Il mio sogno nel cass (on) etto - salvare il mondo
Translated title: My Dream in the Drawer: Saving the World
Author: Petracca, Francesco
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2023 | Pages: 424 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87858
This book is a small collection of aphorisms by various authors, with no claim to being exhaustive. The author rejects the title 'author' as he is simply a collector of aphorisms
Fairy tale
Author: King, Stephen
Genre: Horror / Fantasy
Year: 2022 | Pages: 677 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87868
Translated
A story as old as myth, and as startling and iconic as the rest of King's work, Fairy Tale is about an ordinary guy forced into the hero's role by circumstance, and it is both spectacularly suspenseful and satisfying
Treno infernale per l'Angelo rosso
Translated title: Hell Train for the Red Angel
Author: Thilliez, Franck
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2026 | Pages: 396 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 91766
Translated
Franck Thilliez's dazzling debut novel returns to bookstores in a new translation and with an unpublished letter from the author to Italian readers: a thriller with a dark atmosphere and a fast pace, in which the killer and the policeman chase each other in a macabre spiral of death and violence.
Inspector Franck Sharko is dealing with the most difficult case of his career: his wife, Suzanne, has disappeared. One evening she didn't return home, and he hasn't heard from her since. Six months have passed. No sign of life, no ransom demand. Every attempt to find her has been fruitless.
After a long leave of absence, it's time for Sharko to return to work, and his first assignment concerns a murder that took place in a small village not far from Paris. In an isolated house, the body of a woman was found suspended in mid-air by a system of ropes and hooks, mutilated and recomposed in an unnatural pose.
The crime scene is strangely clean, and the only microscopic clues lead to Brittany, where the inspector will uncover a sordid underworld of depravity. With the help of the charismatic psychocriminologist Williams, the computer genius Serpetti, and his neighbor Dudù Camelia, an elderly Guyanese woman with the mysterious gift of visions, Sharko will try to track down the Machiavellian killer, a vengeful spirit who seems intent on rebuilding hell on Earth.
And as the investigation becomes increasingly intricate and dangerous, a nagging doubt torments the commissioner: will he ever be able to find Suzanne?
You like it darker. Salto nel buio
Translated title: You Like it Darker
Author: King, Stephen
Genre: Horror / Short Stories
Year: 2024 | Pages: 544 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87873
Translated
'You like it darker? Fine, so do I', writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel 'the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind', and in You Like it Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.
'Two Talented Bastids' explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In 'Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream', a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny's most catastrophically. In 'Rattlesnakes', a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance - with major strings attached. In 'The Dreamers', a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. 'The Answer Man' asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful
Il principe della Marsiliana. Nuova ediz
Translated title: The Prince of Marsiliana
Author: Perodi, Emma
Genre: Historical / Romance
Year: 2026 | Pages: 260 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 91773
With 'The Prince of Marsiliana' (1891), Emma Perodi - known for her fantastical fairy tales 'Le novelle della nonna' (Grandma's Tales) and for her work as a journalist attentive to current affairs - wrote a novel set in Rome, navigating the lives of the nobility, the lower middle class, and the proletariat.
The story centers on the prince's unrequited love for the beautiful Maria, a woman of modest origins but of great virtue, who resists his repeated advances. With this work, Perodi deserves credit for exposing - using a language with a still-modern 'taste' and unfolding a compelling plot - the cynical intrigues of power, politics, and the world of information, offering us a portrait that remains remarkably relevant today
La casa senza ricordi
Translated title: The House Without Memories
Author: Carrisi, Donato
Genre: Fantasy / Horror
Year: 2021 | Pages: 398 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 84796
In the big dull house at the top of the hill, a little girl always lives alone... Her name is Eva, she is ten years old, and with her there are only a housekeeper and a Finnish au pair, Maja Salo. No trace of parents.
It is precisely Maja who desperately seeks the help of Pietro Gerber, the best hypnotist in Florence, the baby sleeper. Eva hasn't really been alone for some time now. With her is an imaginary friend, nameless and faceless. And because of this presence, perhaps Eve is in danger
Il caso Bramard
Translated title: The Bramard Case
Author: Longo, Davide
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2021 | Pages: 280 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 79866
Thriller
Flora
Author: Robecchi, Alessandro
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2021 | Pages: 365 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 79863
Thriller
Chimerica - Antologia di racconti fantasy
Translated title: Chimerica - Anthology of Fantasy Stories
Author: Pav Edizioni
Genre: Fantasy / Short Stories
Year: 2024 | Pages: 290 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87862
'Our chimeras are those that most resemble us' (Victor Hugo).
Wonderful and cruel territories, of distant worlds and of the human soul, explored through the actions and doubts of multifaceted characters, both determined and fragile, both fantastic and dramatically real. Is love salvation or damnation, when does it come to bear its extreme moral consequences?
What can you do if you can sacrifice the power of your freedom and liberty? What happens when he sees the loss come back to his senses and his fear? Is it worse than rancor? If it can be configured incorrectly?
The question I ask about is the story of Chimerica: the story of warriors, of magic, of ancient orders, of demons and dragons, of the story of vile gains and noble revenge, of the intrigue of dynastic intrigues carried out without scruples, along the border between peace and destruction, on the field where courage and horror caught in the heat of battle are measured
Spettri familiari
Translated title: Family Ghosts
Author: Ruchat, Anna
Genre: Social Novel / Family Saga
Year: 2023 | Pages: 188 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87866
'Family Ghosts' is the novel of a normal family, typically marked by hypocrisy and tacit mutual cover-ups. Divided into two parts, the first set in the 1980s and the second in the present day, it unfolds across multiple narrative levels: the third-person narrative alternates with notebooks, letters, and dead architecture, and in the second part, the protagonists' first-person narratives. The geometry of the structure and the theater of inanimate objects subtly reveal the upheavals of existence
