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The house at Riverton / Kate Morton
Basingstoke ; Oxford : Pan books, 2007
London : Penguin Books, 2007
London : Penguin Books, 2007
London : Penguin books, 2007
Abstract: Tutto ha inizio con una freccia nera, scagliata in una mite giornata di primavera... Il protagonista, Richard Shelton detto Dick, scopre chi è il responsabile della morte di suo padre e decide di vendicarsi, unendosi alla banda di fuorilegge detta appunto "della Freccia Nera", che lotta contro i tiranni che da tempo vessano la gente del luogo, tentando di fare giustizia. Regalando al lettore un'atmosfera medievale alla "Robin Hood", con i banditi nascosti nelle foreste, i frati, i castelli e i cavalieri, La freccia nera offre anche una descrizione storica dell'Inghilterra sotto il regno di Enrico VI: un paese insanguinato da una terribile guerra civile, dove i poveri e i deboli erano vittime dei ricchi e dei potenti e dove soprusi e ingiustizie si susseguivano in continuazione. In questo clima di terrore Dick combatte la sua personale battaglia, lottando per amore della donna che ama: la bellissima Joanna Sedley, rapita dall'assassino di suo padre per essere data in sposa a un altro uomo. Tra fughe, intrighi e tradimenti, Dick diventerà un uomo coraggioso e un condottiero valoroso.
The Lord of the rings / by J. R. R. Tolkien
London : Harper Collins, 2007
Harry Potter and the deathly hallows / J. K. Rowling
London : Bloomsbury, 2007
Abstract: Edizione integrale in lingua inglese
Brave new world / Aldous Huxley ; with introductions by Margaret Atwood and David Bradshaw
London : Vintage, 2007
London : Arrow books, 2007
A thousand splendid suns / Khaled Hosseini
London : Bloomsbury, 2007
Murder on the Orient Express / Agatha Christie
London : Harper, 2007
And then there were none / Agatha Christie
London : Harper, 2007
Abstract: Agatha Christie's world-famous mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Ten strangers, apparently with little in common, are lured to an island mansion off the coast of Devon by the mysterious U.N.Owen. Over dinner, a record begins to play, and the voice of an unseen host accuses each person of hiding a guilty secret. That evening, former reckless driver Tony Marston is found murdered by a deadly dose of cyanide. The tension escalates as the survivors realise the killer is not only among them but is preparing to strike again...and again...
A girl's guide to vampires / Katie MacAlister
London : Hodder, 2007
Abstract: All Joy Randall wants is a little old-fashioned romance, but when she participates in a "Goddess evoking" ceremony with her friend, Roxy, Joy finds out her future true love is a man with the potential to put her immortal soul in danger. At first the ever-practical Joy is ready to dismiss her vision as a product of too much gin and too many vampire romances, but while traveling through the Czech Republic with Roxy, Joy begins to have some second thoughts about her mystery lover because she is suddenly plagued by visions of a lethally handsome stranger. Then, when she and Roxy attend a local GothFaire, Joy meets Raphael Griffin St. John, head of security, and she becomes even more bewildered because the dark and dangerous Raphael seems too close to her dreams for comfort.
The villa in Italy / Elizabeth Edmondson
London : Harper Collins, 2007
Abstract: Four very different people are named in a will. Delia, an opera singer robbed of her voice by illness; George, an idealistic scientist who cannot face what his skills have created; Marjorie, desperately poor and unable to dislodge her writer's block; and Lucius, ostensibly in control but whose personal life is in chaos. All are summoned to the Villa Dante, home of the late Beatrice Malaspina. But who was she? While they wait to find out, the villa begins to work its seductive magic. With its faded frescoes, overgrown garden and magnificent mediaeval tower, it is unlike anywhere they have been before. Slowly, four characters who have gone to great lengths to hide their troubles find that change is possible after all, and even hope. But the mysterious Beatrice has a devastating secret to reveal.
London : Penguin books, 2007
Abstract: Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in 'At the Bay'. 'All that I write, ' Mansfield said, 'all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.'
London : Vintage books, [2007?]
London : Vintage, 2007
In the company of the courtesan / Sarah Dunant ; traduzione di Fenisia Giannini
London : Virago, 2007
The ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories / Susanna Clarke ; illustrated by Charles Vess
London : Bloomsbury, 2007
The far side of the world / Patrick O'Brian
London : HarperPerennial, 2007
Abstract: Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.
Tender is the night / Francis Scott Fitzgerald
[London] : Penguin books, 2007
Abstract: In a Swiss sanatorium, a brilliant psychiatrist encounters a rich young patient whose problems exert a seductive fascination. After their marriage, they live on the French Riviera. There, set against the sun-baked stone houses and the drama of the sea, Dick and Nicole Diver’s glamour and wealth suggest a fabled existence – the charmed lives of the seriously and breathtakingly frivolous. But, as with all confidence tricks, luck can run out. It is to the theme of money, its corruption and destructive power that F.Scott Fitzgerald returns in this his most tantalizing and ambitious novel. The story of Dick and Nicole's disintegrating marriage and spoilt promise reflects Fitzgerald's own dive into drink and despair - and, of course, the insanity that so cruelly dogged his wife Zelda.