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From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcoversfeaturing cover art by Jessica HischeIt all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series features unique cover art by Hische, a superstar in the world of type design and illustration, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co. to Wes Anderson''s recent film Moonrise Kingdom to Penguin''s own bestsellers Committed and Rules of Civility. With exclusive designs that have never before appeared on Hische''s hugely popular Daily Drop Cap blog, the Penguin Drop Caps series debuted with an ''A'' for Jane Austen''s Pride and Prejudice, a ''B'' for Charlotte Bronte''s Jane Eyre, and a ''C'' for Willa Cather''s My Antonia. It continues with more perennial classics, perfect to give as elegant gifts or to showcase on your own shelves.X is for Xinran. In 1994, journalist and author Xinran met a Chinese woman with an extraordinary story. For over thirty years, since the 1950s, Shu Wen searched the mountains of north Tibet for her husband, a Chinese military doctor, who was missing in action. Her moving and unforgettable life story brilliantly recreated by Xinran, gives insight into the landscape, religion and people of Tibet. At the same time it illuminates the complex and emotional relationship and history between the Tibetans and Chinese. Traveling thousands of miles, and taken in by a Tibetan family, Shu Wen lived a nomadic life through numerous seasons with silence and simplicity, motivated by her search for her husband. An unforgettable and ultimately uplifting tale of loss, loyalty, courage and survival, above all, Sky Burial is an epic and enduring love story.

NYPD Red - the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America''s most extreme city -hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission.A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished. The number of victims grows, and many New Yorkers secretly applaud the idea of justice won at any price.NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald are put on the case when a woman of vast wealth and even greater connections disappears. Zach and Kylie have to find what''s really behind this murderer''s rampage while political and personal secrets of the highest order hang in the balance. But Kylie has been acting strange recently - and Zach knows whatever she''s hiding could threaten the biggest case of their careers.

When Honey D'Amouvell inherits property on tiny Sugarberry Island, she's prepared to start a whole new life. Her plan is simple - make a home, open a shop, and maybe, finally, find a place to belong. But the building she now owns is leased to none other than the owner of Babycakes, which means her spot is already occupied. Honey isn't sure how to put down roots when she has nowhere to plant them. Yet sexy, softhearted mechanic Dylan Ross seems determined to help. He's everything she never imagined she would find in a man, and each kiss is more persuasive than the last. Will Dylan convince her that what she craves most is his love?

''Already hailed as a Cold War classic.'' Boyd Tonkin, Independent Books of the Year''Utterly absorbing, funny and humane. A romp through a twisted century in the heart of Europe.'' Anna Funder, author of StasilandInternational bestseller and Winner of the German Book PrizeA sweeping story of one family over four generations in East Germany: the intertwining of love, life and politics under the GDR regime.

Heroes must rise ...The King is dead. His daughter, untested and alone, now wears the Steel Crown. And a vast horde is steadily carving a bloody road south, hell-bent on razing Steelhaven to the ground... or the city will fallBefore the city faces the terror that approaches, it must crush the danger already lurking within its walls. But will the cost of victory be as devastating as that of defeat?

There''s no cure for murder.Commissario Alec Blume, on health leave and fleeing his partner Caterina, has retreated from Rome to central Italy. At the Villa Romanelli he enrolls on a natural remedies course conducted by a young woman named Silvana.But far from recuperating or resolving his differences with Caterina, a feverish Blume becomes isolated and sluggish with sickness. Increasingly ill-at-ease in the stifling environment, the dark history of the crumbling villa and its once-magnificent gardens draws him in. And when a Romanian girl who works for Silvana''s ambiguous fiance Niki asks for his help, Blume finds himself dragged into the shadowy case of a missing girl, and the secret horrors of the garden''s malign beauty.

Ajudam a desenvolver as ideias próprias; permitem uma melhor actuação nas aulas; são um precioso auxiliar para as provas e exames; uma análise competente da narrativa, das personagens, dos temas e do

Ex-slave. Philosopher. Chosen one.Taita has risen from nothing to become the most trusted man at the Pharaohs side. Only he can plot a mission that will return Egypt to its former glory. Only he can muster the force that can break the back of Egypts greatest enemy.On the banks of the Nile, a hero will rise.Across the lush plains of Egypt, Taita, a freed eunuch slave, wears his authority lightly. Not only is he the close advisor to the Pharaoh, but he is guardian to Pharaoh Tamoses two teenage sisters, the young beauties Tehuti and Bekatha.But the kingdom is not at peace. They have been fighting Southern Egypts constant and historic enemy, the Hyksos people in the north, since time began. To finally crush them, Pharaoh must turn to his most trusted friend.Taita, philosopher, poet and expert strategist, has a plan that will see Egypt destroy the Hyksos army and form a coveted alliance with Crete in one move. This plan will take him, his expedition commander Zaras, and their mighty warriors on a perilous journey up the Nile, through Arabia to the magical city of Babylon, then across the open seas to Crete.The many dangers will cost lives and time, and they will meet battle and betrayal head on. But Taita must not forget his two charges, the spirited young princesses, whose attraction to the very warriors who lead the fight threatens Taitas meticulous plan and the future of Egypt itself.

In Israel, a man clutching a backpack searches desperately for a boat. In Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a message from Lucas Davenport: You're about to get a visitor. It's an Israeli cop, and she's tailing a man who's smuggled out an extraordinary relic-a copper scroll revealing startling details about the man known as King Solomon. Wait a minute, laughs Virgil. Is this one of those Da Vinci Code deals? The secret scroll, the blockbuster revelation, the teams of murderous bad guys? Should I be boning up on my Bible verses? He looks at the cop. She's not laughing. As it turns out, there are very bad men chasing the relic, and they don't care who's in the way or what they have to do to get it. Maybe Virgil should start praying.

You can run from your past but you can never hide from yourself When John Callum arrives on the Faroe Islands, determined to sever all ties with his previous life and make a new start, he is surprised by how quickly he is welcomed into the close-knit community. But no matter what he changes in his outward life, the debilitating nightmares that haunt him just won't stop. Then the sleepy peace is shattered by an almost unheard of crime on the Island: murder. A specialist team of detectives arrives from Denmark to help the local police, who are completely ill-equipped for a manhunt of this scale. But when tensions arise, and the community closes rank to protect its own, outsider Ryan will have to watch his back. But more terrifying than that, why can't he shake the suspicion that the crime could have had something to do with him?

Non loin de Vigàta, sur une terre argileuse qui n'intéresse que les potiers, le corps d'un homme est découvert dans un sac poubelle, découpé en trente morceaux. Peu après, la splendide Dolorès vient

Un beau château entouré de vignes, près de Cognac dans les Charentes : c'est celui d'Edmond de Saint-Junien, exploitant du " nectar des dieux ". Autour de lui et de sa femme Delphine, leurs trois enf

À cause d’un voyage sans permission – Schiller s’était rendu à la première des Brigands à Mannheim (1782) –, le duc Karl Eugen de Souabe le met en détention et lui interdit d’écrire. Schiller s’enfui

Conventional wisdom holds that the Internet makes the world flat and reduces friction by erasing the impact of the physical world on our buying habits.But Wharton professor and marketing expert David R. Bell argues that the way we use the Internet is still largely shaped by the physical world we inhabit.Anyone can go online and buy a pair of jeansbut the likelihood that we will do so depends to a significant degree on where we live. The presence of stores nearby, trendy and friendly neighbors, and local sales taxes, among other factors, play a critical role in our decision making when it comes to buying online. Our willingness to search for and consume information also depends on where we live and whom we live next to.In Location Is (Still) Everything, Bell offers a fascinating, in-depth look at online commerce and retailing through his years of research, investing, and advising experience. His unique GRAVITY framework is a powerful and practical tool that uses fundamental human behaviors and location-based conditions to explain how the real and virtual worlds intersectand what Internet sellers must do in order to succeed. Entrepreneurs, managers, students, and investors will all benefit from understanding how and why we use the Internet to search, shop, and sell.

«Aujourd'hui encore, quand me guettent des pages d'écriture, mes ordres de grandeur sont convertis en intensité physique. Cela peut sembler incongru ou trivial de comparer le noble effort des lettres

Catalunya viu l'esclat d'uns anys decisius... El 1824, a la vila de Gràcia, la jove Mariona està a punt de casar-se. La vida, humil i senzilla, li somriu. Pero els anys que es preparen són els d’un s

Issa, jeune musulman russe affamé, arrive clandestinement à Hambourg... Avec Annabel, avocate idéaliste, et Tommy Brue, patron de banque, ils forment un triangle amoureux sur lequel vont fondre les e

"Hai neste libro de Afonso Becerra diferentes niveis de lectura, pois contén algo máis que as 10 pezas breves que se anuncian no índice, agrupadas baixo o lema "textículos dramáticos e posdramáticos", que, como tal, xa implica unha vontade clara de polemica, tanto pola filiacion "post" que se lles reclama, como pola dimension "testicular" dos ditos textos, o que supon un indicador preciso do nucleo tematico dos mesmos que non e outro que as formas do amor (ou do desamor).Hai xa bastantes anos asistin a unha conversa entre dous coñecidos dramaturgos na que un lle preguntaba ao outro pola tematica da sua nova peza, ao que o outro respondia dicindo que trataba do de sempre, "de amor", pois o amor, ou a sua ausencia, sempre esta na raiz das historias dos seres humanos, dos grandes relatos e das pequenas lerias que alimentan as nosas

Les femmes et la lecture dans l'art occidental " Les livres ne sont pas des objets comme les autres pour les femmes ; depuis l'aube du christianisme jusqu'a aujourd'hui, entre nous et eux, circule un courant chaud, une affinite secrete, une relation etrange et singuliere tissee d'interdits, d'appropriations, de reincorporations. " Laure Adler

In THE OCTOBER LIST, the always entertaining Jeffery Deaver attempts the almost impossible: the back-to-front thriller, beginning with its climax and ending with the planning of the initial crime . . . It''s very readable (The Times)Even halfway through, it seems possible that Deaver has been defeated by the mind-boggling technical challenge of delivering surprises in back-to-front time. But after the reverse journey reaches the couple''s first meeting, his gamble is thoroughly vindicated by a series of twists in which he resembles a conjuror who each time seems to have performed his final trick, but then tops it. (The Sunday Times)Jeffery Deaver''s most fiendish thriller ever . . . The reader is never lied to in Deaver''s brilliant shell game, merely misdirected, and the best part of this trick is that despite being in on the game, we continue to make false assumptions . . . as the pace quickens and the story continues to backtrack, solid evidence, established plot points and sturdily built characters all begin to come undone, until what started out as an interactive game becomes a truly unnerving exercise in deception. (New York Times)A clever, demanding stand-alone . . . As the ingenious plot folds back on itself, the reader has to reevaluate and reinterpret the constantly shifting "facts" in the case. The finished picture finally emerges with a shock of recognition. This is brilliant craftsmanship in a vastly entertaining package. (Publishers Weekly)Jeffery Deaver is famous for the surprising twists he builds into each of his books, and his latest thriller, The October List, delivers as stunning a twist as he has ever written . . . an interesting experience pulled off with panache'' (Irish Independent)

From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcoversfeaturing cover art by Jessica HischeIt all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series features unique cover art by Hische, a superstar in the world of type design and illustration, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co. to Wes Anderson''s recent film Moonrise Kingdom to Penguin''s own bestsellers Committed and Rules of Civility. With exclusive designs that have never before appeared on Hische''s hugely popular Daily Drop Cap blog, the Penguin Drop Caps series debuted with an ''A'' for Jane Austen''s Pride and Prejudice, a ''B'' for Charlotte Bronte''s Jane Eyre, and a ''C'' for Willa Cather''s My Antonia. It continues with more perennial classics, perfect to give as elegant gifts or to showcase on your own shelves.X is for Xinran. In 1994, journalist and author Xinran met a Chinese woman with an extraordinary story. For over thirty years, since the 1950s, Shu Wen searched the mountains of north Tibet for her husband, a Chinese military doctor, who was missing in action. Her moving and unforgettable life story brilliantly recreated by Xinran, gives insight into the landscape, religion and people of Tibet. At the same time it illuminates the complex and emotional relationship and history between the Tibetans and Chinese. Traveling thousands of miles, and taken in by a Tibetan family, Shu Wen lived a nomadic life through numerous seasons with silence and simplicity, motivated by her search for her husband. An unforgettable and ultimately uplifting tale of loss, loyalty, courage and survival, above all, Sky Burial is an epic and enduring love story.

NYPD Red - the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America''s most extreme city -hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission.A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished. The number of victims grows, and many New Yorkers secretly applaud the idea of justice won at any price.NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald are put on the case when a woman of vast wealth and even greater connections disappears. Zach and Kylie have to find what''s really behind this murderer''s rampage while political and personal secrets of the highest order hang in the balance. But Kylie has been acting strange recently - and Zach knows whatever she''s hiding could threaten the biggest case of their careers.

When Honey D'Amouvell inherits property on tiny Sugarberry Island, she's prepared to start a whole new life. Her plan is simple - make a home, open a shop, and maybe, finally, find a place to belong. But the building she now owns is leased to none other than the owner of Babycakes, which means her spot is already occupied. Honey isn't sure how to put down roots when she has nowhere to plant them. Yet sexy, softhearted mechanic Dylan Ross seems determined to help. He's everything she never imagined she would find in a man, and each kiss is more persuasive than the last. Will Dylan convince her that what she craves most is his love?

''Already hailed as a Cold War classic.'' Boyd Tonkin, Independent Books of the Year''Utterly absorbing, funny and humane. A romp through a twisted century in the heart of Europe.'' Anna Funder, author of StasilandInternational bestseller and Winner of the German Book PrizeA sweeping story of one family over four generations in East Germany: the intertwining of love, life and politics under the GDR regime.

Heroes must rise ...The King is dead. His daughter, untested and alone, now wears the Steel Crown. And a vast horde is steadily carving a bloody road south, hell-bent on razing Steelhaven to the ground... or the city will fallBefore the city faces the terror that approaches, it must crush the danger already lurking within its walls. But will the cost of victory be as devastating as that of defeat?

There''s no cure for murder.Commissario Alec Blume, on health leave and fleeing his partner Caterina, has retreated from Rome to central Italy. At the Villa Romanelli he enrolls on a natural remedies course conducted by a young woman named Silvana.But far from recuperating or resolving his differences with Caterina, a feverish Blume becomes isolated and sluggish with sickness. Increasingly ill-at-ease in the stifling environment, the dark history of the crumbling villa and its once-magnificent gardens draws him in. And when a Romanian girl who works for Silvana''s ambiguous fiance Niki asks for his help, Blume finds himself dragged into the shadowy case of a missing girl, and the secret horrors of the garden''s malign beauty.

Ajudam a desenvolver as ideias próprias; permitem uma melhor actuação nas aulas; são um precioso auxiliar para as provas e exames; uma análise competente da narrativa, das personagens, dos temas e do

Ex-slave. Philosopher. Chosen one.Taita has risen from nothing to become the most trusted man at the Pharaohs side. Only he can plot a mission that will return Egypt to its former glory. Only he can muster the force that can break the back of Egypts greatest enemy.On the banks of the Nile, a hero will rise.Across the lush plains of Egypt, Taita, a freed eunuch slave, wears his authority lightly. Not only is he the close advisor to the Pharaoh, but he is guardian to Pharaoh Tamoses two teenage sisters, the young beauties Tehuti and Bekatha.But the kingdom is not at peace. They have been fighting Southern Egypts constant and historic enemy, the Hyksos people in the north, since time began. To finally crush them, Pharaoh must turn to his most trusted friend.Taita, philosopher, poet and expert strategist, has a plan that will see Egypt destroy the Hyksos army and form a coveted alliance with Crete in one move. This plan will take him, his expedition commander Zaras, and their mighty warriors on a perilous journey up the Nile, through Arabia to the magical city of Babylon, then across the open seas to Crete.The many dangers will cost lives and time, and they will meet battle and betrayal head on. But Taita must not forget his two charges, the spirited young princesses, whose attraction to the very warriors who lead the fight threatens Taitas meticulous plan and the future of Egypt itself.

In Israel, a man clutching a backpack searches desperately for a boat. In Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a message from Lucas Davenport: You're about to get a visitor. It's an Israeli cop, and she's tailing a man who's smuggled out an extraordinary relic-a copper scroll revealing startling details about the man known as King Solomon. Wait a minute, laughs Virgil. Is this one of those Da Vinci Code deals? The secret scroll, the blockbuster revelation, the teams of murderous bad guys? Should I be boning up on my Bible verses? He looks at the cop. She's not laughing. As it turns out, there are very bad men chasing the relic, and they don't care who's in the way or what they have to do to get it. Maybe Virgil should start praying.

You can run from your past but you can never hide from yourself When John Callum arrives on the Faroe Islands, determined to sever all ties with his previous life and make a new start, he is surprised by how quickly he is welcomed into the close-knit community. But no matter what he changes in his outward life, the debilitating nightmares that haunt him just won't stop. Then the sleepy peace is shattered by an almost unheard of crime on the Island: murder. A specialist team of detectives arrives from Denmark to help the local police, who are completely ill-equipped for a manhunt of this scale. But when tensions arise, and the community closes rank to protect its own, outsider Ryan will have to watch his back. But more terrifying than that, why can't he shake the suspicion that the crime could have had something to do with him?

Non loin de Vigàta, sur une terre argileuse qui n'intéresse que les potiers, le corps d'un homme est découvert dans un sac poubelle, découpé en trente morceaux. Peu après, la splendide Dolorès vient

Un beau château entouré de vignes, près de Cognac dans les Charentes : c'est celui d'Edmond de Saint-Junien, exploitant du " nectar des dieux ". Autour de lui et de sa femme Delphine, leurs trois enf

À cause d’un voyage sans permission – Schiller s’était rendu à la première des Brigands à Mannheim (1782) –, le duc Karl Eugen de Souabe le met en détention et lui interdit d’écrire. Schiller s’enfui

Conventional wisdom holds that the Internet makes the world flat and reduces friction by erasing the impact of the physical world on our buying habits.But Wharton professor and marketing expert David R. Bell argues that the way we use the Internet is still largely shaped by the physical world we inhabit.Anyone can go online and buy a pair of jeansbut the likelihood that we will do so depends to a significant degree on where we live. The presence of stores nearby, trendy and friendly neighbors, and local sales taxes, among other factors, play a critical role in our decision making when it comes to buying online. Our willingness to search for and consume information also depends on where we live and whom we live next to.In Location Is (Still) Everything, Bell offers a fascinating, in-depth look at online commerce and retailing through his years of research, investing, and advising experience. His unique GRAVITY framework is a powerful and practical tool that uses fundamental human behaviors and location-based conditions to explain how the real and virtual worlds intersectand what Internet sellers must do in order to succeed. Entrepreneurs, managers, students, and investors will all benefit from understanding how and why we use the Internet to search, shop, and sell.

«Aujourd'hui encore, quand me guettent des pages d'écriture, mes ordres de grandeur sont convertis en intensité physique. Cela peut sembler incongru ou trivial de comparer le noble effort des lettres

Catalunya viu l'esclat d'uns anys decisius... El 1824, a la vila de Gràcia, la jove Mariona està a punt de casar-se. La vida, humil i senzilla, li somriu. Pero els anys que es preparen són els d’un s

Issa, jeune musulman russe affamé, arrive clandestinement à Hambourg... Avec Annabel, avocate idéaliste, et Tommy Brue, patron de banque, ils forment un triangle amoureux sur lequel vont fondre les e

"Hai neste libro de Afonso Becerra diferentes niveis de lectura, pois contén algo máis que as 10 pezas breves que se anuncian no índice, agrupadas baixo o lema "textículos dramáticos e posdramáticos", que, como tal, xa implica unha vontade clara de polemica, tanto pola filiacion "post" que se lles reclama, como pola dimension "testicular" dos ditos textos, o que supon un indicador preciso do nucleo tematico dos mesmos que non e outro que as formas do amor (ou do desamor).Hai xa bastantes anos asistin a unha conversa entre dous coñecidos dramaturgos na que un lle preguntaba ao outro pola tematica da sua nova peza, ao que o outro respondia dicindo que trataba do de sempre, "de amor", pois o amor, ou a sua ausencia, sempre esta na raiz das historias dos seres humanos, dos grandes relatos e das pequenas lerias que alimentan as nosas

Les femmes et la lecture dans l'art occidental " Les livres ne sont pas des objets comme les autres pour les femmes ; depuis l'aube du christianisme jusqu'a aujourd'hui, entre nous et eux, circule un courant chaud, une affinite secrete, une relation etrange et singuliere tissee d'interdits, d'appropriations, de reincorporations. " Laure Adler

In THE OCTOBER LIST, the always entertaining Jeffery Deaver attempts the almost impossible: the back-to-front thriller, beginning with its climax and ending with the planning of the initial crime . . . It''s very readable (The Times)Even halfway through, it seems possible that Deaver has been defeated by the mind-boggling technical challenge of delivering surprises in back-to-front time. But after the reverse journey reaches the couple''s first meeting, his gamble is thoroughly vindicated by a series of twists in which he resembles a conjuror who each time seems to have performed his final trick, but then tops it. (The Sunday Times)Jeffery Deaver''s most fiendish thriller ever . . . The reader is never lied to in Deaver''s brilliant shell game, merely misdirected, and the best part of this trick is that despite being in on the game, we continue to make false assumptions . . . as the pace quickens and the story continues to backtrack, solid evidence, established plot points and sturdily built characters all begin to come undone, until what started out as an interactive game becomes a truly unnerving exercise in deception. (New York Times)A clever, demanding stand-alone . . . As the ingenious plot folds back on itself, the reader has to reevaluate and reinterpret the constantly shifting "facts" in the case. The finished picture finally emerges with a shock of recognition. This is brilliant craftsmanship in a vastly entertaining package. (Publishers Weekly)Jeffery Deaver is famous for the surprising twists he builds into each of his books, and his latest thriller, The October List, delivers as stunning a twist as he has ever written . . . an interesting experience pulled off with panache'' (Irish Independent)