Parole di Seta books

Twelve months, twelve stories, a whole year to live with Jesus in your heart. Through situations close to children’s everyday lives — family, school, parish activities, celebrations and small moments of difficulty — each story gently introduces values such as gratitude, forgiveness, prayer, sharing and caring for others. Designed mainly for children aged 6 to 10, the book follows meaningful moments of the Christian year, from Lent to Easter and First Communion, through to hope and the joy of giving. Each story ends with a thought to keep, turning reading into an opportunity to talk together about faith and everyday life. A book to read month by month, to share at home, in catechism classes or in the parish, helping younger readers discover that even the simplest gesture can become a small seed of love.

Easter does not arrive all at once: it is a journey made of small steps. Through twelve stories connected by a single narrative thread, Small Steps Toward the Light accompanies children through Lent toward Easter, turning ideas that can seem difficult into simple experiences close to their everyday lives. A quarrel to mend, something to learn to give up, a burden to let go of, a gesture to share: each story begins with a small everyday experience and naturally connects it with Gospel values. Questions at the end of the stories invite children and adults to stop, talk and reflect together. Designed for children aged 6 to 10, it can be read at home, in catechism classes or in the parish. Rather than explaining Easter with complicated words, it invites children to experience it as a path toward a light that slowly grows within and around us.

Work, love, organise, care for others, remember everything and, if possible, keep smiling. But what happens when the system can no longer cope? My Multitasking Broke Down begins with the often invisible pressure that shapes the lives of many contemporary women and explores it through reflections and six stories about different women facing exhaustion, identity, relationships, the body, expectations and the need to reclaim space for themselves. Direct, intimate and threaded with irony, the book does not offer formulas for becoming more efficient. It does the opposite: it questions the idea that we must always be able to do everything. Cracks, pauses and “system crashes” become opportunities to change perspective. A book for anyone who has thought, at least once, that she could not keep going — and needs to feel less alone, less inadequate and freer to begin again in her own way.

Be strong, efficient and decisive. Always have an answer. And, if possible, never ask for help. Yet the old model of the man who tackles one thing at a time and solves everything alone seems to work less and less in today’s world. My Monotasking Broke Down explores this change through reflections and six stories about men dealing with work, relationships, fatherhood, the body, identity, loneliness and the difficulty of putting emotions into words. The book looks neither for blame nor for ready-made alternative models. With intimacy and irony, it observes what happens when tools that once seemed sufficient no longer are, and when it becomes necessary to learn to live with complexity, accept vulnerability, ask, listen and slow down. A book for men who have felt, at least once, out of step or out of place — and also for those who would like to understand them better. Because a system in crisis does not always need to be repaired: sometimes it simply needs an update.

Not a manual for becoming more productive, but a space in which to stop and understand what is really happening. My Multitasking Broke Down — A Journal for Surviving Everyday Crashes turns the irony of the “personal operating system” into a practical tool for writing and self-awareness. Its pages guide you to recognise the small crashes of the day, describe how you felt, identify your own “bugs” and imagine a possible update for the day ahead. Questions, writing spaces and short reflections accompany the process without judgement and without promising miraculous solutions. The aim is to observe your reactions, put mistakes into perspective with a little self-irony and recognise what genuinely helps you start again. A journal to use freely, day after day, turning even a difficult day into an opportunity to know yourself better and take care of your most important system: yourself.

What if the life we imagine elsewhere is really a question about the life we are living here? Matteo and Giulia are young, restless and suspended between what they know and what they might become. Travel, departures, London, new opportunities and encounters open different possibilities before them, but both soon discover that changing cities does not necessarily mean being able to change themselves. A Window to Elsewhere explores the desire to leave and the more difficult desire to understand who we really are. It is a story of choices, relationships, expectations, nostalgia and identity, in which “elsewhere” gradually stops being only a geographical place and becomes an inner space. A novel for anyone who has ever looked out of a window and wondered what a different life might have been like. For those who left, those who would like to leave, and those who discovered that some of the most important distances are not measured in kilometres.

Casablanca, 1942. In a city crossed by soldiers, smugglers, diplomats and spies, a mysterious diplomatic package disappears without a trace. It is not stolen: it seems simply to have slipped out of time. Many years later, in present-day London, Adrian Walner discovers that some dreams do not end when we wake. A ticket, strange encounters and figures who seem to know what he himself does not draw him toward Casablanca and into a reality where memory, dreams and History begin to overlap. The first volume of The Chronicles of the Wandering Dreamer, Casablanca blends adventure, historical atmosphere, mystery, irony and fantasy. The Weavers, the Fabric and the secrets of the Keeper of Time gradually open an universe in which even memories can be altered or erased. A story for readers who love novels that begin in the real world and, page by page, open doors onto something much larger. And when time itself begins to unravel, remembering may become the only way to survive.

Dreams do not end at dawn. And for Adrian Walner, after what happened in Casablanca, they are no longer even a refuge. In the second volume of The Chronicles of the Wandering Dreamer, Adrian now knows that he is a Node in the Fabric — something the Weavers cannot ignore. The mysterious ticket that carries him across different eras and realities is not simply an object: it seems to choose for itself where and when to take him. Among erased libraries, trains without tracks, memories that can be taken away and places suspended in time, the story resumes exactly where Casablanca ended and gradually expands the boundaries of its narrative universe. The Ark of Time delves deeper into memory, identity and destiny, driving Adrian and his companions toward an increasingly unsettling question: if the past can be rewritten, who decides which future deserves to exist? A broader, darker sequel for readers who have already crossed the first part of the Fabric and are ready to discover how much remembering can cost.