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On January 26, 1936, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was performed at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow with Stalin secretly watching from a box. The next day, Pravda published an editorial titled "Chaos Instead of Music," reportedly written by Stalin, criticizing the opera....

When siblings Liv, Ellen and Håkon, along with their partners and children, gather around the table somewhere on the outskirts of Rome to celebrate dad and grandpa Håkon's 70th birthday, an earthquake occurs. Shock and disbelief follow, as the three adult children try to...

Set in California during WWII, The Properties of Thirst tells an epic love story against a backdrop of hardship. Rocky Rhodes battles the Los Angeles Water Department draining his ranch’s aquifers, where he raised his twins and mourns his late wife. As the U.S....

Written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald and first published in Collier's magazine on May 27, 1922, it was published in the book Tales of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald was inspired by a comment by Mark Twain. Benjamin Button was born with a strange...

The threat of graduation intensifies in Naomi Novik's stunning sequel to A Deadly Education. At Scholomance, where "knowledge grants protection," the reality is that learning is tough and protection is scarce. As a senior with allies, the school’s sinister interest in her grows. Facing...

According to the prophecy, one of the most relevant events in Egypt will occur in the temple of Abu Simbel, the proclamation of a new pharaoh. Everyone wants to be there. Even the pirate Tick and his crew, accompanied by the beautiful Floripondia, show...

Our life expectancy is increasing by five hours daily, with people living longer and appearing 10 years younger. By 2050, there will be more people over 65 than under 5, creating an inverted social pyramid. This affects the workforce, as senior professionals in their...

Adolf Hitler died in the Berlin bunker in 1945, leaving no grave or memorial. Journalist David Gardner investigated what happened to Hitler's family, burdened with a cursed surname. Gardner's research uncovers the lives of Hitler's siblings and relatives, revealing a troubled childhood marked by...

Unexplained deaths and disappearances. Attraction and desire in three intertwined stories. A couple's honeymoon in South America is suddenly interrupted by an intruder. An experienced doctor is overcome with an uncontrollable desire to protect a young resident who works at her hospital. A man...

The story of a boy and a journey. In the 1950s, it was not only men and women who moved from the south to the north in search of work, but also children. This novel is the story of one of them, Ninetto. Having...

In Sicily during the Peloponnesian War, Syracusans imprison defeated Athenians in a quarry. Lampo and Gelon, two idle potters who love poetry and drink, decide to feed the Athenians if they recite lines from Euripides. They then plan to stage a production of Medea....

Twenty-second century. Stop looking for love: when you come of age, Science will tell you who your soul mate is. Respect the law... or listen to your heart? 98,8 %. Eliotte still finds it hard to believe, but the results of her compatibility test...

All too often society issues dire warnings about the risks of living single. But is finding a spouse or romantic partner really a requirement for a full life? In Single at Heart, Bella DePaulo speaks on behalf of the millions of people across the...

In finite games, like football, the rules are fixed and the endpoint is clear. In infinite games, like business or politics, the players come and go, the rules change, and there is no defined endpoint. Many problems exist because leaders are playing with a...

This is the story of our long embrace and I want to tell it to you....A story that connects hearts, a warm knot of love and a gift to stay very very close.A story full of love that conveys the importance of direct contact...

If memory is a simple, automatic thing, why does it so often go awry? Why is forgetting so common? Why is it so hard to remember people's names or passwords? How is it possible to study hard for an exam and not be able...

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Are you good at dreaming about what you’re going to accomplish “someday” but not good at finding the time and getting started? How will you actually make that decision and do it? The answer is this book, which offers proven, practical, and simple ways...

The Earth is immersed in a global-scale ecological decline caused by humans themselves. At its core, avoiding a sixth extinction is a spiritual and philosophical problem, for it is the principles that define us and our relationship to the Earth that are causing this...

David Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that graced his enormously popular New York Times bestseller, One Day, to a compellingly human, deftly funny new novel about what holds marriages and families together, and what happens, and what we learn about ourselves, when everything...