Maria Concetta Scotto di Santillo Books

The spellbinding sequel to Sunday Times bestselling Caraval.

Welcome, welcome to Finale, the third and final book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Caraval series! Welcome, welcome to Caraval...all games must come to an end. It’s been two months since the last Caraval concluded, two months since the Fates have been freed from an enchanted deck of cards, two months since Tella has seen Legend, and two months since Legend claimed the empire’s throne as his own. Now, Legend is preparing for his official coronation and Tella is determined to stop it. She believes her own mother, who still remains in an enchanted sleep, is the rightful heir to the throne. Meanwhile, Scarlett has started a game of her own. She’s challenged Julian and her former fiancé, Count Nicolas d’Arcy, to a competition where the winner will receive her hand in marriage. Finaly, Scarlett feels as if she is in complete control over her life and future. She is unaware that her mother’s past has put her in the greatest danger of all. Caraval is over, but perhaps the greatest game of all has begunwith lives, empires, and hearts all at stake. There are no spectators this time: only those who will win...and those who will lose everything.

Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line

Scarlett Dragna has never left the tiny island where she and her sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval—the faraway, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show—are over. But this year, Scarlett’s long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to the show. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval’s mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season’s Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner. Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. Nevertheless she becomes enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic.

The Hunger Games meets Lost in this spectacular new series. Now a major TV series on E4. No one has set foot on Earth in centuries - until now. Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents - considered expendable by society - are being sent on a dangerous mission: to re-colonize the planet. It could be their second chance at life...or it could be a suicide mission. CLARKE was arrested for treason, though she's haunted by the memory of what she really did. WELLS, the chancellor's son, came to Earth for the girl he loves - but will she ever forgive him Reckless BELLAMY fought his way onto the transport pod to protect his sister, the other half of the only siblings in the universe. And GLASS managed to escape back onto the ship, only to find that life there is just as dangerous as she feared it would be on Earth. Confronted with a savage land and haunted by secrets from their pasts, the hundred must fight to survive. They were never meant to be heroes, but they may be mankind's last hope.

A San Francisco c'è un parco incastonato nel cuore della città. Nel parco c'è un giardino, in parte curato, in parte selvaggio, a cui si accede lungo una stradina di mattoni. I frequentatori abituali, la varia, eterogenea, magnifica umanità che lo abita, che va laggiù per respirare, correre, giocare con i propri cani, non lo sanno ancora, ma da quel sentiero, come da un crocevia, si dipanano mille possibilità, mille vite diverse, mille occasioni per cambiare la propria esistenza. E infatti Hillary , operatrice TV alta e magra, illuminata dall'affetto della sua Golden retriever Tess , non direbbe mai che il malinconino e sensuale Philo , lo psichiatra padrone di quell'assurdo corgi , l'abbia mai degnata di uno sguardo; né Anna , vedova mite e ricchissima, proprietaria di Posy , penserebbe mai di vivere una seconda giovinezza con Rayford e il suo rottweiler Romeo ; per non parlare di Frankie , inasprita dalla vita, a cui sta per capitare un'insperata, frizzante meravigliosa occasione d'amore... Solo Tobin , il giardiniere-quasi-professore-ex-hippie, sa tutto e sorveglia con affetto la piccola comunità di cani e padroni, gli uni tanti simili agli altri, pronti a scrivere poesie, a imparare il francese, a cucinare, a coltivare rose, a innamorarsi. Leggero, toccante, divertente, Stessa ora stesso parco ritrae persone in movimento come in una galleria di istantanee , colte nei gesti, nei sorrisi, negli attimi in cui la vita cambia. Sullo sfondo di una delle città più belle del mondo, Marjorie Leet Ford racconta storia quotidiane e originalissime con una prosa brillante e vivace, che rende questo romanzo irresistibile... anche per quelli che non amano i cani.