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Meet Angel Tungaraza - Kigali's very favourite cake baker. Angel bakes cakes for every occasion, giving comfort and good advice to her friends and neighbours; but she also hides a painful secret. Can she finally admit the truth about her children?Angel Tungaraza is a very special somebody, a business-woman, mother and grandmother, known throughout Kigali for her mouth-watering celebration cakes. Over hot sweet tea and plates of fondant morsels, Angel takes down her customers' orders, listens to their stories - for she is cake maker, confidante and councel - and busies herself around the details of their lives. But Angel hides her own secrets - a darkness clouds her eyes when she thinks about the deaths of her two children, Joseph and Vinas."Baking Cakes in Kigali" is a charming and soulful story of a country in recovery, where heartbreak lives alongside hope for the

Andi Oliver is back! Martha Grimes fans have waited nearly nine years for the return of the amnesiac heroine of Biting Moon, and this bristling stand-alone sequel won't disappoint them. In the interim, Andi's continued to drift, moving through the West, from one waitress job to the next. When she finally reached North Dakota, she signs up at Klavan's, a pig-farming factory that seems to specialize in skirting the law. While Andi is attempting to cope with dastardly livestock practices, her past is catching up with her. Two people are on her trail: One is a homicidal psychopath; the other, a person demanding secrets that Andi no longer has.

This is the only volume to bring together all of Allen Ginsberg's published verse in its entirety, celebrating half a century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets. Presented chronologically, it sets Ginsberg's verse against the story of his extraordinary life: from his most famous landmark works "Howl" and "Kaddish" to the poems of "White Shroud" and "Cosmopolitan Greetings", and on to his later writings such as the caustically funny "Death and Fame", the provocative "New Democracy Wish List" and the elegiac "Things I'll Not Do (Nostalgia)".Ginsberg, as chief figure among the Beats, fomented a social and political revolution, yet his groundbreaking verse also changed the course of American poetry with its freewheeling spontaneity, rawness, honesty and energy. Also containing illustrations by Ginsberg's artist friends, illuminating notes to the poems, original prefaces and photographs, this is the essential record of one of the most influential voices in twentieth century poetry.

In this all-new collection of conversations, Noam Chomsky explores immediate and urgent international concerns including Iran's challenge to the United States, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise of China, and the growing power of the left in Latin America, as well as the Democratic victory in the US midterm elections and its ramifications for the future. As always, Chomsky presents his own ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principles and valuable insights. These interviews will inspire a new generation of readers, as well as long-term Chomsky fans eager for his latest thinking on the many crises the world now confronts.

Mole has converted a huge underground quarry into an "ark" capable of surviving the coming nuclear holocaust and is now in search of his "crew." He falls victim, however, to the wiles of his first crew members, a con man-cum-insect dealer and his two shills, one of them a pretty young woman.Mole ha convertido una enorme cantera subterranea en un ''arca'' capaz de sobrevivir al inminente holocausto nuclear, y ahora va en busca de su ''tripulacion''. Por desgracia, cae victima de las veleidades de los primeros miembros de su equipo, una de ellas una atractiva mujer joven.

Two small towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can''t find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four redneck deputies who want to run him out of town. Mistake. They''re picking on the wrong guy. Jack Reacher is a big man, and he''s in shape. Dos pequeñas ciudades de Colorado: Hope y Despair ("Esperanza y "Desesperacion"). Entre ellas, nada excepto doce millas de una carretera vacia. Jack Reacher no encuentra a nadie que le lleve, asi que camina. Todo lo que quiere es una taza de cafe, pero lo que se encuentra es con cuatro oficiales de policia palurdos que quieren echarle de la ciudad. Error. La han tomado con el hombre equivocado.

World Without End is the sequel to Ken Folletts international bestseller The P illars of the Earth. It takes place in the same town, Kingsbridge, and features the descendants of the Pillars of the Earth characters who are alive two centuries later. Esta una continuacion del exito de ventas internacional "Pillars of the Earth". Tiene lugar en la misma localidad, Kingsbridge, y nos narra la historia de los descendientes de los protagonistas de "Pillars of the Earth" que viven dos siglos despues.

Hiding won''t save her.Lacey Farrell is a witness to a horrific murder, and to the last words of the dying victim, Isabelle.Now, she''s under witness protection - with a new life, new name and the beginnings of a new romance with radio talk show host Tom Lynch. He doesn''t know who she really is... but someone does.Someone who''s hunted her down. Someone who knows what she saw and what she learned from Isabelle.When Lacey realises the danger she is in, she knows that only she can stop a relentless killer from claiming another life: hers...

"A nineteenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWIn teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of Englands industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive....

Na ruindade a pe do asfalto, na vida deshabitada a pe da rúa, pálpase o medo á soidade, ao abandono, ao engano. Cando fracasa o entendemento, o odio prende nos fentos secos da rutina e medra un desamor incendiario, abafante, verdugo. Amor amen, o primeiro poemario de Iolanda Zuñiga, a autora de Vidas post-it, e un monologo fragmentado, un berro que fala das lesions multiples, dos golpes amargos, das fracturas a peito aberto, que se enquistan provocando adiccion. Amor amen e unha ofrenda arida aos desamores idiotas, torpes, suicidas, que fecundan as nosas biografias fabricando, do futuro, desencanto.

Many of Ian Flemingas short stories have been the inspiration for the extremely successful James Bond film franchise, and included in this collection are such stories as Octopussy, The Living Daylights, and For Your Eyes Only, The title story, Quantum of Solace, lends its name to the upcoming James Bond film, slated to release in Fall 2008. This collection will be published to coincide with the filmas release, as well as to continue Penguinas centenary celebrations of Flemingas birth.

Un país a medio facer de Fran Alonso busca as claves da evolución da cultura galega nos últimos vinte anos a través das voces dos protagonistas. Hai 20 anos, as casas de ladrillo sen recubrir constituian, na opinion de Manuel Rivas, unha boa metafora de Galicia; un descoñecido Xurxo Souto teimaba en inventar Os Diplomaticos de Monte Alto mentres Reixa preparaba o programa Sitio Distinto para a TVG; Uxia comezaba a sua andaina musical en solitario e o teatro galego vivia dias de polemica. Algunhas das entrevistas foron contestadas e, globalmente, reflicten a cultura dun pais que buscaba obsesivamente a sua normalidade. Apenas pasaran algo mais dunha ducia de anos desde a fin da ditadura, remataban os 80 ou albiscabanse os desinhibidos 90. A traves de entrevistas feitas naquela epoca, reconstruese agora o pulso cultural dun tempo en que Galicia era un pais a medio facer e vivia ese feito de xeito obsesivo. Logo, o libro salta no tempo e viaxa, vinte anos despois, a unha Galicia que parece normal. ¿E normal? ¿Que cambiou na cultura galega nestes vinte anos?Un país a medio facer de Fran Alonso busca as claves da evolución da cultura galega nos últimos vinte anos a través das voces dos protagonistas. Hai 20 anos, as casas de ladrillo sen recubrir constituian, na opinion de Manuel Rivas, unha boa metafora de Galicia; un descoñecido Xurxo Souto teimaba en inventar Os Diplomaticos de Monte Alto mentres Reixa preparaba o programa Sitio Distinto para a TVG; Uxia comezaba a sua andaina musical en solitario e o teatro galego vivia dias de polemica. Algunhas das entrevistas foron contestadas e, globalmente, reflicten a cultura dun pais que buscaba obsesivamente a sua normalidade. Apenas pasaran algo mais dunha ducia de anos desde a fin da ditadura, remataban os 80 ou albiscabanse os desinhibidos 90. A traves de entrevistas feitas naquela epoca, reconstruese agora o pulso cultural dun tempo en que Galicia era un pais a medio facer e vivia ese feito de xeito obsesivo. Logo, o libro salta no tempo e viaxa, vinte anos despois, a unha Galicia que parece normal. ¿E normal? ¿Que cambiou na cultura galega nestes vinte anos?

Tolstoy's enthralling epic depicts Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict. He creates some of the most vital and involving characters in literature as he follows the rise and fall of families in St Petersburg and Moscow who are linked by their personal and political relationships. His heroes are the thoughtful yet impulsive Pierre Bezukhov, his ambitious friend, Prince Andrei, and the woman who becomes indispensable to both of them, the enchanting Natasha Rostov.

Sharp, savage and subtle in equal measure, "The Women" plumbs the chaos, horrors and uncontainable passions of a fascinating American icon and Americas most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. Afilada, salvaje y sutil en igual medida, "The Women" pondera el caos, los horrores y las incontenibles pasiones de un fascinante icono americano y el arquitecto mas famoso de los Estados Unidos, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged ''aisles associate'' at a Staples outlet, condemned to restocking reams of paper for the rest of his life, and his co-worker, Bethany, who''s at the end of her Goth phase and realising she''s facing fifty more years of shelving Post-it notes and replenshing the Crayola boutique in Aisle Six. One day, Bethany discovers Roger''s notebook in the staff room. When she opens it up, she discovers that this old guy who she''s never considered to be quite human is writing mock diary entries pretending to be her - and weirdly, he''s getting it right. She learns he has a tragedy in his past, and suddenly he no longer seems like a paper-stocking robot in a red shirt and a name tag. These two retail workers then strike up an unlikely yet touching secret correspondence. As their lives unfold, so too do the characters of Roger''s work-in-progress, the oddly titled Glove Pond, a Cheever-era novella gone horribly, horribly wrong.On every page of this wise, witty and unforgettable novel, Coupland reminds us that love, death and eternal friendship can all occur where and when we least expect them and that, even after tragedy has hit, one can still find solace in the comedy and strange comforts of modern life.

Angel Summer married to the love of her life, sexy footballer Cal, they have a beautiful baby girl and Angel is Britain's top glamour model. But all is not as it seems and there is heartache in store. Her worst nightmares come to life when an old flame of Cal's comes back on the scene and suddenly she is fighting to save her marriage, and herself.

Philip Roths 28th book is, it seems, the final novel in the Zuckerman series, which began in 1979 with The Ghostwriter . A 71-year-old Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York after more than a decade in rural New England, ostensibly to see a doctor about a prostate condition that has left him incontinent and probably impotent. But Zuckerman being Zuckerman and Roth being Roth, the plot is much complicated than it at first appears. Within a few days of arriving in New York, Zuckerman accidentally encounters Amy Bellette, the woman who was once the muse/wife of his beloved idol, writer S.I. Lonoff; he also meets a young novelist and promptly begins fantasizing about the writers young and beautiful wife. Theres also a subplot about a would-be Lonoff biographer, who enrages Zuckerman with his brashness and ambition, two qualities a faithful Roth reader cant help ascribing to the young, sycophantic Zuckerman himself. As usual, Roths voice is wise and full of rueful wit, but the plot is contrived (the accidental meeting with Amy, for example, is particularly unbelievable) and the tone hovers dangerously close to pathetic. In the Rothian pantheon, this one lives closer to The Dying Animal than Everyman . (Oct.)

Meet Angel Tungaraza - Kigali's very favourite cake baker. Angel bakes cakes for every occasion, giving comfort and good advice to her friends and neighbours; but she also hides a painful secret. Can she finally admit the truth about her children?Angel Tungaraza is a very special somebody, a business-woman, mother and grandmother, known throughout Kigali for her mouth-watering celebration cakes. Over hot sweet tea and plates of fondant morsels, Angel takes down her customers' orders, listens to their stories - for she is cake maker, confidante and councel - and busies herself around the details of their lives. But Angel hides her own secrets - a darkness clouds her eyes when she thinks about the deaths of her two children, Joseph and Vinas."Baking Cakes in Kigali" is a charming and soulful story of a country in recovery, where heartbreak lives alongside hope for the

Andi Oliver is back! Martha Grimes fans have waited nearly nine years for the return of the amnesiac heroine of Biting Moon, and this bristling stand-alone sequel won't disappoint them. In the interim, Andi's continued to drift, moving through the West, from one waitress job to the next. When she finally reached North Dakota, she signs up at Klavan's, a pig-farming factory that seems to specialize in skirting the law. While Andi is attempting to cope with dastardly livestock practices, her past is catching up with her. Two people are on her trail: One is a homicidal psychopath; the other, a person demanding secrets that Andi no longer has.

This is the only volume to bring together all of Allen Ginsberg's published verse in its entirety, celebrating half a century of brilliant work from one of America's greatest poets. Presented chronologically, it sets Ginsberg's verse against the story of his extraordinary life: from his most famous landmark works "Howl" and "Kaddish" to the poems of "White Shroud" and "Cosmopolitan Greetings", and on to his later writings such as the caustically funny "Death and Fame", the provocative "New Democracy Wish List" and the elegiac "Things I'll Not Do (Nostalgia)".Ginsberg, as chief figure among the Beats, fomented a social and political revolution, yet his groundbreaking verse also changed the course of American poetry with its freewheeling spontaneity, rawness, honesty and energy. Also containing illustrations by Ginsberg's artist friends, illuminating notes to the poems, original prefaces and photographs, this is the essential record of one of the most influential voices in twentieth century poetry.

In this all-new collection of conversations, Noam Chomsky explores immediate and urgent international concerns including Iran's challenge to the United States, the deterioration of the Israel-Palestine conflict, the ongoing occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, the rise of China, and the growing power of the left in Latin America, as well as the Democratic victory in the US midterm elections and its ramifications for the future. As always, Chomsky presents his own ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principles and valuable insights. These interviews will inspire a new generation of readers, as well as long-term Chomsky fans eager for his latest thinking on the many crises the world now confronts.

Mole has converted a huge underground quarry into an "ark" capable of surviving the coming nuclear holocaust and is now in search of his "crew." He falls victim, however, to the wiles of his first crew members, a con man-cum-insect dealer and his two shills, one of them a pretty young woman.Mole ha convertido una enorme cantera subterranea en un ''arca'' capaz de sobrevivir al inminente holocausto nuclear, y ahora va en busca de su ''tripulacion''. Por desgracia, cae victima de las veleidades de los primeros miembros de su equipo, una de ellas una atractiva mujer joven.

Two small towns in Colorado: Hope and Despair. Between them, nothing but twelve miles of empty road. Jack Reacher can''t find a ride, so he walks. All he wants is a cup of coffee. What he gets are four redneck deputies who want to run him out of town. Mistake. They''re picking on the wrong guy. Jack Reacher is a big man, and he''s in shape. Dos pequeñas ciudades de Colorado: Hope y Despair ("Esperanza y "Desesperacion"). Entre ellas, nada excepto doce millas de una carretera vacia. Jack Reacher no encuentra a nadie que le lleve, asi que camina. Todo lo que quiere es una taza de cafe, pero lo que se encuentra es con cuatro oficiales de policia palurdos que quieren echarle de la ciudad. Error. La han tomado con el hombre equivocado.

World Without End is the sequel to Ken Folletts international bestseller The P illars of the Earth. It takes place in the same town, Kingsbridge, and features the descendants of the Pillars of the Earth characters who are alive two centuries later. Esta una continuacion del exito de ventas internacional "Pillars of the Earth". Tiene lugar en la misma localidad, Kingsbridge, y nos narra la historia de los descendientes de los protagonistas de "Pillars of the Earth" que viven dos siglos despues.

Hiding won''t save her.Lacey Farrell is a witness to a horrific murder, and to the last words of the dying victim, Isabelle.Now, she''s under witness protection - with a new life, new name and the beginnings of a new romance with radio talk show host Tom Lynch. He doesn''t know who she really is... but someone does.Someone who''s hunted her down. Someone who knows what she saw and what she learned from Isabelle.When Lacey realises the danger she is in, she knows that only she can stop a relentless killer from claiming another life: hers...

"A nineteenth-century version of THE STING...Crichton fascinates us." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWIn teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of Englands industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive....

Na ruindade a pe do asfalto, na vida deshabitada a pe da rúa, pálpase o medo á soidade, ao abandono, ao engano. Cando fracasa o entendemento, o odio prende nos fentos secos da rutina e medra un desamor incendiario, abafante, verdugo. Amor amen, o primeiro poemario de Iolanda Zuñiga, a autora de Vidas post-it, e un monologo fragmentado, un berro que fala das lesions multiples, dos golpes amargos, das fracturas a peito aberto, que se enquistan provocando adiccion. Amor amen e unha ofrenda arida aos desamores idiotas, torpes, suicidas, que fecundan as nosas biografias fabricando, do futuro, desencanto.

Many of Ian Flemingas short stories have been the inspiration for the extremely successful James Bond film franchise, and included in this collection are such stories as Octopussy, The Living Daylights, and For Your Eyes Only, The title story, Quantum of Solace, lends its name to the upcoming James Bond film, slated to release in Fall 2008. This collection will be published to coincide with the filmas release, as well as to continue Penguinas centenary celebrations of Flemingas birth.

Un país a medio facer de Fran Alonso busca as claves da evolución da cultura galega nos últimos vinte anos a través das voces dos protagonistas. Hai 20 anos, as casas de ladrillo sen recubrir constituian, na opinion de Manuel Rivas, unha boa metafora de Galicia; un descoñecido Xurxo Souto teimaba en inventar Os Diplomaticos de Monte Alto mentres Reixa preparaba o programa Sitio Distinto para a TVG; Uxia comezaba a sua andaina musical en solitario e o teatro galego vivia dias de polemica. Algunhas das entrevistas foron contestadas e, globalmente, reflicten a cultura dun pais que buscaba obsesivamente a sua normalidade. Apenas pasaran algo mais dunha ducia de anos desde a fin da ditadura, remataban os 80 ou albiscabanse os desinhibidos 90. A traves de entrevistas feitas naquela epoca, reconstruese agora o pulso cultural dun tempo en que Galicia era un pais a medio facer e vivia ese feito de xeito obsesivo. Logo, o libro salta no tempo e viaxa, vinte anos despois, a unha Galicia que parece normal. ¿E normal? ¿Que cambiou na cultura galega nestes vinte anos?Un país a medio facer de Fran Alonso busca as claves da evolución da cultura galega nos últimos vinte anos a través das voces dos protagonistas. Hai 20 anos, as casas de ladrillo sen recubrir constituian, na opinion de Manuel Rivas, unha boa metafora de Galicia; un descoñecido Xurxo Souto teimaba en inventar Os Diplomaticos de Monte Alto mentres Reixa preparaba o programa Sitio Distinto para a TVG; Uxia comezaba a sua andaina musical en solitario e o teatro galego vivia dias de polemica. Algunhas das entrevistas foron contestadas e, globalmente, reflicten a cultura dun pais que buscaba obsesivamente a sua normalidade. Apenas pasaran algo mais dunha ducia de anos desde a fin da ditadura, remataban os 80 ou albiscabanse os desinhibidos 90. A traves de entrevistas feitas naquela epoca, reconstruese agora o pulso cultural dun tempo en que Galicia era un pais a medio facer e vivia ese feito de xeito obsesivo. Logo, o libro salta no tempo e viaxa, vinte anos despois, a unha Galicia que parece normal. ¿E normal? ¿Que cambiou na cultura galega nestes vinte anos?

Tolstoy's enthralling epic depicts Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict. He creates some of the most vital and involving characters in literature as he follows the rise and fall of families in St Petersburg and Moscow who are linked by their personal and political relationships. His heroes are the thoughtful yet impulsive Pierre Bezukhov, his ambitious friend, Prince Andrei, and the woman who becomes indispensable to both of them, the enchanting Natasha Rostov.

Sharp, savage and subtle in equal measure, "The Women" plumbs the chaos, horrors and uncontainable passions of a fascinating American icon and Americas most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. Afilada, salvaje y sutil en igual medida, "The Women" pondera el caos, los horrores y las incontenibles pasiones de un fascinante icono americano y el arquitecto mas famoso de los Estados Unidos, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged ''aisles associate'' at a Staples outlet, condemned to restocking reams of paper for the rest of his life, and his co-worker, Bethany, who''s at the end of her Goth phase and realising she''s facing fifty more years of shelving Post-it notes and replenshing the Crayola boutique in Aisle Six. One day, Bethany discovers Roger''s notebook in the staff room. When she opens it up, she discovers that this old guy who she''s never considered to be quite human is writing mock diary entries pretending to be her - and weirdly, he''s getting it right. She learns he has a tragedy in his past, and suddenly he no longer seems like a paper-stocking robot in a red shirt and a name tag. These two retail workers then strike up an unlikely yet touching secret correspondence. As their lives unfold, so too do the characters of Roger''s work-in-progress, the oddly titled Glove Pond, a Cheever-era novella gone horribly, horribly wrong.On every page of this wise, witty and unforgettable novel, Coupland reminds us that love, death and eternal friendship can all occur where and when we least expect them and that, even after tragedy has hit, one can still find solace in the comedy and strange comforts of modern life.

Angel Summer married to the love of her life, sexy footballer Cal, they have a beautiful baby girl and Angel is Britain's top glamour model. But all is not as it seems and there is heartache in store. Her worst nightmares come to life when an old flame of Cal's comes back on the scene and suddenly she is fighting to save her marriage, and herself.

Philip Roths 28th book is, it seems, the final novel in the Zuckerman series, which began in 1979 with The Ghostwriter . A 71-year-old Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York after more than a decade in rural New England, ostensibly to see a doctor about a prostate condition that has left him incontinent and probably impotent. But Zuckerman being Zuckerman and Roth being Roth, the plot is much complicated than it at first appears. Within a few days of arriving in New York, Zuckerman accidentally encounters Amy Bellette, the woman who was once the muse/wife of his beloved idol, writer S.I. Lonoff; he also meets a young novelist and promptly begins fantasizing about the writers young and beautiful wife. Theres also a subplot about a would-be Lonoff biographer, who enrages Zuckerman with his brashness and ambition, two qualities a faithful Roth reader cant help ascribing to the young, sycophantic Zuckerman himself. As usual, Roths voice is wise and full of rueful wit, but the plot is contrived (the accidental meeting with Amy, for example, is particularly unbelievable) and the tone hovers dangerously close to pathetic. In the Rothian pantheon, this one lives closer to The Dying Animal than Everyman . (Oct.)