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HBOs hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martins internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A GAME OF THRONES is the first volume in the series.Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun.As Warden of the north, Lord Eddard Stark counts it a curse when King Robert bestows on him the office of the Hand. His honour weighs him down at court where a true man does what he will, not what he must and a dead enemy is a thing of beauty.The old gods have no power in the south, Starks family is split and there is treachery at court. Worse, the vengeance-mad heir of the deposed Dragon King has grown to maturity in exile in the Free Cities. He claims the Iron Throne.

Ender''s Game meets The Hunger Games in MORNING STAR , the second in an extraordinary trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of RED RISING.''I''m still playing games. This is just the deadliest yet.''Darrow is a rebel forged by tragedy. For years he and his fellow Reds worked the mines, toiling to make the surface of Mars inhabitable. They were, they believed, mankind''s last hope. Until Darrow discovered that it was all a lie, and that the Red were nothing more than unwitting slaves to an elitist ruling class, the Golds, who had been living on Mars in luxury for generations.In RED RISING, Darrow infiltrated Gold society, to fight in secret for a better future for his people. Now fully embedded amongst the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his dangerous work to bring them down from within. It''s a journey that will take him further than he''s ever been before - but is Darrow truly willing to pay the price that rebellion demands?A life-or-death tale of vengeance with an unforgettable hero at its heart, Golden Son guarantees Pierce Brown''s continuing status as one of fiction''s most exciting new voices.

Nuit du 19 au 20 octobre 2011. Mouammar Kadhafi, acculé par les rebelles déterminés à libérer la Lybie, a trouvé refuge à Syrte. Avec le jour, viendra la mort. Entouré d’une poignée de fidèles, le

Imaginar el universo como un bosque, vigilada por los depredadores sin número y sin nombre. En este bosque, el sigilo es la supervivencia - cualquier civilización que revela su ubicación es presa. Los depredadores estan llegando. Cruzando años luz, llegaran a la Tierra dentro de cuatro siglos. Pero los sophons, sus agentes extra-dimensionales y saboteadores, ya estan aqui. Solo la mente humana individual permanece inmune a su influencia. Esta es la motivacion para el Proyecto Wallfacer, un ultimo recurso que otorga a cuatro individuos un poder casi absoluto para diseñar estrategias secretas, ocultas a traves del engaño y la mala direccion de humanos por igual y ajeno. Tres de los hombres de Estado Wallfacers son influyentes y cientificos, pero el cuarto es un total desconocido.Luo Ji, un astronomo chino poco ambicioso, esta desconcertado por su nueva condicion. Todo lo que sabe es que el es el unico que Wallfacer Trisolaris quiere muertos. Cixin LIU es # 1 escritor y primer autor traducido en ganar un premio Hugo. Antes de convertirse en un escritor, trabajo como ingeniero. Traductor KEN LIU ha ganado los premios Nebula, Hugo y la fantasia del mundo para su propia escritura

Azoto, carbonio, idrogeno, oro, arsenico... Sono ventuno gli elementi chimici che danno il titolo ai racconti di questo libro, e ventuno i capitoli di un'autobiografia che per affinita e accostamenti corre sul filo di una storia personale e collettiva, affondando le radici nell'oscura qualita della materia, raccontando le storie di un mestiere che e poi un caso particolare, una versione piu strenua del mestiere di vivere. È questo il gigantesco minuscolo gioco che lega osservazione, memoria, scrittura: ne esce ricostruita la vicenda di una formazione maturata negli anni del fascismo, poi nelle drammatiche vicende della guerra: di chi, partendo dalla concretezza del lavoro, impara a capire le cose e gli uomini, a prendere posizione, a misurarsi con ironia e autoironia. Un De rerum natura metafora dell'esistenza, in cui emergono, nel volgersi del racconto, stranezze, fallimenti e riuscite imprevedibili.

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

Ken Liu is one of the most original, thought-provoking and award-winning short-story writers of his generation. This is the first collection of his work - sixteen stories that invoke the magical within the mundane, by turns profound, beguiling and heartbreaking. Included here are: The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary (Finalist for Hugo, Nebula, and Sturgeon Awards), Mono No Aware (Hugo Award winner), The Waves (Nebula Award finalist), The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species (Nebula and Sturgeon award finalists), All the Flavors (Nebula Award finalist), The Litigation Master and the Monkey King (Nebula Award finalist) ,and the most awarded story in the genre's history, The Paper Menagerie (the only story ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards).

Unha muller é sorprendida pola chegada da policía á súa casa para deter o seu home, un político, por un presunto delito de abusos sexuais de menores. A acción de "A dúbida" desencadéase a partir dese feito, que provoca o conflito psicoloxico desa muller que empeza a dubidar se coñecia realmente ao home. Un ritmo axil, a profundidade do conflito psicoloxico e a sutileza con que a novela trata temas de actualidade como os abusos sexuais e a corrupcion politica son os argumentos que valorou o xurado da decimocuarta edicion do Premio de Novela por Entregas de La Voz de Galicia. En "A dubida" a autora fai uso da sua experiencia como narradora para ofrecer unha historia que engancha a atencion das lectoras e lectores e aborda, desde a denuncia social e a intriga, un tema pouco frecuente na literatura galega, escrita con pulsion literaria e rigor.

The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. In doing so, it provides an oblique self-portrait of the young Joyce himself. At its center lie questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race. Exuberantly inventive in style, the novel subtly and beautifully orchestrates the patterns of quotation and repetition instrumental in its hero's quest to create his own character, his own language, life, and art: "to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race." This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, published for the novel's centennial, is the definitive text, authorized by the Joyce estate and collated from all known proofs, manuscripts, and impressions to reflect the author's original wishes.

Ce roman retrace la vie de Charlotte Salomon, artiste peintre morte à vingt-six ans alors qu''elle était enceinte. Après une enfance à Berlin marquée par une tragédie familiale, Charlotte est exclue

Una nova edició de LA PLAÇA DEL DIAMANT, amb el text revisat i material inèdit. L''estudiosa Meritxell Talavera ha retrobat el manuscrit primer de COLOMETA, del qual la nova edició dóna un capítol de

Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrantes fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously.She has gained admirers among authorsJhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a fewand criticsJames Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have discovered in Ferrante a writer who speaks with great power and beauty of the mysteries of belonging, human relationships, love, family, and friendship.In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women have attempted are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies.Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond.

The second book, following 2012s acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena.The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery.The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others.Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other.With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two girls mature into women, paying the sometimes cruel price that this passage exacts.

« À la fin de décembre 1999, une surprenante série d’événements tragiques s’abattit sur Beauval, au premier rang desquels, bien sûr, la disparition du petit Rémi Desmedt. Dans cette région couverte d

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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 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.