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2025 |
![]() ![]() Author: Roorbach Bill Publisher: Mattioli 1885 Mentre cerca di addentrarsi nella foresta pluviale della Costa Rica per trovarsi una compagna, una dolce e graziosa scimmietta, Beep, s'imbatte in Inga, una gentile adolescente americana, in vacanza con la famiglia. Senza averne l'intenzione, Beep si ritroverà a Manhattan con lei. Qui, con il suo prezioso aiuto, Beep riesce a cambiare il destino del mondo e a trovare l'amore. Il cast di attraenti e perspicaci animali che popola il romanzo ha molto da raccontare sull'umanità e sulle divisioni che ci caratterizzano, sulle nostre città alienanti, le nostre strane abitudini, la nostra follia, ma anche sulla nostra bellezza e sulle nostre promesse incompiute. Incalzante, ma mai pedante, di fronte alle crescenti minacce a cui è sottoposto il nostro pianeta, attraverso il personaggio di Beep troviamo l'ispirazione per smettere di essere la causa del problema e cominciare a essere la soluzione - senza dimenticarci di amare e ridere, sempre. € 20,00
Scontato: € 19,00
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2024 |
![]() ![]() Author: Roorbach Bill Publisher: Mattioli 1885 David Mochmeyer è il ragazzo modello: modesto, sincero, quarterback della squadra di football e star di Princeton. La sua vita sembra essere perfetta, fino a quando la morte dei genitori costringerà lui e sua sorella Kate a rincorrere la verità lungo una strada tortuosa piena di follia, vendette e misteri. David Mochmeyer, meglio noto come 'Lucertola', è un ragazzo modello con un futuro brillante, fino al misterioso omicidio dei genitori, che lascia lui e la bella quanto folle sorella Kate alla deriva. Attorno a loro si muovono una grande ballerina e vedova di una rock star, uno chef vegetariano, gay e coperto di tatuaggi, il suo amante cross dresser e un turbinio di feste sfarzose, triangoli amorosi, passaggi segreti e registrazioni illegali. I due si immergono così nel mistero dell'omicidio, seguendo un filo rosso che li condurrà a scoprire la verità sui loschi affari del padre. Vita fra i Giganti è miracolosamente in equilibrio fra Il grande Gatsby e il migliore John Irving. € 21,00
Scontato: € 19,95
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1917 |
![]() ![]() Author: Roorbach Bill Publisher: Algonquin Books € 15,20
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![]() ![]() Author: Roorbach Bill, Damron Will (NRT) Publisher: Highbridge Co € 27,70
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1915 |
![]() ![]() Author: Roorbach Bill Publisher: Down East Books € 14,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Roorbach Bill Publisher: Algonquin Books “A page-turner, a love story and a vivid drama of man (and woman) against the elements . . . A great read by a wonderful writer.” —Newsday When the “Storm of the Century” threatens western Maine, Eric closes his office early and heads to the grocery store. In line ahead of him, an unkempt and seemingly unstable young woman comes up short on cash, so Eric offers her twenty bucks and a ride home. Trouble is, Danielle doesn’t really have a home. She’s squatting in a cabin deep in the woods: no electricity, no plumbing, no heat. Eric, with problems of his own, tries to walk away, but finds he can’t. Fending off her mistrust of him, he gets her set up with food, water, and firewood, and departs with relief. But when he climbs back to the road, his car is gone, and in desperation he returns to the cabin. As the storm intensifies, these two lost souls are forced to wait it out together. Deeply moving, frequently funny, The Remedy for Love is a story about the secrets revealed when there is no time or space for anything but the truth. “A superbly grown-uplove story.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Brilliant . . . A tale that is as gripping as any Everest expedition--and that is also tender and terrifying and funny and, in the end, so true it seems inevitable.” —Peter Heller, author ofThe Dog Stars and The Painter “Roorbach . . . is at the top of his literary game here. He is masterful in inviting readers along, allowing them to slowly get to know these two strangers as they get to know one another.” —Portland (Maine) Press Herald “Snowbound in Maine, two strangers struggle to survive--fighting, flirting, baring secrets. Their sexy, snappy dialogue will keep you racing through.” —People “One of the best novels of this or any year . . . A flat-out funny, sexy, and poignant romantic thriller.” —David Abrams, author ofFobbit € 14,80
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1914 |
![]() ![]() Author: Roorbach Bill Publisher: Down East Books Populated by an oddball cast of characters, this book chronicles one man's determined effort—occasionally with hilarious results—to follow the stream that runs by his house to its elusive source. € 14,30
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![]() ![]() Author: Roorbach Bill Publisher: Algonquin Books “A flat-out funny, sexy, and poignant romantic thriller.”* € 23,40
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1913 |
![]() ![]() Author: Roorbach Bill Publisher: Algonquin Books This funny, exuberant novel captures the reader with the grand sweep of seven-foot-tall David “Lizard” Hochmeyer’s larger-than-life quest to unravel the mystery surrounding his parents’ deaths. It’s a journey laden with pro football stars, a master chef and his beautiful transvestite lover, a world-famous ballerina and her English rocker husband, and a sister who’s as brilliant as she is unstable. A wildly entertaining, plot-twisting novel of murder, seduction, and revenge—rich in incident, expansive in character, and lavish in setting—Life Among Giants is an exhilarating adventure. Editors’ pick for Amazon’s Best of 2012 Shelf Awareness Top Ten Best Fiction of 2012 Columbus Dispatch’s Top Books of 2012 € 13,90
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2008 |
![]() ![]() Author: Roorbach Bill, Keckler Kristen Ph.D. Publisher: Writers Digest Books Writing in the informal style of a trusted friend, published novelist and essayist Roorbach (College of the Holy Cross) offers innovative techniques that will trigger ideas for all writers of creative nonfiction. In this second edition, Roorbach brings co-author Kristen Keckler (former editor-in-chief of North Texas Review) onboard to add a woman's point of view, a scholar's clear eye, and a younger person's knowledge of the latest technology available to help writers. This edition features new exercises in every chapter, enhanced explanations of difficult issues like the use of metaphor, and up-to-date information on publishing. There are examples from newer writers and more recent titles, plus a more sophisticated look at the Internet. The extensive 20-page reading list compiles books in categories of memoir, personal essay and book-length essay, journals and letters and diaries, nature and place, travel writing, new journalism and literary journalism, and anthologies. The reading list is updated with many new books. The book is appropriate for the classroom or for independent study. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) € 15,20
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2006 |
![]() ![]() Author: Hodgkins John E., Roorbach Bill (FRW) Publisher: Down East Books John Hodgkins was eight years old when his father was drafted into the army and left for Europe for fight in WWII. After his return, his father never spoke much of the war. After his father's death, John opened his father's diary and two boxes of memorabilia. € 15,20
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2004 |
![]() ![]() Author: Kimber Robert, McNair Wesley, Roorbach Bill Publisher: Tilbury House Pub Bob, living in a farmhouse near the pond, buys a dilapidated camp at the water's edge and finds his way down there almost daily, to swim or ski, depending on the season. His friends discover the allure of the pond, too--summer afternoons of swimming with Bob, his wife Rita, and an assortment of canine dog-paddlers, or companionable conversations over a beer, enjoying the beauty of a quiet pond beyond the porch. Bob tells the McNairs about a neighboring camp up for sale, a perfect little camp, compact as a ship in all its details, and they buy it. Roorbach feels drawn to the pond so strongly that he and his wife sometimes bushwack through underbrush so as not to intrude, but the pond is a place where this trio of friendships flourishes. Told with humor and affection, the stories in this small book will appeal to anyone who feels drawn to spend time near water. € 11,60
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2002 |
![]() ![]() Author: Roorbach Bill Publisher: Pgw A Flannery O'Connor Award-winning collection of nine short stories take place in a variety of settings across the United States and feature men who experience passion, challenges to their typically sweet natures, and the folly of bad luck and poor advice. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. € 11,80
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2000 |
![]() ![]() Author: Roorbach Bill Publisher: Ohio State Univ Pr Roorbach (English, The Ohio State University) tells of his courtship and marriage to Juliet, and describes their vacations together in sublime settings across North America. He chronicles not only their love affair, but his awakening to his childhood enchantment with nature. The author is a recent winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award in Short Fiction and the author of Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature . Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) € 17,90
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