The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale Copertina rigida – 10 set 2019
** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 **
In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalised readers for decades. Pre-order today.
When the van door slammed on Offred’s future at the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead.
With The Testaments, the wait is over.
Margaret Atwood’s sequel picks up the story more than 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.
‘Dear Readers: Everything you’ve ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we’ve been living in.' Margaret Atwood
‘The literary event of the year.’ Guardian
’It’s terrifying and exhilarating.' Judges of the Booker Prize 2019
If you can’t get enough of the award-winning TV adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, order your copy of The Testaments today.
In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalised readers for decades. Pre-order today.
When the van door slammed on Offred’s future at the end of The Handmaid’s Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead.
With The Testaments, the wait is over.
Margaret Atwood’s sequel picks up the story more than 15 years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.
‘Dear Readers: Everything you’ve ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we’ve been living in.' Margaret Atwood
‘The literary event of the year.’ Guardian
’It’s terrifying and exhilarating.' Judges of the Booker Prize 2019
If you can’t get enough of the award-winning TV adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, order your copy of The Testaments today.
PONTE ALLE GRAZIE
«Il racconto dell'ancella» si chiude con una porta sbattuta sul futuro
di Difred. Per anni i lettori sono rimasti nel dubbio di cosa ne sarebbe
stato di lei... Libertà, prigione, morte?
The Institute
by
Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
In the middle of the
night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders
silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The
operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The
Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no
window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other
kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this
place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and
ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke
learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says.
“You check in, but you don’t check out.”
In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.
As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King’s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win.
In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.
As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is Stephen King’s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win.
The Institute Copertina rigida – 10 set 2019 - (versione inglese)
di
Stephen King
(Autore)
Hodder And Stoughton Ltd. (10 settembre 2019)
Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a dark state facility where kids,
abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated. In the
Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures meant
to combine their exceptional gifts - telepathy, telekinesis - for
concentrated effect. Luke Ellis is the latest recruit. He's just a
regular 12-year-old, except he's not just smart, he's super-smart. And
he has another gift which the Institute wants to use... Far away in a
small town in South Carolina, former cop Tim Jamieson has taken a job
working for the local sheriff. He's basically just walking the beat. But
he's about to take on the biggest case of his career. Back in the
Institute's downtrodden playground and corridors where posters advertise
'just another day in paradise', Luke, his friend Kalisha and the other
kids are in no doubt that they are prisoners, not guests. And there is
no hope of escape. But great events can turn on small hinges and Luke is
about to team up with a new, even younger recruit, Avery Dixon, whose
ability to read minds is off the scale. While the Institute may want to
harness their powers for covert ends, the combined intelligence of Luke
and Avery is beyond anything that even those who run the experiments -
even the infamous Mrs Sigsby - suspect. Thrilling, suspenseful,
heartbreaking, THE INSTITUTE is a stunning novel of childhood betrayed
and hope regained. *This book is available here with four different
endpaper designs. We are unable to accept requests for a specific
endpaper. The different editions will be assigned to orders at random.*
L'istituto Copertina rigida – 10 set 2019 - (versione in italiano)
di
Stephen King
(Autore)
Sperling & Kupfer (10 settembre 2019)
È notte fonda a Minneapolis, quando un misterioso gruppo di persone si
introduce in casa di Luke Ellis, uccide i suoi genitori e lo porta via
in un SUV nero. Bastano due minuti, sprofondati nel silenzio irreale di
una tranquilla strada di periferia, per sconvolgere la vita di Luke, per
sempre. Quando si sveglia, il ragazzo si trova in una camera del tutto
simile alla sua, ma senza finestre, nel famigerato Istituto dove sono
rinchiusi altri bambini come lui. Dietro porte tutte uguali, lungo
corridoi illuminati da luci spettrali, si trovano piccoli geni con
poteri speciali - telepatia, telecinesi. Appena arrivati, sono destinati
alla Prima Casa, dove Luke trova infatti i compagni Kalisha, Nick,
George, Iris e Avery Dixon, che ha solo dieci anni. Poi, qualcuno
finisce nella Seconda Casa. «È come il motel di un film dell'orrore»,
dice Kalisha. «Chi prende una stanza non ne esce più». Sono le regole
della feroce signora Sigsby, direttrice dell'Istituto, convinta di poter
estrarre i loro doni: con qualunque mezzo, a qualunque costo. Chi non
si adegua subisce punizioni implacabili. E così, uno alla volta, i
compagni di Luke spariscono, mentre lui cerca disperatamente una via
d'uscita. Solo che nessuno, finora, è mai riuscito a evadere
dall'Istituto. Dopo "L'incendiaria" e "It", King si mette di nuovo alla
prova con una storia di ragazzini travolti dalle forze del male, in un
romanzo che ha anche molto a che fare con i nostri tempi.
Dalla seconda/terza di copertina
STEPHEN KING vive e lavora nel Maine con la moglie Tabitha e la figlia Naomi. Da più di quarant'anni le sue storie sono bestseller che hanno venduto 500 milioni di copie in tutto il mondo e hanno ispirato registi famosi come Stanley Kubrick, Brian De Palma, Rob Reiner, Frank Darabont. Oltre ai film tratti dai suoi romanzi, vere pietre miliari come Stand by me - Ricordo di un'estate, Le ali della l«Entrando nella mente dei suoi giovani personaggi, King crea un senso di minaccia e di intimità magici. Il mistero che aleggia intorno all’Istituto cresce con il passare delle pagine fino a diventare ancora più spaventoso della violenza che i bambini subiscono. Non c’è una parola di troppo in questo romanzo perfetto, che dimostra ancora una volta perché King è il Re.»
Publishers Weekly
King travolge il lettore con una storia di bambini che trionfano sul male come non ne scriveva dai tempi di It.
In una tranquilla cittadina del Minnesota, un gruppo di misteriosi
personaggi rapisce Luke Ellis, dodicenne dall’intelligenza prodigiosa,
dopo aver ucciso i suoi genitori. Quando Luke si sveglia, si ritrova in
una camera identica alla sua, solo che adesso è ospite dell’Istituto –
una struttura dove sono testate le capacità telecinetiche e telepatiche
dei bambini. Luke trova conforto e coraggio grazie all’amicizia di
alcuni ragazzini che abitano come lui la cosiddetta Prima Casa -
Kalisha, Nick, George e Avery - ma capisce presto che l’unica salvezza è
la fuga. Solo che nessun bambino è mai scappato dall’Istituto.
STEPHEN KING vive e lavora nel Maine
con la moglie Tabitha e la figlia Naomi. Da più di quarant’anni le sue
storie sono bestseller che hanno venduto 500 milioni di copie in tutto
il mondo e hanno ispirato registi famosi come Stanley Kubrick, Brian De
Palma, Rob Reiner, Frank Darabont. Oltre ai film tratti dai suoi
romanzi, vere pietre miliari come Stand by me – Ricordo di un’estate, Le ali della libertà, Il miglio verde, It
– per citarne solo alcuni – sono seguitissime anche le sue serie TV.
Per i suoi meriti artistici, il presidente Barack Obama gli ha conferito
la National Medal of Arts. Nel 2018 ha ricevuto il PEN America Literary
Service Award.
Trouble is haunting Cassidy Blake . . . even more than usual.
She (plus her ghost best friend, Jacob, of course) are in Paris, where Cass's parents are filming their TV show about the world's most haunted cities. Sure, it's fun eating croissants and seeing the Eiffel Tower, but there's true ghostly danger lurking beneath Paris, in the creepy underground Catacombs.
When Cass accidentally awakens a frighteningly strong spirit, she must rely on her still-growing skills as a ghosthunter -- and turn to friends both old and new to help her unravel a mystery. But time is running out, and the spirit is only growing stronger.
And if Cass fails, the force she's unleashed could haunt the city forever.
IMMAGINE NON DISPONIBILE
Supernova
(Renegades #3)
Supernova Copertina rigida – 5 nov 2019
di
Marissa Meyer
(Autore) (versione in italiano)
Feiwel & Friends (5 novembre 2019)
All's fair in love and anarchy...
Supernova, the epic conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer's thrilling Renegades Trilogy finds Nova and Adrian struggling to keep their secret identities concealed while the battle rages on between their alter egos, their allies, and their greatest fears come to life. Secrets, lies, and betrayals are revealed as anarchy once again threatens to reclaim Gatlon City.
Supernova, the epic conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer's thrilling Renegades Trilogy finds Nova and Adrian struggling to keep their secret identities concealed while the battle rages on between their alter egos, their allies, and their greatest fears come to life. Secrets, lies, and betrayals are revealed as anarchy once again threatens to reclaim Gatlon City.
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