The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

 

 

“Wholly original . . . the work of the newest major talent in fantasy.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Freakishly compelling . . . through heart-thumping acts of violence and laugh-out-loud moments, this book practically dares you to keep reading.”—Atlanta Magazine

A missing God.
A library with the secrets to the universe.
A woman too busy to notice her heart slipping away.

Carolyn's not so different from the other people around her. She likes guacamole and cigarettes and steak. She knows how to use a phone. Clothes are a bit tricky, but everyone says nice things about her outfit with the Christmas sweater over the gold bicycle shorts.

After all, she was a normal American herself once.

That was a long time ago, of course. Before her parents died. Before she and the others were taken in by the man they called Father.

In the years since then, Carolyn hasn't had a chance to get out much. Instead, she and her adopted siblings have been raised according to Father's ancient customs. They've studied the books in his Library and learned some of the secrets of his power. And sometimes, they've wondered if their cruel tutor might secretly be God.

Now, Father is missing—perhaps even dead—and the Library that holds his secrets stands unguarded. And with it, control over all of creation.

As Carolyn gathers the tools she needs for the battle to come, fierce competitors for this prize align against her, all of them with powers that far exceed her own.

But Carolyn has accounted for this.

And Carolyn has a plan.

The only trouble is that in the war to make a new God, she's forgotten to protect the things that make her human.

Populated by an unforgettable cast of characters and propelled by a plot that will shock you again and again, The Library at Mount Char is at once horrifying and hilarious, mind-blowingly alien and heartbreakingly human, sweepingly visionary and nail-bitingly thrilling—and signals the arrival of a major new voice in fantasy.

Praise for The Library at Mount Char

An engrossing fantasy world full of supernatural beings and gruesome consequences."—Boston Globe

"Vivid . . . the dialogue sings . . . you'll spend equal time shuddering and chortling."—Dallas Morning News"

 

Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah

 

 

An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist.

In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.

After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises.

The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles. With concerns about the child’s home situation, Jo reluctantly agrees to let her stay - just until she learns more about Ursa’s past.

Jo enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery of the charming child. But the more time they spend together, the more questions they have. How does a young girl not only read but understand Shakespeare? Why do good things keep happening in her presence? And why aren’t Jo and Gabe checking the missing children’s website anymore?

Though the three have formed an incredible bond, they know difficult choices must be made. As the summer nears an end and Ursa gets closer to her fifth miracle, her dangerous past closes in. When it finally catches up to them, all of their painful secrets will be forced into the open, and their fates will be left to the stars.

 

In Five Years by Rebecca Serle

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

 

 

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
USA TODAY BESTSELLER
NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER
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Recommended by Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, NPR, Slate, and Oprah Magazine
#1 Library Reads Pick―October 2020
#1 Indie Next Pick―October 2020
BOOK OF THE YEAR (2020) FINALIST―Book of The Month Club

A “Best Of” Book From: Oprah Mag * CNN * Amazon * Amazon Editors * NPR * Goodreads * Bustle * PopSugar * BuzzFeed * Barnes & Noble * Kirkus Reviews * Lambda Literary * Nerdette * The Nerd Daily * Polygon * Library Reads * io9 * Smart Bitches Trashy Books * LiteraryHub * Medium * BookBub * The Mary Sue * Chicago Tribune * NY Daily News * SyFy Wire * Powells.com * Bookish * Book Riot * Library Reads Voter Favorite *

In the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab’s genre-defying tour de force.

A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.

France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever―and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.

But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

The Memory Collectors by Kim Neville

 

 

Perfect for fans of The Scent Keeper and The Keeper of Lost Things, an atmospheric and enchanting debut novel about two women haunted by buried secrets but bound by a shared gift and the power the past holds over our lives.

Ev has a mysterious ability, one that she feels is more a curse than a gift. She can feel the emotions people leave behind on objects and believes that most of them need to be handled extremely carefully, and—if at all possible—destroyed. The harmless ones she sells at Vancouver’s Chinatown Night Market to scrape together a living, but even that fills her with trepidation. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Harriet hoards thousands of these treasures and is starting to make her neighbors sick as the overabundance of heightened emotions start seeping through her apartment walls.

When the two women meet, Harriet knows that Ev is the only person who can help her make something truly spectacular of her collection. A museum of memory that not only feels warm and inviting but can heal the emotional wounds many people unknowingly carry around. They only know of one other person like them, and they fear the dark effects these objects had on him. Together, they help each other to develop and control their gift, so that what happened to him never happens again. But unbeknownst to them, the same darkness is wrapping itself around another, dragging them down a path that already destroyed Ev’s family once, and threatens to annihilate what little she has left.

The Memory Collectors casts the everyday in a new light, speaking volumes to the hold that our past has over us—contained, at times, in seemingly innocuous objects—and uncovering a truth that both women have tried hard to bury with their pasts: not all magpies collect shiny things—sometimes they gather darkness.

Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

 

 

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"With its countless epiphanies and surprises, Oona proves difficult to put down." ―USA Today

"By turns tragic and triumphant, heartbreakingly poignant and joyful, this is ultimately an uplifting and redemptive read." ―The Guardian

A remarkably inventive novel that explores what it means to live a life fully in the moment, even if those moments are out of order.

It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain at home in Brooklyn to pursue her passion for music and be with her boyfriend? As the countdown to the New Year begins, Oona faints and awakens thirty-two years in the future in her fifty-one-year-old body. Greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she’s told is her own, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random. And so begins Oona Out of Order...

Hopping through decades, pop culture fads, and much-needed stock tips, Oona is still a young woman on the inside but ever changing on the outside. Who will she be next year? Philanthropist? Club Kid? World traveler? Wife to a man she’s never met? Surprising, magical, and heart-wrenching, Margarita Montimore has crafted an unforgettable story about the burdens of time, the endurance of love, and the power of family.

Blue di Attila F. Balázs (i Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni di Stefano Donno)

Attila F. Balázs è un poeta di origine rumena che vive in Slovacchia e scrive in lingua ungherese: partendo da questa mescolanza di culture appartenenti all’est europeo si può comprendere la varietà di toni e di stili della sua poesia. I luoghi descritti trasmettono al lettore un senso di straniamento, una percezione del tempo che segue un ordine proprio all’interiorità del poeta: “torno a me stesso/il tempo merita interesse/oltre la catarsi/e l’estasi”. Questo probabilmente spiega anche il fatto che alcune poesie, sono la stessa versione modificata solo in alcuni versi, come se il poeta avesse sentito il bisogno di fissare nella parola l’inarrestabile mutare delle cose, dei sentimenti, di noi stessi. (dall’introduzione di Laura Garavaglia)

Attila F. Balázs . Nato a Târgu Mureș, (Transilvania) il 15 gennaio 1954. Ha continuato gli studi presso l'Istituto di teologia cattolica di Alba Iulia. Si è laureato in scienze delle biblioteche e traduzione letteraria a Bucarest. Ha lavorato come bibliotecario presso la Biblioteca della Contea di Harghita a Miercurea Ciuc fino al 1989. Nel 1990, si è trasferito in Slovacchia. Tra il 1990 e il 1992 è stato editore di Szabad Újsag (Bratislava), ha collaborato con Új Szó ed è stato direttore della casa editrice Madách di Bratislava. Nel 1994 ha fondato la AB-ART Publishing (Bratislava), di cui è direttore da allora. È membro dell'Unione degli scrittori ungheresi, dell'Accademia europea delle scienze, delle arti e delle lettere, Parigi, dell'Accademia Eminescu, dell'Unione degli scrittori di Romania, del club ungherese PEN, dell'Associazione degli scrittori della Slovacchia .. È vicepresidente dell'associazione culturale Dellart (Cluj-Napoca), membro onorario dell'Accademia delle scienze, delle arti e delle lettere, Chisinau, Moldavia, autore di più di una dozzina di raccolte di poesie e traduttore di più oltre venti libri di poesia e narrativa, Attila F. Balázs ha ricevuto numerosi premi e riconoscimenti per l e sue varie attività letterarie (Premio Opera Omnia Arghezi (Târgu Jiu, Romania 2014), Premio Dardanica, Bruxelles-Prishtina, Premio Lucian Blaga (Romania , 2011), Premio Lilla (Hévíz, 2011), Premio EASAL, Parigi, 2020, Premio Madách (Slovacchia, 1992), Premio World English Writer's Union, India, 2019, Premio Lukijan Mušicki, Belgrado, Serbia, 2019, Premio internazionale Dardanica , Brussel / Prishtina, 2019.

Il 10 ottobre 2018, il Consiglio di fondazione dell'Accademia mondiale delle arti e della cultura conferisce a F. Attila Baláz il titolo onorario di dottore in lettere. (Rilasciato al XXXVIII Congresso mondiale dei poeti a Suiyang, Cina). Le sue opere sono state tradotte in 20 lingue. Come poeta invitato, partecipa regolarmente a diversi festival letterari in tutto il mondo (Nicaragua, Colombia, Venezuela, Canada, Turchia, Perù, Ecuador, Marocco, Macedonia, Cina, Vietnam, Repubblica Ceca, Slovacchia, Austria, Azerbaigian, Moldavia, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Kenya, Spagna, Italia.)

Le sue opere più importanti sono:

1. Masks, Poems, Madách Publisher, 1992
2. The Juice of the Cat. Short Stories, Microgramma, 1992
3. Naked Knights.  Selected and New Poems, AB ART, 2002
4. Hungarian Who is Who in Slovakia. 2000
5. My Cross of Words 50 Years 50 Poems, Lilium, 2004
6. Portrait Gallery.  Bratislava, AB ART, 2004
7. Casanova’s Metamorphoses – Premeny Casanovu. Bilingual (Hungarian-Slovakian) Edition Plectrum, 2005
8. Missa Bestialis.  Poems translated into Romanian by A. Iancu, Limes, Cluj, 2008
9. Escape from the Ghetto. Literary translations, AB ART , Bratislava, 2008
10. A Bag of Cherries. Contemporary Romanian Poetry, AB ART , Bratislava, 2009
11. Poems – Poezii   Bilingual  (Hungarian – Romanian) edition, 2009
12. Minimal, Poems, AB-ART Bratislava, 2010
13. Blue, Poems, AB-ART Bratislava, 2011
14. Metamorfozele lui Casanova, Short Stories translated by Ildiko Foarţă, Grinta, Cluj, 2011
15. Casanova átváltozásai, Short Stories in hungarian, AB-ART, 2012
16. Most beautiful poems, in Hungarian, 2012, AB ART, Bratislava
17. Minimal (poem in Portuguese, translator José Eduardo, 2013, Editora Aty, Porto Alegre, Brazilia
18. Casanova’s Metamorphoses Short Stories in English, translator Adrian George Sahlean, 2013, Ekstasis Editions, Vancouver, Canada
19. Cravata lui Villon, poems in romanian trad.  Serban Foarta, Tipo Moldova 2014
20. Blue / Kék, poems translated in English by Erzsébet Csicsery, Libros Libertad, Canada, 2014
21. La metamorfosis de Casanova, in spanish translated by Rafael Soler, El Quirófano Ediciones, Ecuador, 2014
22. Casanova’s Metamorphoses, Short Stories in Serbian, translated by Jolánka Kovács, Sremska Mitrovicá, 2015
23. Missa Bestialis, Poems translated in English by Lucia Gorea, Libros Libertad, 2015
24. Istegin Hususiyeti, poems in Turkish translated by Müesser Yeniay, Siirden Yayincilik, Istanbul, 2015
25. Minimal, poems in Slovakian translated by Jitka Roznova, SZMIT, Dunajska Streda, 2015
26. Villon nyakendője, poems, ART Danubius, 2015
27. Kis Odüsszeia, translations from the poetry of the world, 2016
28. Chair impassible, poems in French translated by S. Pallai, Éditions du Cygne, Paris, 2016
29. O mie de tentacule si-o franghie, poems in Romanian translated by Mihók Tamás, Paralela 45, 2017
30. Pritja e përjetshme, poems in Albanian, translated by Baki Ímeri, 2017
31. Avqustda qar, poems in Azerbaijani translated by Mehmet Ismail. Edebiyyat, Baku, 2019
32. ЛОВ НА ЛЕПОТУ, poems in Serbian translated by Jolánka Kovács, Алма, Belgrad, 2019
33. XÁC THỊT VÔ CẢM, poems in Vietnamese translated by Văn Minh Thiều, Nhà xuất bản Cygne, Hanoi, 2019
34. La metamorfosis de Casanova, Short Stories in Spanish, translated by Rafael Soler, Libros del Genio Maligno, Granada, Spain, 2020
35. Blue, poems translated in Italian by Laura Garavaglia, Quaderni del Bardo edizioni, 2020
36.  BLUE / ZAMAWATI, poems translated by:Ezra Nyakundi Mose, Christopher Okemwa, Kistrech Theatre International, 2020
37. CORPO INDIFERENTE / KÖZÖMBÖS HÚS, translated by Cinzia Demi, foreword Tomaso Kemény, puntoacapo Editrice, 2020

Le sue opere di traduzione letteraria:

Contemporary Romanian Poems, 2007

Mircea Petean: Anna Poems, 2008

Varujan Vosganian: Blue Shaman, poems, 2009

Gabriel Chifu: Boardgame, poems, 2009

Angela Baciu:Poezii / Poems, 2009

Vasile Dan: Liquid Mirror, poems, 2010

Lucian Blaga: Poems, Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó Budapest, 2011.

Ioan Es Pop, Nem mertem kiáltani soha, poems, AB-ART, 2012.

Robert Serban, Illatos koporsó, poems, l’Harmattan, Budapest. 2012.

Carolina Ilica, Valamivel több, poems, AB-ART, 2012.

Rade Siljan, Évszázadok, poems, AB-ART, 2012.

Rafael Soler, Visszaút / Maneras de volver, poems, (bilingv) AB-ART, 2013.

José Eduardo Degrazia, A szerelem geometriája, poems, AB-ART, 2013.

Turczi István, Strainul, poems, Europa, Craiova, 2014.

Új Dánia, Moldáv költők antológiája, poems Parnasszus, Budapest, 2014

Augusto Rodriguez, Örültek csókja, poems, AB-ART, 2014

Nedeljko Terzic, Robaj és csend, poems, AB-ART, 2015

Metin Cengiz, Fekete és fehér, poems, AB-ART, 2015

Müesser Yeniay, A rózsaszedés szertartása, poems, AB-ART, 2015

Nicolae Spataru: Álmatlanság Európáért, poems, AB-ART, 2015

Tudor Arghezi: Poezii versek , volum bilingv, Tg-Jiu, 2016

Pedro Enríquez Késélen, Poems, AB ART, Budapest, 2019

Mamed Ismail Száműzetésben, Poems, AB ART, Budapest, 2019

Jeton Kelmendi Keserű kávé, Poems, AB ART, Budapesta, 2019

Cinzia Demi: Magdolna voltam, Poems, AB ART, Budapesta, 2019

Lulzim Tafa: Szokatlan ima, Poems, AB ART, Budapesta, 2019

Kürti László: Despre frauda, Poems, Amanda Edit Verlag, Bukarest, 2019

Dmitri Csisztiak: Tenger a kőben, poems, Parnasszus, Budapest,2019

A négyarcú Bajon torony, poetry of the Vietnam War, AB ART, 2020

Bill Wolak Nem szeretni veszélyes, poems, AB ART, 2020

Cristopher Okemwa Tisztítótűz, poems, AB ART, 2020

Premi nazionali e internazionali:

1987 Prize of the Poetry Festival National Ballads of Danube, Ed. IX, Galati

1994 Madách Prize, Slovakia

2009 Prize of the International Festival of Poetry in Sighetu Marmaţiei

2010 Poesis Prize, Satu Mare

2010 Honorary Citizen of Nandaime, Nicaragua

2010 Prize  for Translation, Union of Romanian writers, Arad

2011 Grand Prix Lucian Blaga, Cluj Napoca

2011 Lilla Award, Hévíz, Hungary

2012 Award of the International Poetry Festival in Vancouver

2012 Academy Award Mihai Eminescu for translation

2013 the prize of excellence of the Antares festival in Galati

2013 Prize of the Poetry Festival in Chisinau

2014 Ex Libris Award, Hungary

2014 Omnia Opera Award Tudor Arghezi

2014 Honorary Citizen of Targu Carbunesti

2014 The big prize of the Spring of Poets' Festival in Chisinau

2015 Literary Prize MISAONIK, Sremska Mitrovica

2015 Citizen of honor Sirmium, Sremska Mitrovica

2016 Award of the International Poetry Festival Istambul

2016 Tudor Arghezi translation award

2018 Honorary Degree of Doctor of Literature, Suiyang, China

2019 World English Writer’s Union award, India

2019 Lukijan Mušicki Award, Belgrad, Serbia

2019 International prize Dardanica, Brussel / Prishtina

2020 Award of the European Academy Sciences Arts Letters

2020 Award of the Serbian Academy Sciences and Arts

Antologie

1978 : Kimaradt Szó, Kriterion, Bucharest.

1980 : Ötödik Évszak, Târgu Mureș.

1999 : Vámbéry Antológia, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda.

2006 : Vámbéry Antológia, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda.

2006 : Szlovákiai magyar szép versek, SZMIT, Dunajská Streda.

2007 : Szlovákiai magyar szép irodalom, SZMIT, Dunajská Streda.

2008 : Tahle ctvrt je nase, Mezera, Praga /AB-ART, Bratislava.

2008 : Szlovákiai magyar szép irodalom, SZMIT, Dunajská Streda.

2009 : Pesniki čakajoči na angela, Apokalips, Ljubljana.

2009 : Vámbéry Antológia, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda.

2010 : Vámbéry Antológia, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda.

2010 : Festival Internacional de Poesia, Granada, Nicaragua.

2011 : Szlovákiai magyar szép irodalom, SZMIT, Dunajská Streda.

2011 : Meridian Blaga, Asociatia Blaga, Cluj-Napoca.

2011 : Struga, home of poetry, Struga.

2011 : Vámbéry Antológia, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda.

2012 : Poesys 16, Time for Poetry, Bucharest.

2012 : Vámbéry Antológia 2012, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda.

2012 : International PEN Multilingual Anthology, AB-ART.

2013 : Three Poems from Europe, Editura Pelerin, Bucharest.

2013 : Al salir de la cárcel, Edifsa, Salamanca.

2013 : Szlovákiai magyar szépirodalom, SZMÍT.

2013 : Vámbéry Antológia, Lilium Aurum, Dunajská Streda.

2013 : Del teatro del silencio al parnasso, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

2013: AL SALIR DE LA CÁRCEL, Edifsa, Salamanca, 2013

2013: Szlovákiai magyar szépirodalom, SZMÍT, 2013

2013: Vámbéry Antológia, Lilium Aurum

2013: DEL TEATRO DEL SILENCIO AL PARNASSO, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

2014 : Poems for the Hazara: A Multilingual Poetry Anthology by 125 Poets from 68 Countries, Full Page Publishing, New York-Oslo.

2018: Antologia Festivalului Mondial de poezie Mihai Eminescu, Craiova

2018: Agua Dulce, Caracola, Mexico

2018: Love postcards“ International Anthology of Poetry, USA

2019: Antologia festivalului Mihai Eminescu, Ed. Europa, 2019

2019: Tho', International poetry festival, Hanoi, 2019

2020 Poetry Planetariat, Istanbul-Medellin

   Partecipazione a festival internazionali

2008 Festival International Ars Maris, Reghin

2009 Poetry Festival, Maramureş, Romania

2010 Festival Internacional de Poesia. Granada, Nicaragua, 2010

2010 Poetry Marathon, Senta, Serbia

2011 Poetry Festival Lucian Blaga, Cluj-Napoca

2011 Contemporary National Poetry of the World, Struga, Macedonia

2011 Festival International Mihai Eminescu, Craiova, Romania

2012 World Poetry Vancouver, Canada

2012 Poetry Festival International, Curtea de Arges, Romania

2012 Hungarian PEN Club Creative Camp, Pécs

2012 Poetry Festival, Pancevo, Serbia

2013 Poetry Festival International Antares, Galati, Romania

2013 Poetry Festival Mihai Eminescu din Craiova, Romania

2013 Poetry Festival Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

2014 Festival Internacional de Poesía, Medellín, Colombia

2014 Poetry International Festival Tudor Arghezi, Tg-Jiu, Romania

2014 Poetry Festival Primavara Europeana a Poetilor, Chisinau

2015 Poetry Festival Tudor Arghezi, Tg-Jiu, Romania

2015 Festival Internacional de Poesia, Ecuador

2015 World Congress of Poets, Peru

2015 Festival Sirmium Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia

2016 Festival Internacional de Poesia Venezuela

2016 World Poetry in Istanbul, Turkey

2017 Poetry Festival in Kalima, Marakesh, Morocco

2017 Poetry Festival, Satu Mare

2017 Festival internazionale di poesia Eminescu, Italy

2018 Festival Mondial de poezie Eminescu, Craiova, Romania

2018 Poetry Festival, Podgorica, Montenegro

2018 World Congress of Poets, Suiyang, China

2018 World Poetry Festival in Hanoi, Vietnam

2019 Spring of Poetry Festival, Zilah

2019 Festival Mondial de poezie Eminescu, Craiova

2019 Festival International de poesia in Granada, Spain

2019 Festival International de Poezie Satu Mare, Romania

2019 Bookfest, Belgrade, Serbia

2019 Janus Pannonius Festival, Pécs, Hungary

2020 Congress AESAL  

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Kiev Guide: Kiev - The Essential Kiev Guide (2018 Edition) What to do in Kiev Ukraine: Food, Sights, Adventure, Arts, Culture, Maps and other cool stuff (Go2UA travel guides) by Alina Potter

 

 

The Essential Kiev Guide (2018 Edition) has been fully revised and updated to introduce Kiev’s key sights, experiences and travel essentials to make your stay in the Ukrainian capital an enjoyable and exciting one. Our experience as one of the top Kiev private guides leading tours for hundreds of western visitors every year has helped us craft a book which offers practical advice and useful tips when navigating our city and its many attractions. The new edition includes an extended ‘Essentials’ section with helpful insights for first-time travellers to Kiev, exclusive access to Kiev’s most popular printed tourist and metro map and an expanded ‘things to do’ section. The Guide is packed full of Kiev travel advice for visitors. The important things you need to know when planning a trip to Kiev Ukraine, one of Eastern Europe’s most enchanting capitals. Kiev Things to Do The Guide provides a bumper list of Kiev attractions, captivating historical sites, stunning from Kievan Rus architecture and rich cultural sites in the Ukrainian capital. The best Kiev nightlife, restaurants, culture, shopping and Kiev clubs are also revealed for those who want to know what to do in Kiev after dark from partying at the famous Buddha Bar Kiev to enjoying the classic music at the National Philharmonic. Kiev Food We’ll introduce Kiev food and you’ll discover Ukrainian traditional dishes and the best Kiev restaurants serving Ukrainian cuisine. Kiev Airport We’ll reveal the best airport shuttles, Kiev airport transfer company, the easy way to travel from Kiev Borispol Airport to the city centre and Zhuliany airport transfers, Kiev’s city airport. Getting Around Kiev We share essential tips on using the Kiev metro and other public transport, how to book a taxi in Kiev, and how to get around Kiev. Kiev Hotels The Guide recommends the range of the best value for money Kiev hotels in good areas to stay plus Kiev apartment rental options for those tourists looking for to extend their stay. Apartments for rent in Kiev are an increasingly popular and good option for foreign visitors. We answer all these questions and more in our Essential Kiev Guide… Do I need a travel guide in Kiev? What power plugs are used in Ukraine? What is Kiev weather like year round? What is the internet like in Kiev? Do you tip in Ukraine? Where can I change money in Kiev? Do US cell phones work in Ukraine? What are the best Kiev clubs? How safe is Kiev? How much do things cost in Ukraine? What is a fair Kiev airport transfer price? … and more. Table of the Contents: INTRODUCTION HISTORY Kreschatik Street Independence Square St. Sophia’s Cathedral Cave Monastery of Kiev St Michael’s Cathedral Golden Gate Kiev Kiev Opera Pirogovo Museum Kiev Rus Park War Museum House with Khimeras Chernobyl Museum Tours to Chernobyl and Prypiat St Andrew Descent Mariinskiy Palace and Park National Philharmonic THINGS TO DO TOURS Mezhigirja Palace Boat trip on Dnepr River Gastronomical Delights Tour Arts & Folk Pirogovo Museum Jewish Tour TOURIST ESSENTIALS Airlines Airports Business Hours Climate Co-Working Electricity Embassies Food & Drink Internet Language Medical Emergencies Money Nightlife Personal Safety Police Public Holidays Public Transport Restaurants Taxis Telephones Time What to wear Where to Stay Tipping Toilets MAPS

L'uomo di Kiev di Bernard Malamud

 

 

Basato su una vicenda realmente accaduta, L'uomo di Kiev è la storia di uno sconcertante caso giudiziario. È il 1911 e la Russia zarista è attraversata da frequenti scoppi di violenza antisemita. Yakov Bok è un ebreo che si guadagna da vivere come tuttofare; lasciato dalla moglie, cerca fortuna a Kiev dove, spacciandosi per gentile, riesce a farsi assumere in una fabbrica di mattoni. Ma quando accanto alla fabbrica viene ritrovato il cadavere di un bambino, si diffonde la voce che si tratti di un delitto perpetrato dagli ebrei a scopi rituali e scatta la ricerca del capro espiatorio: tradito da false testimonianze e incastrato dalla polizia, Yakov viene accusato del crimine. Rinchiuso in carcere senza processo, umiliato, abbandonato da tutti, non smetterà di lottare con tutte le sue forze per difendere la propria innocenza. Prefazione di Alessandro Piperno.

Kiev: grattacieli come a New York: Guida turistica (Tra Cosacchi e colbacchi Vol. 1) di Wilma Zanelli Andrea Busso

 

 

La guida turistica dedicata a Kiev ed il suo Oblast è un prodotto di pronta beva (concedetemi un termine usato dai sommelier). Da leggere, scaricare e portare con voi, per una consultazione immediata, semplice e veloce. In ordine, troverete le città maggiormente servite dai voli in partenza dai nostri aeroporti, le loro peculiarità, i musei da visitare, le curiosità più effervescenti, le ricette del territorio, l'angolo dei green lovers, i big della storia, mentre "Gusto Italiano/ итальянскии вкус " attraverso l'omino con i baffi, apporrà il suo marchio logato, nei luoghi (negozi, ristoranti) dove si potrà gustare o trovare il vero Made in Italy. Un consiglio? Cercate il capitolo "Italianità: il valore dei dettagli". C'è da andarne fieri.

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

 

 

Gene Luen Yang was the fifth the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of what's popularly known as the MacArthur "Genius" Grant.

A tour-de-force by New York Times bestselling graphic novelist Gene Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he's the only Chinese-American student at his new school; the powerful Monkey King, subject of one of the oldest and greatest Chinese fables; and Chin-Kee, a personification of the ultimate negative Chinese stereotype, who is ruining his cousin Danny's life with his yearly visits. Their lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in this action-packed modern fable. American Born Chinese is an amazing ride, all the way up to the astonishing climax.

American Born Chinese is the winner of the 2007 Michael L. Printz Award, a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature, the winner of the 2007 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New, an Eisner Award nominee for Best Coloring, a 2007 Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, and a New York Times bestseller.

This title has Common Core Connections

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

 

 

2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"One of the funniest books of the year. . . . A delicious, ambitious Hollywood satire." —The Washington Post

From the infinitely inventive author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, a deeply personal novel about race, pop culture, immigration, assimilation, and escaping the roles we are forced to play.

Willis Wu doesn’t perceive himself as the protagonist in his own life: he’s merely Generic Asian Man. Sometimes he gets to be Background Oriental Making a Weird Face or even Disgraced Son, but always he is relegated to a prop. Yet every day, he leaves his tiny room in a Chinatown SRO and enters the Golden Palace restaurant, where Black and White, a procedural cop show, is in perpetual production. He’s a bit player here, too, but he dreams of being Kung Fu Guy—the most respected role that anyone who looks like him can attain. Or is it?

After stumbling into the spotlight, Willis finds himself launched into a wider world than he’s ever known, discovering not only the secret history of Chinatown, but the buried legacy of his own family. Infinitely inventive and deeply personal, exploring the themes of pop culture, assimilation, and immigration—Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu’s most moving, daring, and masterful novel yet.

"Fresh and beautiful. . . . Interior Chinatown represents yet another stellar destination in the journey of a sui generis author of seemingly limitless skill and ambition.” —The New York Times Book Review

 

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

 

 

From the author of The Bride Test comes a romance novel hailed as one of The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2018 and one of Amazon’s Top 100 Books of 2018!

“This is such a fun read and it's also quite original and sexy and sensitive.”—Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author

“Hoang's writing bursts from the page.”—Buzzfeed

A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick.

Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases—a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.

It doesn't help that Stella has Asperger's and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice—with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can't afford to turn down Stella's offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan—from foreplay to more-than-missionary position...

Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but crave all of the other things he's making her feel. Their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic...

Frankly in Love by David Yoon

 

 

An Instant New York Times Bestseller and #1 Indie Bestseller!

A William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist
 
An Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Honor Book

Two friends. One fake dating scheme. What could possibly go wrong?

Frank Li has two names. There's Frank Li, his American name. Then there's Sung-Min Li, his Korean name. No one uses his Korean name, not even his parents. Frank barely speaks any Korean. He was born and raised in Southern California.

Even so, his parents still expect him to end up with a nice Korean girl--which is a problem, since Frank is finally dating the girl of his dreams: Brit Means. Brit, who is funny and nerdy just like him. Brit, who makes him laugh like no one else. Brit . . . who is white.

As Frank falls in love for the very first time, he's forced to confront the fact that while his parents sacrificed everything to raise him in the land of opportunity, their traditional expectations don't leave a lot of room for him to be a regular American teen. Desperate to be with Brit without his parents finding out, Frank turns to family friend Joy Song, who is in a similar bind. Together, they come up with a plan to help each other and keep their parents off their backs. Frank thinks he's found the solution to all his problems, but when life throws him a curveball, he's left wondering whether he ever really knew anything about love—or himself—at all.

In this moving debut novel—featuring striking blue stained edges and beautiful original endpaper art by the author—David Yoon takes on the question of who am I? with a result that is humorous, heartfelt, and ultimately unforgettable.

The Book of Salt by Monique Truong

 

 

The Book of Salt serves up a wholly original take on Paris in the 1930s through the eyes of Binh, the Vietnamese cook employed by Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Viewing his famous mesdames and their entourage from the kitchen of their rue de Fleurus home, Binh observes their domestic entanglements while seeking his own place in the world. In a mesmerizing tale of yearning and betrayal, Monique Truong explores Paris from the salons of its artists to the dark nightlife of its outsiders and exiles. She takes us back to Binh's youthful servitude in Saigon under colonial rule, to his life as a galley hand at sea, to his brief, fateful encounters in Paris with Paul Robeson and the young Ho Chi Minh.

Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes

 

 

The instant New York Times bestseller from the creator of Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal and executive producer of How to Get Away With Murder shares how saying YES changed her life. “As fun to read as Rhimes’s TV series are to watch” (Los Angeles Times).

She’s the creator and producer of some of the most groundbreaking and audacious shows on television today. Her iconic characters live boldly and speak their minds. So who would suspect that Shonda Rhimes is an introvert? That she hired a publicist so she could avoid public appearances? That she suffered panic attacks before media interviews?

With three children at home and three hit television shows, it was easy for Shonda to say she was simply too busy. But in truth, she was also afraid. And then, over Thanksgiving dinner, her sister muttered something that was both a wake up and a call to arms: You never say yes to anything. Shonda knew she had to embrace the challenge: for one year, she would say YES to everything that scared her.

This poignant, intimate, and hilarious memoir explores Shonda’s life before her Year of Yes—from her nerdy, book-loving childhood to her devotion to creating television characters who reflected the world she saw around her. The book chronicles her life after her Year of Yes had begun—when Shonda forced herself out of the house and onto the stage; when she learned to explore, empower, applaud, and love her truest self. Yes.

“Honest, raw, and revelatory” (The Washington Post), this wildly candid and compulsively readable book reveals how the mega talented Shonda Rhimes finally achieved badassery worthy of a Shondaland character. Best of all, she “can help motivate even the most determined homebody to get out and try something new” (Chicago Tribune).

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May

LifeLines: An Inspirational Journey from Profound Darkness to Radiant Light by Melissa Bernstein

Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life by Christine Tate

 

 

 

 A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK AND INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Often hilarious and ultimately very touching.” —People

“Have you ever read a book that made you want to hug the author?” —Reese Witherspoon

“This unrestrained memoir is a transporting experience and one of the most startlingly hopeful books I have ever read.” —Lisa Taddeo, New York Times bestselling author of Three Women

The refreshingly original debut memoir of a guarded, over-achieving, self-lacerating young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to get psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers—her psychotherapy group—and in turn finds human connection, and herself.

Christie Tate had just been named the top student in her law school class and finally had her eating disorder under control. Why then was she driving through Chicago fantasizing about her own death? Why was she envisioning putting an end to the isolation and sadness that still plagued her despite her achievements?

Enter Dr. Rosen, a therapist who calmly assures her that if she joins one of his psychotherapy groups, he can transform her life. All she has to do is show up and be honest. About everything—her eating habits, childhood, sexual history, etc. Christie is skeptical, insisting that that she is defective, beyond cure. But Dr. Rosen issues a nine-word prescription that will change everything: “You don’t need a cure. You need a witness.”

So begins her entry into the strange, terrifying, and ultimately life-changing world of group therapy. Christie is initially put off by Dr. Rosen’s outlandish directives, but as her defenses break down and she comes to trust Dr. Rosen and to depend on the sessions and the prescribed nightly phone calls with various group members, she begins to understand what it means to connect.

Group is a deliciously addictive read, and with Christie as our guide—skeptical of her own capacity for connection and intimacy, but hopeful in spite of herself—we are given a front row seat to the daring, exhilarating, painful, and hilarious journey that is group therapy—an under-explored process that breaks you down, and then reassembles you so that all the pieces finally fit.