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The Mysteries of Mercurio 8 – Palladio and the Secret of the Face
An old man who lives in the top of a tower in the heart of Florence challenges three friends to a dangerous mission: to discover and solve the hidden mysteries of the art world! While the feast of the Rifi colona with its colourful lanterns is being prepared in Florence, Nina, Jamal and Lorenzo are catapulted back to Vicenza in…
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The Mysteries of Mercurio 7 – Titian and the Wood of Shadows
An old man who lives in the top of a tower in the heart of Florence challenges three friends to a dangerous mission: to discover and solve the hidden mysteries of the art world! Mercurio is back! The room of the Venus of Urbino at the Uffizi is suddenly covered in moss and Nina, Jamal and Lorenzo find themselves in…
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The Mysteries of Mercurio 6 – Leonardo Da Vinci: The River of Time
An old man who lives in the top of a tower in the heart of Florence challenges three friends to a dangerous mission: to discover and solve the hidden mysteries of the art world! Nina, Lori and Jamal are in Urbino, in the middle of the Renaissance, just when Leonardo Da Vinci has decided to place his genius at the…
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The Mysteries of Mercurio 4 – Giotto: Rise Up to the Stars
An old man who lives in the top of a tower in the heart of Florence challenges three friends to a dangerous mission: to discover and solve the hidden mysteries of the art world! ‘Where’s Mercurio got to?’ wonder Nina, Jamal and Lorenzo, worried. They’re outside the Scrovegni Chapel, wearing leggings and ankle boots. The magical blackbird, who has just…
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The Mysteries of Mercurio 5 – Artemisia Gentileschi: The Light of the Muses
An old man who lives in the top of a tower in the heart of Florence challenges three friends to a dangerous mission: to discover and solve the hidden mysteries of the art world! A thunder, a gust of wind, the blackbird Mercurio spreads its wings and Nina, Jamal and Lori find themselves in the Eternal City: Rome. But… in…
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The Mysteries of Mercurio 3 – Caravaggio: Love Wins All
An old man who lives in the top of a tower in the heart of Florence challenges three friends to a dangerous mission: to discover and solve the hidden mysteries of the art world! To Nina, Caravaggio is the greatest painter of all. And she can hardly believe her eyes when she, Lori and Jamal come across the great maestro…
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The Mysteries of Mercurio 2 – Michelangelo: The Prisoner of Stone
An old man who lives in the top of a tower in the heart of Florence challenges three friends to a dangerous mission: to discover and solve the hidden mysteries of the art world! Who is trying to frame Michelangelo to stop him from finishing his David? In Renaissance Florence, Nina, Lorenzo and Jamal find themselves in the service of…
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The Secret of Rioba’s Nose
Venice, January 1945. Emma works as an apprentice at Sior Bepi’s bakery. Despite the anxiety caused by the presence of German soldiers in the streets, she enjoys her work—the delivery rounds, the smell of fresh bread, and Elio’s company. However, lately, the people around her seem to be keeping too many secrets. What is in the red notebook her brother…
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My Brother Who Speaks With Trees
Tommaso Biondo climbed Pizzo Sella, a hill in Palermo, and never came back. Since then, that barren hill, defaced by housing speculation, has greened up. A miracle? Thirty years later, when his brother Andrea receives an award in recognition of Tommaso’s service to the city, his speech brings the Botanical Garden Band back to life. The extraordinary adventure of five…
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Xenia Against Time
Xenia came into the world with a somersault, Alma the cat has a white fur coat. They chose each other, and yet one day, Alma finds the door open and runs away from home. Xenia together with Leone, her best friend, go out to look for her and come across the hermit, a mysterious woman who speaks in riddles and…
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Planet Earth is Calling Matt
Matt’s parents just had a revelation: he has what it takes to give a hand to the environment. With all the hands in the world, why does it have to be his? Indeed, the SOS Nature Park needs help: it is a wooded area so littered with rubbish that it would take the strength of a thousand people to clean it up. Be that…
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My Unexpected Life
Frances has a Mum-Forever #1, Mirella, whom she has not seen for years. And now, after her grandparents suddenly died, Frances is going to have a Mum-Forever #2, as she is going to live with her new foster family: Erica and Daniel Borisnietzov, costume designer and famous dancer respectively, with their three children. The three kids, plus Frances and also…
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The Ugly-Wonder
Leo is a young model, beautiful, charming and vain: he is used to having thousands of followers on his social media and crowds of adoring girls wherever he goes. When he starts a new school, though, something weird happens: during a visit at the museum, a weird fish bites him and after that Leo develops some very peculiar superpowers: when…
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Another Catastrophic Book by Matt
Matt could not have known that remote-controlled drones have a life of their own. He certainly could not have imagined that by pressing that button, Dad’s drone would rise five metres and then crash into his neighbour’s greenhouse. If Matt had imagined all this, however, this story would not exist. Once again Matt is grounded: his mother forces him to do charity work at…
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The First Disastrous Book by Matt
Matt is a 12-year-old with a keen tendency for trouble. This time he made a really big mess… But how could he have known that rockets, if triggered and positioned near bushes, can set them on fire? Just how? His parents decide to put him in detention and sentence him to a month of volunteering at an Elderly Centre. That is, a centre FULL…
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I’ll Be Waiting For You in Saint Something
Sometimes, it may happen that you have to move to a place that you did not know and you even did not want to know. This is what happened to Simone too, who in September arrives at a deserted village, where he will have to attend the high school. He knows nobody, his father is always at work, and his…
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The Powdered Mum
In a not too distant future, each family owns a Lyo, a “powdered mum”. You can buy them at the supermarket in convenient bags: they cook, clean, take care of the children. At Mara’s house, however, Isis, the family’s Lyo, begins to behave strangely: she does not destroy herself after six months, as Lyos usually do, and above all she seems…
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Horace Copeless the Hopeless
Horace’s family has just moved to a new town, so he will have to make new friends. But his new classmates make fun of him because he wears glasses and is very shy. His parents are too busy to really listen to him. And, worst of all, his beloved Grandma has just died. But she also left a very special…
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Funfair
There is a secret Funfair that appears at night in some children’s houses. Does it sound like a dream? Actually it is a nightmare. Its carousels are the metaphores of domestic violence: the distressing wait for a fight, peaks of screams and descents into silence. Day-time life, at school, flows normally, but appearances are deceptive. How can you get out…
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In the Whale’s Belly
It’s not easy when you are a kid and you got to go to school wearing a jacket you don’t like and a ripped tracksuit, your parents are separated, your mother always looks sad. But what would you do if one day your Mum didn’t come back home and you had to move on somehow on your own, while trying…
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