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FictionSeptember 2020Il Benefattore di Emozioni
by Luca Platini
Una coppia di ladruncoli in tour per le periferie di mezzo continente. Un imprenditore cui è stato rapito l'unico erede. Un investigatore alle prese con una precoce arteriosclerosi. Un oste incapace di credere all'anima gemella. Un pittore sulla via dell'ispirazione perduta. Due sposini in viaggio di nozze. Una vedova in cerca di un nuovo legame con il figlio. Un commissario cui la fortuna volta improvvisamente le spalle. Quattro universitari in trasferta per un addio al celibato. Tante storie normali dentro una grande storia, piccole strade destinate a incrociarsi. Nelle "notti magiche" dei Mondiali di calcio di Italia '90 , un piccolo centro all'estremo sud della Spagna diventa il teatro di un bestiario di vite sospese, che si interseca pagina dopo pagina.Nel frattempo giornali, radio e televisioni si interrogano su un crescendo di azioni eclatanti che avvengono in tutta Europa, rivendicate da un gruppo capeggiato da un individuo che si firma “Il Benefattore di Emozioni”. Una follia oscura che sembra lontana anni luce. Ma in un lampo le distanze possono azzerarsi e solo allora, troppo tardi, si realizza di essere tutti in pericolo.
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FictionI 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.
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FictionOctober 2020Il Caso Sindelar
Le inchieste del Commissario Baroni
by Carlo Bazan, Carlo Rispoli
Milan, 1939. Commissioner Andrea Baroni, of the Porta Vittoria Police Station, is engaged in a special investigation. Twelve-year-old Matthias Sindelar spent his days, with his peers, kicking an old leather ball in the middle of the street. Soccer was his passion, he was noticed by the team selector Herta ASV in Vienna and from there he took off towards a well-deserved career and the number ten jersey of the Austrian national team. So far it would seem a story like that of many sports champions. But it is not so. Sindelar, who was called by the fans the Mozart of soccer, for his drunken dribbling, has actually become a symbol of the struggle against all dictatorships and regimes and at the same time a mystery, a mystery, which is still debated today.
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Praticare e raccontare i santi segni
by Franco Giulio, Brambilla
In 1927 Romano Guardini wrote a precious little book on The Holy Signs, with pages of incomparable depth. Franco Giulio Brambilla, a well-known theologian and pastor, takes up and revisits the theme in a current and captivating language. The liturgical signs are here characterized by their prevailing trait: bodily signs (standing, kneeling, beating one’s chest, raising and imposing hands), creatural signs (water, light/fire, oil, bread and wine) and ritual signs (candle, ash, incense, robes, bells). The result is a surprising journey that renews these symbols to hand over the fire of existence to the new generations.
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2020Sherlock, Lupin & I
Last Dance, Mr Holmes
by Irene M. Adler
London, 1919 - It’s been fifty years since Sherlock and Lupin last solved a case together. Irene Adler has come back to track down her once inseparable friends, now a great detective and the other a gentleman thief. Irene and her adoptive daughter Mila will bring the trio back together into a world of thrills, intrigue, and breakneck chases.
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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.
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Children's & YAA war against profs!
Leonardo Damiani and Sister Bernardina’s Miracle
by Maggi Andrea
GUERRA AI PROF! Leonardo Damiani e il miracolo di suor Bernardina (A war against profs! Leonardo Damiani and Sister Bernardina’s Miracle) 3 reprints, 3000 copies sold Genre: fiction middle-grade/YA Age: 11+ Pages: 156 Leonardo goes to secondary school, and enjoys inventing pranks, such as throwing a dog at the postman and adding laxative to the teachers’ coffee. He doesn’t like studying, and he is always playing videogames. But one day Leonardo becomes himself the target of a prank, and in trying to fix the damage he meets the almost centenary nun Bernardina, a distant relative. The old lady will prove extremely funny and, against all odds, the two will became close friends. Bernardina will eventually help Leonardo to solve his problems once and for all.
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Food & DrinkOctober 2022The Heart of Cocoa
500 Years of Chocolate History
by Napoleone Neri
The temptation par excellence, that craving that suddenly arises and we cannot fight it unless we satisfy it: the desire for chocolate. Perhaps it is because of this power that it is called the most loved food on the planet. Or perhaps it is because its cultivation, production and consumption - which has been growing strongly in the last 10 years - are spread across all continents. Napoleon Neri tells its story, starting with the plant and its fruit, from the pioneers of chocolate, to the birth of confectionery factories in the 19th century and then the great modern industries. He describes in detail the processing and transformation of cocoa beans, their beneficial properties, the sensory characteristics of the finished product, and spices everything up with a thousand anecdotes and curiosities that only those who have lived and worked in this world for so long can know.
