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Abstract: Storia fra le più clamorose della letteratura moderna, entrata con forza nel nostro immaginario anche grazie alle numerose versioni cinematografiche che ha ispirato, Il dottor Jekyll e Mr. Hyde a più di un secolo dalla pubblicazione stupisce ancora. Calata in un'avvincente trama giallo-poliziesca, la lotta impari che oppone Jekyll a Hyde mette in gioco temi di grande suggestione - la metamorfosi e il doppio, lo specchio e il sosia - fino a toccare le corde più segrete e inconfessate dell'animo umano.

Abstract: World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon, he dreamed of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life. Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. But in Deckard's world things were never that simple, and his assignment quickly turned into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge and deceit-- and the threat of death for the hunter rather than the hunted...THE AUTHORPhilip K Dick (1928-82) was born one of twins and lived most of his life in California. He wrote more than fifty books in a career of prodigious productivity and achievement. The films BLADE RUNNER and TOTAL RECALL were based on his stories.

Abstract: Dena è una splendida e ambiziosa stella nascente della televisione degli anni Settanta. L'aspetta un futuro più che promettente, ma il suo presente è irto di complicazioni e il passato avvolto nel mistero. Tutti i nodi della sua vita vengono al pettine quando è costretta a lasciare l'amata New York per fare ritorno nella cittadina della sua infanzia, Elmwood Springs, Missouri. Dove rivede una vecchia amica pronta a buttarsi nel fuoco per lei; i parenti chiaccheroni ma saggi; una pioniera delle trasmissioni via etere. E altri personaggi teneri e bizzarri, tutti ammaliati da una donna che, senza sapere dove sia la sua casa e neppure cosa sia l'amore, proprio grazie a loro mette le basi per un futuro nuovo ed inaspettato.

Abstract: Murray Bails novel takes a comical, hugely entertaining journey with a group of travellers as they discover that the world is their theme park. There are thirteen ill-assorted men and women on a world tour, a package of pool-sides, museums, hotels and shops. Their destinations include some unlikely tourist attractions, amongst them a Corrugated Iron museum, a collection of Great Brains and an Institution of Marriage. No matter where they go Africa, England, South America, New York or Russia they find nothing as they expected. Challenged by unexpected propositions, differences and subtleties of life, history, themselves Bails archetypal tourists find themselves repelled or attracted and nearly always altered. In this epic fable of the world as a melting-pot of colliding cultures and obsessive, pointless sight-seeing, Murray Bail reveals his gifts as a comic novelist and skewers the pretensions and prejudices of his archetypal tourists with his sense of the absurd.

Abstract: Jeremy ha perso i genitori a otto anni in un incidente stradale: da allora va cercando dei sostituti, finché li trova definitivamente nelle figure di Bernard e June Tremaine, adottati per così dire attraverso il matrimonio con Jenny. Bernard e June si incontrano nella Londra degli anni Quaranta; a unirli è l'amore reciproco e la fede nell'ideale comunista. Ma per paradosso saranno proprio il loro amore testardo e la cocente disillusione del comunismo ad allontanarli nel corso degli anni. Il romanzo è appunto un tributo a questi due vecchi, rappresentanti della generazione che ha vissuto la propria giovinezza durante il secondo conflitto mondiale, e il tentativo di Jeremy di ricucire nel ricordo il loro amore.

Abstract: Nearly a quarter-century after her death, Agatha Christie remains the most popular mystery writer of all time. Now, in a celebrated publishing event, fans and newcomers alike are treated to another Christie novel. Created in 1930 as a stage play and faithfully adapted by Charles Osborne, Black Coffee brings back beloved detective Hercule Poirot to exercise his "little grey cells" one more deliciously deductive time... An urgent call from physicist Sir Claud Amory sends famed detective Hercule Poirot rushing from London to a sprawling country estate. Sir Claud fears a member of his own household wants to steal a secret formula destined for the Ministry of Defense. But Poirot arrives too late. The formula is missing. Worse, Sir Claud has been poisoned by his after-dinner coffee. Poirot soon identifies a potent brew of despair, treachery, and deception amid the mansion's occupants. Now he must find the formula and the killer...while letting no poison slip 'twix his low lips.

Abstract: On a Chicago street in bright sunshine, Jack Reacher, strolling nowhere, meets an attractive young woman, limping, struggling with her crutches, alone. Naturally he stops to offer her a steadying arm, and then they turn together - to face twin handguns held level and motionless and aimed straight at their stomachs. Chained to the woman, locked in a dark, stifling van racing 2,000 miles across America, Reacher needs to know who he's dealing with. The kidnappers are saying nothing and his companion claims to be Holly Johnson, FBI agent. She's fierce enough and tough enough, but he knows there must be more to her than that. And at their remote, hostile destination, they will need to act as a team and trust each other, pitting raw courage and cunning against insane violence and seemingly hopeless odds, with their own lives and hundreds more at stake. Filled with non-stop action and gritty suspense, Die Trying is a tightly plotted thriller from one of the most exciting British talents writing today.

Abstract: This is Janet and Allan Ahlberg's hilarious picture book, "Burglar Bill". "Burglar Bill" is an entertaining picture book by the iconic British husband and wife picture book team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of "Peepo"! Perfect as a bedtime story and for children learning to read! Who's that creeping down the street? Who's that climbing up the wall? Who's that coming through the window? Who's that?...It's Burglar Bill. Allan Ahlberg has published over 100 children's books and with his late wife Janet, created many award-winning children's picture books, including "Cops and Robbers", "It was a Dark and Stormy Night", "Each Peach Pear Plum" and the Kate Greenaway Medal winning "The Jolly Postman". Look out for these other classics by Allan Ahlberg: "The Baby's Catalogue"; "Cops and Robbers"; "Each Peach Pear Plum"; "The One and Only Two Heads"; "Son of a Gun"; "The Little Worm Book"; "Two Wheels Two Heads"; "Funny Bones"; "A Pair of Sinners"; "Happy Families"; "Peepo"!;"The Ha Ha Bonk Book"; "Help Your Child to Read"; "Ten in a Bed"; "Please mrs Butler"; "Daisy Chains"; "Yum Yum"; "Playmates"; "Foldaways"; "Woof"; "The Cinderella Show"; "The Jolly Postman"; "The Jolly Christmas Postman"; "The Jolly Pocket Postman"; "The Clothes Horse and Other Stories"; "The Mighty Slide"; "Starting School"; "Heard it in the Playground"; "The Bear Nobody Wanted"; "It was a Dark and Stormy Night"; "The Giant Baby"; "Baby Sleeps"; "Blue Buggy"; "Doll and Teddy"; "See the Rabbit"; "Please Mrs Butler"; "The Better Brown Stories"; "The Boyhood of Burglar Bill".

Abstract: This beautifully illustrated book will inspire your children's thinking surrounding Jesus' birth. They will encounter the joy and wonder of the first Christmas as the shepherds must have experienced it.

Abstract: Remember how the Gingerbread Boy is eaten by the fox? Well, not this Gingerbread Baby in a delicious twist to a favorite old tale. It all begins when Matti opens the oven too soon and out jumps a cheeky little Gingerbread Bay. He leads Matti's mother and father, the dog and the cat. And a whole colorful cast of characters on a rollicking chase through the village and into the forest, staying just out of reach, daring them to catch him along the way. But Matti's not with them. He's at home in the borders making what turns out to be a gingerbread house into which the Gingerbread Baby runs. Only Matti knows he is safely inside. And readers will too when they look under the lift-the-flap gingerbread house at the end of the story, and there he is!

Abstract: Set in 19th-century London, this timeless classic narrates the incredible adventures and poignant hardships of Oliver, a young, penniless orphan who, in spite of his encounters with criminals of London and adverse circumstances, finds happiness in the end.