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This book asks a simple question: Is it possible to write compellingly about a happy person? In the hands of celebrated (but never before translated into English) Swiss author Hansjorg Schertenleib, the answer is a resounding yesbecause, as it turns out, even happy people are surrounded by unhappy people, which can make for considerable stress, and, well, whats a happy man to do?

Zù Cola era davvero "pirsona pulita"? E perché a San Calò piace tanto il vino? Come finirà la sfida tra "Calibardi" e il "Signiruzzo"? In queste pagine Andrea Camilleri ci offre una serie di immagini

Zoey needs a break after some serious excitement. Sadly, the House of Night school for vampyres doesnt feature breaks on its curriculum - even for a High Priestess in training and her gang. Plus juggling three guys is no stress reliever, especially when one is a sexy Warrior so into protecting Zoey that hes sensing her emotions.

The legendary rumors of an 'opera ghost' take on a terrifying reality when the beautiful young singer Christine Daae suddenly disappears after her triumphant performance. An ever increasing pattern of fear and violence pervades the dim backstage areas of the Opera House, as the phantom threatens to strike once more.

Merry Gentry is not your average private investigator. Half human, half faerie, she's caught in a struggle that threatens not only her life, but the lives of those she desires and holds dear. Her very existence and her rightful place on the throne of Faerie have long depended on her ability to produce an heir.

John Rain: ex-CIA-agent van Japans-Amerikaanse afkomst. Zijn beroep: huurmoordenaar, gespecialiseerd in 'dood door natuurlijke oorzaak'. Wanneer Rain de opdracht krijgt een hoge Japanse regeringsambtenaar te doden, schakelt hij met een minicomputer diens pacemaker uit. De man bezwijkt midden in een drukke trein aan een hartaanval. Normaal gesproken zou de klus voor Rain hiermee afgedaan zijn, maar als hij wegloopt ziet hij een man de zakken van het slachtoffer doorzoeken. Is het een ordinaire dief, of is er meer aan de hand? Dan blijkt plotseling dat Rain gevolgd wordt. Hij weet niet wie zijn vijanden zijn, maar wel dat hij verstrikt is geraakt in een complot dat tot ver buiten de Japanse grenzen reikt.

Jemma Forte wurde 1997 für die Moderation des amerikanischen "Disney Clubs" entdeckt.

Like And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, Kerouacs early collaboration with William Burroughs which it predates by a year, The Sea is My Brother is a short but complete novel which gives remarkable insight into the development of one of the great mid-century American writers in the years just before he wrote On the Road.

Following on from the phenomenally successful "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons", Dan Brown's next thriller, "The Lost Symbol", will be set in locations such as Washington DC, Salt Lake City, Langley, Virginia and Jerusalem. The book is set to feature Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon once again, whose exploits will take him inside the secret societies of the Freemasons and Rosicrucians - replacing Opus Dei and the Illuminati of previous adventures. Decoding the Lost Symbol is an A to Z guide featuring illustrations and color photographs to illuminate the text. It will provide all the answers to the cryptic mysteries in Dan Brown's highly anticipated new novel. Simon Cox is the author of two other guides to Dan Brown's novels, "Cracking the Da Vinci Code" and "Illuminating Angels and Demons", and "The Lost Symbol" is hotly tipped to repeat their success. "Cracking the Da Vinci Code" has now been translated into fifteen languages and has sold over half a million copies worldwide, while a spin-off DVD of the same name has sold one and a half million copies. No wonder, then, that "Decoding the Lost Symbol" is almost as eagerly awaited as Dan Brown's next novel itself.Simon Cox's guide will be the essential companion to "The Lost Symbol", giving vital background information and shedding new light on the many mysteries at the heart of Dan Brown's new story.

Born in a So Paulo shantytown, Ludo undergoes a remarkable transformation. Directed by forces beyond his control, he first leaves, then returns to the vast city of his birth but on the opposite side of its social divide. Now twenty-seven, he works for a vacuous ''communications company, marketing unwanted, unaffordable products aimed at the very underclass into which he was born. He has developed an obsessive, adulterous love for his adoptive sister, whose husband is his only friend. And he has an appetite that can never be satisfied. Welcome to the world of Heliopolis. By turns comic, violent and poignant, it is a rags-to-riches tale like no other the story of a man whose destiny moves him around like a chess piece, and risks taking him to the brink of madness and brutality.

Els abusos, els càstigs o la mort són companys habituals dels reclusos com en Daniel, un lutier jueu de Cracòvia que sobreviu a aquest infern treballant de fuster. El comandant del camp, Sauckel, afe

La bogeria, de Narcís Oller, anotada i comentada per als estudiants de Batxillerat.Lectura prescriptiva per a la matèria comuna de Llengua catalana i literatura del Batxillerat per a les promocions 2

South African Kohler's well-written seventh novel takes the lives of the Brontës: Charlotte, Emily, Anne, Branwell and their father, and substitutes imagination for facts. The book opens in 1846 with Charlotte's father recovering from eye surgery in Manchester, England. The narrative follows the internal ragings and musings of Rev. Brontë, the Brontë sisters, the nurse briefly hired to help Charlotte and her father, their own nurse of many years and even the mother of George Smith, the eventual publisher of Jane Eyre. Charlotte's desire for a heroine with more courage than she herself has spills onto the page during the long, lonely hours of her father's convalescence, as she remembers her doomed love for her teacher in Brussels and other hurts and affronts throughout her life. Kohler (Crossways) gives us a more multidimensional, passionate and temperamental Charlotte than most biographies. Too much narration and switching of points of view slows the pace, but connecting the writer with her heroine is intriguing. This novel will likely send fans back to the originals and should inspire those who know "of" the novels to finally read them. (Jan.)

The second novel from the author of The Kissing Gates.

`The divine Spark is shining at her brightest ... Pure delight´ Claire Tomalin, Independent

Now, in Griffin's latest #1 New York Times bestseller, the Russian bear is stirring after many years of hibernation--and it is hungry.

Just as Troy Loensch comes into his own as a pilot with the United States Air Force, a private military contractor called Firehawk takes over. Troy isn't happy with the arrangement--and neither is the CIA. And when they ask Troy for help investigating Firehawk, he accepts--with explosive consequences...

Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word "medical" to the thriller genre. Thirty-one years after the publication of his breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created, including his most recent bestseller, Foreign Body, which explores a growing trend of medical tourism--first-world citizens traveling to third-world countries for 21st-century surgery. Daemon is an ambitious novel, which sets out not only to entertain, which it surely does, but also to challenge the reader to consider social issues as broad as the implications of living in a technologically advanced world and whether democracy can survive in such a world. The storyline portrays one possible world consequent to the development of the technological innovations that we currently live with and the reality that the author, Suarez, imagines will evolve, and it is chilling and tense (on www.thedaemon.com the reader can find evidence that the seemingly incredible advances Suarez proposes could in fact become real). Daemon is filled with multiple scenes involving power displays by the Daemon''s allies resulting in complete loss of control by its enemies, violence with new and innovative weaponry, explosions, car crashes, blood, guts, and limbs-cut-off galore. As far as computer complexity, Daemon will satisfy any computer geek''s thirst. I was thankful for Pete Sebeck, the detective in the book whose average-person understanding of computers necessitates an occasional explanation about what is going on. I came away from the novel with a new understanding, respect, and fear of computer capability. In the end, Suarez invites the reader to enter the "second age of reason," to think about where recent and imminent advances in computer technology are taking us and whether we want to go there. For me, it is this "thinking" aspect of the novel which makes it a particularly fun, satisfying, and significant read.

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Dexter has finally been caught and brought to justice - for three murders he didn't commit. Proving his innocence is made quite difficult by the fact that the true killer, Robert Chase, is one of the 'victims' he's accused of murdering. To make matters worse, Dexter's once loyal sister Deborah disowns him and adamantly refuses to help with his investigation. Furious but undeterred, Dexter connects Chase to a resort with a dark underbelly. When the resort becomes aware of his discoveries, children of the police force begin disappearing. Deborah is made lead investigating officer and still refuses to return to Dexter. However, when the kidnappers take both Dexter's and her own children, she has no option but to beg for his help. Dexter triumphantly agrees, and the hunt begins...After seven national bestsellers and eight seasons as one of the most successful shows on television, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lindsay bids a thrilling farewell to his uniquely twisted and beloved serial killer, Dexter Morgan. Dexter Is Dead is the definitive conclusion of the character who has become a global icon.

Life's great when you're 29 years old with a gorgeous girlfriend and fulfilling job. Until you have to move back in with your mum ...Dan and Gemma have found their dream first home, but the asking price is the stuff of nightmares. The only way they'll ever save enough for the deposit is by moving in, rent-free, with Dan's mum. It's a desperate solution, but it's only for six months. And Gemma's determined to make it work, no matter how bad things get. But between Dan's mum's kitchen karaoke, her constant innuendos, irrepressible argumentative streak and - worst of all - her ham and pineapple curries, life back at home would test the patience of two saints. Which Dan and Gemma most definitely are not. Then, as they're trying to convince themselves it will all be worth it, Gemma's past comes back to haunt her. And suddenly the foundations of their entire relationship are shaken to their core...

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'The Way Inn' takes the polished surfaces of modern life, the branded coffee and the free wifi, and twists them into a nightmare. The Way Inn is a global chain of identikit mid-budget hotels, and Neil Double is a valued member of its loyalty scheme. Neil is a professional conference-goer, a man who will attend trade fairs, expos and conventions so you don't have to. This life of anonymised, budget travel would be hell for most, but it's a kind of paradise for Neil, who has turned his incognito professional life into a toxic personal philosophy. But Neil is about to change. In a brand new Way Inn in an airport hinterland, he meets a woman - a woman he has seen before in bizarre and unsettling circumstances. She hints at being in possession of an astonishing truth about this mundane world. And then she disappears. Fascinated, and with his professional life unravelling, Neil tries to find the woman again. In doing so he is drawn into the appalling secret that lurks behind the fake smiles and muzak of the hotel...

Uma saga que irresistivelmente arrasta o leitor ao longo de cinco mundos, vividos e pensados através da obsessiva busca da felicidade que move os seus protagonistas. Concebida polifonicamente como a

Eimear McBride's debut tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. Not so much a stream of consciousness, as an unconscious railing against a life that makes little sense, and a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts, feelings and chaotic sexuality of a vulnerable and isolated protagonist, to read A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing is to plunge inside its narrator's head, experiencing her world first-hand. This isn't always comfortable - but it is always a revelation. Touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma, McBride writes with singular intensity, acute sensitivity and mordant wit. A Girl is a Half-formed Thing is moving, funny - and alarming.

Mai 1940, Berlin fete la campagne de France. La ferveur nazie est au plus haut. Derriere la façade triomphale du Reich se cache un monde de misere et de terreur. Seul dans Berlin raconte le quotidien dun immeuble modeste de la rue Jablonski. Persecuteurs et persecutes y cohabitent. Cest Frau Rosenthal, Juive, denoncee et pillee par ses voisins. Cest Baldur Persicke, jeune recrue des SS qui terrorise sa famille. Ce sont les Quangel, desesperes davoir perdu leur fils au front, qui inondent la ville de tracts contre Hitler et dejouent la Gestapo avant de connaitre une terrifiante descente aux enfers.Aucun roman na jamais decrit d''aussi pres les conditions reelles de survie des citoyens allemands, juifs ou non, sous le IIIe Reich, avec un tel realisme et une telle sincerite.

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Rosa Vilanova sap escriure bons poemes i domina el difícil art de col·locar-los en nuclis temàtics que, al seu torn, s’entrellacen per formar una unitat superior que és molt més que la mera suma de t

Si tout était à recommencer, je recommencerais bien sûr, en évitant quelques broutilles : les accidents de voiture, les séjours à l''hôpital, les chagrins d''amour. Mais je ne renie rien. F. S. Sous

Nessuno è piú letale di chi vuole fare del bene a tutti i costi. Dopo Cento giorni di felicità Fausto Brizzi torna con una commedia capace di commuoverci e di farci sorridere. E con un protagonista

Can two friends find hope in hard times? Ruby and Grace have grown up in the poorest slums of Hull. Friends since early childhood, they have supported each other in bad times and good. But their families are bound together by more than friendship, and secrets from the past threaten to make their lives even more difficult. The local cotton mill has provided work for Ruby and Grace since they were nine years old, and now years later both girls find themselves the object of attention from the mill owner's sons. As times grow harder, and money ever scarcer, Grace becomes involved in campaigns against poverty and injustice, while Ruby is tempted into prostitution. The two girls are searching for something that could take them far away ...But what price will they pay to find it? If you like books by Katie Flynn and Dilly Court, you'll love Val's heartwarming stories of triumph over adversity.

En les seves novel·les, Juli Vallmitjana ens presenta un retrat escruixidor i avui imprescindible dels ambients més pobres de la Barcelona de 1905. Més enlla del verisme i de la versemblança, té la valentia d'oferir ni més ni menys que la veritat: del terreny que trepitja (els barris de sota Montjuïc), de les persones que s'hi busquen la vida (lladres, putes, mangants…) i de la llengua que parlen. Avui com aleshores ens enlluerna l'anima la llengua d'aquests personatges, rica, barrejada, tan especial i divertida, tan eficaç. La prosa de Vallmitjana, narrativament molt bona quan descriu un descampat o una cara o relata un robatori, es torna perfectament llisquent i viva quan els personatges parlen, i en tots dos casos convenç per una simple i difícil cosa: la veritat.

Although he is best-known to the public as the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories and other pioneering works of detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle successfully contributed to other genres, such as historical fiction, as demonstrated by this collection which he compiled in 1922. These vivid and enthralling stories - many of them dealing with ancient Romans, with others featuring Tyrians, Carthaginians, Huns or Scottish clansmen - showcase the author's knack for bringing to life diverse times and places and crafting timeless narratives. Tales of Long Ago is an entertaining and invaluable read for all those interested in this lesser-known facet of Conan Doyle's writing.

Deadly professional assassin Martin Terrier returns to Paris after his latest job determined to get out of the game. Ten years ago he made a promise to return to his childhood sweetheart in the south of France. But circumstances put Martin's attempted retirement on hold: a key target is flying in to Paris, and there is only one man fit for the task of eliminating him. As Martin flees southwards, desperate to return to the crushing mediocrity of life in a backwater town, he finds his former employers will stop at nothing to regain his services for one last job. Bursting with Gallic irony and visceral brutality, The Gunman (originally published in English as The Prone Gunman) is a shocking and sardonic masterpiece from the late, great master of the French crime novel, J-P Manchette.

Bestselling author Richard A. Clarke draws on his experience as National Coordinator for Security and Counter-Terrorism" to craft a true-to-life thriller about the men and women who protect America against all enemies. . .at every imaginable cost. " ? "What Tom Clancy did for submarines, Richard A. Clarke does for drones."--David Morrell ? In Washington, D.C., the Kill Committee gathers in the White House's Situation Room to pick the next targets for the United States drone program. At an airbase just outside Las Vegas, a team of pilots, military personnel, and intelligence officers follow through on the committee's orders, finding the men who have been deemed a threat to national security and sentenced to death. ? ""Sting of the Drone" is a jet-fueled race through a world where the sky itself can be your worst enemy."--"Seattle Post-Intelligencer" " "? Meanwhile, on the other side of the world--in the mountains where the drones hunt their prey--someone has decided to fight back. And not just against the unmanned planes that circle their skies, but against the Americans at home who control them. . . ? "Insider knowledge of politics paired with amazing state-of-the-art technical details fuel this realistic nonstop action thriller.""--Publishers Weekly" (starred review)

THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE NEVER FREE. Cain Moran wanted Jenny Riley more than he had ever wanted anyone or anything before in his life. But loving Jenny Riley was the easy part; it was telling his wife he wanted a divorce that was going to be the killer...Jenny is not just any girl. She cares nothing for Cain's hard-man reputation - she just wants to be with him. But Cain is not a free man. And he's about to find out that when his wife Caroline said 'til death us do part, she meant it. When Cain is sentenced to life in prison it seems that Caroline might have got her wish. All Cain and Jenny know is that if their love can survive such separation, then one day they will have a chance at the Good Life together again. But there are greater trials ahead than either can foresee. They're about to learn the hardest lesson of all: LIVE THE GOOD LIFE. PAY THE PRICE.

Ruth and Peter have been married more than fifty years. He is the headmaster of the Derry School, a boys' boarding school in Maine; she has spent the four decades of her husband's tenure helping out wherever she is needed. But Peter's retirement is approaching, and Ruth wonders what will become of them when it finally arrives. How will they survive separated from the school into which they have poured everything, including their savings? As the story takes us back through the years, revealing the explosive spark and joy that brought Ruth and Peter together in their youth, "The Last First Day" becomes a deeply felt portrait of a woman from a generation that quietly put individual dreams aside for the good of the partnership, and of the ongoing gift of loving and being loved in return.