Trovati 123 documenti.
The Expanse.. book 3. Abaddon's gate / James S. A. Corey
London : Orbit, 2014
Fa parte di: Abaddon's gate
Titolo e contributi: The Expanse.. book 3. Abaddon's gate / James S. A. Corey
Pubblicazione: London : Orbit, 2014
Descrizione fisica: 539 p.
ISBN: 9781841499932
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: For generations, the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt—was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has built a massive gate that leads to a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artifact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core. As the emissaries of the human race try to find whether the gate is an opportunity or a threat, the greatest danger is the one they brought with them.
London : Picador, 2014
Titolo e contributi: Frog music / Emma Donoghue
Pubblicazione: London : Picador, 2014
Descrizione fisica: 467 p. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 9781447249764
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at the House of Mirrors, her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest. When an eccentric outsider joins their little circle, secrets unravel, changing everything - and leaving one of them dead. Inspired by true events, Frog Music, by Emma Donoghue, author of the award-winning Room, is an evocative novel of intrigue and murder: elegant, erotic and witty
Death on the Nile / Agatha Christie
London : HarperCollins, 2014
Poirot
Titolo e contributi: Death on the Nile / Agatha Christie
Pubblicazione: London : HarperCollins, 2014
Descrizione fisica: 373 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Poirot
ISBN: 9780007527557
Data:2014
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..
Firenze [etc.] : Giunti, 2014
Giunti classics
Titolo e contributi: The memoirs of Sherlock Holmes / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; edited with an introduction by Luciana Piré
Pubblicazione: Firenze [etc.] : Giunti, 2014
Descrizione fisica: 252 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Giunti classics
ISBN: 9788809792692
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Italia
Frankenstein / Mary Shelley ; edited with an introduction by Luciana Pirè
Firenze [etc.] : Giunti, 2014
Giunti classics
Titolo e contributi: Frankenstein / Mary Shelley ; edited with an introduction by Luciana Pirè
Pubblicazione: Firenze [etc.] : Giunti, 2014
Descrizione fisica: 222 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Giunti classics
ISBN: 9788809817678
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Italia
The lost language of cranes / David Leavitt
London [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2014
Titolo e contributi: The lost language of cranes / David Leavitt
Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2014
Descrizione fisica: 308 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781408854587
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Owen and Rose are facing serious challenges to their married life of routine and monotony as New York City grows and changes around them. They spend most Sundays apart; while Rose buries herself in crosswords and newspapers, Owen visits gay porn theaters. But when they discover they may lose their apartment and their son, prompted by his new relationship, reveals his homosexuality, their lives cannot continue as they were. Owen and Rose are forced to confront not only their son's revelation but also Owen's latent homosexuality.
London [etc.] : Simon & Schuster, 2014
Titolo e contributi: Ugly love / Colleen Hoover
Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Simon & Schuster, 2014
Descrizione fisica: 322 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781471136726
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. They wouldn't even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction..
London : Black Swan, 2014
Titolo e contributi: Longbourn / Jo Baker
Pubblicazione: London : Black Swan, 2014
Descrizione fisica: 447 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780552779517
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and raw. Domestic life below stairs, ruled with a tender heart and an iron will by Mrs Hill the housekeeper, is about to be disturbed by the arrival of a new footman, bearing secrets and the scent of the sea.
London : Hodder, 2014
Titolo e contributi: Doctor Sleep / Stephen King
Pubblicazione: London : Hodder, 2014
Descrizione fisica: [12], 499 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781444761184
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Years ago, the haunting of the Overlook Hotel nearly broke young Dan Torrance’s sanity, as his paranormal gift known as “the shining” opened a door straight into hell. And even though Dan is all grown up, the ghosts of the Overlook—and his father’s legacy of alcoholism and violence—kept him drifting aimlessly for most of his life. Now, Dan has finally found some order in the chaos by working in a local hospice, earning the nickname “Doctor Sleep” by secretly using his special abilities to comfort the dying and prepare them for the afterlife. But when he unexpectedly meets twelve-year-old Abra Stone—who possesses an even more powerful manifestation of the shining—the two find their lives in sudden jeopardy at the hands of the ageless and murderous nomadic tribe known as the True Knot, reigniting Dan’s own demons and summoning him to battle for this young girl’s soul and survival..
Monstrous regiment / Terry Pratchett
London : Corgi books, 2014
Fa parte di: Wintersmith
Titolo e contributi: Monstrous regiment / Terry Pratchett
Pubblicazione: London : Corgi books, 2014
Descrizione fisica: 473, [1] p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780552167673
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Women belong in the kitchen -- everyone knows that. Not in jobs, pubs or indeed trousers, and certainly not on the front line, braving enemy forces in defence of their country. Then again, there's always a war on somewhere, even if no-one really knows what it's about. And when money and enthusiasm for it are running very low, it might be time to let women make a stand, on the battlefield and for their rights.
3. ed
New York [etc.] : Norton & company, 2014
A Norton critical edition
Titolo e contributi: The sound and the fury : an authoritative text backgrounds and contexts criticism / William Faulkner ; edited by Michael Gorra
3. ed
Pubblicazione: New York [etc.] : Norton & company, 2014
Descrizione fisica: XV, 528 p. ; 22 cm
Serie: A Norton critical edition
ISBN: 9780393912692
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant.
London : HarperCollins, 2014
Titolo e contributi: Farmer giles of ham : the Rise and Wonderfu Adventures of Farmer Giles, Lord of Tame, Count of Worminghall and King of the Little Kingdom / by J.R.R. Tolkien ; embellished by Pauline Baynes ; edited by Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond
Pubblicazione: London : HarperCollins, 2014
Descrizione fisica: 225 p. : ill. ; 16 cm
ISBN: 9780007542932
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: A commemorative golden anniversary edition of Tolkien's classic about an ordinary farmer who finds himself fighting a dragon.
The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry / Rachel Joyce
London : Black Swan, 2014
Titolo e contributi: The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry / Rachel Joyce
Pubblicazione: London : Black Swan, 2014
Descrizione fisica: 381, [1] p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780552778091
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from the next. Then one morning the mail arrives, and within the stack of quotidian minutiae is a letter addressed to Harold in a shaky scrawl from a woman he hasn’t seen or heard from in twenty years. Queenie Hennessy is in hospice and is writing to say goodbye..
Suspension : a story / Andrea Goldston ; Riccarda de Eccher watercolors
Udine : Antiquità, 2014
Titolo e contributi: Suspension : a story / Andrea Goldston ; Riccarda de Eccher watercolors
Pubblicazione: Udine : Antiquità, 2014
Descrizione fisica: 16, [1] p. : ill. ; 17 cm
ISBN: 9788890700118
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Italia
Fiesta : the suhn also rises / Ernest Hemingway ; with an introduction by Colm Tóibín
London : Vintage books, 2014
Vintage classics
Titolo e contributi: Fiesta : the suhn also rises / Ernest Hemingway ; with an introduction by Colm Tóibín
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage books, 2014
Descrizione fisica: XV, 216 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Vintage classics
ISBN: 9780099285038
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions.
The beginning of spring / Penelope Fitzgerald ; [introduction by Andrew Miller]
London : Fourth estate, 2014
Titolo e contributi: The beginning of spring / Penelope Fitzgerald ; [introduction by Andrew Miller]
Pubblicazione: London : Fourth estate, 2014
Descrizione fisica: XX, [2], 246 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780006543701
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Frank Reid had been born and brought up in Moscow. His father had emigrated there in the 1870s and started a print-works which, by 1913, had shrunk from what it was when Frank inherited it. In that same year, to add to his troubles, Frank’s wife Nellie caught the train back home to England, without explanation. How is a reasonable man like Frank to cope? How should he keep his house running? Should he consult the Anglican chaplain’s wife? Should he listen to the Tolstoyan advice of his chief book-keeper? How do people live together, and what happens when, sometimes, they don’t?
New Grub Street / George Gissing
London : Vintage books, 2014
Vintage classics
Titolo e contributi: New Grub Street / George Gissing
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage books, 2014
Descrizione fisica: [8], 656 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Vintage classics
ISBN: 9780099589228
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Scholarly, anxious Edwin Reardon had achieved a precarious career as the writer of serious fiction. On the strength of critical acclaim for his fourth novel, he has married the refined Amy Yule. But the brilliant future Amy expected has evaded her husband. The catastrophe of the Reardons' failing marriage is set among the rising and falling fortunes of novelists, journalists, and scholars who labour 'in the valley of the shadow of books'.
New ed
Oxford : Oxford University press, 2014
Oxford world's classics
Titolo e contributi: The castle of Otranto : a gothic story / Horace Walpole ; edited with an introduction and notes by Nick Groom
New ed
Pubblicazione: Oxford : Oxford University press, 2014
Descrizione fisica: LI, 132 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Oxford world's classics
ISBN: 9780198704447
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: The novel tells of Manfred, prince of Otranto, whose fear of an ancient prophecy sets him on a course of destruction. After the grotesque death of his only son, Conrad, on his wedding day, Manfred determines to marry the bride to be. The virgin Isabella flees through a castle riddled with secret passages. Chilling coincidences, ghostly visitations, arcane revelations, and violent combat combine in a heady mix that is both chilling and terrifying.
London : Harper Collins Children's Books, 2014
Titolo e contributi: The giver / Lois Lowry
Pubblicazione: London : Harper Collins Children's Books, 2014
Descrizione fisica: 223 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780007578498
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: It is the future. There is no war, no hunger, no pain. No one in the community wants for anything. Everything needed is provided. And at twelve years old, each member of the community has their profession carefully chosen for them by the Committee of Elders. Twelve-year old Jonas has never thought there was anything wrong with his world. But from the moment he is selected as the Receiver of Memory, Jonas discovers that their community is not as perfect as it seems.
London : Penguin books, 2014
Titolo e contributi: High fidelity / Nick Hornby
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin books, 2014
Descrizione fisica: 245 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780241969816
Data:2014
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection? Rob seeks refuge in the company of the offbeat clerks at his store, who endlessly review their top five films; top five Elvis Costello songs; top five episodes of Cheers.
