Novità in Libreria | 9-15 Ottobre 2017

Buon pomeriggio lettori!

Questo lunedì me la sono presa più con calma con la programmazione, che più o meno tornerà ad essere quella di sempre (se riesco a buttare giù qualche recensione), dopo una settimana dedicata a varie segnalazioni.

..IN ITALIANO..

Questa settimana tutte uscite interessanti e attesissime: l'arrivo in Italia della serie A Darker Shade of Magic di V.E. Schwab, il debutto letterario di Cara Delevigne, il ritorno di John Green in contemporanea con gli USA.

10 Ottobre

MIRROR MIRROR
Autore: Cara Delevigne | Editore: DeA |  Genere: contemporary
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Red, Leo, Naima e Rose. Quattro ragazzi diversi ma uniti da un'unica passione: la musica. È stata la musica a renderli non solo una band, i Mirror Mirror, ma anche una famiglia. Inseparabili. Almeno fino al giorno in cui Naomi è scomparsa nel nulla e la polizia l'ha ritrovata in condizioni disperate sulle rive del Tamigi. Da quel momento niente è più stato come prima: uno specchio si è rotto e un pezzo si è perso per sempre nelle vite di Red, Leo e Rose. Perché Naomi era la più solare di tutti, l'amica migliore del mondo. Ma in fondo al cuore nascondeva un segreto... Un segreto inconfessabile che nemmeno Red aveva fiutato e che nessuno avrebbe mai potuto immaginare. E mentre Rose si abbandona agli eccessi e Leo si chiude in se stesso, Red non accetta il destino dell'amica: ha bisogno di sapere, di capire. Che cosa ha ridotto Naomi in quello stato? Può davvero trattarsi di un tentato suicidio come crede la polizia? Per scoprire la verità Red dovrà trovare la forza di guardarsi allo specchio, conoscersi e imparare ad amarsi per quello che è. Perché, a volte, bisogna accettare che niente è ciò che sembra e che la realtà può essere capovolta.

12 Ottobre

MAGIC
Autore: V.E. Schwab | Editore: Newton Compton Editori |  Serie: Shades of Magic #1 | Genere: fantasy
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Kell è uno degli ultimi maghi rimasti della specie degli Antari ed è capace di viaggiare tra universi paralleli e diverse versioni della stessa città: Londra. Ci sono infatti la Rossa, la Bianca, la Grigia e la Nera, dove accadono cose diverse in epoche differenti. Kell è cresciuto ad Arnes, nella Londra Rossa, e ufficialmente è un ambasciatore al servizio dell’Impero Maresh, in viaggio alla corte di Giorgio III nella Londra Bianca, la più noiosa delle versioni di Londra, quella senza alcuna magia. Kell in verità è un fuorilegge: aiuta illegalmente le persone a vedere anche solo piccoli scorci di realtà che non potrebbero mai vedere. Si tratta di un hobby molto rischioso, però, e adesso Kell comincia a rendersene conto. Dopo un’operazione di trasporto illegale andata storta, Kell fugge nella Londra Grigia e si imbatte in Delilah, una strana ragazza che prima lo deruba, poi lo salva da un nemico mortale e infine lo costringe a seguirla in una nuova avventura. Ma la magia è un gioco pericoloso e se si vuole continuare a giocare prima di tutto bisogna imparare a rimanere vivi…

TARTARUGHE ALL'INFINITO
Autore: John Green | Editore: Rizzoli | Genere: contemporary
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Indagare sulla misteriosa scomparsa del miliardario Russell Pickett non rientrava certo tra i piani della sedicenne Aza, ma in gioco c’è una ricompensa di centomila dollari e Daisy, Miglior e Più Intrepida Amica da sempre, è decisa a non farsela scappare. Punto di partenza delle indagini diventa il figlio di Pickett, Davis, che Aza un tempo conosceva ma che, pur abitando a una manciata di chilometri, è incastrato in una vita lontana anni luce dalla sua. E incastrata in fondo si sente anche Aza, che cerca con tutte le forze di essere una buona figlia, una buona amica, una buona studentessa e di venire a patti con le spire ogni giorno più strette dei suoi pensieri.
Nel suo tanto atteso ritorno, John Green, l’amatissimo, pluripremiato autore di Cercando Alaska e Colpa delle stelle, ci racconta la storia di Aza con una lucidità dirompente e coraggiosa, in un romanzo che parla di amore, di resilienza e della forza inarrestabile dell’amicizia.

..IN INGLESE..

In inglese questa settimana esce una valanga di romanzi intriganti: alcuni nomi noti e diversi esordi!

10 Ottobre

ALL THE CROOKED SAINTS

Autore: Maggie Stiefvater | Editore: Scholastic Press |  Genere: fantasy
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Here is a thing everyone wants:
A miracle.

Here is a thing everyone fears:
What it takes to get one.

Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars.

At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles. And at the heart of this family are three cousins longing to change its future: Beatriz, the girl without feelings, who wants only to be free to examine her thoughts; Daniel, the Saint of Bicho Raro, who performs miracles for everyone but himself; and Joaquin, who spends his nights running a renegade radio station under the name Diablo Diablo.

They are all looking for a miracle. But the miracles of Bicho Raro are never quite what you expect.

INTO THE BRIGHT UNKNOWN
Autore: Rae Carson | Editore: Greenwillow Books | Serie: The Gold Seer Trilogy #3 | Genere: fantasy
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Leah Westfall, her fiancé Jefferson, and her friends have become rich in the California Territory, thanks to Lee’s magical ability to sense precious gold. But their fortune has made them a target, and when a dangerous billionaire sets out to destroy them, Lee and her friends decide they’ve had enough—they will fight back with all their power and talents. Lee’s magic is continuing to strengthen and grow, but someone is on to her—someone who might have a bit of magic herself. The stakes are higher than ever as Lee and her friends hatch a daring scheme that could alter the California landscape forever. With a distinctive young heroine and a unique interpretation of American history, Into the Bright Unknown strikes a rich vein of romance, magic, and adventure, bringing the Gold Seer Trilogy to its epic conclusion. Includes a map and an author’s note.

FOREST OF A THOUSAND LANTERNS
Autore: Julie C. Dao | Editore: Philomel Books |  Serie: Rise of the Empress #1 | Genere: retelling
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Eighteen-year-old Xifeng is beautiful. The stars say she is destined for greatness, that she is meant to be Empress of Feng Lu. But only if she embraces the darkness within her. Growing up as a peasant in a forgotten village on the edge of the map, Xifeng longs to fulfill the destiny promised to her by her cruel aunt, the witch Guma, who has read the cards and seen glimmers of Xifeng's majestic future. But is the price of the throne too high?

Because in order to achieve greatness, she must spurn the young man who loves her and exploit the callous magic that runs through her veins--sorcery fueled by eating the hearts of the recently killed. For the god who has sent her on this journey will not be satisfied until his power is absolute.

DARE MIGHTY THINGS
Autore: Heather Kaczynski | Editore: HarperTeen |  Serie:  #1 | Genere: sci-fi
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THE RULES ARE SIMPLE: You must be gifted. You must be younger than twenty-five. You must be willing to accept the dangers that you will face if you win.

Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Gupta’s entire life has been leading up to this—the opportunity to travel to space. But to secure a spot on this classified mission, she must first compete against the best and brightest people on the planet. People who are as determined as she to win a place on a journey to the farthest reaches of the universe.

Cassie is ready for the toll that the competition will take; the rigorous mental and physical tests designed to push her to the brink of her endurance. But nothing could have prepared her for the bonds she would form with the very people she hopes to beat. Or that with each passing day it would be more and more difficult to ignore the feeling that the true objective of the mission is being kept from her.

As the days until the launch tick down and the stakes rise higher than ever before, only one thing is clear to Cassie: she’ll never back down . . . even if it costs her everything.

THE GATEKEEPERS
Autore: Jen Lancaster | Editore: Harlequin Teen |  Genere: contemporary ya
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Anyone passing through North Shore, IL, would think this was the most picture-perfect place ever, with all the lakefront mansions and manicured hedges and iron gates. No one talks about the fact that the brilliant, talented kids in this town have a terrible history of throwing themselves in front of commuter trains, and that there's rampant opioid abuse that often leads to heroin usage.

Meet Simone, the bohemian transfer student from London, who is thrust into the strange new reality of the American high school; Mallory, the hyper-competitive queen bee; and Stephen, the first generation genius who struggles with crippling self-doubt. Each one is shocked when lovable football player Braden takes his own life and the tragedy becomes a suicide cluster. With so many students facing their own demons, can they find a way to save each other—as well as themselves?

Inspired by the true events that happened in the author’s home town.

THE NOWHERE GIRLS
Autore: Amy Reed | Editore: Simon Pulse |  Genere: contemporary ya
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Three misfits come together to avenge the rape of a fellow classmate and in the process trigger a change in the misogynist culture at their high school transforming the lives of everyone around them in this searing and timely story.

Who are the Nowhere Girls?

They’re everygirl. But they start with just three:

Grace Salter is the new girl in town, whose family was run out of their former community after her southern Baptist preacher mom turned into a radical liberal after falling off a horse and bumping her head.

Rosina Suarez is the queer punk girl in a conservative Mexican immigrant family, who dreams of a life playing music instead of babysitting her gaggle of cousins and waitressing at her uncle’s restaurant.

Erin Delillo is obsessed with two things: marine biology and Star Trek: The Next Generation, but they aren’t enough to distract her from her suspicion that she may in fact be an android.

When Grace learns that Lucy Moynihan, the former occupant of her new home, was run out of town for having accused the popular guys at school of gang rape, she’s incensed that Lucy never had justice. For their own personal reasons, Rosina and Erin feel equally deeply about Lucy’s tragedy, so they form an anonymous group of girls at Prescott High to resist the sexist culture at their school, which includes boycotting sex of any kind with the male students.

Told in alternating perspectives, this groundbreaking novel is an indictment of rape culture and explores with bold honesty the deepest questions about teen girls and sexuality.

THE PECULIAR INCIDENT ON SHADY STREET
Autore: Lindsay Currie | Editore: Aladdin |  Genere: middle grade
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A girl unravels a centuries-old mystery after moving into a haunted house in this deliciously suspenseful mystery.

Tessa Woodward isn’t exactly thrilled to move to rainy, cold Chicago from her home in sunny Florida. But homesickness turns to icy fear when unexplainable things start happening in her new house. Things like flickering lights, mysterious drawings appearing out of nowhere, and a crackling noise she can feel in her bones.

When her little brother’s doll starts crying real tears, Tessa realizes that someone—or something—is trying to communicate with her. A secret that’s been shrouded in mystery for more than one hundred years.

With the help of three new friends, Tessa begins unraveling the mystery of what happened in the house on Shady Street—and more importantly, what it has to do with her!