This story moves between fiction and history, as the author bases the story on real data and the reader knows the outcome from the beginning, but Macintyre conceives it as a thriller and achieves it because...
An interesting chapter of World War II has come to light for the first time. A good number of families of Jewish origin successfully evaded Nazism and escaped to the United States through diverse means. ...
Everything is getting more complex. It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the amount of information we find every day. Whether it is at work, at school, or in our personal endeavors, there is a growing need,...
This book is a fundamental reference for spiritual direction. For Barry and Connolly, this Christian practice is about helping people develop their relationship with God and deepen their spiritual...
Narration of a Japanese writer and journalist about the last years and the death of his elderly mother, a widow who is cared for by her four children, especially women: Shigako, Kuwako, and daughter-in-law...
At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, an operator pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl’s fourth nuclear reactor. This started a process that led to the explosion of the reactor, exposing the core,...
Nnedi Okorafor, of Igbo descent (Nigeria), was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1974, and has specialized in science fiction publications. The Night Masquerade is the third and final part of the Binti trilogy, the...
The German writer Leonhard Frank (W'rburg, 1882–Munich, 1961) sets his own novel autobiography in Germany in the early 20th century; he experienced the crises of the two World Wars and the period between...
Published in 1949, this novel received the Viareggio Award. It’s based on a real story that Renata Viganò (Bologna,1900-1976) lived during the partisan resistance against fascism and German invasion, in a...
The book confronts a political issue of great interest: the emergence of political demands around identities of different types (race, ethnicity, gender, etc.). The essay combines philosophical and social...