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Kalinka és un bellíssim poemari amorós que Israel Clarà dedica a un dels sectors de la societat encara més marginats i malvistos: les prostitutes. A l’empara dels seus cossos nus i càlids, el poeta e

Érase unha vez unha casa no medio do Mar. A casa tiña unha torre que miraba o Poñente, unha escalinata no medio das augas e unha árbore, polo levante, que floreaba entre marzo e abril. Alí vivían, namorados, unha muller que tocaba o violonchelo e un pintor engaiolado polo Mar e as súas criaturas, polos segredos que gardan as súas profundidades, os seres marabillosos que el imaxinaba que os poboaban e polas costas de terras afastadas no cabo do mundo, ás que as augas podían conducir se se sabía.

The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain. Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack 1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades dont need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on. Dont be carefree and foolish with your most precious assetlife. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is a book that can save your life.

It is June 2009. On a ferry bound for Dover, Amal and her daughter huddle together on the last leg of a harrowing illegal journey from Iraq to Britain. In Finchley, Ahmed and Akila Shakir wait to take them in. Also Iraqi by birth, they are bringing up their sons as British Muslims. Just a few miles away in Hampstead, journalist Henry Freeman and his American wife Ava raise their children in a different world, a middle-class world of privilege and easy assumptions. And in America, Sean Oke trains with the Marines, ready to join the latest stage of the War on Terror in Syria. Then everything changes. Britain''s newly elected government declares that they will no longer follow America''s lead in the Middle East. After a series of terror attacks and political clashes an explosive tension grows and eventually, the unthinkable becomes reality. America, intent on bringing ''New Democracy'' to the world, declares they will invade, overturn the government and ''liberate'' the British people. The Last Days of England realises this epic alternative reality, as the lives of two families and one US marine become entangled in ways that none of them could have imagined.

''These stories breathe. Taut yet teeming with life, they are shot through with gritty phrases that catch at one''s throat.'' - Sydney Morning Herald Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach - and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family - this bestselling collection of short stories is an Australian classic. The Bodysurfers vividly evokes the beach, with the scent of the suntan oil, the sting of the sun and a lazy sensuality, all the while hinting at a deep undercurrent of suburban malaise. From first publication, these poignant and seductive stories marked a major change in Australian literature.

Here are nineteen stories from a rich array of writers, and here is every kind of romantic entanglement: from the raw, erotic passion of D H Lawrence and Colette to the wickedly cynical comedy of Dorothy Parker and Roald Dahl, from the yearnings of unrequited romantic illusions in F... Estas son diecinueve historias firmadas por varios autores, y aqui hay todo tipo de sentimientos romanticos: desde la cruda y erotica pasion de D H Lawrence y Colette a la endiablada comedia cinica de Dorothy Parker y Roald Dahl, desde las evocadoras ilusiones de romanticismo ilimitado en "Winter Dreams" de F Scott Fitzgerald a la agonizante locura de los celos en "That in Aleppo Once ...

Larry Logan is a small-time TV star with a mile-wide ego. Gutted when his latest show is axed, he`s less than impressed when the only work he can get is fronting a fake game show actually an undercover police sting to entrap criminals. His reluctance evaporates when the show rockets his career back to prime time stardom. And when lovely, shy Stephanie enters his life he thinks he finally has it made. But Larry doesn`t know how dangerous those criminals are. He shafted some dangerous men - and they want revenge.

The first in Arthur Conan Doyle''s series of books featuring the popular character of Professor Challenger, The Lost World is a classic tale of adventure and discovery. A scientific team embarks on an expedition to a South American plateau, where they find a seemingly impenetrable and dangerous world that has been frozen in time since the age of dinosaurs. The only edition with a critical introduction, this timeless story is sure to excite the modern reader. Forget the Michael Crichton book (and Spielberg movie) that copied the title. This is the original: the terror-adventure tale of The Lost World. Writing not long after dinosaurs first invaded the popular imagination, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spins a yarn about an expedition of two scientists, a big-game hunter, and a journalist (the narrator) to a volcanic plateau high over the vast Amazon rain forest. The bickering of the professors (a type Doyle knew well from his medical training) serves as witty contrast to the wonders of flora and fauna they encounter, building toward a dramatic moonlit chase scene with a Tyrannosaurus Rex. And the character of Professor George E. Challenger is second only to Sherlock Holmes in the outrageous force of his personality: he''s a big man with an even bigger ego, and if you can grit your teeth through his racist behavior toward Native Americans, he''s a lot of fun.

In this luminous debut novel, Allen tells the story of an enchanted apple tree that bears prophetic fruit and edible flowers that are imbued with special powers--and the extraordinary people who tend

Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of Hugo's novel. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer Esmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion. Behind the central figures moves a pageant of picturesque characters, ranging from the cruel, superstitious king, Louis XI, to the underworld of beggars and petty criminals. These disreputable truands' night-time assault on the cathedral is one of the most spectacular set-pieces of Romantic literature. Hugo vividly depicts medieval Paris, where all life is dominated by the massive cathedral. His passionate enthusiasm for Gothic architecture is set within the context of an epic view of mankind's history, to which he attaches even more importance than to the novel's compelling story. Alban Krailsheimer's new translation is a fresh approach to this monumental classic by France's most celebrated Romantic.

Collected here in a single volume for the first time, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today - issues of the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of individual liberty, the merits of and costs of democratic government, and the place of women in society. In his Introduction John Gray describes these essays as applications of Mill's doctrine of the Art of Life, as set out in A System of Logic. Using the resources of recent revisionist scholarship, he shows Mill's work to be far richer and subtler than traditional interpretations allow.

Sue Arengo'Classic Tales' bring the magic of traditional storytelling into the language classroom. The stories have been carefully graded to provide easy and enjoyable reading practice. Colourful illustrations on every page work closely with the text to help understanding. Each 'Classic Tale' also includes an illustrated glossary and questions and puzzles related to the story.

"McSweeney''s 27" comes to you as three separate books in a windowed slipcase, presenting six possible faces to the world in order to best match your home decor. Book One plunges into the greyish, faintly understood area of the art world, involving oddly drawn objects coupled with uncertainly-spelled text. Book Two is a never-before-seen seventy-two page sketchbook by the legendary Art Spiegelman. Book Three collects new stories by Stephen King, Jim Shepard, and more.

Slip one A year after her husband''s death, Jo Mackenzie is finally starting to get the hang of being a single parent. Knit two together The boys are thriving in their new seaside home, the wool shop is starting to do well and despite two weddings, an in-school knitting project and Trevor the Wonder Dog coming to stay, she''s just about keeping her head above water. Cast off But boys, babies and best friends certainly make life a lot more interesting. Can Jo cope when things get really complicated? Because if knitting truly does keep you sane when your life starts to unravel then it looks like Jo is going to need much bigger needles.

In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Française and some of the themes of Némirovsky’s great unfinished sequence of novels. All Our Worldly Goods, though, is complete, an

In Jerusalem, in 586BC, the Kingdom of Judah is on the verge of annihilation by the Babylonians. In the chaos, the Prophet Jeremiah rushes to save the sacred Ark of the Covenant. As he locates the preordained hiding place, which will make it impossible to be found, he makes a terrible discovery...The Middle East, in the early 2000s. William Blake, a renowned Egyptologist has been called in to oversee the discovery of an amazing, magnificent and strange tomb of a Pharaoh many miles from the Valley of the Kings, located in a militarily sensitive spot. His research will lead him to an amazing and world shattering discovery concerning Moses and the tribes of the Israelites and their flight from the land of Egypt. 'Manfredi...shows silly old Dan Brown how it should be done' - "Daily Express".

From Terry Goodkind, author of the Sword of Truth series, comes a sweeping new novel of Richard Rahl, Kahlan Amnell, and their world. From the far reaches of the D'Haran Empire, Bishop Hannis Arc and the ancient Emperor Sulachan lead a vast horde of Shun-Tuk and other depraved "half-people" into the Empire's heart, raising an army of the dead in order to threaten the world of the living. Meanwhile, far from home, Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell must defend themselves and their followers from a series of terrifying threats, despite a magical sickness that depletes their strength and which, if not cured, will take their lives...sooner rather than later.

Tehran, 1983. A city paralysed by fear, its people silenced. And the beating heart of the regime is Evin prison. Yet even within its walls three women dare to dream of a life beyond tyranny. Azar gives birth to her daughter in captivity. One day the guards simply take her child from her. Parisa yearns for her tiny son, growing up a few miles away but completely out of reach. And Firoozeh, broken by cruelty, has turned her back on everything she was fighting for. But even in the most desolate places hope can take root ...

In his dark and fetid prison cell, serial killer Daniele de Robertis plans his retribution. The betrayals he has suffered haunt his dreams until, one night, he escapes. In a small, beautiful village in the Tuscan countryside a prominent lawyer and his wife are murdered. As the police inspect the scene they find nine terrifying photographs: nine women, slaughtered. It is Florentine Police Chief Michele Ferrara's worst nightmare: a case involving the untouchable men and women at the top of Italian society, a dark and powerful cult which knows no bounds, and mounting victims. Amongst a web of obsession, manipulation and violence, Ferrara must face his demons. Death Under a Tuscan Sun is an incredibly gripping and atmospheric work of detective fiction, written with incomparable authenticity by former Florentine police chief Michele Giuttari.

This book offers a hilarious and charming literary novel about the mysterious disappearance of an Englishman in the heart of Spain. "A joy to read...Deliciously quirky!" (Rosanna Ley, author of The Villa and Return to Mandalay). Atticus Craftsman never travels without a supply of Earl Grey and a favourite book. So when he is sent to shut down a failing literary magazine in Madrid, he packs both. A short Spanish jaunt later, he'll be back in Kent, cup of tea and smoked-salmon sandwich in hand. But the five ladies who run the magazine have other ideas. They'll do anything to keep the jobs they love and their cosy office together. Even if it involves hoodwinking Atticus with flashing eyes, the ghosts of literature past and a winding journey into the heart of Andalucia. With not the most efficient of detectives in hot pursuit, it's only a matter of time before Atticus Craftsman either falls in love, disappears completely or - worst of all - runs out of Earl Grey. Crime comedy, love story and literary adventure all at once, The Altogether Unexpected Disappearance of Atticus Craftsman is fiendishly fun and delightfully different.

"A bold feat of imagination . . . . Intriguing and moving: a fictional recovery of the woman's interior experience . . . and a powerful meditation upon the nature of creativity. Both an arresting interpretation of George Eliot's work and a compelling fiction in its own right." --Rebecca Mead, author of "My Life in Middlemarch"In an astonishing unsent love letter, a 19th-century Englishwoman looks back at her formative years, when she fell in love with one man but married another--the richest bidder--to save her familyGwendolen Harleth, an exceptionally beautiful upper-class Englishwoman, is gambling boldly at a resort when she catches the eye of a handsome, pensive gentleman. His gaze unnerves her, and she loses her winnings. The next day, she learns that her widowed mother and younger sisters, for whom she is financially responsible, have lost their family's fortune. As a young woman in the 1860s with only her looks to serve her, Gwendolen's options are few, so when Henleigh Grandcourt, a wealthy aristocrat, proposes to her, she accepts, despite her discovery of an alarming secret about his past.During their marriage, Grandcourt is psychologically and physically brutal to her, shattering her confidence. Gwendolen begins to encounter the alluring gentleman from the resort--Daniel Deronda--in her social circles, but Grandcourt, cold and calculating, takes pains to isolate her from everything she loves. Gwendolen's desperation nearly overcomes her, until an unexpected turn of events suddenly liberates her from Grandcourt's tyranny and leaves her financially independent. Newly free, but riddled with insecurity and desire, Gwendolen must take painful steps to shape a life that has not gone according to plan.Gwendolen and her world, originally creations of George Eliot, are inhabited and brought to sympathetic and nuanced life in this irresistible debut novel by Diana Souhami, an award-winning British biographer.

1920. After his return from the battlefields in France, Walter Langdon and his wife Rosanna begin their life together on a remote farm in Iowa. As time passes, their little family will grow: from Frank, the handsome, willful first-born, to Joe, whose love of animals and the land sustains him; from Lillian, beloved by her mother, to Henry who craves only the world of his books; and Claire, the surprise baby, who earns a special place in her father's heart. As Walter and Rosanna struggle to keep their family through good years and hard years - to years more desperate than they ever could have imagined, the world around their little farm will turn, and life for their children will be unrecognizable from what came before. Some will fall in love, some will have families of their own, some will go to war and some will not survive. All will mark history in their own way. Tender, compelling and moving from the 1920s to the 1950s, told in multiple voices as rich as the Iowan soil, Some Luck is an astonishing feat of storytelling by a prize-winning author writing at the height of her powers.

From the author of Enders Game, the soon-to-be major motion picture!A complex fate. A deadly path. Book two in the New York Times bestselling series Publishers Weekly calls an epic in the best sense.When Rigg and his friends crossed the Wall between the only world they knew and a world they could not imagine, he hoped he was leading them to safety. But the dangers in this new wallfold are more difficult to see. Rigg, Umbo, and Param know that they cannot trust the expendable, Vadesha machine shaped like a human, created to deceivebut they are no longer certain that they can even trust one another. But they will have little choice. Because although Rigg can decipher the paths of the past, he cant yet see the horror that lies ahead: A destructive force with deadly intentions is hurtling toward Garden. If Rigg, Umbo, and Param cant work together to alter the past, there will be no future.The adventure, suspense, and time travel continue in this second installment in the critically acclaimed New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestselling Pathfinder series.

Suso é un deses homes aos que «ningunha femia pode atar, fodedor de todas». Con todo, o que aconteceu obrigouno a casar con Lilí, unha «nena ben, a nena de papá e de mamá, dunha familia desas burgues

Obra guanyadora del XXXIII Premi «25 d'abril» de Poesia de la Vila de Benissa 2013

Poemes i jocs de paraules. Amor, desamor, vida plena. Poeta d'acció.

Una redazione raccogliticcia che prepara un quotidiano destinato, piu che allinformazione, al ricatto, alla macchina del fango, a bassi servizi per il suo editore. Un redattore paranoico che, aggirandosi per una Milano allucinata (o allucinato per una Milano normale), ricostruisce la storia di cinquantanni sullo sfondo di un piano sulfureo costruito intorno al cadavere putrefatto di uno pseudo Mussolini.E nellombra Gladio, la P2, lassassinio di papa Luciani, il colpo di stato di Junio Valerio Borghese, la Cia, i terroristi rossi manovrati dagli uffici affari riservati, vent anni di stragi e di depistaggi, un insieme di fatti inspiegabili che paiono inventati sino a che una trasmissione della BBC non prova che sono veri, o almeno che sono ormai confessati dai loro autori. E poi un cadavere che entra in scena allimprovviso nella piu stretta e malfamata via di Milano.Unesile storia damore tra due protagonisti perdenti per natura, un ghost writer fallito e una ragazza inquietante che per aiutare la famiglia ha abbandonato luniversita e si e specializzata nel gossip su affettuose amicizie, ma ancora piange sul secondo movimento della Settima di Beethoven. Un perfetto manuale per il cattivo giornalismo che il lettore via via non sa se inventato o semplicemente ripreso dal vivo. Una storia che si svolge nel 1992 in cui si prefigurano tanti misteri e follie del ventennio successivo, proprio mentre i due protagonisti pensano che lincubo sia finito.Una vicenda amara e grottesca che si svolge in Europa dalla fine della guerra ai giorni nostri.

Written in 1897, Stokers novel introduces the iconic character of the vampire Count Dracula. Through a series of letters and diary entries, the novel tells the story of Dracula''s attempt to move from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form as we know it today.

Una jove actriu irromp en una emblematica sala de teatre mentre un directorde reconegut prestigi intenta ultimar els darrers detalls tecnics la nit abansduna estrena. El que sembla una trobada casual i efimera acaba derivant enuna nit terriblement important per als dos personatges, que marcara el decursde les seves vides. Estructurada en quatre actes separats cadascun per unperiode de quinze anys, lobra ens mostra tres moments mes culminants queexpliquen les conseqüencies daquella primera trobada i que, de passada, ensparlen de levolucio del mon del teatre al nostre pais des dels anys setanta,aixi com dun amor embogit que adopta dos camins diferenciats i tragics: elde lamor romantic, que un dels personatges de la peça mostra vers laltre, i elde lamor per la professio, que laltre personatge demostra amb la seva passio,en estat pur, vers el mateix mon del teatre. A partir duna estetica aparentmentnaturalista on es dota els diferents signes teatrals dun fort simbolismeentre els quals juguen un paper important el cos dels actors, les configuracionsdespai escenic, la mateixa paraula, la musica, i llenguatges propis delmon de la dansa i el circ en moments puntuals, lobra es pot llegir com unpoema dramatic dividit en quatre estrofes, on la passio vital i el teatre suneixende la ma tot cre...

It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent bystander - until he becomes a suspect.With Case Histories, Kate Atkinson showed how brilliantly she could explore the crime genre and make it her own. In One Good Turn she takes her masterful plotting one step further. Like a set of Russian dolls each thread of the narrative reveals itself to be related to the last. Her Dickensian cast of characters are all looking for love or money and find it in surprising places. As ever with Atkinson what each one actually discovers is their true self.Unputdownable and triumphant, One Good Turn is a sharply intelligent read that is also percipient, funny, and totally satisfying.

As the First World War draws to a close, all seems golden for young Edward Deravenel, charismatic head of the family empire and master of Ravenscar.Yet beneath the surface lies discord. Elizabeth Deravenel, his beautiful wife, is jealous and her lies and gossip damage the family name. Worse still is Edward''s brother George. His reckless behaviour and treachery lead to blackmail and betrayal.The fortunes of the house of Deravenel begin to suffer. It is up to Edward''s daughter Bess, and her son Harry to secure the Ravenscar inheritance whatever it takes

Una casa blanca i altres cases aplega nou relats que tenen com a denominador comú les emocions i els sentiments d¿uns homes de mitjana edat desconcertats i vulnerables, que comencen a prendre consciè

We can't stop the aging process, but with the help of How Not to Become a Little Old Lady, we can at least not act older than our age. Author Mary McHugh offers up more than 100 pointers of things not to do to stave off little old ladyhood. Illustrated with the humorous line art of Adrienne Hartman, this little book reminds us not to boil our vegetables until they are gray, tell boring stories with no point to them, carry a tissue up our sleeve, or dye our own hair and think nobody can tell.

The deftness and creativity manifested in the translation do justice to one of the major works of contemporary French literature. Jean-Jacques ThomasThrough translations by two major contemporary poets and a scholar intimate with the Ponge canon, this volume offers selections of mostly earlier poetry Le parti pris des choses, Pieces, Proemes, and Nouveau nouveau receuil as representative of the strongest work of this modern French master who is recognized as one of the finest French poets of his time.Bilingual; translated by Margaret Guiton, John Montague, and C.K. Williams

"It is 1971, and Nigeria is under military rule - though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an eleven-year-old girl tired of waiting for school to start. Will her mother, who has become deeply religious since the death of Enitan's brother, allow her friendship with the new girl next door Sheri Bakare? This novel charts the fate of these two Nigerian girls, one who is prepared to manipulate the traditional system and one who attempts to defy it." Written in the voice of Enitan, against the backdrop of political turmoil in Nigeria, Everything Good Will Come is Enitan's story; one of a fiercely intelligent, strong young woman living in a culture that still insists on feminine submission.

Un dee-jay di Radio Monte Carlo riceve, durante la sua trasmissione notturna, una telefonata delirante. Uno sconosciuto, dalla voce artefatta, rivela di essere un assassino. Il fatto viene archiviato come uno scherzo di pessimo gusto. Il giorno dopo un pilota di Formula Uno e la sua compagna vengono trovati morti e orrendamente mutilati sulla loro barca.Inizia cosi una serie di delitti, preceduti ogni volta da una telefonata a radio Monte Carlo con un indizio musicale sulla prossima vittima, e ogni volta sottolineati da una scritta tracciata col sangue, che e nello stesso tempo una firma e una provocazione: Io uccidoPer Frank Ottobre, agente dellFBI in congedo temporaneo, e Nicolas Hulot, commissario della Surete Publique, inizia la caccia a un fantasma inafferrabile. Alle loro spalle una serie di rivelazioni che portano poco per volta a sospettare che, di tutti, il meno colpevole sia forse proprio lui, lassassino. Di fronte a loro un agghiacciante dato statistico. Non ce mai stato un serial killer nel Principato di Monaco. Adesso ce.