Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola\'s dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere \'human beasts\' who kill in order to satisfy their lust, is much more than an atmospheric Second Empire period-piece. Many readers were scandalized by an approach to character-drawing which seemed

Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal prison camp of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the survivors are missing and she is the most wanted person in London. As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on the dreamwalker, the mime-lords and mime-queens of the city\'s gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take centre stage,

Luke is twenty-five and allergic to the sun. He is stuck in his bedroom, where the world comes to him through TV, the internet and Julie\'s visits. Julie, meanwhile, is brilliant, kind and could be changing the world. Unfortunately she is too terrified of aeroplane crashes, road accidents and potentially life-threatening bacteria to leave her home town. When someone contacts Luke and claims that he

The Koran is a book apart, not only as Holy Scripture for Muslims, but as the supreme classic of Arabic literature. In its 114 Suras, or chapters, it comprises the total of revelations believed to have been communicated to the prophet Muhammad as a final expression of God\'s will and purpose for man. The revelations were received over a number of years, the first dating from AD 610, the last shortly

Nearly 20 million Americans are involved in quilting. Many more would like to try but are intimidated by the time and expense that goes into creating large, lavish quilts. Experienced crafter Betty Auth reveals how A Little Quilting can be just as fun and rewarding—and much faster—than making a full-fledged quilt. Now quilters can finally find a use for those fabric treasures they\'ve been stashing

Toilet Paper is an artists\' magazine created and produced by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, born out of a passion or obsession they both cultivate: images. The magazine contains no text; each picture springs from an idea, often simple, and through a complex orchestration of people it becomes the materialization of the artists\' mental outbursts. Since the first issue in June 2010, Toilet

La historia del nadsat-adolescente Alex y sus tres drugos-amigos en un mundo de crueldad y destrucción. Alex tiene, según Burgess, \"los principales atributos humanos; amor a la agresión, amor al lenguaje, amor a la belleza. Pero es joven y no ha entendido aún la verdadera importancia de la libertad, la que disfruta de un modo tan violento. En cierto sentido vive en el Edén, y sólo cuando cae (como

One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, teenager Will Grayson crosses paths with... Two teens with the same name who run in two different circles suddenly find their lives going in unexpected directions. Culminating in epic turns-of-heart on their parts, they team up to produce fabulous musical ever to grace the high-school stage.

* Extra reading with \'Little Books\' to cut-out and keep * Cassettes, CDs and interactive Videos available at every level * Further language practice provided in the Workbooks

Have you heard about the book that everyone\'s talking about? \'If I could give this book 10 stars I would\' (Reader review) \'This book touched my soul\' (Reader review) \'I could not put it down. What a story. What a storyteller\' (Reader review) \'This is in my top five books of all time. Absolutely incredible\' (Reader review) \'I have never felt so emotionally wrapped up in characters in a book\'

The Stormlight Archive saga continues in Rhythm of War, the eagerly awaited sequel to Brandon Sanderson\'s #1 New York Times bestselling Oathbringer, from an epic fantasy writer at the top of his game. After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage,

In The Killer Across the Table, legendary FBI criminal profiler and number one bestselling author John Douglas delves deep into the lives and crimes of four of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers he\'s encountered, offering never-before-revealed details about his profiling process and divulging the strategies used to crack some of his most challenging cases. Former Special Agent John

While Impressionism marked the first steps toward modern painting by revolutionising an artistic medium stifled by academic conventions, Post-Impressionism, even more revolutionary, completely liberated colour and opened it to new, unknown horizons. Anchored in his epoch, relying on the new chromatic studies of Michel Eugène Chevreul, Georges Seurat transcribed the chemist’s theory of colours into

It came to me first of all, quite suddenly, as a sort of legendary tale, suggested by my recollection of having once, in early childhood, seen a linen-weaver with a bag on his back; but, as my mind dwelt on the subject, I became inclined to a more realistic treatment. Falsely accused, cut off from his past, Silas the weaver is reduced to a spider-like existence, endlessly weaving his web and hoarding

Over the course of the last 12 years, Hanif Kureishi has written short fiction. The stories are, by turns, provocative, erotic, tender, funny and charming as they deal with the complexities of relationships as well as the joys of children.

\'Can books conduct electricity?\' \'My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that\'s ok...isn\'t it?\' A John Cleese Twitter question [\'What is your pet peeve?\'], first sparked the \"Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops\" blog, which grew over three years into one bookseller\'s collection of ridiculous conversations on the shop floor. From \'Did Beatrix Potter ever write a book about dinosaurs?\'

Betrayed by Earth\'s heroes and exiled into outer space, the man-monster Hulk has landed on the distant planet Sakaar, ruled by the tyrannical Red King. Sold into slavery, Hulk becomes the Green Scar, the planet\'s mightiest gladiator - but his new masters get more than they bargained for when he forges a bond of brotherhood with his fellow fighters: crafty insectoid Miek, the horrific Brood, wise