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Barriera
In Barriera, everyone’s fate is written in their blood. And you can’t change that. Sixteen-year-old Yasin lives in Barriera, a tough neighbourhood on the outskirts of Turin. He’s caught between his first love and a brother who’s just been released from prison, between who he wants to be and who the world expects him to be. Malik, his brother, is trying…
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A Hundred Steps to Freedom
A gripping adventure blending suspense and emotional depth. “Breathing heavily, he turned towards the cliff. At that precise moment an eagle’s shriek filled the sky. The air near him shifted, the silhouette of the raptor darted in front of him. It seemed to incite him. ‘Come on, grab my legs. Fly away with me’.” Blind since childhood, Lucio has always…
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And I Am Here, Naked
Stella doesn’t want to be told who she is – not by her parents, not by her friends, and definitely not by society. She’s sharp, self-aware, and unapologetically herself. Until Jacopo reappears in her life. He’s not just the boy she used to race in primary school — now he’s a reminder of who she was, who she is, and…
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The Boy, the Wolf and the Way Home
Giorgio is afraid of thunderstorms, wolves, and even his father, who came back a different man from the war. Only for Marianna, the girl he likes, he finds the courage to ride his bike at night, to get her some special shells from the seaside. But on his way there he finds a wounded wolf, who would probably die without…
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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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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 Thread of Hope
Vita, an elderly Sicilian woman, is confined to her home, where she is reflecting on the past and putting her emotions in order, and she decides to leave a testimony to her granddaughter Nina. Through her memories, she tells the story of her youth, the times when she embroidered and fought against exploitation. Inspired by a true story, the novel recounts the great mobilisation of…
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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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Tariq
Tariq lives in a tenement, one that has no lighting or water. Tariq performs poorly at school, he’s long been labeled: he’s the disturbing element, the hopeless one. Jasmine also lives in that tenement, but she’s different from all the other girls: Jasmine studies, she believes in herself, under her headscarf there’s a brilliant brain, while patience and determination are in…
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AFK
It’s been years since Giovanni last got out of his room. Day and night, he is shut in his room, his eyes to the monitor, earphones on all the time, a videogame match after another. He weighs 130 kilos and knows that his parents call him “the Problem”. Emilia, his older sister, is not a “problem” at all: she looks and…
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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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Davì
A tall teenager is crossing the town, he has a green mohican, is wearing black clothes and is carrying a yellow flower… In each chapter the point of view switches from his thoughts (his love for books, his crush for a young girl, his struggle between being totally free and having roots) and the standpoint of the people who see him…
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The X Family
At the age of 13, after his parents have been put under arrest, Michael starts his new life. Some very special people will join him: Clara and Franco, social workers; Mrs Guerra, an elderly lady; a gay couple, his new foster dads; Zoe, a true friend; his biological parents, who can still give him much. This is his X family, a mathematical variable in…
realistic fiction
