Weight in Gold - formato ePub

La famiglia Bertaro non è mai stata molto unita. La madre Franca, detta Frankie, è un’eccentrica artista che vive da sola nel borgo di Trivio, presso Formia. I suoi figli, i gemelli Filippo e Luca, sembrano...

Nel 1928, il generale Umberto Nobile decide di imbarcarsi in un’impresa titanica: la trasvolata del Polo Nord a bordo del suo dirigibile Italia. Ma qualcosa va storto: il velivolo precipita tra i ghiacci...

Primo ha avuto una vita difficile: la morte di parto di sua moglie, seguita a pochi giorni di distanza da quella del neonato, Stefano, ha lasciato in lui un vuoto che nemmeno la figlia di quattro anni...

Diverse storie amorose sono concatenate l’una all’altra, in una struttura a chiocciola che ricorda il Gioco dell’Oca. Il primo amante diviene l’amante del secondo, il secondo del terzo, il terzo del quarto...

Un medico è colto da malore alle cinque del mattino del primo novembre 2017. Una volta riconosciuta la causa, un esteso infarto al cuore, inizia il suo ricovero in ospedale, dove avrà modo di sperimentare...

Michele Vischio, uno strano fioraio che attira su di sé pettegolezzi di ogni genere, muore in un incidente stradale senza testimoni. Marzia, la sua giovane vicina di casa, grazie all’aiuto di un attraente...

Le cose narrate in questo piccolo racconto potrebbero essere vere. I profeti potrebbero davvero essere ancora tra noi, celati e prudenti. L’intervistatrice potrebbe essere una donna reale, e le parole...

Emanuele incontra Lisa per la prima volta all’università e si innamora subito di lei, la ragazza però non ricambia i suoi sentimenti. Per non perderla del tutto, Emanuele decide di reprimere il proprio...

In questa raccolta vi sono racconti mistici e altri di tipo erotico. Vi sono testi teatrali messi in scena in varie occasioni, soprattutto durante eventi di beneficenza. E poi ci sono tante poesie. Tante...

All’interno di un parco si trova un gazebo. Ogni giorno, una donna si siede alla sua ombra con un libro. Diana è all’ultimo mese di gravidanza; suo marito è appena morto in un incidente stradale e tutto...

Io credo che se la democrazia è morta non è per colpa dei partiti, dei cittadini indifferenti, delle costituzioni imperfette, dei corrotti o delle lobbies. Io credo che la democrazia è morta perché non...

"È poesia virile, quella di Pino De Renzi, densa di sensi, di sensibilità, di significanti e di significati. Densa di memoria, densa di speranza e densa di drammaticità perché vissuta sul fronte della...

“At Thirteen thousand meters altitude above the Indian Ocean, it even came to mind to ask instinctively: Now who the fuck will keep this transatlantic airborne?” It’s ironic that this question is posed...

La “lettura”, o commedia, se si preferisce, dato che vanta numerose rappresentazioni a teatro, è dedicata ai giocatori di scacchi ma non solo. Pino De Renzi riesce infatti a generalizzare situazioni specifiche...

La passione per il giuoco degli scacchi e l’esperienza maturata nell’ambito sanitario dei nostri autori hanno contribuito alla stesura di questa storia straordinaria ed avvincente. Quante volte giudichiamo...

Realitas è un esperimento costruito a quattro mani. Tre di una donna e una di un uomo. Quasi tutti i testi sono di lei, mentre lui ha cercato di fare da ponte, da legame, da collante. E' un testo di filosofia...

The perfect neighborhood hides the most dangerous secrets.Sarah thought her new neighbors, Emily and Ryan, had it all: charm, kindness, and a flawless marriage. But beneath their polished smiles lurks...

When high-ranking official Henry Caldwell is found brutally murdered in his opulent estate, Detective Paul Johnson is called to the scene of what appears to be a straightforward case of political retribution....

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Emmaline has been in a coma for two crucial years of her teenage life. Waking life is almost as disorienting, but finally she is reunited with her sister and father. Now she must make up for lost time,...

Children are not brought up in society to focus on politics. They are often encouraged to enjoy their life and their childhood. It is often said that kids should just be kids. But when there is a political...

Aidan Black left the Marine Corps to skip the red tape, but it's a woman from his past he's now trying to avoid… one who believes him capable of murder. Briar Sutton is the last person I expect to see...

Cillian is no stranger to the pull of dark magic as he is the son of both the Dark realm Princess and the Light realm Prince. What doesn't help is that he may have been further infused with dark magic...

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The Stygian Lepus Magazine is a thrilling foray into dark speculative fiction. In each new edition, readers explore the depths of imagination, where fear and fascination intertwine.Offering diverse genres...

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"Hast thou seen that lordly castle,That castle by the sea?Golden and red above itThe clouds float gorgeously."Do you remember GratianGratian Conyfer, the godson of the four winds, the boy who lived at...

The stories begin with those which children like bestthe old Blue Beard, Puss in Boots, Hop o my Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, and Toads and Pearls. These were first collected, written,...

"Eugene Witla, wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour her, and keep her in sickness...

Quite aside from its natural characteristics, there is an atmosphere about a college town, especially a New England college town, that is unmistakable. It is not so much actively intellectual as passively...

Jaime Febrer arose at nine o'clock. Old Antonia, the faithful servant who cherished the memory of the past glories of the family, and who had attended upon Jaime from the day of his birth, had been bustling...

SAMSARA'S DEAD HAVE CHOSEN NEL. AND THE CACOPHONY CALLED FOR JUSTICE. Archaeologist Dr. Nel Bently has never been farther from home. With a tenuous ceasefire from Lin's rebellion force and genocidal Harris...

Dangerously good-looking. Dangerously breathtaking. This dangerously sinful cowboy is going to steal her heart. When the outback's bare-knuckle champion, Dex Riggs, arrives in Sophie's emergency room,...

Nina Rosethorn, a university student, survives a lightning strike and returns home to Vancouver. But the incident triggers a haunting ability: premonitions manifest in her nightmares. Determined to prevent...

Star Maker, regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported...

The contents of the work which gave such pleasure to this learned antiquary are as follows:I. IntroductionSimilarity of Arts and CustomsSimilarity of NamesOrigin of the WorkImitationCasual CoincidenceMiltonDante.II....

Agatha-nominated series! A madcap mystery set in the off, off, OFF Broadway world of theater (#4 in the Ivy Meadows Mystery series)There's a new sheriff in town—and she can sing! When Gold Bug Gulch's...

Have you ever felt that itch in the back of your brain you just can't scratch? A particular gnawing on your mind biting away your best thoughts? Meet Wormy: the literal brain worm residing inside the...

In Sister Carrie, Dreiser portrayed a changing society, writing about a young woman who flees rural life for the city (Chicago) and struggles with poverty, complex relationships with men, and prostitution....

The first question to be proposed by a rational being is, not what is profitable, but what is Right. Duty must be primary, prominent, most conspicuous, among the objects of human thought and pursuit....

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This book, re-edited and illustrated by e-kitap projesi and published again in ebook format. In this book, telling that Cooterells adventures, and so was a treasure adventure, Naturally then Ben felt...

The SCENE is the Exterior of a Cottage in West Issacshire on a desperately Arcadian afternoon in August. MR. ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan peasant, is pottering and doddering...

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little...

The day that Henry Smix met and embraced Gasoline Power and went up Main Street hand in hand with it is not yet forgotten. It was a hasty marriage, so to speak, and the results of it were truly deplorable....