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After finally achieving what eluded even his grandfather Ghengis Khan - the conquest of China - and inheriting the world's largest navy, Khubilai Khan turned his sights to Japan, which he attacked with an immense armada in 1274. Vastly outnumbered and facing total massacre, the Japanese prayed to their gods for survival, and the very next day Khan's entire armada was destroyed by a 'divine wind' (kamikaze). When Khan tried again seven years later, with a fleet double the size of the first, the very same thing happened. The legend of the kamikaze - revived as a Japanese national legend as they modernised and militarised, culminating in the suicide bombers of WWII - has endured for centuries.Now, after decades of painstaking research and underwater excavation, marine archaeologist James Delgado has discovered what really happened. Based on original sources as diverse as actual sunken ships, archeological excavations on land, temple inscriptions, hand-painted scrolls, woodblock prints, and historical and literary records from China, Japan and Vietnam, "Khubilai Khan's Lost Fleet" is a captivating journey back through the mists of time. It tells the fascinating tale of the great Mongol's maritime forays, offers a compelling study of where myth, legend and history blend and blur, and solves one of history's greatest mysteries: what sank the Khan's immense fleet?

In Whatever She Wants, Andrew Rosetta lifts the lid on the mysterious, sexy and little-known world of the male escort. As one of the most sought-after escorts in London, Andrew's clients are many and varied: from a gangster's wife in search of a little fun to a world-famous pop star requiring the utmost discretion, all of them are looking for different things. His personal life, meanwhile, is just as turbulent - from a girlfriend who discovers his secret to a client who turns against him and threatens to reveal all. Smart, erotic and eye-opening, "Whatever She Wants" reveals exactly what type of woman is willing to part with her money in search of sex, and what type of man is willing to provide it.

Captain Alatriste becomes involved in a mission to save the King of Spain's gold...

The Invention of Everything Else is a tremendously powerful and moving exploration of human loneliness and isolation, and the opposing powers of emotional and scientific imagination. Louisa is an imaginative and curious chambermaid who, while cleaning rooms at the New Yorker Hotel, stumbles across a man living permanently in room 3327, which he has transformed into a scientific laboratory. Brought together by a shared interest in the pigeons that nest in the hotel, Louisa discovers that the mysterious guest is Nikola Tesla, one of the most brilliant - and most neglected - inventors of the twentieth century. The Invention of Everything Else charts the relationship of the girl and the genius during the last week of Tesla's life, when sinister forces are closing in on him. However, as well as being an engaging literary mystery, this exceptional novel movingly tells the life story of this extraordinary man and also recounts the heartbreak and redemption of one ordinary family..

THE NO.1 LADIES'' DETECTIVE AGENCY introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe - the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana''s only detective agency. TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE, McCall Smith''s second book, takes us further into this world as we follow Mama Ramotswe into more daring situations ...Among her cases this time are wayward wives, unscrupulous maids, and the challenge to resolve a mother''s pain for her son who is long lost on the African plains. Indeed, Mma Ramotswe''s own impending marriage to the most gentlemanly of men, Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, the promotion of Mma''s secretary to the dizzy heights of Assistant Detective, and the arrival of new members to the Matekoni family, all brew up the most humorous and charmingly entertaining of tales. * TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE was selected as one of the GUARDIAN''s top ten ''Fiction Paperbacks of the Year, 2000

Abu Qasim, el despiadado y astuto líder de Al Qaeda que casi consiguió volar una reunión del G-8 en París, se ha fugado y está tramando su siguiente paso. Un pequeño grupo de hombres poderosos, dirigentes de alto nivel de la industria y la politica en Occidente, ha decidido acabar con el terrorista y su circulo antes de que pueda golpear de nuevo. Cuando un eminente disidente ruso es envenenado en Londres, sin embargo, esta claro que hay una fuga muy peligrosa dentro de las filas occidentales, y ahora es Abu Qasim el que persigue, y su objetivo es matar. El almirante Jake Grafton envia al agente especial Tommy Carmellini para infiltrarse en la trama. Se realiza un seguimiento de la preciosa y seductora Marisa Petrou, una francesa que puede ser la hija de Qasim y que tiene sus propias razones para desear atraparlo vivo o muerto. Qasim, mientras tanto, tiene un as en la manga, planificado durante años

On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens'' life changes. With her intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blended into the background and now at the age of eight she is taken from her family to begin a new life. She ends up part of Jacob''s household, along with his wife Rebekka, Lina their Native American servant and the strange and melancholy Sorrow who was rescued from a shipwreck. Together these women face the trials of their harsh environment as Jacob attempts to carve out a place for himself in the brutal landscape of the north of America in the seventeenth century.

Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts trifft in dem kleinen Dorf Colle in der südlichen Toskana ein neuer Lehrer ein. Der glühende Anarchist genießt bald im Dorf großes Ansehen. Ugo Riccarellis großartiger Roman bebildert Ungerechtigkeit und Freiheitsliebe, Schönheit und Grausamkeit, die Vergänglichkeit der Träume und die Dauerhaftigkeit der Hoffnung.

Octavio Vivaldi

Gleich viermal ist Spaniens berühmteste Ermittlerin Petra Delicado gefordert: ein Blutbad in einem fragwürdigen Massagesalon, der Tod eines schönen litauischen Einwanderers, das grausame Sterben eines Fitnesstrainers im Sportstudio und ein verunglückter Lateinlehrer stören die sommerliche Idylle in Barcelona. Das kongeniale Ermittler-Duo Delicado und Garzón nimmt die Fährte auf ...

1940ko abenduan, L''Atlantic izeneko itsasontzia iritsi da Port-Louisera. Barruan 1500 judu daude, Palestinan sartzen utzi ez, eta Maurizio uhartera deportatu dituztenak. Garai hartan, Rajek ez zekien gauza handirik munduaz, eta gertatzen ari zen tragediaz. Hamar urte zituen. Jakin-minak eraman zuen kartzela inguratzen zuen basora jolasera. Basoko bere ezkutalekutik ikusi du David, espetxeko patioan. Une hartan erabaki du bere laguna izango dela. Liburu unkitu egingo zaitu esaldi bakoitzarekin.

Dix ans après son arrivée à Paris, Jeanne de l’Estoille est devenue, par la grâce d’un roi, baronne de Beauvois. Mais la roue tourne et ses proches meurent les uns après les autres. C’est alors qu’el

L''auteur raconte qu''il n''a pas le sens de l''orientation ce qui provoque chez les autres l''incompréhension et la méfiance.

Virgil Flowers-tall, lean, late thirties, three times divorced, hair way too long for a cop's-had kicked around for a while before joining the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. First, it was the army and the military police, then the police in St. Paul, and finally Lucas Davenport had brought him into the BCA, promising him, "We'll only give you the hard stuff."

The acclaimed author of "Disturbed Earth" has created in Artie Cohen one of the mystery genres most interesting and complex characters: tough, unusually sensitive, deeply flawed, and unabashedly human. One of the best mysteries ever set in New York City, the last in an "archipelago trilogy" following 9/11, by the acclaimed author of" Disturbed Earth." With his wife Maxine out of town, Artie Cohen is alone in Manhattan when his nephew Billy Farone is released from the young offenders'' institution where he has been since he stabbed Heshey Shank to death. Artie is the one Billy wants to come home to--he''s family and he''s the only person Billy cares about; Artie wants desperately to believe that Billy is OK. As a plane crashes on Coney Island, bombs go off in London, and New York is shaken out of the sense that the bad times have passed, Artie begins to wonder. Over four days in Manhattan and on Staten Island there are signs that Shank''s family wants Billy locked up for good, and that Billy''s mother doesn''t want him coming home either. The bodies begin to appear and Artie, up against a brick wall of his own hope and despair, doesn''t know what or whom to believe. Reggie Nadelson has created in Artie Cohen one of mystery fiction''s most interesting and complex characters: tough, unusually sensitive, deeply flawed and human.

The devil comes to Cincinnati in this dark and gripping novel that is as scary as classic Peter Straub and as sexy as Nora Roberts.

Le détective anonyme du Mystère de la crypte ensorcelée reprend du service dans une Barcelone frappée par la crise. Le Beau Rómulo, son ancien compagnon de l''asile psychiatrique, a disparu. Sans un

In 1959, Liverpool Football Club were in the Second Division. Liverpool Football Club had never won the FA Cup. Fifteen seasons later, Liverpool Football Club had won three League titles, two FA Cups and the UEFA Cup. Liverpool Football Club had become the most consistently successful team in England. And the most passionately supported club. Their manager was revered as a god. Destined for immortality. Their manager was Bill Shankly. His job was his life. His life was football. His football a form of socialism. Bill Shankly inspired people. Bill Shankly transformed people. The players and the supporters. His legacy would reveberate through the ages. In 1974, Liverpool Football Club and Bill Shankly stood on the verge of even greater success. In England and in Europe. But in 1974, Bill Shankly shocked Liverpool and football. Bill Shankly resigned. Bill Shankly retired. Red or Dead is the story of the rise of Liverpool Football Club and Bill Shankly. And the story of the retirement of Bill Shankly. Of one man and his work. And of the man after that work. A man in two halves. Home and away. Red or dead.

Detective Carson Ryder faces a cunning and inventive adversary in this terrifying thriller from the bestselling author of Her Last Scream. Young men in Miami are being abducted and tortured after their drinks are spiked with a cocktail of drugs that leaves them unable to recall their ordeal. Despite this, Detective Carson Ryder knows the predator's name, height, age, colouring ...everything. It's impossible for the perpetrator to avoid detection. Yet he does. When Carson seeks answers from his brother, a wanted criminal intimate with twisted minds, Jeremy's odd behaviour sparks even more questions. With each abduction, the violence becomes more horrific, and it's only a short time until torture turns to murder. But how do you catch an invisible man?

One warm July night, when thoughts of Ireland are far from James Dwyer's mind, a homeless man with a sunburnt face, who smells like dry wood, comes to the screen door of his Michigan apartment. Walter has two messages. The first is that an old lady is lying in the middle of his street. But when James goes to look there's nobody to be seen. The second, while apparently more ordinary, is ultimately more troubling: a childhood friend wants him to visit. Kevin Lyons, the wayward older son of a neighbouring builder James knew long ago as a boy in Tipperary, now lives in the USA too, and wants to reconnect with his past. But James, who has spent years establishing the foundations of his American life, has put that past behind him. As the day of the visit approaches, James slowly re-examines the mysteries of that time: what happened to Aunt Tess, who went away to become a nurse in Dublin; what Kevin's father was really doing late at night by candlelight in his makeshift office in the yard; what became of Kevin's red-haired sister Una, who young Jimmy fell for in a big way and whether, after all these years, people like Kevin ever really change. The Visitors is a captivating story of the interwoven fates of two families, of the gap between childhood and the adult world, between a river in Ireland (and all that happened there) and another in America, and of the shocking revelations that come with crossing the divide.

"Non sono incline alle confessioni, all'Io debordante. Del resto, e naturale che quando si scrive di qualunque cosa l'Io dell'autore plasmi e nasconda. A volte anzi la grande, rumorosa ostentazione costituisce un nascondimento ulteriore, a cui evidentemente non voglio dar corso. Meglio esprimere piuttosto le varie istanze o possibilita del proprio Se, dando loro nomi, persone, passati e futuri, accadimenti. La poesia non e meno inventiva della narrativa." (Paolo Febbraro)

Susanna Clarke's novel is an epic tale of nineteenth-century England and the two magicians who emerge to change its history. In the year 1806, in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars, most people believe magic to have long since disappeared from England -- until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers and becomes a celebrity overnight. Another practising magician emerges: the young and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's pupil and the two join forces in the war against France. But Strange is increasingly drawn to the wildest, most perilous forms of magic and soon he risks sacrificing not only his partnership with Norrell, but everything else he holds dear.

Fred Otash était un flic véreux de Los Angeles devenu détective privé, maître chanteur et proxénète. Il était surtout connu pour avoir colporté des ragots sur le tout Hollywood pour le compte du maga

Eduardo tente de survivre dans un appartement sans âme, grâce à l'alcool et aux psychotropes que lui prescrit la psychiatre chargée de sa réinsertion. Il vient de purger une peine de prison pour le m

Es passiert, als Theo Decker dreizehn Jahre alt ist. An dem Tag, an dem er mit seiner Mutter ein New Yorker Museum besucht, verandert ein schreckliches Ungluck sein Leben fur immer. Er verliert sie unter tragischen Umstanden und bleibt allein und auf sich gestellt zuruck, sein Vater hat ihn schon lange im Stich gelassen. Theo versinkt in tiefer Trauer, die ihn lange nicht mehr loslasst. Auch das Gemalde, das seit dem fatalen Ereignis verbotenerweise in seinem Besitz ist und ihn an seine Mutter erinnert, kann ihm keinen Trost spenden. Ganz im Gegenteil: Mit jedem Jahr, das vergeht, kommt er immer weiter von seinem Weg ab und droht, in kriminelle Kreise abzurutschen. Und das Gemalde, das ihn auf merkwurdige Weise fasziniert, scheint ihn geradezu in eine Welt der Lugen und falschen Entscheidungen zu ziehen, in einen Sog, der ihn unaufhaltsam mit sich reit ...

Einmal angenommen, dein Mann hat sich aus dem Staub gemacht. Du schaffst es kaum, deine Familie uber Wasser zu halten. Deine hochbegabte Tochter bekommt eine einmalige Chance. Und du bist zu arm, um ihren Traum Wirklichkeit werden zu lassen. Plotzlich liegt da ein Bundel Geldscheine. Du weit, dass es falsch ist. Aber auf einen Schlag ware dein Leben so viel einfacher.Und einmal angenommen, du strandest mitten in der Nacht mit deinen Kindern am Straenrand - und genau der Mann, dem das Geld gehort, bietet an, euch mitzunehmen. Wurdest du einsteigen? Wurdest du ihm irgendwann wahrend eures verruckten Roadtrips gestehen, was du getan hast?Und kann das gutgehen, wenn du dich ausgerechnet in diesen Mann verliebst?

"I adore Kristen Ashley''s books!"---Maya Banks, New York Times bestselling authorShe''s ready for the ride of her life . . .Lauren Grahame is looking to reinvent herself. After leaving her cheating husband, Lauren moves to Carnal, Colorado, and gets a job as a waitress in a biker bar called Bubba''s. It''s a nothing job in a nowhere joint . . . until Tatum Jackson walks in. Lauren has never seen a man with such good looks, muscles, and attitude. But when he insults her, Lauren doesn''t want anything to do with him. Too bad for Lauren he''s also the bar''s part owner and bartender.When the rough-around-the-edges Tate meets the high-class Lauren, he thinks she won''t fit in at Bubba''s. Yet there''s more to Lauren than meets the eye, and Tate soon sets his mind on claiming her as his own. Before long, the desire burning between them is heating up the cold mountain air. But when violence strikes the town, Tate must reveal a dark secret to Lauren-one that may put an end to their sweet dreams.

Grandmother Ruth Sutton writes to the man she hates more than anyone else on the planet: the man who she believes killed her daughter Lizzie in a brutal attack four years earlier. Ruth's burden of grief and hatred, has only grown heavier with the passing of time, her avid desire for vengeance ever stronger. In writing to him Ruth hopes to exorcise the corrosive emotions that are destroying her life, to find the truth and with it release and a way forward. Whether she can ever truly forgive him is another matter - but the letters are her last, best hope. Letters To My Daughter's Killer exposes the aftermath of violent crime for an ordinary family and explores fundamental questions of crime and punishment. How do we deal with the very human desire for revenge? If we get justice does reconciliation follow? Can we really forgive those who do us the gravest wrong? Could you?

Le jour où il arrive en résidence d’écriture dans une petite ville du centre de la France, Serge découvre dans la gazette locale qu’un certain Commodore, vieux maraîcher à la retraite que tous disent

Urlaub zu zweit ist keine Losung. Sondern das Problem.Flaute bei Paul und Nella. Paul arbeitet rund um die Uhr, beim Sex schlaft er regelmaig ein. Hochste Zeit fur ein gemeinsames Hobby, findet Nella. Aber statt Tangotanzen oder Fotokurs hat Paul etwas anderes im Sinn: Golfurlaub in Portugal.Doch Nella hat sich zu fruh auf romantische Zweisamkeit und Sonnenuntergange am Meer gefreut. Stattdessen scheucht Paul seine Freundin fruhmorgens uber den Platz - und flirtet auch noch mit den weiblichen Hotelgasten. Erst als Nella mit Golf-Profi Dan zu trainieren beginnt, findet sie Gefallen an dem Sport. Und an dem attraktiven Lehrer. Es ist eben alles eine Frage der Technik

Eine junge Frau blickt auf ihren Ehealltag und in ihren Kleiderschrank und vergleicht ihre bescheidene Existenz mit dem extravaganten Lebensstil der verfuhrerischen Grafin Casati. Luisa Casati, die italienische Kunstlerdiva, die Geliebte Gabriele dAnnunzios, gilt nach der Madonna und Kleopatra als die meistportratierte Frau der Kunstgeschichte. Uber hundert Kunstler haben sie gemalt und fotografiert von Giacomo Balla bis Andy Warhol. Die Ich-Erzahlerin in Camille de Perettis bezauberndem Roman ist wie elektrisiert von der beruhmten Muse: So oft wurde sie dargestellt, Coco Chanel, Christian Dior und Karl Lagerfeld haben Kollektionen nach ihr benannt und wie wenig wei man heute uber sie!Luisa Casatis Auftritte waren provokant, ihre Feste legendar. Um den Hals trug sie eine lebende Boa und die Bissspuren ihres Geliebten. Sie lebte auf Capri, in Paris, London und Venedig im Palazzo Casati in Venedig ist das Guggenheim Museum untergebracht. Die Ich-Erzahlerin hingegen trifft ihre Freunde in Fast-Food-Restaurants, liest nachts Nabokov und schreibt Geschichten in ihr Tagebuch. Wie unmondan!Selbstironisch und humorvoll, mit dem liebevollen und zugleich bitterbosen Blick in die Seele, den wir aus Wir werden zusammen alt kennen, schreibt Camille de Peretti uber weibliche Heldenmythen und uber Wunsche, Note und Sehnsuchte von Frauen.

The sensational "New York Times "bestseller "The Mill River Recluse" reminds us that friendship, family, and love can come from the most unexpected places. Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy. "Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more." From the outside, Mill River looks like any sleepy little Vermont town where everyone knows everyone and people never need to lock their doors. There are newcomers for whom this appeals, from police officer Kyle Hansen and his daughter Rowen, who are starting over after heartache, to Claudia Simon, the schoolteacher who is determined to reinvent herself. But on closer inspection, there are those in Mill River--including a stealthy arsonist, a covetous nurse, and a pilfering priest--who have things they wish to hide. None more than the widow Mary McAllister, who for the past sixty years has secluded herself in her marble mansion overlooking the town. Most of the residents have never even seen the peculiar woman. Only the priest, Father O'Brien, knows the deep secrets that keep Mary isolated--and that, once revealed, will forever change the community. Praise for "The Mill River Recluse" "A heartwarming story."--"Examiner.com" "[Darcie] Chan's sweet novel displays her talent. . . . A comforting book about the random acts of kindness that hold communities together."--"Kirkus Reviews" "A real page-turner."--"IndieReader" "Chan does an amazing job with pacing while maintaining continuity and weaving universal themes such as friendship, love, new beginnings and overcoming adversities into small town life."--"RT Book Reviews" " " "This debut novel is a genre-breaking thriller with romantic overtones that should appeal to both men and women."--"Huntington News" " " "Chan's compassionate novel . . . blends elements of mystery, suspense and romance . . . [and] culminates in a beautifully rendered denouement that rekindles hope for a troubled world."--"Shelf Awareness"

No poetry has touched readers' hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by leading poets and biographers of our present day. 'In later years', Sir Rupert Hart-Davis writes in his Introduction, 'when Siegfried Sassoon had written much else in prose and verse, he was annoyed at always being referred to simply as a war poet, but it was the Great War that turned him into a poet of international fame, and I feel sure that his ghost will forgive me for thus bringing together these magnificently scarifying poems.' The poems are arranged as far as possible in the order of their composition, and the reader can compare them with the poet's movements by means of the Biographical Table which is included. Fourteen of the poems in this volume were published for the first time in the 1983 edition of this work. Sassoon's stature is now assured and recognised. This volume contains the poetry on which his reputation rests.

'The seed of madness exists in all of us and with no warning may attack, overpower, crush and bury us...' Policarpo Quaresma - fastidious civil servant, dedicated patriot, self-styled visionary - is a defender of all things Brazilian, full of schemes to improve his beloved homeland. Yet somehow each of his ventures, whether it is petitioning for Brazil's national language to be changed, buying a farm to prove the richness and fertility of the land, or offering support to government forces as they suppress a military revolt - results in ridicule and disaster. Quixotic and hapless, Quaresma's dreams will eventually be his undoing. Funny, despairing, moving and absurd, Lima Barreto's masterpiece shows a man and a country caught in the violent clash between illusion and reality, hope and decline, sanity and madness.

" Ils meurent. Parfois ils souffrent, parfois non. Répartition strictement statistique. Rien de volontaire, il y a longtemps que sa volonté n'est plus qu'une extension paradoxale de sa puissance, qui est un grand vide, ou se conglomerent tous les vides dont cette planete habitee est constituee, autant dire cette planete en son entier. Alors ils meurent. Les raisons pour lesquelles ils meurent sont innombrables, mais peuvent se resumer a une poignee d'explications connexes et tres simples : ils n'auraient pas du se trouver la. Pas a ce moment precis. Il ne fallait pas qu'ils la voient. Il ne fallait pas qu'elle les croise. Il ne fallait pas qu'ils aient l'outrecuidance d'etre vus. Enregistres, meme pour une micro-seconde, par son nerf optique. Ils habitent ce monde. Ils vivent. Alors elle les expulse, elle les tue. " Le grand retour du maitre du polar, aux editions inculte. Vingt ans apres La Sirene Rouge et Les Racines du Mal, Maurice G. Dantec revient au roman noir avec une oeuvre totale, Les Residents. Un roman trinitaire qui se deroule en Amerique du Nord. Le premier " livre " suit Sharon, jeune americaine victime d'un viol collectif et qui laisse derriere elle de nombreux cadavres au bord de la route, mais aussi Novak un immigre serbe coupable d'une tuerie de masse dans son lycee canadien. Le " livre deux " est consacre a Venus, sequestree par son pere pendant 15 ans, tandis que le troisieme " livre " est consacre a la rencontre de cette trinite dans le cadre d'un projet des services secrets americains. Intimiste et puissant, techno-thriller redoutablement efficace, Les Residents balaye avec un style precis et chirurgical les travers de notre societe contemporaine : tuerie de masse, societe en reseau, pornographie par internet, intelligence artificielle, theories de la conspiration, luttes avortees des seventies.

#1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER In the late summer of a long-ago year, Alton Turner Blackwood brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy. Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering families again, re-creating in detail Blackwood's crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino is certain that his own family--his wife and three children--will be targets, just as his parents and sisters were victims on that distant night when he was fourteen and killed their slayer. As a detective, John is a man of reason who deals in cold facts. But an extraordinary experience convinces him that sometimes death is not a one-way journey, that sometimes the dead return. Includes the bonus novella "Darkness Under the Sun"!