Rossella Bernascone Libros

Cormac McCarthy’s award-winning, bestselling trio of novels chronicles the coming-of-age of two young men in the south west of America. John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, two cowboys of the old school, are poised on the edge of a world about to change forever. Their journeys across the border into Mexico, each an adventure fraught with fear and pain, mark a passage into adulthood, and eventual salvation. In All the Pretty Horses, young John Grady Cole, dispossessed by the sale of his family’s Texas ranch, heads across the border in search of the cowboy life, where he finds a job breaking horses, and a dangerously ill-fated romance. In The Crossing, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a wolf that has been marauding his family’s ranch and, instead of killing it, decides to take it on a perilous journey home to the mountains of Mexico.These two drifters come together years later in Cities of the Plain, a magnificent tale of friendship and passion. In the vanishing world of the Old West, blood and violence are conditions of life. Beautiful and brutal, filled with sorrow and humour, The Border Trilogy is both an epic love story and a fierce elegy for the American frontier.

En "Tocado y hundido", el libro 15 de la serie Diario de Greg, Greg Heffley y su familia emprenden un viaje de camping por el país, listos para la aventura de sus vidas. Sin embargo, las cosas toman un giro inesperado y se encuentran varados en un campamento que no es exactamente un paraíso veraniego. Cuando las lluvias torrenciales comienzan y el agua empieza a subir, los Heffley se preguntan si podrán salvar sus vacaciones o si ya están en una situación demasiado complicada.

Greg quiere crecer rápido, pero descubre que ser adulto no es tan divertido. Plagado de nuevas responsabilidades, debe afrontar la higiene personal, videos incómodos en la escuela y la noticia de que su madre volverá a estudiar. ¿Deberá ahora encargarse de sus propias tareas domésticas?

In the 1930s, two teenage brothers whose ranch in New Mexico was raided by bandits cross into Mexico to search for stolen horses. The novel follows them through the revolution-torn countryside, meeting soldiers, peasants, priests and thieves, all proffering advice. By the author of "All the Pretty Horses."

Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family’s mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in “the land of trees,” where his descendents became a separate Nova Scotia clan. There is the team of brothers and cousins, expert miners in demand around the world for their dangerous skills. And there is Alexander and his twin sister, who have left Cape Breton and prospered, yet are haunted by the past. Elegiac, hypnotic, by turns joyful and sad, No Great Mischief is a spellbinding story of family, loyalty, exile, and of the blood ties that bind us, generations later, to the land from which our ancestors came.

Get ready for a whole new look into Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid! Introducing the newest Wimpy Kid author--Rowley Jefferson! Rowley's best friend Greg Heffley has been chronicling his middle-school years in thirteen Diary of a Wimpy Kid journals . . . and counting. But it's finally time for readers to hear directly from Rowley in a journal of his own. In Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid, Rowley writes about his experiences and agrees to play the role of biographer for Greg along the way. (After all, one day Greg will be rich and famous, and everyone will want to know his life's story.) But Rowley is a poor choice for the job, and his "biography" of Greg is a hilarious mess. Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal offers readers a new way to look at the Wimpy world--one fans won't want to miss!

Capolavoro della letteratura anglosassone, frutto di una straordinaria maturazione creativa, Cuore di tenebra affianca alla dimensione concreta di testimonianza autobiografica la denuncia sociale e una cupa meditazione metafisica. Attraverso la voce recitante di Marlow, Conrad ci conduce nel cuore dell'Africa nera: l'incontro con la terribile realtà dello sfruttamento del Congo Belga di Leopoldo II si dilata fino a trasformarsi in riflessione generale sull'esperienza del colonialismo nella sua totalità, destinata a scuotere le certezze di un ottimismo evoluzionistico ed eurocentrico, in un inquietante confronto con il diverso e il primitivo. Al Libro è ispirato il film Apocalypse now di Francis F. Coppola. Testo originale a fronte