Lucia Corradini Caspani Book order (chronological)

Who would you be, if you hadn't turned out to be the person you are now? Dawn is a death doula, and spends her life helping people make the final transition peacefully. But when the plane she's on plummets, she finds herself thinking not of the perfect life she has, but the life she was forced to abandon fifteen years ago - when she left behind a career in Egyptology, and a man she loved. Against the odds, she survives, and the airline offers her a ticket to wherever she needs to get to - but the answer to that question suddenly seems uncertain. As the path of her life forks in two very different directions, Dawn must confront questions she's never truly asked: What does a well-lived life look like? What do we leave behind when we go? And do we make our choices, or do our choices make us? Two possible futures. One impossible choice.

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 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

Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and just when she's about to get her heart's desire, tragedy destroys her world. In the aftermath of loss and divorce, she throws herself into her career as a music therapist. Working with Vanessa, she finds their relationship moving from business, to friendship, and then - to Zoe's surprise - blossoming into love. When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of children again, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that she and her husband never used. But Max, having sought peace at the bottom of a bottle, has found redemption in an evangelical church, and Zoe needs his permission to take his unborn child . . . SING YOU HOME is accompanied by a soundtrack of original songs created for the novel by Jodi Picoult and Ellen Wilber.

Unable to express himself socially but possessing a savant-like knack for investigating crimes, a teenage boy with Asperger's Syndrome is wrongly accused of killing his tutor when the police mistake his autistic tics for guilty behavior. By the author of My Sister's Keeper. Reprint. A best-selling book.

Alla vigilia della stagione dei monsoni, in un remoto villaggio dell'India, Kavita dà alla luce una bambina. Ma in una società che considera le femmine solo un problema, l'unico modo per salvarle la vita è quello di affidarla a un orfanotrofio. Una decisione che graverà sul rapporto di Kavita con il marito per il resto dei loro giorni, nonostante l'arrivo di un figlio maschio di lì a poco. Dall'altra parte del mondo, a San Francisco, Somer, una pediatra, decide di adottare un figlio dopo essersi arresa all'idea che non potrà averne di propri. Quando lei e il marito, un medico di origine indiana, vedono la foto di una bambina dagli occhi dorati che proviene dall'orfanotrofio di Mumbai, pensano che l'amore che proveranno per la piccola supererà ogni ostacolo... La figlia segreta è un commovente romanzo d'esordio che esplora i sentimenti legati alla maternità, alla perdita e all'identità culturale, attraverso la storia di due famiglie, una indiana e l'altra americana, e attraverso la vita di una ragazza che le unisce indissolubilmente.

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...

Thought-provoking and impossible to put down novel from the UK's Number One bestselling women's fiction author.

"Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens - until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence. Josie Cormier, the teenage daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes - or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show - destroying the closest of friendships and families."--Page 4 cover

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.