Gefunden 96 Dokumente.
Eruption / Michael Crichton and James Patterson
London : Century, 2024
Titel / Autor: Eruption / Michael Crichton and James Patterson
Veröffentlichung: London : Century, 2024
Physische Beschreibung: 424 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781529907506
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: 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
Titel / Autor: Lola Locust finds her Focus / Lesley Sims ; illustrated by Sian Roberts
Physische Beschreibung: 1 v. (senza paginazione) : in gran parte ill. color. ; 21 cm
Reihen: Usborne bug tales
ISBN: 9781805312338
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: 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
Titel / Autor: Oxford essential Arabic dictionary : English-Arabic, Arabic-English
Veröffentlichung: Oxford : Oxford University press, 2010
Physische Beschreibung: XII, 374 p. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 9780199561155
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
English conversation / Jean Yates
Premium 4. ed
New York [etc.] : McGraw-Hill, 2024
Practice makes perfect
Titel / Autor: English conversation / Jean Yates
Premium 4. ed
Veröffentlichung: New York [etc.] : McGraw-Hill, 2024
Physische Beschreibung: V, [3], 183 p. ; 28 cm
Reihen: Practice makes perfect
ISBN: 9781266002250
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
London [etc.] : Penguin, 2011
Titel / Autor: Libra / Don DeLillo
Veröffentlichung: London [etc.] : Penguin, 2011
Physische Beschreibung: 456 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780141041995
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: 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
Titel / Autor: Brideshead revisited : the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder / Evelyn Waugh ; with an introduction by Paula Byrne
Veröffentlichung: London [etc.] : Penguin, 2024
Physische Beschreibung: [XXV], 451 p. ; 20 cm
Reihen: Penguin modern classics
ISBN: 9780141182483
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: 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
Titel / Autor: John Barleycorn : alcoholic memoirs / Jack London ; edited with an introduction and notes by John Sutherland
Veröffentlichung: Oxford : Oxford University press, 2009
Physische Beschreibung: XLIV, 237 p.; ; 20 cm
Reihen: Oxford world's classics
ISBN: 9780199555574
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
London : Vintage, 2021
Titel / Autor: Love / Roddy Doyle
Veröffentlichung: London : Vintage, 2021
Physische Beschreibung: 326, [1] p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781529112672
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: 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
Titel / Autor: Cathedral / Raymond Carver
Veröffentlichung: London : Vintage, 2009
Physische Beschreibung: 214 p. ; 20 cm
Reihen: Vintage classics
ISBN: 9780099530336
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: 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
Titel / Autor: The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan
Veröffentlichung: London : Penguin, 2019
Physische Beschreibung: XVIII, 329 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780143038092
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: 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
Titel / Autor: Revolutionary road / Richard Yates
Veröffentlichung: London : Vintage, 2007
Physische Beschreibung: 338 p. ; 20 cm
Reihen: Vintage classics
ISBN: 9780099518624
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: 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.
Daddy was a number runner / Louise Meriwether ; with a foreword by James Baldwin
London : Virago, 2021
Virago modern classics ; 434
Titel / Autor: Daddy was a number runner / Louise Meriwether ; with a foreword by James Baldwin
Veröffentlichung: London : Virago, 2021
Physische Beschreibung: IX, 207 p. ; 20 cm
Reihen: Virago modern classics ; 434
ISBN: 9780349015927
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: Depression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her family, and it’s both a place of refuge and the source of untold dangers for her and her poor, working class family. The beloved “daddy” of the title indeed becomes a number runner when he is unable to find legal work, and while one of Francie’s brothers dreams of becoming a chemist, the other is already in a gang.
Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West / Cormac McCarthy
New York : Vintage international, 1992
Titel / Autor: Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West / Cormac McCarthy
Veröffentlichung: New York : Vintage international, 1992
Physische Beschreibung: 351 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780679728757
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
The round house / Louise Erdrich
London : Corsair, 2023
Titel / Autor: The round house / Louise Erdrich
Veröffentlichung: London : Corsair, 2023
Physische Beschreibung: 374 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781472108142
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared.
London : Vintage, 2000
Titel / Autor: The human stain / Philip Roth
Veröffentlichung: London : Vintage, 2000
Physische Beschreibung: 361 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781784875565
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished his most virulent accuser.
Less than zero / Bret Easton Ellis
London : Picador, 2023
Titel / Autor: Less than zero / Bret Easton Ellis
Veröffentlichung: London : Picador, 2023
Physische Beschreibung: XIII, 195 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781035012756
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.
Paperback ed.
London : Virago, 2019
Virago modern classics ; 708
Titel / Autor: Corregidora / Gayl Jones
Paperback ed.
Veröffentlichung: London : Virago, 2019
Physische Beschreibung: 195 p. ; 20 cm
Reihen: Virago modern classics ; 708
ISBN: 9780349012148
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: Blues singer Ursa is consumed by her hatred of Corregidora, the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her mother and grandmother. Charged with ''making generations'' to bear witness to the abuse embodied in the family name, Ursa Corregidora finds herself unable to keep alive this legacy when she is made sterile in a violent fight with her husband.
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Díaz
Paperback ed.
London : Faber and Faber, 2009
Titel / Autor: The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Díaz
Paperback ed.
Veröffentlichung: London : Faber and Faber, 2009
Physische Beschreibung: 335 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780571239733
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA.
The thousand crimes of Ming Tsu : a novel / Tom Lin
New York [etc.] : Back Bay Books, 2022
Titel / Autor: The thousand crimes of Ming Tsu : a novel / Tom Lin
Veröffentlichung: New York [etc.] : Back Bay Books, 2022
Physische Beschreibung: 273 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780316542142
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate, who trains him to be his deadly enforcer. But when Ming falls in love with Ada, the daughter of a powerful railroad magnate, and the two elope, he seizes the opportunity to escape to a different life. Soon after, in a violent raid, the tycoon's henchmen kidnap Ada and conscript Ming into service for the Central Pacific Railroad.
Charles III : new king, new court : the inside story / Robert Hardman
London : Macmillan, 2024
Titel / Autor: Charles III : new king, new court : the inside story / Robert Hardman
Veröffentlichung: London : Macmillan, 2024
Physische Beschreibung: 451 S. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781035027484
Datum:2024
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: By the acclaimed royal biographer and commentator Robert Hardman, Charles III is a brilliant and intimate portrait of the new monarch that draws on unrivalled access to the Royal Family, their close friends and staff, plus previously unseen papers from the Royal Archives. With damaging headlines unleashed by the Sussexes, political crises and questions about the future of the monarchy, Charles III had no shortage of challenges when he started his reign. The Royal Family then faced a double blow in 2024 when the King and the Princess of Wales were diagnosed with cancer, the news shocking the nation. The dramatic story is uncovered here, along with the vital role played by Queen Camilla, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Princess Royal and others. From the emotional days following the death of Elizabeth II to the pageantry of the coronation, from the truth about the King’s relationship with Prince William and Prince Harry and the way he has coped with his illness to his first steps on the world stage, Hardman takes us behind the pomp and ceremony to reveal Charles the man as well as the monarch
