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«Chaque fois que l’on m’a posé la question “Pourquoi êtes-vous allé à Santiago?”, j’ai été bien en peine de répondre. Car le Chemin a pour effet sinon pour vertu de faire oublier les raisons qui ont

Conscience : Petit caillou dans la chaussure qui nous aide à marcher droit. Canapé : Accélérateur de carrière. Dormir : Celui qui peut dormir sur ses deux oreilles ferait bien de se faire opérer. Ent

One of the earliest and best collections of stories about hapless aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his supremely efficient valet Jeeves, this volume centers on the romantic travails of Bertie's school chum, Bingo Little. A splendid introduction to P. G. Wodehouse's most popular characters, these comic gems recount Bertie's reluctant involvement in Bingo's misadventures and Jeeves' uncanny ability to rescue his employer from every scrape.In the opening entry, "Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum," Bingo seeks help in persuading his wealthy guardian to accept his socially undesirable fiancee. Mabel the waitress is only the first in a succession of Bingo's romantic interests, which include a parson's niece, a Communist, and Bertie's own fianceeamong others. Eighteen connected stories trace Bingo and Bertie's shenanigans at home and abroad and introduce assorted Wooster relatives, from the terrifying Aunt Agatha to Claude and Eustace, the fun-loving, trouble-making twins. The collection is particularly distinguished by the inclusion of a Wodehouse masterpiece, "The Great Sermon Handicap," in which bets are placed on the length of a Sunday oration and hilarity ensues.

Ils sont tous deux allemands. L'un est juif, l'autre non, et leur amitié semble indéfectible. Ils s'expatrient pour fonder ensemble une galerie d'art en Californie mais, en 1932, Martin rentre en Allemagne. Au fil de leurs echanges epistolaires, Max devient le temoin impuissant d'une contamination morale sournoise et terrifiante : Martin semble peu a peu gagne par l'ideologie du IIIe Reich. Le sentiment de trahison est immense ; la tragedie ne fait que commencer...

Written in Lauren Dentons signature Southern style, A Place to Land tells a story of sisterhood, healing, and the meaning of home.

â A minor modern classic to my mind uniting art history and landscape thought by means of dazzling dancing unsettling sentences â Iâ m delighted itâ s back in print in a new editionâ

Entre son agence de détective qui tourne au ralenti et les réunions des dames de Carsely, Agatha s'ennuie. Aussi, est-elle enchantée lorsque son ex-mari James Lacey l'invite pour des vacances mais - horreur ! - sa conception d'un sejour idyllique est le petit hotel decrepit de Burryhill-on-Sea ou enfant, il passait ses etes.Et tout va de mal en pis : quand un autre client de l'hotel est assassine, Agatha est la principale suspecte - et est obligee de resoudre l'affaire depuis sa cellule de prison !

Publicado por primeira vez em 1937, um dos livros mais celebrados de Zora Neale Hurston, é hoje considerado unanimemente pola crítica um clássico da literatura afroamericana e o romance pioneiro no tratamento literario do preto como um ser humano completo, complexo e nom diminuido. E a historia de Janie Mae Crawford, heroina deste romance, simbolo privilegiado da negritude feminina.Traducçom do ingles de Elvira Souto.

What is Life Decades of research have resulted in the full mapping of the human genome three billion pairs of code whose functions are only now being understood The gene s eye view of life advocated by evolutionary biology sees living bodies as mere vehicles for the replication of the genetic codes But for a physiologist working with the living organism the view is a very different one Denis Noble is a world renowned physiologist and sets out an alternative view to the question one that becomes deeply significant in terms of the living breathing organism The genome is not life itself Noble argues that far from genes building organisms they should be seen as prisoners of the organism The view of life presented in this little modern post genome project reflection on the nature of life is that of the systems biologist to understand what life is we must view it at a variety of different levels all interacting with each other in a complex web It is that emergent web full of feedback between levels from the gene to the wider environment that is life It is a kind of music Including stories from Noble s own research experience his work on the heartbeat musical metaphors and elements of linguistics and Chinese culture this very personal and a

Aurreko bere bi liburu arrakastatsuen ondoren (Sprako tranbia eta Vant Hoffen ilea), nobela berri batekin dator Unai Elorriaga (Algorta, 1973): Vredaman. Aita ospitalean gaixo eta ama hura zaintzen dauzkalako osaba-izekoen etxera bidaltzen duten haurra; golf-klub baten barruan errugbi-zelai klandestino bat margotu nahi duten bi lagun; urtetan arkitekto baten andregai izan baina inoiz ezkondu ez zen emakume adindua; aitite gizon inportantea zela jakin eta haren arrastoaren atzetik dabilen gaztea. Elkarrekin nahasten diren hainbat istorio daude liburu honetan, pertsonaia ameslari, xelebre edo maitagarriz beteak, bakoitza bere estilo eta hizkera berezian kontatua: haurraren sinpletasun magikoa, atso-agureen berritsukeria patxadatsua, alprojen elkarrizketa zoroak Jolasetik asko du eleberri honek, baina jolasetik harago gizatasun-taupadak ere nabarmenduko ditu irakurleak, amaierara hurbildu ahala emozioan goraka doan kontakizun biribil eta gozagarri honetan.

Is this book as good [as Fleishman]? It's better' THE NEW YORK TIMES'The best book I've read this year' HARLAN COBEN'Very, very good' ELIZABETH DAY'The book of the summer, nay, the year' DAVID SEDARIS'This book is DYNAMITE. Inhaled it in two sittings' CAITLIN MORAN'Shocking, tender, profound and delicious' EMILY MAITLIS'Lavishly comic' THE TIMES'A lip-smacking tale' GUARDIAN'Elegant and devastating' FINANCIAL TIMESFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble comes a darkly exhilarating novel about an American family and its inheritance - the safety and wealth that they fought for, and the precarity of their survival that is their legacy.In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in the nicest part of the nicest part of Long Island. He is brutalised, held for ransom and then returned to his family. Miraculously, Carl, his wife and his three kids are left to move on with their lives, and resume their prized places in the ongoing saga of the American dream.But nearly forty years later, when Carl's mother dies, the trauma that has been bubbling beneath the Fletchers' lives all this time surfaces at last. It becomes apparent that Carl has been quietly pursuing closure to the kidnapping for all these years, and his wife and children must face that the money that they believed bought them safety was actually never capable of doing any such thing.Long Island Compromise spans generations, winding through decades of history all the way through to the wild present, dealing along the way with all the mainstays of American Jewish life and the timeless questions about wealth, trauma, and the American soul.

Rastre quimera és un trajecte en forma d escapatòria, una manera de caminar i de resistir les incleméncies del temps i els sotracs del trajecte. És tot allò que va sorgir de la Conca de pols, l estel

Odissea: e il titolo del poema epico forse piu noto e amato della nostra civilta ed e anche il termine a cui si ricorre per definire un'esperienza travagliata e, in taluni casi, la vita tout court. Perche soltanto al titolo di quest'opera concediamo di essere sinonimo di vita? Ulisse e un eroe nuovo: avrebbe la possibilita di diventare immortale rimanendo con la bellissima Calipso, ma vuole tornare a Itaca da Penelope e Telemaco, e compiere il proprio destino mortale, paradossale destino di gioia. Proprio perdendo tutto, persino la propria identita, da re a mendicante, rinasce grazie a chi lo sa riconoscere e amare. Se Achille e l'eroe che sovrasta il mondo, Ulisse ne e invece sovrastato. Il suo multiforme ingegno scaturisce dalla necessita di difendersi dai colpi della storia. La sua e una vicenda di resistenza, che culmina nei dieci anni necessari per tornare a casa, dopo i dieci trascorsi a combattere una guerra non sua: a quanti e accaduto qualcosa di simile? E quanto abbiamo sofferto, quanti compagni abbiamo perduto, quante volte abbiamo fatto naufragio, prima di capire che l'unica cura per l'invincibile nostalgia di futuro che ci affliggeva era tornare nella nostra Itaca, non quella del passato ma quella ancora da fare rimanendo fedeli al nostro destino? Alessandro D'Avenia ripercorre i ventiquattro canti del poema come un'arte di vivere, e lo fa risplendere di tutta la sua luce. Ci accompagna attraverso l'opera come studioso di Lettere classiche che l'ha eletta a suo principale ambito d'interesse, come insegnante che da anni ne promuove la lettura integrale ad alta voce, come intellettuale abilissimo nell'interpretare lo spirito del tempo. E nel raccontarci le peripezie di Ulisse vi ritrova la propria esperienza personale e il percorso di ogni uomo verso il proprio originale compimento esistenziale. Se abbiamo perso la gioia della nostra odissea, rileggere l'Odissea e il modo migliore per "fare ritorno". Allora resistere non e rimanere fermi, ma ri-esistere: nascere. Questa e l'arte di essere mortali.

"È un rapporto molto conflittuale, fatto di continue rotture e difficili riconciliazioni, a legare la narratrice a Emerenc Szeredas, la donna che la aiuta nelle faccende domestiche. La padrona di casa, una scrittrice inadatta ad affrontare i problemi della vita quotidiana, fatica a capire il rigido moralismo di Emerenc, ne subisce le spesso indecifrabili decisioni, non sa cosa pensare dell''alone di mistero che ne circonda l''esistenza e soprattutto la casa, con quella porta che nessuno puo varcare. In un crescendo di rivelazioni scopre che le scelte spesso bizzarre e crudeli, ma sempre assolutamente coerenti dell''anziana donna, affondano in un destino segnato dagli avvenimenti piu drammatici del Novecento. "

Fantasy romance weaving together themes of sacrifice, forbidden love, and destiny.

From the bestselling author of The Snowman - an explosive new thriller. In the depths of winter a killer stalks the city streets. Two women are found drowned in their own blood. A third woman is hanged from a diving board. YOU ARE ALLOWING THIS KILLING TO GO ON. The crime scenes offer no clues, the media is reaching fever pitch, and the police are running out of options. IT'S TIME THIS WAS STOPPED...There is only one man who can help them catch the killer. But Inspector Harry Hole doesn't want to be found...BECAUSE I HAVE APPOINTED THE NEXT VICTIM.

Harry's in trouble...After the horrors of a case that nearly cost him his life, Harry Hole left Oslo and the police force far behind him. Now he's back, but the case he's come to investigate is already closed, and the suspect already behind bars. The police don't want him back...Denied permission to reopen the investigation, Harry strikes out on his own, quickly discovering a trail of violence and mysterious disappearances apparently unnoticed by the police. At every turn, Harry is faced with a wall of silence. The criminals don't want him back...But Harry is not the only one interested in the case. From the moment he steps off the plane, someone is watching his every move...someone wants him silenced.