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I chiostri di New York / Katy Hays ; traduzione di Paola Moretti
Milano : Rizzoli, 2023
Abstract: Per Ann Stilwell passare l’estate a lavorare per il Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York è un sogno che si avvera. Ma il destino scompagina i suoi piani quando per un disguido si vede assegnata a una sede distaccata del Met: il Cloisters, una serie labirintica di chiostri spagnoli ricostruiti lungo le rive dell’Hudson, rinomato per la sua collezione di arte medievale e per un giardino ricco di piante medicinali. La giovane studentessa trova ad accoglierla Patrick Roland, l’eccentrico direttore del museo, e Rachel Mondray, la sua magnetica e ricchissima assistente. Da subito i due la coinvolgono nelle loro ricerche sulla storia della divinazione, e Ann sembra disposta a tutto pur di entrare nelle loro grazie. Ma tra gli incunaboli della biblioteca, mentre la curiosità accademica muta pian piano in ossessione, Ann scoprirà qualcosa capace di incrinare gli equilibri: un mazzo di tarocchi italiani risalente al Quattrocento, da secoli ritenuto perduto, in grado, secondo Patrick, di aprire una visione sul futuro a chi sa leggerlo. Mentre segreti e mire personali trascinano i tre studiosi in un gioco mortale di seduzioni e prevaricazione, Ann dovrà fare una scelta: credere in un destino già scritto o diventarne l’unica artefice. Tra relazioni tossiche, arcani maggiori e codici miniati, Katy Hays mette in moto un meccanismo letterario spietato; un esordio brillante che racconta il lato oscuro della nostra fame di conoscenza, in una New York sospesa tra modernità e occulto.
London : Penguin Books, 2019
Abstract: Lou Clark knows too many things . . . She knows how many miles lie between her new home in New York and her new boyfriend Sam in London. She knows her employer is a good man and she knows his wife is keeping a secret from him. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to meet someone who's going to turn her whole life upside down. Because Josh will remind her so much of a man she used to know that it'll hurt. Lou won't know what to do next, but she knows that whatever she chooses is going to change everything.
Still me : [a novel] / Jojo Moyes
London : Viking : Pamela Dorman Book, 2018
Abstract: Lou Clark knows too many things . . . She knows how many miles lie between her new home in New York and her new boyfriend Sam in London. She knows her employer is a good man and she knows his wife is keeping a secret from him. What Lou doesn't know is she's about to meet someone who's going to turn her whole life upside down. Because Josh will remind her so much of a man she used to know that it'll hurt. Lou won't know what to do next, but she knows that whatever she chooses is going to change everything.
In his father's footsteps / Danielle Steel
London : MacMillan, 2018
Abstract: Aprile 1945. Jakob ed Emmanuelle, poco più che ventenni, sono già due sopravvissuti, salvati dalle truppe statunitensi dal terribile destino che li attendeva nel campo di Buchenwald. È in America, la terra delle opportunità, che i due giovani decidono di ricominciare insieme una nuova vita, in un fatiscente monolocale nel Lower East Side di New York, dove accettano i lavori più umili, estenuanti e malpagati, sorretti unicamente dal loro talento, dalla fede e dall'amore che li lega. Molti anni dopo, Jakob è diventato un uomo di successo e può garantire al figlio Max gli studi a Harvard, insieme ai rampolli delle più ricche famiglie americane. Diversamente dai genitori, però, il ragazzo ambisce a una fortuna più grande e si lascia abbagliare da quel mondo patinato, abbandonandosi al lusso più sfrenato. Ben presto, tuttavia, quello specchio dorato inizia a mostrare le prime crepe, riservandogli fallimenti e delusioni. Solo allora Max imparerà ad apprezzare l'esempio del padre, che aveva inseguito il sogno americano senza mai sacrificare l'integrità morale e gli affetti famigliari. Dall'Europa ridotta in ceneri alla sfavillante New York, la storia di chi, sopravvissuto all'Olocausto, ha avuto il coraggio di ricominciare a vivere, lasciando un esempio indelebile alle generazioni a venire.
Golden Hill / Francis Spufford
London : Faber & Faber, 2016
The truth about Harry Quebert affair / Joël Dicker ; translated from the french by Sam Taylor
London : Maclehose Press : Quercus, 2015
Abstract: August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard, along with a manuscript copy of the novel that made him a household name. Quebert is the only suspect. Marcus Goldman - Quebert's most gifted protege - throws off his writer's block to clear his mentor's name. Solving the case and penning a new bestseller soon merge into one. As his book begins to take on a life of its own, the nation is gripped by the mystery of 'The Girl Who Touched the Heart of America'. But with Nola, in death as in life, nothing is ever as it seems. The Baltimore Boys, a following up to the bestselling The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair, is available now.
NYPD red 2 / James Patterson & Marshall Karp
London : Century, 2014
Abstract: NYPD Red--the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America's most extreme city--hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission. A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished. The number of victims grows, and many New Yorkers secretly applaud the idea of justice won at any price. NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald are put on the case when a woman of vast wealth and even greater connections disappears. Zach and Kylie have to find what's really behind this murderer's rampage while political and personal secrets of the highest order hang in the balance. But Kylie has been acting strange recently--and Zach knows whatever she's hiding could threaten the biggest case of their careers
London : Little, 2013
London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2013
Abstract: At seven, I was a shy child, and comical-looking, with a round flat face and black slits for eyes, thick glasses, black bangs, a straight and serious mouth – a little girl cartoon. With my heart pinned to my father's sleeve'. Someone begins on the stoop of a Brooklyn apartment building where Marie is waiting for her father to come home from work. It is the 1920s and in her Irish-American enclave the stories of her neighbours unfold before her short-sighted eyes. There is war-blinded Billy Corrigan and foolish, ill-fated Pegeen – and her parents' legendary Syrian-Irish marriage – the terrifying Big Lucy, and the ever-present Sisters of Charity from the convent down the road. As the years pass Marie's own history plays out against the backdrop of a changing world. Her older brother Gabe leaves for the seminary to study for the priesthood, his faith destined to be tested to breaking point. Marie experiences first love – and first heartbreak – marriage and motherhood, and discovers how time can reveal us all to be fools and dreamers, blinded in one way or another by hope, loss or the exigencies of life and love. One life in all its devastating pains and unexpected joys; its bursts of brilliant clarity and moments of profound confusion. Fragments of a curious childhood, of adolescent sexual awakenings, of motherhood and, finally, old age are pieced together in this resonant story of an unremarkable, unforgettable woman
From Notting Hill to New York ... actually / Ali McNamara
London : Sphere, 2012
Abstract: Movie fanatic Scarlett O'Brien is convinced Sean is Mr. Right, but with him away on business all the time, she heads to New York with her new best friend Oscar. They see a lot of landmarks and make a lot of friends in NYC. But when Scarlett is drawn to Jamie, and TV reporter, she has to ask herself why she's reacting to another man like this when she's so in love with Sean ...
Requiem for a dream / Hubert Selby jr.
London : penguin books, 2012
Abstract: Harry Goldfarb, heroin addict and son of lonely widow Sara, cares only about enjoying the good life with girlfriend Marion and best friend Tyrone C Love, and making the most of all the hash, poppers and dope they can get. Sara Goldfarb sits at home with the TV, dreaming of the life she could have and struggling with her own addictions - food and diet pills. But these four will pay a terrible price for the pleasures they believe they are entitled to. A passionate, heart-breaking tale of the crushing weight of hope and expectation, Requiem for a Dream is a dark modern-day fable of New York
The great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
London : Harper press, 2012
Breakfast at Tiffany's / Truman Capote
London : Penguin Books, 2011
London : Faber and Faber, 2011
Abstract: This is the bestselling debut novel from a writer heralded as the twenty-first-century W. G. Sebald. A haunting novel about national identity, race, liberty, loss and surrender, Open City follows a young Nigerian doctor as he wanders aimlessly along the streets of Manhattan. For Julius the walks are a release from the tight regulations of work, from the emotional fallout of a failed relationship, from lives past and present on either side of the Atlantic. Isolated amid crowds of bustling strangers, Julius criss-crosses not just physical landscapes but social boundaries too, encountering people whose otherness sheds light on his own remarkable journey from Nigeria to New York - as well as into the most unrecognisable facets of his own soul.
The broken window / Jeffrey Deaver
London : Hodder, 2009
Abstract: Lincoln Rhyme is back, in the gripping new thriller from number one bestseller Jeffery Deaver - and this time it's close to home ...
London : Faber and Faber, 2008
The interpretation of murder / Jed Rubenfeld
London : Headline review, 2007
Book of the dead / Patricia Cornwell
London : Little,Brown, 2007
Abstract: The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log in which all cases are entered. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta moves to South Carolina and opens a private forensic pathology practice. A string of brutal killings shatters her dreams of a quiet life
Anybody out there / Marian Keyes
London : Penguin books, 2007
Extremely loud & incredibly close / Jonathan Safran Foer
London : Penguin Books, 2006
Abstract: Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.