Bollettino delle Novità – Ottobre 2011 Letteratura
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Bollettino delle Novità – Ottobre 2011 Letteratura
Bollettino delle Novità – Ottobre 2011 Letteratura Road dogs, Elmore Leonard, Phoenix, London, 2010. Collocazione: INT-EN 813.5 LEO Inventario: 7648 Every prison inmate needs a Road Dog - someone to watch their back, someone they can trust on the inside and out. For wealthy Cuban criminal Cundo Rey, that person is Jack Foley: charmer, ladies' man and infamous bank robber. With the services of a shark attorney and a whole heap of cash, Cundo engineers his buddy's early release, and Jack is soon living large in Cundo's house in Venice Beach, enjoying the attentions of his sexy wife, Dawn. But Dawn has ulterior motives and a plan: to relieve her husband of his considerable fortune... and she needs Jack's help. But with Cundo's release imminent and rogue FBI agent Lou Adams on his tail, just who can Jack trust if he's to pull off the biggest score of his life...? Luka and the Fire of Life, Salman Rushdie, Vintage, London, 2011. Collocazione: INT-EN 823.9 RUS Inventario: 76546 On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka’s storyteller father, Rashid, fell suddenly and inexplicably into a sleep so deep that nothing and no one could rouse him. To save him from slipping away entirely, Luka must embark on a journey through the Magic World, encountering a slew of phantasmagorical obstacles along the way, to steal the Fire of Life, a seemingly impossible and exceedingly dangerous task. Love in a blue time, Hanif Kureishi, Faber and Faber, London, Boston, 1997. Collocazione: INT-EN 823.9 KUR Inventario: 7606 Love in a Blue Time is a brilliant collection of stories by the bestselling author of The Buddha of Suburbia. This time, Hanif Kureishi's subject is the difficult, serious business of love - and hate. His stories have all the qualities of his novels: they are funny, inventive, bawdy, and aggressively contemporary. The characters that stride out of the pages of Love in a Blue Time, however damaged, deranged or despicable, are united by one thing: they are all creatures of strong desire. 'In this haunting, troubling collection of short stories, Hanif Kureishi has finally embraced the decadence that has lain in wait for him . . . A tense, desolate and consuming collection.' Observer 'The whole collection buzzes with anger and angst.' Private London, James Patterson, Mark Pearson, Century, London, 2011. Collocazione: INT-EN 813.5 PAT Inventario: 7675 For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American student, this particular nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when Jack Morgan, owner of Private – the world’s most exclusive detective agency – saved her from a horrific death. She has fled her country, but can’t flee her past. The terror has followed her to London, and now it is down to former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter, head of Private London, to save her all over again. The lake, Banana Yoshimoto, Melville House, Brooklyn, 2011. Collocazione: INT-EN 895.6 YOS Inventario: 7678 While The Lake shows off many of the features that have made Banana Yoshimoto famous—a cast of vivid and quirky characters, simple yet nuanced prose, a tight plot with an upbeat pace—it’s also one of the most darkly mysterious books she’s ever written.It tells the tale of a young woman who moves to Tokyo after the death of her mother, hoping to get over her grief and start a career as a graphic artist. She finds herself spending too much time staring out her window, though ... until she realizes she’s gotten used to seeing a young man across the street staring out his window, too. They eventually embark on a hesitant romance, until she learns that he has been the victim of some form of childhood trauma. Visiting two of his friends who live a monastic life beside a beautiful lake, she begins to piece together a series of clues that lead her to suspect his experience may have had something to do with a bizarre religious cult. . . . The Falls : a novel, Joyce Carol Oates, Harper Perennial, London, 2005. Collocazione: INT-EN 813.5 OAT Inventario: 7609 Praise for Joyce Carol Oates: 'One of the female frontrunners for the title of Great American Novelist.' Maggie Gee, Sunday Times 'A writer of extraordinary strengths...she has dealt consistently with what is probably the great American theme -- the quest for the creation of self...Her great subject, naturally, is love.' Ian Sansom, Guardian 'Her prose is peerless and her ability to make you think as she re-invents genres is unique. Few writers move so effortlessly from the gothic tale to the psychological thriller to the epic family saga to the lyrical novella. Even fewer authors can so compellingly and entertainingly tell a story.' Jackie McGlone, Scotland on Sunday 'Novelists such as John Updike, Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer slug it out for the title of the Great American Novelist. But maybe they're wrong. Maybe, just maybe, the Great American Novelist is a woman. Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson, Square Fish, New York, 2011. Collocazione: INT-EN 813.5 AND Inventario: 7677 From her first moment at Merryweather High, Melinda Sordino knows she's an outcast. She busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops - a major infraction in high-school society - so her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't know glare at her. No one knows why she called the police, and she can't get out the words to explain. So she retreats into her head, where the lies and hypocrisies of high school stand in stark relief to her own silence. But it's not so comfortable in her head, either there's something banging around in there that she doesn't want to think about. But, try as she might, it just won't go away... The mulberry empire or the two virtuous journeys of the amir dost Mohammed Khan, Philip Hensher, Flamingo, London, 2003. Collocazione: INT-EN 823.9 HEN Inventario: 7608 The breakthrough novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency and King of the Badgers.‘The Mulberry Empire’ recounts an episode in the Great Game in central Asia – the courtship, betrayal and invasion of Afghanistan in the 1830s by the emissaries of Her Majesty’s Empire, which is followed by the bloody and summary expulsion of the Brits from Kabul following an Afghani insurrection.The novel has at its heart the encounter between West and East as embodied in the likeable, complex relationship between Alexander Burnes, leader of the initial British expeditionary party, and the wily, cultured Afghani ruler, the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan. Whiplash, Catherine Coulter, Jove Books, New York, 2011. Collocazione: INT-EN 813.5 COU Inventario: 7649 In Coulter's fab 14th FBI paranormal romantic thriller (after KnockOut), FBI special agents Dillon Savich and his wife, Lacey Sherlock, look into the possible haunting of a U.S. senator by his dead wife as well as a more earthly crime: Germany's Schiffer Hartwin Pharmaceutical, which has its U.S. headquarters in Connecticut, might be deliberately withholding an inexpensive cancer fighting drug, Culovort, to force cancer patients to require the far more expensive Eloxium, in short supply. The FBI probe dovetails with one by PI and part-time ballet teacher Erin Pulaski, who's hired by a Yale professor worried about his cancer-stricken father being affected by the shortage. In a wild coincidence, Bowie Richards, the FBI special agent in charge of the New Haven field office, also hires Erin—to babysit his daughter, a ballet student of hers. The attraction between Bowie and Erin grows as they help Dillon and Lacey crack a complicated double case. Coulter fans will want to see more of this new crime-fighting duo. Without him, Fiona O'Brien, Hodder, London, 2011 Collocazione: INT-EN 823.9 OBR Inventario: 7651 Shelley Fitzgibbon has it all - three beautiful children, a charismatic, successful husband and the life of her dreams. Then her husband Charlie disappears, leaving behind more than just a business in crisis . . .When Charlie's estranged mother Vera opens her door to the broken family, secrets from the past begin to emerge that reveal there's more to the Fitzgibbons than meets the eye. As Shelley struggles to keep her family together, she begins to wonder if she ever knew the man she married . . . Is blood always thicker than water? Maybe Charlie's family are simply better off without him . . . Fractures, Franck Thilliez, Le Passage, Paris, New York, 2010. Collocazione: INT-FR 843.9 THI Inventario: 7650 Alice Dehaene se recueille sur la tombe de sa sœur jumelle, Dorothée, décédée dix ans auparavant. Une question la taraude : à quoi rime cette photo de Dorothée, prise il y a à peine six mois, qu’elle a récupérée des mains d’un immigré clandestin ? Alice sait que quelque chose ne tourne pas rond dans sa tête. Son psychiatre à l’hôpital de Lille, Luc Graham, doit lui révéler le résultat d’un an de psychothérapie, lui apporter cette lumière qu’elle recherche depuis si longtemps. Mais les événements étranges qui se multiplient autour de la jeune femme vont l’en empêcher : son père, agressé chez lui à l’arme blanche, et qui prétend avoir tenté de se suicider ; ce chemisier ensanglanté qu’elle découvre dans sa douche, à propos duquel elle n’a pas le moindre souvenir ; et cet homme retrouvé nu à un abri de bus et qui semble avoir vu le diable en personne. En ce moment précis, Dino Buzzati, R. Laffont, Paris, 2011. Collocazione: INT-FR 853.9 BUZ Inventario: 7655 A quoi pense-t-on quand on ne pense à rien?" se demandait Jean Paulhan. Ce livre de Dino Buzzati répond pour sa part à la question: "Qu'écrit un écrivain quand il n'écrit pas?" II en ressort qu'un écrivain jette sur les pages de ses carnets tous ces fragments de vie qui, plus tard, serviront de terreau à ses romans ou à ses essais. Chez Buzzati, on le devine, le noir va dominer. Les notes, les réflexions, les histoires brèves consignées ici portent sur ce qui trouble, ce qui inquiète, et peuvent même aller jusqu'au monstrueux, en tout cas l'inavouable. Avec ces carnets, très personnels à défaut d'être tout à fait intimes, où se côtoient le burlesque et le tragique, l'auteur du Désert des Tartares offre un grande leçon de littérature. Le tailleur gris, Andrea Camilleri, Métailié, Paris, 2009. Collocazione: INT-FR 853.9 CAM Inventario: 7673 Pour un banquier de renom fraîchement retraité, les jours ont la couleur de l'ennui. Il observe Adele, son épouse de vingt-cinq ans sa cadette. Adele est une femme nantie et respectée, belle à en mourir. Adele a un appétit sexuel démesuré, mais fait chambre à part depuis trois ans. Adele le trompe, et il le sait. Et quand elle revêt son tailleur gris, Adele cache des secrets glus noirs encore... Tristano stirbt : ein Leben, Antonio Tabucchi, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, München, 2010. Collocazione: INT-DE 853.9 TAB Inventario: 7647 Tristano, ein ehemaliger Freiheitskämpfer, ruft einen Autor an sein Sterbebett in der Toskana, um aus seinem Leben zu erzählen: von Frauen, die er liebte, und der Vergeblichkeit seines großen Kampfes. Er erinnert sich an Romane, Filme und Liebeslieder – nur die eigene Vergangenheit entgleitet ihm. Tabucchi geht weit über das Lebensgeschichtliche hinaus, er offenbart den Kern des Menschlichen. El peso de la mariposa, Erri De Luca, Siruela, Madrid, 2011. Collocazione: INT-ES 853.9 DEL Inventario: 7652 El rey de los rebecos es ahora un animal cansado. Solitario y orgulloso, desde hace años impone su supremacía. Estamos en noviembre, época de duelos. Desde el valle sube el olor del hombre, del asesino de su madre. También el hombre, aquel hombre, está entrado en años y ha pasado gran parte de su vida cazando furtivamente animales en la montaña. Y también ese hombre lleva –impropiamente– el nombre de «rey de los rebecos» por todos los que había matado. Nunca dejaba al animal herido, lo abatía de un solo disparo. El gran lord, Trudi Canavan, Debolsillo, Barcelona, 2010. Collocazione: INT-ES 828.9 CAN Inventario: 7646 Sonea ha prosperado notablemente en el gremio de los magos: ha adquirido grandes conocimientos, Regin ha terminado por dejarla en paz y los otros aprendices por fin la respetan. Pero no logra sacarse de la cabeza lo que presenció en la cámara subterránea del Gran Lord Akkarin ni la grave amenaza que se cierne sobre el gremio, y hace bien en no bajar la guardia, porque cuando su buen amigo Cery se ve involucrado en las intrigas de un curioso extranjero, Sonea deberá tomar partido ante los decisivos acontecimientos que se avecinan. Saggistica Voyages en Italie, Catherine Donzel, Marc Walter, Sabine Arque, Editions du Chêne, Paris, 2010. Collocazione: INT-SG 914.5 DON Inventario: 7611 Evidemment, vous connaissez l'Italie, ses cyprès, la tour de Pise, la baie de Naples et presque tous les monuments de Rome. Vous avez même déjà fait un tour à Venise, comme Musset et George Sand et comme tant d'autres amants avant vous. Seulement, voilà : le voyage en Italie n'est jamais fini. Toujours on y retourne. Et toujours on est épris, enchanté, gagné par cette " sensation de bonheur " dont parle Stendhal et qu'il dit n'avoir " trouvée nulle part ailleurs ". Alors, comblez vos rêves d'Italie. Et découvrez l'Italie de vos rêves en suivant, au fil de ces pages, les voyageurs qui vous y ont précédé et qui, tous, sont de très bonne compagnie : Colette, Alexandre Dumas, Jean Giono, Goethe, Paul Morand, George Sand, Emile Zola etc. Patagonia express, Luis Sepulveda, Tusquets, Barcelona, 2011. Collocazione: INT-SG 918.2 SEP Inventario: 7653 En un viaje a través de las tierras sorprendentes de la Patagonia y la Tierra del Fuego, Sepúlveda descubrirá a toda una galería personajes inolvidables: Ladislao Eznaola, vagabundo del mar en busca de una nave fantasma; su hermano Agustín, el bardo de la región; Jorge Díaz y Radio Ventisquero, «la Voz de la Patagonia», e incluso aviadores temerarios que lo transportan todo, desde vino hasta muertos, mientras sobrevuelan la desolada inmensidad del paisaje. «Todos ellos van conmigo», concluirá el narrador, «y me permiten decir en voz alta que vivir es un magnífico ejercicio.» Mes étoiles noires : de Lucy à Barack Obama, Lilian Thuram, Paris, 2010. Collocazione: INT-SG 920.009 THU Inventario: 7676 Saviez-vous que le Grec Esope, inspirateur des fables de La Fontaine, était d'origine africaine ?Que la première déclaration des droits de l'homme a été théorisée au Mali un demi-siècle avant la nôtre ? Que le Noir Matthew Henson fut le premier conquérant du pôle Nord ? Cet ouvrage présente 40 personnalités noires qui ont marqué l'Histoire, autant que la vie de l’auteur, Lilian Thuram. Un appel à la tolérance et un enrichissement de l’imaginaire collectif. Apprendimento linguistico Italiano para dummies, Francesca Romana Onofri y Karen Antje Möller, Centro Libros PAPF, Barcelona, 2011. Collocazione: INT-SG 463 ONO Inventario: 7670 Con esta guía fácil, concebida por los expertos de Berlitz, comenzarás a hablar italiano rápidamente. Está dirigida a estudiantes, a turistas y a cualquier persona que necesite un conocimiento básico del idioma. Encontrarás lecciones prácticas, datos culturales sobre Italia y referencias útiles y divertidas, entre ellas un minidiccionario y una lista de los principales verbos de uso cotidiano. Consulta los archivos MP3 de apoyo de nuestar página web donde encontrarás el material de audio correspondiente a los ejercicios del libro. Il test di italiano per stranieri, Alberto Raminelli, Alpha test, Milano, 2011. Collocazione: INT-SG 458.2 TES Inventario: 7620 Per ripassare i principali argomenti della lingua italiana di livello A2. Il libro offre molti esercizi come quelli della prova ufficiale, suddivisi in quattro grandi capitoli: grammatica, verbi, lessico, sintassi. Tra gli esercizi proposti si trovano: test a risposta multipla, frasi da completare, lettura e comprensione di brani, scrittura di brevi test, significato di vocaboli, riconoscimento di immagini e figure e tutte le soluzioni. Impara rapidamente l'italiano : corso per stranieri, Alberto Fré, Chiara Laverone, De Vecchi, Milano, 2006. Collocazione: INT-SG 458.2 FRE Inventario: 7639 Un libro per imparare velocemente l'italiano con un nuovo metodo: basta conoscere un po' di inglese! Tutte le parole e le frasi più usate nella vita di ogni giorno, nelle situazioni più diverse. Tanti esercizi e le soluzioni per controllare i progressi e correggere gli errori. Gli elementi grammaticali più semplici. Un dizionario italiano-inglese e inglese-italiano per non restare mai senza la parola giusta! Un CD audio per imparare più velocemente e con meno fatica la giusta pronuncia e intonazione Test di italiano A2 : suggerimenti ed esercizi per superare il test di italiano livello A2 per richiedenti permesso di soggiorno, Checchia Francesca, Feoli Diego, Sestante, Bergamo, 2011. Collocazione: INT-SG 458.2 SEV Inventario: 7621, 7623 Il libro contiene le simulazioni di prove d'esame con esercizi per affrontare il test di italiano per il permesso di soggiorno di lungo periodo. Il libro comprende: 8 prove d'esame, suddivise in comprensione orale, comprensione scritta e produzione scritta; il CD con le prove per la comprensione orale; un elenco di parole da conoscere per fare bene l'esame; frasi e modi di dire tipici della lingua italiana e tutte le leggi sul test. Italianskij jezyk : samoucitel' dlja nacinajuscih, D. A. Sevljakova, Astpress, Moskva 2007. Collocazione: INT-SG 458.2 SEV Inventario: 7641 Corso di italiano per russi. Livello A1-A2 : modulo adulti in Italia, sessioni: Giugno 2006-Dicembre 2006, Giugno 2007-Dicembre 2007, Perugia, Guerra, Perugia 2010. Collocazione: INT-SG 458.2 CIL Inventario: 7661 Questo volume, contenente le prove dei livelli A1 e A2 del Modulo adulti in Italia, è destinato ad apprendenti che si trovano nelle prime fasi del processo di apprendimento e che si avvicinano allo studio della lingua italiana in Italia, e quindi possono aver appreso la lingua in contesti di interazione spontanea. Questi livelli rispecchiano i bisogni e gli usi linguistici di chi si trova in Italia, essenziali per la sopravvivenza e la convivenza in ambito sociale e lavorativo. Rappresentano uno strumento utile per sostenere la motivazione allo studio dell'Italiano, anche in considerazione delle difficoltà delle prime fasi dei processi di apprendimento. Livello Uno-B1 : sessioni: Giugno 2006-Dicembre 2006, Giugno 2007Dicembre 2007, Guerra, Perugia, 2010. Collocazione: INT-SG 458.2 CIL Inventario: 7660 Questo volume, contenente le prove del Livello UNO-B1, è destinato ad apprendenti che possiedono una competenza autonoma in Italiano L2. Al livello UNO-B1 l'apprendente possiede le capacità comunicative necessarie per usare la lingua italiana con autonomia e in modo adeguato nelle situazioni più frequenti della vita quotidiana in Italia. L'apprendente è in grado di comunicare in italiano nelle situazioni di tutti i giorni in forma sia scritta sia orale, di comprendere i punti essenziali di un discorso articolato chiaramente in lingua standard, di leggere i testi scritti che incontra più frequentemente nella vita quotidiana. La produzione orale e scritta è comunicativamente efficace, anche se contiene errori. Livello Tre-C1 : sessioni: Giugno 2006-Dicembre 2006, Giugno 2007Dicembre 2007, Guerra, Perugia, 2010. Collocazione: INT-UNIV 458.2 CIL Inventario: 7657 Questo volume, contenente le prove del Livello TRE-C1, è destinato ad apprendenti che possiedono un livello di padronanza in Italiano come L2. Al livello TRE-C1 l'apprendente è in grado di gestire un'ampia area di usi linguistici in differenti contesti di comunicazione, di comunicare non solo in situazioni tipiche della vita quotidiana, ma anche nei rapporti formali per scopi sociali, accademici e professionali, di interagire oralmente e per scritto con enti pubblici, aziende ecc. dimostrando di saper assumere un ruolo adeguato alla situazione. L'apprendente a questo livello comprende un'ampia gamma di testi complessi e piuttosto lunghi e ne sa ricavare anche il significato implicito. Nelle sue produzioni deve manifestare una buona padronanza della lingua italiana sviluppando testi chiari, ben strutturati e articolati. Per modo di dire : Dizionario dei modi di dire italiani, Eli, Recanati, 2002. Collocazione: INT-SG 458.2 PER Inventario: 7668 Per imparare i più comuni modi di dire e le espressioni idiomatiche della lingua italiana. Il volume raccoglie quasi 1.000 espressioni idiomatiche e modi di dire tipici della lingua italiana, presentati in ordine alfabetico per facilitare la consultazione e la memorizzazione. Divertenti illustrazioni completano e arricchiscono le spiegazioni. Arabo compatto : dizionario arabo italiano, italiano arabo, Eros Baldissera, Zanichelli, Bologna, 2008. Collocazione: INT-SG 492.7 BAL Inventario: 7638 Talk to Me Tedesco : principale-intermedio : riconoscimento vocale, mobilita ... - Edizione Plus, Auralog, Montigny de Bretonneux, 2005. Collocazione: INT-SG 438.3 TAL Inventario: 7617 Objective CAE, Felicity O'Dell, Annie Broadhead, Cambridge University Pres, Cambridge, 2008. Collocazione: INT-UNIV 428 CAE Inventario: 7669 Objective CAE contains thirty short units which take a fresh approach to a wide variety of topics, and examine related genres useful for the exam. Authentic language examples illustrate a wide range of real English usage and a ?Grammar folder? appendix provides further examples and explanations. The course is written by experienced examiners who have an in-depth knowledge of the CAE exam, and contains material informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus which highlights typical mistakes made by CAE candidates. Just listening and speaking. Elementary : for class or self-study, Carol Lethaby, Ana Acevedo, Jeremy Harmer, Marshall Cavendish education, London, 2007. Collocazione: INT-SG 428.2 LET Inventario: 7665 Just Listening and Speaking consists of 24 units and pronunciation exercises. Each unit is divided into two sections. In the first section, students practise their listening skills. Topics are varied and include personal information, everyday actions, food and drink, describing a room or an area, telling a story, planning a party and taking part in radio shows.The second section gives students the opportunity to practise speaking on a topic related to the first section. The activities are carefully graded and build up the role-plays in which students interact with a 'partner' whose lines are recorded on CD. Just listening and speaking. Intermediate : for class or self-study, Jeremy Harmer, Marshall Cavendish education, London, 2004. Collocazione: INT-SG 428.2 HAR Inventario: 7663 Just Listening and Speaking Intermediate consists of two parts. In Part A there are 20 listening extracts which include stories, news broadcasts, authentic interviews, radio commercials, discussion and dramatic scenarios. There are comprehension and language extension activities to accompany each listening extract. In Part B there are 10 speaking tasks including taking part in interviews, instructing, reading aloud, story reconstruction and picture memory games. All of these are designed for students either working on their own and interacting with the CD or working in class with a teacher. Asesinato en la mansion, Susana Orozco Gonzalez, Hoepli, Milano, 2009. Collocazione: T-SG 468.4 ORO Inventario: 7644