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      • Children's & YA
        December 2019

        Zoira & Max e il fantasma della quercia grande

        by Bonifacio Vincenzi

        Un fantasma apparso dal nulla, una colonia di conigli scomparsa improvvisamente, un medaglione rubato. In questa loro avventura, Zoira e Max hanno risolto tanti misteri affidandosi ai loro doti di gatta e cane. E contando, soprattutto, sulla loro fraterna amicizia, l'arma più potente contro le differenze e le avversità.

      • Children's & YA
        July 2020

        Sei Gufo o Allodola? – Guida al buon sonno per bambini e adulti consapevoli

        by Maria Costanza Cipullo

        Questo libro ha lo scopo di favorire una maggiore conoscenza del sonno e delle sue funzioni e di promuovere degli stili di vita adeguati in un'ottica di prevenzione, non solo dei disturbi del sonno, ma anche di tutte quelle patologie spesso facilitate, o comunque peggiorate , da un sonno insufficiente per qualità e quantità. Dedicato ai bambini, ma indirizzato anche ai genitori e agli insegnanti, illustra come e per quanto tempo dormono alcuni animali. A ciascuno di essi è collegata una regola del sonno. Nelle ultime pagine sono presenti dei disegni da completare e un breve questionario che consentirà a ciascun bambino di scoprire, in base alle proprie abitudini, a quale animale somiglia di più.Con questo libro si vuole dare, pertanto, un piccolo contributo perché un sonno tranquillo, sin da piccoli,

      • Marta e Kin: salvare la Terra!

        by Nicola Bennati

        The Space Confederation has gathered all the Nations who have reached civilization around the Universe and culturally elevated themselves, overcoming the limits of the profit system. Earth, on the other hand, is populated by barbarian hordes, still worshipping the money and destroying themselves day after day. The Confederation puts researchers Marta and Kin on a mission to save the Humans and help them make the transition towards civilization. A novel at the turn of science fiction and sociology, whose message is aimed at safeguarding our own, beloved planet. ---  La Confederazione Spaziale ha raccolto i popoli del cosmo che hanno raggiunto la civiltà, elevandosi culturalmente e superando i limiti del sistema del profitto. Sulla Terra abita invece un popolo barbaro, ancora legato al denaro, che si sta autodistruggendo giorno dopo giorno. La Confederazione ha deciso di provare a salvare gli Umani e aiutarli a compiere il passaggio verso la civiltà, attraverso una missione condotta dalle ricercatrici Marta e Kin le quali, una volta giunte nella base lunare da cui organizzeranno l'approccio con i terrestri, troveranno ad aiutarle due curiosi personaggi. Il primo contatto con i governanti dei paesi più potenti condurrà a risvolti lontani dalle aspettative iniziali, a causa della mentalità gretta e retrograda degli Umani. La Confederazione non si dà per vinta, i terrestri sono dotati di un talento musicale che non si può lasciar disperdere. Un romanzo a cavallo tra la fantascienza e la sociologia, dove il cuore del messaggio che l'autore cerca di trasmettere volge a salvaguardare il nostro caro pianeta, che lentamente volge al declino a causa della mano troppo pesante dei suoi abitanti più evoluti.Un bel messaggio da leggere tutto d'un fiato per sensibilizzare adulti e ragazzi: Salvare la Terra!

      • FREEDOM STORIES

        freedom stories for boys and girls chasing big dreams

        by GIOVANNI MOLASCHI

        An engaging collection of biographies of present-day heroes: women and men who stand out for struggling for love and freedomFrom Rudol’f Nureev to Tiziano Ferro, from Christian Andersen to Keith Haring, a collection of 12 biographies of famous people who have distinguished themselves in thht against sexual and gender discriminatioe computer was invented by Alan Turing; Darla, a famous character from the cartoon Nemo, owes its name to the Pixar producer who invented it; the captain of the American national football team that won the women’s World Cup is Megan Rapinoe, who with her charisma has enchanted men and women all over the world. If recently the editorial proposal on the LGBTQ theme has focused on “coming out”, this book - through compelling stories of courage - conveys a message completely indipendent from the sexual orientation of the reader, and focuses on the exemplarity of the actions that make these personalities prominent and true examples for future generations.

      • Fiction
        February 2020

        I Cacciatori dei sigilli perduti

        by Angela Tabata Di Matteo

        Cari lettori…! Noi Cacciatori dei sigilli perduti non vediamo l'ora di raccontarvi la nostra speciale storia; un concentrato di amicizia, suspense, adrenalina e molto altro… Siete pronti a conoscerci ea partire con noi in questa epica avventura?

      • Fiction

        I am Nirvana. The story of Kurt Cobain

        by Andrea Biscaro

        Kurt è la rock star più famosa del pianeta. Ha appena ventisette anni, ma ha già vissuto tutto. Adesso è solo, lontano dai riflettori e dai palchi, senza amici, senza più voglia di scrivere e di suonare, blindato tra le pareti dorate della sua reggia di Seattle.  Nella detonazione dello sparo Kurt rivive tutta la sua vita: l'infanzia ad Aberdeen, i locali, la nascita dei Nirvana, il primo contratto con la Sub Pop, la droga, il successo planetario e improvviso di Nevermind, il grunge, l'amore disperato per Courtney Love, la dipendenza dall'eroina, le tournée mondiali, la nascita di Frances Bean, In Utero, il policlinico di Roma, le disintossicazioni, Unplugged in New York. Fino a quel maledetto fucile Remington... A fargli immancabile compagnia è la voce di quell’amico misterioso al cui abbraccio mortale non saprà sfuggire.

      • PIMPA FLIES TO CHINA

        picture book

        by Altan

        Brand new picture book where the red-spotted dog, Pimpa flies to China to discover its traditions and culture.  More Picture Books about Pimpa available in the catalogue

      • 2020

        Dance Factor

        by Aurora Marsotto

        When the dance teacher announces that she’s entered her students in the Young Dance Competition, everyone is thrilled! Well…, almost everyone. Alice is twelve and, even though she’s done ballet for five years, she’s never gotten over her stage fright. Of course, what happened last year – when she turned right and everyone else turned left… right there… right in front of everyone… – only made things worse! So, just forget it! There’s no way Alice is going on stage! That is, unless Leonardo, who’s just joined the class, can change her mind…

      • Children's & YA
        October 2022

        Daniel Ghost and the Wandering Souls

        by Nicola Lucchi

        Daniel is an introverted boy who struggles to find friends in the village where he went to live after the disappearance of his parents. Finally one day, a new classmate seems to notice him. The problem, however, is that apparently he is the only one who can see her, thus making him look like a weirdo - more than usual.The girl is a ghost called Diana and she is quite grumpy. In fact, it looks like it annoys her a lot that Daniel can see her. She has a job to do, and he can only get in the way. In those same days, an even stranger event -if possible- happens in the school. In the new-year-of-school photo of a class in their own corridor, 13 children appear, but they were only 12 in front of the photographer! They are all shocked, and Professor Trevis most of them all. There is another ghost in the school, but not like Diana. He is different. He is a wandering soul, a dangerous spirit. Diana was sent to investigate, to find out why he reappeared, to help him get back to where he came from. Unfortunately, Daniel will have to help her… First book in Daniel Ghost Series.

      • Children's & YA
        October 2020

        Wrong

        by Matilde Piran, Andrea Falcone

        Wrong is the story of a journey: Davide and Elisa, both 15, are on the run, looking for a place to be themselves. It’s also the story of a friendship and the search for a common language to express all those emotions that the two just can’t deal with.Davide is the invisible boy. He doesn’t like or dislike anything specific, girls and boys frighten him equally, he doesn’t fit in with any particular group, and he doesn’t know how to approach his own desires.Elisa’s family has just moved to the city from a small town so that her kid brother can get the therapy he needs. She doesn’t know anyone yet. What she knows is that her half-wit brother, will not help her make new friends.Through text and images, the story snowballs towards the meeting between Davide and Elisa, and between two different ways to go wrong and be wrong - and to do it together.

      • Graphic novels

        GRAPHIC NOVELS

        by various authors

        PROVIDENCE - NEONOMICON Alan Moore’s revolutionary view takes the concept of super-heroes and comic-books to a whole new level, to the universal language of Art. Two chilling tales of Lovecraftian horror with beautiful art by Jacen Burrows.   PROVIDENCE, 3 volumes NEONOMICON 1 volume     PANINI COMICS ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVELS A line of cutting-edge original titles from acclaimed Italian and international artists. Explore a universe of thrilling stories and amazing art that will leave you breathless.   LOON by Giulia Zucca (1 volume) BOB 84 by Vincenzo Filosa, Paolo Bacilieri (1 volume) DHAKAJAAR by Matteo Casali, Federica Croci (3 volumes) SAETTA ROSSA (THE BOLT) by Marco B. Bucci, Riccardo Atzeni (1 volume)  BOBBY SOMBRERO by Gianni Barbieri, Cristian “Cinci” Canfailla (1 volume) PETER’S SHOP by Bruno Enna, Maria Claudia Di Genova, Andrea Greppi (1 volume) GLI UOMINI DELLA SETTIMANA (Men Of The Week) by Alessandro Bilotta, Sergio Ponchione (3 volumes) Il Grosso by Daniele Daccò, Veronica Ciancarini (1 volume) MERCY by Mirka Andolfo (3 volumes) UNNATURAL by Mirka Andolfo (vol. 1-3), Mirka Andolfo and Ivan Bigarella (vol. 4-5) NOMEN OMEN/ARCADIA by Marco B. Bucci, Jacopo Camagni (2 seasons, 3 volumes each) F***ING SAKURA by Giulio Macaione (2 volumes) L’UOMO DELLE VALIGIE (Man of the Suitcases) by Marco Nucci, Lorenzo Zaghi (1 volume) SPACE OPERA by Jacopo Paliaga, Eleonora Bruni (4 volumes) CINQUE ALLEGRI RAGAZZI MORTI (Five Merry Dead Boys) by Davide Toffolo (3 volumes) CTRL-Z by Alessandra ‘Alyah’ Patanè (4 volumes) DJUNGLE by Tommaso Vitiello, Marco Itri (1 volume) LIFE ZERO by Stefano Vietti, Marco Checchetto (1 volume) SOMNIA by Liza E. Anzen, Federica Di Meo (2 series of 4 volumes each) UN’ESTATE ITALIANA (An Italian Summer) by Enrico Brizzi, Denis Medri (1 volume) GURT by Isaak Friedl, Oscarito (3 volumes) LILLI LA BIMBA UNICORNO (Lilli, the Unicorn Girl) by Alice Del Giudice (1 volume)

      • Humanities & Social Sciences

        The black sea of indifference

        by Liliana Segre / Filippo Civati

        Liliana Segre’s testimony and her political message are shared in this essay by Giuseppe Civati that reports her words and her teachings, on the occasion of her appointment as lifetime Italian Senator by Italian President Sergio Mattarella.Segre was expelled from school in 1938. She tried to flee Italy as an asylum seeker but was denied protection and was sent back. On January 30th, 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz with her father Alberto, who deceased in the concentration camp. In the last thirty years she has been promoting an extraordinary campaign against indifference and against racism in any form or aspect.Her undisputed, strong and clear words are a message for girls and boys, her «ideal grandchildren»: we must never lose our rights and respect for people.

      • LEONARDO IN FEAST OF PARADISE

        Picture Book

        by Pia Valentinis

        A picture book with non fiction sections dedicated to Leonardo Da Vinci's special period of his life.  The book develops around the Feast of Paradise, an event organised by Leonardo to celebrate the wedding between Isabella of Aragon and Gian Galeazzo Sforza.  The story is told by one of his pupils.  The result is a special focus on Leonardo's passions and talents as well as on his historical and artistic time.

      • THE ENCHANTING FAIRY TALES' COLLECTION

        by Various

        Nine lovely fairy tales, enriched by the illustrations and technique of Valeria Abatzoglu. The magic illustrations are developed on double and single spreads, with simple texts for all early readers.

      • Fiction

        Like wild beast

        by Giuse Alemanno

        Oppido Messapico, a small town in deepest Puglia. Costantino Ro chira and his henchmen plan to wipe out the rival mob family, the Sarmenta. It’s all about money and the neighboring Calabrese mob, the ‘Ndrangheta. But the plan works only halfway: by sheer luck the Sarmentas’ only son, Massimo aka Mattanza (Slaughter), a troubled and cruel kid, cheats death, together with his uncles and his cousin Santo. They all leave town on an old Fiat Regata, after clearing the family money and staging their own disappearance. Their trip leads them in the far North of Italy, in Lombardy’s Val Camonica, where an old friend and compatriot, Giovanni Argento, gives them shelter. There, Santo and Mattanza plot their revenge… “Like Wild Beasts” is a tough novel with hard-core nuances, sparing nothing and no one: a Tarantino movie, as told by Giovanni Verga.

      • Children's & YA

        SPECIAL JOURNEYS

        Gift Books Series

        by Pia Valentinis

        A series of beautifully illustrated gift books for a age group 9-99. Every title takes the reader in a special journey at the discovery of FOOD, MUSIC, FASHION and TIME from curious and unusual perspectives. In the series: LALALA - Music ZIP - Fashion YUM - Food GONG - Time

      • Ossigeno

        by Sacha Naspini

        Paul Auster meets Stephen King in this poetic yet disturbing investigation into the darkest corners of human nature. After the coral, ambitious Le case del malcontento, Sasha Naspini comes back with a tightly plotted narrative that keeps you at the edge of your seat from page one to the very end, while drawing with sharp sensibility broken characters who fight against all odds to put their pieces back together in unexpected new shapes.   Laura disappears on the 12th of August 1999, at eight years old. She is found 14 years later in a bunker. She’s 22 now. Luca is having dinner with his father, just another evening, always the same for the last thirty years. Someone knocks at the door: it’s the police. What happens if one day you find out the person who raised you is a monster? Ossigeno is the story of those who stay after everything and everyone else have gone. The arrest of the monster is the beginning of a new life, one that seemed impossible to imagine – there are no cages anymore, but the characters are nevertheless stuck in their own minds, made of memories and scars they can’t forget. Luca’s father was his bridge to reality, he was his moral compass, someone to look up to. After the death of his mother, he had become his whole family. And throughout this whole time, he was monster. Where does this leave Luca? Is he a monster too, for sharing is father’s blood? Meanwhile, Laura is trying hard to live again. Her mother doesn’t know how to talk to her. Laura smiles, she acts normal. She likes to wander around the city – she likes to get lost in the crowd. But sometimes she feels the need to be surrounded by walls. She locks herself in a random bathroom. She could stay there for hours, until someone knocks. No one knows what she’s doing in there. Ossigeno is a matrioska. Characters close themselves in dark boxes – and a boy in Wyoming hides in a locket, not knowing he has always been captive inside someone else’s nightmare.   Ossigeno is not a psychological thriller – it is not a crime novel. It is a story of dark roots and curious, eerie minds. Of secrets buried so deep that become seeds for madness. Of masks worn so tightly they become your own skin. But what’s underneath, no matter how hard you try, is still there. Hidden. Observing. Waiting to see what happens. Sasha Naspini’s previous novel, Le Case del malcontento, was sold in China, Korea, Greece and Turkey and is being considered by many publishers worldwide. Its passionate, extremely sophisticated story-telling and unforgettable characterization makes it a psychological masterpiece, an analysis on the complexity of human nature – I would say it’s the Italian Spoon River Anthology, and the title has also been compared to Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. With a vernacular yet classical, literary language, and multiple points of view, Le Case is an epic rural tale with a universal echo. The novel plays with genres, mixing noir, psychological thriller, historical memoir and dark fairy-tale.

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