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Ara és demà. No escalfa el foc d'ahir / ni el foc d'avui i haurem de fer foc nou. / Del gran silenci ençà, tot el que es mou / es mou amb voluntat d'esdevenir. La consciència de l'avui com a fonament

Nancy, Eleanor and Mary met at college and have been friends ever since, through marriages, children and love affairs.Eleanor is calm and driven, with a deep sense of responsibility, a brilliant career and a love of being single and free - despite her soft spot for her best friend's husband.Mary is deeply intelligent with a love of learning, derailed by three children and a mean, demanding husband - she is now unrecognisable to herself and her friends.Nancy is seemingly perfect: bright, beautiful and rich with an adoring husband and daughter - but beneath the surface her discontent is going to affect them all in terrible ways.When Nancy is murdered, Eleanor and Mary must align themselves to uncover her killer. And as each of their stories unfold, they realise that there are many different truths to find, and many different ways to bring justice for those we love...

Estes esgarradores memòries ficcionades relaten la trajectòria singular d'Albert Sanchis Bermell, un viatje als budells d'una Valéncia que ha desaparegut: la ciutat fluvial delimitada per les ombres

Vi presento mio fratello. Va male a scuola, ama i dinosauri e mi ha cambiato la vita.Hai cinque anni, due sorelle e desidereresti tanto un fratellino per fare con lui giochi da maschio. Una sera i tuoi genitori ti annunciano che lo avrai, e che sara speciale. Tu sei felicissimo: speciale, per te, vuol dire supereroe. Gli scegli pure il nome: Giovanni. Poi lui nasce, e a poco a poco capisci che si, e diverso dagli altri, ma i superpoteri non li ha. Alla fine scopri la parola Down, e il tuo entusiasmo si trasforma in rifiuto, addirittura in vergogna. Dovrai attraversare l'adolescenza per accorgerti che la tua idea iniziale non era cosi sbagliata. Lasciarti travolgere dalla vitalita di Giovanni per concludere che forse, un supereroe, lui lo e davvero. E che in ogni caso e il tuo migliore amico. Un romanzo di formazione in cui non c'e nulla di inventato, che stupisce, commuove, diverte e ha conquistato il cuore di centinaia di migliaia di lettori.Senza retorica, senza fingere che sia tutto meraviglioso e facile, un ragazzo spiega al mondo che cos'e la differenza. Annalena Benini, Grazia Una narrazione coraggiosa e autentica. Sette, Corriere della SeraCon magistrale leggerezza, Giacomo Mazzariol ironizza sull'incomunicabilita tra il nostro modo di vedere i Down e il loro modo di vedere la vita. Michele Smargiassi, la Repubblica

Beloved author Victoria Hislop returns to Crete in this long-anticipated sequel to her multi-million-copy Number One bestseller, The Island.25th August 1957. The island of Spinalonga closes its leper colony. And a moment of violence has devastating consequences.When time stops dead for Maria Petrakis and her sister, Anna, two families splinter apart and, for the people of Plaka, the closure of Spinalonga is forever coloured with tragedy.In the aftermath, the question of how to resume life looms large. Stigma and scandal need to be confronted and somehow, for those impacted, a future built from the ruins of the past.Number one bestselling author Victoria Hislop returns to the world and characters she created in The Island - the award-winning novel that remains one of the biggest selling reading group novels of the century. It is finally time to be reunited with Anna, Maria, Manolis and Andreas in the weeks leading up to the evacuation of the island... and beyond.

Introducción de Francisco Umbral Ilustraciones de Cutty Salling y Carlos Fernández del Castillo

En un dels barris mes populars i gentrificats de la ciutat de Valencia, troben morta a sa casa una anciana de huitanta-tres anys. Quan la descobreixen gitada al llit, fa un parell de dies que ha perdut la vida. La vella no presenta signes de violencia, ha mort per causes naturals. Aixi es com acaben els nostres vells, esgotats i sols a les seues cases. I ningu no se'n sorpren. Pero, sota l'aparença de normalitat, s'amaga una ben dissimulada activitat criminal d'un assassi cautelos. I, despres d'aquesta primera mort, en vindran mes. Aixi, Vida i Gui es trobaran immersos, sense moure un dit, en una trama homicida que amenaça la baula mes feble de la societat. Llibre de morts es un thriller funerari ben negre, amb el qual Jordi Colonques ha estat guardonat amb el Premi Ciutat d'Elx i es consolida com una veu imprescindible dins del panorama literari valencia.

The Amazing New Thriller From Terry Hayes. If You Thought I Am Pilgrim Was Good…

When Anne Shirley arrives at Green Gables farm on Prince Edward Island, she surprises everyone: first of all, she is a girl. Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, had specifically asked for an orphan boy. She has bright red hair that won't manage and a mouth that won't shut. Nothing will ever be the same at Green Gables! A favorite story of generations of girls ever since it was first published in 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic story of one girl's profound effect on a small Canadian community has stayed in print for nearly one hundred years and has been made into a popular TV series and even a musical.

Este libro é unha especie de atlas de xeografía mítica de Terra de Montes. Presentamos aquí a segunda edición desta obra, publicada orixinalmente no ano 2008 por Serpe Bichoca, e que ofrece ilustracions e fotografias en branco e negro. Un material para quen teña interese en descubrir a pe a singularidade material e inmaterial do monte Seixo, mesmo aqueles tuneles miticos que comunican o Castro Grande con Pozo Sanguento, ou Fontefria co monte de Costoia. Na descricion do camiño non falta detalle do mundo maxico da montaña, desde a cidade de Trentinan, ata o Marco do Vento ou Portalen.

Explicar històries i menjar: els dos plaers més vells del món, a més de l’altre que compartim amb les bèsties. ¿O potser les bèsties també s’expliquen històries? Les vint-i-set que hi ha dins Aliment

_______________Katie Fforde's brilliant new book, A SPRINGTIME AFFAIR, is now available in paperbackShe has only one chance to turn her life around... Allie is bored with her job and starting to wonder whether she even likes her boyfriend, Ryan. The high point in her day is passing a cafe on her walk home from work.It is the sort of place where she'd really like to work. Then one day she sees as advert on the door: assistant wanted. But before she can land her dream job, Allie knows she must achieve two things:1.Learn to cook2. End her relationship with Ryan, especially as through the window of the cafe, she spies a waiter who looks much more like her type of man. And when she learns that the cafe is in danger of closing, Allie knows she must do her very best to save the day ...

Longa noite de pedra (1962) é unha das obras claves para entender a nosa literatura contemporánea: libro emblemático e referencia obrigada de toda unha época e de hoxe. Celso Emilio Ferreiro (Celanov

Michael Endes Marchen-Roman voller Poesie und Herzenswarme uber den Zauber der ZeitMomo, ein kleines struppiges Madchen, lebt am Rande einer Grostadt in den Ruinen eines Amphitheaters. Sie besitzt nichts als das, was sie findet oder was man ihr schenkt, und eine auergewohnliche Gabe: Sie hort Menschen zu und schenkt ihnen Zeit. Doch eines Tages ruckt das gespenstische Heer der grauen Herren in die Stadt ein. Sie haben es auf die kostbare Lebenszeit der Menschen abgesehen und Momo ist die Einzige, die der dunklen Macht der Zeitdiebe noch Einhalt gebieten kann ...

This book is the perfect dose of sweet, hilarious joy. It's masterful comedy plus tenderness, unique voice plus rich characters. Nicholas! Swoon! We are in love' bestselling author Christina Lauren_____________Meet Naomi and Nicholas: the Perfect Couple.Their glorious, lavish wedding is coming up in three short months . . . and they are utterly, miserably sick of each other.Unfortunately, whoever backs out first will end up bearing the brunt of the wedding bill. When Naomi finds out that Nicholas has been feigning contentment too, the two of them go head-to-head in a battle of sabotage, pranks, and all-out emotional warfare to see who can annoy the other into surrendering first.

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higherfor that world or ours.Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himselfand his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.

Miquel, un professor que no suporta els seus alumnes, desperta en la mateixa habitació d’hospital que Clara, una jove que ha oblidat com somriure. Els dos detesten la seua vida, per aixo, desitgen ei

"Vaig fer la foto de la coberta durant una manifestació a l’avinguda del Paral·lel, que llavors es deia Marques del Duero. No recordo el motiu, pero mirant els negatius del carret he vist que vam com

She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference'Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages...

Imogene is young, beautiful, kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud Theater.Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with a head full of big ideas and a gift for getting his ass kicked. It's hard to make friends when you're the only inflatable boy in town. Francis is unhappy, picked on; he doesn't have a life, a hope, a chance. Francis was human once, but that's behind him now. John Finney is in trouble. The kidnapper locked him in a basement, a place stained with the blood of half a dozen other murdered children. With him, in his subterranean cell, is an antique phone, long since disconnected...but it rings at night, anyway, with calls from the dead...Meet these and a dozen more, in 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS, irresistible, addictive fun showcasing a dazzling new talent.