"Lindley Hamilton has been the leader of the space station Lusca since every first generation crew member on board, including her mother, the commander, was killed by a deadly virus. Lindley always assumed she'd captain the Lusca one day, but she never thought that day would come so soon. And she never thought it would be like this--struggling to survive every day, learning how to keep the Lusca running, figuring out how to communicate with Earth,...

Le destin d'une jeune fille au Bénin va soudainement basculer... Au Bénin, en pays Somba en 1968, Mokokolo est un riche cultivateur. Les généreuses pluies de l'année annoncent de belles récoltes mais, hélas, arrivent les sauterelles. La famine menace et, malgré ses réticences, Mokokolo se voit contraint d'envoyer Otché, sa fille de 13 ans, à Cotonou, chez Karamoko, son 3ème frère. Otché, bien que non pubère, est déjà une très...

"L'ultima libreria di Londra è una lettera d'amore per le librerie. Gli appassionati di libri lo adoreranno." - Booklist "Questo romanzo ci insegna che, anche nei momenti più bui, il potere dei libri e delle storie può salvarci dall'oscurità." - Library Journal Agosto 1939. Grace Bennett ha sempre sognato di trasferirsi a Londra. E ora le mille luci della città, i negozi eleganti, la frenetica vita mondana, che nella piccola cittadina del Norfolk...

"The coronavirus pandemic started in Wuhan, home to the leading lab studying the SARS virus and bats. Was that pure coincidence? This book explores what we know, and still don't know, about the origins of COVID-19, and how it was handled in China. We may never get all the answers, but much is already clear: China's record as the origin of earlier pandemics, and its struggle to bring contagious diseases under control; its history as both a victim of...