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I don't read Romances often so there are more Thriller/Suspense and Horror books here ♡
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Storia di una lumaca che scoprì l'importanza della lentezza
Luis Sepúlveda · 2018

The Secret Garden
Frances H. Burnett • unde

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley • 2020
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about the young student of science Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.Shelley had travelled through Europe in 1814, journeying along the river Rhine in Germany with a stop in Gernsheim which is just 17 km (10 mi) away from Frankenstein Castle, where two centuries before an alchemist was engaged in experiments. Later, she travelled in the region of Geneva (Switzerland)—where much of the story takes place—and the topics of galvanism and other similar occult ideas were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her lover and future husband, Percy Shelley. Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polidori decided to have a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for days, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made; her dream later evolved into the story within the novel.

The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint−Exupery · 2021

L''isola di Arturo
Elsa Morante · 1995

Misery
Stephen King · 2016
The #1 New York Times bestseller about a famous novelist held hostage in a remote location by his “number one fan.” One of “Stephen King’s best…genuinely scary” (USA TODAY).<br/><br/>Paul Sheldon is a bestselling novelist who has finally met his number one fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes, and she is more than a rabid reader—she is Paul’s nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also furious that the author has killed off her favorite character in his latest book. Annie becomes his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house.<br/><br/>Annie wants Paul to write a book that brings Misery back to life—just for her. She has a lot of ways to spur him on. One is a needle. Another is an axe. And if they don’t work, she can get really nasty.<br/><br/>“Terrifying” (San Francisco Chronicle), “dazzlingly well-written” (The Indianapolis Star), and “truly gripping” (Publishers Weekly), Misery is “classic Stephen King...full of twists and turns and mounting suspense” (The Boston Globe).
Reading

Destini dei fiori nello specchio
Li Ruzhen · 2016

Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir · 2021

You Like It Darker: Stories
Stephen King · 2024
From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new collection of twelve short stories, many never-before-published, and some of his best EVER.<br/><br/>“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel “the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind,” and in You Like It Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.<br/><br/>“Two Talented Bastids” explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In “Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream,” a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny’s most catastrophically. In “Rattlesnakes,” a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance—with major strings attached. In “The Dreamers,” a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. “The Answer Man” asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful.<br/><br/>King’s ability to surprise, amaze, and bring us both terror and solace remains unsurpassed. Each of these stories holds its own thrills, joys, and mysteries; each feels iconic. You like it darker? You got it.
To Read

Coraline
Neil Gaiman · 2009

For You and Only You: A Joe Goldberg Novel
Caroline Kepnes · 2023

Lo strano caso del dottor Jekyll e il signor Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson

Se i gatti scomparissero dal mondo
Kawamura Genki, · 2019
Horror

The Fourth Closet: Five Nights at Freddy’s (Original Trilogy Book 3)
Scott Cawthon, Kira Breed-Wrisley · 2018

The Twisted Ones: Five Nights at Freddy’s (Original Trilogy Book 2)
Scott Cawthon, Kira Breed-Wrisley · 2017

Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes
Scott Cawthon, Kira Breed-Wrisley · 2016
<p>Based on the bestselling horror videogame series, Five Nights at Freddy's!</p> <p>It's been exactly ten years since the murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and Charlotte (Charlie for short) has spent those ten years trying to forget. Her father was the owner of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and the creator of its four adult-sized animatronic animals that delighted patrons for years. Now, Charlie is returning to her hometown to reunite with her childhood friends on the anniversary of the tragedy that ripped their town apart.</p> <p>Curiosity leads Charlie and her friends back to the old pizza place, and they find it hidden and sealed, but still standing. They discover a way inside, but things are not as they once were: the four mascots have changed. They now have a dark secret, and a murderous agenda...</p>

Teddy
Jason Rekulak · 2022

In the Tall Grass
Stephen King, Joe Hill · 2012

The Outsider: A Novel
Stephen King · 2018
Now an HBO limited series starring Ben Mendelsohn! Evil has many faces…maybe even yours in this #1 New York Times bestseller from master storyteller Stephen King. An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is discovered in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens—Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon have DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad. As the investigation expands and horrifying details begin to emerge, King’s story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.

It
Stephen King · 2019
Stephen King's classic #1 New York Times bestseller and the basis for the massively successful films It: Chapter One and It: Chapter Two as well as inspiration for HBO Max’s upcoming Welcome to Derry—about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled upon as teenagers...an evil without a name: It.<br/><br/>Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real.<br/><br/>They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers.<br/><br/>Readers of Stephen King know that Derry, Maine, is a place with a deep, dark hold on the author. It reappears in many of his books, including Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, and 11/22/63. But it all starts with It.<br/><br/>“Stephen King’s most mature work” (St. Petersburg Times), “It will overwhelm you…to be read in a well-lit room only” (Los Angeles Times).
Suspense

Sleeping Beauties
Stephen King, Owen King · 2017

Hearts in Atlantis
Stephen King · 2017
The classic collection of five deeply resonant and disturbing interconnected stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.<br/><br/>Innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery are at the core of these five interconnected, sequential tales—each deeply rooted in the 1960s, and each scarred by the Vietnam War, which continues to cast its shadow over American lives, politics and culture.<br/><br/>In Part One, “Low Men in Yellow Coats,” eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror.<br/><br/>In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest, and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast.<br/><br/>In “Blind Willie” and “Why We’re in Vietnam,” two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow—and as haunted—as their own lives.<br/><br/>And in “Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling,” this remarkable book’s denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart’s desire may await him.<br/><br/>Full of danger and suspense, full of heart, this spellbinding fiction will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely forget. Nearly twenty years after its first publication, Hearts in Atlantis is powerful and astonishingly current.<br/><br/>“You will see Stephen King in a new light. Read this moving, heartfelt tragedy and weep—weep for our lost conscience.” —BookPage
Thriller
You
Caroline Kepnes · 2015

Blaze
Stephen King · 2014
Clayton Blaisdell Jr., detto Blaze, è un gigante col cervello di un bambino. Era più un balordo che un deliquente, finché non ha incontrato George Rackley, un furbo "con tutte le risposte" con il quale ha formato una coppia anomala ma affiatata. Potrebbero essere due dei tanti emarginati che vivono di espedienti, ma alla testa pensante del duo è venuta un'idea grandiosa: fare i soldi sequestrando il figlio di ricchi possidenti; come i Gerard, per esempio, che sono pieni zeppi di dollari e il cui erede ancora poppante, Joe IV, vale milioni. Fatto il piano, una gelida notte di gennaio i due entrano in azione: Blaze, come sempre, è il braccio, George la mente. C'è solo un piccolo problema: George è morto tre mesi prima. Di chi è allora la voce che risuona sotto la fronte ammaccata di Blaze e gli suggerisce le mosse? Un fantasma? Il suo io intelligente? Ma se è così, perché vuole spingerlo a fare cose su cui lui non è affatto d'accordo? Questo libro scritto da Stephen King in gioventù, è uscito negli Stati Uniti con lo pseudonimo di Richard Bachman, con il quale l'autore ha firmato diversi romanzi. Una storia criminale pervasa di humour e tristezza, il cui protagonista è un cattivo struggente e patetico.

The Shining
Stephen King · 2008
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • In this masterpiece of modern American horror that inspired Stanley Kubrick’s classic film, Jack Torrance takes a job as the caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel. As the brutal winter sets in, the hotel’s dark secrets begin to unravel. “An undisputed master of suspense and terror.” —The Washington Post Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh winter weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote . . . and more sinister. And the only one to notice the strange and terrible forces gathering around the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-year-old.

The Body
Stephen King · 2018
<b>#1 <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless novella “The Body”—originally published in his short story collection <i>Different Seasons, </i>and adapted into the film classic <i>Stand by Me</i>—is now available as a stand-alone publication.</b><BR><BR>It’s 1960 in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. Ray Brower, a boy from a nearby town, has disappeared, and twelve-year-old Gordie Lachance and his three friends set out on a quest to find his body along the railroad tracks. During the course of their journey, Gordie, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern Tessio come to terms with death and the harsh truths of growing up in a small factory town that doesn’t offer much in the way of a future.<BR> <BR>A timeless exploration of the loneliness and isolation of young adulthood, Stephen King’s <i>The Body</i> is an iconic, unforgettable, coming-of-age story.

Insomnia
Stephen King · 2016
A #1 national bestseller—“A yarn so packed with suspense, romance, literary reference, fascinating miscellaneous knowledge, and heart that only Stephen King could have written it. Marvelous—that is, full of marvels” (Booklist).<br/><br/>Since his wife died, Ralph Roberts has been having trouble sleeping. Each night he wakes up a bit earlier, until he’s barely sleeping at all. During his late night walks, he observes some strange things going on in Derry, Maine. He sees colored ribbons streaming from people’s heads, two strange little men wandering around town after dark, and more. He begins to suspect that these visions are something more than hallucinations brought on by lack of sleep.<br/><br/>There’s a definite mean streak running through this small New England city; underneath its ordinary surface awesome and terrifying forces are at work. The dying has been going on in Derry for a long, long time. Now Ralph is part of it…and lack of sleep is the least of his worries.<br/><br/>Returning to the same Maine town where It took place, a town that has haunted Stephen King for decades, Insomnia blends King’s trademark bone-chilling realism with supernatural terror to create yet another masterpiece of suspense.

Holly
Stephen King · 2023
#1 New York Times Bestseller * New York Times Notable Book * NPR Best Book of the Year<br/><br/>Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and resourceful characters, returns in this chilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.<br/><br/>“Sometimes the universe throws you a rope.” —BILL HODGES<br/><br/>Stephen King’s Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly’s gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges’s partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King’s new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised adversaries.<br/><br/>When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down.<br/><br/>Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance. And it will prove nearly impossible to discover what they are up to: they are savvy, they are patient, and they are ruthless.<br/><br/>Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King.<br/><br/>“I could never let Holly Gibney go. She was supposed to be a walk-on character in Mr. Mercedes and she just kind of stole the book and stole my heart. Holly is all her.” —STEPHEN KING

The Green Mile
Stephen King · 2013
Short Stories + Graphic Novels

Step Closer (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #4)
Scott Cawthon, Andrea Waggener, Elley Cooper, Kelly Parra · 2020

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Tales of the Pizzaplex Graphic Novel Collection Vol. 2 (The Mimic)

Tiger Rock: an AFK Book (Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex #7)
Scott Cawthon, Kelly Parra, Andrea Rains Waggener · 2023

The Bobbiedots Conclusion: an AFK Book (Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex #5)
Scott Cawthon, Andrea Waggener · 2023

Nexie: an AFK Book (Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex #6)
Scott Cawthon, Kelly Parra, Andrea Waggener · 2023

Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights Graphic Novel Collection Vol. 5
Scott Cawthon, Elley Cooper, Andrea Waggener · 2024

Lally's Game: An AFK Book (Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex #1)
Scott Cawthon, Kelly Parra, Andrea Waggener · 2022

HAPPS: an AFK Book (Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex #2)
Scott Cawthon, Elley Cooper, Andrea Waggener · 2022

Submechanophobia: An AFK Book (Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex #4)
Scott Cawthon, Kelly Parra, Andrea Waggener · 2022

Somniphobia: an AFK Book (Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex #3)
Scott Cawthon, Kelly Parra, Andrea Waggener · 2022

Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex Graphic Novel Collection Vol. 1
Scott Cawthon, Andrea Waggener · 2025
<b>The bestselling series is now a graphic novel series! Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length comic stories that will keep even the bravest player up at night...</b><p></p><p>Have you ever ignored your conscience and done something you really knew you shouldn't...? Maya can't resist the temptation to explore an under construction section of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex... Aiden and Jace decide to scare some young kids in the Tube Maze of the Pizzaplex... and Fazbear technician Grady doesn't listen to the voice in his head telling him to stay away from small, cramped places when doing his safety checks...</p><p>In this volume, three stories from the Publishers Weekly bestselling series Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex come to life in delightfully horrifying comics. Readers beware: This collection of terrifying tales is enough to unsettle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fans...</p>

Five Nights at Freddy's: The Week Before, an Afk Book (Interactive Novel #1)
Scott Cawthon, E. C. Myers · 2024

The Fourth Closet (Five Nights at Freddy’s Graphic Novel #3)
Scott Cawthon, Kira Breed-Wrisley · 2021

The Twisted Ones (Five Nights at Freddy’s Graphic Novel #2)
Scott Cawthon, Kira Breed-Wrisley · 2021

The Silver Eyes (Five Nights at Freddy's Graphic Novel #1)
Scott Cawthon, Kira Breed-Wrisley · 2019

Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights Graphic Novel Collection Vol. 4
Scott Cawthon, Elley Cooper, Andrea Waggener · 2023
The New York Times bestselling series is now a graphic novel series! Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length comic stories that will keep even the bravest player up at night . . .<br/><br/>Some things must be learned the hard way . . . Reed sees an opportunity to teach the school bully not to mess with him, but ends up mangling the lesson. Robert, an exhausted single father, gets a crash course in parenting when he buys a fancy new teddy bear to watch and entertain his young son . . . Sergio acquires a unique novelty toy that instantly brings good luck, but is the toy really leading him to happiness . . . or to a more monstrous end?<br/>In this volume, three stories from the New York Times bestselling series Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights come to life in delightfully horrifying comics. Readers beware: This collection of terrifying tales is enough to unsettle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fans . . .

Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights Graphic Novel Collection Vol. 3
Scott Cawthon, Kelly Parra, Andrea Waggener · 2023

Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights Graphic Novel Collection Vol. 2
Scott Cawthon, Andrea Waggener, Carly Anne West · 2023

Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights Graphic Novel Collection Vol. 1
Scott Cawthon, Elley Cooper, Carly Anne West · 2022

Felix the Shark (Five Nights at Freddy's Fazbear Frights #12)
Scott Cawthon, Elley Cooper, Andrea Waggener · 2022

Prankster (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #11)
Scott Cawthon, Andrea Waggener, Elley Cooper · 2021

Friendly Face (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #10)
Scott Cawthon, Andrea Waggener · 2021

The Puppet Carver (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #9)
Scott Cawthon, Elley Cooper · 2021

Gumdrop Angel (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #8)
Scott Cawthon, Andrea Waggener · 2021

The Cliffs (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #7)
Scott Cawthon · 2021

Blackbird (Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights #6)
Scott Cawthon · 2020

Bunny Call (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #5)
Scott Cawthon · 2020
Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the bravest FNAF player up at night... When left in darkness, rage festers. Years of frustration with his family culminate in a loathsome vacation for Bob, who plots a sinister prank to frighten his wife and kids. Matt redirects the residual anger over his many failed relationships into a video game, and ends up birthing the horrible consequences. In room 1280 of Heracles Hospital, something evil is keeping a man alive, a man with gruesome burns all over his body and an iron will to live. In this fifth volume, Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length stories from different corners of his series' canon, featuring cover art from fan-favorite artist LadyFiszi.Readers beware: This collection of terrifying tales is enough to unsettle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fans.

1:35AM (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #3)
Scott Cawthon, Andrea Waggener, Elley Cooper · 2020

Fetch (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #2)
Scott Cawthon, Carly Anne West, Andrea Waggener · 2020

Into the Pit (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #1)
Scott Cawthon, Elley Cooper · 2019
Five Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this pulse-pounding collection of three novella-length tales that will keep even the bravest player up at night . . .<br/>What do you wish for most? It's a question that Oswald, Sarah, and Millie think they know the answer to. Oswald wishes his summer wasn't so boring, Sarah wishes to be beautiful, and Millie wishes she could just disappear from the face of the earth. But in the twisted world of Five Nights at Freddy's, their hearts' deepest desires have an unexpected cost.In this volume, Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length stories from different corners of his series' canon, featuring cover art from fan-favorite artist LadyFiszi. Readers beware: This collection of terrifying tales is enough to unsettle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fans.
Mystery

Le sette morti di Evelyn Hardcastle (Italian Edition)
Stuart Turton · 2019
Gosford Park Incontra Inception, Agatha Christie E Black Mirror. Un Romanzo Geniale. Un Rompicapo Impossibile Da Risolvere. Una Trappola Da Cui Faticherete A Liberarvi. «il Debutto Straordinario Di Stuart Turton è Qualcosa In Cui Il Lettore Non Si è Mai Imbattuto Fino Ad Ora». Financial Times «complesso, Affascinante E Sconcertante... Un Debutto Straordinariamente Raffinato». The Times «questo Libro Mi Ha Fatto Impazzire. È Assolutamente Originale E Unico. Non Riuscivo A Togliermelo Dalla Testa». Sophie Hannah «da Capogiro... Abbagliante Come Il Finale Di Uno Spettacolo Di Fuochi D’artificio». Guardian «preparatevi A Impazzire. Una Lettura Scoppiettante!» Daily Express «le Sette Morti Di Evelyn Hardcastle è Unico Nel Suo Genere, Una Lettura Brillante. L’ho Divorato». Ali Land «diabolicamente Intelligente. Diverso Da Qualsiasi Cosa Abbia Mai Letto, Un Trionfo Assoluto». A. J. Finn «strabiliante E Con Un Cast Di Personaggi Straordinariamente Bizzarri, Questo è Un Mistero Da “camera Chiusa” Come Nessun Altro». Sarah Pinborough

Io non ho paura
Niccolò Ammaniti • 2014

Dieci piccoli indiani. E non rimase nessuno...
Agatha Christie · 2019
Young-adult

Il giovane Holden
J.D. Salinger • 2002
History/Culture

Cleopatra
Alberto Angela · 2021

Una giornata nell''antica Roma: Vita quotidiana, segreti e curiosità (Oscar grandi bestsellers) (Italian Edition)
Alberto Angela • 2010
<p>Che atmosfera si respirava per le strade di Roma? Cosa provava un gladiatore nell'arena del Colosseo? Quali erano i segreti delle matrone per farsi belle? Che cosa si mangiava durante i banchetti? È vero che spesso finivano con delle orge?<br> Molti libri parlano della storia dell'antica Roma, ma nessuno come questo è in grado di catapultare il lettore nell'atmosfera quotidiana della capitale dell'impero, dandogli realmente l'impressione di trovarsi nelle case o tra la folla nelle strade, per scoprire e indagare tutte le curiosità e i piccoli dettagli della vita dei suoi abitanti. La straordinaria esplorazione guidata da Alberto Angela, con la chiarezza, la competenza e il fascino del grande divulgatore, dura ventiquattr'ore e inizia all'alba di un giorno qualsiasi del 115 d.C. quando Roma è al culmine della sua potenza. Un racconto coinvolgente, ricco di atmosfere affascinanti e aneddoti curiosi, che condensa nell'arco di una giornata il risultato degli studi storici più rigorosi e dei dati raccolti in oltre quindici anni di riprese sui siti dell'antica Roma e del suo Impero.<br></p>
Classics

Il Barone Rampante
Italo Calvino • 1965

Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 2001
Imparare l'inglese può risultare semplice e divertente attraverso la lettura in lingua dei classici della letteratura anglosassone o americana. Una riduzione dedicata ai giovani studenti, in versione semplificata con traduzione in italiano, completata dalla tabella dei verbi irregolari, da alcune espressioni utili, dalla nota biografica dell'autore con note storiche sul suo tempo. Età di lettura: da 10 anni.
Romance

L’amica geniale

The Tearsmith
Erin Doom · 2024
Tra le mura del Grave, l'orfanotrofio in cui Nica è cresciuta, si raccontano da sempre storie e leggende a lume di candela. La più famosa è quella del fabbricante di lacrime, un misterioso artigiano dagli occhi chiari come il vetro, colpevole di aver forgiato tutte le paure e le angosce che abitano il cuore degli uomini. Ma a diciassette anni per Nica è giunto il momento di lasciarsi alle spalle le favole tetre dell'infanzia. Il suo sogno più grande, infatti, sta per avverarsi. I coniugi Milligan hanno avviatole pratiche per l'adozione e sono pronti a donarle la famiglia che ha sempre desiderato. Nella nuova casa, però, Nica non è da sola. Insieme a lei viene portato via dal Grave anche Rigel, un orfano inquieto e misterioso, l'ultima persona al mondo che Nica desidererebbe come fratello adottivo. Rigel è intelligente, scaltro, suona il pianoforte come un demone incantatore ed è dotato di una bellezza in grado di ammaliare, ma il suo aspetto angelico cela un'indole oscura. Anche se Nica e Rigel sono uniti da un passato comune di dolore e privazioni, la convivenza tra loro sembra impossibile. Soprattutto quando la leggenda torna a insinuarsi nelle loro vite e il fabbricante di lacrime si fa improvvisamente reale, sempre più vicino. Eppure Nica, dolce e coraggiosa, è disposta a tutto per difendere il suo sogno, perché solo se avrà il coraggio di affrontare gli incubi chela tormentano, potrà librarsi finalmente libera come la farfalla di cui porta il nome.

Orgoglio e pregiudizio
Jane Austen · 2018
Quando Elizabeth Bennet conosce Mr Darcy, scapolo ricco e in età da matrimonio, lo trova arrogante e presuntuoso. Ma questa è solo la prima impressione per la giovane brillante e libera che a differenza delle sorelle ha un sogno molto preciso: sposarsi per amore e non per calcolo. Il capolavoro di Jane Austen pubblicato nel 1813 non smette di essere letto, amato e adattato per il piccolo e il grande schermo. Le vicende delle cinque figlie di Mrs Bennet ci riportano nella campagna inglese del Derbyshire e nella Londra di fine Settecento, ma i fraintendimenti tra i personaggi mostrano con una lucidità senza tempo le logiche illogiche dell'amore.





