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The Big Ride
On a dark and stormy night, Baby Bear just can’t get to sleep. He needs a good story! He jumps out of bed and goes to Daddy Bear. “What was Mum like?” he asks. ‘She was the bravest of them all,’ recalls Daddy Bear proudly. “Just think, once we set off on a long journey by bicycle, from London to…
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The Night of the Fireflies
Can the power of first love overcome the barriers of time and space? A poignant story that blends powerful feelings with savage loss. Two alternating female voices until the final truth is revealed. Teresa and Diego grow up together in San Giovanni, a small town in the Italian countryside. They are inseparable—Diego is Teresa’s playmate, her confidant, the shoulder she…
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The Night of the Stag Beetles
A group of children’s return to nature when the world powers down. Two teenage sisters, driven from their city by war and an unprecedented energy crisis, set out on a dangerous journey to their grandparents’ mountain village. Among the peaks, they find Ginepro and his band of self-reliant children — and a new way of living, built on trust, courage, and…
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Dedalo & Dharma
It’s a summer evening when, without even realizing it, Dharma comes out of the cinema screen to escape certain death and meet that very spectator, Dedalo, who comes to the Kazan Cinema every single day to see her. Dedalo is thirteen and has an unbridled passion for films and Dharma, who’s the same age, is a character who escaped a destiny which,…
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Goodwill
One stormy night, a boy returns from the forest. But he is not alone. In November 1851, a caravan of settlers reached the desolate shores of what would become Seattle. They were exhausted, wet and full of hope. Among them were Jeanette and Henry Goodwill, who a few days after their arrival welcomed the birth of their first child: Ambrosius. But…
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The Pikes of Lake Road
Thirty-three days of secrets, dares, and the summer that changed everything. With all the spontaneity of his thirteen years, Mauri retraces the thirty-three days that have made him grow up, starting on that 14th June when his best friend, Brando, dives into the lake and never resurfaces. But incredulous grief soon gives way to doubt: mysterious notes written in Brando’s…
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The Night of the Malombre
March 2, 1944. A freight train packed with desperate passengers departs Naples in the dead of night, heading for the Lucanian countryside, where food might still be found. On board are hundreds of civilians: smugglers, mothers, soldiers, children, and three teens who don’t know each other — yet. Brando, a boy forced to grow up too soon, climbs aboard to find…
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The Houses of the Dead Have No Stairs
A bold, gripping novel about memory, grief, and the invisible line between the living and the lost. Since the fire that destroyed part of her grandmother’s house, nothing in Dodo’s life has felt right. No one talks about what really happened that night – or what Dodo saw. Her grandmother barely speaks, and the silence around the past grows heavier…
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Of Fire and Silk
In the summer of 2024, Lianna arrives in Solferino to visit her mother’s grave, where an encounter with Asé, the mysterious cemetery guardian, opens the door to a second beginning. In the summer of 1858, two siblings, Sante and Altea, and Visio, ‘reborn’ after a near-fatal encounter, experience love and friendship against the backdrop of one of Italy’s bloodiest battles.…
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The Stone
A circle of stones with dark powers, a wind-battered island and a boy looking for answers A haunting and emotionally charged mystery set on a remote Irish island. When a second death shakes the community, thirteen-year-old Liam begins to connect it to his mother’s recent, unexplained accident – and to a strange carved stone buried near both bodies. A bold,…
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