Nastasia Fiorentino

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a hunger so wild book review A Hunger so wild...

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Second book in the Renegade Angels series, follows the adventures of two characters appeared in the first novel and...

Categoría Fantasy fiction Sylvia Day
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A Little History of the World book review A Little History of...

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Historical essay in which the author narrates the history of the world from the Palaeolithic to the fall of...

Categoría History Ernst H. Gombrich
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A Touch of Crimson book review A Touch of Crimson...

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In the modern and civilized world, angels, vampires and werewolves have coexisted since time immemorial in constant struggle with...

Categoría Fantasy fiction Sylvia Day
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american pastoral book review American Pastoral Book Review

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At a reunion of former students, Nathan Zuckerman meets Jerry Levov again, who tells him about the problems of...

Philip Roth
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Arturo’s Island by Elsa Morante Arturo’s Island Book Review

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Arturo Gerace recounts his childhood and adolescence on the Italian island of Procida where he lived alone most of...

Categoría Fiction Elsa Morante
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Christ Stopped at Eboli book review Christ Stopped at Eboli...

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Autobiographical novel. The writer narrates his exile, between 1935 and 1936, in a small town in southern Italy, infested...

Categoría Historical fiction Carlo Levi
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circus of wonders book review Circus of Wonders Book...

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England, 19th century. On its long tour to raise enough money to perform in London, Jasper Jupiter’s circus stops...

Categoría Historical fiction Elizabeth Macneal
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Closely Watched Trains book review Closely Watched Trains Book...

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At the end of the Second World War, in a remote place in Czechoslovakia, Milos, a 22-year-old man who...

Categoría Historical fiction Bohumil Hrabal
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fathers and sons book review Fathers and Sons Book...

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Fathers and Sons is the story of Arkady Kirsanov, a Russian man who returns home after graduating from St....

Categoría Historical fiction Ivan Turgenev
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fifty shades of grey book review Fifty Shades of Grey...

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Anastasia Steele is a shy university student who is about to graduate in literature and one day, to do...

Categoría Erotic fiction E. L. James
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In Cold Blood book review In Cold Blood Book...

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On the night of November 14, 1959, Herbert Clutter, a wealthy farmer from Holcomb, Kansas, United States, his wife...

Categoría True crime Truman Capote
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Le Bal and Snow in Autumn book review Le Bal and Snow...

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Mr. and Mrs. Kampfs are an extravagant couple who live in a luxurious apartment in Paris, and one day...

Categoría Historical fiction Irène Némirovsky
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Men and not men book review Men and not men...

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The story is set in Milan at the beginning of the Second World War and follows the adventures of...

Categoría Historical fiction Elio Vittorini
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Mother Earth Father Sky book review Mother Earth Father Sky...

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Aleutian Islands, 7000 BC
After losing her family because of a ruthless clan of hunters who wiped out...

Categoría Historical fiction Sue Harrison
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book review on the origin of species On the Origin of...

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Scientific essay in which the English naturalist Darwin explains the theory of the evolution of species through natural selection,...

Categoría Scientific literature Charles Darwin
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Open. An autobiography book review Open. An autobiography Book...

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Tennis player Andre Agassi recounts his life marked by tennis, from when he was only four years old until...

Categoría Autobiography Andre Agassi
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Portnoy’s Complaint book review Portnoy’s Complaint Book Review

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Alexander Portnoy is an American Jew who, in a long monologue with the psychoanalyst, Dr. Spielvogel, talks about personal...

Categoría Fiction Philip Roth
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Post-mortem book review Post-mortem Book Review

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A serial killer brutally murders three women in the city of Richmond, Virginia, and Kay Scarpetta, a forensic doctor...

Categoría Detective story Patricia Cornwell
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the Assyrian book review The Assyrian Book Review

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Assyria, 7th century BC
The son of the king and a Greek concubine, Tiglath Ashur, tells his life...

Categoría Historical fiction Nicholas Guild
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the baron in the trees book review The Baron in the...

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After an argument with his parents, Cosimo, a twelve-year-old boy from a noble Ligurian family from Ombrosa, climbs a...

Categoría Historical fiction Italo Calvino
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