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In the big dull house at the top of the hill, a little girl always lives alone... Her name is Eva, she is ten years old, and with her there are only a housekeeper and a Finnish au pair, Maja Salo. No trace of parents. It is precisely Maja who desperately seeks the help of Pietro Gerber, the best hypnotist in Florence, the baby sleeper. Eva hasn't really been alone for some time now. With her is an imaginary friend, nameless and faceless. And because of this presence, perhaps Eve is in danger

A Russian noblewoman, precious jewels, a conspiracy to uncover.

London, 1811. Fresh from writing Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen joins her brother Henry, a brilliant banker, and his charming wife Eliza in their elegant home on Sloane Street. Immersed in a world of witty conversations, glittering gowns, and receptions, Jane observes with discretion and irony this microcosm of ambition, secrets, and vanity. But not even her keen eye is prepared for the scandal that erupts when the private correspondence between a Russian princess and an influential Tory minister is suddenly made public, much less for the tragedy that follows: the beautiful Evgenia Cholikova is found with her throat slit right outside the residence of the minister, Lord Castlereagh.

While public opinion whispers of a romantic suicide and gossip tarnishes the princess's reputation, Jane does not believe the official version. Her doubts, however, become unsettling when a web of coincidences places her and Eliza at the center of the investigation as prime suspects. Why would someone want to frame them? And who, behind the scenes of high society, had an interest in eliminating the princess? With only seven days to prove her innocence, Jane is forced to delve into the halls of power and the boudoirs of the most influential courtesans, on the trail of a murderer capable of threatening not only her life, but also the fate of England

A story of courage, redemption, and freedom.

Guardian of ancient knowledge, a woman fights to give birth to the future. Mallena is not one of them. One day, sixteen years earlier, she arrived in Norolani with Jubanne, who instantly fell in love with her and married her to protect her from a fate that weighed upon her like a curse. Yet, for the inhabitants of that village, where the mistral wind carries the breath of the sea, she has become a point of reference.

Because Mallena is a farmer who, putting into practice the ancient knowledge passed down to her by her mother, assists all women giving birth, even those from the humblest families, without ever expecting anything in return. But everything falls apart in September 1917, when Jubanne returns from the front wounded in body and soul. To pay for his necessary care, Mallena clamorously demands payment from the town council for her work, and once again, the subsidy is denied.

As if that weren't enough, in accordance with a royal decree, a qualified midwife is hired to replace her. Angelica Ferrari, from the mainland, arrives: despite her young age, she has long fought to be there, defying social conventions and the disapproval of her father, who wanted to confine her to the home, marrying into a wealthy marriage. And now she must contend with the mistrust of the village women, who see her as an outsider and reject her care.

A powerful women's story that, through language, scents, poetry, and the harshness of daily life in early twentieth-century Sardinia, tells of a humble and reserved people, yet united by a profound sense of community. And of a protagonist who, thanks to ancestral wisdom and the solidarity of other women, develops a new and luminous awareness

Mystery

In the big dull house at the top of the hill, a little girl always lives alone... Her name is Eva, she is ten years old, and with her there are only a housekeeper and a Finnish au pair, Maja Salo. No trace of parents.

It is precisely Maja who desperately seeks the help of Pietro Gerber, the best hypnotist in Florence, the baby sleeper. Eva hasn't really been alone for some time now. With her is an imaginary friend, nameless and faceless. And because of this presence, perhaps Eve is in danger

Two young women become unlikely friends during one fateful summer in Atlantic City as mysterious disappearances hit dangerously close to home.

Summer has come to Atlantic City but the boardwalk is empty of tourists, the casino lights have dimmed, and two Jane Does are laid out in the marshland behind the Sunset Motel, just west of town. Only one person even knows they're there.

Meanwhile, Clara, a young boardwalk psychic, struggles to attract clients for the tarot readings that pay her rent. When she begins to experience very real and disturbing visions, she suspects they could be related to the recent cases of women gone missing in town. When Clara meets Lily, an ex-Soho art gallery girl who is working at a desolate casino spa and reeling from a personal tragedy, she thinks Lily may be able to help her. But Lily has her own demons to face. If they can put the pieces together in time, they may save another lost girl - so long as their efforts don't attract perilous attention first. Can they break the ill-fated cycle, or will they join the other victims?

Magical and cruel, Brazil is the country of the most famous carnival in the world, the land of samba and the Amazon river, but it is also the country of the favelas and of many negated rights.

A long literary tradition has also given us characters who have become firmly established in our imagination.

Today a new generation of writers and writers is facing the cultural and social panorama of the country, a generation that, outside of the now obsolete formula, reflects on modern life, registering the individual's sadness in his daily existence

What's going to happen to me? my little girl asks, clutching her teddy bear. Daddy and I love you, I reply. 'Nothing is going to change.' But I was so wrong. How far will I go to protect my daughter?

When Greg and I decided to separate, we vowed to keep it civil for Lola. So when she stopped hugging me and started calling me a liar, I thought she was just struggling with the divorce. But I could hear Greg in her words. He's trying to turn our daughter against me, determined to make the court see me as an unfit mother.

So when he exposes my darkest secret, my heart pounds. But I know his secrets too. As we each try to win, the danger to Lola grows. By the time we realize what we've done, will it be too late to save her and ourselves?

A gripping, dark domestic suspense novel about a family tearing itself apart

Plague opens the Iliad, the first work of Western literature, and from then on it has been a ubiquitous theme. The reasons are many, but they all boil down to the fact that plague is frightening, and fear fascinates. It generates terror because it is a disease against which for millennia there was no defense, arriving suddenly and each time claiming many victims in a short time; but plague is also frightening because it brings with it famine, poverty, and overwhelms institutions, so that the fear of death by plague is compounded by the fear of death by starvation and a violent death. The reactions of governments and populations to epidemics have always been the same: isolation, panic, disbelief, institutional distrust. Observing these reactions reveals to us that societies always stand on a precarious balance and are much more fragile than we might imagine

Thriller