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Born and raised in Verona (Italy), I've always lived to surround myself with books, so it may be a sort of karma that I ended up being a bookseller and an indie author. A fantasy reader since a kid, a Tolkien nerd almost as long, I've always being fascinated with history and old black-and-white mystery films, which may or may not have had a way in my involvement in the dieselpunk community. "Ghosts Through the Cracks" is my first publish novella. I'm currently working at more historical fantasy stories set in the 1920s. ...more

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	Ghosts Through the Cracks 3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cutlass and Musket, Tales of Piratical Skullduggery by Jessica A. Weiss (Editor), M.S. Gardner, Michael A. Ventrella (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Eights by Joanna Miller (Book Review)

An impressively realistic depiction of post-WWI Oxford and the first women gaining a degree at the university.

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Miss Bee e il cadavere in biblioteca (Miss Bee #1)

by Alessia Gazzola

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Tales from the Perilous Realm

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Dracula

by Bram Stoker

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So, not easy to talk about this novel because, first of all, I’m not even sure it is a novel. It rather feels more like a collection of episodes related to a crucial time in the fight for women’s rights in Great Britain. And in that regard, it is ver ...more
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Una storia gotica breve, ma intensa. Invernale. Con atmosfere non solo cube, ma macabre. Una vendetta terribile, inesorabile, che sembra lanciata da una sposa in procinto di morire… ma sarà così? La parte centrale della storia è spesso quella più lent ...more
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