Trovati 158 documenti.
Alice's adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll
Firenze [etc.] : Demetra, 2017
Scuola d'inglese [Demetra]. Testi
Titolo e contributi: Alice's adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll
Pubblicazione: Firenze [etc.] : Demetra, 2017
Descrizione fisica: 123 p. ; 19 cm
Serie: Scuola d'inglese [Demetra]. Testi
ISBN: 9788844049980
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Italia
The man in the high castle / Philip K. Dick ; with an introduction by Eric Brown
London : Penguin, 2017
Titolo e contributi: The man in the high castle / Philip K. Dick ; with an introduction by Eric Brown
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin, 2017
Descrizione fisica: [XVIII], 228, [1] p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780141186672
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war - and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.
The Nevernight chronicle.. book 1. Nevernight / Jay Kristoff
London : Harper Voyager, 2017
Fa parte di: Nevernight
Titolo e contributi: The Nevernight chronicle.. book 1. Nevernight / Jay Kristoff
Pubblicazione: London : Harper Voyager, 2017
Descrizione fisica: [10], 462 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780008179984
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family. Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father's failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father's former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer and a future she never imagined. Now, 16-year-old Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic - the Red Church. Treachery and trials await her within the Church's halls, and to fail is to die. But if she survives to initiation, Mia will be inducted among the chosen of the Lady of Blessed Murder and be one step closer to the only thing she desires: revenge.
Murder on the Orient Express / Agatha Christie
London : HarperCollins, 2017
Poirot
Titolo e contributi: Murder on the Orient Express / Agatha Christie
Pubblicazione: London : HarperCollins, 2017
Descrizione fisica: 274 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Poirot
ISBN: 9780008226671
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.
The world made straight / Ron Rash
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2017
Titolo e contributi: The world made straight / Ron Rash
Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2017
Descrizione fisica: 289 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781782112754
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Summer in Madison County. Seventeen-year-old Travis Shelton cannot see a way out of his small town - until he discovers a grove of marijuana in the woods that could make him some serious money. But Travis has stumbled across more than drugs. His discovery is the first unwitting step in a journey back to the savage violence and betrayal festering in the community's past, and to the corruption in its present.
Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë ; with an afterword by Sam Gilpin
London : Macmillan Collector's Library, 2017
Titolo e contributi: Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë ; with an afterword by Sam Gilpin
Pubblicazione: London : Macmillan Collector's Library, 2017
Descrizione fisica: 650 p. ; 16 cm
ISBN: 9781509827794
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: The orphaned Jane Eyre suffers under cruel guardians, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. But her plain appearance belies her indomitable spirit, sharp wit and great courage. When she goes to Thornfield Hall to work as a governess for the mysterious Mr Rochester the stage is set for one of literature's great romances
Salvage the bones / Jesmyn Ward
London [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2017
Titolo e contributi: Salvage the bones / Jesmyn Ward
Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2017
Descrizione fisica: 262 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781408897720
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Hurricane Katrina is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the family. Esch and her three brothers are stockpiling food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; at fifteen, she has just realized that she's pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pit bull's new litter, dying one by one. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting.
Sworn to silence / Linda Castillo
New York : Minotaur books, 2017
Titolo e contributi: Sworn to silence / Linda Castillo
Pubblicazione: New York : Minotaur books, 2017
Descrizione fisica: 363 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9781250161635
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
The tragedy of Brady Sims / Ernest J. Gaínes
New York : Vintage books, 2017
Vintage contemporaries
Titolo e contributi: The tragedy of Brady Sims / Ernest J. Gaínes
Pubblicazione: New York : Vintage books, 2017
Descrizione fisica: 114 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Vintage contemporaries
ISBN: 9780525434467
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Italia
Abstract: After Brady Sims pulls out a gun in a courtroom and shoots his own son, who has just been convicted of robbery and murder, he asks only to be allowed two hours before he'll give himself up to the sheriff. When the editor of the local newspaper asks his cub reporter to dig up a "human interest" story about Brady, he heads for the town's barbershop. It is the barbers and the regulars who hang out there who narrate with empathy, sadness, humor, and a profound understanding the life story of Brady Sims—an honorable, just, and unsparing man who with his tough love had been handed the task of keeping the black children of Bayonne, Louisiana in line to protect them from the unjust world in which they lived. And when his own son makes a fateful mistake, it is up to Brady to carry out the necessary reckoning.
London : Razorbill, 2017
Titolo e contributi: 13 reasons why / Jay Asher
Pubblicazione: London : Razorbill, 2017
Descrizione fisica: 288 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780451478290
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Clay Jensen returns home from school one day to find a mysterious box, with his name on it, lying on the porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker - his classmate - who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she did what she did - and Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list - and it'll change Clay's life forever
The summer that melted everything / Tiffany McDaniel
Melbourne [etc.] : Scribe, 2017
Titolo e contributi: The summer that melted everything / Tiffany McDaniel
Pubblicazione: Melbourne [etc.] : Scribe, 2017
Descrizione fisica: 310 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781911344360
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Austria
Abstract: Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984: the year a heat wave scorched Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with the devil.
Murder on the Orient Express / Agatha Christie
London : Harper Collins, 2017
Titolo e contributi: Murder on the Orient Express / Agatha Christie
Pubblicazione: London : Harper Collins, 2017
Descrizione fisica: 274 p. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 9780008268879
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.
Everybody's fool : a novel / Richard Russo
New York : Vintage books, 2017
Vintage contemporaries
Titolo e contributi: Everybody's fool : a novel / Richard Russo
Pubblicazione: New York : Vintage books, 2017
Descrizione fisica: 527 p. ; 21 cm
Serie: Vintage contemporaries
ISBN: 9780307454829
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Everybody’s Fool picks up roughly a decade since we were last with Miss Beryl and Sully on New Year's Eve 1984. The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is staring down a VA cardiologist’s estimate that he has only a year or two left, and it’s hard work trying to keep this news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years . . . the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren’t still best friends..
Easthampton : Small Beer, 2017
Titolo e contributi: Taboo / Kim Scott
Pubblicazione: Easthampton : Small Beer, 2017
Descrizione fisica: [6], 287 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781618731692
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Taboo takes place in the present day, in the rural South-West of Western Australia, and tells the story of a group of Noongar people who revisit, for the first time in many decades, a taboo place: the site of a massacre that followed the assassination, by these Noongar's descendants, of a white man who had stolen a black woman. They come at the invitation of Dan Horton, the elderly owner of the farm on which the massacres unfolded. He hopes that by hosting the group he will satisfy his wife's dying wishes and cleanse some moral stain from the ground on which he and his family have lived for generations. But the sins of the past will not be so easily expunged.
Half of a yellow sun / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nuova ed
London : 4th Estate, 2017
Titolo e contributi: Half of a yellow sun / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nuova ed
Pubblicazione: London : 4th Estate, 2017
Descrizione fisica: [6], 433 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780007200283
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm; and Richard, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s willful twin sister Kainene. Half of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise, hope, and disappointment of the Biafran war.
Uncommon type [Audioregistrazione] : some stories / Tom Hanks ; read by Tom Hanks
New York : Random House, 2017
Titolo e contributi: Uncommon type [Audioregistrazione] : some stories / Tom Hanks ; read by Tom Hanks
Pubblicazione: New York : Random House, 2017
Descrizione fisica: 12 dischi sonori (CD), (10h) : stereo ; 12 cm
ISBN: 9781786141477
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game - and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN's newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant venture into America looking for acquisitions and discover a down and out motel, romance, and a bit of real life.
Noughts & crosses / Malorie Blackman
London : Penguin, 2017
Titolo e contributi: Noughts & crosses / Malorie Blackman
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin, 2017
Descrizione fisica: 437 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780141378640
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Sephy is a Cross - a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a nought - a 'colourless' member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood. But that's as far as it can go. Against a background of prejudice, distrust and mounting terrorist violence, a romance builds between Sephy and Callum - a romance that is to lead both of them into terrible danger.
If we were villains / M.L. Rio
London : Titan Books, 2017
Titolo e contributi: If we were villains / M.L. Rio
Pubblicazione: London : Titan Books, 2017
Descrizione fisica: 429 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781785656477
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: A vivid and immersive story of obsession perfect for fans of dark academia and Donna Tartt’s The Secret History Oliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends – a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he’s released, he’s greeted by the detective who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened ten years ago. As a young actor studying Shakespeare at an elite arts conservatory, Oliver noticed that his talented classmates seem to play the same roles onstage and off – villain, hero, tyrant, temptress – though Oliver felt doomed to always be a secondary character in someone else’s story. But when the teachers change up the casting..
A torch against the night / Sabaa Tahir
London : Harper Voyager, 2017
Titolo e contributi: A torch against the night / Sabaa Tahir
Pubblicazione: London : Harper Voyager, 2017
Descrizione fisica: 457 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780008160371
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Elias and Laia are running for their lives. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire. Laia is determined to break into Kauf—the Empire’s most secure and dangerous prison—to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars’ survival. And Elias..
To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf
London : Vintage, 2017
Vintage classics
Titolo e contributi: To the lighthouse / Virginia Woolf
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage, 2017
Descrizione fisica: 235 p. ; 18 cm
Serie: Vintage classics
ISBN: 9781784870836
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. But as time passes, bringing with it war and death, the summer home stands empty until one day, many years later, the family return to make the long-postponed visit to the lighthouse.
