Rete Bibliotecaria della Provincia di Como

Abstract: Nel settembre 1960 John Steinbeck affronta un viaggio attraverso gli Stati Uniti a bordo di un furgoncino chiamato Ronzinante in compagnia del barboncino Charles Le Chien, detto Charley. Lo scrittore ha sempre amato viaggiare e alle soglie dei sessant'anni sente che deve uscire di casa alla ricerca di ispirazione e di storie nuove per i suoi racconti e romanzi. Dalle piccole cittadine alle grandi metropoli fino ai paesaggi selvaggi, in questo libro ritroviamo lo sguardo maturo dello scrittore, e la sua curiosità e sensibilità per ogni aspetto della vita, umana e naturale. Un resoconto unico che offre uno spaccato dell'America degli anni sessanta, fatto di ritmi quotidiani, incontri con persone umili come un garagista o un negoziante, problemi vecchi e nuovi, come la questione razziale nelle periferie o l'inquinamento dei fiumi. Steinbeck rivela un acume unico nell'osservare la realtà dalla prospettiva degli umili e una vena lirica inconfondibile nel descrivere un'America che scopriamo pagina dopo pagina, chilometro dopo chilometro.

Abstract: Fixie Farr can’t help herself. Straightening a crooked object, removing a barely-there stain, helping out a friend... she just has to put things right. It’s how she got her nickname, after all. So when a handsome stranger in a coffee shop asks her to watch his laptop for a moment, Fixie not only agrees, she ends up saving it from certain disaster. To thank her, the computer’s owner, Sebastian, scribbles her an IOU – but of course, Fixie never intends to call in the favour. That is, until her teenage crush, Ryan, comes back into her life and needs her help. Fixie turns to Seb – but things don’t go according to plan and now Fixie owes Seb: big time. Soon the pair are caught up in a series of IOUs – from small favours to life-changing debts – and Fixie is torn between her past and the future she deserves. Does she have the courage to fix things for herself and fight for the life, and love, she really wants?

Abstract: Qual è la differenza tra un oggetto inanimato e una creatura vivente? Cos'è un ecosistema? Cosa possiamo fare per proteggere la vita sulla Terra? Un'interessante introduzione alla biologia corredata da efficaci illustrazioni.

Abstract: A collection of eight of Aesop's best-loved fables retold for children growing in reading confidence. Sly foxes, thirsty storks and greedy dogs all feature in these fun stories, each with its own moral at the end. Usborne Young Reading has been developed with reading experts from Roehampton University. The audio CD includes a dramatic listen-along recording with music and sound effects, followed by a read-along version with prompts for page turns.

Abstract: Experience the internet's most talked-about book, now a major motion picture, from Anna Todd, the writer Cosmopolitan called \"the biggest literary phenomenon of her generation.\"\n Now a Major Motion Picture on Netflix!\n There was the time before Tessa met Hardin, and then there's everything AFTER... Life will never be the same. #Hessa\n Tessa is a good girl with a sweet, reliable boyfriend back home. She's got direction, ambition, and a mother who's intent on keeping her that way.\n But she's barely moved into her freshman dorm when she runs into Hardin. With his tousled brown hair, cocky British accent, and tattoos, Hardin is cute and different from what she's used to.\n But he's also rude-to the point of cruelty, even. For all his attitude, Tessa should hate Hardin. And she does-until she finds herself alone with him in his room. Something about his dark mood grabs her, and when they kiss it ignites within her a passion she's never known before.\n He'll call her beautiful, then insist he isn't the one for her and disappear again and again. Despite the reckless way he treats her, Tessa is compelled to dig deeper and find the real Hardin beneath all his lies. He pushes her away again and again, yet every time she pushes back, he only pulls her in deeper.\n Tessa already has the perfect boyfriend. So why is she trying so hard to overcome her own hurt pride and Hardin's prejudice about nice girls like her?\n Unless...could this be love?

Abstract: Three clever billy goats outwit a big, ugly troll that lives under the bridge they must cross on their way up the mountain. Features lift-up flaps.

Abstract: I’d Die For You is a collection of the last remaining unpublished and uncollected short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Anne Margaret Daniel. Fitzgerald did not design the stories in I’d Die For You as a collection. Most were submitted individually to major magazines during the 1930s and accepted for publication during Fitzgerald’s lifetime, but were never printed. Some were written as movie scenarios and sent to studios or producers, but not filmed. Others are stories that could not be sold because their subject matter or style departed from what editors expected of Fitzgerald. They date from the earliest days of Fitzgerald’s career to the last. They come from various sources, from libraries to private collections, including those of Fitzgerald’s family. Readers will experience Fitzgerald writing about controversial topics, depicting young men and women who actually spoke and thought more as young men and women did, without censorship. Rather than permit changes and sanitizing by his contemporary editors, Fitzgerald preferred to let his work remain unpublished, even at a time when he was in great need of money and review attention. “I’d Die For You,” the collection’s title story, is drawn from Fitzgerald’s stays in the mountains of North Carolina when his health, and that of his wife Zelda, was falling apart. With the addition of a Hollywood star and film crew to the Smoky Mountain lakes and pines, Fitzgerald brings in the cinematic world in which he would soon be living. Most of the stories printed here come from this time period, during the middle and late1930s, though the collection spans Fitzgerald’s career from 1920 to the end of his life. The book is subtitled And Other Lost Stories in recognition of an absence until now. Some of the eighteen stories were physically lost, coming to light only in the past few years. All were lost, in one sense or another: lost in the painful shuffle of the difficulties of Fitzgerald’s life in the middle 1930s; lost to readers because contemporary editors did not understand or accept what he was trying to write; lost because archives are like that, and good things can wait patiently in libraries for many centuries sometimes. I’d Die For You And Other Lost Stories echoes as well the nostalgia and elegy in Gertrude Stein’s famous phrase “a lost generation,” that generation for whom Fitzgerald was a leading figure. Written in his characteristically beautiful, sharp, and surprising language, exploring themes both familiar and fresh, these stories provide new insight into the bold and uncompromising arc of Fitzgerald’s career. I’d Die For You is a revealing, intimate look at Fitzgerald’s creative process that shows him to be a writer working at the fore of modern literature—in all its developing complexities.

Abstract: Every evening, when the sun sets and everyone else is going to bed, Jacob the Sandman wakes up and starts work. Then one night Jacob sleeps too deeply and wakes up late! He rushes to Dream Sand Hill but there, atop the pile of dream sand, is a scary Night Monster, snoring his terrible snore. Jacob the Sandman must collect the magic dream sand so that the children of the world can dream happy dreams. Fortunately, the Night Monster turns out to be not so scary after all.