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Zeno ha quindici anni e per la legge è ancora un bambino. Ma in realtà è adulto da un pezzo, lo è diventato a dieci anni precisi, quando il padre è finito in galera e la madre ha iniziato a prostituirsi per mantenere lui e la sorella. Così anche Zeno si è dovuto dar da fare e ha cominciato "l'attività": scippi, rapine e spaccio. Finché un giorno un ragazzo di un'altra banda gli si è parato davanti col motorino, in fondo a un vicolo di Forcella. Zeno ha capito subito che voleva farlo fuori, e ha estratto la pistola più in fretta di lui.

He broke the chains. Then he broke the world…. A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still...

"I tre moschettieri" ("Les trois mousquetaires") è un romanzo scritto dal francese Alexandre Dumas con la collaborazione di Auguste Maquet nel 1844 e pubblicato originariamente a puntate sul giornale "Le Siècle". È uno dei romanzi più famosi e tradotti della letteratura francese e mondiale. I tre moschettieri del titolo sono Athos, Porthos e Aramis, a cui poi si aggiunge il protagonista del romanzo, D'Artagnan. Francia, 1625. Charles d'Artagnan, un giovane guascone, va a Parigi per essere ammesso tra le file dei moschettieri di re Luigi XIII.

Born into an aristocratic German Jewish family, Ernst Baerwald is a gifted linguist, talented musician, and fearless idealist. When he’s recruited in 1900 to become a spy—his cover working for a company that would become the notorious chemical conglomerate IG Farben—his life becomes an extraordinary adventure spanning two continents, two world wars, and impossible choices that will haunt him forever.

From the author of the connected universe of the Cosmere comes the standalone novel from which spring characters who later play roles in the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive. In the world of Warbreaker, each person is born endowed with the power of one Breath―which can be sold...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fascinating stories. . . . Boxing ourselves in may be the ultimate way to think outside the box." —Wall Street Journal “I thought David Epstein’s first two books were brilliant, but Inside the Box is his best. I’ll never think about my own work the same way...

A notorious author shares a train compartment with a long-time reader. But can they connect with each other through a silent tide of self-doubt and second-guessing? From the playwright of Art. Sir David Suchet and Dame Harriet Walter star in L.A. Theatre Works' performance of Yasmina Reza’s The Unexpected Man. Translated by Christopher Hampton. Directed by Gordon House.

Macina profitti, devasta città e campagne, corrompe i poteri. Lasciando dietro di sé una striscia di sangue che non si asciuga mai. Il libro consegna un ritratto sconvolgente della violenza della camorra, delle impunità e anche delle complicità quotidiane. E offre al tempo stesso un affresco denso di pietas del mondo delle vittime, nomi e cognomi ingiustamente dimenticati. Uomini uccisi per punire, per intimidire o semplicemente per sbaglio. Don Peppe Diana, sacerdote. Salvatore Nuvoletta, carabiniere. Federico Del Prete, sindacalista.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person and fostering deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives—from the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill...

When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.

A sweeping epic set in nineteenth-century France on the cusp of revolution, Les Misérables charts the entwined lives of a rich cast of characters. Hugo begins with the story of Jean Valjean, a former convict seeking redemption after nineteen years in prison. Pursued relentlessly by Inspector Javert, Valjean’s narrative takes the reader on a poignant journey of poverty, injustice and hope – as seen with the tragic tale of Valjean’s former employee Fantine, her daughter, Cosette, and the idealistic Marius.

Shamela is a bawdy, spirited, and hilarious response to Samuel Richardson's hugely popular 1740 novel, Pamela. In this pointed satire, Shamela (which transpires to be the real name of Richardson's Pamela) reveals the ulterior motives behind the events that took place in Pamela. Shamela is unlike the virtuous young lady portrayed in Richardson's novel and she takes command of her master, Squire Booby. Our heroine has planned it all out from the start and she is determined to entrap her master into marriage.

1992. Colonna is offered a fee he can’t refuse to ghost-write a memoir. His subject, Braggadocio, is convinced that Mussolini’s corpse was a body-double and part of a wider Fascist plot. When a body is found, stabbed to death in a back alley, even Colonna is jolted out of his complacency...

When Mr. Earnshaw brings a black-haired foundling child into his home on the Yorkshire moors, he little imagines the dramatic events which will follow. The passionate relationship between Cathy Earnshaw and the foundling, Heathcliff, is a story of love, hate, pity, and retribution, the effects of which reverberate throughout the succeeding generations.

On the night of the blood moon, the Vampire Lord must die. Floriane's position as the forge maiden of Hunter's Hamlet is one of reverence, for it is her skill that arms and protects the vampire hunters. She knows her place and is a faithful servant to the Master Hunter and her community... until the night of the blood moon. Until her brother is dying at the hands of the Vampire Lord Ruvan.

THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON 'A word-of-mouth smash hit' New York Times 'For anything to be truly good, there must be love in it. Nothing is what it's supposed to be if love is not at the core.' One morning, a stranger arrives in the town of Golden. No one knows who he is or where he...

Parcheggiamo in uno spiazzo di montagna, chiudiamo in auto le preoccupazioni e il ritmo frenetico della vita lavorativa e cominciamo a camminare. A volte confondiamo la camminata con una prestazione sportiva: procediamo a testa bassa, veloci, in gara con il tempo, sacrificando l’attenzione verso ciò che ci circonda. Ma accomodando il passo e respirando un’aria diversa dal solito ci renderemo conto di essere in una zona di frontiera tra la spontaneità della natura e il mondo degli uomini.

"Quell'inverno accadde senza che potessimo rendercene conto, la giovinezza ci piovve addosso. Mi sentivo corrisposto dal mondo, dalla mia città, per la prima volta. Facevo con Laura lunghe passeggiate sull'arteria affollata di via Toledo, eravamo due petali trasportati dalla corrente di persone fino a piazza del Plebiscito." Lorenzo ha quattordici anni e un quaderno pieno di versi che si tiene per sé, alternando l'urgenza di esprimersi al pudore di svelare la propria sensibilità.

By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in the sprawling Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a shape-shifter with some unusual talents, Mercy’s found herself maintaining a tenuous harmony between the human and the not-so-human on more than one occasion. This time she may get more than she bargained for.

Sci-fi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good.