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Abstract: BEFORE THEY WERE THE WIDOWS OF EASTWICK, OUR HEROINES WERE A TRIO OF DELIGHTFULLY WICKED WITCHES. In a small New England town in that hectic era when the sixties turned into the seventies, there lived three witches. Alexandra Spoffard, a sculptress, could create thunderstorms. Jane Smart, a cellist, could fly. The local gossip columnist, Sukie Rougemont, could turn milk into cream. Divorced but hardly celibate, the wonderful witches one day found themselves quite under the spell of the new man in town, Darryl Van Horne, whose strobe-lit hot tub room became the scene of satanic pleasures. To tell you any more, dear reader, would be to spoil the joy of reading this hexy, sexy novel by the incomparable John Updike. Praise for New York Times Bestseller The Witches of Eastwick: “A dazzling book . . . Updike is devilishly clever.” –Los Angeles Times “New England’s past and present are brilliantly interwoven in this narrative . . . [Updike] has brought [this] culture wittily and radiantly to life.” –The New York Times “A great deal of fun to read . . . fresh, constantly entertaining . . . John Updike [is] a wizard of language and observation.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer “A wicked entertainment . . . In book after book, Updike’s fine, funny impressionistic art strips the full casings of everydayness from objects we have known all our lives and makes them shine with fresh new connections.” –The New Republic “Witty, ironic, engrossing, punctuated by transports of spectacular prose.” –Time “Vintage Updike, which is to say among the best fiction we have.” –Newsday Selected by Time as one of the Five Best Works of Fiction of the Year

Abstract: Raccolta di 31 episodi del cartone animato Felix il gatto mandati in onda traottobre e novembre del 1959 in versione completamente restaurata erimasterizzata.

Abstract: Tertuliano Mximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed history teacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent a certain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But during the night, when he is awakened by noises in his apartment, he goes into the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video. He watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him-or, more specifically, exactly like he did five years before, mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen. He sleeps badly. Against his better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursue his double. As he roots out the man's identity, what begins as a whimsical story becomes a "wonderfully twisted meditation on identity and individuality" (The Boston Globe). Saramago displays his remarkable talent in this haunting tale of appearance versus reality.

Abstract: Un manuale facile e veloce per cavarsela all'estero in tutte le occasioni. Da ora in poi non hai più scuse per rimandare quella tanto sospirata vacanza all'estero che non hai mai avuto il coraggio di fare, con English in Viaggio e lo humour di John Peter Sloan le figuracce saranno solo un ricordo.

Abstract: it's been ages since Molly last heard from her mum, Ro, and she's worried. Not that Ro hasn't done this before - since the divorce, Molly hasn't known what to expect from her mother. if only things could go back to the way they were before Ro disappeared and her dad remarried . . . but then she wouldn't have her half-brother Locky, and now she can't imagine her life without him. When a letter finally does arrive, Molly learns her mum's made some big changes . . . but there's an even bigger surprise in store for all of them . . .

Abstract: Il nuovo metodo: leggi, ascolta, ridi, impara. Leggi e ascolta gli sketch comici, impara nuovi vocaboli, capisci le regole di grammatica, scopri i trucchi di pronuncia.

Abstract: These deeply empathic and beautifully crafted stories explore the interwoven lives and histories of the people of Tenney's Landing, a small Pennsylvania river town. Catherine Tudish has assembled an array of richly textured characters whose paths intersect in ways both incidental and intimate as they learn that their capacity for hope and forgiveness is greater than they thought.In "Where the Devil Lost His Blanket," Elizabeth Tenney embarks on an unexpected journey to return the remains of her recently deceased neighbor, a woman she barely knew, to South America. "The Dowry" portrays a woman, who, faced with her father's fatal illness, finds herself confronting the tragedy and betrayal that drove her from home. The title character of "Jordan's Stand," a gruff old farmer, forms an unlikely friendship with a young widow as he tries to teach her how to hunt. In "The Springhouse," a woman finds the strength to leave her husband and return to her parents' home, where she becomes the unofficial guardian of all manner of community secrets.Wise, resonant, and exquisitely tender, these stories capture moments of change -- upheaval, renewal, and the quieter revolutions inspired by the small eventfulness of everyday life. Tudish's remarkable debut illuminates the shared human condition through the particulars of a small American town.

Abstract: Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan's conventional life has been "molded to the smallest space possible." So when she is called home to cope with her mother's startling and enigmatic act of violence, Jessie finds herself relieved to be apart from her husband, Hugh. Jessie loves Hugh, but on Egret Island-- amid the gorgeous marshlands and tidal creeks--she becomes drawn to Brother Thomas, a monk who is mere months from taking his final vows. What transpires will unlock the roots of her mother's tormented past, but most of all, as Jessie grapples with the tension of desire and the struggle to deny it, she will find a freedom that feels overwhelmingly right.

Abstract: Alla vigilia della Prima guerra mondiale il giovane Carl Gustav Jung, seguendo le teorie di Sigmund Freud, decide di tentare un trattamento sperimentale sulla bella e tormentata paziente Sabina Spielrein.

Abstract: Ten years ago, twenty-one-year-old Columbia University senior Charles MacKenzie Jr. ("Mack") walked out of his Manhattan apartment without a word to his roommates and disappeared. He calls his mother once a year, on Mother's Day, but refuses to answer her frantic questions. This year when he calls, Mack's sister Carolyn, now twenty-six, announces her intention to track him down, no matter what it takes. Ignoring a cryptic warning note and the angry protests of her mother, Carolyn swiftly plunges into a world of unexpected danger and unanswered questions. What do Mack's old roommates -- a charismatic club owner and a wealthy real estate tycoon -- know about his disappearance? Can the police possibly believe that Mack is a shadowy predator -- or even a murderer? Carolyn's passionate search for the truth leads her into a deadly confrontation with someone close to her whose secret he cannot allow her to reveal.