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Carla Palmieri

    La vedova
    Union Atlantic
    The Diary of a Bookseller
    Loving Frank
    Still life
    Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
    • 2022

      Still life

      • 312 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.9(194878)Add rating

      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
    • 2020

      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: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
    • 2019

      The Diary of a Bookseller

      • 316 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.8(16515)Add rating

      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
    • 2016

      Lo hanno visto tutti, il mostro, sbattuto in tv e sulle prime pagine dei giornali. Era accusato di un crimine raccapricciante, ma adesso che è morto, la verità finirà sepolta con lui. A meno che Jean, la vedova, la moglie devota che gli è sempre stata a fianco in tribunale, non si decida a parlare. A meno che Jean alla fine non decida di raccontare la sua storia.

      La vedova
    • 2010

      Union Atlantic

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.5(79)Add rating

      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
    • 2007

      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