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Elle avait l’air si jeune. En même temps il m’avait semblé qu’elle connaissait vraiment la vie, ou plutôt qu’elle connaissait de la vie quelque chose qui faisait peur. D. V. Adolescente surdouée, Lo

She loves her husband. She's obsessed by a stranger. She's a devoted mother. She's prepared to lose everything. She knows what she's doing. She's out of control. She's innocent. She's guilty as sin. She's living two lives. She might lose both.

"El primer arlequí i altres contes" es una selecta antologia de relats de Pere Calders que preten facilitar una primera aproximació a l'univers narratiu d'un dels grans mestres de la literatura catalana del segle XX. Per a la tria que oferim, s'ha valorat especialment l'interes que cada relat pot tenir en els alumnes de la Secundaria, i aixi mateix, s'ha intentat incloure-hi alguns dels contes mes representatius de l'obra caldersiana, com ara "El primer arlequi", "Historia natural", L'"Hedera helix", "En començar el dia" i "Invasio subtil", fins a un total de disset.

The eighty-year-old Mrs Clea Threadgoode tells Evelyn Couch about her life, she escapes the Rose Terrace Nursing Home and returns in her mind to Whistle Stop, Alabama in the thirties where the Whistole Stop Cafe provides good barbecure, good coffee, love and even an occasional murder.

''Bein'' an idiot is no box of chocolates'' Forrest Gump Laugh, cry, stand up and cheer: Forrest Gump is everyman''s story, everyman''s dream. A wonderfully warm, savagely barbed, and hilariously funny ''tale told by an idiot'', from the razor-sharp pen of a contemporary wizard. No one is spared and everyone is included. If you''ve ever felt lacking, left out, put upon - or just wanted to have a rollicking good time - this book is for you. At 6''6", 240 pounds, Forrest Gump is a difficult man to ignore, so follow Forrest from the football dynasties of Bear Bryant to the Vietnam War, from encounters with Presidents Johnson and Nixon to powwows with Chairman Mao. Go with Forrest to Harvard University, to a Hollywood movie set, on a professional wrestling tour, and into space on the oddest NASA mission ever. Forrest Gump lives! Thank heavens!

An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts and the uncanny, edited by Susie Boyt. In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. But are the children really in danger - and if so, from who? The novella is accompanied here by several more tales exploring human psychology through ghostly visitations and the uncanny, including 'The Romance of Certain Old Clothes', 'The Last of the Valerii', 'Sir Edmund Orme', 'Owen Wingrave', 'The Friend of the Friends', 'The Third Person' and 'The Jolly Corner'. This is the final volume of three new Penguin Classics collections representing the best of Henry James's short fiction. The other volumes are 'The Aspern Papers and Other Tales', focussing on themes of art and literature, and 'Daisy Miller and Other Tales', exploring Anglo-American relations.

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES WITH PRIME VIDEOWINNER OF THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTIONElectrifying Margaret AtwoodA big, page-turning, thought-provoking thriller Guardian----------------------------------All over the world women are discovering they have the power. With a flick of the fingers they can inflict terrible pain - even death. Suddenly, every man on the planet finds theyve lost control.The Day of the Girls has arrived - but where will it end?----------------------------------The Hunger Games crossed with The Handmaids Tale CosmopolitanI loved it it was visceral, provocative and curiously pertinent . . . The story has stayed with me since Stylist, The Decades 15 Best Books by Remarkable WomenSuperb. Insightful, thrilling, funny. Well-crafted, compelling, serious-minded Daily TelegraphFascinating, ingenious, rattles with a furious pace. Deserves to be read by every woman (and, for that matter, every man) The TimesIrresistible. Holds a mirror up to the here and now Mail on SundayChilling, thrilling, a blast Financial Times

'To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.' Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide they have no choice but to follow. They head west, towards California, where they hope to find work and a future for their family. But while the journey to this promised land will take its inevitable toll, there remains uncertainty about what awaits their arrival ...Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Grapes of Wrath is an epic human drama. Of this novel, Steinbeck himself said: 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'

Hi ha llibres que ens vacunen contra l’oblit i la ignorància. Com aquesta narració de la vida de Neus Català. Una novel·la per recordar uns fets que volem irrepetiblesFilla de pagesos del Priorat, Ne

A century before A GAME OF THRONES, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros... A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R.R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE. Almost a century before A Game of Thrones, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros... In an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and recollections of the last dragon have not yet passed from living memory, a naive but courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall, towers above his rivals - in stature if not experience. Tagging along with him is his diminutive squire, a boy called Egg, whose true identity must be kept hidden: for in reality he is Aegon Targaryen, and one day he will be king. Improbable heroes though they be, great destinies lie ahead for Dunk and Egg; as do powerful foes, royal intrigue, and outrageous exploits.

Oedipa Maas, recent heiress, enquires into the nature of her inheritance:trying to understand her own life and the motivation of her dead lover, she is led on am ambiguous trail of clues. The moment of revelation hovers on the horizon like a mirage. Pynchon's shortest novel, and one of his best.

Master and Commander is the first of Patrick OBrians now famous Aubrey-Maturin novels and establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ships surgeon and an intelligence agent. ;i;Master and Commander;/i; contains all the action and excitement of a great historical novel. But it alo displays the qualities which have put OBrian so far ahead of any of his competitors, including his depiction of the detail of life aboard a Nelsonic man-of-war, of weapons, food, conversation and ambience, of the landscape and of the sea. OBrians portrayal of each of these is faultless and the sense of period throughout is acute.

This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret agent, begin to live the lives of country gentlemen, hunting, entertaining and enjoying more amorous adventures.Their comfortable existence, however, is cut short when Jack is overnight reduced to a pauper with enough debts to keep him in prison for life. He flees to the continent to seek refuge: instead he finds himself a hunted fugitive as Napoleon has ordered the internment of all Englishmen in France. Aubreys adventures in escaping from France and the debtors prison will grip the reader as fast as his unequalled actions at sea.

At times, incredibly funny, at others, heartrending Sarah Winman, author of When God Was a RabbitForced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at just sixteen.

L'esperada novel·la del líder de Love of Lesbian.Després d’un accident en un concert, Roman Spinelli, àlies Equilibrista, arriba a la conclusió que s’ha de replantejar la vida per complet. La caiguda

La periodista Gemma explica la vida de tres dones de diverses generacions al llarg del segle XX, entre Castellterçol i Sabadell, del Valles rural al Valles urba. Lesforç per adaptar-se als efectes de la revolucio del textil, el pas de la vida a pages a la vida als afores duna ciutat en proces dindustrialitzacio, i sobretot els canvis que es produeixen en la vida diaria familiar. Els fets i les veus reivindiquen, per si mateixos, el paper de la dona en levolucio de la societat catalana del segle XX. Argelagues es un relat epic i emotiu sobre aquestes dones i tambe un homenatge que estava pendent.Amb la col.laboracio de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Cultura.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 'You will sob little tears of joy' Nell Zink 'I recommend it with my whole heart' Ann Patchett 'I adore this book' Armistead Maupin 'Charming, languid and incredibly funny, I absolutely adored Arthur' Jenny Colgan 'Marvellously, endearingly, unexpectedly funny' Gary Shteyngart 'Bedazzling, bewitching and be-wonderful' New York Times Book Review 'A fast and rocketing read . . . a wonderful, wonderful book!' Karen Joy Fowler 'Hilarious, and wise, and abundantly funny' Adam Haslett WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM YOUR PROBLEMS? Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else. Arthur can't say yes - it would be too awkward; he can't say no - it would look like defeat. So, he begins to accept the invitations on his desk to half-baked literary events around the world. From France to India, Germany to Japan, Arthur almost falls in love, almost falls to his death, and puts miles between him and the plight he refuses to face. Less is a novel about mishaps, misunderstandings and the depths of the human heart.

Podería contar moitas cousas daqueles dous días. Pero supoño que agora o único que importa é que Gordo era o meu mellor amigo, e que eu estaba fodido coma nunca. Porque ela xa non quería saber nada de min. E eu queriaa, maldita sexa, queriaa. Por riba das cidades, por riba das autoestradas, por riba do mar e das estrelas, eu estaba tolo por ela... Pero agora non parecia disposta a escoitarme. E Gordo comprendeuno. Neno, o que ti necesitas e unha boa festa, dixera. E asi foi como decidimos tomar prestado o coche do vello, un impresionante Dodge Charger do 68, e botarnos a estrada nunha viaxe feroz. A tumba aberta. Sen coidado nin precaucion, sen tregua, sen limites. Sen piedade.

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