Jasper Fforde

The Woman Who Died a Lot

Thursday Next

The BookWorld's leading enforcement officer Thursday Next is four months into an enforced semi-retirement following an assassination attempt. She returns home to Swindon for what you'd expect to be a time of recuperation. If only life were that simple. Thursday is faced with an array of family problems - son Friday's lack of focus since his career in the Chronoguard was relegated to a might-have-been, daughter Tuesday's difficulty perfecting the Anti-Smote shield needed to thwart an angry Deity's promise to wipe Swindon off the face of the earth, and Jenny, who doesn't exist. And that's not all. With Goliath attempting to replace Thursday at every opportunity with synthetic Thursdays, the prediction that Friday's Destiny-Aware colleagues will die in mysterious circumstances, and a looming meteorite that could destroy all human life on earth, Thursday's retirement is going to be anything but easy.

Fëdor Michajlovič Dostoevskij

Povera gente

Opera prima di Dostoevskij, Povera gente è un breve romanzo epistolare che lo scrittore russo iniziò nel 1844, all'età 23 anni, e pubblicò nel 1846, dopo numerose riscritture. Makar, oscuro impiegato statale di quasi cinquant'anni, e Varvara, una giovane orfana che a stento si guadagna da vivere con modesti lavori di cucito, pur abitando nello stesso caseggiato – le finestre delle loro stanze danno sullo stesso cortile interno e ognuno può vedere quella dell'altro – intrattengono un'amichevole corrispondenza che durerà alcuni mesi, fino al giorno in cui la povertà e una salute sempre più cagionevole inducono Varvara ad accettare la proposta di matrimonio di un ricco possidente. La partenza di Varvara getta Makar nella disperazione. Già in questo suo primo romanzo, Dostoevskij dà vita al suo "piccolo uomo", uno dei temi conduttori nella letteratura russa del XIX secolo. Makar Devuškin si colloca infatti accanto a Samson Vyrin, del Mastro di posta puškiniano, o ad Akakij Akakievič, protagonista del Cappotto di Gogol, i suoi due illustri predecessori. È l'uomo di umili origini, che occupa i gradi inferiori della scala sociale. Un "uomo senza qualità", mite e di buon cuore. Antieroe che si contrappone all'eroe della letteratura romantica.

Filippo Domaneschi

Insultare gli altri

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Michelle Falkoff

Playlist for the Dead

A teenage boy tries to understand his best friend’s suicide by listening to the playlist of songs he left behind in this smart, voice-driven debut novel.

Here’s what Sam knows: There was a party. There was a fight. The next morning, his best friend, Hayden, was dead. And all he left Sam was a playlist of songs, and a suicide note: For Sam—listen and you’ll understand.

As he listens to song after song, Sam tries to face up to what happened the night Hayden killed himself. But it’s only by taking out his earbuds and opening his eyes to the people around him that he will finally be able to piece together his best friend’s story. And maybe have a chance to change his own.

Part mystery, part love story, and part coming-of-age tale in the vein of Stephen Chbosky’s and Tim Tharp’s , is an honest and gut-wrenching first novel about loss, rage, what it feels like to outgrow a friendship that’s always defined you—and the struggle to redefine yourself. But above all, it’s about finding hope when hope seems like the hardest thing to find.

Shana Festa

Induction

Time of Death

When no one or nowhere is safe, where do you go to escape the monsters?

In a few short days, 37 year old Emma Rossi’s hard work will finally pay off. She will don her cap and gown and graduate with a degree in nursing, but not before she loses her first patient and is confronted with a new reality. In Cape Coral, Florida, a storm approaches. The dead are coming back to life.

And they’re hungry.

Infection ravages the Eastern Seaboard with alarming speed while attempts to contain the spread of infection fail. Within days, a small pocket of panicked survivors are all that remain of civilization. Fighting to survive the zombie apocalypse alongside her husband Jake and their dog Daphne, Emma comes face-to-face with her worst nightmare.

Fiona Davis

I segreti della Biblioteca sulla Quinta Strada

Francis Durbridge

...dai nemici mi guardo io

J S Fletcher

The Black Mask Magazine (Vol. 5, No. 1 — April 1922)

Francis Durbridge

Come un uragano

Pierre Frei

Berlin: A Novel

Set in a devastated Berlin one month after the close of the Second World War, Berlin has been acclaimed as “ambitious. filled with brilliantly drawn characters, mesmerizingly readable, and disturbingly convincing” by the . An electrifying thriller in the tradition of Joseph Kanon and Alan Furst, is a page-turner and an intimate portrait of Germany before, during, and after the war. It is 1945 in the American sector of occupied Berlin, and a German boy has discovered the body of a beautiful young woman in a subway station. Blonde and blue-eyed, she has been sexually assaulted and strangled with a chain. When the bodies of other young women begin to pile up it becomes clear that this is no isolated act of violence, and German and American investigators will have to cooperate if they are to stop the slaughter. Author Pierre Frei has searched the wreckage of Berlin and emerged with a gripping whodunit in which the stories of the victims themselves provide an absorbing commentary. There is a powerful pulse buried deep in the rubble.

Simon Foster

CHINA's Three Gorges & Xi'an

Francis Durbridge

Giocando a golf una mattina

Francis Durbridge

Il prezzo del tradimento

Celia S Friedman

Black Sun Rising

Coldfire

Celia S Friedman

When True Night Falls

Coldfire

Francis Durbridge

Lungo il fiume e sull'acqua

Celia S Friedman

Crown of Shadows

Coldfire

Francis Durbridge

Mezz'ora per vivere, mezz'ora per morire

Anatole France

L’Île Des Pingouins

Adoptant un style faussement détaché d’historien anthropologue, Anatole France dépeint le développement de la civilisation de la Pingouinie. Ses habitants, les Pingouins, sont des créatures humanisées par la volonté de Dieu afin de pouvoir lui rendre les honneurs canoniques. L’auteur retrace caricaturalement l’histoire de France en s’attaquant malicieusement aux «temples» de la société. Religion, propriété, État, institutions sont observés par le biais de leurs aspects les plus caricaturaux telle l’affaire Dreyfus, à peine déguisée. L’humour — fruit du décalage entre le ton solennel et les absurditées relatées — colore le récit tout le long. (AFANE)

Francis Durbridge

Una strana rapina