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The Stuff of Dreams
Three friends. One dream bigger than themselves: to create their own destiny, one stitch at a time. Thirteen-year-old Nina has finally left the orphanage behind to begin what seems like the opportunity of a lifetime: an apprenticeship at one of Milan’s most prestigious fashion ateliers. She dreams of beautiful fabrics, elegant dresses and, one day, becoming a seamstress herself. Reality…
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Nothing Else Mattes
A boy nobody can reach. A horse nobody can tame. One last chance to trust. Fourteen-year-old Milo has spent his whole life being told he’s the problem. Then he meets Max, a runaway colt no one else can handle — and, for the first time, finds someone as angry, frightened and impossible to reach as he is. For three years,…
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Osvaldo’s Ark. The Circle of Life
A flu outbreak has swept through the wildlife park. But when Filippo learns his favourite panda is running out of time, nothing will keep him away. At the wildlife park, every day usually brings a new adventure. This time, however, it brings something nobody can fix. While Filippo is stuck at home with a fever, his favourite panda, Gu-Li, is…
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Osvaldo’s Ark. A Shelter for Animals
A rescued Sumatran rhino has survived poachers — but can she learn to trust again? The arrival of a rescued Sumatran rhino should be a day of celebration for the wildlife park where Osvaldo lives and works with his twin children, Camilla and Filippo. Instead, Natuna refuses to eat, won’t leave her enclosure and trusts no one. As the mayor…
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Salamander
Young Europa Anguissola learns about art and life amid paintbrushes, games and hidden dragons: painting is the magic that reveals the world’s secrets. Cremona, Italy, 1556. Europa Anguissola is about ten years old. One quiet autumn day, during an outing in the woods with her sisters, she glimpses an extraordinary creature resembling a tiny dragon: a salamander. Fascinated by this…
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Three Friends, One Last Year
The final exams are getting closer, teachers keep asking about high school choices, and the experimental smartphone ban is still in place. So Lola, Zoe and Isi continue sharing their secret Friends’ Diary, filling its pages with fears, crushes, disasters and dreams for the future. Between theatre rehearsals, karate lessons, broken hearts and difficult family expectations, the three girls will…
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Three Friends On Holiday
One summer. Three best friends. One travelling diary that keeps them together. Lola, Isi and Zoe are inseparable—but this summer, each will be far from the others: one at a theatre camp in the mountains, one in a fancy resort by the sea, and one on a family trip to Scotland. To bridge the distance, they invent the “Friends’ Diary”—a travelling journal…
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Three Friends, One Diary
If you can’t use your phone, how do you survive at school? With a diary for you and your friends! There’s a new rule at Locatelli middle school: students won’t be allowed to use their mobile phones for a whole school year, neither in class nor at home. How will Zoe, Isi and Lola cope with life at school without texting each…
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My Life After Juno Sparks
A girl with a blue walkman, a legendary monster, and the summer that changed everything. Sagramoso, summer 1994. Twelve-year-old Enea lives trapped inside his fears — and behind a closed door he cannot bring himself to open. Everything changes when Juno Sparks arrives: rebellious, magnetic, armed with a blue walkman and grunge music blasting in her ears. Together with a…
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Enid Enigma 4. Beyond the Last Darkness
She has a magpie friend and a gift: she solves cases before they happen. This time the grave in Enid’s dream is her own. When Cicuta leads Enid to her own grave, the rules of the game change completely. With the crows closing in and the magical medallion still missing, Enid and Julio must uncover the truth beneath Midway before…
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Enid Enigma 3. The Dance of Shadows
She has a magpie friend and a gift: she solves cases before they happen. When Enid dreams of Amanda Almond’s grave in a cemetery whose paths slide like conveyor belts, she knows another murder is coming. As Midway’s mayoral race heats up, Enid and Julio must decode a trail of misleading clues before a hidden enemy turns a library archive…
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Enid Enigma 2. The Flower of Darkness
She has a magpie friend and a gift: she solves cases before they happen. Enid’s dreams keep dragging her back to Midway’s cemetery — but this time it’s a swamp, and another death is coming. Guided by a magpie and haunted by cryptic visions, Enid tries to save Lucrezia Dubois, the town’s beloved cake baker, from a mysterious fate. Between…
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Enid Enigma 1. Thirteen Magpies for a Murder
She has a magpie friend and a gift: she solves cases before they happen. Enid lives in Midaway, a seaside town where everything feels half-finished – and nothing ever truly ends. When she dreams of thirteen magpies, someone is about to die. To stop the crime, she relies on a special pocket watch that once belonged to her grandfather, marked…
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The Loonies Strike Back
A story of friendship, sport, kindness, and what it means to be free. Agnese—whom everyone calls Steno—is thirteen in the summer of 1982, the magical season when Italy, led by Paolo Rossi and Enzo Bearzot, will win the World Cup. But it is also the summer when her uncle Arturo Praz, known as “Legend,” decides to play his own match,…
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The Desert Foxes
An ancient treasure, a town full of secrets, and a pact between two desert foxes — Rommel and Saint-Exupéry. 1986, Corsica. Morice and his family have just moved into the dilapidated Hotel Napoléon. With Audrey, the mayor’s daughter, he dives into the mysteries haunting the town: empty graves, hidden codes in a first edition of The Little Prince, and the…
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The Way of the Warrior
The adventure of a young boy fighting for his destiny, in a novel with the feel of a modern classic. According to Zulu tradition, the king must sacrifice the first of his twin sons. But the nurse entrusted with the task chooses instead to save the child, placing him in the care of Babashana, a warrior who roams the vast…
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Igor, a Total Disaster
I’m Igor, at your service! I’m a whizz with a broom and a mop, and I’m not afraid of bats, rats or anything else (spiders aside). I’m the perfect assistant, and I’m sure Lord Malsifer will hire me: someone’s got to polish his collection of blades and knives… What an eccentric fellow, that Malsifer, so full of interests! A story…
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Journey Through Time
What inspired Virginia Woolf to write her novels? Paola Zannoner explores this question, drawing inspiration from the young writer’s teenage years. Journey Through Time is a story that weaves its way through Virginia Woolf’s introspective explorations to discover, through writing exercises and analysis, the narrative genre that brought the writer to fame: the psychological novel. In the Footsteps of the…
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The Voice of Omos
Roberto Piumini reimagines the legendary origins of Homer through a lyrical and moving coming-of-age story. Born mute, Omos grows up in a world shaped by stories, longing, and loss. As he travels through lands suspended between history and myth, gathering voices, memories, and human destinies, he moves toward the sacrifice that will transform him into the poet whose song will…
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Sherlock, Lupin and Me. Book 18: Deadly Trap for Mr. Holmes
A trap in Hyde Park, Holmes behind bars, and one last deadly game staged in Moriarty’s shadow. London, December 1919. A mysterious invitation draws Mila to Hyde Park, where what should have been a clarifying meeting turns into an ambush. Billy Gutsby is kidnapped, Mila barely escapes capture, and within hours the unthinkable happens: Sherlock Holmes is arrested after being…
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