Dal rosa al viso - Una saga familiare nell'Italia risorgimentale
Translated title: From Rose to Face
Author: Bellardi, Angela Delgrosso
Genre: Family Saga
Year: 2023 | Pages: 340 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87867
The novel is a dive into the past. It is a meeting of great and small history, particularly the epic tale of the Risorgimento and the ups and downs of two young people whose destinies crossed one day.
With clear, compelling prose, brimming with thoughts and emotions, the author offers a surprising glimpse into life in 19th-century Piedmont, starting with the Anzasca Valley at the foot of Monte Rosa and then moving on to the beautiful and vibrant Saluzzo, overlooking Monviso.
The pages brim with real life, simple and powerful in its authenticity, and the author's pride in depicting characters who are not borrowed from her imagination to develop a realistic story, but rather real people, retracing her family tree and somehow bringing them to life through a reconstruction as faithful as possible of their passage on this earth
Mostri
Translated title: Monsters
Author: Treanni, Carmine
Genre: Short Stories / Horror
Year: 2024 | Pages: 176 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87863
From the terrifying creatures of Ancient Greece to the sexy vampires of our modern era: literature and our imaginations are populated by the figure of the Monster. Fantastical and terrifying creatures have their roots in folklore and oral tales, while others have come down to us thanks to the fervent imaginations of great writers. The monsters featured in the stories in this anthology, written by some of the greatest Italian writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, are a prime example: marine creatures, werewolves, alien entities, and even decidedly unusual animals or animalistic humans
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
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 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 sentenza è morte
Translated title: Hawthorne & Horowitz #2 - The Sentence is Death
Series: Book 2
Author: Horowitz, Anthony
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 300 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87884
Translated
You shouldn't be here. It's too late...
These were the last words heard over the phone from Richard Pryce, a successful celebrity-divorce lawyer, found bludgeoned to death with a £3,000 bottle of 1982 Chateau Lafite - odd, since he didn't drink. Why this bottle? Why those words? And why a three-digit number painted on the wall?
Baffled, the police enlist Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony, who is getting adept at solving murders. As Hawthorne delves into the case, it becomes clear he has his own secrets, and Anthony realizes that uncovering the truth may come at a deadly cost
Il Castagno dei cento cavalli
Translated title: The Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses
Series: Volume 8
Author: Scalia, Cristina Cassar
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 320 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87888
'The Woodcutter' was a shy person, but she didn't bother anyone: one of those people who seem to have neither friends nor enemies. Yet someone killed her. Then they attacked her corpse as if with a specific intent.
A new case for Vanina Guarrasi.
At the foot of the Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses, a centuries-old tree that grows on the slopes of Mount Etna, two forest rangers find the body of a brutally murdered woman. The crime scene is disconcerting. For Deputy Commissioner Guarrasi of the Catania Flying Squad, the investigation immediately appears complex, if only because there is virtually no information about the victim, almost as if she had no past.
The experience and memory of retired Commissioner Biagio Patanè - the best when it comes to abandoning technological advances and operating the old-fashioned way - are therefore more useful than ever, even if the elderly officer appears somewhat distracted by a personal problem. Vanina herself struggles to reconcile her personal life with her work: the former always draws her back to Palermo, her hometown; the latter takes her instead to a 'place of the soul' that harks back to her childhood
Incantevole tentazione - Badlands
Translated title: Enchanting Temptation - Badlands
Author: Stefania, S.
Genre: Romance
Year: 2024 | Pages: 510 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87891
Romantic novel
Cucina in giallo
Translated title: Kitchen in Yellow
Author: Sellerio Editore Palermo
Genre: Short Stories / Mystery
Year: 2023 | Pages: 432 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87857
Sellerio's new mystery anthology. All the ingredients are there. Among tasty dishes, mysterious recipes, gourmet dinners, and traditional cuisine, crime lurks. Eight enigmas to solve while laughing heartily. The art of cooking is one of the things we most enjoy and talk about in everyday life. And so it's an irresistible subject for Sellerio mystery anthologies, which seek to entangle their heroes in everyday life. Marta and Berta Miralles, the two policewomen and sisters in Alicia Giménez-Bartlett's mystery novels, unmask the person who murdered for despicable reasons during a Thai cooking class. This is a case of crime 'with cooking', followed by stories that explore various possible combinations of mystery and cuisine
Affari di provincia - Storie criminali realmente accadute
Translated title: Provincial Affairs - Crime Stories That Really Happened
Author: Berlioz, Federico
Genre: Crime / Short Stories
Year: 2024 | Pages: 290 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87861
Crime short stories
