Titoli in Letteratura e narrativa

Creo que es la primera vez que he deseado que se acabara el verano. ¿Por qué? Muy fácil. Porque eso supone retomar las clases y ver a Pablo de nuevo. Hemos pasado meses separados. Yo en mi pueblo, aburrido y asqueado con mis padres, y él en Estados Unidos. Hoy es nuestro primer día de curso y no puedo tener más ganas de entrar en el colegio y darle un beso a mi novio. Mi novio. Qué bien sienta decirlo. Pero, claro, nuevo curso, nuevos dramas. No veo a Pablo, no está por ningún lado. Y no solo me preocupa eso, me han cambiado de clase... y tengo la sensación de que mi padre está detrás de esto.

It used to be that Belly counted the days until summer, until she was back at Cousins Beach with Conrad and Jeremiah. But not this year. Not after Susannah got sick again and Conrad stopped caring. Everything that was right and good has fallen apart, leaving Belly wishing summer would never come. But when Jeremiah calls saying Conrad has disappeared, Belly knows what she must do to make things right again. And it can only happen back at the beach house, the three of them together, the way things used to be. 

It’s only two weeks before an asteroid turns home to dust. Though most of Earth has already been evacuated, it’s Samantha’s job to catalog plant samples for the survivors’ unknowable journey beyond. Preparing to stay behind and watch the world end, she makes a final human connection. As certain doom hurtles nearer, the unexpected and beautiful potential for the future begins to flower.

With buried treasure, treacherous buccaneers, a young hero, and Long John Silver, the one-legged villain, Treasure Island remains one of the most popular of pirate adventures.

La vita di Paul Tantum è cambiata. Ha compiuto quattordici anni, e ora sa di appartenere a una famiglia di mutanti. Sa anche che quando muta si trasforma in un licantropo, veloce e fortissimo. Ma l'idea di andare in una nuova scuola, per giunta per mutanti, lo spaventa non poco.

In questo primo episodio, tratto dalle Novelle Marinaresche di Mastro Catrame di Emilio Salgari, conoscerete Papà Catrame, il personaggio che raccontarà alcune delle sue fantastiche avventure, avvenute in quel vasto mare, che racchiude tanti misteri e che parla così vivo all'immaginazione di chi arditamente lo solca.

La novella che racconterà Mastro Catrame durante la nona serata riguarda un gigantesco mostro, con le sembianze di un serpente; anche questa volta il capitano della nave riuscirà a fornire una spiegazione scientifica del fenomeno?

Harrie, un’adolescente con grandi occhi blu e capelli rossi, vive in un mondo tutto suo fatto di sogni, favole, film e tanti interrogativi su una madre mai conosciuta. Paul, instabile e annoiato frontman dei Purple River, uno dei gruppi musicali del momento, si ritrova a fare i conti con il prezzo della celebrità tanto inseguita, che sfregia la sua giovane vita. Il loro incontro avviene per caso o per volere del destino: da quel momento i loro cuori esplodono «come stelle nella notte» e spontaneo nasce il desiderio di fuggire insieme a Nizza, città sdraiata sul mare, tanto luminosa ed elegante da sembrare il paradiso.

"This satire offers a thought-provoking and scathing indictment that may prod readers to examine the more sinister possibilities of corporate- and media-dominated culture." —Publishers Weekly(starred review) For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon — a...

A window into a world most people see depicted only in seconds-long news reports, one that we all should look through in order to recognize the genuine humanity within. Asad lives in Gaza, in a tiny house, on a narrow street pocked by half-destroyed buildings, in a camp that looks shabby to him...

Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved - five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control.

Edward’s soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again. This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge...

Listeners beware: In this startling world, desperate wishes have an unexpected cost, beautiful trinkets reveal appalling powers, and harmless pranks can go awry in ghastly ways.

After her victory over Master Grey, Emily wants nothing more than to relax and give herself time to recover from the duel. Her magic, pushed to the limits, is no longer reliable, forcing her to learn to control it from scratch. Every time she delays using her magic, she risks headaches...or worse. But she must return to Whitehall to complete her fourth-year exams and bid farewell to those of her friends who are not returning for fifth year. And then, she must return to Zangaria to play her role in Princess Alassa's wedding to Jade.

Two o'clock was missing. In an alternate Victorian world controlled by clock towers, a damaged clock can fracture time - and a destroyed one can stop it completely. It's a truth that 17-year-old clock mechanic Danny Hart knows all too well; his father has been trapped in a Stopped town east of London for three years. Though Danny is a prodigy who can repair not only clockwork but the very fabric of time, his fixation with staging a rescue is quickly becoming a concern to his superiors.

Mutter in der Entzugsklinik, Vater mit Assistentin auf Geschäftsreise: Maik Klingenberg wird die großen Ferien allein am Pool der elterlichen Villa verbringen. Doch dann kreuzt Tschick auf. Tschick, eigentlich Andrej Tschichatschow, kommt aus einem der Asi-Hochhäuser in Hellersdorf, hat es von der Förderschule irgendwie bis aufs Gymnasium geschafft und wirkt doch nicht gerade wie das Musterbeispiel der Integration. Außerdem hat er einen geklauten Wagen zur Hand.

A raging sea tosses a boy upon the shores of ancient Wales. Left for dead, he has no memory, no name, and no home. But it is his determination to find out who he is—to learn the truth about his mysterious powers—that leads him to a strange and enchanted land. And it is there he discovers that the fate of this land and his personal quest are strangely entwined.

Paige Redmond has always felt lucky to spend her summers in Clearwater Ridge, with lazy days sunning at the waterfalls and nights partying at the sprawling houses of the rich families who vacation there. The Covingtons are one of these families, and beautiful, brilliant Audrey Covington is Paige's best friend. And last year, when Audrey's crush-worthy brother Dylan finally started noticing Paige, she was sure it would be the best summer ever.

When Liv Bloom lands an art scholarship at Wickham Hall, it's her ticket out of the foster system. Liv isn't sure what to make of the school's weird traditions and rituals, but she couldn't be happier - especially when Malcolm Astor, fellow artist and scion of one of the school's original families, starts falling for her. Fellow scholarship kid Gabe Nichols warns her not to get involved with a "Wicky," but things are finally going Liv's way, and all she wants to do is enjoy it.

The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Ben Ross introduces a "new" system to his students. And before long "The Wave", with its rules of "strength through discipline, community, and action," sweeps from the classroom through the entire school. And as most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of "The Wave" and realize they must stop it before it's too late.