At Giunti Odeon the traditional Sunday appointment with the great Disney and Pixar classics! To see and see again the great animated films that over many years have enchanted generations of viewers, young and old!

At Giunti Odeon the traditional Sunday appointment with the great Disney and Pixar classics! To see and see again the great animated films that over many years have enchanted generations of viewers, young and old!

Our beloved GO Book Club will take the stage to welcome Rachel Khong with the presentation of this month’s featured book: Real Ameericans. For the occasion, the author will be in conversation with Samuele Massini.

The Book

Real Americans is a family saga spanning three generations and two continents, exploring the boundaries between social class and ambition, roots and legacy, science and nature. Rachel Khong shows us that the future can be shaped by those who have the courage and power to invent it, while happiness is a gift of the present—available to those who embrace life’s unpredictable simplicity.

It’s the eve of the new millennium in New York when Lily Chen, a 22-year-old intern at an online magazine, meets Matthew. He is everything she is not: carefree, charming, a true New Yorker—and heir to a pharmaceutical empire. Lily, by contrast, is a small-town girl with no money, the daughter of immigrant scientists who fled Mao’s Cultural Revolution and found in the United States the opportunity to pursue cutting-edge genetic research.
Despite their differences, Lily and Matthew fall deeply in love, and their union gives birth to Nick. Years later, in 2021, Nick—now fifteen—lives in Washington State with his mother, who has always denied him the chance to meet his father. Determined to uncover the truth, the boy secretly sets out to find him, risking dangerous revelations about his past and his family’s identity.

The Author

Rachel Khong grew up in Southern California and graduated from Yale University and the University of Florida. Her stories and essays have appeared in Joyland, American Short Fiction, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Believer, and California Sunday.
Her novels include Goodbye, Vitamin (NN Editore, 2019) and Real Americans (NN Editore, 2025).

A new #AutografiaGOgò event is here! ✨
Ribes Halley is back — this time with Unrepentant. Redenti (Magazzini Salani).

Please note: no passes will be distributed for the signing session.

About the book:
Months have passed since Kerys Westwood’s abduction, but even though she’s free, the nightmares have never really faded. She remembers nothing of those terrible weeks — only that her kidnapper is still out there, and she can’t make peace with that.

When the “game master” targeting the Criminology internship students of Professor Bonavick strikes again, Kerys knows she has to shake off her fear and face this new mystery — even if it means working once more beside Davil Crain. She’s hated him. She’s wanted him. And now, she has to trust him again, despite the pain of what he hid from her: while assisting Professor Bonavick as a consultant, Davil had been secretly investigating her — his own student.

As the line between ally and suspect blurs, Kerys and Davil are drawn into a dangerous new web of events seemingly designed to destroy them both. And when Davil’s dark past resurfaces, threatening to consume everything, Kerys will have to decide who she can truly trust — if anyone at all.

About the author:
Ribes Halley is an Italian author with a degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences. She has always loved writing stories of every kind. A passionate fan of TV series and fanfiction, she began creating her own because she loves to reimagine her favorite characters, real or fictional.

Since 2022, she has published the Dance of Bulls series with Sperling & Kupfer. In 2024, she released Lonely Hearts, the first volume of the Chemical Hearts saga, followed by Fragile Hearts. Chemical Hearts Vol. 2.
In 2025, she publishes Unrepentant. Impenitenti with Salani.

Stefano Tiozzo, in conversation with Swami Akash, will talk about his latest book Dalla mente al cuore. La ricerca della felicità secondo lo yoga della devozione (Sperling & Kupfer).

The Book:
What does it truly mean to be happy? And where can we find that sense of balance that so often seems to slip away amidst the demands of everyday life, our disappointments and hopes, our dreams and the clash with reality?

Stefano Tiozzo — photographer, documentary filmmaker, and content creator — has decided to share his story, starting from the universal human experience of moving through cycles of fleeting joys and deep sorrows, to the realization that if the cause of our ongoing suffering lies outside of us, perhaps happiness must be sought within.

Through a spiritual journey rooted in Hindu devotional culture — thanks to a miraculous encounter with his spiritual teacher, Paramahamsa Vishwananda — the author traces an existential journey while also introducing the foundations of an ancient philosophical and religious tradition.

This is not a religious treatise or a theology manual, but rather an invitation to look within, through the eyes of a traveler who, despite journeying across the world, discovers that the most important path one can take is the one bridging the mind and the heart.

Tiozzo guides readers on an itinerary that intertwines personal narrative and spiritual discovery, explaining concepts such as dharma, karma, yoga, the role of spiritual masters, and the timeless teachings of the Bhagavad Gītā as tools for regaining direction and living with greater awareness.

A book for those seeking answers — or simply wishing to reach that inner peace that arises when we learn to see the world through the lens of love, following the principles of Bhakti Yoga, the yoga of devotion.

The Author:
STEFANO TIOZZO (born in Turin, 1985) is a landscape photographer, documentary filmmaker, and storyteller specializing in travel. After earning a degree in Dentistry and practicing for eight years, he left his medical career to dedicate his life to sharing the beauty and diversity of the world through his YouTube channel — one of Italy’s most popular travel-focused platforms.

He leads photographic expeditions to some of the world’s most fascinating places and teaches courses and lectures on the Bhagavad Gītā, which he studied under the guidance of his spiritual master, Paramahamsa Vishwananda.

He is the author of The Soul Travels One Step at a Time, A Choice of Love, and The Other Side of Russia (TS Edizioni), and contributed to Travel Blogger, a geography textbook for middle schools published by Mondadori Educational.

In 2022, he hosted the television series Storie di palazzi on La7.

Exactly fifty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini's tragic death, five meetings dedicated to the great director will allow participants to venture into one of the most original and exciting authorial journeys in the entire history of cinema. Pasolini explored the possibilities of cinematic language from a very personal point of view, defining it as “the written language of reality”, capable of showing the changes and contradictions of Italian society at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. This research brings together some of Pasolini's great cultural influences, including Marxism, religion, myth, the body and painting, which were never separate from one another.

Meeting 4: Utopias and disillusions

For Pasolini, the second half of the 1960s represented the decline of utopia in a country that the director saw as increasingly doomed to self-destruction. These were years of progressive and melancholic disillusionment: with Uccellacci e uccellini (The Hawks and the Sparrows, 1965), La Terra vista dalla Luna (The Earth Seen from the Moon, 1966) and Che cosa sono le nuvole? (1967), Pasolini explored the form of satirical allegory, while Teorema (1968) was the film that marked Pasolini's conscious intellectual isolation and definitive condemnation of the Italian bourgeoisie.

Anna De Simone and Ana Maria Sepe (@Psicoadvisor) will take the stage at GO to present Lascia che la felicità accada (Rizzoli), a book that weaves together psychoanalysis and neuroscience to teach us not to mistake survival for strength — but to finally build a kind of happiness that truly happens.

The Book

Have you ever wondered why happiness always seems to slip away? Why you so often feel that something is missing? It’s not an illusion: we are prisoners of beliefs and automatic patterns that drive us to seek joy elsewhere, tying it to what we don’t yet have or to what we still need to achieve. And so, happiness becomes an endless chase, constantly postponed to a “better tomorrow.”

In reality, the root of well-being lies within us — in our ability to recognize, understand, and transform emotions. Every day, often without realizing it, we let thoughts and moods guide our choices and shape our relationships: we judge ourselves for our weaknesses, suppress anger or fear, and try to be different from who we truly are.

Learning to read emotions — our own and others’ — is the first step toward changing perspective and building a life in harmony with who we really are. This is where emotional education, the core of Ana Maria Sepe and Anna De Simone’s method, comes in.

Their approach combines scientific evidence, psychology, and practical exercises, guiding us on a journey of daily self-awareness. Page after page, you’ll discover how to welcome emotions without being overwhelmed by them, turn vulnerability into strength, and learn to manage inner conflicts constructively.

Because happiness isn’t a finish line to be reached at all costs, but a condition that occurs when we stop chasing it and start living it — in the present. Choosing to let it happen means granting ourselves the freedom to feel, to truly know ourselves, and to open up to a more authentic dimension of being.

The Authors

Anna De Simone
(Naples, 1987) — Graduated in Psychology and specialized in Neuroscience, she is an expert in behavioral genetics. A grounded person who appreciates the small joys of life, she loves exploring the sea and its depths — even in winter.

Ana Maria Sepe
(Caracas, 1965) — Graduated in Psychology, she is an expert in personality studies and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator model. A resilient woman, her greatest passion is writing novels and poetry.

Stefania Zani will be at Giunti Odeon to present Siamo anima. Riconoscersi oltre il tempo: il disegno invisibile degli incontri che cambiano la vita (Piemme), together with Michela D’Inca.

The Book:
This book is a map for those who feel they are on a journey — an opportunity to reread one’s personal story in the light of the Soul’s eternity, discovering that every encounter, even the most painful, carries within it a possibility for transformation, and an invitation to listen to the silent voice that guides us beyond time.

Siamo anima is the fruit of a personal journey and years of spiritual research exploring life’s deepest mystery: who we truly are.
We do not possess a Soul — we are Soul, an eternal spark moving through lives and incarnations, traveling across experiences, relationships, and challenges in order to remember itself.

With an intimate and authentic voice, the author weaves together ancient wisdom, Kabbalah, spiritual traditions, and her own lived experience to guide us toward discovering the invisible design behind the encounters, separations, and soul recognitions that shape our destiny.

Within these pages we meet Soul Families, karmic bonds, Soul Sisters and Companions, and ultimately face the dizzying experience of meeting the Twin Flame — an event that shatters all certainties and propels us toward profound awakening.
Through synchronicities, trials, wounds, and gifts, the subtle threads connecting our lives emerge, revealing that nothing happens by chance.

The Author:
Stefania Zani is an Italian spiritual researcher. She studied aromatherapy and, in 2021, created Le Essenziali, a deck of cards inspired by essential oils and their connection to the psychic, emotional, and energetic dimensions of life.

In 2024, she founded Accademia Essenziale, a project that allows her to share her knowledge and help the many students who attend her courses to connect with their own Essence and bring it into the world.

She leads numerous seminars and workshops — both independently and in collaboration with other professionals — guiding each person to recognize themselves as Soul.

Highly followed on social media, she has a community of over 100,000 followers.
In 2025, she publishes with Piemme Siamo anima. Riconoscersi oltre il tempo: il disegno invisibile degli incontri che cambiano la vita.

Exactly fifty years after Pier Paolo Pasolini's tragic death, five meetings dedicated to the great director will allow participants to venture into one of the most original and exciting authorial journeys in the entire history of cinema. Pasolini explored the possibilities of cinematic language from a very personal point of view, defining it as “the written language of reality”, capable of showing the changes and contradictions of Italian society at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. This research brings together some of Pasolini's great cultural influences, including Marxism, religion, myth, the body and painting, which were never separate from one another.

Meeting 5: In search of the lost myth

In the last part of his career, Pasolini confronted one of the strongest cultural roots of his artistic and intellectual journey: Greek myth. First in Oedipus Rex (1969) and then in Medea (1970), Pasolini showed a strength and richness still available to man today, myth being the dark and vital core of lived experience. This theme continued in the three films of the “trilogy of life”, only to be interrupted in his last film, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975).

The illustrator Elena Triolo will join us to present her book L'oro bianco. Il segreto rivelato (Gallucci Balloon).
Joining her on stage will be Livia Frescobaldi (President of Amici di Doccia), Oliva Rucellai (Chief Curator of the Ginori Museum), and Pierdomenico Baccalario, who will moderate the event.

The Book:
From the European courts to the Tuscan hills, the story of porcelain tells a journey through Italian craftsmanship — a tale of dreams, work, and passion.
Through the voices of six characters, blending reality and imagination, we relive the birth and development of the Ginori manufactory in a choral narrative that brings to life the beauty of this extraordinary material, capable of uniting eras and destinies.

The Author:
Born in 1988, Elena Triolo graduated in Comics and earned a degree in Art History.
She first gained recognition on social media, where she published a series of witty comic strips, and began collaborating with Hop! Edizioni, which led to several published works.

She has worked with the Galileo Museum in Florence, illustrating educational materials for museum learning, and has published with major Italian publishers including Kleiner Flug, BD, DeAgostini, Rizzoli, Hoepli, Giunti, Mondadori, and Sperling & Kupfer.