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Roberta Rambelli

    Roberta Rambelli was a significant Italian translator, writer, and editor, recognized as one of the country's foremost literary translators. She is also noted as one of the earliest Italian science fiction writers, profoundly influencing the genre's establishment in Italy. Her work demonstrates a deep engagement with literature, adeptly bridging cultural and narrative worlds through her translations and original stories. Her impact on Italian science fiction remains notable.

    Les silences du coeur
    Till Morning Comes
    The Autobiography of Henry VIII
    Minimum Classics - 56: Solo il mimo canta al limitare del bosco
    The Client
    The Pillars of the Earth
    • The Pillars of the Earth

      • 1088 pages
      • 39 hours of reading

      Set in twelfth-century England, this epic of kings and peasants juxtaposes the building of a magnificent church with the violence and treachery that often characterized the Middle Ages.

      The Pillars of the Earth
      4.4
    • The Client

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know. A US State Senator is dead, and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden. The FBI want him to tell them where it is, at whatever cost to Mark and his family. The killer wants him silenced forever. Reggie Love has been practising law for less than five years. Only she can save Mark from these twin threats. Together they must take on the might of the State and the wiles of a cold-blooded killer.

      The Client
      4.4
    • Siamo nel 2467 e da diverse generazioni sono i robot a prendere ogni decisione, mentre un individualismo esasperato regola la vita dell'uomo: la famiglia è abolita, la coabitazione vietata e ogni persona assume quotidianamente un mix di psicofarmaci e antidepressivi. I suicidi sono in aumento, non nascono più bambini e la popolazione mondiale sta avviandosi all'estinzione. Simbolo e guardiano dello status quo è Spofforth, androide di ultima generazione che agogna un suicidio che gli è però impedito dalla sua programmazione. A lui si contrapporranno Paul Bentley, un professore universitario che, riscoperta casualmente la lettura dimenticata da tempo, grazie ai libri apprende l'esistenza di un passato e la possibilità di un cambiamento, e Mary Lou, che sin da piccola ha rifiutato di assumere droghe pur di tenere gli occhi aperti sulla realtà.Tevis si muove dall'incrocio di queste tre vite creando una distopia postmoderna sulle inquietudini dell'uomo, dove la tecnologia senza controllo si trasforma da risorsa in pericolo. Prefazione di Goffredo Fofi. Con una nota di Jonathan Lethem.

      Minimum Classics - 56: Solo il mimo canta al limitare del bosco
      4.4
    • Evocatively written as Henry VIII's private journals, Margaret George tells the former king's life, using her now trademark mix of history and imagination to tell the story as he might have told it.

      The Autobiography of Henry VIII
      4.3
    • Till Morning Comes

      • 620 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      Foreign correspondent Stephanie Ryder falls in love with the dedicated surgeon, Dr. Jen Yong, and struggles to find happiness amid the turmoil of the Communist revolution in China

      Till Morning Comes
      4.3
    • Les silences du coeur

      • 378 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Lynn a vingt ans lorsqu'elle rencontre Robert Ferguson. Elle, la jolie secrétaire, tombe irrésistiblement amoureuse de son ténébreux patron. Un mariage heureux, deux enfants et une jolie maison dans les quartiers chic de la côte Est : le bonheur. Jusqu'au jour où un tragique accident emporte leur cadette. Soudain, les démons de Robert se réveillent. Violence verbale, puis physique. Si Lynn tente de sauver les apparences, la confiance est rompue. Que cache le passé de cet homme dont elle sait si peu ? D'où vient sa colère ? Avec l'aide de ses amis, Lynn tente de reprendre sa vie en main. Entre révolte et angoisse, comment échapper à ce cauchemar ?

      Les silences du coeur
      4.2
    • River god

      • 662 pages
      • 24 hours of reading

      City of Thebes. The Festival of Osiris. Loyal subjects of the Pharaoh gather to pay homage to their leader, but Taita - a wise and formidably gifted eunuch slave - sees him only as a symbol of a kingdom's fading glory. By the author of Where the Lion Feeds.

      River god
      4.2
    • ... E signore del circolo

      • 884 pages
      • 31 hours of reading

      A #1 New York Times bestseller--and an American classic--now in trade paperback... A groundbreaking bestseller with two and a half million copies in print, " ...And Ladies of the Club " centers on the members of a book club and their struggles to understand themselves, each other, and the tumultuous world they live in. A true classic, it is sure to enchant, enthrall, and intrigue readers for years to come.

      ... E signore del circolo
      4.0
    • Best Sellers - 349: Ora magica

      • 418 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      L'ora magica, quel momento particolare che precede l'alba o il tramonto, non è l'ideale solo per l'amore ma anche per il delitto. Proprio a quell'ora infatti, nella zona più esclusiva di Long Island, è stato assassinato il giovane e ambizioso produttore Sy Spencer. Un caso difficile per il detective Brady, soprattutto quando entra in scena l'affascinante ex moglie della vittima.

      Best Sellers - 349: Ora magica
      3.0
    • The 13th Juror

      • 544 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      In John T. Lescroart's brilliant new novel, The 13th Juror, Dismas Hardy, lawyer/investigator, undertakes the defense of Jennifer Witt, accused of murdering her husband and their eight-year-old son as well as her first husband, who had died nine years earlier from an apparent drug overdose. While preparing his case, Hardy learns that both of Jennifer's husbands had physically abused her. But Jennifer refuses to allow a defense that presumes her guilt. She is not guilty, she claims. Hardy is now driven to seek an alternative truth a jury can believe. As the trial progresses, the complex truth itself begins to change, to bend, to fade in and out of focus as the clock keeps ticking on Jennifer's fate, until there seems only one person left to convince, and she is "the 13th juror"—the judge. The 13th Juror is a stunning and suspenseful novel of moral ambiguity, of good intentions, bad judgements and the tortuous path to ultimate justice.

      The 13th Juror
      4.2