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A u début des années 1990, la narratrice est embauchée par Yumimoto, une puissante firme japonaise. Elle va découvrir à ses dépens l’implacable rigueur de l’autorité d’entreprise, en même temps que l

Continuing the story of The Hobbit, this three-volume boxed set of Tolkiens epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, features striking black covers based on Tolkiens own design, the definitive text, and three maps including a detailed map of Middle-earth.Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring the ring that rules them all which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins.In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.Since it was first published in 1954, The Lord of the Rings has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, its sweeping fantasy has touched the hearts of young and old alike.

Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the first novel in Marlon James''''s Dark Star Trilogy.Tracker is a hunter, known throughout the thirteen kingdoms as one who has a nose - and he always works alone. But he breaks his own rule when, hired to find a lost child, he finds himself part of a group of hunters all searching for the same boy. Each of these companions is stranger and more dangerous than the last, from a giant to a witch to a shape-shifting Leopard, and each has secrets of their own.As the mismatched gang follow the boy''''s scent from perfumed citadels to infested rivers to the enchanted darklands and beyond, set upon at every turn by creatures intent on destroying them, Tracker starts to wonder: who really is this mysterious boy? Why do so many people want to stop him being found? And, most important of all, who is telling the truth and who is lying?Marlon James weaves a tapestry of breathtaking adventure through a world at once ancient and startlingly modern. And, against this exhilarating backdrop of magic and violence, he explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, the excesses of ambition, and our need to understand them all.

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Nell'Europa di inizio '700, il giovane Martí Zuviría è l'allievo prediletto del marchese di Vauban, dal quale apprende "l'arte sacra di costruire fortificazioni e quella sacrilega di distruggerle". S

In Bram Stoker's bone-chilling vampire tale, told through the diaries and letters of the chief characters, young lawyer Jonathan Harker and his friends are drawn into a desperate battle to stop the sinister Count Dracula - but not all of them will survive. This book has matching lined and blank journals (sold separately). They make a great gift when paired together but are also just as beautiful on their own.

The Witcher's magic powers and lifelong training have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin.Yet he is no ordinary killer: he hunts the vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent.But not everything monstrous-looking is evil; not everything fair is good . . . and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth.Translated by Danusia Stok and David French.

El preludi és una obra magna que William Wordsworth, el poeta més longeu i més important del Romanticisme anglès, va anar escrivint i reescrivint durant gairebé cinquanta anys com a tribut al seu germa espiritual, el poeta Samuel Taylor Coleridge, que va dir d'ell que «per la força de la seva imaginació, Wordsworth es troba més a prop de Shakespeare i de Milton que cap altre escriptor modern». Aquest llarg poema unitari és una autèntica aventura de la memòria i del pensament en què el vers s'activa a partir del record de les accions més íntimes i humils, i com aquestes es connecten amb la potència sagrada de la divinitat. El preludi és també un cant d'amor a la natura, que es descriu com una entitat totpoderosa que acompanya el geni creador quan aquest sap aprofitar els poders que el món li atorga. Es tracta també d'una oda d'exaltació de la passió, de la llibertat i de la gran meravella d'existir. El preludi va ser el pinyol primordial que acabaria inspirant un joveníssim Marcel Proust a l'hora d'escriure A la recerca del temps perdut i ara arriba, per primer cop, traduït de forma completa en llengua catalana.

This is Britain as you've never read it.This is Britain as it has never been told.From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope . . .'Masterful . . . A choral love song to black womanhood in modern Great Britain' Elle'Exceptional. Ambitious, flowing and all-encompassing, an offbeat narrative that'll leave your mind in an invigorated whirl... [It] unites poetry, social history, women's voices and beyond. You have to order it right now' Stylist'Bernardine Evaristo can take any story from any time and turn it into something vibrating with life' Ali Smith, author of How to be both'Sparkling, inventive' Sunday Times'Funny, sad, tender and true, deserves to win awards' Red'Brims with vitality' Financial Times

Oran, dans les années 1940. Le docteur Rieux est témoin de l'apparition de rats dans les rues. La ville est mise en quarantaine, pour ne pas que la peste se propage. La chronique de cette épidémie et des comportements qu'elle suscite est relatee. Une representation transposee de l'occupation allemande en France et de la Resistance.

Joan Margarit, mes lúcid i mes clar que maiJoan Margarit, el poeta mes llegit de la nostra literatura, ofereix un llibre mes lúcid i mes clar que mai als seus lectors. El poeta Margarit se la torna a jugar sense por, sense concessions. Un hivern fascinant es una manera dassumir el dolor, de celebrar la vida i destimar-la.

Baldintza makurrei aurre eginez zaildutakoa da Nagore Vargas, gaztaroa intentsitate handiz bizi izan dutenen grinarekin borrokatzera ohitua: autoritatearen kontra, benetakotasunaren bila, desafioek inarrosirik, barne bulkadaz, presaka maitatzen, bortizkeriari artez begira, arriskuari deika, edozertarako prest.Bilbora iritsi zenean hiri bat gatazkan zeukan deskubritzeko; zenbait iraultza eta abentura, engaiatzeko; gorputz bat, biolentziaren eta erotikaren artean jokoan jartzeko.Klasearen, aberriaren eta sexuaren izenean nork bere amorrua bizkortzen zuen garaiak gozatu zituen Nagorek. Baina orain, 2010eko irailean, 28 urte dituela, Artxandan dago Libre irratiko hiru lagunekin, azken bilkura moduko bat antolatu dute, jakinaren gainean segika dituztela txakurrak, preso hartuko dituztela ziurrenik eta itxi egingo dutela irratia.

One of the comedy world''s brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of politics, race and identity, sharing jokes and insights drawn from the wealth of experience acquired in his relatively young life. As host of the US hit show The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, he provides viewers around the globe with their nightly dose of biting satire, but here Noah turns his focus inward, giving readers a deeply personal, heartfelt and humorous look at the world that shaped him. Noah was born a crime, son of a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents'' indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the first years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, take him away.A collection of eighteen personal stories, Born a Crime tells the story of a mischievous young boy growing into a restless young man as he struggles to find his place in a world where he was never supposed to exist. Born a Crime is equally the story of that young man''s fearless, rebellious and fervently religious mother - a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence and abuse that ultimately threatens her own life.Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Noah illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and an unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a personal portrait of an unlikely childhood in a dangerous time, as moving and unforgettable as the very best memoirs and as funny as Noah''s own hilarious stand-up. Born a Crime is a must read.

Un écrivain célèbre raconte la disparition de sa femme, Esther, correspondante de guerre. Elle devient son Zahir, son idée fixe, son obsession, sa seule raison de vivre. Il part alors à sa recherche.

Assassin's Creed: The Renaissance Codex is set in fifteenth century Italy and features a young nobleman-turned-assassin, Ezio Auditore di Firenze. He must defend his family name in a bitter blood feud between the warring political familes of Rome, Venice and Florence - the likes of the Paz's and the Borgias. During Ezio's quest - he is mentored by a young Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli - who will help him decypher the mysterious Templar Codex.

Enter the dazzling world of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, a tale of wealth, ambition, and the elusive American Dream. Set in the opulent 1920s, the story follows Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, who pursues his unattainable love, Daisy Buchanan. Amidst extravagant parties and societal excess, Fitzgerald weaves a narrative of love, betrayal, and the dark undercurrents of the Jazz Age. Through vivid prose and complex characters, the novel explores themes of disillusionment, class divide, and the relentless pursuit of an idealized past. With its timeless exploration of human desires and the consequences of unchecked ambition, ""The Great Gatsby"" remains a literary masterpiece that resonates across generations.