Carla Palmieri Books

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.

One wet Friday evening, Professor Andrew Martin of Cambridge University solves the world's greatest mathematical riddle. Then he disappears. When he is found walking naked along the motorway, Professor Martin seems different. Besides the lack of clothes, he now finds normal life pointless. His loving wife and teenage son seem repulsive to him.

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.

'A cracking storyteller, who can create fascinating characters, a twisty plot and wonderful surprise endings' ANN CLEEVES 'One of the most interesting detectives in crime fiction' THE TIMES There is more to solving a crime than following the clues. Welcome to Chief Inspector Gamache's world of facts and feelings. The discovery of a dead body in the woods on Thanksgiving Weekend brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his colleagues to a place called Three Pines. Gamache cannot understand why anyone would want to deliberately kill well-loved artist Jane Neal, especially any of the residents of the village - a place so free from crime it doesn't even have its own police force. But Gamache knows that evil is lurking somewhere behind the white picket fences and that, if he watches closely enough, Three Pines will start to give up its dark secrets... Millions of readers worldwide. One inimitable Chief Inspector Gamache.

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.

Standing on the sidelines of life, Mamah Borthwick Cheney yearns to immerse herself in its currents. In her diary, she reflects on her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright, which began after she and her husband commissioned him to design their home in 1903. As the house was built, a powerful attraction blossomed between Mamah and Frank, leading them, both married with children, into a relationship that would scandalize Chicago society and alter their lives forever. This debut novel intricately blends fact with fiction, giving Mamah the prominence often overlooked in historical accounts of America’s greatest architect. Author Nancy Horan draws on extensive research to craft a compelling narrative that highlights Mamah’s profound influence on Wright while exploring her internal conflicts. Caught between her roles as mother, wife, lover, and intellectual, Mamah embarks on a journey to discover her creative calling. Her story is marked by transformative choices that redefine her understanding of love and responsibility, culminating in a stunning conclusion. Elegantly written and rich in detail, this novel serves as a tribute to a courageous woman and her timeless love story.

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 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.

'The ultimate psychological thriller' Lisa Gardner 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 the woman who grips his arm on the courtroom stairs âe" the woman who stands by him? Jean Taylorâe(tm)s life was blissfully ordinary. Nice house, nice husband. Glen was all sheâe(tm)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 sheâe(tm)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. 'My book of the year so far' C. L. Taylor, author of THE LIE