Amore al profumo di girasole
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Translated title: Love with the Scent of Sunflowers
Author: Mauro, Gabriele
Genre: Romance
Year: 2026 | Pages: 288 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 91765
Marisol clutches the pendant around her neck. A golden sunflower, guardian of a past she refuses to remember. In moments when the air seems thin, her fingers search for that small symbol. The relief that gesture brings is a scentless breath. Like the scent of a sunflower: invisible and silent. Because the sunflower, unlike roses or lavender, leaves no traces in the wind. It thrives on light, orienting itself toward the sun with blind faith. It gives itself to those whose hearts are open to recognizing it.
Marisol is like a sunflower. Her life is made of routine and silence. This is how she hides her pain and a secret that never abandons her. Until, on the seafront, she meets Angelo, a photographer capable of seeing beyond appearances. And something begins to change. Thanks to Post-it notes left under a Ferris wheel, handwritten letters, and simple attentions, Marisol discovers a pure, timeless, and unpretentious love.
A love that doesn't flaunt itself, but manifests itself in small gestures. A gaze that waits, a caress that lingers, a presence that doesn't disappear when Angelo's gone. Marisol understands that, for the first time, someone has noticed her. But then the past returns to haunt her with its shadows, and she must learn to trust the light. To recognize that there are bonds that don't need to be explained. Just experienced. Because some loves are like the scent of a sunflower. They can't be grasped. And yet, they're impossible to forget.
Gabriele Mauro's name attracts an ever-growing and passionate community of readers. Those who follow him know that his stories embody authentic emotions and profound values - values that today seem almost lost. It is precisely for these messages that Gabriele Mauro continues to attract, day after day, a loyal readership that continues to grow and eagerly awaits his arrival in bookstores
Jane e il mistero della principessa. Le indagini di Jane Austen
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Translated title: Jane and the Princess Mystery: Jane Austen's Investigations
Author: Barron, Stephanie
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Year: 2026 | Pages: 272 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 91768
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A Russian noblewoman, precious jewels, a conspiracy to uncover.
London, 1811. Fresh from writing Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen joins her brother Henry, a brilliant banker, and his charming wife Eliza in their elegant home on Sloane Street. Immersed in a world of witty conversations, glittering gowns, and receptions, Jane observes with discretion and irony this microcosm of ambition, secrets, and vanity. But not even her keen eye is prepared for the scandal that erupts when the private correspondence between a Russian princess and an influential Tory minister is suddenly made public, much less for the tragedy that follows: the beautiful Evgenia Cholikova is found with her throat slit right outside the residence of the minister, Lord Castlereagh.
While public opinion whispers of a romantic suicide and gossip tarnishes the princess's reputation, Jane does not believe the official version. Her doubts, however, become unsettling when a web of coincidences places her and Eliza at the center of the investigation as prime suspects. Why would someone want to frame them? And who, behind the scenes of high society, had an interest in eliminating the princess? With only seven days to prove her innocence, Jane is forced to delve into the halls of power and the boudoirs of the most influential courtesans, on the trail of a murderer capable of threatening not only her life, but also the fate of England
Dieci secondi
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Translated title: Ten Seconds
Series: Book 3
Author: Gold, Robert
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 384 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87886
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After a tense birthday celebration in Haddley, journalist Ben Harper watches his boss, Madeline, get into the car that has come to collect her. He walks home, never imagining that by the next morning, Madeline will be missing.
To find Madeline, Ben will have to return to the now infamous murder case that made her journalism career over a decade ago. A case which, Ben quickly discovers, was never as simple as it seemed.
But time is of the essence, and soon it's not just Madeline's life on the line
Cucina in giallo
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Translated title: Kitchen in Yellow
Author: Sellerio Editore Palermo
Genre: Short Stories / Mystery
Year: 2023 | Pages: 432 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87857
Sellerio's new mystery anthology. All the ingredients are there. Among tasty dishes, mysterious recipes, gourmet dinners, and traditional cuisine, crime lurks. Eight enigmas to solve while laughing heartily. The art of cooking is one of the things we most enjoy and talk about in everyday life. And so it's an irresistible subject for Sellerio mystery anthologies, which seek to entangle their heroes in everyday life. Marta and Berta Miralles, the two policewomen and sisters in Alicia Giménez-Bartlett's mystery novels, unmask the person who murdered for despicable reasons during a Thai cooking class. This is a case of crime 'with cooking', followed by stories that explore various possible combinations of mystery and cuisine
Chimerica - Antologia di racconti fantasy
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Translated title: Chimerica - Anthology of Fantasy Stories
Author: Various
Genre: Fantasy / Short Stories
Year: 2024 | Pages: 290 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87862
An anthology of fantasy stories exploring extraordinary and often cruel worlds, as well as the hidden territories of the human soul. Its varied characters are courageous and fragile, fantastic yet recognisably human, and face choices involving love, freedom, sacrifice, fear, revenge and the moral consequences of their actions. Across the collection, warriors and magical beings inhabit worlds shaped by ancient orders, demons, dragons and struggles for power. Dynastic intrigues and ruthless ambitions threaten the fragile boundary between peace and destruction, while acts of courage, noble revenge and personal sacrifice test characters caught between competing loyalties and desires. Moving between magic, conflict and the darker impulses of human nature, the stories use the fantastic to examine questions of freedom, love, loss and the choices people make when confronted by forces larger than themselves
Qualcuno sta uccidendo i più grandi cuochi d'Italia
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Translated title: Someone Is Killing the Greatest Chefs in Italy
Author: Iaccarino, Luca
Genre: Crime / Mystery
Year: 2024 | Pages: 320 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87878
Seven years ago, someone began killing Turin's greatest chefs in the most bizarre ways; seven years later, the chefs are dying again. The new killer is more enterprising, targeting the country's top three-Michelin-starred chefs, from Lake Orta to Modena and all the way down to Senigallia. Once again, it's up to Commissioner Santamaria and the precarious journalist to set out in search of the culprit, accompanied by a new team: the uncompromising Dr. Pedroni and the retired pickpocket Domingo. And what does the young, promising waitress Jessica have to do with it, whose career is traced from adolescence to the world's great restaurants, from Copenhagen to Lima?
From sumptuous dinners to dives, from steaming kitchens to oppression, the investigation will become daring, but the solution, far from bizarre, as it was in 2016, will be dramatically timely. Making the volume not only a journey through Italian cuisine but also a reflection on the shadows of a seemingly glittering industry
The Love Map
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Author: Blue, Camy
Genre: Romance
Year: 2024 | Pages: 640 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87889
Grace Mitchell is a whirlwind of colors with a sharp tongue and a disdain for all things romantic, ever since her ex-boyfriend broke her heart. She writes for a women's magazine but despises the column she edits, dreaming instead of writing her first screenplay. Matthew Howard, a literature professor recently fired from Columbia, is forced to reinvent himself using his photography skills.
They are thrust together to create a tourist guide to New York, revisiting iconic locations from famous romantic comedies. He takes the pictures; she writes the heart-stirring descriptions. The twist? Grace and Matthew already know---and despise----each other. Yet, as they clash repeatedly, their undeniable attraction grows, forcing them to battle their feelings with all their might
Le querce non fanno limoni
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Translated title: Oaks Don't Make Lemons
Author: Francini, Chiara
Genre: Historical Fiction / Social Fiction
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 gioco della notte
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Translated title: The Game of the Night
Author: Lackberg, Camilla
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2021 | Pages: 108 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 79867
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Thriller
Il prezzo della gloria - I casi di Hamish Macbeth
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Translated title: Hamish Macbeth #17 - Death of a Celebrity
Author: Beaton, M. C.
Genre: Mystery / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 240 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87885
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A Hamish Macbeth Mystery: Murder on the Telly
Lochdubh, a tranquil village nestled in Scotland's hills and accessible only by a one-track lane, is thrown into turmoil when TV reporter Crystal French speeds into town in her bright BMW. Constable Hamish Macbeth, still reeling from a broken engagement, promptly tickets her for reckless driving. In retaliation, Crystal airs a scathing TV report on Highland policing and digs up old local scandals for her show. Macbeth suspects he's not the only one who wants to stop her. When Crystal is murdered with stealth and violence, Macbeth must unravel the mystery, leading him into a dark tale of passion and vengeance - and possibly a personal crisis of the heart
