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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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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 Gang of Lingotto
November 1918. The war has just ended and Guido, aged fifteen, leaves the Asiago Plateau to move to Turin with his father: the Big Factory is looking for skilled carpenters for its new plant. The city seems wonderful to him, full of things to discover. Guido soon makes new friends at the Lingotto, where he learns a language of freedom,…
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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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Sherlock, Lupin and Me. Book 17: Crime at Christmas
A snowbound Christmas inn, a dead guest under the same roof, and a theatrical revenge plot hidden beneath holly, cocoa and old English charm. Mayfield, England, 1919. Hoping to give Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin an unforgettable English Christmas, Irene takes Mila, Billy Gutsby and the two old friends to the King’s White Horse, a cosy country inn in the…
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Sherlock, Lupin and Me. Book 16: The Assassin’s Mask
A glamorous seaside holiday, a corpse dressed as a pirate, and a murder plot hidden behind wealth, romance and theatrical deception. Torquay, 1919. Mila arrives on the Devon coast hoping for a few peaceful days by the sea, but her holiday is quickly overshadowed by death. While Harold Grayling and his dazzling fiancée, Lady Cecilia Hagbury-Winch, prepare a lavish masked…
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Sherlock, Lupin and Me. Book 15: The Top-hat Man Enigma
A dead princess’s final clue, invisible writing on blank pages, and a race across Europe to stop a chemical weapon from falling into the wrong hands London, 1919. Mila is still reeling from Anastasia’s death in Danzig when Sherlock Holmes begins to study the objects her sister died protecting: a hexagonal key and a note bearing the number 734 090.…
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Sherlock, Lupin and Me. Book 14: Searching for Anastasia
A funeral in London, a missing Romanov princess, and a mission that reunites three legends for one last impossible rescue. London, 1919. At Dr Watson’s funeral, Irene Adler seeks out Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin after nearly fifty years apart. She needs their help to protect her adopted daughter Mila, whose true identity places her at the heart of one…
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Sherlock, Lupin and Me. Book 13: Double Ending
A vanished corpse, secret tunnels beneath London, and a counterfeit masterpiece that reveals how differently the trio’s future is already unfolding. Now living in New York under a false name, Irene receives a box from her old life: a few treasured objects, and one of her London notebooks. As she begins rereading it, memory pulls her back to an earlier…
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Sherlock, Lupin and Me. Book 12: The Ship of Goodbyes
A secret refuge on the Welsh coast, a house full of warnings and hidden sounds, and a farewell that changes the future of the trio forever. Hidden away with her real mother at Farewell’s Head, a lonely manor perched above the sea in North Wales, Irene Adler is told she is finally safe. But the house soon fills with strange…
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Sherlock, Lupin and Me. Book 11: The Port of Deception
A castle that may not really be for sale, coded lights on the Clyde, and a hidden political conspiracy that turns Irene herself into the centre of the mystery. When Irene Adler begins suffering from severe headaches, the new Dr. Marqueson prescribes an unexpected cure: rowing. But what starts as a lively new routine with Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin…
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