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Automne ensoleillé à Venise. Brunetti ferait bien l’école buissonnière. Mais pas de répit pour le commissaire, une vieille dame est retrouvée morte à son domicile. Verdict du légiste : crise cardiaqu

Ismael, o coxiño, o fillo da Rosaura da casa dos Boullosas, pasou aos catorce anos da escola de Andrade á de Santomé, onde aprendeu o manexo da tesoira e da agulla, habilidades propias do oficio de xastre. O enterro do seu avo, a quen lle preparou o primeiro traxe, foi o escaparate que lle permitiu comezar a contar con clientes na sua parroquia e despois tamen nas aldeas limitrofes. A cousa non empezaba mal. Poren, a division da herdanza familiar, obrigouno a coller outro camiño. O 5 de agosto de 1955, saiu do porto de Vigo a bordo do transatlantico Santa Maria rumbo ao porto da Guaira de Caracas. Iniciaba asi Ismael o seu percorrido emigrante que o levaria despois a Brasil e Arxentina e, mais tarde, de regreso a outra beira do Atlantico, a aquela primeira Suiza dos galegos.Nunha prosa gozosa e vibrante, labrada cunha lingua de inequivoca estirpe popular, e cunha presenza constante dun humor sutilmente retranqueiro, Bautista Alvarez reconstrue nesta sua novela alboral os vieiros da emigracion galega da segunda metade do seculo XX, unha epopea colectiva merecente de ser rescatada do esquecemento.Ismael, o coxiño, o fillo da Rosaura da casa dos Boullosas, pasou aos catorce anos da escola de Andrade á de Santomé, onde aprendeu o manexo da tesoira e da agulla, habilidades propias do oficio de xastre. O enterro do seu avo, a quen lle preparou o primeiro traxe, foi o escaparate que lle permitiu comezar a contar con clientes na sua parroquia e despois tamen nas aldeas limitrofes. A cousa non empezaba mal. Poren, a division da herdanza familiar, obrigouno a coller outro camiño. O 5 de agosto de 1955, saiu do porto de Vigo a bordo do transatlantico Santa Maria rumbo ao porto da Guaira de Caracas. Iniciaba asi Ismael o seu percorrido emigrante que o levaria despois a Brasil e Arxentina e, mais tarde, de regreso a outra beira do Atlantico, a aquela primeira Suiza dos galegos.Nunha prosa gozosa e vibrante, labrada cunha lingua de inequivoca estirpe popular, e cunha presenza constante dun humor sutilmente retranqueiro, Bautista Alvarez reconstrue nesta sua novela alboral os vieiros da emigracion galega da segunda metade do seculo XX, unha epopea colectiva merecente de ser rescatada do esquecemento.

One man will transcend death to seek vengeance. One woman will transform herself to gain power. And no one will emerge unscathed...Thorvald Spear wakes in hospital, where he finds he''s been brought back from the dead. What''s more, he died in a human vs. alien war which ended a whole century ago. But when he relives his traumatic final moments, he finds the spark to keep on living. That spark is vengeance. Trapped and desperate on a world surrounded by alien Prador forces, Spear had seen a rescue ship arriving. But instead of providing backup, Penny Royal, the AI within the destroyer turned rogue. It annihilated friendly forces in a frenzy of destruction, and, years later, it''s still free.Spear vows to track it across worlds and do whatever it takes to bring it down. Isobel Satomi ran a successful crime syndicate. But after competitors attacked, she needed more power. Yet she got more than she bargained for when she negotiated with Penny Royal. She paid it to turn her part-AI herself, but the upgrades hid a horrifying secret. The Dark AI had triggered a transformation in Isobel that would turn her into a monster, rapidly evolving into something far from human. Spear hires Isobel to take him to the Penny Royal AI''s last known whereabouts. But he cheats her in the process and he becomes a target for her vengeance. And as she is evolves further into a monstrous predator, rage soon wins over reason. Will Spear finish his hunt, before he becomes the hunted? This is the first volume in a no-holds-barred adventure set in Asher''s popular Polity universe.

Senarraz aspertuta, abentura zirraragarri batean katramilatu den emakumea; arrakastaren gazi-gozoetan, aspaldi galdutako aitaren oroitzapenari aurre egin behar dion zinemagilea; errebantxa-konbatearen aurrean, bizitzaren borrokan ere zirt-zart egin behar duen boxeolariaPertsonaien barrenean sartzeko abilezia aparta erakusten du Julen Belamunok estilo zehatz bezain dotore batean idatzitako istorio hauetan: izaki bakartiak gehienetan, bizitzak edo inguruak gaizki tratatuak sarri, bere burua gobernatzen ere asmatzen ez dutenak Gizajoen katalogo bat, sakon-sakonean gutako edozein ere izan daitekeen bezalakoak.

La noticia de la desaparició de la Jamila, alumna de l'IES Plaça dels Bous de Mataró, encapçala tots els titulars i totes les converses. El fet no és nou. Cent anys enrere, la desaparició de la Marieta Vidal, tambe, va omplir les pagines dels diaris. En Pau Costa, guionista i locutor del programa radiofonic A les fosques, ho fa sortir a la llum, molts ulls es giren vers ell. L'inspector Joan Canton, ho escodrinya tot i tothom. La Dolors, que des que el marit la va deixar se sent sola i perduda, escriu el que no diu en un diari personal i la seva filla Blanca, una noia que odia la sang que corre per les seves venes, ho fa a Malson abans de Nadal, el seu blog. Mare i filla experimenten una forta atraccio per en Mihail, un marxant d'art d'origen moldau... En Pau, la Dolors i la Blanca son la punta visible de l'iceberg de les mes ocultes pulsions humanes. Acompanyant-los, un ventall de personatges que es debaten entre la vida i la mort, el be i el mal, la llum i les tenebres, les passions irresistibles...

A transformação social. A contestação. Personagens em diálogos. As cruentas desigualdades sociais. Surgem as perguntas proibidas. Vai-se adquirindo consciência e espaço, para que tudo se levante do c

Editoriais do Diário de Notícias e crónicas publicadas no Diário de Lisboa, onde Saramago sublinha: «No meio de tantas palavras, não encontro senão duas que gostosamente apagaria se não fosse o escrú

«Este mundo não presta, venha outro. / Já por tempo de mais aqui andamos / A fingir de razões suficientes. / Sejamos cães do cão: sabemos tudo / De morder os mais fracos se mandamos, / E de lamber as

Summer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army. Summer, 1915. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost an eye at Ypres. They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is about to be forged between their lives - one that will reveal itself fifteen years later when anti-colonial resistance, an ancient artefact and a mysterious woman will bring them together again.

Severely wounded in the Iraq war, Leroy has lived a half-life in a group home for eight years. Unable to bear it any longer, he commits a desperate act which helps him to disappear to another place. Freddie is the night porter at the home, who works two jobs yet can't make ends meet. Buried in debt from his younger daughter's medical bills, he's forced to consider a criminal proposition. Pauline is the nurse who tends Leroy, who lives her life in an uncomplicated way, emotionally removed, until she meets a young runaway. An extraordinary portrait of contemporary America, and a testament to the resilience of the human heart, The Free is Willy Vlautin's most moving and affecting novel to date.

This book was nominated for the 2014 Costa First Novel Award. Outrageously funny and completely original, Chop Chop by Simon Wroe is the story of a hapless young chef in the crazed world of the professional kitchen, featuring lust, revenge, neurosis and haute cuisine. "A greasy, hilarious tale of loyalty, revenge and dark appetites. A gripping look behind the kitchen wall." (Shortlist). Two months behind on his rent, young graduate Monocle swallows his dreams and takes the only job he can find: the lowest-rung chef in a gastropub in Camden. Here he finds himself surrounded by a group of deranged hoodlums (his co-workers) and at the mercy of an ingenious sadist (the head chef, Bob). What follows is a furiously-paced, ribald, raucous and unexpectedly touching tale of loyalty and revenge, dark appetites and fading dreams, and a young man finding his way in the world as he is plunged into the fat and the frying pan and everything else besides. "Perfectly baked [with] a rich, gooey pool of dark comedy hiding beneath the surface." (Independent). "Lively, amusing and alarmingly informative." (Daily Mail). "Arch comedy ...Dave Eggers channels Anthony Bourdain." (Kirkus). "Twisted, surprising and above all genuinely funny." (William Sutcliffe). "Raucous and inventive, peopled with technicolour characters and savagely funny." (A D Miller). "A complete page-turner. Reminiscent of Kitchen Confidential but with an entirely fresh voice." (Thomasina Miers). "A brutally funny look at the world of professional cooking." (Gary Shteyngart). "Furiously funny, fast, surreal." (Anya von Bremzen). Simon Wroe is a former chef who writes about food and culture for Prospect and the Economist, and has contributed to a wide range of publications including The Times, Guardian, Telegraph and Evening Standard. In 2014 Chop Chop was nominated for the Costa First Novel Award. Simon Wroe is 30 and lives in London.

There is no detective like DI Rebus - brilliant, irascible and endlessly frustrating both to his friends and his long-suffering bosses. For over two decades he has walked through the dark places of Edinburgh ...Now Rebus's life is revealed through this complete collection of stories, from his early days as a young DC in 'Dead and Buried' right up to the dramatic, but not quite final, retirement in 'The Very Last Drop'. This is the ultimate Ian Rankin treasure trove - a must for aficionados as well as a superb introduction to anyone looking to experience DI John Rebus, and the dark and twist-filled crimes he has to investigate, for the very first time.

Blockbuster bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon returns to the epic saga of the Dark-Hunters--and introduces a hero who is utterly out of this world.　His name is Cadegan. Centuries ago, he was viciously betrayed by the only person he'd ever trusted and was cast into an immortal prison. Forced against his will to do good, he hates everything in life. All he wants is a way out. But then he meets a woman who shakes him to the core..."　SON OF NO ONE "Josette has been down on her luck, but she has made an unstable peace with the beast by taking a job photographing a local paranormal group. The only paranormal thing Josette believes in is the miracle that keeps her rusted-out hoopty running...until she meets Cadegan. Is he for real? Cadegan can't help but wonder the same about her: The last time he felt this way about a woman, it cost him everything. He knows he has to stay away from Josette--for his own good, as well as hers--but the unleashed demon is hell-bent on consuming her soul. If one more innocent is taken, Cadegan's fate will make his current hell look like paradise. But how can he keep Josette safe when just being with her is the greatest threat of all?　"Arguably the most in-demand and prolific author in America these days."--"Publishers Weekly"

Has Jefferson Winter finally met his match? Six years ago a young married couple were found brutally stabbed to death in their home in Upstate New York. Local police arrested a suspect who later committed suicide. But what if the police got it wrong? Ex-FBI profiler Jefferson Winter is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious female psychopath as she sets him a challenge: find out what really happened six years ago. The clock is ticking and, as Winter is about to find out, the endgame is everything...

"Mai plays adroitly with literary genre and crafts a story of Borgesian subtlety and complexity."--"The New Yorker " Rong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth, is forced to abandon his academic pursuits when he is recruited into Unit 701: a top-secret Chinese intelligence agency whose sole purpose is counterespionage and code-breaking. As China's greatest cryptographer, Rong discovers that the mastermind behind the maddeningly difficult Purple Code is his former teacher and best friend, who is now working for China's enemy--but this is only the first of many betrayals. The first novel to be published in English by one of China's greatest contemporary writers, "Decoded" is a riveting tale of obsession and a profound exploration of the mind of an inspired genius, one that discovers in cryptography the key to the human heart.

Beautifully written and utterly absorbing from the first word, this a haunting coming-of-age novel that's good enough to eat...Abandoned by her mother with only some cash, her birth certificate and the rucksack on her back, a young woman named Maren sets off on a long journey of self-discovery. She doesn't blame her mother for leaving; she's only too aware of the trail of pain and tragedy that lies in her wake, following her like a ghost. Innumerable schools and relocations later, Maren is determined to find the key to who she is, and why she does the things she does. For Maren has urges that she can't control. Cannabalistic urges. And now she's desperate to take control. Camille DeAngelis worked as an Editorial Assistant in Non-Fiction and as a travel writer before turning her hand to writing fiction. She lives in New Jersey.

Mr Marseille is polite, elegant, and erudite. He would do anything for his genteel true love Anabelle. And he is a psychopath. A quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train depot with her young daughter. And there she finds a murdered girl posed on a newly painted bench. Strangled. Beside her is a formal invite to a tea dance in a week's time. Seven days later, two more young victims are discovered in a disused house, posed on painted swings. At the scene is an identical invite. This time, though, there is something extra waiting for Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano. A delicate porcelain doll. It's a message. And a threat. With Marseille and Anabelle stalking the city, Detectives Byrne and Balzano have just seven days to find the link between the murders before another innocent child is snatched from its streets.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER "The New York Times - Los Angeles Times - The Boston Globe " Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of "Bloomington" reads, "Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before." Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in "A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates," a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The storiesmay appear in the form of letters of complaint; they may be extractedfrom Flaubert's correspondence; or they may be inspired by the author's own dreams, or the dreams of friends. What does not vary throughout "Can't and Won't," Lydia Davis's fifth collection of stories, is the power of her finely honed prose. Davis is sharply observant; she is wry or witty or poignant. Above all, she is refreshing. Davis writes with bracing candor and slyhumor about the quotidian, revealing the mysterious, the foreign, the alienating, and the pleasurable within the predictable patternsof daily life.

California, 1993: Neil Collins and Adam Tayler, two young British men on the cusp of adulthood, meet at a hostel in San Diego. They strike up a friendship that, while platonic, feels as intoxicating as a romance; they travel up the coast together, harmlessly competitive, innocently collusive, wrapped up in each other. On a camping trip to Yosemite they lead each other to behave in ways that, years later, they will desperately regret. The story of a friendship built on a shared guilt and a secret betrayal, The Faithful Couple follows Neil and Adam across two decades, through girlfriends and wives, success and failure, children and bereavements, as power and remorse ebb between them. Their bifurcating fates offer an oblique portrait of London in the boom-to-bust era of the nineties and noughties, with its instant fortunes and thwarted idealism. California binds them together, until-when the full truth of what happened emerges, bringing recriminations and revenge-it threatens to drive them apart. The Faithful Couple confirms Miller as one of the most exciting and sophisticated novelists in the UK - someone who can tell a great story, with a sense of serious moral complexity. This is that rare bird: a literary novel with mass appeal as well as the potential to win prizes.

This is an extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. 'You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay...' The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.

A roller-coaster adventure from the author of AVALANCHE.

Writer Rob Fallon gets drunk one night and ends up joining his best-friend's girlfriend, Jenny, in her apartment in London. Two men break into the apartment, abduct Jenny, and try to kill Rob. When Rob reports the abduction to the police no one believes him. Jenny's father claims she's on holiday abroad. What is it they're so desperate to hide?

Life isn't looking too rosy for Alice Devine. She's a single mum, and needs a well-paid job fast, because as much as she loves her sister, Hilda, she hadn't planned on living with her. Added to that, her love life has been a disaster and she's beginning to wonder if she'll ever find the man of her dreams. Things suddenly start to look up when she lands the job as assistant fund raiser for St Jude's Maternity Hospital - particularly when she meets her new boss, the gorgeous but enigmatic Jack Wiseheart. What she hadn't bargained for was also acting as general dogsbody to the terrifying and wealthy Maud Hamilton-O'Connor, Chair of the Fundraising Committee and her side-kick, Koo. Nothing is ever as it seems, however, and it's not only the women who have their secrets. When the cracks start to appear, they all realize in their different ways that they have to face the truth before they can get on with their lives.

Mary Ann WinkowskiMeet Mary Ann Winkowski. She is just like you. She is a married mother of two grown daughters. She lives in a suburban town in Ohio. She goes to church every Sunday. And she sees and talks to ghosts. Mary Ann's grandmother noticed her unusual ability when she was practically a baby. By the time Mary Ann was four years old, she was attending neighborhood funerals to broker communication between those who had died and their living loved ones. Word of her extraordinary abilities spread, and Mary Ann was soon accompanying her grandmother on "social calls," visits where Mary Ann would confront earthbound spirits who were sharing homes with the living. This ability stayed with Mary Ann through her adolescence into adulthood, and the stay-at-home mom eventually had a side business: paranormal consultant. In this remarkable book, Mary Ann tells her incredible story. She talks about the difference between earthbound spirits and those who have crossed over; she tells you why spirits remain on the earthly plane and how long they have before their "White Light' disappears; she shares her most intriguing and infamous tales about the spirits she has encountered. And she divulges how to determine whether your house or your family is haunted--and what to do if there is a ghost around you. Full of no-nonsense advice, amazing anecdotes, and practical tips for navigating a paranormal phenomenon that is at once unbelievable and awe-inspiring, WHEN GHOSTS SPEAK is a must-read for any person who has ever heard something go bump in the night.

The story of a frustrated romance between a young, married ex-convent girl and a visiting stranger in a small Irish town over one long summer.

In Naguib Mahfouz's suspenseful novel a bitter and ambitious nihilist, a beautiful and impoverished student, and a corrupt official engage in a doomed ménage à trois.

Originally intended to be the final volume in the bestselling Wheel of Time series, this is in fact the twelfth volume of The Wheel of Time Saga, which will go on to have two more books published in

After years fighting in the desert sun - and secretly working for peace with the Brethren - Will Campbell returns to find his Scottish homeland under attack by his enemy, King Edward I. Betrayed by those he has served since boyhood, torn apart watching his daughter plunge into a dangerous affair, Will must now forge his own path to peace - even if it leads through another battlefield. But a new threat is rising in France, where a warrior king will stop at nothing to achieve his twisted ambitions. The fight for the Holy Land is over. But the Temple's last battle has just begun.

From Michael Connelly and Faye Kellerman to Ian Rankin and Anne Perry, some of the most venerated and bestselling authors in the mystery world reveal how they create their most beloved characters.

The third novel in the charming, irresistible Trash n'' Treasures mystery series again features Brandy Borne and her maddening mother, Vivian, as they unearth clues from the past to solve a recent murder mystery.At the start of Allan''s lively third antiques mystery (after 2007''s Antiques Maul), divorcee Brandy Borne and her eternally glamorous if somewhat annoying mother, Vivian, are busy preparing for the Christmas rush in the small Midwestern town of Serenity. Then Walter Yeager, a fellow antiques dealer, dies of cyanide poisoning soon after it becomes public knowledge that the WWII veteran owned a valuable first edition of Tarzan of the Apes, which disappears from the crime scene. Walter''s 20-year-old British goth granddaughter, Chaz, becomes the top suspect due to her prison record, but Brandy and Vivian believe she''s innocent. Told primarily from Brandy''s viewpoint with Vivian sneaking in quips for extra pizzazz, this bubbly tongue-in-cheek cozy also includes flea market shopping tips and a recipe. Allan is the pseudonym of the husband-wife writing team of Barbara and Max Allan Collins. (Sept.)

While Olwyn Gawain lives as a virtual prisoner in her home, her scientist father conducts chilling experiments on stolen corpses in the dungeon of their keep. One night, Olwyn is shocked to discover that her father''s latest subject - a breathtakingly handsome young man - is still clinging to life. Refusing to let him die, Olwyn stops her father at gunpoint and flees, determined to bring the innocent man to safety...The son of aristocrats, Aidan Mullin doesn''t know what to make of the unusual, intriguing Olwyn. But as the pair make their way toward Aidan''s home, he finds himself drawn to the alluring young woman who saved him from certain death. Fiery and sensual, Olwyn''s very touch fuels a desire in Aidan too fierce to deny. But when Olwyn learns he is hiding a heartbreaking secret, Aidan must face a difficult choice - or risk losing forever the love he so desperately needs...

No one is surprised when feisty Delilah Dickinson opens her own literary travel agency in Atlanta after her divorce. But during her first group''s tour of an old plantation modelled after Tara from Gone with the Wind - complete with a full cast of actors - things go south really fast. The actor playing Clark Gable playing Rhett Butler is found dead, apparently the victim of a fatal dose of Southern in-hospitality. Before anyone can even think ''Where shall I go? What shall I do?'' Delilah finds herself taking over the investigation when the number one suspect turns out to be her son-in-law. But life starts imitating art when the actors begin taking their roles a little too seriously - believing they actually are Ashley Wilkes, Scarlett O''Hara, and Melanie. Next stop: Sunset Boulevard.

Sanjay GuptaA 12-week old unborn baby with a fatal heart defect...a skier drowned for an hour in a frozen Norwegian lake...a comatose brain surgery patient...a teenager with four rapidly expanding tumors. Twenty years ago all of them would have been given up for dead-with no realistic hope for their survival. But today, thanks to incredible new advances by pioneering physicians and medical researchers, each of these individuals is alive and well, having literally cheated death. Dr. Sanjay Gupta-neurosurgeon, Chief Medical Correspondent for CNN, and bestselling author-in Cheating Death, chronicles the almost unbelievable science that has made these seemingly miraculous recoveries possible, recoveries achieved by a bold new breed of doctors who refuse to accept that any life is irretrievably lost. Drawing on extensive case files and his unprecedented access to breaking news in his field, Dr. Gupta clearly and dramatically explains how revolutionary technological advances are extending our understanding of the human body's survival mechanism-and literally shifting the line between life and death. Through these deeply personal and often moving stories of medical triumphs over almost unthinkable barriers, Dr. Gupta transforms all our assumptions about the limits at the beginning and end of human life.

Une garde à vue de l´auteur le mène à se poser des questions sur son identité, sa famille, son enfance. Roman autobiographique.

If his inventions go wrong, Wendel just throws them away and starts again. So when Clunk, his robot assistant, fills the sock drawer with cups and saucers and makes tea in a Wellington boot, Wendel throws him on the scrapheap and makes himself a new assistant: the Wendelbot. But he gets more than he bargained for, and soon Wendel finds himself on the scrapheap. Can he win back his workshop from the mighty Wendelbot? Let the robot battle commence! This is a very funny adventure full of crazy inventions and magnificent robots - with a subtle environmental message.

An ancient race of lycanthropes survives in modern L.A. and its numbers are growing as packs convert the city's downtrodden into their fold. Stuck in the middle are a local dogcatcher and the woman he loves, whose secret past haunts her as she fights a bloody one-woman battle to save their relationship. Meanwhile, dog packs fight and scheme all around the them, hiding out in old warehouses, city kennel cages, or the plush comfort of suburban homes. Paying no heed to the moon, these packs change from human to wolf at will, squaring off against one another as they seek dominance at any cost. Sharp Teeth is a novel-in-verse that blends epic themes with dark humour, dogs playing cards, crystal meth labs, and acts of heartache and betrayal in Southern California.