2016
August
Il Consiglio d'Egitto
Leonardo Sciascia
Abdallah Mohamed ben Olman, ambassador of Morocco, is in Palermo in December 1782, because of a storm that ... >>
Numero zero
Umberto Eco
Not English : Una redazione raccogliticcia che prepara un quotidiano destinato, più che all’informazione, al ricatto, alla macchina del fango, a bassi servizi per... >>
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli
Everything you need to know about the beauty of modern physics in less than 100 pages. ... >>
Video Clip
We viewed the TED talk "Who are you really? The puzzle of personality" by Brian Little.
July
The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas lives an embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace, ... >>
An Unnecessary Women
Rabih Alameddine
Aaliya Sohbi lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, divorced, and childless, Aaliya is her family’s ... >>
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing ... >>
Travels with Epicurus
Daniel Klein
One of the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus travels to Greece with a suitcase full of philosophy books, seeking the best way to achieve a fulfilling old age. Daniel Klein journeys to the Greek ... >>
No et Moi
Delphine de Vigan
We read a french book. The international award-winning story of two girls from different backgrounds, united in friendship... >>
June
They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases
Howard Rheingold
They Have a Word for It takes the reader to the far corners of the globe to discover words and phrases for which there are no equivalents in English.... >>
Gin Glorious Gin: How mother's ruin became the spirit of London
Olivia Williams
Gin Glorious Gin is a vibrant cultural history of London seen through the prism of its most iconic drink. Leading the reader through ... >>
Like the flowing river; thoughts and reflections. The story of the Pencil
Paulo Coelho
Gin Glorious Gin is a vibrant cultural history of London seen through the prism of its most iconic drink. Leading the reader through ... >>
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Haruki Murakami
Collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami’s mastery of the form. From the surreal to... >>
Video Clip
Barack Obama and Jimmy Fallon: Thank you notes
The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria
Samar Yazbek
Yazbek's portraits of life in Syria are very real, her prose is luminous. The Crossing is undoubtedly both an important historical ... >>
The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do in life and business
Charles Duhigg
A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed ... >>
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
This intense novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about - until his closest childhood friends return ... >>
Untold Stories
Alan Bennett
This intense novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about - until his closest childhood friends return ... >>
Isabella and Lorenzo
by John Everett Millais
Discourse on the painting.
Also viewed clip "Inspired by Monty Python: What has the European Convention on Human Rights ever done for us?" by The Guardian .
May
Akenfield: Portrait of an English village
Ronald Blythe
In this rich, rare book which John Updike called "exquisite" forty-nine men and women a blacksmith and a bellringer to the local vet ... >>
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
Claire Tomalin
For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would establish him as the greatest diarist in the English language.... >>
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black ... >>
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Deepak Chopra
This is a book you will cherish for a lifetime, for within is pages are the secrets of making all your dreams come true. Based on natural laws that govern all of creation, this book shatters the myth that success is the result of hard work, exacting plans, or driving ambition.... >>