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He was known as the Wizard of the Kremlin. The enigmatic Vadim Baranov was a TV producer beforebecoming political advisor to Putin. After he resigns from this position, legends about himmultiply, without anyone being able to distinguish truth from fiction. Until one night, he tellshis story to the narrator of this book...Welcome to the heart of Russian power, where sycophants and oligarchs have been engaging in openwarfare, and where Vadim, now the regime's main spin doctor, turns an entire country into anavant-garde political stage. Yet Vadim is not as ambitious as the others. Entangled in theincreasingly dark secret workings of the regime he has contributed to build, he will do anything toget out, guided by the memory of his grandfather, an eccentric aristocrat who survived theRevolution, and the mesmerizing, merciless Ksenia, whom he has fallen in love with.

Carlo Cappai trascorre le sue giornate seguendo meticolosamente una sua routine: si sveglia all'alba, fa colazione al bar e fino a sera, per 9 lunghe ore, trascorre il suo tempo lavorando nell'archivio del tribunale. Una vita scandita dalla metodicita, ma dietro quell'apparenza ordinaria si cela un mondo di documenti che svelano storie sconvolgenti. Tra quei faldoni si nascondono le verita ignorate e quei casi in cui il sistema giudiziario ha fallito, assolvendo colpevoli grazie a oscuri inganni di potere. Quelle pratiche che Carlo sfoglia ogni giorno gridano la loro richiesta di giustizia e quando la legge fallisce, Cappai si fa carico di portare la giustizia la dove essa è mancata, in una ricerca senza fine, sempre nell'attesa di punire una colpa che lo ha segnato per oltre quarant'anni. La vita di Carlo si intreccia presto con quella di Walter Andretti, un giornalista passato dal suo amato mondo dello sport alla cronaca, coinvolto, suo malgrado, nell'indagine su due omicidi recenti. Dopo le incertezze e le gaffe iniziali, Walter intuisce l'esistenza di una connessione inquietante tra le due morti, un legame che va oltre l'apparente casualita. "Tutti i particolari in cronaca" raccoglie una storia che si dipana tra i confini della legge e della giustizia personale, esponendo il sottile equilibrio tra la ricerca di verita nascoste e il desiderio di guarire le ferite del passato.

En Internet hai algo profundo, algo fondo, maligno. Sen sabelo, convivimos cun pozo insondable, ignoramos o que se agocha nel. Noire Compostela iníciase cunha conversa entre un estudante, Xurxo, e Dafne, que traballa como camareira nun dos bares da zona vella compostela. A partir de aqui, a trama enguedellase nunha espiral de segredos imprevisibles e misterios de consecuencias arrepiantes cuxa orixe se remonta no tempo. Os enigmas que envolve a chamada Internet profunda parecen asolagar tamen a cidade nunha realidade ata daquela oculta, a dunha Compostela negra que abrolla dun xeito violento e inesperado. O inspector Touriñan e os axentes especializados en delitos cibernaticos van intentar sacar a luz ese submundo fantasmagorico e virtual que -coma antonte o escurantismo e o cheiro a incenso- invade silenciosamente o ventre petreo da cidade.

THE ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION BY RICHARD PEVEAR AND LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY. "If you've never read it, now is the moment. This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace, you live it". (The Times). From sophisticated Moscow soirees to breathless troika rides through the snow, from the bloody front line at Austerlitz to a wife's death in childbirth, Tolstoy conjures a broad panorama of rich, messy, beautiful and debased human life. We follow the fates of open-hearted, impulsive Pierre Bezukhov, his melancholy friend Prince Andrei and the enchanting Natasha Rostov, as history and fiction are combined in one of the wisest and most enthralling novels ever written. "A joy to read...The sense of actually being in the skin of these people is phenomenally, brilliantly rendered by this translation". (Simon Schama). The Vintage Classic Russians Series: Published for the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, these are must-have, beautifully designed editions of six epic masterpieces that have survived controversy, censorship and suppression to influence decades of thought and artistic expression.

Dune

The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliot's sophisticated and acute characterization gives rich expression to every nuance of feeling, and vividly brings to life the town's inhabitants - including the young idealist Dorothea Brooke, the dry scholar Casaubon, the young, passionate reformist doctor Lydgate, the flighty young beauty Rosamond and the old, secretive banker Bulstrode - as they move in counterpoint to each other.Art, religion, politics, society, science, human relationships in all their complexity, nothing is left unexamined under the narrator's microscope. One of the greatest novels written in the English language, Middlemarch is a literary landmark in its groundbreaking approach, as well as a priceless document of its age.

A 20th anniversary edition of this million copy bestseller, with a new introduction by John Niven: a classic story of paradise found - and lost.Richard lands in East Asia in search of an earthly utopia. In Thailand, he is given a map promising an unknown island, a secluded beach - and a new way of life. What Richard finds when he gets there is breathtaking: more extraordinary, more frightening than his wildest dreams.But how long can paradise survive here on Earth? And what lengths will Richard go to in order to save it?

Je m’appelle Marcel. J’ai 47 ans. Je suis contrôleur de bus. Je mène une vie saine et bien rangée. J’aime l’ordre, la rigueur et la discrétion et, à bien des égards, je suis votre voisin idéal. C’est

A remarkable psychological thriller by award-winning author Victor del Arbol.Eduardo Quintana is a broken man. The tragedy that cost him the lives of his family is a wound he daily tears open afresh. The once renowned painter wallows in grief, subsisting on alcohol and drugs, eking out a living with whatever painting commissions he can get.But when he is approached by a mysterious woman who wants him to paint a portrait of the man who killed her son, he soon becomes entangled in a web of deceit in which no one, and nothing, is as they seem. With each brushstroke, Eduardo opens doors that were meant to have stayed shut doors that, once opened, can never be closed.Set against the haunted and unsettling backdrop of a Madrid plagued by unrest and economic upheaval, The Heart Tastes Bitter is a dark and compelling story of the search for redemption, revenge, and love and the cruel power of fate.

Strange things are going on at the Paris Opera House; a mysterious phantom - a skeleton in dinner dress - is wreaking havoc amongst the singers and backstage staff. But when new managers take over and dismiss the rumours of the Opera Ghost, the terror really begins. Who is the curious figure stalking the stage at night? How can he be in so many places at once, entering and leaving locked rooms at will? And what is his connection to the beautiful and talented young soloist, Christine? The Phantom of the Opera is perhaps best known for its many stage and screen adaptations, but Gaston Leroux's original text surpasses them all for its Gothic tension and haunting horror. With an afterword by Peter Harness. Designed to appeal to the booklover, Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound hardback gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Hainbat arrazoi izan ditzake maitearen galerak: haren heriotza, ihesa, asperdura, traizioa? bakoitza desberdina baina denak izugarriak bakarrik geratzen den maitalearentzat. Herio eta galbide bakoitzaren atze-aurre guztiak xeheki aztertzen ditu nobela honetako protagonista eta narratzaileak, intentsitate harrigarria lortzen duten pasarteetan, ikara berberak behin eta berriz exorzizatuz, obsesio baten bulkada eutsiezinaz. Idazle iaio baten sena erakusten du Alaine Agirrek bere bigarren eleberri honetan, kontakizu naren erritmoa eta hizkuntzaren edertasuna trebezia handiz uztartzen baititu gai beraren inguruko bariazio hauek lantzean.

Mars 1943. Le Reich vient de perdre Stalingrad. Pour Joseph Goebbels, il faut absolument redonner le moral à l''armée allemande et porter un coup aux Alliés. Or sur le territoire soviétique, près de

Calendar Girl Mia Saunders has come a long way. She rounds out the end of her year-long journey in Hollywood, New York City, and Aspen. In October, Mia starts her new life working on a celebrity daytime television show where she runs a regular segment about living beautiful. Her guy deals with the aftermath of captivity, and together they find a way to fight through the storms. Next, Mia travels to the Big Apple to tape a program about being thankful. All of her dreams are coming true except for one. Finally, in December, our girl finds herself in the winter wonderland of Aspen, Colorado to film a segment on local artists under rather unique circumstances. Prepare to be wowed as Mia s journey merges into the ending everyone has been waiting for."

In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: Merce Rodoreda shatters that mirror in this, her most ambitious novel, which tells its story in brilliant fragments, a vision reflected and refracted and finally coming together in a richly articulated mosaic of life. Through this Broken Mirror, the reader sees events and characters spanning three generations and composing a kaleidoscopic family history ranging over six decades and turning upon events both intimate and historic-most notably the Spanish Civil War. Opening with Teresa Goday, the lovely young fishmonger's daughter married to a wealthy old man, the story shifts from one perspective to another, reflecting from myriad angles the founding of a matriarchal dynasty-and its eventual, seemingly inevitable disintegration. A family saga extending from the prosperous Barcelona of the 1870s to the advent of the Franco dictatorship, A Broken Mirror is finally also a novel about the inexorable passing of time. Merce Rodoreda (1908-1983) has emerged as perhaps the most important fiction writer of the twentieth century in Catalan literature and is one of the most interesting writers of the contemporary Spanish literary world. She is primarily known in this country for her novel The Time of the Doves, published in English translation. Josep Miquel Sobrer is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University. The editor of Catalan Review, he has also edited and translated an anthology of Catalan texts, Catalonia: A Self-Portrait.

Oscar et la dame Rose

Un clàssic de la literatura i el teatre català en una versió editada i anotada per als estudiants de batxillerat.Terra baixa (1897) ha esdevingut una de les obres més conegudes d''Àngel Guimerà i enc

When it is discovered that the reigning world chess champion, Mirko Czentovic, is on board a cruiser heading for Buenos Aires, a fellow passenger challenges him to a game. Czentovic easily defeats him, but during the rematch a mysterious Austrian, Dr B., intervenes and, to the surprise of everyone, helps the underdog obtain a draw. When, the next day, Dr B. confides in a compatriot travelling on the same ship and decides to reveal the harrowing secret behind his formidable chess knowledge, a chilling tale of imprisonment and psychological torment unfolds.Stefan Zweig's last and most famous story, 'The Game of Chess' was written in exile in Brazil and explores its author's anxieties about the situation in Europe following the rise of the Nazi regime. The tale is presented here in a brand-new translation, along with three of the master storyteller's most acclaimed novellas: 'Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman', 'The Invisible Collection' and 'Incident on Lake Geneva'.

Un matin à Paris, alors qu''il ouvre sa librairie, Laurent Letellier découvre dans la rue un sac à main abandonné. Curieux, il en fait l''inventaire et découvre, faute de papiers d''identité, une f