Trovati 96 documenti.
The great Gatsby / Francis Scott Fitzeralg
Firenze [etc.] : Demetra, 2022
English masterclass
Titolo e contributi: The great Gatsby / Francis Scott Fitzeralg
Pubblicazione: Firenze [etc.] : Demetra, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 399 p. ; 19 cm
Serie: English masterclass
ISBN: 9788844079680
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Italia
Abstract: Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore in the 1920s, to encounter Nick's cousin Daisy, her brash but wealthy husband Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby and the mystery that surrounds him.
All the broken places / John Boyne
London : Doubleday, 2022
Titolo e contributi: All the broken places / John Boyne
Pubblicazione: London : Doubleday, 2022
Descrizione fisica: [8], 371 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780857528865
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn’t talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age twelve. She doesn’t talk about the grim postwar years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn’t talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich’s most notorious extermination camps.
London : Arrow books, 2022
Titolo e contributi: Cousin Kate / Georgette Heyer
Pubblicazione: London : Arrow books, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 328 p. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9780099490951
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Tragically left an orphan after her father's death, Kate Malvern is taken under the wing of her forbidding aunt Minerva and brought to the grand house of Staplewood, where Minerva rules the roost. Her uncle lives in one wing, while her handsome, moody cousin occupies another; guests are few and far between, and even family dinners are rigidly formal. But the sudden arrival of Cousin Philip throws Minerva's control over the household into doubt, and soon Kate begins to suspect the shocking reason for Minerva's generosity.
Gone with the wind / Margaret Mitchell
London : Alma, 2022
Alma classics
Titolo e contributi: Gone with the wind / Margaret Mitchell
Pubblicazione: London : Alma, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 851 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Alma classics
ISBN: 9781847498601
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: This is the tale of Scarlett O’Hara, the spoiled, manipulative daughter of a wealthy plantation owner, who arrives at young womanhood just in time to see the Civil War forever change her way of life.
London : Penguin, 2022
Penguin classics
Titolo e contributi: The lottery / Shirley Jackson
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 232 p. ; 17 cm
Serie: Penguin classics
ISBN: 9780241590539
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: The Lottery and Other Stories unites “The Lottery” with twelve wonderfully strange and equally terrifying short stories from the legendary Shirley Jackson. Together they demonstrate Jackson’s remarkable range―from the hilarious to the horrible, the unsettling to the ominous―and showcase a true master at the height of her haunting powers.
Manifesto : on never giving up / Bernardine Evaristo
London : Penguin, 2022
Titolo e contributi: Manifesto : on never giving up / Bernardine Evaristo
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 191 p., [8] c. di tav. : ill. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780241993620
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
London : Penguin books, 2022
Puffin Books
Titolo e contributi: Darling / India Knight
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin books, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 279, [1] p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Puffin Books
ISBN: 9780241955055
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater things. She longs for love, but how will she ever find it? She can't even get a signal on her mobile phone. Linda's strict, former rock star father terrifies any potential suitors away, while her bohemian mother, wafting around in silver jewellery, answers Linda's urgent questions about love with upsettingly vivid allusions to animal husbandry. Eventually Linda does find her way out from the bosom of her deeply eccentric extended family, and she escapes to London. She knows she doesn't want to marry 'a man who looks like a pudding', as her good and dull sister Louisa has done, and marries the flashy, handsome son of a UKIP peer instead.
The seven moons of Maali Almeida / Shehan Karunatilaka
London : Sort of books, 2022
Titolo e contributi: The seven moons of Maali Almeida / Shehan Karunatilaka
Pubblicazione: London : Sort of books, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 386 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781914502064
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida―war photographer, gambler, and closet queen―has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to the photos that will rock Sri Lanka
Seven days in June / Tia Williams
Paperback ed.
London : Quercus, 2022
Titolo e contributi: Seven days in June / Tia Williams
Paperback ed.
Pubblicazione: London : Quercus, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 327 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781529418934
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award‑winning novelist, who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but the eyebrows of the Black literati. What no one knows is that 15 years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love.
New York : Ember, 2022
Titolo e contributi: Sunkissed / Kasie West
Pubblicazione: New York : Ember, 2022
Descrizione fisica: [4], 308 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780593176290
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Avery has always used music as an escape. But after her best friend betrays her, even her perfectly curated playlists can't help her forget what happened. To make matters worse, her parents have dragged her and her social-media-obsessed sister to a remote family camp for two months of "fun". Just when Avery is ready to give up on the summer altogether, she meets Brooks - mysterious, frustratingly charming Brooks - who just happens to be on staff - which means he's off-limits. What starts as a disaster turns into..something else. As the outside world falls away, Avery embarks on a journey of self-discovery. And when Brooks offers her the chance of a lifetime, she must figure out how far is she willing to go to find out what she wants and who she wants to be.
Here goes nothing / Steve Toltz
London : Sceptre, 2022
Titolo e contributi: Here goes nothing / Steve Toltz
Pubblicazione: London : Sceptre, 2022
Descrizione fisica: [6], 372, [1] p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781529371611
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Angus is a reformed ne'er-do-well looking forward to the birth of his first child when he's murdered by a man who is in love with his pregnant wife Gracie. Having never believed in God, heaven or hell, Angus finds himself in the afterlife - a place that provides more questions than answers. As a worldwide pandemic finally reaches the shores of Australia, the afterlife starts to get very crowded and Angus finds a way to reconnect with his wife Gracie and maybe even seek revenge on his murderer..
How beautiful we were : a novel / Imbolo Mbue
New York : Random House, 2022
Titolo e contributi: How beautiful we were : a novel / Imbolo Mbue
Pubblicazione: New York : Random House, 2022
Descrizione fisica: [8], 364 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780593132449
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, the novel tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and financial reparations to the villagers are made—and ignored.
A very nice girl : a novel / Imogen Crimp
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022
Titolo e contributi: A very nice girl : a novel / Imogen Crimp
Pubblicazione: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 321 p. ; 25 cm
ISBN: 9781250792778
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Anna is struggling to afford life in London as she trains to be a singer. During the day, she vies to succeed against her course mates with their discreet but inexhaustible streams of cultural capital and money, and in the evening she sings jazz at a bar in the City to make ends meet. It's there that she meets Max, a financier fourteen years older than her. Over the course of one winter, Anna's intoxication oscillates between her hard-won moments on stage, where she can zip herself into the skin of her characters, and nights spent with Max in his glass-walled flat overlooking the city. But Anna's fledgling career demands her undivided attention, and increasingly - whether he necessarily wills it or not - so does Max
London : Granta, 2022
Titolo e contributi: Violets / Alex Hyde
Pubblicazione: London : Granta, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 239 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781783787272
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: A young woman, Violet, lies in a hospital bed in the closing days of World War Two. Her pregnancy is over and she is no longer able to conceive. With her husband deployed in Burma and her friends caught up in transitory love affairs, she must find a way to put herself back together. In a small, watchful town in the Welsh valleys, another Violet contemplates the fate she shares with her unborn child. Unwed, an overseas posting offers a temporary way out. Plunged into the heat and disorder of Naples, her body begins to reveal the responsibility it carries even as she is drawn into the burnished circle of a charismatic new friend, Maggie. Between these two Violets..
Love marriage : a novel / Monica Ali
New York [etc.] : Scribner, 2022
Titolo e contributi: Love marriage : a novel / Monica Ali
Pubblicazione: New York [etc.] : Scribner, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 419 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781982181475
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: In present-day London, Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father), and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose formidable mother, Harriet, is a famous feminist. The gulf between families is vast. So, too, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe.
London : MacLehose Press, 2022
Titolo e contributi: My pen is the wing of a bird : new fiction by afghan women / with an introduction by Lyse Doucet and an afterword by Lucy Hannah
Pubblicazione: London : MacLehose Press, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 253 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781529422214
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Italia
Abstract: My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird is a landmark collection: the first anthology of short fiction by Afghan women. Eighteen writers tell stories that are both unique and universal stories of family, work, childhood, friendship, war, gender identity and cultural traditions
A slow fire burning / Paula Hawkins
London : Penguin books, 2022
Titolo e contributi: A slow fire burning / Paula Hawkins
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin books, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 365 p. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 9781529176759
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Three women, connected by one brutal crime. Three women, determined to right the wrongs done to them. Three women, with everything to hide. When it comes to revenge, even good people are capable of terrible things. But only one person killed Daniel Sutherland. How long can their secrets smoulder, before they explode into flame?
New York : Knopf, 2022
Titolo e contributi: Groundskeeping / Lee Cole
Pubblicazione: New York : Knopf, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 323 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780593320501
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to live with his Trump-supporting uncle and grandfather. Eager to clean up his act after wasting time and potential in his early twenties, he takes a job as a groundskeeper at a small local college, in exchange for which he is permitted to take a writing course. Here he meets Alma Hazdic, a writer in residence who seems to have everything that Owen lacks—a prestigious position, an Ivy League education, success as a writer.
New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2022
Titolo e contributi: Dream town / David Baldacci
Pubblicazione: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 420 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781538719770
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: It’s the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan’s: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits. After a series of increasingly chilling events—mysterious phone calls, the same blue car loitering outside her house, and a bloody knife left in her sink—Eleanor fears that her life is in danger, and she wants to hire Archer to look into the matter. Archer suspects that Eleanor knows more than she’s saying, but before he can officially take on her case, a dead body turns up inside of Eleanor’s home.. and Eleanor herself disappears.
Maschines like me / Ian McEwan ; Annotationen von Harald Sonntag-Weisshaar
Stuttgart : Klett Sprachen, 2022
Titolo e contributi: Maschines like me / Ian McEwan ; Annotationen von Harald Sonntag-Weisshaar
Pubblicazione: Stuttgart : Klett Sprachen, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 317 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9783125799189
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Guinea-Bissau
Abstract: 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 - and soon a love triangle forms, which leads Charlie, Miranda and Adam to a profound moral dilemma. Can you design the perfect partner? What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives?
