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¿Que papel teñen as historias na nosa vida? ¿Somos o que contamos? ¿Poden os muíños, aínda que non sexan de vento, derrubar a un por terra? ¿Cantos coitelos entraron en novembro no corpo dun ditador agonizante? Neste libro, talvez unha novela, talvez un mando de relatos, as persoas resistense a ser tratadas como personaxes; os contos autenticos, parte enguedellanse cos inventados, se e que non son todos inventados. Desde os anos en que nos montes de Lugo se temian encontros mais perigosos que lobos ou porcos bravos, a tempos nos que os libros compiten con obxectos que de libros so teñen a aparencia; da voz dunha viuva desafiuzada a Xoana de Arco, remitindo un formulario de apostasia; dos nomes gardados baixo a lingua a muller que convoca as avesporas como ultimo recurso fronte a cemento e cobiza. Este libro e un canto ao poder das palabras que, como na historia de Ali Baba, poden chegar a fender montes.¿Que papel teñen as historias na nosa vida? ¿Somos o que contamos? ¿Poden os muíños, aínda que non sexan de vento, derrubar a un por terra? ¿Cantos coitelos entraron en novembro no corpo dun ditador agonizante? Neste libro, talvez unha novela, talvez un mando de relatos, as persoas resistense a ser tratadas como personaxes; os contos autenticos, parte enguedellanse cos inventados, se e que non son todos inventados. Desde os anos en que nos montes de Lugo se temian encontros mais perigosos que lobos ou porcos bravos, a tempos nos que os libros compiten con obxectos que de libros so teñen a aparencia; da voz dunha viuva desafiuzada a Xoana de Arco, remitindo un formulario de apostasia; dos nomes gardados baixo a lingua a muller que convoca as avesporas como ultimo recurso fronte a cemento e cobiza. Este libro e un canto ao poder das palabras que, como na historia de Ali Baba, poden chegar a fender montes.

Boutiques, trucs, tics et tactiques pour etre au summun du chic. Devenir une vraie Parisienne est une occupation prenante ou le hasard n'a guere de place ! Mode, parfumerie, accessoires, sorties mieux vaut disposer d'un carnet d'adresses tres sur. Mais attention ! Il se compose sur mesure exclusivement : a chacune son look, ses trucs et ses tics. La Parisienne ne se resume pas a un modele unique : elle s'invente tous les jours a chaque coin de rue. Et si c'etait vous ? Couverture: Le parcours exceptionnel d'une femme dans le bouillonnement culturel et politique de la Renaissance italienne En 1611, a Rome, dans un atelier du quartier des artistes, la jeune Artemisia se bat avec fureur pour imposer son talent. Son adversaire le plus redoutable n'est autre que son pere, son maitre, le celebre peintre Orazio Gentileschi. Il voudrait cacher au monde la sensualite et surtout le genie de sa fille. Mais la vie va bouleverser ses plans...

Odanie, 9 ans et demi, une jeune Parisienne qui n'a pas les yeux dans sa poche, nous entraîne à la découverte des records de Paris : Où est le plus vieil arbre ? Quelle est la rue la plus petite ? E

Dawson Scott is a well-respected journalist recently returned from Afghanistan. Haunted by everything he experienced, he''s privately suffering from battle fatigue which is a threat to every aspect of his life. But then he gets a call from a source within the FBI. A new development has come to light in a story that began 40 years ago. It could be the BIG story of Dawson''s career one in which he has a vested interest.Soon, Dawson is covering the disappearance and presumed murder of former Marine Jeremy Wesson, the biological son of the pair of terrorists who remain on the FBI''s Most Wanted list. As Dawson delves into the story, he finds himself developing feelings for Wesson''s ex-wife, Amelia, and her two young sons. But when Amelia''s nanny turns up dead, the case takes a stunning new turn, with Dawson himself becoming a suspect. Haunted by his own demons, Dawson takes up the chase for the notorious outlaws. . .and the secret, startling truth about himself.

Als sie auf Sylt Paul kennenlernt, ist Mamma Carlotta sofort hingerissen von dem weltmannischen Charmeur, der ihr so ungeniert den Hof macht. Sogar als Maler versucht er sich, aber was Pauls kunstlerisches Talent angeht, ist Carlotta eher skeptisch. Als sie ihrem Schwiegersohn Erik seines Zeichens Kriminalhauptkommissar von Sylt von ihrem neuen Schwarm berichtet, wittert der einen Zusammenhang zu einem Kunstraub. Ist Paul ein anderer, als er vorgibt, oder hat er gar mit dem Mord an einem bekannten Talkmaster zu tun?

Passionate. Explosive. Impossible to put down. Tasmina Perry is back with her most spectacular novel yet.Beneath the shimmering surface lies a dark secret...Diana and Julian Denver have the world at their feet. With a blissful marriage, a darling son and beautiful homes in London and the country, Diana''s life, to the outside world, is perfect. But nothing is as it seems...When Julian dies suddenly and tragically, Diana is convinced there is more to it than meets the eye. She calls on the one person she had never wanted to see again - her sister, Rachel.A former tabloid reporter, Rachel appears to be living the dream as a diving instructor on a Thai island. The truth is she''s in exile, estranged from her family and driven from her career by Fleet Street''s phone-hacking scandal.For Rachel, Diana''s request opens old wounds. But she is determined to make amends for the past, and embarks on a treacherous journey to uncover the truth - wherever it may lead...

'Ein kleiner Junge beobachtet einen grausamen Mord. Und er vergisst. Dreiig Jahre lang. Bis seine Freundin in die Hande eines gefahrlichen Psychopathen gerat. Nur wenn er sich erinnert, kann er sie retten. Doch das bringt ihn in todliche Gefahr''.

Di nuovo a capo della squadra omicidi, Renko (protagonista di Gorky Park) torna a Mosca. Ma la citta che trova e trasformata: morto il Partito Comunista, allo Stato e al Kgb si e sostituita una mafia efficientissima che controlla un gigantesco mercato nero. Nuovi signori sono i padrini delle diverse "famiglie", che estendono il loro potere sui vecchi apparati, hanno la loro zona d'influenza nella Germania riunificata, da Berlino a Monaco. La nuova indagine di Renko, muove dall'assassinio di un banchiere della mafia e ci conduce nelle pieghe piu nascoste del nuovo capitalismo sovietico.

Nella storia dell'antica Roma nessun personaggio appare piu misterioso, affascinante, dibattuto, amato e odiato di Nerone - imperatore matricida, accusato di essere il mandante del grande incendio di Roma del 64, e nello stesso tempo discepolo di Seneca e appassionato di canto e arte greca. Ma Nerone era davvero un pazzo, una sorta di sociopatico e megalomane, o era piuttosto un precursore della politica-spettacolo che tanto va di moda oggi? Era un innovatore dei costumi e della cultura dell'epoca o era invece un uomo tormentato da un malessere interiore che lo spingeva a primeggiare a ogni costo? In questo romanzo, Nerone emerge con tutti i suoi pregi e i suoi difetti, in una ricostruzione narrativa che affonda le radici negli studi classici ma anche nei saggi piu recenti e aggiornati, sullo sfondo di una Roma imperiale ricostruita nel dettaglio e animata da pulsioni, passioni, intrighi e dissapori che contraddistinguono il periodo dal 54 al 68 d.C. come la crescita piu controversa, ma anche piu spettacolare, fra quelle che hanno segnato la storia dell'Urbe.

En pleine Prohibition, Joe, le dernier fils du capitaine de la police de Boston Thomas Coughlin, est décidé à se faire une place dans la pègre. Il braque le bar clandestin d'un caïd local et commet l

Leute werden verschleppt, verschwinden, werden eingesperrt oder gefoltert. Amy arbeitet fur einen privaten Sicherheitsservice, sie kann die Korruption und Gewalt nur ahnen, die sich als Abgrund hinter den geheimen Operationen abzeichnet. Als sie beschliet auszusteigen, gerat sie endgultig in die Fange einer undurchsichtigen, aber brutalen Organisation.Amys Verlorenheit korrespondiert mit dem Ringen um die Wahrnehmung der Realitat. Was kann sie glauben? Wer ist sie selbst? Und vor allem: Was passierte an dem Tag, an den sie sich nicht erinnern kann?Marlene Streeruwitz entwirft in ihrem meisterhaften Roman ein unheimliches und unvergessliches Szenario und fragt nach dem Ort des Individuums in einer zunehmend privatisierten Offentlichkeit.Die Schmerzmacherin. wurde mit dem Bremer Literaturpreis ausgezeichnet und stand auf der Shortlist fur den Deutschen Buchpreis.

From Subhashs earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brothers sight. So close in age, they were inseparable in childhood and yet, as the years pass as U.S tanks roll into Vietnam and riots sweep across India their brotherly bond can do nothing to forestall the tragedy that will upend their lives. Udayan charismatic and impulsive finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty. He will give everything, risk all, for what he believes, and in doing so will transform the futures of those dearest to him.

Après une rupture sentimentale, Devin Jones, 21 ans, débarque l'été 1973 à Joyland, petit parc d'attraction sur le littoral de la Caroline du Nord. Il est embauché avec d'autres étudiants pour complé

The stories of Kseniya Melniks debut collection are small-town miracles, each a miniature epic.Their focus is Magadan, a town in the Northern Far East of Russia, and the unvisited lives of its inhabitants and emigrants schoolchildren, doctors, teachers, mothers, daughters. Some characters span several stories. Some of their stories span decades and continents. The measure of their telling, though, is invariably the measure of everyday existence. Their dramas, too, are made of quotidian stuff, each life with its own sly or suppressed tragedies, and its brief, often unexpected ecstasies.Kseniya Melniks sensibility is sober and humorous; her stories are moving and funny. In their patient, deliberate unfolding at once surprising and convincing and in the fitness of their details vital because they are suggestive we sense, above all, an assurance that is dazzling.

Murder. Scandal. Politics. And one billionaire heiress so dangerous in so many ways.Its the explosive new Lucas Davenport thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author.All hell has broken loose in the capital. An influential state senator has been caught with something very, very nasty on his office computer. The governor cant believe itthe senators way too smart for that, even if he is from the other party. Somethings not right.As Davenport investigates, the trail leads to a political fixer who has disappeared, thentroublinglyto the Minneapolis police department itself, and most unsettling of all, to a woman who could give Machiavelli lessons in manipulation. She has very definite ideas about the way the world should workalong with the money, ruthlessness, and cold-blooded will to make it happen.

The Devil Delivered: In the breakaway Lakota Nation, in the heart of a land blistered beneath an ozone hole the size of the Great Plains of North America, a lone anthropologist wanders the deadlands, recording observations that threaten to bring the worlds powers to their knees.Revolvo: In the fictitious country of Canada, the arts scene is ruled by technocrats who thrive in a secret, nepotistic society of granting agencies, bursaries, and peer review boards, all designed to permit self-proclaimed artists to survive without an audience.Fishing with Grandma Matchie: A childrens story of a boy tasked with a writing assignment becomes a stunning fantastical journey with his tale-spinning grandmother.

Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It s a pretty standard dried-up western town.There s a pawnshop (someone lives in the basement and is seen only at night). There s a diner (people who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there s new resident Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own).Stop at the one traffic light in town, and everything looks normal. Stay awhile, and learn the truth...

A darkly luminous new novel from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The HoursMichael Cunninghams luminous novel begins with a vision. Its November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up at the sky; there he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Barrett doesnt believe in visionsor in Godbut he cant deny what hes seen.At the same time, in the not-quite-gentrified Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, Tyler, Barretts older brother, a struggling musician, is tryingand failingto write a wedding song for Beth, his wife-to-be, who is seriously ill. Tyler is determined to write a song that will be not merely a sentimental ballad but an enduring expression of love.Barrett, haunted by the light, turns unexpectedly to religion. Tyler grows increasingly convinced that only drugs can release his creative powers. Beth tries to face mortality with as much courage as she can summon.Cunningham follows the Meeks brothers as each travels down a different path in his search for transcendence. In subtle, lucid prose, he demonstrates a profound empathy for his conflicted characters and a singular understanding of what lies at the core of the human soul.The Snow Queen, beautiful and heartbreaking, comic and tragic, proves again that Cunningham is one of the great novelists of his generation.

Si veieu un desconegut al metro o a l’autobús amb 40 Contes que ballen a les mans, mireu-lo amb atenció, estigueu segurs que és el llibre qui us vol presentar algú interessant.?Els relats curts, 40 C

''On February 22 we were told that we would be returning to Columbia.''In 1955, eight crew members of Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were swept overboard. Velasco alone survived, drifting on a raft for ten days without food or water. Marquez retells the survivor''s amazing tale, from his loneliness and thirst, to his determination to survive.The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor was Marquez''s first major, and controversial, work, published in Colombian newspaper El Espectador, in 1955 and then in book form in 1970.

Rosalie Laurent ist Besitzerin von Luna Luna, einem kleinen Postkartenladen in St. Germain, und wenn es nach ihr ginge, wurden viel mehr Menschen Karten schreiben. Ihre Spezialitat sind selbst gestaltete Wunschkarten, doch was ihre eigenen Wunsche angeht, hat die eigenwillige Grafikerin weniger Gluck. An ihrem Geburtstag lasst Rosalie stets eine Karte mit einem Herzenswunsch vom Eiffelturm flattern doch keiner ihrer Wunsche hat sich je erfullt. Das andert sich schlagartig, als eines Tages ein alterer Herr in ihren Laden stolpert und einen Postkartenstander umwirft. In dem Tumult erkennt Rosalie zunachst nicht, dass es sich um den beruhmten Kinderbuchautor Max Marchais handelt. Als er sie bittet, sein neues (und wahrscheinlich letztes) Kinderbuch zu illustrieren, willigt Rosalie gerne ein, und die beiden ungleichen Eigenbrotler werden Freunde. Der blaue Tiger bekommt den begehrten Kinderbuchpreis und in Rosalies Schaufenster einen Ehrenplatz. Als kurze Zeit spater ein gutaussehender Fremder in ihren Laden stolpert und den Postkartenstander umwirft, glaubt die junge Frau an einen Wink des Schicksals. Doch noch bevor sie sich verlieben kann, hat sie mit dem Literaturprofessor aus New York schon ihren ersten Krach. Denn dieser behauptet steif und fest, dass die Erzahlung vom blauen Tiger seine Geschichte sei Ein zauberhafter Postkartenladen in Paris und seine eigenwillige Besitzerin. Ein amerikanischer Literaturprofessor und ein ratselhaftes Manuskript. Eine federleichte Liebesgeschichte, wie man sie spannender und liebevoller kaum erzahlen kann.

How to turn forty:1. Set yourself a personal challenge.2. Clear wardrobe of all age inappropriate clothing.3. Relax.How not to turn forty:1. Have a complete meltdown . . .High flier Matt Beckford''s sole ambition is to turn forty with his life sorted. And with a Porsche on the drive and a job that requires him to spend more time in BA''s club lounge than his own lounge, it looks like things are going in the right direction. But when Matt''s wife unexpectedly calls time on their marriage, a chain of events is set in motion that very quickly sees him facing forty broke, homeless and completely alone.But all is not lost because Matt has a plan ...