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A stunning debut crime novel set against a backdrop of poachers, witch doctors, diamond smugglers and corruption... They find the first body or what the hyena had left near a waterhole considered magical by the local bush people. A string of clues suggests that the victim was murdered and his identity hidden. For Assistant Superintendent David Kubu Bengu, its obvious from the start that sinister forces are at work. On the surface a convivial figure with a passion for his wife, his wine and his music, Kubu is a clever and resourceful lawman, well versed in Botswana''s deadliest secrets. As Kubu follows a blood-soaked trail, marked by lies and superstition, he uncovers a chain of crimes linked to the most powerful figures in the country influential enemies who will stop at nothing to remove those who stand in their way...

Mettez de côté vos idées reçues, fermez vos oreilles aux rumeurs et ouvrez grands vos yeux ! Cet ouvrage propose aux hommes et aux femmes de tous horizons de découvrir l'une des plus anciennes sociétés secrètes du monde occidental :la franc-maçonnerie. Sans faire de prosélytisme, ni verser dans l'ésotérisme, il permet de mieux comprendre les mécanismes et le caractère sacré de l'expérience initiatique tout en dépoussiérant certaines légendes attachées aux francs-maçons. Qu'est-ce que la franc-maçonnerie ? Quelle est son histoire ? Quel est son poids dans la vie publique ? Quelle philosophie sous-tend son action ? Comment déchiffrer les symboles maçonniques ? Qu'est-ce que l'initiation ? Comment devenir franc-maçon ? Toutes les réponses a ces questions dans un ouvrage didactique dépourvu de jargon !

Muriel Barberys Roman über eine kleine, hässliche, aber ungemein gebildete Concierge in Paris und eine altkluge Tochter reicher Eltern. Hinreißend komisch und zuweilen bitterböse erzählen die beiden sehr sympathischen Figuren von ihrem Leben, ihren Nachbarn im Stadtpalais, von Musik und Mangas, von Gott und der Welt.

Joan McAllistair is about to embark on the 'Trip of a Lifetime' with her daughter Eloise; a journey back to her childhood South Africa and the family homestead in the old Boer Republic of the Orange Free State. For Eloise, a successful hedge fund manager, the trip is partly a gift, partly a means of assuaging the guilt she feels at moving her mother from her own flat to an expensive care home. Joan has not visited the country since she was twenty-two but the chance discovery of her grandmother's journal transports her to the troubled times of the Anglo-Boer war.

In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy''s arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one of the Old Ones, that forces the people of the town to hole up by night. En la degenerada y apartada comunidad de Dunwich, nace Wilbur Whateley, un niño de lo mas extraordinario. De ascendencia sobrenatural, crece a un ritmo vertiginoso hasta alcanzar una altura inquietante, pero la llegada del chico solo es el prologo del verdadero horror: uno de los Primigenios, que amenazara no solo el descanso nocturno de los habitantes del pueblo...

Edició i pròleg de M. Carme Calderó i Joan Cornudella. Segona compilació d´articles de premsa (escrits del 1988 al 2007) que apareix d´aquest autor. Els 85 retalls periodístics que es reprodueixen en aquest llibre pretenen ser una breu mostra, però també completa i significativa, de la vitalitat i del tarannà de l´escriptor: preocupat pel seu poble, per l´educació dels joves i pel respecte dels més grans; respectuós amb les tradicions nostrades, però també condescendent amb les noves modes que assenyalen un canvi en els costums i en la manera de ser dels catalans.

One by one, the victims are carefully captured, toyed with, then subjected to a slow and agonizing death. Piece by piece, his exquisite plan takes shape. The police can''t yet see the beauty in his work--but soon, very soon, they will... In the lonely woods around Grizzly Falls, Montana, four bodies have been discovered. Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli have been hoping for a career-making case, but this is a nightmare. Even with the FBI involved, Selena and Regan have nothing to go on but a killer''s cryptic notes, and the unsettling knowledge that there is much worse to come... When Jillian Rivers opens her eyes, she''s trapped in a mangled car. Then a stranger, claiming to be a trail guide named Zane MacGregor, pries her free. Though she''s grateful, something about him sets Jillian on edge. And if she knew what lay out there in the woods of Montana, she''d be truly terrified. Because someone is waiting...watching...poised to strike and make Jillian the next victim...

'Mesmeric' - "Sunday Times". 'Oswald has soul in riverfuls' - "Guardian". Over the course of three years Alice Oswald recorded conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates in "Dart" a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices: drowned voices, dreaming voices and marginal notes which act as markers along the way. Alice Oswald read classics at Oxford, trained as a gardener and now lives in Devon with her husband and their two sons. "Dart" is her second collection. Her first, "The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile", won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Her most recent collection is Woods etcetera.

The Scarlet Letter is the story of three New England settlers at odds with the puritan society in which they live. Roger Chillingworth, an aging scholar, arrives in New England after two years'' separation from his wife Hester to find her on trial for adultery. For refusing to reveal her lover''s identity, she is condemned to wear a letter ''A'' sewn onto her clothes. Roger resolves to discover and destroy the man who has stolen his honor. For the next seven years the participants in this bizarre love triangle privately suffer the consequences of betrayal, cowardice, and humiliation. Slowly but surely, the need for redemption grows in each as the story hastens toward its dramatic close. The Scarlet Letter is Nathaniel Hawthorne''s masterpiece. The handsome volumes in The Collectors Library present great works of world literature in a handy hardback format. Printed on high-quality paper and bound in real cloth, each complete and unabridged volume has a specially commissioned afterword, brief biography of the author and a further-reading list. This easily accessible series offers readers the perfect opportunity to discover, or rediscover, some of the world''s most endearing literary works. The volumes in The Collector''s Library are sumptuously produced, enduring editions to own, to collect and to treasure.

Archaeologist David Norfolk is searching for a 400-year-old Portuguese shipwreck off the coast of New South Wales. Such a find would rewrite the history of Australia. But instead he unearths the body of a man murdered fifty years earlier, and begins to unravel a more personal kind of history. An elderly recluse, dying in a nearby shack, seems to know something of the corpse's identity - and also its connection to the shipwreck. He begins telling David about his own past, a story of a life marred by ambition, sexual passion, rivalry, deceit and betrayal. But will he give David the information he needs before it is too late? A haunting tale of the lure of the imagination and the destructive workings of obsession, "Wrack" is a first novel of unusual reach and suggestive power

A "Today" show Summer Reads Pick, "The Story of a Marriage" is set in a climate of fear and repression--political, sexual, and racial--and portrays three people trapped by the confines of their era, and the desperate measures they are prepared to take to escape it.

Quin lloc millor que el jardí per a descobrir la poesia? Un lloc on el temps descansa, satisfet com la sargantana, per a després alçar el vol, lleuger com la marieta. L’abella, les granotes, els teul

The tension-filled sequel to The Strain, from the world-famous director Humans have been displaced at the top of the food chain, and now understand what it is to be not the consumer, but the consumed Ephraim Goodweather, director of the New York office of the Centers for Disease control, is one of the few humans who understands what is really happening Vampires have arrived in New York City, and their condition is contagious...

In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident. But when she is assigned Bethany Krall, one of the most dangerous teenagers in the country, she begins to fear she has made a terrible mistake. Liz Jensen is the author of Egg Dancing (longlisted for the Orange Prize), Ark Baby (shortlisted for the guardian Fiction Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize).

Isabel Bookbinder dreams of pearly white weddings, happy brides, handsome grooms. And champagne towers that don''t topple over. She dreams of the perfect wedding. But not for herself... for her clients.It''s all about bride management as far as Isabel''s concerned. Even when she misplaces a couple of brides and loses her job working for wedding guru Pippa Everitt, Isabel isn''t disheartened. She throws herself straight into launching Isabel Bookbinder, Individual Weddings, and with a pop starlet and a millionaire as her first clients, business is looking rosy. Unfortunately for Isabel, nothing ever goes quite according to plan...

The epic story of one prehistoric girl's bid to change her future and the future of our world. This is alternate history at its most mindblowing.

Enchanted by the landscape and people of Spain, Maugham had long resolved to wirte a picaresque novel about the country. Instead, he wrote a living commentary assessing a great people in their greatest hour. 'Don Fernando' ia s paean to Sapin's golden age of enormous creative enegy. Beginning wth the vivid tale of Loyola's life and conversion, it discusses the writings of St. Theresa and the paintings of El Greco, and comments with sagacity and wit on such illustrious figures as Cervantes, Luis de Leon, Lope de Vega, Velasquez and the creator of Don Juan. 'Don Fernando' is full of happy surprises, curious facts and stimulating opinions that reflect Maugham's lifelong love and admiration for spanish culture and civilisation.

A stunning debut crime novel set against a backdrop of poachers, witch doctors, diamond smugglers and corruption... They find the first body or what the hyena had left near a waterhole considered magical by the local bush people. A string of clues suggests that the victim was murdered and his identity hidden. For Assistant Superintendent David Kubu Bengu, its obvious from the start that sinister forces are at work. On the surface a convivial figure with a passion for his wife, his wine and his music, Kubu is a clever and resourceful lawman, well versed in Botswana''s deadliest secrets. As Kubu follows a blood-soaked trail, marked by lies and superstition, he uncovers a chain of crimes linked to the most powerful figures in the country influential enemies who will stop at nothing to remove those who stand in their way...

Mettez de côté vos idées reçues, fermez vos oreilles aux rumeurs et ouvrez grands vos yeux ! Cet ouvrage propose aux hommes et aux femmes de tous horizons de découvrir l'une des plus anciennes sociétés secrètes du monde occidental :la franc-maçonnerie. Sans faire de prosélytisme, ni verser dans l'ésotérisme, il permet de mieux comprendre les mécanismes et le caractère sacré de l'expérience initiatique tout en dépoussiérant certaines légendes attachées aux francs-maçons. Qu'est-ce que la franc-maçonnerie ? Quelle est son histoire ? Quel est son poids dans la vie publique ? Quelle philosophie sous-tend son action ? Comment déchiffrer les symboles maçonniques ? Qu'est-ce que l'initiation ? Comment devenir franc-maçon ? Toutes les réponses a ces questions dans un ouvrage didactique dépourvu de jargon !

Muriel Barberys Roman über eine kleine, hässliche, aber ungemein gebildete Concierge in Paris und eine altkluge Tochter reicher Eltern. Hinreißend komisch und zuweilen bitterböse erzählen die beiden sehr sympathischen Figuren von ihrem Leben, ihren Nachbarn im Stadtpalais, von Musik und Mangas, von Gott und der Welt.

Joan McAllistair is about to embark on the 'Trip of a Lifetime' with her daughter Eloise; a journey back to her childhood South Africa and the family homestead in the old Boer Republic of the Orange Free State. For Eloise, a successful hedge fund manager, the trip is partly a gift, partly a means of assuaging the guilt she feels at moving her mother from her own flat to an expensive care home. Joan has not visited the country since she was twenty-two but the chance discovery of her grandmother's journal transports her to the troubled times of the Anglo-Boer war.

In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy''s arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one of the Old Ones, that forces the people of the town to hole up by night. En la degenerada y apartada comunidad de Dunwich, nace Wilbur Whateley, un niño de lo mas extraordinario. De ascendencia sobrenatural, crece a un ritmo vertiginoso hasta alcanzar una altura inquietante, pero la llegada del chico solo es el prologo del verdadero horror: uno de los Primigenios, que amenazara no solo el descanso nocturno de los habitantes del pueblo...

Edició i pròleg de M. Carme Calderó i Joan Cornudella. Segona compilació d´articles de premsa (escrits del 1988 al 2007) que apareix d´aquest autor. Els 85 retalls periodístics que es reprodueixen en aquest llibre pretenen ser una breu mostra, però també completa i significativa, de la vitalitat i del tarannà de l´escriptor: preocupat pel seu poble, per l´educació dels joves i pel respecte dels més grans; respectuós amb les tradicions nostrades, però també condescendent amb les noves modes que assenyalen un canvi en els costums i en la manera de ser dels catalans.

One by one, the victims are carefully captured, toyed with, then subjected to a slow and agonizing death. Piece by piece, his exquisite plan takes shape. The police can''t yet see the beauty in his work--but soon, very soon, they will... In the lonely woods around Grizzly Falls, Montana, four bodies have been discovered. Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli have been hoping for a career-making case, but this is a nightmare. Even with the FBI involved, Selena and Regan have nothing to go on but a killer''s cryptic notes, and the unsettling knowledge that there is much worse to come... When Jillian Rivers opens her eyes, she''s trapped in a mangled car. Then a stranger, claiming to be a trail guide named Zane MacGregor, pries her free. Though she''s grateful, something about him sets Jillian on edge. And if she knew what lay out there in the woods of Montana, she''d be truly terrified. Because someone is waiting...watching...poised to strike and make Jillian the next victim...

'Mesmeric' - "Sunday Times". 'Oswald has soul in riverfuls' - "Guardian". Over the course of three years Alice Oswald recorded conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates in "Dart" a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices: drowned voices, dreaming voices and marginal notes which act as markers along the way. Alice Oswald read classics at Oxford, trained as a gardener and now lives in Devon with her husband and their two sons. "Dart" is her second collection. Her first, "The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile", won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Her most recent collection is Woods etcetera.

The Scarlet Letter is the story of three New England settlers at odds with the puritan society in which they live. Roger Chillingworth, an aging scholar, arrives in New England after two years'' separation from his wife Hester to find her on trial for adultery. For refusing to reveal her lover''s identity, she is condemned to wear a letter ''A'' sewn onto her clothes. Roger resolves to discover and destroy the man who has stolen his honor. For the next seven years the participants in this bizarre love triangle privately suffer the consequences of betrayal, cowardice, and humiliation. Slowly but surely, the need for redemption grows in each as the story hastens toward its dramatic close. The Scarlet Letter is Nathaniel Hawthorne''s masterpiece. The handsome volumes in The Collectors Library present great works of world literature in a handy hardback format. Printed on high-quality paper and bound in real cloth, each complete and unabridged volume has a specially commissioned afterword, brief biography of the author and a further-reading list. This easily accessible series offers readers the perfect opportunity to discover, or rediscover, some of the world''s most endearing literary works. The volumes in The Collector''s Library are sumptuously produced, enduring editions to own, to collect and to treasure.

Archaeologist David Norfolk is searching for a 400-year-old Portuguese shipwreck off the coast of New South Wales. Such a find would rewrite the history of Australia. But instead he unearths the body of a man murdered fifty years earlier, and begins to unravel a more personal kind of history. An elderly recluse, dying in a nearby shack, seems to know something of the corpse's identity - and also its connection to the shipwreck. He begins telling David about his own past, a story of a life marred by ambition, sexual passion, rivalry, deceit and betrayal. But will he give David the information he needs before it is too late? A haunting tale of the lure of the imagination and the destructive workings of obsession, "Wrack" is a first novel of unusual reach and suggestive power

A "Today" show Summer Reads Pick, "The Story of a Marriage" is set in a climate of fear and repression--political, sexual, and racial--and portrays three people trapped by the confines of their era, and the desperate measures they are prepared to take to escape it.

Quin lloc millor que el jardí per a descobrir la poesia? Un lloc on el temps descansa, satisfet com la sargantana, per a després alçar el vol, lleuger com la marieta. L’abella, les granotes, els teul

The tension-filled sequel to The Strain, from the world-famous director Humans have been displaced at the top of the food chain, and now understand what it is to be not the consumer, but the consumed Ephraim Goodweather, director of the New York office of the Centers for Disease control, is one of the few humans who understands what is really happening Vampires have arrived in New York City, and their condition is contagious...

In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident. But when she is assigned Bethany Krall, one of the most dangerous teenagers in the country, she begins to fear she has made a terrible mistake. Liz Jensen is the author of Egg Dancing (longlisted for the Orange Prize), Ark Baby (shortlisted for the guardian Fiction Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize).

Isabel Bookbinder dreams of pearly white weddings, happy brides, handsome grooms. And champagne towers that don''t topple over. She dreams of the perfect wedding. But not for herself... for her clients.It''s all about bride management as far as Isabel''s concerned. Even when she misplaces a couple of brides and loses her job working for wedding guru Pippa Everitt, Isabel isn''t disheartened. She throws herself straight into launching Isabel Bookbinder, Individual Weddings, and with a pop starlet and a millionaire as her first clients, business is looking rosy. Unfortunately for Isabel, nothing ever goes quite according to plan...

The epic story of one prehistoric girl's bid to change her future and the future of our world. This is alternate history at its most mindblowing.

Enchanted by the landscape and people of Spain, Maugham had long resolved to wirte a picaresque novel about the country. Instead, he wrote a living commentary assessing a great people in their greatest hour. 'Don Fernando' ia s paean to Sapin's golden age of enormous creative enegy. Beginning wth the vivid tale of Loyola's life and conversion, it discusses the writings of St. Theresa and the paintings of El Greco, and comments with sagacity and wit on such illustrious figures as Cervantes, Luis de Leon, Lope de Vega, Velasquez and the creator of Don Juan. 'Don Fernando' is full of happy surprises, curious facts and stimulating opinions that reflect Maugham's lifelong love and admiration for spanish culture and civilisation.