Biblioteca civica di Merano, Biblioteca di Sinigo
Trovati 31 documenti.
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?
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.
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..
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
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 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 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?
London : Piatkus, 2020
Titolo e contributi: Under currents / Nora Roberts
Pubblicazione: London : Piatkus, 2020
Descrizione fisica: 531 S. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780349421940
Data:2020
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: From the outside, the house in Lakeview Terrace looks perfect and the Bigelows seem like the perfect family: the respected surgeon father, the glamorous, devoted mother and two beautiful children. A perfect family, in a perfect house living their perfect lives. But perfect surfaces can hide dark undercurrents and behind closed doors lies a very different story. Teenager Zane and his younger sister, Britt, are terrorised by their violent father and dysfunctional mother. Too afraid to speak out, Zane does his best to protect his sister and counts the days until they can finally be free. One dark, brutal night when their father's temper takes a horrifying turn for the worse, the perfect facade is exposed for the lie it is and Zane and Britt manage to escape. With the help of their beloved aunt, they rebuild their lives a day at a time, creating new families and putting their past behind them. But a childhood like that can cast a shadow the length of a lifetime. Can Zane and Britt ever be free of their past? Or will those dark undercurrents rise to the surface, forcing them to fight for their lives once again..
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 . . .
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.
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 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".
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 : 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..
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.
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'.
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.
