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Girassol Brasil Edições Ltda.
Girassol Brasil has been in existence for 20 years. Despite still being a young company,it has attained prominence in the children’s book scene thanks to the quality and interactivity of its books. They offer educational books; children’s literature, especiallyfrom renowned Brazilian authors; tales and fables; world literary classics; gamesand puzzles; and several reference books. The catalogue is also filled with pop-uptitles, bath books, wipe and clean books, flap books and many different interactiveelements that provide a pleasant reading experience and make learning fun for youngchildren and early readers. A series we would like to recommend you especially is Heartwarming stories,written by educational psychologist Paula Furtado in order to help young children todeal with difficult situations and life circumstances.
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April 2010Die Politik der Staatsbürgerschaft
Italien und Deutschland im Vergleich 1800–1914
by Gironda, Vito
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September 2012Weihnachten macht der Osterhase Urlaub
Kinder über den Weihnachtsmann, Plätzchen backen und blöde Geschenke. Kindermund bei Baumhaus
by Herausgegeben von von Eichborn, Vito; Herausgegeben von Apitzsch, Birgit
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June 2012Eine Schwester ist, wenn man ein Mädchen als Bruder bekommt
Kinder über Geburt, Taufe und kleine Geschwister. Kindermund bei Baumhaus
by Herausgegeben von von Eichborn, Vito; Herausgegeben von Apitzsch, Birgit
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April 2011Omas halten heute länger
Kinder über Obstkuchen, dritte Zähne und die liebe Großmutter. Kindermund bei Baumhaus
by Herausgegeben von von Eichborn, Vito; Herausgegeben von Hein, Christa
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October 2013Erwachsen ist man ungefähr mit hundert
Kinder über Geburtstage, Partys und das Älterwerden
by Herausgegeben von Ekrut, Sybille; Herausgegeben von Pueschel, Barbara; Herausgegeben von von Eichborn, Vito
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March 2014In Mamas Kleiderschrank ist für Papa kein Platz
Kinder über Styling, Schuhe und das ganze Schminkgedöns
by Herausgegeben von Ekrut, Sybille; Herausgegeben von Pueschel, Barbara; Herausgegeben von von Eichborn, Vito
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Biography & True StoriesMarch 2018 - May 2018Cellini-Freedom Fighter
This is his true story.
by Vito "Tutuc" Cellini and Mick J. Prodger
Born in New York and raised in Italy, Vito “Tutuc” Cellini went from street gangster to soldier to resistance fighter to secret agent – all before he was twenty-one years of age. Drafted into the fascist Italian army against his will and sent to the front line, he deserted and joined Tito’s Yugoslavian Partisans fighting the Nazis, returning to Italy to join the Allies amid one of the biggest cover-ups of the European war. He ended the war working covertly with the American OSS (forerunner of the CIA) hunting down criminals and undesirables. Sailing home to New York in 1948 with a forged Italian passport and just 12 cents in his pocket, he was arrested at Ellis Island. Since then, Cellini’s inventiveness, reputation and irrepressible sense of adventure have taken him all over the world, often putting his life in great peril. Respected by the New York Mafia, Cellini later negotiated with some of the most feared organized crime syndicates in Italy. Nicaragua’s President Somoza sought his advice on guerilla warfare and weapons tactics, and while in Nicaragua he was embroiled in the assassination of a high profile journalist and had to flee for his life. Cellini has kept Federal Agents informed of credible plots to assassinate known enemies of the United States. He even served for a short time, albeit inadvertently, as bodyguard for a notorious drug lord in Mexico. He has never been afraid of taking the law into his own hands because, he says, sometimes that is the only way to survive. His inventions, including the Cellini muzzle brake, have earned him 19 patents and the undying respect and gratitude of members of the U.S. Special Forces and Law Enforcement. He has been privileged to count some of America’s most revered and decorated military heroes among his closest friends. Cellini is, more than anything, a patriot; a man who puts honor above all. And while some of his adventures make fictional spies and secret agents pale by comparison, unlike his fictitious counterparts, Cellini always remained faithful to one woman. Now in his 90s, he finally feels comfortable talking about his life, and he isn’t pulling any punches. The good. The bad. The ugly. The truth. Includes more than 75 photographs.
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FictionFebruary 2018Goodbye, Molly Buck
by Vito di Battista
A debut novel that sings as the voice-over behind a Masterpiece.Florence, 1977. Once a famous movie star, Molly Buck dies in a private clinic. Sitting outside the front gate, there is a young man that she chose as her biographer. In their sleepless nights together, he had meticulously recorded his muse’s memories and her life unfolds now through their voices. This is the beginning of a backwards tale that follows Molly Buck’s career, from her retirement to the splendor of her younger years. But nothing is ever as it seems...L'ultima diva dice addio is a circular novel on memory and its lies, investigating the power of words and how it can be able to redeem a whole existence.
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Literary FictionAugust 2020Down the Elbe
by Thilo Krause
After years away, a young couple returns to the strange rocky landscape of the Sächsische Schweiz. The desire to start afresh in the place where they spent their childhoods puts them on a collision course with their home town and leads to a new feeling of alienation. What happens to the individual in a society which rejects everything that’s different? Is it just homesickness that has driven them back? The narrator keeps it a secret from his girlfriend Christina, also he feels guilty towards Vito, the school friend who lost a leg during a climbing trip together. He now returns to this place, recalling formative moments in his life: the accident, the public shaming at school during the raising of the socialist flag, his decision to break away. But his first attempt at reconciliation fails.Thilo Krause’s debut novel tells the story of a couple returning to a setting that feels foreign to them. He casts his eye across a landscape of apple trees and Elbe meadows, but also neo-Nazi summer camps. Ultimately, the couple’s fresh start is threatened by the distrust of the villagers. A powerful novel about our country and the times we live in.
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FictionJune 2011Songs of Bliss
by Clive Gilson
Songs of Bliss is a Dancing Pig Original publication - showcasing work by author Clive Gilson. Songs was Clive's first published novel. Just how far will a father go to protect his daughter, especially when his 'protection' is so fundamentally flawed?Billy Whitlow, one time "Don of Doo Wop", has survived his days of drink, drugs and groupies, settling now into a more peaceful life centred on his blossoming seventeen year old daughter Bex. Revising for her 'A' Levels, Bex visits Billy one Easter but the longed-for simplicity of father-daughter happiness is shattered one night in a local club.Billy's world becomes one of questions; Why is his daughter in a drug induced coma? Who put her in that state? How in the name of Hell is he going to make them pay?
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December 2015Lo que saben los wayuu -Tü natüjalakat wayuu
by Alberto Saldarriaga Roa, Leonardo Otálora Cotrino, Guillermo López Acevedo, Carolina Sáchica Moreno.
Tü natüjalakat wayuu: Lo que saben los wayuu es un encuentro de voces en el que confluyen la visión que emerge desde el mundo wayuu y la mirada del blanco (alijuna) respecto a un mismo propósito: destacar la enriquecida cosmovisión de los indígenas wayuu en medio de la realidad a la que se enfrentan como habitantes de uno de los territorios más olvidados de la geografía colombiana, la península de la Guajira.
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BoxingOctober 2013Marvelous
The Marvin Hagler Story
by Brian and Damian Hughes
Marvelous Marvin Hagler is a sporting legend. Often called the greatest middleweight boxer of all time, he held the world title for 12 defences, including bouts with Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns and Roberto Duran which entered fistic folklore. From his wild early fights in the boxing wilderness of Brockton, Massachusetts, Brian and Damian Hughes trace the blazing trail of Hagler's career: the controversial defeats subsequently avenged, a riot-scarred title win in London, and his unification of the middleweight crown. Hagler became a huge favourite, taking on all comers while never taking a step back. And so to The Ring magazine's "greatest round of all time" against Hearns, his ferocious battle with Duran, and the still-controversial loss to his nemesis Leonard. Marvelous tells the story of Hagler's extraordinary life for the first time, separating truth from myth to get right to the heart of a complex and charismatic man.
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FictionApril 2020Norman Islands
by Veronica Galletta
Ortygia is the centre of Syracuse, one of the most beautiful and ancient Sicilian cities. But Ortygia is also a small island itself, and it’s here that Elena lives together with her father, a man who keeps pretending that all is fine, and her mother Clara, a woman who hasn’t left their island inside an island for years. She spends most of the time in her bedroom, surrounded by books that she stacks and moves according to some mysterious order, a system that Elena has been studying to try and understand what is going on inside her mother’s head. But even though she managed to sketch 103 maps of these books’ motion, the solution to the riddle – and to her mother’s depression – seems impossible to find.One day, Clara suddenly disappears and Elena embarks on a ritual journey across their strange hometown, following her mother’s maps and leaving her books in different places, in the hope to finally piece together not only Clara’s thoughts but also an incident from her own past, when Elena spilled a pot of boiling water all over her body, leaving scars that look little maps themselves. And it’s perhaps in this crossroad of maps, burns and secrets that lie the truth concealed by Elena’s parents and the rest of the island around her. With a spectacular eye for details and an outstandingly powerful voice, Veronica Galletta draws directly from her own experiences to describe the marks left by someone else and one’s own secrets, switching from the extremes to the in-betweens of everyday life inside an outlandish and deeply realistic city.
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FictionMojstrovina/The Masterpiece
by Ana Schnabl
The golden 1980s in the Socialist Yugoslavia were a curious time, a time when the country undoubtedly already began its descent into disintegration, but when the bloody years that would follow seemed inconceivable. A time of until then unprecedented freedom of thought and travel, a time of dissident movements and heady music and literary scenes. But also a time when the state still very much had a tight grip on the lives of its citizens, not least through its state security service and its web of informants.It is 1985 and Adam is a professor of literature at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana who, after twenty years, tries his hand at writing again and Ana is the editor that receives his manuscript The Masterpiece. The protagonists soon cross the lines of their professional relationship and become entangled in an intense, adulterous affair. But Adam moves in the dissident circles and Ana owes her position as the youngest editor in the history of the biggest state publishing house to her cooperation with the dark side of the government.The Masterpiece is as much a love story as it a political drama that not only rocks the lives of the two main characters, but also changes the map of the world.
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Humanities & Social SciencesThe black sea of indifference
by Liliana Segre / Filippo Civati
Liliana Segre’s testimony and her political message are shared in this essay by Giuseppe Civati that reports her words and her teachings, on the occasion of her appointment as lifetime Italian Senator by Italian President Sergio Mattarella.Segre was expelled from school in 1938. She tried to flee Italy as an asylum seeker but was denied protection and was sent back. On January 30th, 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz with her father Alberto, who deceased in the concentration camp. In the last thirty years she has been promoting an extraordinary campaign against indifference and against racism in any form or aspect.Her undisputed, strong and clear words are a message for girls and boys, her «ideal grandchildren»: we must never lose our rights and respect for people.
