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Educated is a remarkable memoir of a young woman raised in a survivalist family in Idaho who strives for education while still showing great understanding and love for the world she leaves behind.' - BARACK OBAMA ________________________ Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected. She hadn't been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she'd never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn't believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn't exist. As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd travelled too far. If there was still a way home. EDUCATED is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes with the severing of the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, from her singular experience Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it. ________________________ * Shortlisted for the 2018 BAMB Readers' Awards * Recommended as a summer read by Antony Beevor, India Knight, Blake Morrison and Nina Stibbe 'A memoir to stand alongside classics by the likes of Jeanette Winterson and Lorna Sage ... a compelling and ultimately joyous account of self-determination' - Sunday Times

'Beautifully constructed . . . weaves a truly magical spell' - Daily Mail 'May be his greatest work yet' - David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon In his unforgettable new novel, John Grisham tells the story of an unthinkable murder, the bizarre trial that followed it, and its profound and lasting effect on the people of Ford County. Pete Banning was Clanton's favourite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbour, and a faithful member of the Methodist Church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his defense attorney, to the judge, to his family and friends, and to the people of Clanton - was 'I have nothing to say'. And so the murder of the esteemed Reverend Bell became the most mysterious and unforgettable crime Ford County had ever known. Further praise for The Reckoning 'In this saga of love and war, John Grisham has given us a sprawling and engrossing story about a southern family, a global conflict, and the kinds of secrets that can shape all of us. From the courtrooms and jails of rural Mississippi to the war-torn Pacific, Grisham spins a tale that is at once entertaining and illuminating' - Jon Meacham, New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of America 'John Grisham is the master of legal fiction, and his latest starts with a literal bang - and then travels backward through the horrors of war to explore what makes a hero, what makes a villain, and how thin the line between the two might be' - Jodi Picoult, internationally bestselling author of A Spark of Light and Small Great Things 'When a master of storytelling and suspense takes on one of the most wrenching stories in history, the result is a book that will break your heart, set your blood pumping and your mind racing, and leave you gasping for breath by the final page. I'm still trying to recover from The Reckoning' - Candice Millard, New York Times bestselling author of The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic

Mundura begira bizi da Oier, baina ama gaixotzen zaionean bere barrura begiratu beharko du halabeharrez. Ustez sendoak ziren ideietan arrakala txiki batzuk irekiko zaizkio, eta emozioek dardarka jarriko dute bere izateko moduaren eraikuntza osoa. Jakiteak eta ulertzeak bizitzako gertaera batzuk konpondu ezin dituztenean, bizitzan aurrera egiteaz eta kolpeei aurre egiteaz dihardu eleberri honek.Oierren barne-bidaia honetan beste tripulatzaile bat gehiago izango da irakurlea, eta ontzi berean joango da beste pertsonaiekin batera, hemen ere lagun izango dituelarik Maren, Libe eta Ane, Txandaka bildumako beste liburuetan bezala.

Tria dels millors llibres de Màrius Sampere, feta pel mateix autor mesos abans de morir.El poeta mes audaç, singular i amb mes projecció entre les noves generacions, Màrius Sampere, hauriafet 90 anys

A weekend partying at a remote cabin is just what Mackenzie needs. She can't wait to let loose with her friends. But a crazy night of fun leaves two of them dead--murdered. With no signs of a forced entry or struggle, suspicion turns to the five survivors. Someone isn't telling the truth. And Mackenzie's first mistake? Assuming the killing is over...

Published in 1880, one year before Vergas influential novel The Malavoglias, Life in the Country first marked his stylistic shift towards the verismo school of Italian realism. The collections centrepiece, Rustic Honour (Cavalleria rusticana) which was famously adapted into a play by the author before becoming an opera by Mascagni tells the tale of Turiddu, a poor young man who returns from military service and finds himself embroiled in adultery and a feud with a rival.Also including the well-known stories She-Wolf and Foxfur, Life in the Country captures, in an objective, non-judgemental prose, the difficult conditions and personal struggles of the peasant class in his native Sicily at the turn of the twentieth century.

Beautiful, flaxen-haired Buttercup has fallen for Westley, the farm boy, and when he departs to make his fortune, she vows never to love another. So when she hears that his ship has been captured by the Dread Pirate Roberts - who never leaves survivors - her heart is broken. But her charms draw the attention of the relentless Prince Humperdinck who wants a wife and will go to any lengths to have Buttercup. So starts a fairytale like no other, of fencing, fighting, torture, poison, true love, hate, revenge, giants, hunters, bad men, good men, beautifulest ladies, snakes, spiders, beasts, chases, escapes, lies, truths, passion and miracles.

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIESClavell never puts a foot wrong . . . Get it, read it, youll enjoy it mightily Daily MirrorThis is James Clavells tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different world.Starting with his shipwreck on this most alien of shores, the novel charts Blackthornes rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the hights of trusted advisor and eventually, Samurai. All as civil war looms over the fragile country.I cant remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one. Its irresistible, maybe unforgettable. Clavell creates a world so enveloping you forget who and where you are New York Times

Abans de "Mamut" arriben vint poemes d'Eva Baltasar que responen a vint nus femenins del pintor Egon Schiele. Baltasar ha escrit "Nus Schiele" al mateix temps que el tríptic que va de "Permagel" a "Mamut": n'es el fons subterrani. I el regal de Nadal perf

A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart'. This attitude is soon challenged when the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley, returns from the grave to haunt him on Christmas Eve.Scrooge is then visited in turn by three spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future, each one revealing the error of his ways and gradually melting the frozen heart of this old miser, leading him towards his redemption. On the journey we take with Scrooge we encounter a rich array of Dickensian characters including the poor Cratchit family with the ailing Tiny Tim and the generous and jolly Fezziwig. When Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843 he fashioned an enduring gift to the world, capturing the essence of the love, kindness and generosity of the Christmas season.It is a timeless classic and the story's uplifting magic remains as potent today as when it was first published.

Van Gogh margolari ospetsuaren ezkerreko belarria ikusgai jarri duen erakusketa; museoko lorezainak lapurturiko grabatuaren ezkutalekuan agertutako hilotzaren kasua; Gabonetako jaiotzak museora garraiatzean, bi tarantulek sorturiko nahasmena eta deskalabrua; koadro baten aurrean musean jolasean aurkitu eta ospitaleratutako aitonaren istorioa; mutil-lagunaren hitzordura joanda grafitigile talde batekin eta guardia zibilarekin endredatzen den neskaren abenturak eta desbenturak? Artea gai eta giro, zortzi narrazio hauetako narratzaileak eta protagonistek ertz ezberdinetatik arakatuz artearen paisaia fisiko eta emozionalak bistaratuko dituzte. Artean ezer ez da dirudiena eta (ez) dirudien horrekin jolasten den gisa artista jolastu da idazlea, fikzioa eta errealitatearen arteko jolasa eta ariketa literarioa uztartuz, margolari baten gisa, paleta koloretsua eskaintzeko irakurleari. Artearen eta sormenaren paisaiak zabalak eta kolore anitzak direlako, bertan bizi diren pertsonaiak bezala.

Un jour, pensant faire sourire votre femme et vos amis, vous rasez la moustache que vous portiez depuis dix ans. Personne ne le remarque ou, pire, chacun feint de ne l'avoir pas remarqué, et c'est vous qui souriez jaune. Tellement jaune que, bientôt, vous ne souriez plus du tout. Vous insistez, on vous assure que vous n'avez jamais eu de moustache. Deviendriez-vous fou ? Voudrait-on vous le faire croire ? Ou quelque chose, dans l'ordre du monde, se serait-il détraqué a vos dépens ? L'histoire, en tout cas, finit forcément très mal et, d'interprétations impossibles en fuite irraisonnée, ne vous laisse aucune porte de sortie. Ou bien si, une, qu'ouvrent les dernières pages et qu'il est fortement déconseillé d'emprunter pour entrer dans le livre. Vous voici prévenu.

III Premi Proa de Novel·la Un avió alemany que ve de bombardejar la costa nord d’Àfrica cau a l’Illa de l’Aire, al sud-est de Menorca. Alhora, a la ciutat d’Alger, l’Alfred Gold i el seu net Daniel,

Edna O'Brien's beloved classics plunge us into the lives and loves of two girls in rural 1950s Ireland (with a new foreword by Eimear McBride). 'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one like Edna O'Brien ... Beautiful.' Anne Enright 'Novels of heart-breaking empathy, rigorous honesty and peerless beauty.' Eimear McBride 'Brilliant and brave.' Ann Patchett 'A treasure.' New York Times ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' Caithleen 'Kate' Brady and Bridget 'Baba' Brennan are growing up in a repressive Irish village after World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba is a reckless survivor. After being expelled from convent school, they dream of the bright lights of Dublin - and are rewarded with bad luck and bad sex; marry for the wrong reasons; but continue to fight the expectations forced upon 'girls' of every era to become brave new women. Edna O'Brien's debut novels revolutionised Irish literature in the 1960s. Banned by the authorities as 'indecent' and burned by the clergy, they were notorious for their frank portrayal of sexual desire: but scandal turned to fame, and made this glorious coming-of-age tale an instant classic that inspires and delights readers to this day. 'Buoyantly youthful ... With all the freshness in the world.' Sunday Times 'An excellent and highly unusual blend of bawdiness and innocence.' Evening Standard 'O'Brien simply offers her characters and they come to us living.' V.S. Naipaul 'A natural writer ... [such] unphoney charm and unlaborious originality.' Kingsley Amis 'One of the greatest Irish writers, of this or any era.' Sunday Independent 'One of our bravest and best novelists' Irish Times 'A literary great.' Times

From the author of TikTok sensation My Year of Rest and Relaxation.NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY Guardian, Harper's Bazaar, The Times, New Statesman, Good Housekeeping & Daily Mail.In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot in a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh's most exciting leap yetLittle Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life's few consolations for Marek is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby, as she did for many of the village's children.Ina's gifts extend beyond childcare: she possesses a unique ability to communicate with the natural world. Her gift often brings her the transmission of sacred knowledge on levels far beyond those available to other villagers, however religious they might be. For some people, Ina's home in the woods outside the village is a place to fear and to avoid, a godless place.

C'est l'histoire d'un enfant différent, toujours allongé, aux yeux noirs qui flottent. C'est l'histoire de sa place dans la maison cévenole où il naît, au milieu de la nature puissante ; de sa place

From one of Britain's best-loved and bestselling writers comes an intimate yet panoramic novel about the tumult and unexpected nature of life, set in the 19th centuryA new "whole life" novel from William Boyd, the author of Any Human Heart. Set in the 19th century, the novel follows the roller-coaster fortunes of a man as he tries to negotiate the random stages, adventures and vicissitudes of his life. He is variously a soldier, a farmer, a pawnbroker, a bankrupt, a jailbird, a writer, a gigolo - and many other manifestations - and, finally, a minor diplomat, based in Trieste (then in Austria-Hungary) where he sees out the end of his days.

Prepare for the jaw-dropping finale of Sabaa Tahir's beloved New York Times bestselling An Ember in the Ashes fantasy series, and discover: Who will survive the storm?Picking up just a few months after A Reaper at the Gates left off...The long-imprisoned jinn are on the attack, wreaking bloody havoc in villages and cities alike. But for the Nightbringer, vengeance on his human foes is just the beginning.By his side, Commandant Keris Veturia declares herself Empress, and calls for the heads of any and all who defy her rule. At the top of the list? The Blood Shrike and her remaining family.Laia of Serra, now allied with the Blood Shrike, struggles to recover from the loss of the two people most important to her. Determined to stop the approaching apocalypse, she throws herself into the destruction of the Nightbringer. In the process, she awakens an ancient power that could lead her to victoryor to an unimaginable doom.And deep in the Waiting Place, the Soul Catcher seeks only to forget the lifeand lovehe left behind. Yet doing so means ignoring the trail of murder left by the Nightbringer and his jinn. To uphold his oath and protect the human world from the supernatural, the Soul Catcher must look beyond the borders of his own land. He must take on a mission that could saveor destroyall that he knows.

Amb aquesta novel·la, que transita els baixos fons de Mallorca amb un agosarat punt quinqui, Aina Fullana Llull debuta en la narrativa.Aquests dies, són dels bons o dels dolents? La pregunta recorre del començament al final aquesta novel·la, ambientada a lilla de Mallorca en un passat recent, un passat proxim que ens parla dabismes i de llums, daddiccions, passions i voluntats desfermades. Gracies a un joc subtil de veus narratives, que recreen habilment la llengua oral i mantenen un ritme ben be cinematografic, coneixem la vida den Xavi, des de la seva infantesa a Manacor fins a la seva relacio amb la Martina i la filla de tots dos, lAriadna. Com un fil imperceptible, lleuger i alhora implacable, la força dels fets els embolcalla en un desti que sembla repetir-se a tothora.Amb aquesta novel·la, que transita els baixos fons de Mallorca amb un agosarat punt quinquigens habitual a la narrativa actual, Aina Fullana Llull debuta en aquest genere amb tan sols vint-i-quatre anys i ens ofereix un enlluernador exercici destil, que ha merescut el Premi Valencia de la Institucio Alfons el Magnanim.

Les plantes ruderals creixen en llocs abandonats, camps o vies de tren; en marges de camins i carreteres, a les esquerdes de l’asfalt, en abocadors, ruïnes i enderrocs. Són les primeres a colonitzar