Guilty - Drunk in love
Author: Rokia
Genre: Fantasy / Romance
Year: 2024 | Pages: 592 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87898
Lavinia lives alone in a crumbling house, juggling part-time jobs and painful memories. At her wit's end, she decides to end it all by jumping off a bridge. As she plunges into the icy river below, a young man with golden curls, Arthur, saves her.
Arthur appears to have no identity or family, so Lavinia, feeling indebted, invites him into her home. He reveals he is a prince from a parallel universe and doesn't know how he ended up in our world. Forced to live together, Arthur and Lavinia slowly form an unexpected bond that neither knows how to tame.
However, a curse looms over them. Arthur must return home to protect his kingdom from an ancient enemy, and he won't leave without taking Lavinia with him
La piena - Blackwater I
Translated title: Blackwater #1 - The Flood
Series: Book 1
Author: McDowell, Michael
Genre: Horror / Fantasy
Year: 2024 | Pages: 250 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87871
Translated
The mysterious saga of the Caskey family begins in Blackwater I: The Flood, as a devastating flood brings a strange and beautiful visitor to the small, sleepy lumber town of Perdido, Alabama.
Elinor Dammert's arrival will forever change the town and the wealthy and powerful Caskey family.
James, who dotes on Elinor like a second daughter...
Sister, who pines for Elinor's strength and independence...
Oscar, who loves Elinor and determines to build a life with her...
And matriarch Mary-Love, perhaps the only person in Perdido with an inkling of Elinor's true power and purpose.
For Elinor is more than she appears, and she brings to Perdido - and to the Caskeys - a deadly, inexplicable otherness from which no one can ever be safe
Dieci secondi
Translated title: Ben Harper #3 - Ten Seconds
Series: Book 3
Author: Gold, Robert
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 384 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87886
Translated
After a tense birthday celebration in Haddley, journalist Ben Harper watches his boss, Madeline, get into the car that has come to collect her. He walks home, never imagining that by the next morning, Madeline will be missing.
To find Madeline, Ben will have to return to the now infamous murder case that made her journalism career over a decade ago. A case which, Ben quickly discovers, was never as simple as it seemed.
But time is of the essence, and soon it's not just Madeline's life on the line
Luci sulla città - Un'inchiesta per Matilde Serao
Translated title: Lights on the City
Author: Virgilio, Massimiliano
Genre: Crime / Mystery
Year: 2024 | Pages: 232 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87887
Naples, late 19th century. When the gears of the rotary press start whirring, it means it's time to go to press.
The beating heart of the newspaper is Matilde Serao, known to everyone as 'the lady'. She employs a printer with an overly fondness for gambling and an 'ditor-in-chief tasked with the thankless task of mediating between her and her husband, director Edoardo Scarfoglio. Her relationship with Edoardo, in fact, is shaky, both emotionally and editorially: for him, 'Matildella' should focus on culture and lifestyle articles, and leave aside field investigations. Eleonora Duse, a great friend and the 'Divine' actress, has a completely different opinion, often scolding her and urging her to free herself from her husband's demands.
But now there's no time for romantic squabbles and secrets: the job calls. The body of a socialist has been found in an alley: dark plots tangle around the murder, and for Matilde, the death is also a private matter. While the authorities appear to be pursuing false or tendentious leads, the lady must delve into the slums the government is trying to demolish - among unscrupulous speculators and wretches who borrow from illegal lottery - to unravel the mystery behind the crime
Criminal (Ed - deluxe)
Translated title: Criminal #1 - Coward
Series: Volume 1
Author: Brubaker, Ed
Genre: Crime / Graphic Novels
Year: 2024 | Pages: 432 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87881
Translated
The first collection of Criminal, one of the best reviewed comics of 2006. Coward is the story of Leo, a professional pickpocket who is also a legendary heist-planner and thief. But there's a catch with Leo, he won't work any job that he doesn't call all the shots on, he won't allow guns, and the minute things turn south, he's looking for any exit that won't land him in prison. But when he's lured into a risky heist, all his rules go out the window, and he ends up on the run from the cops and the bad men who double-crossed him. Now Leo must come face-to-face with the violence he's kept bottled up inside for 20 years, and nothing will ever be the same for him again
Il villaggio perduto
Translated title: The Lost Village
Author: Sten, Camilla
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Year: 2024 | Pages: 370 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87870
Translated
Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed 'The Lost Village,' since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother's entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were left - a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newborn - have plagued her. She's gathered a small crew of friends in the remote village to make a film about what really happened.
But there will be no turning back.
Not long after they've set up camp, mysterious things begin to happen. Equipment is destroyed. People go missing. As doubt breeds fear and their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear to Alice:
They are not alone.
They're looking for the truth...
But what if it finds them first?
Jane e il mistero della principessa. Le indagini di Jane Austen
Translated title: Jane and the Princess Mystery: Jane Austen's Investigations
Author: Barron, Stephanie
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Year: 2026 | Pages: 272 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 91768
Translated
A Russian noblewoman, precious jewels, a conspiracy to uncover.
London, 1811. Fresh from writing Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen joins her brother Henry, a brilliant banker, and his charming wife Eliza in their elegant home on Sloane Street. Immersed in a world of witty conversations, glittering gowns, and receptions, Jane observes with discretion and irony this microcosm of ambition, secrets, and vanity. But not even her keen eye is prepared for the scandal that erupts when the private correspondence between a Russian princess and an influential Tory minister is suddenly made public, much less for the tragedy that follows: the beautiful Evgenia Cholikova is found with her throat slit right outside the residence of the minister, Lord Castlereagh.
While public opinion whispers of a romantic suicide and gossip tarnishes the princess's reputation, Jane does not believe the official version. Her doubts, however, become unsettling when a web of coincidences places her and Eliza at the center of the investigation as prime suspects. Why would someone want to frame them? And who, behind the scenes of high society, had an interest in eliminating the princess? With only seven days to prove her innocence, Jane is forced to delve into the halls of power and the boudoirs of the most influential courtesans, on the trail of a murderer capable of threatening not only her life, but also the fate of England
Il gioco della notte
Translated title: The Game of the Night
Author: Läckberg, Camilla
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2021 | Pages: 108 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 79867
Translated
Thriller
Sulla bocca della gente - Racconti dal Brasile del XXI secolo
Translated title: On the Lips of the People - Stories from 21st Century Brazil
Author: Various Authors
Genre: Short Stories / Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 152 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87859
Magical and cruel, Brazil is the country of the most famous carnival in the world, the land of samba and the Amazon river, but it is also the country of the favelas and of many negated rights.
A long literary tradition has also given us characters who have become firmly established in our imagination.
Today a new generation of writers and writers is facing the cultural and social panorama of the country, a generation that, outside of the now obsolete formula, reflects on modern life, registering the individual's sadness in his daily existence
Camera con balcone
Translated title: Room with Balcony
Author: Exbrayat, Charles
Genre: Mystery / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 194 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87882
Translated
The moors around Callander have turned bronze as autumn arrives, and with it, Imogene McCarthy. Stepping off the train in her red tartan scarf and long wool coat, she breathes a sigh of relief - she's finally home, far from the chaos of London. It's been three years since she last set foot in Callander, earning a heroine's reputation for stopping a dangerous spy. Now, she just wants to relax and savor the scent of Scotland, a mix of musk and whisky.
But her peace is shattered when she spots a lifeless man from her balcony, and the resentful police quickly accuse her of murder. The very woman who might kill someone only by challenging them to a scotch-drinking contest must now don her detective hat once more, this time to clear her own name
