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Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. The people who lived in them appear to have vanished, seemingly into thin air. Maura Isles is driving through the area with a group of friends when they find themselves trapped in a snowstorm. They stumble into the abandoned village to take shelter. But their nightmare

Jean le Flambeur is a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence artist and trickster. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his exploits are known throughout the Heterarchy - from breaking into the vast Zeusbrains of the Inner System to steal their thoughts, to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of the Moving Cities of Mars. Except that Jean made one mistake. Now he is condemned

\"Reading Brodsky\'s essays is like a conversation with an immensely erudite, hugely entertaining and witty (and often very funny) interlocutor\". (\"Wall Street Journal\"). \"Watermark\" is Joseph Brodsky\'s witty, intelligent, moving and elegant portrait of Venice. Looking at every aspect of the city, from its waterways, streets and architecture to its food, politics and people, Brodsky captures

A gripping, compulsive thriller set in a future where the cure for ageing has been discovered! to devastating consequences \"You got me. I don\'t want to die. I\'m terrified of death. I fear there\'s nothing beyond it and that this existence is the only one I\'ll ever possess. That\'s why I\'m here.\" (An excerpt from the digital journal of John Farrell, cure age 29) 2019. Humanity has witnessed its

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\'Because of his baldness and hairiness, he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to look down on him as he passed or to mention goats in any context.\' The biography of the brutal, crazed and incestuous Roman Emperor Caligula, who tried to appoint his own horse consul. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin\'s 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge

Invaluable to both veteran and apprentice astro1ogers, this comprehensive reference guide define almost 4,000 familiar and obscure astrological tern ranging from post-medieval traditions to the present.

Grace\'s mother Eileen is a great list maker, so when Grace walks into Eileen\'s kitchen to drop off a postal package and sees her garish \'To Do\' pad on the counter, she thinks nothing of it, until she sneaks a look. There, at No 8, ranked in importanc e well below bread, telephone bill and bins is \'Tell G I have ovarian cancer, probably terminal\'. Grace goes into shock, primarily at the thought

*Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017* *Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2017**Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Sunday Times*Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born in 1973, her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the mountains. Aged two, and suffering from malnutrition

In these nine stories, Salman Rushdie looks at what happens when East meets West, at the forces that pull his characters first in one direction, then the other. Fantasy and realism collide as a rickshaw driver writes letters describing his film star career in Bombay; a mispronunciation leads to romance and an unusual courtship in sixties London; two childhood friends turned diplomats live out in a

*NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING TOM HANKS AND FELICITY JONES* The world is in danger - who will save it? Robert Langdon wakes up in a Florence hospital with no clue how he got there. But another attack on his life makes it very clear - someone wants him dead. And fast. To survive, Langdon must work out who it is. And then he must answer the next question - why? `Jam-packed with tricks . . . A book length

In die Rinde der großen Blutbuche in dem kleinen Ort Shancarrig ritzten einst acht Kinder ihre Namen ein. Die Jahre vergehen, und mit ihnen verwehen die jugendlichen Hoffnungen und zerbricht so mancher Kindheitstraum. Auf unnachahmliche Weise erzählt die irische Bestsellerautorin Maeve Binchy von dem Leben der Menschen in diesem Ort Irlands, von ihren Geheimnissen und ihren Sehnsüchten.

In Russland das Kultbuch schlechthin und erfolgreicher als Der Herr der Ringe\" oder \"Harry Potter:\" Sergej Lukianenkos \"Wächter der Nacht\" - eine einzigartige Mischung aus Fantasy und Horror über den ewigen Kampf zwischen den Mächten des Lichts und der Finsternis. Auf Grundlage dieses Romans entstand der erfolgreichste russische Film aller Zeiten, der im September 2005 endlich auch bei uns zu

Don Quixote, originally published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, stands as Cervantes\' belated but colossal literary success. A work which has achieved mythic status, it is considered to have pioneered the modern novel. Don Quixote, a poor gentleman from La Mancha, Spain, entranced by the code of chivalry, seeks romantic honor through absurd and fantastic adventures. His fevered imagination turns everyday

Nous sommes en 1959, en plein mois d\'aot. Dans une cité HLM de Bobigny, aux portes de Paris, deux auteurs de bande dessinée s\'épongent le front. Pas seulement cause de la chaleur estivale : les deux compres suent sang et eau pour trouver une idée de personnage. Il leur faut tre prts pour le premier numéro de Pilote, un nouveau magazine pour les jeunes dont la parution doit intervenir trois mois plus