Sperling & Kupfer for the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy
Good evening:) a few days ago I received a newsletter from Sperling & Kupfer on the party for the unification of Italy: we have 2 very interesting books, so I decided to post them to you to know
Title: Once Upon a Time in Italy
Author: Antonio Caprica
Pages: 276
Price: € 18.50
Plot: February 18, 1861: Turin is invaded by an unusual crowd rushed to assist the baptism of the Kingdom of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II to applaud a crowd of deputies and senators, including Alessandro Manzoni, Giuseppe Verdi, Garibaldi and Massimo d'Azeglio in red shirt. Among them our special envoy Anthony Caprara. How was Italy? What is your real face? In Naples the Bourbon court seething with plots, Garibaldi fake line up to receive the pension of soldiers and low dispossessed continue their miserable lives. In Calabria, the new administration comes up with an idea very strange to ensure hygiene and public health is to ban the pigs! In the south of the country's civil war began between the "bandits" and the host of the "gentlemen" who turn out to be brutal torturers, while elsewhere patriots unaware of this brutal reality continue to die across the nation to unite and conquer Rome, where Pius IX put to death the "liberal" and ordered police raids on moral alcoves suspected of immorality. Caprarica meets noblewomen who go from the salons to field hospitals; men of pen and action "who leave school to fight, mothers who encourage their children not to abandon the struggle and girls who join the partisans. The reporter collects their stories and record with fidelity and liveliness, to compose a complete and truthful to the History of Italy facing.
Title: 1861
Author: Giovanni Fasanella, Antonella Grippo
Pages: 288
Price: € 18.50
Plot: Italy has not changed. It has become what today is because it is born that way and was told in a certain way. The rhetoric of the Risorgimento, full of noble intentions, unblemished heroes, political genius and visionary, was the carpet where we hid under the dust of history. So now if you want to understand this country "sick," suffering from endemic vices that seem ineradicable, perhaps it would go over well the first days of his life. This book revives a thread of intrigue, crime and dishonesty that has its head in just the way in which the unit was first created and then managed. The transformer in a political corruption, the tendency to compromise with the powers that be, to use secret agents for non-institutional use in crime, for reasons of state to exploit the work of terrorists and revolutionaries all this, in textbooks on which whole generations have been formed, there is simply no. The subsequent history of reticence has sinned, and this removal process is now hopelessly guilty. Giovanni Fasanella and Antonella Grippo with this awkward, cruel and anti-rhetorical are allocated from the beginning and told that for too long has been indicated. In many books it says that "reads like a novel." It is also true for 1861, with one difference: it would be nice that it was a novel, it would mean that it is an invented story. But it is not.
interesting to better understand the history of our country, I would advise those who do not know why it was chosen to celebrate March 17 (see: political)
Stay tuned!
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
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Have you ever read ..? (1)
I'm back, it's time to reveal a of two categories I mentioned yesterday:) This is Have you ever read ..? , created through the union of two brilliant minds (and that of my Markus ).
What is? Nothing could be simpler, once a week we will present a book to the library and that is very famous or not, or has been forgotten over time:)
Well, let's start! :)
The story begins with a young Midshipman, Horatio Horblower, slowly and not too heroic (and perhaps is also why I so loved) manages to climb up the ladder of the Royal Navy, to become an admiral. His story is set during the Napoleonic wars (between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), when France and Great Britain clashed at sea. Furthermore, not everyone knows that the character of Hornblower is partly inspired by an admiral who really existed, Thomas Cochrane, who also inspired the series of Patrick O'Brian.
While in the original series consists of 11 volumes, was published in Italy in 3 volumoni with qualification:
-Ensign and Lieutenant Hornblower
-The Adventures of Captain Hornblower, Hornblower
Commodore and Lord
Some hints on the life of the author:
Cecil Scott Forester pseudonym of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (Cairo, August 27, 1899 - Fullerton, April 2, 1966) was an English writer who gained fame writing tales of adventure on the sea military setting.
His most famous works are eleven books in the series devoted to Horatio Hornblower, on the naval warfare during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935), which was made into a film, made in 1951 by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart that he and Katherine Hepburn. Born to
Cairo, Forester had a complicated life, including relatives imagined, a secret marriage and a debilitating disease. He was educated at Alleyn's school, the Dulwich College, Dulwich (South London) and at Guy's Hospital, King's College, London. During World War II moved to the United States, where he wrote propaganda for the purpose of helping that country to go to war on the Allied side, and then went to reside in Berkeley, California. He married Kathleen Belcher in 1926, had two children and divorced in 1945. The eldest son, John Forester, was a famous cyclist and wrote a biography of his father. In 1947, CS Forester secretly married a woman named Dorothy Foster. He suffered a severe form of arteriosclerosis in the latter part of his life.
I recommend in the strongest terms, not boring and it reads very quickly despite the amount (about 600 pages).
What do you think of this column? You like? A lot because it gives me the opportunity to rediscover the great authors forgotten, sometimes unfairly.
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I'm back, it's time to reveal a of two categories I mentioned yesterday:) This is Have you ever read ..? , created through the union of two brilliant minds (and that of my Markus ).
Have you ever read ..? was created by Brother and Markus |
Well, let's start! :)
Today I present a book that has definitely affected me, in my view is beautiful and has no contraindications: D This is Ensign and Lieutenant Hornblower , Cecil Scott Forester.
Many of you unfortunately do not know, or perhaps you remember the name thanks to telefim that was drawn from the trilogy (for once I can say that they have complied with the book in it). The story begins with a young Midshipman, Horatio Horblower, slowly and not too heroic (and perhaps is also why I so loved) manages to climb up the ladder of the Royal Navy, to become an admiral. His story is set during the Napoleonic wars (between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), when France and Great Britain clashed at sea. Furthermore, not everyone knows that the character of Hornblower is partly inspired by an admiral who really existed, Thomas Cochrane, who also inspired the series of Patrick O'Brian.
While in the original series consists of 11 volumes, was published in Italy in 3 volumoni with qualification:
-Ensign and Lieutenant Hornblower
-The Adventures of Captain Hornblower, Hornblower
Commodore and Lord
Some hints on the life of the author:
Cecil Scott Forester pseudonym of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (Cairo, August 27, 1899 - Fullerton, April 2, 1966) was an English writer who gained fame writing tales of adventure on the sea military setting.
His most famous works are eleven books in the series devoted to Horatio Hornblower, on the naval warfare during the Napoleonic era, and The African Queen (1935), which was made into a film, made in 1951 by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart that he and Katherine Hepburn. Born to
Cairo, Forester had a complicated life, including relatives imagined, a secret marriage and a debilitating disease. He was educated at Alleyn's school, the Dulwich College, Dulwich (South London) and at Guy's Hospital, King's College, London. During World War II moved to the United States, where he wrote propaganda for the purpose of helping that country to go to war on the Allied side, and then went to reside in Berkeley, California. He married Kathleen Belcher in 1926, had two children and divorced in 1945. The eldest son, John Forester, was a famous cyclist and wrote a biography of his father. In 1947, CS Forester secretly married a woman named Dorothy Foster. He suffered a severe form of arteriosclerosis in the latter part of his life.
I recommend in the strongest terms, not boring and it reads very quickly despite the amount (about 600 pages).
What do you think of this column? You like? A lot because it gives me the opportunity to rediscover the great authors forgotten, sometimes unfairly.
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Fanucci Previews (part 2)
Hello! Today, as we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy (and "our politicians" not even know why), I post the second part of the preview proposed by Fanucci :) begin without delay.
Title: The Alley of Secrets
Author: Rachel Caine
Collection: Teens International
Pages: 320
Price: € 15.00
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Plot: The university town where he lives Claire Danvers is in the hands of vampires but a truce between the living and the undead has made the situation relatively quiet. At least for now. While new undead are prepared to make their appearance on the streets of Morganville, a psychopath is coming dangerously close to Claire and an old bloodsucker wants to protect her and her mentor. Claire and her friends are again in danger: the pact signed with Amelie, the oldest vampire of Morganville, is about to jump, and the father of Shane, who was forced to become a vampire to stay alive, attacked by a underground newspaper that its enforcement is sought. Claire is ready to go back and find out who is behind the attempts to keep it under control and break the truce, where she is the architect. And even the most seemingly ordinary events take on a whole new meaning.
Title: rosebush
Author: Michele Jaffe
Collection: Teens International
Pages: 336
Price: € 16.00
Release Date: May 2011
Plot: Jane is a teenager, he moved to Newark in the new school and immediately makes friends with two girls most prominent institution, and Kate Langley. Both are rich and beautiful.
Hello! Today, as we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy (and "our politicians" not even know why), I post the second part of the preview proposed by Fanucci :) begin without delay.
Author: Rachel Caine
Collection: Teens International
Pages: 320
Price: € 15.00
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Plot: The university town where he lives Claire Danvers is in the hands of vampires but a truce between the living and the undead has made the situation relatively quiet. At least for now. While new undead are prepared to make their appearance on the streets of Morganville, a psychopath is coming dangerously close to Claire and an old bloodsucker wants to protect her and her mentor. Claire and her friends are again in danger: the pact signed with Amelie, the oldest vampire of Morganville, is about to jump, and the father of Shane, who was forced to become a vampire to stay alive, attacked by a underground newspaper that its enforcement is sought. Claire is ready to go back and find out who is behind the attempts to keep it under control and break the truce, where she is the architect. And even the most seemingly ordinary events take on a whole new meaning.
After 's Diary and Eve Rosser Claire's fate, the third book in the Morganville Vampires series .
Title: Infinity
Author: Kenyon Sherrylin
Collection: Teens International
Pages: 352
Price: € 16.00
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Plot: 14 years Nick Gautier, a young man like many others, lives in the French Quarter of New Orleans likes to attend bad company , is drawn from illegality and what he has learned in life is the result of the teachings of the road. One night he decided to act honestly and refuses to rob an innocent tourist, a choice that will have a very high price.
Nick thinks he is now dying and that his old team will not take long to get on his trail ... and yet, inexplicably, what seems the end of it all is revealed the beginning of a new life. Kyrian of Thrace is not only a ruthless commander Macedonian chasing demons, is a Dark Hunter, and thanks to him, Nick is put in a safe and familiar world of which she never imagined existed. The new enemies are the old ones seem incapable of true: it's kill or be killed, and Nick, born on the wrong side, finds within himself an unexpected force and began working for the undead who populate his district. Time is short, and he does not just have to find someone willing to help in the difficult battle against the demons that reside within him.
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Title: Breathless
Author: Valerie F.
Series: Teens
Pages: 256
Price: € 15.00
Release Date: March 31 2011
Plot: When Alicia think that by now the story between her and Rudi, the Mexican boy met the previous summer, is water under the bridge, here on an autumn day receives a letter in which he writes that he is ready to fulfill the promise he had made shortly before the split: a plane ticket in his name has been purchased and is waiting for Rudi to Mexico from there in two weeks! Alicia does not ring true: you have to get permission from his parents and then that guy will embrace the hazel eyes and sweet smile, and want so much. But there is one problem that knows even a little 'adventure: there will be a stopover in New York and she has never found alone in an airport. After a complicated maneuver to convince successful, that's the fateful day of departure has arrived and everything seems to spin smoothly. But Alicia does not yet know that a storm is about to fall on its New York when his plane is flying at full speed. And so, sad and disconsolate, will now find themselves spending more time than expected and will be involved in the Big Apple, despite himself, in an overwhelming and exciting that will forever change the course of his life. But Rudi, meanwhile, what happened?
Title: Barefoot, open-heart
Author: Paola Zannoner
Collection: SuperTeens
Pages: 240
Price: € 6.50
Release Date: April 2011
Plot: Taisir is a young Palestinian Arab, Rachele is a girl Italian: cross-case in a square, then find themselves at school. He is a skater, she studied singing, both attend a high school in the city center, but as Rachel lives in a residential area, Taisir lives in the Arab quarter of the metropolis. The girl's curiosity and tenacity for overcoming the distrust of Taisir, to enter into relationship with him will be an opportunity to understand his world, full of curiosity and surprise, creating intense and generous friendship. But Rachel still does not know that may also be a door to open your heart ...
Title: Dear Johnny Depp
Author: Silvia Roncaglia
Collection: SuperTeens
Pages: 176
Price: € 6.50
Release Date: April 2011
Plot: " I still do not I told you, Johnny, is a collection of sentences. Some people collect figurines, some stamps, some bottle caps and even phone cards. I collect phrases. Sentences of books, films phrases. "Sara is a collection of sentences. Sara has a room hung with posters of Johnny Depp. Sara has a calendar with pictures of Johnny Depp. Sara knows all the films and any news about the life of Johnny Depp. But for Sara Johnny is something more: it is the imaginary interlocutor of dozens of letters in which she reveals, is uncertain, says his world of fourteen dealing with ideals, dreams, fears and problems of everyday life. Two brothers, one too old and wise, the other too naive and easily influenced, including an aunt and a friend too fat too 'psychologist', a mother and a father too apprehensive too absent, there is the life of Sarah, too taken by Johnny Depp to face reality. Until one day ...
Title: Tempest
Author: Julie Cross
Collection: Teens International
Pages: 384
Price: € 16.00
Release Date: May 2011
Plot: Manhattan . 2009. Jackson Meyer nineteen years old but not a boy like any other: it can travel through time. He only confessed to his friend Adam, who helps him to experience this newly found power. One morning two men burst into the room of Holly, his girlfriend and shot her. Jackson helplessly the scene and, in panic, jumps in time, but was found locked in 2007, no longer able to return to his present. So he decides to revisit the past and change it to make sure that Holly is no longer in danger. Going back even further back in time, Jackson uncovers important secret about himself and his family. Kevin's father is a CIA agent and is part of a special body, called Storm, which is fighting against a group of time travelers, the NDT (Enemies of Time), I decided to impose a new order in the world. Jackson and his twin sister Courtney, who died of cancer in 2005, are the result of a cross between an ordinary man and a NDT. What Jackson had always believed his mother was actually a scientist who rented their uterus to carry out this experiment wanted by the CIA and Kevin Meyer was an agent to protect her, who is in love with her but was unable to prevent the NdT the kill. Jackson also has a chance to make two trips over 2009, in an unspecified later, a mysterious girl named Emily the New York shows a totally devastated, and the Head of NDT, Thomas, shows him a perfect-looking Manhattan . Jackson will be forced to make important decisions about their lives, realizing that it might be better not to meet Holly.
Author: Michele Jaffe
Collection: Teens International
Pages: 336
Price: € 16.00
Release Date: May 2011
Plot: Jane is a teenager, he moved to Newark in the new school and immediately makes friends with two girls most prominent institution, and Kate Langley. Both are rich and beautiful.
The trio became inseparable. Their major concerns are clothes and boys. Kate, however, also has a strong passion for photography that only shares with his friend Scott. One night Jane is thrown from a speeding car and ends up unconscious in a rose bush. When she wakes up in hospital, can not remember anything and is completely paralyzed, also receive strange gifts from a secret admirer and a series of phone calls in which it is threatened with death. But nobody believes her and everyone thinks that taking strong medications are causing the hallucinations. Slowly but Kate manages to put together the pieces and reconstructs the evening of the incident: during a party her friends have made sure that she discovered her boyfriend David in bed with another, and then hit in the head and hurl it in rose bush. All for a simple question of jealousy compounded by a form of pathological narcissism.
Kate will be forced to change their minds about the honesty of his "friends", but on the other hand, staying at the hospital door in his life a new knowledge really interesting ...
Title: The Sword blue
Author: Robin McKinley
Collection: Teens
Pages: 272
Price: € 14.00
Release Date: May 2011
Plot: The mother and the father of Harry Crewe died, and his brother Richard, a young woman soldier stationed at the northeastern end of Damar, find accommodation for her at two noble lords, who take care of her like a daughter. The desert region in which it is established, hated by its inhabitants due to the difficult climatic conditions, but the girl exerts a mysterious charm and unexplainable. But it is a land where the threat of war: the people of Northern Ireland want to wipe out the People of the Hills. In fear of not being able to face the enemy, Corlath, King of the Hills, the bearer of a magical gift passed down by his ancestors, asking people to help Harry, the chance meeting with her, wakes up in the king-eyed mysterious urgency that he the same can not explain, and that leads him to kidnap her and take her with him. Harry discovers a culture that follows the natural rhythms, and binds to the king as no other woman had managed to do before, is trained as a warrior and soon became one of the best able to tame the legendary Sword And Blue as war looms on the horizon, Harry will risk his life in a daring mission that she is forbidden to undertake and will lead very far.
An engaging fantasy that keeps on your toes from start to finish.
Title: The maze
Author: James Dashner
Collection: Teens International
Pages: 384
Price: € 16.00
Release Date: June 2011
Plot: Thomas is a guy like many, but one day he wakes up in an elevator that took him to a parallel universe. He does not remember how we have arrived, nor any particular of his past, except his name. It is surrounded by other kids, all in the same conditions. When the elevator door opens, Thomas is welcomed by some guys that's welcome in the Glade, a large area bounded by stone walls. Like Thomas, also Gladers do not know how they got in this space, and the only sure thing is that every morning the doors of stone at the beginning of the maze that surrounds them are opened, while the night they close. Soon the children will prepare the organization of a company
well-ordered and governed by the Keepers, the place for council meetings and apply strict rules to maintain order. Every thirty days someone is added to them after waking up in the elevator.
The mystery deepens when one day - no one expects it - get a girl. It is the first girl I've ever made an appearance in that world, and is the message he brings with him a surprise, more than his own presence. In the absence of other visible means of escape, the maze appears to be
the only hope of the group.
Title: Night Star
Author: Alyson Noel
Collection: Teens International
Pages: 352
Price: € 15.00
Release Date: June 2011
Plot: best friends can sometimes become the worst enemies, when they know all your secrets and your weaknesses ...
Ever is still grappling with the vagaries of Haven, his former best friend who blames the death of Roman, no matter how she tries to convince her that it was just an accident. Haven is determined to take revenge by destroying and eliminating Damen Jude out of his way. And now has all the credentials to do so, especially given the fact that in the past Damen hides a terrible secret that sheds new light on her relationship with Jude, so dark and brutal it may be sufficient to separate the two boys once and for all . To win the challenge Haven, Ever have to first ask her if the only way forward is to condemn the darkness of eternity, and if Haven learn the truth about the past Damen really represents the key to their future. After struggling for centuries to be together Ever and Damen are in the middle of a showdown that will leave readers breathless.
And with that I finished:)
takes breath at a time and place the new column, so really Stay Tuned! xD
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
How To Congratulate On An Engagement
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