Biblioteca civica di Merano, Biblioteca di Sinigo
Trovati 31 documenti.
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 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?
Threads of life : a history of the world through the eye of a needle / Clare Hunter
London : Sceptre, 2020
Titolo e contributi: Threads of life : a history of the world through the eye of a needle / Clare Hunter
Pubblicazione: London : Sceptre, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 305 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9781473687936
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: From political propaganda in medieval France to secret treason in Tudor England, from the mothers of the desaparecidos in Argentina to First World War soldiers with PTSD, from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland, Threads of Life is a global chronicle of identity, protest, memory and politics. Banner-maker, community textile artist and textile curator Clare Hunter chronicles the stories of the men and women, over centuries and across continents, who have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances.
Mr. Wilder & me / Jonathan Coe
London : Penguin, 2020
Titolo e contributi: Mr. Wilder & me / Jonathan Coe
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 245 S ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9780241989715
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: In the heady summer of 1977, a naive young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder, about whom she knows almost nothing. But the time she spends in this glamorous, unfamiliar new life will change her for good. While Calista is thrilled with her new adventure, Wilder himself is living with the realisation that his star may be on the wane. Rebuffed by Hollywood, he has financed his new film with German money, and when Calista follows him to Munich for the shooting of further scenes, she finds herself joining him on a journey of memory into the dark heart of his family history.
Denver : Denver Art Museum, 2020 ; Milan : 5 continents
Titolo e contributi: The american West in art : selection from the Denver Art Museum / edited by Thomas Brent Smith and Jennifer R. Henneman
Pubblicazione: Denver : Denver Art Museum, 2020 ; Milan : 5 continents
Descrizione fisica: 237 p. : ill. ; 28 cm
ISBN: 9788874399369
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Antiracist baby / Ibram X. Kendi ; Ill. by Ashley Lukashevsky
New York : Kokila, 2020
Titolo e contributi: Antiracist baby / Ibram X. Kendi ; Ill. by Ashley Lukashevsky
Pubblicazione: New York : Kokila, 2020
Descrizione fisica: [28] S. : überw. Ill. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780593110508
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Guinea-Bissau
Abstract: From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist comes a new 9x9 picture book that empowers parents and children to uproot racism in our society and in ourselves, now with added discussion prompts to help readers recognize and reflect on bias in their daily lives. Take your first steps with Antiracist Baby! Or rather, follow Antiracist Baby's nine easy steps for building a more equitable world. With bold art and thoughtful yet playful text, Antiracist Baby introduces the youngest readers and the grown-ups in their lives to the concept and power of antiracism. Providing the language necessary to begin critical conversations at the earliest age, Antiracist Baby is the perfect gift for readers of all ages dedicated to forming a just society.
So long, my queen : 4 Kurzgeschichten / Nygel G Harrot ; Alison Romer ; Sarah Trenker
München : Circon, 2020
Compact Sprachwelten : Englisch - Compact Sprachwelten 4 Kurzgeschichten
Titolo e contributi: So long, my queen : 4 Kurzgeschichten / Nygel G Harrot ; Alison Romer ; Sarah Trenker
Pubblicazione: München : Circon, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 127 S. ; 19 cm
Serie: Compact Sprachwelten : Englisch - Compact Sprachwelten 4 Kurzgeschichten
ISBN: 9783817425488
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Guinea-Bissau
Abstract: Ein pensionierter Rosenzüchter fürchtet aufgrund neuer Nachbarn um sein grünes Paradies. Ein skrupelloser Immobilienmakler rechnet bei seinem neuesten Bauvorhaben nicht mit dem Widerstand einer rüstigen alten Frau und rege Vorbereitungen laufen in einem viktorianischen Herrenhaus, denn königlicher Besuch hat sich angemeldet …
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
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.
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.
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
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".
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.
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 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 : 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 : 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?
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.
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 giver of stars / Jojo Moyes
London : Penguin, 2020
Titolo e contributi: The giver of stars / Jojo Moyes
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 470 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9780718183240
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: 'Alice had come halfway across the world to find that, yet again, she was considered wanting. Well, she thought, if that was what everyone thought, she might as well live up to it.' England, late 1930s, and Alice Wright - restless, stifled - makes an impulsive decision to marry wealthy American Bennett Van Cleve and leave her home and family behind. But stuffy, disapproving Baileyville, Kentucky, where her husband favours work over his wife and is dominated by his overbearing father, is not the adventure - or the escape - that she hoped for. That is, until she meets Margery O'Hare, a troublesome woman - and daughter of a notorious felon - the town wishes to forget. Margery's on a mission to spread the wonder of books and reading to the poor and lost - and she needs Alice's help. Trekking alone under big open skies, through wild mountain forests, Alice, Margery and their fellow sisters of the trail discover freedom, friendship - and a life to call their own. But when Baileyville turns against them, will their belief in one another - and the power of the written word - be enough to save them?
