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Robin Hood / retold by Liz Austin
Harlow : Pearson Education, [2011]
Pearson English Readers
London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2011
Abstract: Oscar Finley: street cop turned street lawyer. Wally Figg: expert hustler and ambulance-chaser. David Zinc: Harvard Law School graduate. Together, this unlikely trio make up Finley & Figg: specialists in injury claims, quickie divorces and DUIs. None of them has ever faced a jury in federal court. But they are about to take on one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the States. David gave up his lucrative career at Chicago's leading law firm for this: the chance to help the little guy stand up to the big corporations. But if Finley & Figg have right on their side, why do his new partners feel the need to carry guns in their briefcases? David thought he was used to cut-throat law from his days at Rogan Rothberg, but this is something else. He knows he was right to get out. He just may live to regret his new choice of firm...
The Bourne supremacy / Robert Ludlum ; retold by David Maule
Harlow : Pearson education, 2011
Pearson English Readers
Abstract: A Chinese politician assassinated in Hong Kong. Jason Bourne’s name found at the scene…the killer has returned! Who’s paying him and who will he kill next? But American officials know there never was an assassin called Bourne. So who is the impostor? How can he be stopped?
Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen ; retold by Nancy Taylor
Harlow : Pearson education, 2011
Pearson English Readers
Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Dog Days / by Jeff Kinney
London : Puffin, 2011
London : Bantam book, 2011
Abstract: Un uomo cammina da solo nella notte di New York, illuminata da migliaia di luci artificiali. Un uomo, un ex poliziotto militare, un lupo solitario, forse un eroe: Jack Reacher. Per lui anche un gesto semplice come bere un caffè in un locale può segnare l'inizio di un'avventura. Qualcosa attira infatti la sua attenzione dietro la vetrata del bar: strani movimenti intorno a una Mercedes parcheggiata lungo il marciapiede. Gesti impercettibili, ma non per un occhio allenato come il suo. Jack non è il solo ad aver notato qualcosa: anche il proprietario dell'automobile, Edward Lane, ha notato lui. E ha capito di aver bisogno del suo aiuto. L'uomo è il capo di un'agenzia di contractors e nella Mercedes c'era il riscatto per sua moglie e sua figlia, che sono state rapite: un milione di dollari. Il denaro però è scomparso, la donna e la bambina non sono tornate a casa e ora Lane teme per la loro vita. Forse Reacher può aiutarlo a capire che cos'è successo, intorno a quella maledetta macchina. Forse Reacher può riportare a casa sane e salve le due persone alle quali Lane tiene di più. Ma ci sono troppi punti oscuri in questa faccenda e Reacher non è certo il tipo da tirarsi indietro, men che meno quando la verità assume sfumature ambigue e si rischia di fare un passo di troppo...
A discovey of witches / Deborah Harkness
New York : Penguin, 2011
Abstract: Quando Diane Bishop, una giovane storica studiosa di alchimia, scopre nella Bodleyan Library di Oxford un antico manoscritto che vi era rimasto celato per secoli, non si rende conto di aver compiuto un gesto decisivo per la sua vita. Discendente da una stirpe di streghe, Diane aveva sempre cercato di vivere una vita normale, da cui la magia era rigorosamente bandita. Ma ora sente che il potere del manoscritto è più forte di ogni sua decisione e, nonostante tutti i suoi tentativi, non riesce a metterlo da parte. Diane però non è la sola ad avvertirne con prepotenza l'attrazione. Perché le streghe non sono le uniche creature ultraterrene che vivono a fianco degli umani: ci sono anche demoni, fantasiosi e distruttivi, e vampiri, eternamente giovani; e tutti sono interessati alla scoperta di Diane. Uno in particolare si distingue dagli altri, Matthew Clairmont, un vampiro, professore di genetica appassionato di Darwin. Il cui interesse per il manoscritto viene presto superato da quello per la giovane strega. Insieme intraprendono il viaggio per sviscerare i segreti celati nell'antico libro. Ma l'amore che nasce tra loro, un amore proibito da leggi radicate nel tempo, minaccia di alterare il fragile equilibrio esistente tra le creature e gli umani, scatenando un conflitto che può avere conseguenze fatali.
Inheritance, or the vault of souls / Christopher Paolini
New York : Alfred A. Knopf
Abstract: Not so very long ago, Eragon—Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider—was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders. Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, but they have also brought heartbreaking loss. And still, the real battle lies ahead: they must defeat Galbatorix. There will be no second chances. The Rider and his dragon have come further than anyone dared to hope. But can they topple the evil king and restore justice to Alagaësia? And if so, at what cost?
The prince / Niccolò Machiavelli
London : Collins, 2011
Collins classics
A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man / James Joyce
London : HarperCollins publishers, 2011
Collins Classics
Abstract: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.' Autobiographical in tone, Joyce's tale of Stephen Dedalus' journey into adulthood explores the intellectual and moral development of an artist as he struggles to overcome the ingrained Catholic consciousness of his childhood -- a family life governed by Irish history, religion and politics. Realistic and innovative in its approach, the style of writing proved controversial upon publication in 1916 and the character of Stephen on a quest for his identity did not appeal to readers.However, Joyce expertly encapsulates the development of individual consciousness and the role of the artist in society in what is considered one of his greatest works.
Quiet chaos: a novel / Sandro Veronesi ; [translated by Michael F. Moore
[New York] : Ecco, 2011
Original ; 40
Abstract: After an afternoon of surfing, television executive Pietro Paladini and his brother Carlo spot two women struggling far off in the waves. Pietro and Carlo race to save them, and after fighting the currents and exhaustion, bring them safely to shore. Now late to get home, Pietro hurries up from the beach only to find his young daughter, Claudia, wide-eyed at the side of the road. His wife has unexpectedly died while he was saving the life of another. After numbly feeling their way through the rituals of death and the end of summer, the school year begins. On that first day, Pietro decides to wait for Claudia and work from his car in the parking lot outside her school; he is also waiting for the full force of grief to press down on their shoulders, to suffocate them. What if today is the day that happens?What if Claudia needs him? On the second day, Pietro again waits for his daughter ...and the third, and the fourth. He finds some semblance of peace in waiting, and strangely others find something similar in him: his colleagues, friends and family begin to visit him at the parking lot to share their problems. It's there that the woman he saved finds him, stirring in him a distracting, overbearing lust that stands in the way of his grief. Through their angry, unforgiving union, Pietro's days outside the school reach their culmination, and his loss is finally transformed into acceptance. At turns funny and dark, unexpectedly compelling and powerfully real, "Quiet Chaos" takes readers into the odd, beautiful moments of the everyday that offer opportunity for contemplation, and ultimately, renewal.
Billionaire boy / David Walliams ; illustrated Tony Ross
London : HarperCollins children's books, 2011
The portrait of a lady / Henry James
London : Collins classics, 2011
Collins classics
1: A game of thrones / George R. R. Martin
New York : Bantam Books, 2011
London : Pan books, 2011
Abstract: The first in Ken Follett's bestselling Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women. A world in chaos. 1911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy Williams, begins working down the mines as George V is crowned king. The escalating arms race between the empire nations will put not only the king but this young boy in grave danger. A terrible war. Billy’s family is inextricably linked with the Fitzherberts, the aristocratic owners of the coal mine where he works. And when Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London, their destiny also becomes entangled with that of Gus Dewar, an ambitious young aide to Woodrow Wilson, and two orphaned Russian brothers, the Peshkovs, whose plan to emigrate to America falls foul of conscription, revolution and imminent war. A revolution that will change everything. When Russia convulses in bloody revolution and the Great War unfolds, the five families’ futures are entwined forever, love bringing them closer even as conflict takes them further apart. What seeds will be sown for further tragedy in the twentieth century and what role will each play in what is to come?
Boy : tales of childhood / Roald Dahl
London : Penguin, 2011
City of fallen angels / Cassandra Clare
London : Walker books, 2011
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