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Be inspired: reading recommendations for adults and children and a selection of events - including fairs and exhibitions – dedicated to the world of books.

Northern Lights
Johnny’s Book
The Caretaker
What Poem Will You Tell Me?
Lessons in Chemistry
The Greentail Mouse
The Judge and His Hangman
Our Souls at Night
The Swallow’s Talent
An Album for Thinking and Not Thinking
Follow the Tiger
Little Brother: The Story of Nanni and Marco
The Story Sower and Other Strange Professions
Adelmo Who Wanted to Be Settimo
So You Think You Know Milan?
A Christmas Memory
Father Christmas Executed
Winter, the Cat, the Fire and the Book
Breaktime Is Over
Paper Boat, Paper Bird
Frankenstein
Death at the Crossroads
The Story of Susy, the Living Doll
The Princess and the Pea and Other Fairy Tales
The Queue at the Post Office
The Bee Sting
Forest–Root–Labyrinth
With His Back to the World
Inverness
Troncamacchioni
Nord Nord
The Little Red Barn
Bebelplatz
Seacrow Island
Candy from the Sky
Alfonsina e la strada
The Bicycle of a Hero
Gabriella on Her Bicycle: My Resistance Written for Kids
The Eternaut
A Matter of Money
The Fabulous Journey of Plants
The Problem of Human Time
The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues
What I Know About You
Malala’s Story Told to Children
Owls of the Eastern Ice
Phileas’s Fortune
The Gio Ponti Lab
A Daughter’s Gift of Love
The Giant’s Daughter
A Story of Sea, Sky and Fear
Alban’s Days
A House Unearthed from Time
The Chamberlain and the Wolf
In Your Own Skin
The Panettone Was Never Enough
The Number Devil
Two
The Dreaming Mouse and Other Country Animals
Bambino
Broken Truths
The Fable of Mother Bat
Bambini Nascosti
October, October
MANIAC
Shuna’s Journey
The House of the Magician
The Fire You Carry Within
Dilaga ovunque
The Island Of Memories
Locus desperatus
Alma
The Case of the Sixty-Six Seconds
I Bonora
Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
Italian cuisine doesn’t exist
The Night of the biplanes
City in ruins
I Wish I Could Tell You
Machines Like Me
Letter to a girl from the future
Who Speaks and Who is Silent
In Song
The Rare Metals War
Revolting Rhymes
The astrakhan coat
The King in Yellow
Girls with Numbers. Stories, passions and dreams of five female scientists
The Fade Out
I talk like a river
Small fry
Poison for Breakfast
All the details in the news
Beware of the wire!
Pocket guide for children’s book maniacs
Human tools
The Sibyl
Mousse’s Holidays
The Resistance of Women
Paolo’s House: how Borsellino saved my life
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
La notte più bella
Fuori è quasi buio
Il grande discorso di Cocco Tartaglia
The Long Winter of Ugo Singer
A Child, a Cat and a Dog
Story of the Pirate with Toothache and the Fireless Dragon
Down in the Valley
What We Are Not
Piero Manzoni: BACGLSP
Hunger Games: the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Great Wonder
If I Can, You Can Do It, Too
The Ancient Hours
Sandro Munari: a sideways life
Here, and Only Here
Time Shelter
Little Illustrated Manual for Leaf Hunters
Hundred million
The Fragrance of the Great Summer
Looking for Pan
Earthsea
Why? 100 philosophers’ stories for curious children
Diario di un’estate marziana (Diary of a Martian summer)
The gardener of dreams
Ferrovie del Messico (Mexican railways)
Why don’t the stars fall on our heads? And many other astronomy questions
What do people do all day?
History of cycling
Magic candies
City of dreams
May in Palermo. A story for Francesca Morvillo
The Priory of the Orange Tree
Fondocorsa (Bottoming out)
Little Fox in the Forest
Cassandra in Mogadishu
Slow, faster, fastest. Training for reading
Cinema speculation
The New York Trilogy
Elma and the bear
Diary of a possible dream
Black Cats Bookshop
Easter parade
French Nocturne
Free. Circe and the Others
Thus Spoke Blue Wolf
Song for Milan
Do We Still Need intellectuals?
The King of Ice Cream
The Wrong Ones of Dubai
Petrolio
Temporali (Storms)
Requiem for a killer
Siamo come scintille
Labor Day
Notre-Dame de Paris
The Three-Body Problem
Borders
Draconis Chronicle
Il grande libro di Carosello
And at the end they die
The Story of the Root Children
Maus
Just one word
Paper factories
I am Persephone
Blackwater. The complete saga
Ufo 78
‘The’ Tullio and the Strangest Eolao in the Whole Canton of Ticino
Family Bestiary
To Remake the World
Poesie del camminare
L’incredibile notte di Billy Bologna
Il cortile delle sette fate
A Christmas Tale
A machine’s life
The heart equation
Why you are special
A Story As Long As…
Beco
Just a moment
Fabbriche (Factories)
The great history of writing
Spending time in historical cafés
Lights in Milan
Emma and Dario find their own self-confidence
Tales of the sleeping land
The famous Walker & Dawn Catalogue
Why are factories good for Italy
One million oysters on top of the mountain
Magellan and the treasure of the Moluccas
My foolish aims
Up-to-date road map of all my kisses
The fig leaf
Winnie-the-Pooh: Once there was a bear. Tales of before it all began…
Moby Dick from Herman Melville
Lost sailors
What the tide conceals
What a shell can tell
Nova
The diver
The tide
Comrade Natalia
Tokyo storefronts
Metropolis
The words that made Italy
How to organise a library
The Gothic line
Jack Bennet and the key to all things
Slow river
A Milanese upbringing
Engrave it in your heart
I am a leaf
A Handbook for Rebel Girls: Discovering Your Changing Body
Les riches heures de Jacominus Gainsborough
GIO PONTI
DanteDuck
What a lovely word!
The Place of Men
Mila’s Story
The Ways of Books
The Only Child
The tiger of Noto
We Want the Moon
Old Acquaintances
The Rodriguez Solitaire
The dream box
A Penguin in Trieste
Design made in Italy
I didn’t want to come
Fearless young women
The Pike of Via Lago
The future. Story of an idea
Alice stays at home
Tales from a neighbourhood. Places, faces and memories of Bicocca
When the shooting stopped
The red bird
Viola and the colour blue
The death and life of Bobby Z
Alice through the looking glass
The Greatest
The Man at the Port
Pirelli. Life of an industrial company
I am the Apple
Icons
Shall we be friends?
I’m not going back tonight
Independenza
The emperor’s cook
Mastro Geppetto
Flora
Malala’s story
The maritime republics
Ring a ring-o’ roses
Murdo
The big book of blooms
Midi pile
My friend Dante
Lake water is never sweet
Glorious summers
Blue gold
The giant squid
50 adventures to be experienced before turning 13… During the holidays
The little mermaid and other fairy tales
Wave
Along came Coco: A story about Coco Chanel
If water laughs
And still it bleeds
The book of homes
My Beijing: Four Stories of Everyday Wonder
Sara’s eyes
Green Eggs and Ham
Italians by nature
Cloud atlas
Andre de Dienes. Marilyn
Sea Wife
Grandma loses her words
Knights! To arms!
Urban-planning crime dramas
Atlantis: A Journey in Search of Beauty
How not to love
The Taste of a Lifetime
The poulterer
Ghost stories from Japan
Young beasts
The happiness seller
The Middle Sea
The city of the living
The Humans
The luxury of youth
Penelope’s discipline
The Tunnel
Chewbone the pirate
All the best
The Cloud Designer
No Deaths
The Song of the Tree
A guide to industrial tourism
The Sky Atlas
Heart of Darkness
New architecture in Milan
A secondary school survival handbook
Filastrane
Isle of Joy
Concatenated Fairy Tales
The disoriented
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Human Inhuman Posthuman
It’s My Tree
The five corners of Palermo
The Ickabog
A dead Father Christmas story
The sky
Dante
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
On The Lives of Lemurs
Worm wheel
The bourgeois Pellegrino
The Guggenheim Mystery
And since she
The racetrack of heroes
Rebel ladies
Telephone Tales
Lessons in fantasy
Mafalda
My Magic Breath
Where words begin
Yayoi Kusama
Blackest winter
An illustrated compendium of trees
The Dance of the Gorilla
The Eight Mountains
The Wild Robot
Closed for Holidays
Figureheads
A Book about Whales
The Forbidden Harbour
Let’s Make Colours!
Holiday Homework Book for Adults
Italian boy
Flashlight
Riccardino
Ghoulia
Arzach
Above and Below
The Enchantment of the Moon Fish
With Japanese Steps
Inside the Villains
Tralummescuro
Submersion
The Life, Death, and Miracles of Bonfiglio Liborio
Mister Horizontal & Miss Vertical
The Shadow of the Wind
Space for Everyone
Wandering Plants
Colorama. My Chromatic Sample
Weather
A whale goes to the mountains
The most beautiful country in the world
Chinamen
Where You Once Belonged
Colapesce
Providence
Before Us
The Fox and the Star
The three little pigs
Big Book of Stars and Planets
No Pasarán
This Is the World
Extraordinary Moments with Fake Applause
Young Charlotte: Filmmaker
Things That Go Away
Dante’s Italy
Piccola enciclopedia degli alieni
Three floors
Fables for Robots
L’ultima canzone del Naviglio
Diary of a Sentimental Killer
Twice upon a time there was a baron called Lamberto
Treasure Palaces
Olga and the Smelly Thing from Nowhere
Breve storia del mio silenzio
Furor Mathematicus
Piloti, che gente…
Bob Noorda Design
India Rubber World: more than a century of tyre history encapsulated in a magazine

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Northern Lights

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