Niccolò Ammaniti

One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat-fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano makes a discovery so momentous he dare not tell a soul. It is a secret that will force Michele to question everything and everyone around him.

Ischiano Scalo. A place where even the main road out of town gives up after a couple of miles, where escape from a life of boredom and emptiness is almost impossible. Forced into crimes he never wanted to commit, 11-year-old Pietro reaches crisis point when his parents ignore his pleas for support and his schoolteacher turns her back on him.

"Con una manciata di ingredienti Ammaniti construisce un racconto di fulminea precisione sul piú semplice e imperscrutabile dei misteri: come diventare grandi."--P. of cover.

Ammaniti insegue un chirurgo dalle strane abitudini in una scatenata caccia per le strade di Roma. Camilleri mette in scena una storia d'amore finita troppo presto. Carlotto ci fa sentire quanto lontano può portare, nel cuore di un poliziotto, la Morte di un confidente. Nel sottobosco milanese di Dazieri comici e assassini in gara cercano tutti L'ultima battuta. De Silva ci porta a Napoli: chi si nasconde nel Covo di Teresa? De Cataldo dipinge una favola con italiani pessimi ed extracomunitari inconsueti. Chi è davvero L'ospite d'onore di Faletti? Forse non farà carriera il commissario Curreli ostinandosi a cercare Quello che manca, di Fois. Forse era meglio non avere sentito Il terzo sparo, per la bella poliziotta complessata presa nell'intrigo di Lucarelli. Ma così è la vita. Anzi, il noir.

An urban retelling of the classic Goldilocks and the Three Bears story, told from the baby bear's perspective.

Een 14-jarige jongen en zijn verslaafde halfzus zijn elkaar tot steun bij hun groei naar volwassenheid. Lorenzo (14) en zijn verslaafde halfzusje Olivia (23) zijn elkaar tot steun bij hun groei naar volwassenheid. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Ischiano Scalo. A place where even the main road out to the nearest big town gives up after a couple of miles, where escape from a life of boredom and emptiness is almost impossible. Forced into crimes he never wanted to commit, Pietro reaches crisis point when his parents ignore his pleas for help and his schoolteacher turns her back on him - in desperation, he reaches out for attention, and finds instead a terrible revenge. Escape from Ischiano Scalo comes at a price. Life there will never be the same again.

The world might be in the throes of a global recession but when an author on the brink of despair, an enigmatic musician, a supermodel, and a Satanic sect meet with the cream of Italian high society at the home of a Roman property tycoon, the world outside the mansion's walls is soon forgotten. There's going to be one hell of a party. And you've got a VIP ticket.

ZACK, HIS DAD, and new stepmother have just moved back to his father's hometown, not knowing that their new house has a dark history. Fifty years ago, a crazed killer caused an accident at the nearby crossroads that took 40 innocent lives. He died when his car hit a tree in a fiery crash, and his malevolent spirit has inhabited the tree ever since. During a huge storm, lightning hits the tree, releasing the spirit, who decides his evil spree isn't over . . . and Zack is directly in his sights.Award-winning thriller author Chris Grabenstein fills his first book for younger readers with the same humorous and spine-tingling storytelling that has made him a fast favorite with adults.From the Hardcover edition.

"Un rico constructor organiza, en su nueva residencia en el corazon de Roma, una fiesta que pasara a la historia como el acontecimiento mundano mas grande de la Republica italiana. Cocineros bulgaros, ojeadores negros reclutados en la estacion Termini, cirujanos esteticos, actrices, futbolistas, tigres, elefantes, el conocido escritor Fabrizio Ciba y las Bestias de Abadon, la desquiciada secta satanica de Oriolo Romano, son algunos de los protagonistas de esta disparatada comedia humana que retrata los vicios y las pocas virtudes de nuestra epoca."--Amazon.com, viewed August 27, 2013 A rich man who works in construction organizes a party in his new residence in the heart of Rome that will go down in history as the greatest world event in the Republic of Italy. Bulgarian chefs, black talent scouts recruited in Termini station, plastic surgeons, actresses, footballers, tigers, elephants, the well-known author Fabrizio Ciba and the Abadón Beasts, the unhinged satanic sect of Oriolo Romano: these are only some of the protagonists of this ridiculous human comedy that paints a portrait of the vices and lack of virtues of our era.

328 p. ; 21 cm

Despite his hope that the scheme of his alcoholic father, Rino, and his cronies will land a great fortune for the family, and the hand of the beautiful Fabiana for him, Cristiano finds his life changed in a single night, and not in the way he had hoped.