Trovati 96 documenti.
This strange eventful history : a novel / Claire Messud
New York [etc.] : W. W. Norton & Company, 2024
Titolo e contributi: This strange eventful history : a novel / Claire Messud
Pubblicazione: New York [etc.] : W. W. Norton & Company, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 428 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780393635041
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all.
London [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2024
Titolo e contributi: Hey, Zoey / Sarah Crossan
Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 312 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781526619860
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: 43-year-old Dolores O'Shea is logical, organized, and prepared to handle whatever comes her way. She keeps up with her job and housework, takes care of her mentally declining mother, and remains close with her old friends and her younger sister who's moved to New York. Though her marriage with David, an anesthesiologist, isn't what is used to be, nothing can quite prepare her for Zoey, the $8,000 AI sex doll that David has secretly purchased and stuffed away in the garage.
London [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2024
Titolo e contributi: The coast road / Alan Murrin
Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Bloomsbury, 2024
Descrizione fisica: VI, 310 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781526663702
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Set in 1994, The Coast Road tells the story of two women—Izzy Keaveney, a housewife, and Colette Crowley, a poet. Colette has left her husband and sons for a married man in Dublin. When she returns to her home in County Donegal to try to pick up the pieces of her old life, her husband, Shaun, a successful businessman, denies her access to her children. The only way she can see them is with the help of neighbour Izzy, acting as a go-between.
Tell me everything : a novel / Elizabeth Strout
London : Penguin : Viking, 2024
Titolo e contributi: Tell me everything : a novel / Elizabeth Strout
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin : Viking, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 326 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780241634356
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: It’s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been.
Neigbors and other stories / Diane Oliver
London : Faber, 2024
Titolo e contributi: Neigbors and other stories / Diane Oliver
Pubblicazione: London : Faber, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 264 S. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9780571386086
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: One Black family comes under attack as their little boy prepares to start at an all-white school. Friends plan a protest sit-in at the Rose Crest Tea Room, only to be arrested. The first Black student - always the 'Experiment' - retreats into her closet at a newly integrated college. And when a social worker enters a secluded woodland cabin, she meets the fate of all visitors . . .
London : Viking, 2024
Titolo e contributi: My friends / Hisham Matar
Pubblicazione: London : Viking, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 457 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780241409497
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. When government officials open fire on protestors in broad daylight, both friends are wounded, and their lives forever changed.
London : Vintage, 2024
Titolo e contributi: Orbital / Samantha Harvey
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 136 p. : ill. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781529922936
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, six astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan—have left their lives behind to travel at a speed of over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to prevent atrophying muscles; we witness them form bonds that will stand between them and utter solitude.
London : Daunt Books, 2024
Titolo e contributi: Headshot / Rita Bullwinkel
Pubblicazione: London : Daunt Books, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 248 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781914198724
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family’s unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country.
Eruption / Michael Crichton and James Patterson
London : Century, 2024
Titolo e contributi: Eruption / Michael Crichton and James Patterson
Pubblicazione: London : Century, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 424 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781529907506
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: A once-in-a-century volcanic eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii. But a decades-old military secret could turn the volcano into something even more terrifying.. Now it’s up to a handful of brave individuals to save the island – and the entire world.
Lola Locust finds her Focus / Lesley Sims ; illustrated by Sian Roberts
Usborne bug tales
Titolo e contributi: Lola Locust finds her Focus / Lesley Sims ; illustrated by Sian Roberts
Descrizione fisica: 1 v. (senza paginazione) : in gran parte ill. color. ; 21 cm
Serie: Usborne bug tales
ISBN: 9781805312338
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Lola the Locust is looking for a job, but everything she tries ends in chaos. Poor Lola cannot focus on the task at hand. Join her as she tracks down her perfect role in this charming tale set in the mini world of bugs
Oxford essential Arabic dictionary : English-Arabic, Arabic-English
Oxford : Oxford University press, 2010
Titolo e contributi: Oxford essential Arabic dictionary : English-Arabic, Arabic-English
Pubblicazione: Oxford : Oxford University press, 2010
Descrizione fisica: XII, 374 p. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 9780199561155
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
The interpreter / Brooke Robinson
London : Vintage Books, 2024
Titolo e contributi: The interpreter / Brooke Robinson
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage Books, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 389 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9781529919622
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Thanks to a nomadic childhood, Revelle Lee is fluent in ten languages, which she puts to use at crime scenes and in courtrooms across London. Being a court interpreter is a stressful job, one that makes her privy to the most personal and often dark details of others' lives. In the meantime, she's close to adopting a six-year-old boy named Elliot from foster care. Revelle is determined to be the mother she never had, and to make up for a terrible mistake she made years ago. Though the sweet, loving little boy is learning to trust her, she's begun receiving disturbing messages which she suspects are from his birth family. When one of her cases involves a murder victim she knew slightly, Revelle fears she's seeing a miscarriage of justice play out. Putting both the adoption and her career at risk, she deliberately mistranslates a Polish man's alibi to put his accused friend behind bars, even though he insists he's innocent. Revelle thinks she's gotten away with it free and clear. But someone seems to know what she's done--and about her long-ago error and its terrible consequences. And they intend to destroy Revelle's life, piece by piece. . .
English conversation / Jean Yates
Premium 4. ed
New York [etc.] : McGraw-Hill, 2024
Practice makes perfect
Titolo e contributi: English conversation / Jean Yates
Premium 4. ed
Pubblicazione: New York [etc.] : McGraw-Hill, 2024
Descrizione fisica: V, [3], 183 p. ; 28 cm
Serie: Practice makes perfect
ISBN: 9781266002250
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
London [etc.] : Penguin, 2011
Titolo e contributi: Libra / Don DeLillo
Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Penguin, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 456 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780141041995
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: In this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald’s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When “history” presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped.
London [etc.] : Penguin, 2024
Penguin modern classics
Titolo e contributi: Brideshead revisited : the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder / Evelyn Waugh ; with an introduction by Paula Byrne
Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Penguin, 2024
Descrizione fisica: [XXV], 451 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Penguin modern classics
ISBN: 9780141182483
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: The wellsprings of desire and the impediments to love come brilliantly into focus in Evelyn Waugh's masterpiece — a novel that immerses us in the glittering and seductive world of English aristocracy in the waning days of the empire. Through the story of Charles Ryder's entanglement with the Flytes, a great Catholic family, Evelyn Waugh charts the passing of the privileged world he knew in his own youth and vividly recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by wartime austerities.
Oxford : Oxford University press, 2009
Oxford world's classics
Titolo e contributi: John Barleycorn : alcoholic memoirs / Jack London ; edited with an introduction and notes by John Sutherland
Pubblicazione: Oxford : Oxford University press, 2009
Descrizione fisica: XLIV, 237 p.; ; 20 cm
Serie: Oxford world's classics
ISBN: 9780199555574
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
London : Vintage, 2021
Titolo e contributi: Love / Roddy Doyle
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage, 2021
Descrizione fisica: 326, [1] p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781529112672
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: One summer''s evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy a grief he wants to keep from Joe. Both are not the men they used to be.
London : Vintage, 2009
Vintage classics
Titolo e contributi: Cathedral / Raymond Carver
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 214 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Vintage classics
ISBN: 9780099530336
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: A remarkable collection that includes the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another. These twelve stories overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life.
London : Penguin, 2019
Titolo e contributi: The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin, 2019
Descrizione fisica: XVIII, 329 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780143038092
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money.
Revolutionary road / Richard Yates
London : Vintage, 2007
Vintage classics
Titolo e contributi: Revolutionary road / Richard Yates
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage, 2007
Descrizione fisica: 338 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Vintage classics
ISBN: 9780099518624
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Perhaps Frank and April Wheeler married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just around the corner. But now that certainty is about to unravel.
