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FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR A tale of war, of Italy, of a beautiful young woman and a terrible tragedy from the number on bestselling author of Songs of Love and War. Italy, 1945 The war is over but its shadow still lingers. And deep in the lush countryside an eccentric aristocrat is savagely murdered in his beautiful palazzo. London, 1971. Years later, this unsolved crime touches the life of Alba, a hedonistic girl who lives on a houseboat in swinging Chelsea. Between these two distinctive times runs a thread of love, decadence and betrayal that takes Alba to the olive groves of the Amalfi Coast, rich with the scent of figs, the drama of wartime and the lingering decay of tragedy...
Valentina è una ragazza sensibile, con la passione per la musica e il pianoforte. A causa della prematura morte del padre, la sua vocazione, che con lui condivideva, vien meno e questo la fa addentrare in un'oscurità, in cui non è mai felice, nonostante abbia tutto ciò che la rende tale. Nel buio della sua vita, le uniche lucciole a spianarle la strada sono quelle poche persone che non la reputano strana e le fanno capire che scappare non è mai la soluzione. Lavorando in un ristorante della Capri della fine degli anni 60, in cui viene sempre derisa e presa in giro sia dai colleghi sia dai clienti, Caterina, la sua migliore amica, è sempre pronta a tenderle la mano.Il viaggio di Valentina attraverso l'insoddisfazione che la porta sempre a scappare, le farà capire che non ci si rende conto mai di quanto si è ricchi finché non si diventa poveri.
The seven volumes LNCS 12249-12255 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2020, held in Cagliari, Italy, in July 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was organized in an online event. Computational Science is the main pillar of most of the present research, industrial and commercial applications, and plays a unique role in exploiting ICT innovative technologies. The 466 full papers and 32 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1450 submissions. Apart from the general track, ICCSA 2020 also include 52 workshops, in various areas of computational sciences, ranging from computational science technologies, to specific areas of computational sciences, such as software engineering, security, machine learning and artificial intelligence, blockchain technologies, and of applications in many fields.
Get the Summary of Louise Douglas's The House by the Sea in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Edie, still grieving her son Daniel's loss, receives news of her former mother-in-law Anna DeLuca's death. Despite resentment towards Anna, Edie travels to Sicily to settle Anna's will, which involves facing her ex-husband Joe. In Sicily, they inherit a villa with a complex history, including Anna's past and a rumored haunting. As they navigate legalities and the villa's contents, Joe plans to sell and help young addicts, while Edie is drawn to the villa's beauty and memories...
The eight-volume set LNCS 13375 – 13382 constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2022, which was held in Malaga, Spain during July 4 – 7, 2022. The first two volumes contain the proceedings from ICCSA 2022, which are the 57 full and 24 short papers presented in these books were carefully reviewed and selected from 279 submissions. The other six volumes present the workshop proceedings, containing 285 papers out of 815 submissions. These six volumes includes the proceedings of the following workshops: Advances in Artificial Intelligence Learning Technologies: Blended Learning, STEM, Computational Thinking and...
This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the preservation of cultural heritage. In 1972, the World Heritage Convention linked in a single framework the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural sites. Since then, engineering geology is enlarging its contributions to national and international projects on this topic and is extending its interests to key issues like: safeguarding of monuments and sites from geotechnical perspectives; advanced monitoring; investigations on cultural landscapes; development of geo-databases for cultural heritage classification; studies on the interactions between humankind, natural landscape evolution and cultural...
This is the first book monograph devoted to Anglophone Ukrainian Canadian children’s historical fiction published between 1991 and 2021. It consists of five chapters offering cross-sectional and interdisciplinary readings of 41 books – novels, novellas, picturebooks, short stories, and a graphic novel. The first three chapters focus on texts about the complex process of becoming Ukrainian Canadian, showcasing the experiences of the first two waves of Ukrainian immigration to Canada, including encounters with Indigenous Peoples and the First World War Internment. The last two chapters are devoted to the significance of the cultural memory of the Holodomor, the Great Famine of 1932-1933, a...
Ci sono incontri che possono cambiare per sempre la nostra vita. Così è stato per Alba, una ragazza di diciassette anni che un giorno incontra Angelo. Con lui scoprirà la forma di amore più innocente e spontanea di adolescente, ma allo stesso tempo le ferite mai guarite del passato ritornano prepotentemente a galla increspando la sua tranquilla quotidianità. Non sempre è facile fare i conti con il passato e proprio quando pensavamo di aver dimenticato e superato i drammi vissuti e ciò che ci ha fatto soffrire, scopriamo invece che il passato è molto più presente e vicino di quanto pensavamo tanto da sconvolgerci la vita. L’amore di Alba e Angelo li salverà o li porterà nel profo...