Rete Bibliotecaria Bergamasca

Abstract: Can you fall in love with someone before you've even met? Seren MacArthur is living a life she never intended. Trying to save the Cornish seaside business her late father built - while grieving for his loss - she has put her own dreams on hold and is struggling. Until she discovers a half-finished seaglass star on her favourite beach during an early morning walk. When she completes the star, she sets into motion a chain of events that will steal her heart and challenge everything she believes.Jack Dixon is trying to secure a better life for daughter Nessie and himself. Left a widower and homeless when his wife died, he's just about keeping their heads above water. Finding seaglass stars completed on Gwithian beach is a bright spark that slowly rekindles his hope.Seren and Jack are searching for their missing pieces. But when they meet in real life, it's on the opposing sides of a battle. Jack is managing the redevelopment of a local landmark, and Seren is leading the community campaign to save it.Both have reason to fight - Seren for the cause her father believed in, Jack for his livelihood. But only one can win. With so much at stake, will they ever find what they are really looking for?Miranda Dickinson's Somewhere Beyond the Sea is a sparkling tale of love, life and finding magic where you least expect it.

Abstract: “Bartleby lo scrivano”, uno dei sei testi che compongono la raccolta “Racconti della veranda” è un capolavoro assoluto. Pubblicato su rivista nel 1853, si segnala subito per la contrapposizione rispetto alle consuete ambientazioni dei romanzi di Melville: alle distese oceaniche e ai paesaggi esotici subentrano qui palazzi, muri tutti uguali e muraglioni che impediscono lo sguardo in una strada di New York, Wall Street, che nel suo stesso nome adombra una chiusura d'orizzonte. In uno studio legale di Wall Street ha il suo ufficio l'io narrante del racconto, un avvocato specializzato in transazioni commerciali e finanziarie, che assume un copista di nome Bartleby senza minimamente sospettare a cosa andrà incontro. Bartleby è, infatti, inappuntabile, diligente, riservato e gentile. Ma la prima volta che l'avvocato gli chiede di effettuare il controllo di una copia, egli risponde, tanto educato quanto irremovibile, «Preferirei di no».

Abstract: Ryan Bingham's job as a Career Transition Counselor--he fires people--has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls Airworld, finding contentment within pressurized cabins, anonymous hotel rooms, and a wardrobe of wrinkle-free slacks. With a letter of resignation sitting on his boss's desk, and the hope of a job with a mysterious consulting firm, Ryan Bingham is agonizingly close to his ultimate goal, his Holy Grail: one million frequent flier miles