Goering's Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World by Jonathan Petropoulos

 

 

A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world​

"[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of art dealers, collectors and museum curators connected to Nazi looting. . . . What emerges from Petropoulos’s research is a portrait of a charismatic and nefarious figure who tainted everyone he touched."—Nina Siegal, New York Times

“Readers of art history and WWII biographies will appreciate this engrossing deep dive into one of the world’s most prolific art looters.”—Publishers Weekly

Bruno Lohse (1911–2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Göring to Hitler’s art looting agency in Paris, he went on to help supervise the systematic theft and distribution of more than thirty thousand artworks, taken largely from French Jews, and to assist Göring in amassing an enormous private art collection. By the 1950s Lohse was officially denazified but was back in the art dealing world, offering masterpieces of dubious origin to American museums. After his death, dozens of paintings by Renoir, Monet, and Pissarro, among others, were found in his Zurich bank vault and adorning the walls of his Munich home. Jonathan Petropoulos spent nearly a decade interviewing Lohse and continues to serve as an expert witness for Holocaust restitution cases. Here he tells the story of Lohse’s life, offering a critical examination of the postwar art world.

The White Road: Journey into an Obsession by Edmund de Waal

 

 

An extraordinary blend of narrative history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and bestselling international sensation, The Hare with Amber Eyes

In The White Road, artist Edmund de Waal gives us an intimate portrait of his lifelong obsession with porcelain, or “white gold.” A potter who has been working with porcelain for more than forty years, de Waal describes how he set out on five journeys to places where porcelain was dreamed about, refined, collected, and coveted―and that would help him understand the clay’s mysterious allure. From his studio in London, he begins by travelling to three “white hills”―sites in China, Germany, and England that are key to porcelain’s creation. But his search eventually leads him around the globe and reveals more than a history of cups and figurines; rather, he is forced to confront some of the darkest moments of twentieth-century history.

Part memoir, part history, part detective story, The White Road chronicles a global obsession with alchemy, art, wealth, craft, and purity.

 

The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France by James McAuley

 

 

A powerful history of Jewish art collectors in France, and how an embrace of art and beauty was met with hatred and destruction

“Alluring and disturbing. . . .  The depths of French anti-Semitism is the stunning subject that Mr. McAuley lays bare. . . .  [He] tells this haunting saga in eloquent detail. As French anti-Semitism rises once again today, the effect is nothing less than chilling.”—Diane Cole, Wall Street Journal

In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews—pillars of an embattled community—invested their fortunes in France’s cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the country’s army, and were ultimately rewarded by seeing their collections plundered and their families deported to Nazi concentration camps.

In this rich, evocative account, James McAuley explores the central role that art and material culture played in the assimilation and identity of French Jews in the fin-de-siècle. Weaving together narratives of various figures, some familiar from the works of Marcel Proust and the diaries of Jules and Edmond Goncourt—the Camondos, the Rothschilds, the Ephrussis, the Cahens d'Anvers—McAuley shows how Jewish art collectors contended with a powerful strain of anti-Semitism: they were often accused of “invading” France’s cultural patrimony. The collections these families left behind—many ultimately donated to the French state—were their response, tragic attempts to celebrate a nation that later betrayed them.

Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal

 

 

A tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Camondo

Letters to Camondo is a collection of imaginary letters from Edmund de Waal to Moise de Camondo, the banker and art collector who created a spectacular house in Paris, now the Musée Nissim de Camondo, and filled it with the greatest private collection of French eighteenth-century art.

The Camondos were a Jewish family from Constantinople, “the Rothschilds of the East,” who made their home in Paris in the 1870s and became philanthropists, art collectors, and fixtures of Belle Époque high society, as well as being targets of antisemitism―much like de Waal's relations, the Ephrussi family, to whom they were connected. Moise de Camondo created a spectacular house and filled it with art for his son, Nissim; after Nissim was killed in the First World War, the house was bequeathed to the French state. Eventually, the Camondos were murdered by the Nazis.

After de Waal, one of the world’s greatest ceramic artists, was invited to make an exhibition in the Camondo house, he began to write letters to Moise de Camondo. These fifty letters are deeply personal reflections on assimilation, melancholy, family, art, the vicissitudes of history, and the value of memory.

 

 

Sông núi trên vai - Carrying the Mountain and River on Our Shoulders La montagna e il fiume sulle nostre spalle a cura di Laura Garavaglia

"Questa antologia è per il lettore italiano un valido approccio alla poesia vietnamita, poco conosciuta nel nostro Paese, come in generale tutta la produzione letteraria del Vietnam. Un volume prezioso, che deve essere letto e apprezzato, oltre che per l’alto valore dei testi, come testimonianza della storia di un popolo segnato da anni di guerre e privazioni e che oggi, nel mondo globalizzato, sta sperimentando un rapido incremento economico. L’antologia è stata pubblicata dalla Vietnam Writers’ Association (VWA) in traduzione inglese in occasione della Conferenza Internazionale sulla Traduzione in Vietnam che si è tenuta nel febbraio 2019. Gli autori appartengono a generazioni diverse, sono tutti stati o sono a tutt’oggi membri della VWA e hanno ricevuto importanti riconoscimenti nazionali per la loro opera." (dalla prefazione di Laura Garavaglia)

Gli autori:

ANH NGOC, NGỌC BÁI, THUBỒN, HUY CẬN, NÔNG QUỐC CHẤN, LÂM THỊ MỸ DẠ, XUÂN DIỆU, PHẠM TIẾN DUẬT, QUANGDŨNG, BÀN TÀI ĐOÀN, NGUYỄN KHOA ĐIỀM, TRẦN NINH HỒ, THI HOÀNG, CHÍNH HỮU, TỐ HỮU,TRẦN ĐĂNG KHOA, NGUYỄN ĐỨC MẬU, LÊ THỊ MÂY, TRẦN NHUẬN MINH, GIANG NAM, PHAN THỊTHANH NHÀN, MAI VĂN PHẤN, VIỄN PHƯƠNG, VŨ QUẦN PHƯƠNG, Y PHƯƠNG, THANH QUẾ, BẾKIẾN QUỐC, TRẦN QUANG QUÝ, XUÂN QUỲNH, TRẦN VÀNG SAO, LÒ NGÂN SỦN, NGUYỄN TRỌNGTẠO, THANH THẢO, NGUYỄN ĐÌNH THI, NGUYỄN QUANG THIỀU, HỮU THỈNH, HOÀNG TRUNGTHÔNG, TRÚC THÔNG, CHIM TRẮNG, VƯƠNG TRỌNG, CHẾ LAN VIÊN, BẰNG VIỆT, LÊ ANHXUÂN - CA LÊ HIẾN, LƯU QUANG VŨ

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Vienna insolita e segreta di Michaela Lindinger, Laura Perreca, e al.

 

 

Un magnifico palazzo privato che può essere visitato su prenotazione, una mummia di coccodrillo in una biblioteca privata, una casa di cioccolato, un soffitto alchemico a Schönbrunn, una delle più belle farmacie del mondo, un’eccezionale chiesa in stile Art Nouveau, la tomba di un pesce che si sarebbe convertito all’ebraismo, un museo jazz nei bagni pubblici, una discarica pubblica che si può visitare come se fosse un museo, il più antico organo di Vienna nascosto dietro un dipinto, un’imperatrice in abito da monaca, il mistero del simbolo 05, un sesso maschile scolpito discretamente nella cattedrale di Vienna, un sorprendente museo privato del biliardo, un incredibile bouquet in cui ogni fiore è in realtà costituito da numerose ali di farfalle, una fonte d’acqua che permette di vedere per un minuto i numeri del Lotto, un sotterraneo collegato al campo di Mauthausen dove è stato costruito il primo aereo a reazione al mondo, uno storico «Hotel dell’amore» di grande fascino... Una guida per chi pensava di conoscere Vienna o per coloro che desiderano scoprire l’altro volto della città.

Crimine a Vienna di Sir Steve Stevenson e Stefano Turconi

 

 

Nel mezzo dei preparativi per il Gran Ballo di Vienna, al conte de Reginard arriva un messaggio anonimo: qualcuno tenterà di rubare la preziosa "Lacrima di Birmania", la collana che porterà sua figlia. Solo Larry e Agatha, inviati nella capitale austriaca per sorvegliare la contessina, riusciranno a smascherare il misterioso ladro... e la verità che nasconde!

L' età dell'inconscio. Arte, mente e cervello dalla grande Vienna ai nostri giorni. di Eric R. Kandel e G. Guerriero

 

 

Il premio Nobel Eric Kandel usa le sue doti di divulgatore per portarci nella Vienna del Novecento, dove le figure più eminenti della scienza e dell'arte diedero l'avvio a una rivoluzione che avrebbe cambiato per sempre il modo di considerare la mente umana. Nei salotti viennesi dell'epoca si discutevano idee che avrebbero segnato una svolta nella psicologia, nella neurobiologia, nella letteratura e nell'arte. Tali idee portarono a progressi che esercitano ancora oggi la loro influenza. Sigmund Freud sconvolse il mondo mostrando come l'aggressività e i desideri erotici inconsci si esprimano simbolicamente nei sogni e nel comportamento. Arthur Schnitzler rivelò la sessualità inconscia delle donne con l'innovativo ricorso al monologo interiore. Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka e Egon Schiele diedero vita a opere di grande evocatività che esprimevano il piacere, il desiderio, l'angoscia e la paura. "L'età dell'inconscio" aiuta a capire i meccanismi cerebrali che rendono possibile la creatività nell'arte e nella scienza, aprendo una nuova dimensione nella storia intellettuale.

Da Vienna a Parigi. Gli ultimi giri di valzer. La Grande Guerra, la Conferenza di pace e l'ordine mondiale. Storia di un’Europa sconfitta di Giuseppe Romeo

 

 

Sino alla Grande Guerra, gli uomini politici europei non si erano resi conto di come e in che misura fossero ormai sempre più fragili le condizioni di sicurezza sulle quali poggiavano gli equilibri continentali. Gli anni che dalla Conferenza di pace di Parigi avrebbero portato nuovamente l’Europa e il mondo sul baratro della guerra totale sarebbero stati l’ennesimo epilogo di una politica di potenza miope nei suoi limiti storici, economici e politici.

Non tutti i bastardi sono di Vienna di Andrea Molesini

 

 

Orgoglio, patriottismo, odio, amore: passioni pure e antiche si mescolano e si scontrano tra loro, intorbidate più che raffrenate dal senso, anch'esso antico, di reticenza e onore. Villa Spada, dimora signorile di un paesino a pochi chilometri dal Piave, nei giorni compresi tra il 9 novembre 1917 e il 30 ottobre 1918: siamo nell'area geografica e nell'arco temporale della disfatta di Caporetto e della conquista austriaca. Nella villa vivono i signori: il nonno Guglielmo Spada, un originale, e la nonna Nancy, colta e ardita; la zia Maria, che tiene in pugno l'andamento della casa; il giovane Paolo, diciassettenne, orfano, nel pieno dei furori dell'età; la giovane Giulia, procace e un po' folle, con la sua chioma fiammeggiante. E si muove in faccende la servitù: la cuoca Teresa, dura come legno di bosso e di saggezza stagionata; la figlia stolta Loretta, e il gigantesco custode Renato, da poco venuto alla villa. La storia, che il giovane Paolo racconta, inizia con l'insediamento nella grande casa del comando militare nemico. Un crudo episodio di violenza su fanciulle contadine e di dileggio del parroco del villaggio, accende il desiderio di rivalsa. Un conflitto in cui tutto si perde, una cospirazione patriottica in cui si insinua lo scontro di psicologie, reso degno o misero dall'impossibilità di perdonare, e di separare amore e odio, rispetto e vittoria.

Il Congresso di Vienna di Vittorio Criscuolo

 

 

Tra il settembre 1814 e il giugno 1815 si tenne a Vienna un grande congresso che ridisegnò l'assetto del continente europeo dopo la sconfitta di Napoleone. I lavori furono guidati dalle quattro potenze principali della coalizione antinapoleonica (Austria, Russia, Prussia e Gran Bretagna), ma ad essi presero parte anche i rappresentanti di tutti gli Stati coinvolti nel conflitto. Dopo aver ricostruito le premesse diplomatiche del congresso e il clima politico-culturale nel quale esso si svolse, il libro tratteggia i profili dei protagonisti ed espone i principali nodi politico-diplomatici affrontati in quella sede. L'atto finale del 9 giugno 1815 sancì una ridefinizione della carta dell'Europa che sarebbe durata fino alla prima guerra mondiale.

Vienna. Con cartina di Kerry Christiani, Catherine Le Nevez, e al.

 

 

"Edifici storici in stile barocco e palazzi imperiali, eleganti Kaffeehäuser illuminati da sontuosi lampadari e Beisin rivestiti di pannelli di legno: Vienna è profondamente radicata nella sua storia, ma è anche all'avanguardia nei settori del design, dell'architettura, dell'arte contemporanea e della ristorazione, nonché in tema di ecosostenibilità. Il passato di Vienna vive nel suo presente e nel suo futuro." Da non perdere: tutti i luoghi da vedere e i consigli degli esperti per rendere indimenticabile il viaggio. Vita in città: scoprite i segreti di Vienna con una guida alle zone più amate dagli abitanti. Il meglio di Vienna: intinerari a piedi, cibo, arte, architettura, shopping, panorami, vita notturna e altro. Cartina estraibile. Cartine di ogni zona. Itinerari a piedi. Giorno per giorno.

Six Weeks to Live: A Novel by Catherine McKenzie

 

 

INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

Named a Most Anticipated Book by Goodreads, Frolic, and more

A gripping psychological suspense novel about a woman diagnosed with cancer who sets out to discover if someone poisoned her before her time is up, from the bestselling author of the “addictive and fast-paced” (Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling author) thriller You Can’t Catch Me.

Jennifer Barnes never expected the shocking news she received at a routine doctor’s appointment: she has a terminal brain tumor—and only six weeks left to live.

While stunned by the diagnosis, the forty-eight-year-old mother decides to spend what little time she has left with her family—her adult triplets and twin grandsons—close by her side. But when she realizes she was possibly poisoned a year earlier, she’s determined to discover who might have tried to get rid of her before she’s gone for good.

Separated from her husband and with a contentious divorce in progress, Jennifer focuses her suspicions on her soon-to-be ex. Meanwhile, her daughters are each processing the news differently. Calm medical student Emily is there for whatever Jennifer needs. Moody scientist Aline, who keeps her mother at arm’s length, nonetheless agrees to help with the investigation. Even imprudent Miranda, who has recently had to move back home, is being unusually solicitous.

But with her daughters doubting her campaign against their father, Jennifer can’t help but wonder if the poisoning is all in her head—or if there’s someone else who wanted her dead.

 

 

Second Place: A Novel by Rachel Cusk

 

 

A haunting fable of art, family, and fate from the author of the Outline trilogy.

A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets in, his provocative presence itself becomes an enigma―and disrupts the calm of her secluded household.

Second Place, Rachel Cusk’s electrifying new novel, is a study of female fate and male privilege, the geometries of human relationships, and the moral questions that animate our lives. It reminds us of art’s capacity to uplift―and to destroy.

While Justice Sleeps: A Novel by Stacey Abrams

 

 

From celebrated national leader and bestselling author Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps is a gripping, complexly plotted thriller set within the halls of the U.S. Supreme Court.

"Brilliant and mesmerizing. Abrams follows in Dan Brown’s footprint with this masterfully plotted thriller that unfolds like the ultimate chess match—bold move to bolder move with lives hanging in the balance."—Lisa Gardner 
 
"Stacey Abrams is a true novelist, and While Justice Sleeps is a first-class legal thriller, favorably compared to many of the best, starting with The Pelican Brief, which it brings to mind. It’s fast-paced and full of surprises—a terrific read."—Scott Turow

Avery Keene, a brilliant young law clerk for the legendary Justice Howard Wynn, is doing her best to hold her life together—excelling in an arduous job with the court while also dealing with a troubled family. When the shocking news breaks that Justice Wynn—the cantankerous swing vote on many current high-profile cases—has slipped into a coma, Avery’s life turns upside down. She is immediately notified that Justice Wynn has left instructions for her to serve as his legal guardian and power of attorney. Plunged into an explosive role she never anticipated, Avery finds that Justice Wynn had been secretly researching one of the most controversial cases before the court—a proposed merger between an American biotech company and an Indian genetics firm, which promises to unleash breathtaking results in the medical field. She also discovers that Wynn suspected a dangerously related conspiracy that infiltrates the highest power corridors of Washington.
 
As political wrangling ensues in Washington to potentially replace the ailing judge whose life and survival Avery controls, she begins to unravel a carefully constructed, chesslike sequence of clues left behind by Wynn. She comes to see that Wynn had a much more personal stake in the controversial case and realizes his complex puzzle will lead her directly into harm’s way in order to find the truth. While Justice Sleeps is a cunningly crafted, sophisticated novel, layered with myriad twists and a vibrant cast of characters. Drawing on her astute inside knowledge of the court and political landscape, Stacey Abrams shows herself to be not only a force for good in politics and voter fairness but also a major new talent in suspense fiction.

Mary Jane: A Novel by Jessica Anya Blau

 

 

"I LOVED this novel....If you have ever sung along to a hit on the radio, in any decade, then you will devour Mary Jane at 45 rpm." —Nick Hornby

Almost Famous meets Daisy Jones & The Six in this funny, wise, and tender novel about a fourteen-year-old girl’s coming of age in 1970s Baltimore, caught between her straight-laced family and the progressive family she nannies for—who happen to be secretly hiding a famous rock star and his movie star wife for the summer.

In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her church choir, and enjoying her family’s subscription to the Broadway Showtunes of the Month record club. Shy, quiet, and bookish, she’s glad when she lands a summer job as a nanny for the daughter of a local doctor. A respectable job, Mary Jane’s mother says. In a respectable house.

The house may look respectable on the outside, but inside it’s a literal and figurative mess: clutter on every surface, Impeachment: Now More Than Ever bumper stickers on the doors, cereal and takeout for dinner. And even more troublesome (were Mary Jane’s mother to know, which she does not): the doctor is a psychiatrist who has cleared his summer for one important job—helping a famous rock star dry out. A week after Mary Jane starts, the rock star and his movie star wife move in.

Over the course of the summer, Mary Jane introduces her new household to crisply ironed clothes and a family dinner schedule, and has a front-row seat to a liberal world of sex, drugs, and rock and roll (not to mention group therapy). Caught between the lifestyle she’s always known and the future she’s only just realized is possible, Mary Jane will arrive at September with a new idea about what she wants out of life, and what kind of person she’s going to be.

 

Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller

 

 

Finalist for the Women's Prize for Fiction

Named a Best Book of the Month by Entertainment Weekly, PopSugar, Bustle, Chicago Review of Books, PureWow, and one of Good Housekeeping's 30 Best Books of 2021.

“So sharply, so utterly brilliant that I found myself holding my breath while reading, dazzled by Fuller’s mastery and precision.” ―Lauren Groff

At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home.

But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they’ve so carefully created begins to fall apart. The cottage they love, and the security it offered, is taken back by their landlord, exposing the twins to harsh truths and even harsher realities. Seeing a new future, Julius becomes torn between the loyalty he feels towards his sister and his desire for independence, while Jeanie struggles to find work and a home for them both. And just when it seems there might be a way forward, a series of startling secrets from their mother’s past come to the surface, forcing the twins to question who they are, and everything they know of their family’s history.

In Unsettled Ground, award-winning author Claire Fuller masterfully builds a tale of sacrifice and hope, of homelessness and hardship, of love and survival, in which two marginalized and remarkable people uncover long-held family secrets and, in their own way, repair, recover, and begin again.

 

Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz

 

 

From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known (adapted as "The Undoing" on HBO) comes another page-turning masterpiece, this time on college admissions—now a major motion picture starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd. 

"Admissions. Admission. Aren't there two sides to the word? And two opposing sides...It's what we let in, but it's also what we let out."

For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as a Princeton University admissions officer and her dependable domestic life. Her reluctance to confront the truth is suddenly overwhelmed by the resurfacing of a life-altering decision, and Portia is faced with an extraordinary test. Just as thousands of the nation's brightest students await her decision regarding their academic admission, so too must Portia decide whether to make her own ultimate admission.

Admission is at once a fascinating look at the complex college admissions process and an emotional examination of what happens when the secrets of the past return and shake a woman's life to its core.

Local Woman Missing: A Novel by Mary Kubica

 

 

"Dark and twisty, with white-knuckle tension and jaw-dropping surprises." —Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Home Before Dark

In this smart and chilling thriller, master of suspense Mary Kubica takes domestic secrets to a whole new level, showing that some people will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried.

People don't just disappear without a trace…

Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold.

Now, eleven years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they'll find…

Look for these other riveting thrillers by Mary Kubica:
The Good Girl
Pretty Baby
Don't You Cry
Every Last Lie
When the Lights Go Out
The Other Mrs.

Spariamo ai mandanti di Nunzio Festa (I Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni per Amazon di Stefano Donno)

“Il titolo ha sapore di vendetta. O di giustizia. Di una sentenza pronunciata tra pene e colpe da espiare. Intanto si leggono i versi di Nunzio Festa, “Spariamo ai mandanti” e nel mentre, le parole in canna danzano a ritmi vorticosi. Ritmati.” (dalla prefazione di Alessandra Peluso)

“Un’antologia di versi realistica e visionaria allo stesso tempo, nella quale il poeta con la sua anima intatta racconta, denuncia, illumina la conflittualità dei rapporti umani della nostra civiltà. Nunzio Festa vive non di emozioni ma di sentimenti.” (da una nota di Giovanna Giolla)

“Spariamo ai mandanti” è, già di per sé, titolo che avverte del proposito di raschiare a condanna il mercato dell’involuzione per così rendere all’uomo una salvifica sua impronta solitaria di modo che sappia dissetarsi nella tenerezza che resiste quale aria nutriente al contrattacco dell’inedia. (da una nota di Daìta Martinez)

Nunzio Festa è nato a Matera e vive a Pomarico. Collaboratore giornalistico del Quotidiano del Sud e altri spazi cartacei e telematici – tra i quali Book and other surrows di Francesca Mazzucato; ha collaborato con, fra le altre cose, Liberazione, Il Resto, L’Altra Voce, Mondo Basilicata, Appennino, Focus-in; poeta, narratore e consulente editoriale, già editore e direttore di collane editoriali, editor (fra le altre della casa editrice materana Altrimedia Edizioni.). Per I Quaderni del Bardo ha pubblicato anche “Matera dei margini. Capitale Europea della Cultura 2019” e “Lucania senza santi. Poesia e narrativa dalla Basilicata”, oltre a diversi e-book su Scotellaro, Infantino sulle origini lucane di Lucio Antonio Vivaldi. Ha dato alle stampe per Historica Edizioni “Matera. Vite scavate nella roccia” e “Matera Capitale. Vite scavate nella roccia”; come il saggio pubblicato prima per Malatempora e poi per Terra d’Ulivi “Basilicata. Lucania: terra dei boschi bruciati. Guida critica.”. Più i romanzi brevi, per esempio, “Farina di sole” (Senzapatria) e “Frutta, verdura e anime bollite” (Besa). Tra le altre cose, la poesia per Altrimedia Edizioni del libro “Quello che non vedo” e il saggio breve “Dalla terra di Pomarico alla Rivoluzione. Vita di Niccola Fiorentino”.

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La spira di Mauro Ferrari (puntoacapo)

Jüri Talvet Dante terzine from the world

Arte y Ciencia (Arte e Scienza) a cura di Stefano Magnolo e Ana Galán Pérez

Orrore a Helsinki: thriller finlandese di Marialuisa Moro

 

 

Una Helsinki prenatalizia, imbiancata di neve e sfavillante di luminarie, risonante di canti e festeggiamenti per la celebrazione di Santa Lucia, il simbolo della luce.Nella città del Natale comincia l’orrore.L’assassino colpisce dovunque, anche durante la processione.Le sue vittime hanno precise caratteristiche fisiche e vengono uccise sempre con lo stesso osceno e umiliante rituale.Dove condurranno le indagini del commissario Laine e del suo aiutante Kalle?

La distanza da Helsinki di Raffaella Silvestri

 

 

 

Quando si diventa davvero grandi? Quanto coraggio ci vuole per fare il grande passo e uscire dall'adolescenza una volta per tutte? Viola e Kimi hanno sedici anni, e non lo sanno ancora. Lei è italiana, lui finlandese. Lei socievole e intraprendente, lui con gli occhi fissi sul libro che sta leggendo, come se il mondo intorno non ci fosse. Entrambi hanno un segreto che li rende molto diversi dagli altri. Viola ha perso la madre, Kimi è affetto da una indefinibile forma di autismo. Lei non vuole, o meglio, non vorrebbe che quello che le è successo condizionasse la sua vita, lui percepisce la realtà soltanto attraverso le note di un pianoforte. Si incontrano a un corso d'inglese a Londra, e da quel momento, ogni anno, a luglio, si incontreranno attraverso l'Europa, mentre la vita scorre loro accanto. Fino a quando, sedici anni dopo il primo incontro, entrambi riceveranno un invito che li porterà a prendere un'altra decisione, che cambierà per sempre le loro vite. Un romanzo sulla necessità e la voglia di crescere. Un romanzo sulle occasioni che la vita ci offre, e non sempre riusciamo a cogliere, ma anche un richiamo all'autenticità, all'intensità che i protagonisti devono affrontare. E soprattutto, un romanzo sul coraggio e sulle prove che bisogna superare per poter dire di essere veramente vivi.

Helsinki. Con mappa Helsinki. Con mappa di Ulrich Quack, Judith Rixen

 

 

115 highlight da non perdere sono contrassegnati nella guida e nella mappa con un segnaposto numerato. Per una pianificazione ottimale e per avere le informazioni più attuali. Consigli utili a 360 gradi, orari di apertura e prezzi verificati sul posto. Impossibile perdersi: con le numerose piante della città e le coordinate per la mappa allegata al volume.

Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll

 

 

New York Times Bestseller

The final volume of the magisterial Pacific War Trilogy from acclaimed historian Ian W. Toll, “one of the great storytellers of War” (Evan Thomas).

In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Islands and the accompanying ruin of Japanese carrier airpower marked a pivotal moment in the Pacific War. No tactical masterstroke or blunder could reverse the increasingly lopsided balance of power between the two combatants. The War in the Pacific had entered its endgame.

Beginning with the Honolulu Conference, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt met with his Pacific theater commanders to plan the last phase of the campaign against Japan, Twilight of the Gods brings to life the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the U.S. Navy won the largest naval battle in history; Douglas MacArthur made good his pledge to return to the Philippines; waves of kamikazes attacked the Allied fleets; the Japanese fought to the last man on one island after another; B-29 bombers burned down Japanese cities; and Hiroshima and Nagasaki were vaporized in atomic blasts.

Ian W. Toll’s narratives of combat in the air, at sea, and on the beaches are as gripping as ever, but he also reconstructs the Japanese and American home fronts and takes the reader into the halls of power in Washington and Tokyo, where the great questions of strategy and diplomacy were decided.

Drawing from a wealth of rich archival sources and new material, Twilight of the Gods casts a penetrating light on the battles, grand strategic decisions and naval logistics that enabled the Allied victory in the Pacific. An authoritative and riveting account of the final phase of the War in the Pacific, Twilight of the Gods brings Toll’s masterful trilogy to a thrilling conclusion. This prize-winning and best-selling trilogy will stand as the first complete history of the Pacific War in more than twenty-five years, and the first multivolume history of the Pacific naval war since Samuel Eliot Morison’s series was published in the 1950s.

32 photographs; 20 maps

 

The Once and Future King by T.H. White

 

 

T. H. White’s masterful retelling of the saga of King Arthur is a fantasy classic as legendary as Excalibur and Camelot, and a poignant story of adventure, romance, and magic that has enchanted readers for generations.
 
Once upon a time, a young boy called “Wart” was tutored by a magician named Merlyn in preparation for a future he couldn’t possibly imagine. A future in which he would ally himself with the greatest knights, love a legendary queen and unite a country dedicated to chivalrous values. A future that would see him crowned and known for all time as Arthur, King of the Britons.
 
During Arthur’s reign, the kingdom of Camelot was founded to cast enlightenment on the Dark Ages, while the knights of the Round Table embarked on many a noble quest. But Merlyn foresaw the treachery that awaited his liege: the forbidden love between Queen Guenever and Lancelot, the wicked plots of Arthur’s half-sister Morgause and the hatred she fostered in Mordred that would bring an end to the king’s dreams for Britain—and to the king himself.

“[The Once and Future King] mingles wisdom, wonderful, laugh-out-loud humor and deep sorrow—while telling one of the great tales of the Western world.”—Guy Gavriel Kay

 

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

 

 

The New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon
 
Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
 
"A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."—The Washington Post 

The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book.
 
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?

In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.