Paolo Paolo: 1830 books

Josh will have to reconcile his past… In order to make Kat his future. After surviving a real-life nightmare, Josh Wagner is sent home from his dream college on crutches. Bedridden and tormented by flashbacks, he’s just seen his world shattered and his baseball scholarship go up in smoke....

The essence of art is to conceal art. A dancer or musician does not only need to perform with ability. There should also be a lack of visible effort that gives an impression of naturalness. To disguise technique and feign ease is to heighten beauty. To express this notion, Italian has a word with...

In “The People of Sand and Slag,” a Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated short story, Paolo Bacigalupi weaves a tale about the lives of three technologically modified guards, their barren, heavily mined landscape, and a chance encounter with a creature rare for their time period – a dog.  What...

The Street Kids is the most important novel by Italy's preeminent late-20th Century author and intellectual, Pier Paolo Pasolini. A powerful, groundbreaking contemporary classic, The Street Kids is now available in a new translation by Ann Goldstein, translator of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels.  Set...

Salisedine Episode 1: Salis Escapes. Last night I dreamt of the Moon. It was yellow and full like it is on the roster’s whiteboard and it said to me... Salis, run away. And so begin Salisedine’s adventure. She is called Salis for short. Salis Escapes is the first episode of an illustrated...

Drag kings and sea monsters, switchblade travellers and teacup ghosts—these stories and poems are a mixture of the mundane and the bizarre. Here you’ll find true tales of a son’s death and a girl’s first heartbreak, stories that range from the minutely personal to the transcendently universal. Words...

In this work the author talks about esoteric aspects more or less hidden in comic books. The survey is all-out, from Italian to American comics, franco-Belgian comics, South American, one Japanese. Copyright comics and popular, mainstream and underground. Doctor Strange, Corto Maltese, Sandman and...

This book is a combination of a personal travel experience to the island of Mauritius, a series of fictional short stories based on historical events, and the cultural insights from the author's interviews with Mauritian people. Although Mauritius is one of the top island destinations in the...

From the bestselling author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers, a searing novel of the journey from youth into manhood A heartrending, at times darkly comic but ultimately redemptive novel, Paolo Giordano’s The Human Body is an exploration of brotherhood and family, of modern war and the wars...

Eclectic, unpredictable. Life. Everything that is sung and narrated in this book is real, as far as I, my senses and my writing are real. You decide on the matter. Due to some words and imagery, the book is intended for adults only. And even without those words and imagery it would be. The cover photo is by the author.

In "The Fluted Girl," Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi weaves a tale of the freedoms and shackles of wealth and fame. Lidia is a fluted girl, one of a pair of genetically altered and surgically designed twins, intended to win the hearts and minds of all who observe her...

Magic has a price. But someone else will pay. Every time a spell is cast, a bit of bramble sprouts, sending up tangling vines, bloody thorns, and threatening a poisonous sleep. It sprouts in tilled fields and in neighbors' roof beams, thrusts up from between street cobbles, and bursts forth from...

This book collects two previously released stories, already published at Smashwords. The whole narrative is about a scumbag writer endowed with the gift of humor and vision. A man whose perception will take you on a journey across the extraordinary-in-the-ordinary. It's the story of a seduction, a...

The strange circumstances surrounding the death of the world chess champion and alleged Nazi collaborator Alexander Alekhine, as investigated by a literary grand master On the morning of March 24, 1946, the world chess champion Alexander Alekhine—“sadist of the chess world,” renowned...