A shocking, hilarious and strangely tender novel about a young woman’s experiment in narcotic hibernation, aided and abetted by one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature. Our narrator has many of the advantages of life, on the surface. Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, and it isn’t just the loss of her parents in college, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her alleged best friend. It’s the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? This story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs, designed to heal us from our alienation from this world, shows us how reasonable, even necessary, that alienation sometimes is. Blackly funny, both merciless and compassionate – dangling its legs over the ledge of 9/11 – this novel is a showcase for the gifts of one of America’s major young writers working at the height of her powers.

PERIOD founder and Harvard student Nadya Okamoto offers a manifesto on menstruation and why we can no longer silent about that time of the month. Throughout history, periods have been hidden from the public. They're taboo. They're embarrassing. They're gross. And due to a crumbling or nonexistent national sex ed program, they are misunderstood. Because of these stigmas, a status quo has been established to exclude people who menstruate from the seat at the decision-making table, creating discriminations like the tampon tax, medicines that favor male biology, and more. Power to the Period aims to explain what menstruation is, shed light on the stigmas and resulting biases, and create a strategy to end the silence and prompt conversation about periods.

PERIOD founder and Harvard student Nadya Okamoto offers a manifesto on menstruation and why we can no longer silent about that time of the month. Throughout history, periods have been hidden from the public. They're taboo. They're embarrassing. They're gross. And due to a crumbling or nonexistent national sex ed program, they are misunderstood. Because of these stigmas, a status quo has been established to exclude people who menstruate from the seat at the decision-making table, creating discriminations like the tampon tax, medicines that favor male biology, and more. Power to the Period aims to explain what menstruation is, shed light on the stigmas and resulting biases, and create a strategy to end the silence and prompt conversation about periods.

Giunto all’apice della fama, idolo della società mondana romana e acclamato come il più grande poeta vivente, Ovidio decise di cimentarsi con il più prestigioso e impegnativo dei generi letterari: il poema epico. E la sua fu un’opera nuova ed estremamente ambiziosa: il racconto della storia del mondo, dal caos primigenio fino all’assunzione in cielo di Giulio Cesare, attraverso i miti e le leggende che avevano come tema comune la metamorfosi. Leggiamo così la storia delle Pieridi, mutate in gazze per aver sfidato nel canto le Muse, le dolorose vicende di Orfeo ed Euridice e quelle di Piramo e Tisbe, le passioni deluse di Apollo per Dafne e di Eco per Narciso, il commovente amore coniugale di Filemone e Bauci, in un susseguirsi inesauribile di miti e leggende che rimase nei secoli fonte di ispirazione per tutta la letteratura occidentale.

Giunto all’apice della fama, idolo della società mondana romana e acclamato come il più grande poeta vivente, Ovidio decise di cimentarsi con il più prestigioso e impegnativo dei generi letterari: il poema epico. E la sua fu un’opera nuova ed estremamente ambiziosa: il racconto della storia del mondo, dal caos primigenio fino all’assunzione in cielo di Giulio Cesare, attraverso i miti e le leggende che avevano come tema comune la metamorfosi. Leggiamo così la storia delle Pieridi, mutate in gazze per aver sfidato nel canto le Muse, le dolorose vicende di Orfeo ed Euridice e quelle di Piramo e Tisbe, le passioni deluse di Apollo per Dafne e di Eco per Narciso, il commovente amore coniugale di Filemone e Bauci, in un susseguirsi inesauribile di miti e leggende che rimase nei secoli fonte di ispirazione per tutta la letteratura occidentale.

Kate Sheffield, ormai ventenne, è decisa a trovare un buon marito almeno per sua sorella minore Edwina. A farsi avanti è il visconte Anthony Bridgerton, ma Kate si oppone: non è il tipo di uomo che stava cercando. Stranamente ansioso di assicurare un erede al proprio titolo, Anthony sembra nascondere più di un segreto. Ma il destino, maestro di giochi, farà incontrare le anime di Kate e Anthony in modo del tutto inaspettato...

Josie Moore has given the opposite sex—and love—plenty of chances. Four exactly, if you count all her failed engagements, and five if you include the absentee father who kept her existence a secret until very recently. So when her father decides to announce his retirement with a splashy magazine piece about the family, Josie realizes her romantic history is a complicated PR issue. Matthew Flanagan is in the mud, literally. Not only has he been fired from his job, but also the tires of his car are stuck in the muck after taking a wrong turn as he enters Green Oak, North Carolina. So, he grabs a duffel with his essentials and goes in search of a place to crash until he gets his life back on track. But instead, he finds his best friend’s sister, Josie, greeting him as her fiancé. What starts as a big messy misunderstanding quickly turns into an arrangement with Matthew playing a new role as doting fiancé. A fifth engagement—and a stunt, at that—makes Josie’s stomach turn, but every dilemma requires a choice between equally undesirable alternatives, and Matthew doesn’t seem to mind becoming one more number in a colorful list of grooms-that-never-were. Despite the ring on her finger, Josie knows this is only temporary, even if the rest of the small town believes that the fifth time’s the charm.

Kate Sheffield, ormai ventenne, è decisa a trovare un buon marito almeno per sua sorella minore Edwina. A farsi avanti è il visconte Anthony Bridgerton, ma Kate si oppone: non è il tipo di uomo che stava cercando. Stranamente ansioso di assicurare un erede al proprio titolo, Anthony sembra nascondere più di un segreto. Ma il destino, maestro di giochi, farà incontrare le anime di Kate e Anthony in modo del tutto inaspettato...

Londra, 1813. Simon Arthur Henry Fitzranulph Basset, nuovo duca di Hastings ed erede di uno dei titoli più antichi e prestigiosi d'Inghilterra, è uno scapolo assai desiderato. A dire il vero, è letteralmente perseguitato da schiere di madri dell'alta società che farebbero di tutto pur di combinare un buon matrimonio per le loro fanciulle in età da marito. E Simon, sempre alquanto riluttante, è in cima alla lista dei loro interessi. Anche la madre di Daphne Bridgerton è indaffaratissima e intende trovare il marito perfetto per la maggiore delle sue figlie femmine, che ha già debuttato in società da un paio d'anni e che rischia di rimanere – Dio non voglia! – zitella. Assillati ciascuno a suo modo dalle ferree leggi del "mercato matrimoniale", Daphne e Simon, vecchio amico di suo fratello Anthony, escogitano un piano: si fingeranno fidanzati e così saranno lasciati finalmente in pace. Ciò che non hanno messo in conto è che, ballo dopo ballo, conversazione dopo conversazione, ricordarsi che quanto li lega è solo finzione diventerà sempre più difficile. Quella che era iniziata come una recita sembra proprio trasformarsi in realtà. Una realtà tremendamente ricca di passione e coinvolgimento. Durata: 12H 15Min

In this moving story two teens fall in love with just one minor complication—they can’t get within five feet of each other without risking their lives. Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions.The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals.Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on Stella she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. But suddenly six feet doesn’t feel like safety. It feels like punishment.What if they could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too?

Josie Moore has given the opposite sex—and love—plenty of chances. Four exactly, if you count all her failed engagements, and five if you include the absentee father who kept her existence a secret until very recently. So when her father decides to announce his retirement with a splashy magazine piece about the family, Josie realizes her romantic history is a complicated PR issue. Matthew Flanagan is in the mud, literally. Not only has he been fired from his job, but also the tires of his car are stuck in the muck after taking a wrong turn as he enters Green Oak, North Carolina. So, he grabs a duffel with his essentials and goes in search of a place to crash until he gets his life back on track. But instead, he finds his best friend’s sister, Josie, greeting him as her fiancé. What starts as a big messy misunderstanding quickly turns into an arrangement with Matthew playing a new role as doting fiancé. A fifth engagement—and a stunt, at that—makes Josie’s stomach turn, but every dilemma requires a choice between equally undesirable alternatives, and Matthew doesn’t seem to mind becoming one more number in a colorful list of grooms-that-never-were. Despite the ring on her finger, Josie knows this is only temporary, even if the rest of the small town believes that the fifth time’s the charm.

In this moving story two teens fall in love with just one minor complication—they can’t get within five feet of each other without risking their lives. Can you love someone you can never touch? Stella Grant likes to be in control—even though her totally out of control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. At this point, what Stella needs to control most is keeping herself away from anyone or anything that might pass along an infection and jeopardize the possibility of a lung transplant. Six feet apart. No exceptions.The only thing Will Newman wants to be in control of is getting out of this hospital. He couldn’t care less about his treatments, or a fancy new clinical drug trial. Soon, he’ll turn eighteen and then he’ll be able to unplug all these machines and actually go see the world, not just its hospitals.Will’s exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. If he so much as breathes on Stella she could lose her spot on the transplant list. Either one of them could die. The only way to stay alive is to stay apart. But suddenly six feet doesn’t feel like safety. It feels like punishment.What if they could steal back just a little bit of the space their broken lungs have stolen from them? Would five feet apart really be so dangerous if it stops their hearts from breaking too?