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Biography
Noi, i ragazzi dello zoo di Berlino (Italian Edition)
F Christiane · 2014
Love, Pamela
Pamela Anderson · 2023
Classics
Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen · 2002
Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
Jane Austen · 2003
La coscienza di Zeno
Italo Svevo · 2005
Il fu Mattia Pascal
Luigi Pirandello · 2016
Le relazioni pericolose
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos · 2007
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1989
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in <b>Lolita</b>, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. <b>Lolita</b> is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 2002
SIDDHARTA
HERMANN HESSE · 2013
Non-fiction
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk · 2014
<b>#1 <i>New York Times </i>bestseller<br><br>“Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.” —Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies<br><br>A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this <b><b><b><i>New York Times</i> bestseller</b></b></b></b><br><br>Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In <i>The Body Keeps the Score</i>, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, <i>The Body Keeps the Score </i>exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.
Il Mestiere Di Vivere
C. Pavese · 1998
Freedom Writers Diary
Erin Gruwell, Freedom Writers · 2006
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino · 2019
The Beauty Myth
Naomi Wolf · 1997
The controversial, critically-acclaimed, bestselling book that kickstarted the third wave of feminism is now available with a new introduction and a new look.In 1990, Naomi Wolf published The Beauty Myth - a book that catapulted Wolf into the international spotlight and onto bestseller lists everywhere (88 straight weeks on The Globe and Mail bestseller list). The effects it had on feminist discourse can still be felt today (and in some ways are even more relevant), and the author's new introduction will help put all the controversy, debate, and media it inspired in context for the next millennium.
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf · 2023
"A Room of One's Own," refers to the core argument of the essay: Woolf contends that for women to excel as writers and artists, they need a literal and figurative space of their own, both physical and mental. This space allows them the freedom to think, create, and explore their own ideas without being constrained by societal expectations and limitations. Woolf examines the history of women's writing and highlights the lack of opportunities for women to pursue intellectual and creative endeavors throughout the centuries. She discusses how patriarchal systems and gender bias have marginalized women's voices and restricted their access to education and resources. Throughout the essay, Woolf uses the fictional character of "Shakespeare's sister" to illustrate the challenges women faced in pursuing literary ambitions during the Elizabethan era. She imagines a talented and creative sister of William Shakespeare who, despite having the same abilities as her famous brother, is denied the opportunities and support needed to develop her talent, ultimately leading to her tragic fate. "A Room of One's Own" also addresses the importance of economic independence for women. Woolf argues that financial autonomy is crucial for women to have the freedom to pursue their intellectual and artistic aspirations without relying on the support and validation of men.
Fiction
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2016
<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (<i>NPR</i>) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.<br></b><br><b><b><b><b><b><b><b>NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST <b><b><b>•</b></b></b></b> MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST <b>• <b><b><b><b><b> WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE</b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b><br><br><i>A Little Life</i> follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.
Fiore di roccia (Italian Edition)
Ilaria Tuti · 2020
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2018
A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman’s experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has many of the advantages of life, on the surface. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? This story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs, designed to heal us from our alienation from this world, shows us how reasonable, even necessary, that alienation sometimes is. Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate – dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 – this novel is a showcase for the gifts of one of America’s major young writers working at the height of her powers.
The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002
The Secret History
Donna Tartt · 1992
<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>
Self help
Donne che corrono coi lupi
Clarissa Pinkola Estés · 2011
Art
Bluets
Maggie Nelson · 2021
Maggie Nelson is the author of several books in multiple genres. Her six nonfiction include On Freedom. Four Songs of Care and Constraint Graywolf Press 2021 The Argonauts global winner of the National Critics Circle Award.
