Gabriella: 532 books

The nationalization of the postal service in Italy transformed post-unification letter writing as a cultural medium. Both a harbinger of progress and an expanded, more efficient means of circulating information, the national postal service served as a bridge between the private world of personal communication...

Theoretically and empirically informed studies on the role and efficiency of the public sector, public wage and employment policy, privatization, tax policy, and fiscal sustainability. The public sector has grown substantially in the last fifty years. In the euro area, for example, total government...

English professor Jack, an embittered older man in 1990s San Francisco, has a vivid flashback to his turbulent, secret love affair in North Beach in the early 1950s with tormented young artist Ray, who cares only about ambition and his art. An intense, gripping story about a doomed relationship that changes the course of a man's entire life.

The Motorcycle Ride, Chapter 2 finds the suburban wife who took a joyride on the tall, dark stranger's Harley a few months earlier yearning to run into him again. The memory of his smell and taste still linger on in her mind. As spring turned to summer, she and her family go to the neighborhood pool,...

Not everybody gets to go home. Not everybody wants to go back home. I, however, had always wanted to see the land where my grandparents had been born. All my life, I had been curious about life on the other side of the pond, where my ancestors had walked and talked. I too wanted to walk the streets...

Dort, wo anderen schon vom bloßen Zuschauen elend wird, fühlte sich Ueli Steck zu Hause. Dort, wo es für Nichtalpinisten nur ein Abwärts gibt, zog es ihn nach oben. Und dies am liebsten ohne Seil, im Alleingang und mit nicht nachvollziehbarer Geschwindigkeit. Ueli Steck war ein alpiner Zehnkämpfer,...

SAGGIO (96 pagine) - SAGGI - Manuale semiserio di sopravvivenza per la coppia. Un libro divertente capace di cogliere il senso dei dettagli e pieno di consigli preziosi per l'uomo capace di scherzare sui propri difetti e vuole tenersi una donna per più di 6 mesi. Hai faticato a corteggiare...

France, 1266. Will and his lover, Stephen, are safely ensconced at Montargis Abbey, a Dominican convent two days' ride south of Paris, where the widowed Lady Eleanor de Montfort has chosen to live out her days in peace and seclusion with her young daughter. Will and Stephen fall into a pleasant routine...

Dorothy Richardson (1873-1957) was an English novelist who pioneered the "stream of consciousness" technique in her long novel "Pilgrimage," which was published in 13 volumes over the 1920s and 1930s. Shy and from a humble background, Richardson's work is now overlooked, but in...

Three months past his breakup, Aaron is adrift, the only thing sustaining him being his weekly therapy sessions with Marc. But Marc's feelings for Aaron have changed, and this unlikely couple must transition to a new and risky adventure: falling in love at breakneck speed while trying hopelessly to...

Book 3 of the Spinster Series As the illegitimate daughter of an earl, Elizabeth Smith has little hope for a respectable marriage. Tired of living under the dictates of a disinterested father, Elizabeth decides to take matters into her own hands and find herself a rich protector. If no one...

Orphaned at an early age, Katherine Parker has been forced to be practical her entire life. She has been a been a nanny, a cook and now a school teacher.  At twenty-six she has just about given up hope of ever finding a man that might see her as more than just the hired help. That is until Alex...

Among silent film comedians, three names stand out -- Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd -- but Harry Langdon indisputably deserves to sit among them as the fourth "king." In films such as The Strong Man (1926) and Long Pants (1927) , Langdon parlayed his pantomime talents,...

In der Anthologie "Sommernachtsküsse: Die schönsten Liebesgeschichten" erzählen 15 erfolgreiche deutsche und internationale Autorinnen in herzerwärmenden Kurzgeschichten von den magischen, witzigen und schönen Momenten, in denen ihre Heldinnen und Helden die Liebe suchen, finden und...