Lucia Corradini Caspani Books

"In 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimaginable experiences, including being made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele. Over the coming months, Edith's bravery helped her sister to survive, and led to her bunkmates rescuing her during a death march. When their camp was finally liberated, Edith was pulled from a pile of bodies, barely alive." -- back cover

Trees are one of humanity’s most constant and most varied companions. From India’s sacred banyan tree to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon, they offer us sanctuary and inspiration – not to mention the raw materials for everything from aspirin to maple syrup. In Around the World in 80 Trees, expert Jonathan Drori uses plant science to illuminate how trees play a role in every part of human life, from the romantic to the regrettable. Stops on the trip include the lime trees of Berlin’s Unter den Linden boulevard, which intoxicate amorous Germans and hungry bees alike, the swankiest streets in nineteenth-century London, which were paved with Australian eucalyptus wood, and the redwood forests of California, where the secret to the trees’ soaring heights can be found in the properties of the tiniest drops of water. Each of these strange and true tales – populated by self-mummifying monks, tree-climbing goats and ever-so-slightly radioactive nuts – is illustrated by Lucille Clerc, taking the reader on a journey that is as informative as it is beautiful.

In this insightful work, Gary Zukav expands on his previous concepts, illustrating how the growth of human perception beyond the five senses leads to a deeper understanding of 'authentic power'. Alongside his coauthor, Linda Francis, he emphasizes the importance of applying these vital concepts to our daily lives. Zukav highlights how true emotional awareness can profoundly transform our experiences. While the journey may be challenging due to the need to confront suppressed pain, it offers immense rewards. A commitment to exploring all aspects of consciousness is essential, replacing the urge to hide painful emotions. This emotional awareness can liberate us from compulsions, fixations, obsessions, and addictions—such as anger, workaholism, and substance abuse—that hinder our spiritual growth. By embracing our emotions, we can create a fulfilling and meaningful life. This work serves as a powerful tool for readers, enabling them to cultivate greater emotional awareness and harness their emotions to achieve authentic power. It is a transformative read, one that invites multiple readings for its life-changing insights.

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'An emotional and compelling tale' Sun After a tragic accident which left her deeply scarred, Sage Singer retreated into herself, allowing her guilt to govern her life. When she befriends kindly retired teacher Josef, it seems that life has finally offered her a chance of healing. But the gentle man Sage thinks she knows is in fact hiding a terrible secret. Josef was an SS officer during the Holocaust and now he wishes to die - and he wants Sage to help him. As Joseph begins to reveal his past to her, Sage is horrified. Does this past give her the right to kill him?A compelling tale about the line between justice and mercy from the internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult. Jodi's brand new novel, A SPARK OF LIGHT is publishing soon and is now available to pre-order!

Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens - until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts shooting, changing the lives of everyone inside and out. The daughter of the judge sitting on the case should be the state's best witness - but with her boyfriend dead and her childhood friend charged with murder she is struggling to remember what happened in front of her own eyes... Number one bestselling author Jodi Picoult brings us her hardest-hitting and most involving novel yet. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else - and whether a person is ever whom they seem to be...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and the modern classics My Sister’s Keeper, The Storyteller, and more, comes a “complex, compassionate, and smart” (The Washington Post) novel about a family torn apart by a murder accusation. When your son can’t look you in the eye…does that mean he’s guilty? Jacob Hunt is a teen with Asperger’s syndrome. He’s hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, though he is brilliant in many ways. He has a special focus on one subject—forensic analysis. A police scanner in his room clues him in to crime scenes, and he’s always showing up and telling the cops what to do. And he’s usually right. But when Jacob’s small hometown is rocked by a terrible murder, law enforcement comes to him. Jacob’s behaviors are hallmark Asperger’s, but they look a lot like guilt to the local police. Suddenly the Hunt family, who only want to fit in, are thrust directly in the spotlight. For Jacob’s mother, it’s a brutal reminder of the intolerance and misunderstanding that always threaten her family. For his brother, it’s another indication why nothing is normal because of Jacob. And for the frightened small town, the soul-searing question looms: Did Jacob commit murder? House Rules is “a provocative story in which [Picoult] explores the pain of trying to comprehend the people we love—and reminds us that the truth often travels in disguise” (People).

When Willow is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, her parents are devastated--she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of "luckier" parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their child had been born healthy? But it's all worth it because Willow is, funny as it seems, perfect. She's smart as a whip, on her way to being as pretty as her mother, kind, brave, and for a five-year-old an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom. Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health. Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and her husband to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte had known earlier of Willow's illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more. What constitutes a valuable life?

Somer’s life is everything sheimagined it would be—she’snewly married and has startedher career as a physician in SanFrancisco—until she makes the devastatingdiscovery she never will beable to have children. The same year in India, a poormother makes the heartbreakingchoice to save her newborn daughter’slife by giving her away. It is adecision that will haunt Kavita forthe rest of her life, and cause aripple effect that travels across theworld and back again. Asha, adopted out of a Mumbaiorphanage, is the child that bindsthe destinies of these two women. Wefollow both families, invisibly connecteduntil Asha’s journey of self-discoveryleads her back to India. Compulsively readable anddeeply touching, Secret Daughter isa story of the unforeseen ways inwhich our choices and families affectour lives, and the indelible power oflove in all its many forms.

For thousands of years the Great Sphinx of Egypt has gazed towards the east, reading a message in the stars that mankind has long forgotten. This work considers geological and archaeo-astronomical evidence that suggests that the Sphinx may be a great deal older than Egyptologists believe. It has also become clear that the three enormous pyramids of the Giza plateau, half a mile to the west of the Sphinx, are not the tombs of megalomaniac Pharaohs but a precise map of the stars of Orion's Belt.

In het voorjaar van 1955, slechts twee jaar nadat Sir Edmund Hillary de top van de Mount Everest heeft bereikt, trekt een team van drie vrouwen naar de Jugal Himal in de Himalaya - een onherbergzaam, onverkend en nauwelijks in kaart gebracht gebied op de grens van Nepal en Tibet. Monica Jackson, Elizabeth Stark en Evelyn Camrass vormen de eerste expeditie die geheel uit vrouwen bestaat. Zwaarbeladen en primitief uitgerust, zonder zuurstofflessen of hoogtemeters, vinden en bedwingen deze drie vrouwen een berg van meer dan 6700 meter, die ze Gyalgen noemen, naar hun hoofdsherpa. Tenten in de wolken laat zien wat een klein team met visie, passie en doorzettingsvermogen kan bereiken.

Timothy Good in questo saggio, frutto di quarant'anni di studi e ricerche, analizza fenomeni e casi registrati in ogni parte del pianeta. Dal primo episodio segnalato, quello dell'incontro del canadese Albert Coe con un alieno in un bosco dell'Ontario nel 1920, al famoso 'UFO-crash' di Roswell (New Mexico) nel 1947, sino agli avvistamenti più recenti avvenuti in Brasile e Portorico nel 1996 e nel 1997.

Traditional Chinese edition of Sing You Home. Jodi Picoult deftly tackles another controversial subject, this time, the subject of gay rights. Specifically, the right of gay women carrying a fetus and raising a baby. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

From the Sunday Timesbestselling author, a story of two women, a lost garden in magical Cornwall and a love story from long ago...

June's first husband was killed in a car crash eighteen years ago. Against all the odds, her daughter was uninjured - and, in another miracle, June found love again with the policeman who rescued them. Six years later they were a happy family, June pregnant with their own child. Now June's second daughter is twelve, and dying without the new heart she so urgently needs. And her first daughter, along with her husband, is dead, killed by Shay Bourne, an itinerant workman they welcomed into their home. The crime was so heinous that Shay has been given the death penalty - for the first time in 69 years in New Hampshire. Shay is going to die, and he is looking for redemption. He wants to give June's daughter his heart . . .

Lesley, diciassette anni, adora Mara, la sua bellissima e affascinante madre, che le racconta storie incredibili sulla vita in Germania e Ungheria prima e durante la guerra. Ma c'è una terribile verità sul proprio passato che Mara non può confessare, e che sta diventando una pericolosa ossessione. Lesley fa di tutto per cercare di comprendere i comportamenti sempre più strani della madre, così come suo padre cerca disperatamente di salvare la moglie dai ricordi. Ma a volte l'amore non sembra essere sufficiente per evitare la tragedia, e Lesley, di fronte a una vita famigliare distrutta, decide di partire, per andare lontano, nel paese dove Mara è stata felice, alla ricerca della verità...

Un viaggio atraverso i meandri più oscuri e misteriosi della storia, sulle tracce archeologiche di una religione segreta che ha modellato i destini dell'umanità. Da Eliopoli a Luxor, da Alessandria d'Egitto a Firenze, da Roma a Londra, in un incalzare di avvenimenti che giungono alla situazione creatasi dopo l'11 settembre. Fra sacerdoti egizi e astronomi, fra gnostici cristiani e saggi ermetici, arabi ed ebrei, gli autori guidano alla scoperta di una Nuova Città del Sole, che esiste nelle planimetrie delle maggiori capitali d'Occidente.

Dawn Edelstein is on a plane when she is told to prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life. Back in Boston, there is her husband, Brian, their beloved daughter, and her work as a death doula. But somewhere in Egypt is Wyatt Armstrong, who works as an archaeologist unearthing ancient burial sites, a career Dawn once studied for but was forced to abandon. The airline ensures that the survivors are seen by a doctor, then offers offers transportation to wherever they want to go. The obvious destination is to fly home, but she could take another path: return to the archaeological site she left years before, reconnect with Wyatt and their unresolved history. As the story unfolds, Dawn's two possible futures unspool side by side, as do the secrets and doubts long buried with them. Dawn must confront the questions she's never truly asked: What does a life well-lived look like? When we leave this earth, what do we leave behind? Do we make choices...or do our choices make us? And who would you be, if you hadn't turned out to be the person you are right now? --Adapted from publisher description