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Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good - a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class -- married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end

Pour la fin de ses aventures le célèbre sorcier a une dernière tâche très difficile à accomplir...

The summer holidays are dragging on and Harry Potter can't wait for the start of the school year. It is his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and there are spells to be learnt and (unluckily) Potions and Divination lessons to be attended. But Harry can't know that the atmosphere is darkening around him, and his worst enemy is preparing a fate that it seems will be inescapable ...With characteristic wit, fast-paced humour and marvelous emotional depth, J.K. Rowling has proved herself yet again to be a master story-teller.

There it was, hanging in the sky above the school : the blazing green skull with a serpent tongue, the mark Death Eaters left behind whenever they had entered a building ... wherever they had murdered ... When Dumbledore arrives at Privet Drive one summer night to collect Harry Potter, his wand hand is blackened and shrivelled, but he does not reveal why. Secrets and suspicion are spreading through the wizarding world, and Hogwarts itself is not safe. Harry is convinced that Malfoy bears the dark mark : there is a Death Eater amongst them. Harry will need powerful magic and true friends as he explores Voldemort's darkest secrets, and Dumbledore prepares him to face his destiny ...

There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it’s haunting Harry Pottter’s dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror? Harry has a lot on his mind for this, his fifth year at Hogwarts: a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey; a big surprise on the Gryffindor Quidditch team; and the looming terror of the Ordinary Wizarding Level exams. But all these things pale next to the growing threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named - a threat that neither the magical government nor the authorities at Hogwarts can stop. As the grasp of darkness tightens, Harry must discover the true depth and strength of his friends, the importance of boundless loyalty, and the shocking price of unbearable sacrifice. His fate depends on them all.

Harry Potter has never been the star of a Quidditch team, scoring points while riding a broom far above the ground. He knows no spells, has never helped to hatch a dragon, and has never worn a cloak of invisibility. All he knows is a miserable life with the Dursleys, his horrible aunt and uncle, and their abominable son, Dudley - a great big swollen spoiled bully. Harry's room is a tiny closet at the foot of the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday party in eleven years. But all that is about to change when a mysterious letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an invitation to an incredible place that Harry - and anyone who reads about him - will find unforgettable. For it's there that he finds not only friends, aerial sports, and magic in everything from classes to meals, but a great destiny that's been waiting for him... if Harry can survive the encounter.

Anna Walsh está totalmente destrozada, física y emocionalmente. Se encontraba tumbada en el sofá en la casa de sus padres en Dublín, obsesionada con una sola cosa: volver a Nueva York, una ciudad que significa para ella sus mejores amigos, el trabajo más maravilloso del mundo y, sobre todo, significa su marido, Aidan. Pero la vuelta a Manhattan no iba a aclarar nada en la vida de Anna Walsh: no sólo llevaba consigo sus cicatrices sino que, aparentemente, ya no podría contar con Aidan. Quizá Anna debería dejar de buscar, pero ¿podrá?. Un grupo de amigos encantadores pero nada normales, una revelación totalmente inesperada, dos nacimientos y una boda extrañísima ayudarán a proporcionar a Anna lo que busca y a cambiar su vida para siempre.

Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and he’s a master of his profession. But one career simply can’t support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife’s fledgling art gallery. At an art opening one night he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but also, perhaps, the answer to his financial woes: Greve just so happens to mention that he owns a priceless Peter Paul Rubens painting that’s been lost since World War IIùand Roger Brown just so happens to dabble in art theft. But when he breaks into Greve’s apartment, he finds more than just the painting. And Clas Greve may turn out to be the worst thing that’s ever happened to Roger Brown.

Wieviel Wahrheit kann die Liebe ertragen, ohne zu zerbrechen? Viele Jahre sind vergangen, seit Helena Beaumont als junge Frau einen wunderbaren Sommer auf Zypern verbracht und dort ihre erste groûe Liebe erlebt hat. Nun kehrt sie zum ersten Mal zurÉuck in das schÉone alte Haus, um dort mit ihrer Familie die Ferien zu verbringen. Unbeschwerte Tage sollen es werden, vertrÉaumte Stunden am Meer und lange NÉachte auf der Terrasse, doch schon bei ihrer Ankunft empfindet Helena ein vages Unbehagen. Sie allein weiû, dass die Idylle bedroht ist - denn es gibt Ereignisse in ihrer Vergangenheit, die sie ihrem Mann und ihren Kindern stets eisern verschwiegen hat. Wie lange aber kann sie die Fassade der glÉucklichen Familie noch aufrechterhalten? Als sie dann plÉotzlich ihrer Jugendliebe Alexis gegenÉubersteht, ahnt sie, dass diese Begegnung erst der Anfang einer Verkettung von Ereignissen ist, die ihrer aller Leben auf eine harte BewÉahrungsprobe stellt

David Tomory traces the continuous western influences at work on Goa from the time of the Portugese to the present day. This entertaining and informative tour through the totality of western contact with Goa reveals what Goa is actually like for both westerners and Goans, and catches Goa as it stands at the brink of a complicated future.

Historias de cronopios y de famas es uno de los libros legendarios del escritor argentino. Postulación de una mirada poética capaz de enfrentar las miserias de la rutina y del sentido común, Cortázar toma aquí partido por la imaginación creadora y el humor corrosivo de los surrealistas. Esta colección de cuentos y viñetas entrañables es una introducción privilegiada al mundo inagotable de uno de los más grandes escritores de este siglo y un antídoto seguro contra la solemnidad y el aburrimiento. Sin duda alguna, Cortázar sella un pacto de complicidad definitiva e incondicional con sus lectores.

It is January 1957 and Helen's husband Jack returns from National Service. Happy to be reunited, they resume their life together with their friends. Then Helen is utterly shattered when Jack tells her that a brief fling with a sergeant's widow has left the woman pregnant. Helen can't have children, so this is more than she can bear. She starts divorce proceedings, but their fierce love for each other cannot be extinguished. Finally she has to make a decision which requires courage, but could be the answer to their differences.

My name’s Johanna Morrigan. I’m fourteen, and I’ve just decided to kill myself. I don’t really want to die, of course! I just need to kill Johanna, and build a new girl. Dolly Wilde will be everything I want to be, and more! But as with all the best coming-of-age stories, it doesn’t exactly go to planà

Adam Basil and Christine Rose are thrown together late one night, when Christine is crossing the Halfpenny Bridge in Dublin. Adam is there, poised, threatening to jump. Adam is desperate û but Christine makes a crazy deal with him. His 35th birthday is looming and she bets him she can show him that life is worth living before then. Despite her determination, Christine knows what a dangerous promise she’s made. Against the ticking of the clock, the two of them embark on wild escapades, grand romantic gestures and some unlikely late-night outings. Slowly, Christine thinks Adam is starting to fall back in love with his life. But has she done enough to change his mind for good? And is that all that’s starting to happen?

"I've lost it. The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It's been in Magnus' family for three generations. And now, the very same day his parents are coming, I've lost it. The very same day. Do not hyperventilate, Poppy. / Stay positive!!" A couple of glasses of bubbly with the girls and Poppy's life has gone into meltdown. Not only has she lost her engagement ring, but in the panic that followed, she's lost her phone too. When she spots an abandoned phone in a bin it seems it was meant to be. Finders Keepers! Except the phone's owner, elusive businessman Sam Roxton, doesn't agree. He wants his phone back, and doesn't appreciate Poppy reading all his messages and wading into his personal life. Can things get any more tangled?

Readers and critics alike adore Cecelia Ahern for her lighthearted yet insightful stories about modern women and their often unusual situations. In If You Could See Me Now, she takes that theme a step further, offering us a heroine who is entirely believable, and the new man in her life who is, well, slightly less so. Elizabeth Egan's life runs on order: Both her home and her emotions are arranged just so, with little room for spontaneity. It's how she counteracts the chaos of her familyùan alcoholic mother who left when she was young, an emotionally distant father, and a free-spirited sister, who seems to be following in their mother's footsteps, leaving her own six-year-old son, Luke, in Elizabeth's care. When Ivan, Luke's mysterious new grown-up friend, enters the picture, Elizabeth doesnt know quite what to make of him. With his penchant for adventure and colorful take on things large and small, Ivan opens Elizabeth's eyes to a whole new way of living. But is it for real? Is Ivan for real? If You Could See Me Now is a love story with heartùand just a touch of magic.

Johann Struensee, medico tedesco originario di Altona, fu chiamato alla corte di Danimarca, nel diciottesimo secolo, per prendersi cura di Cristiano VII, assurto giovanissimo al trono e promesso sposo all'inglese Caroline Mathilde. Cristiano è una personalità complessa: di un'intelligenza visionaria, inesperto di ogni cosa, compreso l'amore incarnato dalla giovane moglie, è terrorizzato da tutto e farebbe volentieri a meno del suo ruolo. Viene considerato un pazzo, ma il suo precettore di idee illuministe vuol farne un riformatore, liberando il popolo danese dall'oppressione di una monarchia oscurantista e crudele. Homme du peuple, instruit et progressiste, dont l'influence sur Christian VII va, à leur corps défendant, devenir considérable. Au retour du voyage en Europe, alors qu'une grande confiance s'est instaurée entre les deux hommes. Struensee se rapproche de la jeune reine délaissée, tout en se consacrant à la mise en place de réformes irrecevables pour la noblesse. En butte aux complots et aux manœuvres de toute sorte, le médecin personnel du roi signe de ce fait son arrêt de mort...

Joel Backman, noto come "il Broker", un tempo socio di un prestigioso studio legale e uno degli uomini più ricchi e potenti di Washington, è in carcere da sei anni per aver tentato di piazzare sul mercato un software messo a punto da tre giovani pachistani, capace di neutralizzare il più sofisticato sistema di spionaggio satellitare. Ma la vendita è sfumata e i ragazzi pachistani sono morti. Ora il presidente degli Stati Uniti, a poche ore dalla scadenza del mandato, ha firmato i documenti per la sua liberazione. Poche ore dopo, Backman si trova a bordo di un aereo militare che lo porterà lontano, verso una città italiana a lui sconosciuta, con una nuova identità. Da una cella schifosa alla libertà in meno di un giorno. Perché così in fretta? Ben presto il Broker si rende conto che non si è trattato di un semplice atto di clemenza: braccato dalla CIA, dai servizi segreti israeliani e sauditi e da uno spietato killer cinese, Backman diventa l'esca di una micidiale caccia all'uomo in cui la domanda non è se riuscirà a sopravvivere, ma chi sarà a raggiungerlo per primo. E ad ucciderlo.

Lungo il XIX secolo, tra Torino, Palermo e Parigi, troviamo una satanista isterica, un abate che muore due volte, alcuni cadaveri in una fogna parigina, un garibaldino che si chiamava Ippolito Nievo, scomparso in mare nei pressi dello Stromboli, il falso bordereau di Dreyfus per l’ambasciata tedesca, la crescita graduale di quella falsificazione nota come I protocolli dei Savi Anziani di Sion, che ispirerà a Hitler i campi di sterminio, gesuiti che tramano contro i massoni, massoni, carbonari e mazziniani che strangolano i preti con le loro stesse budella, un Garibaldi artritico dalle gambe storte, i piani dei servizi segreti piemontesi, francesi, prussiani e russi, le stragi in una Parigi della Comune dove si mangiano i topi, colpi di pugnale, orrendi e puteolenti ritrovi per criminali che tra i fumi dell’assenzio pianificano esplosioni e rivolte di piazza, barbe finte, falsi notai, testamenti mendaci, confraternite diaboliche e messe nere. Ottimo materiale per un romanzo d’appendice di stile ottocentesco, tra l’altro illustrato come i feuilletons di quel tempo. Ecco di che contentare il peggiore tra i lettori. Tranne un particolare. Eccetto il protagonista, tutti gli altri personaggi di questo romanzo sono realmente esistiti e hanno fatto quello che hanno fatto. E anche il protagonista fa cose che sono state veramente fatte, tranne che ne fa molte, che probabilmente hanno avuto autori diversi. Ma chi lo sa, quando ci si muove tra servizi segreti, agenti doppi, ufficiali felloni ed ecclesiastici peccatori, può accadere di tutto. Anche che l’unico personaggio inventato di questa storia sia il più vero di tutti, e assomigli moltissimo ad altri che sono ancora tra noi.

In un mondo sorretto da quattro elefanti magici che poggiano sul guscio di una tartaruga gigante, ha inizio la più stramba, scatenata ed esplosiva delle avventure: il viaggio dell’ingenuo Duefiori attraverso le meraviglie e le bizzarrie del Mondo Disco.