The football World Cup is being played and Guglielmo, during its daily football match on the beach, enjoys identifying himself with the players who, during the same days, stand out on newspapers and TV.
Imitating actions of football players, reproducing sounds of radio-TV speakers, Guglielmo excites Alfredo’s envy who, frustrated, thinks up an exemplary punishment: every time Guglielmo interprets a football player, the corresponding sticker will be removed from his album, defaced with a pen, cut out and joint up with others stickers to make a kite.
This history has been made to explain the military regime in Argentine and the drama of the desaparecidos. Views: 48
All Dylan Mint has ever wanted is to keep his Tourette's in check and live life as a "normal" teenager. The swearing, the tics, the howling "dog" that escapes when things are at their worst—nothing about Tourette's makes it easy to meet cute girls or have normal friends (or many friends at all). But a routine hospital visit changes everything—Dylan overhears that he's going to die. In an attempt to claim the life he's always wanted, he decides to grant himself parting wishes, or "Cool Things To Do Before I Cack It". In an intimate portrayal of life with Tourette's, Dylan's journey to come to terms with the disorder that has defined his life and his preconceptions about the world around him is hilarious, painful and, ultimately, utterly masterful. Views: 48
The complete box set of the five books in the New York Times bestselling series The Underland Chronicles – with gorgeous new box and cover art coming July 1st. When Gregor follows his little sister through a grate in the laundry room of their New York apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland beneath the city. There, a conflict is brewing between the humans and the giant creatures that live below. Gregor must find his place in the frightening prophecies he encounters, the strength to protect his family, and the courage to stand up against an army of giant rats.This is an action-packed and masterful series by bestselling author Suzanne Collins.** Views: 48
'DON'T OPEN IT. DON'T OPEN THE DOOR—' As she walks home from work, Josephine Thomas is brutally attacked and left to die. Billy Rucker had known her briefly, and he soon hears about the tragedy. At the request of Jo's distraught colleague, he agrees to look into the murder. After tentative enquiries, things move horrifically close to home. A friend of Billy's is killed. Burying his grief, Billy tackles his most dangerous investigation yet. But something else is wrong – are these murders horrible coincidences or is he somehow the connection between them? If so, will he be the next target or is there another plan: a vendetta sending Billy's world irrevocably out of control... The latest extraordinary and gripping Billy Rucker novel, this is a must-read crime thriller for fans of Peter James, Ian Rankin and Mark Billingham. 'Plenty of twists and genuine literary quality' Time Out 'Chilling,... Views: 48
From interdimensional time travel to the choices that define our lives here and now; from the inability to let go to the inevitability of change; from the many faces of alien contact to the healing power of a single human touch, Brian Caswell bridges genres and generations, shifting through tragedy to joy, humour to pathos – from the everday to the exceptional. Loop displays the undeniable talent of one of Australia’s most accomplished and admired writers for both young people and adults. It will tease the emotions and challenge the intellect – drawing us again and again into the ‘loop’ of one man’s unique vision. Views: 48
This book is first a dialogue between a daughter and a father about life, physical sensation, mortality. Both seem to listen to the other with great attention. Secondly it is the extraordinary vehicle for a series of insights into the everyday life and the art of the great Venetian master, following an uncanny incident at the large exhibition of his work staged in Venice in 1990. While attending the exhibition Katya meets an old man, who she becomes convinced can only be the ghost of the great painter. Her 'spiritual' visitor engages her in conversation about the minute particularities of painting some of the pictures there. She shares this experience with her father in a letter. He accepts the encounter at face value and discusses the historical background to the old man's remarks, seeking answers to a series of evidential questions about his daughter's encounter. Views: 48
The Rise of Silas Lapham was the first important novel to center on the American businessman and the first to treat its theme with a realism that foreshadowed the work of modern writers. In his story of one of the millionaire industrialists who flourished in the post-Civil War years, William Dean Howells probes the moral and social conflicts that confront a self-made man trying to crash Boston's old-guard aristocracy. Silas Lapham is a man of conscience who fully realizes his folly; but he is also an ambitious man who lets his aspirations lead him to risk both his fortune and his family's happiness for status in a society that will never truly accept him. "His perceptions were sure, his integrity was absolute," wrote Henry Seidel Canby of William Dean Howells, whom he credited as being "responsible for giving the American novel form." Views: 48
