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Improve your Italian skills and grow your vocabulary with these 10 entertaining Italian short stories! The best part of learning a new language is experiencing the culture and diving into activities that will enrich your life and vocabulary. The best way to learn a new language is by reading/listening, and in this Italian book, each captivating story will engage your mind and help you improve your Italian.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908) was the greatest writer ever to come from Brazil and one of the masters of nineteenth-century fiction. Susan Sontag calls him "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America", surpassing even Borges. Harold Bloom says that Machado is "the supreme black literary artist to date". And Allen Ginsburg calls him "another Kafka". And The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas is his masterpiece, a dazzling, tragic, and profound novel that belongs next to the greatest works of his contemporaries Melville and Dostoevsky.

Venetian gondola-maker Luca Vianello considers his whole life arranged. His father charted a course for his eldest son from the day he was born, and Luca is positioned to inherit one of the city's most esteemed boatyards. But when Luca experiences an unexpected tragedy in the boatyard, he believes that his destiny lies elsewhere. Soon, he finds himself drawn to restore an antique gondola with the dream of taking a girl for a ride.

Florence, 1500. Fresco painter Jacopo Torni longs to make his mark in the world. But while his peers enjoy prestigious commissions, his meager painting jobs are all earmarked to pay down gambling debts. When Jacopo hears of a competition to create Florence's greatest sculpture, he pins all his hopes on a collaboration with his boyhood companion, Michelangelo Buonarroti. But will the frustrated artist ever emerge from the shadow of his singularly gifted friend?

A husband obsessed with his wife's psychological unfaithfulness craves honesty and disclosure. Their confrontations broil without resolution as external stately events intervene to worsen their long-lasting, irrepressible wrangles. Conspiracy, crime, and corruption that penetrate the highest levels of the Mafia, the military police, Roman Catholicism, and Stregheria, a secret society, intrude to thrust the couple's previous mundane life into a vortex of murderous, self-interested forces seeking control of the Papacy and the Vatican bank.

Nicholas rose to power from the gritty backstreets of Buenos Aires. He controlled everything around him. But the universe had something completely different in mind for Nicholas. Something shattering. Where the Green Star Falls is a visceral tale of survival with the soul of a love story. From the Parisian mecca of South America, Buenos Aires, you'll be transported to the mysterious river-lands of Argentina amid the towering Andes Mountains and emerald green waters, where Nicholas will meet his fate head on. He must become the man he was born to be.

When a member of the European Union is assassinated, former CIA Special Agent Jack Bishop uncovers a global conspiracy. Tensions are rising as world leaders prepare to meet in Moscow for an important economic summit that could change the face of the global economic structure. As Jack Bishop gets closer to the truth, he finds himself in a race against time to stop this global network from achieving the next step in its armageddon initiative.

Manuel considers himself the wealthiest boy in all of Mexico. He freely roams the countryside with his faithful dogs. He hunts, fishes, and basks in the fresh air. However, he's the son of a peasant woman who is deeply in love with Manuel's father, a wealthy Mexican land owner. Because of their class differences, the relationship between his parents is forbidden.

Set in author Moris Senegor's native Turkey and throughout the Mediterranean, Appassionata is an intriguing and evocative compilation of short stories. Taken together, these tales are equal parts playful, poignant, mysterious, and appealingly bizarre - a winning combination sure to appeal to fiction lovers of all tastes and backgrounds.

Il virus che trasforma gli uomini in morti viventi ha avuto il sopravvento. Una setta di fanatici religiosi, gli Opliti di Cristo, ha preso il potere e tiene in pugno le istituzioni facendo rivivere una sorta di Medioevo. Nelle campagne del Distretto Sud, Brian Crane, un vecchio bonificatore sulla via del tramonto, deve vedersela con un ennesimo focolaio, e, come se non bastasse, deve istruire un novellino, Jedediah Braddock, fresco di caserma ma totalmente inesperto.

Alfio is a junkie. Alfio is absolutely in need of a hit. Jessica wants to burgle a country house where an old guy lives collecting memories of his wife, Agnese Cipriani, a famous opera singer dead long time ago. Maicol, Jessica's brother, is a psychopath and he just wants to torture the poor old man. The three criminals do not know that the old man keeps a terrible secret and something evil is hidden in the house: they won't be able to get out easily.

Quando diventa moralmente giustificabile l'omicidio dei leader politici? è facile giustificare l'uccisione degli Hitler, gli Stalin e i Pol Pot nel mondo: i tiranni assassini devono essere uccisi. Ma nel caso in cui i nostri leader siano semplicemente degli idioti, o dei corrotti, piccoli tirannucoli che non sono della stessa categoría di Hitler, Stalin e Pol Pot? Quanti danni possiamo permettere che facciano, quanti dei nostri diritti possiamo permettere che ci portino via, prima che ucciderli diventi moralmente giustificabile?

Nala and her sister live their lives as slaves in the Han Dynasty. A chance encounter at a bazaar leads Nala on a mission to keep her sister safe from evil, while learning that not everything is as it appears to be. Can she save her sister and herself before it is too late?

La sua bellezza, assieme ad altre doti, l'aveva catapultata nel mondo delle escort di lusso ad Hong Kong. La sua vita era cambiata dopo che il suo amante milionario l'aveva mandata negli USA per permetterle di studiare. Pochi anni dopo era uscita da Harvard con un MBA e una certificazione da commercialista. Con qualche aiuto da parte del suo amico, era ascesa a presidente di una delle maggiori banche di Miami.

Cosa faresti se la TSA aggredisse sessualmente TUA madre? Se fossi un americano dal sangue caldo, faresti la stessa cosa che ha fatto James Young. E cos'ha fatto James Young? Leggi questa storia per scoprirlo. Questo libro evidenzia gli effetti che l'abuso di potere e la paranoia del governo possono avere sull'esistenza dell'individuo. In questo racconto breve, James Young decide di averne ha avuto abbastanza e di dover fare qualcosa al riguardo. Il sistema legale ha fallito nei suoi confronti. L'unica soluzione è farsi giustizia da solo.

On the brink of the Roman Invasion of Greece, the city of Corinth, well established as a mighty seat of power in the Achaean League, is threatened with impending destruction. Widespread colonization of the mainland has severed crucial supply chains and the need to establish a fruitful colony of their own has emerged. Aineias and his steersman, Pyrrhus, are the only sailors willing to take on the voyage.The men soon realize that the only hope they have of saving Corinth is to seek...the Kraken.

Jeremy Case è un reduce del Vietnam ossessionato da Johnny Boy, morto durante un'imboscata. Ogni notte Case sogna di essere trascinato all'inferno dallo spirito del commilitone, che non gli perdona di essersi salvato dai Viet Cong. A distanza di anni, Jeremy non riesce a dormire, e passa le sue notti guardando un programma, "True Crimes", che indaga su uno spietato serial killer che ha preso di mira i clochard della zona. La vita di Jeremy sembra cambiare quando Milla viene a vivere nell'appartamento sopra al suo. Il reduce si innamora di lei immediatamente, ma la donna sembra preferire le attenzioni di Hank, un rozzo energumeno che si stabilisce da lei. L'esistenza di Jeremy sembra così ripiombare nell'abisso, fra le manifestazioni di Johnny Boy sempre più insidiose e dormiveglia che lo mettono in uno stato di prostrazione: come se non bastasse, Hank comincia a fare violenza a Milla.

Alfio si è cacciato in un brutto guaio: è in crisi da astinenza da eroina e Jessica, la sua ex, insieme al fratello ritardato Maicol lo hanno trascinato in un brutto affare. Per ottenere i soldi per una dose, nella notte di Halloween, hanno deciso di entrare in una casa di campagna dove si dice che il vecchio che ci abita possegga una fortuna, lasciatagli dalla celebre cantante lirica Agnese Cipriani, ormai morta da anni. Quello che i tre balordi non sanno è che non ci sarà solo un povero vecchio a fare gli onori di casa. Quale oscuro segreto nasconde quell'isolata villetta di campagna?

A fantastic story of alien, magic and mythical creatures that takes place in a far universe, Dakto Sector. Join us as we unravel the dramatic events between the Varks, Cateens and the irenic race called the Audurians.

When fortunes fail, and feelings fade; when life's once-bright wonders turn to shades of gray, and your most precious treasures start to decay - what do you turn to then? Sandrone Pavironica, better known as the Spice King, was the second wealthiest man in the exceedingly wealthy City of Masks, until the day his greatest triumph turned into his most devastating tragedy.