Rossella Bernascone Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Maak je klaar voor een geheel nieuwe kijk op de wereld van Jeff Kinney's Dagboek van een Mislukte Kid! We maken kennis met de nieuwste auteur van Wimpy Kid: Rowley Jefferson! Rowley's beste vriend Greg Heffley heeft zijn middelbare schooljaren chronologisch vastgelegd in dertien Dagboek van een Mislukte Kid-journals. Maar het is eindelijk tijd voor lezers om rechtstreeks van Rowley te horen in zijn eigen journal. In Dagboek van een Geweldig Vriendelijk Kind schrijft Rowley over zijn ervaringen en neemt hij de rol van biograaf van Greg op zich. (Immers, op een dag zal Greg rijk en beroemd zijn, en iedereen wil zijn levensverhaal kennen.) Maar Rowley is een slechte keuze voor de klus, en zijn "biografie" van Greg is een hilarische chaos. Dagboek van een Geweldig Vriendelijk Kind: Rowley Jefferson's Journal biedt lezers een nieuwe manier om de Wimpy-wereld te bekijken - iets wat fans niet willen missen!

In the fifth installment of the beloved series, Greg Heffley faces the challenges of growing up, grappling with the pressures of boy-girl parties, increased responsibilities, and the awkward changes that accompany adolescence. After a fallout with his best friend Rowley, Greg must confront the "ugly truth" on his own. This book is a humorous exploration of the trials of pre-teen life, making it ideal for readers aged 8 and up, including reluctant readers and devoted fans alike. The series has garnered immense popularity, with praise highlighting its appeal and humor. Jeff Kinney, the author, is recognized as one of the top children's authors globally and has expanded his creative endeavors to include the children's virtual world, Poptropica. He was also named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2009. With its engaging illustrations and relatable themes, this installment continues to captivate audiences, reinforcing the series' status as a cultural phenomenon. Readers can also enjoy Greg's adventures on the big screen in several successful movie adaptations.

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.

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.

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

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."