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'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.'Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide they have no choice but to follow. They head west, towards California, where theyhope to find work and a future for their family. But while the journey to this promised land will take its inevitable toll, there remains uncertainty about what awaits their arrival . . .Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Grapes of Wrath is an epic human drama. Of this novel, Steinbeck himself said: 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'

John Scalzi's Head On, is a chilling near-future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural. Head On brings Scalzi's trademark snappy dialogue and technological speculation to the future world of sports.To some left with nothing, winning becomes everything . . .In a post-virus world, a daring sport is taking the US by storm. It's frenetic, violent and involves teams attacking one another with swords and hammers. The aim: to obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. Impossible? Not if theplayers have Haden's Syndrome. Unable to move, Haden's sufferers use robot bodies, which they operate mentally. So in this sport anything goes, no one gets hurt - and crowds and competitors love it. Until a star athlete drops dead on the playing field.But is it an accident? FBI agents Chris Shane and Leslie Vann are determined to find out. In this game, fortunes can be made - or lost. And both players and owners will do whatever it takes to win, on and off the field.

From the National Book Award winning author of JustKids and M Train , a profound, beautifully realizedmemoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woveninto a tapestry of one transformative yearA new memoir from writer, performer and visual artistPatti Smith, author of the critically acclaimed,internationally bestselling Just KidsJust Kids was a New York Times and Sunday Timesbestseller, won a National Book Award for non fiction, andhas currently sold over 300,000 copies in UK and exportDream like, exquisite and arresting, The Year of theMonkey is the story of an artist's adventures on thehighways of grief, age and political crisis: perfect for fansof Just Kids and Bob Dylan's Chronicles , but also for fans ofthe works of Roberto Bolano and Haruki Murakami

As The Pig Turns Winter Parva, a traditional Cotswolds village next door to Carsely, has decided to throw a celebratory hog roast to mark the beginning of the winter holiday festivities and AgathaRaisin has arrived with friend and rival in the sleuthing business, Toni, to enjoy the merriment. But as the spit pig is carried towards the bed of fiery charcoal Agatha - and the rest of the village - realise that things aren't as they seem...Veryquickly it transpires that the spit pig is in fact Gary Beech, a policeman not much loved in Winter Parva. And although Agatha has every intention of leaving the affair to the police, she rapidly changes her mind when she finds out Gary's ex-wife hashired Toni to investigate. Cantankerous and competitive as Agatha is, she has to now join the fray and try and solve the case herself.

A search for a missing son... and a toxic mystery that threatens the globe.The Eyes of Darkness is a gripping thriller of a mother's search for her son that unlocks deadly secrets, from bestselling author Dean Koontz. Perfect for fans of Stephen King and Richard Laymon.It's a year since Tina Evans lost her little boy Danny in a tragic accident, a year since she began the painful process of trying to rebuild her life. Then a shattering message appears on the blackboard in Danny's old room: NOT DEAD.Is it someone's idea of a grim joke? Or the tangible evidence of her tormented unconscious? Or something more?The search for an answer, the search for Danny, demands a courage and endurance beyond any that Tina thought she possessed. Only her love for her son, and her love for the one man who believes her, drives her on, through the neon clamour of Las Vegasnightlife, the sun-scorched desert, and the frozen mountains of the High Sierra. People die, coldly, brutally, as a buried truth struggles to surface. A truth so incredible, so frightening, so dangerous that its secret must be kept at the price of anylife - any man, any woman...any child.This book was originally published under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols.

A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking's book explores such profound questions as: How did the universe begin-and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universeunending-or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends?Told in language we all can understand, A Brief History of Time plunges into the exotic realms of black holes and quarks, of antimatter and arrows of time, of the big bang and a bigger God-where the possibilities are wondrous and unexpected. Withexciting images and profound imagination, Stephen Hawking brings us closer to the ultimate secrets at the very heart of creation.

1963. november 22-én Lee Harvey Oswald agyonlőtte John Fitzgerald Kennedy amerikai elnököt - bár az összeesküvés-elméletek hívei gyakran vitatják, valóban ő volt-e a tettes. Annyi biztos, hogy az elnök halála nagyban megváltoztatta az Egyesült Államoksorsát, és nem feltétlenül kedvezően. Stephen King regényében felmerül egy lehetőség, hogy meg nem történtté tegyék a tragédiát és új, a hősök reményei szerint kedvezőbb irányt vegyenek az események.King könyvében alapos felkészültségről tesz tanúbizonyságot, maga az ötvenes-hatvanas évek fordulója is rendkívül élő, ahogy Oswald sorsát is rendkívül precízen követi a regény. A könyv mégis többet nyújt egy szimpla rekonstrukciónál: egyszerre sci-fi ésalternatív történelem.A riveting, high-stakes political story like UNDER THE DOME, a love story like BAG OF BONES, a 1950s community like IT, Stephen King's incredibly ambitious, heartstoppingly dramatic time travel novel, 11.22.63 is a WHAT IF? novel like no one's ever readbefore - a one thousand page tour de force.WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless . . .King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and LindyHopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.

Ein Mann, der mit seinem Leben wenig anfangen kann, hat den Reiz am riskanten Spiel des Geldverdienens liebgewonnen. Ihn treiben gerade seine leicht errungenen Siege zu immer höherem Risiko, wobei er die Moral schon bald weit hinter sich gelassen hat.Das Motiv, in den Fuástapfen seines steinreichen Onkels Dezső zu treten, um ebenfalls als Lebenskünstler zu gelten, läát ihn nicht mehr los. Ein satirisch zugespitzte spannende Geschichte vor dem historischen Hintergrund der vierziger und fünfziger Jahrein Ungarn.

From the author of THE SHADOW OF THE WIND, the haunting story of asecret society and a labyrinthine railway station with a dark past.The book begins with a chase through the streets of Calcutta in May 1916.Lieutenant Peake pauses for breath outside the ruins of the Jheeter's Gate stationknowing that he only has a few hours to live. Inside his overcoat he is shelteringtwo newborn babies - twins, a boy and a girl. Pursued by his would-be assassins,Peake runs at full tilt to the house of Aryami Bose, to whom he entrusts thechildren.In 1932 we meet the boy, Ben, and his group of friends the night before they aredue to leave St Patrick's orphanage. They have formed a secret club that meetseach week at midnight in the old ruin they have christened The Midnight Palace.Their final meeting is due that evening but then Aryami Bose turns up at theorphanage with Sheere, Ben's sister, and tells them the tragic story of the parentsthey never knew. But as the novel unfolds, there is more to this story than meetsthe eye and they are lured by a shadowy figure from the past into a final showdownin the ruins.

Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest ConfidantThe tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait attables during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. An assistant clerk at Agra Central Jail, he suddenly found himself a personal attendant to the Empress of India herself. Within a year, he was established as a powerful figure at court, becoming the queen'steacher, or Munshi, and instructing her in Urdu and Indian affairs. Devastated by the death of John Brown, her Scottish gillie, the queen had at last found his replacement. But her intense and controversial relationship with the Munshi led to anear-revolt in the royal household. Victoria & Abdul examines how a young Indian Muslim came to play a central role at the heart of the Empire, and his influence over the queen at a time when independence movements in the sub-continent were growing inforce. Yet, at its heart, it is a tender love story between an ordinary Indian and his elderly queen, a relationship that survived the best attempts to destroy it.

In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply tosatisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal.

The Essential Hemingway brings together a wide selection of Hemingway's works, providing the perfect introduction to his extensive writing. The collection includes the full text of Fiesta, Hemingway's first major novel

A sizzling drama of desire, avarice and deception set in the American Deep South.

This Was a Man (The Clifton Chronicles #7)by Jeffrey ArcherThis Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies?In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary.Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game?

'A stand-out triumph' - The Sunday TimesThe Number One bestselling novel by the author of CLOUD ATLAS, 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' (Independent).Utopia Avenue might be the most curious British band you've never heard of.Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967, folksinger Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss, guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet and jazz drummer Griff Griffin together created a unique sound, with lyrics that captured their turbulent times. The bandproduced only two albums in two years, yet their musical legacy lives on.This is the story of Utopia Avenue's brief, blazing journey from Soho clubs and draughty ballrooms to the promised land of America, just when the Summer of Love was receding into something much darker - a multi-faceted tale of dreams, drugs, love,sexuality, madness and grief

Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. After six years with her boyfriend, she is no longer sure what she wants, and when her father becomes ill she heads to her family?s cottage at Sunset Beach in North Carolina to make some difficult decisions.

From the nr.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Caraval series, the first book in a new series about love, curses, and the lengths that people will go to for happily ever after. For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in happilyever after. Until she learns that the love of her life is about to marry another, and her dreams are shattered. Desperate to stop the wedding, and heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with the charismatic, but wicked, Prince of Hearts. Inexchange for his help, he asks for three kisses, to be given at the time and place of his choosing. But after Evangeline's first promised kiss, she learns that bargaining with an immortal is a dangerous game - and that the Prince of Hearts wants far morefrom her than she pledged. He has plans for Evangeline, plans that will either end in the greatest happily ever after, or the most exquisite tragedy...

Thomas More: Utopia/ Francis Bacon: New Atlantis/Henry Neville: The Isle of PinesWith the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More introduced into the English language not only a new word, but a new way of thinking about the gulf between what ought to be and what is. His Utopia is at once a scathing analysis of the shortcomings ofhis own society, a realistic suggestion for an alternative mode of social organization, and a satire on unrealistic idealism. Enormously influential, it remains a challenging as well as a playful text. This edition reprints Ralph Robinson's 1556translation from More's original Latin together with letters and illustrations that accompanied early editions of Utopia.Utopia was only one of many early modern treatments of other worlds. This edition also includes two other, hitherto less accessible, utopian narratives. New Atlantis (1627) offers a fictional illustration of Francis Bacon's visionary ideal of the rolethat science should play in the modern society. Henry Neville's The Isle of Pines (1668), a precursor of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, engages with some of the sexual, racial, and colonialist anxieties of the end of the early modern period. Together thesetexts illustrate the diversity of the early modern utopian imagination, as well as the different purposes to which it could be put.

Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret summit of superpowers, concerned but not convinced, about the development of an, as yet, unidentified and undescribed secret weapon.Only one man has the proof that can confirm the nature of this fantastic secret weapon - a British agent named Carmichael. Unfortunately the criminal organisation responsible for the weapon's development will stop at nothing to prevent him enteringBaghdad and presenting his proof to the assembled delegates. Can Carmichael enter the city against such odds?Into this explosive situations appears Victoria Jones, a girl with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded Carmichael dies in her arms in her hotel room.

Valami rémisztő dolog garázdálkodik odakint, amire nem szabad ránézni. Egyetlen pillantás elég ahhoz, hogy az ember őrült, kegyetlen gyilkossá váljon. Senki sem tudja, mi az, és honnan jött.A szörnyűséges hírek egyre gyakoribbá válnak. Majd a tévé elsötétül, a rádió elhallgat, és az internet is összeomlik. A telefonok elnémulnak. Az ablakon pedig nem lehet kinézni többé.Mára csak maréknyi túlélő maradt, köztük Malorie két gyermekével, akiket az egyetlen lehetséges módon nevel: a négy fal között. A folyóparti, elhagyatott ház ajtaja zárva, a függönyök behúzva, az ablakokra matracok szögelve.Egyetlen esélyük, hogy elmenekülnek egy másik helyre, ahol talán biztonságban lehetnek. De az előttük álló út elrettentő: harminc kilométer a folyón, egy evezős csónakban bekötött szemmel! Csak Malorie találékonyságára és a gyerekek éles hallásáratámaszkodhatnak. Egyetlen rossz döntés is végzetessé válhat. És valami követi őket. De vajon ember, állat vagy szörnyeteg?Josh Malerman lélegzetelállító debütálása egy letehetetlen, rémisztő és lebilincselő panoráma egy sarkaiból kifordult világról.About the BookNOW A MAJOR FILMIF YOU'VE SEEN WHAT'S OUT THEREIT'S ALREADY TOO LATEMalorie raises the children the only way she can: indoors, with the doors locked, the curtains closed, and mattresses nailed over the windows.The children sleep in the bedroom across the hall, but soon she will have to wake them and blindfold them.Today they will risk everything. Today they will leave the house.Josh Malerman's New York Times bestselling Bird Box is a terrifying psychological thriller that will haunt you long after reading.

Celestine North lives in a society that demands perfection. After she was branded Flawed by a morality court,Celestine's life has completely fractured all her freedoms gone. Since Judge Crevan has declared her the number one threat to the public, she has been a ghost, on the run with Carrick?the only person she can trust.But Celestine has a secret?one that could bring the entire Flawed system crumbling to the ground. A secret that has already caused countless people to go missing. Judge Crevan is gaining the upper hand, and time is running out for Celestine. Withtensions building, Celestine must make a choice: save just herself or to risk her life to save all Flawed people.And, most important of all, can she prove that to be human in itself is to be Flawed?

When she's called to the murder scene, the last thing San Francisco Homicide detective Valerie Hart is expecting is for Katherine Glass to walk back into her life. Six years earlier, revulsion and fascination had gripped the nation in equal measure, asbe

Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. When Ingrid has written her final letter she disappearsfrom a Dorset beach, leaving behind her beautiful but dilapidated house by the sea, her husband, and her two daughters, Flora and Nan.Twelve years later, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window, but he's getting older and this unlikely sighting is chalked up to senility. Flora, who has never believed her mother drowned, returns home to care for her father and to try to finallydiscover what happened to Ingrid. But what Flora doesn't realize is that the answers to her questions are hidden in the books that surround her. Scandalous and whip-smart, Swimming Lessons holds the Coleman family up to the light, exposing the mysterioustruths of a passionate and troubled marriage.

Lisbeth Salander is an unstoppable force: Sentenced to two months in Flodberga women's prison for saving a young boy's life by any means necessary, Salander refuses to say anything in her own defence. She has more important things on her mind.Mikael Blomkvist makes the long trip to visit every week - and receives a lead to follow for his pains. For him, it looks to be an important expose for Millennium. For her, it could unlock the facts of her childhood.Even from a corrupt prison system run largely by the inmates, Salander will stand up for what she believes in, whatever the cost. And she will seek the truth that is somehow connected with her childhood memory, of a woman with a blazing birthmark on herneck - that looked as if it had been burned by a dragon's fire . . .The tension, power and unstoppable force of The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye are inspired by Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, as Salander and Blomkvist continue the fight for justice that has thrilled millions of readers across the world.

In this modern tale for the ages, hit Instagram illustrator @iuliastration takes us a on a healing journey. Following the story of a traveller as they move from darkness to light through the rhythm of the seasons, this is a deeply relatable quest forinner peace told through calming and original illustrations. Using ancient wisdom and philosophical quotes from around the world - from Rumi to Emily Dickinson - to anchor her striking visual storytelling, Iulia Bochis weaves a timeless story of personalgrowth and self-love.