Carol - Libros y biografía

The residents of Crescent Falls, Ohio are ready to celebrate the Christmas holiday. The beautiful falls on the outskirts of town are resplendent with multi-colored lights and other displays that attract...

Travel the Sahara Desert on an expedition from Timbuktu to the Atlantic Ocean over a trackless, roadless, 2000 mile caravan route, not used in more than 100 years. Meet the many different tribes that...

Ammazzate. In questi sei racconti neri di Joyce Carol Oates le bambole vengono barbaramente uccise: sono animate ma condannate a tornare mute e immobili, in fila nei loro lettini di paglia, gli occhi...

4 luglio, metà anni ’90. Grayling Island, Maine. Una Toyota nera corre a tutta velocità. È notte e gli alberi riducono la visibilità. Al volante un senatore degli Stati Uniti, uomo grande e rassicurante,...

Un colpo di pistola nella notte, Bernie Malin è un uomo morto. Loretta, la giovane amante che giaceva di nascosto con lui, fugge, portando in grembo Jules, il figlio illecito di quel tragico rapporto....

Campi di segale sotto il sole abbacinante dell’Arkansas. Le mani strappano i frutti dalla terra, la terra prude e si mangia le mani. I braccianti arrancano nel meriggio insieme ai cavalli e il sogno americano...

"Buio in sala, va in scena la tragedia. Anche dopo la morte degli dèi, abbiamo continuato a rappresentare sul palco le debolezze, le ossessioni e le paure del genere umano. Che si trattasse di gloriosi...

Una Cadillac gialla si accosta al marciapiede di Labyrinth Drive. È una mattina di gennaio: c’è neve sulla strada e sull’erba. L’aria è fragrante, crepita come una lastra di ghiaccio sotto la pressione...

Quentin P_ è un enigma per i suoi genitori, anche se non credono affatto all’accusa di molestie sessuali mossa da un minore nei suoi confronti. Quentin P_ è un enigma per il suo psichiatra, che comunque...

Andrew J. Rush è il prototipo dell’americano perbene. È un figlio coscienzioso, un marito devoto, un padre premuroso, e vive con la sua famiglia in una pittoresca cittadina del New Jersey. Andrew J. Rush...

Il piccolo Jesse apre la porta di casa. Alle sue spalle, il padre apre il bagagliaio dell’auto da cui sono scesi: forse c’è un regalo dentro, pensa Jesse, forse un albero di Natale. Apre la porta e un...

Night Demons. A nightmarish journey of thirteen insomnia-inducing tales that will surely produce fear in your heart and ultimately fear of slumber as my stories pursue you in the night. A final word of...

Over half of the total LGB population identifies as bisexual, less than a third as gay and less than a fifth as lesbian. Proportionally, it would not be unreasonable to rearrange the letters in LGBT to...

Ogni scrittore è un creatore di trame, eventi, personaggi. Ma esistono artisti la cui visione si estende oltre il mondo materiale e cerca di penetrare le verità celate che muovono gli esseri umani, il...

This unconventional love story will soothe your heart but make you wonder whether true love can conquer all.  Delvina Jones is a young African-American woman who has a pretty face and a beautiful soul....

Scritto con un linguaggio semplice ed evocativo, la Guida all’I Ching introduce appassionati e praticanti di medicina tradizionale cinese al Libro dei Mutamenti, proponendolo non solo nella sua veste...

Chris Creed grew up as the class freak—the bullies’ punching bag. After he vanished, the weirdness that had once surrounded him began spreading. And it tore the town apart. Sixteen-year-old Torey Adams’s...

Once a pervert, always a pervert! thought Taylor Johnson about her married boss. Taylor is a lonely 33 years old black woman with a checkered past. She works as a secretary for a family-owned architectural...

Eight-year-old David and his five-year-old sister Rachel are abducted by two small-time ex-convicts. Rachel escapes unhurt but in a state of shock  and cannot speak or react to the situation in a normal...

Few people realise that Faith Faber, seemingly an accomplished doctor is really a shy and insecure person. Her lack of confidence is not helped by the fact that she lives with her critical and overbearing...

No matter how good a doctor you are, it is so hard to look after someone you are emotionally attached to. For a start, you don’t want them to be seriously ill and common sense flies out of the window.Ellie...

Long distance relationships rarely work and when Ed Diamond's girlfriend moves away, expecting him to follow her, he realises it is time to call it a day. He throws himself into work and before he knows...

John Britton, senior partner is fed up. Work seems to be nothing but stress and continual change, most of which he disapproves of. Plus he has his own health worries to come to terms with.Joan, the head...

Clare Jennings is a popular, hardworking general practitioner. A perfectionist, she puts her patients and work above all else, including her psychiatrist husband, David.The arrival of Sam Curtis, a young...

With a busy life as a family doctor and the worry of elderly parents, Grace Dunstable feels that she is well overdue some good fortune. Her wish seems to be granted in the form of Gideon, a new consultant,...

Enchanted tattoos, slashed tires, and first kisses . . .Peek inside The Curio Cabinet for an assortment of 150 stories, each about fifty words long.Explore all four shelves:In Other WorldsMind-bending...

Sowohl das Bundesgesetz über die direkte Bundessteuer (DBG) wie auch das Bundesgesetz über die Harmonisierung der direkten Steuern der Kantone und Gemeinden (StHG) sehen für erwerbslose ausländische Staatsangehörige...

Both the Federal Act on Direct Federal Taxation (DBG) as well as the Federal Act on the Harmonisation of Income Taxes of the Cantons and Communities (StHG) allow non-working foreign citizens with Swiss...

FORGOTTEN PAST After her broken engagement, Nicki Jackson hoped her move to Cedar Key would give her a fresh start—instead she quickly learns someone’s out to destroy her. Are the attacks tied...

FRAME-UP Someone has framed Darci Tucker for embezzlement—and she's pretty sure it's her boss. The real criminal will do anything to make sure she doesn't talk, from breaking into her home to...