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Trovati 13 documenti.
Klara and the sun / Kazuo Ishiguro
London : Faber, 2022
Abstract: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021'The Sun always has ways to reach us.'From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside.
The last letter from your lover / Jojo Moyes
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2021
Abstract: Spanning forty years, two women's stories of love, loss and betrayal are intertwined. A perfect reading group novel from the bestselling author of Me Before You.
The thirst / Jo Nesbo ; translated from norvegian by Neil Smith
London : Harvill Secker, 2017
One night in Italy / Lucy Diamond
London : Pan, 2016
Abstract: Journalist Anna has never known who her dad is but with her mum refusing to tell her more she's at a dead end. When she accidentally comes across a clue that her father is Italian, it opens up a burning curiosity in Anna. Sophie is serving gelato to tourists in Italy when she gets the call that her father has had a serious heart attack. Living with her mum again while her dad recuperates, and taking a job teaching Italian to make ends meet, Sophie has to face up to the secrets she's kept buried in the past. Catherine's children have left for university, her husband has left her for another woman and her bank account is empty. At an Italian evening class she finds new friends in Anna and Sophie
Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel / Maria Semple
Milano : Rizzoli, 2019
Abstract: Bernadette is a frightfully intelligent wife and mother whose intense allergy to Seattle specifically, and to people in general, has driven her to hire a virtual assistant in India to execute even her most basic tasks. Then her daughter, Bee, insists on a family trip to Antarctica as her reward for getting perfect grades in middle school, and Bernadette is faced with the daunting prospect of actual human interaction. And then Bernadette disappears
Complete IELTS: bands 5-6.5 : students book with answers / Guy Brook-Hart and Vanessa Jakeman
Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2012
Abstract: Complete IELTS combines the very best in contemporary classroom practice with stimulating topics aimed at young adults wanting to study at university. The Student's Pack is ideal for self-study. It consists of the Student's Book with Answers with CD-ROM and the Audio CDs which contain all the material for the listening activities. The Student's Book with Answers contains 8 topic-based units with stimulating activities to ensure that students gain skills practice for each of the four papers of the IELTS exam. It also contains a complete IELTS practice test to allow students to familiarise themselves with the format of the exam. The CD-ROM contains additional skills, grammar, vocabulary and listening exercises.
Thinking, fast and slow / Daniel Kahneman
[London] : Penguin Books, 2012
Captain Mac / written by Russell Punter ; illustrated by Paul Nicholls
London : Usborne, 2011
Abstract: Captain Mac needs a crew for his ship - quick! Captain Mac is part of the Usborne Very First Reading series which has been specially developed to help children learn to read
London : Usborne, 2007
For whom the bell tolls / Ernest Hemingway
London : Arrow Books, 2004
Abstract: Un episodio di guerriglia durante la guerra civile spagnola, un ponte che deve essere fatto saltare, un piccolo gruppo di partigiani uniti dall'unica speranza che "un giorno ogni pericolo sia vinto e il paese sia un posto dove si vive bene"; in mezzo a tutto questo, Robert Jordan, il dinamitardo, l'inglés giunto da Madrid per organizzare la distruzione del ponte. Robert è un irregolare nell'esercito repubblicano, un intellettuale votato a una causa che, tra mille dubbi, egli sente non meno sua degli altri: perché al di là di ogni errore e di ogni violenza ci sia pace e libertà per tutti.
The last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper ; introduction and notes by David Blair
Ware : Wordsworth, 2002
The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson ; retold by Rosemary Border
Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2000
Abstract: You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that you hate him. Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of the very respectable Dr Jekyll? (Anobii)
London : Headline, 1995