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Every small town has an eccentric or two, and Killdeer, New York, is no exception. Morgan Mason attracts more than a few stares and local resentments when he drives through town on his tractor wearing a skirt. But minor small-town annoyances become more serious when the Skirt Man is killed in a tragic house fire in what some say is a case of spontaneous human combustion.

In Scimmiotto, racconto del 1912, Capuana offre un’ennesima versione del tipo di eroe a lui così caro: l’orfanello che riesce a farsi da sé; la storia della sua vita resta però in parte nel vago ed assume quindi, come scrive Carla Poesio, «un andamento quasi favoleggiante.

When we meet septuagenarian Margaret Hughes, she is living alone in a mansion in Seattle with only a massive collection of valuable antiques for company. Enter Wanda Schultz, a young woman with a broken heart who has come to Seattle to search for her wayward boyfriend. Both women are guarding dark secrets and have spent many years building up protective armor against the outside world.

This sequel to the acclaimed Primary Inversion continues the story of Sauscony and Jaibriol, each the heir to an interstellar empire, as they become entangled again in the machinations of the Skolian Empire.

Doris Lessing broke the rules. Born in Iran and raised in Rhodesia, she moved to Britain with little more than an unpublished novel in her suitcase. Once an ardent Communist, she distanced herself from the movement long before it's attraction faded for others. Always prolific, Lessing continued to explore uncharted territory with her series of science-fiction novels. Based on numerous interviews and sources, this book is a timely portrait of a fascinating woman.

In 1903, over 300 Indian children from across America lived at the Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School in a remote, isolated valley in Montana. Among the children were a handful of teenage girls, many who had only lived in tepees. They quickly learned to play basketball and resoundingly crushed all opponents, including men's and women's university teams. After the games, the girls recited Shelley and Longfellow, played mandolins and violins, sang, danced, and pantomimed.

Rona Parish is asked to write a biography of reclusive artist Ellie by her concerned sister. Ellie has seemingly disappeared, and the mystery surrounding her whereabouts has fuelled a new interest in her work. But when Rona discovers that Ellie’s closest friend committed suicide, Rona wonders whether Ellie, wracked by guilt over her friend’s death, could have been driven to do likewise....

No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday, who helped to create much of the mystique herself with her autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues - and this authentic biography sets the record straight. Donald Clarke was given unrivaled access to a treasure trove of interviews from the 1970s with those who knew Lady Day in all stages of her short, tragic life - from her childhood in the streets and good-time houses of Baltimore, through the early days of success in New York and the years of fame, to her tragic decline.

Anna's family hope that a South African safari holiday will help her to get over her beloved husband's death. No one is more surprised than Anna herself when she finds herself strongly attracted to a fellow traveller, Lewis Masters, and despite her initial resistance, she is soon drawn into a new relationship. But back home, Anna's journalist son Jonathan is being repeatedly contacted by a young woman asking for his help, even though she's too frightened to say what is worrying her....

Francese con un lavoro a Parigi e un appartamentino a Montmartre, Vivienne Vuloir è una ragazza buffa e imbranata che colleziona una figuraccia dopo l'altra, fa i conti con una fallimentare carriera di scrittrice e soffre di un numero indefinito di fobie. A trent'anni ha dimenticato il sapore di un bacio, si è adattata a essere identificata come “quella che si occupa di gossip”, ma soprattutto ha perso completamente fiducia nel genere umano, specialmente se maschile.

Per mesi Holland Bakker ha inventato scuse per scendere nella stazione metro vicino casa, attirata dalla musica di un affascinante artista di strada. Le manca però il coraggio di parlare con quel ragazzo, finché una notte, aggredita da uno squilibrato, viene soccorsa dal misterioso musicista: è irlandese e si chiama Calvin McLoughlin. Per ringraziarlo, Holland gli procura un'audizione con un famoso direttore musicale di Broadway.

Sarebbe bello vivere una vita tranquilla e rilassata. Invece si è sempre oberati da impegni, sempre all'inseguimento di un'agenda fitta di cose da fare, sempre di corsa. Che fare? La risposta è: meditare! La meditazione, alle radici della mindfulness, ha un ruolo fondamentale nel generare benessere psicofisico globale, com'è stato attestato dalle più recenti ricerche scientifiche sul cervello nel campo dello stress. Eppure, anche iscriversi a un corso non farebbe che aggiungere un'ulteriore incombenza alla nostra vita.

In the distant future, the Skolian Empire rules one third of the human galaxy, and is the most powerful of all. For the ruling family has the power of telepathy, and through it, the ability to communicate faster than light, across interstellar space. But their most determined enemy, the traders, who thrive on human pain, need to interbreed with a Skolian to gain their powers. And now they have her.

Psychologists Dr Miguel Farias and Catherine Wikholm explore the human ambition for personal change and its possible illusions, with a focus on yoga and meditation. They examine the psychological and biological evidence, from early research on transcendental meditation to recent brain-imaging studies on mindfulness. They also include personal accounts from practitioners, as well as recounting their own experiences of testing the effects of meditation and yoga on incarcerated criminals.

On a bright day at the Epsom Derby, 4 June 1913, Emily Wilding Davison was hit by the king’s horse in one of the defining moments of the fight for women’s suffrage - what became known as feminism’s first wave. The second wave arose in the late-1960s, activists campaigning tirelessly for women’s liberation, organising around a wildly ambitious slate of issues - a struggle their daughters continued in the third wave that blossomed in the early 1990s. Now, 100 years on from the campaign for the vote, a new tide of feminist voices is rising.

Manda is a 38-year-old, tough, sarcastic woman who has yet to make peace with the town she was brought to as a teenager after her parents' messy divorce. Her mother is estranged, her father is ill, her brother and stepbrother are emotionally distant and growing restless, and all the while, her tight-lipped and depressed husband is pressing her to have a baby. Full of barbed dialogue and macabre, deadpan descriptions of family dynamics and the awkward social dances performed daily, this novel depicts those who feel permanently out of place.

Given her incredible tenure as a Supreme Court justice as well as her monumental impact on the modern women’s rights movement, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become one of the most prominent political leaders of today. To complement her judicial significance, she has also become one of the most culturally popular political figures in US history. Not only has her workout routine gone viral (and been detailed in a book by her trainer), but RBG’s story has been featured in multiple critically acclaimed films. 

I en hamn i Köpenhamn hittas en ung kvinna död. Hon har blivit brutalt uppskuren på ett sätt som utredaren Felix Jørgensen vet att han aldrig kommer att kunna glömma. När ett liken av en kvinna iförd våtdräkt hittas vid Norges sydkust tror först den lokala polisen att det är en drunkningsolycka. Men under våtdräkten göms tecknen på en ovanligt sadistisk tortyr. Det står klart att en seriemördare är aktiv i Öresund, och han har både fackkunskap i kirurgi och en säregen smak för att skära i sina offer. Black Notice är en fiktiv deckare i fem delar som bygger på verkliga händelser.

Polisen Fatima Barsawi och hennes väninna Malin Skogh åker till Söderarm för att delta i en kurs i mindfulness och meditation. Den första morgonen hittas en av deltagarna död. Det ser ut som en olyckshändelse, men när det visar sig att flera av deltagarna har gamla band till varandra börjar Fatima misstänka att allt inte står rätt till. En storm blåser upp och isolerar dem på ön, samtidigt som dramatiken stiger. Fatima och Malin söker febrilt efter svar, men blir själva inlåsta. Samtidigt börjar hemligheter ur det förflutna komma fram i ljuset.

Dagen efter sin 60-årsdag blir Evald Larsson överfallen i ett motionsspår i utkanten av Norrtälje. Några dagar senare hittas han död på en egendomlig plats. Fråga är hur han har kommit dit och varför någon har velat mörda den före detta prästen. Kriminalinspektör Fatima Barsawi och polisreportern Olle Kärv stöter på brutalt våld och andliga sökare.