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Fausto moves to Fontana Fredda—Cold Fountain—a small, remote village high in the mountains, having left Milan and an old love behind. Out of the way and off the beaten path, Fontana Fredda is a town that operates by its own rules, sense of time, and movement of seasons. Its citizens lead quiet but complex lives—and Fausto is attracted to that contrast. There’s Santorso, the former forest ranger who prefers the company of wolves to humans. Babette, the elegant ex-urbanite who, after a brief fling with a mountain man, opened a permanent fixture in the village.

A prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one: it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia, too, move on their own axis, alone with their personal tragedies. As a child, Alice’s overbearing father drove her first to a terrible skiing accident, and then to anorexia. When she meets Mattia, she recognizes a kindred, tortured spirit, and Mattia reveals to Alice his terrible secret: that as a boy he abandoned his mentally-disabled twin sister in a park to go to a party, and when he returned, she was nowhere to be found.

La nueva obra maestra de Paolo Giordano: una novela sobre lo que nos pasa y no podemos explicarnos. En noviembre de 2015, el narrador, un periodista de formación científica, ha acudido a París para cubrir una cumbre sobre el clima pocos días después de los atentados yihadistas. La crisis que planea en el sombrío ambiente de la ciudad parece un espejo de una crisis más íntima: la que atraviesa la relación que mantiene con su compañera, Lorenza.

Alice è una bambina obbligata dal padre a frequentare la scuola di sci. E una mattina di nebbia fitta, lei non ha voglia, il latte della colazione le pesa sullo stomaco. Persa nella nebbia, staccata dai compagni, se la fa addosso. Umiliata, cerca di scendere, ma finisce fuori pista spezzandosi una gamba. Resta sola, incapace di muoversi, al fondo di un canale innevato, a domandarsi se i lupi ci sono anche in inverno. Mattia è un bambino molto intelligente, ma ha una gemella, Michela, ritardata.

Pietro es un chico de ciudad, solitario y un poco hosco, que veranea en los Alpes italianos. Bruno es hijo de un albañil de la zona, alguien que solo conoce los montes y que pastorea las vacas de su tío. Tienen apenas once años y un mundo entero les separa. Pero, verano tras verano, forjan una profunda amistad mientras Bruno inicia a Pietro en los secretos de la montaña. Juntos exploran y descubren casas abandonadas, glaciares y escarpados senderos hasta que, con los años, sus caminos toman rumbos distintos.

The year is AD 504. The all-powerful Roman Empire lies in tatters, its western provinces dismembered into a patchwork of new kingdoms ruled by barbarians. In Constantinople, the New Rome, the Eastern Roman emperor is beset by problems. New and dangerous barbarian hordes appear on the frontier year after year. The powerful king of Persia demands tribute and threatens Roman Mesopotamia and Syria. Religious controversies spawn catastrophic military uprisings. But unbeknownst to all, in that same year was born Belisarius, the greatest Roman general of them all. At a time when Roman power was ...

In 2017, Paolo Cognetti returned to Nepal, not to conquer the mountains but to journey through the high valleys of the Dolpo with a copy of Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard in hand. Drawing on memories of his childhood in the Alps, Cognetti explored the roots of life in the mountains, truly getting to know the communities and the nature that forged this resilient, almost mythical region. Accompanying him was Remigio, a childhood friend who had never left the mountains of Italy, and Nicola, a painter he had recently met.

In this contemporary thriller, National Book Award Finalist and New York Times best-selling author Paolo Bacigalupi explores the timely issue of how public information is distorted for monetary gain, and how those who exploit it must be stopped.

"La parola magica" è un romanzo unico nel suo genere e ha un preciso intento: intrattenere l'ascoltatore e, capitolo dopo capitolo, trasformarlo, aiutandolo a liberare il suo potenziale. Scritto con un linguaggio che opera a più livelli da uno dei massimi esperti di intelligenza linguistica e persuasione linguistica, è ricchissimo di suggestioni e insegnamenti che funzionano mentre li ascolti: parola dopo parola, potrai sperimentare in prima persona il cambiamento e la trasformazione, senza quasi rendertene conto. Il primo romanzo che ti cambia la vita mentre lo ascolti.

The COVID-19 pandemic is the most significant health emergency of our time. Writing from Italy in lockdown, physicist and novelist Paolo Giordano explains how disease spreads in our interconnected world.

In a world gone wrong, heroes and villains are not always easy to distinguish and every individual has the ability to contribute something powerful. In this stunning collection of original and rediscovered stories of tragedy and hope, the stars are a diverse group of students, street kids, good girls, kidnappers, and child laborers pitted against their environments, their governments, differing cultures, and sometimes one another as they seek answers in their dystopian worlds.

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Wild rabies runs rampant through the woods. The foxes are gaining ground, boldly making their way into the village. In Dichtersruhe, an insular yet charming haven stifled by the Swiss mountains, these omens go unnoticed by all but the new parish priest. The residents have other things on their mind: literature. Everyone’s a writer - the nights are alive with reworked manuscripts. So when the devil turns up in a black car claiming to be a hot-shot publisher, unsatisfied authorial desires are unleashed and the village’s former harmony is shattered.

Every summer Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia, down in the heel of Italy, a land of relentless, shimmering heat. Everything changes the summer she meets the three boys who live on the farm next door: Nicola, Tommaso, and Bern - the man Teresa will love for the rest of her life. Raised like brothers on a farm that feels to Teresa almost suspended in time, the three boys share a complex, intimate, and seemingly unassailable bond. But there is resentment underneath the surface of that strange brotherhood, a twisted kind of love that protects a dark secret.

In una Roma postbellica, tra i palazzoni delle periferie e il centro monumentale, il racconto picaresco dai risvolti comici, tragici e grotteschi, delle giornate di un gruppo di ragazzi di borgata. Un romanzo fortemente emblematico di una trasformazione epocale del nostro paese, che mette in scena con struggente tenerezza il rito crudele del passaggiodall'infanzia alla prima giovinezza.

La storia della breve vita di Tommaso Puzzilli, un giovane sottoproletario delle borgate romane, scorre impetuosa attraverso piccoli furti e bravate, prostituzione e vagabondaggi notturni, fino al tragico sacrificio finale. Ma è anche storia di contrastata redenzione, di impossibile riscatto sociale in un mondo disperatamente senza uscita, che racconta di un'Italia post-bellica divisa tra la fame dei diseredati che popolano i sobborghi e i primi segni di un benessere economico che avrebbe appiattito la società italiana nella grigia mediocrità degli ideali piccolo-borghesi.

Cooper Hayes, a travel blogger, is always in search of his next adventure. He loves his big family and the small town he grew up in, but after a prolonged visit home, the itch to take off grows, until he meets an uptight woman with gorgeous eyes and a sharp tongue. Something about her, and her immunity to his charm, makes him question everything. Sarah Kramer, a single mother who puts her son above everything else, refuses to even glance in a man's direction.

Have you ever responded to someone needing help? Medical emergencies can happen anytime and anywhere, so it's best that you are prepared to respond. First Aid 101 is your simple step-by-step reference on how to provide basic first aid with what you have in hand. A written work by a certified medical professional, this guide teaches you on what to do in various types of medical emergencies.

Come può reagire il più grande profiler del mondo, colui che più di tutti sa gestire le parole e le emozioni, di fronte a un medico che gli dice: "Mister Want, lei ha un cancro"? Quali risorse saprà mettere in campo per affrontare questa sfida? Anche perché nel frattempo, incredibilmente e forse per fortuna, la vita non si ferma, e un cliente molto speciale gli chiede una consulenza dalla quale sembrano dipendere le sorti dell'umanità. È Dio in persona, che gli domanda perché gli uomini, creati a sua immagine e somiglianza, si comportino tanto male.

Un clásico inolvidable y más actual que nunca. Cuando su padre la obliga a asistir a una escuela de esquí, Alice sufre un grave accidente que la marcará para siempre. A su vez, Mattia, un niño reservado, carga con las fatales consecuencias de un acto que cometió poco tiempo atrás. La infancia ha causado en Alice y en Mattia esa clase de heridas que difícilmente cicatrizan, y que los abocan a una soledad devastadora durante su adolescencia.