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Meet James Bond, the worlds most famous spy.In the novel that introduced James Bond to the world, Ian Flemings agent 007 is dispatched to a French casino in Royale-les-Eaux. His mission? Bankrupt a ruthless Russian agent whos been on a bad luck streak at the baccarat table. "Le Chiffre," has been a prime target of the British Secret Service for years. If Bond can wipe out his bankroll, Le Chiffre will likely be "retired" by his paymasters in Moscow. But what if the cards wont cooperate?Taut, tense, and effortlessly stylish, Ian Flemings inaugural James Bond adventure has all the hallmarks that made the series a touchstone for a generation of readers.

In a near future, where civilisation has collapsed, a government of youth has taken power in North America. All older people deemed responsible for the cataclysmic climate emergency are relocated, but a breakaway group escapes exile to seek freedom at devastating costThe dystopian future landscape of The Forcing comes with a heightened realism that grips and shakes you provocative and insightful, visceral and terrifyingSciFi Now Book of the MonthA superbly handled tale of struggle and survival in a maimed worldThe TimesSmart, gripping, and all too plausible announces Paul E. Hardisty as the true heir to John ChristopherTim GlisterThe jaw-dropping, passionate and provocative climate-emergency thriller from one of the worlds leading environmental scientists.___________Civilisation is collapsingFrustrated and angry after years of denial and inaction, in a last-ditch attempt to stave off disaster, a government of youth has taken power in North America, and a policy of institutionalised ageism has been introduced. All those older than the prescribed age are deemed responsible for the current state of the world, and are to be relocated, their property and assets confiscated.David Ashworth, known by his friends and students as Teacher, and his wife May, find themselves among the thousands being moved to new accommodation in the abandoned southern deserts thrown together with a wealthy industrialist and his wife, a high court lawyer, two recent immigrants to America, and a hospital worker. Together, they must come to terms with their new lives in a land rendered unrecognisable.As the terrible truth of their situation is revealed, lured by rumours of a tropical sanctuary where they can live in peace, they plan a perilous escape. But the world outside is more dangerous than they could ever have imagined. And for those who survive, nothing will ever be the same again_________A compelling, moving story of survival in a dying world a novel that might have actually predicted our futureEwan MorrisonA bold, beautifully written and imagined novel about an all-too plausible future Paul Hardisty is a visionaryLuke McCallinHardisty is a fine writerLee ChildAn excellent blend of deep suspense, thriller and to be honest horror. The message within it is all too plausible, the solution to the problem distinctly chillingJames OswaldFierce, thoughtful, deeply humane and always compelling the tension builds from page one and never relentsDavid Whish-WilsonOutstanding! Thrilling and thought provoking. If theres any justice, this book will be HUGE!!!Michael J MaloneA clear-eyed reckoning with social and political currents we dont like to examine tough, suspenseful and action-packedJock SerongThe book Ive been waiting and hoping forPaul WatersWhat readers are sayingStark, gripping, often poignantRiveting and suspensefulA twist I didnt see comingDark and disturbingI got a real Atwood vibeA masterpiecePowerfully toldFull of paceAn author at the very top of his craftThe biting intensity of a thriller and the majestic world-building of a classic dystopian tale

A dazzling collection of retold and original fairy tales from fifteen acclaimed and bestselling YA writers, including Tracy Deonn and Melissa Albert.A dazzling collection of fifteen original and retold fairy tales from acclaimed and bestselling writers.Fairy tales have been spun for thousands of years and remain among our most treasured stories. Weaving fresh takes and unexpected reimaginings, At Midnight brings together a diverse group of celebrated writers to breathe new life into our beloved traditions.Dahlia Adler, "Rumplestiltskin"Tracy Deonn, "The Nightingale"H.E. Edgmon, "Snow White"Hafsah Faizal, "Little Red Riding Hood"Stacey Lee, "The Little Matchstick Girl"Roselle Lim, "Hansel and Gretel"Darcie Little Badger, "Puss in Boots"Malinda Lo, "Frau Trude"Alex London, "Cinderella"Anna-Marie McLemore, "The Nutcracker"Rebecca Podos, "The Robber Bridegroom"Rory Power, "Sleeping Beauty"Meredith Russo, "The Little Mermaid"Gita Trelease, "Fitchers Bird"and an all-new fairy tale by Melissa Albert

From the author of The Boatmans Daughter, a gripping, achingly atmospheric tale about the horrors that lurk in the dark corners of family history. And a young woman striving to break free of that tragic past.Nellie Gardner is looking for a way out of an abusive marriage when she learns that her long-lost grandfather, August Redfern, has willed her his turpentine estate. She throws everything she can think of in a bag and flees to Georgia with her eleven-year-old son, Max, in tow.It turns out that the "estate" is a decrepit farmhouse on a thousand acres of old pine forest, but Nellie is thrilled about the chance for a fresh start for her and Max, and a chance for the happy home she never had. So it takes her a while to notice the strange scratching in the walls, the faint whispering at night, how the forest is eerily quiet. But Max sees what his mother cant: Theyre no safer here than they had been in South Carolina. In fact, things might even be worse. Theres something wrong with Redfern Hill. Something lurks beneath the soil, ancient and hungry, with the power to corrupt hearts and destroy souls. It is the true legacy of Redfern Hill: a kingdom of grief and death, to which Nellies own blood has granted her the key.From the author of The Boatmans Daughter, The Hollow Kind is a jaw-dropping novel about legacy and the horrors that hide in the dark corners of family history. Andy Davidsons gorgeous, Gothic fable tracing the spectacular fall of the Redfern family will haunt you long after you turn the final page.

Jade Daniels faces down a brutal serial killer in his award-winning and pulse-punding tribute to the golden era of horror cinema and Friday the 13th from the New York Times-bestselling, multiple-award winning Jones.Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns home, when convicted serial killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from his prison transfer into a blizzard, just outside of Proofrock, Idaho.Dark Mill Souths Reunion Tour began on December 12th, 2019, a Thursday.Thirty-six hours and twenty bodies later, on Friday the 13th, it would be over.

Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austens radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England.Among the writers who have approached nearest to the manner of the great master, we have no hesitation in placing Jane Austen. Thomas MacaulayPride and Prejudice is the best novel in the language. Anthony TrollopeI used to think that men did everything better than women, but that was before I read Jane Austen. I dont think any man ever wrote better than Jane Austen. Rex StoutElizabeth Bennet has but to speak, and I am at her knees. Robert Louis StevensonRead again, and for the third time at least, Miss Austens very finely written novel of Pride and Prejudice. That young lady has a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. Sir Walter Scott

A luxurious journey aboard the Orient Express turns into a race against time when a murder is committed. Detective Hercule Poirot interrogates the suspects during a long stop in the mountains of Yugo

LISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEBLACKWELLS BOOK OF THE YEARMesmerisingSunday TimesMagnificentGuardianMonumentalThe TelegraphLeigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earths first life forms - what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings.Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency. Drawn deeper into the agencys work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining mother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos.Utterly compellingThe Times, Books of the YearProfound and thrillingNew Statesman, Books of the YearA far-reaching epicFinancial Times, Books of the Year

"1984 - the novel marking the end of communism." George Orwells 1984 revolves around Winston Smith, an office worker who performs censorship duties in Oceanias Ministry of Truth as a small cog in the wheel of a monstrous state apparatus. For years, doubts have been gnawing at him about the legitimacy of the system in which even a blink of the eye can cost him his life. The novel begins with the first step towards putting this initially purely intellectual resistance into action: Winston opens a diary. He subsequently falls in love with a young female colleague, and together they begin a love affair that, in the dictatorship that invades every aspect of life, is in itself an act of high treason. Even though they have different views on the society they live in, they are united by the rejection of its narrow moral corset and the desire for individual freedom and, not least, a right to love and feel. While Winston understands HOW the machinery of tyranny works, he does not understand WHY the massive effort of its surveillance and repressive apparatus is undertaken. When they decide to seek contact with the underground opposition and eventually end up in the hands of the repression apparatus of the state, Winston learns the true background of Oceanias society. Until his death, George Orwell was a convinced socialist - all the greater was the effect his work, published in 1949, had on the political left of the time. On the political left, the Soviet Union was seen as the realisation of Marxs ideas, the workers paradise that would free the enslaved masses from their shackles. Orwell was one of the few leftists of his time who dared to shake this narrative. Under the impression of the undeniable terror of Stalinist rule and its cynical, opportunistic cooperation with fascist and capitalist foreign countries, he criticised the hypocrisy and inhumanities of the real communism with Animal Farm and 1984.

Autumn clouds are drawing in over the village of Askham, at the edge of the picturesque Lake District, and mourners, including Simmy Henderson, are heading to the funeral of Humphrey Craig. Taking a quiet moment later to visit the grave and admire the flowers with her florists eye, Simmy meets two women: academic Lindsay Wilson and ninety-year-old matriarch Pauline Parsons.Just twenty-four hours later, Mrs Parsons is found dead on Askham Fell, and Simmy faces questioning at Penrith police station. An accusation has been made, but if Simmy is to avoid arrest for a murder she did not commit, she will have to uncover the killer herself.

A young man arrives in a small town, hoping to leave his past behind him, but when he takes a job in a peculiar old shop, and meets a lonely single mother, everything changes with devastating consequences. A chillingly hypnotic gothic thriller and a mesmerising study of identity and obsession.This chilling gothic tale explores the dark corners of identity beautifully written and a real page-turnerC J CookeDark, lyrical and intriguingFiona CumminsLike Stephen King on crack the most accomplished book Ive read this year. Dark, gothic as hell, and genuinely scaryM W CravenEerily atmospheric, with brilliant characterisation really gets under your skinCultureflyFear blisters through this town like a feverWhen Teddy Colne arrives in the small town of Rye, he believes he will be able to settle down and leave his past behind him. Little does he know that fear blisters through the streets like a fever. The locals tell him to stay away from an establishment known only as Berry & Vincent, that those who rub too closely to its proprietor risk a bad end.Despite their warnings, Teddy is desperate to understand why Rye has come to fear this one man, and to see what really hides behind the doors of his shop.Ada moved to Rye with her young son to escape a damaged childhood and years of never fitting in, but shes lonely, and ostracised by the community. Ada is ripe for affection and friendship, and everyone knows it.As old secrets bleed out into this town, so too will a mystery about a family who vanished fifty years earlier, and a community living on a knife edge.Teddy looks for answers, thinking he is safe, but some truths are better left undisturbed, and his past will find him here, just as it has always found him before. And before long, it will find Ada too.An utterly chilling psychological horror of modern-day witchcraft, possession, murder and madnessEssie FoxCompelling and dark draws you in from the very first pageHeather DarwentTwisted, toxic and deeply dark, this gives off Needful Things vibes and that ending is just *perfect*Lisa HallThis book sucks you in from the first spine-tingling chapter and weaves a dark, twisted and compelling sense of forebodingClaire AllanWhat readers are saying*****Im shook. This book is a force a masterpieceAn ending that left me slightly dumbstruckAs delightful as it is dark, with beautiful turns of phrase that can be at once both buttery soft and sharp as a knifeIntense, creepy and utterly chillingA story that will creep under your skin and leave you desperately unnervedStartling and incredibly intenseExactly what I look for in a gothic thriller!Deliciously darkIt shook me to the coreDark, chilling, with a touch of geniusTwisted and unnervingBeautiful and lyrical prose brings the setting to life and creates a pulsing tensionThis book creeps up on youCaptivating and claustrophobic

Thrilling epic fantasy adventures set in the world of HALL OF SMOKE and TEMPLE OF NO GOD, featuring murderous conspiracies, howling icy wastelands and the Children of Winter, for readers of Claire LeGrand, Margaret Owen, V. E. Schwab and Melissa CarusoThray is the Last Daughter of Winter, half immortal and haunted by the legacy of her blood. When offered a chance to visit the northern land of Duamel, where her father once ruled, she cant refuse even if it means lying to the priesthood she serves and the man she loves.In Duamel, Thrays demi-god siblings rule under the northern lights, worshipped by arcane cults. An endless winter night cloaks the land, giving rise to strange beasts, terrible storms and a growing, desperate hunger. The people of Duamel teeter on the edge of violence, and Thrays siblings, powerful and deathless, stand with them on the brink.To earn her siblings trust and find the answers she seeks, Thray will have to weather assassinations, conspiracies and icy wastelands. And as her siblings turn their gaze towards the warmer, brighter land she calls home, she must harness her own feral power and decide where her loyalties lie.Because when the spring winds blow and the ice breaks up, the sons and daughters of Winter will bring her homeland to its knees.

The Sunday Times BestsellerA full-spectrum triumphGuardianA sensational new novel from the bestselling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city. His first novel in 13 years, The Shards is Bret Easton Ellis at his inimitable best.LA, 1981. Buckley College in heat. 17-year-old Bret is a senior at the exclusive Buckley prep school when a new student arrives with a mysterious past. Robert Mallory is bright, handsome, charismatic, and shielding a secret from Bret and his friends, even as he becomes a part of their tightly knit circle. Brets obsession with Mallory is equalled only by his increasingly unsettling preoccupation with The Trawler, a serial killer on the loose who seems to be drawing ever closer to Bret and his friends, taunting them with grotesque threats and horrific, sharply local acts of violence.Can he trust his friends or his own mind to make sense of the danger they appear to be in? Thwarted by the world and by his own innate desires, buffeted by unhealthy fixations, Bret spirals into paranoia and isolation as the relationship between The Trawler and Robert Mallory hurtles inexorably toward a collision.Gripping, sly, suspenseful, deeply haunting and often darkly funny, The Shards is a mesmerizing fusing of fact and fiction that brilliantly explores the emotional fabric of Brets life at 17 sex and jealousy, obsession and murderous rage.

Your past and your family can haunt you like nothing else A hilarious and terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Final Girl Support Group.When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesnt want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesnt want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her fathers academic career and her mothers lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesnt want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.Mostly, she doesnt want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success. But shell need his help to get the house ready for sale because itll take more than some new paint on the walls and clearing out a lifetime of memories to get this place on the market.Some houses dont want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of themLike his novels The Southern Book Clubs Guide to Slaying Vampires and The Final Girl Support Group, How to Sell a Haunted House is classic Hendrix: equal parts heartfelt and terrifyinga gripping new read from "the horror master" (USA Today).

Dans le royaume de Verna, la pratique de la magie est désormais interdite par la loi. Les mages sont traqués puis exécutés. Pour Morana, une sorcière crainte par les Verniliens, impossible de rester.

MARIANNA FASCETTOMarianna Fascetto vive a Capizzi, in provincia di Messina, dove e nata e lavora.Ricercatrice di storia e tradizioni popolari ha pubblicato:Canti di Capizzi - nel volume sono incluse raccolte di canti Amebei (Tipico componimento siciliano a domanda e risposta chiamato pure "Sfida" ) e altri componimenti in vernacolo. Prima edizione Editrice Mediterranea di Troina, anno 1988 seconda edizione Pungitopo Editrice di Marina di Patti, anno 2010.Almanacco Popolare di Capizzi anno 1998, e una raccolta di proverbi, modi di dire, medicina popolare, antiche preghiere popolari, piatti tipici ecc. Edizioni Lussografica di CaltanissettaGuida storico-turistica del comune di Capizzi, anno 1998, itinerario virtuale nella storia della cittadina di Capizzi. Edizioni Lussografica di CaltanissettaDafni - anno 2004, raccolta in lingua di favole, fiabe e cunti siciliani, Armando Siciliano Editore di Messina.Boanerghes Il Figlio del Tuono - Guida storico turistica sulla celebrazione del Culto di San Giacomo Apostolo Maggiore nellAurea Citta di Capizzi, anno 2006. Tipografia Zuccarello SantAgata Militello.Nel 2008 ha curato la riedizione delle" Memorie Topografiche della Citta di Capizzi", scritte dal Barone Niccolo Larcan e Lanza nel 1798 Tipografia Zuccarello SantAgata Militello.Aroma di Caffe, anno 2010, raccolta di racconti brevi Pungitopo Editrice Marina di Patti.Racconto "Passi sulla Neve", anno 2012 Pungitopo Editrice Marina di Patti.

"An outstanding story in outstanding hands." - Josh MalermanA biting novel from an electrifying new voice, Such a Pretty Smile is a heart-stopping tour-de-force about powerful women, angry men, and all the ways in which girls fight against the forces that try to silence them.Theres something out there thats killing. Known only as The Cur, he leaves no traces, save for the torn bodies of girls, on the verge of becoming women, who are known as trouble-makers; those who refuse to conform, to know their place. Girls who dont know when to shut up.2019: Thirteen-year-old Lila Sawyer has secrets she cant share with anyone. Not the school psychologist shes seeing. Not her father, who has a new wife, and a new baby. And not her motherthe infamous Caroline Sawyer, a unique artist whose eerie sculptures, made from bent twigs and crimped leaves, have made her a local celebrity. But soon Lila feels haunted from within, terrorized by a delicious evil that shows her how to find her voiceuntil she is punished for using it.2004: Caroline Sawyer hears dogs everywhere. Snarling, barking, teeth snapping that no one else seems to notice. At first, she blames the phantom sounds on her insomnia and her acute stress in caring for her ailing father. But then the delusions begin to take shapeboth in her waking hours, and in the violent, visceral sculptures she creates while in a trance-like state. Her fiance is convinced she needs help. Her new psychiatrist waives her "problem" away with pills. But Carolines past is a dark cellar, filled with repressed memories and a lurking horror that the men around her cant understand.As past demons become a present threat, both Caroline and Lila must chase the source of this unrelenting, oppressive power to its malignant core. Brilliantly paced, unsettling to the bone, and unapologetically fierce, Such a Pretty Smile is a powerful allegory for what it can mean to be a woman, and an untamed rallying cry for anyone ever told to sit down, shut up, and smile pretty.

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Pela primeira vez em Portugal, o romance de estreia de Javier Marías: uma obra que expandiu os horizontes da literatura mundial, diretamente apontada ao coração dos leitores.O primeiro romance de Jav

Who really killed the princes in the tower?Was Richard III truly the ogre of legend and Shakespeares play. - a wicked uncle who murdered his nephews to steal the crown of England?Inspector Alan Grant is not so sure. Laid up in hospital with a broken leg, he becomes obsessed with unravelling this most enduring of historical mysteries. As he investigates with the help of an enthusiastic young American scholar, he unearths long-buried intrigues and comes to a startling conclusion.