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
Amore al profumo di girasole
Translated title: Love with the Scent of Sunflowers
Author: Mauro, Gabriele
Genre: Romance
Year: 2026 | Pages: 288 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 91765
Marisol clutches the pendant around her neck. A golden sunflower, guardian of a past she refuses to remember. In moments when the air seems thin, her fingers search for that small symbol. The relief that gesture brings is a scentless breath. Like the scent of a sunflower: invisible and silent. Because the sunflower, unlike roses or lavender, leaves no traces in the wind. It thrives on light, orienting itself toward the sun with blind faith. It gives itself to those whose hearts are open to recognizing it.
Marisol is like a sunflower. Her life is made of routine and silence. This is how she hides her pain and a secret that never abandons her. Until, on the seafront, she meets Angelo, a photographer capable of seeing beyond appearances. And something begins to change. Thanks to Post-it notes left under a Ferris wheel, handwritten letters, and simple attentions, Marisol discovers a pure, timeless, and unpretentious love.
A love that doesn't flaunt itself, but manifests itself in small gestures. A gaze that waits, a caress that lingers, a presence that doesn't disappear when Angelo's gone. Marisol understands that, for the first time, someone has noticed her. But then the past returns to haunt her with its shadows, and she must learn to trust the light. To recognize that there are bonds that don't need to be explained. Just experienced. Because some loves are like the scent of a sunflower. They can't be grasped. And yet, they're impossible to forget.
Gabriele Mauro's name attracts an ever-growing and passionate community of readers. Those who follow him know that his stories embody authentic emotions and profound values - values that today seem almost lost. It is precisely for these messages that Gabriele Mauro continues to attract, day after day, a loyal readership that continues to grow and eagerly awaits his arrival in bookstores
Le querce non fanno limoni
Translated title: Oaks Don't Make Lemons
Author: Francini, Chiara
Genre: Historical / Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 408 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 90495
'Oaks Don't Make Lemons' is an epic, intimate, and choral novel spanning fifty years of Italian history, from World War II to the Years of Lead. A story of the Resistance, of passions, of families torn apart and mended, of struggles that leave scars, but also of the strength to stand firm. The protagonist is Delia, a former partisan, an unforgettable woman who faces war, love, and loss by building - stone by stone, voice by voice - a real and symbolic place: Cantuccio, a concrete and ideal refuge, a space for sharing, hope, and memory.
Around her and after her move Irma, Mauro, Angela, Carlo, Sandro, Lettèria, Gigione, and many others, vivid characters who intertwine in a narrative woven like a tapestry of voices, dialects, scars, and dreams. Set between Florence and Campi Bisenzio, 'Oaks Don't Make Lemons' embodies History with a capital 'H' - the torture at Villa Triste, the Liberation, the Piazza Fontana massacre, the contradictions of the extra-parliamentary left - but filters it through everyday gestures, silences, pots on the stove, unspoken words.
Each page is imbued with a living language that alternates lyricism and popular speech, a language that sings, cries, resists. It is a novel about legacy - political, emotional, ideological. About the way memory passes, hides, reveals itself. And about the courage not to be overwhelmed by the past, but to understand it in order to move forward.
'Oaks Don't Make Lemons' is a historical novel, yes. But it is also a novel of existence, a novel that questions what it means to resist: injustice, disenchantment, pain, time. And she does so with a writing style that's both cultured and full of humanity, embracing each character as if they were a true story, to be protected. Because a happy life means having fought
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
Questo giorno che incombe
Translated title: This Looming Day
Author: Lattanzi, Antonella
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2021 | Pages: 455 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 79859
Mystery
Una morte senza peso - La nuova indagine di Debora Camilli
Translated title: A Weightless Death - Debora Camilli's New Investigation
Author: Venturini, Nora
Genre: Mystery / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 268 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87880
It's just past New Year's Eve, and Debora Camilli, Rome's most insightful and charming taxi driver, heroically decides to step on the scale - which mercilessly reads two extra kilos. Enough, it's time to go on a diet. As if on cue, halfway through a slow and exhausting shift, Dr. Longobardi, a nutritionist, climbs into her cab. For Debora, it's a call of destiny. But barely time for an appointment and a medical checkup when Longobardi is hit by a car outside her office.
Could it really be an accident? Debora has more than a few doubts. Drawing on her key strengths - great intuition, initiative, and sheer nerve - she begins to investigate. As usual, this means returning to Commissioner Edoardo Raggio, with all the romantic entanglements that come with it, but also with all the work-related discussions. Because while the official investigations immediately focus on a single lead, Debora discovers that another person could have benefited from the doctor's death
La domestica a ore
Translated title: The Hourly Maid
Author: Modignani, Sveva Casati
Genre: Social Novel / Romance
Year: 2025 | Pages: 320 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 91763
An intense and gripping novel that tells the story of the silent strength of women and the possibility of starting over, always.
Isabella Boccadoro d'Este has chosen to live without flaunting her noble origins, working as a housekeeper in Milan. With her discretion and innate sensitivity, she brings order and serenity where solitude and disharmony reign. Until one morning, upon entering the Tizzonis' elegant apartment, she finds Laura, the young landlady, seriously injured.
Behind the respectable facade of a perfect family lies a history of violence that threatens to overwhelm the couple's two children. As justice struggles to take its course amid lies and silence, Isabella finds herself increasingly personally involved in the affair, discovering the strength of female solidarity and the fragility of those who seem invincible.
At her side is Duccio Soldanieri, a charming and determined Carabinieri captain, also a nobleman, who brings a new and unexpected feeling into her life. Through secrets, passions, and difficult choices, Isabella must confront her fears and learn that, sometimes, being brave means letting yourself be loved
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
Liberi come la neve
Translated title: Free as the Snow
Author: Nardi, Rita
Genre: Romance / Social Novel
Year: 2023 | Pages: 478 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87890
My name is Nive White, and I know what it means to have no home. Since my parents disappeared, I've been shuffled from country to country, unwanted and unwelcome. When I leave Paris for Canada, I expect nothing, just to endure a few months until I turn eighteen and gain my freedom. But something feels different here. I sense it as soon as I find a red leaf upon arrival. Despite the snow-covered woods, I feel peace under the fir trees. Maybe it's the people - like Uncle Henry, who took me in, Margareth, who cooks me pancakes, or Kaya, who makes me smile.
Only Hurst, a shy boy with gray eyes as fierce as a blizzard, resents me. To him, I'm an outsider in the frozen forests of his Navajo tribe. His words sting, but his gaze sees my sadness. I want to trust him, but my past has taught me not to. Yet, a tribal legend says that whoever finds the wapasha, the red leaf, can change their destiny. If that's true, I want the courage to follow my instinct - straight into Hurst's arms.
My name is Nive White, and this is my story
Innegabilmente mio
Translated title: Undeniably Mine
Author: Foster, A. J.
Genre: Family Saga / Romance
Year: 2026 | Pages: 608 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 91764
Translated
A heart that hides its fragility. A gaze that can see beyond the cracks. Can we love even when the masks fall?
After years of rebellion, Theresa Murphy has returned home only to find herself locked up again, trapped between a mother who controls her every breath, a father full of secrets, and a job at the Burlington Chronicle that feels more like a limitation than an opportunity. But the real hell has a name and a face: Jason Harrison, once her spotless knight and her first love, who ultimately broke her heart.
Forced to live under the same roof, Tess and Jason find themselves catapulted into a whirlwind of lies and unquenched desire. Between sham parties, secret clubs, and motorcycle getaways, attraction becomes a double-edged sword, as the Harrison and Williams families face off in a war of power, crime, and corruption.
When the long shadow of a Mexican cartel tightens the knot of their destinies, Tess must choose whether to remain a perpetual pawn in the hands of others or finally take the reins of the game. And, to survive, she must decide whether to trust the one man
