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Fifty major fashion designers are profiled in this book with full-color spreads that showcase their most memorable creations. Red carpet regulars such as Armani, Prada, Calvin Klein, and Dolce & Gabbana are included, as well as the classic clothiers Christian Dior, Karl Lagerfield, and Oscar de La Renta. While some of these designers have designed for the masses - Ralph Lauren and Diane von Furstenberg - others prefer the avant-garde over function, Vivienne Westwood, for instance. Readers will learn how the early 20th-century designers such as Coco Chanel and André Courrèges made fashion history, and discover who's making it now: Stella McCartney, Marc Jacobs, and Tom Ford, to name a few. A celebration of diversity and innovation and an essential handbook to a century of fashion, this exciting and informative look into the world of style will delight readers of every taste and age.,An accessible introduction to the 50 most important designers who have moved fashion forward over the past century.
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On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous paths. Four Fergusons will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and passions contrast. Each version of Ferguson's story rushes across the fractured terrain of mid-twentieth century America, in this sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself.
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Beth is desperate to return to normality. After a years-long ordeal, her daughter is finally home and safe. But Carmel has questions she can't ignore about the cult that kidnapped her, and about the preacher who gave her another girl's name.
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When is a monster's child culpable? Guilt and complicity are multifaceted. John Boyne is a maestro of historical fiction. You can't prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of this powerful novel' John Irving 'Exceptional, layered and compelling...This books moves like a freight train, with force and consequence for the reader' Amy Bloom From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and disturbing past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany over seventy years before. She doesn't talk about the post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps.
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It's the following Thursday.Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat to his life.As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn't that be a bonus?But this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn't bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians.
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Susan Lentigo’s daughter was murdered twenty years ago – now, at long last, she will witness the killer’s execution.But on her journey she discovers shocking new evidence that suggests the condemned man is innocent – and the real killer is still out there. Even worse, her new suspect has a young daughter who’s at terrible risk.The FBI refuses to reopen the case. They – and Susan’s own mother – believe she’s having an emotional breakdown. With no money or time to waste, but with the help of two unlikely allies – a cynical teenage girl and the retired cop who made the original arrest – Susan sets out to win justice for the condemned man and her daughter.
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Summer on St Kilda – a wild, remote Scottish island. In the 1930s, two strangers from drastically different worlds meet...Wild-spirited Effie Gillies has lived all her life on the small island of St Kilda. But when Lord Sholto, heir to the Earl of Dumfries, visits, the attraction between them is instant. For one glorious week she guides the handsome young visitor around the isle, falling in love for the first time – until a storm hits and her world falls apart.Three months later, St Kilda lays silent as the islanders are evacuated for a better life on the mainland. With her friends and family scattered, Effie is surprised to be offered a position working on the Earl’s estate. Sholto is back in her life but their differences now seem insurmountable, even as the simmering tension between them grows...Then, when a shocking discovery is made back on St Kilda, all her dreams for this bright new life are threatened by the dark secrets Effie and her friends thought they had left behind.Opposites attract in this epic and spellbinding novel, which transports us from the untamed beauty of St Kilda to the glamour and intrigues of high society in the 1930s.The Last Summer is the first book in the Wild Isle series by Sunday Times bestseller Karen Swan, inspired by the true history of St Kilda and its small island community. It is followed by The Stolen Hours.
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The world is classic Jane Austen. The mystery is vintage P.D. James.The year is 1803, and Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet have been married for six years. There are now two handsome and healthy sons in the nursery, Elizabeth's beloved sister Jane and her husband Bingley live nearby and the orderly world of Pemberley seems unassailable. But all this is threatened when, on the eve of the annual autumn ball, the guests are preparing to retire for the night when a chaise appears, rocking down the path from Pemberley's wild woodland. As it pulls up, Lydia Wickham - Elizabeth Bennet's younger, unreliable sister - stumbles out screaming that her husband has been murdered.Two great literary minds - master of suspense P.D. James and literary icon Jane Austen - come together in Death Comes to Pemberley, a bestselling historical crime fiction tribute to Pride and Prejudice. Conjuring the world of Elizabeth Bennet and Mark Darcy and combining the trappings of Regency British society with a classic murder mystery, James creates a delightful mash-up that will intrigue any Janeite.From the bestselling author of The Murder Room, Children of Men and A Certain Justice, comes a wonderful mixture of the nation's greatest romance and best-loved crime fiction. In 2013, this novel was adapted as a miniseries by the BBC, starring Matthew Rhys as Darcy, Anna Maxwell Martin as Elizabeth Bennet and Jenna Coleman as Lydia Wickham.
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Mi nombre es Teresa Ciabatti, tengo cuatro años y soy la hija, la alegría, el orgullo, el amor del Profesor &¬. El profesor es Lorenzo Ciabatti, médico jefe del hospital Orbetello. Pronto se convirtió en uno, después de una pasantía en Estados Unidos, porque es talentoso pero modesto, un benefactor, dicen algunos, un santo. Todos lo quieren, todos le temen, y Teresa es su amada hija: la única a la que el Profesor permite llevar el anillo de zafiros del que nunca se separa. El anillo de la Universidad Americana, dice. El anillo de poder, susurran algunos. Teresa se desliza hacia la adolescencia desde la infancia, y se da cuenta de que la benevolencia que el mundo le reserva es un efecto secundario del servilismo hacia su padre. ¿Quién es Lorenzo Ciabatti? ¿El médico benefactor que ama a los pobres o un hombre calculador y violento? ¿Un poderoso que quizás jugó un papel en algunos de los eventos más oscuros de la historia reciente? Ya adulta, Teresa decide averiguarlo y se encuentra inmersa en el dulce y venenoso líquido amniótico que fue su infancia: preguntas nunca hechas, respuestas evasivas. Todo, en las historias familiares, se readapta, se transforma... Teresa Ciabatti reconstruye la historia de una familia y, con ella, los acontecimientos de toda una época. Una autoficción sincera, feroz, siniestra, nacida del afán de reconciliarse con una infancia feliz que se interrumpió bruscamente.
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WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR'This is a masterfully written history of the world's greatest football club. Més que un book!' - GARY LINEKERFrom the bestselling co-author of Soccernomics comes the story of how FC Barcelona became the most successful football club in the world - and how that envied position now hangs in the balance.Barça is not just the world's most popular sports club, it is simply one of the most influential organisations on the planet. With almost 250 million followers on social media and 4 million visitors to its Camp Nou stadium each year, there's little wonder its motto is 'More than a club'. But it was not always so. In the past three decades, Barcelona has transformed from regional team to global powerhouse, becoming a model of sporting excellence and a consistent winner of silverware.Simon Kuper unravels exactly how these transformations took place. He outlines the organisational structure behind the club's business decisions, and details the work of its coaches, medics, data analysts and nutritionists who have revolutionised the sporting world. And, of course, he studies the towering influence of the club's two greatest legends, Johan Cruyff and Lionel Messi.Like many leading global businesses, FC Barcelona closely guards its secrets, granting few outsiders a view behind the scenes. But, after decades of writing about the sport and the club, Kuper was given unprecedented access to the inner sanctum and to the people who strive daily to keep Barcelona at the top.Erudite, personal, and capturing all the latest successes and upheavals, his portrait of this incredible institution goes beyond football to understand Barça as a unique social, cultural, and political phenomenon.''I began my research thinking I was going to be explaining Barca's rise to greatness, and I have, but I've also ended up charting the decline and fall.''
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Barcelona, early 1930s: Natalia, a pretty shop-girl from the working-class quarter of Gracia, is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charming and forceful, and she takes his hand. They marry and soon have two children, for Natalia it is an awakening, both good and bad. When Joe decides to breed pigeons, the birds delight his son and daughter - and infuriate his wife. Then the Spanish Civil War erupts, and lays waste to the city and to their simple existence. Natalia remains in Barcelona, struggling to feed her family, while Joe goes to fight the fascists, and one by one his beloved birds fly away. A highly acclaimed classic that has been translated into more twenty-eight languages, In Diamond Square is the moving, vivid and powerful story of a woman caught up in a convulsive period of history.
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«Incluso mis rebeliones estuvieron iluminadas por la luz. Fueron casi siempre, y creo que lo puedo decir sin engañar a nadie, rebeliones para todos, y para que la vida de todos se elevara hacia la luz.» Porque escogió la rebelión antes que la revolución,
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The second book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s heartwarming Tales from the Cafe, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time . . .This beautiful tale tells the story of people who must face up to their past, in order to move on with their lives.Continue the heartwarming storytelling with Before Your Memory Fades, Before We Say Goodbye and Before We Forget Kindness - all out now!
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La montagna non è solo neve e dirupi, creste, torrenti, laghi, pascoli. La montagna è un modo di vivere la vita. Un passo davanti all'altro, silenzio, tempo e misura. Lo sa bene Paolo Cognetti, che tra una vetta e una baita ambienta questo potentissimo romanzo. Una storia di amicizia tra due ragazzi - e poi due uomini - cosí diversi da assomigliarsi, un viaggio avventuroso e spirituale fatto di fughe e tentativi di ritorno, alla continua ricerca di una strada per riconoscersi.
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El nombre de Julio Cortázar aún resuena en todo el mundo por su calidadliteraria y por su hondo compromiso con el ser humano. Considerado comouno de los autores más importantes del siglo XX, su vida fue tancontrovertida y apasionante como su obra. Escribió, viajó por diferentespaíses y pasó largas temporadas en ellos dejando un rastro imborrable deprofeta social, especialmente en tierras latinoamericanas. En todo esetiempo Cortázar nunca olvidó su destino y luchó por sus ideales, yafueran artísticos, políticos o metafísicos, y siempre bajo el paraguasde la literatura, su vieja amiga de la infancia que le acompañó hasta lamuerte.Pero tras este autor carismático y cosmopolita, se ocultaba un individuofuera de lo común: una persona de extraordinaria sensibilidad que viviómarcada por los traumas familiares y por una relación conflictiva con supropio país, Argentina. Cortázar fue hombre de grandes amores y deexcelentes amigos, también de oscuros secretos. Basándose en recienteshallazgos documentales, Miguel Dalmau construye una biografía rigurosa,vibrante y atrevida, un retrato que se aleja de los patrones académicosal uso para mostrarnos el lado más íntimo y desconocido de un artistaexcepcional.
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Named a best book of the year by NPR, Vogue, and the New York Times Book Review, the hilarious and profound new novel from National Book Award finalist Joshua Ferris is “a fine American novel about family, love, and a decent but flawed man trying to be better (Stephen King). Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's compromises and in a house he hates, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances and into the American dream. But when the twin calamities of the Great Recession and a cancer scare come along to compound his troubles, his dreams dwindle further, and an infinite past full of forking paths quickly tapers to a black dot.Then, against all odds, something goes right for a change: Charlie is granted a second act. With help from his storyteller son, he surveys the facts of his life and finds his true calling where he least expects it—in a sacrifice that redounds with selflessness and love—at last becoming the man his son always knew he could be.A Calling for Charlie Barnes is a profound and tender portrait of a man whose desperate need to be loved is his downfall, and a brutally funny account of how that love is ultimately earned.
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Con adorables y divertidas ilustraciones de Jane Cabrera y un entrañable texto, esta es la introducción perfecta a las maravillas de la vida en la Tierra. Mucho que ver y contar sobre el cuidado de nuestro planeta ¡y una sorpresa desplegable al final
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With the emotional intelligence of Maggie O'Farrell and the witty observational skills of Kate Atkinson, this is a novel of unexpected second chances set in 1950s England.¿A quién va dirigido el libro ?Small Pleasures de Clare Chambers atrae a un público amplio, pero se dirige especialmente a lectores interesados en novelas literarias con un trasfondo histórico, que aprecien las historias centradas en el desarrollo de los personajes y las relaciones humanas. La novela explora temas de la condición femenina en la década de 1950, la búsqueda de la felicidad y el significado de la familia, por lo que resultará especialmente atractivo para aquellos interesados en la literatura que aborda estas temáticas con profundidad y sensibilidad. Asimismo, aquellos que disfrutan de novelas con un misterio sutilmente entretejido en la trama encontrarán en Small Pleasures una lectura cautivadora.Temas que trata el libro Small Pleasures explora una serie de temas interconectados:La condición femenina en la década de 1950 en Gran Bretaña: La novela presenta la vida de Jean Swinney, una mujer de cuarenta años que se enfrenta a las limitaciones sociales y profesionales de su época. Se muestra la presión social sobre las mujeres para casarse y formar una familia, y las dificultades que enfrentan aquellas que eligen un camino diferente.La búsqueda de la felicidad y el significado de la vida: Jean se encuentra en un momento de su vida en el que cuestiona sus elecciones y busca un propósito más allá de sus responsabilidades cotidianas. La novela explora la idea de que la felicidad puede encontrarse en los pequeños momentos y en las conexiones humanas inesperadas.Las relaciones familiares y amistosas: La relación de Jean con su madre, su interacción con la familia Tilbury y el desarrollo de nuevas amistades son elementos centrales de la trama. La novela explora la complejidad de las relaciones familiares, la importancia del apoyo social y la capacidad de encontrar conexiones significativas en circunstancias inesperadas.El misterio y la verdad: La historia de un supuesto nacimiento virginal sirve como catalizador de la trama, creando un misterio que Jean investiga. Este misterio no solo impulsa la acción, sino que también sirve como metáfora de la búsqueda de la verdad en la vida personal de Jean.El conflicto entre el deber y el deseo personal: Jean se enfrenta a un dilema entre sus responsabilidades y sus propios deseos. La novela explora el conflicto entre la obligación social y la búsqueda de la realización personal.Resumen de críticas, opiniones y valoraciones del libro Se destacan las descripciones de la novela como una obra "asombrosa y agudamente observada", que captura la vida de una mujer británica común en la década de 1950, mostrando su vida cotidiana y cómo un evento inesperado la lleva a una batalla entre la decencia y una pasión inesperada. Se elogia la prosa de la autora, calificándola de "bella", capaz de crear "un gran placer a partir de pequeños detalles". La novela ha sido comparada con obras de autoras como Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro y Ann Patchett, lo que sugiere una calidad literaria notable. También se menciona que la obra ha sido preseleccionada para el Women's Prize for Fiction, lo que refuerza su reconocimiento en el ámbito literario. Finalmente, se describe la novela como una mezcla de misterio e historia de amor, que explora el conflicto entre la realización personal y el deber, celebrando la belleza y el potencial de alegría en las cosas sencillas y poco comunes.
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The terrifying new psychological thriller by internationally bestselling phenomenon Sebastian Fitzek. Walk Me Home is Fitzek's most enthralling work to date.The Walk Me Home telephone helpline service has proved indispensable. Staffed by volunteers, it provides a reassuring voice at the end of the phone, helping to protect lone women as they walk home at night.Jules has only been working for Walk Me Home for a short time and has never had to deal with a truly life-threatening situation. But that all changes one Saturday night when Klara calls.The young woman is terrified. She thinks she is being followed by a man. A man from her past. A man who drew a date in blood on her bedroom wall. And that day dawns in less than two hours...For Klara - and Jules - the stakes have never been higher. Will either of them ever make it home again?
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Bill Bryson has the rare knack of being out of his depth wherever he goes - even (perhaps especially) in the land of his birth. This became all too apparent when, after nearly two decades in England, the world's best-loved travel writer upped sticks with Mrs Bryson, little Jimmy et al. and returned to live in the country he had left as a youth.Of course there were things Bryson missed about Blighty but any sense of loss was countered by the joy of rediscovering some of the forgotten treasures of his childhood: the glories of a New England autumn, the pleasingly comical sight of oneself in shorts, and motel rooms where you can generally count on being awakened in the night by a piercing shriek and the sound of a female voice pleading, 'Put the gun down, Vinnie, I'll do anything you say.'Whether discussing the strange appeal of breakfast pizza or the jaw-slackening direness of American TV, Bill Bryson brings his inimitable brand of bemused wit to bear on that strangest of phenomena - the American way of life...
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Bring friends and family around the table with Jamie's brand-new cookbook, TOGETHER - a joyous celebration of incredible food to share.Being with our loved ones has never felt so important, and great food is the perfect excuse to get together. Each chapter features a meal - from Curry Night to Last-Minute Feast, Garden Lunch to Autumnal Fare - with a simple, achievable menu that can be mostly prepped ahead.Jamie's aim - whether you're following the full meal or choosing just one of over 120 individual recipes - is to minimise your time in the kitchen so you can maximise the time you spend with your guests.
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Retired bus driver and recent widower Dermot Lynch grabs his bags from the bus's dusty undercarriage and begins to climb the hill to his son's house. It is Dermot's first time in Spain and the first time he's been out of Birmingham in many years. When he finally arrives at the gates of the crumbling development, Dermot learns that Eamonn, only one of a handful of settlers in the half-finished ghost town of Lomaverde, has fallen prey to an alluring vision and is upside down in a dream that is slipping away. But Dermot finds something beautiful and nostalgic in Lomaverde's decline—something that is reminiscent of his childhood in Ireland. Soon he is the center of attention in the tiny group of expats where paranoid speculation, goat hunting, and drinking are just some of the ways to pass the days. As the happenings in Lomaverde take a strange turn, father and son slowly begin to peel back their pasts, and they uncover a shocking secret at the heart of this ad hoc community. With the depth, grace, and wry authenticity that have characterized Catherine O'Flynn's previous work, Mr. Lynch's Holiday gives us a story that again shimmers with the power of good old realism (Jane Smiley, The LA Times) about love, connection, and a father and son finding each other exactly when they need it most.
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A troubled young mother yearns for a shot at redemption in this heartbreaking yet hopeful story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover.After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her fouryearold daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter's life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself.The only person who hasn't closed the door on her completely is Ledger Ward, a local bar owner and one of the few remaining links to Kenna's daughter. But if anyone were to discover how Ledger is slowly becoming an important part of Kenna's life, both would risk losing the trust of everyone important to them.
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2021 saw the rise of anti-racism, as white people sought to be better allies to people of colour. However, well-meaning white activists have unknowingly been perpetuating the very ideas they claim to be fighting against.NeoOrientalism is an exaggeration of racial difference, and something that many activists are unconsciously promoting. In this rousing and invaluable read, David Swift urges his fellow white activists to reflect on their behaviour, revealing how our well-meaning language and political arguments are feeding NeoOrientalism and further widening the chasm of racial inequality.
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Harvey's lethal imagination is cranked up to eleven in this one ... His best yet by far. Superb' Lee Child.Daniel Fitzsimmons seems like an ordinary American teenager. He loves his brother, his friends, his school work. But Daniel has powers. Powers that he does not understand and is not sure he can control.Daniel can't risk telling those around him what is happening, but when a mysterious stranger offers an insight into what he is experiencing, he becomes Daniel's unofficial mentor. And when a tragedy threatens to derail his life, and with the police growing ever more interested in his past, Daniel's powers will finally come into their own.
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Zero Gravity is the fifth collection of comic pieces by Woody Allen, a hilarious prose stylist whose enduring appeal readers have savored since his classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, Side Effects, and Mere Anarchy. This new work combines pieces that have appeared in The New Yorker along with eleven written exclusively for this book, each a comic inspiration. Whether he’s writing about horses that paint, cars that think, the sex lives of celebrities, or how General Tso’s Chicken got its name, he is always totally original, broad yet sophisticated, acutely observant, and most important, relentlessly funny. Along with titles like “Buffalo Wings, Woncha Come Out Tonight” and “When Your Hood Ornament Is Nietzsche,” included in this collection is his poignant but very funny short story, ''Growing Up in Manhattan.” Daphne Merkin has written the foreword.
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Who can guess what a woman will do when the unthinkable becomes her reality? From the bestselling author of THE WEIGHT OF WATER, this enormously gripping and powerfully wrought novel asks the questions we all have about ourselves and definitively places Anita Shreve among the ranks of the best novelists writing today. Being married to a pilot has taught Kathryn Lyons to be ready for emergencies, but nothing has prepared her for the late-night knock on her door and the news of her husband's fatal crash. As Kathryn struggles through her grief, she is forced to confront disturbing rumours about the man she loved and the life that she took for granted. Torn between her impulse to protect her husband's memory and her desire to know the truth, Kathryn sets off to find out if she ever really knew the man who was her husband. In her determination to test the truth of her marriage, she faces shocking revelations about the secrets a man can keep and the actions a woman is willing to take.
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From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment.Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. She hasn’t told her family and now has terrible writer’s block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina’s spare key while she’s out of town. But Rosie doesn’t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking―for lack of a better word―on Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armour. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks.
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I have killed several people (some brutally, others calmly) and yet I currently languish in jail for a murder I did not commit.When I think about what I actually did, I feel somewhat sad that nobody will ever know about the complex operation that I undertook. Getting away with it is highly preferable, of course, but perhaps when I’m long gone, someone will open an old safe and find this confession. The public would reel. After all, almost nobody else in the world can possibly understand how someone, by the tender age of 28, can have calmly killed six members of her family. And then happily got on with the rest of her life, never to regret a thing.When Grace Bernard discovers her absentee millionaire father has rejected her dying mother’s pleas for help, she vows revenge, and sets about to kill every member of his family. Readers have a front row seat as Grace picks off the family one by one – and the result is as and gruesome as it is entertaining in this wickedly dark romp about class, family, love… and murder.But then Grace is imprisoned for a murder she didn’t commit.Outrageously funny, compulsive and subversive, perfect for fans of Killing Eve and My Sister, the Serial Killer.
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The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, the bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer, and What If? 2, coming September 13, 2022.For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun.By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and fun illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.
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Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a standalone work, the epic tale of The Fall of Gondolin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, Balrogs, Dragons and Orcs and the rich landscape and creatures unique to Tolkien's Middle-earth.In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwë, chief of the Valar.Central to this enmity of the gods is the city of Gondolin, beautiful but undiscoverable. It was built and peopled by Noldorin Elves who, when they dwelt in Valinor, the land of the gods, rebelled against their rule and fled to Middle-earth. Turgon King of Gondolin is hated and feared above all his enemies by Morgoth, who seeks in vain to discover the marvellously hidden city, while the gods in Valinor in heated debate largely refuse to intervene in support of Ulmo's desires and designs.Into this world comes Tuor, cousin of Túrin, the instrument of Ulmo's designs. Guided unseen by him Tuor sets out from the land of his birth on the fearful journey to Gondolin, and in one of the most arresting moments in the history of Middle-earth the sea-god himself appears to him, rising out of the ocean in the midst of a storm. In Gondolin he becomes great, he is wedded to Idril, Turgon's daughter, and her son is Eärendel, whose birth and profound importance in days to come is foreseen by Ulmo.At last comes the terrible ending. Morgoth learns through an act of supreme treachery all that he needs to mount a devastating attack on the city, with Balrogs and dragons and numberless orcs. After a minutely observed account of the fall of Gondolin, the tale ends with the escape of Tuor and Idril, with the child Eärendel, looking back from a cleft in the mountains as they flee southward, at the blazing wreckage of their city. They were journeying into a new story, the Tale of Eärendel, which Tolkien never wrote, but which is sketched out in this book from other sources.Following his presentation of Beren and Lúthien Christopher Tolkien has used the same 'history in sequence' mode in the writing of this edition of The Fall of Gondolin . In the words of J.R.R. Tolkien, it was 'the first real story of this imaginary world' and, together with Beren and Lúthien and The Children of Húrin, he regarded it as one of the three 'Great Tales' of the Elder Days.
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This survey of great contemporary artists is the perfect introduction to the exciting world of art today. Artists working after the Second World War faced a confounding array of challenges, as stylistic barriers were broken, technology advanced, and issues of sexuality and race came to the forefront. From painters and photographers to sculptors and performance artists, fifty of the most influential contemporary artists are profiled in this colorful and engaging book that traces the various artistic movements and radical changes of the second half of the twentieth and early twentyfirst centuries. Presented chronologically, each artist is featured in 2 or 4-page spreads that include brilliant reproductions of their most important works, an illuminating biography, key dates in their career, and informative background on major developments in the art world. Throughout the volume a timeline places each artist within the context of contemporary art. As diverse and inspiring as the artists themselves, this book is a voyage of discovery into art's cutting edge.
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Blanka Lipinska es una de las autoras más populares einfluyente de Polonia. Es autora por deseo más que por necesidad y escribe por diversión. Molesta por lafalta de franqueza sobre el sexo, se encargó de iniciar un debate sobre las diversas facetas del amor. Legusta decir que hablar de sexo es tan fácil como preparar la cena. Esta obra suya ha sido adaptada y convertida en un éxito como serie de Netflix.
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Del guionista de Jurassic Park, llega uno de los mejores y más emocionantes libros de ciencia ficción. David Koepp es un célebre guionista y director estadounidense mejor conocido por su trabajo en Jurassic Park,Spider-Man, Panic Room, War of the Worlds y Mission:Impossible. Su trabajo en la pantalla ha recaudado más de seis mil millones en todo el mundo
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Venezia, fine del Cinquecento: una città tentacolare e spietata in cui anche i muri hanno gli occhi, il doge usa il pugno di ferro e il Sant'Uffizio sospetta di tutti e non ci pensa due volte a mandare a chiamare un poveraccio e a dargli due tratti di corda. La Serenissima osserva, ascolta e condanna. Anche ingiustamente. Ed è proprio per sfuggire a un'accusa infondata che Michele, giovane muratore, è costretto a imbarcarsi su una galera lasciando tutto e senza nemmeno il tempo per salutare la sua bella moglie Bianca, appena diciassettenne. Bandito da Venezia, rematore su una nave che vaga per il Mediterraneo carica di zecchini e di spezie e senza speranza di ritornare a breve, Michele vivrà straordinarie avventure tra le onde, sulle isole e nei porti del mare nostrum, fino ad approdare nelle terre del Sultano. Per sopravvivere, con il pensiero sempre rivolto a Bianca, da ragazzo ignaro e inesperto dovrà farsi uomo astuto, coraggioso e forte. Nel frattempo, Bianca rimane completamente sola in città, tra i palazzi dei signori e il ghetto. Il suo temperamento tenace e orgoglioso dovrà scontrarsi con prove se possibile più dure di quelle toccate a Michele, e incontri non meno terribili e importanti l'attendono nel dedalo di vicoli e calli, tra i profumi intensi delle botteghe di speziali, quello del pane cotto nel forno di quartiere, il torso dell'acqua gelida in cui lavare i panni e i pagliericci pidocchiosi che sono il solo giaciglio per la povera gente.
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Los libros de literatura en otros idiomas son ediciones impresas que permiten leer obras originales en su lengua de creación. Las novelas en otros idiomas ofrecen la oportunidad de acceder directamente al estilo, el ritmo y los matices culturales del texto sin mediaciones. El formato en papel favorece una lectura pausada, la consulta constante y el aprendizaje lingüístico a través del contacto directo con la obra.
¿Qué son los libros de literatura en otros idiomas?
Son publicaciones en papel que presentan obras literarias escritas y editadas en su idioma original o en una lengua distinta a la habitual del lector o lectora.
Definición
Estos libros incluyen novelas, relatos, poesía u obras teatrales en idiomas como inglés, francés, alemán u otras lenguas. Leer en versión original permite apreciar la riqueza léxica y las particularidades expresivas del texto.
Valor lingüístico y cultural
Las novelas en otros idiomas ofrecen una inmersión cultural que amplía la comprensión de contextos históricos y sociales. Además, constituyen una herramienta eficaz para reforzar competencias lingüísticas.
Cómo elegir novelas en otros idiomas
Seleccionar libros de literatura en otros idiomas implica valorar el nivel de dominio lingüístico y el interés por determinadas tradiciones literarias.
Criterios de selección
Es recomendable tener en cuenta la complejidad del lenguaje, el género literario y la edición impresa disponible.
- Novelas contemporáneas en versión original.
- Clásicos universales en su lengua original.
- Ediciones anotadas para facilitar la comprensión.
- Obras breves para iniciarse en la lectura en otro idioma.
Tipos de libros y contenido habitual
Los libros de literatura en otros idiomas en formato papel presentan diferentes propuestas adaptadas a diversos niveles de lectura.
Tipos de libros y contenido
- Novelas completas en idioma original.
- Relatos breves para práctica lectora.
- Antologías de autores internacionales.
- Ediciones con introducciones culturales explicativas.
Estos libros permiten combinar el placer de la lectura con el aprendizaje y el enriquecimiento cultural.
Beneficios culturales y educativos
Leer novelas en otros idiomas en papel favorece la adquisición de vocabulario, la comprensión intercultural y el desarrollo de la autonomía lectora.
Refuerzo lingüístico
La lectura continuada en otro idioma mejora la comprensión escrita y amplía el conocimiento gramatical y léxico.
Apertura cultural
Acceder a obras en su lengua original permite comprender mejor las referencias culturales y los matices propios de cada tradición literaria.
Orientación lectora: ¿para quién son estos libros?
Los libros de literatura en otros idiomas están dirigidos a personas interesadas en ampliar su horizonte cultural y lingüístico.
- Lectores y lectoras que desean practicar un idioma extranjero.
- Estudiantes que trabajan literatura en versión original.
- Personas interesadas en culturas y tradiciones internacionales.
- Quienes buscan una experiencia de lectura más cercana al texto original.
Preguntas frecuentes sobre libros de literatura en otros idiomas
¿Qué ventajas tiene leer novelas en otros idiomas?
Permite apreciar el estilo original del autor o autora y mejorar la competencia lingüística.
¿Cómo elegir un libro adecuado según el nivel de idioma?
Es recomendable empezar por obras breves o ediciones con notas explicativas y aumentar progresivamente la dificultad.
¿Qué aportan estos libros a nivel cultural?
Ofrecen una comprensión más profunda de las referencias y contextos propios de cada tradición literaria.
¿Por qué leer literatura en otros idiomas en formato papel?
El formato en papel facilita la consulta, la anotación manual y una lectura más concentrada, aspectos clave en el aprendizaje lingüístico.
