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Alias Shakespeare: Solving the Greatest Literary Mystery of All Time
by Joseph Sobran"Who wrote Shakespeare's plays? Today, the long-standing and impassioned debate about the so-called authorship question is perceived by Shakespearean scholars as the preserve of eccentrics and cranks. But in this contrarian work of literary detection, author Joseph Sobran boldly reopens this debate and allows the members of Shakespeare's vast contemporary public to weigh all the evidence and decide for themselves." "An enormous shelf of biographical scholarship has grown up over the past 300 years around the "Swan of Avon." But what are these histories based on? Revealing that no more than a handful of fragmentary documents attest to Shakespeare's existence - and virtually none which link him to the plays themselves - Sobran delightfully debunks this elaborate egalitarian myth concocted in equal parts of speculation, wishfulness, and fantasy." "More importantly, Sobran shows how many questions the myth leaves unanswered: How could a provincial actor from Stratford gain such an intimate knowledge of court life? How could he know so much of classical authors and not own a single book? How could he write compromising love sonnets to his social superior, the powerful Earl of Southampton? How could he know so much of Italy, a place he never visited? Why was there no notice of the famous writer's death in 1616? Why, in short, does Shakespeare remain such an obscure and shadowy figure?" "Methodically demolishing the case for "Mr. Shakspere," Sobran shows it is highly implausible that he wrote the poems and plays we know as The Works of William Shakespeare. Other candidates exist, of course, including Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, and Francis Bacon. Sobran dispenses with these claimants, then sets forth the startlingly persuasive case for Edward de Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford." "Oxford was a widely traveled, classically educated member of the Elizabethan court. A swashbuckling spendthrift, he swung high and low in the eyes of his peers. Having spent most of his fortune on adventures in Italy and elsewhere on the Continent - like Hamlet he was captured by pirates in the English Channel - he fell into disrepute for reasons that included rumors about his homosexuality. Still he topped many lists of the best Elizabethan poets at the time, even ranking above Edmund Spenser and Sir Philip Sidney. He was an avid book collector, and a love of the literary arts ran in his family. His uncle not only pioneered the sonnet form that came to be known as Shakespearean, he also translated the English edition of Ovid that indisputably guided Shakespeare's pen. More strikingly, Oxford was the ward of Lord Burghley - the man widely acknowledged as the model for the character Polonius in Hamlet. Ultimately, Sobran shows us why a disgraced nobleman such as Oxford would have sought solace in the anonymity of writing pseudonymous plays and poetry." --BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Alias the Lone Wolf: Large Print (Lone Wolf #3)
by Louis Joseph VanceOn the brink of retirement, the Lone Wolf risks everything for loveNearly forty years old, the Lone Wolf is, as his British Secret Service friend Wertheimer puts it, &“superannuated.&” His last adventure involved not just the surprise of meeting his grown daughter, but the twin shocks of seeing her fall in love with a secret agent and risk her own death at the hands of murderous Bolsheviks. The excitement has left Lanyard—or Monsieur Duchemin, as the British government prefers to know him—feeling slow and cranky. There is nothing to do, suggests Wertheimer, but retire from undercover work and leave England for good. Wertheimer more than suggests this, in fact; he demands it—for the Russians have made it known that they intend to kill the Lone Wolf and will tear apart London and every other corner of the British Isles to find him.Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson&’s Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, Lanyard heads to the South of France. Hiking alone in the mountains, he goes to bed with the birds, rises with the sun, and considers what to do with the rest of his life. Visions of a dusty Parisian antique shop and Sunday afternoons with his grandchildren delight the Lone Wolf, but fate has something altogether different in store. In the eerie rock field of Montpellier-le-Vieux, he rescues a beautiful woman and her traveling party from highway bandits. Then the real danger begins.This ebook features a new introduction by Otto Penzler and has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Alias the Saint
by Leslie CharterisSimon Templar is the Saint - daring, dazzling, and just a little disreputable. On the side of the law, but standing outside it, he dispenses his own brand of justice one criminal at a time.In three more classic tales, the Saint continues to push his luck in his own inimitable style. The Story of a Dead Man sees the Saint in a more mundane line of work - running an office and writing letters to the editor - until Inspector Teal comes to investigate the mysterious Mr Vanney and the Saint's real intentions come to light. In The Impossible Crime, a bored Saint tackles a most unlikely mystery: a man who has somehow been shot in a locked room. And in The National Debt Simon Templar stumbles across a remote Welsh inn where a series of strange things is happening . . . another job for the Saint!
Alias. Obra completa en colaboración
by Jorge Luis Borges Adolfo Bioy CasaresUN ACONTECIMIENTO LITERARIO La obra completa que escribieron juntos dos de los autores latinoamericanos más influyentes del siglo XX, ganadores del Premio Cervantes y del Nacional de Literatura CON PRÓLOGO DE ALAN PAULS «Borges y Bioy me enseñaron no sólo a escribir y leer, sino también a mirar el mundo».Antonio Muñoz Molina No ha existido en la literatura en español una amistad literaria tan notable y fértil como la que mantuvieron a lo largo de cincuenta años dos de los escritores latinoamericanos más influyentes del siglo XX: Jorge Luis Borges y Adolfo Bioy Casares. Cuando se conocieron, Borges era un autor de éxito, quince años mayor que Bioy, un joven fascinado por el surrealismo. Éste fue el comienzo de una asociación excepcional en la que inicialmente Borges adoptó el papel de mentor, pero poco a poco empezó a darse un aprendizaje mutuo. De esta colaboración surgieron una decena de títulos, entre los que se encuentran relatos fantásticos y novelas policíacas. El primero de sus libros en común, Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi, está protagonizado por un singular detective que resuelve casos sin moverse de la cárcel. Todas estas obras extraordinarias, creadas no por Borges ni por Bioy sino por «un tercer escritor» que aúna las mejores cualidades de ambos, y publicadas bajo los alias de Bustos Domecq y Suárez Lynch o por sus identidades reales, se reúnen ahora después de mucho tiempo en un único volumen prologado por Alan Pauls. La crítica ha dicho:«La suya fue una escritura monstruosa por poco frecuente y por desatada, y su producto, los hijos de la imaginación de ese escritor que algunos llaman “Biorges”, monstruosos. [...] Borges más Bioy es deliciosamente barroco, y a menudo los argumentos yacen bajo una acumulación ingente de chistes públicos y privados, eufemismos torpes y travestismo lingüístico que los hacen incomprensibles».Patricio Pron, La Vanguardia «Dos grandes de la literatura en español regresan con su obra cómplice y conjunta, una sinergia creadora nunca igualada. [...] Una lectura fulgurante».Santiago Ortiz Lerín, La Opinión de Málaga «Eran el mismo otro: un tercer escritor, inasimilable a uno tanto como al otro, profundamente excéntrico. De ahí que Bustos Domecq y Suárez Lynch sean algo más que seudónimos. Son escritores de derecho, tan autores como los autores que los inventaron».Alan Pauls «Empezamos a escribir de un modo que no se parecía ni a Bioy ni a Borges. Creamos de algún modo entre los dos un tercer personaje [...]. Ese personaje existe, de algún modo. Pero sólo existe cuando estamos conversando».Jorge Luis Borges «Borges y Bioy Casares: la fiesta de dos monstruos. [...] No hay entretenimiento comparable al de descubrirlos».Luis Chitarroni, Clarín «Borges es el escritor en español más importante desde Cervantes».Mario Vargas Llosa «Me gustaría ser Adolfo Bioy Casares. Quisiera ser Bioy porque siempre lo admiré como escritor y lo estimé como persona».Julio Cortázar «Borges es uno de los autores más extraordinarios del siglo XX».The New York Times «Bioy Casares tiene un encanto, un siniestro ingenio y una tristeza repentina que sólo un gran maestro de las letras puede ofrecernos».John Updike, The New Yorker «Borges, visionario escéptico, nos fascina. [...] Cumple con nuestro anhelo esencial en cuanto a las razones por que leemos».Harold Bloom
Alias: Daddy
by Adrianne LeeONLY HIS NAME HAD CHANGED… Dressed to the nines, homicide cop Kerrie Muldoon hoped to meet and arrest "Loverboy," a killer who was meeting victims through personal ads. So the last "blind date" Kerrie expected to meet was Nick Diamond. Or was that really his name? Whoever he was, Nick—a.k.a. Roman Donnello—still possessed the charm that had driven Kerrie into his arms three years ago, back when he was presumed guilty and her job had been staking him out—until he vanished. Now with Loverboy circling closer, should she trust Nick to be what he swears he is—innocent—so she could reveal her own secrets—their twin daughters…. HIDDEN IDENTITY
Alibi
by Joseph KanonThe year is 1946. A stunned Europe is beginning its slow recovery from the ravages of World War II. Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his widowed mother and forget the horrors he witnessed as a US Army war crimes investigator in Germany. But when Adam falls in love with Claudia, a Jewish woman scarred by her devastating experiences during the war, he is forced to confront a Venice haunted by atrocities it would rather forget.Beneath the dream-like façade he discovers a city in which everyone was compromised by occupation, not least Gianni Maglione, the suave and enigmatic Venetian who is both his mother's new suitor and the man responsible for much of Claudia's suffering. When the troubled past erupts in violent murder, Adam finds himself at the centre of a torturous web in which the most valuable thing is not a stone-cold alibi, but the truth itself.The truth will out in this fantastic mystery from the author of Leaving Berlin and The Good German.
Alibi
by Sydney Bauer"There she lay, her neck placed at a devilish angle on the Death Stone which acted like a pillow. " Set amongst the hallowed grounds of Deane University, the most expensive college in the country, America's privileged youth must allow nothing to jeopardise their chances to succeed. Nineteen-year-old Jessica Nagoshi, in her third year of economics at Deane, is the beautiful and intelligent heiress to her father's multi-million dollar empire and is being groomed, along with her brother Peter, to take control of Nagoshi Inc. That is, until she is brutally murdered in the greenhouse of her father's extensive Wellesley estate. David Cavanaugh, Boston's most sought-after defence attorney, is unwittingly forced into this high-society murder case when he must defend his young protégé James Matheson, final year law student at Deane. For in James he sees traces of his younger self - Matheson is dedicated, ambitious and unsullied by the nuances of a system more often driven by politics than justice. From the outset David realises the odds are against him. Unspoken alliances, corporate secrets, love, lust and a disastrous misplace of trust lead David down a road where nothing is as it seems.
Alibi
by Teri WoodsTwo men think they've found the perfect opportunity--a chance to rob the stash house of Simon Shuller, one of Philadelphia's biggest drug lords. But their plans are spoiled when one of Shuller's men catches them as they break into the stash house. Temperatures flare as the men capture Shuller's worker, Poncho, and force him to show them the goods. What they didn't expect was for Poncho's partner to be armed and very dangerous. An altercation breaks out and when the smoke clears, Nard, Poncho's accomplice, is the only one left standing. Thinking quickly, Nard cleans shop and makes his escape, but not before being spotted by a few neighbors. Not wanting to kill anyone else, he makes a mad dash for the streets but wonders if the witnesses will give up his identity. What he needs now is a plausible alibi. If he doesn't come up with one fast, it could mean life in prison, or death on the streets.
Alibi (Orca Currents)
by Kristin ButcherFifteen-year-old Christine is visiting her eccentric great-aunt in historic Witcombe, where a pickpocket has been victimizing tourists. Aunt Maude owns an antique store and also runs the town's ghost walk, which gives Christine the opportunity to meet local characters and visitors, including a mysterious young man who seems to know far too much about the crimes. When the pickpocket targets Aunt Maude's store, Christine is determined to find out who is behind the thefts. Her search takes her through the nooks and crannies of the quaint town full of stories, and she unearths more than one surprise.
Alibi Creek
by Bev Magennis"[S]omething of a southwestern gothic, drawing inspiration from the spare depictions of the West in the novels of Annie Proulx and its familial drama from the likes of Faulkner, O'Connor, and their ilk...excels in its open-eyed portrayals of a land largely left untamed...carries a surprising amount of grit and poetic verve."-KIRKUS REVIEWS"A saga set in the wilds of New Mexico...Lee Ann is a heroine readers will root for."-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Magennis is a yarn spinner with a passion for the southwestern wilderness, the people who inhabit unlimited space, and drama created in a setting that allows for complete freedom. A book that will take you to a wild place, seldom visited and captivatingly portrayed."-JEFFERY RENARD ALLEN, author of Song of the Shank and Rails Under My Back"In Alibi Creek, Bev Magennis captures the grit and sinew of men and women raised in the hardscrabble West. The land produces both good and evil, and Magennis's characters as well as her story are as authentic as the sagebrush of the western landscape."-SANDRA DALLAS, New York Times bestselling author of True Sisters"...a novel about boundaries and belonging and facing up to when the old excuses no longer wash."-CHARLIE QUIMBY, author of Monument Road"This stunning debut transforms and arrests the reader, the story stays with you long after you turn the last page."-LIBBY FLORES, PEN Center USAFollowing a two-year prison stint, charming and wily Walker returns to his family's New Mexico ranch, where his pious older sister Lee Ann is busy caring for their mother, raising two sons, and grappling with unethical workplace demands. Walker's illegal activities quickly incite chaos in the town and Lee Ann's marriage, leading to drastic transformations of beliefs, identities, and relationships.Bev Magennis was born in Toronto, Ontario, and immigrated to the US in 1964. She received her MA in Art from the Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California. After a thirty-five-year career as an artist, she started writing, inspired by the land and people in the New Mexico wilderness where she lived for seventeen years. In 2009 she was accepted to the Iowa Writers' Workshop Summer Graduate Class and in 2010 was awarded an eight-month Pen USA Emerging Voices Fellowship. In 2011 she received a Norman Mailer Writers Colony Fiction Fellowship. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Alibi II
by Teri WoodsALIBI II picks up where ALIBI left off. The year is 2006 and Diane Praeliou is happily married and living on a horse ranch in Arizona when she receives a letter that threatens her entire world. Someone knows her true identity.In 1986, Daisy was given a second chance at life when she received a new identity and a fresh start as a college student in Arizona courtesy of the witness protection program. Nard wasn't so lucky. He was sentenced to twenty years to life in a western Pennsylvania facility and has endured things that no man should ever have to endure. All Nard can think about is Daisy's testimony and how much he wants revenge. Diane goes on living life, finding love, and getting married until things slowly begin to spiral out of control. What makes matters worse is now Nard is out on parole and Diane is afraid for herself and her family. Feigning innocence, Diane can only turn to one person for help. But if she doesn't come clean about her past secrets, her entire world can come crashing down and there will be no one to protect her. (60,000 words)
Alibi Island: An Illuminati Novel
by SLMN"Any readers who have been fans of Dan Brown's conspiracies will enjoy."--New York Journal of Books on SunfailAlibi Island is the one place on earth where the rich and famous are kings. Back in America they’re just rich. They’re surrounded by the cult of celebrity their wealth brings, but they can never be themselves. They can never indulge in their darkest desires and let the beast that is their true nature out. The place is legendary. Few ever get the black and gold card inviting them to indulge, and fewer still can afford the stay.But there is a dark side to paradise. The island is the hub of a human trafficking operation that sees children stolen from their families in India and Asia and familiar faces of milk cartons in the United States. Every taste and perversion needs to be catered for on the Island. And when the young sex slaves are finally broken and used up then they become fair game in a murderous hunt where, with nowhere to go, they are forced to run for their lives. Alibi Island is lucrative business.What happens on the island stays on the island. That’s the promise. But it is a lie. Everything that happens is recorded. All of that footage becomes blackmail material down the line, as the islands secret power brokers look to cement their stranglehold on power. And when a Senator's daughter's disappearance is linked to the island all of its darkest secrets are at risk..
Alibi Junior High
by Greg LogstedAlias for middle-grade readers!Thirteen-year-old Cody Saron speaks five languages and has traveled to every corner of the globe with his father, an undercover CIA agent. Cody knows how to pick a lock or follow a trail, but he has no idea how to fit in with regular kids, or how to make it through a day of junior high. When the danger surrounding Cody's dad heats up, Cody is sent to stay with his aunt in her small Connecticut suburb and must adapt to this foreign world of normal life. Author Greg Logsted weaves humor and heart with thrilling action and unexpected twists in this original, quirky, fish-out-ofwater story.
Alibi for Isabel: And Other Stories
by Mary Roberts RinehartNine short stories from one of the nation's finest mystery authorsWhen her husband demands a divorce, a young wife heads to Reno alone, leaving the baby with her husband and his new beloved, betting that a week trapped between his child and his mistress will make her hubby yearn for her return. By the sea, a hairdresser gets into mischief over a star sports fisherman. And in a city threatened by conflict, a World War I veteran tries to make himself useful by enforcing the blackout.These are just a few of the scenes from the short fiction of Mary Roberts Rinehart, who in these nine brief tales shows why she was one of the nation's most popular authors for so many decades. Though famous as a mystery writer, Rinehart is just as much at home writing drama, or taking a witty look at the lighter side of law and order. More than a century since she published her first story, Rinehart's prose remains as sharp as an assassin's blade.
Alibi for an Actress
by Jane Chelius Gillian B. FarrellActress Annie McGrogan is "between things"—down to her last subway token ana a maxed-out credit card—when she sees the magazine story on J. "Duke" DeNobili, ex-cop turned successful PI. Three days later, she's the new partner to big, basso-voiced ex-cop Sonny Gandolfo, all-around good guy and Brooklyn-Bronx-Queens seducer. The assignment—protect Lucinda Merrill, sexy star of the popular daytime soap, Forever and Ever, from a threatening fan—proves to be a dull night of door-watching. The fireworks come in the morning, when Lucinda's wandering husband is found dead, murdered in his sleazy East Side pied a terre. At the scene, witnesses claim to have seen Lucinda grab a cab and flee into the night. While Forever and Ever's producers exult in the lurid headlines that send their ratings soaring, Annie McGrogan gives a triumphant, funny, heart-stopping performance to trap a murderer in a kinky case that only she—with her command of the actor's art—can solve.
Alibi: A Novel
by Joseph KanonFrom the acclaimed author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes a riveting tale of love, revenge and murder set in post-WWII Venice.It is 1946, and Adam Miller has come to Venice to visit his socialite mother and try to forget the horrors he has witnessed as a US Army war crimes investigator in Germany. But when he falls in love with Claudia, a Jewish woman scarred by her devastating experiences during World War II, he must confront the dark secrets lurking just beneath the city’s charms.Adam begins to see another Venice, one still at war with itself and haunted by atrocities it would rather forget. Everyone, including his mother’s suave new Venetian suitor, has been compromised by the occupation, and Adam finds himself at the center of a web of deception, intrigue, and unexpected moral dilemmas.When is murder acceptable? What are the limits of guilt? How much is someone willing to pay for a perfect alibi? Winner of the Hammett Prize
Alibis & Angels (A Sister Lou Mystery #3)
by Olivia MatthewsGiving up murder for Lent won’t be easy . . . With the Lenten season fast approaching, Sister Louise “Lou” LaSalle looks forward to a final day of indulgence before giving up her favorite sweets. But one Briar Coast resident won’t get the chance to repent. Opal Lorrie, the mayor’s director of finance, was just found in the parking lot of the Board of Ed--with a broken neck. The sheriff’s deputies are calling the apparent slip-and-fall a freak accident. But Opal was driving her boss’s car and wearing her boss’s red wool coat. Mayor Heather Stanley has been receiving threatening letters and is clearly the real target. Offering her sanctuary could put the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Hermione of Ephesus at risk, but how can Sister Lou turn her back on a neighbor in need? Aided by her loyal sleuthing partners—her well-connected nephew Chris and reporter Shari Henson—Sister Lou must confront the mayor’s myriad detractors during this critical election year. And as the first day of April nears, it’s up to her to unmask an unrepentant killer who has everyone fooled.
Alibis and Amethysts
by Sharon PapeAn all-new mystery series from Sharon Pape—set in a sparkling world of crystals and crime… Jaye Saylor is living her dream as the proud owner of Crystal Clear, a crystal and gemstone shop in the Red Rock area of Sedona, Arizona—a Mecca for tourists and new-age enthusiasts. And since tourists need sweets, Jaye gets to share her dream with her best friend, Sierra, who owns Cravings, a new local bakery. But when the two friends discover the stone-cold body of a rival baker in Sierra’s backyard, that dream turns into a petrifying nightmare. With the police eager to pin the murder on the two women, Jaye and Sierra are forced to investigate on their own. Sedona is known as a place of powerful psychic energy, and the friends will have to contend with some unexpected forces to catch a hardened killer and make their innocence crystal clear… Don’t miss SKETCHER IN THE RYE, the next Portrait of Crime Mystery title from InterMix!
AlicE 2630
by Noele Bouazouni Armelle RancillacAt thirty-one years old, AlicE lives a festive life and works at the Universal Planning Center, the UPC. Since the unification of nations, in 2258, this organization determines the life course of each individual, in a world with no social class or currency. This very advanced civilization has adopted new family codes and alternative sexual mores. But does this incredible technological advancement interfere too much in our lives? Could there be another reality? From time immemorial, mankind has explored the invisible in an attempt to understand the world. Questioning what lies behind appearances, trying to improve its living conditions. But isn't the exponential growth of our knowledge at odds with our true nature? Aren't we all, fundamentally, still prehistoric hunters?
AlicE 2630: Experimento humano
by Armelle Rancillac Nelson JaimesA sus 31 años, AlicE lleva una vida festiva y trabaja en el Centro Universal de Planificación, el CUP. Desde la fusión de naciones en 2258, este organismo define el plan de vida de cada persona en un mundo sin clases sociales ni dinero. Esta avanzada civilización adopta nuevas reglas para poder formar una familia e incluso para sus costumbres sexuales alternativas. ¿Pero todo este desarrollo tecnológico no se ha entrometido ya demasiado en nuestras vidas? ¿No podría existir otra realidad? En toda la Historia, la humanidad ha explorado lo invisible para intentar comprender su mundo. Esta se pregunta sobre lo que ocultan las apariencias e intenta mejorar su calidad de vida. ¿Acaso todo el progreso exponencial del conocimiento no está atentando contra nuestra verdadera naturaleza? ¿No seguimos siendo, en el fondo, unos simples cazadores prehistóricos?
Alice
by Howard FastA freak subway accident traps a New York architect in a deadly conspiracy that will threaten what he loves mostJohn T. Camber is waiting on an uptown subway platform the moment his life changes forever. It happens quickly, when a haggard elderly man utters a sudden plea for help before falling on the tracks in front of an oncoming train. Reeling from the accident, Camber flees the station, only to be accosted by a brass-knuckled thug who believes Camber knows more than he&’s letting on. And just like that, the suburban commuter finds himself inextricably trapped in a deadly conspiracy beyond his understanding. Dangerous people are after Camber, and if they can&’t get to him, they&’ll target his daughter instead. . . . Tense and action-packed, Alice is a stunning thriller about a man caught in events beyond his control, who will stop at nothing to protect his family. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&’s estate.
Alice
by Milena AgusUna novela que alimenta nuestras ganas de vivir. Por la autora que ha conquistado a más de un millón de lectores, traducida a veinte idiomas, ganadora del premio Elsa Morante y finalista de los premios Strega y Campiello. Alice deja su pueblo para iniciar una nueva vida en Cerdeña. Ocupa el piso de su tía, en un edificio frente al mar, y poco a poco encuentra en sus vecinos una nueva familia. En la planta alta vive un anciano violinista, Mr. Johnson. En la planta baja, Anna, una mujer humilde y pródiga en confianza y ternura. También están Giovannino, un niño lo suficientemente sabio para educarse a sí mismo, y Natascia, tan celosa que vive la pesadilla constante de perder a su novio. Cada uno lleva a cuestas su obsesión, su locura grande o pequeña, sus miedos y sus sueños de amor que, a veces, pueden cumplirse del modo más inesperado. La crítica ha dicho...«Exquisita sutileza... Milena Agus consigue transmitir una rara y sobrecogedora emoción e intensidad.» Mercedes Monmany, ABC «Un registro literario capaz de ablandar el corazón más endurecido... A Milena Agus le gustan las miniaturas del mundo, los espacios definidos donde nada escapa a la mirada.» Michela Murgia, Io Donna «Sorprendente y notable. Una revelación.» L'Express «Para soñar... Milena Agus deja fluir el aroma de su patria sarda en cada página para llevar al lector en un viaje embriagador.» Sonntags-Anzeiger Siegerland «Una gran escritora... Milena Agus consigue atrapar al lector en ese mundo tan original y tan suyo. Mágico. Sexual. Sensible. Humano.» Jacinta Cremades, El Mundo «Un nuevo libro de Milena Agus es siempre un acontecimiento literario... Sus historias son un camino hacia la belleza, nos enseñan a ver lo que nos rodea con una mirada dulce, para divertirnos con los pequeños placeres de la vida.» El Mundo «Una voz que imita la maravilla poética de la vida cultivando los sueños y deseos de felicidad.» La Nuova «Una novela bellísima donde todo se vuelve del revés con gran poesía y levedad.» Elle «Las historias de Milena Agus son trampas para atrapar sueños.» Le Nouvel Observateur «Chejov renace en Cagliari.» La Repubblica «En el nuevo libro de Milena Agus todos habitamos un edificio en el centro del distrito que parece la versión cagliariana del Belleville de Pennac... Milena Agus delinea a sus personajes con diálogos rápidos y una fina vena de humor, revelando poco a poco su singularidad.» L'Unione Sarda «Agus escribe con gran calidez y afecto, con sensibilidad y fina ironía.» Leipziger Volkszeitung «Milena Agus demuestra la mayor audacia de nuestra época: la simplicidad. Su estilo desnudo, libre de excesos, imprime una intimidad preciosa y hace que reine una suerte de inocencia mozartiana.» Sud-Ouest Dimanche «Superventas. Las páginas de la nueva novela de Milena Agus rezuman poesía y emoción.» Almudena Ávalos, SModa
Alice & Oliver: A Novel
by Charles BockThe award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Children has created an unflinching yet deeply humane portrait of a young family's journey through a medical crisis, laying bare a couple's love and fears as they fight for everything that's important to them. New York, 1993. Alice Culvert is a caring wife, a doting new mother, a loyal friend, and a soulful artist--a fashion designer who wears a baby carrier and haute couture with equal aplomb. In their loft in Manhattan's gritty Meatpacking District, Alice and her husband, Oliver, are raising their infant daughter, Doe, delighting in the wonders of early parenthood. Their life together feels so vital and full of promise, which makes Alice's sudden cancer diagnosis especially staggering. In the span of a single day, the couple's focus narrows to the basic question of her survival. Though they do their best to remain brave, each faces enormous pressure: Oliver tries to navigate a labyrinthine healthcare system and handle their mounting medical bills; Alice tries to be hopeful as her body turns against her. Bracing themselves for the unthinkable, they must confront the new realities of their marriage, their strengths as partners and flaws as people, how to nourish love against all odds, and what it means to truly care for another person. Inspired by the author's life, Alice & Oliver is a deeply affecting novel written with stunning reserves of compassion, humor, and wisdom. Alice Culvert is an extraordinary character--a woman of incredible heart and spirit--who will remain in memory long after the final page.
Alice 2630_Experiência Humana
by João Campos Monteiro Armelle RancillacDescrição do livro: Aos 31 anos, AlicE leva uma vida alegre e trabalha no centro universal de planeamento, o CUP. Desde a unificação das nações, em 2258, este organismo define o plano de vida de cada pessoa, num mundo sem classes sociais nem moeda. Esta civilização, altamente avançada, face aos padrões tradicionais, adota novos códigos de família e estilos de vida sexual alternativos. Mas este incrível desenvolvimento tecnológico não se terá imiscuído demasiado nas nossas vidas? Não poderia existir uma outra realidade? Desde sempre, o homem tem explorado o insondável na tentativa de compreender o mundo, questionando-se sobre o que está por detrás das aparências, tentando melhorar as suas condições de vida. Mas não estará o progresso exponencial do nosso conhecimento desfasado da nossa natureza interior? Basicamente, não continuaremos nós a ser caçadores pré-históricos?
Alice Adams
by Booth TarkingtonThe basis for George Stevens’s major motion picture starring Katharine Hepburn in her Oscar-nominated leading role.<P><P> In a small Midwestern town in the wake of World War I, Alice Adams delightedly finds herself being pursued by Arthur Russell, a gentleman of a higher social class in life. Desperate to keep her family's lower-middle-class status a secret, she and her parents concoct various schemes to keep their family afloat. Though the realities of her situation eventually reveal themselves and her relationship with Arthur fizzles, Alice's acceptance of this leads her to seek out work to support her family with an admirable resiliency. An enchanting and authentic tale of a family's aspirations to seek more out of life, Alice Adams reveals the strength of the human spirit and its incredible ability to evolve.<P> Originally published in 1921, this bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning novel was adapted into film twice, and its heroine, the sparkling Alice Adams, still resonates with readers today.<P> With a new foreword by Anne Edwards.