Trovati 105 documenti.
The adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Arthur Conan Doyle
London : Harper Collins, 2013
Collins classics [HarperCollins]
Titolo e contributi: The adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Arthur Conan Doyle
Pubblicazione: London : Harper Collins, 2013
Descrizione fisica: X, 318 p. ; 18 cm
Serie: Collins classics [HarperCollins]
ISBN: 9780007350834
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Five little pigs / Agatha Christie
London : Harper Collins, 2013
Titolo e contributi: Five little pigs / Agatha Christie
Pubblicazione: London : Harper Collins, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 277 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780007527519
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist) who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcee) who had roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess) who had none; and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister) who cried ‘wee wee wee’ all the way home. It is sixteen years later, but Hercule Poirot just can’t get that nursery rhyme out of his mind.
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013
Titolo e contributi: Gone girl / Gillian Flynn
Pubblicazione: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 475, 19 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780753827666
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson / John Green, David Levithan
London : Penguin books, 2013
Titolo e contributi: Will Grayson, Will Grayson / John Green, David Levithan
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin books, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 308 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780141346113
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Happiness like water : stories / Chinelo Okparanta
New York : Mariner Books, 2013
Mariner Books
Titolo e contributi: Happiness like water : stories / Chinelo Okparanta
Pubblicazione: New York : Mariner Books, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 196 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780544003453
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: In this brave debut collection, Chinelo Okparanta introduces us to families burdened equally by the past and the future. High expectations - whether of success in Nigeria, or the dream of opportunity and accomplishment in America - consume them. These are universal stories of ambition and longing, and of the sacrifices women are capable of at home and away. In 'Wahala', a couple, Chibuzo and Ezinne, visit a traditional healer hoping finally to conceive a child. But where Chibuzo is focused on the family they will surely have, his wife Ezinne longs only for escape. In 'Grace', a middle-aged college professor comforts a troubled young Nigerian student. The relationship that develops between the two women seems as inevitable as it is forbidden. A mother seeks refuge from an abusive husband in 'Shelter', an embittered spinster recalls the loss of a dear friend in 'Story! Story!', and a daughter finally faces up to the painful truth of her childhood in 'Tumours and Butterflies', a teacher makes yet another attempt to obtain a visa in 'America', hoping to join her lover who has emigrated there.
Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad
London : Harper Collins Publishers, 2013
Collins classics [HarperCollins]
Titolo e contributi: Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad
Pubblicazione: London : Harper Collins Publishers, 2013
Descrizione fisica: IX, 130 p. ; 18 cm
Serie: Collins classics [HarperCollins]
ISBN: 9780007368624
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
When mountains weep : coming of age in Kurdistan / Gharbi Mustafa
2. ed
Adelaide : Peacock, 2013
Titolo e contributi: When mountains weep : coming of age in Kurdistan / Gharbi Mustafa
2. ed
Pubblicazione: Adelaide : Peacock, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 170 p. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 9781481175180
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Austria
Abstract: Carrying a gun is not the way to a better life. So, little Hamko, go to school tomorrow and learn how to read and write, even if it's in the language of your enemies." Hamko's enemies are Saddam Hussein and the Ba'ath regime. His moving memoir exposes the brutal violence against the Kurdish people in Iraq. Bullying, cruelty and fear are everywhere. Hamko perseveres even as his people are forced to flee to their beloved mountains, where the refugees endure winter rains, minefields and threats of chemical warfare. There, the survivors bury their dead and turn on each other for a piece of bread. But in the midst of injustice arise unexpected acts of kindness, unmerited mercy and idealized love. In the mountains of Kurdistan, a courageous people sings songs of hope among ashes
Voss / Patrick White ; with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane
London : Vintage books, 2013
Vintage classics
Titolo e contributi: Voss / Patrick White ; with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage books, 2013
Descrizione fisica: XV, 442 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Vintage classics
ISBN: 9780099324713
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Set in nineteenth-century Australia, Voss is White's best-known book, a sweeping novel about a secret passion between the explorer Voss and the young orphan Laura. As Voss is tested by hardship, mutiny, and betrayal during his crossing of the brutal Australian desert, Laura awaits his return in Sydney, where she endures their months of separation as if her life were a dream and Voss the only reality.
Vathek / William Beckford ; edited with an introduction and notes by Thomas Keymer
New ed
Oxford : Oxford University press, 2013
Oxford world's classics
Titolo e contributi: Vathek / William Beckford ; edited with an introduction and notes by Thomas Keymer
New ed
Pubblicazione: Oxford : Oxford University press, 2013
Descrizione fisica: XLI, [1], 141 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Oxford world's classics
ISBN: 9780199576951
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: The Caliph Vathek is dissolute and debauched, and hungry for knowledge. When the mysterious Giaour offers him boundless treasure and unrivalled power he is willing to sacrifice his god, the lives of innocent children, and his own soul to satisfy his obsession. Vathek's extraordinary journey to the subterranean palace of Eblis, and the terrifying fate that there awaits him, is a captivating tale of magic and oriental fantasy, sudden violence and corrupted love, whose mix of moral fable, grotesque comedy, and evocative beauty defies classification.
Possession : a romance / A. S. Byatt ; with an introduction by Philip Hensher
London [etc.] : Everyman's library, 2013
Titolo e contributi: Possession : a romance / A. S. Byatt ; with an introduction by Philip Hensher
Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Everyman's library, 2013
Descrizione fisica: XXXI, 525 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9781841593555
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire—from spiritualist séances to the fairy-haunted far west of Brittany—what emerges is an extraordinary counterpoint of passions and ideas.
The kill order / James Dashner
Frome : Chicken house, 2013
Titolo e contributi: The kill order / James Dashner
Pubblicazione: Frome : Chicken house, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 333 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781908435590
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
The Rosie project [Audioregistrazione] : a novel / Graeme C. Simsion ; read by Dan O'Grady
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013
Titolo e contributi: The Rosie project [Audioregistrazione] : a novel / Graeme C. Simsion ; read by Dan O'Grady
Pubblicazione: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 7 dischi sonori (CD), Mp3 : stereo ; 12 cm
ISBN: 9781442370906
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Don Tillman is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed the Wife Project, using a sixteen-page questionnaire to help him find the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver. Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also fiery and intelligent and beautiful. And on a quest of her own to find her biological father, a search that Don, a professor of genetics, might just be able to help her with. The Wife Project teaches Don some unexpected things. Why earlobe length is an inadequate predictor of sexual attraction. Why quick-dry clothes aren't appropriate attire in New York. Why he's never been on a second date. And why, despite your best scientific efforts, you don't find love: love finds you
Eleanor & Park / Rainbow Rowell
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2013
Titolo e contributi: Eleanor & Park / Rainbow Rowell
Pubblicazione: New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 328 p. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9781250012579
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Eleanor.. Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough..Eleanor. Park.. He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on ..more (goodreads.com)
Two for Texas / James Lee Burke
New York [etc.] : Gallery books, 2013
Titolo e contributi: Two for Texas / James Lee Burke
Pubblicazione: New York [etc.] : Gallery books, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 209 p. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9781476708508
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: When Billy Bob Holland visits his old friend Doc Voss, he finds himself caught up in a horrific tragedy. Doc's daughter has been brutally attacked by bikers, and the ringleader, Lamar Ellison, walks free when the DNA samples 'get lost'. Then Ellison is burned alive and Doc is arrested.
How I killed Margaret Thatcher / Anthony Cartwright
London : Tindal Street Press, 2013
Titolo e contributi: How I killed Margaret Thatcher / Anthony Cartwright
Pubblicazione: London : Tindal Street Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica: [10], 241 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781781251577
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Nine-year old Sean has never seen anything like what happens on the day Margaret Thatcher takes power and his grandad discovers his uncle voted for her. So begins the start of a family secret and the end of Sean's idyllic childhood in the industrial Midlands-until, one day, deciding that someone's got to stop the train of destruction, he sets out for revenge.
The bunker diary / Kevin Brooks
London : Penguin books, 2013
Penguin books
Titolo e contributi: The bunker diary / Kevin Brooks
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin books, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 246, [13] p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Penguin books
ISBN: 9780141326122
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: A pulse-pounding exploration of what happens when your worst nightmare comes true - and how will you survive? I can't believe I fell for it. It was still dark when I woke up this morning. As soon as my eyes opened I knew where I was. A low-ceilinged rectangular building made entirely of whitewashed concrete. There are six little rooms along the main corridor. There are no windows. No doors. The lift is the only way in or out. What's he going to do to me? What am I going to do? If I'm right, the lift will come down in five minutes. It did. Only this time it wasn't empty . . .(ibs.it)
Go tell it on the mountain / James Baldwin
New York : Vintage international, 2013
Titolo e contributi: Go tell it on the mountain / James Baldwin
Pubblicazione: New York : Vintage international, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 263 p. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 9780679761792
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935.
London : Harper Collins, 2013
Collins classics [HarperCollins]
Titolo e contributi: Persuasion / Jane Austen
Pubblicazione: London : Harper Collins, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 260 p. ; 18 cm
Serie: Collins classics [HarperCollins]
ISBN: 9780007368617
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Eight years ago, Anne Elliot broke off her engagement to the dashing young naval officer Frederick Wentworth on the advice of a friend. Now twenty-seven and considered a faded beauty, she is resigned to a spinster's life when she learns that Wentworth, now a captain and wealthy with prize money from the Napoleonic Wars, has returned.
Looking for Alaska / John Green
London : HarperCollins, 2013
Titolo e contributi: Looking for Alaska / John Green
Pubblicazione: London : HarperCollins, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 271, [1] p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780007523160
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
My friend the enemy / Dan Smith
Frome : Chicken House, 2013
Titolo e contributi: My friend the enemy / Dan Smith
Pubblicazione: Frome : Chicken House, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 305 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781908435811
Data:2013
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Summer, 1941. For Peter in rural Britain, the war is a long way away, being fought by a faceless enemy. Until the night a German plane is shot down over woods that his missing dad looked after before he went off to fight. Peter rushes to the crash site to see if there’s something he can keep, but what he finds instead is an injured young German airman. The enemy. Here.
