Biblioteca civica di Merano, Biblioteca di Sinigo
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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 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?
Summer of '69 / Elin Hilderbrand
London : Hodder and Stoughton, 2020
Titolo e contributi: Summer of '69 / Elin Hilderbrand
Pubblicazione: London : Hodder and Stoughton, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 421S. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781529374766
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century . . . Every year the Levin children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic island home, but this year it's not to be. Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby is caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests with her friend Mary Jo Kopechne. And Tiger, the only son, has just been deployed to Vietnam. Thirteen-year-old Jessie, the youngest of them all, suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother who is hiding secrets of her own . . .
London : HarperCollins, 2020
Titolo e contributi: Postscript / Cecelia Ahern
Pubblicazione: London : HarperCollins, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 383 S. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 9780008125165
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: It's been seven years since Holly Kennedy's husband died - six since she read his final letter, urging Holly to find the courage to forge a new life. She's proud of all the ways in which she has grown and evolved. But when a group inspired by Gerry's letters, calling themselves the PS, I Love You Club, approaches Holly asking for help, she finds herself drawn back into a world that she worked so hard to leave behind. Reluctantly, Holly begins a relationship with the club, even as their friendship threatens to destroy the peace she believes she has achieved. As each of these people calls upon Holly to help them leave something meaningful behind for their loved ones, Holly will embark on a remarkable journey - one that will challenge her to ask whether embracing the future means betraying the past, and what it means to love someone forever..
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
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 : 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
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 . . .
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 animals at lockwood mano / Jane Healey
London : Mantle, 2020
Titolo e contributi: The animals at lockwood mano / Jane Healey
Pubblicazione: London : Mantle, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 337 S. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781529014181
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Thirty-year-old Hetty Cartwright is tasked with the evacuation and safekeeping of the natural history museum's collection of mammals. Once she and her exhibits arrive at Lockwood Manor, however, where they are to stay for the duration of the war, Hetty soon realizes that she's taken on more than she'd bargained for. Protecting her charges from the irascible Lord Lockwood and resentful servants is work enough, but when some of the animals go missing, and worse, Hetty begins to suspect someone - or something - is stalking her through the darkened corridors of the house. As the disasters mount, Hetty finds herself falling under the spell of Lucy, Lord Lockwood's beautiful but clearly haunted daughter. But why is Lucy so traumatized? Does she know something she's not telling? And is there any truth to local rumours of ghosts and curses?
The School of Life : an emotional education / Alain de Botton and The School of Life
London : Penguin, 2020
Titolo e contributi: The School of Life : an emotional education / Alain de Botton and The School of Life
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 309 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9780241985830
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: This is a book about everything you were never taught at school. It's about how to understand your emotions, find and sustain love, succeed in your career, fail well and overcome shame and guilt. It's also about letting go of the myth of a perfect life in order to achieve genuine emotional maturity.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'.
