Hi, here we are with our section where we announce newly published book, unearthed in the library, or forthcoming, identified through the network, we have affected in a particular way and that we are worthy of interest. Even today there
signal 4 gender varied by the Urban fantasy to the historical biography.
Title: In love with an Angel
Author: Federica Bosco
Pages: 376
Price: € 12 , 90
Publisher: Newton & Compton
Release Date: February 10, 2011
Plot
One morning you wake up and you're a teenager. So, without warning, overnight, you wake up in the body of a stranger you see overweight, he hates everyone, he dresses only in black and has thoughts of suicide, 84% of the time. And I said nothing except ". This is Mia, sixteen, rebellious, humorous, determined, always ready to deal with the uncertainties of age determination: school, friends, parents separated, and a stormy relationship with the single mother who adores her but it is a true landslide in men. Mia has always chasing a big dream and indispensable: go to Royvai Ballet School in London, the most prestigious dance school in the world, where the selections are very hard and the cost of the line is too high for a single mother. Complicating his life is intense and secret love for Patrick, the brother of her best friend, a guy so charming and unique as to seem an angel, but regards it as a younger sister. The passion for dance and that Patrick is so strong and indissoluble that Mia would never be able to give up one of the two. Until fate, unavoidable and bold, will put in front of one of the most painful and difficult choices of his life.
Here is an excerpt: http://www.newtoncompton.com/ebook/index.php?id=978-88-541-2444-8
Title: The Red Kimono
Author: Lesley Downer
Pages: 412
Price: € 19.50
Publisher : Piemme
Release Date: January 2011
Plot
Hana is wearing her wedding kimono, long hair down to the ground are covered in oil and crops ordered in a hairdo, as tradition dictates. Greet the Commander Yamaguchi her husband, who is leaving to fight the rebels in the south and defend the shogun and his country. Although not in love with the captain, the young and beautiful Hana has always acted according to custom, to feel appropriate to its role as a wife. Left alone, keeps their home, while the clash between the rebels and the army imperial approaches and becomes ever more bloody and violent. Hana is now also in danger, and despite the halberd with skill know how to use Japanese to surrender and escape.
A short journey full of obstacles, after which it is received by the colors, sounds and smells of Yoshiwara, the pleasure district of Tokyo. A home for courtesans became his refuge and his life taking an unexpected direction.
initially determined to join her husband, Hana is a warmth in the house that he had never known and is gradually drawn from the atmosphere lively and vibrant neighborhood. Discovering in himself a sensuality so far ignored, it becomes a perfect courtesan for the first time and savor the taste of freedom and the subtle pleasure of seduction. But it is Yozo, a brave soldier, to permanently change your life. Escaped the capture of his enemies, goes the only place where a man knows how to be safe: Yoshiwara. In the city that knows no sleep, and Yozo meet Hana falls in love, but he hides a secret that, once revealed, will fall as a threat on their lives, obscuring their happiness.
A short journey full of obstacles, after which it is received by the colors, sounds and smells of Yoshiwara, the pleasure district of Tokyo. A home for courtesans became his refuge and his life taking an unexpected direction.
initially determined to join her husband, Hana is a warmth in the house that he had never known and is gradually drawn from the atmosphere lively and vibrant neighborhood. Discovering in himself a sensuality so far ignored, it becomes a perfect courtesan for the first time and savor the taste of freedom and the subtle pleasure of seduction. But it is Yozo, a brave soldier, to permanently change your life. Escaped the capture of his enemies, goes the only place where a man knows how to be safe: Yoshiwara. In the city that knows no sleep, and Yozo meet Hana falls in love, but he hides a secret that, once revealed, will fall as a threat on their lives, obscuring their happiness.
Here is an excerpt: http://api.edizpiemme.it/storage/village/2011/01/17/566-1585.pdf
We would also like to recall a book by the same author, who has always previously released Eastern setting, is titled The Last Concubine, published by Piemme always.
Title: The Eyes of Venice
Author: Alessandro Barbero
Pages: 429
Price: € 20.00
Publisher: Mondadori
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Plot
Venice, late sixteenth century: a sprawling city and ruthless that even the walls have eyes, the Doge use an iron fist and the Inquisition suspicious of everyone and not think twice to send to call a poor man and give him two lengths of rope. La Serenissima observing, listening and condemnation. Even unfairly. And it is precisely to escape charge unfounded that Michael, a young mason, is forced to embark on a jail, without even leaving all the time to say goodbye to his beautiful wife, Bianca, just seventeen. Banished from Venice, rowing on a ship that roams the Mediterranean office of sequins and spices, and without hope of returning soon, Michael will live extraordinary adventures in the waves, islands and ports of the mare nostrum, until he lands in the lands of Sultan. To survive, my thoughts always turned to White, a boy, ignorant and inexperienced man will be smart, brave and strong. Meanwhile, Bianca is completely alone in the city, including the palaces of the lords and the ghetto. His temperament will be met with strong and proud evidence if possible harsher than those affected with Michael, and no less terrible and important meetings await the maze of alleys and streets, among the strong scents of the shops of apothecaries, that of bread baked in the neighborhood, the torso of ' cold water when washing clothes and mattresses that are just lousy bed for the poor.
Here is an excerpt: http://www.librimondadori.it/web/mondadori/mediabox/sfoglialibro?_SfogliaLibro_WAR_SfogliaLibro_idScheda=ISBN_978880459543
soon publish a review of this book.
Title: Secrets of a scandalous life of the Princess Pauline Borghese
Author: Lorenzo Borghese
Pages: 275
Price : € 12.90
Publisher: Newton & Compton
Release Date: 2011
Plot
Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister, is a beautiful woman, perhaps the Europe's most beautiful. His charm, immortalized by Canova in statue of Venus Victrix, urges her suitors craziest business and also won the Prince Camillo Borghese. In Paris, Pauline is a woman rumored (is said to have had many lovers), but even this Camillo decides to marry her and brings with him to Rome. And there, while Napoleon continued his march to conquer Europe, their love blossoms between lavish celebrations of Carnival in the carriage and passionate kisses, nights and intense eyes burning with jealousy. As long as the strict social rules can sorely test their love ... Written by a young heir to the powerful Borghese family, a wonderful fresco of the nineteenth-century Rome, where among the splendor of the great palaces and restrictions Catholic morality is dictated by burning consuming love, and where it stands in all its glory, the figure of Pauline Borghese. His dignity and courage in defending until the end of their passions make her unforgettable heroine.
Here is an excerpt: http://www.newtoncompton.com/newton/upload/File/estratti/segretidiunaprincipessaestratto.pdf
We hope to be helpful:)
Until next
Isy and Lya
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