Luca: 1276 books

"C'è chi è nato per fare lo scienziato, chi per fare lo sbirro, chi Madre Teresa di Calcutta. Io sono nato per fare il ladro". Renato Vallanzasca è il bandito dagli occhi di ghiaccio. Tra rapine ed evasioni dal carcere, ha tenuto incollato per anni un paese intero davanti ai notiziari. "Io non...

Borgo Turrito è un viaggio nella provincia italiana a bordo della fantasia. È un velo che si alza scoprendo le verità nascoste, i vizi, le virtù e i peccati della piccole città del nostro Paese senza risparmiare le abitudini di vita, i segreti, i personaggi, le strategie che caratterizzano il...

Having gained international renown as Bangkok's most 'celebrated social center', the house Jim Thompson built on the banks of the Klong Maha Nag still preserves the spirit and the legend of the man. The Jim Thompson house, as it is popularly known, was the setting for many parties and dinners which...

In a terrifying trip into the darkest corners of psychology, Detectives Murphy and Rossi rush to catch a serial killer who is stalking a university in Liverpool, ingeniously murdering his victims in a series of deadly experiments. Detectives David Murphy and Laura Rossi are charged with the...

The unnamed narrator of this slim, alluring novel recalls a summer spent at age sixteen on an idyllic Italian island off the coast of Naples in the 1950s, where he spends his days with Nicola, a local fisherman. The narrator falls in love with Caia, who shares with him that she’s Jewish, saved by...

Just after World War II, a young orphan living in Naples comes under the protection of Don Gaetano, the superintendent of an apartment building. He is a generous man and is very attached to the boy, telling him about the war and the liberation of the city by the Neapolitans. He teaches him to play...

This is a story told by a boy in his thirteenth year, recorded in his secret diary. His life is about to change; his world, about to open. He lives in Montedidio—God’s Mountain—a cluster of alleys in the heart of Naples. He brings a paycheck home every Saturday from Mast’Errico’s...

Stages an encounter, at once critical and celebratory, with historical and contemporary Naples, a city that presents itself as an irresolvable paradox for its ability to remain intellectually and culturally animated (“delirious”), even in the face of its recurring economic and political crises.

Het schokkende verhaal van de man die gedwongen werd de oorlogsmisdaden van de nazi's vast te leggen Iedereen kent de foto’s van de gevangenen in Auschwitz en die van de slachtoffers van Mengeles wetenschappelijke onderzoeken. Maar wíe nam die foto’s? Een SS’er? Mengele zelf? Wilhelm...

“The day after Demetrio took up his customary life. Only one fact was unusual: along the way to his office a dog was following him. It was Thursday. As the dog nuzzled up closer, he warned him: ‘Go away, leave me in peace, …’ ‘Beb,’ replied Thursday warmly, scrutinizing the man with eager...

Una locanda è anche un luogo sinistro. Il viaggiatore arriva da lontano, non conosce nessuno, ci resta per poco. E quando dorme, ignaro di tutto, chi può sapere quali insidie non si possano materializzare? Già nell’antichità classica gli osti, i caupones, erano sospettati di orrendi misfatti:...

He'll slice your flesh. Your bones he'll keep. The Bone Keeper's coming. And he'll make you weep. What if the figure that haunted your nightmares as a child was real? Twenty years ago, four teenagers went exploring in the local woods, trying to find the supposed home of the Bone Keeper....

Wer hätte gedacht, dass man als Normalsterbliche nicht nur EINEN Schutzengel zur Verfügung hat, sondern gleich mehrere? Oder gar, dass man sich in einen davon ziemlich heftig verlieben kann…? Seit Victoria an ihrem achtzehnten Geburtstag gegen eine Friedhofsmauer gefahren ist und dabei seltsamerweise...

Wer hätte gedacht, dass wenn ein Flaschengeist seine blaue Pluderhose gegen ein paar Motorradklamotten austauscht, ein vollkommen anderer … tja, Dschinn herauskommen würde! Lori ist jedenfalls nicht wenig verblüfft, als ihr gerade erst befreiter Flaschengeist plötzlich als "Austauschschüler"...