Gabrielle Zevin Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

With The Hole We're In--a bold, timeless, yet all too timely novel about a troubled American family navigating an even more troubled America--award-winning author and screenwriter, Gabrielle Zevin, delivers a work that places her in the ranks of our shrewdest social observers and top literary talents. Meet the Pomeroys: a church-going family living in a too-red house in a Texas college town. Roger, the patriarch, has impulsively gone back to school, only to find his future ambitions at odds with the temptations of the present. His wife, Georgia, tries to keep things afloat at home, but she's been feeding the bill drawer with unopened envelopes for months and never manages to confront its swelling contents. In an attempt to climb out of the holes they've dug, Roger and Georgia make a series of choices that have catastrophic consequences for their three children--especially for Patsy, the youngest, who will spend most of her life fighting to overcome them. The Hole We're In shines a spotlight on some of the most relevant issues of today: over-reliance on credit, gender and class politics, and the war in Iraq. But it is Zevin's deft exploration of the fragile economy of family life that makes this a book for the ages.

In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Aviva Grossman is a bright, ambitious Congressional intern with a promising future in front of her - until her Lewinsky-esque affair with a married Congressman comes to a crashing end. After unsuccessfully trying her best to bounce back and restart her life, she decides that the best way to get the ultimate fresh start is to become someone else. But there are a few obstacles: a lack of funds, a lack of privacy under the media's relentless gaze, and two tell-tale blue lines on a pregnancy test.

Sherlock Holmes je po smrti, stejně jako jeho úhlavní nepřítel, profesor James Moriarty. Tato zpráva vyvolává chaos v londýnském podsvětí, kde se moc snaží převzít Clarence Devereux, obávaný snovatel zla z Ameriky. Inspektor Scotland Yardu Anthelney Jones a agent Pinkertonovy detektivní kanceláře Frederick Chase se musí ponořit do temných hlubin města, aby Devereuxe vypátrali. Katherine Hillová a Laney Martenová, kdysi nejlepší kamarádky, se po dvanácti letech znovu setkávají. Katherine, nyní úspěšná manažerka kosmetické firmy, se změnila natolik, že ji rodina ani přátelé nepoznávají. Laney zůstala v rodném městě jako manželka a matka. Jak toto setkání ovlivní jejich životy? Jefferson Winter, bývalý FBI profiler, nyní pomáhá policii při hledání sériových zločinců. Jeho neortodoxní přístup a vysoké IQ ho činí výjimečným detektivem. Při práci si klade tři podmínky: apartmá v hotelu, láhev kvalitní whisky a zajímavý případ. Jeho novým působištěm je Eagle Creek v Louisianě. Ej Džej, knihkupec na malém ostrově, po smrti manželky ztratil životní jiskru a jeho knihkupectví se ocitá na pokraji krachu. Jeho život se změní, když potká Amelii Lomanovou, obchodní zástupkyni, a jednoho dne najde v obchodě dvouleté děvčátko s tajemným vzkazem. Ej Džej se musí probrat a znovu nalézt smysl života.

As surprising as it is moving, this tale of transformation and second chances is an irresistible affirmation of why we read and love. A. J. Fikry's life has taken an unexpected turn; his wife has died, his bookstore is facing dismal sales, and his prized collection of Poe poems has been stolen. Isolating himself from the community on Alice Island, he distances himself from Chief Lambiase, the kind police officer; Ismay, his determined sister-in-law; and Amelia, the idealistic sales rep who refuses to be put off by A.J.'s bad attitude. Even the books in his store, once a source of joy, now serve as reminders of a rapidly changing world. However, everything shifts when a mysterious package arrives at the bookstore. This small but significant arrival offers A.J. a chance to reinvent his life and see things anew. The locals begin to notice the transformation, and Amelia starts to view her curmudgeonly client in a different light. The wisdom of the books rekindles A.J.'s passion, revitalizing his world. Yet, just as he begins to embrace this change, unexpected twists lead him to a version of life he never anticipated.

The first two books in this heart-stopping trilogy by Gabrielle Zevin, All These Things I've Done and Because It Is My Blood, introduced us to timeless heroine Anya Balanchine, a plucky sixteen-year-old having to deal with the problems and responsibilities of a grown woman. Losing her mafia-boss father, her mother and then her grandmother, and being responsible for her sister and brother - not to mention a prison stay for a crime she didn't commit - have taught Anya a lot about life. Now eighteen, Anya finds that against all odds the nightclub that she opened with her old nemesis, Charles Delacroix, is a huge success and she is on her way to shedding the constraints of her family's criminal past and finding a way to legalize the supplying of chocolate. But Anya has lost Win - the love of her life - as a result of her partnership with his father, Charles. In typical fashion Anya puts the loss of Win behind her, focusing instead on expanding her business. But soon a terrible misjudgement leaves her fighting for her life and for the first time Anya is forced to let people help her. In the Age of Love and Chocolate showcases the best of Gabrielle Zevin's writing. Full of all the heart of Elsewhere, this is the perfect end to a brilliant romantic dystopian trilogy.

In a dystopian future where chocolate and caffeine are contraband, teenage cellphone use is illegal, and water and paper are carefully rationed, sixteen-year-old Anya Balanchine finds herself thrust unwillingly into the spotlight as heir apparent to an important New York City crime family.

Reluctant heir of a Mafia boss. Star-crossed lover. Paparazzi darling. Hitman’s target. Anya Balanchine’s amazing story continues in the second part of the Birthright trilogy. Freed from jail, Anya hopes that things will get back to normal. But life on the outside is even more dangerous than life behind bars. Some of her gangland family want revenge for the crime for which she has done time: the shooting of her uncle. Forced to flee the country, Anya hides out in a cacao plantation in Mexico. There she learns the secrets of the chocolate trade, a trade that is illegal and deadly in her native New York. There too she discovers that seemingly random acts of violence carried out across the world have a single target: her family. As innocent bystanders get caught in the crossfire Anya must act fast and decisively to stop it, no matter what the danger to herself.

Amori infernali è una raccolta di racconti scritti da alcuni tra i più celebri e amati narratori per ragazzi: Melissa Marr, Scott Westerfeld, Justine Larbalestier, Gabrielle Zevin e Laurie Faria Stolarz. Storie inquietanti e bizzarre, che ruotano sempre intorno a un elemento soprannaturale. Due studenti lasciano che il potere dell’attrazione capovolga il loro mondo; una liceale s’identifica completamente nel libro che sta leggendo; una fanciulla s’innamora del fantasma del ragazzo che abitava in casa sua; e ancora fate, elfi, creature fantastiche del folklore e dell’immaginario celtico reinterpretate con originalità e inventiva, e un pizzico d’ironia. Un mondo strabiliante e misterioso in cui ogni incontro, ogni personaggio, ogni evento può condurre verso territori sconosciuti, e nel quale l’unica bussola cui affidarsi per non perdersi è l’amore.

Who are you at 16, if you can't remember anything about your life since you were 12? A brilliant exploration of identity and love for YA readers, by the bestselling author of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.After an accident that leaves her with partial amnesia, Naomi tries to piece together the fragments of the last three-and-a-half years of her life. She discovers that she has a tennis-champion boyfriend but can't remember him, is co-editor of the yearbook with a quirky guy who wears a smoking jacket, her parents are divorced, and she apparently hates her mother. She has friends who simply don't seem that attractive any more and, despite having meticulously kept a diary during the now-lost years, she only wrote about what she ate every day in it!But when a girl loses three-and-a-half years she gets a chance to reinvent herself. After all, who is to say that everything has to stay the same?'Essentially a love story, it is also an exploration of teenage identity, handled with such a skilful blend of wit, intelligence and tenderness that readers will lose themselves in the story and find themselves in the process.' Daily Telegraph

From the acclaimed author of Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, a YA novel of hope, love and redemption about Liz's life after life.ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIMEWelcome to Elsewhere. It is warm, with a breeze, and the beaches are beautiful. It's quiet and peaceful. You can't get sick and you can't get older. In Elsewhere, death is only the beginning ...Elsewhere is where fifteen-year-old Liz Hall ends up, after she is killed in a hit-and-run accident. It is a place very like Earth, yet completely different. Here Liz will age backwards from the day of her death until she becomes a baby again and returns to Earth. But Liz wants to turn sixteen, not fourteen again. She wants to get her driving licence. She wants to graduate from high school and go to college. She doesn't want to get to know a grandmother she's never met before and have to make all-new friends. How can Liz let go of the only life she has ever known and embrace a new one? Or is it possible that a life lived in reverse is no different from a life lived forward?"Every so often a book comes along with a premise so fresh and arresting it seems to exist in a category all its own. Elsewhere is such a book" - New York Times Book Review