Biblioteca civica di Merano, Biblioteca di Sinigo
Trovati 31 documenti.
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 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.
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".
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.
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'.
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 : 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
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 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.
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 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
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 : 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 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?
