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Carla Palmieri

    The Diary of a Bookseller
    Loving Frank
    Stile Libero Big: Un anno dopo
    Still life
    The Night Swim
    Invisible women
    • Invisible women

      Exposing data bias in a world designed for men

      • 432 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women, diving into women's lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor's office, and more. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, unforgettable exposé that will change the way you look at the world

      Invisible women
      4.4
    • In this new thriller from the author of The Escape Room, a podcast host covering a controversial trial in a small town becomes obsessed with a brutal crime that took place there years before.

      The Night Swim
      3.9
    • Still life

      • 312 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      In a small town in Quebec a women supposedly loved by her community is found in the woods, murdered. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache looks for the small clues which will point him to the killer.

      Still life
      3.9
    • Stile Libero Big: Un anno dopo

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      È l'alba dell'11 settembre. Un giovane è uscito a correre nella luce ancora incerta del giorno. Incontra ragazzi sui pattini, in bici, madri con i passeggini. Avanza a falcate leggere prima che la sua vita, che sembrava ancora affacciata su un lungo futuro, finisca in un istante, nella polvere delle Torri. Toccherà a sua sorella colmare quella perdita e ricostruire il puzzle di una vita inghiottita in un baleno. A partire dal bimbo che il fratello forse ha avuto da una ragazza sconosciuta. E da quello che il vecchio padre, finalmente, ha deciso di rivelare... Una ricerca nei legami familiari che dura un anno. Un anno per trovare nella catena di promesse che non potranno più realizzarsi un disegno che dia un senso a ciò che un senso non ha.

      Stile Libero Big: Un anno dopo
      3.0
    • Fact and fiction blend in a historical novel that chronicles the relationship between seminal architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney, from their meeting, when they were each married to another, to the clandestine affair that shocked Chicago society.

      Loving Frank
      3.8
    • The Diary of a Bookseller

      • 316 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Love, Nina meets Black Books: a wry and hilarious account of life in Scotland's biggest second-hand bookshop and the band of eccentrics and book-obsessives who work there 'The Diary Of A Bookseller is warm (unlike Bythell's freezing-cold shop) and funny, and deserves to become one of those bestsellers that irritate him so much.' (Mail on Sunday) 'Utterly compelling and Bythell has a Bennett-like eye for the amusing eccentricities of ordinary people ... I urge you to buy this book and please, even at the risk of being insulted or moaned at, buy it from a real live bookseller.' (Charlotte Heathcote Sunday Express)Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers to wrangles with his own staff, who include the ski-suit-wearing, bin-foraging Nicky. He takes us with him on buying trips to old estates and auction houses, recommends books (both lost classics and new discoveries), introduces us to the thrill of the unexpected find, and evokes the rhythms and charms of small-town life, always with a sharp and sympathetic eye.

      The Diary of a Bookseller
      3.8
    • Union Atlantic

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      The Bonfire of the Vanities for 2010! A powerful, deeply involving novel of the modern world - a world in crisis, where individual humanity is pitted against the global marketplace.

      Union Atlantic
      3.5
    • The Widow

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 'If you liked GONE GIRL and THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN, you might want to pick up THE WIDOW by Fiona Barton. Engrossing. Suspenseful' Stephen King We've all seen him: the man - the monster - staring from the front page of every newspaper, accused of a terrible crime. But what about her: the woman who grips his arm on the courtroom stairs - the wife who stands by him? Jean Taylor's life was blissfully ordinary. Nice house, nice husband. Glen was all she'd ever wanted: her Prince Charming. Until he became that man accused, that monster on the front page. Jean was married to a man everyone thought capable of unimaginable evil. But now Glen is dead and she's alone for the first time, free to tell her story on her own terms. Jean Taylor is going to tell us what she knows. Du Maurier's REBECCA meets WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN and GONE GIRL in this intimate tale of a terrible crime. 'The ultimate psychological thriller' Lisa Gardner

      The Widow
      3.5