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James Frey

    12 settembre 1969

    James Christopher Frey è un autore americano il cui lavoro è caratterizzato da un'esplorazione cruda e senza scrupoli della condizione umana. Si addentra in temi di dipendenza, recupero e ricerca di sé con una voce narrativa diretta e spesso impegnativa. La scrittura di Frey è nota per la sua intensità viscerale, che trascina i lettori in complessi paesaggi emotivi. Il suo approccio offre una rappresentazione cruda e onesta delle lotte e dei trionfi della vita, rendendo le sue storie profondamente risonanti.

    James Frey
    The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Ghost Stories
    Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories
    The Indian Rebellion, 1857-1859
    Student's Guides
    Gloryland
    Il mio amico Leonard o una vita ricostruita
    • Leonard è il miglior amico che James abbia mai avuto. Quando James non desiderava altro che distruggersi è stato Leonard, carismatico uomo di mondo e gangster dichiarato, a salvarlo. E così, quando James, appena uscito di prigione, subisce il colpo più duro del suo destino, è al suo amico speciale che si rivolge. E Leonard, il grande Leonard, è pronto ad accogliere James come un Figlio!, a istruirlo nell'arte del vivere audacemente, a offrirgli un impiego remunerativo, per quanto vagamente illegale e un po' rischioso. Leonard, gli affari segreti, le passioni che smentiscono la violenza della carriera che ha scelto, la favolosa generosità. Leonard, che in quell'amicizia ha investito più di quanto James abbia mai potuto immaginare

      Il mio amico Leonard o una vita ricostruita
    • Gloryland

      • 288pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      "Born on Emancipation Day, 1863, to a sharecropping family of African and Indian blood, Elijah Yancy never lived as a slave, but his self-image as a free person is at war with his surroundings: Spartanburg, South Carolina, in the Reconstructed South. Exiled for his own survival as a teenager, Elijah walks west to the Nebraska plains and, like other rootless young African-American men of that era, joins up with the U.S. Cavalry" -- back cover

      Gloryland
    • A concise introduction to Fourier transforms, this updated edition includes new and interesting material, such as convolution with a sinusoid, coherence, the Michelson stellar interferometer and the van Cittert-Zernike theorem, Babinet's principle and dipole arrays. It is invaluable to students of physics, electrical and electronic engineering, and computer science.

      Student's Guides
    • "Frey's concise and readable history of the Indian Rebellion is an excellent introduction to one of the most important wars of the nineteenth century. The rebellion lasted more than a year and pitted broad sections of north Indian society against the British East India Company. British victory consolidated colonial rule that would only be dislodged by twentieth-century nationalist movements. Frey provides a crystal-clear account of the causes, principal events, and consequences of the rebellion. Equally importantly, he deftly discusses why the rebellion remains controversial. Well-chosen documents add texture to the analysis. This is the best short history of the rebellion in print." --Ian Barrow, Middlebury College

      The Indian Rebellion, 1857-1859
    • Contains the first two volumes of the author's ghost stories, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. This collection includes such tales as Count Magnus; Number 13; Casting the Runes; Curse of the Demon; and Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad.

      Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories
    • Antiquarian Paxton travels to a small town on the coast of Norfolk and learns of a legend concerning three crowns buried on the coast thousands of years ago to protect the land against marauding Vikings. Paxton tries to find the remaining crown, unaware of the supernatural presence that protects it.

      The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Ghost Stories
    • Before they were players ... before the calling ... they trained to be selected as the one to save their ancient bloodline-- and win Endgame. In this collection of Training Diaries novellas, follow Marcus, Chiyoko, Sarah, Alice, Aisling, Baitsakhan, Jago, An, Shari, Kala, Maccabee, and Hilal through sacrifices and betrayals, broken hearts and broken bones, as they shed their normal lives and transform into the Players they were meant to be

      Endgame - Complete Training Diaries
    • All three thrilling volumes of Endgame: The Training Diaries, the prequel novellas to the New York Times bestselling Endgame series, together in one paperback bind-up! Before they were Players . . . Before the Calling . . . They trained to be selected as the one to save their ancient bloodline—and win Endgame. Follow the Twelve through sacrifices and betrayals, broken hearts and broken bones, as they shed their normal lives and transform into the Players they were meant to be. They must train, learn, prepare. To Play, survive, and solve. To kill or be killed. Endgame is real. Endgame is coming. And only one can win.

      Endgame: The Complete Training Diaries
    • The aim of a good ghost story is to make the blood freeze, pleasurably, and this M.R. James achieves to perfection in these 31 stories.

      Ghost stories
    • The thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller and international multimedia phenomenon, Endgame: The Calling. Endgame is here. Earth Key has been found. Two keys - and nine Players - remain. The keys must be found, and only one Player can win. Queens, New York. Aisling Kopp believes the unthinkable: that Endgame can be stopped. But before she can get home to regroup, she is approached by the CIA. They know about Endgame. And they have their own ideas about how it should be Played. Ideas that could change everything. Kingdom of Aksum, Ethiopia. Hilal ibn Isa al-Salt narrowly survived an attack that leaves him horribly disfigured. He now knows something the other Players do not. But the Aksumites have a secret that is unique to their line. A secret that can help redeem humanity - and maybe even be used to help defeat the beings behind Endgame. London, England. Sarah Alopay has found the first key. She is with Jago - and they are winning. But getting Earth Key has come at a great cost to Sarah. The only thing that keeps the demons at bay is Playing. Playing to win. Sky Key - wherever it is, whatever it is - is next. And the nine remaining Players will stop at nothing to get it...

      Sky key