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London : Andersen press, 2008
Titolo e contributi: Elmer and Rose / David McKee
Pubblicazione: London : Andersen press, 2008
Descrizione fisica: [29] p. : ill. ; 28 cm
ISBN: 9781842707401
Data:2008
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
London : Penguin books, 2017
Titolo e contributi: The girl from the Metropol hotel : growing up in communist Russia / Ludmilla Petrushevskaya ; translated with an introduction by Anna Summers
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin books, 2017
Descrizione fisica: XIX, [2], 149 p. : ill. b/n ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780143129974
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Born across the street from the Kremlin in the opulent Metropol Hotel—the setting of the New York Times bestselling novel A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles—Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up in a family of Bolshevik intellectuals who were reduced in the wake of the Russian Revolution to waiting in bread lines. In The Girl from the Metropol Hotel, her prizewinning memoir, she recounts her childhood of extreme deprivation—of wandering the streets like a young Edith Piaf, singing for alms, and living by her wits like Oliver Twist, a diminutive figure far removed from the heights she would attain as an internationally celebrated writer. As she unravels the threads of her itinerant upbringing—of feigned orphandom, of sleeping in freight cars and beneath the dining tables of communal apartments, of the fugitive pleasures of scraps of food—we see, both in her remarkable lack of self-pity and in the two dozen photographs throughout the text, her feral instinct and the crucible in which her gift for giving voice to a nation of survivors was forged.
Great Britain : Warner Home Video, 2002
Titolo e contributi: Gorillas in the mist [Videoregistrazione] : the adventure of Dian Fossey / based on the work by Dian Fossey and the article by Harold T. P. Hayes ; story by Anna Hamilton Phelan and Tab Murphy ; screenplay by Anna Hamilton Phelan ; produced by Arnold Glimcher and Terence A. Clegg ; directed by Michael Apted
Pubblicazione: Great Britain : Warner Home Video, 2002
Descrizione fisica: 1 disco ottico elettronico (DVD), (124') : color., son. ; 12 cm
Data:2002
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Amid the deep greens and dappled sunlight of a cloud forest in Rwanda, a family of mountain gorillas is at leisure and play. Sitting with them is a woman who mimics their movements, pretends to chew leaves and gains the acceptance of the group's dominant silverback. That woman is Dian Fossey.
The one I love : true friends never give up / Anna McPartlin
London : Penguin books, 2010
Titolo e contributi: The one I love : true friends never give up / Anna McPartlin
Pubblicazione: London : Penguin books, 2010
Descrizione fisica: 354, [1] p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781844881901
Data:2010
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Once Jane and Alexandra were inseparable - sharing adventures, secrets and big dreams for the future. But when Jane got pregnant at seventeen, they drifted apart. Seventeen years later, Jane discovers Alexandra has disappeared and she sets about helping Alexandra's broken-hearted husband, Tom, to find his wife. But in searching for Alexandra Jane is about to confront some big questions about herself..
Easter / written by Sam Taplin ; illustrated by Jo Rooks
London : Usborne, 2023
Usborne sound books
Titolo e contributi: Easter / written by Sam Taplin ; illustrated by Jo Rooks
Pubblicazione: London : Usborne, 2023
Descrizione fisica: 1 v. : in gran parte ill. ; 17x17 cm
Serie: Usborne sound books
ISBN: 9781801314428
Data:2023
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: The Easter Bunny roams around the countryside, she meets ducklings quacking in the stream, lambs going baa in the meadow and baby birds chirping in the trees. She also leaves eggs to hide wherever she goes, creating a simple spotting activity to enjoy.
Where the crawdads sing / Delia Owens
London : Corsair, 2019
Titolo e contributi: Where the crawdads sing / Delia Owens
Pubblicazione: London : Corsair, 2019
Descrizione fisica: 370 S. : Kt. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9781472154668
Data:2019
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life - until the unthinkable happens.
Milano : Hoepli, 2018
Simplified classics. Level A2/B1
Titolo e contributi: Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift ; adaptation and teaching material Luisa Benigni, Ann Louise Schou Clarke
Pubblicazione: Milano : Hoepli, 2018
Descrizione fisica: 128 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. +1 disco sonoro (CD), Mp3
Serie: Simplified classics. Level A2/B1
ISBN: 9788820384456
Data:2018
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: Italia
Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University press, 2015
Dominoes [Oxford University press]. One
Titolo e contributi: From the earth to the moon / Jules Verne ; founder editors: Bill Bowler and Sue Parminter ; text adaptation by Janet Hardy-Gould ; illustrated by Alvaro Fernandez Villa
Pubblicazione: Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University press, 2015
Descrizione fisica: [4], 51 p. : ill. color. ; 21 cm
Serie: Dominoes [Oxford University press]. One
ISBN: 9780194652469
Data:2015
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: No-one has gone to the Moon before, and many people, like the great Captain Nicholl, believe that it cannot be done. What will happen when Barbicane and Nicholl meet? And will the men who try to go to the Moon come back alive?
The eleventh trade / Alyssa Hollingsworth
London : Piccadilly press, 2018
Titolo e contributi: The eleventh trade / Alyssa Hollingsworth
Pubblicazione: London : Piccadilly press, 2018
Descrizione fisica: [6], 328, [1] p. : ill. b/n ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781848126893
Data:2018
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: A young refugee from Afghanistan and his search to find his grandfather's precious musical instrument. Back in Afghanistan, before the Taliban came, Sami's grandfather was a famous musician. People would come from miles around and pay thousands to hear him play the rebab. Now Sami and his grandfather are refugees living in Boston. The rebab is their most valuable possession and a reminder of home. Then one terrible day, the rebab is stolen. Sami's grandfather is devastated..
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.
So shall you reap / Donna Leon
London : William Heinemann, 2023
Titolo e contributi: So shall you reap / Donna Leon
Pubblicazione: London : William Heinemann, 2023
Descrizione fisica: 262 S. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781529153323
Data:2023
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: On a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice's canals. The body is soon found, and Brunetti is assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Because no official record of the man's presence in Venice exists, Brunetti is forced to use the city's far richer sources of information: gossip and the memories of people who knew the victim. Curiously, he had been living in a garden house on the grounds of a palazzo owned by a university professor, in which Brunetti discovers books revealing the victim's interest in Buddhism, the revolutionary Tamil Tigers, and the last crop of Italian political terrorists, active in the 1980s. As the investigation expands, Brunetti, Vianello, Commissario Griffoni, and Signorina Elettra each assemble pieces of a puzzle-random information about real estate and land use, books, university friendships-that appear to have little in common. Until Brunetti stumbles over something that transports him back to his own student days, causing him to reflect on lost ideals and the errors of youth, on Italian politics and history, and on the accidents that sometimes lead to revelation.
Red fox road / Frances Greenslade
Toronto : Puffin, 2022
Titolo e contributi: Red fox road / Frances Greenslade
Pubblicazione: Toronto : Puffin, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 239 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780735267831
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Francie and her parents are on a spring road trip: driving from British Columbia, Canada, to hike in the Grand Canyon. When a shortcut leads them down an old logging road, disaster strikes. Their truck hits a rock and wipes out the oil pan. They are stuck in the middle of nowhere. Francie can't help feeling a little excited. But will her survival skills - building fires, gathering dandelion leaves and fir needles for tea - be enough when hours stretch into days?
London : Usborne, 2008
Usborne first reading. Level one
Titolo e contributi: The lion and the mouse / based on a story by Aesop ; retold by Mairi Mackinnon ; illustrated by Frank Endersby
Pubblicazione: London : Usborne, 2008
Descrizione fisica: 32 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
Serie: Usborne first reading. Level one
ISBN: 9780746096604
Data:2008
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Aesop’s charming fable specially retold for beginner readers. It’s tough in the wild, whether you’re a tiny mouse or a big, scary lion. But friends can be found in the strangest of places..
Sam : a novel / Allegra Goodman
New York : The dial press, 2023
Titolo e contributi: Sam : a novel / Allegra Goodman
Pubblicazione: New York : The dial press, 2023
Descrizione fisica: 316 p. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9780593447819
Data:2023
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Sam is seven years old and living in Beverly, Massachusetts. She adores her father, though he isn’t around much. Her mother struggles to make ends meet, and never fails to remind Sam that if she studies hard and acts responsibly, adulthood will be easier—more secure and comfortable. But comfort and security are of little interest to Sam.
Demon Copperhead / Barbara Kingsolver
London : Faber and Faber, 2022
Titolo e contributi: Demon Copperhead / Barbara Kingsolver
Pubblicazione: London : Faber and Faber, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 548 p. ; 25 cm
ISBN: 9780571376469
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
The tales of pell.. book 3. The princess beard / Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne
New York : Del Rey, 2019
Fa parte di: The princess beard
Titolo e contributi: The tales of pell.. book 3. The princess beard / Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne
Pubblicazione: New York : Del Rey, 2019
Descrizione fisica: XIV, 363 p. ; 25 cm
ISBN: 9781524797805
Data:2019
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Once upon a time, a princess slept in a magical tower cloaked in thorns and roses. When she woke, she found no Prince Charming, only a surfeit of hair and grotesquely long fingernails - which was, honestly, better than some creep who acted without consent. She cut off her long braids and used them to escape. But she kept the beard because it made a great disguise. This is not a story about finding true love’s kiss - it's a story about finding yourself. On a pirate ship. Where you belong. But these are no ordinary pirates aboard The Puffy Peach, serving under Filthy Lucre, the one-eyed parrot pirate captain. First there’s Vic, a swole and misogynistic centaur on a mission to expunge himself of the magic that causes him to conjure tea and dainty cupcakes in response to stress..
Homegoing / Yaa Gyasi ; retold by Saffron Alexander
London [u. a.] : Penguin books, 2022
Penguin readers [Penguin books]. Level 7
Titolo e contributi: Homegoing / Yaa Gyasi ; retold by Saffron Alexander
Pubblicazione: London [u. a.] : Penguin books, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 128 S. : Ill. ; 21 cm
Serie: Penguin readers [Penguin books]. Level 7
ISBN: 9780241542620
Data:2022
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Half-sisters Effia and Esi are born into different villages in Ghana. The sisters' lives follow different paths: Effi marries a wealthy Englishman, while Esi is captured and sold into slavery. Each chapter of the novel then follows the lives of Effia und Esi's familiy members of the next 300 years.
London : Chatto & Windus, 2023
Titolo e contributi: The new life / Tom Crewe
Pubblicazione: London : Chatto & Windus, 2023
Descrizione fisica: 376 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781784744694
Data:2023
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: In the summer of 1894, John Addington and Henry Ellis begin writing a book arguing that what they call “inversion,” or homosexuality, is a natural, harmless variation of human sexuality. Though they have never met, John and Henry both live in London with their wives, Catherine and Edith, and in each marriage there is a third party..
Beautiful world, where are you / Sally Rooney
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021
Titolo e contributi: Beautiful world, where are you / Sally Rooney
Pubblicazione: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021
Descrizione fisica: [8], 356 p. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9780374602604
Data:2021
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young―but life is catching up with them.
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017
Titolo e contributi: The 57 bus / Dashka Slater
Pubblicazione: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017
Descrizione fisica: [14], 305, [1] p. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9780374303235
Data:2017
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren’t for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued flatlands and attended a large public one. Each day, their paths overlapped for a mere eight minutes. But one afternoon on the bus ride home from school, a single reckless act left Sasha severely burned, and Richard charged with two hate crimes and facing life imprisonment..
