Novità in Libreria | 5-11 Marzo

Buon lunedì!
Anche questa settimana tante uscite interessanti e, in particolare, da tenere d'occhio il thriller young adult Uno di noi sta mentendo e l'italiano The Game, nato da un contest per ragazzi e ragazze sotto i 18 anni per selezionare la migliore idea narrativa per un libro.

..IN ITALIANO..

6 Marzo

UNO DI NOI STA MENTENDO
Autore: Karen M. McManus | Editore: Mondadori | Genere: thriller
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Ogni venerdì, il diciassettenne Simon Kelleher, pubblica sul suo tumblr «Senti questa» succulenti gossip riguardanti la vita privata dei compagni di liceo, che tutti gli studenti della scuola aspettano con morbosa curiosità ma anche un po'' di timore. Chi di loro, infatti, può dirsi totalmente privo di segreti e al riparo dalla smania indagatrice di Simon? Un giorno però - proprio quello immediatamente precedente la pubblicazione dell''ennesimo post pruriginoso - Simon muore davanti agli occhi di quattro suoi compagni, in punizione come lui dopo l''orario scolastico. Quando si scopre che quella che sembrava una morte dovuta a un improvviso malore in realtà è un omicidio, il mondo dei quattro ragazzi - la studiosa e promettente Bronwyn, la bellissima Addy, la futura stella del baseball Cooper e il bad boy della scuola Nate - inizia a vacillare, fino a crollare definitivamente nel momento in cui la polizia scopre che sono proprio loro i protagonisti di un ultimo post mai pubblicato di Simon. In men che non si dica, Bronwyn, Addy, Cooper e Nate da semplici testimoni diventano i principali indagati dell''omicidio...

THE GAME
Autore: Lucia Vaccarino, Davide Morosinotto | Editore: Mondadori | Genere: thriller
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Cece ha tredici anni e nessuna voglia di andare a vivere con la madre, che non vede da un sacco di tempo e che per lei è praticamente un'estranea. Ma suo padre deve trasferirsi in America per lavoro e così lei si ritrova catapultata in un piccolo paese, dove i suoi compagni di scuola si conoscono fin dall'asilo, tutti sanno tutto di tutti e non c'è molto da fare per salvarsi dalla noia.Ma la tranquillità è solo apparente. Cece nota infatti che a scuola accadono cose strane, scherzi di cattivo gusto che sconfinano nella violenza, atti insensati di cui non si conosce l'autore… E comincia a sentir parlare di un terribile gioco, in cui i suoi compagni sono coinvolti e a cui finirà per dover obbedire anche lei.
Un gioco mosso dalla vendetta, dominato dal terrore.
Dove l'unico modo per vincere è avere il coraggio di cambiare le regole.

TI ASPETTO DA SEMPRE
Autore: Ava Dellaira | Editore: Sperling & Kupfer | Genere: contemporary
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Tutti siamo in cerca di qualcosa. Una via di fuga, un nuovo inizio, un futuro. Angie, per esempio, è in cerca di risposte. Ha diciassette anni e vive sola con la madre. Suo padre non l’ha mai incontrato, le è sempre stato detto che è morto prima che lei nascesse, ma alcuni indizi le fanno pensare che potrebbe essere una bugia. Così, dalla sua casa nel New Mexico, parte alla volta di Los Angeles determinata a ritrovarlo. Accanto a lei, il suo ex fidanzato Sam. Angie però non sa che lungo la strada dovrà scontrarsi con verità difficili su se stessa, sua madre, e su ciò che è veramente accaduto a suo padre.

7 Marzo

OSSERVATORE OSCURO
Autore: Barbara Baraldi | Editore: Giunti | Genere: giallo, thriller
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Per Aurora Scalviati, la giovane profiler della polizia di Sparvara, i colleghi Bruno Colasanti, Tom Carelli e Silvia Sassi sono diventati la famiglia che non ha mai avuto. Ma tutto è destinato a cambiare con il ritrovamento, alla Certosa di Bologna, del cadavere di un uomo senza nome né documenti di riconoscimento. Gli unici indizi sono la bocca cucita e un tatuaggio sul petto con il nome di Aurora, eseguito postmortem...

..IN INGLESE..

6 Marzo

RESTORE ME
Autore: Tahereh Mafi | Editore:  Harper Collins | Serie: Shatter Me #4 | Genere: distopico
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Juliette Ferrars thought she'd won. She took over Sector 45, was named the new Supreme Commander, and now has Warner by her side. But she's still the girl with the ability to kill with a single touch—and now she's got the whole world in the palm of her hand. When tragedy hits, who will she become? Will she be able to control the power she wields and use it for good?

TO KILL A KINGDOM
Autore: Alexandra Christo | Editore: Feiwel Friends | Genere: fantasy
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Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most—a human. Robbed of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian’s heart to the Sea Queen or remain a human forever.

The ocean is the only place Prince Elian calls home, even though he is heir to the most powerful kingdom in the world. Hunting sirens is more than an unsavory hobby—it’s his calling. When he rescues a drowning woman in the ocean, she’s more than what she appears. She promises to help him find the key to destroying all of sirenkind for good—But can he trust her? And just how many deals will Elian have to barter to eliminate mankind’s greatest enemy?

THE WICKED DEEP

Autore: Shea Ernshaw | Editore: Simon Pulse | Genere: fantasy
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Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow…

Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town.

Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under.

Like many locals, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot has accepted the fate of the town. But this year, on the eve of the sisters’ return, a boy named Bo Carter arrives; unaware of the danger he has just stumbled into.

Mistrust and lies spread quickly through the salty, rain-soaked streets. The townspeople turn against one another. Penny and Bo suspect each other of hiding secrets. And death comes swiftly to those who cannot resist the call of the sisters.

But only Penny sees what others cannot. And she will be forced to choose: save Bo, or save herself.

GIRLS BURN BRIGHTER
Autore: Shobha Rao | Editore: Flatiron Books | Genere: fiction
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A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America, about a once-in-a-lifetime friendship between two girls who are driven apart but never stop trying to find one another again.

When Poornima first meets Savitha, she feels something she thought she lost for good when her mother died: hope. Poornima's father hires Savitha to work one of their sari looms, and the two girls are quickly drawn to one another. Savitha is even more impoverished than Poornima, but she is full of passion and energy. She shows Poornima how to find beauty in a bolt of indigo cloth, a bowl of yogurt rice and bananas, the warmth of friendship. Suddenly their Indian village doesn't feel quite so claustrophobic, and Poornima begins to imagine a life beyond the arranged marriage her father is desperate to lock down for her. But when a devastating act of cruelty drives Savitha away, Poornima leaves behind everything she has ever known to find her friend again. Her journey takes her into the darkest corners of India's underworld, on a harrowing cross-continental journey, and eventually to an apartment complex in Seattle. Alternating between the girls’ perspectives as they face relentless obstacles, Girls Burn Brighter introduces two heroines who never lose the hope that burns within them.

In breathtaking prose, Shobha Rao tackles the most urgent issues facing women today: domestic abuse, human trafficking, immigration, and feminism. At once a propulsive page-turner and a heart-wrenching meditation on friendship, Rao's debut novel is a literary tour de force.

CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE

Autore: Tomi Adeyemi | Editore: Henry Holt Books | Serie: Legacy of Orisha #1 | Genere: fantasy
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Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zelie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls.

But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were targeted and killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.

Now, Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good.

Danger lurks in Orïsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Zélie herself as she struggles to control her powers—and her growing feelings for the enemy.

RAINBIRDS
Autore: Clarissa Goenawan | Editore: Soho Press | Genere: mystery
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Ren Ishida is nearly finished with graduate school when he receives news of his sister Keiko's sudden death. She was viciously stabbed one rainy night on her way home, and there are no leads. Ren heads to Akakawa to conclude his sister's affairs, still failing to understand why she chose to abandon the family and Tokyo for this desolate town years ago.

But Ren soon finds himself picking up where Keiko left off, accepting both her teaching position at a local cram school and the bizarre arrangement of free lodging at a wealthy politician’s mansion in exchange for reading to the man’s catatonic wife.

As he comes to know the figures in Akakawa, from the enigmatic politician to his fellow teachers and a rebellious, alluring student named Rio, Ren delves into his shared childhood with Keiko and what followed, trying to piece together what happened the night of her death. Haunted in his dreams by a young girl who is desperately trying to tell him something, Ren struggles to find solace in the void his sister has left behind.

LAKE SILENCE

Autore: Anne Bishop | Editore: Ace | Serie: The Others #6 | Genere: urban fantasy
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Human laws do not apply in the territory controlled by the Others–vampires, shapeshifters, and paranormal beings even more deadly. And this is a fact that humans should never, ever forget . . .

After her divorce, Vicki DeVine took over a rustic resort near Lake Silence, in a human town that is not human controlled. Towns like Vicki’s have no distance from the Others, the dominant predators that rule most of the land and all of the water throughout the world. And when a place has no boundaries, you never really know what’s out there watching you.

Vicki was hoping to find a new career and a new life. But when her lodger, Aggie Crowe–one of the shapeshifting Others–discovers a dead body, Vicki finds trouble instead. The detectives want to pin the man’s death on her, despite the evidence that nothing human could have killed the victim. As Vicki and her friends search for answers, things get dangerous–and it’ll take everything they have to stay alive.