Titoli in Romanzo di formazione

In una Garfagnana investita dalla Seconda Guerra Mondiale, sembra quasi che Storia e Magia si siano fuse insieme, con l’intento di delineare una storia che ci tocchi nel profondo. Nel paese di Bosconero – ispirato a Fabbriche di Careggine – Francesco, undici anni, è il figlio di un disertore, che convive con la madre, la nonna e l’onta terribile di quanto si pensa suo padre abbia fatto. Ma i rastrellamenti nazisti sono poca cosa, se paragonati all’indicibile mistero che avvolge i circostanti boschi della Garfagnana.

Half a millennium ago, in a desperate attempt to defeat the Ithonian Empire, Kanderon Crux and her allies banished the city of Imperial Ithos from Anastis. Her dread weapon, the Exile Splinter, even erased the memory of its location from the universe. Now it's returning and bringing the Exile Splinter back with it. The great powers of the continent are desperately hunting for the lost city, knowledge lost even to Kanderon herself. None know what ancient Ithonian weapons and enchantments might still be found in the ruins, but the Exile Splinter alone would be a prize to justify war.

"Come sospettavo, non c'è nulla di prevedibile, nella vita, nell'arte e tantomeno in questi viaggi. Tutti abbiamo viaggiato per lo stesso motivo. Per cercare delle risposte al nostro esistere, ma qualcuno una volta mi disse che siamo tutti fili di un immenso quadro di un ricamo, visto da dietro". Giorgio è un ragazzo universitario sempre alla ricerca di risposte a dubbi e domande che affollano la sua giovane esistenza. Grazie all'aiuto di un cruciverba speciale Giò intraprende un viaggio interiore, fatto di sogni incrociati e condivisi con la sua amica Stefania.

Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield is a sweeping tale of resilience, growth, and self-discovery—often regarded as the author’s most personal and heartfelt work. Following the life of David from his troubled childhood to his journey toward maturity, the novel captures the struggles, joys, and moral lessons that shape him into the man he becomes. Along the way, Dickens fills the story with some of his most memorable characters: the loyal Peggotty family, the ever-optimistic Mr. Micawber, and the slyly deceitful Uriah Heep.

Zephyr, Alabama, is an idyllic hometown for eleven-year-old Cory Mackenson - a place where monsters swim the river deep and friends are forever. Then, one cold spring morning, Cory and his father witness a car plunge into a lake - and a desperate rescue attempt brings his father face-to-face with a terrible, haunting vision of death. As Cory struggles to understand his father's pain, his eyes are slowly opened to the forces of good and evil that surround him.

Mordecai’s growing power and success have made him a threat, not just to the gods and their minions, but also to the king of Lothion. An unholy bargain has been struck to bring him to heel and increasingly it seems that victory may not be worth the price, not if the cost is measured in the blood of his family. Wizard, lord, husband, father, and now archmage...no man can balance so many roles without sacrificing something. Will the world be worth saving if it costs him the very reasons he has for living in it?

La vita di Viola, la protagonista del romanzo, viene rivoltata come un calzino dal momento in cui un pesantissimo Suv la fa cadere di bicicletta, incidente che non procurerà fortunatamente nessuna ferita. Da quel momento in poi il filo del destino inizierà a tessere e a disfare una tela ora orlata da meravigliosi disegni, ora da terrificanti figurazioni.

The NFL is full of rules. Rules I've never broken, never challenged, never even scratched...until the day Lucas Carrington crashes into my life with his hard body and I-don't-give-a-f--k attitude. After I almost injure my father's star player, I volunteer to make sure he's in top shape. At first, it's hell. I don't like his cockiness and his easy smile. I don't like the way he oozes sex or how his penetrating eyes follow me everywhere. But that doesn't stop me from wanting him. He's meant to be a distraction - something to occupy my mind for these precious few remaining hot summer nights.

Jake Callahan. Prince of the popular crowd. My mortal enemy. Gorgeous. All the girls want him. Quarterback. All the boys want to be his friend. He’s the most popular boy in the senior class. And he hates me. Or so I thought. What I mistook for hatred turns out to be…interest. There’s that thin line, right? It makes me crazy. I can’t stand it. Attraction, chemistry, whatever it is, I also can’t resist it. And neither can he.

Un escritor perdido en París; la ciudad le pesa, solo la necesita para encontrar los recuerdos, como migas de pan, de aquello que fue. Para eso debe atravesar un invierno de recuerdos. Se adentra en un territorio desconocido, devastado además por una tormenta emocional, una ruptura que arrasó su paisaje interior hasta hacerlo irreconocible.

It's the middle of the Great Depression, and Morris Katz and his cousin, Albert, are broke. But that's all about to change when they head off to college on a mission from Morris' mother to find rich, unattractive Jewish girls to marry. The boys arrive on campus armed with a secret weapon: the poetry of Morris' cousin, Crip. Within a day Morris is courting Celeste Zimmerman, the frumpy heir to a movie theater franchise.

Un percorso tragico, attraverso tre fotografie. Sullo sfondo la coda del terrorismo e degli anni di piombo. 1968: Stefano ha sei anni e attraverso l'ingenuità dei suoi occhi di bambino racconta la Rimini del boom economico. Le case in affitto ai turisti d'estate e le epiche fatiche con gli ultimi caldi per imbottigliare la conserva di pomodoro. Una mamma stanca e nervosa, un papà triste. 1973: Ursula è una bambina un po' schiva.

Stalin è un ragazzino di periferia, sta per compiere diciotto anni. Ha capelli corti, baffi enormi che gli sono valsi il soprannome e gravi problemi nella gestione della rabbia. Il suo quartiere è "un'intera palette di grigio", dove ogni cosa sembra ripetersi all'infinito, e lui trascorre le giornate con Jean, un vecchio depresso che lo sfrutta subdolamente, oppure con Bianca, una ragazza cieca verso cui nutre un amore platonico. Quando, in seguito a un litigio, Stalin malmena il suo patrigno, le circostanze lo spingono a scappare di casa, portando Bianca con sé.

بأسلوب أدبي عذب صادق، ينقل فرعون تفاصيل يوميات بطل روايته، الذي يتوق للهروب من قيود الفقر وتحقيق ذاته رغم العقبات. هنا معايشة كاملة لمعاناة طفل في مجتمع بسيط متضامن، يتعايش فيه الفقر والأمل جنبًا إلى جنب، وتبرز فيه طبيعة الجزائر الساحرة وكرامة أهلها. إنها ليست مجرد حكاية، بل هي شهادة على أحلام شعب بأسره، تنبض بالرغبة في التحرر.

Young Nicholas Nickleby is suddenly thrust into the harsh realities of life after his father’s death leaves the family penniless. Determined to protect his mother and sister, Nicholas must navigate a world of greed, cruelty, and corruption. From the grim boarding school run by the cruel Wackford Squeers to the bustling streets of London, Nicholas encounters both villainy and kindness, finding allies in unexpected places and enemies at every turn.

In this raw and haunting fictionalized memoir, the author pulls back the curtain on a childhood riddled with secrets, suffering, and survival. She and her sister endured a world no child should ever know a life of fear, cruelty, and unimaginable pain, hidden behind closed doors. It was a hell they were forced to survive, with no escape and no one to save them. But even in the darkest moments, she found strength-strength to endure, to fight, and to rise above the horrors that tried to break her. With unwavering faith and resilience, she carried a truth too painful to speak-until now.

It’s the summer of 2013 and 21-year-old Ruby, a counselor at Camp Burntshore, can’t wait to supervise a rowdy cabin of 11-year-olds, smoke weed by the fire, and argue about which city make the best bagels. But when Brent, the camp owner’s son, hires Israeli soldiers to deal with a staffing shortfall, Ruby, a committed anti-Zionist, must decide if she’s willing to jeopardize her place at Burntshore to fight Brent over the contentious issues of Jewish belonging and settler colonialism, even as she finds herself falling in love with one of the soldiers, the sweetly handsome Etai.

It is the summer of 1952 and three men—well, one man and two boys—are on a spiritual and commercial mission. Dispatched from Minnesota to Western Ontario, they have been hired by an upstart Mormon baseball card company to find licensees for their products among the young men filing out Korean War-era rosters in the Northern League, at the bottom-most rung of professional baseball. What the Northern has for them, and the secrets and deceptions they have for each other, will drive their two weeks in Canada into ever-growing chaos.

Au nord, là où l’hiver mord et les aurores veillent, un jeune marqué par l’Ours entend pour la première fois la langue des runes. Totem craint autant que vénéré, son signe fait vaciller les alliances, réveille des serments oubliés et ouvre un chemin de pierres levées, de forêts sombres et de fjords battus par le vent. Entre la loi du clan et l’appel des pierres, il devra choisir quel destin embrasser. Les limites entre rite et mensonge se brouillent, les dieux se taisent, les hommes s’arment.

Every child deserves to be loved. Every child deserves parents who love them. Yet, for as long as I can remember, I've harbored an insatiable craving for that one simple thing. Love. I was desperate for it. Through years of mistreatment and degradation, I longed for the affection I saw others receive. And I was willing to do anything to prove myself to the people I wanted it from—including going to war. Yet it was never enough. Nothing ever was.