As Yuko begins to make peace with her childlessness, Motoi grows increasingly desperate for a child to whom he can pass on his elite genes. Their last resort is surrogacy; a business transaction, plain and simple. But as they try to exert ever more control over Riki, their contract with her starts to slip through their fingers…

Vibrating with the injustices of class and gender, tradition and power, Swallows is an acerbic, witty vision of contemporary Japan, and of a young woman’s fight to preserve her dignity – at any cost.

“È onesto? Siamo tutti onesti?” Non si può certo definire un provocatore l’uomo che presto verrà battezzato TonyInterruptor, ma sembra provare un bisogno insaziabile di interrompere e disturbare gli eventi culturali dal vivo. Chi è? Cosa vuole? Perché si abbandona a comportamenti che violano il contratto sociale? Dopo che una simile interruzione pubblica diventa virale, un piccolo gruppo di personaggi decide di scoprire le risposte a queste domande e finisce per imparare più di quanto vorrebbe sulla musica, la cultura, le relazioni, l’arte, l’integrità, gli uni gli altri e il proprio io infinitamente disturbato e disturbabile. Tanto profondo quanto esuberante, TonyInterruptor è un capolavoro comico che ripercorre le conseguenze di un singolo evento mentre riecheggia nel mondo online e nelle vite dei suoi personaggi, sconvolgendo tutto ciò che incontra e ponendo domande fondamentali sull’autenticità, Internet, l’amore e, sì, la verità.

Eventually, after no sign of her is found, it transpires she was never there. And yet, as time goes on, Tom still cannot reconcile that she is really at home. Refusing to accept that she is safe, Tom continues to search for her in the maze of corridors and impossible multi-dimensional spaces that make up his place of work…

Because Capmeadow is expanding in unexpected ways, a Liaison Officer becomes the central focus for complaints about how the expansion is impacting the lives of the employees – unexpected buildings, years-long business days, cursed farmers’ markets, and corridors of the mind are draining the life from Tom and everyone he works with. Years pass, and Tom remains at the company, convinced he is in the presence of his now adult daughter. But has he judged it correctly? And can anything go back to the way it was?

I piani per l’espansione del Capmeadow Business Park sono in pieno svolgimento: la sua missione è quella di diventare il più grande parco commerciale della regione. Tom Crowley, un impiegato di medio livello, perde la figlia durante la giornata “porta tua figlia al lavoro”. Lancia l’allarme e i suoi colleghi accorrono per aiutarlo a ritrovarla.

Alla fine, non trovando più traccia di lei, si scopre che non è mai stata lì. Eppure, col passare del tempo, Tom non riesce ancora ad accettare che sia davvero a casa. Rifiutandosi di accettare che sia al sicuro, Tom continua a cercarla nel labirinto di corridoi e impossibili spazi multidimensionali che compongono il suo luogo di lavoro…

Poiché Capmeadow si sta espandendo in modo inaspettato, un agente di collegamento diventa il fulcro delle lamentele sull’impatto che l’espansione sta avendo sulla vita dei dipendenti: edifici inaspettati, giornate lavorative lunghe anni, mercati agricoli maledetti e corridoi mentali stanno prosciugando la vita di Tom e di tutti i suoi collaboratori. Passano gli anni e Tom rimane in azienda, convinto di essere in presenza della figlia ormai adulta. Ma ha giudicato correttamente? E può qualcosa tornare come prima?

A middle-aged Jewish journalist turned novelist and playwright, consumed with anxiety about everything under the sun, Baum’s turgid philosophical books receive tepid reviews and his prestigious New York publisher has dropped him.

His third marriage is on the rocks and he suspects his handsome and successful younger brother may have seduced his Harvard-educated wife. He is uneasy with her close relationship with her son, a more successful author than he, and suspicious of her closeness with their neighbour in Connecticut. And in a moment of irrationality, he has impulsively tried to kiss a pretty young journalist during an interview that she is about to go public with.

Is it any wonder Baum has started talking to himself? Strangers shake their heads and walk around him on the street. Meanwhile he learns a startling secret that could cause havoc should he expose it. Should he keep it to himself or reveal it and blow up his marriage?

What’s with Baum? is Woody Allen’s first novel and it is everything you would expect of him–and more. A portrait of an intellectual crippled by neurotic concerns about the futility and emptiness of life; an amusing glimpse into the New York publishing establishment; above all, a highly entertaining, tightly plotted, beautifully wrought piece of fiction from one of America’s greatest and most versatile cinematic and literary talents.

Until she finds herself in the broiling streets of Tucson, Arizona, where an Afghan refugee has been missing for three weeks. The woman she is looking for, Sabera Ahmadi, is a wife and young mother, haunted by war, scarred by her past. The police and Sabera’s husband seem indifferent to her disappearance.

But Frankie knows trauma. She knows it can fuel or destroy you. And when she sees the distress in Sabera’s daughter’s eyes, she makes a decision she soon regrets: find Sabera.

But in order to solve the mystery of Sabera’s present, Frankie must revisit her past in order to uncover the dark secret she is hiding. A secret so dangerous it might kill them both …

Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Húrin, the man who dared defy him to his face. Against them Morgoth sends his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire, in an attempt to fulfil his curse and destroy the children of Húrin.
BEREN AND LÚTHIEN Deeply opposed to the marriage of Beren, a mortal man, to his daughter Lúthien, the great Elvish lord, Thingol, imposes an impossible task that Beren must perform before they might wed.

Undaunted by Lord Thingol’s challenge, Beren and Lúthien embark on the supremely heroic attempt to rob Morgoth, the greatest of all evil beings, of a Silmaril, one of the hallowed jewels that adorn the Black Enemy’s crown.
THE FALL OF GONDOLIN Central to the enmity of two of the greatest Powers in the world – Morgoth and Ulmo – is the Elvish city of Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable. Turgon King of Gondolin is hated and feared above all his enemies by Morgoth, who seeks in vain to discover the marvellously hidden city, while the gods in Valinor largely refuse to support Ulmo.

Into this world comes Tuor, cousin of Túrin, the instrument of Ulmo’s designs. Guided unseen by him Tuor sets out on the fearful journey to Gondolin, where he becomes great; he is wedded to Idril, Turgon’s daughter, and their son is Eärendel, whose birth and profound importance in days to come is foreseen by Ulmo. Then Morgoth learns through an act of supreme treachery all that he needs to mount a devastating attack on the city, with Balrogs and dragons and numberless Orcs.

In Asheboro, she’s built a life for herself and her kids that she’s proud of, especially after the turmoil of divorce. But when she meets lone wolf Tanner, she can’t help but feel something has been missing until now. Jasper will never belong again.

He had everything – and he lost it all. Now with only his old dog Arlo for company, he lives quietly, haunted by the tragic accident that took place decades before. Three strangers’ worlds are about to collide, changing the trajectory of all their lives.

Because some paths cross, some merge, and others guide you home… From the much-loved bestselling author of The Notebook comes a brand-new emotional and powerful novel about the journeys we take and those who touch our hearts along the way.