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The narrow road to the deep north / Matsuo Bashō ; translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa
London : Penguin, 2020
Penguin classics
Titolo e contributi: The narrow road to the deep north / Matsuo Bashō ; translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 133 S. : Ill., Kt. ; 19 cm
Serie: Penguin classics
ISBN: 9780241382615
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: When the Japanese haiku master Basho composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North, he was an ardent student of Zen Buddhism, setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world and bring spiritual enlightenment. He writes of the seasons changing, the smell of the rain, the brightness of the moon and the beauty of the waterfall, through which he sensed the mysteries of the universe. These writings not only chronicle Basho's travels, but they also capture his vision of eternity in the transient world around him.
Ghosts : a novel / Dolly Alderton
London : Fig tree, 2020
Titolo e contributi: Ghosts : a novel / Dolly Alderton
Pubblicazione: London : Fig tree, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 337 S. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9780241465332
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood. When she meets Max, a beguiling romantic hero who tells her on date one that he's going to marry her, it feels like all is going to plan. A new relationship couldn't have come at a better time - her thirties have not been the liberating, uncomplicated experience she was sold. Everywhere she turns, she is reminded of time passing and opportunities dwindling. Friendships are fading, ex-boyfriends are moving on and, worse, everyone's moving to the suburbs. There's no solace to be found in her family, with a mum who's caught in a baffling mid-life makeover and a beloved dad who is vanishing in slow-motion into dementia.
Death on the Nile / Agatha Christie
London : Harper Collins Publishers, 2020
Titolo e contributi: Death on the Nile / Agatha Christie
Pubblicazione: London : Harper Collins Publishers, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 373 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9780007119325
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything – until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: ‘I’d like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.’ Yet in this exotic setting nothing is ever quite what it seems…
London : Vintage Books, 2020
Titolo e contributi: Machines like me / Ian McEwan
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage Books, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 303 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9781529111262
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan's subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart?
The liberation of Brigid Dunne : a novel / Patricia Scanlan
New York : Atria, 2020
Titolo e contributi: The liberation of Brigid Dunne : a novel / Patricia Scanlan
Pubblicazione: New York : Atria, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 433 S. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9781501181054
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Marie-Claire has just made the shocking discovery that her boyfriend (and business partner) is cheating on her. Reeling, she leaves her apartment in Toronto to travel home to Ireland, hoping the comfort of her family and a few familiar faces will ground her. She arrives just in time to celebrate her beloved great-aunt Reverend Mother Brigid's retirement and eightieth birthday. It will be a long-awaited and touching reunion for three generations of her family, bringing her mother Keelin and grandmother Imelda--who have never quite gotten along--together as well.
London : Penguin, 2020
Titolo e contributi: The Europeans / Orlando Figes
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 551 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9780141979434
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Afterlives / Abdulrazak Gurnah
London : Bloomsbury, 2020
Titolo e contributi: Afterlives / Abdulrazak Gurnah
Pubblicazione: London : Bloomsbury, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 275 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9781526615893
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own people, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Another young man returns at the same time. Hamza was not stolen for the war, but sold into it; he has grown up at the right hand of an officer whose protection has marked him life. With nothing but the clothes on his back, he seeks only work and security - and the love of the beautiful Afiya. As fate knots these young people together, as they live and work and fall in love, the shadow of a new war on another continent lengthens and darkens, ready to snatch them up and carry them away..
The book of boro : techniques and patterns inspired by traditional Japanese textiles / Susan Briscoe
Exeter : David & Charles, 2020
Titolo e contributi: The book of boro : techniques and patterns inspired by traditional Japanese textiles / Susan Briscoe
Pubblicazione: Exeter : David & Charles, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 127 S. : zahlr. Ill. ; 28 cm
ISBN: 9781446308325
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: The word boro comes from the Japanese boroboro meaning something tattered or repaired. It refers to textiles that have been mended or patched together for utilitarian, not decorative, purposes to make the fabric stronger and warmer, and to mend torn and threadbare areas. Learn about the history of boro and how it is being revived for a new audience using contemporary fabrics including denim, linen and shibori tie dye as well as sashiko and other embroidery stitches.
Girl, woman, other / Bernadine Evaristo
London : Penguin books, 2020
Titolo e contributi: Girl, woman, other / Bernadine Evaristo
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin books, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 453 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9780241984994
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope . . .
London : Penguin books, 2020
Titolo e contributi: The poison squad : one chemist's single-minded crusade for food safety at the turn of the tweentieth century / Deborah Blum
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin books, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 453 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9780143111122
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: By the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous. Lethal, even. "Milk" might contain formaldehyde, most often used to embalm corpses. Decaying meat was preserved with both salicylic acid, a pharmaceutical chemical, and borax, a compound first identified as a cleaning product. This was not by accident; food manufacturers had rushed to embrace the rise of industrial chemistry, and were knowingly selling harmful products. Unchecked by government regulation, basic safety, or even labelling requirements, they put profit before the health of their customers. By some estimates, in New York City alone, thousands of children were killed by "embalmed milk" every year. Citizens--activists, journalists, scientists, and women's groups--began agitating for change. But even as protective measures were enacted in Europe, American corporations blocked even modest regulations. Then, in 1883, Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, a chemistry professor from Purdue University, was named chief chemist of the agriculture department, and the agency began methodically investigating food and drink fraud, even conducting shocking human tests on groups of young men who came to be known as, "The Poison Squad." Over the next thirty years, a titanic struggle took place, with the courageous and fascinating Dr. Wiley campaigning indefatigably for food safety and consumer protection. Together with a gallant cast, including the muckraking reporter Upton Sinclair, whose fiction revealed the horrific truth about the Chicago stockyards; Fannie Farmer, then the most famous cookbook author in the country; and Henry J. Heinz, one of the few food producers who actively advocated for pure food, Dr. Wiley changed history. When the landmark 1906 Food and Drug Act was finally passed, it was known across the land, as "Dr. Wiley's Law." Blum brings to life this timeless and hugely satisfying "David and Goliath" tale with righteous verve and style, driving home the moral imperative of confronting corporate gree
Mantel Pieces. Royal bodies and other writing from the London Review of Books / Hilary Mantel
London : 4th Estate, 2020
Titolo e contributi: Mantel Pieces. Royal bodies and other writing from the London Review of Books / Hilary Mantel
Pubblicazione: London : 4th Estate, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 329 S. : Ill. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9780008430009
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, 'I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.' This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three decades, tells the story of what happened next. Her subjects range far and wide: Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia where she lived for four years in the 1980s, the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, a brilliant examination of Helen Duncan, Britain's last witch. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher Marlowe and Margaret Pole, which display the astonishing insight into the Tudor mind we are familiar with from the bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy. Her famous lecture, 'Royal Bodies', which caused a media frenzy, explores the place of royal women in society and our imagination. Here too are some of her LRB diaries, including her first meeting with her stepfather and a confrontation with a circus strongman.
The man in the red coat / Julian Barnes
London : Vintage Books, 2020
Titolo e contributi: The man in the red coat / Julian Barnes
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage Books, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 266 S. : Ill. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9781529112313
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. The commoner was Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker - a scientific man with a famously complicated private life.
London : Arrow books, 2020
Titolo e contributi: Miss Austen / Gill Hornby
Pubblicazione: London : Arrow books, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 387 S. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 9781787462830
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Throughout her lifetime, Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did Cassandra burn them all? 1840: twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury, and the home of her family's friends, the Fowles. She knows that, in some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage, there is a cache of family letters which hold secrets she can never allow to be revealed. As Cassandra recalls her youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet complex sister, she pieces together buried truths about Jane's history, and her own. And she faces a stark choice: should she act to protect Jane's reputation, or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into posterity?
Redhead by the side of the road : a novel / Anne Tyler
New York : Knopf, 2020
Titolo e contributi: Redhead by the side of the road : a novel / Anne Tyler
Pubblicazione: New York : Knopf, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 178 S ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9781524711740
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These surprises, and the ways they throw Micah's meticulously organized life off-kilter, risk changing him forever.
The Night manager / John Le Carré ; retold by Anna Trewin
New ed.
Harlow : Pearson Education, 2020
Penguin readers. Level 5
Titolo e contributi: The Night manager / John Le Carré ; retold by Anna Trewin
New ed.
Pubblicazione: Harlow : Pearson Education, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 96 S. : Ill. ; 20 cm
Serie: Penguin readers. Level 5
ISBN: 978024143096
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Jonathan Pine is the Night Manager of a hotel in Egypt. When he is shown some secret information, he passes it to a man in the British government. But things go wrong and the woman he loves dies. Pine is very angry and agrees to work with others to catch Richard Roper - the "worst man in the world".
The shape of night : a novel / Tess Gerritsen
New York : Ballantine books, 2020
Titolo e contributi: The shape of night : a novel / Tess Gerritsen
Pubblicazione: New York : Ballantine books, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 350 S. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 9780593159866
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: After an unspeakable tragedy in Boston, Ava Collette flees to a remote village in Maine, where she rents an old house named Brodie’s Watch. In that isolated seaside mansion, Ava finally feels at peace . . . until she glimpses the long-dead sea captain who still resides there. Rumor has it that Captain Jeremiah Brodie has haunted the house for more than a century. One night, Ava confronts the apparition, who feels all too real, and who welcomes her into his world—and into his arms. Even as Ava questions her own sanity, she eagerly looks forward to the captain’s ghostly visits. But she soon learns that the house she loves comes with a terrible secret, a secret that those in the village don’t want to reveal: Every woman who has ever lived in Brodie’s Watch has also died there. Is the ghost of Captain Brodie responsible, or is a flesh-and-blood killer at work? A killer who is even now circling closer to Ava?
London : Hodder, 2020
Titolo e contributi: The guardians / John Grisham
Pubblicazione: London : Hodder, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 373 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9781473684621
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
London : William Heinemann, 2020
Titolo e contributi: Trace elements / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : William Heinemann, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 278 S. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781785152443
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in responding. 'They killed him. It was bad money. I told him no', Benedetta Toso gasps the words about her recently-deceased husband, Vittorio Fadalto. Even though he is not sure she can hear him Brunetti softly promises he and Griffoni will look into what initially appears to be a private family tragedy. They discover that Fadalto worked in the field collecting samples of contamination for a company that measures the cleanliness of Venice's water supply and that he had died in a mysterious motorcycle accident. Distracted briefly by Vice Questore Patta's obsession with youth crime in Venice, Brunetti is bolstered once more by the remarkable research skills of Patta's secretary, Signora Elettra Zorzi. Piecing together the tangled threads, in time Brunetti comes to realize the perilous meaning in the woman's accusation and the threat it reveals to the health of the entire region. But justice in this case proves to be ambiguous, as Brunetti is reminded it can be when, seeking solace, he reads Aeschylus's classic play The Eumenides.
London : Picador, 2020
Titolo e contributi: The cofession / Jessie Burton
Pubblicazione: London : Picador, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 450 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9781509886180
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows Connie to LA, a city of strange dreams and swimming pools and late-night gatherings of glamorous people. But whilst Connie thrives on the heat and electricity of this new world where everyone is reaching for the stars and no one is telling the truth, Elise finds herself floundering. When she overhears a conversation at a party that turns everything on its head, Elise makes an impulsive decision that will change her life forever. Three decades later, Rose Simmons is seeking answers about her mother, who disappeared when she was a baby. Having learned that the last person to see her was Constance Holden, a reclusive novelist who withdrew from public life at the peak of her fame, Rose is drawn to the door of Connie's imposing house in search of a confession . . .
The ratline : love, lies and justice on the trail of a nazi fugitive / Philippe Sands
London : Weidenfeld Nicolson, 2020
Titolo e contributi: The ratline : love, lies and justice on the trail of a nazi fugitive / Philippe Sands
Pubblicazione: London : Weidenfeld Nicolson, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 411 S. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9781474608138
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadefuhrer Otto Freiherr von Wachter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for 'mass murder'. Hunted by the Soviets, the Americans, the Poles and the British, as well as groups of Jews, Wachter went on the run. He spent three years hiding in the Austrian Alps, assisted by his wife Charlotte, before making his way to Rome where he was helped by a Vatican bishop. He remained there for three months. While preparing to travel to Argentina on the 'ratline' he died unexpectedly, in July 1949, a few days after spending a weekend with an 'old comrade'.
