Laura Pignatti Book order (chronological)

'June, 1942- I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.' In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years, they, another family and a German dentist lived in a 'secret annexe', fearing discovery. All that time, Anne kept a diary. The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances that has enthralled readers for generations. Anne Frank's Diary- The Graphic Novel is a stunning new adaptation of one of the greatest books of the last century.

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S FICTION PRIZE A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...' This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summer's day in 1959. The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. From that porch we spool back through the generations, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define the family. From Red's father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red's grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century - four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their home... 'One of my favourite authors' Liane Moriarty 'She spins gold' Elizabeth Buchan 'Anne Tyler has no peer' Anita Shreve 'Anne Tyler is one of my favourite writers and this is a delicious book' Rachel Joyce

Una donna non più giovane cerca marito in una sala da ballo.Un ragazzo che ha appena perso il padre ne scopre i segreti in un albergo di Dublino.Un giovanotto di campagna sposa la ragazza dei suoi sogni in seguito a una misteriosa gravidanza.Tre storie irlandesi animate da una malinconica tensione, mentre la vita scorre in queste esistenze all'apparenza ordinarie.

A darkly hilarious tale of a model family's disintegration. Professor Siem Sigerius - maths genius, jazz lover, judo champion, Renaissance man. When Aaron meets his girlfriend Joni's family for the first time, her multitalented father could hardly be a more intimidating figure, but somehow the underachieving photographer manages to bluff his way to a friendship with the paterfamilias. With his feet under the table at the beautiful Sigerius farmhouse, Aaron feels part of the family. A perfect family. Until, that is, things start to go wrong in a very big way. A cataclysmic explosion in a firework factory, the advent of internet pornography, the reappearance of a forgotten murderer and a jet-black wig-all play a role in the spectacular fragmentation of the Sigerius clan...and of Aaron's fragile psyche.

Bombay. Años sesenta. Tras la trágica muerte de su madre, Pinky Mittal, una niña de trece años, vive al cuidado de su abuela Maji, verdadera cabeza de familia de los Mittal. A pesar del amor de su abuela, Pinky no consigue superar cierto sentimiento de abandono y soledad. No obstante, ama como nada en el mundo la casa de frondoso jardín tropical donde vive y su plantación de mangos, y el aroma de sándalo y comino frito que allí se respira. Y también ama a Nimish, un hermoso joven del que le gustaría recibir todas las atenciones posibles. Cuando una noche Pinky sorprende a Nimish con su mejor amiga, cree morir. Pinky llora desconsoladamente mientras un extraño tintineo y rumor de agua atrae su atención hacia la puerta del baño. Una puerta misteriosa que Maji cierra con llave todas las noches, y que le tiene terminantemente prohibido tocar a los niños... Traducida a varios idiomas, la novela debú de Shilpa Agarwal narra una historia profundamente evocadora y maravillosamente subyugante donde el mundo real se encuentra con el mundo espiritual en un relato cargado de magia.

In the small town of Larksville, the Pike family is hopelessly out of step with the daily rhythms of life after the tragic, accidental death of six-year-old Janie Rose. Mrs. Pike seldom speaks, blaming herself, while Mr. Pike is forced to come out of his long, comfortable silence. Then there is ten-year-old Simon, who is suddenly without a baby sister -- and without understanding why she's gone. Those closest to this shattered family must learn to comfort them -- and confront their own private shadows of hidden grief. If time cannot draw them out of the dark, then love may be their only hope....

Mrs. Pamela Evans lives a lonely new widowhood outside of Baltimore, with only a house full of ticking clocks for company. Then she hires eccentric Elizabeth Abbott as a handyman and both discover that parts don't have to be a perfect match to work. "Anne Tyler is a magical writer." LOS ANGELES TIMES From the Paperback edition.

Dit is de kroniek van de Pecks, een uiterst eigenzinnige en wonderbaarlijk ouderwetse familie in Baltimore, en het verhaal van de Pecks, die de verschillende familieleden door goed vier generaties heen, ondanks al hun merkwaardige eigenaardigheden, als onmiskenbare Pecks verbindt. Toch valt af en toe een Peck ten prooi aan de verleidingen van de wereld en wijkt af. Zo verdwijnt Caleb, een dromerige jongeman, in 1912 plotseling spoorloos en maakt hij zich, onder de betovering van de eerste klanken van de blues, op naar New Orleans. Bijna 50 jaar moeten verstrijken voordat iemand serieus naar hem op zoek gaat, maar de inspanningen van zijn halfbroer Daniel, een inmiddels zeer bejaarde man, om Caleb - en daarmee een stuk van zijn eigen kindertijd - terug te vinden, zijn des te intenser. Samen met zijn kleindochter Justine, een charmante en liefhebbende vrouw met een hoed, reist de oude man kriskras door de Verenigde Staten op zoek naar Caleb. Justine's bijzondere gaven blijken daarbij van groot nut: ze kan de toekomst uit kaarten lezen, sluit iedereen in haar hart en heeft op de een of andere manier de gave om de chaos bij elkaar te houden.

Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in Baltimore, he was smitten, and in the heat of World War II fervour, they marry in haste.

Long before she was born, Dominika first appeared to her mother in a dream, so when she came to be, she was welcomed with eager expectation and much love. Though her arrival was auspicious, as the child of recognized dissidents associated with the failed Prague Spring uprising, Dominika's life would be far from charmed. Her mother was disowned by her parents, who were members of the Party elite. Her father was an inventor whose politics resulted in his working as a taxi driver, but who nevertheless remained an unrepentant optimist. Rounding out the family-colorful, even by local standards-were a beautiful, voluptuous teenage sister with many male admirers and an enormous St. Bernard who was a famous Czech TV star. In a village on the outskirts of Prague, full of gossipy neighbors, state informants, friendly old "grandmothers," and small-town prejudices, Dominika grows up a self-possessed child, whose openness and curiosity often lead her, and her family, into trouble. Yet the love, pride, and quirky ingenuity that bind them together will guarantee their survival-and ultimately their happiness-through the best and worst of times. The Twelve Little Cakes is equal parts testimony to the struggles of a bygone era and a love letter to a joy-filled childhood that no external forces could dim.

"Tyler is steadily raising a body of fiction of major dimensions." THE NEW YORK TIMES Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling has never left home. He lives on the top floor of a Baltimore row house where he creates collages of little people snipped from wrapping paper. His elderly mother putters in the rooms below, until her death. And it is then that Jeremy is forced to take in Mary Tell and her child as boarders. Mary is unaware of how much courage it takes Jaremy to look her in the eye. For Jeremy, like one of his paper creations, is fragile and easily torn--especially when he's falling in love.... From the Paperback edition.

Dutch

In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ellen Grier and her family back to Holly's Field, Wisconsin. Dutifully accompanying her newly unemployed husband, Ellen has brought her two children into the home of her in-laws on Vinegar Hill--a loveless house suffused with the settling dust of bitterness and routine--where calculated cruelty is a way of life preserved and perpetuated in the service of a rigid, exacting and angry God. Behind a facade of false piety, there are sins and secrets in this place that could crush a vibrant young woman's passionate spirit. And here Ellen must find the straight to endure, change, and grow in the all-pervading darkness that threatens to destroy everything she is and everyone she loves.

Uno sciamano e un ragazzo in viaggio nelle steppe dell'Asia Centrale: l'avventura, la ricerca di sé, la saggezza

In this, her fourteenth novel--and one of her most endearing--Anne Tyler tells the story of a lovable loser who's trying to get his life in order. Barnaby Gaitlin has been in trouble ever since adolescence. He had this habit of breaking into other people's houses. It wasn't the big loot he was after, like his teenage cohorts. It was just that he liked to read other people's mail, pore over their family photo albums, and appropriate a few of their precious mementos. But for eleven years now, he's been working steadily for Rent-a-Back, renting his back to old folks and shut-ins who can't move their own porch furniture or bring the Christmas tree down from the attic. At last, his life seems to be on an even keel. Still, the Gaitlins (of "old" Baltimore) cannot forget the price they paid for buying off Barnaby's former victims. And his ex-wife would just as soon he didn't show up ever to visit their little girl, Opal. Even the nice, steady woman (his guardian angel?) who seems to have designs on him doesn't fully trust him, it develops, when the chips are down, and it looks as though his world may fall apart again. There is no one like Anne Tyler, with her sharp, funny, tender perceptions about how human beings navigate on a puzzling planet, and she keeps us enthralled from start to finish in this delicious new novel.

A collection of short stories by the author of "The Silence in the Garden", "Nights at the Alexandra", "Juliet's Story", "Fools of Fortune", "Two Lives" and "The Old Boys".

“Faccia bello è un bulldog realmente esistito, e abbiamo voluto annotare alcune delle sue avventure e disavventure. Io ho avuto la fortuna di essere suo compagno e custode. La magia della storia è autentica e si è manifestata spontaneamente al convergere dei nostri due mondi.”

A City Forensic pathologist Dr. Laurie Montomery has a battle to foil a plot of unimaginable evil in Manhattan.

On a beach holiday, forty-year-old Cordelia Grinstead, dressed only in swimsuit and beachrobe, walks away from her family and just keeps on walking ...

Here is Robin Cook's most controversial medical thriller-the shocking story of experimental fertilization, the passion to create life, and the power to destroy it.