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...tive de a perder para entender que o sabor das coisas recuperadas é o mel mais doce que podemos experimentar.

Cinq ans plus tôt, Kushi, la fille de l'inspecteur Yeruldelgger a été enlevée et assassinée pour l'obliger à abandonner une enquête sur la corruption liée au rachat des terres de la steppe mongole. L

Every teenage girl thinks she''s different. When government agents kick down Claire Forrester''s front door and murder her parents, Claire realises just how different she is.Patrick Gamble was nothing special until the day he got on a plane and, hours later, stepped off it, the only passenger left alive. A hero.President Chase Williams has vowed to eradicate the menace. Unknown to the electorate, however, he is becoming the very thing he has sworn to destroy.Each of them is caught up in a war that so far has been controlled with laws and violence and drugs. But an uprising is about to leave them damaged, lost, and tied to one another for ever.The night of the red moon is coming, when an unrecognizable world will emerge, and the battle for humanity will begin.

"Why''d she come here? Why''d she come to you?"A cloud passed over the sun, casting a long shadow across the gardens."Hope, I suspect," said Holmes. "It seems I am known for discovering answers when events appear desperate."It is 1947, and the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, now 93, lives in a remote Sussex farmhouse with his housekeeper and her young son. He tends to his bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind.But in the twilight of his life, as people continue to look to him for answers, Holmes revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn''t even know he was asking-about life, about love, and about the limits of the mind''s ability to know.

How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it?Standing one evening at the window of her house by the sea, Anne Quirk sees a rabbit disappearing in the snow. Nobody remembers her now, but this elderly woman was in her youth a pioneer of British documentary photography. Her beloved grandson, Luke, now a captain with the Royal Western Fusiliers, is on a tour of duty in Afghanistan, part of a convoy taking equipment to the electricity plant at Kajaki. Only when Luke returns home to Scotland does Anne''s secret story begin to emerge, along with his, and they set out for an old guest house in Blackpool where she once kept a room.

A beautiful gift edition hardback of the classic Discworld novel.Witches are not by nature gregarious, and they certainly don''t have leaders.Granny Weatherwax was the most highly regarded of the leaders they didn''t have. But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe...

Something very bad happened to Dani Lancing.Twenty years later, her father is still trying to get her to talk.Her best-friend has become a detective, the last hope of all the lost girls.And her mother is about to become a killer.A hauntingly original debut that will stay with you long after the last page.

Im prachtigen Stadtpalast ihres Grovaters, des beruhmten Malers Amadeo Lax, macht die junge Kunsthistorikerin Violeta eine unheimliche Entdeckung. Was ist mit den Frauen ihrer Familie geschehen? Was flustern die Wande des Familiensitzes? Sie sind Zeugen all der groen Ambitionen, verborgenen Leidenschaften, tragischen Verwicklungen und eines unaussprechlichen Geheimnisses.Ein mitreiender Roman uber vier Generationen von Frauen: Care Santos schiebt die Vorhange der Zeit beiseite und nimmt uns mit auf die Reise durch das aufregendste Jahrhundert Barcelonas, der stolzen Stadt zwischen Meer und Moderne.

Spero Lucas is a young Iraq war vet now working as a PI in Washington DC. He's hired by a young woman to find a painting she lost after being scammed by a super-smooth con-artist. Spero tracks the painting down, but the con-artist is part of a team of ruthless thugs, and the woman who hired Spero is brutally attack as a warning to stay away. The warning doesn't work. Spero is angry and he goes on the offensive, taking out the gang one by one. But where do Spero's remorseless killings sit on the morality scale? Is he defending an innocent woman? Or have his experiences of war turned him into a ruthless killer, no better than the crooks he's up against?

The inspiration behind the powerful new film starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson and Emily Watson, this is the story of Dido Belle, whose adoption by an aristocratic family challenged the conventions of 18th century England.In one of the most famous portraits in the world, a pretty girl walks through the grounds of Kenwood House, a vision of aristocratic refinement. But the eye is drawn to the beautiful woman on her right. Pointing at her own cheek, she playfully acknowledges her remarkable position in eighteenth-century society. For Dido Belle was the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy captain and a slave woman, adopted by the Earl of Mansfield. As Lord Chief Justice of England he would preside over the notorious Zong case the drowning of 142 slaves by an unscrupulous shipping company. His ruling provided the legal underpinning to the abolition of slavery in Britain.From the privileged yet unequal lives of Dido and her cousin Elizabeth, to the horrific treatment of African slaves, Paula Byrne the bestselling author of The Real Jane Austen vividly narrates the story of a family that defied convention, the legal trial that exposed the cruelties of slavery and the woman who challenged notions of race at the highest rank.

A tense and gripping new suspense novel from the world''s greatest storytellerEli Landon seems to have the perfect life. A beautiful wife, a wonderful house, a dazzling legal career. But when his wife is brutally murdered after confessing to an affair, Eli is named prime suspect. After a year-long ordeal the case is dropped for lack of evidence, but Eli''s world is in tatters.Abandoned by his friends, hounded by the media and a detective with a grudge, Eli retreats to the small-town sanctuary of Whiskey Beach. Camping out in his grandmother''s atmospheric house by the sea he meets Abra Walsh - compassionate, courageous and hiding secrets of her own.But as Abra and Eli take their first tentative steps towards each other, a deadly enemy is watching them from the shadows. An enemy determined to make sure Eli Landon will never have that ''perfect life'' - whatever the cost . . .

Longtemps chroniqueur judiciaire au Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly y a puisé la matière de ses futurs romans : un homme enterre son épouse dans son jardin, une mère tue ses enfants, le gang des

In Paradise Lost Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and briefly in danger of execution - Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways of God to men', or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.

Lesbian passion, clinical obesity, murder, conjoined twins, and huge servings of food, sex and filthy language: it's the brand-new Irvine Welsh...When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms an apparently crazed gunman chasing two frightened homeless men along a deserted causeway at night, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind. Within hours, Lucy becomes a hero. Her celebrity is short-lived, though: the 'crazed gunman', Sean McCandless, turns out to be a victim of child sexual abuse and the two men are serial paedophiles. The solitary eye-witness, the depressed and overweight Lena Sorensen, thrilled by Lucy's heroism and decisiveness, becomes obsessed with the trainer and enrols as a client at her Bodysculpt gym. It quickly becomes clear that Lena is more interested in Lucy's body than her own. Then, when one of the paedophiles she allowed to escape carries out a heinous sex attack, Lucy's transition from hero to villain is complete. When Lucy imprisons Lena in her mother's deserted real-estate blocks downtown, and can't stop thinking about the sex lives of Siamese twins, the real problems start...In the aggressive, drill-sergeant trainer, Lucy Brennan, and the needy, manipulative Lena Sorensen, Irvine Welsh has created two of his most memorable female protagonists, and one of the most bizarre, sado-masochistic folie a deux in contemporary fiction. The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins taps into two great obsessions of our time, personal training regimes and real estate - how we look and where we live - and tells a story so subversive and dark it blacks out the Florida sun.

Five past midnight, three years after the End of the World, and, as usual, there was nothing to be seen or heard in the catacombs except, of course , for the rats and (if you believed in them) the ghosts of the dead.Runelight is set in a world coming back to life, but it is also a world in conflict. For Maddy, born with the mark of magic on her hand, the return of the old gods and the overthrow of the brutal Order who suppressed them is a time of excitement. But for Maggie, raised as part of the Order, it is a time of chaos and desolation, as her family and values are wiped out.Like the two girls, the new world remains divided the old regime has gone but with nothing to take its place, anarchy is beginning to spreadJoanne Harris draws us back into the richly imagined world first introduced in Runemarks -a world not unlike our own, had it been shaped by the Vikings instead of the Romans. But if its inhabitants, including Maddy and Maggie, cant solve their differences soon, they will destroy their world altogether.

Ci sono molti bambini che hanno sogni divinatori, ma queste cose passano quando perdono linnocenzaUna saga familiare del nostro secolo in cui si rispecchiano la storia e il destino di tutto un popolo. Un grande affresco che, per fascino ed emozione, puo essere paragonato, nellambito della narrativa sudamericana, soltanto a Centanni di solitudine di Garcia Marquez. Lamore, la magia, il mistero, i sogni si mescolano alle violenze e agli orrori della guerra cilena che porto allascesa di Pinochet. Alle Tre Marie, splendida tenuta di proprieta di Esteban Trueba, si intrecciano le passioni dei diversi protagonisti: Clara, la moglie del proprietario, trascorre unesistenza avvolta nei ricordi; Ferula, sorella di Esteban, dedica la sua vita agli altri; Blanca e innamorata di un servo del padre, Pedro, che avra parte nella guerriglia della rivoluzione; Alba, la nipote, dovra invece affrontare la dittatura mentre Esteban scoprira, proprio a causa dei tragici eventi politici del suo paese, di amare innanzitutto la sua famiglia.

En Berti acaba de fer divuit anys i per culpa d un trimestre mal aprofitat el castiguen a treballar durant les vacances de Nadal en una benzinera dels afores de Girona, on s enamora d una prostituta de carretera. La novel la explica l entrada en el mon dels adults i les seves contradiccions, la relacio amb els pares, els amics i les amigues i especialment la confusio del sexe amb l amor, consequencia de com li bull la sang dins de les venes d adolescent.

Lorsqu’il découvre le meurtre de sa femme, Wahhch Debch est tétanisé : il doit à tout prix savoir qui a fait ça, et qui donc si ce n’est pas lui ? Éperonné par sa douleur, il se lance dans une irrémi

From the no. 1 bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid SunsA Richard & Judy Summer Book Club pickTen-year-old Abdullah would do anything for his younger sister. In a life of poverty and struggle, with no mother to care for them, Pari is the only person who brings Abdullah happiness. For her, he will trade his only pair of shoes to give her a feather for her treasured collection. When their father sets off with Pari across the desert to Kabul in search of work, Abdullah is determined not to be separated from her. Neither brother nor sister know what this fateful journey will bring them.And the Mountains Echoed is a deeply moving epic of heartache, hope and, above all, the unbreakable bonds of love.

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet unassuming, Katie is determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships.Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community. But even as Katie starts to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts her . . .

The dazzling vampire Lestat was once the epitome of evil. But now he struggles with his immortality, yearning for a more saintly path. His chance comes when he rescues a witch from death by turning her into a vampire. But the repercussions are swift as the powerful Mayfair family rally to punish Lestat for creating a killer from one of their flock. Yet in the midst of this schism comes a passionate love affair as Lestat becomes dangerously drawn to Rowan Mayfair, a brilliant neurosurgeon and a true witch. However, the fates are cruel and in an intense finale he must decide on the destiny of his beloved.

A l’entorn de les ruïnes és una novel·la sobre la Barcelona contemporània. El descobriment de les ruïnes d’una vil·la romana tan bon punt s’inicien unes obres al barri de Sant Martí de Provençals i l

Leamas is finished. Every agent he ran in the field has been remorselessly hunted and killed. It is time to come home, to come in from the cold. But in the moral ambiguities of the Cold War, nothing is ever as it seems - particularly where George Smiley is involved. With its thrillingly effective atmosphere and lean, brilliant prose, John le Carre's breakthrough novel is a suspenseful masterpiece, and a gripping insight into the unforgiving ethics of espionage. With it, he changed the rules of the game, and was rocketed to worldwide fame.

A quindici anni, Mariam non e mai stata a Herat. Dalla sua "kolba" di legno in cima alla collina, osserva i minareti in lontananza e attende con ansia l''arrivo del giovedi, il giorno in cui il padre le fa visita e le parla di poeti e giardini meravigliosi, di razzi che atterrano sulla luna e dei film che proietta nel suo cinema. Mariam vorrebbe avere le ali per raggiungere la casa del padre, dove lui non la portera mai perche Mariam e una "harami", una bastarda, e sarebbe un''umiliazione per le sue tre mogli e i dieci figli legittimi ospitarla sotto lo stesso tetto. Vorrebbe anche andare a scuola, ma sarebbe inutile, le dice sua madre, come lucidare una sputacchiera. L''unica cosa che deve imparare e la sopportazione. Laila e nata a Kabul la notte della rivoluzione, nell''aprile del 1978. Aveva solo due anni quando i suoi fratelli si sono arruolati nella jihad. Per questo, il giorno del loro funerale, le e difficile piangere. Per Laila, il vero fratello e Tariq, il bambino dei vicini, che ha perso una gamba su una mina antiuomo ma sa difenderla dai dispetti dei coetanei; il compagno di giochi che le insegna le parolacce in pashtu e ogni sera le da la buonanotte con segnali luminosi dalla finestra. Mariam e Laila non potrebbero essere piu diverse, ma la guerra le fara incontrare in modo imprevedibile. Dall''intreccio di due destini, una storia che ripercorre la storia di un paese in cerca di pace, dove l''amicizia e l''amore sembrano ancora l''unica salvezza

Quando il passato presenta i suoi conti. Le vite di Matteo, Gianni, Giulia, Anna, Fabio, Andrea e Renata detta Rena sono tutte vite segnate. Fin dall''infanzia, con traumi profondi che scuotono l''anima oppure vanno a interrarsi in certe zone segrete della coscienza, e dalla giovinezza che ci aggiunge il suo carico di turbamenti, di rivolte, di affermazioni di se. Sembrerebbe che gli anni della prima maturita possano portare un inizio di pacificazione, se non altro perche le vite sembrano incanalate nei loro binari borghesi e le coppie si sono stabilizzate, ma non e cosi. Non e affatto cosi; anzi, e proprio il contrario: l''eta matura e il momento giusto perche i nodi vengano al pettine, gli elementi psichici si combinino apposta per precipitare, per esplodere come una miscela assai temibile con la quale un alchimista improvvido abbia giocato troppo a lungo e con troppa fortuna. Decisamente, questo romanzo e anomalo nella produzione di Andrea Camilleri. Lo e da subito, dalla prima lettura che ci propone una lingua secca, affilata, che non cede all''espressivita del dialetto ne ad alcuna di quelle varie forme di pietas che spesso si ritrovano nella prosa dello scrittore e che sotto forma di ironia, tenerezza, comprensione per le umane debolezze intervengono a lenire anche le situazioni piu dure e crudeli. Qui invece non c''e possibilita di fuga o di nascondimento. Ogni personaggio e consegnato alla sua dannazione e alla deriva inesorabile delle sue azioni

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An Italian antiquities squad discovers a woman''s preserved corpse inside an ancient column. Pages torn from priceless manuscripts litter the floor of an abandoned warehouse. An illegal excavation burrows beneath Jerusalem''s Dome of the rome, ground sacred to three religions.Jonathan Marcus a young American lawyer and a former doctoral student in classics, has become a sought-after commodity among antiguities dealers. But when he is summoned to Rome to examine a client''s fragment of an ancient stone map, he stumbles across a startling secert: a hidden message carved inside the stone itself. The discovery propels him on a perilous journey from the labyrinth beneath the Colosseum to the biblical-era tunnels of Jerusalem in search of a hidden 2,000-year-old artifact sought by empires throughout the ages. As MArcus and a passionate UN preservationist, Dr. Emili Travia, dig more deeply into the past, they''re stunned to discover not only an anicent intelligence operation to protect the artifact, but also a ruthless modern plot to destroy all trace of it by a mysterious radical bent on erasing every remnant of Jewish and Christian presence from the Temple Mount. With a cutting-edge plot as intricately layered as the ancient sites it explores, The Last Ember is a gripping thriller spanning the high-stakes worlds of archaeology, politics, and terrorism in its portrayal of the modern struggle to define--and redefine--history itself.

As DCI Lorimer sees in the New Year, an unpredictable killer is loose on the streets of Glasgow . Hood up, suddenly appearing out of the shadows, this dark figure is experimenting with murder, again and again. Faced with a string of seemingly unconnected victims, and picking up the case of a horrific fire that murdered a wealthy couple, Lorimer turns to psychologist and friend Solly Brightman for his insights. As the killer comes to closer to Lorimer himself and his family, can he unmask the serial murderer before the next victim is found too close to home?

Bestseller Cornwell's solid 17th thriller to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after Scarpetta) finds Scarpetta—who's the senior forensic analyst for CNN—probing the murder of a Central Park jogger as well as looking into the disappearance of Hannah Starr, a wealthy financial planner. Quizzed on-air about previously undisclosed details of the perplexing Starr case, Scarpetta realizes that the tentacles of the case reach further than she imagined. Her niece, forensic computer whiz Lucy Farinelli, has her own reasons for digging into Starr's disappearance, along with Lucy's girlfriend, New York County ADA Jaime Berger. NYPD Det. Pete Marino, another series staple, is also in the loop as a member of Berger's task force. But it's the dark past of Scarpetta's psychologist husband, Benton Wesley—particularly his presumed death in Point of Origin and shocking reappearance five years later in Blow Fly—that binds the disparate pieces together and make this one of Cornwell's stronger recent efforts. (Oct.)

The "New York Times" bestseller and Booker Prize contender that "delivers...a ghost story that creeps up your spine" ("Seattle Times"). "One post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive and handsome, is now in decline. Its owners-mother, son, and daughter-are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as with conflicts of their own. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr. Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become intimately entwined with his.

Two years ago, SAS hard man Simon Tabor got away with murder. Tabor prefers to call it retribution - retribution for the brutal rape and killing of his younger sister in a brothel on the Costa Del Sol. Now he's been unofficially drafted in by the Met police to help in a new murder enquiry. A young girl has washed up on an English beach with an intricate orchid tattooed on her groin ? a similar design to one discovered on his dead sister. As Romanian brothel owners are ritually massacred around Britain, while in Spain millionaire orchid expert Dr Felix Blake nears the end of a sinister experiment in bioengineering, Tabor begins to see a pattern emerging. The pattern's key is the tattoo. The tattoo marks the death of mankind as we know it...