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We Are the Ants | From the author of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes a brand-new novel about a teenage boy who must decide whether or not the world is worth saving.
Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button.
Only he isn't sure he wants to.
After all, life hasn't been great for Henry. His mom is a struggling waitress held together by a thin layer of cigarette smoke. His brother is a jobless dropout who just knocked someone up. His grandmother is slowly losing herself to Alzheimer's. And Henry is still dealing with the grief of his boyfriend's suicide last year.
Wiping the slate clean sounds like a pretty good choice to him.
But Henry is a scientist first, and facing the question thoroughly and logically, he begins to look for pros and cons: in the bully who is his perpetual one-night stand, in the best friend who betrayed him, in the brilliant and mysterious boy who walked into the wrong class. Weighing the pain and the joy that surrounds him, Henry is left with the ultimate choice: push the button and save the planet and everyone on it...or let the world--and his pain--be destroyed forever. | en |
His Favorite, Vol. 8 | Yoshida is short, scrawny and generally unattractive. To make matters worse, all the girls in his class hate him because Sato, the hottest guy in school, always uses hanging out with him as an excuse to turn them down. Is Yoshida just a convenient excuse or is there something more? Could this odd couple even make things work?!
Awkward Yoshida's life got flipped upside down when the hottest guy in school started going out with him. Things should be easier for Yoshida now that his whole class knows about his relationship, but it's never that simple with Saito as a boyfriend. With Christmas coming up, who knows just what kind of trouble these two will get into? | en |
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE | In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.
In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling the shoes from the trunk of his lime green Plymouth Valiant, Knight grossed $8,000 his first year. Today, Nike's annual sales top $30 billion. In an age of startups, Nike is the ne plus ultraof all startups, and the swoosh has become a revolutionary, globe-spanning icon, one of the most ubiquitous and recognizable symbols in the world today.
But Knight, the man behind the swoosh, has always remained a mystery. Now, for the first time, in a memoir that is candid, humble, gutsy, and wry, he tells his story, beginning with his crossroads moment. At 24, after backpacking around the world, he decided to take the unconventional path, to start his own business--a business that would be dynamic, different.
Knight details the many risks and daunting setbacks that stood between him and his dream--along with his early triumphs. Above all, he recalls the formative relationships with his first partners and employees, a ragtag group of misfits and seekers who became a tight-knit band of brothers. Together, harnessing the transcendent power of a shared mission, and a deep belief in the spirit of sport, they built a brand that changed everything. | en |
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History | He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called "the devil" by the
enemies he hunted and "the legend" by his Navy SEAL brothers . ..
From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career
sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has
officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyles kills (the previous
American record was 109), but it has declined to verify the
astonishing total number for this book. Iraqi insurgents feared Kyle
so much they named him al-Shaitan ("the devil") and placed a bounty
on his head. Kyle earned legendary status among his fellow SEALs,
Marines, and U.S. Army soldiers, whom he protected with deadly
accuracy from rooftops and stealth positions. Gripping and
unforgettable, Kyle's masterful account of his extraordinary
battlefield experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all
time. A native Texan who learned to shoot on childhood hunting trips
with his father, Kyle was a champion saddle-bronc rider prior to
joining the Navy. After 9/11, he was thrust onto the front lines of
the War on Terror, and soon found his calling as a world-class sniper
who performed best under fire. He recorded a personal-record
2,100-yard kill shot outside Baghdad; in Fallujah, Kyle braved heavy
fire to rescue a group of Marines trapped on a street; in Ramadi, he
stared down insurgents with his pistol in close combat. Kyle talks
honestly about the pain of war--of twice being shot and experiencing
the tragic deaths of two close friends. American Sniper also honors
Kyles fellow warriors, who raised hell on and off the battlefield.
And in moving first-person accounts throughout, Kyles wife, Taya,
speaks openly about the strains of war on their marriage and
children, as well as on Chris. Adrenaline-charged and deeply
personal, American Sniper is a thrilling eyewitness account of war
that only one man could tell. | en |
El Señor es mi Pastor | Cuando miraba hacia el futuro, la Humanidad imaginaba un tiempo de maravillas y oportunidades. El Cirujano lo arruino todo.
Esta es una epoca sombria donde el tiempo y el capital son los pilares de la civilizacion; donde las corporaciones han ido socavando el poder de los Estados hasta doblegarlos a su voluntad y donde la vida, tu vida, ha sido hipotecada.
La Humanidad esta afectada por una enfermedad genetica que pudre sus organos desde el momento de nacer. Quien no recibe un trasplante, muere. Es un mantra que se repite sin cesar: "Unos deben morir, para que otros puedan vivir".
La muerte es el gran negocio, y las corporaciones lo saben. Hay ovejas esperando su hora, y senores que las pastorean hasta el matadero. | es |
Hot Dudes Reading | Humans of New York meets Porn for Women in this collection of candid photos, clever captions, and hilarious hashtags about one of the most important subjects of our time: hot dudes reading. Based on the viral Instagram account of the same name, Hot Dudes Reading takes its readers on a ride through all five boroughs of New York City, with each section covering a different subway line. Using their expert photography skills (covert iPhone shots) and journalistic ethics (#NoKindles), the authors capture the most beautiful bibliophiles in all of New York-and take a few detours to interview some of the most popular hot dudes from the early days of the Instagram account. Fun, irreverent, and wittily-observed, this book is tailor-made for book lovers in search of their own happy endings-and those who just want to get lost between the covers for a while. | en |
I Won't Comb My Hair | Tanya is about to have a very-bad-hair day!
It's easy to tell when Tanya doesn't want to do something. "I WON'T!" she screams, so loudly that the whole neighborhood can hear. And there is one thing Tanya really doesn't want to do. She WILL NOT EVER comb her hair. | en |
Lawmen & Outlaws | John Beidler. William Preston Longley.Joaquin Murietta. Cattle Kate.Cole Younger. John Wesley Hardin. Jesse James. Black Jack Ketchum. Billy the Kid. Pat Garrett. Black Bart. Tiburcio Vasquez. Wyatt Earp. Bob Dalton. Christian Madsen. Bill Doolin. Bill Tilghman. Heck Thomas. | en |
Be An Author | As a fledgling writer, you may have burning questions about your place in the world of publishing as it is now:
- How do I know if what I have to say deserves to be published?
- Should I try to find a publisher or self-publish?
- What might life be like after my book is in print?
- What is a reasonable goal for my book, and can I achieve it?
- How on earth will I find the time to complete my book?
Be An Author addresses these questions and more through a series of interviews with other authors, just like you, who are writing and promoting books today. Some of these authors are published, others are self-published, what they have to say about the experience is both enlightening and encouraging.
This ia not a 'how to' book - it's a 'what would it be like if...' book. In its pages you may just find what you need to inspire and motivate you to fulfil your potential as an author. | en |
Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, from Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity | In its eerie likeness to Earth, Mars has long captured our imaginations--both as a destination for humankind and as a possible home to extraterrestrial life. It is our twenty-first century New World; its explorers robots, shipped 350 million miles from Earth to uncover the distant planet's secrets.
Its most recent scout is Curiosity--a one-ton, Jeep-sized nuclear-powered space laboratory--which is now roving the Martian surface to determine whether the red planet has ever been physically capable of supporting life. In Red Rover, geochemist Roger Wiens, the principal investigator for the ChemCam laser instrument on the rover and veteran of numerous robotic NASA missions, tells the unlikely story of his involvement in sending sophisticated hardware into space, culminating in the Curiosity rover's amazing journey to Mars.
In so doing, Wiens paints the portrait of one of the most exciting scientific stories of our time: the new era of robotic space exploration. Starting with NASA's introduction of the Discovery Program in 1992, scrappier, more nimble missions became the order of the day, as manned missions were confined to Earth orbit, and behemoth projects went extinct. This strategic shift presented huge scientific opportunities, but tight budgets meant that success depended more than ever on creative engineering and human ingenuity. Beginning with the Genesis mission that launched his career, Wiens describes the competitive, DIY spirit of these robotic enterprises, from conception to construction, from launch to heart-stopping crashes and smooth landings.
An inspiring account of the real-life challenges of space exploration, Red Rovervividly narrates what goes into answering the question: is there life elsewhere in the universe? | en |
Walker | He has the power to walk between worlds.
His captors think they can hold him.
They're wrong.
What do you say when offered a lifelong position in the most powerful and corrupt secret organization in mankind's history?
If you want your life to last longer than the job interview, you say yes.
In exchange for wealth, power, and training for his newly discovered powers, all Daniel has to do is help them reach a new, unsuspecting world.
To make things worse, a group of desperate escapees pin their thin hopes on him, willing to risk everything on a miracle that Daniel has no idea how to provide.
Shackled with a restraint bracelet, constant surveillance, and superhuman captors, he must outsmart an overwhelmingly powerful enemy and seek freedom in the one place that is left to him, a new world that only he can reach. | en |
Letters to Myself | The ties that bind a co-dependent relationship are complex and interwoven. It can be almost impossible to untangle them all, just ask Cassie.
Cassie seems to have everything - a charismatic husband, kids, a nice house. But things are never what they seem. Cassie is struggling to keep her identity in a toxic relationship with her husband.Charming and handsome he may be, he is also controlling, inflexible and a sex addict. Trying to please him in and out of the bedroom is gradually unraveling Cassie, who is in therapy.
Something has to change, but it is not the change you might expect. Cassie didn't expect it either, and she is pushed into a new life and new challenges. Given a notebook by her therapist Cassie begins to write letters to herself, and it is in these letters that she discovers who she really is and what she really wants in life.
Authors note: there are sex scenes in this book which I believe were necessary to illustrate how difficult life is for Cassie. | en |
Sit Still! | Patrick is a whirling, swirling bundle of energy who knows 101 ways to sit in a chair | en |
Don't Bite the Messenger (NIght Runner, #0,5) | Anchorage, Alaska
The vampire population may have created an economic boom in Alaska, but their altered energy field fries most technology. They rely on hard-living--and short-lived--couriers to get business done...couriers like Sydney Kildare.
Sydney has survived to the ripe old age of twenty-six by being careful. She's careful when navigating her tempestuous clients, outrunning hijackers and avoiding anyone who might distract her from her plan of retiring young to a tropical, vampire-free island.
Her attitude--and immunity to vampires' allure--have made her the target of a faction of vampires trying to reclaim their territory. Her only ally is Malcolm Kelly, a secretive charmer with the uncanny habit of showing up whenever she's in trouble. Caught in the middle of a vampire turf war, Sydney has to count on Malcolm to help her survive, or the only place she'll retire is her grave...
32,000 words | en |
Het geslacht Wiarda | Bevat:
- Noorderzon
- Stiefmoeder aarde
- Het rad der fortuin | nl |
Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom | In the wrong hands, math can be deadly. Even the simplest numbers can become powerful forces when manipulated by politicians or the media, but in the case of the law, your liberty--and your life--can depend on the right calculation.
In Math on Trial, mathematicians Leila Schneps and Coralie Colmez describe ten trials spanning from the nineteenth century to today, in which mathematical arguments were used--and disastrously misused--as evidence. They tell the stories of Sally Clark, who was accused of murdering her children by a doctor with a faulty sense of calculation; of nineteenth-century tycoon Hetty Green, whose dispute over her aunt's will became a signal case in the forensic use of mathematics; and of the case of Amanda Knox, in which a judge's misunderstanding of probability led him to discount critical evidence--which might have kept her in jail. Offering a fresh angle on cases from the nineteenth-century Dreyfus affair to the murder trial of Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk, Schneps and Colmez show how the improper application of mathematical concepts can mean the difference between walking free and life in prison.
A colorful narrative of mathematical abuse, Math on Trialblends courtroom drama, history, and math to show that legal expertise isn't always enough to prove a person innocent. | en |
My Everything (The Beaumont Series #1.5) | When Nick Ashford lost his friend, Mason, he didn't realize he was going to lose his family as well, but that's exactly what happened. Alone and in a foreign country, Nick is working on rebuilding his life one patient at a time, that is, until a striking volunteer makes her presence known.
Can Nick finish his year in Africa without risking his heart being broken again, or is he willing to start a new chapter in his life before his return to Beaumont? | en |
Το άλικο γράμμα | Bostone, mesa tou 17ou aiona. Mia neare gunaika ektithetai sten exedra tes diapompeuses. Ston korpho tes pherei ena aliko gramma A-to arkhiko gramma tes lexes adulteress (moikhalida)-kai ena brephos ligon menon. Ole e zophere pouritanike koinonia tes Neas Agglias ekhei karphomena pano tes ta blosura tes blemmata. Ekeine arneitai peismatika na apokalupsei to onoma tou patera. Ekeinos sphragizei me te siope tou ton exeutelismo kai ten timoria tes.
E Amerikanike koinonia ton khronon tou Khothorn zei akoma buthismene stis prokatalepseis, to phobo kai ta oria pou thetei e threskeia antikathistontas akoma kai auton ton idio to nomo. E katapiesmene anthropine phuse bionei ta dilemmata tes kai desmeuetai apo tis enokhes tes khoris na mporei telika na xephugei apo tis prostages tes pouritanikes ethikes.
To Aliko Gramma os proion ton dilemmaton auton apotelei ena klasiko keimeno tes pagkosmias logotekhnias. Ta megala erotematika skhetika me ten anthropine eleutheria, mpros stous periorismous pou thetei e threskeia, me antallagma ten koinonike apodokhe, epistrephoun akoma kai ustera apo enan kai pleon aiona; kai par'olo pou to skeniko deikhnei na ekhei allaxei, sto bathos sunekhizoun na uparkhoun. | Undefined |
Clockwork Fairies | Desiree feels the most at home with her clockwork creations, but Claude worries about all this science and Darwinist nonsense--after all, where do clockwork fairies fall in the Great Chain of Being? | en |
Speed Shrinking | "Proust had a cookie. Susan Shapiro has a cupcake--and a really hilarious book."
--Patricia Marx, author of Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him
In Susan Shapiro's laugh-out-loud funny fictional debut Speed Shrinking, Manhattan self-help author Julia Goodman thinks she's got her addictive personality under control. Then her beloved psychoanalyst moves away at the same time her husband takes off to L.A. and her best friend gets married and moves to Ohio.
Feeling lonely and left out, Julia fills in the void with food, becomes a cupcake addict, and blimps out. This is a huge problem--especially since she's about to go on national television to plug her hot new self-help book about how she conquered her sugar addiction.
Navigating her insurance network, Julia desperately sees eight shrinks in eight days, speed-dating for Dr. Replacement--or any other new guru--to help shrink back her body and anxiety in time for her close-up. | en |
101 Hantu Nusantara | Konon hantu itu berangkat dari budaya takut yang ada pada pada setiap komunitas. Kuntilanak, katanya, cuma cerminan rasa takut masyarakat terhadap sosok perempuan yang kuat. Komik ini mencoba merekam berbagai jenis hantu yang tersebar di seantero Nusantara. Dari beragam hantu ini bisa dicoba analisa latar belakang sebuah budaya dan apa-apa yang menjadi kecemasan masyarakatnya. Yang jelas komik ini menggali khasanah budaya tadi dari segi lucunya. | Undefined |
Forever Burning (Eternals, #3) | Forever Burning, is the third and last book in the Burning Miniseries, part of the Eternal series.
He watched her burn, becoming a pile of ashes at his feet...
Now, there is hope, he might be able to get his She, his one true mate, back.
There might be a miracle that allows him to hold her again. Or will she be snatched from him before he has a chance to claim her as his own? | en |
I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere | I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhereexplores how a life can be changed irrevocably in just one fateful moment. A pregnant mother's plans for the future unravel at the hospital; a travelling salesman learns the consequences of an almost-missed exit on the motorway in the newspaper the next morning; while a perfect date is spoilt by a single act of thoughtlessness. In those crucial moments Gavalda demonstrates her almost magical skill in conveying love, lust, longing, and loneliness.
Someone I Lovedis a hauntingly intimate look at the intolerably painful, yet sometimes valuable consequences that adultery can have on a marriage and the individuals involved. A simple tale, yet long in substance, Someone I Lovedends like most great love affairs, forever leaving you wanting just one more moment. | en |
Cornflakes: Poems | Want to savor something really delicious? Try something snappy? Give yourself a treat? Open this book! | en |
Benji, Benji Marshall: my game, my story | "Benji equals anybody I've seen in terms of flair, and making something happen he is a remarkable talent, born out of living on the edge. That's the way he is. He was made to be a footballer..." -Wayne Bennett
Benji Marshall is a sporting superstar- a once in a generation player.
This is his story- from growing up in a small NZ town, born to a young mother (and a father he's never met) to today- winner of the Golden Boot Award, and acknowledged
as the best rugby league player in the world.
He was a natural player from the very beginning. He was just 18 years of age and on a sporting scholarship at the Gold Coast school, when he first played for Wests Tigers against Newcastle and he's played for Wests ever since.
He's been a part of the stunning Grand Final victory against the North Queensland Cowboys, New Zealand's victory in the 2008 world cup, and was New Zealand captain when the Kiwis won the Four Nations series in 2010.
This is Benji Marshall as you've never seen him before- an inside account of sport played at the very highest level, by a true master of the game (taken from back and inside cover respectively) | en |
The Devil's Own | At the Threshold of Tenderness - or Terror
Isabel's life was suddenly glorious. Her Aunt Camilla welcomed her to her new home. Her boyfriend, Matthew, would make her life complete. But frightening things began to happen at Camilla's - strange parties, midnight meetings in the woods, dreams - or were they dreams? - of being ravished by someone Isabel could scarcely remember in the morning. Then, after one of her nightmares, she turned to Matthew for comfort - only to recognize the glitter in his eyes! Only to realize the horrible truth she was born to discover! | en |
Petropolis | Sasha Goldberg is the ultimate outsider: she's a chubby, biracial Jewish girl from the Siberian town of Asbestos 2. Her father takes off for the United States, and leaves Sasha to navigate adolescence in a bleak apartment bloc with her overbearing mother. Sasha falls in love with an art school drop-out who lives inside a concrete pipe in the town dump. Following her heart gets her into trouble at home, so she flees Russia as a mail-order bride and lands in suburban Arizona. Sasha manages to escape her Red Lobster-loving fiance and embarks on a misadventure-filled journey across America in search of her father. Anya Ulinich has crafted an unforgettable story of familial fault lines, cross-cultural confusion, and the beguiling allure of new beginnings. Petropolisis a funny and poignant debut marking the arrival of a major new voice in fiction. | en |
Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia | A polemical account of Britain's disruptive and damaging role in the break-up of Yugoslavia.
For most of 1992-1995, Britain stood aside while an internationally recognised state was attacked by externally-sponsored rebels bent on a campaign of territorial aggression and ethnic cleansing. It was her unfinest hour since 1938. Based on interviews with many of the chief participants, parliamentary debates, and a wide range of sources, Brendan Simm's brilliant study traces the roots of British policy and the highly sophisticated way in which the government sought to minimise the crisis and defuse popular and American pressure for action. We all continue to live with the results of these shameful actions to this day. | en |
Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child | Raising anEmotionally Intelligent Childis John Gottman's groundbreaking guide to teaching children to understand and regulate their emotional world.
Intelligence That Comes from the Heart
Every parent knows the importance of equipping children with the intellectual skills they need to succeed in school and life. But children also need to master their emotions. Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Childis a guide to teaching children to understand and regulate their emotional world. And as acclaimed psychologist and researcher John Gottman shows, once they master this important life skill, emotionally intelligent children will enjoy increased self-confidence, greater physical health, better performance in school, and healthier social relationships. Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Childwill equip parents with a five-step "emotion coaching" process that teaches how to:
-Be aware of a child's emotions
-Recognize emotional expression as an opportunity for intimacy and teaching
-Listen empathetically and validate a child's feelings
-Label emotions in words a child can understand
-Help a child come up with an appropriate way to solve a problem or deal with an upsetting issue or situation
Written for parents of children of all ages, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Childwill enrich the bonds between parent and child and contribute immeasurably to the development of a generation of emotionally healthy adults. | en |
To Santa With Love | The holidays are coming and free-spirited Jacquie Grey plans to head west and start a new life. Her solo road trip is going great - until she collides with rancher Choya Barnett in Arizona. | en |
Power of Four | This is a preview collection of the first four chapters of the first four books of the suspenseful romance COLONY Series where sexy vampires protect the President of the United States. | en |
Lone Wolf (FBI K-9 #1) | When a madman goes on a bombing spree, an FBI K-9 team of one woman and her dog is the key to stopping him before more innocents die and panic sweeps the Eastern seaboard.
Meg Jennings and her Labrador, Hawk, are one of the FBI's top K-9 teams certified for tracking and search and rescue. When a bomb rips apart a government building on the National Mall in Washington D.C., it will take all the team's skill to locate and save the workers and children buried beneath the rubble.
More victims die and fear rises as the unseen bomber continues his reign of terror, striking additional targets, ruthlessly bent on pursuing a personal agenda of retribution. Meg and Hawk join the task force dedicated to following the trail of death and destruction to stop the killer. But when the attacks spiral wide and no single location seems safe any longer, it will come down to a battle of wits and survival skills between Meg, Hawk, and the bomber they're tracking. Can they stop him before he brings the nation to the brink of chaos? | en |
The Heart of Parenting: Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child | An award-winning research psychologist who has spent more than 20 years studying parent-child interactions shows parents how to "emotion coach" their kids to deal with their feelings--and help them develop into emotionally healthy adults. | en |
Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers: Guiding the Way for Compassionate, Committed, Courageous Adults | The world before September 11, 2001, was challenging enough for parents of teenagers. Now it is more so. Our families, schools, and workplaces need Emotionally Intelligent Teenagers who will not only be knowledgeable, responsible, nonviolent, and caring youths, but who also will grow up to be compassionate, committed, and courageous adults.
How can parents accomplish this? Not only do raging hormones make everything more intense for teenagers, but they have their own special issues concerning identity, self-confidence, peer pressure, and responsibility, including individuating from their parents. Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagersshows parents how to use a balance of love, laughter, and limits to reach their goals. Drs. Elias, Tobias, and Friedlander, all respected experts in child behavior and parents of teenagers, have written a clear, informative book of sound advice that applies the insights of Daniel Goleman's best- seller, Emotional Intelligence, to unlock teenagers' untapped desire to belong to families and schools that make a difference and to contribute positively to them.
Raising Emotionally Intelligent Teenagersis filled with real-life scenarios, practical strategies, and the answers to the questions parents ask most frequently, all drawn from the authors' professional and personal experiences and given with warmth and humor.
Guiding the way to compassionate, committed, courageous adults is a serious challenge, but its effective pursuit is a labor of love, a journey of joy, and a path filled with pride. | en |
Point of Hopes (Astreiant, #1) | Nicolas Rathe is a pointsman, a dedicated watchman in the great city of Astreiant. During the annual trade fair, with a city filled with travelers and merchants, someone is stealing children. The populace is getting angry and frightened and convinced that a foreigner must be to blame. Rathe calls on the aid of both an out-of-work soldier, the handsome Philip Eslingen, and the necromancer Istre b'Estorr. The art of astrology is a very real power in the kingdom and plays as much a role in politics as greed and intrigue. Rathe finds himself struggling to find the children before a major astrological event brings about catastrophe. The first in a series of fantasy novels filled with adventure, intrigue and gay romance. | en |
The Lost Codex (OPSIG Team Black #3) | In a novel Jeffery Deaver has called "brilliant," two ancient biblical documents reveal long-buried secrets that could change the world as we know it
In 930 CE, a revered group of scholars pen the first sanctioned Bible, planting the seed from which other major religions will grow. But in 1953, half the manuscript goes missing while being transported from Syria. Around the same time, in the foothills of the Dead Sea, an ancient scroll is discovered--and promptly stolen. Six decades later, both parchments stand at the heart of a geopolitical battle between foreign governments and radical extremists, threatening the lives of millions. With the American homeland under siege, the president turns to a team of uniquely trained covert operatives including FBI profiler Karen Vail, Special Forces veteran Hector DeSantos, and FBI terrorism expert Aaron Uziel. Their mission: Find the stolen documents and capture--or kill--those responsible for unleashing a coordinated and unprecedented attack on US soil. Set in DC, New York, Paris, England, and Israel, The Lost Codexhas been called "a masterwork of international suspense" and "an outstanding novel" by Douglas Preston. | en |
Le redoutable pirate Morgan (Les Campbell #2) | Traques par Carapepino, l'ame damnee de l'infame Inferno, Campbell et ses filles Itaca et Genova ont trouve refuge sur l'ile Bakalaoo. Mais les evenements recents ont reveille chez Campbell de nombreux souvenirs : sa jeunesse aux cotes de son frere, a l'epoque ou, ensemble, ils ecumaient les mers et forgeaient leur legende de flibustiers exceptionnels, leur rivalite avec le mysterieux et audacieux pirate Morgan, sa rencontre avec Fanny, sa femme, tragiquement disparue... Pendant ce temps, Carapepino intrigue du mieux qu'il peut pour s'evader de la geole ou il croupit, tandis qu'Inferno, desormais gouverneur de Sa Majeste le roi d'Angleterre, continue de rechercher activement Campbell. | fr |
Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty | From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plantagenets, a short, lively, action-packed history of how the Magna Carta came to be
The Magna Carta is revered around the world as the founding document of Western liberty. Its principles can be found in our Bill of Rights and in the Constitution. But what was this strange document that dwells on tax relief and greater fishing rights, and how did it gain legendary status?
Dan Jones takes us back to 1215, the turbulent year when the Magna Carta was just a peace treaty between England's King John and a group of self-interested, violent barons who were tired of his high taxes and endless foreign wars. The treaty would fail within two months of its confirmation.
But this important document marked the first time a king was forced to obey his own laws. Jones's 1215 follows the story of the Magna Carta's creation, its failure, and the war that subsequently engulfed England and is book that will appeal to fans of microhistories of pivotal years like 1066, 1491, and especially 1776--when American patriots, inspired by that long-ago defiance, dared to pick up arms against another English king. | en |
Three Days and a Life | "In 1999, in the small provincial town of Beauval, France, twelve-year-old Antoine Courtin accidentally kills a young neighbor boy in the woods near his home. Panicked, he conceals the body and to his relief--and ongoing shame--he is never suspected of any connection to the child's disappearance. But the boy's death continues to haunt him, shaping his life in unseen ways. More than a decade later, Antoine is living in Paris, now a young doctor with a fiancaee and a promising future. On a rare trip home to the town he hates and fears, Antoine thoughtlessly sleeps with a beautiful young woman from his past. She shows up pregnant at his doorstep in Paris a few months later, insisting that they marry, but Antoine refuses. Meanwhile, the newly discovered body of Antoine's childhood victim means that the case has been reopened, and all of his old fears rush back. Then the young woman's father threatens Antoine with a paternity test--which would almost certainly match the DNA found on the dead child's body. Will Antoine finally be forced to confront his crime? And what is he prepared to do to keep his secrets buried in the past?"-- | en |
Three Days and a Life | "In 1999, in the small provincial town of Beauval, France, twelve-year-old Antoine Courtin accidentally kills a young neighbor boy in the woods near his home. Panicked, he conceals the body and to his relief--and ongoing shame--he is never suspected of any connection to the child's disappearance. But the boy's death continues to haunt him, shaping his life in unseen ways. More than a decade later, Antoine is living in Paris, now a young doctor with a fiancaee and a promising future. On a rare trip home to the town he hates and fears, Antoine thoughtlessly sleeps with a beautiful young woman from his past. She shows up pregnant at his doorstep in Paris a few months later, insisting that they marry, but Antoine refuses. Meanwhile, the newly discovered body of Antoine's childhood victim means that the case has been reopened, and all of his old fears rush back. Then the young woman's father threatens Antoine with a paternity test--which would almost certainly match the DNA found on the dead child's body. Will Antoine finally be forced to confront his crime? And what is he prepared to do to keep his secrets buried in the past?"-- | en |
The Stolen Mackenzie Bride (MacKenzies & McBrides, #8) | 1745, Scotland: The youngest son of the scandalous Mackenzie family, Malcolm is considered too wild to tame...until he meets a woman who is too unattainable to resist.
Lady Mary Lennox is English, her father highly loyal to the king, and promised to another Englishman. But despite it being forbidden to speak to Malcolm, Lady Mary is fascinated by the Scotsman, and stolen moments together lead to a passion greater than she'd ever dreamed of finding.
When fighting breaks out between the Highlanders and the King's army, their plans to elope are thwarted, and it will take all of Malcolm's daring as a Scottish warrior to survive the battle and steal a wife out from under the noses of the English. | en |
Si c'est un homme | Ce livre est sans conteste l'un des temoignages les plus bouleversants sur l'experience indicible des camps d'extermination. Primo Levi y decrit la folie meurtriere du nazisme qui culmine dans la negation de l'appartenance des juifs a l'humanite. Le passage ou l'auteur decrit le regard de ce dignitaire nazi qui lui parle sans le voir, comme s'il etait transparent et n'existait pas en tant qu'homme, figure parmi les pages qui font le mieux comprendre que l'holocauste a d'abord ete une negation de l'humain en l'autre. Si rien ne predisposait l'ingenieur chimiste qu'etait Primo Levi a ecrire, son temoignage est pourtant devenu un livre qu'il importe a chaque membre de l'espece humaine d'avoir lu pour que la nuit et le brouillard de l'oubli ne recouvrent pas a tout jamais le souvenir de l'innommable, pour que jamais plus la question de savoir "si c'est un homme" ne se pose. De ce devoir de memoire, l'auteur s'est acquitte avant de mettre fin a ses jours, tant il semble difficile de vivre hante par les fantomes de ces corps martyrises et de ces voix etouffees. --Paul Klein | fr |
Once Upon A Kiss (Be-Wished, #3) | Livvy thought she lost her chance for a Happily Ever After when she dismissed the wish fairy who knocked on her door, so when a prime specimen of masculinity appears on her front lawn one stormy night, she can't quite believe it. Like a prince in distress, he needs her kiss to bring him out of his enchanted sleep.
After a war injury left him paralyzed, Joe Kimball never expected to walk again, but when he regains the use of his legs thanks to his sexy neighbor, he can't argue when she insists the credit belongs to a wish fairy. Nor does he want to. Arguing is the last thing on his mind now that he is a whole man again.
Unfortunately, a few days of hot sex do not a fairy-tale ending make, and as the magic becomes increasingly volatile, Joe and Livvy realize there's much more at stake than just their happiness.
This book is no longer available under this title. | en |
L'Homme qui plantait des arbres | Au cours d'une de ses promenades en Haute-Provence, Jean Giono a un jour rencontre un personnage extraordinaire, un berger solitaire et paisible qui plantait des arbres, des milliers d'arbres. Au fil des ans, le vieil homme a realise son reve: la lande aride et desolee est devenue une terre pleine de vie...
Une histoire simple et genereuse, un portrait emouvant et un hymne a la nature. | fr |
The Chairman: A Novel of Big City Politics | In The Chairman: A Novel of Big City Politics, award-winning short fiction writer and journalist Mark M. Quinn offers a character driven plot that shows the thin line between good and evil in a big city ward boss. In a way that few authors can, Quinn offers a convincing portrait of how complicated and mercurial the world of ward politics is and how, by definition, a public official is torn by conflicting motivations. Chairman Eamon DeValera Collins is a practitioner of raw, devious politics. Readers will split their time between condemning and cheering this deliciously nefarious while wholly sympathetic character. As a caricature of all that big city politics achieves and represents, this novel is a spellbinding look into the annals of America's colorful 20th century big city politics. While the urban political machine may not yet have died away completely, its swansong is composed of hilarity, tragedy, and desperation, which Quinn pitch-perfectly records. | en |
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Fallen Grace | Grace Parkes has just had to do a terrible thing. Having given birth to an illegitimate child, she has travelled to the famed Brookwood Cemetery to place her small infant's body in a rich lady's coffin. Following the advice of a kindly midwife, this is the only way that Grace can think of to give something at least to the little baby who died at birth, and to avoid the ignominy of a pauper's grave. Distraught and weeping, Grace meets two people at the cemetery: Mrs Emmeline Unwin and Mr James Solent. These two characters will have a profound affect upon Grace's life. But Grace doesn't know that yet. For now, she has to suppress her grief and get on with the business of living: scraping together enough pennies selling watercress for rent and food; looking after her older sister, who is incapable of caring for herself; thwarting the manipulative and conscience-free Unwin family, who are as capable of running a lucrative funeral business as they are of defrauding a young woman of her fortune. A stunning evocation of life in Victorian London, with vivid and accurate depictions, ranging from the deprivation that the truly poor suffered to the unthinking luxuries enjoyed by the rich: all bound up with a pacy and thrilling plot, as Grace races to unravel the fraud about to be perpetrated against her and her sister. | en |
Once I Was A Wife | A British Earl murders his children's nanny, mistaking her in the dark for his wife, and disappears, never to be seen again.
For forty years the British press will look for him. There will be 'sightings', there will be leads, but the police will eventually close the case when the Earl is officially declared dead.
For many, the whole affair was the best and most addictive of mysteries, based on a tragedy, and before that on a turbulent marriage between a breathtakingly handsome, elegant and noble gambler and an inept, and possibly insane, social climber.
But for his wife, it was the most romantic and passionate of love affairs, turned sour - a love affair that would stretch beyond death itself. | en |
Secrets That Kill (Shelby Nichols #4) | As a "favor" to Uncle Joey, Shelby must deliver a letter to his associate in Orlando where she has been vacationing with her family. When things go terribly wrong, Shelby finds herself being pursued by a Florida Kingpin for the information he thinks she stole. On her own and in trouble, Uncle Joey sends Ramos to her rescue. As Shelby and Ramos take care of unfinished business, Shelby uncovers information about Ramos and a secret that could change his life. On a path of revenge and intrigue, Shelby finds that some secrets are meant to be kept...and others? They can kill. | en |
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) | Speak again the ancient oaths,
Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
Journey before Destination.
And return to men the Shards they once bore.
The Knights Radiant must stand again.
Roshar is a world of stone swept by tempests that shape ecology and civilization. Animals and plants retract; cities are built in shelter. In centuries since ten orders of Knights fell, their Shardblade swords and Shardplate armor still transform men into near-invincible warriors. Wars are fought for them, and won by them.
In one such war on the ruined Shattered Plains, slave Kaladin struggles to save his men and fathom leaders who deem them expendable, in senseless wars where ten armies fight separately against one foe.
Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Fascinated by the ancient text namedThe Way of Kingsand troubled by visions of ancient times, he doubts his sanity.
Across the ocean, Shallan trains under eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar's niece Jasnah. Though Shallan genuinely loves learning, she plans a daring theft. Her research hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war. | en |
Mann går på bar | Hovedpersonen kaller seg Johan Olsen nar han sitter pa bar og juger. Det gjor han ofte.
I stedet for a benytte repet han har hengende fra en bjelke pa kjokkenet, velger han den lette
utveien: a drikke seg i hjel.
Han moter en kvinne en av disse kveldene. Hun er bare halvparten sa gammel som ham, men blir viktig i de valgene som forestar: leve eller do.
Han hadde viljen til a forsvinne fra denne verden, men blir han, uten helt a vite eller ville det, reddet av dette nye mennesket? | Undefined |
Huntress / Stunner (Alexa O'Brien, Huntress, #0.5-0.75) | Two prequel short stories from the urban fantasy Alexa O'Brien Huntress series.
HUNTRESS:
A brief look at Alexa O'Brien before meeting the one man who would change her life forever. A werewolf with an unusual power, Alexa discovers that love may just be her greatest enemy yet.
STUNNER:
Reckless and young, Alexa O'Brien has finally met her match. A werewolf with unusual power, Alexa has a talent for finding trouble. This time trouble is a vampire who will change her life forever.
Plus Chapter One from Huntress Book One: Once Bitten | en |
Buried Secrets (Nick Heller, #2) | Nick has returned to his old home town of Boston to set up his own shop. There he's urgently summoned by an old family friend. Hedge fund titan Marshall Marcus desperately needs Nick's help. His teenage daughter, Alexandra, has just been kidnapped.
Her abduction was clearly a sophisticated, professional job, done with extraordinary precision, leaving no trace evidence. Alexandra, whom Nick has known since she was an infant, is now buried alive, held prisoner in an underground crypt, a camera trained on her, her suffering streaming live over the internet for all to see. She's been left with a limited supply of food and water and, if her father doesn't meet the demands of her shadowy kidnappers, she'll die.
And as Nick begins to probe, he discovers that his old friend Marshall Marcus seems to have been running a Ponzi scheme. His fund has collapsed, the FBI has arrested him, and now he's become the most hated man in America. He has a lot of powerful enemies who may have the motivation to go after his daughter. But to find out who's holding Alexandra Marcus hostage, Nick has to find out why. And once he does, he uncovers an astonishing conspiracy that reaches up to the highest levels of government.
If he's going to find Alexandra, he has to flush out and confront some of the most deadly opponents ever... | en |
ロリポップチェーンソー | Bi Nu hapotsupudekiyutonazonbihantananodesu
sanromeroGao Xiao niTong ugokuPu Tong noNu Zi Xiao Sheng ziyurietsutoniha, Shui nimoYan enaiMi Mi gaatsuta.
soreha......Bi Nu hazonbihantatoiukoto.
Si Ling woTian Guo niDao kuzonbihantanoJia Xi niSheng woShou ketaziyurietsutono18Sui madenoSheng iLi chiwo, komikaruniQie tsu, Da Dan niMiao kimasu. | sw |
Imagine-- Ernie is Teeny-Tiny | Imagine... Ernie is Teeny-Tiny is a 1994 Sesame Street book in which Ernie imagines that he shrinks. | Undefined |
Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution | A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society
Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America's marginalized voices. Now, in Independence Lost, she recounts an untold story as rich and significant as that of the Founding Fathers: the history of the Revolutionary Era as experienced by slaves, American Indians, women, and British loyalists living on Florida's Gulf Coast.
While citizens of the thirteen rebelling colonies came to blows with the British Empire over tariffs and parliamentary representation, the situation on the rest of the continent was even more fraught. In the Gulf of Mexico, Spanish forces clashed with Britain's strained army to carve up the Gulf Coast, as both sides competed for allegiances with the powerful Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek nations who inhabited the region. Meanwhile, African American slaves had little control over their own lives, but some individuals found opportunities to expand their freedoms during the war.
Independence Lost reveals that individual motives counted as much as the ideals of liberty and freedom the Founders espoused: Independence had a personal as well as national meaning, and the choices made by people living outside the colonies were of critical importance to the war's outcome. DuVal introduces us to the Mobile slave Petit Jean, who organized militias to fight the British at sea; the Chickasaw diplomat Payamataha, who worked to keep his people out of war; New Orleans merchant Oliver Pollock and his wife, Margaret O'Brien Pollock, who risked their own wealth to organize funds and garner Spanish support for the American Revolution; the half-Scottish-Creek leader Alexander McGillivray, who fought to protect indigenous interests from European imperial encroachment; the Cajun refugee Amand Broussard, who spent a lifetime in conflict with the British; and Scottish loyalists James and Isabella Bruce, whose work on behalf of the British Empire placed them in grave danger. Their lives illuminate the fateful events that took place along the Gulf of Mexico and, in the process, changed the history of North America itself.
Adding depth and moral complexity, Kathleen DuVal reinvigorates the story of the American Revolution. Independence Lost is a bold work that fully establishes the reputation of a historian who is already regarded as one of her generation's best. | en |
Aidan's First Full Moon: A Magical Child Story | Aidan and his parents have been solitary witches for as long as he can remember. At the rising of the Harvest Moon, his family is invited to a local coven's Full Moon Esbat celebration. Aidan is jittery about joining a Circle full of strangers. While he is enjoying himself around the bonfire, the High Priestess and his mother cook up a plan to get him involved in the Harvest Moon ritual. Aidan learns he is an important member of the Pagan community.
While reading the story, children can help Seamus the squirrel gather enough acorns for the coming winter by finding where they are hidden within the captivating illustrations.
An enchanting, fictional tale of a Wiccan nighttime gathering, Aidan's First Full Moon Circle will engage young readers with magical images while introducing some coven ritual basics. | en |
Three Sides of a Heart: Stories about Love Triangles | The anthology explores the myriad tragic, frustrating, humorous possibilities of the teen love triangle, and features 15 new stories by these authors. | en |
Destination: India | Let yourself go...
Georgia Green is about to board a plane to India, alone - again. Things were supposed to be different this time, but Georgia backpacked solo to Thailand and survived, what could possibly go wrong?
Only she is about to find out that when in India the country calls the shots - not you.
The new favourite series for fans of The Curvy Girls Club, the Shopaholicseries and Eat, Pray, Love.
Join Georgia Green for her next big adventure in Bollywood!
Don't miss the next book in The Lonely Hearts Travel Club series Destination Chileavailable to preorder now!
What reviewers are saying about The Lonely Hearts Travel Club'I cannot recommend this book enough. It is beautifully written with a brilliant plot and fantastic characters. READ IT!!' - Blabbering About Books
'I lovedthis book.' - For the Love of Books
'It is a really enthralling page turnerand a brilliant start to a new series. I can't wait to read the sequels, 'Destination India' and 'Destination Chile'!' - Splashes into Books | en |
Destination Chile | Welcome to Paradise
Next on her bucket list Georgia Green is heading to Chile, but this time she's not going alone...
The new favourite series for fans of The Curvy Girls Club, the Shopaholicseries and Eat, Pray, Love.
Join Georgia Green for a romantic trip into the sunset...
What reviewers are saying about The Lonely Hearts Travel Club'I cannot recommend this book enough. It is beautifully written with a brilliant plot and fantastic characters. READ IT!!' - Blabbering About Books
'I lovedthis book.' - For the Love of Books
'It is a really enthralling page turnerand a brilliant start to a new series. I can't wait to read the sequels, 'Destination India' and 'Destination Chile'!' - Splashes into Books | en |
Been There Done That~ In Flames (The Tested Love Series) | Book II of The Tested Love Series!
Andrea Nicholls-Fountaine is grieving the loss of her daughter, trying to make sense of how her world was suddenly upended with one phone call. She decides to keep her daughter's memory alive by creating a business doing the very thing that they shared. When Andrea suddenly finds herself attracted to the handsome detective Zane Perkins, she decides she is not ready for it-been there, done that. This is one complication she can do without in her life. Detective Zane Perkins decides to show her she's wrong. | en |
Crushing on You (Love Stories For Young Adults, #25) | Shauna Phillips's sophomore year is off to a killer start! The Junior she's been crushing on--Tommy Jansen--has finally noticed her. Soon Shauna's so busy with everything but school that her grades take a sudden nose-dive--and she ends up with an after-school tutor! Shy Chad Givens is nice, but Shauna isn't interested. Yet as her grades go up, her attraction to Chad does also. Now, she must choose--sweet and attentive Chad or drop-dead-gorgeous Tommy. | en |
Wohin die Gier dich treibt (Decker/Lazarus #22) | Nach 30 Jahren in L.A. will Detective Peter Decker die Zeit bis zur Pensionierung etwas ruhiger angehen lassen. Aus diesem Grund ziehen er und seine Frau Rina Lazarus nach Greenbury in der Nahe von New York. Bis auf ein paar Fuhrerscheinkontrollen bei betrunkenen Studenten passiert in dem kleinen College-Stadtchen kaum etwas - und Decker langweilt sich. Als aus einer Familiengruft wertvolle Artefakte entwendet und gegen Falschungen ersetzt werden, beginnt Decker voller Elan zu ermitteln und stosst im Umfeld der Kunstakademie auf einen Kunstfalscherring - dann wird die Leiche einer verdachtigen Studentin aufgefunden ... | de |
Nightmare Ballad | One day, while instructing a swim class, Luke Rhodes hears a strange ballad in his head that twists reality. After a series of terrifying events, he escapes through a black curtain and leaves a living nightmare behind.
The ballad hasn't left him though. Pieces remain. And when the song surfaces... the nightmare returns. Joined by Luke's two wives and his miscreant friend Johnny Cruz, they resolve to discover the source of these "Lifemares," and, more importantly, how to escape them.
But time is against them. Innocent people are dying and these freakish disturbances are devastating the world they know.
Will Luke and his family find the singer of the Ballad before it's too late? Or will horrifying nightmares roam the world... forever? | en |
Escape from Tykonia (Galactic Odyssey #1) | A lone space captain arrives in a new galaxy and finds himself on the mysterious planet of Tykonia. He inadvertently joins a failing rebellion using top secret files he obtained. With this new rebellion, he attempts to leave Tykonia, but finds the rebels & himself pursued by the controlling alien empire of the galaxy: the Trisconians. He is soon entrusted with a mystic Red Ring that contains a deep, ancient power that is unlike anything he, the rebellion, or the galaxy has ever seen before. | en |
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter | Indiana , 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."
"My baby boy..." she whispers before dying.
Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire.
When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln , he writes in his journal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study and devotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And this mastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path of vengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House.
While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. That is, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journal of Abraham Lincoln, and became the first living person to lay eyes on it in more than 140 years.
Using the journal as his guide and writing in the grand biographical style of Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough, Seth has reconstructed the true life story of our greatest president for the first time-all while revealing the hidden history behind the Civil War and uncovering the role vampires played in the birth, growth, and near-death of our nation. | en |
Post Mortem, Parish Mail #2 | Celia Macarty is back in Post Mortem, the second installment in the Parish Mailsaga.
Autumn in New Orleans means Homecoming, romance--and murder. When a friend vanishes, Celia believes a desperate letter about an unsolved Civil War-era murder holds the key to unraveling the mystery.
As she searches for answers, Celia enlists the help of quirky witch Tilly, and either all-American boy Donovan or, enigmatic Luc-you get to choose.
As the gang follows the missing girl's trail, danger turns up on all fronts. A vicious stranger threatens Celia's family. Celia's nightmares-about a shadowy, ominous villain-get worse. And a new ghost has appeared: beautiful Angelica, who shares a past with Luc.
It will take all of Celia's will and wit, and the faith of her friends, to solve an unspeakable crime. And no matter which path Celia takes, she will discover that sometimes the past can come back to haunt you.
What's Cool from Coliloquy:
Throughout the Parish Mailseries, readers decide which clues to follow to help Celia unravel each mystery. You'll even get to cast a vote for your favorite love interest. But remember: Choose carefully, or else the killer might just get away. | en |
Deus, Um Delírio | Num tempo de guerras e ataques terroristas com motivacoes religiosas, o movimento pro-ateismo ganha forca no mundo todo. E seu lider intelectual e o respeitado biologo Richard Dawkins, que neste Deus, um delirioinveste contra o fundamento basico de toda e qualquer religiao. Autor de classicos como O gene egoista, Dawkins argumenta que a existencia de Deus (ou Ala) e cientificamente improvavel e que crer nele nao so e inutil e superfluo, mas tambem prejudicial. De acordo com o autor, ninguem precisa de Deus para ter principios morais, para fazer o bem, para apreciar a natureza.
O objetivo confesso deste livro - best-seller nos Estados Unidos e na Europa - e nao apenas provocar os religiosos convictos, mas principalmente levar os religiosos "por inercia" a pensar racionalmente a sua crenca, trocando-a pelo orgulho ateu e pela ciencia. | pt |
Bursting with Confidence | Haley and Abigail are best friends.Abigail is babysitting a little boy named Peter Larsen at an old mansion. She calls Haley and ask her to visit.
Haley visits the Larsen mansion.
After Haley meets Peter, strange things start to happen. Soon, Haley and Abigail learn a few of the Larsen mansion's dark secrets. | en |
Dark Swan (Otherworld Assassin, #3) | The Alien Huntress series is back with fan favorite AIR agent Dallas Gutierrez from New York Timesand USA TODAYbestselling paranormal romance author Gena Showalter, who doesn't disappoint with this sizzling hot alpha hero.
From Blood Red Kiss anthology
Lilica Swan isn't quite human or otherworlder; she is the best--and worst--of both.
She is willing to do whatever proves necessary to save her sister from the seductive and deadly Alien Investigation and Removal agent, Dallas Gutierrez, even bonding her lifeforce to his by effectively marrying him. But the bond will fade without consummation. Can Dallas resist his insatiable desire for the powerful beauty? Or will she lead to his ultimate downfall? | en |
Welou, My Brother | Welou, My Brotheris the story of a boy and his family, and their struggle to live between three cultures. They are Islanders, descended from labourers who were shanghaied from Vanuatu and put to work in the Queensland cane fields. Welou, his mother Ivy and father Wacvie, and his brothers and sisters live a simple and close family life centered on farming and domestic chores.
In this book, Faith Bandler recreates the timeless, slow and relaxed rhythm of life of her childhood. It is a story that will be enjoyed by all ages, and is recommended for students of social and mulit-cultural studies. | en |
Christopher Columbus and the Knights Templar | "Fire," the man chuckles, "has always been a friend to the Templars."
The signs are everywhere. Viking symbols carved into a rock in a Rhode Island lake. A medieval knight chiseled on an ancient North American boulder. A tower said to have been built hundreds of years before Europeans arrived in America.
Join your best friends August and Jupiter Cunningham on an adventure across three countries, into a mystery that promises treasure and danger.
Following in the tradition of "The Goonies" and Indiana Jones, Christopher Columbus and the Knights Templar is one book your kids won't want to put down! | en |
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Tags: Affirmations, Happiness, Gratitude, Gratitude Challenge, Inspired Women, Inspirational Stories, Life of Gratitude, Create a Happy Life, Happier Life, Inspirational Quotes, Everyday Gratitude, Positive Affirmations | en |
Partials - La conexión: 1 | For fans of The Hunger Games, Battlestar Galactica, and Blade Runnercomes the first book in the Partials Sequence, a fast-paced, action-packed, and riveting sci-fi teen series, by acclaimed author Dan Wells.
Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials--engineered organic beings identical to humans--has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island. But sixteen-year-old Kira is determined to find a solution. As she tries desperately to save what is left of her race, she discovers that that the survival of both humans and Partials rests in her attempts to answer questions about the war's origin that she never knew to ask.
Playing on our curiosity of and fascination with the complete collapse of civilization, Partialsis, at its heart, a story of survival, one that explores the individual narratives and complex relationships of those left behind, both humans and Partials alike--and of the way in which the concept of what is right and wrong in this world is greatly dependent on one's own point of view. | en |
The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett | He's that regular guy from Astoria, Queens, who left his heart in San Francisco. He's the postwar heartthrob who inspired hundreds of young girls to wear black outside St. Patrick's Cathedral on his wedding day. He's the darling of the MTV generation who made music history when, at the age of 68, he won the coveted Grammy Award(r) for Album of the Year. He's the consummate artist known worldwide for his paintings. He's Tony Bennett, whose star shines brighter than ever as he enters his fifth decade of performing. Now, for the first time, this legend shares his amazing life story -- in a voice that's pure Tony Bennett: warm, resonant, and unforgettable.
"Tony Bennett has not just bridged the generation gap, he has demolished it," praised The New York Times.Since his appearance with the Red Hot Chili Peppers of the 1993 MTV Video Awards, and the addition of his seminal video, "Steppin' Out," to the MTV playlist, Bennett has become the hottest -- and coolest -- pop-culture icon for today's younger listeners, while remaining beloved by their parents and grandparents. An astonishing four generations have experienced the Tony Bennett magic -- the mesmerizing spell of a singer in love with singing, who embraces his audience with a soulful serenity communicated by both the man and his music.
Honored with countless awards, including eight Grammys, and with more than ninety albums to his credit (more than thirty million sold for the Columbia label alone), no other recording artist has attained Bennett's stature -- or garnered the half-century of memories shared in The Good Life.From Sinatra, Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald, to k.d. lang and Elvis Costello, Bennett shares his unique takes on the most fascinating talents of our time. Here is the story of his lifelong love affair with art, music, and performing -- from his childhood in Depression-era Queens, where opera and Billie Holiday flowed freely; to his stint as a singing waiter; to soaking up the New York jazz scene in the 1940s. With crisp wit and firmly grounded emotion, Bennett captures the people and places that shaped his sublime performances. The dozens of hits he introduced to the great American songbook, including "Because of You," "Rags to Riches," "Cold, Cold Heart," and his signature song, "I Left My Heart in Son Francisco," remain a legacy of truth and beauty for the classic art of intimate singing.
In this wonderfully revealing self-portrait, we get to know Tony Bennett as he really is: an unpretentious and thoughtful human being. His key to success is consistency: His constant dedication in his pursuit of excellence has never wavered, despite the trials and tribulations one can encounter when placing integrity above all else. Through all of his personal and artistic challenges, he has remained, in his own words, "a humanist" whose Zen-like philosophy of life is an inspiration for all ages. Like the fascinating story he shares in The Good Life,Tony Bennett is one of a kind, an American treasure, an enduring artist seasoned with experience and self-knowledge, and a true class act. | en |
Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist | The ideas of John Maynard Keynes inspired the New Deal and helped rebuild world economies after World War II --and were later dismissed as "depression economics." Then came the great meltdown of 2008. Market forces that the world relied on suddenly failed to self-correct--and Keynes's doctrine of corrective action in an imperfect world became more relevant than ever.
Keynes was not a traditional economist: He was a polemicist, iconoclastic public intellectual, peer of the realm, and political operative, as well as an openly homosexual Bohemian who befriended Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster. In Keynes, noted historian Peter Clarke provides a timely and masterful accounting of Keynes's life and work, bringing his genius and skepticism alive for an era fraught with economic difficulties that he surely would have relished solving. | en |
Sona and the Wedding Game | Sona's big sister is getting married and she's been given an important job to do. She has to steal the groom's shoes. She's never attended a wedding before, so she's unfamiliar with this Indian tradition as well as many of the other magical experiences that will occur before and during the special event. But with the assistance of her annoying cousin Vishal, Sona finds a way to steal the shoes and get a very special reward. | en |
A Field Guide to the Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific | This is the first field guide to the identification of the birds of the islands of the tropical Pacific, including the Hawaiian Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, southeastern Polynesia, and Micronesia. It is intended both as a reference for the expert and as an introduction to birding in the region for the novice. Small enough to be carried afield, it contains much previously unpublished information about behavior, vocalizations, ecology, and distribution. The forty-five color plates depict all plumages of all bird species that breed in the islands, as well as of those that regularly visit them and the surrounding oceans, and of most species believed to be extinct on the islands. Black-and-white figures show many of the rarer visitors.
Introductory sections discuss the tropical Pacific as an environment for birds, problems of birding on islands, and bird conservation. Appendixes include maps of the island groups and a thorough bibliography. | en |
Empire | 'Sumptuously detailed, beautifully imagined...Empire is an exceptional achievement and will be the mark against which later books will be measured.'
--The Wire
'As high on adrenaline as it is on authentic detailing.'
--Firstpost
'A gripping historical novel.'
--Hindustan Times
'Yesodharan does a beautiful job of bringing alive a distant and dramatic past and peopling it with heroes and heroines that will intrigue, surprise and delight the readers - and stay with them long after they've finished reading.' - Chitra Divakaruni
'Perfect tapestry intricately woven with threads of history and fiction. Imaginative, intriguing and intense.' - Ashwin Sanghi
A woman of courage, with dagger and bow, Will do countless deeds: dark and light, right and low. Her armour dark, her armour gold, Around her red rivers will flow. An Indian empire at the peak of its power. A great port heaped with spices, silks, jewellery, perfumes, weapons. Everyone wants a share of the riches of Nagapattinam. When a Greek pirate ship sails in to loot the wealth of the Cholas, it is brutally defeated by the navy and forced to pay a compensation. A payment that includes a twelve-year-old girl, Aremis. Aremis grows up to be a skilled warrior, a great asset to the Cholas. But she is a foreigner among her captors, even though the emperor trusts her to guard his person. Anantha, the man who took her captive, the supreme commander of the empire's armies, is a wily strategist. But he no longer has the stomach for war. The emperor's ambitions weary him. Rajendra Chola has conquered Lanka, now he wants to rule the Indian Ocean. Their future is set: a dangerous journey across the seas and a bloody, brutal war they cannot survive undamaged.
https://www.amazon.in/Empire-Devi-Yes... | en |
The Bush | Most Australians live in cities and cling to the coastal fringe, yet our sense of what an Australian is - or should be - is drawn from the vast and varied inland called the bush. But what do we mean by 'the bush', and how has it shaped us?
Starting with his forebears' battle to drive back nature and eke a living from the land, Don Watson explores the bush as it was and as it now is: the triumphs and the ruination, the commonplace and the bizarre, the stories we like to tell about ourselves and the national character, and those we don't. Via mountain ash and mallee, the birds and the beasts, slaughter, fire, flood and drought, swagmen, sheep and their shepherds, the strange and the familiar, the tragedies and the follies, the crimes and the myths and the hope - here is a journey that only our leading writer of non-fiction could take us on.
At once magisterial in scope and alive with telling, wry detail, The Bush lets us see our landscape and its inhabitants afresh, examining what we have made, what we have destroyed, and what we have become in the process.
No one who reads it will look at this country the same way again. | en |
Chuck's Zimmer. Gedichte - Lieder. | Wolf Wondratscheks Gedichte gehoren zu den Klassikern der Gegenwart. Kaum ein anderer Lyriker hat eine vergleichbare Popularitat erreicht. Dieser Band versammelt alle Gedichte, die zwischen 1974 und 1980 entstanden sind - viele davon haben Kultstatus. | de |
Io sono il messaggero | L'esistenza di Ed Kennedy scorre tranquilla. Fino al giorno in cui diventa un eroe. Ed ha diciannove anni, una passione sfrenata per i libri, un lavoro da tassista piuttosto precario che gli permette di vivacchiare, e nessuna prospettiva per il futuro. Quando non legge, passa il tempo con gli amici giocando a carte davanti a un bicchiere di birra o porta a spasso il Portinaio, il suo cane, che beve troppo caffe e puzza anche quando e pulito. Con le donne non e particolarmente disinvolto, perche l'unica ragazza che gli interessi davvero e Audrey, la ragione per cui e rimasto in quel posto senza vie d'uscita. Capace di colpirlo al cuore con una frase: <>. Non serve una pallottola per uccidere un uomo, bastano le parole. Tutto sembra cosi tremendamente immutabile: finche il caso mette un rapinatore sulla sua strada, e Ed diventa l'eroe del giorno. Da quel momento, comincia a ricevere strani messaggi scritti su carte da gioco, ognuno dei quali lo guida verso nuove memorabili imprese. E mentre Ed diventa sempre piu popolare, mentre nota una luce diversa negli occhi di Audrey e la gente lo saluta per strada, inizia a domandarsi: da dove arrivano i messaggi, chi e il messaggero? Come "Storia di una ladra di libri", Io sono il messaggero e un romanzo pieno di poesia e ironia. Con il suo stile unico, Markus Zusak sa raccontare la vita delle persone comuni in modo straordinario, dando un senso speciale anche alla piu ordinaria delle esistenze: perche sono i piccoli gesti di altruismo a renderci eroi quotidiani. | it |
Philosopher à la plage | Fatigue, intoxication mediatique, distractions consumeristes : notre vie quotidienne nous fait <>. Nous perdons le gout et le plaisir de penser et, par la-meme, de nous ouvrir au monde et aux autres. Deboussoles, perdus et tristes, nous renoncons a nous-memes.
Pourtant, l'ete nous offre une chance : ouvrir une breche dans le mur du desenchantement, trouver un point de passage qui nous conduit vers plus de liberte et de lucidite. C'est ce que nous propose le philosophe Jean-Louis Cianni dans ce veritable manuel de savoir-vivre. S'inspirant des textes de grands philosophes dont Plotin, Seneque, Marc-Aurele, Montaigne, Epicure, il nous invite a mediter sur toutes les facettes de notre condition et sur ses multiples ressources.
Le detachement, la naissance, le bonheur, la nudite, l'etonnement..., autant de themes abordes simplement et de maniere lumineuse, pour revenir a l'essentiel, sous le soleil, et redecouvrir l'art de vivre et de penser. Carpe diem ! | fr |
Before the Poison | "The accomplished Robinson never disappoints, mixing well-developed characterizations with edge-of-the-seat action."
--New Orleans Times-Picayune
"Make no mistake, he's among the very best."
--The Times(London)
Already justifiably acclaimed for his bestselling crime fiction novels featuring British Chief Inspector Alan Banks ("The best series now on the market" --Stephen King), Peter Robinson delivers a truly stunning standalone thriller, Before the Poison. Brilliantly combining the rich, atmospheric narrative of his award-winning In a Dry Seasonwith the twists and suspense of the noir classic Laura, Before the Poisontells the riveting story of a composer who comes to the scene of a notorious crime and becomes obsessed with a beautiful, mysterious, and possibly very dangerous woman. Evocatively set in the picturesque Yorkshire Dales, Before the Poisonis a masterful tale of mystery and suspense from the Anthony and Edgar(r) Award winner whose extraordinary fiction Janet Maslin of the New York Timescompared to, "the masculine, brooding work of Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly, Harlan Coben, George P. Pelecanos, and Jonathan Kellerman." | en |
Created In Fire (Art of Love, #2) | Like to laugh one minute and cry the next? This is the right romance for you.
Read this story and become immersed in the Larson family saga. Follow metal sculptor Michael Larson, the eldest of Will Larson's sons, as he painfully learns the true art of love in the second book of this entertaining romantic comedy series.
At 34, Michael Larson has made himself into a good man, even if he is still far from being a perfect one. He considers himself at least reformed of his previously bad dating habits. Unfortunately, Carrie Addison, the future mother of his child and the woman he loves madly, doesn't agree with that assessment. The challenge he faces is how to keep Carrie in life until he finds a way to change her mind.
Despite advice from his meddling family about hanging on to a woman looking to escape him, Michael pressures Carrie into a marriage of convenience. Her indecision about him and the baby is heart wrenching, but Michael won't let even her doubts stop him. He can't bear the thought of losing her now that he finally has her in his arms at last. | en |
Meet a Baby Hippo | Did you know that baby hippos are born underwater? Or that a baby hippo weighs about as much as ten human babies? Find out more fascinating facts about hippo calves. | en |
Líbání zakázáno 3 | Romanticka manga o problemech v zivote stredoskolacky a o tom, co vsechno muze zpusobit zakazany polibek.
Hlavni hrdinka, patnactileta Mako se prestehovala s rodinou do Tokia a nastoupila do nove skoly. Misto aby si uzivala zivota teenagerky v Tokiu, musi kvuli vlastni nesikovnosti posluhovat a uklizet v Klubu kavaliru - jedine tride chlapcu na jinak divci skole. A jako by to pro jeji trapeni nebylo dost, Mako se zamiluje do nejhezciho a nejpopularnejsiho z nich, i kdyz vi, ze v Klubu kavaliru se neco takoveho nepripousti, dokonce i libani je zakazano. Kdyz uz ma Mako pocit, ze se to neda dal vydrzet, stane se cestou z klubu neco necekaneho...
Zaverecny dil romanticke mangy o ,,sladkem" stredoskolskem zivote s nekolika bonusy a poznamkami autorky i o tom, jak se ji na teto manze pracovalo. | Undefined |
A Dragonling's Haunted Halloween and Night of the DeMented Symbiots: Two Dragonlings of Valdier Novellas | Listening Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
A Dragonlings' Haunted Halloween
During one of her many excursions exploring the palace, Cara Truman discovers a vast underground chamber that turns out to be the perfect place for her next invention. Soon, her dream of building the ultimate playground for the dragonlings is a reality.
When Abby laughingly mentions the new playground looks like the perfect place to have a Halloween party, Cara goes into high gear to create the perfect haunted house adventure for the babies. The fun kicks into high gear when the men discover what Cara has been up to and decide to "test" the playground first!
Cara has no idea that her new project would create a sense of panic, wonder, or hilarious consequences in the palace when she unveils it. Discover what happens when another Earth holiday is unveiled, with the help from a couple of mischievous goddesses, the symbiots, and dragonlings in A Dragonlings' Haunted Halloween.
Night of the Demented Symbiots
The dragonlings and their besties are excited about the preparations for another Halloween holiday. As the night of the festival draws closer, the dragonlings, Roam, and Alice discover a threat to the newest members of their families: the Queen of the Demented Symbiots plans to send her minions to capture the newest babies and take them to the land of Halloween where she lives. With their parents busy organizing the huge festival for the people of Valdier in an underground cavern, the dragonlings and their friends are left with no choice but to prepare for the ultimate battle--to save Morah, Leo, and Hope from the Queen of the Demented Symbiots.
Join in a holiday adventure that you won't forget as the little ones use their special skills to protect their friends and family in Night of the Demented Symbiots. | en |
A Passionate Prodigality | Following the declaration of war in 1914, Chapman joined the Royal Fusiliers as an adjutant and was sent to the Western Front in August 1915.
Chapman survived the Battle of Arras in 1917 but was badly affected by a mustard gas attack. Following treatment for this he returned to the Western Front, remaining until the armistice was signed on 11 November 1918. | en |
743 giorni lontano da casa | Cesare Casella e stato vittima di uno dei piu lunghi sequestri di persona a scopo di estorsione mai avvenuti in Italia. Fu rapito a Pavia il 18 gennaio 1988 e rilasciato in Calabria il 30 gennaio 1990.
L'attenzione dei mass-media nei suoi confronti crebbe considerevolmente dal giugno 1989 quando la madre di Cesare, Angiolina Montagna (definita dalla stampa "Mamma Coraggio"), si reco in Calabria per chiedere la liberazione del figlio raccogliendo firme di solidarieta.
"Era il giugno del 1989. Angela Casella s'incatenava nelle piazze della Locride. Stavo sfogliando il numero piu fresco di Panorama. Al centro del Bestiario di Pansa c'era lei, mia madre, incatenata davanti a una tenda. (...) E' stato cosi che ho saputo della protesta di mia madre e che mio padre aveva gia versato un miliardo. Ho pensato: Lo sapevo che avrebbero ribaltato il mondo per riavermi. Lo hanno davvero ribaltato e mi hanno riavuto." | it |
Gardening with a Wild Heart: Restoring California's Native Landscapes at Home | This lyrical and articulate mix of the practical and the poetic combines personal story, wildland ecology, restoration gardening practices, and native plant horticulture. Judith Lowry's voice and experiences make a rich matrix for essays that include discussions of wildflower gardening, the ecology of native grasses, wildland seed-collecting, principles of natural design, and plant/animal interactions. Though this book is based on California gardens, readers from all parts of the country will be inspired and informed by these examples of gardening to include "the larger garden beyond the fence."
Gardening with a Wild Heartpromises to be a classic for lovers of nature writing, gardeners, bioregionalists, and students and professionals in horticulture, landscape design, and ecological restoration. | en |
The Woman on the Stairs: A Novel | In a museum far from home a man stumbles onto a painting of a woman for whom he once, long ago, risked everything and who then mysteriously disappeared from his life.
As a young lawyer, the nameless protagonist of The Woman on the Stairs became entangled in the affairs of three people mired in a complex and destructive relationship. An artist, the woman whose portrait he had painted, and her husband became a triangle that drew the lawyer deeper and deeper into their tangled web. Now, encountering the painting that triggered it all, the lawyer must reconcile his past and present selves; when he eventually locates the woman, he is forced to confront the truth of his love and the reality that his life has been irrevocably changed.
With The Woman on the Stairs, the internationally acclaimed author of The Reader delivers a powerful new novel about obsession, creativity, and love. Intricately crafted, poignant, and beguiling, this is Bernhard Schlink writing at his peak. | en |
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. | What's a novelist supposed to do with contemporary culture? And what's contemporary culture supposed to do with novelists? In The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem, tangling with what he calls the "white elephant" role of the writer as public intellectual, arrives at an astonishing range of answers.
A constellation of previously published pieces and new essays as provocative and idiosyncratic as any he's written, this volume sheds light on an array of topics from sex in cinema to drugs, graffiti, Bob Dylan, cyberculture, 9/11, book touring, and Marlon Brando, as well as on a shelf's worth of his literary models and contemporaries: Norman Mailer, Paula Fox, Bret Easton Ellis, James Wood, and others. And, writing about Brooklyn, his father, and his sojourn through two decades of writing, Lethem sheds an equally strong light on himself.
BONUS MATERIAL: This edition includes an excerpt from Jonathan Lethem's Dissident Gardens. | en |
Street Soldier | Jamal 'Prince' Perkins is on a mission to let the world see into his unstable, single-mother-run home and walk them down the life-threatening neighbourhood streets he wants to control. He's only 17 years old and classifies himself as a true street soldier. | en |
The Day the World Ended | From the dust jacket:
He had five hours to save the world!
Brian Woodville, adventurer and explorer, sat up in bed. A cold inexorable voice was speaking: "You have three days," it said, "you will leave Baden-Baden within this time. This is the first warning. You have three days!"
The most gruesome of all superstitions - that centring around vampires - had reappeared in Germany. Woodville, on behalf of the Daily World, was in Baden-Baden to investigate. Giant bats had been seen haunting an abandoned graveyard in the Black Forest; huge armoured figures were glimpsed stalking the battlements of the ancient castle of Felsenweir - and far away in America radio communication was interrupted by some strange new force. Something non-human and terrible was under way. Woodville's warning went unheeded while he searched for the mysterious power at work in the quiet German town.
The pursuit brings him into the presence of the very spirit of evil, incarnated in a mind of fiendish ingenuity and power. The battle against this sinister genius, whose plan is to destroy the world, ends in Woodville's defeat and capture, until by a freak of fortune he finds himself free for five hours - five hours in which to save the world!
This story ran serially in Colliers Magazine. | en |
Arsene Wenger: The Inside Story of Arsenal Under Wenger | In this fascinating account of Arsene Wenger's reign as manager of Arsenal and the methods he has used to keep the club at the top, John Cross has spoken to everyone from board members to players and backroom staff to build the most complete portrait of the man and his management style, and the club he has inspired for almost 20 years.
When Wenger arrived at Arsenal in 1996, he was little known to fans at the club and many doubted he could bring back the glory days of George Graham. But soon he was transforming the way the team played, melding the famous English defensive spine of Adams, Keown, Dixon, Winterburn and Seaman with a hugely creative foreign attacking spirit, epitomised by Dennis Bergkamp, Thierry Henry and Robert Pires. At the same time, he introduced new ideas on diet, fitness and professionalism, which many players believe extended their careers.
Having won numerous trophies, and led the Invincibles to an unbeaten league season in 2003-04, Wenger then had to help the club through the next stage of their development when they moved from Highbury to the Emirates. Despite the financial constraints he faced, he still managed to keep the club playing in the Champions League year after year while remaining true to his philosophy of how the game should be played. Furthermore, he once again began to build a trophy-winning squad, winning back-to-back FA Cups in 2014 and 2015, that was admired by football fans everywhere. | en |
The Saturdays | Saturdays can make dreams come true when the Melendy
children take turns to spend their pooled allowances. Actor Mona 13 recites poetry and Shakespeare at the drop of a hat. Engineer Rush 12, mischievous, builds Meccano bridges. Miranda "Randy" 10 dances and paints pictures. Oliver, 6, calm and thoughtful, is a train engineer. Father writes. Housekeeper Cuffy mothers. | en |
Matto regiert | Mit einer Einfuhrung von Frank Gohre | de |
Todo fluye | Una valiente novela sobre los origenes del estalinismo.
En 1954, un ano despues de la muerte de Stalin, Ivan se dispone a regresar a su hogar tras pasar tres decadas en prisiones y campos de trabajo. Mientras tanto, en Moscu, Nikolai siente remordimientos por no haber escrito a su primo Ivan en todo ese tiempo, ni haber respondido siquiera a sus cartas. Pero, ?que otra cosa podia hacer? Todo fluye, ultima novela del autor de Vida y destino, constituye el testamento politico y literario de Grossman, que ahonda en la diseccion de la naturaleza del regimen estalinista. | es |
The More Loving One | Free online poetry.
From Random House's Boldtype.
Excerpted from The Voice of the Poet: W.H. Auden by W.H. Auden. | en |