La peste
Translated title: The Plague
Author: Tincani, Persio
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2023 | Pages: 208 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87865
Plague opens the Iliad, the first work of Western literature, and from then on it has been a ubiquitous theme. The reasons are many, but they all boil down to the fact that plague is frightening, and fear fascinates. It generates terror because it is a disease against which for millennia there was no defense, arriving suddenly and each time claiming many victims in a short time; but plague is also frightening because it brings with it famine, poverty, and overwhelms institutions, so that the fear of death by plague is compounded by the fear of death by starvation and a violent death. The reactions of governments and populations to epidemics have always been the same: isolation, panic, disbelief, institutional distrust. Observing these reactions reveals to us that societies always stand on a precarious balance and are much more fragile than we might imagine
Le querce non fanno limoni
Translated title: Oaks Don't Make Lemons
Author: Francini, Chiara
Genre: Historical / Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 408 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 90495
'Oaks Don't Make Lemons' is an epic, intimate, and choral novel spanning fifty years of Italian history, from World War II to the Years of Lead. A story of the Resistance, of passions, of families torn apart and mended, of struggles that leave scars, but also of the strength to stand firm. The protagonist is Delia, a former partisan, an unforgettable woman who faces war, love, and loss by building - stone by stone, voice by voice - a real and symbolic place: Cantuccio, a concrete and ideal refuge, a space for sharing, hope, and memory.
Around her and after her move Irma, Mauro, Angela, Carlo, Sandro, Lettèria, Gigione, and many others, vivid characters who intertwine in a narrative woven like a tapestry of voices, dialects, scars, and dreams. Set between Florence and Campi Bisenzio, 'Oaks Don't Make Lemons' embodies History with a capital 'H' - the torture at Villa Triste, the Liberation, the Piazza Fontana massacre, the contradictions of the extra-parliamentary left - but filters it through everyday gestures, silences, pots on the stove, unspoken words.
Each page is imbued with a living language that alternates lyricism and popular speech, a language that sings, cries, resists. It is a novel about legacy - political, emotional, ideological. About the way memory passes, hides, reveals itself. And about the courage not to be overwhelmed by the past, but to understand it in order to move forward.
'Oaks Don't Make Lemons' is a historical novel, yes. But it is also a novel of existence, a novel that questions what it means to resist: injustice, disenchantment, pain, time. And she does so with a writing style that's both cultured and full of humanity, embracing each character as if they were a true story, to be protected. Because a happy life means having fought
Il mio sogno nel cass (on) etto - salvare il mondo
Translated title: My Dream in the Drawer: Saving the World
Author: Petracca, Francesco
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2023 | Pages: 424 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87858
This book is a small collection of aphorisms by various authors, with no claim to being exhaustive. The author rejects the title 'author' as he is simply a collector of aphorisms
Flora
Author: Robecchi, Alessandro
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2021 | Pages: 365 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 79863
Thriller
La sentenza è morte
Translated title: Hawthorne & Horowitz #2 - The Sentence is Death
Series: Book 2
Author: Horowitz, Anthony
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 300 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87884
Translated
You shouldn't be here. It's too late...
These were the last words heard over the phone from Richard Pryce, a successful celebrity-divorce lawyer, found bludgeoned to death with a £3,000 bottle of 1982 Chateau Lafite - odd, since he didn't drink. Why this bottle? Why those words? And why a three-digit number painted on the wall?
Baffled, the police enlist Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony, who is getting adept at solving murders. As Hawthorne delves into the case, it becomes clear he has his own secrets, and Anthony realizes that uncovering the truth may come at a deadly cost
Mostri
Translated title: Monsters
Author: Treanni, Carmine
Genre: Short Stories / Horror
Year: 2024 | Pages: 176 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87863
From the terrifying creatures of Ancient Greece to the sexy vampires of our modern era: literature and our imaginations are populated by the figure of the Monster. Fantastical and terrifying creatures have their roots in folklore and oral tales, while others have come down to us thanks to the fervent imaginations of great writers. The monsters featured in the stories in this anthology, written by some of the greatest Italian writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, are a prime example: marine creatures, werewolves, alien entities, and even decidedly unusual animals or animalistic humans
La casa delle luci
Translated title: The House of Lights
Author: Carrisi, Donato
Genre: Fantasy / Horror
Year: 2022 | Pages: 428 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 84795
In the big dull house at the top of the hill, a little girl always lives alone... Her name is Eva, she is ten years old, and with her there are only a housekeeper and a Finnish au pair, Maja Salo. No trace of parents. It is precisely Maja who desperately seeks the help of Pietro Gerber, the best hypnotist in Florence, the baby sleeper. Eva hasn't really been alone for some time now. With her is an imaginary friend, nameless and faceless. And because of this presence, perhaps Eve is in danger
Criminal (Ed - deluxe)
Translated title: Criminal #1 - Coward
Series: Volume 1
Author: Brubaker, Ed
Genre: Crime / Graphic Novels
Year: 2024 | Pages: 432 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87881
Translated
The first collection of Criminal, one of the best reviewed comics of 2006. Coward is the story of Leo, a professional pickpocket who is also a legendary heist-planner and thief. But there's a catch with Leo, he won't work any job that he doesn't call all the shots on, he won't allow guns, and the minute things turn south, he's looking for any exit that won't land him in prison. But when he's lured into a risky heist, all his rules go out the window, and he ends up on the run from the cops and the bad men who double-crossed him. Now Leo must come face-to-face with the violence he's kept bottled up inside for 20 years, and nothing will ever be the same for him again
Holly
Author: King, Stephen
Genre: Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 512 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87872
Translated
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.
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.
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.
Holly must summon all her formidable talents to outthink and outmaneuver the shockingly twisted professors in this chilling new masterwork from Stephen King
Innegabilmente mio
Translated title: Undeniably Mine
Author: Foster, A. J.
Genre: Family Saga / Romance
Year: 2026 | Pages: 608 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 91764
Translated
A heart that hides its fragility. A gaze that can see beyond the cracks. Can we love even when the masks fall?
After years of rebellion, Theresa Murphy has returned home only to find herself locked up again, trapped between a mother who controls her every breath, a father full of secrets, and a job at the Burlington Chronicle that feels more like a limitation than an opportunity. But the real hell has a name and a face: Jason Harrison, once her spotless knight and her first love, who ultimately broke her heart.
Forced to live under the same roof, Tess and Jason find themselves catapulted into a whirlwind of lies and unquenched desire. Between sham parties, secret clubs, and motorcycle getaways, attraction becomes a double-edged sword, as the Harrison and Williams families face off in a war of power, crime, and corruption.
When the long shadow of a Mexican cartel tightens the knot of their destinies, Tess must choose whether to remain a perpetual pawn in the hands of others or finally take the reins of the game. And, to survive, she must decide whether to trust the one man
