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Paperback ed.
London : Virago, 2019
Virago modern classics ; 708
Titolo / Responsabilità: Corregidora / Gayl Jones
Paperback ed.
Pubblicazione: London : Virago, 2019
Descrizione fisica: 195 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Virago modern classics ; 708
ISBN: 9780349012148
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: 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.
Edinburgh : Canongate, 2024
Titolo / Responsabilità: The lions'den / Iris Mwanza
Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 242 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781838859923
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: When young queer dancer Wilbess “Bessy” Mulenga is arrested by corrupt police, fresh-from-the-village rookie lawyer Grace Zulu takes up his cause in her first pro bono case. Presented with a freshly beaten client, Grace protests to the police and gets barred from accessing Bessy, who then disappears from the system—and the world—without a trace. As she fights for justice for Bessy, Grace must navigate a dangerous world of corrupt politicians, traditional beliefs, and deep-seated homophobia.
These letters end in tears : a novel / Musih Tedji Xaviere
New York : Catapult, 2024
Titolo / Responsabilità: These letters end in tears : a novel / Musih Tedji Xaviere
Pubblicazione: New York : Catapult, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 226 p. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9781646221868
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Bessem notices Fatima for the first time on the soccer field—muscular and focused, she’s the only woman playing and seems completely at ease. When Fatima chases a rogue ball in her direction, Bessem freezes, mesmerized by the athlete’s charm and beauty. One playful wink from Fatima, and Bessem knows her life will never be the same.Despite an atmosphere of threat due to the criminalization of same-sex relationships in their home country of Cameroon, Fatima and Bessem persevere in living out their love. All seems to be going well, until a police raid at the only gay bar in town leads to Fatima’s disappearance.
London : Fleet, 2024
Titolo / Responsabilità: The fetishist / Katherine Min
Pubblicazione: London : Fleet, 2024
Descrizione fisica: XIII, 283 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780349727936
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie’s pocket. Her target is Daniel, who seduced Kyoko’s mother then callously dropped her, leading to her death. But tonight, there will be repercussions. Following the unsuspecting Daniel home, Kyoko manages to get a rash kidnapping plot off the ground . . . and then nothing goes as planned.
The land in winter / Andrew Miller
London : Sceptre, 2024
Titolo / Responsabilità: The land in winter / Andrew Miller
Pubblicazione: London : Sceptre, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 373 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781529354270
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: December 1962: In a village deep in the English countryside, two neighboring couples begin the day. Local doctor Eric Parry commences his rounds in the village while his pregnant wife, Irene, wanders the rooms of their old house, mulling over the space that has grown between the two of them.On the farm nearby lives Irene’s mirror image: witty but troubled Rita Simmons is also expecting. She spends her days trying on the idea of being a farmer’s wife, but her head still swims with images of a raucous past that her husband, Bill, prefers to forget.When Rita and Irene meet across the bare field between their houses, a clock starts.
Wandering Stars / Tommy Orange
London : Harvill Secker, 2024
Titolo / Responsabilità: Wandering Stars / Tommy Orange
Pubblicazione: London : Harvill Secker, 2024
Descrizione fisica: [XV], 315 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781787304550
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer.
We need no wings : a novel / Ann Dávila Cardinal
Naperville : Sourcebooks, 2024
Titolo / Responsabilità: We need no wings : a novel / Ann Dávila Cardinal
Pubblicazione: Naperville : Sourcebooks, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 292 p. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9781728258508
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Tere Sanchez has always known who she was: a professor, a wife, a mother, and a friend. But when her husband dies unexpectedly, she finds herself completely broken. Taking a leave from the university, Tere hopes that she can mourn her husband and get back on her feet, but instead, she spends a year consumed by grief. Until the day she levitates. Suddenly, Tere's life is thrown into disarray, and the repeated incidents of levitation not only make her question her sanity, but also put her in danger. She decides she will do anything to stop them. So when she's reminded that her family is related to the renowned levitating mystic, Saint Teresa of Avila, she leaves the refuge of her home and travels to Spain, hoping to find answers..
London [etc.] : Penguin, 2024
Penguin modern classics
Titolo / Responsabilità: Brideshead revisited : the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder / Evelyn Waugh ; with an introduction by Paula Byrne
Pubblicazione: London [etc.] : Penguin, 2024
Descrizione fisica: [XXV], 451 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Penguin modern classics
ISBN: 9780141182483
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: 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.
London : Jonathan Cape, 2024
Titolo / Responsabilità: Wild houses / Colin Barrett
Pubblicazione: London : Jonathan Cape, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 254, [1] p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9780224099851
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, introspective loner Dev answers his door on Friday night to find Doll English—younger brother of small-time local dealer Cillian English—bruised and in the clutches of Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, County Mayo’s fraternal enforcers and Dev’s cousins. Dev’s quiet homelife is upturned as he is quickly and unwillingly drawn headlong into the Ferdias' frenetic revenge plot against Cillian.
London : Vintage, 2000
Titolo / Responsabilità: The human stain / Philip Roth
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage, 2000
Descrizione fisica: 361 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781784875565
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: 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.
The city and its uncertain walls / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the japanese by Philip Gabriel
New York : Knopf, 2024
Titolo / Responsabilità: The city and its uncertain walls / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the japanese by Philip Gabriel
Pubblicazione: New York : Knopf, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 449 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780593801970
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he is heartbroken – and determined to find the imaginary town where he suspects she has taken up residence. Thus begins a lifelong search that takes the man into middle age, to a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own, and on a journey between the real world and this otherworld: a shadowless city where unicorns roam and willow trees grow..
This strange eventful history : a novel / Claire Messud
New York [etc.] : W. W. Norton & Company, 2024
Titolo / Responsabilità: This strange eventful history : a novel / Claire Messud
Pubblicazione: New York [etc.] : W. W. Norton & Company, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 428 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9780393635041
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a homeland at all.
London : Magpie books, 2024
Titolo / Responsabilità: Leaving / Roxana Robinson
Pubblicazione: London : Magpie books, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 327 p. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9780861547746
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Sarah and Warren’s college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance meeting brings them together, a passion ignites threatening the foundations of their lives.
[Legacy of Orïsha].. [3]. Children of anguish and anarchy / Tomi Adeyemi
London : Macmillan, 2024
Titolo / Responsabilità: [Legacy of Orïsha].. [3]. Children of anguish and anarchy / Tomi Adeyemi
Pubblicazione: London : Macmillan, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 348 p. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9781035044443
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: When Zélie seized the royal palace that fateful night, she thought her battles had come to an end. The monarchy had finally fallen. The maji had risen again. Zélie never expected to find herself locked in a cage and trapped on a foreign ship. Now warriors with iron skulls traffic her and her people across the seas, far from their homeland. Then everything changes when Zélie meets King Baldyr, her true captor, the ruler of the Skulls, and the man who has ravaged entire civilizations to find her. Baldyr’s quest to harness Zélie’s strength sends Zélie, Amari, and Tzain searching for allies in unknown lands..
The thousand crimes of Ming Tsu : a novel / Tom Lin
New York [etc.] : Back Bay Books, 2022
Titolo / Responsabilità: The thousand crimes of Ming Tsu : a novel / Tom Lin
Pubblicazione: New York [etc.] : Back Bay Books, 2022
Descrizione fisica: 273 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9780316542142
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: 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.
London : Harper Collins, 2024
Titolo / Responsabilità: Rogue justice / Stacey Abrams
Pubblicazione: London : Harper Collins, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 352 p. ; 25 cm
ISBN: 9780008645632
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: Supreme Court clerk Avery Keene is back, trying to get her feet on solid ground after unraveling an international conspiracy in While Justice Sleeps. But as the sparks of Congressional hearings and political skirmishes swirl around her, Avery is approached at a legal conference by Preston Davies, an unassuming young man and fellow law clerk to a federal judge in Idaho. Davies believes his boss, Judge Francesca Whitner, was being blackmailed in the days before she died. Desperate to understand what happened, he gives Avery a file, a burner phone, and a fearful warning that there are highly dangerous people involved.
London : Vintage, 2021
Titolo / Responsabilità: Love / Roddy Doyle
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage, 2021
Descrizione fisica: 326, [1] p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781529112672
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: 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.
The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Díaz
Paperback ed.
London : Faber and Faber, 2009
Titolo / Responsabilità: The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Díaz
Paperback ed.
Pubblicazione: London : Faber and Faber, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 335 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780571239733
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: 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.
London : Daunt Books, 2024
Titolo / Responsabilità: Headshot / Rita Bullwinkel
Pubblicazione: London : Daunt Books, 2024
Descrizione fisica: 248 p. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781914198724
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: xx
Abstract: An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family’s unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country.
London : Vintage, 2009
Vintage classics
Titolo / Responsabilità: Cathedral / Raymond Carver
Pubblicazione: London : Vintage, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 214 p. ; 20 cm
Serie: Vintage classics
ISBN: 9780099530336
Data:2024
Lingua: Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese: 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.
