Rabbis and Wives
9 best books like Rabbis and Wives (Chaim Grade): Lost Children Archive, Cape May : A Novel, The Guns of August, A Tale of Love and Darkness, The Fast Diet: The Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, Live Longer, Kobane calling, The Florios of Sicily, Il cuoco dell'Alcyon, La straniera
| Author | Valeria Luiselli |
| ISBN | 0525520619 |
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.
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A mesmerizing debut novel by Chip Cheek, Cape May explores the social and sexual mores of 1950s America through the eyes of a newly married couple from the genteel south corrupted by sophisticated New England urbanites.
Late September 1957. Henry and Effie, very young newlyweds from Georgia,...
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Tuchman has brought to life again the people and events that led up to World War I. With attention to fascinating detail, and an intense knowledge of her subject and its characters, Ms. Tuchman reveals, for the first time, just how the war started,...
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, A Tale of Love and Darkness is at once a family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.
It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in...
The Fast Diet: The Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, Live Longer
| Author | Michael Mosley |
| ISBN | 1476734941 |
The #1 New York Times bestseller!
Is it possible to eat normally, five days a week, and become slimmer and healthier as a result?
Simple answer: yes. You just limit your calorie intake for two nonconsecutive days each week—500 calories for women, 600 for men. You’ll lose weight quickly...
| Author | Zerocalcare |
| ISBN | 8865436182 |
Tre viaggi nel corso di un anno. Turchia, Iraq, Siria, per documentare la vita della resistenza curda in una delle zone calde meno spiegate dai media mainstream. Zerocalcare realizza un lungo racconto, a tratti intimo, a tratti corale, nel quale l'esistenza degli abitanti del Rojava (una regione...
| Author | Stefania Auci |
| ISBN | 0062931679 |
A grand, sweeping international bestseller that captures the many lives of Italy's most notorious family, the Florios, from their humble origins as impoverished shopkeepers to becoming the uncrowned kings of Sicily.
Vincenzo, who lost his father at eight, builds an empire...
Il suicidio di un operaio appena licenziato e un imprenditore privo di scrupoli trovato assassinato con un colpo di pistola alla nuca. E poi c’è l’Alcyon, una goletta un po’ misteriosa, pochissimi gli uomini di equipaggio, niente passeggeri, la zona di poppa larga abbastanza per fare atterrare...
| Author | Claudia Durastanti |
| ISBN | 8893447754 |
"La storia di una famiglia somiglia più a una cartina topografica che a un romanzo, e una biografia è la somma di tutte le ere geologiche che hai attraversato". Come si racconta una vita se non esplorandone i luoghi simbolici e geografici, ricostruendo una mappa di sé e del mondo vissuto? Tra la Basilicata...
