы спасти других.

Je ne serai plus jamais seul puisque tu existes quelque part. Des comédien.nes distincts pour incarner chaque personnage, un accompagnement sonore sur-mesure.... Une immersion totale dans l'incroyable aventure vécue par Arthur et Lauren. Dans le décor d'un San Francisco lumineux bercé par la...

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Maggie ha sempre nascosto la sua storia. Chi la conosce ora non sa nulla del suo più grande amore. Lei aveva sedici anni, era lontana dalla sua famiglia ed era in attesa di un bambino che avrebbe dato in adozione: fu allora che incontrò Bryce. Lui era poco più grande di lei, non la giudicava per quel pancione che cercava di nascondere, e le insegnò tutto su quella che sarebbe diventata anche la passione di Maggie: la fotografia. Il loro primo bacio fu perfetto. Il loro amore fu unico, di quelli che capitano soltanto una volta nella vita.

Per il giorno del suo cinquantesimo compleanno, Guido ha deciso di regalarsi un weekend da solo tra le montagne, un'occasione preziosa per meditare su mezzo secolo di vita vissuta. È il solstizio d'estate del 2020 e lui si perde, in piena notte, tra i boschi delle Dolomiti, a quasi duemila metri di altitudine, con lo smartphone che non ha campo, ma lo zaino carico di parole e ricordi. Il freddo, la paura, i pensieri, la stellata mozzafiato che lo porterà all'alba del giorno più lungo dell'anno gli offriranno numerosi spunti per raccontare incontri meravigliosi e diversità che ci rendono unici.

Della grande fabbrica non resta più niente, e Villa Badoni è ormai irriconoscibile. Eppure per Marta, ultima discendente della famiglia, quella grande casa è ancora un luogo dell'anima, il palcoscenico su cui, per decenni, si sono dipanate le esistenze delle sorelle Badoni. Come Laura, la primogenita ribelle e amante della libertà, che dopo essere scappata in America per amore di un intellettuale antifascista torna a casa col cuore spezzato ma lo spirito indomito. Come Sofia, alla quale uno sfortunato incidente sottrae troppo presto l'uomo della vita.