"In verità, ascoltate, amate il vostro corpo e conoscetelo e nulla vi sarà negato."…“Questa è la Parabola della Matriarca, la storia di Tzia Zara. Ascoltatela e custoditela nel cammino, perché noi siamo la soglia ma lei è la via.”In un paese insulare che si svuota per la spinta migratoria verso le grandi città del Continente, arriva un giorno una vecchia donna transgender di nome Zara. Aggredita per la sua diversità, scopre di possedere quei poteri che le consentiranno di fondare una nuova comunità.Nel solco di romanzi come Streghe, di Brenda Lozano, e di una mai celata mistica cristiana, Simone Marcelli Pitzalis prosegue la ricerca cominciata con Questo è il corpo (effequ, 2022) di una personalissima poetica fatta di rabbia, ribellione e improvvisa bellezza, contro la mediocrità normata della nostra realtà.…Simone Marcelli PitzalisSimone Marcelli Pitzalis scrive e milita in versi e in prosa. Tra i suoi lavori poetici, Archivio privato (Zona, 2018), ha vinto il Premio Nazionale Elio Pagliarani, mentre nel 2022 è uscito per i tipi di effequ Questo è il corpo, il suo primo romanzo. I suoi racconti sono stati pubblicati su numerose testate e webzine, tra gli altri nell’Almanacco 2017 (Quodlibet), nella raccolta La Grande Estinzione del collettivo TINA (Aguaplano, 2021) e nel volume Prisma 03 (Moscabianca, 2022).Un suo saggio compare in Queer Pandèmia (Tlon, 2023).

Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, he’ll be married by the end of the year. It doesn’t matter that he’s needed a decade of tutors to hide his autism; that he practices surgery on slaughtered pigs; that he is a boy, not the girl the world insists on seeing. After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness—a mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madness—and shipped away to Braxton’s Sanitorium and Finishing School. The facility is cold, the instructors merciless, and the students either bloom into eligible wives or disappear. So when the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxton’s innards and expose its rotten guts to the world—as long as the school doesn’t break him first.

An alternate cover edition for 9781338306125 can be found here. When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school.But Ben's attempts to survive the last half of senior year unnoticed are thwarted when Nathan Allan, a funny and charismatic student, decides to take Ben under his wing. As Ben and Nathan's friendship grows, their feelings for each other begin to change, and what started as a disastrous turn of events looks like it might just be a chance to start a happier new life.At turns heartbreaking and joyous, I Wish You All the Best is both a celebration of life, friendship, and love, and a shining example of hope in the face of adversity.

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la vida en un buc, la situació perfecta: una cabina, l'oceà, moltes hores per encara el buit i algún port per conèixer dones. Fins que una la reté, se l'emporta entre les quatre parets d'una casa i l'embarca en la gestació assistida d'una criatura. ¿Què en farà, la maternitat, de l'amant coneguda en un bar?

Comincia tutto a Tōkyō, nel più grande quartiere di librerie del mondo. “Iniziai a leggere un libro dopo l’altro. Quei vecchi libri nascondevano storie per me inimmaginabili. E non mi riferisco solo a ciò che raccontavano. Dentro ognuno trovai tracce del passato: sottolineature, segnalibri, fiori secchi… Erano incontri che superavano le barriere temporali, possibili solo attraverso i vecchi libri. E così cominciai ad affezionarmi alla libreria Morisaki.” Jinbōchō, Tōkyō: il quartiere delle librerie, paradiso dei lettori. Benché si trovi a pochi passi dalla metropolitana e dai grandi palazzi moderni, è un angolo tranquillo, un po’ fuori dal tempo, con file di vetrine stipate di volumi, nuovi e di seconda mano. Non tutti lo conoscono, i più vengono attratti dalle mille luci di Shibuya o dal lusso di Ginza, e neppure Takako – venticinquenne dalla vita piuttosto incolore – lo frequenta, anche se proprio a Jinbōchō si trova la libreria Morisaki, che appartiene alla sua famiglia da tre generazioni: un negozio di appena otto tatami in un vecchio edificio di legno, con una stanza adibita a magazzino al piano superiore. È il regno dello zio Satoru, che ai libri e alla Morisaki ha dedicato la vita, soprattutto da quando la moglie lo ha lasciato. Entusiasta e un po’ squinternato, Satoru è l’opposto di Takako, che non esce di casa da quando l’uomo di cui era innamorata le ha annunciato che sposerà un’altra. Ed è proprio lui, l’eccentrico zio, a lanciarle un’imprevista ancora di salvezza proponendole di trasferirsi al piano di sopra della libreria in cambio di qualche ora di lavoro. Takako non è certo una gran lettrice ma, quasi suo malgrado, si lascia sorprendere e conquistare dal piccolo mondo di Jinbōchō. Tra discussioni sempre più appassionate sulla letteratura moderna giapponese, un incontro in un caffè con uno sconosciuto ossessionato da un misterioso romanzo e rivelazioni sulla storia d’amore di Satoru, scoprirà pian piano un modo di comunicare e di relazionarsi che parte dai libri per arrivare al cuore. Un modo di vivere più intimo e autentico, senza paura del confronto e di lasciarsi andare.

Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the highest of stakes, in this electric new Mexican-inspired fantasy from Aiden Thomas, the New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys. “Only the most powerful and honorable semidioses get chosen. I’m just a Jade. I’m not a real hero.” As each new decade begins, the Sun’s power must be replenished so that Sol can keep traveling along the sky and keep the evil Obsidian gods at bay. Ten semidioses between the ages of thirteen and eighteen are selected by Sol himself as the most worthy to compete in The Sunbearer Trials. The winner carries light and life to all the temples of Reino del Sol, but the loser has the greatest honor of all―they will be sacrificed to Sol, their body used to fuel the Sun Stones that will protect the people of Reino del Sol for the next ten years. Teo, a 17-year-old Jade semidiós and the trans son of Quetzal, goddess of birds, has never worried about the Trials…or rather, he’s only worried for others. His best friend Niya―daughter of Tierra, the god of earth―is one of the strongest heroes of their generation and is much too likely to be chosen this year. He also can’t help but worry (reluctantly, and under protest) for Aurelio, a powerful Gold semidiós and Teo’s friend-turned-rival who is a shoo-in for the Trials. Teo wouldn’t mind taking Aurelio down a notch or two, but a one-in-ten chance of death is a bit too close for Teo’s taste. But then, for the first time in over a century, Sol chooses a semidiós who isn’t a Gold. In fact, he chooses two: Xio, the 13-year-old child of Mala Suerte, god of bad luck, and…Teo. Now they must compete in five mysterious trials, against opponents who are both more powerful and better trained, for fame, glory, and their own survival.

Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined—every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute . . . and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.

Like all Earthmen, detective Elijah Baley has a terror of open landscape., of the naked sun. Reacting in fear of the technological superiority of the Outer Worlds, the people of Earth have hidden themselves in vast underground cities, nursing a hatred for Spacers. The fifty Outer Worlds of the Spacers together are home to fewer people than planet Earth. And home to many, many more robots. Earthmen hate Spacer robots, too... But Baley doesn't. He once had a robot partner, R. Daneel – and when the authorities of the planet Solaria request terrestrial assistance in investigating a murder, Baley is once again teamed with Daneel. He is the first Earthmen in a millennium to travel to the Outer Worlds... and he must endure the glare of a sun far more deadly than Earth's.

Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites. "Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune

A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer. The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the "R" stood for robot--and his positronic partner was made in the image and likeness of the murder victim!