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Maurizio Bartocci

    Junior J Gaia: La grande festa dei murales
    Before We Were Free
    `It's OK, I'm wearing really big knickers!'
    Kindergarten
    Palimpsest : a memoir
    Coraline
    • Coraline

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      "Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house. . . ." When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life. Celebrating ten years of Neil Gaiman's first modern classic for young readers, this edition is enriched with a brand-new foreword from the author, a reader's guide, and more.

      Coraline2022
      4.1
    • The Last Policeman

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Hank Palace is working the case of Peter Zell, an insurance man who has comitted suicide. To his fellow police officers, it's just one more death-by- hanging in a city that sees a dozen of suicides every week. But Palace senses something wrong. There's something odd about the crime scene. Something off. Palace becomes convinced that it's murder.

      The Last Policeman2016
      3.3
    • The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Harold Fry is convinced that he must deliver a letter to an old love in order to save her, meeting various characters along the way and reminiscing about the events of his past and people he has known, as he tries to find peace and acceptance.

      The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry2012
      3.9
    • Kindergarten

      • 216 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      È Natale. La gelida immagine che il televisore rimanda è il viso di una bambina che guarda fuori dalla finestra di una scuola di Berlino. È un ostaggio e verrà uccisa se le richieste dei terroristi che hanno occupato l'edificio non saranno accolte. In una piccola cittadina nel Suffolk, tre fratellini stanno per celebrare il Natale con la nonna paterna, ma quella scena ricorda loro un'altra immagine: quella della mamma uccisa pochi mesi prima in un attentato terroristico. Man mano che la festa si avvicina e la nostalgia per quella assenza si fa sempre più forte, riaffiora il mondo incredibilmente ricco di ricordi della nonna, nel quale essa è costretta a immergersi ancora una volta per confrontarsi con gli orrori dell’Olocausto a cui è sopravvissuta e trarne un messaggio di speranza per sé e per i propri nipotini. Attraverso la rilettura di miti e fiabe, l'autore offre un complesso mosaico nel quale gli eventi dell'oggi, dominati da una crudeltà senza senso, si riallacciano a un passato di violenza e dolore, dando vita a un'intensa metafora sulla sofferenza. Lo stile misurato ed elegante, l'alternarsi di passato e presente e l'atmosfera piena di nostalgia di un Natale trascorso senza la propria madre, generano un'opera coinvolgente di grande originalità e priva di sentimentalismi.

      Kindergarten2007
      3.6
    • Yeoville, quartiere di Johannesburg, Sudafrica: una zona turbolenta dove famiglie di diverso colore cercano di stabilire nuove regole di vita dopo la fine dell'apartheid. La speranza di assistere all'inizio di una nuova era si scontra con le difficoltà economiche, i residui della mentalità razzista e il dilagare di violenze, droga, rapine. Protagoniste quattro amiche, che trovano l'energia per ribellarsi alla situazione. E con loro l'intero quartiere sembra vivere un momento di rinascita che culmina in una grande festa di strada in cui tutti collaborano a dipingere un enorme murale. Un romanzo vero, duro, traboccante di un'irresistibile energia vitale, un romanzo corale sul Sudafrica di Mandela

      Junior J Gaia: La grande festa dei murales2004
      2.7
    • Before We Were Free

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      PURE BELPRÉ AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME • AN ALA-YALSA BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS From renowned author Julia Alvarez comes an unforgettable story about adolescence, perseverance, and one girl’s struggle to be free while living in the Dominican Republic under the rule of a dictator. Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her twelfth birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have immigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government’s secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition to Trujillo’s iron-fisted rule. Using the strength and courage of her family, Anita must overcome her fears and fly to freedom, leaving all that she once knew behind. “A stirring work of art.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review “A realistic and compelling account of a girl growing up too quickly while coming to terms with the cost of freedom.” —The Horn Book, Starred Review “Diary entries written by the child while in hiding will remind readers of Anne Frank’s story. . . . Readers will bite their nails as the story moves to its inexorable conclusion.” —SLJ

      Before We Were Free2004
      4.0
    • The Wind on Fire Trilogy - 3: Firesong

      • 560 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      Twins Bowman and Kestrel have saved their family and the rest of the Manth people from slavery and helped bring about the downfall of the cruel city-state of the Mastery. Now, led by their mother, a prophetess, they are free to seek their promised land. But the journey is long and hard, filled with many dangers, enemies, distractions, and temptations. And each of the travelers is preoccupied with his or her own worries. Hanno Hath, the twins' father, is troubled to see his beloved wife weaken as they draw close to the promised land. As well, he must bolster the endurance of the often doubting and disgruntled Manth people. Bowman is torn between his attraction to Sisi, a former princess, and his destiny, as he perceives it, to sacrifice himself for the good of the people. Kestrel also feels a pull toward a mission, toward something-but for some reason, she cannot envision her life beyond the journey. This is the satisfying and profound ending to the trilogy, which began with The Wind Singer, winner of the coveted Smarties Prize in England.

      The Wind on Fire Trilogy - 3: Firesong2003
      3.9
    • Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site

      Hoot2003
      3.9
    • Ragazzine - 53: Un cellulare x 2

      Ovvero storie d'amore al telefono

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Siete convinte che senza un cellulare la vita sia indegna di essere vissuta? Passate ore e ore a digitare freneticamente messaggini e piombate in un abisso di depressione se gli altri non vi rispondono? Giudicate il prossimo in base al noto proverbio "dimmi che cellulare hai e ti dirò chi sei"? Il vostro cellulare è bollente per colpo di un grande amore in corso? Lui vi ha appena piantato con una chiamata sbrigativa al cellulare? Se la risposta ad almeno una di queste domande è "sì", ecco un manuale che dovete assolutamente leggere! Perché il cellulare non basta averlo, bisogna anche saperlo usare con discrezione e misura. E, soprattutto, è FONDAMENTALE capire come se ne può fare un'utile, preziosa, inedita arma di seduzione...

      Ragazzine - 53: Un cellulare x 22002
      2.4
    • Brilliantly funny, teenage angst author Louise Rennison's second book about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson. Now repackaged in a gorgeous new paperback and looking even fabber than ever. Louise is an international bestselling author and her books can't fail to make you laugh out loud.

      `It's OK, I'm wearing really big knickers!'2001
      4.0