Giacomo: 612 books

“She’s got two days,” Animal Control told my wife. “After that, we have to shoot her.” My wife was upset. How was she going to catch a pig who was living in the woods in two days? Faced with a seemingly impossible task, my wife began to plan. She recruited my son to help, and they set out to rescue Coco.

Fiona lived her life in the woods, living wild, deep in the forest outside of Houston. Things went fine for years, then she had babies, then she was mercilessly hunted. This is the true story of how Fiona went from living in the wild to living on the sanctuary. Don't miss it.

Even good people are haunted by nightmares. Some are kept awake by things they did in the past: Lies they told, people they cheated, laws they broke. The ones who lived the worst lives are haunted by more than lies or broken laws. Their sleep is stolen by the people they killed. Nicky...

In July 1764, Giacomo Casanova arrives in Berlin with an already tumultuous life behind him. He’s thirty-nine. He’s hoping for a job and money from the Prussian king Frederick II. But how to get to the king?  He is immediately drawn into the attempt to save the national lottery, as well...

Misused Words Have you ever said something and no sooner than it escapes your lips, you wonder—did I say that right? Did I use the right word? Chances are it was one of the 200 words covered in this book. I’m not saying it covers all the words, but it touches base with most of the...

A series of adventures wilder and more fantastic than the wildest of romances, written down with the exactitude of a business diary; a view of men and cities from Naples to Berlin, from Madrid and London to Constantinople and St. Petersburg; the vie intime of the eighteenth century depicted by a man,...

A groundbreaking translation of the epic work of one of the great minds of the nineteenth century Giacomo Leopardi was the greatest Italian poet of the nineteenth century and was recognized by readers from Nietzsche to Beckett as one of the towering literary figures in Italian history. To many,...

L'essere incompleto rappresenta il mio modo di vedere la realtà all'interno di un teatro aperto. Ogni luogo sia onirico che reale è inserito su un palco di visioni rese Teatro Musica, pittura e teatro racchiudono la chiave ermetica di come un sogno può avere mille porte e mille sfumature.

The best candidate doesn’t always get the job—the candidate who interviews best does. No Mistakes Interviews… …will teach you how to: •Prepare for the interview. •Identify the company’s primary need. •Assess your skills as they relate to that need. •Sell yourself as the solution. No Mistakes Interviews will help you get the job you want.

Alongside his monumental Notebooks and the poems collected in Canti, which make him one of Italy's greatest and best-loved poets, Giacomo Leopardi penned a number of fictional pieces, mostly in the form of gently humorous dialogues, in which he dealt with philosophical ideas and many of the metaphysical...

Every year twelve million Americans are arrested and photographed by the police. In many ways, mug shots are our history. Using a dazzling selection of mug shots that are arrestingly raw in their starkness and strangely eloquent in their simplicity, this absorbing, humorous, often bewildering collection...

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." For its part, the book, Ten Thousand Miles Between Us, is a collection of poems about the love affair with movement. From the wide open Canadian prairies to the claustrophobic markets of Indonesia,...

Casanova lui-même nous fait le récit de sa vie riche et dense, dans laquelle séductions et aventures sont intimement liées... POUR UN PUBLIC AVERTI. Les Mémoires de Casanova sont écrits entre 1789 et 1798. Publiés à titre posthume en 1825 dans une version censurée, ils sont mis à...

Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Giacomo Casanova. En 1766, le célèbre aventurier est à Varsovie. À la suite d'une aventure avec la danseuse vénitienne Anna Binetti, il est amené à se battre en duel avec le puissant comte Vladislav Branicki. L'affrontement, dans un parc désert,...