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2021 Salani
Within the walls of the Grave, the orphanage where Nica grew up, stories and legends have always been told by candlelight. The most famous is that of the maker of tears, a mysterious craftsman with eyes as clear as glass, guilty of having forged all the fears and anxieties that inhabit the hearts of men. But at seventeen the time has come for Nica to leave behind the dark fairy tales of childhood. His biggest dream, in fact, is about to come true. The Milligans have started the adoption process and are ready to give her the family she has always wanted. In the new house, however, Nica is not alone. Together with her, Rigel, a restless and mysterious orphan, is also taken away by the Grave, the last person in the world that Nica would want as an adoptive brother. Rigel is intelligent, shrewd, plays the piano like a demon enchanter and is endowed with a beauty capable of enchanting, but his angelic appearance hides a dark nature. Even though Nica and Rigel are united by a shared past of pain and deprivation, coexistence between them seems impossible. Especially when the legend creeps back into their lives and the maker of tears suddenly becomes real, ever closer. Yet Nica, sweet and courageous, is willing to do anything to defend her dream, because only if she has the courage to face the nightmares that torment her, will she finally be able to soar free like the butterfly whose name she bears.
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2023 Salani Madison Cooper, capricious and beautiful Californian model, has always lived in the belief that her future was already written. She dreams of a house in Los Angeles, in the wealthy Calabasas neighborhood, a career in the fashion world, children and a caring husband. No strangeness. Just when she seems close to achieving all her goals, however, fate shuffles her cards and drags her where she wouldn't have wanted. One day, during a vacation with her usual wicked friends, Madison meets Aria Davidson, who leads her into the shiny and dark world of the Harrisons. Guest in their chalet in Vermont, the young girl meets Josh, the most mysterious and deceitful of the six Harrison brothers. Josh has deep, November blue eyes that are difficult to decipher. Despite the charisma he exudes, something ambiguous persists in him, more than one secret seems to be hidden in his sharp words. An indomitable understanding soon arises between the two, which escapes all control, precisely what Madison has always shied away from. And while the model tries to convince herself that Josh can be part of that much desired normality, the ghosts of the past reappear to remind her that this is not the case. But once you enter the Harrisons' world there's no turning back...
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2019 Mondadori
From acclaimed Australian author Jay Kristoff, the most innovative fantasy trilogy of the decade. Destined to destroy empires, Mia Corvere is only ten years old when she receives her first lesson in death. Six years later, the little girl who grew up in the shadows sets out to keep the promise she made the day she lost everything. But the chances of defeating such powerful enemies are truly slim, and Mia is forced to transform herself into an implacable weapon. He must prove himself among the deadliest of enemies – and friends – and survive the protection of assassins, liars and demons, in the very heart of a sect dedicated to murder. The Red Church is not a school like the others, but Mia is not a student like the others either. The shadows love her. They feed on his fear.
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2017 Mondadori
"The pain and fear overcame me. I screamed. The hidden part inside me surged to the surface. I couldn't stop. The world exploded in a blazing white light. The darkness shattered around us like glass." The orphan Alina Starkov does not have great ambitions in life, it would be enough for her to do her best work as an apprentice cartographer in the army of Ravka, once a powerful nation and now a kingdom surrounded by enemies, and to be able to be next to her good friend Mal, the boy she grew up with and has been in love with for a long time. But fate has something else in store for her. When their regiment crosses the Shadow Fault, the strip of nearly impenetrable darkness that literally bisects the kingdom of Ravka, she and her companions are attacked by the fearful, hungry beings that dwell there. And just at the moment in which Alina throws herself to the rescue of her seriously injured friend Mal, an enormous power awakens within her, like a sudden and intense light capable of filling her head, blinding her and completely submerging her. She is immediately recruited by the Grisha, the elite of magical creatures who, under the command of the Dark One, the most powerful man in Ravka after the king, maneuvers the entire court. Alina, in fact, is the only one among them capable of summoning a force so powerful as to destroy the Fault and reunite the war-torn kingdom again, finally bringing peace and prosperity back to it. But at the sumptuous palace where she is taken to hone her power, nothing is what it seems and Alina will soon find herself facing both the shadows that threaten the kingdom and those that threaten her heart. The upcoming Netflix series is based on this novel.
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2013 editions and/or
In a universe made up of twenty-one arks, as many as the planets that orbit around what once was the Earth, Ophelia lives. Originally from the "Anima" ark, she is a shy, clumsy and somewhat short-sighted girl but with two particular gifts: she can pass through mirrors and read the past of objects. She works as a curator of a museum until the city's Deans decide to marry her to the noble Thorn, of the powerful Dragon family. This means moving to another ark, "Polo", much colder and more inhospitable than Anima, inhabited by giant beasts and families always fighting each other. But for what purpose was she chosen? Between capricious objects, optical illusions, floating worlds and power struggles, Ophelia will discover that she is the fundamental key to an enigma on which the fate of her world could depend.
Winter boyfriends it is the first chapter of a rich and exciting saga that is conquering thousands of young and adult readers.
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2023 Mondadori
The fifth chapter of the Kingsbridge saga. "The Weapons of Light" takes place between 1792 and 1824, a time of great change in which progress clashes with the traditions of the old rural world and the despotic government is determined to make England a powerful commercial empire. In Kingsbridge, industrialization rapidly made its way, reducing the majority of the population dedicated to textile manufacturing, the city's main source of income, to poverty. The life of a group of families connected to each other is turned upside down by the new age of machines, while the war with Napoleon Bonaparte's neighboring France rages on, reaching its epochal conclusion with the Battle of Waterloo. Bread riots, strikes and rebellion against forced conscription into the army break out. A courageous spinner, a brilliant boy, a young idealist who founds a school for disadvantaged children, a fabric merchant overwhelmed by his father's debts, an unfaithful wife, a rebellious worker, an enterprising craftsman, an inept bishop, a rich, unscrupulous entrepreneur these are just some of the characters that animate this unforgettable story. Charismatic heroines and heroes fight for a future free from oppression, evil and perverse characters try to maintain their privileges at all costs in a complex plot rich in carefully documented historical details.
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2023 Longanesi
This is not simply Donato Carrisi's latest masterpiece. Because Serena is not a character like the others, and this is not a story like the others. This is an unstoppable journey to discover the darkest corners of our hearts and our fears, at the end of which our way of seeing the world will simply no longer be the same.
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2023 Einaudi
How much loneliness there is. In Europe the war has begun, yet some of us still delude ourselves that it is possible to keep it outside the door. And then the most beautiful of holidays is coming, the one where you eat, drink, hug, the one where you exchange gifts with loved ones; you shouldn't have sad thoughts. Loneliness, however, true loneliness, is difficult to chase away. You can be alone even if you are among people, if you have a family, friends. Above all, you can be alone if they decide that you are different, perhaps because you can't speak, or because you love people of the same sex. Or because, they say, you are of another race. Erminia Cascetta was also different, in her own way. She had too much desire to live, so they killed her. In this time that accelerates towards the abyss, it is up to Inspector Ricciardi and Brigadier Maione to find out who did it. The key to everything, however, is always solitude. Which, sometimes we don't even know it, sits next to us.
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2023 Mondadori
Odyssey: it is the title of perhaps the most well-known and loved epic poem of our civilization and it is also the term used to define a troubled experience and, in some cases, life tout court. Because only to the title of this work
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2023 Full day «The cult book that has helped millions of women free themselves from the traps of the mind and get their lives back.» The Washington Post
“Women who think too much” it is an invitation to look inside ourselves, to understand our fears and to search for our voice . A book that speaks to women, but not only, offering a universal reflection on the human condition and the need to find a balance in the complexity of our thoughts.
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2023 Einaudi
The illicit satisfaction of a curiosity drags the lives of seven people into a vortex that envelops them, traps them, makes them collide. While every residue of normality is eroded by the disruptive force of secrets: some small, others unsustainable, each with its own noise.
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2023 Feltrinelli Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is a six-year-old Jewish boy whose father disappears during Kristallnacht, when his family loses everything. To save him, his mother puts him on a train that will take him from Austria to England. Thus begins a new phase of his long life for Samuel, always accompanied by his faithful violin and the weight of uncertainty and loneliness. Arizona, 2019. Seven-year-old Anita Díaz boards another train with her mother to escape imminent danger in El Salvador and seek refuge in the United States. But their arrival coincides with the new family separation policy, and Anita finds herself alone and scared in a shelter in Nogales. Far from her loved ones and without certainties, she takes refuge in Azabahar, a magical star that exists only in her imagination. Meanwhile Selena Durán, a young social worker, asks a successful lawyer for help in hopes of tracking down
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2023 Laterza
They arrive completely unexpected. They last very little, sometimes only a few weeks, then they are repressed. But in that short time, things happen that remain forever engraved in the collective memory. These are popular uprisings. History, at least in the last millennium, is punctuated by critical moments in which a mass of people decide that they don't like the future as they see it, and try to change it. The Middle Ages are no exception: even then there was no shortage of insurrectional movements which in their initial development did not seem at all distinguishable from the most overwhelming modern revolutions. In particular, so many of them were concentrated in the second half of the fourteenth century as to constitute an anomaly. Alessandro Barbero recounts the most spectacular of these insurrections. Historians have long seen their failure as proof not only that the rioters had no chance of succeeding, but that they weren't even pursuing a conscious goal. Nothing could be further from the truth: the rioters knew what they were doing, they had precise demands and they consciously fought to realize them.
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2023 Mondadori
Everything is here for you it is a book on the shadow line that each of us finds ourselves overcoming at the most different and unexpected ages. On the desire to really get involved, to prepare to welcome love rather than chasing it everywhere. On the value that solitude can also have. On the desire, and the possibility, of a new beginning. "Tomorrow morning you will find a car outside your house with a plane ticket to join me in Paris. You don't have to think about anything, I've already thought of everything. It will be an unforgettable weekend." Luca is very good at surprises, he has the talent of making every moment special, even lunch breaks. He is a very independent man, but he doesn't like being alone. He has an important story behind him, which he didn't quite understand how to finish ("when do good things become ugly?"). He's dating a girl half his age and he's a little ashamed of it, but she's like a breath of fresh air. His mother, on the other hand, disposes of him as if he had never become an adult and never misses an opportunity to make him feel wrong, indebted. One day, by chance, he meets Lucia, his girlfriend from when he was twenty. Theirs had been a movie love, they had experienced all the first times together. Now she has a daughter and is separating from her husband. What if they tried to go back to where they left off, see what's left of those two? Fabio Volo's new novel involves and excites page after page, with romantic scenes in which it seems like we're flying - between glasses of good wine and warm croissants -, dialogues that seem stolen from our daily lives and reflections in which to find ourselves when we feel a little ' lost.
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2023 Rizzoli
A Neapolitan interior, a professor who could only be called De Crescenzo, a story to tell to the limited audience of bizarre diners.
It is within this frame that we get to know Penelope and Saverio: she is a dreamy princess in search of direction, sentimental and intimate; he is a cynical and detached boy, eager for autonomy and to really grow. They have nothing in common, except the fate of having inherited the same building, the condominium of the title, which could finally turn their lives around. The tarantellas begin here: between talking and wise Virgil cats, overly convinced and slightly fanatical activists, a Silvio D'Amico actress waiting for a role and a mask, a robotic influencer and her company-child , Penelope and Saverio will first have to understand who they really are, for themselves and for each other. Sara Penelope Robin, in the company of some of the characters we have learned to love on her social channels, builds in these crazy and incorrect, dense and enlightening pages, a theatrical story that makes us reflect and laugh, teaches and amazes. In the certainty that, as Sara says: «Our "condominium" deserves respect and care, we should never leave it in a state of abandonment, under penalty of finding ourselves "illegal inhabitants" who program our brain as they please, filling it with lies, constructions, addictions , idols and false beliefs."
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2023 Mondadori
«Take the moon» is not advice, but a suggestion. It is not only valid in difficult moments, but also in those of joy, or when one tends more towards resignation than exaltation. The moon is there on purpose, it disappears and reappears precisely because if it were always there it would be trivial. It works like longing, which involves looking for stars just when they aren't there or you fear they are hidden somewhere in the universe. Today more than ever we are captured by the present and have made it enough for ourselves, perhaps terrified of what could be upon us or out of satiety with what we possess. The family struggles in its authoritative function, the school is soaked in bureaucracy and impervious to change, attention to the environment, attempting to guarantee a beneficial future, risks affecting beauty, while technologies design a world of silent and subservient to new categorical orders. It is as if the future offered controversial messages instead of reassuring ones. Yet, it is not the events that are changing us, but we who change the events. Chasing a horizon, not conquering it, this is the meaning of thinking and writing. And today there is a real need to look for something new. Not everyone tries, nor feels this obligation. Terrible wars are being fought, yet what is more worrying is what makes no noise and what lurks in many souls, persuading them to take refuge, to defend themselves by closing the door of their homes. Convenience dealers go around, tempting the thoughts of many people. In this book, Paolo Crepet returns to the themes dearest to him, education, school, family, with a clear intent: to provide a tool to orient oneself beyond the blanket of clouds that obscure the moon, that is, hope. This is why he says to young people and even to those who are no longer young: get the moon. To each their own, of course.
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2021 Newton Compton Publishers
«The memoirs of a witness to the horrors of the Holocaust.»
At just thirteen years old, Dita was deported to Auschwitz together with her mother and locked up in the sector called Family Camp (kept up by the SS to demonstrate to the rest of the world that it was not an extermination camp): the one that contained Block 31, supervised by the infamous "Angel of Death", Dr. Mengele. Here Dita agrees to take care of some books smuggled by the prisoners. This is a dangerous assignment, because the SS torturers would not hesitate to punish her harshly once discovered. Dita describes with words of extraordinary strength and in no uncertain terms the conditions of the concentration camps, the abuses, the fear and the abuses to which the internees were subjected every day. She tells how she decided to become the guardian of a few precious books: an extraordinary symbol of hope, in humanity's darkest moment. Finally, the pages are beautiful and moving
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2021 Rizzoli
«I have seen too many people talking about me and my ideas not to realize how far I and my life actually are from the story that is told about it. And I decided to open up, to tell firsthand who I am, what I believe in, and how I got here.»
In this book, Giorgia Meloni talks about herself in the round for the first time. Of his roots, his childhood and his relationship with his mother Anna, his sister Arianna, his grandparents Maria and Gianni and the pain of his father's absence; of the visceral passion for politics, which from "her" Garbatella led her first to the Government of the Nation as Minister and then to the top of the Brothers of Italy and the European Conservatives; of the joy of being the mother of little Ginevra and of the love story with Andrea; of his dreams and the future he imagines for Italy and Europe. But it also addresses, with the frankness and clarity that characterize it, complex issues such as motherhood, identity and faith. A passionate and exciting story, punctuated in the titles by that catchphrase born to be ironic but which has become an identity manifesto. Past, present and future of the political leader on whom the eyes of many are focused, in Italy and beyond.
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2023 PaperFIRST
On 22 October 2022 Giorgia Meloni takes the oath at the Quirinale: she is the first female Prime Minister of the Italian Republic, even if one of her first official moves will be to demand to be called "the" president and not "the" president. His victory depended on many contingent aspects, including Mario Draghi's perfect assist, but also on the immutable fact that Italy is a naturally centre-right country. The most obvious and banal reason, however, is the "last resort" motivation of an exhausted electorate: "I've seen them all. Except her: let's try it, come on!”. And so we find ourselves with a head of government who listened to anti-Semitic songs and now wages war on minorities, blocks himself if he has to condemn fascism, states that the Roma must "nomad and transhumance" and fights strenuously to defend the family (his and that's it ). Not to mention the other pearls that Andrea Scanzi collects and lines up: yes to the naval blockade, no to ethnic replacement, no to reception centers that "destroy territories", my dear friend Saied, that great genius Orbán, holy war to NGOs, the migrants who leave contemptuous of the danger (why don't they stay at home?), it is a conspiracy by Europe, it is a plot hatched by Germany, it is a historical conjuncture conceived by aliens. But if we think of Meloni as a marginal and temporary phenomenon, we are totally wrong. It won't be easy, it won't be short and it won't be painless. They will be tough years. But we have nothing but this: knowing, reacting, resisting.
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2023 Einaudi
Elba has the name of a Northern river: it was his mother who chose it. They used to live together, in a place that she calls half-world and which is actually a mental hospital. Then her mother disappeared and she had no choice but to grow up, compiling her Diary of mental illnesses , and telling the new arrivals in the ward about doctors Colavolpe and Lampadina, nurse Gillette and Nana the dog. Of his universe, in short, the only one he knows. At least until a young psychiatrist, Fausto Meraviglia, gets it into his head to get her out of the mental hospital, or rather to eliminate mental asylums; after all, this is what the Basaglia law, approved a few years earlier, provides. Doctor Meraviglia takes Elba to live in his house, like a daughter: the only one he has chosen, and thanks to which he, who has never been a good father, learns the weight and strength of fatherhood. With her intense, original writing, full of music, Viola Ardone tells us that the love of others never depends only on us. This is its mystery, but also its wonder.
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2011 and/or publisher
My Brilliant Friend - Volume One Dear readers, try reading this book and you will want it to never end. Elena Ferrante, with her new novel, returns to surprise us, to surprise us, giving us a river-narrative which we rely on as when we take a journey with such pleasant ease, with such intense involvement, that the furthest destination is the better. The author abandons the small, dense private story and dedicates herself to a vast writing project that tells of a female friendship, that between Lila Cerullo and Elena Greco, from childhood in Naples in the 1950s until today.
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2019 Einaudi
Finalist for the 2021 Wondy Prize for Resilient Literature Sometimes we have to give up everything, even a mother's love, to discover our destiny. No novel had ever told it with such obstinate candour.
«Sharp and touching» – Friday
«We literally fell in love with this moving Bildungsroman. A story full of tenderness, irony and humanity" - Juan Milà, Harper Collins
«One of those books that remain under the skin, that leave you immersed in the story even when the last page has closed» – I Woman
It is 1946 when Amerigo leaves his neighborhood in Naples and gets on a train. Together with thousands of other southern children he will cross the entire peninsula and spend a few months in a northern family; an initiative by the Communist Party to rescue children from poverty after the last conflict. With the amazement of his seven years and the sly attitude of a child from the alleys, Amerigo shows us an Italy that is rising from the war as if we were seeing it for the first time. And he entrusts us with the touching story of a separation. That original pain that cannot be escaped, because there is no other way to grow.
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2020 L'airone publishing Rome
Here he is, genius and recklessness, the footballer who revolutionized the game of football and enchanted spectators all over the world. This extraordinary collector's volume, in a special numbered edition, tells the story in public and private life, and above all illustrates it in dozens of breathtaking shots, many never seen before.
This collector's book is a rare pearl: in addition to being published in an extraordinary format to browse, full of engaging public and private photographs, it also presents itself as a unique document, with anecdotes, curiosities, quotes and stories that lay bare the Pibe de Oro, the number 10 in the history of world football. Brilliant, scoundrel, angelic, infantile, polemical, contradictory, Gascon, flatterer, passionate, immortal... and legendary! Diego Armando Maradona is all of this together, even if he likes to define himself more simply as "the man who sells dreams". Like this book, after all. El Diez (later renamed El Diego) arrived in Europe, at Barcelona, in 1982 and remained there for only two seasons, before being purchased by Ferlaino's Napoli. In Italy, with the Napoli shirt he will live seven incredible years, among many joys - 2 Scudetti, 1 UEFA Cup and 1 Italian Super Cup - and sorrows (scandals, excesses, reckless life). But above all, Maradona will give Neapolitans happiness and pride. 'O Scugnizzo is the symbol of Neapolitan revenge before all of Italy. Through the unpublished testimonies of those who have known him since his childhood (from his discoverer Francis Cornejo, to his best friend in his youth Goyo Carrizo, from his agent Jorge Cyterszpiler, to his coaches Menotti and Bilardo, from his friend Bruno Giordano to the director Emir Kusturica who made a film about him, etc.) and who have been close to him until today, this volume retraces, as never done before, the life and career of the most famous number 10 in football history. A splendid large bound volume, to be collected (released in a special numbered edition). There are no other publications so rich on this football genius, with such an iconographic variety (extraordinary photographs, some full-page, many unpublished, of his private life and as a footballer). A volume that will soon become unobtainable. Maradona is a football icon in his own right. Controversial, eccentric, excessive, it still manages to magnetically attract all football fans. Indeed, even today it is one of the very symbols of this game. (With prefaces by Franco Recanatesi, Antonio Corbo and Omar da Fonseca. And with contributions, among others, by Carlos Bilardo, Corrado Ferlaino, Bruno Giordano, Emir Kusturica, César Luis Menotti and Philip Vilain.)
