Jason, Piper, and Leo, three students from a school for "bad kids," find themselves at Camp Half-Blood, where they learn that they are demigods and begin a quest to free Hera, who has been imprisoned by Mother Earth herself
My name is Magnus Chase. Two months ago I died fighting a fire giant and woke up in Hotel Valhalla as one of Odin's warriors. Time for a rest ? I wish. When I meet Otis, an informant with a lead on Thor's missing hammer, all I get is the name "Provincetown" before a wolf-masked assassin takes him out and warms me to stay away. Someone really doesn't want me to find the hammer, and even if I could it's rumoured to be underground, guarded by powerful magic. But the giant armies are on the move, preparing to invade. If I don't find it, they'll ravage the Nine Worlds, starting with the streets of Boston. There's just one person who could help. Someone who demands a very high price: the gods' worst enemy, Loki.
Libro poetico e, per questo, morale, le "Operette" leopardiane sono, insieme, teatro filosofico e narrazione fantastica, trattato sull'infelicità dei viventi, ma anche rappresentazione di quella leggerezza, e ironia, e persino letizia, che la storia della civiltà - tra violenza e astrazione - ha disperso o negato. Sui modi del comico - dallo straniamento all'antifrasi, dal burlesco al fiabesco - trascorre l'onda di un pensiero tragico. Come nel riso c'è il riverbero di una saggezza fatta esperta degli inganni del mondo, del vanire delle cose. La critica della restaurazione, di ogni forma di restaurazione e di conformismo, l'indagine sulla natura, sulla sua prossimità e indifferenza, lo sguardo sulla materia, sul suo circuito perpetuo di produzione e distruzione, il pensiero della finitudine, dell'irriversibile, del limite, si fanno, in questo libro, affabulazione e dialogo, racconto e finzione teorica: ma il 'deserto della vita', il silenzio della speranza, le ombre stesse del nulla hanno qui un fremito, una loro irripetibile lingua, e passione.
A Young Iranian Woman Destined to Be Stoned to Death - A Doctor Who Risks His Own Life to Save Her
In fundamentalist Iran, new life sometimes means certain death. When Leila comes to see Doctor Karimi, both are in danger. Born in a slum to a Muslim father and a Jewish mother, Kooshyar Karimi has transformed himself into a successful doctor, an award-winning writer, and an adoring father. His could be a comfortable life but his conscience won't permit it: he is incapable of turning away the unmarried women who beg him to save their lives by ending the pregnancies that, if discovered, would see them stoned to death. One of those women is 22-year-old Leila. Beautiful, intelligent, passionate, she yearns to go to university but her strictly traditional family forbids it. Returning home from the library one day – among the few trips she's allowed out of the house – she meets a handsome shopkeeper, and her fate is sealed. Kooshyar has rescued countless women, but Leila seeks his help for a different reason, one that will haunt him for years afterwards and inspire an impossible quest from faraway Australia. Spellbinding and heartbreaking. Leila's Secret shows us everyday life for women in a country where it can be a crime to fall in love. But for all its tragedy, this unforgettable book is paradoxically uplifting, told from the heart of Kooshyar's immense sympathy, in the hope that each of us – and the stories we tell – can make a difference.
Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award 2017 for Best Middle Grade & Children's! Loki the trickster god is free from his chains. Now he's readying Naglfar, the Ship of the Dead, armed with a host of giants and zombies, to sail against the Norse gods and begin the final battle of Ragnarok. It's up to Magnus Chase and his friends to stop Loki's plans. Along the way, they will face angry sea gods, hostile giants, and an evil fire-breathing dragon. But Magnus's biggest challenge will be facing his own inner demons . . .
"How do you punish an immortal? My name is Apollo. I used to be a god. But what was before I was cast down from Olympus (a terrible misunderstanding) and woke up in a New York dumpster. I persuaded Percy Jackson to give me a lift to Camp Half-Blood. But the place is in chaos. Demigods are going missing and the all-seeing Oracles have fallen to a mysterious enemy known only as 'the Beast'. I figured that regaining Zeu's favour would involve a series of harrowing trials, and I was right (I usually am). My first task? Protect the final Oracle, hidden away for millennia. If I fail, the Beast will control the future, but worse - I'll be stuck as a teenage boy, forever . . ."
When twelve-year-old Yara finds a strange set of instructions left behind by her deceased mother, she starts on a journey to discover the truth about her mother's past and her true identity.
Praise for gripping, atmosphere Fiona Griffiths crime thriller series: Chilling, atmospheric and so gripping it hurts. You won't read a better crime novel this year MARK EDWARDS
Annabelle e Grant sono la coppia modello: Grant è l’uomo solido, idealista, buono e fedele che tutte le donne vorrebbero accanto. Certo, ultimamente passa tutto il tempo sul libro che sta scrivendo e dedica al sesso solo il mercoledì mattina. E a volte sembra proprio non accorgersi di niente. Annabelle si sente così sola che un giorno, al reparto surgelati del supermercato, scoppia in un pianto dirotto. Ma, come confesserà alla sua analista, le ragioni di quel pianto hanno radici lontane. Quando tutto era lì, a un passo, anche la travolgente passione per Jeremiah. Una passione mai finita… Una meravigliosa storia d’amore ironica e profonda. Una commedia incantevole e intelligente.
