Alessandro Storti Books

The Fart Powder was such a successful invention that Doctor Proctor couldn't stop there. Next up: a Time-travel Bath Bomb. Throw the Bath Bomb in the tub, lather up and imagine where you'd like to visit. The battle of Waterloo? No problem. The French Revolution? Let's go! Doctor Proctor has plans for this new invention. Years ago he lost his true love, Juliette Margarine, and now he wants to change the past and win her back. But when his plan goes awry, it's up to Nilly and LIsa to travel in time and save the day. Full of humour and witty dialogue, Jo Nesbø creates wonderfully weird characters and lets his imagination run wild in his Doctor Proctor series. A must read for fans of David Walliams and Roald Dahl.

Healing Through Words is a guided tour on the journey back to the self, a cathartic and mindful exploration through writing. This carefully curated collection of exercises asks only that you be vulnerable and honest, both with yourself and the page. You don't need to be a writer to take this walk; you just need to write - that's all.

De (zelf)moord van een douanebeambte in Stockholm, de diefstal van drugs, de moord op de assistente van een messenwerpster in Marseille en de verwaarlozing van ouderen in verpleeghuizen lijken in eerste instantie niets met elkaar te maken te hebben.

After feeling disconnected for so long my mind and body are finally coming back to each other. [4e de couverture].

Het levensverhaal van een Javaanse vrouw die opgroeide in de kraton, het vorstenverblijf in Djokja.

Two books into this stark but compelling series, Bjork's trademark themes are the lethal intersection of technology with child abuse and misogyny. The Sunday Times

WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to? Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in lifeâe(tm)s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves.

THE INTERNATIONAL SWEDISH BESTSELLER One night, when a strange red moon fills the sky, six school girls find themselves in an abandoned theme park, drawn there by a mysterious force. A student has just been found dead. Everyone suspects suicide. Everyone - except them. In that derelict fairground an ancient prophecy is revealed. They are The Chosen Ones, a group of witches, bound together by a power, one which could destroy them all. But they soon learn that despite their differences they need each other in order to master the forces that have been awakened within them. High school is now a matter of life and death. Because the killing has only just begun.

The stunning first instalment in the internationally bestselling Malin Fors series of Swedish crime novels, a Richard & Judy Bookclub selection.

"Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy's bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. On Miranda's twelfth birthday, Billy has a falling-out with her mother and disappears from Miranda's life. Sixteen years later she receives news that Billy has died and left her Prospero Books, which is teetering on bankruptcy-- and one final scavenger hunt. Home in Los Angeles, Miranda finds clues that Billy has hidden for her inside novels on the store's shelves, in locked drawers of his apartment upstairs, in the name of the store itself. She is drawn into a journey where she meets people whose stories reveal a history that Miranda's mother has kept hidden-- and the terrible secret that tore her family apart."-- Adapted from book jacket.

In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is unexpectedly confronted by figures from her past. A different war is being fought now, on a different battleground, but Juliet finds herself once more under threat. A bill of reckoning is due, and she finally begins to realize that there is no action without consequence--Back cover.

Jasmin è una donna, una madre, un soldato dell’esercito svedese di stanza in Kosovo. Vive per l’amore del figlio Dante, che ha avuto da un suo commilitone, un uomo poco affidabile che cerca di affogare nell’alcol e nella droga gli orrori della guerra. Jasmin in Kosovo è stata ferita gravemente, e durante il ricovero in ospedale, mentre lottava tra la vita e la morte, la sua anima si è trovata per qualche giorno in un’affollata e misteriosa città portuale dove tutti i cartelli sono scritti in cinese e dove ha visto imbarcarsi, per non tornare mai più, uno dei suoi uomini. Ma Jasmin è forte e sa come tornare dalla città misteriosa, sa che si deve stare molto attenti a non farsi rubare la targhetta d’argento che ti mettono al collo quando arrivi nella città misteriosa, perché è il lasciapassare per il ritorno. Due anni dopo la prima esperienza nella città dei morti, Jasmin ci ritorna di nuovo con il figlio: hanno avuto un incidente d’auto e solo lei riesce ad allontanarsi per tornare di nuovo nel mondo dei vivi, lontano dal porto delle anime. Dante è molto più grave, dev’essere operato, e Jasmin non può abbandonarlo nella città misteriosa: deve tornare, lottare per quello che ha di più caro, in un terribile gioco di morte che rischia di vederla sconfitta. Un thriller dal ritmo cinematografico che non lascia respiro, con una nuova protagonista che piacerà ai fan dell’IpnotistaI e ne conquisterà di nuovi.