页数： 0 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2025-5-16

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英文简介: 28-year-old Mana Suzukura works a demanding fashion job in central Tokyo. For some time, she has been navigating the unwelcome advances of one of their clients, Hodaka. Despite her discomfort, the company can’t afford to cause trouble. However, one night, on her way home from work, she finds that Hodaka has been lurking in the shadows, ready to force his way into her apartment. Mana is scared and threatens to scream – that is until her husband Kazuki appears on the doorstep and scares Hodaka away. But Mana is not relieved. She is terrified.

Kazuki was an abusive husband that she thought she had pushed off a cliff five years ago. Until now, she believed he was dead.

Now he is back in her life, claiming he can’t remember the past. Stranger still, this new Kazuki is kind and calm, and slowly Mana manages to settle back into life with him. She’s finally living the stable married life she always wished for when she receives an anonymous letter that says: I know about Mana Suzukura’s past.

Soon a detective gets in touch to report that Kazuki’s remains have been found in the mountains of Miyagi Prefecture. If Kazuki is in fact dead, who is the man in Mana’s house claiming to be her husband? And what kind of secrets has Mana been keeping from herself?

This complex yet riveting narrative provides a convincing glimpse into the lives of those on the fringes of Japanese society. While also exploring the injustices that drive women to extreme deeds and the friendship that bolster them in times of need.

页数： 304 到书日期： 2025-4-3 上传日期： 2025-4-3

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英文简介: The last classic of 20th century Italian literature.

A cult writer in the 1990s, Tondelli produced a small but very influential body of work.

This novel tells us about three moments in the life of a 30-year-old writer, Leo, who is mourning the loss of his boyfriend, Thomas, a young German music player.

Their affair is told through long reflections and flashbacks. Leo is a successful writer, who lives in Milan, Paris, London and Florence; Thomas is in West Berlin. The two lovers often meet elsewhere in Europe, they take their holidays together but live in two separate rooms, 2000 kilometres one from another.

They meet whenever they wish but can also seclude themselves in their own loneliness. Then Thomas starts an affair with a girl. The triangle makes Leo deeply jealous, until Thomas is diagnosed with the illness that will lead to his death in Munich.

页数： 304 到书日期： 2025-4-3 上传日期： 2025-4-3

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英文简介: A semi-unknown father and his past, both to be discovered. Terrorism set in 1970s Turin.

A young woman, lonely and in love with literature, writes the chronicle of her fight with her father’s death: the two had shared a happy relationship during her childhood, a hard one during her teenage years. But now that the man is dead too many questions are unanswered: who was the young doctor-worker who always sided with the poor, who always had someone to save, who was sentenced to jail for taking part in an armed band? And why did he never tell his daughter about those years? Lawyers, old far-leftwinged militants, archives and trial accounts are voices that make up the portrait of a complex and contradictory man, a witness and protagonist of a complex and contradictory time. In the background, Turin, city of rage, pain, and hope, a backdrop of violence that generated deception and ruins.

The novel of a man, his families and his choices, retold with love and rage.

页数： 528 到书日期： 2025-4-3 上传日期： 2025-4-3

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英文简介: Professor Vecce has brought sensitivity and respect to Caterina’s life in a story that gallops across the page on the energy of his immense historical research and results in a compelling novel that reads like a story from the Arabian Nights or the Travels of Marco Polo, all the while granting us detailed insight into the mother of one of the greatest minds of all time, Leonardo da Vinci.

Professor Vecce is a historian who has been researching Leonardo da Vinci for many years. When he recently found evidence in the archives that suggested Caterina to be Leonardo’s mother, Professor Vecce felt compelled to tell her story first in a novel because the findings are immense: Caterina was from Circassia, and was brought to Italy by way of the Sea of Azov, the Black Sea, and Constantinople, to Venice, where women from Circassia were brought work on the production of brocade. She was a slave, a woman whose life, possessions, voice, and liberty were taken from her. The author saw so many parallels to our modern-day plight of slaves and international refugees that his desire to allow this woman to be known and to become immediately human in our eyes overcame even his instincts as a historian (nb, his scientific article was published on 30/10/23; his non-fiction title, The Life of Leonardo will be published by Giunti in April 2024.)

页数： 372 到书日期： 2025-4-3 上传日期： 2025-4-3

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英文简介: A fascinating, evil woman capable of devouring both darkness and light, and a young woman who has only on the power of love, engaged in a battle that lasts a lifetime.

A deep affection between a young man capable of flight and a young woman with the light of purity in her eyes.

An extraordinary, original novel, filled with thrilling adventures and magical events.

Certain encounters have the power to change the course of our lives forever. For Rechella, a child in Nuoro in the early 1960s, the encounter is with Martino and the grandmother who takes him in after he has been abandoned by his parents. Martino is a boy with a fervent imagination, filled with visions so powerful that they allow him to take flight: he is able to see beyond, where the clouds become stormy seas navigated by pirate ships. But even more particular is his grandmother, Jaja, a woman both respected and feared: she is capable of opening passages in time and space, of telling stories that come alive, of knowing the life secrets of others and molding them as she does the herbs in her kitchen. Rechella is both in love with Martino and fascinated by Jaja, until a terrible tragedy forces her to see: Jaja is a sùrbile, a woman who absorbs the energy of those she loves most to increase her own immense vitality.

Rechella has only one choice for survival: she must leave, she must go out into the world. Her journey will introduce her to other extraordinary characters who will accompany her on the long search for the indelible light that not even the power of the sùrbile can destroy.

页数： 304 到书日期： 2025-4-3 上传日期： 2025-4-3

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英文简介: “For a brief instant I felt in my body, although not yet in my mind, that between the past and the present there was a continuity that surpassed every fractured connection in my life, and this continuity was water.”

Two days after meeting via a dating app, J. and the protagonist of this novel meet on the platform of a London train station. They know little about each other, but they have exchanged photos of their bookshelves at home, letting their literary tastes speak for themselves. The attraction between them is immediate, the intimacy of their bodies comes quickly, well before the intimacy of their minds.

J. is from Canada and has a partner with whom she is in a nonmonogamous relationship. She is running away from a memory that is difficult for her even to discuss. The narrator grew up in a small town in the Veneto region of Italy, but has lived in various European cities since she was eighteen, her sense of euphoria of living in new places alternating with a sense of uprootedness. Together they find the courage to dive into the unprotected waters of desire and pain, wild swimming through their memories until each finds the words with which to tell her own story.

页数： 256 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-12-5

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页数： 266 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-10-16

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英文简介: Detention can wait. Saving the world comes first.

Jack and Conan’s friendship is officially dead. Stuck in detention with Yash and Jerry after an all-out brawl in the toilet, it’s a terrible start to sixth class. And that’s before they witness a monstrous beast step out of a portal outside their school. When it wanders into the crumbling mansion across the road, where the sinister Mr Kilroe lives, the boys follow. They have to investigate, right?

Unlocking Mr Kilroe’s secrets is only the beginning. Because there’s more than one otherworldly horror hiding in that house and confronting it will put Jack and Conan in mortal danger – that’s if they don’t kill each other first!

The perfect thriller for fans of Stranger Things.

页数： 304 到书日期： 2024-10-12 上传日期： 2024-10-12

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英文简介: John Paul Reyes wants to escape the worst truths in his life-other people’s pity since his dad died, and everyone else’s expectations about what he should do with his life now that he’s graduated high school. When he arrives at the Majestic Mountain resort with his Tita Abrigo’s wealthy family, he sees a way to escape-he can be JP Abrigo, rich and set, and he can lie his way to feeling fine.

Mia Malik is trapped in this town, working hard at the resort, trying to escape her broken family and to make her way to the prestigious art program she was accepted into. She’s desperate to afford her way there, and she’s sick of the privileged guests who have the whole world open to them, who don’t really even see her

A moving, layered young adult novel in two voices about finding truth in the lies we tell ourselves.

页数： 392 到书日期： 2024-10-11 上传日期： 2024-10-11

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英文简介: A family heirloom, handmade in Paris. A wartime sacrifice that changed everything. And a secret kept for generations.

Paris, 1940. Clutching a delicate silver dove-shaped brooch – the last gift from her beloved Otto, with a message of love engraved in the back – Lally flees her home in Paris. With her closest friend by her side, she dodges the Nazi gunfire echoing all around the city streets. But as they become more and more desperate during the darkest days Europe has ever known, one must make a terrible sacrifice for them both to survive…

France, 2014. After her father’s death, grieving Hope starts a new life in France. All she knows of her father’s family is that they were separated in World War Two. And her only inheritance is a unique, dove-shaped brooch.

Exploring an antique market one day, Hope’s breath catches in her throat at what she finds. A wartime picture of a green-eyed girl, a silver brooch pinned to her dress, shaped like a dove in flight. Hope has only ever seen one like it before.

Certain it’s her family heirloom, Hope is desperate to find the woman in the portrait. But it soon becomes clear that some wartime secrets are dangerous to uncover…

Will Hope’s discoveries change everything she ever believed about her father? And even if she does find the truth, will it bring her healing – or tear her apart?

Fans of The Letter, The Nightingale and We Were the Lucky Ones will be utterly swept away by this heartbreaking and unforgettable tale about family secrets in World War Two and the bonds that held people together during terrible times.