Showing results for "Veritas" in Literature & Fiction

Vienna, aprile 1711. Da dieci anni una guerra rovinosa insanguina l'Europa. Solo la capitale asburgica conserva miracolosamente la sua opulenza: mentre carestia e devastazione cancellano un'intera epoca, a Vienna si mangia, si beve e si balla. Il garzone protagonista di Imprimatur e Secretum, che in Italia si era ormai ridotto alla vita di stenti dello spazzacamino, trova salvezza proprio nella città imperiale: Atto Melani, agente segreto del Re Sole, gli ha saldato un antico debito. I due vecchi amici si ritrovano, ma troppe cose sono cambiate.

Saru Argentu, inteso Tararà, appena introdotto nella gabbia della squallida Corte d’Assise, per prima cosa cavò di tasca un ampio fazzoletto rosso di cotone a fiorami gialli, e lo stese accuratamente su uno dei gradini della panca, per non sporcarsi, sedendo, l’abito delle feste, di greve panno turchino. Nuovo l’abito, e nuovo il fazzoletto. Inizia così "La verità" di Pirandello.

Hester Grayson's own soul is at stake when she works with the dead. Either they cross over to the spirit world in a timely fashion or become hideous wraiths doomed to haunt her for eternity.

The author argues that both Hughes and Plath were creative psychopaths. A psychological and literary study of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, from a working psychotherapist. Plath had been mentally ill since childhood, and brought her condition into the marriage with ted Hughes, creating a folie a deux.

Harrison Phillip Fletcher III isn't supposed to be here. Not in Burlington, Vermont, not running Vino & Veritas, a quaint inclusive bookstore and wine bar, and definitely not still alive, at 42. Also not supposed to be here? An unexpected delivery of chickens. Finn Barnes knows chickens. The burly organic farmer knows all about rare breed poultry, but dealing with a hot older bookseller is an entirely different matter. City-slicker types like Harrison never end up staying in Vermont for the long-term. They should steer clear of each other. But the flare of attraction is mutual.

I fled Boston and my cheating jerk of an ex with $300 and a lip gloss in my pocket. Waking up the next day in Burlington, Vermont, with a crick in my back and a frozen ass wasn't exactly in the plan. If there was one. Which there wasn't. Story of my life. Three hours later and I've been hired as temporary help in the local veterinary and grooming clinic, which is kind of impressive since I know zip about animals and even less about grooming. But one thing I do know - I'm crushing hard on the sexy, absentminded vet for whom I work.

Rich kid. Party boy. Gabe is tired of the labels. He's a smart guy, but ever since he got kicked out of grad school, people are only interested in his no-limit credit card and his pierced ears...and other places. Tall, dark, and scowling Alec hates Vermont, with its artisanal-freaking-everything and its irritating people. To be fair, most people irritate Alec, including the FBI director who sent him here to investigate a smuggling scheme involving yoga mats.

Brent Weyland was the life of the party until an injury ended his hockey career. Now he's retreated alone to a lakefront house, trying to make sense of a life and body that doesn't feel like his anymore. Jon Norquist was happily married right up until he wasn't. Now a single father in his 40s, he's trying to figure out what comes next. In the meantime, he pours his heartache and regret into the lyrics he sings for the wine bar crowd a couple of nights a week. When a friend coaxes Brent out for a night of wine and music, he puts Brent and Jon on a collision course.

They were born in Ireland, forged in Boston, and immortalized in the cult classic The Boondock Saints. But before legend, there was blood. Connor and Murphy MacManus slip across the Canadian border chasing the promise of America, only to land in a Boston that chews up the desperate and spits them out. The city’s underworld runs on crime and corruption, and survival means learning fast—or dying faster.

Salman Rushdie è stato giustamente definito "un maestro della narrazione perpetua", capace di illuminare molte verità sulla nostra società e sulla nostra cultura con la sua prosa affascinante e spesso tagliente. In questa ricchissima raccolta sono stati riuniti saggi, interventi, conferenze e altri materiali estremamente suggestivi che si concentrano sul suo rapporto con la parola scritta e che lo confermano, se ancora ce ne fosse bisogno, come uno dei pensatori più originali del nostro tempo.

After becoming an inadvertent viral sensation - and losing her job and her girlfriend as a result - Phoebe Shaw retreats to Vermont. Renovating her late grandmother's cabin into a vacation rental seems like the perfect way to lie low for a while. But the last person she expects to encounter on the property is the woman whose kiss was her teenage sexual awakening...and whom she's never quite forgotten.

I'm not the obvious choice to run Burlington's coolest wine bar - quiet, brooding, clueless about tannin content, and always one wrong turn away from another downward spiral. But no one seems to mind that I'm a wreck. Besides me. I just focus on getting through each shift until the night a beautiful stranger appears, looking as lost and damaged as I feel.

Liam Luckett is on an adventure. He's dropped out of his master's program without telling his overbearing parents and set off on a road trip across the country. Armed with little more than his guitar, he's looking for his best life. He never expected his car to break down in the middle of nowhere Vermont with a huge storm pending, leaving him stranded and at the mercy of a hunky local mechanic.

Evie Gillies non è più la ragazza ingenua e spensierata di un tempo. Le rivelazioni che hanno sconvolto la sua vita hanno lasciato un segno profondo: ora sa di non potersi più fidare di nessuno, nemmeno di chi le ha sempre detto di proteggerla. Spotlight, la piattaforma informatica ideata da suo padre, è diventata una rete intricata di segreti e tradimenti che la trascina in una fuga continua, tra minacce e verità troppo pericolose per essere affrontate da sola. Anche se Evie non lo è mai davvero. Con lei c'è Axel Whitman, la sua guardia del corpo.

Jamie Morin's college GPA drops every time a cow breaks through a fence, but he's determined to get his degree and keep his parents' Vermont dairy farm afloat. He'd rather be reading than milking, but he can't let his family down...not the way his brother did. So the last thing he needs is distraction in the form of an irresistible bookseller with a mysterious backstory.

Una mattina d'estate, la giornalista e madre single Suzy Hamilton riceve una telefonata, e scopre che l'influencer venticinquenne Tracey Doran, su cui aveva incentrato la sua ultima inchiesta investigativa, si è uccisa durante la notte. Nel corso di quell'estate appiccicosa a Sydney, però, Suzy inizia a ricevere oggetti appartenuti alla defunta accompagnati da biglietti rancorosi, e viene perseguitata da una donna che vuole, come in una sorta di giustizia sommaria, raccontarle la storia di Tracey, ma questa volta nel modo giusto.

La culture romande, sans le filtre de la modestie.On dit des Suisses qu’ils ont le culte du secret et le goût du silence. On dit qu’ici, pour vivre heureux, il faut vivre caché. C’est faux.Derrière les façades tranquilles de nos villes et le calme de nos montagnes, la Romandie bouillonne. Elle écrit, elle compose, elle joue, elle filme. Elle crée avec une rage et une élégance que le monde nous envie, mais que nous, nous avons parfois la pudeur de murmurer.Helveticum, c’est le podcast qui monte le son.Toutes les deux semaines, Maurizio Iulianiello et Cindy Heiniger poussent...

After being rejected one too many times, Chelsea makes a bold vow: No more men. Her friends doubt a boy-crazy party girl can handle not dating for a year, but that only makes Chelsea more determined. Tara has made a vow, too. After growing up in foster care and suppressing herself to please others, she's going to live her truth. When she sees a beautiful woman, she'll make her attraction known. Chelsea appreciates Tara's flirtatious compliments, not to mention her androgynous beauty. There's a loophole in Chelsea's vow, and it's more tempting every day.

Giacomo, esule istriano proprietario della «Libreria del narratore errante», muore il 10 novembre 1989, all'indomani della caduta del muro di Berlino. I tre figli – Lorenzo, giovane scrittore di gialli di successo, Giorgio, scapestrato giocatore d'azzardo, e Rachele, casalinga e mamma di Ludovica, adolescente avviata alla carriera di modella – si ritrovano nella casa dove hanno vissuto da bambini. È la 'casa del faro', protesa verso il mare Adriatico come una nave sul punto di salpare. Lì i tre fratelli devono affrontare un altro fatto tragico: un uomo è precipitato dalla terrazza del faro.

Gay icon, great poet, leather daddy, eccentric professor, English, American, biker, non-driver, drug addict, hedonist, intellectual, enigmatic, friendly, Everyman, one-of-a-kind, brother, roommate, HIV-negative, paradigmatic AIDS writer, Nazi belt wearer, Jeff Dahmer scholar, Guggenheim Genius, secret philanthropist, Formalist, Existentialist, prolific letter writer, some-sort-of-an-angel...Thom Gunn was all of these and more... But hovering above these figures lay the memory of his mother.