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The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her life.Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting' nothing is ever quite what it seems

Cuando yo tenía seis anos vi en un libro sobre la selva virgen que se titulaba Historias vividas, una magnífica lámina. Representaba una serpiente boa que se tragaba a una fiera. En el libro se afirmaba: La serpiente boa se traga su presa entera, sinmasticarla. Luego ya no puede moverse y duerme durante los seis meses que dura su digestión. Reflexioné mucho en ese momento sobre las aventuras de la jungla y a su vez logré trazar con un lápiz de colores mi primer dibujo. Ensené mi obra de arte a laspersonas mayores y les pregunté si mi dibujo les daba miedo. -?por qué habría de asustar un sombrero?- me respondieron. Mi dibujo no representaba un sombrero. Representaba una serpiente boa que digiere un elefante. En mi dibujo número dos, dibujéentonces el interior de la serpiente boa a fin de que las personas mayores pudieran comprender. Siempre estas personas tienen necesidad de explicaciones.

®Girando la busta con mano tremante, Harry vide un sigillo di ceralacca color porpora con uno stemma araldico: un leone, un'aquila, un tasso e un serpente intorno a una grossa H¯. Tutto comincia da qui. Il primo capitolo di uno dei piu grandi fenomeniletterari internazionali, il libro che ha fatto leggere milioni di ragazzi e ha unito genitori e figli nella scoperta di un universo fantastico che c gia parte dell'immaginario collettivo. Edizione speciale con contenuti inediti: la mappa di Hogwarts, ilglossario, curiosita sui fondatori di Hogwarts. Eta di lettura: da 10 anni.

The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Killing Commendatore is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art - as well as aloving homage to The Great Gatsby - and a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.The epic new novel from the internationally acclaimed and best-selling author of 1Q84.In Killing Commendatore, a thirty-something portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada. When he discovers a strange painting in the attic, he unintentionally opensa circle of mysterious circumstances. To close it, he must complete a journey that involves a mysterious ringing bell, a two-foot-high physical manifestation of an Idea, a dapper businessman who lives across the valley, a precocious thirteen-year-oldgirl, a Nazi assassination attempt during World War II in Vienna, a pit in the woods behind the artist's home, and an underworld haunted by Double Metaphors.A tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art - as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby - Killing Commendatore is a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers.

The Gruffalo said that no gruffalo should. Ever set foot in the deep dark wood.But one wild and windy night the Gruffalo's child disobeys her father's warnings and ventures out into thesnow. After all, the Big Bad Mouse doesn't really exist . . . does he? The Gruffalo's Child is the Number One best-selling, much-loved sequel to the worldwide picture-book phenomenon that is The Gruffalo. Julia Donaldson's trademark rhyming text and AxelScheffler's brilliant, characterful illustrations combine once more to ensure that the Gruffalo's Child has followed firmly in her father's footsteps and that her story is one that children will ask for again, and again... and again! This editionfeatures the classic story with a stunning redesigned cover and beautiful finish, making it a must-have addition to the bookshelves of all Donaldson andScheffler fans - big and small!The Gruffalo said that no gruffalo should. Ever set foot in the deep dark wood.

Introducing Geralt the Witcher - revered and hated - who holds the line against the monsters plaguing humanity in the bestselling series that inspired the Witcher video games and a major Netflix show.Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher, a man whose magic powers and lifelong training have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin.Yet he is no ordinary killer: he hunts the vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent.But not everything monstrous-looking is evil

A house full of love. A house full of secrets.#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks is back with his best novel yet.*Trevor Benson never intended to return to North Carolina.But here he is, back where it all began.Trevor found himself unable to resist the call home when he inherited a tumbledown cabin from his grandfather. He's come back to live the simple life but nothing here is simple.There's Callie, the sullen local teenager who seems to know more than she should about Trevor's grandfather's death. And there's Natalie, the deputy sheriff intent on making a point and lingering in Trevor's mind long after she's left his porch.In a bid to unravel Natalie and Callie's secrets and to find out what really happened to his grandfather, Trevor is about to learn more than he's bargained for - that sometimes, in order to move forward, we have to return to the place where it all began.Praise for Nicholas Sparks:'A fiercely romantic and touching tale' Heat'An A-grade romantic read' OK!'Pulls at the heartstrings' Sunday Times'An absorbing page-turner' Daily Mail'This one won't leave a dry eye' Daily Mirror

WITH OVER THREE MILLION COPIES SOLD, read the Sunday Times and No.1 New York Times bestselling, record-breaking thriller that everyone is talking about - soon to be a major film.'The perfect thriller' AJ FINN'Terrific' - THE TIMES Crime Book of the Month'Smart, sophisticated suspense' - LEE CHILD'Compelling' - OBSERVER'Absolutely brilliant' - STEPHEN FRY'A totally original psychological mystery' - DAVID BALDACCI'One of the best thrillers I've read this year' - CARA HUNTER'The pace and finesse of a master' - BBC CULTUREAlicia Berenson lived a seemingly perfect life until one day six years ago.When she shot her husband in the head five times.Since then she hasn't spoken a single word.It's time to find out why.THE SILENT PATIENT is the gripping must-read thriller of the year - perfect for fans of THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS by Lisa Jewell, BLOOD ORANGE by Harriet Tyce and PLAYING NICE by JP Delaney.

DISCOVER THE UNFORGETTABLE TIKTOK SENSATION THAT HAS CAPTURED MILLIONS OF HEARTS'This book is breathtakingly, heartbreakingly beautiful. You will cry ugly tears' 5***** READER REVIEW'So moving that it left me sobbing but at the same time filled my heart. Beautiful, tragic, heartbreakingly wonderful' 5***** READER REVIEW'It is without a doubt the biggest ugly cry I have ever had from a book' 5***** READER REVIEW________Two hearts. One love story. An ending you will never forget . . .Rune Kristiansen and Poppy Litchfield met as children and swore to be friends forever.As teenagers, their friendship grew into a love that promised to last a lifetime. But their worlds were shattered when Rune was sent home to his native Norway.Two years later, Rune is back, and Poppy is ready for their happy ever after to begin. But the boy who returns is not the Rune she remembers.What happened to turn her sweet, thoughtful Rune into this brooding stranger?And will the secret Poppy is carrying bring them closer together or separate them forever?Discover the story that will break your heart and make you believe true love really does last for eternity . . .________'I have read books that have had me ugly crying in the past but I honestly don't think I've read a book before this one where tears flowed in every single chapter' 5***** READER REVIEW'The most heartbreaking, soul-shattering yet beautiful book I have ever read . . . I sobbed. I mean ugly crying' 5***** READER REVIEW'One of the most beautiful and most heartbreaking books I have ever read' 5***** READER REVIEW'Rune couldn't have been more perfect, nor Poppy more perfect for him' 5***** READER REVIEW

A beautiful, funny, vital novel of teenage years and teenage mistakes from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove KnausgaardFresh out of high school, Karl Ove moves to a remote fishing village to workas a teacher. He has no interest in the job itself -or in any other job for that matter, his sole aim is to save money and start writing.

Based on the stories contained in this volume, the ten-part anthology series, Philip K. Dicks Electric Dreams is written and executive produced by Emmy-nominated Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, Outlander) and Michael Dinner (Justified).

Two nations at war. A prize beyond compare. For generations, the Hundred Isles have built their ships from the bones of ancient dragons to fight an endless war. The dragons disappeared, but the battles for supremacy persisted. Now the first dragon incenturies has been spotted in far-off waters, and both sides see a chance to shift the balance of power in their favour. Because whoever catches it will win not only glory, but the war. A brilliantly imagined saga of honour, glory, and warfare, The BoneShips starts an epic new trilogy from David Gemmell Award-nominated RJ Barker.

Tie-in edition to accompany a major new HBO drama from the creators of Big Little Lies, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant.Previously published as You Should Have Known.Grace Sachs, a happily married therapist with a young son, thinks she knowseverything about women, men and marriage. She is about to publish a bookbased on her pet theory: women don't value their intuition about men, leadingto serious trouble later on.But how well does Grace know her own husband? She is about to find out,and in the place of what she thought she knew, there will be a violent death, amissing husband, and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wakeof a very public disaster,and horrified by the ways in which she has failed toheed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another forherself and her child.

When the God-fearing folk of the town declare a foundling child to be chosen by the Almighty, Euchrid is disturbed. He sees her very differently, and his conviction, and increasing isolation and insanity, may have terrible consequences for them both...

The sixth novel in Julia Quinn's globally beloved and bestselling Bridgerton Family series, set in Regency times and now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. This is Francesca's story . . .

In John le Carré's electrifying novel Our Kind of Traitor, innocents abroad are drawn into the darkest recesses of the financial world.Britain is in the depths of recession. A left-leaning young Oxford academic and his barrister girlfriend take an off-peak holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. By seeming chance they bump into a Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsulaand a diamond-encrusted gold watch. He also has a tattoo on his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis.What else he wants propels the young lovers on a tortuous journey through Paris to a safe house in the Swiss Alps, to the murkiest cloisters of the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's Intelligence Establishment.

Peppa and George are going on a very special day out to London! Miss Rabbit's friend, the Queen, borrows a double decker bus and takes Peppa and all her friends on a fun tour of the city's sights in this picture book story based on the exciting newepisode.Peppa Pig is shown daily on Five's Milkshake and Nick Jnr.

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021A GUARDIAN and THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'This slight book is an extraordinarily powerful exploration of what happens to the souls of men sent to kill and be killed' -- The Times, Historical Fiction Books of the Year'Extraordinary... full of sadness, rage and beauty' Sarah WatersAlfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France's German enemies whenever the whistle blows, until Mademba is wounded, and dies in a shell hole withhis belly torn open.Without his more-than-brother, Alfa is alone and lost amidst the savagery of the conflict. He devotes himself to the war, to violence and death, but soon begins to frighten even his own comrades in arms. How far will Alfa go to make amends to his deadfriend?At Night All Blood is Black is a hypnotic, heartbreaking rendering of a mind hurtling towards madness.

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelledby the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other Bunny, and seem to move and speak as one.But everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the Bunnies' fabled Smut Salon, and finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door--ditching her only friend, Ava, in the process. As Samantha plunges deeper and deeper into theBunnies' sinister yet saccharine world, beginning to take part in the ritualistic off-campus Workshop where they conjure their monstrous creations, the edges of reality begin to blur. Soon, her friendships with Ava and the Bunnies will be brought intodeadly collision.The spellbinding new novel from one of our most fearless chroniclers of the female experience, Bunny is a down-the-rabbit-hole tale of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and the fantastic and terrible power of the imagination.

Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia. Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman heloves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy? Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy, and can see no way out of her financial problems, until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III from Baton Rouge,Louisiana, who's in England to see his horse run at Royal Ascot. Sebastian Clifton is now the Chief Executive of Farthings Bank and a workaholic, whose personal life is thrown into disarray when he falls for Priya, a beautiful Indian girl. But herparents have already chosen the man she is going to marry. Meanwhile, Sebastian's rivals Adrian Sloane and Desmond Mellor are still plotting to bring him and his chairman Hakim Bishara down, so they can take over Farthings. Harry Clifton remainsdetermined to get Anatoly Babakov released from a gulag in Siberia, following the international success of his acclaimed book, Uncle Joe. But then something unexpected happens that none of them could have anticipated. Cometh the Hour is the penultimatebook in the Clifton Chronicles and, like the five previous novels - all of which went to number one on the Sunday Times bestseller list - showcases Jeffrey Archer's extraordinary storytelling with his trademark twists.

Niveau B1Sechs Geschichten, in denen es um Männer und Frauen, um Träume und um die harte Realität geht. Mal witzig, mal hintersinnig, mal nachdenklich erzählt, bieten die Texte hervorragende Anknüpfungspunkte für ein anschlieáendes Gespräch.

Tiffy and Leon share a flat Tiffy and Leon share a bed Tiffy and Leon have never met... Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies theone-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time. But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven't met yet,they're about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rulebook out the window...

John Grisham returns to Clanton, Mississippi, to tell the story of an unthinkable murder, the bizarre trial that followed it, and its profound and lasting effect on the people of Ford County.Pete Banning was Clanton's favourite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbour, and a faithful member of the Methodist Church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walkedinto the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell.As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his defense attorney, to the judge, to his family and friends, and to the people of Clanton - was 'I have nothing to say'.And so the murder of the esteemed Reverend Bell became the most mysterious and unforgettable crime Ford County had ever known.

Année 1984 en Océanie. 1984 ? C'est en tout cas ce qu'il semble a Winston, qui ne saurait toutefois en jurer. Le passé a été réinventé, et les événements les plus récents sont susceptibles d'etre modifiés. Winston est lui-meme chargé de récrire lesarchives qui contredisent le présent et les promesses de Big Brother. Grƒce a une technologie de pointe, ce dernier sait tout, voit tout. Liberté est Servitude. Ignorance est Puissance. Telles sont les devises du régime. Pourtant Winston refuse de perdreespoir. Avec l'insoumise Julia, ils vont tenter d'intégrer la Fraternité, une organisation ayant pour but de renverser Big Brother. Mais celui-ci veille...

In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece - the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen - the gift of life. Now his wife, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humilitypersonified. But she has desires of her own, and yearns for independence.In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, she is locked away under the constant supervision of doctors and nurses. But with a daughter to rescue, she is determined to break free, whatever the cost...

Una nueva comedia romántica situada en la NASA en la que una científica se ve obligada a trabajar en un proyecto junto a su archienemigo... con resultados explosivos.Bee Königswasser se rige siempre por un código muy sencillo: ?qué haría Marie Curie? Si la NASA le ofreciera liderar un proyecto de neuroingeniería, un sueno hecho realidad después de pasarse anos malviviendo con las migajas del mundo académico, Marieaceptaría sin dudarlo. Obvio. Pero la madre de la física moderna nunca tuvo que codirigir ningún proyecto con Levi Ward.A ver, Levi no está nada mal: es alto, moreno y tiene una mirada de lo más penetrante. Pero Levi dejó muy claros sus sentimientos por Bee en la universidad: es mejor que dos enemigos trabajen cada uno en su propia galaxia muy muy lejana.De pronto, Bee se encuentra con que su material ha desaparecido, el personal pasa de ella y su maltrecha carrera profesional pende de un hilo. Puede que su lóbulo occipital esté jugándole una mala pasada, pero juraría que Levi empieza a convertirse en sualiado, apoyando sus decisiones, secundando sus ideas... devorándola con esa mirada suya. Y las diferentes posibilidades traen a sus neuronas de cabeza.Sin embargo, cuando llega el momento de jugársela y arriesgar el corazón, solo hay una pregunta que importe: ?Qué hará Bee Königswasser?