Piro - Fiction & Literature 8

It's amazing how many people do not balance their checkbooks or don't participate in their companies 401(k) or 403(b) plans. Or they are so far in debt they fear they will never see daylight. In man……続きを見る

This book encourages readers to think about reading not only as an encounter with written language, but as a lifelong habit of engagement with ideas. We look at reading in four different ways: as li……続きを見る

Ce voyage que propose Pirotte nous mène dans le seul continent qui mérite aujourd'hui encore d'être arpenté, car toujours inconnu : celui de l'homme, et des débats qui se mènent dans son cerveau. Le……続きを見る

Quatre femmes, un enterrement. Quatre rivales qui se sont partagé le même homme, peintre de renom auquel le monde de la culture vient rendre un dernier hommage. Comment vont-elles se tenir? Il y a t……続きを見る

Qu'est-ce que Paris vu de l'autre côté de la Méditerranée quand on a à peine dix-huit ans ? Une fratrie part à la conquête de la capitale, ivre de secrètes ambitions et de fantasmes appris dans les ……続きを見る

**What happens to one's soul when a child dies? A moving story of denial and depression taking the reader inside the complexities of a marriage shattered by the devastating loss of their only child.……続きを見る

This collection is compiled from the unpublished poems of Karl Shapiro at the University of Texas in Austin and elsewhere. They are largely as Shapiro left them, in a desk drawer in his apartment in……続きを見る

As a little girl growing up in Boston, Miriam Bluestein fantasized about a life lived on stage, specifically in a musical. Get married, have a familyーsure, maybe she’d do those things, too, but fir……続きを見る

Gay men communicate in many ways, sometimes a glance, sometimes a smile, and sometimes a whistle. In How to Whistle, Gregg Shapiro brings us men of all types sometimes seeking to be with each other ……続きを見る

A novel about an ambitious Long Island girl filled with “pitch-perfect observations about adolescence, the suburbs, [and] the 1960s” (Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion). It is 1966, and ……続きを見る

“In deft, quiet language,” the Pulitzer Prize finalist “recalls the past and how it sometimes hurts” in his latest poetry collection (Library Journal). Alan Shapiro’s newest book of poetry explores ……続きを見る

“Searing, hauntingly sad, often hilarious, these poems . . . reconnect the circuits of the soul.” ーMartha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago We often ask ourselves what gets lost in translationーno……続きを見る

More than a gathering of essays, That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration is part memoir, part literary criticism, and an artful fusion of the two. It is an intimate portrait of a life in……続きを見る

A fascinating look at the careers of some of Broadway's greatest female performers in their own words In Here's to the Ladies, the follow-up to Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Wome……続きを見る

Dans son ouvrage 'Antiquités d'Herculanum: Lampes et candélabres', Tommaso Piroli explore de manière approfondie les différentes lampes et candélabres découverts lors des fouilles archéologiques à H……続きを見る

Dans D’une vie à l’autre, Lou explore les mystères de l’existence, cherchant à comprendre le sens du présent et du passé. Ses questions incessantes sont le moteur de sa quête pour retrouver sa liber……続きを見る

In this political satire-thriller, we follow a government official, an exiled influencer, and a burned-out delivery driver, living through a culture obsessed presidency that signs the policy toKill ……続きを見る

" Je m'appelle Dominique Biron et j'ai décidé de mourir dans trois jours. C'est le temps qu'il a fallu au Christ pour revenir d'entre les morts, ça me suffira bien pour faire mon petit ménage. " Qua……続きを見る

Histoire d'une improbable rencontre entre un millionnaire et une migrante Sur les rives de la mer du Nord, Renaud coule des jours malheureux dans sa maison de maître, malgré l'attention de ses amis,……続きを見る

From the popular Book of Odds website, this stylish and accessible reference book offers a fascinating peek at the probabilities that govern every aspect of human life Did you know that your odds of……続きを見る

La historia del mundo a través de la mirada de un árbol. Una bella novela que te hará crecer y fortalecerá tus raíces emocionales. Un árbol majestuoso y milenario explica su propia vida. Es la reina……続きを見る

Una historia intensa y hermosa, ambientada en la Bélgica ocupada de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, que nos muestra que incluso en los momentos más duros existe un espacio para la esperanza. Bélgica, dic……続きを見る

Le chef-d'oeuvre inachevé de Jane Austen Cette petite ville renferme bien des mystères... D'abord heureuse de contempler le spectacle tranquille de la plage depuis la vaste fenêtre de sa chambre, Ch……続きを見る

Petite dernière de sa fratrie, Mickey Bloom mesure 1,50 mètre, est dyslexique et peine à trouver sa place au cœur d’une famille désunie. Mickey n'a rien de spécial. Jusqu'au jour où, presque par has……続きを見る

Growing up in Tzfat at the turn of the twentieth century, Esther does not know what to expect when she marries Moshe, a trunk-maker with dreams of following his brothers to start a new life in Ameri……続きを見る

From the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politicians that engineered its downfall. 1935 . As part……続きを見る

Il concetto storiografico di Dolce stil novo risale alla Storia della letteratura italiana di Francesco De Sanctis, che per primo lo formulò nel 1870. E tuttavia, benché accolto da molti tanto da fi……続きを見る

In a world where nearly every kid has a superpower called an “Iris,” only a few unfortunate people like Toru are born without. Bullied throughout his childhood, his motto in life is “Zero Attention”……続きを見る