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Isabella Zani

    Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
    The push
    Gone girl
    The Lost Wife
    All the light we cannot see
    The October horse
    • The push

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      "First published in the United States of American by Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021."--Title page verso.

      The push2021
      4.1
    • Dancing with the Tiger

      • 456 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      This gripping literary thriller follows a meth-addicted grave robber who unearths Montezuma's death mask, igniting a violent conflict among a drug lord, a mad collector, a corrupt curator, and a desperate looter. Central to the story is Anna Ramsey, a woman with a troubled past seeking the courage to reveal her true self.

      Dancing with the Tiger2018
      3.4
    • All the light we cannot see

      • 544 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      The epic new novel from Sunday Times Short Story Prize-winner Anthony Doerr.

      All the light we cannot see2017
      4.3
    • There are two sides to every story... On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer? As the cops close in, every couple in town is soon wondering how well they know the one that they love. With his twin sister, Margo, at his side, Nick stands by his innocence. Trouble is, if Nick didn’t do it, where is that beautiful wife? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet?

      Gone girl2013
      4.1
    • The Lost Wife

      • 344 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      A rapturous novel of star-crossed love in a time of war—from the international bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds. During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry—only to have their dreams shattered by the imminent Nazi invasion. Like so many others, they are torn apart by the currents of war. Now a successful obstetrician in America, Josef has never forgotten the wife he believes died in the war. But in the Nazi ghetto of Terezín, Lenka survived, relying on her skills as an artist and the memories of a husband she would never see again. Then, decades later and thousands of miles away, an unexpected encounter in New York leads to an inescapable glance of recognition, and the realization that providence has given Lenka and Josef one more chance. From the glamorous ease of life in Prague before the occupation to the horrors of Nazi Europe, The Lost Wife explores the power of first love, the resilience of the human spirit, and our capacity to remember.

      The Lost Wife2012
      4.2
    • The Naming of the Dead

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      The brilliant new Rebus novel from 'Britain's No. 1 crime writer' [Daily Mirror].

      The Naming of the Dead2008
      3.9
    • Miss Pettigrew, a governess looking for work, is sent by mistake to the home of Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous nightclub singer involved with three different men and is invited to stay after offering Miss LaFosse common sense advice about her love life.

      Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day2008
      4.0
    • The October horse

      • 1120 pages
      • 40 hours of reading

      With the possible exception of the crucifixion of Christ no moment of history is more universally familiar and more often depicted than the assassination of Julius Caesar. Caesar is in the prime of his life and the height of his powers as the novel opens. A man of contradictions, Caesar is happily married yet at the same time the lover of the enigmatic and subtle Egyptian ruler, Cleopatra. He is at once a great general who commands the instinctive loyalty of Rome's legions, and a man who wishes to bring to an end Rome's endless civil and external wars, a man not only conscious of his own power, and contemptuous of lesser men, but respectful of the republic, and determined not to be worshipped as a living god or crowned as an emperor, a man whose very greatness attracts envy and jealousy to a dangerous degree. With her extraordinary knowledge of Roman history, Colleen McCullough brings Caesar to life as nobody has ever done before, and surrounds him with an enormous and vivid cast of historical characters, portrayed here not as literary figures, but as real, living people, trying to control and master enormous political events and survive.

      The October horse2004
      4.5