Trovati 104 documenti.
The hanging wood / Martin Edwards
London : Allison & Busby, 2012
Titolo e contributi: The hanging wood / Martin Edwards
Pubblicazione: London : Allison & Busby, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 350 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780749011529
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Twenty years after her brother Callum mysteriously vanished, Orla Payne is still haunted by his disappearance. The case was closed after her uncle's suicide - the police believed he killed himself in the Hanging Wood out of guilt over murdering the boy, even though no body was ever found. Daniel Kind recommends Orla contact DCI Hannah Scarlett, head of the Lake District's Cold Case Review Team, to see if she can discover the truth about what really happened all those years ago. In spite of the DCI's doubt there is anything to be done on such a long-dead case, when Orla is found dead, she reconsiders, partly out of sense of duty and partly out of guilt, and discovers that investigating the past can throw up some very dangerous truths indeed.
London [etc.] : Simon & Schuster, 2012
Titolo e contributi: Archipelago / Monique Roffey
Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Simon & Schuster, 2012
Descrizione fisica: [6], 360 p. ; 25 cm
ISBN: 9781849838757
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: When a flood destroys Gavin Weald’s home in Trinidad and rips his family apart, life as he knows it will never be the same. A year later he returns to his house and tries to start over, but when the rainy season arrives, his daughter’s nightmares about the torrents make life there unbearable. So father and daughter—and their dog—embark upon a voyage to make peace with the waters. Their journey takes them far from their Caribbean island home, as they sail through archipelagos, encounter the grandeur of the sea, and meet with the challenges and surprises of the natural world.
New York : Europa, 2012
Neapolitan novels [Europa] ; 1
Titolo e contributi: My brilliant friend : childhood, adolescence.. book 1 / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein
Pubblicazione: New York : Europa, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 331 p. ; 21 cm
Serie: Neapolitan novels [Europa] ; 1
ISBN: 9781609450786
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: A modern masterpiece from one of Italy’s most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante’s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship..
London : Penguin, 2012
Penguin modern classics
Titolo e contributi: The collected stories of Rumpole / John Mortimer ; edited by Chloe Campbell ; with an introduction by Sam Leith
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin, 2012
Descrizione fisica: XIII, 636, [1] p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Penguin modern classics
ISBN: 9780141198293
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
The expanse.. book 1. Leviathan wakes
London : Orbit, 2012
Titolo e contributi: The expanse.. book 1. Leviathan wakes
Pubblicazione: London : Orbit, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 561 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781841499895
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.
London [etc.] : Simon & Schuster, 2012
Titolo e contributi: Hopeless / Colleen Hoover
Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Simon & Schuster, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 408 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781471133435
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Sky, a senior in high school, meets Dean Holder, a guy with a promiscuous reputation that rivals her own. From their very first encounter, he terrifies and captivates her. Something about him sparks memories of her deeply troubled past, a time she’s tried so hard to bury. Though Sky is determined to stay far away from him, his unwavering pursuit and enigmatic smile break down her defenses and the intensity of the bond between them grows..
I've got your number / Sophie Kinsella
London : Black Swan, 2012
Titolo e contributi: I've got your number / Sophie Kinsella
Pubblicazione: London : Black Swan, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 458, [1] p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780552774406
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: The only thing in the world I wasn’t supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It’s been in Magnus’s family for three generations. And now, the very same day his parents are coming, I’ve lost it. The very same day. Do not hyperventilate, Poppy. Stay positive!! :) A couple of glasses of bubbly with the girls and Poppy’s life has gone into meltdown. Not only has she lost her engagement ring, but in the panic that followed, she’s lost her phone too. When she spots an abandoned phone in a bin it seems it was meant to be . . . Finders Keepers! Except the phone’s owner, elusive businessman Sam Roxton, doesn’t agree. He wants his phone back, and doesn’t appreciate Poppy reading all his messages and wading into his personal life. Can things get any more tangled?
Missing persons / Nicci Gerrard
London : Penguin books, 2012
Titolo e contributi: Missing persons / Nicci Gerrard
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin books, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 440, [1] p. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 9780241950074
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: When Jonny went missing everything changed. His mother's heart is full of terror and sadness instead of joy. His father's study overflows with newspaper cuttings and profiles on missing people instead of the academic texts that were there before. His sister, once carefree, now carries the weight of the world on her shoulders. His bedroom at home remains untouched and ready for his return. A place is set for him at the table on Christmas day each year. His birthday is always celebrated; his unopened gifts gather dust. The hands on the clock continue to turn and yet Jonny hasn't returned.
The last gift / Abdulrazak Gurnah
London [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2012
Titolo e contributi: The last gift / Abdulrazak Gurnah
Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2012
Descrizione fisica: [4], 279 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781408821855
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Abbas has never told anyone about his past-before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a Boots in Exeter, before they settled into a quiet life in Norwich with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that renders him bedbound and unable to speak about things he thought he would one day have to. Jamal and Hanna have grown up and gone out into the world. They were both born in England but cannot shake a sense of apartness. Hanna calls herself Anna now, and has just moved to a new city to be near her boyfriend. She feels the relationship is headed somewhere serious, but the words have not yet been spoken out loud. Jamal, the listener of the family, moves into a student house and is captivated by a young woman with dark-blue eyes and her own, complex story to tell..
A street cat named Bob / James Bowen
London : Hodder, 2012
Titolo e contributi: A street cat named Bob / James Bowen
Pubblicazione: London : Hodder, 2012
Descrizione fisica: VIII, 279 p. : ill. b/n ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781444737110
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he had no idea just how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of London and the last thing he needed was a pet. Yet James couldn't resist helping the strikingly intelligent tom cat, whom he quickly christened Bob.
London : Penguin books, 2012
Penguin english library
Titolo e contributi: Ethan Frome / Edith Wharton
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin books, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 113, [1] p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Penguin english library
ISBN: 9780141389400
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Italia
Abstract: Ethan Frome works his unproductive farm and struggles to maintain a bearable existence with his difficult, suspicious and hypochondriac wife, Zeena. But when Zeena's vivacious cousin enters their household as a 'hired girl', Ethan finds himself obsessed with her and with the possibilities for happiness she comes to represent.
The scarlet letter : a romance / Nathaniel Hawthorne
14. rist.
London : Penguin, 2012
Penguin english library
Titolo e contributi: The scarlet letter : a romance / Nathaniel Hawthorne
14. rist.
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin, 2012
Descrizione fisica: IX, 269, [1] p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Penguin english library
ISBN: 9780141199450
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: The classic American novel, rejacketed with a new foreword by Tom Perotta and introduction by Hawthorne scholar Robert Milder Set in the harsh Puritan community of 17th century Boston, this is a tale of an adulterous entanglement that results in an illegitimate birth. The mother of the child, Hester Prynne, is publicly disgraced and ostracized but emerges as the first true heroine of American fiction.
New York [etc.] : Simon & Schuster, 2012
Paperbacks [Simon & Schuster]
Titolo e contributi: Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury
Pubblicazione: New York [etc.] : Simon & Schuster, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 158 p. ; 17 cm
Serie: Paperbacks [Simon & Schuster]
ISBN: 9781451690316
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books.
The moonstone / Wilkie Collins
London : Penguin, 2012
Penguin english library
Titolo e contributi: The moonstone / Wilkie Collins
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 621 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Penguin english library
ISBN: 9780141198873
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid, on Rachel's cousin Franklin Blake, on a troupe of mysterious Indian jugglers, and on Rachel herself. The phlegmatic Sergeant Cuff is called in, and with the help of Betteredge, the Robinson Crusoe-reading loquacious steward, the mystery of the missing stone is ingeniously solved.
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences / Truman Capote
New York : Vintage international : Vintage books, 2012
Titolo e contributi: In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences / Truman Capote
Pubblicazione: New York : Vintage international : Vintage books, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 343 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780679745587
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.
Great expectations / Charles Dickens
London : Penguin books, 2012
Penguin english library
Titolo e contributi: Great expectations / Charles Dickens
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin books, 2012
Descrizione fisica: [10], 570, [1] p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Serie: Penguin english library
ISBN: 9780141198897
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: When poor orphan Pip falls in love with the rich and beautiful Estella he never imagines that he, too, one day will have money. After Mr Jaggers tells Pip he has great expectations and a secret rich benefactor, Pip moves to London and starts a new life as a gentleman.
Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad
London : Penguin books, 2012
Penguin english library
Titolo e contributi: Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin books, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 121 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Penguin english library
ISBN: 9780141199788
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring mist. As his boat labours further upstream, closer and closer to Kurtz's extraordinary and terrible domain, so Marlow finds his faith in himself and civilization crumbling.
New ed
Oxford : Oxford university press, 2012
Oxford world's classics
Titolo e contributi: The good soldier : a tale of passion / Ford Madox Ford ; edited with an introduction and notes by Max Saunders
New ed
Pubblicazione: Oxford : Oxford university press, 2012
Descrizione fisica: LVII, 253 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Oxford world's classics
ISBN: 9780199585946
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Set just before World War I, The Good Soldier chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples. The novel is told using a series of flashbacks, it also makes use of the device of the unreliable narrator as the main character gradually reveals a version of events that is quite different from what the introduction leads you to believe. The novel was loosely based on two incidents of adultery and on Ford's messy personal life.
Absalom, Absalom! : the corrected text / William Faulkner ; foreword by John Jeremiah Sullivan
New York : Modern library, 2012
Titolo e contributi: Absalom, Absalom! : the corrected text / William Faulkner ; foreword by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Pubblicazione: New York : Modern library, 2012
Descrizione fisica: XIX,398 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780679600725
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realised; land, marriage, children. But in after the chaos of Civil War, secrets from his own past threaten to destroy everything he has worked for.
Far from the madding crowd / Thomas Hardy
London [etc.] : Penguin books, 2012
Titolo e contributi: Far from the madding crowd / Thomas Hardy
Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Penguin books, 2012
Descrizione fisica: VI, [1], 475, [1] p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780141198934
Data:2012
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Hardy's powerful novel of swift sexual passion and slow-burning loyalty centres on Bathsheba Everdene, a proud working woman whose life is complicated by three different men - respectable farmer Boldwood, seductive Sergeant Troy and devoted Gabriel - making her the object of scandal and betrayal. Vividly portraying the superstitions and traditions of a small rural community, Far from the Madding Crowd shows the precarious position of a woman in a man's world.
