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This series will soon become a Netflix series... so get in on the ground floor while you still can' EsquireImagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless predators.Imagine what might happen to any civilisation unwise enough to broadcast its location.This is Cixin Liu's THREE-BODY PROBLEM TRILOGY.Weaving a complex web of stratagem, subterfuge, philosophy and physics across light years of space and 18.9 million years of time, this tale of humanity's struggle to reach the stars is a visionary masterwork of unprecedented scale and momentum.Available now in a single volume, including:1 THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM2 THE DARK FOREST3 DEATH'S ENDRead the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-selling phenomenon - soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.Reviews for Cixin Liu:'A milestone' New York Times'Immense' Barack Obama'Unique' George R.R. Martin'SF in the grand style' Guardian'Mind-altering and immersive' Daily Mail

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeares life ... here is a novel ... so gorgeously written that it transports you." The Boston GlobeIn 1580s England, during the Black Plague a young Latin tutor falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this exceptional historical novel (The New Yorker) and best-selling winner of the Womens Prize for Fiction.Agnes is a wild creature who walks her familys land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a tender and unforgettable re-imagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, and whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put downa magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.Dont miss Maggie OFarrells new novel, The Marriage Portrait, coming in September!

As personaxes deste libro están medrando. Ou quizais non se decaten de que xa remataron de medrar. Da adolescencia á trintena, as voces que tecen "A parte fácil" aprenden a convivir con sentimentos de culpa que non lles pertencen, coa vergonza, con segredos familiares antigos e recentes...A dificultade para comunicarse co mundo deixaos illados na inquietante xordeira de quen afunde a cabeza relaxadamente nunha bañeira chea de auga e sopesa a idea de non erguerse nunca mais.Os contos de "A parte facil" conforman o primeiro libro de narrativa de Ismael Ramos.

The searing follow-up to 2018's most celebrated fantasy debut - THE POPPY WAR. Rin is on the run ... Haunted by the terrible choices she had to make to save her people, Rin's only reason for living is to take revenge on the traitorous Empress who sold her homeland to its enemies.Forced to ally with the powerful Dragon Warlord in his plan to unseat the Empress, Rin throws herself into the struggle using the fearsome power bestowed on her by the vengeful god Phoenix After all, making war is all she knows how to do ...

THE BRAND NEW DARK ROMANCE FROM THE AUTHOR OF TIKTOK SENSATION LIGHTS OUT. . .I wanted this woman, and I was a man who always got what he wanted. Nico 'Junior' Trocci knows Lauren Marchetti is off limits. She is sweetness and laughter, whereas Junior exists in a world of violence and depravity.Men like him don't get to have women like her. It's why he pushed her away back in high school and has kept his distance ever since. But when Junior looks Lauren up online, he discovers the shy, bookish girl he remembers is gone.In her place is a strikingly beautiful woman whose social media is filled with scantily clad pictures of herself and a connection to a nearby play club. Junior's innocent curiosity quickly turns into a dark obsession. But watching Lauren from a distance isn't enough; he needs to make her his.He's ruthless; a walking red flag. Good thing red is my favorite color. Lauren is intrigued by the mystery man who keeps showing up at her club, who tempts her white-hot desires.

Her bestsellers explore the wildest, strangest crimes. Now her husband has been murdered is she a target, a victim, or is this even darker??NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets the call from his lieutenant at 9:42 p.m. How fast can you get to 211 Central Park West? The Beresford Building.At Apartment 18A, Shaws partner briefs him. The woman inside called 911 to report a break-inand the murder of her husband. She fired a round at first responders, then made a baffling demand. Nobody comes in but Detective Declan Shaw.The woman answers, covered in blood. She appears to be in shock. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room. Shaw walks in and spots floor-to-ceiling shelves filled with hardcover books. He recognizes the namebestselling true-crime author Denise Morrow. When he looks closer, he sees they all show the same familiar picture on the back. This is you? Shaw asks. Youre a writer??The real question is: Is she also a killer?

This special edition includes a beautiful gold foiled board, stunning character-art endpapers and an exclusive digi fore-edge. Only available in select territories.HE'S HER GREATEST ENEMY AND HER DEEPEST DESIRE'A dark fever dream of a fairytale.Rose in Chains is a heart-pounding, spellbinding, forbidden love story that kept breaking my heart and putting it back together again' Stephanie Garber, #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Once Upon a Broken Heart'Lush, complex, and utterly engrossing Rebecca Ross, #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Divine RivalsAbsorbing, unique, and addictive Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author'A delicious, darkly tender slow-burn romance Brigitte Knightley, author of The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your EnemyThe scintillating romantasy of my dreams. The all-consuming, captivating chemistry between Briony and Toven has changed my life Lindsey Kelk, Sunday Times bestselling author of Love Story

L'obra mestra de Jesús Moncada, que ens recorda que tots els mons, siguin grans o petits, s'acaben. Camí de sirga comença amb l’enderrocament de la casa número 20 de la baixada de la Ferradura, que

THE GLOBAL #1 BESTSELLERAN IRISH TIMES TOP 100 IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURYA BEST BOOK OF 2024 IN THE GUARDIAN, TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, IRISH TIMES, LONDON STANDARD, INDEPENDENT, OBSERVER, NEW STATESMAN, iNEWS, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, THE SKINNY, CITY AM, DAILY MAIL, AND THE CONVERSATION'I read it in a state of rapture.' SUNDAY TIMES'A tender, funny pageturner.' OBSERVER'Come for the romance, stay for the meaning of life.' IRISH TIMES'A breathtakingly intimate look at love and desire in its many different forms.' REDFrom the author of the multimillioncopy bestseller Normal People, an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family.Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father's death, he's medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.Ivan is a twentytwoyearold competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

Ao entrar na cova de Anboto, nos montes de Euskadi, pódeste atopar coa deusa Mari, unha fermosa muller que habita nela. Cómpre que sexas sincero se che pregunta, porque se lle mentes quitarache o que negues. Poren, se lle dis a verdade, concederache o que mais desexas. O cadaver dunha muller aparece moi preto de Portomarin, Lugo. A inspectora Galdos e o seu compañeiro Martin Lasarte descobren que a sua identidade se correponde coa de Deva Varela, desaparecida en Arrasate, Guipuscoa, no solsticio de veran sete anos atras. Agrandase o misterio ao saber que a sua irma, Amalur, tamen desapareceu na mesma data, vinte e oito anos antes, no monte de Anboto. A investigacion policial levaralles de Galicia a Euskadi para descubrir que se agocha tras tantos anos de silencio. Que lle sucedeu a Amalur? È posible que ainda siga con vida? Cada vez hai mais interrogantes, mais a verdade esta a piques de saberse e ninguen esta preparado para ela. Ou si? si?

Theres no place like homeBlake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make the mortgage payments on the new townhouse he shares with his fiancee, he's desperate to make ends meet.Enter Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent. She's exactly what Blake's looking for. Or is she?Because something isn't quite right. The neighbours start treating Blake differently. The smell of decay permeates his home, no matter how hard he scrubs. Strange noises jar him awake in the middle of the night. And soon, Blake fears someone knows his darkest secrets...Danger lives right at home, and by the time Blake realises it, it'll be far too late. The trap is already set.Bestselling author Freida McFadden knocks at your door with a gripping, mind-bending psychological thriller: a story of revenge, privilege, and secrets turned sour

In love we find out who we want to be.In war we find out who we are.FRANCE, 1939In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesnt believe that the Nazis will invade France...but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Viannes home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.Viannes sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gaetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can...completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others.With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of WWII and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the womens war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France--a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.

Aquests dos llibres conformen la primera etapa de l’escriptora com a narradora, en què es combinen a la perfecció els seus valors testimonials, subversius i de denúncia, amb una clara vocació poètica

No one does funny, emotional, life-affirming love stories quite like Abby Jimenez. She just keeps outdoing herself EMILY HENRY I absolutely love Abby Jimenez . . . Say You ll Remember Me is warm, uplifting, relatable and sweet MARIAN KEYES The sort of emotionally resonant love story I adore - I was captivated from the very first page PAIGE TOON ......................... The perfect guy. The perfect date. Utterly disastrous timing. There might be no such thing as the perfect guy, but Xavier Rush comes disastrously close. A gorgeous veterinarian giving Greek god vibes - all while cuddling a tiny kitten? Immediately yes. That is until he opens his mouth and proves that even sculpted gods can say the absolute wrong thing. But there s nothing Samantha loves more than proving an asshole wrong . . . . . . unless he can admit he made a mistake. But after one incredible date - possibly the best in living history - Samantha is forced to admit the truth, that any kind of relationship would be impossible. Samantha begs Xavier to forget her. To remember their night together as a perfect moment, as crushing as that may be. Only no amount of distance or time is nearly enough to forget that something between them. And the only thing better than one perfect memory is to make a life - and even a love - worth remembering .......................... DISCOVER WHY READERS LOVE ABBY JIMENEZ . . . Funny and poignant, relatable and aspirational, heart-tugging and satisfying. It is, in a word, perfect CHRISTINA LAUREN Abby Jimenez s words . . . sprinkle humour and warmth all over my life ALI HAZELWOOD Sweet and achingly romantic - a truly wonderful love story BETH O LEARY Full of fierce humour and fiercer heart CASEY MCQUISTON A deliciously hot, sweet debut. This book is an absolute treat L. J. SHEN This book deserves all the stars in the universe READER REVIEW Things I loved about this book . . . I mean it s literally everything. Not a single flaw READER REVIEW Wow. wow. WOW. Every book I ve read of Abby s just gets better and better READER REVIEW

A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis.Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A junior at Stanford and a student athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on getting into med school and on recovering from the injury that almost ended her career. She has no time for relationships - at least, that's what she tells herself.Swim captain, world champion, all-around aquatics golden boy Lukas Blomqvist thrives on discipline. It's how he wins gold medals and breaks records: complete focus with every stroke. On the surface, Lukas and Scarlett have nothing in common. Until a well-guarded secret slips out, and everything changes.So they start an arrangement. And as the pressure leading to the Olympics heats up, so does their relationship. It was supposed to be just a temporary, mutually satisfying fling. But when staying away from Lukas becomes impossible, Scarlett realizes that her heart might be treading into dangerous water...

L any 2000 va irrompre a les llibreries una novel·la poderosa i única, d un autor que feia vida en un quadrant perfectament delimitat de Premiá de Mar. Aquella novel·la, monstruosa, bella i elegant, desafiava amb una inexplicable indiferencia les lleis de la versemblança i va assolir aviat l estatus de novel·la de culte. Una raresa lluminosa.Els anys van passar, la novel·la va desapareixer de les taules de novetats. Fins i tot es va fer fonedissa a les llibreries de vell. El seu autor va morir de manera abrupta i massa d hora. Malgrat tot, no son pocs els lectors que el recorden a ell i la seva obra. Estem parlant, es clar, de Marti Rossello i "Anna K."Es dificil, potser impossible, resumir en quatre linies l argument d Anna K., tan plena de seduccio, vincles de sang, venjança, vida i mort. Seria forassenyat com mirar el sol a ull nu. Per aixo aquesta edicio, que surt als vint-i-cinc anys de l edicio de Quaderns Crema i a quinze de la mort de Marti Rossello, s acompanya de dos epilegs que fan de bruixola: el primer de Tina Valles, que repassa la vida de l autor; el segon, de Borja Bagunya, que ofereix claus per a la interpretacio de l obra i dona fe de la seva gran importancia en la literatura catalana contemporania."Totes les novel·les mediocres s assemblen. Cada gra

A fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about lovethe best and worst thing in the universewritten by the creator of BoJack Horseman with his hallmark scathing dark humorTranscendent tragicomedy.... Prepare to be devastated and made whole again. The A.V. ClubFeaturing: A young engaged couple forced to deal with interfering relatives dictating the appropriate number of ritual goat sacrifices for their wedding. A pair of lonely commuters who ride the subway in silence, forever, eternally failing to make that longed-for contact. A struggling employee at a theme park of U.S. presidents who discovers that love cant be genetically modified.

Publicada el 1974 és una de les novel·les catalanes més llegides de tots els temps.L'Alba i en Dídac, són els únics supervivents en un planeta pràcticament destruït. En ells dos s'acaba un món i en c

A stunning collectible edition containing the first two novels in #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinns beloved Bridgerton series. This edition features:gorgeous sprayed edgesintricate foil iconographyribbon bookmarkbeautiful endpapersSee these beloved stories come to life on screen in Bridgerton, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix.The Duke and IWhen Daphne Bridgerton and Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings, agree to a fake courtship, they think theyve found the perfect solution to their problems. Romantically associated with one of Londons most desirable catches, Daphnes prospects among the ton will soar. For avowed bachelor Simon, an attachment to Daphne will deter would-be brides and their ambitious mamas. Their plan works like a charmat first. But amid the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of Londons elite, there is only one certainty: love ignores every rule. . .The Viscount Who Loved MeLondon''s most elusive bachelor, Anthony Bridgerton is determined to wed. But one obstacle stands in his wayhis intended''s older sister, Kate Sheffield, who is driving Anthony mad with her determination to stop the betrothal. Kate is quite sure that reformed rakes do not make the best husbands, and Anthony Bridgerton is the most wicked rogue of them all. Shes determined to protect her sistereven as she fears she may not be able to resist the reprehensible and oh so desirable rake herself . . .