In the world of page-turning thrillers, Dan Brown holds a special place in the hearts of many of us. After his first book, Digital Fortress, almost passed me by, he wrote Angels and Demons, which was probably one of the half-dozen most exciting thrillers of last year. It is a pleasure to report that his new book lives up to his reputation as a writer whose research and talent make his stories exciting,

Bringing together six of Turgenev\'s best known stories in volume, this collection includes First Love,\" \"Asya,\" \"Mumu,\" \"The Diary of a Superfluous Man,\" \"Song of Triumphant Love,\" and \"King Lear of the Steppes.\" \"

\'A masterpiece of poignant brilliance . . . heartbreaking\' Guardian Charlie Gordon, a floor sweeper born with an unusually low IQ, has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that doctors hope will increase his intelligence - a procedure that has been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. All Charlie wants is to be smart and have friends, but the treatement

Fern is glaring thirty in the face and can’t ignore the love lies any longer. Life with Adam was amazing once – although these days swinging from the chandeliers means D.I.Y not S.E.X. She believes a romantic wedding should be the next step but Adam just won’t go down on one knee. Then a chance meeting with Scottie Taylor – the UK’s sexiest pop star – lights fireworks in Fern that won’t stop

Tara Westover and her family grew up preparing for the End of Days but, according to the government, she didn\'t exist. She hadn\'t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she\'d never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn\'t believe in hospitals. As she grew older, her father became more radical and her brother more violent. At sixteen,

Waterstones Children\'s Book Prize-winning authorNew York Times #1 bestselling authorThe award-winning author of The Hate U Give returns with a powerful story about hip hop, freedom of speech - and fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you. Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit

Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in. But carefree days of beach visits and normalling lessons are soon interrupted by a discovery - a subterranean bunker that belonged to Jacob\'s grandfather, Abe.

Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden, projectionist, waiter and

Persuasion

Marianela, joven huérfana, sirve de lazarillo de Pablo, joven ciego y de cómoda posición social, de quien se enamora. En esta publicación vas a encontrar: Reportajes; Glosario con las palabras dificiles; Actividades de comprensión; Actividades DELE; Test final Temas: Amor; Sociedad; Naturaleza La historia de Marianela encierra algunas de las dualidades universales como la bondad y la maldad, la belleza

Agal’s desire to save his mother rushes him to the Dead Woods. However, he is yet to find the fate that awaits him during his unicorn hunt. Instead of the award for the hunt, he has to face the battle against the dark powers of the wood as well as the battle with his own inner demons. Agal blames himself more than once for the journey he decided to take. Facing his own death, the potter’s son grows

A Theological Life offers one of the first comprehensive reflections on the life and work of this enigmatic Czech theologian and cardinal. Going beyond the usual biographical and bibliographical summary, the book provides an in-depth theological reflection on the legacy which this much-loved spiritual father left to the worldwide Church.

In Tanger betrachtet eine Gruppe von jungen Leuten jeden Abend, wie die Lichter in Spanien angehen und träumt vom Exil. Bis wohin sind sie bereit zu gehen, welchen Preis sind sie bereit zu zahlen, um ihr Land verlassen zu können? Eine der Fragen, der dieser Roman von Tahar ben Jelloun nachgeht.

A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Song of Achilles, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list The god touches his finger to the arrow\'s fletching. Then he breathes, a puff of air - as if to send dandelions flying, to push toy boats over water. And the arrow flies, straight and silent, in a curving, downward arc towards Achilles\' back. Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus,

Oliver Twist‘s life is hard and desperate one. His mother is dead, so he is brought up in a workhouse. Beaten and starved he runs away to London, where he joins Fagin’s gang of pickpockets to survive. Will the boy manage to find a real home in such a mercyless world? Život Olivera Twista je těžký a zoufalý. Maminka mu zemřela, a tak je vychováván v sirotčinci. Zbitý a vyhladovělý uteče do Londýna,

Make to Know: From Spaces of Uncertainty to Creative Discovery will change the way you think about creativity. The book upends popular notions of innate artistic and visionary genius and probes instead the event of discovery that happens through the act of making. In contrast to the classic tale of Michelangelo, who \'saw the angel in the stone\', the artists and designers Buchman interviews for this

The Counterlife is about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far as to risk their lives to alter seemingly irreversible destinies. Wherever they may find themselves, the characters of The Counterlife are tempted unceasingly by the prospect of an alternative existence that can reverse their fate. Illuminating these lives in transition and guiding us through the

Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated. Both are symptomatic members of our atomised society, where religion