Titoli in Contemporaneo

Nelle forme di un poema in prosa, un racconto fantastico sulle origini della nostra civiltà, sui popoli che ci hanno preceduto e sui mondi perduti. Ispirata alle teorie di Nietzsche sull'Eterno Ritorno, è un canto sulla grandezza e sulla tragedia dell'arrivo dei popoli indoeuropei nel nostro continente.

Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong.

A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman’s first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys. This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory...

Un viaggio sulle tracce di un fantomatico ladro di foglie, inseguendo un improbabile lestofante che immagina di poter rubare la magia che si nasconde nelle nervature di una giornata qualunque. Ma chi può sottrarre impunemente alla terra e agli uomini figure e pensieri, colori e parole, forme e silenzi? Chi è il ladro di foglie? Il colpevole appartiene alla consorteria primordiale dei Quattro Elementi - Fuoco, Aria, Acqua e Terra - e il suo nome è Vento. Quel vento che soffia, spinge, sibila e batte; che gonfia i propri muscoli e cazzotta il mondo.

Marco Tagliaferri è un uomo perbene. Avvocato, padre di famiglia, adesso candidato sindaco nella sua città. Per garantirsi la vittoria ha bisogno di un ultimo pacchetto di voti, che dipende dagli interessi di un imprenditore. Ma tutto precipita in una notte. Tagliaferri ha un incidente d’auto e con lui c’è la lap dancer da cui è stato sedotto. La ragazza non respira e lui capisce di essere finito: è da questo momento che entra in un girone infernale popolato da ricattatori, politici corrotti, vittime e fantasmi. Facce diverse dello stesso processo: la ricerca di potere.

Dahlia Abernathy has only known revenge. When her parents were killed at an early age by vampires, Dahlia spent the rest of her life under the thumb of the Witch's Guild being trained to kill them. Her latest mission sends her undercover to a prestigious music academy in Venice, Italy. Her goal? To kill Professor Valtu Aminoff, her teacher and the notorious vampire who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula. But getting close to a dangerous vampire like Professor Aminoff is one thing. Falling for him is another.

All Tony wanted was a job that didn't make his life harder. Being a temp should have made it easier by letting him pick jobs that he was comfortable with. But bills needed to be paid, and he didn't have the luxury of turning jobs down. So when his boss offers him what sounds like the perfect job, he's afraid to hope he's finally found his place. After all, the job is only temporary. They wouldn't want to keep someone like him. Right?

With only a few dollars to her name and her beloved dog Copper by her side, Selena flees her past in the city to claim her late aunt’s house in the desert town of Quartz Creek. The scorpions and spiders are better than what she left behind. Because in Quartz Creek, there’s a strange beauty to everything, from the landscape to new friends, and more blue sky than Selena’s ever seen. But something lurks beneath the surface. Like the desert gods and spirits lingering outside Selena’s house at night, keeping watch.

Platero es un burro pequeño, peludo, suave; tan blando por fuera que se diría todo de algodón, que no lleva huesos. Come de todo y los del pueblo dicen que tiene acero.... Juan Ramón Jiménez, premio Nobel de literatura en 1956, consiguió contar la vida del burro Platero de tal manera que no hubiera niño o adulto capaz de resistirse a la sonrisa o a las lágrimas. Vive estas emociones escuchando Platero y yo en formato audiolibro.

Quando Suyeon, una giovane investigatrice alle prese con una serie di apparenti suicidi all'interno di un ospedale, incontra Wanda, una donna avvolta in un cappotto nero che si aggira sul luogo delle morti misteriose, non immagina certo di trovare in lei un valido aiuto per condurre le indagini. Wanda, infatti, non ha dubbi: le vittime non si sono gettate dal sesto piano, ma sono state uccise. Ed è convinta che il vero responsabile sia un vampiro. Wanda conosce fin troppo bene il mondo dei vampiri: sa che agiscono nel cuore della notte e che si nutrono del sangue di persone sole.

Pace è una parola che la Bambina non concepisce. La sente usare qualche volta a scuola "quando la Maestra ordina: 'Fate la pace', che vuol dire stringere la mano a un Antipatico o addirittura uno Stronzo che durante l'intervallo ti ha pestato perché hai risposto con un calcio alla sua tirata di trecce. Macché pace. Le Bambine sono fatte per la Guerra". Con questo spirito battagliero e dissacrante, la Bambina affronta il mondo dei Grandi.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable...

A devastating attack by the lich Quatach-Ichl has left Zorian and Zach reeling as their remaining restarts tick away. As they recover, they make preparations for their final confrontations with Red Robe, the lich, the primordial being, and the invaders—all within the shadow of a question they can’t answer: can Zorian and Zach both survive outside the time loop? When the time loop is broken, sacrifices will be made, bonds will be tested, and trust will be more important than any magical skill or power—and even then, success is not guaranteed.

“One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.” With this startlingly bizarre sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young traveling salesman who, transformed overnight into a giant, beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. Rather than being surprised at the transformation, the members of his family despise it as an impending burden upon themselves.

When her mate’s ex-wife storms back into their lives, Mercy knows something isn’t right. Christy has the furthest thing from good intentions—she wants Adam back, and she’s willing to do whatever it takes to get him, including turning the pack against Mercy. Mercy isn’t about to step down without a fight, but there’s a more dangerous threat circling. As the bodies start piling up, she must put her personal troubles aside to face a creature with the power to tear her whole world apart.

Ryker Waterborn's heart is broken, and his wife is a killer. Their marriage is a sham, built on a foundation of murder, lies, and deceit. They're broken. Destroyed. Yet, even after hearing her confession, Ryker cannot leave Brynleigh in the pit. In an act of foolish love, he makes a deal to set Brynleigh free. All she has to do is go back to her maker and find evidence that Jelisette de la Point is a traitor. That's easier said than done, but Brynleigh is left with no choice. She can either accept the deal or rot behind bars. Worse than all that is her relationship with Ryker.

Isaac went against his family when he refused to join the military. He had dreams, and he wasn't going to cave to family pressure to give them up. So when his boss offers him an opportunity to get some real experience in the job he's working toward, he leaps at the chance. The only problem is that his new boss is a grumpy dragon with a short fuse known to terrorize the office. But that wasn't anything Isaac couldn't handle. Right?

When thirty-two-year-old Ava Winslow inherits a flower farm from her late grandfather's estate, she's determined to uncover the secrets she knew her family was hiding. As she draws closer to the truth, the last thing she expects to find is a portal hidden on the property leading to another world. Desperate to learn what her mother never revealed before her death, Ava is thrust into a magical land of fae on the brink of war.

The Dresden Files have taken the genre of paranormal mystery to a new level of action, excitement, and hard-hitting magical muscle. Now, in Death Masks, Jim Butcher’s smart-guy private eye may have taken on more than he ever wanted to handle. Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only practicing...

Chicago private investigator Kira Graceling should have just kept on walking. But her sense of duty refused to let her ignore the moans of pain coming from inside a warehouse just before dawn. Suddenly she finds herself in a world she's only imagined in her worst nightmares. At the center is Mencheres, a breathtaking Master vampire who thought he'd seen it all. Then Kira appears—this fearless, beautiful...human who braved death to rescue him. Though he burns for her, keeping Kira in his world means risking her life.