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A heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love by one of Ireland's most acclaimed writers.

The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she's an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people-pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs.Honestly, it's a pretty sweet gig - until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and arrogant older brother of her favourite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor's career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And he's the same Jack Smith who rules over the physics department at MIT, standing right between Elsie and her dream job.

'One of the best fantasy book series of the past decade' TIMETogether they will rise. Or together they will fall.The epic finale to the #1 bestselling Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas.Aelin Galathynius has vowed to save her people - but at a tremendous cost. Locked in an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures months of torture. The knowledge that yielding to Maeve will doom those she loves keeps her from breaking, but her resolve unravels with each passing day.With Aelin captured, her friends and allies have scattered. Some bonds will grow even deeper, while others will be severed forever. But as destinies weave together at last, all must stand together if Erilea is to have any hope of salvation.Sarah J. Maas's #1 New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series draws to an explosive conclusion as Aelin fights for her life, her people, and the promise of a better world.

Ox Matheson was twelve when his father taught him a lesson: Ox wasnt worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left.Ox was sixteen when the energetic Bennett family moved in next door, harbouring a secret that would change him forever. For the family are shapeshifters, who can transform into wolves at will. Drawn to their magic, loyalty and enduring friendships, Ox feels a gulf between this extraordinary new world and the quiet life hes known. He also finds an ally in Joe, the youngest Bennett boy. Joe is charming and handsome, but haunted by scars he cannot heal.Ox was twenty-three when murder came to town, and tore a hole in his heart. Violence flared, tragedy split the pack and Joe left town, leaving Ox behind. Three years later, the boy is back. Except now hes a man and Ox can no longer ignore the song that howls between them.

THE SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEAR'Perfection, every word, every moment. One of the best books I've ever read' LISA JEWELL'Wow. Amazing! Loved every page . . . If you are looking for a summer read, I've found it!' HOLLY WILLOUGHBY'Page-turning time-loop thriller . . . An intelligent puzzle full of heart and good sense' GUARDIAN'A mind-bending page-turning thriller. Non-stop thrills right from the start. A rare gem' STEVE WRIGHT, RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB'A spellbinding "whydunnit". A novel with a difference' SUNDAY TIMES'Skilful, satisfying. Couldn't put it down. Don't miss it!' OBSERVER, 'THRILLER OF THE MONTH'CAN YOU STOP A MURDER AFTER IT'S ALREADY HAPPENED? . . . DISCOVER THE MOST TALKED ABOUT THRILLER OF THE YEAR

A Un pianista en un celler, Muriel Villanueva ens radiografia tota una època de grans canvis a través dels ulls d?una família pagesa. Amb la capacitat de remoure consciències que la caracteritza, aqu

L’escriptor d’Alginet, Urbà Lozano ens sorprén amb una novel·la històrica sobre l’impacte que va tindre la Guerra Civil en la província de València.Premi Antoni Bru d’Elx L’escriptoralginetí Urbà Loz

Tu ne le sais pas encore mais tu es exactement là où tu dois être". Malo, 30 ans, virtuose de la finance à qui tout réussit, est appelé à Bangkok pour aider une entreprise en difficulté. Quelques sem

Un thriller com n’hi ha pocs a la literatura catalana. Amb aires de western i les carlinades de fons, Moncada converteix el bandolerisme en una història marcada per la memòria i la tragèdia. Aquí, Mo

(g).gran novela galega, a.(morgante) es un libro del autor Cequeliños, Cesar editado por RINOCERONTE EDITORA S.L.. (g).gran novela galega, a.(morgante) tiene un código de ISBN 978-84-19040-07-7, de l

From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a beautifully tender, heartbreaking, and moving story of four sisters over three decadesMeet the Padvano girls. Best friends and sisters, they are thought of as inseparable by everyone in their close-knit Chicago neighbourhood. Julia, the eldest, is the "rocket" of the family - she always has a destination in mind and clear plans for how to get there. Sylvie, the dreamer, is happiest with her nose in a book and imagines a life for herself other than the expected path of wife and mother. Cecelia and Emmeline, the twins, are the artist and the caregiver. From childhood, the four sisters complete each other, expecting that their family will always be intact.When Julia falls in love with William Walters, a history student and college sports star, she's delighted by the way her plans for adulthood are coming together. A husband, a house, a family. But when darkness from William's past begins to block the light of his future, it is Sylvie, not Julia, who steps in to help. Suddenly, things shift. Dynamics and relationships, priorities and secrets - everything that was once a given no longer is.

From the bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter, Kate Morton, comes a breathtaking mystery of love, lies and a cold case come back to life, told with her trademark intricacy and beauty.Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959.At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand and mysterious mansion, a local delivery man makes a terrible discovery. A police investigation is called and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most shocking and perplexing murder cases in the history of South Australia.Sixty years later, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for almost twenty years, she now finds herself laid off from her full-time job and struggling to make ends meet. A phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother, Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and been raced to the hospital.At a loose end in Nora's house, Jess does some digging into her past. In Nora's bedroom, she discovers a true crime book, chronicling the police investigation into a long-buried tragedy: the Turner Family Tragedy of Christmas Eve, 1959. It is only when Jess skims through the book that she finds a shocking connection between her own family and this once-infamous crime a crime that has never been truly solved. And for a journalist without a story, a cold case might be the best distraction she can find . . .An epic novel that spans generations, Homecoming asks what we would do for those we love, and how we protect the lies we tell. It explores the power of motherhood, the corrosive effects of tightly held secrets, and the healing nature of truth.

A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram-Stoker finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes. Includes an introduction from acclaimed bestselling author Chuck Wendig. Eight stories of dark fiction from a master storyteller. Exploring the shadow side of love, these are tales of grief, obsession, control. Intricate examinations of trauma and tragedy in raw, poetic prose. A woman imagines horrific scenarios whilst caring for her infant niece; on-line posts chronicle a cancer diagnosis; a couple in the park with their small child encounter a stranger with horrific consequences; a toxic relationship reaches a terrifying resolution... A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram Stoker Awards (R) finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes.

Cela s'était fait progressivement. Pour en arriver là. Sans qu'elle s'en rende vraiment compte. Sans qu'elle puisse aller contre. Elle se souvient du regard des gens, de la peur dans leurs yeux. Elle

Une ode merveilleuse à la lecture et à l'imagination faisant écho auPetit Prince...Rintarô Natsuki, lycéen flegmatique, est sur le point de fermer la librairie héritée de son grand-père quand il reço

Roman fragmenté, Fantaisie allemande évoque l'histoire, la guerre et la perte à travers les destins de personnages qui reviennent, comme dans une ronde. Un soldat allemand, en pleine débâcle, erre da

One of our finest living authors propulsively entertaining New York Times'Sly, profound Electrifying' ObserverWonderfully strange and alive Jon McGregorA propulsive, seductive new novel about friendship, exploitation and intimacy from the prize-winning author of Where Reasons EndFabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnes, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised the place that Fabienne helped Agnes escape ten years ago. Now, Agnes is free to tell her story.As children in a backwater town, theyd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnes on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.Beguiling A shimmering, unsettling tale of exploitation and manipulation Daily MailHaunting and strange Li has made her style her own Tessa Hadley, GuardianA dazzling, subtle, skilful knockout Charlotte Mendelson, author of The Exhibitionist

From cult sensation Mariana Enriquez, author of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed"...one of the best novels of the 21st century" - Paul Tremblay"...a magnificent accomplishment and a genuine work of power" - Alan MooreHis father could find what was lost. His father knew when someone was going to die. His father had talked to him about the dead who rode in on the wind. The dead travel fast.Gaspar is six years old when the Order first come for him.For years, they have exploited his father's ability to commune with the dead and the demonic, presiding over macabre rituals where the unwanted and the disappeared are tortured and executed, sacrificed to the Darkness. Now they want a successor.Nothing will stop the Order, nothing is beyond them. Surrounded by horrors, can Gaspar break free?Spanning the brutal decades of Argentina's military dictatorship and its aftermath, Our Share of Night is a haunting, thrilling novel of broken families, cursed inheritances, and the sacrifices a father will make to help his son escape his destiny.

Dans ce livre, la philosophie n'est pas présentée essentiellement comme doctrine ou comme système, mais comme transmission, mouvement, école. Le philosophe n'est pas un solitaire, il est inséparable

A gripping, moving novel about a group of childhood friends grappling with the moral dilemmas posed by Australias history - perfect for fans of Kate Grenville.

The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind.

Against changing seasons in Japan, seven cats weave their way through their owners' lives.- A needy kitten rescued from the recycling bin teaches a new father how to parent his own human baby- An elderly cat hatches a plan to pass into the next world as a spirit so that he and his owner may be together for ever- A colony of wild cats on a holiday island shows a young boy not to stand in nature's way- A family is perplexed by their cat's devotion to their charismatic but uncaring father- A woman curses how her cat constantly visits her at nightBursting with empathy and love, THE GOODBYE CAT explores the unstoppable cycle of life as we see how the steadiness and devotion of a well-loved cat never lets us down.

En 1625, sous le règne de Louis XIII, d'Artagnan vient à Paris chercher fortune. Il se rend auprès de M. de Tréville commandant des mousquetaires et se lie à trois d'entre eux, Athos, Porthos et Aram

The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, The Forty Rules of Love is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics*One of the BBCs 100 Novels That Shaped the World*"Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we havent loved enough..."Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ellas life - an emptiness once filled by love.So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi and Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work.It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into an exotic world where faith and love are heartbreakingly explored. . .The past and present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself The TimesColourfully woven

When Mr. Earnshaw, master of Wuthering Heights, returns from a trip with an unkempt orphan in tow, he announces that the child, Heathcliff, is now a member of the family. While young Catherine Earnshaw becomes close with Heathcliff, her older brother Hindley sinks into bitter resentment. As Catherine and Heathcliff mature, and their affection blossoms into desire, Hindleys resentment boils over into hatred, setting the stage for a tragic drama whose aftermath will shake the foundations of their world.

Every Summer After es un libro del autor Fortune, Carley editado por PENGUIN. Every Summer After tiene un código de ISBN 978-0-349-43310-3, de la colección LITTLE BROWN (EDITOR) y consta de 320 Págin

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece.A MASON WITH A DREAM1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. With his family on the verge of starvation, mason Tom Builder dreams of the day that he can use his talents to create and build a cathedral like no other.

Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its naive but sweetly appealing heroine, Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the contemporary craze for Gothic literature who is determined to see herself as the heroine of a dark and thrilling romance. When Catherine is invited to Northanger Abbey, the grand though forbidding ancestral seat of her suitor, Henry Tilney, she finds herself embroiled in a real drama of misapprehension, mistreatment, and mortification, until common sense and humorand a crucial clarification of Catherines financial statusputs all to right. Written in 1798 but not published until after Austens death in 1817, Northanger Abbey is characteristically clearheaded and strong, and infinitely subtle in its comedy.

Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it... Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding 'fathers' of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three ecentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness. Felix Hoenikker's Death Wish comes true when his last, fatal gift to mankind brings about the end, that for all of us, is nigh...

Tras ser depurado e coa intención de non poñer en perigo a súa muller e a súa filla, o profesor de idioma regresa a Puebla, a súa cidade natal, na derradeira viaxe do tren arrancatravesas. En Puebla pretende ocultar os dous mecanoscritos, que conseguiu salvar tras a ultima incautacion da sua computadora, onde recolleu as suas investigacions sobre o vegliota, unha lingua que durante un tempo chegou a ter a sua pequena idade de ouro, mais que agora desaparece irremediablemente tras a imposicion da lingua oriental como a unica oficial.O profesor de vegliota de Manuel Veiga e, en parte un relato policial, con ingredientes de novela de misterio e atmosfera de ciencia ficcion, que se ofrece como un laio desesperado por unha perda. Unha novela impactante, talvez un ensaio sobre o futuro da lingua, sobre as posibilidades de sobrevivir sendo diferentes, sobre a identidade, sobre a resistencia e sobre as contradicions que supon esta loita.Tras ser depurado e coa intención de non poñer en perigo a súa muller e a súa filla, o profesor de idioma regresa a Puebla, a súa cidade natal, na derradeira viaxe do tren arrancatravesas. En Puebla pretende ocultar os dous mecanoscritos, que conseguiu salvar tras a ultima incautacion da sua computadora, onde recolleu as suas investigacions sobre o vegliota, unha lingua que durante un tempo chegou a ter a sua pequena idade de ouro, mais que agora desaparece irremediablemente tras a imposicion da lingua oriental como a unica oficial.O profesor de vegliota de Manuel Veiga e, en parte un relato policial, con ingredientes de novela de misterio e atmosfera de ciencia ficcion, que se ofrece como un laio desesperado por unha perda. Unha novela impactante, talvez un ensaio sobre o futuro da lingua, sobre as posibilidades de sobrevivir sendo diferentes, sobre a identidade, sobre a resistencia e sobre as contradicions que supon esta loita.

An evocative tale of romance, mystery and alluring monsters, told in beautifully lush prose' Lyndall Clipstone, author of LakesedgeI WAS BORN WITH THE FEVER, MY BLOOD DARK AS NIGHT . . .An ancient, mercurial spirit is trapped inside Elspeth Spindle's head - she calls him the Nightmare. He protects her. He keeps her secrets. But nothing comes for free, especially magic.When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, she is thrust into a world of shadow and deception. Together, they embark on a dangerous quest to cure the town of Blunder from the dark magic infecting it. As the stakes heighten and their undeniable attraction intensifies, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly, darkly, taking over her mind. And she might not be able to stop him.

THE TAKE: You may have seen the TV. That doesnt mean you know the full story.

Its just before New Year, and Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyos nightlife. But, Franks behaviour is so odd that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his client may in fact have murderous desires.

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 'A strange, painfully tender exploration of the brutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored... Exquisite.' Eimear McBride Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people - dutiful wife and mild-mannered office worker. One day, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares, Yeong-hye decides to become a vegetarian. But in South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, it is a shocking act of subversion. Yeong-hye's passive rebellion rapidly manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, from sexual sadism to attempted suicide, and in increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, as all the while she spirals further into her fantasies... Disturbing and beautiful by turns, The Vegetarian is a revelatory novel about modern day South Korea; a tale of shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others.

Inspirat en Orwell, Bradbury i altres autors que han usat la ficció per tractar qüestions socials i polítiques, aquest llibre ens parla de veganisme sense alliçonar, però d’una manera que farà tronto