Francesca: 997 books

An intimate and personal glimpse inside the mind of the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, through his own words... “I believe in the kindness of others, and that I must love them without fear.”—Jorge Bergoglio, Pope Francis   Jorge Bergoglio is the first Latin American pope,...

Des ado avec des super-pouvoirs allergiques à toute forme d’autorité. Depuis la disparition de leurs parents, ils sont seuls aux commandes de SuperWorld… Un comics, dans la lignée de Runaways, au scénario super-brillant ! Pour Tamara, le choc est double : elle découvre un père qu’elle...

**"A very smart, soulful, compelling, elegantly written domestic novel about a wedged-together family, and what can go wrong when teenage children decide they have minds (and hormones) of their own." *—*Nick Hornby “A spry and accomplished comedy of manners.” —The New York...

Un enigmatico agente dell'intelligence americana: Clay Nathan Hobbs, nome in codice Blue Shadow, coinvolge l'infermiera Leila Lane in una rocambolesca avventura in Europa sulle tracce di un agente del kgb, Egor Vinogradov, che ha un grosso conto in sospeso con lui. La comparsa in scena dell’agente...

*** Winner of the 2012 Costa First Novel Award *** *** Winner of the 2013 Harold U. Ribalow Prize, the 2013 Sam Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, the 2012 Costa First Novel Award, and the 2012 National Jewish Book Award for Fiction *** A smart and slyly funny tale of love, temptation,...

Riley e Marcus, due giovani sanguemisto magici, vengono attaccati e separati da Abraham, uno stregone. Mentre Marcus, che lotta con tutte le sue forze per riunirsi con la sua amica, è costretto a subire pozioni e anatemi che rischiano di ucciderlo, Riley si risveglia in una foresta tenebrosa, in...

Indringende, eigentijdse YA-roman over fandom, online vriendschap, depressie en de grote invloed van internet. Ik zal hem moeten vertellen wie ik ben. Maar wat moet ik doen als ik daarmee alles verpest? Op school ziet niemand Eliza staan. Op internet is ze echter wereldberoemd als Lady Astronomia,...

13 year old Julius McCoy is about to start his second year at Tijara Academy, in the Zed Lunar Perimeter. With the threat of the Arneshians averted for the moment, he can get on with the important part of his school life: developing his rare mind-skills. Of course, what any student on Zed looks...

Fourteen year old Julius McCoy is about to start his third year at the Zed Lunar Academy. He's in for a major surprise too, as Earth's old enemies, the Arneshians, make a sudden reappearance, this time carrying a banner of peace and reconciliation. But there's an even bigger shock in store for him, with a startling revelation much closer to home. 

Julius McCoy, White Child and hero of the Lunar Academy, has seen his dreams shattered. Stripped of his mind-skills and betrayed by his own blood, he is facing an ordinary life back on Earth. That is, until rumours of Tijara’s lost crystal begin to surface, sending Julius and his friends on a quest...

When 12 year old Julius McCoy is told that he has been selected to join the elite Zed Lunar Academy, he is over the moon...literally. It promises to be a year of neck-breaking races in The Hologram Palace, spaceship-pilot training and of course, developing his own very special mind-skills. Yet...

People pity me, but mostly they feel envy. I have all the luxury and freedom a girl my age could want. Something is happening to Charlotte Emerson. Like the fires that are ravaging the hills of Los Angeles, it consumes her from the inside out. But whether it is her eternal loneliness, the memory...

When you were a baby I sat very still to hold you. I could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. I stopped breathing so you wouldn't ... You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. But the way I saw you was pieces refracting...

Maybe Mab was real. Maybe not. Maybe Mab was the fury. Maybe she was the courage. Maybe later on she was the sex . . . A tiny fairy winging her way through the jasmine-scented L.A. night. A little girl caught in a grown-up glitz-and-glitter world of superstars and supermodels. A too beautiful...