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A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami's international reputation.It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realise is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutantsheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our herofrom the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself. Quirky and utterly captivating, A Wild Sheep Chaseis Murakami at his astounding best.'A Wild Sheep Chase has the conventional hull of a thriller - a quest, a mystery, an extraordinary woman, and plenty of elegant duress - but its fantastic superstructure transforms it into something quite different...a science fiction fantasy, a romance,a metaphysical tease, or a dramatisation of philosophical ideas' Independent

Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Bront‰, and, having been invited to write the offical life, determined both to tell the truth and to honour her friend. She contacted those who had known Charlotte and travelled extensively in England and Belgium togather material. She wrote from a vivid accumulation of letters, interviews, and observation, establishing the details of Charlotte's life and recreating her background. Through an often difficult and demanding process, Gaskell created a vital sense of alife hidden from the world.This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell. It has been collated with the manuscript, and the previous two editions, as well as with Charlotte Bront'e's letters, and thus offers fuller information about the process ofcomposition than any previous edition.

Anglia, London, 1831. Laura Carlin angol írónő balsejtelmű regényében minden benne van, ami a XIX. század Angliáját jellemezte.Sötét sikátorok, mocskos viskók, az utcákról rejtélyesen eltűnő emberek.A könyv főszereplője Hester White, aki ebből a mocskos, lebujoktól hemzsegő, világban él, s úgy tűnik esélye sincs, hogy kitörjön innen. Mikor Hester az arisztokrata Brock családhoz kerül, és a rejtélyas Rebekah Brock gyámsága alá, minden megváltozik. Minden megváltozik?De amikor ő és Rebekah is a legvészjóslóbb vizsgálódások fókuszába kerül, Hester múltjának suttogó hangjai kezdik megmérgezni mostani életét.Valami a város sötét szívében ott lapul. Valami, ami sokkal aljasabb, mint amit valaha el tudtak képzelni...The year is 1831. Down murky alleyways and in filthy hovels, acts of unspeakable wickedness take place and vulnerable people begin to disappear from the streets. Out of these shadows comes Hester White, a young woman who is desperate to escape the slums by any meanspossible. When Hester is thrust into the world of the aristocratic Brock family, she leaps at the chance to improve her station in life under the tutelage of the mysterious Rebekah Brock. But both she and Rebekah are lured into the most sinister of investigationsas whispers from Hester's old life return to poison the present. Something is lurking in the black heart of their city, and it is more depraved than either of them could ever imagine . . .

In this eye-opening companion to Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown, renowned biographer and the show's historical consultant, Robert Lacey takes us through the real history that inspired the drama.Covering two tumultuous decades in the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, Lacey looks at the key social, political and personal moments and their effects - not only on the royal family, but also on the world around them. From the Suez Canal Crisis and theUS/Russia space race to the legacy of the Duke of Windsor's collaboration with Hitler, along with the rumoured issues with the royal marriage, The Crown provides a thought-provoking insight into the historic decades that the show covers, revealing thetruth behind the on-screen drama.Extensively researched and complete with beautifully reproduced photographs, this is a unique look behind the history that inspired the show and the years that would prove to be the making of the Queen.

If faking love is this easy? how do you know when it?s real? Laurie and Jamie have the perfect office romance (They set the rules via email) Everyone can see they?re head over heels (They staged the photos) This must be true love (They?re faking it) WhenLaurie is dumped by her partner of eighteen years, she?s blindsided. Not only does she feel humiliated, they still have to work together. So when she gets stuck in the lift with handsome colleague Jamie, they hatch a plan to stage the perfect romance.Revenge will be sweet? But this fauxmance is about to get complicated. You can?t break your heart in a fake relationship ? can you?

Makes Hannibal Lecter look like Mary Poppins this is going to give me a serious book hangover' John Marrs, author of The OneIf only they knew the real truth. It should be my face on those front pages. My headlines. I did those things, not him. I just want to stand on that doorstep and scream it: IT WAS ME. ME. ME. ME. ME!Rhiannon Lewis has successfully fooled the world and framed her cheating fianc Craig for the depraved and bloody killing spree she committed. She should be ecstatic that she's free.Except for one small problem. She's pregnant with her ex lover's child. The ex-lover she only recently chopped up and buried in her in-laws garden. And as much as Rhiannon wants to continue making her way through her kill lists, a small voice inside istrying to make her stop.But can a killer's urges ever really be curbed?

Eigentlich ist der Mann zu seiner Geliebten gekommen, um ihr zu sagen, daá er sich trennen will. Aber schon beim Eintreten weiá er, daá er es nicht sagen wird. Die Frau dreht einen Joint. Sie rauchen. Während sie sich dem anderen Zustand hingeben kann,wird der Trip für ihn zu einem Kampf, der ihn immer näher an die Grenze zwischen Leben und Tod, Sein und Nichtsein bringt. So radikal, so bestürzend hat Peter Nádas über die Unmöglichkeit der Liebe nie wieder geschrieben.

These dark and imaginative tales feature an odd and subtly linked world of bizarre venereal diseases, a creepy old woman who feasts on raw meat, a man obsessed with a skin model from a magazine, and a story within a story about ghosts.You wont want to miss this collection featuring comic adaptations of the short stories: Looking for the Girl, Foreign Parts, Closing Time, and Feeders and Eaters from the Sunday Times bestselling author, Neil Gaiman.

The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien civilizations, building our own from the rubble, humanity still thrives.And there are vast fortunes to be made, if you know where to find them...Captain Rackamore and his crew do. It's their business to find the tiny, enigmatic worlds which have been hidden away, booby-trapped, surrounded by layers of protection - and to crack them open for the ancient relics and barely-remembered technologiesinside. But while they ply their risky trade with integrity, not everyone is so scrupulous.Adrana and Fura Ness are the newest members of Rackamore's crew, signed on to save their family from bankruptcy. Only Rackamore has enemies, and there might be more waiting for them in space than adventure and fortune: the fabled and feared Bosa Sennenin particular.Revenger is a science fiction adventure story set in the rubble of our solar system in the dark, distant future - a tale of space pirates, buried treasure, and phantom weapons, of unspeakable hazards and single-minded heroism... and of vengeance...

While Wall Street was busy creating the biggest credit bubble of all time, a few renegade investors saw it was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a fortune. This book tells the story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who,against all odds, made the greatest financial killing in history.

Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. In fact, Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Moliere's the Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus himself borrowed from the Greeks, but his jokes, rapiddialogue, bawdy humor, and irreverent characterizations are the original work of an undisputed genius. The comedies printed here show him at his best, and Professor Segal's translations keep their fast, rollicking pace intact, making these the mostreadable and actable versions available. This volume includes, The Braggart Soldier, e Brothers Menaechmus, The Haunted House, and The Pot of Gold.Readers first encountered Tobias Eaton as Four in Divergent. His voice is

After You (Me Before You #2)by Jojo MoyesHow do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living?Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't helpbut feel she's right back where she started.Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started back to life. Which is how she ends up in a church basement with the members of the Moving On support group, who share insights, laughter, frustrations, and terrible cookies. Theywill also lead her to the strong, capable Sam Fielding-the paramedic, whose business is life and death, and the one man who might be able to understand her. Then a figure from Will's past appears and hijacks all her plans, propelling her into a verydifferent future...For Lou Clark, life after Will Traynor means learning to fall in love again, with all the risks that brings. But here Jojo Moyes gives us two families, as real as our own, whose joys and sorrows will touch you deeply, and where both changes and surprisesawait.

Agatha waltzes into yet another murder investigation in the fifteenth book in the series, complete with brand new cover design.

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite collection. Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro's writing.Runaway is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pain and desolation beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart, which makes these stories more powerful and compelling than anything she has writtenbefore.

At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to die.Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor's house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died.But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace of poison - just as Poirot had predicted. Even more troubling for the great detective, there was absolutely no motive.

Gayle Forman legújabb regénye - angol nyelvenIt's every woman's fantasy: to pack a bag and leave everything behind. Meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working mother who is so busy taking care of her husband and twins that she doesn't even realisethat she has had a heart attack.But her recuperation seems to be an imposition on those who rely on her.So Maribeth does the unthinkable - she packs a bag and leaves.Maribeth has always wondered who she is and where she comes from: and now's the time to find out. Now, far from thedemands of family and career, she is finally able to own up to the secrets she has been keeping from herself and those she loves.From the bestselling author of If I Stay and I Was Here comes a stunning new novel for Forman's adult readers, an unflinching portrait of a woman confronting the joys and sorrows of marriage, motherhood and friendship.

George's Secret Key to the Universe-ből megismert kisfiú és szomszédja, az idő közben legjobb barátjává vált Annie kalandjai tovább folytatódnak egy űrbéli kincsvadászatban. Annienek segítségre van szüksége. Eric, a lány tudós apja egy titkos űrprojektendolgozik és minden a lehető legrosszabban alakul... Egy robot a Marson landol és különösen kezd viselkedni, Anni pedig egy különösen bizarr dologra lesz figyelmes apja szuper-számítógépén. (Cosmos, a szupergép különös tulajdonsága, hogy kaput tud nyitniaz űrbe, így a világegyetem minden pontjára el lehet jutni.) Ez a bizarr dolog üzenet a földönkívüliektől? Lehetsées, hogy van élet odakinn? Hogy' találjanak meg egy bolygót a világűrben? És ha beszélnek az idegenekkel, nondjanak nekik?...George's best friend Annie needs help. Her scientist father, Eric, is working on a space project - and it's all going wrong. A robot has landed on Mars, but is behaving very oddly. And now Annie hasdiscovered something wierd on her dad's super-computer.Is it a message from an alien? Could there be life out there? How do you find a planet in outer space? And if you could talk to aliens, what would you say?

'Always kiss the boys goodbye and goodnight.''Please teach the boys to say what they mean.''Mummy loved orange Club biscuits, jam and jelly and lemon curd.'For Kate Greene, nothing was as important as the happiness and well-being of her two little boys, Reef and Finn, and her loving husband, Singe. Even when she fell very ill, they were her only concern. Over her last few days, Kate created Mum's List.With Singe's help, she wrote her thoughts and wishes down, trying to help the man she loved create the best life for their sons after she was gone. Mum's List encapsulates Kate's passionate nature, her free spirit and even her sense of humour. It becameSinge's rock, as he turned to it again and again for strength and inspiration. Slowly, gradually, Singe began to fulfil Kate's requests.This is the heart-warming memoir of how Kate's list has helped Singe and his brave little boys move on and build a new life for themselves, while always keeping her in their hearts.This updated edition contains new material from Singe and behind-the-scenes photos from the film adaptation of the book.

HARRY HOLE IS BACK! A BLISTERING NEW THRILLER FROM THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SNOWMAN AND POLICE.THERE'S A NEW KILLER ON THE STREETS...A woman is found murdered after an internet date. The marks left on her body show the police that they are dealing with a particularly vicious killer.HE'S IN YOUR HOUSE HE'S IN YOUR ROOMUnder pressure from the media to find the murderer, the force know there's only one man for the job. But Harry Hole is reluctant to return to the place that almost took everything from him. Until he starts to suspect a connection between this killing andhis one failed case.HE'S OUT FOR BLOODWhen another victim is found, Harry realises he will need to put everything on the line if he's to finally catch the one who got away.'An expertly plotted, compelling and gripping white-knuckle ride Nesbo deserves to be crowned the king of all crime thriller writers' Sunday Express on THE SON'Nesbo deploys all the key ingredients of a cracking good thriller with expertise and verve. The ticking clock, the tension expertly ratcheted ever upwards, the changing scenery, the constantly shifting goalposts and the effortless, triumphant outpacingof the reader's ability to guess what's going to happen will keep you gripped to the last page' Guardian on THE LEOPARD'The undisputed king of Scandinavian crime fiction' The Times'Scandinavian crime thrillers don't come much darker or more tense than the best-selling Harry Hole series, and this tenth outing for the Norwegian detective is the best yet' Sunday Mirror on POLICE

Az értelmi fogyatékos Charlie Gordon magányosan él a nagyvárosban, barátok és rokonok nélkül. Szellemei adottságai miatt nem élhet normális életet. Megjelenik az életében Dr. Strauss, aki legújabb kutatásainak kísérleti alanyát látja Charlie-banWith more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse.

The day her children leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there.She's had enough - of her kids' carelessness, her husband'sthoughtlessness and of the world's general indifference.Brian can't believe his wife is doing this. Who is going to make dinner?Taking it badly, he rings Eva's mother - but she's busy having her hair done.So he rings his mother - she isn't surprised. Eva, she says, is probablydrunk. Let her sleep it off.But Eva won't budge.She makes new friends - Mark the window cleaner and Alexander, a verysexy handyman. She discovers Brian's been having an affair. And Evarealizes to her horror that everyone has been taking her for granted -including herself.Though Eva's refusal to behave like a dutiful wife and mother soon upsetseveryone from medical authorities to her neighbours she insists on stayingin bed. And from this odd but comforting place she begins to see both theworld and herself very, very differently. . .The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year is a funny and touching novelabout what happens when someone refuses to be the person everyoneexpects them to be. Sue Townsend, Britain's funniest writer for over threedecades, has written a brilliant novel that hilariously deconstructs modernfamily life

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn't doinghimself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and themedia-as well as Amy's fiercely doting parents-the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he's definitely bitter-but is he really a killer?

Egy különösen mély férfibarátság lenyomata ez a könyv. Ez a barátság akkor alakult ki, amikor még mind a két férfi a jezsuita rend tagja volt. Együtt küzdöttek a magyar parasztság lelki, szellemi és anyagi felemeléséért. Ez a célkitűzés motiválta aKALOT-ot, azt mozgalmat, melyet páter Kerkai Jenő 1935-ben a Szeged környéki tanyákon indított el, s amely néhány év alatt áthatotta szinte az egész országot. Ebbe a munkába hívta meg rendtársát, Nagy Töhötömöt. S az a barátság, amely kettőjük közöttebben az évtizedben kibontakozott, megmaradt akkor is, mikor útjuk kettévált: Nagy 1947 elején Dél-Amerikába került, ahol két év múlva kilépett a rendből, megnősült, majd - hogy megismerje belülről is korábbi rendjének egyik legfőbb ellenségét - belépetta szabadkőművesek közé. Közben páter Kerkai Jenőt 1949-ben letartóztatták, s közel tíz évet börtönben töltött.Nagy Töhötöm majdnem egész életében naplót vezetett, s levelezésének nagy részét is megőrizte. Sikerült ezeket először Dél-Amerikába menekítenie, majd 1968-ban Magyarországra hazahoznia, és végül 1976-ban ő maga adta át hatalmasra duzzadtiratgyűjteményét az Országos Széchenyi Könyvtár Kézirattárának. E hagyaték fontos részét képezi Kerkai Jenő és Nagy Töhötöm levelezése, melynek fő témái: a mozgalom és egyes egyházi vezetők ellentétei, Nagy Töhötöm titkos diplomáciai tevékenysége, aVatikán és a szovjetek közötti közvetítői kísérletei, a KALOT és Mindszenty bíboros konfliktusa, továbbá Nagy Töhötöm dél-amerikai működése, a korabeli dél-amerikai társadalmi és egyházi viszonyai, egyházával való meghasonlása, a Jezsuiták ésszabadkőművesek című önéletrajzi könyvének megszületése stb. A levélváltás betekintést nyújt Kerkai páter 1945 utáni küzdelmeibe, amelyet a kommunista hatalommal vívott.

Stories are like Russian dolls - open them up, and in each one you'll find another story.Come to the house where it is Christmas all year round,meet the ghost who lives on a Twitter timeline,be spooked by a newborn baby created with sugar, spice and lashings of cake.

A gripping police procedural, taking the reader on a journey into the dark heart of Hungary.Set in the long, hot Hungarian summer of 2015?and revealing the hidden, criminal world beneath Budapest'sglittering facade?District VIII is the first novel in the new Detective Balthazar Kovacs mystery series.Life's tough for a Gypsy detective in Budapest. The cops don't trust you because you're a Gypsy. Your fellow Gypsies, even your own family, shun you because you're a cop.The dead, however, don't care. So when Balthazar Kovacs, a detective in the city's murder squad, gets a mysterious text message on his phone, he gulps down his coffee and goes to work. The message has two parts: a photograph and an address. Thephotograph shows a man, in his early thirties, lying on his back with his eyes open, half-covered by a blue plastic sheet. The address is 26 Republic Square, the former Communist Party headquarters, and once the most feared building in the country. Butwhen Kovacs arrives at Republic Square, the body is gone...

Murder, stolen plans, a mysterious death and a menage a trois - four intriguing novellas featuring Hercule PoirotHow did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secert military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror inanother part of the room? And who destroyed the 'eternal triangle' of love involving renowned beauty, Valentine Chantry?Hercule Poirot is faced with four mystifying cases - Murder in the Mews, The Incredible Theft, Dead Man's Mirror and Triangle at Rhodes - each a miniature classic of characterisation, incident and suspense.