The unmissable first novel from bestselling and award-winning author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. \"If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.\" Miles Halter\'s whole life has been one big non-event, until he meets Alaska Young. Gorgeous, clever and undoubtedly screwed-up, Alaska draws Miles into her reckless world and irrevocably steals his heart. For Miles, nothing can ever be the

Jussi Adler-Olsen is the new Scandinavian crime writing sensation to hit the UK. Redemption is the follow up to the internationally bestselling Mercy and Disgrace and continues the Department Q series. Mercy stormed straight to No. 8 in the paperback charts and has since sold 57,000 copies TCM. Mercy and Disgrace have topped the bestseller charts in Germany and Denmark, and the Department Q series

Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from his willingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone. In search of new opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture: one that could lead to millions of deaths all over the globe.

Once it seemed being immortal was a gift to Ever Bloom - now it\'s a curse. And she\'s a danger to herself. Ever has been dabbling in Magyck - seeking to explore her own powers, hoping to find a future for her relationship with Damen. But she\'s not in control - in fact, the magyck has bound her eternally to her immortal enemy, Roman. Whenever he\'s near, she feels his heartbeat, his breath, his blood

She was a brazen hussy.\" \"She wasn\'t. And she was pretty, wasn\'t she?\" \"I didn\'t look ...And tell your girls, my son, that when they\'re running after you, they\'re not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes\"\'. The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband,

Many of the characters are well-known: Valjean, the criminal trying to escape his reputation, Javert, the police agent trailing him, the unfortunate Fantine and her daughter, Cosette, the rascally Thenardier, and, above all the splendid street urchin, Gavroche. Among the unforgettable descriptions are those of the Paris sewers, the battle of Waterloo and the fighting at the barricades during the July

Billboards have become the most creative form of advertising. This book not only looks back a the most controversial and striking ad campaigns of the last fifty years but also looks to the future, with an overview of the very latest advertising formats and techniques.

From Louise Bourgeois, Andreas Gursky, Zaha Hadid, and Shirin Neshat, to David Lynch, Omar Sharif, Sting, and Naguib Mahfouz: many artists and other celebrities from the worlds of film, music, and literature have posed for the camera of Egyptian photographer Youssef Nabil (*1972 in Cairo). His first portraits were of friends, taken after he finished studying literature in the early nineties before

This is a highly original and indispensible source of inspiration for graphic designers and illustrators everywhere. One of the biggest challenges facing all graphic designers, illustrators, and artists is being able to work in just one colour - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, or Black, the colours used in the four-colour printing process. \"The THNK CMYK\" series provides much-needed inspiration by showing

Dealing with themes of determinism and inescapable fate, Thomas Hardy\'s novels are also reknowned for depicting the intimate relationship between character and the environment. Unflinchingly honest in portraying characters and their fortunes, Hardy depicts life with all its harsh realities. Tess of the D\'Urbervilles received negative reviews when first published in 1891. Originally criticised as

In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar Ben Jelloun traces the experiences of Salim who, in 1971, took part in a failed coup attempt to oust King Hassan II of Morocco. With sixty others Salim was incarcerated in a secret prison complex in the Moroccan desert: he was to remain there for nearly twenty years. In starkly eloquent, beautiful prose, Ben Jelloun relates the prisoners\'

Late October, Cardiff. A human leg is discovered in a woman\'s freezer. The hunt for the rest of the corpse soon turns up body parts in kitchens, garages and potting sheds.The police conclude that the victim was a teenage girl killed some ten years earlier. But then other body parts start appearing, this time discarded carelessly, shortly after the victim - a man - was killed. Investigating the double

Activities chapter includes yak-carting, horse-trekking and hiking.

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In this sixth and concluding book of the Tunnels series, the Styx and their cohorts of deadly Armagi have swept across England, leaving death and devastation in their wake. It seems nothing can stop them now. Only a miracle can save the day and, in the inner world at the centre of the earth, Will and Elliott might just have stumbled upon one as they uncover ancient secrets that are fundamental to all

A New York Times #1 Bestseller A New York Times and Washington Post notable book, and one of the Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, and BookPage\'s best books of the year Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel—a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan—from the award-winning,

Рассказы Франца Кафки, одного из самых загадочных писателей XX века, \"непостижимого мастера и повелителя царства немецкого языка\" (Г. Гессе). В настоящее издание вошли повесть \"Исследования одной собаки\", а также рассказы из циклов \"Мастер пост-арта\", \"Сельский врач\", \"Наблюдение\" и др.

Stylists are some of the most influential people working within the fashion industry, responsible for the final shape of many exciting works in popular culture. Still unsung heroes, they are now becoming increasingly well known in their own right, alongside the photographers, art directors and magazine editors of the industry. The book will cover styling for commercial ad campaigns, for fashion editorial