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Cathy Min Jung et David Macaluso s'accordent à merveille pour nouer les fils d'un échange improbable où chacun va peu à peu risquer ses plus profondes vérités.

Tout commence par les lettres que s'envoient deux femmes très différentes : Sara Lindqvist, jeune libraire suédoise introvertie que ne vit que pour les livres, et Amy Harris, soixante-cinq ans, vieille dame cultivée et solitaire, de Broken Wheel, dans l'Iowa. Après deux ans d'échanges et de conseils à la fois sur la littérature et sur la vie, Sara décide de rendre visite à Amy. Mais, quand elle arrive là-bas, elle apprend avec stupeur qu'Amy est morte. Elle se retrouve seule et perdue dans cette étrange petite ville.

Octave Mirbeau n'est pas seulement un grand écrivain estampillé. C'est aussi un inquiéteur, un empêcheur de penser en rond, un infréquentable, un inclassable et un libertaire politiquement et littérairement incorrect. Dans le "Journal d'une femme de chambre", il donne la parole à une chambrière, ce qui est déjà subversif en soi, car un domestique, et plus encore une domestique femme, n'est pas supposé penser par lui-même, ni, a fortiori, tenir un journal et écrire comme Mirbeau.

Adrian Mole is 39 and a quarter. Due to his financial situation he has been forced to move next door to his parents. And his numerous nightly visits to the lavatory lead him to suspect prostate trouble. As his worries multiply, a phone call to his old flame ignites powerful memories and makes him wonder - is she the only one who can save him now?

Adrian Mole is 34 and three quarters, almost officially middle-aged, when Mr. Blair tells Parliament that Weapons of Mass Destruction can be deployed in 45 minutes and can reach Cyprus. Adrian is worried that he might not get a refund on his holiday. But that's not all that is bothering him. There's his odd girlfriend Marigold who has become distressingly New Age. And his son Glenn who is in Deepcut Barracks. Would Mr. Blair have been quite so keen if it had been his son manning a roadblock?

Expecting to be inducted into the army during World War II, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Written in diary format, Bellow’s first novel documents Joseph’s psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him and his uneasy insights into the nature of freedom and choice.

Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946) hat die Erzählung "Siri" in den Jahren 1938/1939 geschrieben. Hierbei handelt es sich um Tagebucheintragungen eines Humanisten, der an der Universität arbeitet. Immer wieder berichtet er über die schöne Schauspielerin "Siri", in die er sich verliebt hat. Da er aber gebunden ist und Kinder hat, darf er diese Liebe nicht leben. Regie: Karlheinz Schilling.

As England enters World War II's dark early days, spirited music professor Primrose Trent, recently arrived to the village of Chilbury, emboldens the women of the town to defy the Vicar's stuffy edict to shutter the church's choir in the absence of men and instead carry on singing. Resurrecting themselves as The Chilbury Ladies' Choir, the women of this small village soon use their joint song to lift up themselves and the community as the war tears through their lives.

Eva never really wanted to be a mother - and certainly not the mother of a boy who ends up murdering seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher who tried to befriend him, all two days before his 16th birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin’s horrific rampage, in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her estranged husband, Franklin.

Kevin Khatchadourian killed several of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a teacher, shortly before his 16th birthday. He is visited in prison by his mother, Eva, who narrates in a series of letters to her estranged husband, Franklin, the story of Kevin's upbringing. A successsful career woman, Eva is reluctant to forgo her independence and the life she shares with Franklin to become a mother.

Paris, sous le Second Empire. Napoléon III confie au baron Haussmann la mission d'"assainir" la capitale en la quadrillant d'avenues et de boulevards - ce qu'il fait avec un zèle qui lui vaut le surnom d'Attila. Des quartiers entiers sont anéantis. Rue Childebert, Rose Bazelet mène une vie paisible. Jusqu'au jour où elle reçoit la lettre fatidique : sa maison doit à son tour être démolie. Mais Rose a fait à son mari disparu le serment de ne jamais quitter ce qui fut leur foyer : contre tous, elle va se battre pour sauver la demeure familiale, qui renferme un secret jalousement gardé.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson, read by Helen Lloyd and Lars Knudsen. When Tina Hopgood writes a letter of regret to a man she has never met, she doesn’t expect a reply. When Anders Larsen, a lonely museum curator, answers it, nor does he. They’re both searching for something, they just don’t know it yet. Anders has lost his wife, along with his hopes and dreams for the future. Tina is trapped in a marriage she doesn’t remember choosing.

Professional money manager Jim Peters believes his family's well-being and his dreams are in jeopardy, as he is being pushed out of his job by unscrupulous competition and younger tech-savvy workers. On the brink of making costly decisions, Jim is sensing that he's losing his grip on everything that is important to him, including his legacy. Jim, however, is about to discover an old way of living that will create a new way of thinking, and it will come from a most unusual place.

"Le relazioni pericolose", pubblicato la prima volta nel 1782, è uno dei capolavori della letteratura francese del diciottesimo secolo. Accolto all'epoca da uno straordinario successo di pubblico e da un uguale scandalo, questo romanzo epistolare svela, attraverso le 175 lettere che lo compongono, i crudeli piani di seduzione e di vendetta orditi dai due nobili e astuti protagonisti - il visconte di Valmont e la marchesa di Merteuil - ai danni della giovane Cécile e della devota Madame de Tourvel.

Irene deve affrontare l'assenza dell'uomo che ama, Vittorio, scomparso in circostanze poco chiare. Alla vigilia di un viaggio in India insieme, Vittorio non si presenta e Irene, pensando semplicemente di essere stata lasciata, parte ugualmente. Sola. Al rientro in Italia, convinta che si celi un terribile mistero dietro la scomparsa di Vittorio, Irene cerca disperatamente spiegazioni e in un crescendo di situazioni che si intrecciano e confondono, trova la verità scomoda, spietata e incontrovertibile.

Il primo romanzo di Giovanni Verga, uno dei capolavori della letteratura Italiana. Lo scrittore siciliano, dominando alla perfezione la formula del romanzo epistolare, trasporta il lettore lungo la travagliata vita di Maria, una giovane donna destinata alla reclusione in un convento di clausura. Ma così come il corpo può essere recluso, l'animo, lo spirito e le passioni, sfuggono a qualsiasi costrizione, per rivendicare con incredibile potenza il valore più profondo della libertà.

Il racconto - che fa parte della raccolta 'Arabeschi' e 'Racconti di Pietroburgo' - scritto in prima persona nella forma di un diario, narra la progressiva discesa nella follia del burocrate Aksentij Ivanovic. Attratto dalla bella figlia del suo direttore, e volendo sapere qualcosa di più sul conto di lei, Aksentij Ivanovic sottrae le lettere che sarebbero state scritte dalla cagnolina Maggie, nelle quali egli crede di leggere tutto il disinteresse della ragazza verso di lui.

"Stabat Mater" (Premio Strega 2009) è un romanzo profondamente intimista e introspettivo, ambientato nella più ampia cornice storica della Venezia dei primi del '700... 

Da questo "classico" di grande bellezza, letto magistralmente dall' attore Luigi Marangoni, i giovani possono imparare ancora molto sul sentimento amoroso e sull'atteggiamento verso la Natura...

"Farfalle sullo stomaco" è delicato come una farfalla, una testimonianza spietata eppure affettuosa sui disturbi del comportamento alimentare. La storia intima, segreta, di una donna troppo sensibile, ossessionata dal controllo e dal bisogno di piacere. Una donna che perde se stessa e poi si ritrova, in un volo leggero. In questa versione audioBook, Rossella Calabrò interpreta Irene. Con dolcezza, discrezione, e la leggerezza di una farfalla.