Oliver Burkeman
Four Thousand Weeks
Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,'
Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for
constructing a meaningful life by embracing rather than denying
their limitations.
Rebecca Yarros
The Empyrean
A fantasy series set in a world of dragons, war and sex.
Violet "Violence" Sorrengail must fight her way through
the world for herself, for her man and for her dragons.
The latter are powerful allies, but not immune to revenge,
jealousy and teenage tantrums...
The three books:
Fourth Wing
Iron Flame
Onyx Storm
MarÃa Ospina Pizano
Solo un poco aquÃ
A story of animals and people who share the same world without
ever truly meeting, exploring observation, solitude, migration
and ecological disasters.
Where it appears at Casa Donatalina:
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Where to buy it
In progress.
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
A story about encountering the other, about language and about the need
to find a way to understand one another, even when sharing a common
language and world seems impossible.
Various authors
Le meraviglie del possibile (in Italian)
A collection of classic science fiction stories. The mentioned edition contains the short stories "Sentry"
by F. Brown, and "Flowers for Algernon" by D. Keyes.
Where it appears at Casa Donatalina:
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Where to buy it
In progress.
Travis Baldree
Legends & Lattes
A story about change, new beginnings and simple dreams,
featuring a warrior orc, a coffee shop and a welcoming bookshop.
Travis Baldree
Bookshop & Bonedust
A story of adventures, encounters and new beginnings, set among
a bookshop, a coffee shop and the pleasure of building a welcoming place.
Zygmunt Bauman
Liquid Modernity: Work, Consumerism and the New Poor
A reflection on liquid modernity, work and changing social conditions,
exploring precarity, consumption and new forms of poverty.
Richard Sennett
The Corrosion of Character
An analysis of the effects of flexible and precarious work on personal life,
character and the possibility of building a stable professional path.
Zygmunt Bauman
La solitudine del cittadino globale (in Italian)
A reflection on loneliness, individualism and the transformations
of contemporary society, between individual freedom and new social constraints.
Mendoza
Proiettili d'argento (in Italian)
A novel set in a Mexico suspended between reality and imagination,
where violence, loneliness and identity intertwine.
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