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On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. Yet they will always live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day. Ken Folletts masterful epic The Pillars of the Earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. Now World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change.

Offering an unprecedented look at the archvillain of the StarCraft universe, this novel reveals the story of how a human woman named Kerrigan was transformed into the ruthless Queen of Blades, and th

Com''era la vita quotidiana nella Roma Imperiale? Quali volti si incontravano nelle vie o sulle gradinate del Colosseo? Quali atmosfere si respiravano nelle case, nei palazzi? Alberto Angela conduce il lettore nella folla delle strade, all''interno delle case o nel Colosseo durante i combattimenti tra gladiatori. A descrizioni dettagliate di luoghi e stili di vita, si alternano infatti narrazioni in "presa diretta" quasi fosse una telecamera a proseguire il racconto, con il suo bagaglio di immagini, rumori, per scoprire e indagare tutte le curiosita e i piccoli grandi dettagli della vita degli antichi romani.

L’obra publicada d’Andreu Vidal consta de vuit llibres de poemes i d’una antologia poètica de Paul Celan traduïda en col·laboració amb Karen Müller. Al marge d’aquests materials editats en llibre, ca

La cornice in cui si inserisce la ricostruzione dei tanti eventi ripercorsi nel volume vede Giampaolo Pansa confrontarsi con Livia, una brillante funzionaria della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, che a suo tempo aveva svolto ricerche sui fatti sanguinosi dell''immediato dopoguerra. Assieme a lei, l''autore si avventura su un terreno minato, socchiudendo porte che ancora oggi molti vorrebbero tenere sbarrate: l''accusa di revisionismo e sempre in agguato per chi, pur condividendo le stesse posizioni dei vincitori, vuole scrivere tutta intera la storia. Pansa non se ne cura e indaga nelle pieghe di episodi e circostanze che videro migliaia di italiani vittime delle persecuzioni e delle vendette di partigiani e antifascisti.

Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger for 1976s best crime novel with A Demon in My View; a second Edgar in 1984 from the Mystery Writers of America for the best short story, 'The New Girl Friend and a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986. She was also the winner of the 1990 Sunday Times Literary award, as well as the Crime Writers Association Cartier Diamond Dagger. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.

Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the village of Headington, near Oxford. The coroner`s office in Clarendon Street provides corpses - but they have often died of violence and drowning: they are damaged and putrifying. Victor moves his coils and jars and electrical fluids to a deserted pottery manufactury in Limehouse. Victor Frankenstein comienza sus experimentos de anatomia en un granero de la localidad de Headington, cerca de Oxford. El forense de la calle Clarendon le proporciona los cuerpos, pero a menudo han experimentado muertes violentas o se han ahogado: suelen estar dañados y en estado de descomposicion. Victor entonces traslada sus reostatos, ampollas y fluidos ionizados a una fabrica de ceramica abandonada en Limehouse.

In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes. There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan, grief-stricken and confused; and Kirarin, whose late nights and reckless behaviour remain a secret from those around her. Then Toshi's next-door neighbour is found brutally murdered and the girls suspect Worm, the neighbour's son and a high school misfit. But when he disappears the four girls become irresistibly drawn into a treacherous vortex of brutality and seduction which rises from within themselves as well as the world around them.

An unforgettable story of love and adventure, spanning three decades of Jamaican history. Jamaica, 1946.nbsp; Errol Flynn washes up on in the Zaca , his storm-wrecked yacht.nbsp; Ida Joseph, the teenaged daughter of Port Antonio''s Justice of the Peace, is intrigued to learn that the ''World''s Handsomest Man'' is on the island, and makes it her business to meet him.nbsp;For the jaded swashbuckler, Jamaica is a tropical paradise that Ida, unfazed by his celebrity, seems to share.nbsp;Soon Flynn has made a home for himself on Navy Island, where he entertains the cream of Hollywood at partiesnbsp;that become a byword for decadencenbsp; - andnbsp;Ida has set her heart on marrying this charismatic older man who has singled her out for his attention.nbsp; Flynn and Ida do not marry, but Ida bears Flynn a daughter, May, who will meet her father but once.nbsp; The Pirate''s Daughter is a tale of passion and recklessness, of two generations of women and their battles for love and survivial, and of a nation struggling to rise to the challenge of hard-won independence.

Autumn, 1916. America is preparing to enter WWI, but at Tamarack State Hospital, the danger is barely felt. Here in the crisp, mountain air where wealthy tuberculosis patients recover in private cottages and charity patients, mostly European emigres, fill the sanatorium, time stands still. Prisoners of routine and yearning for absent families, the inmates take solace in gossip, rumour and secret attachments. One enterprising patient initiates a weekly discussion group, but his well-meaning efforts lead instead to tragedy and betrayal. The war comes home, bringing with it a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. Andrea Barrett pits power and privilege against unrest and thwarted desire in a spellbinding tale of individual lives in a nation on the verge of extraordinary change.

It seems that (un)life is going pretty well for Zoey Redbird. She´s settled in at the House of Night finishing school and is coming to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her. She even has a boyfriend . or two. Best of all, Zoey finally feels she has found somewhere she belongs. Then the unthinkable happens.

"The Aviary Gate" is a tale of ancient alliances and intrigues, of forbidden love and dangerous secrets. Lush, magical and utterly absorbing. "The Aviary Gate" es un relato de antiguas alianzas e intrigas, de amor prohibido y de peligrosos secretos. Rico, magico y completamente absorbente.

On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. This understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders if theres no death, there can be no resurrection and therefore no reason for religion and what will be the effect on pensions, the social services, hospitals? Funeral directors are reduced to arranging funerals for dogs, cats, hamsters and parrots. Life insurance policies become meaningless. Amid the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration: flags are hung out on balconies and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity eternal life. But will deaths disappearance benefit the human race, or will this sudden abeyance backfire? How long can families cope with malingering elderly relatives who scratch at deaths door while the portal remains firmly shut? Then, seven months later, death returns, heralded by purple envelopes informing the recipients that their time is up. Death herself is now writing personal notes giving one week''s notice. However, when an envelope is unexpectedly returned to her, death begins to experience strange, almost human emotions. In his new novel Jose Saramago again turns the world on its head an everyday event is snatched away, and humankind is left to make of it what it will.

Featuring fourteen stories, this book includes jungle warfare, boomerang tycoons, track-team romances and advice-giving animals. Dividido en catorce historias, este libro incluye guerra en la selva, empresarios del boomerang, romances trepidantes y animales consejeros.

STARBUCKED is the first book to explore the incredible rise of the Starbucks Corporation and the caffeine-crazy culture that fuelled its success. Part Fast Food Nation", part social history, STARBUCKED combines investigative heft with witty cultural observation. How did Starbucks become an international juggernaut? What made the company so beloved that more than 40 million customers visit every week, yet so loathed that protestors have firebombed its stores? Why did Americans suddenly become willing to pay $4.50 for a cup of coffee? And why did the world follow? Taylor Clark provides an objective, meticulously reported look at how Starbucks manipulates psyches and social habits to snare loyal customers, and why many of the things we think we know about the coffee chain are false.

Jodi Picoult is a number one bestseller and CHANGE OF HEART is her new thought-provoking and highly topical novel. June's second daughter is dying without the new heart she so urgently needs. And her first daughter, along with her first husband, is dead, killed by Shay Bourne. The crime was so heinous that Shay has been given the death penalty. However, he is looking for redemption and wants to give June's daughter his heart .Your daughter will die without a heart transplant. The man who killed your husband and other daughter wants to give her his. What would you do?

"Alberto Martini sembrava nato per illustrare la Divina Commedia. Difficile immaginare un testo nel quale realta e fantasia, visioni e trasfigurazioni fossero piu corrispondenti alla sua ispirazione. Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso sono l''equivalente letterario della poetica visionaria di Martini, uno dei tanti illustratori di Dante da Botticelli a Zuccari, da William Blake a Dore. Dante e Martini si muovono nella dimensione del sogno. La citta di Oderzo, ritornando a onorare Martini in questa occasione, ha richiamato l''attenzione sul difficile rapporto con Dante, tema di riflessione dell''artista per circa un quarantennio. Il corpus di disegni, litografie, acqueforti acquisito dalla Fondazione Oderzo Cultura e conservato presso la Pinacoteca, consente di ricostruire i diversi momenti dell''elaborazione creativa di Martini. Prima di questa pubblicazione, in tempi moderni, il rapporto di Martini con Dante era stato indagato in occasione della mostra della casa di Dante in Abruzzo a Torre de'' Passeri, e piu recentemente nel 2004, proprio nella Pinacoteca civica di Oderzo. Ora questo volume illustra compiutamente l''importanza psicologica e intelletuale, prima che estetica, di Dante per Martini." (Dalla prefazione di Vittorio Sgarbi) Comienzo pagina

Derace Kingsley''s wife ran away to Mexico to get a divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. When Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he''s denying nothing.Presentado en la carpeta de Marzo 2009. Edicion especial para conmemorar el 50 aniversario de la muerte del autor.

Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin. Each episode has its own literary style, and the epic journey of Odysseus is only one of many correspondencies that add layers of meaning to the text. Ulysses has been the subject of controversy since copies of the first English edition were burned by the New York Post Office Authorities. Today critical interest centres on the authority of the text, and this edition, complete with an invaluable Introduction, notes, and appendices, republishes for the first time, without interference, the original 1922 text. ''one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century ... this edition, complete with an invaluable Introduction, map of Dublin, notes, and appendices, republishes for the first time, without interference, the original 1922 text.'' In Dublin ''After more than seventy years of editorial corrections, specialists will buy the ''uncorrected'' edition for its accuracy. Others should choose it as much for Johnson''s excellent introduction and notes.'' Tim Kendall. Hertford College, Oxford. Notes and Queries `For anyone coming to this 20th century classic for the first time, this paperback version could well make the going a little easier.'' Lancashire Evening Post (Preston) `Already got a copy of Ulysses. Well, chuck it out and get this ... this is the one, a reproduction of the original 1922 Shakespeare and Co edition ... has extensive notes at the back to explain references and correct gaffes ... Also astonishingly cheap.'' Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian `now the cheapest annotated paperback available and comes with a splendid introduction from Jeri Johnson, a map of contemporary Dublin, and a comprehensive set of explanatory notes ... As such, it should appeal both to those who are familiar with Joyce''s book, and those who are approaching it for the first time.'' Yorkshire Post (Leeds) `hilarious, poignant, exhilarating ... The excellent guide, editor Jeri Johnson, refuses to allow short cuts for first-time travellers ... The detailed notes are usef

On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives will be braided together by ambition, love, greed and revenge. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. Yet they will always live under the long shadow of the unexplained killing they witnessed on that fateful childhood day. Ken Folletts masterful epic The Pillars of the Earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict set around the building of a cathedral. Now World Without End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change.

Offering an unprecedented look at the archvillain of the StarCraft universe, this novel reveals the story of how a human woman named Kerrigan was transformed into the ruthless Queen of Blades, and th

Com''era la vita quotidiana nella Roma Imperiale? Quali volti si incontravano nelle vie o sulle gradinate del Colosseo? Quali atmosfere si respiravano nelle case, nei palazzi? Alberto Angela conduce il lettore nella folla delle strade, all''interno delle case o nel Colosseo durante i combattimenti tra gladiatori. A descrizioni dettagliate di luoghi e stili di vita, si alternano infatti narrazioni in "presa diretta" quasi fosse una telecamera a proseguire il racconto, con il suo bagaglio di immagini, rumori, per scoprire e indagare tutte le curiosita e i piccoli grandi dettagli della vita degli antichi romani.

L’obra publicada d’Andreu Vidal consta de vuit llibres de poemes i d’una antologia poètica de Paul Celan traduïda en col·laboració amb Karen Müller. Al marge d’aquests materials editats en llibre, ca

La cornice in cui si inserisce la ricostruzione dei tanti eventi ripercorsi nel volume vede Giampaolo Pansa confrontarsi con Livia, una brillante funzionaria della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze, che a suo tempo aveva svolto ricerche sui fatti sanguinosi dell''immediato dopoguerra. Assieme a lei, l''autore si avventura su un terreno minato, socchiudendo porte che ancora oggi molti vorrebbero tenere sbarrate: l''accusa di revisionismo e sempre in agguato per chi, pur condividendo le stesse posizioni dei vincitori, vuole scrivere tutta intera la storia. Pansa non se ne cura e indaga nelle pieghe di episodi e circostanze che videro migliaia di italiani vittime delle persecuzioni e delle vendette di partigiani e antifascisti.

Ruth Rendell has won many awards, including the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger for 1976s best crime novel with A Demon in My View; a second Edgar in 1984 from the Mystery Writers of America for the best short story, 'The New Girl Friend and a Gold Dagger award for Live Flesh in 1986. She was also the winner of the 1990 Sunday Times Literary award, as well as the Crime Writers Association Cartier Diamond Dagger. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer.

Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the village of Headington, near Oxford. The coroner`s office in Clarendon Street provides corpses - but they have often died of violence and drowning: they are damaged and putrifying. Victor moves his coils and jars and electrical fluids to a deserted pottery manufactury in Limehouse. Victor Frankenstein comienza sus experimentos de anatomia en un granero de la localidad de Headington, cerca de Oxford. El forense de la calle Clarendon le proporciona los cuerpos, pero a menudo han experimentado muertes violentas o se han ahogado: suelen estar dañados y en estado de descomposicion. Victor entonces traslada sus reostatos, ampollas y fluidos ionizados a una fabrica de ceramica abandonada en Limehouse.

In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes. There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan, grief-stricken and confused; and Kirarin, whose late nights and reckless behaviour remain a secret from those around her. Then Toshi's next-door neighbour is found brutally murdered and the girls suspect Worm, the neighbour's son and a high school misfit. But when he disappears the four girls become irresistibly drawn into a treacherous vortex of brutality and seduction which rises from within themselves as well as the world around them.

An unforgettable story of love and adventure, spanning three decades of Jamaican history. Jamaica, 1946.nbsp; Errol Flynn washes up on in the Zaca , his storm-wrecked yacht.nbsp; Ida Joseph, the teenaged daughter of Port Antonio''s Justice of the Peace, is intrigued to learn that the ''World''s Handsomest Man'' is on the island, and makes it her business to meet him.nbsp;For the jaded swashbuckler, Jamaica is a tropical paradise that Ida, unfazed by his celebrity, seems to share.nbsp;Soon Flynn has made a home for himself on Navy Island, where he entertains the cream of Hollywood at partiesnbsp;that become a byword for decadencenbsp; - andnbsp;Ida has set her heart on marrying this charismatic older man who has singled her out for his attention.nbsp; Flynn and Ida do not marry, but Ida bears Flynn a daughter, May, who will meet her father but once.nbsp; The Pirate''s Daughter is a tale of passion and recklessness, of two generations of women and their battles for love and survivial, and of a nation struggling to rise to the challenge of hard-won independence.

Autumn, 1916. America is preparing to enter WWI, but at Tamarack State Hospital, the danger is barely felt. Here in the crisp, mountain air where wealthy tuberculosis patients recover in private cottages and charity patients, mostly European emigres, fill the sanatorium, time stands still. Prisoners of routine and yearning for absent families, the inmates take solace in gossip, rumour and secret attachments. One enterprising patient initiates a weekly discussion group, but his well-meaning efforts lead instead to tragedy and betrayal. The war comes home, bringing with it a surge of anti-immigrant prejudice and vigilante sentiment. Andrea Barrett pits power and privilege against unrest and thwarted desire in a spellbinding tale of individual lives in a nation on the verge of extraordinary change.

It seems that (un)life is going pretty well for Zoey Redbird. She´s settled in at the House of Night finishing school and is coming to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her. She even has a boyfriend . or two. Best of all, Zoey finally feels she has found somewhere she belongs. Then the unthinkable happens.

"The Aviary Gate" is a tale of ancient alliances and intrigues, of forbidden love and dangerous secrets. Lush, magical and utterly absorbing. "The Aviary Gate" es un relato de antiguas alianzas e intrigas, de amor prohibido y de peligrosos secretos. Rico, magico y completamente absorbente.

On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. This understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders if theres no death, there can be no resurrection and therefore no reason for religion and what will be the effect on pensions, the social services, hospitals? Funeral directors are reduced to arranging funerals for dogs, cats, hamsters and parrots. Life insurance policies become meaningless. Amid the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration: flags are hung out on balconies and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity eternal life. But will deaths disappearance benefit the human race, or will this sudden abeyance backfire? How long can families cope with malingering elderly relatives who scratch at deaths door while the portal remains firmly shut? Then, seven months later, death returns, heralded by purple envelopes informing the recipients that their time is up. Death herself is now writing personal notes giving one week''s notice. However, when an envelope is unexpectedly returned to her, death begins to experience strange, almost human emotions. In his new novel Jose Saramago again turns the world on its head an everyday event is snatched away, and humankind is left to make of it what it will.

Featuring fourteen stories, this book includes jungle warfare, boomerang tycoons, track-team romances and advice-giving animals. Dividido en catorce historias, este libro incluye guerra en la selva, empresarios del boomerang, romances trepidantes y animales consejeros.

STARBUCKED is the first book to explore the incredible rise of the Starbucks Corporation and the caffeine-crazy culture that fuelled its success. Part Fast Food Nation", part social history, STARBUCKED combines investigative heft with witty cultural observation. How did Starbucks become an international juggernaut? What made the company so beloved that more than 40 million customers visit every week, yet so loathed that protestors have firebombed its stores? Why did Americans suddenly become willing to pay $4.50 for a cup of coffee? And why did the world follow? Taylor Clark provides an objective, meticulously reported look at how Starbucks manipulates psyches and social habits to snare loyal customers, and why many of the things we think we know about the coffee chain are false.

Jodi Picoult is a number one bestseller and CHANGE OF HEART is her new thought-provoking and highly topical novel. June's second daughter is dying without the new heart she so urgently needs. And her first daughter, along with her first husband, is dead, killed by Shay Bourne. The crime was so heinous that Shay has been given the death penalty. However, he is looking for redemption and wants to give June's daughter his heart .Your daughter will die without a heart transplant. The man who killed your husband and other daughter wants to give her his. What would you do?

"Alberto Martini sembrava nato per illustrare la Divina Commedia. Difficile immaginare un testo nel quale realta e fantasia, visioni e trasfigurazioni fossero piu corrispondenti alla sua ispirazione. Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso sono l''equivalente letterario della poetica visionaria di Martini, uno dei tanti illustratori di Dante da Botticelli a Zuccari, da William Blake a Dore. Dante e Martini si muovono nella dimensione del sogno. La citta di Oderzo, ritornando a onorare Martini in questa occasione, ha richiamato l''attenzione sul difficile rapporto con Dante, tema di riflessione dell''artista per circa un quarantennio. Il corpus di disegni, litografie, acqueforti acquisito dalla Fondazione Oderzo Cultura e conservato presso la Pinacoteca, consente di ricostruire i diversi momenti dell''elaborazione creativa di Martini. Prima di questa pubblicazione, in tempi moderni, il rapporto di Martini con Dante era stato indagato in occasione della mostra della casa di Dante in Abruzzo a Torre de'' Passeri, e piu recentemente nel 2004, proprio nella Pinacoteca civica di Oderzo. Ora questo volume illustra compiutamente l''importanza psicologica e intelletuale, prima che estetica, di Dante per Martini." (Dalla prefazione di Vittorio Sgarbi) Comienzo pagina

Derace Kingsley''s wife ran away to Mexico to get a divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. When Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he''s denying nothing.Presentado en la carpeta de Marzo 2009. Edicion especial para conmemorar el 50 aniversario de la muerte del autor.

Ulysses, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on modern fiction. In a series of episodes covering the course of a single day, 16 June 1904, the novel traces the movements of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus through the streets of Dublin. Each episode has its own literary style, and the epic journey of Odysseus is only one of many correspondencies that add layers of meaning to the text. Ulysses has been the subject of controversy since copies of the first English edition were burned by the New York Post Office Authorities. Today critical interest centres on the authority of the text, and this edition, complete with an invaluable Introduction, notes, and appendices, republishes for the first time, without interference, the original 1922 text. ''one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century ... this edition, complete with an invaluable Introduction, map of Dublin, notes, and appendices, republishes for the first time, without interference, the original 1922 text.'' In Dublin ''After more than seventy years of editorial corrections, specialists will buy the ''uncorrected'' edition for its accuracy. Others should choose it as much for Johnson''s excellent introduction and notes.'' Tim Kendall. Hertford College, Oxford. Notes and Queries `For anyone coming to this 20th century classic for the first time, this paperback version could well make the going a little easier.'' Lancashire Evening Post (Preston) `Already got a copy of Ulysses. Well, chuck it out and get this ... this is the one, a reproduction of the original 1922 Shakespeare and Co edition ... has extensive notes at the back to explain references and correct gaffes ... Also astonishingly cheap.'' Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian `now the cheapest annotated paperback available and comes with a splendid introduction from Jeri Johnson, a map of contemporary Dublin, and a comprehensive set of explanatory notes ... As such, it should appeal both to those who are familiar with Joyce''s book, and those who are approaching it for the first time.'' Yorkshire Post (Leeds) `hilarious, poignant, exhilarating ... The excellent guide, editor Jeri Johnson, refuses to allow short cuts for first-time travellers ... The detailed notes are usef