Thursday, Jan. 15
Luigi Manconi -"The Disappearance of Colors"
The author's intimate and highly personal battle with the progressive darkness of blindness.
With remote intervention by the author
Thursday, Jan. 22
Helga Schneider - "Let Me Go Mother"
The author remembers that mother who abandoned two children in 1943 to follow her vocation: to be a full-time SS woman and work in the Führer's concentration camps
Thursday, Feb. 5
Poetry and humor in the work of Stefano Benni
Comic and paradoxical, adventurous and fantastic: Stefano Benni's books skillfully mix all these ingredients, bringing them together in poetic and visionary pages
Thursday, Feb. 19
Tahar ben Jelloun - "Racism Explained to My Daughter"
The author's 10-year-old daughter turns to her father to try to clarify to ste herself the meaning of the word racism
Thursday, March 5
Concita De Gregorio - "One Last Thing"
A chorus of banned women, excluded, scandalous in the eyes of the world, here take the floor for the last time and tell of themselves without leaving a right of reply
Thursday, March 12
Melody E. Chavis - "Never Will I Go Back"
The story of Meena, an Afghan student, and her commitment carried out with absolute courage in an increasingly clandestine, persecuted existence, until her assassination in 1987 by fundamentalists and the KGB
Thursday, March 26
Mary Shelley - "Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus"
One of the myths of literature, rooted in human fears. The "creature," life spawned by death, is the embodiment of the different, the unknowable and as such causes terror
Thursday, April 23
Alessandro d'Avenia - "The Appeal"
A class of difficult teenagers, from a jumble of isolated instruments becomes an orchestra conducted by a blind maestro. Teacher and teens will discover together that the world's out-of-tune voices are all connected by a single breath.
Thursday, May 21
Wayne W. Dyer - "Your Wrong Zones"
How to overcome the resistance that separates us from happiness and always choose according to our will, dispelling fears of the future and living our present with fullness.
