19 Results to Category: CLUBS DE LECTURA

  • IN MEMORIAM
    WINN, ALICE
    WINNER OF WATERSTONES NOVEL OF THE YEAR- A gripping, heart-shattering love story between two soldiers in the First World WarIt's 1914, and talk of war feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in an idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. At seventeen, they're too young to enlist, and anyway, Gaunt is fighting h...
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  • BROTHER. DO. YOU. LOVE. ME.
    MANNI AND REUBEN COE
    WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH SHORTLISTED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDSReuben, aged 38, was living in a home for adults with learning disabilities and struggling to accept that he had Down's syndrome. Depressed and in a fog of anti-depressants, he hadn't spoken for over a year. Increasingly isolated, cut off from everyone and everything he loved, R...
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  • A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
    WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE
    ¡Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eventually their violent collision course causes Blanche's fragile sense of id...
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  • BELOVED
    MORRISON, TONI
    Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature. 'An American masterpiece' AS ByattIt is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead bab...
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  • CINQ SEMAINES EN BALLON
    VERNE, JULES
    Tenter de traverser l'Afrique d'est en ouest par la voie des airs, prétendre survoler dans sa plus grande largeur le dangereux continent noir à bord d'une fragile nacelle livrée à tous les caprices des vents, c'était, au temps de Jules Verne, une entreprise d'une audace incroyable. Comme on peut s'y attendre, les cinq semaines qu'il faudra au docteur Fergusson et à ses deux com...
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  • LES MAINS DU MIRACLE
    KESSEL, JOSEPH
    A la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Felix Kersten est spécialisé dans les massages thérapeutiques. Parmi sa clientèle huppée figurent les grands d'Europe. Pris entre les principes qui constituent les fondements de sa profession et se convictions, le docteur Kersten consent à examiner Himmler, le puissant chef de la Gestapo. Affligé d'intolérables douleurs d'estomac, celu...
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  • LES YEUX FERMES
    MARTIN, HELOISE / MAGONTIER, BAPTISTE
    À l'occasion de leur anniversaire de mariage, Émilie retrouve ses grands-parents dans leur grande maison de montagne. Toute la famille a prévu de s'y retrouver. Grandes tablées, baignades en rivière, jeux de société, ce week-end s'annonce parfait.Mais l'un des participants va troubler Émilie. Ses souvenirs d'enfance et des agressions sexuelles qu'elle a subies vont remonter à l...
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  • FRANCIA
    HUSTON, NANCY
    Francia est l'une des Latinas du bois de Boulogne, une femme transgenre d'une grande bonté dans cette faune où l'amour s'achète, où la bonté surprend, où la violence rôde et parfois tue.Ce roman se déploie le temps d'une journée de travail. Entre deux clients, se dessinent ses moments d'intimité au téléphone avec sa famille, ses amies, avec ses collègues au fond d'un camion de ...
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  • EUGENIE GRANDET
    BALZAC
    Grandet est le prince des avares : il jouit en secret de son or tandis qu'il tyrannise sa famille en l'entretenant dans la pauvreté. Mais c'est aussi un héros de la finance, un spéculateur moderne. Seul point faible dans ce caractère de bronze : l'amour pour sa fille. Amoureuse de son cousin Charles, jeune élégant ambitieux, Eugénie est prise entre passion et amour paternel, dé...
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  • CHER CONNARD
    DESPENTES, VIRGINE
    « J'ai lu ce que tu as publié sur ton compte Insta. Tu es comme un pigeon qui m'aurait chié sur l'épaule en passant. C'est salissant, et très désagréable. Ouin ouin ouin je suis une petite baltringue qui n'intéresse personne et je couine comme un chihuahua parce que je rêve qu'on me remarque. Gloire aux réseaux sociaux : tu l'as eu, ton quart d'heure de gloire. La preuve, je t'...
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  • ACCABADORA
    MURGIA, MICHELA
    Perché Maria sia finita a vivere in casa di Bonaria Urrai, è un mistero che a Soreni si fa fatica a comprendere. La vecchia e la bambina camminano per le strade del paese seguite da uno strascico di commenti malevoli, eppure è così semplice: Tzia Bonaria ha preso Maria con sé, la farà crescere e ne farà la sua erede, chiedendole in cambio la presenza e la cura per quando sarà l...
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  • SE QUESTO E UN UOMO
    LEVI, PRIMO
    Primo Levi, reduce da Auschwitz, pubblicò "Se questo è un uomo" nel 1947. Einaudi lo accolse nel 1958 nei "Saggi" e da allora viene continuamente ristampato ed è stato tradotto in tutto il mondo. Testimonianza sconvolgente sull'inferno dei Lager, libro della dignità e dell'abiezione dell'uomo di fronte allo sterminio di massa, "Se questo è un uomo" è un capolavoro letterario di...
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  • BLANCA
    RINALDI, PATRIZIA
    In commissariato arriva Blanca, poliziotta ipovedente esperta di decodificazione. Un personaggio originale e commovente che porta aria di nuovo nel mondo del giallo.«Un giallo caratterizzato da una rimarchevole consapevolezza stilistica» – Francesco Durante, Corriere del MezzogiornoIl commissariato di Pozzuoli è fermo nel caldo estivo e nella mancanza di casi rilevanti. Il comm...
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  • MIO FRATELLO RINCORRE I DINOSAURI. STORIA MIA E DI GIOVANNI CHE HA UN CROMOSOMA IN PIÙ
    MAZZARIOL, GIACOMO
    Vi presento mio fratello. Va male a scuola, ama i dinosauri e mi ha cambiato la vita«Senza retorica, senza fingere che sia tutto meraviglioso e facile, un ragazzo spiega al mondo che cos'è la differenza.» – Annalena Benini, Grazia«Una narrazione coraggiosa e autentica.» – Sette, Corriere della Sera«Con magistrale leggerezza, Giacomo Mazzariol ironizza sull'incomunicabilità tra ...
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  • THE SECRET GARDEN
    BURNETT, FRANCES HODGSON
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  • MY BROTHER'S NAME IS JESSICA
    BOYNE, JOHN
    '...this poignant and disarming story is full of heart and its crescendo will give you tingles' Attitude Magazine 'Outstanding' Irish ExaminerSam has known his sister Jessica all his life. Tonight is the first time they're going to meet. Sam Waver has always been a loner: bullied, struggling at school, with parents who have very little time for him.The one person he has always ...
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  • THE WAVE
    MORTON, RHUE
    The Wave is based on a nightmarish true episode in a Californian high school, when a teacher wanted to demonstrate the dangers of propoganda and group-think. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first.Laurie isn't sure what to make of 'The Wave'. It had begun as a simple history experiment to liven up their World War II studies and had become a craze tha...
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  • THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET
    CISNEROS, SANDRA
    The bestselling coming-of-age classic, acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world from the winner of the 2018 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventi...
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  • SOLITO
    ZAMORA, JAVIER
    A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR'Solito is my travel book of the year.' Telegraph'Heartbreaking… A rare, eye-opening rendition of the brutal reality of border-crossing.' Lea Ypi‘If there’s any justice, Solito will someday be considered a classic.’ Rumaan AlamYoung Javier dreams of eating orange sherbet ice cream with his parents in the United States. For this to happen, he must emb...
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