Simone Barillari Libri

Another hilarious and moving novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children’s author in the country. A story of prejudice and acceptance, funny lists and silly words, this new book has all the hallmarks of David’s previous bestsellers. Our hero Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandma’s house. She’s the boringest grandma ever: all she wants to do is to play Scrabble, and eat cabbage soup. But there are two things Ben doesn’t know about his grandma. 1) She was once an international jewel thief. 2) All her life, she has been plotting to steal the Crown Jewels, and now she needs Ben’s help…

Bello e dannato come gli eroi dei suoi romanzi, Rick Moody racconta in questa sconvolgente autobiografia la caduta nell'abisso delle droghe e dell'alcool, gli anni più difficili della sua vita e la storia di una famiglia che affonda le proprie radici nella fondazione degli Stati Uniti d'America. Lo scrittore newyorkese intreccia i ricordi della propria vita alla ricostruzione del passato della sua famiglia, a cominciare dal suo antenato che, per aver provocato involontariamente la morte di un amico, passò il resto della vita con il volto coperto da un velo (vicenda dalla quale trasse spunto Hawthorne per il celebre racconto "Il velo nero del pastore", cui si riferisce il titolo).

Neglected as a toddler? Lila was rescued by a canny young drifter and together they crafted a life on the run. Despite some petty violence and moments of desperation? their life was laced with moments of joy and love. When Lila arrives in Gilead? she struggles to reconcile the life of her makeshift family and their days of hardship with the gentle Christian worldview of her husband which paradoxically judges those she loves.

Ray Morris est un journaliste free-lance au physique banal, un Londonien de classe moyenne légèrement paranoïaque entouré d’amis choisis et fidèles et d’une femme très enceinte, Garthene. Ray est le genre d’homme à n’avoir jamais vraiment trompé sa femme. Il n’a jamais reçu de coup de poing au visage. Il n’a jamais participé à une émeute, ni été recherché dans tout le pays, ni arrêté par la police, ni haï sur Internet par le monde entier. Du moins pas avant l’été 2011, où les rues de Londres et son mariage partent en flammes. Ray ne le sait pas encore, mais il va bientôt découvrir qu’il possède un véritable talent pour le pire. Les désaccordés pourrait être un roman sur le passage à l’âge adulte, si le protagoniste n’avait pas déjà trente-trois ans. Au fil d’une série de catastrophes aussi risibles qu’affligeantes, cet antihéros pince-sans-rire à tendance misanthrope verra progressivement l’harmonie de son couple se briser et ses relations sociales sonner de plus en plus faux. Avec une vague idée de ce que doit être un adulte accompli, et un sens de l’humour discutable comme unique recours à la solitude, au désespoir et à l’angoisse de la parentalité, il fera de son mieux pour être presque à la hauteur. Avec un mordant et une précision redoutables, Joe Dunthorne sonde les tourments dérisoires ou tragiques d’une nouvelle génération perdue. Pour notre plus grand plaisir.

Tell your lord to beware; the wolves smell danger in the wind . . . Wolfhaven Castle has been attacked, and only four escape capture... Tom, trained to scrub pots, not fight; Elanor, the lord's daughter; Sebastian, a knight in training; and Quinn, the witch's apprentice. Somehow, if they are to save their people, these unlikely heroes must find four magical beasts from legend and awaken the sleeping warriors of the past. But first, they have to make it out of the castle alive...