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Le premier soir je me suis donc endormi sur le sable a mille milles de toute terre habitée. Jétais bien plus isolé quun naufragé sur un radeau au milieu de locéan. Alors vous imaginez ma surprise, au lever du jour, quand une dr“le de petite voix maréveillé. Elle disait : Sil vous plaŒt... dessine-moi un mouton ! Hein ! - Dessine-moi un mouton... Jai sauté sur mes pieds comme si javais été frappé par la foudre. Le chef-douvre universel de poésie, dhumanité et démotion...

A SHIVERING OF WORLDSDeep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength.This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad.As the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land. Her land.There will be a reckoning . . .THE FINAL DISCWORLD NOVEL

April 1943. In the bloody turmoil of war, John Easley, a journalist mourning his lost brother, is driven to expose a hidden and growing conflict: the Japanese invasion and occupation of Alaska's Aleutian Islands. But when his plane is shot down he musteither surrender or struggle to survive in a harsh wilderness.Three thousand miles to the south, Helen Easley cannot accept her husband's disappearance-an absence that exposes her sheltered, untested life. Desperate to find and be reunited with him, she sets out on a remarkable journey from the safety of herSeattle home to the war in the north.An evocative, richly atmospheric tale of life and death, commitment and sacrifice, All This Will Be Lost, perfect for fans of Cold Mountain, is a gripping story of survival that illuminates the fragility of life and the fierce power of love.

Libby Day was just seven years old when her older brother massacred her family while she hid in a cupboard. Her evidence helped put him away. Ever since then she has been drifting, surviving for more than 20 years on the proceeds of the 'Libby Day fund'.But now the money is running out and Libby is desperate. When she is offered $500 to do a guest appearance, she feels she has to accept. But this is no ordinary gathering. The Kill Club is a group of true-crime obsessives who share information onnotorious murders, and they think her brother Ben is innocent. Ben was a social misfit, ground down by the small-town farming community in which he lived. But he did have a girlfriend - a brooding heavy metal fan called Diondra. Through her, Ben becameinvolved with drugs and the dark arts.

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, its masonry crumbling, its gardenschoked with weeds, its owners - mother, son and daughter - struggling to keep pace. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about tobecome entwined with his.

'Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe,' declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, 'would be doing the world at large a service!'It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later. From seven potential murderers, Miss Marple must seek out the suspect who has both motive and opportunity.

Es sind Ferien, das Wetter ist groáartig, die Sonne scheint und alle Kinder haben drauáen Spaá. Aber wo ist Greg Er hockt im Zimmer hinter zugezogenen Vorhängen, spielt Videospiele und würde das am liebsten die ganzen Ferien lang tun. Keine Aufgaben,keine Pflichten, keine Regeln - herrlich findet Greg das. Doch leider hat seine Mutter ganz andere Vorstellungen . Sie denkt eher an gemeinsame Ausflüge der Familie an der frischen Luft.

Niederlande 1944: Während der Zweite Weltkrieg Europa erschüttert, entdeckt die junge Audrey Hepburn ihre Liebe zum Tanz. Zwischen den Schrecken des Krieges und dem allgegenwärtigen Hunger träumt sie davon, Primballerina zu werden. Und obwohl dieserTraum bald platzt, lässt sie sich nicht entmutigen. Ihr neues Ziel: die Filmstudios von Amerika! Und tatsächlich bringt ihr Talent Audrey nach Hollywood. Schon bald spielt sie an der an der Seite von Gröáen wie Gregory Peck und Humphrey Bogart. Doch derstrahlende Ort ihrer Träume verlangt ihr alles ab. Kann Audrey als Stern am Himmel Hollywoods glänzen, ohne sich selbst dabei zu verlieren?

Britain's Got Talent is BACK . . . so it's time to get serious with Britain's favourite funny man.Famous comedian and actor, funniest judge on Britain's Got Talent, high-achieving sportsman and BESTSELLING AUTHOR of The World's Worst Children series, David Walliams is a man of many talents . . .Launched to fame with the record-breaking Little Britain, his characters - Lou, Florence, Emily, amongst others - became embedded in our shared popular culture. You couldn't enter a playground for a long while without hearing eh, eh, eh or computersays no.And Walliams is a mystery. Often described as a bundle of contradictions, he is disarming and enigmatic, playing up his campness one minute and hinting about his depression the next.To read Camp David is to be truly shocked, as well as tickled pink: David Walliams bares his soul like never before and reveals a fascinating and complex mind.This searingly honest autobiography is a true roller-coaster ride of emotions, as this nation's sweetheart unlocks closely guarded secrets that until now have remained hidden in his past.'Will surprise, entertain, and allow fans and newcomers to enter the comic's uniquely brilliant world' GQ Magazine'Raucously funny and superbly written' Heat'Hilarious' Telegraph'A great read. My only criticism is it ended too soon' The Sun'A fascinating read' Star Magazine'Brilliantly written' Express'Fascinating stuff' Closer'Uproariously great' Guardian

From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks...For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and cinematic love stories don't exist, and the only smart way to go through life is alone. She can't imagine how waiting tables at a24-hour pancake diner and moving in with too many weird roommates could possibly change that. And there's certainly no chance of her subway commute being anything more than a daily trudge through boredom and electrical failures.But then, there's this gorgeous girl on the train.Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August's day when she needed it most. August's subway crush becomes the best part of her day, butpretty soon, she discovers there's one big problem: Jane doesn't just look like an old school punk rocker. She's literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her.Maybe it's time to start believing in some things, after all.Casey McQuiston's One Last Stop is a magical, sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time.

Mark Renton is finally a success. An international jet-setter, he now makes significant money managing DJs, but the constant travel, airport lounges, soulless hotel rooms and broken relationships have left him dissatisfied with his life. He's then rockedby a chance encounter with Frank Begbie, from whom he'd been hiding for years after a terrible betrayal and the resulting debt. But the psychotic Begbie appears to have reinvented himself as a celebrated artist and - much to Mark's astonishment - doesn'tseem interested in revenge.Sick Boy and Spud, who have agendas of their own, are intrigued to learn that their old friends are back in town, but when they enter the bleak world of organ-harvesting, things start to go so badly wrong. Lurching from crisis to crisis, the four mencircle each other, driven by their personal histories and addictions, confused, angry - so desperate that even Hibs winning the Scottish Cup doesn't really help. One of these four will not survive to the end of this book. Which one of them is wearingDead Men's Trousers?

A man with no eyes. No eyes at all. Two tunnels in his head . . .Somewhere - some time - there's a tangled ball of evil and spite, of hatred and malice, that has woken up. And it's waking up all the old stories too - stories about evil old witches . . .I Shall Wear Midnight is the fourth Discworld title to feature witch Tiffany Aching and her tiny, fightin', boozin' pictsie friends, the Nac Mac Feegle (aka The Wee Free Men).

A WORLD IN TURMOIL1558, and Europe is in revolt as religious hatred sweeps the continent. Elizabeth Tudor has ascended to the throne but she is not safe in this dangerous new world. There are many who would see her removed, not least Mary Queens of Scots, who lies in waitin Paris.A NEW ORDERElizabeth determines to set up a new secret service: a group of resourceful spies and courageous agents entrusted to keep her safe and in power. As she searches for those who will make the difference, one man stands out.A MAN WHO WOULD DIE FOR HIS QUEENFor Ned Willard the opportunity to serve his queen is God-sent. He cannot stay in Kingsbridge and watch the love of his life marry another, and as fires burn and extremism begins to spark throughout Europe, Ned makes his choice. He will spend his lifeprotecting his monarch from the tyrants who aim to destroy her or die trying . . .

Guy Montag tűzőrként dolgozik. Az a munkája, hogy elégesse a könyveket a házakkal együtt, ahol eldugták azokat. Montag élvezi a munkáját. Tíz éve tűzőr, és mindig felhőtlen örömmel vonul ki az éjszakai riasztásokra, boldogan nézi a lapokat emésztőlángokat. Aztán egy nap találkozik egy lánnyal, aki olyan múltról mesél neki, amikor az emberek még nem féltek, majd megismerkedik egy professzorral, aki olyan jövőt fest elé, amelyben az emberek gondolkodnak. És akkor Guy Montag hirtelen ráébred arra,mi az igazi hivatása.Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future.Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses inwhich they are hidden.Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television family. But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to apast where people didn't live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known. He starts hiding books in his home, and when his pilfering is discovered, the fireman has to run for his life.

Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you 'fix' people for a living - terminally - it's hard to get close to anyone. Now he's finally met the woman of his dreams. But there are two problems. She's his boss's wife. And Olav's just been hired to killher.

The second book in the globally bestselling Bridgerton Family series, the inspiration behind the Netflix series Bridgerton. Welcome to Anthony's story . . .

Now bereft of both youth and ambition, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is recovering from a mental breakdown induced by occupational stress and cocaine abuse, and a particularly horrifying child sex murder case back in Edinburgh. On vacation in Florida,his fiancée Trudi is only interested in planning their forthcoming wedding, and a bitter argument sees a deranged Lennox cast adrift in strip-mall Florida. He meets two women in a seedy bar, ending up at their apartment for a coke binge interrupted bytwo menacing strangers. After the ensuing brawl, Lennox finds himself alone with Tianna, the terrified ten-year-old daughter of one of the women, and a sheet of instructions that make him responsible for her immediate safety.Lennox takes her across the state to an exclusive marina on the Gulf of Mexico, and quickly suspects that he has stumbled into a hornet's nest: a gang of organized paedophiles, every bit as threatening as the monster that haunted him back in Edinburgh.His priority is to protect the abused girl, but can the edgy Lennox trust his own instincts? And can he negotiate her inappropriate sexuality, as well as his own mental fragility, while still trying to get to grips with the Edinburgh murder and theemotions it unleashes in him?A novel about the corruption and abuse of the human soul and the possibilities of redemption, Crime is a thrilling journey into the bright glamour of the Sunshine State and a seething underworld of utter darkness.

When Gypsy cop Balthazar Kovacs is called out at dawn to his brother Gaspar's brothel, he know it can only be bad news. A customer has died in the VIP room. Worse still, he's an Arab diplomat, connected to a massive investment programme from the Gulfstates that can transform Hungary. The signs point to a heart attack - but is that really the case?In Kossuth Square, Kovacs soon discovers that the dark forces of corruption he thought were defeated are fighting back, more powerfully than ever. And when he uncovers a dark secret that his family has kept for twenty years, his mission becomes personal.Soon, Kovacs is drawn back into the Budapest underworld of people smuggling, blackmail and soaring political tensions - always caught between the two worlds of the Gypsy and non-Gypsy, of the law and family loyalty.

I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960

®EL REY INDISCUTIDO DE LA NOVELA NEGRA¯ (El Mundo),CON 50 MILLONES DE LECTORES EN 50 IDIOMAS,NOS PRESENTA AL DETECTIVE HARRY HOLE EN SU CUARTO CASO.Las cámaras de seguridad de un banco captan cómo un atracador dispara a bocajarro a la cajera tras un extrano intercambio de palabras. El detective Harry Hole se hará cargo de la investigación, con la ayuda de Beate Lonn, una de las investigadoras másdesconcertantes del cuerpo de policía, capaz de identificar rasgos faciales mucho más rápido que cualquier programa informático, pero incapaz de moverse en sociedad.Todas las pesquisas remiten a Raskol Baxhet, un legendario atracador de etnia gitana. Sin embargo, es imposible que sea el culpable porque cumple condena en prisión. Y, mientras los atracos se suceden cada vez con más virulencia, Harry se mete en líos.Una manana amanece en su piso con una resaca horrible que le hace revivir viejos temores. La noche anterior había quedado con una antigua novia que aparece muerta. Él es el principal sospechoso, a menos que logre aclarar qué ha hecho durante esas últimashoras de las que no recuerda nada. ?Hay alguien dispuesto a tenderle una trampa y culparle de la muerte de Anna? ?Cómo atrapas a un asesino cuando tú eres el principal sospechoso?En Némesis, la cuarta novela protagonizada por el atormentado detective Harry Hole, este tendrá que cruzar la línea que separa lo legal de lo ilegal para resolver unos crímenes que no son lo que en un principio parecían. Junto con Petirrojo y La estrelladel diablo, forma el ®Tríptico de Oslo¯.Críticas:®Una historia de venganza con infinidad de giros y con suficiente humanidad para no llegar al desquiciamiento. Una obra maestra.¯Time Out®Un ritmo diabólico [...]. Varios giros argumentales sin duda espectaculares y un final de escalofrío. Altamente recomendable.¯The Guardian®Nesbo ha fabricado un policía fascinante. Posiblemente el mejor de los últimos tiempos. Tan justo, enfermizamente justo, como imperfecto. Un lobo estepario. Repleto de aristas y defectos. Humano hasta el cansancio.¯El Mundo

Sir Claud Amory's revolutionary new formula for a powerful explosive is stolen. Locking his house-guests in the library, Sir Claud switches off the lights to allow the thief to replace the formula, no questions asked. When the lights come on, he is dead,and Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have to unravel a tangle of family feuds, old flames and suspicious foreigners to find the killer and prevent a global catastrophe.BLACK COFFEE was Agatha Christie's first playscript, originally performed in 1930 and made into a now rarely-seen film the following year. Combining her typically beguiling plot and sparkling dialogue with his own faithful narrative, Charles Osborne'snovelisation is 'A worthy addition to the Christie canon' (The Spectator)

Death Benefit is an explosive thriller from New York Times bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook.Pia Grazdani is an exceptional yet aloof medical student working closely with Columbia University Medical Center's premier scientist. Their cutting edge research could revolutionize health care

Winner of the Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the the Orange PrizeShortlisted for the Costa Novel Award`Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good'Daily Mail'Our most brilliant English writer'GuardianEngland, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk,and later his successor.Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is asambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages.From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident,it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage.

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of Beren and Lúthien will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, Dwarves andOrcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien's Middle-earth.The tale of Beren and Lúthien was, or became, an essential element in the evolution of The Silmarillion, the myths and legends of the First Age of the World conceived by J.R.R. Tolkien. Returning from France and the battle of the Somme at the end of1916, he wrote the tale in the following year.Essential to the story, and never changed, is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Lúthien: for Beren was a mortal man, but Lúthien was an immortal Elf. Her father, a great Elvish lord, in deep opposition to Beren, imposed on him an impossibletask that he must perform before he might wed Lúthien. This is the kernel of the legend

See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with Shadow and Bone, now a Netflix original series.Enter the Grishaverse with book three of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by number one New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo. Perfect for fans of Laini Taylor and Sarah J. Maas.Now with a stunning new cover and exclusive bonus material: The Demon in the Wood (a Darkling prequel story) and a Q&A with Leigh Bardugo.Soldier. Summoner. Saint.The nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army.The Darkling rules from his shadow throne while a weakened Alina Starkov recovers from their battle under the dubious protection of the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Now her hopes lie with the magic of a long-vanished ancient creature and thechance that an outlaw prince still survives.As her allies and enemies race toward war, only Alina stands between her country and a rising tide of darkness that could destroy the world. To win this fight, she must seize a legend's power - but claiming the firebird may be her ruin.Read all the books in the Grishaverse!The Shadow and Bone Trilogy(previously published as The Grisha Trilogy)Shadow and BoneSiege and StormRuin and RisingThe Six of Crows DuologySix of CrowsCrooked KingdomThe King of Scars DuologyKing of ScarsRule of WolvesThe Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous MagicThe Severed Moon: A Year-Long Journal of MagicThe Lives of SaintsPraise for the GrishaverseA master of fantasy. -The Huffington PostUtterly, extremely bewitching. -The GuardianThe best magic universe since Harry Potter. -BustleThis is what fantasy is for. -The New York Times Book Review[A] world that feels real enough to have its own passport stamp. -NPRThe darker it gets for the good guys, the better. -Entertainment WeeklySultry, sweeping and picturesque. . . . Impossible to put down. -USA TodayThere's a level of emotional and historical sophistication within Bardugo's original epic fantasy that sets it apart. -Vanity FairUnlike anything I've ever read. -Veronica Roth, bestselling author of DivergentBardugo crafts a first-rate adventure, a poignant romance, and an intriguing mystery! -Rick Riordan, bestselling author of the Percy Jackson series