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In the first thaw of spring the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Torne in the far north of Sweden.Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Kiruna, her sleep troubled by visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body belong to the girl in her dream?Joining forces with Police Inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Martinsson will need all her courage to face a killer who will kill again to keep the past buried under half a century of silent ice and snow.

"Nei lunghi secoli della mia vita, non ho mai amato nessuno come te. Nessuno." Sono state le ultime parole che mi ha detto Rhode. L'ultima volta in cui mi ha dichiarato il suo amore. L'ultima volta in cui ho visto il suo viso e i suoi intensi occhi azzurri. Ed e stata anche la prima volta in 592 anni in cui sono riuscita di nuovo a respirare. A sentire il sole sulla pelle, il profumo dell'aria. Ma tutto ha un prezzo: Rhode, il mio Rhode. ho dovuto dirgli addio, forse per sempre. Lui si e sacrificato per me. Si e sacrificato perche io, Lenah Beaudonte, potessi tornare di nuovo umana. Ha compiuto l'antico rituale magico, ed eccomi qui. Non sono piu un vampiro della peggior specie. Non sono piu la guida di una confraternita di vagabondi della notte, assetati di sangue e di vendetta. Sono libera. Il mondo e cambiato dall'ultima volta in cui l'ho visto. La mia nuova vita ora e a Wickham: una casa, nuovi amici, e poi lui, Justin. Non avrei mai pensato di innamorarmi di qualcuno che non fosse Rhode. Ma Justin e cosi. vivo. E forte, deciso e dolce allo stesso tempo. Piu bello di quanto abbia mai potuto sognare. Eccitante. Non mi sarei mai aspettata di tornare ad avere sedici anni, di respirare ancora l'alito caldo di un bacio umano. Ma, in fondo, non avrei neppure mai pensato che un giorno il mio passato di sangue e di distruzione sarebbe tornato a cercarmi.

Nella splendida Maremma, non lontano da Grosseto, nel cuore dell'esclusiva pineta della Gualdana, c'e un villaggio turistico di lusso: centocinquanta casette popolate, nella stagione balneare, da gioiellieri, artisti, nobili e politici, e da quei pochi residenti stabili che in quel luogo cercano "un rifugio, un nascondiglio fuori dal mondo, dove curare le diverse ferite della vita". Molti dei frequentatori estivi ci tornano anche per le vacanze di Natale: sono personaggi raffinati che sanno apprezzare la pace della pineta fuori stagione e il fascino del fuoco nei caminetti mentre fuori tira il libeccio. Della stessa pace vorrebbe godere anche Aurelio Butti, maresciallo dei locali carabinieri, ma tre omicidi mandano all'aria i programmi di tutti, soprattutto i suoi. E cosi, il maresciallo si trova impegnato a ricomporre un complicatissimo puzzle, in cui si intersecano storie di ieri e di oggi, di uomini e di animali.

In a clash of heroes, the kingdom is born.The year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and Alfred''s kingdom of Wessex in the south. But trouble stirs, a dead man has risen and new Vikings have arrived to occupy London.It is a dangerous time, and it falls to Uhtred, half Saxon, half Dane, a man feared and respected the length and breadth of Britain, to expel the Viking raiders and take control of London for Alfred. His uncertain loyalties must now decide England''s future.A gripping tale of love, rivalry and violence, Sword Song tells the story of England''s making.

1000 aforismo ondu ditu Karlos Linazasorok liburu honetarako. Genero berezia da aforismoa: itxuraz sinple, baina ondo egiteko trebetasun aparta behar duena, tolosarrak erakusten duena bezalakoa. Gogoeta txundigarriak, poesia printzak, mikroipuinak, adar jotzeak, paradoxak eta bestelakoak aurkituko ditugu pasarte laburrotan, guztiak ere egileak ohi duen zorroztasunez eta ironiaz landuak.

'Une vie sans amour vaut-elle la peine d''être vécue ?" Linda a 31 ans et, aux yeux de tous, une vie parfaite : elle a un mari aimant, des enfants bien élevés, un métier gratifiant de journaliste et

A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony, Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend.

The world might be in the throes of a global recession but when an author on the brink of despair, an enigmatic musician, a supermodel and a Satanic sect meet with the cream of Italian high society at the home of a Roman property tycoon, the world outside the mansion''s walls is soon forgotten.There''s going to be one hell of a party. And you''ve got a VIP ticket.

« Homme, es-tu capable d’être juste ? C’est une femme qui t’en fait la question. Tu ne lui ôteras pas du moins ce droit. Dis-moi qui t’a donné le souverain empire d’opprimer mon sexe ? Ta force ? Tes

Barbara is at a loss: The daughter of her friend Taymullah Azhar has been taken by her mother, and Barbara cant really helpAzhar had never married Angelina, and his name isnt on Hadiyyahs, their daughters, birth certificate. He has no legal claim. Azhar and Barbara hire a private detective, but the trail goes cold.Azhar is just beginning to accept his soul-crushing loss when Angelina reappears with shocking news: Hadiyyah is missing, kidnapped from an Italian marketplace. The Italian police are investigating, and the Yard wont get involved, until Barbara takes matters into her own hands at the risk of her own career. As both Barbara and her partner, Inspector Thomas Lynley, soon discover, the case is far more complex than a typical kidnapping, revealing secrets that could have far-reaching effects outside of the investigation. With both her job and the life of a little girl on the line, Barbara must decide what matters most, and how far shes willing to go to protect it.

Five children meet on their first day of school, one bright September morning. Drawn by that magical spark of connection that happens to the young, Gabby, Billy, Izzie, Andy and Sean - each bursting with their own personality, all with strikingly different looks and diverse talents - soon become an inseparable group, known to everyone else as the Big Five. As they grow up, their seemingly perfect lives are altered by families falling apart, unfortunate mistakes, and losses and victories great and small. Throughout their adolescence, the five are able to turn back to their trusted group to regain their footing and steady their course. But as they emerge from school, their futures seem neither safe nor clear. As their lives separate, the challenges and risks they face become greater, the losses sharper, and it becomes much harder to know the right path to choose. But despite life's ups and downs, together they are able to face up to challenges with the help of the important bonds forged all those years ago. And the five realise just how lucky they are to treasure valuable friendships that last a lifetime.

On the kibbutz its hard to know. Were all supposed to be friends but very few really areAriella, unhappy in love, confides in the woman whose husband she stole.Nahum, a devoted father, cant find the words to challenge his daughters promiscuous lover.The old idealists deplore the apathy of the young, while the young are so used to kibbutz life that they cant work out if theyre impassioned or indifferent.And amid this group of people unwilling and unable to say what they mean, Martin attempts to teach Esperanto.

Who amongst us can really say they're sane? Jan has just started working at the Dell nursery. But this is no normal nursery. It's linked to a high-security asylum by a dimly-lit underground tunnel, which is used for the children to visit their parents. Who are some of the most dangerous psychopaths in the country.

Ellen Trawton is running away from it all - quite literally. She is due to get married to a man she doesn''t love, her job is dragging her down and her interfering mother is getting on her nerves. So she escapes to the one place she know her mother won''t follow her - to her aunt''s house in rural Ireland. Once there, she uncovers a dark family secret - and a future she never knew she might have.Meanwhile, Caitlin Macausland is mourning the future she can never have. She died tragically in what the village thinks is suspicious circumstances, and now she is stuck in a limbo, unable to move on.And between the two of them is an old lighthouse - the scene of so much tragedy. Can each woman find the peace she so desperately longs for? And can they find the way to live again?

À travers une splendide évocation de l''Algérie de l''entre‑deux‑guerres, Yasmina Khadra met en scène, plus qu''une éducation sentimentale, le parcours obstiné – de l''ascension à la chute – d''un je

Jack McNulty is a 'temporary gentleman', an Irishman whose commission in the British army in the Second World War was never permanent. In 1957, sitting in his lodgings in Accra, he urgently sets out to write his story. He feels he cannot take one step further, or even hardly a breath, without looking back at all that has befallen him. He is an ordinary man, both petty and heroic, but he has seen extraordinary things. He has worked and wandered around the world - as a soldier, an engineer, a UN observer - trying to follow his childhood ambition to better himself. And he has had a strange and tumultuous marriage. Mai Kirwan was a great beauty of Sligo in the 1920s, a vivid mind, but an elusive and mysterious figure too. Jack married her, and shared his life with her, but in time she slipped from his grasp. A heart-breaking portrait of one man's life - of his demons and his lost love - The Temporary Gentleman is, ultimately, a novel about Jack's last bid for freedom, from the savage realities of the past and from himself.

El llibre dels misteriosos fets de Montserrat és una novel·la a mig camí de la ficció especulativa i certa realitat. A partir del seu arbre genealògic Brasó relata, de manera planera, una sèrie d’epi

Aquest és un recull de divuit narracions delirants que marquen la distància que hi ha entre el seny i l’al·lucinació, entre el que és racional i el que resulta inexplicable. Si el lector acaba la lec

Abbey Anderson's life in San Francisco is in serious danger of hitting a rut. She's pretty sure it doesn't get worse than being dumped by post-it note, and her current job is hardly the best outlet for her creative talents. Meanwhile in Ireland Fred Fitzpatrick is finding it impossible to keep his grown-up children and their families on side, and they're a demanding lot at the best of times. But when Fred asks solicitor Ryan Gilligan to contact Abbey about a long-buried family secret, things start to change dramatically. And not everyone affected is happy about it...

A body is found hanging on a hook above the canals of Amsterdam''s old town, a mobile phone forced into the victim''s mouth.In a remote coastal village, a doll lies in the ashes of a burnt-down house. But the couple who died in the fire had no children of their own. Did a little girl escape the blaze? And, if so, who is she and where is she now?Inspector Jaap Rykel knows that he''s hunting a clever and brutal murderer. Still grieving from the violent death of his last partner, Rykel must work alongside a junior out-of-town detective with her own demons to face, if he has any hope of stopping the killer from striking again.Their investigation reveals two dark truths: everybody in this city harbours secrets - and hearing those secrets comes at a terrible price ...

La història d'un canvi, el descobriment d'una dona a través d'una altra mirada, l'herència d'un amor desaparegut. I sobretot és el dol d'una dona feta Hermosa per un indi de mans grosses i cor de miralls. Hermosa busca camins que no existeixen i els ha de construir enllaçant paraules que sorgeixen d'una zona obscura per il·luminar-la. El Capità l'acompanya en aquest tram de ruta. Les nines russes són emocions que només el pensament, la paraula i els somnis són capaços de descargolar.

_Tots tenim secrets_ és una història de misteri ambientada al Baix Empordà i a Miami, en un entorn de vaixells i de mar, en un ambient de gent adinerada, superficial i egoista. L'Helena, que per molt

Le jeune Juan García Madero abandonne ses études de droit pour déambuler dans les bas-fonds de Mexico. Avant de partir, moderne Don Quichotte, en compagnie de la prostituée Lupe, en quête de Cesárea

Ingrid Diesel et Lola Jost enquêtent sur la mort suspecte d'Alice Bonin, sosie de Britney Spears, lors d'une fête donnée à l'occasion des 12 ans de la fille du grand patron d'une holding financière à

At forty-seven, Gil has reached a relatively happy period in his life as the world's oldest twenty-two-year-old man. In exchange for doing the odd carpentry and construction job, he gets paid to live rent-free in Los Angeles at the glorious summerhouse of rich retirees who are never there. It's a world of solitary splendor spent mainly in the company of his four dogs, Cheney, Fruity, Dinky, and Jimmy, the alpha and the only one of the four that Gil has raised from a pup....

Emmaline Grant has always loved romance, so it's really no surprise that she has found her calling as a wedding florist. And she gets to work with her best friends Mackensie, Parker and Laurel - she couldn't ask for a better job. Yet while men swarm around her, she still hasn't found Mr Right. But the last place Emma's looking is right under her nose. And that's just where Jack Cooke is. He's been best friends with Parker's brother for years, which makes him practically family. Now the architect has begun to admit to himself that his feelings for Emma have developed into much more than friendship, and when she returns his passion - kiss for blistering kiss - things start to get complicated. Jack has never been big on commitment. Emma yearns for a lifelong love affair. And if the two are to find common ground, they must trust in their history - and in their hearts ...

This is an internationally acclaimed political thriller by one of Latin America's most important and exciting young writers, the winner of Spain's coveted Alfaguara Prize. Translated by one of our most celebrated literary translators, Edith Grossman, "Red April" is quite simply a must read for anyone who loved Roberto Bolano's "The Savage Detectives and 2666". "Red April" evokes Holy Week during a cruel, bloody, and terrifying time in Peru's history, shocking for its corrosive mix of assassination, bribery, intrigue, torture, and enforced disappearance - a war between grim, ideologically driven terrorism and morally bankrupt government counterinsurgence. Mother-haunted, wife-abandoned, literature-loving, quietly eccentric Felix Chacaltana Saldivar is a hapless, by-the-book, unambitious prosecutor living in Lima. Until now he has lived a life in which nothing exceptionally good or bad has ever happened to him. But, inexplicably, he has been put in charge of a bizarre and horrible murder investigation. As it unfolds by propulsive twists and turns - full of paradoxes and surprises - Saldivar is compelled to confront what happens to a man and society when death becomes the only certainty. Remarkable for its self-assured and nimble clarity of style, "Red April" is at once riveting and profound.

Tots els pobles són plens d'històries on, gairebé sempre, resulta impossible discernir què hi ha de cert o què hi ha de rematadament fals en el seu origen. No obstant això, s'expliquen i es tornen a

A haunting and emotionally satisfying novel from a much-loved and critically acclaimed author, which weaves fairy tale and gritty realism together to dazzlingly effect. ''The Story Sisters'' charts the lives of three sisters -- Elv, Claire and Meg. Each has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their world are a charismatic man who cannot tell the truth, a neighbor who is not who he appears to be, a clumsy boy in Paris who falls in love and stays there, a detective who finds his heart''s desire, and a demon who will not let go. What does a mother do when one of her children goes astray? How does she save one daughter without sacrificing the others? How deep can love go, and how far can it take you? At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of erotic longing, ''The Story Sisters'' sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their choices haunt them, change them and, finally, redeem them.

A lethal inheritance...China, 1938. Eighteen-year-old Rosalie Gilder flees Nazi-occupied Austria with her younger brother. Hidden among their belongings are a few precious family heirlooms, their only protection against the hard times that await them as they join Shanghai''s growing population of Jewish refugees. New York, present day. Chinese-American detective Lydia Chin is hired by an old friend to investigate the recent theft of a cache of holocaust assets, thought to once belong to the Gilders. However, before she makes much headway, her friend is shot dead. Neither Lydia nor her partner, Bill, believe the NYPD''s theory that his death was a robbery gone bad. Both fear they are no longer looking for a thief, but a ruthless killer who will stop at nothing to reclaim the past...

England im Jahre 1327. Vier junge Menschen versuchen in England ihr Glück zu machen: der rebellische Merthin, ein Nachfahre des großen Baumeisters Jack. Sein Bruder Ralph, der in den Ritterstand aufstrebt. Das Mädchen Caris, das sich nach Freiheit sehnt. Und Gwenda, die Tochter eines Taglöhners, die nur der Liebe folgen will. Und da ist noch Godwyn, ein aufstrebender Mönch, der nur ein Ziel vor Augen hat. Er will Prior der Abtei von Kingsbridge werden. Um jeden Preis. Die lang ersehnte Fortsetzung des Weltbestsellers: Die Säulen der Erde

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. A breathtaking story of a father and a son in 20th-century North America from the award-winning author of A Prayer for Owen Meany.