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SELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMAS SUMMER READING LISTA monstrous and brilliant book Philip PullmanWholly mesmerising and revelatory Completely fascinating William BoydSometimes discovery brings destructionWhen We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain.Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrodinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled lives we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness. Some of their discoveries revolutionise our world for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear.With breakneck pace and wondrous detail, Benjamin Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to break open the stories of scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible.

«De vegades penso que estic anotant el futur. Em dic que, davant de la incomprensió, en quedin les paraules. Algú, potser, les podrà entendre», diu el narrador d’aquesta història. I, en efecte, Napal

When having his portrait painted, Dorian Gray declares he would give anything to stay youthful - even his soul. Dorian descends into a life of decadent excess, and while he retains his youthful looks, the portrait becomes horrifically disfigured. Oscar Wilde's only novel is a dark, Faustian fable of wish fulfillment that leads to an inescapable day of reckoning.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.

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.

The fifth novel in Julia Quinn's globally beloved and bestselling Bridgerton Family series, set in Regency times and now a series created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. This is Eloise's story . . .

Welcome to New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson's first collection of short fiction. These wonderful works, originally published individually, have been collected for the first time and convey the true expanse of the Cosmere. Telling the exciting tales of adventure Sanderson fans have come to expect, Arcanum Unbounded include the Hugo Award-winning novella 'The Emperor's Soul', an excerpt from the graphic novel 'White Sand', and the never-before-published Stormlight Archive novella 'Edgedancer'.The collection will include nine works in all:'Edgedancer' (Stormlight Archive)'The Hope of Elantris' (Elantris)'The Eleventh Metal' (Mistborn)'The Emperor's Soul' (Elantris)'Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania' (excerpt; Mistborn)'White Sand' (excerpt; Taldain)'Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell' (Threnody) 'Sixth of Dusk' (First of the Sun)'Mistborn: Secret History' (Mistborn)This superb collection also includes essays and illustrations which offer an insight into the numerous worlds in which the stories are set.

Including "The Hill We Climb," the stirring poem read at the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, this collection of the same name reveals an energizing and unforgettab

Cela fait deux ans que Paul Hansen purge sa peine dans la prison provinciale de Montréal. Il y partage une cellule avec Horton, un Hells Angel incarcéré pour meurtre. Retour en arrière : Hansen est s

Umorea da eleberri honen ardatza. Umorea literatur tratamendu egokiz egina, estilo arinez, generoaren arauekiko berritzaile, eta beste berezitasun garrantzitsu batekin: arrakasta. Giharren bat ukitu izango du liburu honek euskaldun berri edo zaharberrituen gorputzean, nork bere burua identifikatua sentitzeraino pasarteren batean edo bestean. Izan ere euskal belaunaldi baten ispilu konplexurik gabea da Kutsidazu bidea, Ixabel.

Discover the unforgettable finale to Ali Smith's dazzling literary tour-de-forceIn the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble.Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet. In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time.This is a story about people on the brink of change. They're family, but they think they're strangers. So: where does family begin? And what do people who think they've got nothing in common have in common?Summer.'Smith's seasonal quartet of novels is a bold and brilliant experiment' Independent'The novel's hopeful message about the healing power of friendship ensures the quartet ends on a feel-good note' Sunday Times

Everything gets easier in your thirties, right?Though she has plenty to celebrate - successful career, new home, loving friends and family - for Nina Dean, her thirties have not exactly been the liberating experience she was sold. From fading friendships to exes popping the question, everyone is moving on (or worse, to the suburbs). And as her dad slowly loses his memories, her mum seems dead set on making new ones.Then she meets Max, who tells her on date one that he''s going to marry her. But what seems like an exciting new development will ensure this year is Nina''s strangest yet . . .

Prosa estilizada e sensible nalgunhas das pezas máis significativas da narrativa galega.

Joaquín Mas Catalán, ex-soldat de la República espanyola exiliat a França en perdre la guerra, tenia 27 anys quan, el 22 de juny de 1940, va caure presoner de l’exèrcit alemany a Les Voges. D’allí va

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

The Fourth Monkey has one of the most ingenious openings that I've read in years. This thriller never disappoints.'James Patterson `Superbly constructed and immaculately paced'The Daily Mail Two days to save her... They've found the killer. The killer that Detective Sam Porter has been hunting for five years. But it's too late to put him behind bars. He's already dead. One day to save her... But even death can't stop this murderer. His last victim is still alive, struggling to escape and the police have no idea who or where she is. Zero. Now Sam Porter must race against time, as her chances of survival slip away, to stop this serial killer from claiming his final victim... This stunning thriller is perfect for fans of Val McDermid, Jo Nesbo and Helen Fields.

On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol.Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval.Can a life without luxury be the richest of all?

WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and holidays in Provence, beginning a complex menage-a-quatre. But when Frances and Nick get unexpectedly closer, the sharply witty and emotion-averse Frances is forced to honestly confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time.

« François pensa : si elle commande un déca, je me lève et je m’en vais. C’est la boisson la moins conviviale qui soit. Un thé, ce n’est guère mieux. On sent qu’on va passer des dimanches après-midi