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.

Divertente, tenero e commovente, questo romanzo ci ricorda perché leggiamo e amiamo la letteratura. La vita di A. J. Fikry ha preso una piega inaspettata: vive da solo, la sua libreria affronta le peggiori vendite e la sua preziosa collezione di poesie di Poe è stata rubata. Tuttavia, un pacco misterioso arriva in libreria, offrendo a Fikry la possibilità di reinventare la sua vita e vedere tutto sotto una nuova luce. Ricca di umorismo, romanticismo e un pizzico di suspense, la storia celebra l'amore: l'amore per i libri, per gli amanti dei libri e per l'umanità nelle sue imperfezioni. Presenta una visione ottimistica del futuro dei libri e delle librerie, rendendola una scelta naturale per i gruppi di lettura. I lettori troveranno un'esperienza deliziosa e avvincente che cattura la gioia di connettere le persone con la letteratura. Questa storia toccante di redenzione e trasformazione risuonerà nel cuore anche dopo aver finito di leggere.

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.

If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn't have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn't have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her "Chief." She'd get all his inside jokes, and maybe he wouldn't be so frustrated with her for forgetting things she can't possibly remember. She'd know about her mom's new family. She'd know about her dad's fiancée. She wouldn't have to spend her junior year relearning all the French she supposedly knew already. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. She wouldn't have wanted to kiss him back. But Naomi picked heads. After her remarkable debut, Gabrielle Zevin has crafted an imaginative second novel all about love and second chances. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac is a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

A man falls in love with a woman named Margaret Towne. After a brief and tumultuous courtship, he meets Maggie's family, which consists of five women named Margaret, Maggie, Marge, Mia, and May, who all live together in Margarettown.

Ein erstaunliches Debüt über die Mysterien der Liebe.Als E. der bezaubernd spleenigen Maggie begegnet, glaubt er endlich zu wissen, was Liebe ist. Verrückte, leidenschaftliche, unheilbare Liebe. Wild entschlossen, den Rest seines Lebens mit dieser einzigartigen Frau zu verbringen, begleitet er sie in ihre Heimatstadt Margarettown und lernt dort ihre Familie kennen- vier Frauen unterschiedlichen Alters, die sich auf nahezu unheimliche Weise ähnlich sehen: Old Margaret, Marge, Mia und May. Und bald schon ahnt E., dass all diese Frauen Maggie sind, oder besser, dass Maggie all diese Frauen ist ... Margarettown ist ein wunderbar verschmitzter, lyrischer Roman darüber, was es braucht, jemanden ein Leben lang zu lieben - und über die Unmöglichkeit zu wissen, wen man da eigentlich liebt. Eine abenteuerliche Reise in die vielen Welten einer Frau.

Presents a novel of hope, love, and redemption.