English books on my wishlist #45
17.3.18
Rubrica a cadenza casuale in cui vi mostro le mie nuove scoperte libresche in lingua inglese.
Buon sabato miei cari lettori!
So che ultimamente sto pubblicando meno post del solito, ma il mio maledetto blocco del lettore non accenna a passare, e il tempo per preparare post ultimamente è poco...pensate che sono addirittura più indietro del solito con le serie tv, tanto per farvi capire in che condizioni sono!
Comunque, oggi, nuovo appuntamento con la rubrica dedicata ai libri in lingua, con tre romanzi che sembrano davvero interessanti. Fatemi sapere se li avete già letti, o se fanno già parte della vostra wishlist :)
Titolo: All th Crooked Saints
Autore: Maggie Stiefvater
Trama:
Here is a thing everyone wants: a miracle.
Here is a thing everyone fears: what it takes to get one.
Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars.
At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles. And at the heart of this family are three cousins longing to change its future: Beatriz, the girl without feelings, who wants only to be free to examine her thoughts; Daniel, the Saint of Bicho Raro, who performs miracles for everyone but himself; and Joaquin, who spends his nights running a renegade radio station under the name Diablo Diablo.
They are all looking for a miracle. But the miracles of Bicho Raro are never quite what you expect.
Titolo: Shannon Hale
Autore: Book of a thousand days
Trama:
When Dashti, a maid, and Lady Saren, her mistress, are shut in a tower for seven years because of Saren's refusal to marry a man she despises, the two prepare for a very long and dark imprisonment.
As food runs low and the days go from broiling hot to freezing cold, it is all Dashti can do to keep them fed and comfortable. With the arrival outside the tower of Saren's two suitors--one welcome, the other decidedly less so--the girls are confronted with both hope and great danger, and Dashti must make the desperate choices of a girl whose life is worth more than she knows.
With Shannon Hale's lyrical language, this little-known classic fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm is reimagined and reset on the central Asian steppes; it is a completely unique retelling filled with adventure and romance, drama and disguise.
Titolo: An enchantment of ravens
Autore: Margaret Rogerson
Trama:
A skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courts—even as she falls in love with a faerie prince—in this gorgeous debut novel.
Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel’s paintings are highly prized. But when she receives her first royal patron—Rook, the autumn prince—she makes a terrible mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes—a weakness that could cost him his life.
Furious and devastated, Rook spirits her away to the autumnlands to stand trial for her crime. Waylaid by the Wild Hunt’s ghostly hounds, the tainted influence of the Alder King, and hideous monsters risen from barrow mounds, Isobel and Rook depend on one another for survival. Their alliance blossoms into trust, then love—and that love violates the fair folks’ ruthless laws. Now both of their lives are forfeit, unless Isobel can use her skill as an artist to fight the fairy courts. Because secretly, her Craft represents a threat the fair folk have never faced in all the millennia of their unchanging lives: for the first time, her portraits have the power to make them feel.
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Buongiorno,
RispondiEliminaHai bisogno di finanziamenti per la tua azienda o per scopi privati? Questo non dovrebbe essere complicato o dispendioso in termini di tempo per rendere l'investimento un modo semplice per sviluppare finanziamenti in tutto il mondo. Contattaci per maggiori informazioni via email: notarialeangelo72@gmail.com
<3 Offerta di prestito <3
RispondiEliminaStai cercando finanziamenti, sia per far rivivere le tue attività, per la realizzazione di un progetto, o per acquistare un appartamento, ma purtroppo la banca ti sta chiedendo condizioni che non sei in grado di soddisfare. Sono disponibile a
concedere prestiti che vanno da € 2.000 a € 500.000 a chiunque sia in grado di soddisfare le mie condizioni. il tasso di interesse è del 2% annuo.
Per favore contattami chi ha bisogno di un prestito
E-mail: varonealessandra01@gmail.com
Buongiorno offerte individuali in denaro da 5.000 € a 7.000.000 €, con un tasso il tasso di interesse è rimborsabile del 3% in un periodo .alberfontana86@gmail.com
RispondiEliminaCari viaggiatori,
lasciate pure un segno del vostro passaggio se vi va,
sono sempre felice di scoprire i vostri pensieri :)