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Carla Palmieri

    The Diary of a Bookseller
    Loving Frank
    Stile Libero Big: Un anno dopo
    Still Life
    The Night Swim
    Invisible Women
    • Still Life

      • 352bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      A cloth bag containing eight paperback copies of the title, that may also include a folder with sign out sheets.

      Still Life2022
      3,9
    • In this new thriller from the author of The Escape Room, a podcast host covering a controversial trial in a small town becomes obsessed with a brutal crime that took place there years before.

      The Night Swim2021
      3,9
    • Invisible Women

      Exposing data bias in a world designed for men

      • 432bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, and the media, Invisible women reveals how in a world built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half of the population, often with disastrous consequences. Caroline Criado Perez brings together for the first time an impressive range of case studies, stories and new research from across the world that illustrate the hidden ways in which women are forgotten, and the profound impact this has on us all.

      Invisible Women2020
      4,4
    • The Diary of a Bookseller

      • 316bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      Love, Nina meets Black Books: a wry and hilarious account of life in Scotland's biggest second-hand bookshop and the band of eccentrics and book-obsessives who work there 'The Diary Of A Bookseller is warm (unlike Bythell's freezing-cold shop) and funny, and deserves to become one of those bestsellers that irritate him so much.' (Mail on Sunday) 'Utterly compelling and Bythell has a Bennett-like eye for the amusing eccentricities of ordinary people ... I urge you to buy this book and please, even at the risk of being insulted or moaned at, buy it from a real live bookseller.' (Charlotte Heathcote Sunday Express)Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff, who include the ski-suit-wearing, bin-foraging Nicky. He takes us with him on buying trips to old estates and auction houses, recommends books (both lost classics and new discoveries), introduces us to the thrill of the unexpected find, and evokes the rhythms and charms of small-town life, always with a sharp and sympathetic eye.

      The Diary of a Bookseller2019
      3,8
    • The Widow

      • 416bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen

      THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 'If you liked GONE GIRL and THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, you might want to pick up THE WIDOW by Fiona Barton. Engrossing. Suspenseful' Stephen King We've all seen him: the man - the monster - staring from the front page of every newspaper, accused of a terrible crime. But what about her: the woman who grips his arm on the courtroom stairs - the wife who stands by him? Jean Taylor's life was blissfully ordinary. Nice house, nice husband. Glen was all she'd ever wanted: her Prince Charming. Until he became that man accused, that monster on the front page. Jean was married to a man everyone thought capable of unimaginable evil. But now Glen is dead and she's alone for the first time, free to tell her story on her own terms. Jean Taylor is going to tell us what she knows. Du Maurier's REBECCA meets WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN and GONE GIRL in this intimate tale of a terrible crime. 'The ultimate psychological thriller' Lisa Gardner

      The Widow2016
      3,5
    • Stile Libero Big: Un anno dopo

      • 256bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      È l'alba dell'11 settembre. Un giovane è uscito a correre nella luce ancora incerta del giorno. Incontra ragazzi sui pattini, in bici, madri con i passeggini. Avanza a falcate leggere prima che la sua vita, che sembrava ancora affacciata su un lungo futuro, finisca in un istante, nella polvere delle Torri. Toccherà a sua sorella colmare quella perdita e ricostruire il puzzle di una vita inghiottita in un baleno. A partire dal bimbo che il fratello forse ha avuto da una ragazza sconosciuta. E da quello che il vecchio padre, finalmente, ha deciso di rivelare... Una ricerca nei legami familiari che dura un anno. Un anno per trovare nella catena di promesse che non potranno più realizzarsi un disegno che dia un senso a ciò che un senso non ha.

      Stile Libero Big: Un anno dopo2011
      3,0
    • Union Atlantic

      • 320bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      The eagerly anticipated debut novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not a Stranger Here: a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age, the first decade of the twenty-first century.At the heart of Union Atlantic lies a test of wills between a young banker, Doug Fanning, and a retired schoolteacher, Charlotte Graves, whose two dogs have begun to speak to her. When Doug builds an ostentatious mansion on land that Charlotte's grandfather donated to the town of Finden, Massachusetts, she determines to oust him in court. As a senior manager of Union Atlantic bank, a major financial conglomerate, Doug is embroiled in the company's struggle to remain afloat. It is Charlotte's brother, Henry Graves, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, who must keep a watchful eye on Union Atlantic and the entire financial system. Drawn into Doug and Charlotte's intensifying conflict is Nate Fuller, a troubled high-school senior who unwittingly stirs powerful emotions in each of them. Irresistibly complex, imaginative, and witty, Union Atlantic is a singular work of fiction that is sure to be read and reread long after it causes a sensation this spring.

      Union Atlantic2010
      3,5
    • Fact and fiction blend in a historical novel that chronicles the relationship between seminal architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney, from their meeting, when they were each married to another, to the clandestine affair that shocked Chicago society.

      Loving Frank2007
      3,8