La piena - Blackwater I
Translated title: Blackwater #1 - The Flood
Series: Book 1
Author: McDowell, Michael
Genre: Horror / Fantasy
Year: 2024 | Pages: 250 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87871
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The mysterious saga of the Caskey family begins in Blackwater I: The Flood, as a devastating flood brings a strange and beautiful visitor to the small, sleepy lumber town of Perdido, Alabama.
Elinor Dammert's arrival will forever change the town and the wealthy and powerful Caskey family.
James, who dotes on Elinor like a second daughter...
Sister, who pines for Elinor's strength and independence...
Oscar, who loves Elinor and determines to build a life with her...
And matriarch Mary-Love, perhaps the only person in Perdido with an inkling of Elinor's true power and purpose.
For Elinor is more than she appears, and she brings to Perdido - and to the Caskeys - a deadly, inexplicable otherness from which no one can ever be safe
Downhill
Author: Valladares, Patricio
Genre: Graphic Novels / Horror
Year: 2026 | Pages: 80 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 91769
After the death of his best friend, cyclist Joe enters a race in Chile to move on. But a test ride with his girlfriend, Stephanie, turns into a nightmare: the discovery of a man infected with a virus makes them the targets of ruthless assassins intent on protecting a dark secret.
Downhill is an adrenaline-fueled journey through horror, violence, and hostile nature, where the only law is survival. The trails become traps, and a threat lurks in the shadows, ready to strike. Based on Patricio Valladares' cult film, this comic book adaptation will captivate you and drag you to the final race
Quando le donne non si arrendono
Translated title: When Women Don't Give Up
Author: Carbonaro, Yvonne
Genre: Family Saga / Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 368 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87864
The novel unfolds through a family saga, charting the decline of a wealthy family's fortunes, linked to the decline of the South after unification, and the resulting reflections. It highlights the resilience and courage to face adversity, despite meager resources, of a dynasty of intelligent and resolute women, left alone, generation after generation, by the relentless turmoil of historical and family events. Female portraits emerge, delineated with their specific characteristics, strengths and weaknesses, and their ability to persevere despite grave difficulties. Comparing these experiences reveals how behaviors are linked to changing times and socio-political circumstances, and to the status of women at the historical moment of which each woman is a part.
The narrative, written in a light yet emotionally intense style, evokes the rhythms of life in the past and the habits of a southern agricultural area, closely linked to economic conditions. It harks back to the ancient wisdom of times past and reconstructs its atmosphere with calmly elegiac yet gently ironic tones.
The reference to the gradual transformations brought about by the passage of time underscores the transition from the crisis of a world inexorably destined to disappear to the emergence of a different concept of life, of customs, and above all of true gender equality, which is slow to materialize
Questo giorno che incombe
Translated title: This Looming Day
Author: Lattanzi, Antonella
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2021 | Pages: 455 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 79859
Mystery
Criminal (Ed - deluxe)
Translated title: Criminal #1 - Coward
Series: Volume 1
Author: Brubaker, Ed
Genre: Crime / Graphic Novels
Year: 2024 | Pages: 432 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87881
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The first collection of Criminal, one of the best reviewed comics of 2006. Coward is the story of Leo, a professional pickpocket who is also a legendary heist-planner and thief. But there's a catch with Leo, he won't work any job that he doesn't call all the shots on, he won't allow guns, and the minute things turn south, he's looking for any exit that won't land him in prison. But when he's lured into a risky heist, all his rules go out the window, and he ends up on the run from the cops and the bad men who double-crossed him. Now Leo must come face-to-face with the violence he's kept bottled up inside for 20 years, and nothing will ever be the same for him again
La levatrice
Translated title: The Midwife
Author: Cau, Bibbiana
Genre: Social Novel / Historical
Year: 2025 | Pages: 385 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 91774
A story of courage, redemption, and freedom.
Guardian of ancient knowledge, a woman fights to give birth to the future. Mallena is not one of them. One day, sixteen years earlier, she arrived in Norolani with Jubanne, who instantly fell in love with her and married her to protect her from a fate that weighed upon her like a curse. Yet, for the inhabitants of that village, where the mistral wind carries the breath of the sea, she has become a point of reference.
Because Mallena is a farmer who, putting into practice the ancient knowledge passed down to her by her mother, assists all women giving birth, even those from the humblest families, without ever expecting anything in return. But everything falls apart in September 1917, when Jubanne returns from the front wounded in body and soul. To pay for his necessary care, Mallena clamorously demands payment from the town council for her work, and once again, the subsidy is denied.
As if that weren't enough, in accordance with a royal decree, a qualified midwife is hired to replace her. Angelica Ferrari, from the mainland, arrives: despite her young age, she has long fought to be there, defying social conventions and the disapproval of her father, who wanted to confine her to the home, marrying into a wealthy marriage. And now she must contend with the mistrust of the village women, who see her as an outsider and reject her care.
A powerful women's story that, through language, scents, poetry, and the harshness of daily life in early twentieth-century Sardinia, tells of a humble and reserved people, yet united by a profound sense of community. And of a protagonist who, thanks to ancestral wisdom and the solidarity of other women, develops a new and luminous awareness
Una morte senza peso - La nuova indagine di Debora Camilli
Translated title: A Weightless Death - Debora Camilli's New Investigation
Author: Venturini, Nora
Genre: Mystery / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 268 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87880
It's just past New Year's Eve, and Debora Camilli, Rome's most insightful and charming taxi driver, heroically decides to step on the scale - which mercilessly reads two extra kilos. Enough, it's time to go on a diet. As if on cue, halfway through a slow and exhausting shift, Dr. Longobardi, a nutritionist, climbs into her cab. For Debora, it's a call of destiny. But barely time for an appointment and a medical checkup when Longobardi is hit by a car outside her office.
Could it really be an accident? Debora has more than a few doubts. Drawing on her key strengths - great intuition, initiative, and sheer nerve - she begins to investigate. As usual, this means returning to Commissioner Edoardo Raggio, with all the romantic entanglements that come with it, but also with all the work-related discussions. Because while the official investigations immediately focus on a single lead, Debora discovers that another person could have benefited from the doctor's death
Il fantasma del vicario. L'ufficio degli affari occulti
Translated title: The Vicar's Ghost. The Office of Occult Affairs
Author: Fouassier, Éric
Genre: Horror
Year: 2023 | Pages: 336 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 91770
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After the extraordinary success of The Office of Occult Affairs, Éric Fouassier returns with a new investigation of the shady inspector Valentin Verne, who juggles esotericism and science in pursuit of the elusive and the unknown.
Paris, March 1831. Not yet twenty-four, Valentin Verne, the angelic-faced police inspector with a dark heart, already occupies a somewhat unusual role at the prefecture: he is the head of the Office of Occult Affairs, an unofficial department created to solve supernatural, or supposedly supernatural, crimes. One day, an elegant woman appears before him, her delicate features nestled beneath auburn curls and the slow movements of a convalescent on her first outing after a long illness.
Madame Mélanie d'Orval, wife of the wealthy Ferdinand d'Orval, is weighed down: after the death of her teenage daughter from an inexplicable and violent seizure, her husband has lost his mind, falling into the clutches of a sort of medium, Paul Oblanoff, a shady individual who has persuaded him that he can communicate with the deceased's spirit. Madame d'Orval is convinced that Verne would only need to attend one of those famous spiritualist sessions to unmask the swindler, but the inspector, whose mind is occupied with other matters, hands the case over to his colleague Isidore Lebrac.
Indeed, there has recently been a development in the secret investigation Verne has been pursuing for some time, a personal matter that the inspector intends to resolve in his own way, even at the cost of pushing the boundaries of legality: the Vicar, the abject criminal, the perverse monster who leaves behind the corpses of children like the fairytale ogre, has returned to sow panic in the streets of Paris, reawakening painful memories. But when it comes to defending the very existence of the Office of Occult Affairs, threatened by the uncertain political situation in France, the d'Orval case could prove surprisingly crucial
La casa delle tenebre
Translated title: The Night House
Author: Nesbo, Jo
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Year: 2022 | Pages: 242 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87869
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From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel
In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance. No one believes him when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie. No one, that is, except Karen, a beguiling fellow outsider who encourages Richard to pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He traces the number that Tom prank called from the phone booth to an abandoned house in the Black Mirror Wood. There he catches a glimpse of a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices begin to whisper in his ear..
You know who I am. She's going to burn. The one you love is going to burn. There's not a thing you can do about it.
When another classmate disappears, Richard must find a way to prove his innocence--and preserve his sanity--as he grapples with the dark magic that is possessing Ballantyne and pursuing his destruction.
Then again, Richard may not be the most reliable narrator of his own story
L'amica geniale, 1 - (infanzia, adolescenza)
Translated title: My Brilliant Friend, 1 - (Childhood, Adolescence)
Author: Ferrante, Elena
Genre: Historical / Family Saga
Year: 2023 | Pages: 327 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 84797
My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante's inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighbourhood, a city and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between her two protagonists
